9,000 Photos from ‘Palestine’ in 1800’s – with no trace of Muslims or mosques

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Re-posting this because the left has so corrupted the narrative, revised history and adopted the Islamic Jew-hating narrative.  “Palestinian” is a euphemism for Islamic Jew hatred.

Now here is further proof of the lie (as if we needed any more) of the vicious historical revisionism by the Muslim world to erase the Jewish State and create a mythical Islamic narrative surrounding six thousand years of Jewish history.

The actual flag of Palestine before 1948.

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9,000 Photos from 1800’s British Mandate of Palestine – with no trace of ‘Palestinians’ By Palestine/Israel Conflict, February 13, 2013:

Where ARE all those Palestinians, the proclaimed one million of them who lived in Israel before they were ‘displaced’? Nowhere.

Nowhere, because they never existed.And where are all the mosques for those “1 million Palestinians”? With Muslims comes mosques. There can be no Muslim population without a large proportion of mosques. If they had been 1 million at the turn of the Century, or even in 1920 after they began immigrating to fight the British, with their rapid population growth Palestine would consist of over 40 million people today and not 4 million. That alone proves the Palestinian jihad lies. Their population is small because they are new invaders and occupiers who arrived late with an aim to commit jihad. They never lost land that was never theirs to begin with! The British army permitted merely a few Ottomans to remain due to religious observations, the rest was Jewish. In reality according to eyewitness reports the barren British Mandate had a very small number of people living on it.

Félix Bonfils (1831-1885) was French photographer and writer who was active in the Middle East. Four years after his arrival he reported 15,000 prints of Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and Greece, and 9,000 stereoscopic-views. He traveled to the region several times and we hear of no mass population of Palestinians, which contradicts everything the Palestinians lie about to the world.

His pictures did not manage to capture any photographs of a single so-called ‘Palestinian’ who are suppose to have lost land to Jewish occupation, if we believe Arab propaganda. All he found was a few bedouines passing through and some remnants of the Ottoman Turks. Guess why? Because the “Palestinian” people as we know them today never existed.The original philistines which the Arab jihadi’s named themselves after were a small group of lawless bandits who occupied the region near Gaza by force and died out before the birth of Christ. Islam was created over 600 years after the death of Christ and is the world’s youngest religion.

Palestinians are a fake creation ordered and constructed by the Grand Mufti Haj Mohammed Effendi Amin el-Husseini [1889-1974]. They were basically discovered (formed and invented) and originate from mass immigration from Egypt and Saudi Arabia with purpose to commit jihad. The Egyptian fighters ended up in Gaza and the Saudi fighters ended up in the West Bank according to their rout of entry.[the_ad id=”77189″]This has been well documented by British government reports from the British Mandate and from Transjordan. It also fits the video clips and rants by Hamas leaders, who seem well aware that Palestinians are fake yet continue to argue that they ‘lost land’. We are dealing with a terrorist organization here, and not a people who became victims of loss of land.It is also important to pay attention to the fact that once Israel had been assigned to be returned  to the Jewish people in 1917, Muslims rapidly began to pour into the region from other countries with a purpose to kill them.The first conflict and killing in Israel/Palestine was initiated by the Muslims. At that point to control the population influx the British government stopped Jewish people from entering the area. So for a short span, the Muslim population suddenly became a majority. Not for natural reasons but due to their rapid invasion and occupation. Therefore, if we look at timeline of events in history we will quite easily see that the REAL occupiers of the region are the Muslims.

755px-Birket_Israel,_19th_centuryFélix Bonfils (1831-1885): Birket, Israel in late 1800’s.
File:Jews at Western Wall by Felix Bonfils, 1870s.jpgFélix Bonfils (1831-1885): Jews at the Western wall in 1870.
Yessayi Garabedian, the Armenian Patriarch in Jerusalem, Felix BonfilsFélix Bonfils (1831-1885): Yessayi Garabedian, the Armenian Patriarch in Jerusalem.
Felix Bonfils, Modern Jericho
Félix Bonfils (1831-1885): W.C. Prime 1857 in “Tent Life in the Holy Land”
Felix Bonfils, Solomons pools
Félix Bonfils (1831-1885): From Thomas Shaw, Travels and Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant, London, 1767, S. 331 ff.Dome-of-the-Rock-1875
Félix Bonfils (1831-1885): Dome of the Rock 1875 (Where are all the “Palestinians” in their so-called displaced and occupied holiest site?). The Dome of the Rock was originally a Jewish synagogue, and later, a Christian cathedral but was conquered and occupied by Muslims who converted it to a mosque. The entire region was bathing in blood from the Muslim conquest.

