A Backgrounder on the Reality of Return to the Promised Land

Introduction:

The "question" of the "palestinian right of return" is artfully advancing to the forefront of the news, now that the so-called "final status talks" between Israel and the “palestine” Liberation Organization (pLO), aka the “palestinian" Authority,” are being revived. 

It is thus important to have a background regarding the "right of return" issue and its origin, lest we get caught up in this powerful delusion, which is part of the ongoing Arab-Islamic propaganda war that is being waged against the Jewish People in an effort to steal their Biblical Inheritance, Eretz Yisra'el, and to clear the way for an ultimate Islamic revolution.  The web of deceit is so vast that it is beyond the scope of this article to address in any weighty detail.  The purpose of this article, then, is to make the reader aware of the myth, why it was hatched, its ramifications, and how it affects Israel today.

Great strides have been made in generating enough doubt worldwide regarding the right of the Jews to their Homeland.  The media is the tool of choice to fertilize the uncertainty, and the Arabian petrol-dollar, which purchases a healthy 75 percent of the advertisements that make the news possible, has concurrently bought off journalistic objectivity and stifled honest investigation so that truth has been discarded and replaced with whitewashed officialdom, historical revisionism, conventional presuppositions and political correctness.  Hence, a situation is created whereby the victims are perceived as the culprits.  World sympathies are pouring out on behalf of the "oppressed" Arab and Muslim "underdogs," while international wrath is progressively unleashed against the so-called Jewish Zionist "aggressors." 

This phenomenon, which is fueled by deeply rooted, widespread, and at the very least, residual feelings of anti-Semitism, is furthering the Arab-Muslim agenda of creating a judenrein Middle East, a region totally void of a Jewish presence.  That the Jewish State stands at the crossroads of Southwest Asia and Northeast Africa makes its removal a necessary pre-requisite for the establishment of a vast Islamic empire spanning the entire Asian and African continents.  In keeping with Quar'anic codes, and taking into account the pattern of current Islamic power struggles springing up throughout the world, as well as the double-edged political-economic sword fashioned by a 24-year supply of Middle Eastern oil reserves, such an empire, once established, will become an unstoppable power base from which to launch a comprehensive global Islamic "holy" war that will camouflage under the guise of "peace" and "human rights" its advances toward the creation of a supreme religious "new world order."

If this sounds a bit too Orwellian, consider the modern-day revolutionary reality. 

One of the hallmarks of Islamization is infiltration: A targeted country is introduced to a progressive set of objectives -- the building up of a sizeable, vocal and politically active minority group, the consolidation of a power base through the exploitation of fundamental domestic systems, the assertion of Islamic human rights as a means of stirring up widespread sympathy, and the manipulation of these sympathies for the purpose of supporting a popular uprising.  The uprising eventually leads to a full fledge insurrection, backed by terrorism where necessary, to accomplish a subversive ascension to power.  This results in the ejection of any of the victimized country's established political, economic, social, educational and religious systems that do not accommodate the new actuality.

In modern days, Islamic power struggles of varying degrees of forcefulness and strains have asserted themselves in Afghanistan, Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Israel, the fantasy kingdom of Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Mauritania, Bahrain, India, Pakistan, Turkey, Cypress, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Tunisia, Eritrea, Russia, Chechnya, Kosovo, Bosnia, Philippines, Indonesia, China, and Argentina, and by no means is this an all inclusive list.  Currently, the United States and several European countries such as France, Germany and Italy are experiencing Islamic infiltration, in which the power struggles are -- for the moment -- muffled.

The “Right of Return” Myth:

The "right of return" myth that is being propagated is both cunning and compelling because its authors have created and then capitalized upon a made-for-television real life human drama, which continues; with magnificent success, to bewitchingly play upon the world's humanistic heartstrings.  To be sure, humanism has become a powerful force to be reckoned with these days; especially because all too often it manifests itself without being tempered with G-dly discernment. 

