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@Logia1978 Israeli researcher combats false claims that Arabs are indigenous to the Land of Israel and reasserts the truth that this land historically belonged to the Jewish people.
By Sheri Oz, United with Israel
The media, and even academic publications, are replete with claims that Israel is “occupying” what they refer to as “historic Palestine,” meaning Israel, Gaza, and Judea and Samaria (or, in their terms, the West Bank). It is ineffective to try to engage in long discussions of history and facts showing that it is the Jews who are indigenous to the land. We all know that feelings speak louder than facts, and pro-Palestinian propagandists use emotion in a way that has so far stymied Israeli attempts to set the record straight.
We also know that one picture is worth a thousand words.
And now we have that picture – it is a map, in fact. A map of approximately 700 ancient Israelite settlements and holy sites all across the entire historic Land of Israel. Two hundred additional sites that have been discovered by archaeologists but not yet identified will also be added to the map.
The map was developed by Michal Eshed and uploaded onto the Internet. It is in Hebrew and English, with Arabic to be added in the future. Her website is found on eretzil.net where eretz means ‘the Land’ and IL is the international short form for Israel.
When working as a psychologist for the Samaria Regional Council, Eshed drove daily from Ramat Hasharon, near Tel Aviv, to work in Samaria. She would pass by the Kafr Qasem and knew that it was originally a Jewish town from the time of the Second Temple described by Titus Flavius Josephus, then known as Kfar Kesem. Always interested in history, she grew curious, wondering about other Hebrew or Israelite communities that existed before the contemporary Arab villages.
Looking for maps or other documentation in a number of university libraries in Israel, she found a few maps ,but the most important one was produced by the late Hebrew University of Jerusalem historical geographer Professor Michael Avi-Yonah from the 1930s. It was an old map but he had done the major preliminary mapping. Eshed used this map as a basis for continuing the work of documenting ancient Israelite villages and holy sites and the Arab settlements that were established alongside or in place of them.
Currently a PhD student in the Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology Department at Bar Ilan University, Eshed continues to develop this project. After intensive work, a list was produced with over 700 ancient Israeli Jewish settlements, each one of which has geographic landmarks associated with it. To this list Eshed added the Arabic names that were given to these sites following the Arab Muslim Conquest, clearly indicated on the map.
‘A Desire to Get to the Historical Truth’
Eshed explained why she decided to embark upon this demanding project: “My motivation was a desire to get to the historical truth and to publish the results of my work on a map. I saw there was a phenomenon still not exposed. Almost every Arab village is sitting on an ancient Israeli village. Nobody is talking about this. You cannot find this on any signs, not at the entrance to Arab villages, not at national parks; there is no indication there was once an Israelite town in these places.”
There is a debate raging concerning the geographic history of the Land of Israel and a lot of invention of “history.”
It is important to make sense of the historic sequence of settlement in the Land of Israel: to show where all the ancient Israelite communities were and to document the Arab occupation of Israel from the 7th Century CE and the comprehensive Arab Muslim settlement on Israelite settlements both alongside Jewish residents or in their stead.
Eshed says she was surprised to discover that the word Kafr, that is part of many Arab village names, such as Kafr Qasem, Kafr Qara, Kafr Manda, etc., is not an Arabic word at all. It is an Arabized version of the Hebrew word for village, Kfar. The word for village in Arabic is Qar-ye.
“This is irrefutable evidence”, says Eshed, “for the phenomenon I described and whenever you see an Arab town named Kafr “X”, therefore, you know it was originally a Jewish village.”
Looking at her map, one can see that many of the names for Arab towns in the Land of Israel are simply the same names as the ancient Israelite village pronounced with an Arab accent, such as: Bet Jibrin/Beit Govrin, Yata/Yuta, and so on.
There is no argument that Israel’s War of Independence resulted in the emptying of many Arab villages.
However, residents of these villages were either descendants of settler-colonialists from the Arab Conquest or more recent economic migrants to the Land.
