Who's the 'Occupier'?

Rabbi Aron Hier
American Thinker
21 November '10

How do you bring two opponents to the peace table when their world views are separated by millennia?

In the Palestinian timetable, the Israelites' 3,200 years of history in the land of Israel have mysteriously vanished. According to the Palestinians' worldview, Israel Standard Time commences with the 16th or 19th century. They tell us of an incipient Palestinian nation but make no mention of a much older Jewish-Israeli civilization. And thus, they unilaterally decide when the historical narrative should rightfully begin.

History must start at the beginning. Here is one page from history (1948, Benny Morris) the Palestinians definitely don't want you to see:

The Jewish people was born in the Land of Israel, which it ruled, on and off, for thirteen centuries, between 1200 BCE and the second century CE. The Romans, who conquered and reconquered the land and suppressed successive Jewish revolts in the first and second centuries CE, renamed the land Palaestina ... in an effort to separate the Jews, many of whom they exiled, from their land. Among the Gentiles, the name Palestine stuck. [1]

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