The myth goes like this: Prior to 1948, the re-establishment of the Jewish State, Arabs and Jews lived together in peace and harmony on Arab land in "palestine."  This peace was shattered, however, when the vaulting European Zionist Jews came to "palestine" after their 2000-year Exile.  These Zionist intruders usurped and terrorized the poor but happy "indigenous palestinian" Arab multitudes from their serene existence on property which they possessed and cultivated since antiquity, and this invasion forged what has since become the Jewish State.  This encroachment induced a mass exodus of "refugees," who, to this very day, remain suffering in squalid makeshift camps, awaiting "repatriation" back to their "homeland" in "palestine."  This Israeli dispossession of these "four million refugees" is the root cause of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and thus, peace, not only in the Middle East, but because of Arab-Muslim "sensitivities" and unity, peace throughout the world will not be a possibility until this matter is fully dealt with and the "palestinian natural, inalienable right of return to palestine" is upheld. 

For all of those humanists, "peacemakers" and other establishmentarians within our oil-obsessed global village, this myth has provided a simplistic, convenient, and expedient "moral" excuse to duck out of dealing straightforwardly with an explosive problem that threatens to upset more than just a comfortable standard of living.  Since the "moral majority" amongst our global intelligentsia cannot deny that the persecuted Jewish People needed a permanent refuge after the horrors of the Holocaust, this reality must somehow be reconciled with the "moral issue" of the supposedly "displaced" fabled "palestinians," whose Arab and Muslim public relations advocates command the world's oil supply and possess the key to global chaos.  Because the Promised Land was given to only one People in an Irrevocable Covenant, turnspeak (a cynical distortion of reported facts intended to manipulate public opinion), historical revisionism and conventional wisdom have become the weapons of choice in the war to win over the public’s hearts and minds.  These tools are used to effectively "dumb-down" the masses to enable the Establishment to smugly argue against the right, as well as the logic, of the Remnant Returning to and building up her natural Homeland in Eretz Yisra'el, which is supposedly at the expense of these downtrodden "palestinian refugees."

For a moment of madness, let us assume the Arabs, Muslims, humanists and "peacemakers" were to get their way, and these feigned 4,000,000 so-called "palestinian refugees" were "returned to their homeland" -- not even to dwell inside the bogus "palestinian" state-in-the-making, but rather, in accordance with the Arab-Muslim Brotherhood's demands, to occupy what remains of that ever shrinking slice of territory, "Israel proper."  This one overwhelming act of mass amalgamation of a deceived, embittered, and therefore incessantly hostile people into an area one-sixteenth the size of California to dwell with their sworn Zionist enemy, without Divine Intervention, would put an end to the Jewish State.

Jewish Land by Divine Right:

Resolutely pressing ahead then to phase the Jewish State out of existence, the Arabs continue to brazenly lay claim to a "palestinian homeland," which encompasses the Jewish Biblical Inheritance that, according to the unimpeachable Holy Tenach/Bible, was Promised to Abraham 4000 years ago for his offspring, the Jewish People -- G-d's Covenant People -- as set forth in Bereshit/Genesis 13:14-15.

Since G-d's Judgment was poured out 3500 years ago upon the inhabitants of ancient Canaan, who polluted the land with their abominable idol worship, the Chosen People inherited the country, and it has accordingly never been an official home to any other group of peoples.

Jewish Land by Historical Reality –

Undoing Revisionist History:

Although in ancient times the land was called Canaan, it was renamed Syria-Palestina or Palestina by the conquering Romans in 135 C.E.  The name Palestina was created by the Romans as a tribute to one of the fiercest ancient enemies of the Covenant People: the Pelishtim or Philistines.  By renaming Israel to Palestina, the Romans hoped to eradicate Jewish roots from the Jewish Biblical Inheritance.

The so-called Arab -- and therefore Semitic -- "palestinians" claim their ancestry goes back to the ancient Philistines, who were, in fact, migrant, non-Semitic, Aegean people who were driven out of Greece and the Aegean islands only to later occupy the coastal plain of southern Canaan around 1200 B.C.E.  This people ceased to exist by 600 B.C.E., according to historical accounts and Biblical Prophecies.

A Continual Jewish Presence in the Promised Land --

From the period of Roman domination until the British occupation in the early 1900s, the Promised Land was reduced to a territory of transmutable provincial subdivisions, lacking frontiers, and having only administrative boundaries.  In spite of the Romans and other ruthless conquerors, the Jewish People managed to maintain a continual presence, however small, in the Promised Land from the time of their last major expulsion in 70 C.E. until current. 

