15 Facts About Palestine that You Won’t Hear in the Mainstream Media

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[Amerisrael]

I wrote this nearly 10 years ago, but after hearing Chris Cotter on Fox New’s Redeye so confidently declare following words, I thought it was time to edit and resend:

Referring to Helen Thomas’ statement that the Jews should ‘get the hell out of Palestine’ Cotter said, “[Thomas] remembers [before 1948] when Palestine was a nation.” Somehow, a reporter on the Fox Business Channel assumed that Israel came into being by taking over an Arab country called Palestine. Hopefully he knows his stocks better than his history. Sadly no one on the show, including Greg Gutman, the Jewish host, corrected him. So I will…

No Mr. Cotter, Palestine was not a nation in 1947, 46 or 45, not in 1847 or 1047 or 47. In fact, Palestine has never been a nation. To be fair, so many, not just Cotter, simply assume these things from what they pick up in the media. So let us look at these 15 facts.

I. Palestine was NOT an Arab nation that the Jews came in and took over after the UN vote in 1947.

A. Great Britain in fact controlled that region of the Middle East until she grew tired of governing the volatile area and asked the UN to decide what to do with it.

B. Before Great Britain won the land in WWI, the Turks had controlled it since the early 1500s. Turks are not Arabs.

C. In fact, Palestine has never been the name of any country!

[sport]

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[netmilsmom]

This is brillant!
Thanks!

[Fiddlstix]

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[muawiyah]

The Islamic Caliphate had pretty much ruled the territory since the 10th century. The Turks took over things just about the time of the First Crusade, and by the time the last Crusader had been kicked out in the 1200s, the Turks ruled it all.

The 1500 date would refer to inroads the Turks made into the Balkans, not the Middle East. They had that all along.

[george76]

The four centuries of ceaseless warfare between the Byzantine (Eastern-Roman) Empire and the Sassanid Persian Empire in the 6th and 7th centuries had weakened both empires.

It was at this unfortunate juncture that the Muslim Arabs pounced on both empires in fourth decade of the 7th century (641 C.E.). After their conquest of the Byzantine provinces of Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine (today’s Israel), they invaded Egypt in December 641 C.E.

Egypt before the Islamic invasion was not an Arab country

http://www.historyofjihad.org/egypt.html

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Amerisrael.

Chris Cotter on Fox New's Redeye... said, "[Thomas] remembers [before 1948] when Palestine was a nation." Somehow, a reporter on the Fox Business Channel assumed that Israel came into being by taking over an Arab country called Palestine... Sadly no one on the show, including Greg Gutman, the Jewish host, corrected him. So I will...

There was a delegation of athletes to at least one of the pre-WWII Olympic games.

All of them were Jews.

Cotter should be reprimanded, required to give an on-air correction, retraction, and apology, and then be fired and blackballed.

[SunkenCiv]

s/b delegation of athletes from Palestine, all of them Jews.

[FreeKeys]

Greg Gutman, the Jewish host, corrected him

Gutman is Catholic.

[Captain Beyond]

bflr

[phredo53]

The hosts’ name is Gutfeld, not Gutman.

[jonno]

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[rmlew]

People also foget that as late as 617CE, Jews and Samaritans were a plurality in Byzantine-occupied Israel and launched a rebellion in the last Byzantine-Sassanide War.

[HearMe]

Sounds like it might be a Jewish name, but Greg Gutfeld is Catholic.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks phredo53.

[call meVeronica]

ping & bump. Thanks for posting