Think Palestine: Volume Iii

By Dr. Jamil E. Effarah

Dr. Jamil Effarah tackles the struggle between Palestinians and Israelis in three volumes under the title “THINK PALESTINE” that exposes series of articles addressing various issues regarding the complex struggle between Palestinians and Israelis, based on developing events that took place involving the U.S. Administrations and their policies of support for Israel in the conflicts among Palestinians, Arabs and Israelis.

This Volume III is intended for those students, teachers, politicians, executives, policy makers, and others who are interested or involved in the Middle East affairs. He interprets these events and policies as reflected by the last six years (2013-2018).

Dr. Effarah started writings since 1952 while student at the American University of Beirut (AUB). As an Arab-American independent thinker, he judges’ events according to their merits while acting as a participant observer to the one-sided American policy toward the Middle East that serves the interest of Israel. He records and highlights the facts in an attempt to find the key to unlock the Palestinian, Arab and Israeli conflicts. His personal feelings, as a survival of the Palestinian holocaust of 1948, and his interpretations toward the proceedings representing a major part in the events that took place in that period.

To find solutions to the Palestinians’ dilemma is to be fair to think Palestine. To “THINK PALESTINE” is to understand how to find the real key to just solutions to the problems in that region. Dr. Effarah attempts to create a voice for Arab Americans to stand up and be counted and act as an integral part of the American society. He keeps pressing for more American-Arab participation in the political process, for more transparency, and for faster and farther reaching to the Americans’ hearts and minds by trying to make them understand the Arabs’ situations, and Arab-Christian Patrimony, culture and heritage.

Dr. Effarah attempts to create an Arab-American balanced policy to reach Americans and convince them that there are special interest groups and influential lobbyists in Washington, D.C. who misinform media and try to spin the story around while beholding to the fabricated Israeli points of view. To counterbalance the Zionist efforts, Arab-Americans should “think Palestine” and ask the American citizens to find answers to why the American citizens, the taxpayers, give money outright to Israel: more than $8.5 million per day, according to the CIA Factbook in 2012. It also was upgraded to $8.9 million per day with President Trump Administration giving $3.3 billion in 2019.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jan 9, 2020
• ISBN: 9781728337302

Dr. Jamil E. Effarah

Dr. Jamil Effarah is an independent thinker and has never been a member of any political party or group. He prefers to judge issues on their merits. Dr. Effarah has been a resident of Ventura County, California since 1978. He is an Arab American from Lebanon, born in Haifa, Palestine. He is married and has two sons and six grandchildren. He obtained a B.A. degree from the American University of Beirut (AUB), a M.Ed. from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge (LSU), an M.S degree in computer science from University of Southern Louisiana in Lafayette (ULL), an MBA from California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks (CLU) and a Ph.D. from University of Oregon in Eugene (U of O). He established, owned and directed “Kfarshima College” in Kfarshima, Lebanon, in 1962. He published his first book in Arabic in 1958 on The Political Problems of the Sudan, and an updated second edition in 2000 and published over one thousand eight hundred articles in Arabic and English in different newspapers and magazines in United States and in the Middle East. A number of books in English were published online through the www.AuthorHouse.com; and a number of books in English and Arabic, and still more are waiting to be published. His written articles in English from 2001 – 2018 are combined in three volumes: “THINK PALESTINE to unlock US-Israelis & Arab Conflicts,” Volume I articles are from 2001 – 2006; [ISBN: 978-1-4343-3252-3], Library of Congress Control Number 2007906593, Volume II includes the years 2007 - 12012 [ISBN: 978-1-4918-1600-4], and the same Library of Congress Control Number, and this Volume III from 2013 – 2018.

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CONTENTS

Introduction

THE YEAR 2013

THE MONTH OF JANUARY 2013

Does The Year 2013 Bring Solutions To The Israeli –Palestinian Conflict And The Region?

Palestinian Cultural Centers Fail To Portray Their History Based On Scientific Facts

Americans Beware The Christian-Zionists Hypocrisy In Their Teachings In Three Parts:

Americans Beware The Christian-Zionists Hypocrisy In Their Teachings:

Americans Beware The Christian-Zionists Hypocrisy In Their Teachings:

THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY 2013

Will Zionists’ Visions Be Achieved As A Result Of Forging History?

The Palestinian Right Of Return Will Compensate For The Palestinian Holocaust Which Is Unsurpassed In History

Discover The Palestinian Land, People And Their Culture

Should Americans And The World Community Convert Palestine Into A Jewish State?

THE MONTH OF MARCH 2013

The Plan For The Year 2013 Is To Destroy Syria In The Name Of Democracy And Progress.

How Do The United States And Israel Define The Peace Negotiation Process With The Palestinians?

The Disgraceful 24th Doha Summit Of The Arab League (AL)

The 5th BRICS Summit In Durban March 27, 2013 And Palestine

THE MONTH OF APRIL 2013

Zionism Exercises Genocide Activities In The Holy Land Of Palestine

Do Americans Remember The Following Facts About Israel:

The Myth Of The Promise Land And The Current Chosen People

Present Zionist Israeli State Is Illegitimate And Should Be Replaced By A New, Secular Democratic State For Both Israeli Jews And Palestinians

THE MONTH OF MAY 2013

How Effective Is The Palestinian Popular Struggle Against Occupation?

Why Should The Palestinians Deal With The Fatah-Hamas Dichotomy To Liberate Palestine?

The Theory Of Exceptionalism" Means: The United States Of America And Israel Are Above The International Law.

The Palestinians Paid The Price For A Failed Oslo Agreement

THE MONTH OF JUNE 2013

Oslo Accords Had Caused The Intertwined Israeli-Zionist Processes Of Occupation, Colonization And Demolition To Devour The Palestinian State

Do Arab Ambassadors To The United States Work For The Interests Of The Arabs?

What The Palestinians Should Do If They Really Desire To Live?

THE MONTH OF JULY 2013

Calling For The Creation Of Palestinian Human Rights Defenders Organization

The Death Of Helen Amelia Thomas: (August 4, 1920– July 20, 2013)

Is The United States An Honest Broker In The Quest For A Just Peace In Palestine?

THE MONTH OF AUGUST 2013

A New Round Of Peace Talks Have Started Between The Palestinians And Israelis

The Saudi Arabian And Israel Conspire Against Syria.

The Major Recipe Of Failure: Israel’s Refusal To Withdraw Forces From The Jordan Valley In The War

THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER 2013

Palestinians Remember The Un Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte

Fouzi El-Asmar, Intellectual Palestinian Activist, Poet, Author And Journalist Passed Away

Attacking Rouhani’s Speech In The Un General Assembly (UNGA): How Trustworthy Is Netanyahu?

How Does The United States’ Perception In The Un General Assembly Meeting In 2013 Differ Than That Of 2012?

THE MONTH OF OCTOBER 2013

An Interesting Book To Read: Max Blumenthal’s New Book, Goliath: Life And Loathing In Greater Israel

Where The Nine-Month Palestinian-Israeli Negotiations Span Is Heading?

When Will The World Community Put An End To Injustice And Allow The Palestinian Farmers Harvest Their Olive Trees?

The Absolute Respect For The Rights And Dignity Of Every Human Being In Every Country

THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER 2013

When Will The Palestinian Leaders Exercise Their UNESCO Membership To Challenge Israel’s Efforts To Occupy And Expropriate Palestinian Lands?

The Assassination Of The Palestinian President Yasser Nine Years Ago

Twenty-Five Years After The Declaration Of The State Of Palestine

The Plan To Displace The Palestinian Arab Bedouin In Israel

The First Palestinian Intifada Took Place In The 1930S

The Us Secretary Of State John Kerry Condemns Israel’s On-Going Colonization Of The Occupied West Bank Of Palestine.