Notably, the Palestine Commission Report in 1937 from London reportedly documented a little known strain of Oriental Jews who remained constantly in the Land for millennia.  In spite of the violence perpetrated against the Jewish People in the Promised Land, more than 40 indigenous Jewish communities in supposedly "purely Arab" areas, such as Gaza,Ramle, Ascalon, Lydda and Ceasarea managed to survive and are traceable back to the 6th Century.

Rise of Islam: Attacks on Jews Deliver Prosperity & Power --

In the 7th Century, the primitive tribal religion of Islam sprung to life after pillaging the indigenous, prosperous agriculturalist Jews of Yathreb, who dwelled in the Hejaz district by Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia.  This highly successful raid sealed the Islamic "prophet" Muhammad's financial security and was the start of a lengthy and deadly hate campaign against the Jews, who refused to convert to his newfound religion and whose settlements were at the heart of the gold and silver trade. 

As Muhammad's followers were led on murderous raids against Arabia's Jewish Khaibar community, the Jewish People in the area fled for their lives to the Promised Land and settled with the indigenous Jewish population in Transjordan, which would eventually become part of the League of Nations Mandated Jewish National Home in "palestine."  Still more Jews were forced to flee to the Land after their property was seized and they were expelled from the surrounding Khaibar region, as Muhammad's idea of forbidding two religions to co-exist within the Arabian Peninsula began to firmly take root in the thinking of his followers, who prospered greatly from the raids. 

It was not long before Islam swept throughout Arabia, the Fertile Crescent (an area of land extending from Israel to the Persian Gulf), Egypt, Turkey, Babylon, North Africa and Spain.  During the 7th Century Islamic conquest of Jerusalem, Arabs and Muslims encountered an already well-established Jewish presence in the Promised Land.  The Islamic domination was short lived, however, as internal rivalries within the religion, as well as the Byzantine Conquest of the Arabs, caused the religion to stagnate, and it eventually fell into backwardness until the discovery of petroleum in the Middle East from the 1920s - 1930s.  The jihad mentality flourished, however, as Muhammad was careful to ingrain this thinking into the minds of his followers, who are the descendants of Yishma'el/Ishmael, the Arab peoples.  This was Prophesied and recorded in Bereshit/Genesis 16:12: "And he (Yishma'el) will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him ... "

Making Aliyah to the Promised Land --

In the 19th Century, the Promised Land was sparsely populated.  In 1845 there were 12,000 Jews residing in their Homeland, according to Israeli government statistics.  Those Jews who were living in the Exile; specifically from Eastern Europe, fled from the Russian pogroms in two waves of aliyah, or ascension to the Promised Land, to return to their Biblical Inheritance, which was under Turkish occupation (1516 – 1917).  These Russian olim, Jewish immigrants specifically from Russia, and Rumanian Jews arrived in the Promised Land as early as 1882.  In spite of extremely harsh living conditions and immigration restrictions by the ruling-class Muslims, the Jewish Remnant, which, since 1856, was permitted to purchase land at exorbitant prices in order to cultivate the area, determinedly established rural settlements, national farms, neighborhoods, agricultural organizations, and even revived the Hebrew language.  That a Jew, a mere dhimmi – a second-class citizen subjugated under Islamic law -- could purchase land and live as an equal with the Muslim was unconscionable to the regional Arab effendis, considered “nobility,” who were brought up on a tradition of Muslim superiority and who wished to keep a stranglehold on the land.

In 1918, the Promised Land comprised 141,000 Arabs and Muslims, many of whom were transient and landless migrants and peasants originating from other lands, while the rest were imported wholesale by the Turkish government in an effort to guard its administration.  Many of these immigrants, which included Turks, Egyptians, Druses, Algerians, Circassians, Kurds and Bosnians, as well as others, were systematically robbed by the Arab effendi landlords and exploited by corrupt Turkish government officials.  These maltreated peoples, in turn, preyed upon the dhimmi Jewish residents.  It consequently became commonplace for these nomadic; sporadically violent Arabs and Muslims to migrate to the Jewish areas of development, squatting in the places that the Jews were clearing for other Jews who were fleeing to their Homeland from persecution. 

