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The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Dear Editor:
The Arab-Israeli conflict is intractable.
From the Israeli perspective, it is the right to live in its ancestral homeland.
For Muslims, it is a religious war. Jews and Christians are Dhimmi. They are to be dominated and humiliated. The Arab term for blacks is Abeed, meaning slave.
The first Arab-Jewish conflict occurred in Medina in 622, where the Prophet Mohammed found shelter among the Quraysh Jews after being rejected in Mecca. The Jews operated camel caravans and were prosperous. They signed the Constitution of Medina, ensuring co-operation and laying the foundation for a Muslim community.
In 629, the Prophet abrogated his agreement, beheaded the Jewish men and boys and took the women captive.
The principal of lying to the Infidel to gain an advantage is called Taqiyya.
The Arabs spread out of Arabia, conquering and colonizing much of the known world, from Asia through southern Euro and North Africa. They believe any land, once Muslim, is Muslim forever.
In World War One the allies defeated Germany and the Ottoman Empire. The San Remo Accords established mandates for Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq.
The 1920s saw the founding of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and the rise of Nazism in Europe. The Brotherhood’s aim is to replace the West with a Caliphate.
The leader of the mandates’ Arabs was Nazi war criminal Haj Amin al-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. He instigated pogroms against Middle East Jews from the 1920s. In Germany during WWII, he formed the Bosnian Muslim 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar.
Following the defeat of Germany and its Arab partners in World War Two, the United Nations suggested splitting the British mandate, promised the Jews by the League of Nations and Article 80 of the UN Charter, into Arab and Jewish states. The Jews agreed. The Arabs did not and launched the Nakba to ‘drive the Jews into the sea’.
Before 1964, only Jews were called Palestinians. In 1964, the Soviet KGB created the Palestine Liberation Army to thwart America influence. They called Israel, ‘Palestine’ and non-Jews, ‘Palestinians’. Terrorism was their tool to focus attention on the ‘Palestine’ narrative.
Seventy-five years after the establishment of the state, Islamo-fascists still have not accepted that Israel is a permanent part of the Middle East. It is the 10th most powerful country in the world and the 5th happiest. It is a liberal democracy with robust political parties. It’s per-capita GDP exceeds that of Canada, New Zealand, Australia or the UK. Its hospitals have Jewish and Arab staffs and patients.
It’s time for Islamists and the useful idiots who support them, to face reality and to solve the horrible refugee problem created by corrupt Arabs and the United Nations.
Israel is not the problem. Radical Islam is.
Sincerely
Len Bennett, Author of ‘Unfinished Work’
A Warning to the Wise & United Call to Action
Dear Editor:
As of the writing of this open letter, it’s been 170 days since 10/7. The war in Gaza and here at
home—on social media, college campuses, the streets, and in places of public assembly—has
never been more pivotal and perilous. As we fend off our adversaries abroad, we are confronted
with the stark reality that our grasp on public support for Israel is gradually slipping away. And
while we confront this daunting reality, we also face an unprecedented surge in
anti-Semitism—all because Israel dared to defend herself from barbaric terrorists.
I could readily expound on all the significant arguments for why Israel merits international
support, but alas, those have been exhausted to memory for most that are reading this. What I
will emphasize is that as a Jewish people, we bear a profound responsibility to take more
decisive action. Presently, the most prominent anti-Israel, arguably pro-Hamas, political force
that has successfully elected surrogates to Congress and local office is the Democratic
Socialists of America (DSA). DSA, whose primary mission is addressing social justice issues,
has fervently embraced this cause. Since the days following 10/7, before IDF troops even set
foot into Gaza, DSA chapters and their affiliates vehemently protested in support of the brutal
attack, justifying the savagery as ‘resistance by any means necessary against an apartheid
country’.
DSA, which is a far-left organization with over 90,000 members in NYC alone, has successfully
framed the Palestinian-Israeli conflict as one rooted in race—a notion utterly divorced from
reality. In doing so, they frequently employ terms like ‘colonizers’ for Israel, likening Israelis, and
in many cases Jews, to ruthless white Europeans endeavoring to seize the land and homes of
people of color. Clearly, the geopolitical conflict between the Palestinians and Israelis has
absolutely nothing to do with race, yet this strategy is remarkably effective in recruiting
individuals deeply sympathetic to racial inequality in America. In fact, as recently as a couple of
weeks ago, Rep. Jamaal Bowman, a black DSA surrogate Congressman representing
Westchester, tweeted about a personal fundraiser to challenge AIPAC, which is supporting his
opponent. In the race baited tweet he insinuated that AIPAC is opposed to black men serving in
Congress.
The court of public opinion is in session, and we are losing ground. Thankfully, the
overwhelming majority of Democrats in Congress remain supportive of Israel and endorsed the
recent budget, allocating over $3 billion in unconditional aid to Israel. However, this support is
starting to wane at the fringes of both ends of the political spectrum. While left-wing social
justice warriors oppose Israel due to their moral stance on the conflict, an increasing number on
the right seek to withhold funding from Israel on fiscal grounds, labeling foreign aid to Israel as
incompatible with an ‘America First’ stance.
Let us be unequivocal—America is Israel’s foremost ally and defender outside of the Almighty.
While other nations are retreating, we must not allow America, the home to more Jews outside
of Israel, to fall into the trap laid by Israel’s primary adversaries abroad and at home. As a proud
Modern Orthodox Jew, Zionist, and Democrat, I am deeply concerned that fringe DSA agitators
are garnering attention and support from mainstream Democrats who may otherwise be
indifferent or even supportive of Israel. We must remember that, while we may be surrounded
by like-minded individuals on this issue, we as Jews constitute only a fraction of America’s
population. If public sentiment turns against us, there will be little incentive for our
representatives, whether Democrat or Republican, to continue championing our interests.
Sincerely
An anonymous contributor and staffer to a NYC Congress Member