The Next Intifada Against The Israeli Occupation Would Be For The Protection Of The Aqsa Mosque

When Will Critical Discussion Of Israel’s Policies Towards Palestine Be No Longer Taboo?

What The U.S. Secretary Of State John Kerry Should Have To Succeed In His Peace Process Negotiations

Secretary Kerry On Middle East Peace Negotiations In Two Parts:

Secretary Kerry On Middle East Peace Negotiations:

THE MONTH OF DECEMBER 2013

The Loss Of A Hero To The Palestinians, South Africa And The Entire World: Nelson Mandela

Palestinian Catastrophe Is Not An Ancient History And Will Never Be Forgotten In 2014

On December 15, Us Secretary Of State John Kerry Made His Ninth Trip To Palestine

After 2013, The Christmas In Bethlehem, The Cradle Of Christianity, Will Be Vanished

THE YEAR 2014

THE MONTH OF JANUARY 2014

The Year 2014: The International Year Of Solidarity With The Palestinian People

Palestinians And The Year 2014

Zilch Outcome Resulted From John Kerry’s Tenth Visit To The Holy Land

Beware The Right-Wing Zionist Lobby Group In California’s Universities

THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY 2014

Is Justice A Threat To The Zionists’ Illegal Existence In Occupied Palestine?

No Security For The Palestinians Under The Israeli Law With Regard To Immovable Property Rights

In The Name Of Justice And Freedom: The Palestinian People Are Resisting Occupation

Palestinians Should Not Recognize Israel As A Jewish State

THE MONTH OF MARCH 2014

Will The International Court Of Justice (ICJ) Rule On Israeli Occupation Of Palestine As Ethnic Cleansing?

March 30, 2014 Marks The 38thAnniversary Of Land Day

Mahmoud Abbas Attempts To Be A Palestinian Hero While Allowing Israel To Maintain Its Military Power In Occupied Palestine

THE MONTH OF APRIL 2014

Palestinian Political Division Came To The End

29 April 2014: The Date The Day Modern Peace Process Died

When And How The United States Got Involved In Palestine

THE MONTH OF MAY 2014

Palestinians Are The Indigenous People Of The Holy Land Of Palestine

Are Palestinians In Palestine And Worldwide Chess Pieces?

Pope Francis’ Visit To The Holy Land Of Palestine.

THE MONTH OF JUNE 2014

Do Americans Remember The Following Facts About Israel?

Does Occupation Differ From Slavery?

Why Should Abbas Return To Negotiate A Dying Peace Process?

What Will Happen After The Newest Collapse Of Palestinian-Israeli Negotiation?

THE MONTH OF JULY 2014

Why Did I Stop Reading The Emails And Supporting My Senator Barbara Boxer’ Efforts?

The Syrian People Re-Elected Dr. Bashar Assad For A Third Term

The Reality On The Palestinian Ground: Israel Has No Commitment To Peace

The Zionist Israeli Terror Campaign In Occupied Palestine

THE MONTH OF AUGUST 2014

The Palestinians’ Will To Resist Occupation

Is The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Really Powerful?

Greater Israel: The Zionist Plan For The Middle East

The Palestinians’ Right To Resist The Israeli Zionists Oppressors

Zionism Will Never Subdue The Palestinian Resistance

THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER 2014

Why Did The Kidnapping And Killing Of Three Israeli Settlers Take Place?

Responding To Article: THE EUCHARIST IN THE BIBLE AND QUR’AN: How Melkites Can Share The Gospel".

Why The Palestinians In Gaza Won The War?

The Outcome Of Israel’s 51-Day War In Gaza

Is Daesh-The Islamic State What The Yinon Plan Of 1982 Predicted To Be Established To Support The Zionist Vision?

Islam Is Not The Solution; Democracy Is.

Will The Zionist Colonization Of Palestine Continue?

THE MONTH OF OCTOBER 2014

The Palestinians Lost Their Prominent Palestinian Philanthropic Businessman, Said Khoury.

Will Israel Comply With The 1967 Borders And End Its Illegal Occupation?

Is Jerusalem (Al-Qudsi-Sharif) Really The City Of Peace?

Why The International Palestinian Solidarity Movement Is Growing Across The World?

THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER 2014

Does Palestine Obtain A Decision From The Un Security Council To End The Occupation Within A Certain Timeframe?

Western Movement To Recognize The State Of Palestine

Why The United States Is Leading The Assault Against Its Created Islamic State?

A New Draft Law On Nationhood Defines Israel As The Nation-State Of The Jewish People

November 29, The UN Most Shameful Day When Palestine Was Partitioned

THE MONTH OF DECEMBER 2014

The Palestinians Resolution To Put An End To Israeli Occupation

The 11th Saban Forum In 2014, Titled Stormy Seas: The United States And Israel In A Tumultuous Middle East.

Bethlehem Celebrating Christmas 2014

The Year 2014 Was A Painful Year For The Palestinians

THE YEAR 2015

THE MONTH OF JANUARY 2015

The Continual Of U.S. Opposition To Palestinian Self-Determination In 2015

The Year 2015 Started In Palestine Where The Year 2014 Ended.

Will Israel Comply With The 1967 Borders And End Its Illegal Occupation?

Will Joining The ICC Allow Palestinians Seek Justice?

THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY 2015

Is The United States A Partner With Israel To Commit Crimes?

Why The American Congress Believes In Netanyahu’s Bluff?

Where Do Palestinians Stand?

Why Did President Obama Compensate Israel For The Iran Nuclear Deal?

THE MONTH OF MARCH 2015

The Story Of Human Rights In The Occupied Territories

How Powerful Is The Grip Of AIPAC On US Policy?

THE MONTH OF APRIL 2015

Netanyahu Insults The United States Intelligence In His Address Before The US Congress

Netanyahu Is A Liability Upsetting The United States

What Are The Consequences Of The Reelection Of The Dangerous Maniac Netanyahu For The Fourth Term?

Palestinians Have Failed To Have A Strategic Political System

THE MONTH OF MAY 2015

What Does That Dangerous Maniac Plan In Occupied Palestine?

The Road To End The Zionists Oppression Of The Palestinian People

The Discovered Objectives Of The Zionists Up To Date

The Way To World War Three

THE MONTH OF JUNE 2015

The Zionist Israelis Continue To Elect Right-Wing Governments

Dorothy Thompson In 1945: The Proposed Establishment Of The State Of Israel Was A Formula For Disaster, ‘A Recipe For Perpetual War’ In The Middle East.

Is Hamas A Resistance Movement Or A Political Party?

Is American Exceptionalism Making Americans Exceptional?

Most Americans Remain Silent And Inactive: Do They Fear To Be Accused Of Being Anti-Semitism?

THE MONTH OF JULY 2015

The Israeli Arson Attack On The Church Of Multiplication Aims At Obliterating The Historic Landmarks In Palestine

How Strong Is The Thread Of The Boycott, Divestment And Sanctions (BDS) Campaign To The Zionist State?

The Israeli Colonialism And Ethnic Cleansing Of Indigenous Palestinian Population From Palestine Remains The Hurdle Of All Hurdles For Peace And Normality In Palestine.

When Will The International Immunity For Israelis’ Crimes Stop?

THE MONTH OF AUGUST 2015

Occupation Should Always Be Illegal

Who Will Succeed Mahmoud Abbas To Stop The Israeli Atrocities?

The Curse Of Normalization On The Palestinians

Important Facts That Should Not Be Kept Hidden

Should The Israeli War Crimes Be Considered Self-Defense Acts To Fulfill The Zionist Dream?

THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER 2015

Will Raising The Palestinian Flag Solidify The Palestinian Statehood?

Does Abbas’ Speech Have Any Effect On The Palestinian Ground?

After Abbas’ Speech In Un: What Is Going On In The Palestinian Occupied Territories?

The Road To The Third Palestinian Intifada

Palestinians Are Forced To Liberate Their Country By Themselves

THE MONTH OF OCTOBER 2015

What Americans Should Know About The Goals Of The Israel Lobby?

Are We Stupid To Listen To Netanyahu’s Accusation Of A Palestinian Religious Leader Convincing Hitler To Carry Out The Holocaust?

The Deranged Prime Minister Of Israel Explains His Fallacy Vision In A Speech

Will The International Community Protect The Palestinians Against Israeli War Crimes?

The Current Popular Palestinian Resistance Is The New Palestinian National Struggle.

THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER 2015

The Changing Role Of The Palestinian Authority

The Palestinian Youth Intifada Exploded In Resisting Occupation Calling For Their Freedom, Justice And Independence

Remembering Balfour Declaration On Its 98th Anniversary

John Kerry Tries To Dismantle The Jerusalem Palestinian Youth Intifada Through King Abdullah Of Jordan

November 29 Is The International Day Of Solidarity With The Palestinian People

THE MONTH OF DECEMBER 2015

The Zionist Israeli Leadership Is Inciting The Jew Hatred Hypocrisy

Netanyahu Visited Washington To Sign The American Arm Deal To The Israeli Occupiers Of Palestine

Zealot Zionists Wants Netanyahu To Rebuilt The Third Temple

Israel Massive Retaliation Against Innocent Palestinians Should Continue To Make The Uprising Grow Stronger

THE YEAR 2016

THE MONTH OF JANUARY 2016

The Palestinian Right Of Return: Will The Occupation Of All Historic Palestine Be Forgotten?

Did The First Month Of The Year 2016 Introduce Any Changes To The Palestinian Crisis?

Establishing Fatah: The Palestinian National Movement

The Growing Numbers Of The Palestinians

Grabbing Palestinian Lands

No One Listen To The U.S. State Department When It Condemns Israel

What Happened To The Two –State Solution?

Greater Israel Is The Zionist Objective

Christian Zionists Are More Zionists Than The Israelis: Who Are The Christian Zionists And What Do They Believe?

It Is Time To Challenge The Palestinian Status Quo Of President Abbas

The Fraudulent Palestinian Authority & Abbas Are Led By Relying On The Western Powers And Arab Regimes For Solutions

Palestinians Are Responsible To Change The Dynamics

The Latest Palestinian Intifada Or Uprising

On Makarim Wibisono’s Resignation As UN Special Rapporteur On Occupied Palestine

The Modern Language Association Annual Convention

President Obama Annual State Of The Union Address

The Palestinian Struggle Against The Israeli Occupation Continues Without Support

Hillary Rodham Clinton: A Staunch Supporter Of Israel For Her Entire Career

Hillary Rodham Clinton: As President Of The United States

Gaza Strip Situation Is Deteriorating

Is Israel About To Start A New War On Gaza?

Daniel Shapiro, The U.S. Ambassador To Israel, Criticized Israel

Federica Mogherini Hopes That The Palestinian State Will Exist By 2019

Netanyahu Supports Unlawful Jewish Colonies On Stolen Palestinian Land

January 30 – The Day Of Solidarity With Palestinian Israeli Citizens

THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY 2016

The Open Letter Of Richard Falk To Ban Ki-Moon

February 11, 2016 – Continuation Of Israel’s Violations And Crimes Against The Palestinian People

The Chief Of Palestinian Intelligence, Majid Faraj, Undermines His Own Political Ambition

Can Erekat Or Faraj Be Successors Of Mahmoud Abbas

Who Is The Quartet And Its Reports?

THE MONTH OF MARCH 2016

Joe Biden In Jerusalem

March 2016 Is Distinguished By The AIPAC Policy Conference Speakers

Israel’s International Propaganda At AIPAC

The Palestinian Current And Third Uprising

Mahmoud Abbas Inherited Yasser Arafat

Richard Falk Adds More Explanation To The Palestinian Situation

Palestinian Land Day: 30th Of March 2016

Combating The Boycott, Divestment And Sanctions Movement (BDS)

Mahmoud Abbas Against The Intifada

THE MONTH OF APRIL 2016

Palestinians Are Continuously Under Attacks

Remembrance Of Deir Yassin Massacre

European Union (EU) Does What Israel Dictates

The Way Bernie Sanders Understood The Assault On Gaza

THE MONTH OF MAY 2016

The 68th Commemoration Of The Palestinian Nakba

The Death Of A Friend: Clovis Maksoud

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s Initiative For Peace

Recalling The Sykes-Picot Agreement

THE MONTH OF JUNE 2016

Muhammad Ali Passed Away

The French Initiative To Set Up A Palestinian State

Remembering The Israeli Attack On The U.S.S. Liberty Naval Vessel

Humiliation Is The Omnipresent Atrocity Act Of The Israeli Occupation Of Palestine

THE MONTH OF JULY 2016

The Middle East Quartet Report Controversy

The Middle East Quartet Report Controversy: The Palestinian And Israeli Reactions

The United States’ Response To The Middle East Quartet Report

The International Community False Propaganda Claiming Global Support For Palestinians

The Democratic Party Platform Is Pro-Israel

In July 2016, The World Started The Travel Between The Real World And The Virtual World Of Pokémon With Pokémon GO

Netanyahu’s Major Achievements In July: The Transparency Law And The Expulsion Law

Twin Murders Of Palestinian Children Before The Camera

Democratic And Republican Presidential Candidates Compete In Showing Loyalty To Israel

July 2016 And The Six Hours Arab League Summit In Nouakchott

How Serious Is The Palestinian Authority To Sue Britain?

THE MONTH OF AUGUST 2016

Rewarding Omar Barghouti, The Palestinian Activist, With Gandhi Peace Award

More Israeli Attacks On The Gaza Strip Of Palestine

Is It Possible To Reboot Peace Talks To Create A Real Palestinian Statehood?

Why Advocating Palestinian Human Rights For Justice Is Not Allowed In Canada And In The United States?

THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER 2016

The Israeli Netanyahu Government Expands Its Colonization Of Palestine With New 463 Units

The Palestinian City Of Al-Khalil (Hebron) Named The World Crafts City Of 2016

The September Tour Of The Palestinian Jenin Freedom Theater In Portugal

The Us Israel Military Deal Smells Horrible

Is President Barrack Obama A Pragmatist Or A Hypocrite?

Do Americans Know How Israel Violates US Domestic Law Under The Foreign Assistance Act?

The 34th Anniversary Of The Massacre Of Sabra And Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camps

The Tricky And Deceptive Speech Of Barack Obama At UN General Assembly Does Reflect The Real Obama?

Is It A Shameful Act Of Abbas Attending The Funeral Of The Criminal Shimon Peres?

THE MONTH OF OCTOBER 2016

The Jerusalem Intifada After One Year

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Adds More Insults To President Barack Obama

Remembering The 43rd Anniversary Of The October War Of 1973

UNESCO Draft Resolution Criticizes Israel’s Activities

Illegal Israeli Settlements: Obstacles To Peace And The Two-State Solution

THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER 2016

General Michel Aoun Is The New President Of Lebanon

The 99th Anniversary Of The Balfour Declaration

The United Nations Security Council Calls Israeli Settlements A ‘Flagrant Violation’ Of International Law

Does Mahmoud Abbas Really Represent The Palestinians?