Geller Report Editor’s note: The Dome of the Rock was a supremacist project by the leader of the Muslim world in the first half of the twentieth century. Amin al Husseini made the dome his special project. It had fallen into a state of utter disrepair, but al-Husseini saw it to his political advantage to restore it.
The dilapidated Dome of the Rock was a decaying old relic well into the 20th century. It was of no import and it was no longer used as a place of worship. When the calls for a Jewish state were reverberating throughout the world, the annihilationist leader of the Muslim world and Hitler ally, Mufti al Husseini, realized that he had to create a territorial fiction in order to deny the Jewish people their holiest site.

It was that devout Jew-hater, the Mufti Al Husseini, who undertook the gold plating of the dome (above right) and the making of improvements to the Al Aqsa mosque.

This served the purpose of enhancing the importance of Jerusalem in the Islamic world; up until that point, it had been an insignificant religious backwater for Muslims. Photos of Jerusalem before this time show a relatively colorless and nondescript dome on top of the Temple Mount.

Read more about the Dome here and here)..

Felix Bonfils, Entry of Pilgrims into Bethlehem at Christmas time, Palestine, 1867-1885.</p> <p> Source: Library of Congress
Félix Bonfils (1831-1885): Entry of Pilgrims into Bethlehem at Christmas time, Palestine c. 1870

Félix Bonfils (1831-1885): Women pray at the Western wall in Jerusalem in 1899.

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Bonfils and other historic records do mention that an occasional Arab bedouines would pass through the ‘barren land’ to reach other destinations but they would not stay. There is no mention anywhere, ever, of a “Palestinian” people with permanent settlement in the British Mandate.

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The Garden of Gethsemane
The Garden of Gethsemane, general view by F?lix Bonfils ca. 1885. This is an original vintage Albumen print on a thin sheet of paper with sepia color and slightly glossy surface, signed in the negative (within a red circle). Showing a view overlooking from the temple mount of Jerusalem towards Mount of Olives. In the center the Garden of Gethsemane and Kidron Valley. Above the garden, is the Eastern Russian Orthodox Church of St. Maria Magdalena inaugurated in 1888. On the left is the tomb of the Virgin Mary and the Church Of The Assumption. Size: 28 X 22 cm (11 x 8.5 inches). This photograph is documented in the list of Felix Bonfils Photographs (“Die Provincia Arabia”), in the Department of Rare Books, Princeton University Library, Box 6, File 25, and Photograph No. 303. (http://libweb2.princeton.edu/rbsc2/aids/msslist/maindex.htm).
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St. Stephen’s Gate Jerusalem circa 1870. This is an original vintage Albumen print on a thin sheet of paper with sepia color and slightly glossy surface, depicting the gate known as St Stephen’s in the eastern wall surrounding the old city of Jerusalem. This gate is also known as the Lions gate because of the decorations to the right and left of the gate. These are actually panthers which were the symbols of Baibars (1223 –1277 CE). Baibars was the first Mamluk Sultan of Egypt and Syria. He defeated the crusaders who came to defend their Kingdom of Jerusalem in the 8th and 9th crusades. Saint Stephen was an early follower of Jesus. He was stoned to death in the mid 4th century CE and is considered the first martyr. Tradition puts the act of stoning outside this eastern gate, hence its name. In this picture we see that the path to the gate is slightly barred by earth. This was cleared around 1880. Inside the gate are Ottoman soldiers. This is an unsigned picture in relatively good condition with only minute foxing. there are some tears to the top and top right sides.

