Posted on 11/15/2018 5:51:43 AM PST by SJackson
The first sentence of this article in Al Madenah News by Dr. Mustafa Yousef Alddawi, marking the centennial of the end of World War I, is one of the most absurd things I’ve ever read in Arabic media. And that’s saying a lot.
“There is no doubt that Palestine was the greatest victim of the First World War,” it begins.
During World War I, Palestine had a population of 800,000. The number of people killed during the war was between 15 to 19 million.
The Ottoman Empire, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Russia, Italy, and Austria each lost more people than the entire population of Palestine.
Obviously Alddawi is claiming that the division of the Arab world by the victors of the war, which included allowing Jews to return to a sliver of land where they are the indigenous people, is the most catastrophic thing to ever happen to anyone ever.
Many Palestinians are the masters of making everything about them. They are the biggest victims of the Holocaust, they are the biggest victims of both world wars, they are the biggest victims of “colonialism,” they are the world’s biggest victims, period.
The article ends with a threat against the world:
The Palestinian cause will be the cause of future wars, the effects of which may be no less than the world wars. … It has been a hundred years since the founding of the Palestinian cause, and it is still burning and burning, and it will remain so until the Palestinians regain their rights and return to their homes.
Yes, this Palestinian writer is saying that unless the world gives the Palestinians what they demand — the destruction of Israel — we can expect a World War III that could dwarf the others.
I’ve seen lots of mob-style threats from Palestinians, but this one takes the cake.
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Like everything else, WWI was about non existent palistinians
The Balfour declaration was the root of much of the conflict in the 20th Century in the west. And, indeed, the implementation of it was a significant contributing factor in the holocaust.
“Obviously Alddawi is claiming that the division of the Arab world by the victors of the war, which included allowing Jews to return to a sliver of land where they are the indigenous people, is the most catastrophic thing to ever happen to anyone ever.”
Gee, I thought the Nazis killing 6 million Jews during WWII was the most catastrophic thing to ever happen to anyone ever. Silly me.
This guy is so ignorant of history he could get hired by CNN or MSNBC.
The West had been at war with the Islamics for 1300 years. Slave raiding on the Mediterranean by Muslims had only been stopped when the French occupied Algeria in the 1850's. I suppose you could say that Palestine, or as it was called back then, The Holy Land, was an integral part of how Christendom finally started fighting back against the Muslims, starting in 1095.
The parceling of the world — particularly the Middle East — by the fascist Wilson and his gang of idiots are the prime roots of most things bad in the world today. Not to mention the cause of World War II.
When they win, they cut your head off and rape your women.
When they lose, they play the victim card and cry crocodile tears.
Was there even a nation called Palestine during the first war era? I mean a nation in the traditional sense, with defined borders and a recognized government? If not, then the argument becomes pretty absurd (”Look, here is a piece of land I lived on prior to the war. I was my country. Now I don’t live there. My country was wiped out. I’m the biggest victim of the war, so everyone owes me money.”)
Ww3 might not be a bad idea.
Lets completely and utterly wipe out these Satan worshipers.
Armenia was probably the biggest victim of the war.
By the way, there’s no such thing as Palestine.
Palestine is the Cause of all Causes.
So what we are reading here is summed up:
“Because JOOOOOOZ”
Apparently a belief so powerful that it can shape the entire world at all levels.
The Muslims should be jealous.
Free Palestine! With the purchase of any Palestine of equal or greater value. #fakestine
I’m no fan of Wilson, but I have to ask if it’s fair to pin all that on him. The Balfour Declaration was a British document issued just months after the US entry in the war, and secret British treaties carving up the spoils of the war were signed well before the US got involved. The British and French pretty much did what they wanted after WWI, and Wilson got very ill in 1919, capped by a massive stroke in October. Redrawing the map was largely a European affair.
It is a testament to Israeli patience that this pimple was not popped by now
NUTS
What a pile of S^^T!
The pre-war Ottoman empire was selling land to Jews long before the war began. The Jews had money and wanted land, the OE had land and wanted money.
The Jews bought land no one wanted and did what Jews do there, they made the desert flower.
Strange folks those Jews, seem to succeed wherever they land.
Not so strangely the fakistinians seem to settle to the bottom wherever they slink to.
Every American serviceman who died or was injured fighting over there were “the biggest victim(s)”. The “palistinians always have been “losers”.
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