THE MONTH OF DECEMBER 2016

Instead Of Fighting Antisemitism, The New Senate Bill Anti-Semitism Awareness Act Of 2016 Suppresses Anti-Israel Actions And Threatens Free Speech

U.S. Secretary Of State John Kerry: Israel Is Deliberately Sabotaging Peace Process

The United Nation Security Council Resolution 2334 Passed Before The End Of 2016

The Year 2016 Ends With A Last-Ditch Policy Of The Obama Administration: The Constructive UNSC Resolution 2334

John Kerry, U.s. Secretary Of State’s Constructive Farewell Speech On December 28, 2016 In The Dean Acheson Auditorium, Washington, DC

THE YEAR 2017

THE MONTH OF JANUARY 2017

Antonio Guterres: The New United Nations Secretary-General

The Insightful Article Of Paul Heinbecker On The Unsc Resolution 2334

What Is Vital In The United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSC) 2334?

January 2017 Starts With The Palestinians Mourning The Death Of Their Spiritual Leader Hilarion Capucci

Paris International Peace Conference Failed To Serve Its Purpose To Promote A Two-State Solution In Historic Palestine

Umm Al-Hiran Is The Latest Reminder That The Nakba Of 1948 Continues To Be A Vicious Reality Of The Zionists In 2017

THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY 2017

Do Americans Understand The Israeli Culture Of Impunity?

The Israeli Knesset Adopted The So-Called Regularization Bill Reinforcing Its Illegal Settlements/Colonies

Benjamin Netanyahu’s Meeting With President Donald Trump

Netanyahu’s Visit To Australia To Praise Its Courage To Stand Up To UN Resolution Supporting Palestinians

Conference For Palestinians Abroad In Istanbul

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Address Before The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) At Its 34th Session

THE MONTH OF MARCH 2017

Will The Taylor Force Act Pass Through The U.S. Congress?

Rima Khalaf And The ESCWA Report Israeli Practices Towards The Palestinian People And The Question Of Apartheid In Two Parts

The ESCWA Report Israeli Practices Towards The Palestinian People And The Question Of Apartheid

Nikki R. Haley And The Annual Event In The Israeli Lobby’s AIPAC Calendar

The 28th Arab Leaders Summit Met In Jordan

Dr. Karma Nabulsi: Palestinian Academic Wins Guardian University’s Inspiring Leader Award

Palestinians Commemorate The 41st Anniversary Of Land Day

THE MONTH OF APRIL 2017

Are The Arab Gulf States Really Arabs When They Betray The Palestinians Rights?

A Complete 180-Degree Turn In President Trump Policy When He Ordered The Attack On Syria

Keep In Mind The Palestinian Prisoners’ Day And Support The Cause Of The Palestinian Prisoners

THE MONTH OF MAY 2017

The Masquerade Of May 2017 Between Donald Trump And Mahmoud Abbas As Part Of Trump’s This Month Proclamation

Is Mahmoud Abbas A Real Palestinian President To Meet With Trump?

Focus On Hunger Strike By Hundreds Of Palestinian Prisoners

A New World Perception Created Called Social Physics

Sixty-Nine Years Ago. I Was Uprooted From My Home In Palestine

THE MONTH OF JUNE 2017

The Palestinian Weakness Is Getting Weaker After The First 50th Anniversary Of Occupation Of Historic Palestine

A Pack Of Lies Created An Illegal State Called Israel

Why Did The 35th Session Of The UN Human Rights Attract My Attention?

Netanyahu Wants To Dismantle The United Nations Relief And Works Agency For Palestine Refugees In The Near East (UNRWA)

In Support To Netanyahu And Trump, Adel Al-Jubeir, The Saudi Foreign Minister, Calls Hamas A Terrorist Organization

June 23, 2017, The Jerusalem (Quds) Day, To Show Solidarity With The Palestinians

The Forum To End The Illegal Israeli Occupation Of Palestine

THE MONTH OF JULY 2017

In July 2017 Interest Groups’ Lies Are Turned Into Truth By Constant Repetition

The Intentions Of The Saudi-Led Coalition Against Qatar Are Not About Terrorism

The Criminalization Of Political Speech And Activism Against Israel Has Become One Of The Gravest Threats To Free Speech In The United States

THE MONTH OF AUGUST 2017

What Does The International Community Know About The Israeli Military Tourism?

Piecing Together The Evidences That The U.S. Has Continuously Supported Isis

Nasrallah Announced August 28 The Second Victory Day After Daesh And Al Nusra Front Terrorists Beaten In Lebanon

THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER 2017

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Is Accused Of Corruption, Fraud And Bribery

A Bahraini Historic Declaration Of Religious Freedom Was Signed In Los Angeles On September 13, 2017

Needed Steps To Unify The Palestinians Factions

The Massacre At The Sabra And Shatila Palestinian Camps In Lebanon Remembered

Comments On The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Of 2017 Speeches In Two Parts

Comments On The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Of 2017

The Biggest Prison On Earth: A History Of The Palestinian Occupied Territories

UN Human Rights Commissioner Is Warning 150 International And Israeli Businesses’ Inclusion In The UN Database

Labor Leader Jeremy Corbyn Called For An End To The Oppression Of The Palestinian People

THE MONTH OF OCTOBER 2017

Will The Palestinians Have A Unified Leadership?

Signing The Reconciliation Agreement Between Major Palestinian Factions: Fatah And Hamas

When Is Israel Going To Be Called To Account For Its Illegal Action?

Will Jared Kushner Bring Peace To The Middle East?

The Israeli Lobby Is Helping Prime Minister Netanyahu To Make President Trump Go To War With Iran And Much More

THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER 2017

Britain Has No Right To Promise The Zionist Movement A National Home In Palestine

Protect American Freedom Of Speech And Oppose H.R.1730: Suppressing Pro-Palestinian Voices On Campus!

US Secretary Rex Tillerson Threatens The Palestinian Liberation Organization Not To Get The ICC Prosecute Israelis For Crimes Against Palestinians While Brokering A Peace Deal

Palestinians Beware The Israeli-Saudi Arab League

Half A Century Ago The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Adopted Resolution 242

The 70th Anniversary Of The Declaration Of The International Day Of Solidarity With The Palestinian People

THE MONTH OF DECEMBER 2017

By The End Of November 2017, The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Adopts Six Resolutions On Palestine And The Middle East

The Saudi Conspiracy Published In The Letter From King Faisal Encouraging The Us President Johnson In 1966 To Support Israel To Attack Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Palestine And Iraq.

Thank You Donald Trump For Revealing That The Arab Spring Is In Reality A Zionists Spring

Palestinians Should Not Become Victims To The US And Zionists Unilateralism And Illegalities

Why The Third Intifada In Palestine Is Needed?

President Trump Threatens The World Community To Surrender To His Absolute Power

Farwell To The Gloomy End Of The Year 2017 In Bethlehem - Palestine

THE YEAR 2018

THE MONTH OF JANUARY 2018

If I Believe Something Is True, Why Would I Want To Change My Belief?

‘Ahd Tamimi Symbolizes A New Joan Of Arc For The Palestinians’ Resistance

Fire And Fury, Inside The Trump White House, – A New Book Of Gossips

More From The New Fire And Fury Book By Michael Wolff

The Encouraging Palestinian Central Council’s Statement Should Be Translated Into Actions

Palestinians Beware Zionists In Arab Clothes

Life In The Gaza Strip Is An Open Prison For The Palestinians

Unrwa Faces A Formidable Challenge In Upholding Its Mandate

Should The Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas Go?

The Palestinian Arab Americans Lost One Of Its Cultural Leaders: Joseph R. Haiek

THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY 2018

To Where Mahmoud Abbas Is Taking The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO)?

Is There A Peace Process To Reject Or To Destroy?