Three more waves of aliyah would follow due to the October Russian Revolution, pogroms in Poland and Hungary, economic instability, stiff United States immigration quotas, and the British conquest of "palestine," with the League of Nations adopting the Balfour Declaration to assist the Jewish People via the "palestine" Mandate in "reconstituting their national home in that country." 

Reconstituting the Jewish National Home --

The territory of "palestine" that was mandated for the expressed purpose of a Jewish Homeland was then unilaterally carved up by the British between 1921-1922, thus violating the terms of the international mandate.  Three-quarters of this land, "Eastern palestine," amounting to 38,000 square miles, was presented as a gift to sooth one of the royal sons of the Hejaz district, Emir Abdullah, who was instrumental in helping England defeat the Turks.  Abdullah was rewarded after having narrowly missed kingship over Iraq to his brother and then having his hopes dashed for his designs on Syria.  The stolen land was turned into an Arab emirate called the Kingdom of Transjordan, which paved the way for the creation of the Arab "palestinian" state of Jordan in 1946 that incorporated within the Hashemite Kingdom.

Under the urging of the Arab effendi families and other outside Muslim influences, Arab and Muslim violence continued to increase sporadically from 1929 - 1939 within the tiny 8,000-square-mile plot of land of "Western palestine" that was left for the Jewish Homeland.  Because of the harsh Turkish-Muslim rule and the crippling dhimmi oppression, the Jewish People were permitted to settle on only a portion of this plot of land, and those who tried to inhabit other areas within this territory were murdered or forced to flee for their lives.  In spite of the persecution and hostilities, the Jewish community of "Western palestine" persevered and developed what portion of their Homeland they did possess. 

During this period, the Jews fleeing from Europe to escape the Nazis joined their brethren in the Promised Land, and together they drained marshes, built roads, developed towns, established small businesses, founded industrial enterprises and constructed a port.  As the barren territory was literally transformed into an oasis by the Jewish People, more nomadic Arab and Muslim peoples left behind their oppressive and impoverished homelands and headed for the Promised Land to reap the resulting benefits.  Various population accounts around this period suggest that "Eastern and Western palestine" accommodated between 300,000 to 400,000 Muslims and Arabs, approximately half of them newcomers, but the growth reportedly increased dramatically in "Western palestine" because of the various improvements introduced to those areas where Jews were confined to settling. 

It was not uncommon for a handful of Jewish families to purchase outrageously priced plots of desolate land, bring the area to life, and consequently attract hundreds of migrant Arabs and Muslims, who would occupy the adjacent territories.  According to a 1931 Census of Palestine, at least 51 different languages were in use by the Muslim and Arab occupants of the Land at that time, and 24 different countries were listed as the birthplaces of the non-Jews dwelling there.  The term "non-Jew," as will be discussed in more detail later in this report, was an erroneous reference to Arabs.  By 1940, the population in the Jewish homesteads numbered 450,000.

After World War II ended in 1945 and until the establishment of Israel in 1948, Jews were forced to "illegally" immigrate to their Homeland,as the British Mandatory regime had set a mere quota of 18,000 Jewish immigrants per year in order to appease the Arab effendi community.  While the British Government fastidiously reported "illegal" Jewish immigration, which was insignificant until Hitler rose to power in the 1930s, not only was an official blind eye to the ongoing illegal Arab immigration commonplace, but the newly arrived Arab illicit immigrants were counted as deeply rooted "palestinians." 

By the time statehood was proclaimed in what was only a portion of "Western palestine," the Jewish population had grown to 650,000.  Many of those areas of "Western palestine" where Jews were not permitted to purchase land after 1939 were excluded from the newly established modem-day Jewish State.  These were the areas where most of the Arabs migrated to from 1893 onward in order that they would dwell in close enough proximity to the prosperous Jewish-settled communities, where they could benefit from the fruit of Jewish toil. 

