Occupation is the Provocation – Arabs, Persians, Romans, Greeks!

The Reason For Chanukah – Greeks, Romans, Persians, and Arabs, the historic Palestinians! “Occupation is the provocation!” The genocides upon Jews, Kurds, and other Indigenous Peoples of the Levant and Southwest Asia regions must come to end – even if by violent Indigenous uprising to Arab-European Palestinian occupations and terrorism.

Palestini(an) is the Arab-European version of the Indigenous Jewish word Felishti, which means “foreigner, occupier”.

• The Hasmonean period Jews fought the Greek Palestinians off of our ancestral land, 140 BCE–37 BCE. This restored Jewish Independence upon the Land of Israel is the basis for our yearly Chanukah festival of Indigenous freedom and lights.
• The Bar Kokhba period Jews formed a nation-wide armed rebellion against the Roman Palestinians, 132 CE–136 CE. This restored Jewish Independence upon the Land of Israel was met with legions of Roman Palestinian armies sent to re-colonize the Land of Israel, resulting in near half the Jewish people slaughtered and many survivors enslaved by Rome.
• The Hushiel period Jews formed an armed rebellion against the Byzantine Christian Palestinians with the help of the neighboring Persians armies, 614 CE–625 CE. This final armed attempt to restore Jewish Independence until the 1920’s-1940’s, was met with the Persians siding with the Byzantine Palestinians to retake the Land of Israel for the Palestinians, mas​sa​cring and expelling many Indigenous Jews from our ancestral land.
• In the British-Arab Mandate period, settler-occupying Arab Palestinians engaged in deadly riots and terrorism against Jews, both the Zionists and the Jews who lived there for centuries, 1919 CE-1948 CE. This “cycle of violence” began with these Arab Palestinians who did not accept Indigenous Jews as being their equals upon the Land of Israel.

To this very day, the Arab-European Palestinians refuse to allow the native Jewish people of the Land of Israel to peacefully fully decolonize, preferring to occupy our ancestral land, demonize Jews for our “nativism”, and terrorize us with advanced weapons of war. The Palestinians do this to all SWANA region Indigenous Peoples! When will the Arab-European Palestinians – the settler Colonizers – STOP murdering Jews, Kurds, Assyrians, Balochs, etc, etc, etc?! (But, we Jews are utterly “evil” for resisting your Palestinian occupations and fighting your terrorism that is inflicted daily upon us!)

“Occupation is the provocation!” The amount of restraint that we Indigenous Peoples of this world show to our Colonial Arab-European oppressors is beyond questioning!

Learn why the Indigenous Judean nation of Israel must do what we are doing now to Hamas! The Arab-European Colonial United Nations does NOT give a damn about Arab “Palestinians”, anymore than the Hamas terrorist group that the Arab “Palestinians” in Gaza willingly voted into power over them (and have never revolted against Hamas “mistreatment” of Arab “Palestinians”). It’s Israel’s problem to resolve, so says the world!

“In the conception of Israelis—to say nothing of many Kurds—the Burkean “tie of amity” that binds the two peoples is a “correspondence” not so much of national identity (Kurds and Israelis having fairly different national profiles) as of demographic and political circumstance. For, just as demographic difference has made Israelis and Kurds outliers in a Middle East in which Arabs, Turks, and Iranians predominate, so political differences—Zionism and Kurdayeti (Kurdish nationalism) both being regarded as abominations in the region—have made them outcasts… An especially inspired flight of the imagination is not necessary for Israelis to put themselves in the klash (traditional Kurdish shoes) of a regional minority intent on self-government and surrounded by enemies⁠.

Nor are Israelis oblivious or indifferent to the reality that they’re hardly the only people in the Middle East to notice parallels between their country and the Kurds. Ever since 1962—when the label “Second Israel” was first attached to that same community of Kurds that has recently attracted such profound Israeli sympathy, the Kurds of Syria—the epithet has regularly been applied not just to them, but to the three other Kurdish populations of the Middle East too.11 The accusation that the Kurds form a “Second Israel” was refreshed in regional discourse as recently as September 2017, when the Kurds of northern Iraq voted overwhelmingly, if unsuccessfully, to secede from Baghdad and to broaden their autonomy into full sovereignty. The “Second Israel” epithet seemed to find yet more credence after the “First Israel” emerged as the only country in the world to support the pro-independence referendum and after Kurds in northern Iraq were photographed waving Israeli flags in gratitude, a scene that left one to wonder whether this was the only time since 1948 in the Middle East, outside the Jewish state, in which Israeli flags could be seen waved overhead in support, rather than trampled underfoot in contempt.