From The Testimony Of Former Ambassador To Syria Robert S. Ford, Syria: Which Way Forward?

What Was New In Abbas Speech At The United National Security Council On February 20, 2018

The Latest News About Syria As Discussed At The UNSC On February 22, 2018

The Resolution That Came Out Of The UN Security Council On The 24th Of February 2018 Is Empty

THE MONTH OF MARCH 2018

Vladimir Putin’s State-Of-The-Nation Speech

Netanyahu’s Speech At The Israel Lobby And American Policy 2018 Conference

Being An Arab Nationalist Is Basic To My Identity

The White House Stakeholders Summit On Gaza Crisis Was Political Par Excellence

US President Donald Trump Picks Mike Pompeo, Gina Haspel And John Bolton To Lead The United States Toward Global War?

Palestinians Worldwide Mark Land Day On March 30, 2018: The Great March Of Return

THE MONTH OF APRIL 2018

Human Rights Situation In Occupied Palestine Under Agenda Item 7 Celebrating Its 70th Birthday

The Palestinians And The UN Universal Declaration Of Human Rights

Fake News Of Chemical Attack In Syria May Lead To War World Three

Is There An Israeli-Sunni Arab Alliance Against The Sunni-Arab Of Palestine?

The Importance Of Trump’s Advisors In Shaping The United States Foreign Policy With An Airstrike On Syria

Mattis, Against Bolton’s Wishes For War, Ordered The Limited Airstrike Against Syria

The Fruitless 29th Arab League Summit In Saudi Arabia

Are Palestinians Unworthy Victims To Grant Them Respect And Human Rights?

The Great Return March Of The Palestinians For Freedom And A Decent Life Will Never Break Or Back Down

THE MONTH OF MAY 2018

Abbas Speech To The Palestinian National Council Reflects Historic Facts That The Zionist Supporters Intensely Deny

Trump’s Withdrawal From The Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action (JCPOA) In Favor Of His Ego And Israel’s Demands To Isolate, Disarm And Attack Iran

The Vanishing Dream Of The Zionists In Creating Greater Israel

President Trump Must Understand That Palestinians Belong To Palestine And Nowhere Else

Will A Criminal Zionist State On The Palestinian Soil Survive?

St Petersburg International Economic Forum (May 24-26, 2018)

THE MONTH OF JUNE OF 2018

The Liberation Of The Yarmouk Refugee Camp In Syria From ISIS

United States Vetoed A New United Nations Security Council Resolution

How Important Is The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) To The Palestinians In Two Parts?

How Important Is The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) To The Palestinians?

What Is The Role Of Hamas In Liberating Palestine?

To Zionism: All Palestinians Are A Demographic Threat Causing An Obstacle To Zionist Expansion And Control.

President Trump And The Deal Of The Century

Where Is The Palestinian Diaspora?

The Impact Of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Win The Democratic Party Primary In New York?

THE MONTH OF JULY 2018

The Bds Movement For Palestinian Rights Celebrates Its 13th Birthday

The Palestinian Fire Rains Down Across A Wide Area Of Southern Occupied Palestine

The Meeting Between US President Donald Trump And The Russian President Vladimir Putin

The New Racist Zionist National State Law In Occupied Palestine Becomes A Basic Law

The Commitment Of The 10th BRICS Summit Meeting In Johannesburg, Toward Syria And Palestine

The 10th BRICS Summit Meeting In Johannesburg And The Fourth Industrial Revolution

The Palestinian Joan Of Arc ‘Ahed Tamimi Released From The Zionist Prison

THE MONTH OF AUGUST 2018

The UNRWA Reform And Refugee Support Act Of 2018

The United States Israel Security Assistance Authorization Act Of 2018 Will Not Deter The Resistance

The Arab Gulf States And Israel Shared A Common Enemy Called Iran

How Do We Understand The Terms: Semites, Semitism And Anti-Semitism In Three Parts?

How Do We Understand The Terms: Semites, Semitism And Anti-Semitism?

How Do We Understand The Terms: Semites, Semitism And Anti-Semitism?

THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER 2018

Listen To Nikki Haley Reckless Comments Without Yelling

The United States Israel Security Assistance Authorization Act Of 2018 Will Not Deter The Palestinian Resistance

Is The United States President Donald J. Trump A Zionist Jew?

The Signing Of The Oslo Accords In Washington 25 Years Ago

Forty Years Anniversary Of Camp David Accords

John Bolton, Trump’s National Security Advisor, Threatens Against International Criminal Court

THE MONTH OF OCTOBER 2018

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas And The 73rd Session Of The Un General Assembly In 2018

The Dynasty Of Al-Saud House Is Reaching Its End?

U.S Ambassador To U.N., Nikki Haley, Resigned

For The Sake Of Peace, President Trump Is Declaring War On The Palestinians

President Donald Trump’s Assaults Against The Palestinian People

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Unanimously Named Chairman Of The Group Of 77 For The Year 2019

The Disappearance Of Jamal Khashoggi

The Need To Silence BDS Advocates To Protect The Illegal Netanyahu’s Policies

Benjamin Netanyahu Failed Miserably In His Attempts To Convince The World That Al-Assad Must Go

THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER 2018

Trump’s Twelfth Public Demands That Iran Must Achieve

Palestinians Will Resist Netanyahu’s Aggression And Will Survive President Trump’s Zionist Tactics

Russia’s New Message To The Zionist State Enough Is Enough

The Palestinian Declaration Of Independence

Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Lies Even At The UN General Assembly

To Make America First, President Trump Stands With Saudi Arabia

The United States Green Party Calls For A Full Investigation Of Israeli War Crimes Against Palestinians

The Observation Of The International Day Of Solidarity With The Palestinian People On November The 29th Of Each Year

THE MONTH OF DECEMBER 2018

A Free Palestine From The Jordan River To The Mediterranean Sea

Arab Politicians Are Perceived As Untrustworthy To Solve The Palestinian Crisis

The Celebration Of The World Arabic Language Day: December 18, 2018

Canary Mission Versus Palestine Legal

The Predicament Of The Palestinians In 2019?

About Dr. Jamil Effarah

INTRODUCTION

A fter publishing my weekly articles from 2001-2012 in two volumes on THINK PALESTINE, I intended to stop writing, but the Palestinian events that were taking place urged me to continue my path of communicating and recording my opinion and comments on papers.

As an indigenous Lebanese who was born in Palestine and was uprooted from his home and thrown away to the wind in 1948, I reject Israel’s legitimacy which is a British-enabled, European colony in Palestine. I reject to have a Zionist state in my home country against my will and insisting on eradicating my right to self-determination. I believe that Israel’s illegitimacy has nothing to do intrinsically with Judaism or Jews, but only with the fact that Zionism is using force to grab my land when Palestinians never wanted Israel to be placed in Palestine.

From a moral point of view Zionism’s problem is that Israel is in the wrong place. Any place would be wrong if the state’s existence presupposed military conquest and ethnic cleansing.

No one doubt that anti-Semitism gave rise to Zionism in the first place was European, having nothing to do with Palestinians and of justice.

So, I say that Israel has no right to exist (it is not right that it exists), where it is and, in the manner, that it maintains itself, without saying a single word about Jews, a Jewish collective, Jewish statehood or Jewish self-determination. I am talking about Palestine and Palestinians.

As a displaced Palestinian, I start any discussion of Palestine and Israel with Palestine, not with philosophy or anti-Semitism or with the ins and outs of the Zionist endeavor or with the historical claims of some long-ago unknown residents.

In the beginning of modern political Zionism were indigenous Palestinians, and their enduring and inalienable rights should be mine and our focus, a positive focus needs no defense against far-fetched accusations concerning one or the other attitude towards Jews and their national aspirations.

