Pakistan, Jordan and
Israel's
legitimacy.
Whenever I have received an email, letter or a call
challenging Israel's
legitimacy, I have asked these people if they ever called or asked any other
Media sources to challenge any other country's legitimacy. In particular, I
ask, have they ever questioned the legitimacy of Pakistan or Jordan?
The answer, of course, is always "no."
In fact, no one ever understood why I even mentioned Pakistan and
Jordan.
There are a few reasons for this.
First, of all the 200-plus countries in the
world, only Israel's
legitimacy is challenged. So mentioning any other country seems strange to an
individual. Second, almost no one outside of India and
Pakistan
knows anything about the founding of Pakistan or Jordan.
After the British decided to desert their duty
and responsibility as trustee to help reestablish Jewish sovereignty in
Palestine aka Israel and abandon the Palestinian Mandate in 1947 and only
months before the U.N. adopted a recommended proposal to partition Palestine while
violating international law, a second time into a Jewish and an Arab state in
1947, India was partitioned into a Muslim and a Hindu state. The Hindu state
was, of course, India.
And the Muslim state became known as Pakistan. It
comprises 310,000 square miles, about 40,000 square miles larger than Texas.
In both cases, the declaration of an independent
state resulted in violence. The Jewish State of Israel was reconstituted by
International Law and Treaties in 1920 with assignment to the British as trustee
for the Jewish people to reestablish a Jewish State in all of Palestine.
After the British violated the Treaties, taking 80% of Jewish land and giving
it as an Arab State to Jordan (everything east of the Jordan River, which today
has over 75% Arab-Palestinians as the countries population, and forbidding Jews
to live there and confiscating Jewish assets) and restricting Jewish
immigration from 1939-1948, which caused the deaths of millions of Jews who
tried to escape German concentration camps. The British secret service also
blew up Jewish refugee ships under “Operation Embarrass. As soon as the newly declared
the reestablished sovereign state of Israel was
declared in May 1948, it was invaded by six Arab armies and other Arab militias.
Moreover, the partition of India led
to a terrible violence between Muslims and Hindus.
According to the final report of the United
Nations Conciliation Commission from Dec. 28, 1949,
the 1948 war of Israel's
independence created 626,000 Arabs refugees. Many sources put the figure at
about 300,000 less. A roughly higher number of Jewish refugees -- approximately
one million Jewish families -- were created when the over a million Jewish families
and their children were forcibly expelled from the Arab countries where they
had lived for countless generations (over 2,500 years, the Arabs also
confiscated all their assets, businesses, homes and Jewish owned Real estate
property, 75,000 sq. mi. which is 6 times the size of Israel and is valued in
the trillions of dollars). In addition, approximately 10,000 Arabs were killed
in the fighting that ensued after the Arab invasion of Israel.
(Most of the Arabs in Greater Israel came in from neighboring Arab countries). The Arabs received over 5 million sq. mi. of territory after WWI.
Now let's turn to the creation of Pakistan.
According to the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees, the creation of Pakistan
resulted in 14 million refugees -- Hindus fleeing Pakistan and
Muslims fleeing India.
Assuming a 50-50 split, the creation of Pakistan produced about seven million
Hindu refugees -- at least 10 times the number of Arab refugees that resulted
from the war surrounding Israel's creation. Moreover, the Middle-East war, it
should be recalled, was started by the Arab nations surrounding Israel.
Were it not for the Arab rejection of Israel's recreation
(and existence within any borders) and the subsequent Arab invasion, there
would have been no Arab refugees.
And regarding deaths, the highest estimate of
Arab deaths during the 1948 war following the partition of Jewish/Palestine is
10,000. The number of deaths that resulted from the creation of Pakistan is
around one million.
In addition, according to the Indian government,
at least 86,000 women were raped. Most historians believe the number to be far
higher. The number of women raped when Israel was
established is zero. From all evidence I could find.
Given the spectacularly larger number of
refugees and deaths caused by the partition of India and
the creation of Muslim Pakistan, why does no one ever question the legitimacy
of Pakistan's
existence?
This question is particularly valid given
another fact: Never before in history was there a Pakistan or Jordan. It
was a completely new nation. Moreover, its creation was made possible solely
because of Muslim invasion. It was Muslims who invaded India,
and killed about 60 million Hindus during the thousand-year Muslim rule of India.
The area now known as Pakistan was
Hindu until the Muslims invaded it in A.D. 711, just like they invaded Spain.
On the other hand, modern Israel is
the third Jewish state in the geographic area known as Palestine,
since about 1280 B.C. The first Jewish Temple was destroyed in 586 B.C. by the Babylonians;
the second Jewish Temple was destroyed in A.D. 70 by the Romans, who renamed
the Land of
Israel
“Palestina”. Moreover, there was never a non-Jewish sovereign state in Palestine aka
The Land of Israel.
So, given all these facts, why is Israel's
legitimacy challenged, while the legitimacy of Pakistan or Jordan, a
state that had never before existed and whose creation resulted in the largest
mass migration in recorded history, is never challenged? Furthermore; and for
that matter why Jordan's
legitimacy is not challenged after they were allocated Jewish territory in Palestine aka
The Land of Israel.
The answer is so obvious that only those who
graduated from college, and especially from graduate school, need to be told: Israel is
the one Jewish state in the world. So, while there are 49 Muslim-majority
countries and 22 Arab states, much of the world questions or outright only
rejects the right of the one Jewish state of Israel,
the size of New Jersey, to
exist.
If you are a member of the Presbyterian Church,
send these facts to the leaders of the Presbyterian Church USA etc. who voted
to boycott Israel. If
you are a student in Middle Eastern Studies -- or for that matter, almost any
other humanities department -- and your professor is anti-Israel, ask your
professor why Pakistan and
Jordan are
legitimate and Israel is not
considered legitimate by some.
They won't have a good answer. Their opposition on
Israel is not
based on moral considerations; it is based on pure anti-Semitism etc.
They intentionally promote Arab/Muslim false and
deceptive propaganda; that falsify history and facts, while fraudulently assuming
the identity of other nations to pursue their imperialistic and apartheid
agenda.
