I ended part VII by citing horrible media publications of what the powers that be in Israel said about the Palestine Arabs as being animals and who had no right to exist. That led me to conclude that there is difference between being a Hebrew and being a Jew.
The Hebrews speak Hebrew which is a Semitic language and closely related to Aramaic and Phoenician but also to Arabic. Ancient Hebrew, Old Testament's language had already before the Birth of Christ been replaced with Aramaic as spoken language and had become the language of the learned, in which parts of the Talmud is recorded. Through Zionism, Hebrew has undergone renaissance to become a living language (p.48, volume 8, Swedish Bonnier's Lexicon). Aram, the Biblical name for ancient Syria is an abbreviation for Aramaic language while the people are known as Aramaean or Aramean. According to Collins English Dictionary, Aramaic is an ancient language of the Middle East, still spoken in parts of Syria and Lebanon, belonging to the NW Semitic subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic family. Originally, it was the language of Aram in the Fifth Century B. C. It spread to become lingua franca of the Persian Empire (p.76). Defining Biblical Aramaic, Collins English Dictionary says is the form of Aramaic that was the common language of Palestine in the New Testament. It was widespread throughout the Persian Empire from the Fifth Century and is found in the later books of the Old Testament (especially Danie 2: 4 - 7; 28). The Aramaic writing which is structured on the Phoenician is the origin to both the Hebraic and Arabic alphabets (p.152, similar definition is given in Bonnier's Lexicon, Vol. 1, p.222). Worthy of note is that the Arab is defined as a member of Semitic people, originally inhabiting Arabia, who spread throughout the Middle East, N Africa and Spain during the 7th and 8th Centuries AD (p. 75, Collins English Dictionary). The Arabs and the Hebrews are the same Semitic people with interwoven language whereby they share the same alphabets from Aramaic/Phoenician. All the Hebrews that remain in the Middle East are generally referred to as Oriental Hebrews while those that migrated to Europe many Centuries ago and later to the U. S. A., are known to be Occidental Hebrews but prejudicially called Jews.
Despite the fact that Occidental Hebrews had migrated and lived for many centuries in Europe from generations to generations, and spoke fluently the national language of their respective host country, they have never been accepted as full-fledged member of the society in the countries they lived. A Hebrew, according to Collins English Dictionary (2), is a member of an ancient Semitic people claiming descent from Abraham, an Israelite. The Dictionary points out in (3 and 5) that the word Jew is archaic or offensive as well as the word Jewish (p. 719 & 720). Despite the fact that the 1994 Collins English Dictionary on pages 719 and 720 explicitly informed that the words, 'Jew and Jewish' are archaic and offensive it went further to explain on page 1781 as follows, "Yiddish, a language spoken as a vernacular by Jews in Europe and elsewhere by Jewish emigrants. Historically, it is a dialect of a High German with an admixture of words of Hebrew, Romance, and Slavonic origin developed in Central and E. Europe during the Middle Ages." More expatiating on the word, 'Yiddish' is the Swedish BONNIER'S LEXIKON, Volume 9 where on page 128, one is informed as follows, "Yiddish (from the German Judisch), one of the Teutonic languages that had evolved from German. It (Yiddish) arose among Jewish groups in German speaking districts during early Middle Ages and developed further, mostly through contacts with Slavs. In the seventeenth Century, Yiddish had been widely spread among the Jews in Europe ... At the outbreak of World War II, Yiddish was spoken by about 11 million Jews. Yiddish has had a subordinate position in relation to the Hebraic in the State of Israel. While Oriental Hebrews speak both Arabic and Hebraic fluently, its Occidental descendants, prejudicially named Jews in Europe and America, speak Yiddish. Before the creation of the State of Israel from Palestine in 1948, the Oriental Hebrews lived in peace with their Arab cousins throughout the Middle East. That was why Benzion Mileikowsky, a Jew born in Warsaw, Poland, could migrate to Palestine in 1920s and thereafter renounced his Polish family name, Mileikowsky, to a Hebrew one, Netanyahu, which is the origin of the surname of the present Prime Minister of Israel, Binjamin Netanyahu.
