Palestine: What is the truth?

Most people have no idea where the term “Palestine” came from. They think Palestine was a nation before Israel was granted statehood in 1948. There are many misconceptions concerning Palestinians. We blindly believe what the mainstream media tells us, which, by the way, is very anti-Semitic and anti-God.

Ron Cantor, a Messianic leader living in Israel, posted an article a couple of days ago entitled “15 Facts About Palestine that You Won’t Hear in the Mainstream Media“.  Ron is a great man and takes the Jewish roots message everywhere he goes.  I loved his post so much that I want to summarize it here. Please visit his site linked above to read more.

15 Facts About Palestine That You Won’t Hear in the Mainstream Media

1. Palestine was NOT an Arab nation that the Jews came in and took over after the UN vote in 1947.
2. The name “Palestine” came from the Romans, referring to the ancient Philistines who were wiped out in 1200 BCE.
3. The UN vote did not merely give Israel authority to create a state, but granted to the Arabs living on the West side of the Jordan River to also create an independent country. The Arabs said “no” and became part of Jordan.
4. When the PLO was created Jordan controlled the West Bank. The Arabs should have been fighting Jordan not Israel.
5. Before Israel was re-birthed in 1948, any person who lived in that region was considered Palestinian: Arab or Jew. The Jewish newspaper was called the Palestine Post.
6. Jerusalem was the first capital of Israel under King David. It has never been the capital of any other country—Including the fictitious Palestine. It has never (until Israel controlled it) been significant to Arabs.
7. When Israel captured Jerusalem, it was not from the Palestinians, but from Jordan.
8. Israel had no plans on attacking Jordan during the Six Day War. However, King Hussein believed the false reports from Egyptian President Nasser that they were winning the war. King Hussein, in hopes of getting more land, attacked Israel, and his troops were driven back over the Jordan River in a matter of days. That is how Israel ended up with Jerusalem in 1967.
9. There is no language known as Palestinian. They speak Arabic like Jordanians and Syrians and Egyptians.
10. There is no rich Palestinian history. You will not find history books that detail Palestinian culture going back centuries.
11. Palestinians are Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians (a nation created by Great Britain 1922), Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc.
12. Arabs control 99.9 percent of the Middle East lands. Israel represents one-tenth of one percent of the land mass.
13. When the Jewish people began to return to ‘Palestine’ in the late 1800s the Turks, not the Arabs, controlled it, and every bit of Land was paid for by the returning Jews—nothing was stolen.
14. Israel was a swamp-infested wasteland that no one, including the Arabs really cared about. Until the Jews returned, the land suffered neglect. It was only after the Jews came back and made the land prosperous and fruitful again and developed a nation, that the fictitious Palestinian history was developed.
15. Jerusalem or Zion appears nearly ONE THOUSAND times in the Old and New Covenants, whereas it appears in the Koran exactly ZERO times.

Ron also goes on to say this: “The last thing that should be noted is that I wrote this to gets the facts out about Palestine. While the history may be made up, the Arabs who live among us here in Israel are real people who were made in God’s image. We must pray for their salvation.”

On a slightly different but similar note, our Israeli friend Shani made this video about the flotilla balagan, and I wanted to include it in this post.  It’s humorous but true!  You can check out her website here.