Reaction of the Arab-Muslim Bloc --

With the re-establishment of Israel in 1948, the leaders of the neighboring Arab and Muslim states urged their brethren dwelling in what they considered Jewish-occupied "Arab palestine" to leave their homes temporarily, just until the region's Arabs and Muslims had a chance to obliterate the “Zionist cancer” from within their midst.  “This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre...,” Azzam Pasha, Secretary General of the Arab League reportedly boasted at a Cairo press conference on May 15, 1948.  Five well-armed Arab armies embarked upon what they thought would be a quick mop-up campaign against the Jewish State. 

A research report by the Arab-sponsored Institute for Palestine Studies in Beirut dispels the Arab tale that the majority of the Arab "refugees" in 1948 fled for their lives in fear of the supposedly ruthless Israelis.  The report states that 68 percent of the Arabs left on their own accord, without ever seeing an Israeli soldier.

After 1948, the Arabs would not allow official censuses to be conducted among the "palestinian refugees."  They grossly exaggerated the "refugee" population figures to draw world attention to the situation and to induce the United Nations to pressure Israel to "repatriate" the "indigenous palestinians," and disputing their bogus claims was a cumbersome process due in part to the piles of relative but inaccurate “official” population records in existence prior to this time. 

Debunking the “palestinian refugee” Myth --

Investigative reporter and historian, Joan Peters, who scrutinized libraries of well-hidden records pertaining to this issue, gleaned and cross-checked important data that, indeed, sheds light on what happened from the time of the 1893 Turkish census -- shortly after organized Jewish colonization began, followed by a correlative increase in the affected areas' Arab and Muslim populations -- until the establishment of the modern-day State of Israel in 1948.  

Peters points out in her meticulously documented book, "From Time Immemorial," that evidence from comparable Turkish and British census data and reports between 1893 to 1947 -- this latter year being the period when Arab migrants deserted their dwellings in "Western palestine" -- indicate that among the originally estimated 430,000 to 650,000 so-called "indigenous existing native" Arabs and Muslims purported to be "genuine refugees" in 1948, 170,300 were, in reality, Arab in-migrants.  These in-migrants moved freely within "Western palestine" seeking work and were, in truth, not at all among the so-called refugees.  Rather, the in-migrants were returning to the Arab-settled areas of "Western palestine," which included the so-called "West Bank" and Gaza Strip, and were coming from the nearby Jewish-settled areas of "Western palestine," where they and their Turkish-Muslim immigrant implants squatted in search of better economic opportunities.

Moreover, as alluded to earlier, not all of those reported to be Arabs in the Turkish and British demographic statistics were actually ethnic Arabs, for included in the mix were all non-Jewish Arabic-speaking peoples in “palestine.” 

As a further matter, there was the unduly highest rate of assumed “natural population increase,” which the Turks officially credited to the so-called "indigenous" Arabs in the Arab-settled areas of "Western palestine" during a period before Jewish improvements had the time to positively affect Arab health and quality of life.  That official exaggeration amalgamated with the failure to properly account for the numerous newcomers, which the Turkish Government elected to simply include as part of this "natural indigenous" growth.

Such misleading methods of official reporting greatly artificially inflated the number of "native Arabs" in the area during this period, which, in turn, opened the door for the latent camouflaging of an influx of illegal Arab immigrants, and lent credence to outright bogus, and now malicious, Arab-Muslim "refugee" claims.

Unnatural Explosive Arab & Muslim Population Increases --

The unadulterated number of Muslim Arabs in 1893 residing within the main areas of "Western palestine" where organized Jewish settlement, which began a full decade earlier, was concentrated, actually amounted to 59,000 of the 92,300 reported non-Jews living within that same vicinity, Peters cited.

By 1947, the number of non-Jews, which also included Arab nomads, Arab "illegal" and "legal" immigrants, and Arab in-migrants, living within this same area grew by more than 400 percent from 92,300 to 462,900. 

Within the so-called "purely Arab" areas of "Western palestine," considered the main areas of Arab settlement, such as Gaza, and the so-called "West Bank” -- Biblical Judea and Samaria -- which were in close proximity to the main Jewish-settled areas, there were 233,500 non-Jews in 1893.  This population increased by more than 120 percent to 517,000 by 1947.

