Settler/blogger Yisrael Medad moved first to Israel from the States in 70, then to the West Bank in 81. He was a member of Betar, the same extremist organization that Doug Feith's father was a member of. Here he is, taking on Nadia Hijab of IPS, who has written that the aggressive settler population has made a two-state solution all but impossible:
I don't
think we are that coalesced and coordinated, we are split among too
many breakaway groups but nevertheless, the idea of Jews returning to
their ancestral homeland combined with the refusal of Arabs to
recognize that and seek a compromise, historically and at the present,
is what is our real strength.
The best land is occupied…by
Arabs, by the way, where 99% of we Jews live in Judea and Samaria. Unless, of course, Nadia is referring (surprise! surprise!) to all of
what she thinks is Palestine, i.e., all of Israel, was empty of any
Arab habitation and development over the past 500 years or more.
Medad seems to fulfill Hijab's fears. His word revenant means one returning after a lengthy absence, he says. Oh my. Are Americans to be subject to this sort of extremist thinking? We Jews just as likely originated in Central Asia 1000 years or so back and accepted a religion of the Middle East. Palestinians have wanted to be revenant to I/P for 60 years. I think that Medad demonstrates the truth of Hijab's statement.
Revenant also means coming back from the dead without necessarily coming back to life. A lot of Sci-Fi and horror fiction uses revenant as a synonym for zombie.
The comics code used to forbid the word zombie. Marvel Comics substituted zuvembie while I vaguely remember that other comic book companies used revenant.
"Extremist"?
Sir, don't you realize that it is possible, nigh, probable, that your theory of Jewish origin is so extreme as to be laughable? Are you still stuck with the Khazars? The Roman historians mentioned the Jews already not to mention the Egyptian reference to "eradicating Israel". And as for revenant, that is exactly what the Supreme Council of the League of Nations decided, making a right according to international law, that the jewish national homeland was to be "reconstituted" with the land's non-Jewish population being assured no more than civil rights. In other words, "Palestine" was not to become an Arab country – and that was 85 years ago.
I discuss the origins of ethnic Ashkenazim in gory detail in Origins of Modern Jewry, Followup(II): Origins of Modern Jewry, and all the artcles hyperlinked to those two blog entries. If you believe that ethnic Ashkenazim have any ancestral connection to Palestine, you are basically suffering from an extreme psychotic delusion.
One can get over it. I did, but as of today, you must be considered a murderous genocidal thief, interloper, and invader, and I have little doubt that one day you will stand before the ICC as a criminal ethnic Ashkenazi Nazi just as German Nazis were tried before the Nuremberg tribunals.