A Grim (sic) Fairy Tale

Once upon a time, there was a pauper named Arafat who went on to become the Prince of Palestine -- a mythical land somewhere under the rainbow and not far, far away enough. A-Fat, as his adoring fans call him, became a billonaire on the backs of the eternal refugees in Never-Never Land. Yassir Arafat had absolutely no redeeming qualities, except for committing crimes against humanity, and an uncanny ability to spin a yarn so outlandish that none could possibly believe it...except for the brainwashed refugees, and the permanently-tenured, permanently brain-dead professors of Anti-American academia.

Oh, and let's not forget the liberal Left who always support the underdog, even if the underdog is a fighting pit bull on rabies.

Here is the legacy of A-Fat.

With a cadre of Palestinian and Egyptian "archaeologists" to take the ball and run, A-Fat constantly concocted tall tales of yore when ancient Palestinians roamed the Earth about the same time that Neanderthals were spending their winter vacations along the Riviera.

Actually, A-Fat's major contribution to the world of junk science and anthropology was "discovering" a suitable gene pool from some obscure ancient tribes which he could use to prove that Palestinians arrived and settled Caanan (aka the land of Israel) before the Hebrew exodus left Egypt and came a-knockin' on their walls.

A-fat's initial comparison to the ancient Phillistines turned out to be a bad choice because the Phillies (the barbarians, not the Baseball team), were sea people who lived along the seacoast in Gaza, and because they never established any permanent settlement in Caanan (or anywhere else, for that matter). The Phillistines made their living as marauders, doing drive-bys (well, sail-bys) and were more comparable to the Vikings of Greenland and Scandinavia who terrorized the countrysides of Britain and France, instead of terrorizing Israelis.

Since the Philistines never settled Caanan, Arafat had to search for another pre-Hebrew (aka Jewish) lineage to stake his claim.

Bingo! Here come the Caanans!

First of all, A-fat could not have chosen a more fitting group of misfits for ancestors. Caananites were the scum of the ancient world. If you thought that the Philistines were bad, they couldn't hold a candle to the psychokillers of Caanan. They created all sorts of "innovative methods of execution" long before any other group in history. They practiced child and human sacrifice, and would drink their blood to "gain strength" form their enemies. They raped and strangled "virgins" to appease their gods (maybe that is why there are so many virgins in the Muslim afterlife).

But, these minutia never fazed the ever-clever A-fat. The only thing that rang his chimes was the fact that Caanites were "there" before the Israelites -- IF you call "there," a temporary encampment.

In other words, they never stayed "there" or anywhere for too long. After they had exhausted the land and their resources, they would take off to pillage yet another village.

People ask me, "Why did a loving God command that the Israelites kill every living thing in Caanan, including women, children, and animals? Why didn't God do it Himself""

This is one of the most perplexing questions ever asked about God, but the answer is really simple:

In the 21st Century CE , and in every age since 1250-1550BCE, Jews have had to face one mortal enemy after another, who are all bent on not only the total annihilation of Jews, but also their heritage. After they escaped from one mortal enemy, Egypt, they arrived at the gates of another, the Caananities.

Sure, God could have kicked the Caananites out with a flick of his finger, but that would be analogous to the "Give a man a fish/Teach him how to fish" parable. In other words, the Israelites would have to learn how to not only defeat their enemies, but also recognize the existence of pure evil in them that is so strong, that its effects all living things around it.

Knowing that they could not exist "side-by-side" with an enemy who would not even break a sweat to eliminate the Jewish People, as they had with other cultures. In the face of that stark reality, and, of course, doing what God wanted them to do, they wiped the slate clean.

I know that some of you cannot justify in your mind the idea of a "preemptive strike," which, essentially describes their conquest of Caanan. However, the world,as a whole, was not quite as civilized and developed socialized, 3,000 years ago, as it is today. On the other hand, the Caananites and the Palestinians could have been made from the same mold.

Any way, I digress.

The point of this discourse was to remind readers that Jews, and only Jews, have been hated for more than three millenia -- which is a "distinction" held by no other people in the history of mankind. What other group in the world (and nation in the world) has to devote every single minute of every single hour to defending itself from outside marauders?

A-Fat had lots of fans who backed him up. We are now, at the point, where Palestinian, Egyptian, Iranian, and other Muslim "scholars" (aka people who don't know jack about Israel) have concluded that there never was a First or Second Temple in Jerusalem, that all of the Jews who arrived in "Palestine" before becoming a state, that they were refugees from Europe, that Jews are the descendants of monkeys and pigs, that all of the Jewish patriarchs were actually Muslims, and that, at most, 60 Jews died in the Holocaust.

Rod Serling...how could you miss this one?

We can all tip our hat to that fun-loving Roman Emperor, Hadrian, who decided to eradicate any memory of Israel by changing its name to Syria-Palestina -- named after the Jews primary enemies, the Syrians and the Phillistines -- and by also changing Jerusalem's name after he had the temple plowed under the ground.

For some, unknown reason, Palestinians do not pay homage to Hadrian, especially after all the things he's done for them.

The conclusion ot this story has yet to be written, but it bears noting that prior to Israel becoming a state in 1948 -- the year that five Arab states launched a war of extermination against Israel -- "Palestinians" were known as JEWS, not ARABS!

So, when was the mythical land of "Palestine" created? In 1964, by the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization) three years before the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. The PLO went onto become the PA (Palestinian Authority) but their charter -- remains unchanged -- and in it, is a statement calling for the elimination of the State of Israel.