Hence, from the 1893 Turkish census, when only a hand full -- 59,000 -- of Muslim Arabs made their homes nearby Jewish development, which had been underway for a decade, up until 1947, just prior to the establishment of the State of Israel, there was a strikingly sudden; yet officially ignored trend of new arrivals, predominantly Arabs and Muslims, to "Western Palestine."  These new arrivals, along with other non-Jews, were officially buried within an explosive "natural population increase," when two centuries prior to this time the Arab and Muslim population in the area had remained relatively static.

Such irresponsible official reporting served the Arab-Muslim interests of outrageously inflating the number of "indigenous refugees," who fled their homes in anticipation of the Arab-Muslim war against Israel in 1948.

The Real Numbers --

The population composition in 1947 throughout specifically those areas of "Western palestine" that would be embodied in the newly established State of Israel provide an accurate picture of the maximum number of "refugees" that could possibly be claimed.  It should be noted that many of these "refugees" did not actually flee their homes, but rather abandoned them upon the urging of the region's Arab and Muslim leaders, who were preparing to obliterate the Jews from within their midst.

During the period of 1947 - 1948, there were 746,900 reported "Arabs" in the areas that would be included in Israel.  The main areas of Arab encroachment within the Biblical heartland of Judea and Samaria earmarked for the Jewish Homeland by the international mandate were excluded from the Jewish State in 1948.  Of those 746,900 “Arabs,” 56,800 were nomads, 36,800 were "illegal" and "legal" immigrants who were actually reported by the British administration, and 170,300 were in-migrants who moved from area to area within "Western palestine" in search of work.  This would leave an actual maximum number of 483,000 Arab "settled" population in Israel in 1948.

From this maximum number of 483,000 Arab "settled" population in Israel in 1948, only 140,200 Arabs elected to stay in the newly established Jewish State.  Those Arabs who stayed became "Israeli Arabs," who, to this day, enjoy the full privileges of citizenship without being burdened with Israel Defense Forces military service requirements.  This leaves a balance of 342,800 Arabs who could possibly be considered for actual refugee status. 

Peters notes the 342,800 figure is less than half of the number of refugees claimed by the Arabs immediately after abandoning their homes; before the numbers were even further artificially swelled in the "refugee" camps.

United Nations Fabrications --

During this period, the United Nations broadened the definition of refugee:  Beforehand, refugees were considered those people who were forced to leave "permanent" or "habitual" homes.  Now the definition would include those Arabs who had been in "palestine" for only two years prior to Israel's statehood.  This decision greatly enlarged the number of "palestinian refugees."

A practice was then introduced that resulted in further significantly inflating the number of "refugees."  Statistical information on the "palestinian refugee" figures were determined according to how many United Nations Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA) ration books were issued -- only these books were given freely to the multitudes of poverty stricken Arabs and Muslims in the region who never even lived in "palestine," but yet were counted as "refugees."

In May of 1950, UNRWA Director Howard Kennedy reportedly cited hundreds of thousands of "hungry Arabs" who were not "refugees," but who received the ration books because they claimed a need.

Five years later, Cairo's Arab News Agency reported that there were "refugees" who possessed as many as 500 ration cards apiece. 

An investigation in 1960 by United States Senators Gale McGee and Albert Gore reportedly concluded that ration cards had become "chattel for sale, for rent or bargain."

By 1970, another UNRWA Director would admit that the "refugee" figures were "erroneous and grossly inflated."  Yet these UNRWA "refugee" figures are used in collaboration with a purported "natural growth rate" among an unrealistically phenomenal and unsubstantiated fertile Arab-Muslim populace within "palestine," from which masses supposedly fled, and continued to reproduce at an exaggerated rate, to come up with the 4,000,000 refugees" who have an "inalienable right to return to their “palestinian homeland.”

Arab “refugees” as Political Tools --

After the Arabs and Muslims lost the war in 1948, they shut the door of citizenship on the unanticipated "refugees" and imprisoned them in perpetual camps.

Some at first called for their "repatriation;" yet, these voices eventually gave way to the wishes of the Secretary of the Arab Higher Command, Emile Ghoury. 

On August 6, 1948, Ghoury called for the prevention of the return of the "refugees" to their dwellings in Israel:  "It is inconceivable that the refugees should be sent back to their homes while they are occupied by Jews ... It would serve as a first step toward Arab recognition of the State of Israel and partition," he reportedly told the Beirut Telegraph. 