My arguments for the sole legitimacy of a state determined by the majority of my people, the Palestinians – wherever they now live – do in fact demand that Israel is illegitimate. The argument for Palestinian self-determination, in Palestine, makes no necessary mention of the particular non-indigenous ethnic or religious group in terms of which Israel defines itself.

Thus, the claim that the anti-Zionism involved full recognition of Palestinian rights is anti-Semitic simply falls flat for lack of an object.

I am anti-Zionist; it does not mean I target Israel because of the Jews; I do not deny the abstract right of any ethnic or religious group to try to peacefully set up its own state anywhere. I do identify Zionism as racist against the non-Jews of Palestine. I do not deny Zionism to create their own state as long as it is on land that legitimately belongs to them, and not over land that they have annexed illegally by force. The Jewish people have the right to self-determination in the form of a sovereign state – if done without violence on land purchased fair and square which did not happen in Palestine. I still reject Zionism and Israel. The wrong European persecution of Jews does not justify the wrong done to grab the Palestinian land and exterminate the indigenous Palestinian people or disperse them in the four corners of the world.

I need an audience to think Palestine. What can you do when you have no audience to listen to the facts that the Palestinians own their homes and properties in their country Palestine and have the right to resistant and defend themselves from all illegal atrocities of the Israeli Zionist occupiers who stole the Palestinian lands by force?

My theme is to THINK PALESTINE and it will never change until Palestine is liberated from its Israeli occupation. Writing weekly articles in English in the past eighteen years reflects weekly events related to the Palestinian Crisis; this year in 2013 and on, I intend to write monthly essays presenting what took place during that month from actions related to Palestine and write my own comments.

That is why I wrote about the possibility to bring solutions to the Palestinian-Israeli struggle; about the Christian-Zionists hypocrisy and events based on the expanding Zionism genocide activities in the Holy Land of Palestine.

I brought attention to the weakness of the Palestinian information centers who fail to present who are the Palestinians and their legal and rightful cause in defense of their resistance for liberation from occupation; and against all forms of killing, slaughtering, as well as extermination, annihilation and ethnic cleansing that are practiced against the Palestinians by the Zionist Israeli government in occupied Palestine.

The desire of the Palestinians to live needs a new sincere and strong leadership, a leadership based not on personalities but on values and high principle of justice, equality and freedom.

In 2013, my goal was to search for peace in occupied Palestine to achieve by presenting articles related to the subject, such as what took place in the 5th BRICS summit that convened in Durban, the price of Oslo Accords, and the new round of hopeless negotiations under the supervision of the Secretary of State John Kerry.

I also commemorated the memory of Helen Thomas, Fouzi el-Asmar and Nelson Mandela, whom I greatly respected, had passed away during the year 2013.

In 2014, the UN General Assembly has proclaimed the year 2014 the International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. I showed how Justice is a threat to the illegal Zionist occupation of Palestine and about John Kerry numerous visits to the region. I wrote about Pope Francis’ visit to the Holy Land of Palestine and about the re-election of Bashar Al-Assad to the presidency of Syria, and about the death of the Palestinian Philanthropic Businessman Said Khoury.

In 2015, the US kept opposing the Palestinian self-determination after the Palestinian Authority joined the International Criminal Court (ICC). I wrote about the absence of the Human Rights treatment to the Palestinians and about the grip of AIPAC lobby on the US policy and about the road to the third Palestinian Intifada.

In 2016, I explored the continued Israel’s violations and crimes against the Palestinians and its expansion of its colonization of Palestine and its sabotaging of the Peace process as well as explaining what took place at the AIPAC policy conference

The year 2017 started with Palestinians mourning their spiritual leader Archbishop Hilarion Capucci and what followed by commenting on the relationship between President Trump and Netanyahu as well as on the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) report on "Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid"; and reporting on the UNGA adaptation of the resolution which stated that any actions taken by Israel, the occupying Power, to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration on the Holy City of Jerusalem are illegal and therefore null and void and have no validity whatsoever.

In 2018, I introduced the Palestinian teen ager fighter ‘Ahd Tamimi who was filmed punching an Israeli soldier as well as commenting on the Palestinian Great March of Return that started on March 30 and still going on every Friday in the besieged Gaza Strip where the Palestinian demonstrators demand the internationally guaranteed Right of Return of all refugees, as stated in Article 4 of UN Resolution 194, while the U.S. Congress gives Israel a total of $38 billion over 10 years, the largest such aid package in U.S. history.

THE YEAR 2013

THE MONTH OF JANUARY 2013

DOES THE YEAR 2013 BRING SOLUTIONS TO THE ISRAELI –PALESTINIAN CONFLICT AND THE REGION?

Y ear 2012 is over; will the New Year 2013 bring hopes to the people of the Middle East, mainly in the suffering of the Syrians and the Palestinians.

A gloomy atmosphere prevails in Syria and Palestine. In Palestine, there are numerous issues to resolve to bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israel is an occupying state and the only state in the world that has no defined borders. Palestinians are concerned over Israeli illegal settlements or colonies in the West Bank of Palestine. Still the status of Jerusalem is not clear, Palestinians consider East Jerusalem as the Capital of the eventual State of Palestine, while the Israeli wants a unified Jerusalem as the Capital of their state.

The most important problem for the Palestinians is to find a solution for their right of return of Palestinian refugees living in the Palestinian Diaspora.

While the Israelis keep forcing the issue of their security, and whether the major Palestinian figures and institutions are in fact trying to fight the freedom fighters who insist on resting occupation and put obstacles before promoting tolerance and co-existence with Israel.

Israeli concerns are based on abundant documentary and empirical evidence of many Palestinian leaders having in fact promoted and supported the freedom fighters that they call terrorist groups and activities.

Any nation under occupation has the right to produce freedom fighters; most Palestinians do support resistance to occupation. The question is whether Israel is willing to withdraw to its June 4th, 1967 borders and in fact allow the Palestinian community to emerge as a viable and sovereign political unit, a viable and contiguous state?

Israel identification of Palestinians with terrorists will construe a problematic approach to create peace in the region. Israel’s denial of Palestinian statehood is based on its Jewish existence. If Palestine were declared a state, then immediately, Israel, by its present occupation of the West Bank will be in breach of the United Nations Charter. Palestine, as a state, could legitimately call upon the inherent right of individual or collective self-defense under Article 51 of the Charter to remove Israel from the occupied territories.

Palestine, as a state, would be able to comply to international conventions and bring legal action against Israel on various matters. Palestine could accede to various international human rights instruments, such as the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. It could even join the International Criminal Court and file cases against Israel for war crimes. It would be an extremely violent situation that is highly likely to lead to conflict in the Middle East

The situation in Syria is also complicated as a regional conflict. The Syrian war was an early stage of violence in the Syrian conflict, creating a platform for emergence of militant opposition movements and some defections from the Syrian Army, which gradually transformed the conflict from a civil uprising to a full-scale armed rebellion, with different ideologies after the dirty Syrian civil war invited jihadists and terrorist groups, such as Al-Qaeda, to interfere in the social life of the Syrian and force their Takfiri- Salafist belief supported by all extreme Islamists from all over the Muslim countries allowing for a foreign conspiracy with over a hundred thousand jihadists to fight the secular state of the Syrian regime who resists the Israeli occupation of Palestine.

Troubles in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, Palestine, Lebanon and North Africa are still growing and expanding with no expected solution. Is it applying what the United States called creative anarchy that produced chaos, instability and fear? Will the Year 2013 bring any hope to allow justice, fairness and equality to prevail? Will the so-called humanitarian intervention produce peace in the Middle East?

