The Palestinians do not only want to destroy the Jews living in Israel, and to replace the Jewish state “from the river to the sea” with a 23rd Arab state. They also want to destroy the evidence of the Jewish past — 3000 years of Jewish history — in Judea and Samaria. More on this attempted annihilation of the history that connects the Jewish people to their land can be found here: “Palestinian destruction of Jewish archaeological sites must be halted – opinion,” by David M. Weinberg, Jerusalem Post, July 13, 2024:
Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) are rich with Jewish national heritage sites.
It is the Biblical heartland. The physical record of the Biblical narrative lies in the ground with hundreds of known archaeological sites, and perhaps thousands of yet undiscovered sites, providing incontrovertible evidence that connects the Jewish People to the Land of Israel.
This is precisely why the Palestinian Authority is systematically destroying archaeological sites in Judea and Samaria, purposefully plundering and erasing Jewish antiquities.
This week the Government of Israel took a first step towards halting the wanton annihilation of Jewish heritage.
For the first time since Israeli archaeological activists conducted in 2020 a broadscale survey of some 300 sites under Palestinian assault, the government decided to back a bill in Knesset, introduced by Likud MK Amit Halevi, that would extend the purview of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) to Judea and Samaria – to manage and preserve historical sites….
Archaic interpretations of the Oslo Accords by Israeli legal advisers have gotten in the way too. They have argued against Israel’s ability to intervene to protect Jewish heritage sites in Area B of the territories, despite the obvious and outrageous PA campaign to obliterate every Jewish/Israeli site possible….
The Israeli Supreme Court in particular has been a comatose, regressive actor in this ongoing saga – foregoing opportunity and after opportunity to force the hand of the Israeli government into action against Palestinian destruction-ism.
The sad result to-date is truly annihilationist: Three thousand years of heritage on its way to near-complete wipe-out within a mere 30 years. This is a tragedy that must be stopped….
The Palestinians are pushing pell-mell to wipe out 3000 years of Jewish history, to efface any connection between the Jews and the Land of Israel. So far they have been doing so without any sustained effort by the Israeli government to protect Jewish archeological sites in Area B of Judea and Samaria (a/k/a the West Bank). “He who controls the past controls the future” is the famous remark of Orwell in 1984. The Palestinians have their own version: “He who destroys the past controls the future.” The government of Israel has to fight on three fronts: against Hamas in Gaza, against Hezbollah on the northern frontier with Lebanon, and against the Palestinians engaged in the determined destruction of the Jewish past in Judea and Samaria. It is in this last campaign that the Israeli authorities have been so disastrously derelict in their duties. They must now act to preserve and protect what remains of the Jewish heritage sites. It’s late in the day.
Jo Alex SG says
So true and, mind you, I’m not even Israeli nor a Likud supporter but in this i totally agree with them!
By the way, for those who’d like to know a bit more about ancient Jewish history of Gaza read this, please:
The Jewish communities in Gaza throughout the years
(Note: The title should’ve been for almost two thousand years obviously!)
https://mkatif.org/katipedia/%D7%94%D7%94%D7%AA%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%91%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%99%D7%94%D7%95%D7%93%D7%99%D7%AA-%D7%91%D7%A2%D7%96%D7%94-%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%9A-%D7%94%D7%93%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%AA/?lang=en
And, please, do watch the videos by Tsvi Misinai on the ‘Palestinians’ of Jewish ancestry on Youtube, he has a whole channel dedicated to it:
https://www.youtube.com/@misinai
His book is also utterly commendable:
https://www.amazon.com/Brother-Shall-Lift-Sword-against/dp/1419689002/ref=sr_1_1?crid=VJV94WFCFQL5&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.EnaGB-kn2cnKtdCn4pBfeQ.skcB0CYAnGpYYZN-1qeX7QcyV397Zl9ZYEJnwC9wp5U&dib_tag=se&keywords=Tsvi+Misinai&qid=1721055714&sprefix=tsvi+misinai%2Caps%2C200&sr=8-1
Many thanks to everyone who checks them and share these precious links.
Am Israel chai!
Jo Alex SG says
Errata: I, not ‘i’, (everyone who checks them) and shares (not ‘share’) these precious links.
Sorry, I’ve had to type the comment in a hurry and overlooked these silly mistakes, ageing brain here.
somehistory says
In recent years, I have watched shows where some guy goes to Israel with cameras and down into the earth with an archeologist, who then explains what happened in the distant past.
Several were concerning the Wall around Jerusalem…very interesting stuff. But one point irked me each time I watched: the fact that the Jews had to get permission from mozlums to go beneath the city, beneath the Wall, to investigate, to preserve, to look for evidence of things long forgotten by some.
One I recall told of the things the mozlums had already destroyed in order to keep their lies going…that they were the ones who *belonged* to the Land from the beginning and the Jews had no part in the history of the City nor the Land around it.
Tony Rice says
I think the most absurd thing done by the now realised to be terrorist organisation, ie the United Nations actually passed a resolution a few years ago declaring Jews had no evidence of ever having lived or owned Eretz Israel. How bent can they get, despite all the factual and written evidence, but we know why the U N said that. Trying to replace Judaism and Christianity with Islam The world is at a dangerous juncture, those of evil have too much power.
Barbara says
I many non-Jews are there? How many of us have Jewish ancestors even though we live life as a Christian. Doing my genealogy I have found a Jewish ancestor. The family lore never mentions this ancestor. the maternal line names all too often get lost. How many Jews left Judaism and changed religion. Changing religion or politics does not change ones DNA.
I sincerely believe a lot of Europeans have Jewish ancestors. Just like I equally believe Jews have a non-Jew ancestor. If we could all trace our ancestors back 1200 to 1500 years we would find surprises, we do not know about.
Troybeam says
Destruction of a culture: ISLAM has been destroying cultures everywhere they can. Iran and other Muslim nations have had their history destroyed pre-Islam because Islam does not want to have any cultural evidence before it began its terror of submit or die to grow its theocracy.
40 rounds says
Islam is a hateful, destructive and idiotic movement (don’t deserve the religion label) and the cult members are beyond idiotic
Siddi Nasrani says
I use the word “Satanic” to describe them.
Siddi Nasrani says
It seems that Mohammad & Islam are made up, an invention.
Here is a mind blowing video.
Investigating Islam with Dr. Jay Smith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40DclW84HkM
OLD GUY says
Yes Islam is all about the destruction of the everything non-islamic. Total dominance of the WORLD is their plan, and that means you destroy every other sign of heritage and life other than islam.
Davidka says
What did the Israelis expect to happen when they handed over their heartland as if it had no value and then did nothing despite years of vandalism? Giving away Judea, Samaria and Gaza was insanity and an abnegation of Judaism. And what is wrong with the anti-Israel, anti-Jewish Supreme Court?
gravenimage says
The Other War: The Palestinian Destruction of the Jewish Heritage
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Yes–and almost no one cares about this. The Waqf of Al Aqsa regularly destroys Jewish artefacts. Thank you, Hugh Fitzgerald.