This sentiment held out the hope of furthering the Arab and Muslim aspirations to -- at an opportune time: always at an opportune time according to Islam -- obtain even that tiny parcel of truncated land of "Western palestine" that the Jewish People were left with from the mandate period on which to build their state.

This is why today, Israel's Arab and Muslim neighbors refuse across-the-board to repatriate their brethren back into their true homelands.

Between 1948-1973, the region's Arab and Muslim leaders and notables were determined that the Jews would not out-populate them in an area they plan to include in their Arab-Islamic empire.  Using their oil as a tool to silence any opposition to their plans, they embarked upon a massive, clandestine, and officially ignored program of illegal immigration to the Promised Land. 

Arabs from Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria and other areas flooded the Land in a collective calculated move to displace the Jewish inhabitants.

Another war of aggression against Israel ensued, this one in 1967.  Again, the Arabs and Muslims were defeated.  The Arab-Muslim bloc lost to the Jewish People the Syrian-occupied Golan Heights, Egyptian-occupied Gaza Strip, and the "palestinian" Arab-occupied Biblical heartland of Judea and Samaria, which included the Jordanian-occupied eastern section of Jerusalem.

With the "refugees" still stuck on their borders, and no way to militarily overcome the Jewish State, the two-decade-old idea of Arab activist Musa Alami suddenly looked promising: the indoctrination of a myth of nationality into the downtrodden "palestinian refugees" in order to create identity and stir up self-respect -- and anger.  After all, Alami reportedly reasoned in “The Lesson of Palestine,” published in the Middle East Journal in October 1949: “How can people struggle for their own nation when most of them do not know the meaning of the word?” 

Thus, the myth of a "palestinian homeland" was born and the "refugees" became a powerful political tool with international ramifications.

The Arab-Muslim bloc has since embarked upon a public relations/diplomatic/economic campaign to internationally isolate the Jewish State.

In 1971, prominent Egyptian spokesman and editor of the influential Al Ahara newspaper, Mohamed Heikal, publicly appealed to Arabs and Muslims to change their rhetoric calling for Israel's destruction and in its place he recommended adopting politically correct, humanitarian terminology that would advocate the "demands" of the "palestinian refugees" to return to their "homeland."

The Arab-Muslim bloc came to realize that the image of millions of hostile Arabs and Muslims attacking a tiny Jewish State would not work in their favor in the international theater, so they adopted Heikal's idea and began advocating the "right of return" of the "palestinian refugees" in order to put a human face on their designs. 

This public relations maneuver, in turn, facilitated the current political strategy of "total withdrawal" to reduce Israel to indefensible borders. 

After the 1973 Yom Kippur War, a prominent Arab "palestinian" strategist, Al-Haytham Al-Ayubi, reportedly made a crafty recommendation in an October 1974 article entitled, "Future Strategy in Light of the Fourth War," published in Shuun Filastiniyya in Beirut.  He suggested that the Arab-Muslim bloc hold sham "peace talks," while maintaining "a state of no peace" and "moral pressure together with carefully balanced military tension." 

Conclusion of the Matter --

By seducing nations with its vast oil reserves, subduing policymakers with threats of extinguishing world peace via its international Islamic terrorist cells, and confining the “refugees” to dismal camps along its borders adjacent to Israel so the media has ample heart-wrenching photo opts and sensational human-interest stories, the Arab-Muslim bloc has advanced its strategy and won a major public relations victory.  In effect, the bloc has kept the “right of return” agenda before our global community, and has garnered the political leveraging and worldwide grassroots support it needs to establish “palestinian” statehood in the Jewish Heartland.

The goal is not to enable the "palestinian refugees" to live independently beside what would remain of the Jewish State,but rather to completely phase Israel out of existence.

Sources that Sandra Warmoth used for this backgrounder include:

"From Time Immemorial," by Joan Peters, "Philistine," by Ramon Bennett, "Is Fanatic Islam a Global Threat?"by Victor Mordechai, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs report, "Centenary of Zionism," and U.S. Department of State Office of the Coordinator for Counter-terrorism reports on "Patterns of Global Terrorism"