PALESTINIAN CULTURAL CENTERS FAIL TO PORTRAY THEIR HISTORY BASED ON SCIENTIFIC FACTS

W ho are the Palestinians? The Palestinians are a singular people, speak a common language, have common customs, and lived a shared history. They inhabited Palestine for centuries, if not for millennia, and tilled and watered the land to which they had legal title.

Western nations restructured the Middle East, denied the Palestinians a country, and placed them in a British Mandate. Refusal to agree to surrendering any of their lands to the United Nations Partition Plan led to the catastrophe in 1948 (Al-Nakba), which left them stateless and subject to Israeli-Zionists occupation and oppression.

The Israeli-Zionists are a collection of people supposed to be Yiddish or Jews coming from different worldwide nations talking over 80 languages brought to Palestine to destruct and replace the Palestinians.

The Palestinians have been unable to successfully articulate their experiences or implement a powerful rebuttal to Israel’s forged narrations. The Zionists’ war of narratives has prevailed, because the Palestinians have failed to defend their cause by the perplexing manner by which Palestinian institutions and persons unknowingly validate portions of the Zionist narrative and its falsifications of history. The trouble is the Palestinian information centers who have published a dubious biblical history that ancient history and archaeology contest such presentation that the Zionist propagandists used to their advantage. Especially, when the dubious information give credit to a David and his son Solomon. The truth is that the conquest and lives of David and Solomon are myths. If a David and/or Solomon existed, they were minor chieftains and not leaders in Palestine.

If Hebrews, as stated in the Exodus, wandered 40 years in the desert, would not the 100,000 plus Hebrews have left some traces for future collaboration – pottery shards, implements, shreds of garments, or weapons?

The most definitive rebuttal to biblical history before the 9th century B.C. comes from recognized Tel Aviv University archaeologists Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman, who documented their explorations in "The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology’s New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts, Simon & Schuster, 2002. Their archaeological diggings demonstrated that the Israelites were simply Canaanites who developed into a distinct culture. Recent surveys of long-term settlement patterns in the Israelite heartlands show no sign of violent invasion or even peaceful infiltration, but rather a sudden demographic transformation about 1200 BCE in which villages appear."

Another example: Archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon, in her book "Digging up Jericho: The Results of the Jericho Excavations, 1952-1956", Praeger, New York, estimated the city was destroyed before 1550 BC, 150 years prior to Joshua’s supposed arrival.

Although Hebrews had major presence in Jerusalem during the centuries of biblical Jerusalem, which included rule by several kingdoms and control by a Hebrew Hasmonean dynasty, their control and major presence were interrupted between the kingdom and dynasty in 143 BC, they became insignificant after 70 A.D. when the Roman destroyed Jerusalem.

Followed by centuries of Christian and Crusader rule and more than one thousand years of Muslim rule. Why the current forced Zionist history books downplayed the Christian and Muslim tremendous constructions and creations in Jerusalem? Why the Christian and Muslim everything become nothing and a minor Hebrew something becomes everything? Is it because myth replaces reality and ethereal spirituality replaces physical presence?

Furthermore, the often-cited Western Wall is nothing more than the supporting wall for the Jewish King Herod’s platform and is not directly related to the Hasmonean Second Temple. No remains of that Temple have been located.

The Western Wall, which erroneously entered the vernacular as the Wailing Wall by someone during the 19th century, is considered to be close to the holiest of the holies, the most revered site in Judaism. According to historian Karen Armstrong, in her book "A History of Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths, Harper Collins Publishers, London, 1997, Jews did not pray at this part of the Western Wall until the Mamluks in the 15th century allowed them to move their congregations from a dangerous Mount of Olives and pray daily at the Wall. At that time, she estimates that there were now only about seventy Jewish families in Jerusalem; most were poor and many lived in ramshackle houses." (page 320).

Therefore, the Western Wall lacks absolute proof of its being close to the holiest of the holies, and therefore has religious significance by default – there is no other readily apparent religious construction from the ancient Hebrew’s Jerusalem. Or, is it significant because Israel wants control of part of the wall that surrounds the Temple Mount/Haram al Sharif, a site it hopes to control one day?

Then, why should anyone agree to the Zionist Israel’s demand for incorporating all of a Jerusalem that has no ancient Jewish religious institution standing? Should not the international community grasp and comprehend these facts? That is why I accuse the Palestinian Information Centers of failing to spread the right message and expose the real truth about Zionist and Israel.

AMERICANS BEWARE THE CHRISTIAN-ZIONISTS HYPOCRISY IN THEIR TEACHINGS IN THREE PARTS:

Part One

C hristian Zionism is a fabricated belief among some Christians that the return of the Jews to the Holy Land, Palestine, and the establishment of the Israel in 1948, is in accordance with the Hebrew Biblical prophecy. The term Christian Zionism was popularized in the mid-twentieth century, following the coining of the term Zionism in 1890.

Some Christian Zionists believe that the ingathering of Jews in Israel is a prerequisite for the Second Coming of Jesus, despite the fact that the Jews do not believe in Jesus First Coming. The idea that Christians should actively support a Jewish return to the Land of Israel, along with the parallel idea that the Jews ought to be encouraged to become Christian, as a means fulfilling a Biblical prophecy has been common in Protestant circles since the Reformation. Unfortunately, many Protestant Christian Zionists believe that the people of Israel remain part of the myth that they are chosen people of God.

Though many Christian Zionists believe that conversion of the Jews to Christianity is a necessary adjunct of the Second Coming or the End of Days, conversion of the Jews is not part of the theology of prominent fanatic Christian Zionists called Pastor John Hagee.

Who is John Hagee? John Charles Hagee who was born on April 12, 1940, is an American founder and senior pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, he is also the chief executive officer (CEO) of his non-profit corporation, Global Evangelism Television (GETV).

Hagee is the President and CEO of John Hagee Ministries, which telecasts his national radio and television ministry carried in the United States on 10 TV networks including 62 high-power stations aired to more than 150 million households. He is shown on networks around the globe such as: The Inspiration Network (INSP), Trinity Broadcasting Network ((TBN), and Inspiration Now TV. John Hagee Ministries is in Canada on the Miracle Channel and CTS and can be seen in Africa, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and in every nation of the world.

Most recently, Hagee is the founder and National Chairman of the Christian Zionist organization Christian United for Israel (CUFI) incorporated on February 7, 2006.

The best description can be read in Alice Bach’s article: "Cowboy hats and kippas: Christian Zionists gather in Washington to cheer for Israel, pressure politicians" submitted on July 17, 2012 to the Electronic Intifada. Alice Bach attended the conference and heard the opening speech by its founder Pastor John Hagee who claims, in order to justify his support for Israel, that the bible is a Zionist text".

Pastor John Hagee claims, in order to justify his support for Israel, that "the bible is a Zionist text." The truth is Hagee does not read the Christian Bible, he has his Zionist text to declare and call for.

Alice Bach starts her article by saying: "On this morning, July 15, as hot as Hades, the DC Conference Center is cool and respectfully quiet. Banners inscribed with Bible verses hang from the two-story atrium …. Once you past through registration, about 30 seconds, you get your CUFI — Christian United for Israel — tote bag and your badge, which is hung around your neck by a super-cheerful greeter. You must wear the badge and carry your CUFI bag to move around the Conference Center. Never forget, the enemy is everywhere."

She continues saying: "The rabbis are surrounded with officials of CUFI. The rabbis and other Jewish leaders move with gravitas through the crowd. I know that Senator Joe Lieberman will speak. I know that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will appear several times live from Jerusalem on the huge flat screens to thank us for supporting Israel and of course to praise his dear friend Pastor John Hagee. I know that Representative Michele Bachmann will speak tomorrow night at the Night to Honor Israel banquet."

