{"id":1800,"date":"2014-07-13T18:50:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T18:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejerusalemgiftshop.com\/israelnews\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2014-07-14T02:56:59","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T02:56:59","slug":"are-the-palestinians-the-true-jews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejerusalemgiftshop.com\/israelnews\/are-the-palestinians-the-true-jews\/","title":{"rendered":"Are the Palestinians the True Jews?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Barry Rosenfeld<\/p>\n

Meeting in Munich last February with Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat, the Israeli delegation was informed that the Palestinians would not recognize Israel as a Jewish state, the one demand made by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu during the recent peace negotiations. But if that wasn\u2019t enough, the delegation was stunned when Erekat claimed that his family has a greater claim to the land than do the Jews. \u201cI am the proud son of the Canaanites who were there 5,500 years before Joshua bin Nun burned down the town of Jericho!\u201d said Erekat adding, \u201cThis is my narrative!\u201d In fact, Erekat is part of a family of Arabs who migrated to the area from Saudi Arabia. He was born in Abu Dis, a village near Jerusalem. A member of his family, Hussein Mohamed Erekat, who was interviewed by Internet blogger Elder of Ziyon, said that their family actually comes from the Huwaitat region of the northwestern Arabian Peninsula. In addition, the Facebook page of the Erekat family traces its roots to Huwaitat and mentions prominent Erekats including Saeb. (Israel Today, March)\"True-Jews\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In their ongoing effort to claim ancient ties to the Holy Land that precede those of the Jews, Khamal Khatib, the spiritual leader of Israel\u2019s Islamic Movement, once said that the Palestinians are descended from the Jebusites while Yasser Arafat said that they were descendants of the Philistines. In the words of Messianic historian Gershon Nerel, \u201cThe West doesn\u2019t understand history and it knows even less about the Bible. The Palestinians first have to decide if they want to be Arabs or Canaanites. They deliberately falsify history and that is an insult to one\u2019s intelligence.\u201d (Israel Today, March, page 5)<\/p>\n

Jordanian Sheikh Ahmad Adwan is quoted by the London-based Arabic newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi as saying \u201cThere is nothing written about \u2018Palestine\u2019 in the Koran.\u201d He points out that the Jewish claim to the Land is spelled out clearly. \u201cJordan is, in fact, Palestine, but Allah has promised the Land to the Children of Israel until the final Day of Judgment,\u201d the Sheikh said. \u201cIt is written in Sura 5:21: \u2018O my people, enter the Holy Land which Allah has assigned to you.\u2019\u201d The Sheikh also cited Sura 26:59, which reads, \u201cWe caused the Children of Israel to inherit it.\u201d \u201cWhere does the name \u2018Palestine\u2019 come from in the first place?\u201d Adwan asks, adding, \u201cIn the Koran, it is called \u2018the Holy Land\u2019 and it is given to the Children of Israel. Those [Palestinians] who claim the Land have no right to it because it belongs to the Jews. Allah is the protector of the Jews.\u201d (Israel Today, April, page 4)<\/p>\n

Middle East expert Rafi Israeli says that the Palestinians do not actually have roots in Israel. \u201cThey know this very well\u201d, he says. \u201cAnd that\u2019s the reason they are trying to invent new roots in the Land. But, as soon as you confront this historical nonsense, Western intellectuals demand acceptance of the Palestinian narrative. They probably do not even care what is right historically. I am warning against any recognition of these so-called \u2018historical facts.\u2019 If a lie gets repeated often enough, it becomes truth. We must not remain silent!\u201d (Israel Today, April, page 4)<\/p>\n

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