It is important to combat the falsehood that claims that the Arabs are indigenous to the Land of Israel and to reassert as strongly and as often as necessary that it is the Jewish People who are indigenous to the Land and the Arabs are the occupiers. Michal Eshed’s map of ancient Jewish sites helps us set the record straight.
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@razolmahari *Massacres, killings and attacks on Jews in Ottoman and British Palestine:*
* 1517 Hebron attacks
* 1517 Safed attacks
* 1660 massacre and razing of Tiberias
*1660 massacee and razing of Safed
* 1834 looting of Safed
* 1840 Damascus affair (which spilled over to Palestine)
* 1847 Jerusalem Blood Libel
* 1920 Battle of Tel Hai
* 1920 Nebi Musa Riots
* 1921 Jaffa Riots
* 1921 Jerusalem Stabbings
* 1929 Safed Massacre
* 1929 Jaffa Massacre
* 1929 Hebron Massacre
* 1929 Jerusalem Riots and killings (sponsored by the mufti)
* 1929 Gaza Riots and looting
* 1929 attack on Mishmar HaEmek
* 1929 attack on Gedera
* 1929 attack on Be'er Tuvia
* 1929 razing of Har-Tov
* 1929 Razing of Hulda Farm
* 1929 Ein Zeitim Massacre
* 1929 Massacre in Motza (Jerusalem)
* 1929 attack on Haifa
* 1929 attack on Tel Aviv
* 1933 Haifa Riots
* 1933 Jaffa Riots
* 1936 Jaffa Riots
* 1936-39 Arab Revolt (including many instances of attacks on Jews)
* 1937 murder of Jews in Safed
* 1937 Garin Bama'ale murder
* 1938 Killing passengers en route from Haifa to Safed
* 1938 Atlit Kidnapping
* 1938 Nir David bombing
* 1938 Tiberias Pogrom
* 1947 Jerusalem Riots
* 1947-1948 Mandatory Palestine Civil War (many instances of attacks and killings)
* 1948 Kfar Etzion Massacre
*Anti-Jewish Ottoman Policies in Palestine:*
* Deportation of 1,000 Jewish families to Cyprus in 1576.
* 1917 expulsion of all of Jaffa's 8,000 Jews
* Jizya (Cizye) Tax
* Dung Gatherers' Decree (Jews were tasked with cleaning sewers
* Orphans Decree (Jewish Orphans would be raised muslim)
*Anti-Jewish British Policies in Palestine:*
* 1922 Churchil white paper - called for a limit on Jewish immigration. (Implemented to appease the local Arabs)
* 1929 Expulsion of all Jews from Hebron, Gaza, Nablus, Ramle, Jenin and Acre. (Ending 3000 year old communities to appease the local Arabs after the 1929 riots)
* 1929 white paper - openly anti-zionist, further limited immigration, and limited what land and properties Jews can buy. (Implemented to appease the local Arabs after the 1929 riots)
* 1939 white paper - limited Jewish immigration to just 50,000 for 5 years at the height of the holocaust, afterwhich Jewish immigration would be entirely outlawed, and permissed Jews to only be allowed to live on 5% of the land. (Implemented to appease the local Arabs after the revolt.)