Porte St Etienne St. Stephen's Gate Bonfils circa 1880

Porte St Etienne St. Stephen’s Gate Bonfils circa 1880. This is an original vintage Albumen print on a thin sheet of paper pasted on cardboard with sepia color and slightly glossy surface, numbered 273, depicting the gate known as St Stephen’s in the eastern wall surrounding the old city of Jerusalem. This gate is also known as the Lions gate because of the decorations to the right and left of the gate. These are actually panthers which were the symbols of Baibars (1223 –1277 CE). Baibars was the first Mamluk Sultan of Egypt and Syria. He defeated the crusaders who came to defend their Kingdom of Jerusalem in the 8th and 9th crusades. Saint Stephen was an early follower of Jesus. He was stoned to death in the mid 4th century CE and is considered the first martyr. Tradition puts the act of stoning outside this eastern gate, hence its name. This is an unsigned picture by Bonfils in very good condition with no foxing.
Tomb of David on Mount Zion
Jerusalem Mosque of Omar [a confiscated synagogue that had been converted into a mosque) by Felix Bonfils ca. 1870. This is an original vintage Albumen print on a thin sheet of paper with sepia color and slightly glossy surface, signed in the negative (within a red circle). The picture shows the Dome of the Rock that is also called the Mosque of Omar. It was built in 691 AD by the Khalif Abd El Malik on the rocky top of Mount Moriah about 600 years after the Romans destroyed the Jewish temple. It was named after the Khalif Omar who captured Jerusalem from the Byzantine Christians in 638. In close proximity to the Dome of the Rock are three Ottoman freestanding qubbas (small domed structures) these qubbas are all single-unit buildings, their domes supported by six or eight open arches. With view looking south, to the left of the Dome of the Rock is the Dome of the Chain. To the right are the small Dome of the Prophet and the larger Dome of the Miraj. Size: 28 X 22 cm (11 x 8.5 inches). This photograph is documented in the list of Felix Bonfils Photographs (“Die Provincia Arabia”), in the Department of Rare Books, Princeton University Library, Box 19, File 9, and Photograph No. 278. (http://libweb.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/brunnow.html).
Vallée de Josaphat, by Felix Bonfils ca. 1870
Vallée de Josaphat, by Felix Bonfils ca. 1870. Photo number 290. This is an original vintage Albumen print on a thin sheet of paper with sepia color and slightly glossy surface, signed in the negative, showing the northen entrance to the valley of Jehosaphat, or Kidron Valley. The road on the left is the road to Jerico which passes through Betheny. Above and below the road many tombstoens are visible. This is the Jewish cemetry on Mount of Olives. The monument in the middle is called Absalom’s Tomb after king David’s son. There are various monuments of this sort in the valley all dating from the 2nd or 1st centuries BCE. This photograph is documented in the list of Felix Bonfils Photographs in the Department of Rare Books, Princeton University Library, Box 6, folder 15. (http://diglib.princeton.edu/ead/getEad?id=ark:/88435/sj1391972#series1subseriesE). The prolific photographer Félix Bonfils was born on 8 March 1831 in France. In 1867 he moved to Beirut with his wife Lydie (b. 1837), and son Adrien (b. 1861) and set up a photographic studio. Bonfils published many albums focusing on specific regions or themes from various sites along the eastern Mediterranean. Bonfils died in 1885.

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AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
4 years ago

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Nefarious420
Nefarious420
4 years ago

Jordan was and should be Israel, the Hashemites are Saudis who stole more Jewish land and destroyed more Jewish Archaeological history.

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
4 years ago

The Left continues to propagate the Palestinian mythology unabated. No leader, excepting Trump, or government within the faux-Democracies of the West, the MSM or other anti-Semites/Israel factions oppose the myth, because they embrace and nurture the Palestinians’ Big-Lie. Ignorance, and hate-mongering is fundamental in maintaining the so-called Liberal diktat or core-beliefs, Jew/Israel-hatred.

Randall Anderson
Randall Anderson
4 years ago

We need to share this on all media…the ignorance of today’s Leftists/Progressives/Socialists has corrupted our Youth with the assistance of our FAKE NEWS MEDIA, which promotes the lies. Especially CNN and NYTimes, Whores for Islam at every opportunity, especially after 9/11. Should also mention it was the Emperor Hadrian who burned the crops, salted the fields and poisoned the wells of JUDEA, as punishment for rebellion, and renamed the country ‘Palestrina’.

patd
patd
4 years ago

Wouldn’t do any good as every muslim and libturd only have one functioning brain cell if they are lucky!!! And facts or truth make that tiny brain cell explode!!!!!

