Sheila Kufert: Americans talking about stolen land is hypocritical, will they return US to Native Americans?

To The Daily Sun,

Oct. 2 is Rosh Hashanah, Jewish New Year 5785. Israel had been a Jewish state long before the “Palestinians.” There never was an independent Palestinian state. James Veverka’s “history” is inaccurate. A 1939 world atlas shows a flag of Palestine, that is, British Mandate Palestine. The British held the area not as a British colony, but for the express purpose of creating there a Jewish national home, in the Jews’ ancient homeland. Inconveniently for the historical revisionists who rule the public discourse today, the 1939 flag of Mandatory Palestine shows a banner featuring a star of David.

The current Palestine flag itself is an indication that the Palestinians are a newly-minted ethnicity invented by the KGB and Yasir Arafat in the 1960s to be a weapon against Israel. Before it was the flag of Palestine, the flag was the banner of the Hashemite Kingdom of Hejaz, established in 1916 and absorbed into Saudi Arabia in 1925. In 1924, it also became the flag of the Sharifian Caliphate, which occupied much the same territory as the Hashemite Kingdom of Hejaz, now Western Saudi Arabia until 1931. The designer of the flag was an English colonel, Mark Sykes.

The name “Palestine” historically refers to a region that was so named by the Romans after they expelled the Jews in 134 CE. The Romans took this name from the Philistines, Israelites’ Biblical enemies, who had long since died out. Palestine for the Romans (and everyone else) was just the name of a region, not of a people.

Artifacts being uncovered almost daily by Israeli Antiquities show the Jews in the land of Israel going back thousands of years. Visit Israel, see the Archeological digs.

Americans talking about stolen land is hypocritical. Do they plan on returning the USA to the Native Americans?

Sheila Kufert

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