Israel, the Jews and the World: Pt. II

What the world desires

It was Joseph Goebbels, the minister of propaganda for Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party who said it best: "The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over." goodreads.com

Goebbels understood that a lie will never be embraced unless it's kept simple and repeated often. It's unclear whether Yasser Arafat studied Goebbels. But what is clear is that the master terrorist and founder of the PLO certainly practiced what Goebbels preached. And so effectively that the majority of the world today embraces the lie that Israel unlawfully occupies land that it stole from the Palestinians in 1948.

For the record, Arafat was an Egyptian who was born in the city of Cairo in 1929. He founded the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization) on June 2, 1964 for the specific purpose of destroying Israel and removing all the Jews from their homeland. While he was a gruff and crude man, Arafat knew how to charm those who he sought to deceive. And like Goebbels, he was a master liar who knew how to sell his lies to ignorant people.

Arafat's lie only works because there are too many ignorant people in the world who know nothing about history and possess their own latent anti-Semitism. Thus, when they're told that the evil Jews collaborated with the United Nations in 1948 to seize Palestine and rename it Israel, they willingly embrace that lie. 

But Palestine was created by the ancient Roman Empire in 130 A.D. when Emperor Hadrian renamed the land Syria Palaestina after he crushed the Bar Kochba rebellion that sought to win Israel's independence from Rome. That land continued to be known as Palestine until 1948 when the United Nations voted to declare Israel a sovereign world nation once again.

Prior to 1948, only the Jews were recognized as Palestinians because they and their ancestors had lived in that land for over 3,000 years. In fact, the 1939 Larousse French Dictionary contains an image of the Palestinian flag and it features a yellow--gasp!!--Jewish star over the name Palestine. How quickly the world forgets. http://www.factualisrael.com/1939-palestinian-flag

For Muslims, the mere presence of the Jews and Israel in the midst of the Islamic world represents a supreme insult to Allah. The Qu'ran clearly states that once Muslims acquire land from "infidels," that land belongs to Allah forever and can never be given back. This is what drives the Islamic world to seek Israel's destruction.

Concerning the land of Israel, the Qu'ran says this: "He made you heirs to their [Jewish] land and their dwellings and their property, and (to) a land which you have not yet trodden." (Surah 33:27) While Palestine actually didn't become property of the Islamic world until about 1451 under Ottoman ruler Mehmed the Conqueror, it became the property of Great Britain in about 1922 with the fall of the Ottoman Empire. 

The land of Israel belongs to the Jews and to no one else. It was given to them by God, fulfilling a promise He made to Abraham centuries before the Jews took possession of the land. (Genesis 12:1-3, Genesis 15:16-20, Genesis 17)

Why does Israel even matter to the world? Most people would like to see Israel go away because they believe that if the Jewish nation can be eliminated once and for all, peace will come to the world and terrorism will cease. Thus, those who call themselves Palestinians today have actually become human pawns in a desperate battle that traces to the dawn of history and transcends the physical realm.

The real battle for the land of Israel is about good and evil; heaven and hell. The mere existence of Israel signals the end of the road for a rogue archangel named Lucifer who's more popularly known as Satan. If Israel remains, he's doomed. He knows what his fate is. But he still believes that he can prevent it. And the only way he can do that is to destroy Israel.

In Part III, the ancient roots of the modern battle between good and evil.