Pamela Geller reviews Robert Spencer’s latest masterwork: The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process

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I reviewed Robert Spencer’s latest masterwork on the jihad against the Jewish state – popularly known as the Israeli-‘Palestinian’ conflict.

At Last, A Realistic Look at the Israeli-‘Palestinian’ Conflict

By Pamela Geller

Things are seldom what they seem to be, but we live in an age that is unusual for the dominance that fiction and fantasy have in the public debate about so many key issues. The House of Representatives is about to impeach a successful and popular President on hearsay, innuendo, and outright falsehood; you must believe that men can become women and women men or face vilification and ostracism; and of course if you dare whisper even the smallest hint that Islam is not a religion of peace, even as the jihad body count steadily mounts, your public career will be over and your name ruined. But there is no area of national and international discussion so rife with rigidly enforced propaganda falsehoods than the conflict between Israel and the so-called “Palestinians.” In The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process, the historian and scholar of Islam Robert Spencer clears away the lies.

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And there are so very many lies to clear away. The Palestinian Delusion begins by exploding the common modern-day claim that the Israelis are descendants of Europeans who have ties to the Middle East that are largely mythical at worst and far-distant ancient history at best. Spencer marshals a large body of evidence to show that not only were Jews always living in the land that is today the state of Israel, without interruption even after the Romans expelled them in the year 134, but that the Arab presence there began considerably later and was always sparse. In fact, the presence of Muslim Arabs in the geographical region known as Palestine only began to increase significantly after Zionist leaders began to exhort Jews to return to their ancestral homeland. With the Jews came jobs and opportunity; many, if not most, of the people known today as “Palestinians” only came to that area when it started to be settled by Jews in great numbers. Spencer proves this by reference to the names of the “Palestinians” themselves, which all too often betray an origin somewhere else.

The second great myth that The Palestinian Delusion explodes is that “Palestine” was ever the name of anything more than a geographical region. The claims that Israel is occupying “Palestinian” land are predicated on the assumption that there ever was Palestinian land in the first place. Spencer briskly traces the history of the region, showing that while the Romans renamed it Palestine, there never was a nation of Palestine at all, and the land that is supposed to be occupied by Israel today was actually designated by the League of Nations (and confirmed by the United Nations) to be the site of a Jewish national home. No one rightly owns “the West Bank” (another propagandistic neologism; it’s Judea and Samaria) and Gaza except Israel.

There’s much more here.

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felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

If we NEVER confront the LIES pushed by the LEFT, on Palestine the LEFT keeps gaining.
The LEFT constantly pushes their warped view of history and the RIGHT stays silent except to object.
It applies to Glow BULL Warming, er Climate Change, homosexuality being a CHOICE etc..
We will continue to LOSE the war if we don’t directly confront the LIES.
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Bradley Lexvold
Bradley Lexvold
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

“Right stays silent,” it is hard to know where to begin. If people don’t understand the left is lying by now, I really don’t think more conversation will help. I’ve been looking at some left progressive sites and their thoroughly disgusted with the democratic party. Their plans don’t make sense either, but at least they don’t trust their leaders. That’s a start.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

It’s really about laying out the facts about the lies put forward.
We never bother to provide the facts We just oppose it.
If you, (generically) can not state why every day in “climate change” is a crisis,
people continue to believe it is. All the people hear is LEFTY propaganda.

Can you even begin to imagine how science will fare in the future when the very
foundation of it is used to prop up lies? I am concerned that we are making people
imbecilic and creating more imbeciles with junk science in education.

stephen5970
stephen5970
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

I watched a short documentary filmed at a University in South Africa. The black students were rejecting science and math because it is a white European structure and not a black structure.

So I guess 2+2 = 4 is a white man’s concept.

Sadly, the white students and the prof were saying she had the right to demand black science and black math be taught.

notoshariah
notoshariah
4 years ago

It is only when the LEFT has to experience the lies of the LEFT when they (the left) betray each other -then and only then will they wake up but it may be too late too.

TD
TD
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

The time Person of the Year is really Trump. Yes again.

person of the year is usually the person who for better or for worse had the most impact and influence.

that would mean that since 2016, Trump would’ve been named person of year 4 times in a row. but an SJW-Democrat magazine can’t have that.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  TD

Even Trump doesn’t want their recognition anymore …
Didn’t’ Time make Hitler, Stalin and Merkel man of the year?
Ah, “Person” of the year has no honor in it anymore.

Bradley Lexvold
Bradley Lexvold
4 years ago

Good luck to Robert with this new release!

jkarna
jkarna
4 years ago

The KGB created the so-called ‘Palestinians’ during the cold war and supplied them with training, money and arms.

sumsrent
sumsrent
4 years ago
Reply to  jkarna

The word “Palestinian” didn’t even come into existence until Yasser Arafat coined it in 1967… and it wasn’t KGB.

Before the six day war… muslims living in Israel were told to leave until the surrounding muslim nations conquered Israel… then they could return and reap the bounty…,

Except… the Jews won… and wouldn’t allow the traitors to return to Isreal…

Which is why these muslims were housed in Ghettos in Egypt and Jordan… even their brother countries didn’t want them…

How did these muslims even get into Israel at first?

When the National Homeland for the Jews was established at the San Remo Conference in 1922… a Fatwa went out… calling upon muslims to saturate Israel with islamic immigrants. <<< This is how muslims moved in to Israel in the beginning. After Jews were already moving back to Israel... during all the pogroms and persecution elsewhere in the world.

stephen5970
stephen5970
4 years ago
Reply to  sumsrent

Since the Romans, Jews in the Middle East were called Palestinians (but not by Jews) until Arafat decided to name the Muslims of the area “Palestinians”. Ergo, making a claim that historically “Palestinians” lived there, and that the Muslim Arabs were the “Palestinians”.

