Reading the Israeli Press can cause a “nervous breakdown”, and reading similar Likudnik articles and editorials in the American press might be enough to cause a stroke. As such, I feel that I am subjecting my life everyday to the risk of suffering a nervous breakdown or a stroke, since reading is a part of my job. Therefore, I will showcase today a little bit of what I read, for the sake of the reader's health, before I provide my commentary on these subjects. In Ma'ariv, Nadav Haetzni wrote that Muslims, meaning Palestinians, are vandalizing the archaeological ruins at the “Temple Mount” and Avdat, that these included remnants of the Nabatean culture and that “Israel has remained silent toward the systematic destruction of the cradle of Judaism... Muslims are making every effort to sever any connection between us and this land and to invent a Palestinian history and archaeology out of thin air...” In the Huffington Post meanwhile, the American Likudnik Mort Zuckerman, Editor of “U.S. News & World Report”, wrote an article entitled “The Cruel Dilemma Facing the Jews of Israel”. I do not know what dilemma this three-page article is talking about, and I will content myself and the reader with the article's first two paragraphs only. Zuckerman writes that the Jews came back to their homeland, or home, to find peace and safety in Israel, following their exile, alienation, and powerlessness. However, they found neighbours who did not want them to live again in the land that the Jews have regarded as their home for 4,000 years. He also said that after Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres promoted the Oslo agreements, Ehud Barak, Ariel Sharon, and Ehud Olmert made dramatic proposals, which were all rejected by the Palestinians... Before I comment on the above, I want to cite some excerpts from an article written by the peace advocate Uri Avnery. He said that the Arabs conquered the country, which they then called Jund Filistin (military district Palestine) in 635 A.D... The Zionist version is different and claims that most of the country belonged to the kingdoms of Judea and Israel, while the coast belonged to the Phoenicians in the North and the Philistines in the South... In spite of all the frantic efforts over hundreds of years, no archaeological evidence has been found that there ever was an exodus from Egypt, a conquest of Canaan by the Children of Israel, or a kingdom of David and Solomon. Among other things Avnery said in his article was that the Book of Judges contradicts the Book of Joshua, which is genocidal, and that the Torah is full of myths, and not actual history. I want to correct something, or rather begin my commentary with a point that was mentioned in Avnery's article about how the Arabs conquered Palestine during the Islamic conquests. Conversely, What I know about the history of Palestine is that most of the country was under the control of the Ghassanid Arab Christians, who were based in the Golan, and that Jerusalem was part of their realm as mentioned in a famous poem by al-Nabigha al-Dubiyani; in this poem, he praises the Ghassanid Kings (rather than giving a chronicle of their history), but mentions that their home is “God's own abode”, meaning Jerusalem, in addition to mentioning "eid al-Sabasib", i.e. the Easter celebration. Moreover, I do not need history or myths to talk about the Haram al-Sharif [Holy Shrine], as there is a rectangular plot of land that stands in Jerusalem today, and houses the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock. In fact, this plot is on a small knoll, and not on a high hill or a mount; as such, there is no such thing there as the Temple of Solomon. People easily forget that Yitzhak Rabin, during his first term in the ministry, had dug under the Shrine but did not find any temples or structures there, save for an Umayyad Castle. In fact, the Biblical narrative itself says that the Jews came to Palestine from Egypt through Sinai, and found Palestinians there, against whom they committed genocide. Their God told Joshua: slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass, but keep the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of iron. However, I don't believe that God can order such atrocities, and these are probably the words of a Jewish merchant. Furthermore, a closer geographical examination would reveal that there are no Jewish antiquities in Palestine, from Jerusalem to the Negev and not even in Sinai itself. There is no sign of them at all, and there are many books by Israeli archaeologists, such as Israel Finkelstein, which explicitly say that they have searched for such antiquities but found nothing, and that the present-day Jerusalem is not the Jerusalem mentioned in the days of old. In other words, the Palestinians cannot possibly destroy Jewish archaeological ruins, because these simply do not exist. The 4000 years of history that Zuckerman mentioned is also a myth from the Torah, which, as I mentioned above, speaks about how they [the Jews] entered Palestine, found Palestinians there and committed genocide against them. Moreover, there is modern history, to which we are all witnesses, and which tells us that Jews entered Palestine, found Palestinians in the country and stole their lands and homes, after having murdered and displaced them, a thing that they are still doing. Such lies about what God said, and both ancient and modern history, then become outright obscenity when the Israeli Prime Ministers are described as being peace seekers, and when it is said that the Palestinians are so staunchly opposed to peace that they rejected an independent state of their own. Rabin was killed by the Jews who are opposed to peace. It is also a fact that Perez and Netanyahu are both impostors, that Ariel Sharon is war criminal, that Barak is a secret Likudnik who destroyed the Labour Party, and that Olmert is originally a Likudnik who worked on the Judaization of Jerusalem when he was its mayor, and who ended up being charged with corruption like the rest of the Israeli politicians. Finally, I want to say that there can be no peace with these people, but still without me calling for war [against them]. I abhor all kinds of wars; however, I am in a minority that does not represent the position of the majority of Arabs and Muslims.