Surely among these flag-wavers were Kurds who would wear the “Second Israel” label with high relish, Kurds like the head of the polling station in Arbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, who cried out on the day of the referendum , “We are the Second Israel!”12 The Kurdish poll-watcher was, in fact, following in the tradition of some of the twentieth century’s leading Kurdish personalities who have happily claimed the title of “Second Israel” for their people, not least Kamuran Ali Badr Khan, Ibrahim Ahmad, and⁠—most iconic of all post-Ottoman Kurdish figures⁠—Mulla Mustafa Barzani.

Besides the similarity of circumstance between the “First” and “Second Israels,” which Israelis, Kurds, and their regional detractors have each observed, the well-known affection of Kurdish Jews in Israel for their former neighbors has also influenced Israelis as a whole, endearing the Kurds to them yet more. Although the Jewish experience in pastoral Kurdistan was no idyll, the intensification of Middle Eastern anti-Semitism that began in the early twentieth century largely eluded the Jews of Kurdistan. The lot of Jews in the rest of the Arab and Islamic world, however, was quite otherwise. In the years leading up to their settlement in Israel, the Jews of these lands endured all manner of abuses: violence, dispossession, extortion, harassment, intimidation. In the 1940s alone, large-scale massacres of Jews struck in Gabes (May 1941), Baghdad (June 1941), Tripoli (November 1945, June 1948), Aden (December 1947), Aleppo (December 1947), Oujda (June 1948), and Djerada (June 1948). The mass exodus to Israel of Jews from the Arab and Islamic world consequently brought many Jews to Israel whose feelings toward their former neighbors had been much embittered by recent experience.”

• historian Scott Abramson Ph.D., UCLA’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Israeli Kurdophilia and the American ‘Betrayal’ of the Syrian Kurds, December 16, 2019

The UN insists on punishing 1948 decolonized Jews and Arab “Palestinian” children by doing nothing and forcing Israel to end the racist Arab “Palestinian” pay for slay and terrorism meant to end Israel’s decolonized existence – all to vilify Israel afterwards for defending our Indigenous Judean land and people from racist UN crimes against Indigenous humanity. We are the first to forcibly decolonize a portion of our ancestral land for literal Jewish people survival. So, we Jews cannot be allowed to be the example for other colonized Indigenous nations looking for their Zionism! Right, Arab-European Colonizers?

“Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews were a crucial part of the project to re-establish a Jewish state in the Land of Israel. In 1558, Gracia Mendes Nasi — one of the wealthiest Jewish women of the Ottoman Empire — built a Jewish community in the Holy Land that’s credited as one of the earliest attempts at a modern Zionist movement. In 1839, Rabbi Yehuda Bibas, a scion of Moroccan rabbinical royalty, traveled across Europe to encourage Jews to make aliyah and reclaim Jerusalem. Scholar-socialite Flora Sassoon of the “Rothschilds of the East” staunchly supported the Balfour Declaration and Zionism. The son of a Moroccan immigrant, Haim Amzalak, used his position as the British Vice Consul of Palestine to acquire land for some of the earliest Zionist communities, such as Petach Tikvah and Rishon Letzion. Zionism not only has a place for Jews like our [MENA] families; it was created by them.

Today, more than half of Israel’s Jewish population is of Mizrahi descent. We do not deny that, in its early days of independence, Israel sometimes failed the Mizrahim. Some of these issues persist today. Yet those failures pale in comparison to how Israel has helped us. Our struggles should not be weaponized by individuals and organizations — who have otherwise shown little interest in our stories — to advance a political agenda.

In many of the [Arab] countries our ancestors fled, we were dhimmis: second-class citizens whose safety was dependent on the whims of caliphs, emirs and sheikhs — and whether our neighbors had absorbed or ignored anti-Semitic tropes. In Arab countries, we were not even allowed to be referred to as Arabs. Persian Jews were similarly forced to pick a side after 1979: We could be Iranian citizens or we could be Zionists.

The vast majority of Mizrahim and Sephardim do not marginalize, tokenize or erase our own history. Expressing our communal values is not “brownwashing.” Organizations that capitalize on the increased attention to diversity within the Jewish community in order to burnish their credentials as “progressive” while ignoring the mainstream values of Mizrahim and Sephardim are exploiting us.

Just as anti-Zionist Jews try to represent themselves as conventional American Jews even though their political stances are on the fringe, these organizations and publications cherry-pick minority voices that are not representative of Jews from North Africa and the Middle East. These voices are chosen only because they are willing to affirm anti-Zionist viewpoints rather than tell our collective story. This tokenization lends an unearned legitimacy to those demonizing Israel and harms Mizrahi and Sephardic communities by rewriting our ancestors’ histories.”