Randall Anderson
Randall Anderson
4 years ago
Reply to  patd

There is always hope for the ignorant: witness the #WALKAWAY movement. See the stupid LGBTQ fools who carry their ‘Queers for Palestine’ signs…not knowing their Muslim pals would gladly throw them from the highest building. I have lost friends by telling this truth, but have gained many new friends who have woke since 9/11.

Sweetp Holt
Sweetp Holt
4 years ago

There is always hope

https://www.openbible.info/topics/praying_for_the_lost

Just five – to many to post
Acts 26:18

ESV / 395 helpful votes

To open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light
and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of
sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

Romans 10:1

ESV / 377 helpful votes

Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved.

1 Timothy 2:1-6

ESV / 288 helpful votes

First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers,
intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and
all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet
life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing
in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and
to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and there
is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, …

2 Peter 3:9

ESV / 229 helpful votes

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness,
but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that
all should reach repentance.

Luke 19:10

ESV / 171 helpful votes

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.

Randall Anderson
Randall Anderson
4 years ago
Reply to  Sweetp Holt

Thank you ….indeed.

Sweetp Holt
Sweetp Holt
4 years ago

how would/could one contact you?

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
4 years ago

…count me as a new friend :0)

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
4 years ago

Agreed.

patd
patd
4 years ago

Well muslims are nothing more than feral animal parasites that invade and destroy any place they go!!!!!

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
4 years ago
Reply to  patd

…like locusts…they swarm, destroy, and move on….

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
4 years ago
Reply to  patd

…like locusts…they swarm, destroy, and move on….

Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
4 years ago

It’s a little obvious most of this architecture is actually European and not Jewish. I would say that Christian Crusaders most likely set up a lot of these buildings and structures in order to create a fortress style protection for the Jews. They are not even close to ancient Jewish architecture.

They are also absolutely not even remotely similar to real Arabic/Islamic architecture.

Most of these buildings are the work of Europeans regardless of who was given credit for them.

Much of the ruins in Mexico and Central America match the architectural style and development of the ancient Jews.

This suggests that the people that inhabited the Americas were actually anciently Israelites.

Canadian Patriot
Canadian Patriot
4 years ago

I agree completely! Well, on second thought, no. Because horses, elephants, gerbils and chameleons all have four legs it strongly suggests that they are directly genetically related! Or not. And because bicycles and ox-carts have wheels, it seems likely, perhaps certain, that they were invented by the same person. Uhhhh, no.

Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
4 years ago

Jerusalem on the left. Machu Picchu on the right. Native Americans were originally Jewish or Israelites.

Identical architecture.comment image

Maranatha
Maranatha
4 years ago

What a document…!!!

Maranatha
Maranatha
4 years ago

If Israel conquers the planet Mars, False-istinians will say they were there first.

Rona W
Rona W
4 years ago

The definitive book on this subject is Dore Gold’s The Fight for Jerusalem. Between reading that and listening to my father, who was a Palestinian/Israeli Jew from 1939 until 1952, I have one problem with this article.

The article claims that after the Balfour Declaration, “Muslims rapidly began to pour into the region from other countries with a purpose to kill them.” No, actually the vast majority of Muslims moved from surrounding Arab countries because of economic opportunities that were being created by the Jews.

For anyone with the patience to read a long academic tract on that subject: https://www.meforum.org/522/the-smoking-gun-arab-immigration-into-palestine Or just scroll down to the charts.

Sadly in this day and age, the descendants of Muslims who lived in or moved to Palestine, like all of the Arabs in the middle east, have had hatred of the Jews drummed into them for generations. But now, like then, it’s the leadership more than the people who are driving the hatred and the violence.

minted
minted
4 years ago
Reply to  Rona W

the arab muslims illegally began to pour into the region in the 1920s according to British claims, who had a military presence in the region at the time. The arabs (muslims) had zero presence there prior, unlike recent claims. There existed no ‘economoc opportunities’ at the time that you speak of. There was not even water anywhere except in parts of Jerusalem. It’s the jewish migrants who made the region liveable and gradually built an economy of it. muslims poured in to murdeer people, both native christians as well as jews, and newly arrived jews. that was their instructionsthe article link you added talks about their migration to neughbouring gylf countries and europe for economic opportunities.

minted
minted
4 years ago
Reply to  Rona W

The British Governor of the Sinai (1922-36) reported in the Palestine Royal Commission Report: “This illegal immigration was not only going on from the Sinai, but also from Transjordan and Syria.”