At the outbreak of 1st World War, there were no Arab Nation States but all Arab territories were under the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire. During that War, Thomas Edward Lawrence better known as Lawrence of Arabia played a major part in the Arab's revolt against the Turks in 1916-1918. From historical records, Lawrence of Arabia was an English Archaeologist, a military and a writer. He carried out archaeological researches in Syria and became a Spy for Britain in Cairo at the outbreak of World War-1. As a contact officer encouraging the Arabs to revolt against the Turkish Empire, Lawrence had a great influence on the Arabic Northern operations. He had promised the Arabs the creation of a Great Arabic Nation under a Hashemite dynasty. Unknown to Thomas Edward Lawrence, Britain and France had agreed to balkanised the Arab territories into their spheres of influence. On May 16, 1916, when World War-1 was still ongoing, Mark Sykes of Britain and Charles Francois Picot of France concluded an agreement that divided up Arab land between the United Kingdom and France. It was from that agreement that Palestine, Jordan and Iraq became British ruled while Syria and Lebanon became French ruled which was later formalised as the League of Nations British and French Mandated Territories. Bitter over being betrayed by Britain, Lawrence withdrew from public space and in 1922 he joined the Royal Air Force as a mechanic using a pseudonym.
The Arabs were deceived by France and Britain to rise against Turkish hegemony only to find themselves in small and weak Kingdoms controlled by Britain and France through the Western controlled League of Nations. Britain and France were conscious of the fact that their strangle hold on the weak Arab Kingdoms would not last long, therefore, the idea of creating Jewish State in the Arab-Palestine territory gained momentum after the end of the First World War. Before the Second World War, Britain and France had permitted the influx of Yiddish speaking Europeans into Palestine with no negative reactions from Palestinian Arabs since there was enough space for the incoming European Yiddish settlers. When World War II broke out the immigration of European Jews into Palestine abated but Britain had created British Army's Jewish Brigade with Soldiers recruited mainly from Yiddish speaking European Jews. When the World War II ended, the emigration of Yiddish Speaking Europeans into Palestine increased under the pretext of atoning for the murder of descendants of Hebrews (Jews) that had lived in Europe for centuries during the war. The idea of creating a Jewish State in Palestine because of the massive murder of Hebraic descendants in Europe between 1933 and 1945 was hatched by Britain and France. Nevertheless, the population of Palestinian Arabs was still greater than the Yiddish population in Palestine. Britain unleashed soldiers of the British Army's Jewish Brigade on the Arabs in Palestine. The State of Israel which was born in 1948 was immediately recognised by the US and Western Europe dominated United Nations. In reality, Israel is a Yiddish State in an Arab world created by Western Europe and United States of America as a military base situated in a geographically located Islamic world. Israel is a settlers' country for the Yiddish speaking Europeans and Americans where settlers behave and see themselves as the extension of American and European civilisation in relation to the Arabs in general.
Overlooking how the State of Israel came into being, apologists from US and Western Europe claim that the current war of annihilation being perpetrated by Israel on the defenseless Palestine Arabs was caused by Hammas attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023. Critics of Israeli for massive deployment of weapons of life extinguishers on the Palestinians have been branded as anti-Semite as if the Hebrew pretenders, named Jews, have monopoly to the epithet Semite or Semitic. Collins English Dictionary defines a Semite thus: a member of the Group of Caucasoid peoples who speak a Semitic language, including the Jews and Arabs as well as the ancient Babylonians, Assyrians and Phoenicians. Semitic: a branch or sub-family of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages that includes Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic, Amharic, and such ancient languages as Akkadian and Phoenician (p. 1407). Since 1948, Palestinian Arabs have continued to fight in protest of the seizure of their land to create the State of Israel. Thus, speaking at the funeral of a young Israeli Security Officer, Roy Rotenberg, killed while patrolling the Israeli-Gaza border in 1956, the then Israeli Chief of staff, Moshe Dayan said, "For eight years now (1948-1956), they (Palestinians) have sat in refugee camps of Gaza and have watched how, before their very eyes, we have turned their land and villages, where they and their forefathers, previously dwelled, into our (Israeli) home. ...//..... Let us today take a stock of ourselves. We are a generation of settlement (settlers) and without the steel helmet and the gun's muzzle we will not be able to plant a tree and build a house (p. 267, MY PROMISED LAND; THE TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY OF ISRAEL By ARI SHAVIT)." What happened on October 7, 2023, cannot be difficult to understand, considering the fact that the perpetrators of those actions have been confined into refugee camps since 1948. (To be continued)
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