Its about as honest as Egypt’s claim that it soundly defeated Israel in the ‘67 War and even built a museum dedicated to its “great victory”.

sumsrent
sumsrent
4 years ago
Reply to  stephen5970

You’re confused…

The area was called Palestina during the Byzantine Era…

mushammad never called Jews Palestinians… the satanic quran refers to Jews as “Jews”…

The word “Palestianian” wasn’t even coined until 1967…

By Yasser Arafat… the nephew of the muslim who taught Hitler & Himmler how to exterminate humans…

notoshariah
notoshariah
4 years ago
Reply to  sumsrent

This is the exact same thing going on now and the TRAITORS OF THE LEFT keep it going as the IGNORANT tend to believe the LIES that nazi-islam is always about.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  sumsrent

I think you’re referring to events before the ’48’ War of Independence. Muslums were urged by their leaders to leave Israel so it would make it easier for the muslum forces to slaughter Jews. There are documented instances of muslums selling their lands and properties to Jews in ’48’ before the War of Independence in full expectation they would reclaim these lands and properties once the Jews were dead.

sumsrent
sumsrent
4 years ago

Ok… regardless… these muslim traitors of Israel became the fake Palestinians… out of thin air… like fiat money…

They were housed in Ghettos, by their muslim brothers… traitors of Israel. <<< They deserve nothing from Israel.

sumsrent
sumsrent
4 years ago

The Palestina “area’ was called that by a Byzantine Emperor… named after his daughter… it encompassed the entire southern area of the Byzantine Empire…

Palestina was not a country… not a nation… nothing but a term to refer to the huge entire area. Such as calling part of America the Mid-West…

After the satanic islamic Ottomans conquered the Byzantine Empire… the area was still referred to as Palestine. And the inhabitants there were mostly Bedouins… more commonly known as Gypsies or wanderers…

Murielle
Murielle
4 years ago

Yes! Can’t wait to read it.

jerrys
jerrys
4 years ago

Any thing concerning islam is a lie. The moslems have been steeped in duplicity, treachery and religious commanded lying from birth. A Westerner cannot fathom that sort of untruth. Even a polygraph is unable to detect such ingrained deceit. For this reason alone no moslem should be in a position of political power. A vote for a democrat is a vote to bring America down under sharia!

RiverFred
RiverFred
4 years ago

The root of the word Palestinian is from the Hebrew language. How is it that these so called ‘indigenous’ people don’t even have a name starting with a letter in their own alphabet? It’s because like everything else they have and do, Arabs (the Arabs came from Arabia, never from Erez Yisroel, the Land of Israel, seeking employment in Israel) stole this name from the Jews who before 1948 were called Palestinians – nomenclature that dates back to the Roman displacement of the name of Judea. Bottom line – Palestinians are Arab fakes who stole the name from Jewish history.
Perhaps the day will come when Palestinians realize that 70 years of fantasizing about a lost homeland that never existed has brought them nothing but misery, but I wouldn’t count on it. The Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity

Cauc-Asian Patriot
Cauc-Asian Patriot
4 years ago

ROBERT SPENCER IS A GREAT SCHOLAR OF ISLAM WHO HAS TO LIVE IN HOUSE ARREST CONDITIONS AS A U.S. CITIZEN ALL BECAUSE HE PRACTICES HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AS A U.S. CITIZEN IN SHOWING THE ACADEMIC TRUTH ABOUT THE ISLAMIC CREED AND ITS MOST OBSERVANT JIHADIS! FACT IS THE PALESTINIANS HAD THEIR CHANCE TO HAVE A COUNTRY IN JORDAN BUT CHOSE TO BETRAY THE COUNTRY THAT THEIR LEADERSHIP CLAIMED LOYALTY TO! THEIR SITUATION IS WHAT IT IS OF THEIR OWN MAKING!
I THINK THAT IF THINGS WERE RIGHT IN A RIGHT THINKING WORLD AS THEY SHOULD BE, ISRAEL AND THE HASHEMITE KINGDOM OF JORDAN WOULD COME TO AN AGREEMENT AND EACH TAKE HALF OF THE HAMAS OCCUPIED TERRITORY WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT HAMAS AND ITS “PALESTINIANS” GET DISPERSED FOR A FINAL TIME INTO SAUDI ARABIA! THE WAHABI SAUDIS HAVE PLENTY OF UNOCCUPIED LAND AREA AND LOW POPULATION PER MILE SO SHOULD BE ABLE TO USE THE POPULATION OF DEVOUT, SHARIA STATE SEEKING ISLAMICS! I SUSPECT THAT THE SAUDIS WOULD END UP HAVING TO DEAL WITH THE PALESTINIANS LIKE THE JORDANIANS DID BUT THAT WOULD BE A FINAL CHANCE FOR THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO AN ARAB SOCIETY RELATED TO WHERE THEIR ANCESTORS CAME FROM TO TURKISH DOMINATED PALESTINE TO BE TENANTS OR TO BRITISH PALESTINE AT THE TIME! HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL RIGHTISTS ESPECIALLY CHANUKAH!

John Nosser
John Nosser
4 years ago

All the people who support Anti-Semitism and the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement against Israel (who are not Muslim) should buy and read Robert Spencer’s book. Maybe they will get educated, and should certainly feel like they have had their foot in their mouths for some time. They have to realize the truth sometime! God help them, if they don’t.

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