Earlier today we got a comment from David Wilder, spokesman for the religious settler community in Hebron. Born in the U.S. in 1954, Wilder moved to Israel/Palestine in 1974. His voice is not often heard in the US mainstream media, so we asked him if we could highlight his comment as a post. He agreed. Here it is:
Let’s get the facts down straight: ‘Palestine’ was named such, 2,000 years ago, following the Roman occupation, destruction of the Second Temple and victory over Jewish revolts. The Romans, attempting to change the identity of the land area, called Jerusalem ‘Aliea Capitalina’ after a god of Jupiter, and Judea was changed to ‘Palestine.’ However, this was the name of a land area – not of a people.
There has never been a ‘palestinian people,’ as such. Or perhaps, there was. My mother-in-law, born in Jerusalem to Jewish parents in 1924, was labeled a ‘palestinian’ but the occupying British at that time.
There was never a ‘palestinian’ culture, heritage, leadership, parliament, or anything else. Today’s ‘Palestinian people’ is the biggest PR bluff the world has ever swallowed, invented in part by Haj Amin el-Husseini, a Nazi Jew-hater-killer, and adopted by his successor, Yasir Arafat. The world’s acceptance of such a ‘people’ and its denial of Israeli-Jewish rights to our land, is an abject denial of the San Remo Accords, by which Great Britain was mandated to form a ‘national home for the Jewish people’ in a land area, including what is today South Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and the Sinai, of course, including all of Judea and Samaria.
International demands to remove all Jews from their natural, historic homeland, including Hebron, Jerusalem, Beit El and Shilo is nothing less than a modern-day form of anti-Antisemitism, the likes of which led to the slaughter of some six to seven million Jews 70 years ago.
However, we are not going anywhere. We are here to stay. In all our land. Forever.
David Wilder, Spokesman, The Jewish Community of Hebron
P.S. For another perspective on the Hebron Jewish community, see Scott Roth’s post, The boy on the horse.
This man is an idiot. Someone should send him the Great Britain ‘mandate’:
His Majesty’s government view with favour the establishment in PALESTINE of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in PALESTINE, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.
In addition to be sent the video of the actual truth about Palestine in response to Danny Ayalon’s hasbara:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBYkBqY1-LM
Finally, someone should inform this ignorant old man that the Palestinians are not going anywhere. They here to stay. On their land. Forever.
yawn….whats the average IQ or ignorance measurement of cult members and bigots ….I bet it hovers somewhere around the minimun 100 or below. Humm….I’ve never seen a scientific study on the IQ of bigots or anyone do an ignorance measurement…..wonder if there is one. I will google around and see if I can find one..
>> International demands to remove all Jews from their natural, historic homeland …
The religion- and supremacism-inspired fantasies of Zio-supremacists notwithstanding, Israel is not the “natural, historic homeland” of all Jews.
If anyone is interested in truly understanding, comprehensively, the opinions of Hebron’s Jewish Community, I suggest you download the booklet ‘Breaking the Lies’ by David Wilder at http://goo.gl/y6MprW or go to http://www.davidwilder.org to view other material.
An effort to remove Jews would indeed be a problem. An effort to remove illegal squatters from lands they have no title to is not.