"…Just then the house lights are dimmed, and three huge screens click on. In a moment the room becomes silent. The man in a pale blue linen suit arises and moves to the podium. He is a dead ringer for Burl Ives, as Big Daddy Pollitt, in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Pastor John Hagee, our leader, Founder and CEO of Christian United for Israel."

The words quoted from Hagee speech are: "When Israel blew up the nuclear weapons defenses of Iran in ‘81, or Iraq, every country was getting down on Israel. And it came to me. We Bible-believing Christians must stand with Israel." People jump to their feet and applaud. It is the first of about a dozen such leaping, shouting, and clapping ovations that interrupt his speech.

"Israel is under fire. It is not if war will come to the Middle East, it is when! Israel needs us to speak with one voice. We are Christians UNITED for Israel. (Thunders into mic) Israel lives. Israel now, tomorrow, and forever." People leap to their feet and chant "Not one inch, Not one inch." That means in CUFI-speak Israel will not give back one inch of God’s covenanted land to the upstart Palestinians.

I do hope that true American Christians who believe in God’s love and justice understand who are the Christian Zionists and who is Pastor John Hagee?

Part two will deal with Hagee’s support to the illegal settlements built in occupied Palestine.

AMERICANS BEWARE THE CHRISTIAN-ZIONISTS HYPOCRISY IN THEIR TEACHINGS:

Part two

H aving introduce Pastor John Charles Hagee in part one, Now I am introducing some of his Zionist teachings, his relationship and funding building illegal Israeli settlement in the Palestinian Occupied Territories.

According to the Israeli Alternative Information Center in Jerusalem documents: the right-wing organizations have become an important part of the Israeli government’s propaganda machine, and how the ruling coalition formed in Israel has established a ministry for public diplomacy, with the aim of stepping up cooperation between the state and nominally independent groups supporting Zionism. The ministry’s establishment follows a decade-long trend whereby the government has increasingly assigned tasks to certain organizations. One of the best examples of this cooperation involves the settler group Elad. Also known as the Ir David Foundation, Elad has been given formal responsibility for managing the Kingdom of David park in the Silwan neighborhood of East Jerusalem. Elad’s efforts to prove that the remnants of an ancient Jewish kingdom can be found there have been used as a pretext for expelling Palestinians so that settlers can take over the area. These organizations have relied on support from extremists in the United States, such as Hagee’s Israel Advocacy Mission of the Christian United For Israel (CUFI).

Hagee’s support and funding of illegal settlement/colonies built on the Palestinian occupied territories because there should be no Palestine. He argues that the land does not belong to the Palestinian people, and that the name Palestine" (deriving from that of the ancient Philistines) was imposed by the Roman Emperor Hadrian to punish the Jews for their revolt against the Roman Empire. Hagee has commented that there is no Palestinian language and no historic Palestinian nation.

I am sure he gets his false knowledge form his Zionist bible, as he supports the Im Tirtzu group headed by Israeli settlers which is known for accusing Israel’s critics of anti-Semitism. This is somewhat ironic as Im Tirtzu’s main source of finance in recent years has been from Christians United For Israel (CUFI), for example, a worth of 375,000 shekels ($103,000), was the largest single donation to Im Tirtzu in 2009 originated from CUFI.

It is also important to know that Hagee is not alone in funding the Zionists’ building illegal settlement in Palestine, and that American-registered organizations have transferred about $274 million to Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza between 2002 and 2009. These donations enjoyed tax-exempt status. Right-wing groups in the United States are often able to register as charities by dedicating part of their budget to social projects for settlers in the West Bank, despite the fact that such settlements are illegal under international law.

Furthermore, United States regulations are less strict than Israeli law which stipulates that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have to publish annual financial reports including the names of donors who gave more than 20,000 shekels ($5,528). Channeling donations through United States groups has become an easy way to circumvent the requirement to reveal the names of donors.

The report shows how NGO Monitor — a group dedicated to attacking critics of Israel — has strong connections to the Israeli political elite. NGO Monitor began as a project of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, a think tank now headed by Dore Gold, who has served as Israel’s ambassador to the UN.

Despite its focus on where groups perceived their funding, NGO Monitor does not reveal the source of its donations and has asked the government for permission to keep the identities of its donors’ secret.

Some reports of the sources of its finance are nonetheless known. For example, they include the Jewish Agency — a body committed to the colonization of Palestine — and Shari Arison, a billionaire who owns Israel’s Bank Hapoalim. Most of the money used to set up the outfit came from Michael Cherney, a confidant of Israel’s former foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman.

NGO Monitor also receives significant funding from the US. In 2008 and 2009, NGO Monitor received 1,608,512 shekels ($444,586) and 1,319,676 shekels ($364,753) respectively in donations. One of its largest contributors was a group called American Friends of NGO Monitor.

Furthermore, the government of Israel has given official encouragement to Christian Zionism, allowing the establishment in 1980 of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem. The main function of the embassy is to enlist worldwide Christian support for Israel. The embassy has raised funds to help finance Jewish immigration to Israel from the former Soviet Union, and has assisted Zionist groups, and still assisting in establishing the illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank of Palestine.

The third part looks at the Christian Zionist proclamation of their belief and the opposing Eastern Christians belief.

AMERICANS BEWARE THE CHRISTIAN-ZIONISTS HYPOCRISY IN THEIR TEACHINGS:

Part three

T o cut it short, I start directly with the Third International Christian Zionist Congress, held in Jerusalem in February 1996, and issued a proclamation which said:

• God the Father, Almighty, chose the ancient nation and people of Israel, the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to reveal His plan of redemption for the world. They remain elect of God, and without the Jewish nation His redemptive purposes for the world will not be completed.

• Jesus of Nazareth is the Messiah and has promised to return to Jerusalem, to Israel and to the world.

• It is reprehensible that generations of Jewish peoples have been killed and persecuted in the name of our Lord, and we challenge the Church to repent of any sins of commission or omission against them.

• The modern Ingathering of the Jewish People to Eretz Israel and the rebirth of the nation of Israel are in fulfillment of biblical prophecies, as written in both Old and New Testaments.

• Christian believers are instructed by Scripture to acknowledge the Hebraic roots of their faith and to actively assist and participate in the plan of God for the Ingathering of the Jewish People and the Restoration of the nation of Israel in our day.

On the other hand the Eastern Christian Church bishops: Patriarch Michel Sabbah, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem (Catholic), Archbishop Swerios Malki Mourad, the Syrian Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, Bishop Riah Abu El-Assal, the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East and Bishop Munib Younan, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land, have recently joined together in order to proclaim and to publish the Jerusalem Declaration on Christian Zionism on August 22, 2006.

In this Declaration, the Easter Bishops commit themselves to the following principles as an alternative way to the Christian Zionists teachings:

They affirm that all people are created in the image of God. In turn they are called to honor the dignity of every human being and to respect their inalienable rights. Israelis and Palestinians are capable of living together within peace, justice and security, and that Palestinians are one people, both Muslim and Christian, and reject all attempts to subvert and fragment their unity.

They call upon all people to reject the narrow world view of Christian Zionism and other ideologies that privilege one people at the expense of others; and are committed to non-violent resistance as the most effective means to end the illegal occupation in order to attain a just and lasting peace.

With urgency they warn that Christian Zionism and its alliances are justifying colonization, apartheid and empire-building. God demands that justice be done. No enduring peace, security or reconciliation is possible without the foundation of justice. The demands of justice will not disappear. The struggle for justice must be pursued diligently and persistently but without violence. Justice alone guarantees a peace that will lead to reconciliation with a life of security and prosperity for all the peoples of Palestine. By standing on the side of justice, they stand with God who reconciling the world to