Corpses not colonialists established the Jewish Homeland

Sporting a book, as he walked out of a Nantucket book store, a closeup of the cover revealed the title: The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance 1917-2017, authored by Rashida Khalidi. Given Biden’s own description of himself as a Zionist, it was a puzzling choice read being held in his hands. 

Coinciding with that troubling visual, was an article in the weekend newspaper, stating that among all the minorities residing in New Zealand, Jews were targeted the most for hate crimes. It went on to identify the Maori people, also a minority in New Zealand, as those comprising a whopping 49% of the perpetrators, by an extremist segment who have expressed admiration for Hamas.  

In their press release, which condemned Israel, it stated, “We must acknowledge the atrocity of colonization and intergenerational trauma and extremism it produces.  We must continue to fight for peace and justice for all indigenous people who continue to suffer from violent colonization and imperialism.”

Herein lies the stunning ignorance and historical rewrite of how Israel was established and by whom. The real facts are voluminous, enough to fill dozens of libraries for those who really want to do a deep dive into the truth of the authentic indigenous Israeli people, as well as to whom the land rightly belonged, but that would put a huge dent in today’s highly-charged political agenda which serves to delegitimize Israel as the Jewish homeland and the Jewish people as its residents.

But let’s go there anyway. 

The origins of Israel date back to around 1300 BCE when Moses and, later, Joshua led the children of Israel to the Promised Land. Under King David, Jerusalem becomes the capital of Israel where Solomon’s Temple is built in 957 BCE. This was followed by the exile of the Jewish people to Babylon with their eventual return to the land of Israel. They are then dispersed in 70 A.D., with Rome renaming the area Palestine, solely as a taunt. It is only much later, in the 7th century, when Islam is founded. This was followed by centuries of many governments taking control of the land, including the Crusaders, the Mamluks, the Ottomans and then the British who occupied the area until Israel became a nation in 1948. 

An excellent resource for this can be viewed here, narrated by Ben Shapiro. 

What is most important is that the rise of Nazism, in the 1930s, was responsible for the rounding up of millions of Jews, who lived in many European countries, ultimately murdering six million of them. At that time, the Jewish population, in Israel, was only a little more than half a million, a number which grew to over 1,200,000 by 1950 as the State became home to the emaciated corpses who managed to survive the ravages of the concentration camps.

These were the so-called colonialists who built the nation with their blood, sweat and tears. It’s almost laughable to think that today’s uninformed, useful idiots, who believe they are advocating for marginalized, indigenous people are actually furthering a hateful lie which is nothing more than the continuation of the centuries’ old fight against the Jewish people and what was divinely promised to them.

The definition of colonialism, as being “the policy of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers and exploiting it economically,” does not even remotely match the historical events of how Israel became a nation.  

One cannot occupy their own land, and its indigenous people are not settlers, nor was it exploited economically. If anything, its great success was the result of 76 years of creativity, ingenuity, superior intelligence and innovation, all of which the Almighty blessed, turning it into the democratic oasis which, up until October 7, was the envy of many. 

But getting back to who built the nation in 1948, we must return to those poor ravaged souls, whose pictures still haunt us some 80 years later. They were nothing more than skeletal remains, barely able to stand on their own.  When they arrived on the shores of Israel, these “corpses” wasted no time recuperating or languishing in self-pity.

Instead, they went right to work, building, clearing land and doing whatever they could to establish a homeland that would welcome other persecuted Jews. They came with no power, no influence and no control. So, the monstrous fabrication and preposterous characterization of their being guilty of colonialism by seizing Palestinian land, is the invention of antisemites whose goal is to depict the Jewish people as the overlords who were guilty of their centuries’ long persecution towards them.

In short, it is nothing more than a bogus and insanely fallacious made-up version of how Israel came into its God-given inheritance and how the Jewish people are the new villains, whether inside or outside of the land.

This is the vile content which Biden, if he opens the book he carried, will read. It will endeavor to brainwash those who feel that it is unnecessary to review the facts for themselves, because they are either too lazy or too invested in the present narrative, which is committed to the destruction of the Jewish homeland, followed by the Jewish people.

For the Maoris of New Zealand, themselves the indigenous Polynesian people, the extremists among them should know better than to accept a tainted version of the truth before verifying its authenticity. 

Fortunately, they may represent a small minority of misguided individuals among their larger group, because, as a whole, the Maori people support Israel, forging a deep friendship with them. In 2018, tribal elder, Pat Ruka participated in a ceremony which welcomed the then Israeli ambassador, Dr. Itzhak Gerberg, asking forgiveness for New Zealand’s actions. Ruka also expressed the longing of their ancestors who aspired to “meet with the sons of Abraham, the people of hope and light.” As Christians, they realized “the seed of Abraham was one with promise.”

In fact, it was in January, 2024, that “a group of indigenous leaders from around the world opened an embassy in Jerusalem to recognize Jews as indigenous to Israel, counter rising antisemitism in the aftermath of the October 7th massacre.” Among them were the Maori people of New Zealand.

So, the next time, you hear the absurd claim that Israel was established by colonialists, remember the actual corpses, spared by God, who were used to birth the dream of a Jewish homeland - the real historical truth!