*Some accounts on Jewish life in Palestine from the start of the Islamic period up to the late Ottoman period:* (from [wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_and_Judaism_in_the_Land_of_Israel#Ottoman_rule_%281517%E2%80%931917%29?wprov=sfla1))
>*with the construction of the Dome of the Rock in 691 and the Al-Aqsa Mosque in 705, the Muslims established the Temple Mount as an Islamic holy site. The dome enshrined the Foundation Stone, the holiest site for Jews. Before Omar Abd al-Aziz died in 720, he banned the Jews from worshipping on the Temple Mount, a policy which remained in place for over the next 1,000 years of Islamic rule. In 717, new restrictions were imposed against non-Muslims that affected the Jews' status. As a result of the imposition of heavy taxes on agricultural land, many Jews were forced to migrate from rural areas to towns. Social and economic discrimination caused substantial Jewish emigration from Palestine.*
>*During his visit, al-Harizi found a prosperous Jewish community living in the city. From 1219 to 1220, most of Jerusalem was destroyed on the orders of Al-Mu'azzam Isa, who wanted to remove all Crusader fortifications in the Levant, and as a result, the Jewish community, along with the majority of the rest of the population, left the city.*
>*The era of Mamluk rule saw the Jewish population shrink substantially due to oppression and economic stagnation. The Mamluks razed Palestine's coastal cities, which had traditionally been trading centers that energized the economy, as they had also served as entry points for the Crusaders and the Mamluks wished to prevent any further Christian conquests. Mamluk misrule resulted in severe social and economic decline, and as the economy shrank, so did tax revenues, leading the Mamluks to raise taxes, with non-Muslims being taxed especially heavily. They also stringently enforced the dhimmi laws and added new oppressive and humiliating rules on top of the traditional dhimmi laws. Palestine's population decreased by two-thirds as people left the country and the Jewish and Christian communities declined especially heavily. Muslims became an increasingly larger percentage of the shrinking population. Although the Jewish population declined greatly during Mamluk rule, this period also saw repeated waves of Jewish immigration from Europe, North Africa, and Syria. These immigration waves possibly saved the collapsing Jewish community of Palestine from disappearing altogether.*
>*In 1266 the Mamluk Sultan Baybars converted the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron into an exclusive Islamic sanctuary and banned Christians and Jews from entering. They previously were able to enter it for a fee. The ban remained in place until Israel took control of the building in 1967. In 1286, leader of German Jewry Meir of Rothenburg, was imprisoned by Rudolf I for attempting to lead a large group of Jews hoping to settle in Palestine.*
>*In 1470, Isaac b. Meir Latif arrived from Ancona and counted 150 Jewish families in Jerusalem. In 1473, the authorities closed down the Nachmanides Synagogue after part of it had collapsed in a heavy rainstorm. A year later, after an appealing to Sultan Qaitbay, the Jews were given permission to repair it. The Muslims of the adjoining mosque however contested the verdict and for two days, proceeded to demolish the synagogue completely. The vandals were punished, but the synagogue was only rebuilt 50 years later in 1523.*
>*A few years later in 1488, Italian commentator and spiritual leader of Jewry, Obadiah ben Abraham arrived in Jerusalem. He found the city forsaken holding about seventy poor Jewish families. By 1495, there were 200 families. Obadiah, a dynamic and erudite leader, had begun the rejuvenation of Jerusalem's Jewish community. This, despite the fact many refugees from the Spanish and Portuguese expulsion of 1492-97 stayed away worried about the lawlessness of Mamluk rule. An anonymous letter of the time lamented: "In all these lands there is no judgement and no judge, especially for the Jews against Arabs.*
>*The 17th century saw a steep decline in the Jewish population of Palestine due to the unstable security situation, natural catastrophes, and abandonment of urban areas, which turned Palestine into a remote and desolate part of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman central government became feeble and corrupt, and the Jewish community was harassed by local rulers, janissaries, guilds, Bedouins, and bandits. The Jewish community was also caught between feuding local chieftains who extorted and oppressed the Jews. The Jewish communities of the Galilee heavily depended on the changing fortunes of a banking family close to the ruling pashas in Acre. As a result, the Jewish population significantly shrank.*
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@razolmahari On March 23, 2012, the Hamas Minister of the Interior and National Security, Fathi Hammad, linked the Palestinians’ origins to Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula:
Who are the Palestinians? We have many families called al-Masri, whose roots are Egyptian! They may be from Alexandria, from Cairo, from Dumietta, from the north, from Aswan, from Upper Egypt. We are Egyptians; we are Arabs. We are Muslims. We are part of you. Egyptians! Personally, half my family is Egyptian – and the other half are Saudis
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