By Gerald A. Honigman
Dear esteemed UAE Leaders and Representatives…
For credentials and introductory purposes, my name is Gerald A. Honigman, an educator who has done extensive doctoral work in both Middle Eastern Affairs and National Security Policy Studies.
Among numerous universities and other institutions of higher learning all over the globe which have acquired and are using my materials are (as just some examples) the UAE’s extensive library system, the American University of Beirut, Georgetown University, Cornell, Bethlehem University, University of Alberta, NYU, Kobe University, Tel Aviv University, and Paris’s acclaimed Institut d’etudes Politiques (Sciences Po).
I was very disappointed to learn the following news as seen in the article below:
“UAE warns Israel’s West Bank annexation would cross ‘red line’ and end regional integration efforts”
I had previously thought that, finally, some Arabs had come to realize that there were indeed other native peoples whose ancestral lands were indeed primarily the latters’s own, not the sole property of Arabism by virtue of its previous 7th century onwards jihadi caliphal imperial, colonizing, settling, and expansionist religious wars conquest.
Judaeans (Jews), Kurds, Amazigh/Kabyle/”Berbers”, Hindus, black Africans, Assyrian Christians, pre-Arab conquest Phoenician Maronite Christian descendants in Lebanon, and others as well have been its victims.
I had hoped that the Arab leaders of the UAE were among these newly enlightened people.
Unfortunately, it looks like I was mistaken.
But in light of the UAE’s relatively recent peace overtures, which led to its participation in the Abraham Accords, I’d like to believe that you’re still open to learning more about who the land in the above linked article in question was truly the ancestral homeland of, before it was conquered by massive waves of Arab armies, which poured out of an increasingly desiccating Arabian Peninsula from the 7th century C.E. onwards, forcibly annexing ancestral homelands of Egyptian native Copts, Judaeans, Persians, Amazigh “Berbers,” black Africans, Hindus, Buddhists, and Sikhs on the Indian subcontinent, pre-Arab conquest Maronite Christians in Lebanon, and so forth.
Please see the extensive historically corroborated evidence in the following article:
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/404662
Next open here Is the coin at the top a “Palaestina Capta” coin or an “Iudaea (Judaea)Capta” one?”
In the above link, contemporary Roman, Persian, and other historians documented at least four major revolts of the Judaean/Jewish People for their freedom and independence from oppressive Roman and Byzantine enemies within mere decades of the Arabs’ own invasions of the 7th century C.E. onwards.
Jews…not Arabs, and certainly not non-existent “Palestinians,” fought desperately, against all odds, against the conqueror of much of the known world for their freedom and independence in the land of their forefathers since the days of Abraham, Jacob/renamed Israel, Moses and the other Hebrew Prophets, Kings David and Solomon, the rebuilding of the Temple after Cyrus the Great freed them from Babylonian captivity, the revolt of the Maccabees, and so forth.
Most of these events occurred in lands you now claim Jews have no rights to—Judaea and Samaria.
These traditional ancestral Jewish lands, before forced exile, were not renamed “West Bank” until British colonial and imperial interests collaborated with Arabism to lop off almost 80% of the original 1920 Mandate of Palestine and create the Emirate of Transjordan with in 1922.
In May 1948, the British military officer led Transjordanian Arab Legion joined about a half dozen other Arab countries and Hitler’s head of the Waffen SS Division in the Balkans, Hajj Amin al-Hussein’s butchers of Jews to attack a nascent, minuscule, resurrected nation of Israel Reborn to nip it in the bud.
Now possessing both banks of the Jordan River, to distinguish the historically named areas of Judaea and Samaria from its East Bank administrative base, the Brits and their Hashemite Arab allies renamed them the “West Bank” instead after 1949.
If that would be so, then how do you explain 40 million truly stateless Kurds and a like number of truly stateless Amazigh/”Berber” people, who predate their Arab oppressors by millennia and who outlawed their own languages and cultures in the attempted forced Arabization process, not having rights to establish their own independent nations in those lands in Syria, Iraq, and North Africa? Etc . . .
The recent war between Pakistan and India resulted from this unending struggle of Arab and other Arabized Islamists to expand the Dar ul-Islam over the lands of kafir infidels as well.
Past and recent gassings of Kurds, Arab massacres of Druze, Assyrian and other Christians, blacks in Africa by Islamists in Boko Haram, butchering of Israel Jews (one half of whom are Sefardi and Mizrahi refugees from “Arab” and other Muslim lands,” claimed as such by virtue of their own previous conquest, colonization, and settlement of other native peoples’s homelands.
I was ecstatic when the UAE established relations with the ancient historical homeland of the Jewish People, Israel.
Please don’t turn the clock backwards to the time when ALL Arabs simply considered every land they previously acquired via caliphal imperial colonizing, settling, murderous conquest…forcibly converting or slaughtering millions of native peoples, declaring the entire region of MENA as being solely “purely Arab patrimony,” eternally part of the Dar ul-Islam, never to be allowed to revert back to its kafir Infidels.
Here’s additional relevant articles I’m hoping you will read and share with others: Here 1 and here 2
Warning: Graphic photos included in here courtesy of Hamas and just “ordinary” Gazans … please be sure to not overlook the essential two internal links:
I was so proud to learn that the UAE acquired this for its extensive library system. Please continue being the great hope for a better tomorrow for all peoples in the region.
Your demanding Israel remain a 9-15 mile wide sardine can of a state, relinquishing ancestral rights in Judaea and Samaria, where the Hebrew Patriarch Abraham purchased a burial plot for all of the Jewish People’s Patriarchs and most of their Matriarchs in Hebron, and the Hebrew Prophet Samuel anointed David king of Judah and Israel 900 years later is grossly unfair.
David was born in the Judaean—not “Palestinian”—town of Bethlehem; David’s son, King Solomon, built the first Temple to honor G_d on Mount Zion in Jerusalem in Judah/Judaea; the Judaean Hasmonean family of the “Maccabees (the ‘hammers’) revolted against pagan Greek and Syrian oppressors a few centuries before the Roman occupation, etc. and so forth.
The fortress of Masada stands high overlooking the Dead Sea in the Judaean Desert, where Jews fought desperately for their freedom against Rome. It’s a major tourist attraction today, and is still as ancient historians described it.
Finally, the Arabs whom you claim have sole rights to ancestral Jewish lands were, undoubtedly, mostly newcomers themselves into it, despite taqiyyah spouting lies told to kafir infidels and dhimmis in the West and elsewhere:
“Settlers” | Israel National News
Dear Emirati friends, please reconsider your recent comments and expand your own learning about other non-Arab people’s historical rights and aspirations in MENA and adjacent lands.