The British Hope-Simpson Commission recommended, in 1930, “Prevention of illicit immigration” to stop the illegal Arab immigration from neighboring Arab countries.

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill noted the Arab influx. Churchill, a veteran of the early years of the British mandate in the Holy Land, noted in 1939 that “far from being persecuted, the Arabs have crowded into the country and multiplied till their population has increased more than even all world Jewry could lift up the Jewish population.”

Murielle
Murielle
4 years ago
Reply to  Rona W

” No, actually the vast majority of Muslims moved from surrounding Arab countries because of economic opportunities that were being created by the Jews.”

You are right! I have read this several times from different sources over the years.

Black Eagle
Black Eagle
4 years ago
Reply to  Rona W

I believe both ideas are correct, that Muslims came to “Palestine” both for jobs in the agricultural sector, as well as on Jihad missions against Jews. Arabs came as farm hands where Jews had restored the ancient irrigation systems (destroyed and neglected by the Ottomans), but more so after the Ottomans were driven out, given their high taxation. The book “Before the Beginning of Time” covers the divergence between the very accurate Ottoman tax roles, showing dominant Jewish populations, versus the later British population figures, which were biased towards appeasing the Muslims, to halt further Jewish immigration.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  Rona W

Um, islamic Jew hatred pre-dates the existence of not only Germany, but the German language. MuhamMAD the holey prophet for profit of islum was preaching his hatred of Jews before anyone even spoke the English language (at least as far as being recognizable as such). MuhamMAD the prophet for profit expelled or enslaved all the prosperous Jewish tribes that once lived in Soddy Barbaria for no other reason than they were Jews:

“The Messenger said during his final illness, ‘Two religions cannot coexist in the Arabian Peninsula.’ Umar investigated the matter, then sent to the Jews, saying: ‘Allah has given permission for you to be expelled; for I have received word that the Prophet said that two religions cannot coexist in Arabia.”
Ishaq:517

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
4 years ago

I got these same photos about 8 years ago…..that’s why I keep telling people….there is no such thing as Palestinians……the ones squatting there now and trying to destroy Israel are the descendants of those who wandered through the desert, setting up tents, then moving on….desert bums…..until the Mudlims wanted them to stay there to destroy Israel….

Murielle
Murielle
4 years ago

Oh dear. Photographic evidence that there are no, nor ever have been, palestinians. That’s going to be tough to argue with. How will this be explained? Lied about?

Shared.

Greg
Greg
4 years ago

interesting story but the fact is that there are many errors in the narrative that it takes away from its credibility….St Stephen murdered in 4th century became the first martyr….millions of martyrs by the 4th century and Stephen was murdered before St Paul ever converted….re-read Acts for a history lesson.

Jim Austin
Jim Austin
4 years ago

All this is very interesting. However, I’d support Jews in Israel even if they all showed up there yesterday after selecting the area by darts tossed at a map board.

The U.S. Declaration of Independence gave its own definition of a legitimate government as one that upheld the rights of the people. By that standard, Israel has the only legitimate government in the Middle East.

Don Kilik
Don Kilik
4 years ago
Reply to  Jim Austin

Bravo. Amen.

ed
ed
4 years ago

Wait a minute……the “Palestinians” are liars ??? I’m SHOCKED, I tell ya…..

ed
ed
4 years ago

Has anyone forwarded this piece to RATshida Tlaib, the Fake-a-stinian politician ???

Helen4Yemen
Helen4Yemen
4 years ago

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David Gleba
David Gleba
4 years ago

Two of the captions make the claim that “Saint Stephen was an early follower of Jesus. He was stoned to death in the mid 4th century CE (sic!) and is considered the first martyr.” In actuality, his martyrdom took place in Anno Domini 34! That alone casts doubt on this article.

Charlie Hall
Charlie Hall
4 years ago

What a joke. The British Mandate started in 1924, not the 1800s. Ottoman and British census records clearly show that the population was overwhelmingly Muslim from the 1520s through the early 1930s.

Charlie Hall
Charlie Hall
4 years ago

Oh and that is not the Palestinian Mandate flag.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Mandatory_Palestine

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