The Greatest Enemies of the Jews and the Palestinian problem -part one

Looking at the title of this entry , who do you think are the greatest most feroucious enemies of Jews ?

right you are : Jews' biggest enemies are... Jews. The Jewish people have always had this inner self destruction mechanism , that has caused a lot of damage both to Jews and the world . You will find Nazies with Jewish origins ,and extreme muslims who were born as Jews . There is this tendency to dislike anything Jewish, among Jewish people and it is quite common. Sometimes I meet Jewish people who seem to be extremely critical about Israel ,but scrap the surface and you will dicover that , it's not because they care and want to change things. they simply hate their own people- usually they live abroad,and from their comfortable safe spot ,they declare time and again how agressive Israel is towords Arabs ,and that sort of staff.

but today I want to talk about the Palestenians . I am a just an Israeli who was born in Israel ,lives here ,and waits for more peacefull times . I have never been a citizen of the world , or cosmopolitan . Israel is my only home . I represent only myself , though a few of my countrymen will nodd in agreement with what I am about to write

The so called Palestinian conflict is not about land or "injustice" as some people believe it to be. I'd like to present a few facets of it - they are different than what the media tells you :

• Jealousy . The avarage European media fails to tell you , that the western side of " Palestine" better known as the State of Israel was rather a barren land , with a few swamps here and there. The few wandering Arab tribes ,and farmers who lived here suffered from lousy crops and bad health.Please read about it in Mark Twein's report about Israel There were many looters and robbers among those Arabs . Jews have always lived in this country in small numbers . They mostly lived off money sent from Jewish people in other countries . Jewish people came and went - going through hazards .Around 1870-1880 Jewish people with means came to Israel .They brought with them progress , free economy and Eropean culture influences , and that meant that Arab people from what is today Jordan and Lebanon followed along . In less than 50 years there were institutions that never existed in this land .Such was the Kibbutz ,but also theaters , a bank , coffee shops as well as dental care (My grandmother who came to Israel in the late stage of 1924 was a dental surgeon). Many ackers of "cursed land" which weren't worth much ,were sold for a lot of money for those stupid Jews . But to people's surprise and dismay the land was good to us and it yielded good crops . Now , if you were an Arab wouldn't you be jealous and angry about the success of those damned Jews?

• Who's the Boss: The basic Arab premise is that a Jew should always be in the state of a protege'. .That is to say , Arabs got used to it , that Jews are at their mercy. In all the Arab countries , once in a while there would be a big or small riot aimed at the Jews, and - we , the Jews were used to it . This has changed when Jewish people from Europe , especially Eastern Europe arrived in the land of Israel . They weren't into being a nice guy , and when attcked ,they fought back . They started to guard fields and villages ,and they were not afraid to use guns - something they had learnt in Russia . Most Jewish men , by the way, didn't know how to use a gun up until the early 20th century.

• More than 1 million jewish refugees from Arab countries .Around the time in which the state of Israel was founded Jewish populations in Arab countries were in immediate and clear peril (aacept for few places , where conditions were still bearable) . To make a long story- short , in a period of twenty years (1948-1968) they were all "transphered" here to Israel , leaving behind them land and property that they would never see again. Unlike the Arab refugees in Gaza or in Jordan ,no one was really interrested in them ,and in returning them their lands , or giving them back their property ,and you know what? I think most of them have given it up . Let's take my mother for example . Her family left Lybia in the secret of the night. In those days (1946-1952) Jews , including women and children were slaughtered in day light . They left behind them , hundreds of ackers of land, that was their private property. I know they had their own house ,and also a two stories building that served as a supermarket . They had never been able to sell it ,because as I mentioned Jews' lives were in real and immidate danger , so they just locked up behind them and with a few suitcases, they left . From neighbours and friends who also came from North Africa , I learned that in other countries it was like that too. Jews had to escape Lebanon , Jordan , Syria , Egept and Iraq. You will not see peace activists talking to the lybian leader Quadafi about returning Jewish property or land . I wonder why? If you are a justice seaker why search for it only in one place and not in another?

• Fighting for your honor versus fighting for your life: The Jewish people is by definition a peace seaking people. It is a cultural matter. We pray for peace three times a day. In order to reach heaven according to the Jewish faith ,you don't have to accept Jesus or Islam . You have to be a good person . In 1948 all the sorrounding Arab countries (Iraq, Jordan , Syria , Lebanon , Egypt and Saudi-Arabia ) joined the Arabs that lived here in Israel in the effort to kill all the Jews in the region. Make no mistake , the only difference between the Nazies and the Arabs , was that the Arabs were terribly disorganized ,and in power struggles within themselves . The only reason we won that war , was because we , the Jews, were fighting for our lives , while the Arabs were fighting for their long lost honor . Ask my dad . he is 86 , and bearly talks . But when he did talk , he talked about Arab's cruelty .All Jewish men between the age of 17 and 53 participated in that war ,and some women had to fight too. Holocoust survivers had to fight that war ,and the losses were immense to the small Jewish population in those times . Read history . About one precent of the Israeli population was lost .

To summ up , Arabs terrorized Jews way before the "Palestinian conflict" . In 1929 they killed 67 Jewish citizen only in the city of Hebron. That was the end of the Jewish community there., Arabs did terrible things to women and children - I prefer not to write it ,but you can read about it in books. The main reason was jealousy at the quick success of the Jews , in the light of their own faliour , and there was also fundamental Islamic call that came out from the El Aktza mosque . Other pogroms took place in 1931 , 1936 and all through the beggining of the 20th century. One of the most prominent Arab leaders Haj Amin el Hussaini was kin supporter of Hitler . He was not the only one . Many Arab leaders , including the the late Egyptian president Anuar Saadat had admired the Fuhrer.

(To be continued )