• Sapir Taib and Matthew Nouriel, JNS, Why are Mizrahi and Sephardic communities being misrepresented as anti-Israel?, May 1, 2022

“Occupation is the provocation!” The genocides upon Jews, Kurds, and other Indigenous Peoples of the Levant and Southwest Asia regions must come to end – even if by violent Indigenous uprising to Arab-European Palestinian occupations and terrorism.

“In the early 20th century one million Jews from nine Arab countries and Iran were forced to flee lands their ancestors lived in for over 2,500 years. UN House Resolution 242 stated that Jews fleeing Arab countries were ‘bona fide’ refugees, yet the international political community, the media, and North American academic, human rights, and mainstream Jewish institutions have continuously ignored the Mizrahi refugee experience.

The marginalization of Mizrahi and Sephardic Jews from mainstream American Jewish life has left American Jews with a narrow view of what Jewishness looks like, what countries it comes from, what traditions it follows, what languages it speaks, how it engages with other Middle Eastern communities, and how it experiences Israel.

More over, revisionist history of the Middle East excludes the fact that over half of Israel’s Jewish population live there not because European atrocities during World War II, but because of Anti-Semitic Arab governments who, under the color of law, dispossessed and displaced their native Jewish populations following the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. Adopted narratives of the Arab-Israeli conflict fail to address the fact that Israel was the largest refugee camp in the Middle East, providing safe haven to some 650,000 Middle Eastern and North African Jewish refugees whose ancestors had a continuous presence in the region for over 3,000 years.”

• JIMENA, along with a coalition of Sephardic and Mizrahi synagogues and communal organizations

“Occupation is the provocation!” The genocides upon Jews, Kurds, and other Indigenous Peoples of the Levant and Southwest Asia regions must come to end – even if by violent Indigenous uprising to Arab-European Palestinian occupations and terrorism.

For the sake of ALL still struggling to decolonize Indigenous nations on this planet Earth, the Jewish people of Israel must survive – whatever it takes to do so. The Kurds, what Arabs call “second Israel”, want their Zionism, too. We are fighting for their freedom from Arab, Turkish, and Iranian genocides, too. No more Arab “Palestinian” racist genocidal occupations and terrorism upon our SWANA Indigenous peoples’ lands!

*There would be literal peace in the Middle East, if the Colonial Arabs-Europeans would lay down their weapons and racism towards Jews, Kurds, and other SWANA Indigenous Peoples, and behave like descent moral human beings!*

Please, Colonizers of SWANA Indigenous lands, please STOP murdering Jews, Kurds, Assyrians, Balochs, etc, etc, etc! Please Arab “Palestinians”, please stand up against your Hamas-Islamic Jihad-PLO terrorists, so no more Indigenous Jews and Arab “Palestinian” children must die! Please!!!

https://www.international.ucla.edu/israel/article/211984

“Occupation is the provocation!” The genocides upon Jews, Kurds, and other Indigenous Peoples of the Levant and Southwest Asia regions must come to end – even if by violent Indigenous uprising to Arab-European Palestinian occupations and terrorism.

Supplemental LEARNING : Hey, Human World, WAKE UP!!! WAKE UP!!!! Never Again !!! I’m worried about my achim, for they are fighting an entire world for Indigenous Peoples’ survival!

I’ll admit, “I’m mad inside. Angers got my mind filled. I’m tired of my consciousness being highjacked by [European/Arab] guilt! [As a born Jew] I’m not an experiment, I’m not part of your plan. I’m not here to absolve you of the blood on your [Colonial Arab-European] hands!” Nor “your ancestors” who took my people’s land! The “Manifest,” … making fake [post WWI Arab-European] borders” upon our desert sand!

Never Again !!! I’m worried about my achim, for they are fighting an entire world for Indigenous Peoples’ survival!

META Description : The genocides upon Jews, Kurds, and other Indigenous Peoples of the Levant and Southwest Asia regions must come to end! End your occupations, Arab-European Palestinians!

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Read this book and you won’t disparage the Jewish people nor Israel ever again! This book exposes the Colonial lie of false equivalency between Jews (Indigenous Judeans of the land of Israel) and Christians and Muslims (world colonizing European and Arab religions), that have been assimilating Indigenous lands worldwide for 1,600 years in the names of Jewish ancestors. Zionism is the Jewish people’s “land back” movement. Israel’s successful full decolonization is every Indigenous People’s/Nation’s hope!