THE DEMISE OF DISTORTING HISTORY
by Victor Schlatter
Something
over six decades ago Adolph Hitler initiated
it, and his propaganda chief, J. P. Goebbels,
perpetuated it. It was the Big Lie of the
century.
In simple summary, the Jew is the decadent
evil behind world finance, the archenemy of
society, and consequently must be destroyed.
Today to most of the civilized world, this
is preposterous logic in the light of the
political correctness of the 21st century.
Yet in those days most of Germany and even
much of Europe bought into the diabolical
scheme, culminating in the genocide of 6 million
Jews who ultimately perished in the incomprehensible
treachery of Hitler's gas chambers,
Unfortunately
only a limited few of us are still alive
today who would yet clearly remember those
sordid details as they unfolded. But just
as sad, are all the others who have heard
the reports but have all too little sensitivity
to this tragic episode of history. Philosopher
George Santayana warned that those who cannot
remember the past are condemned to relive
it. And alas, that condemnation is once
again heavy upon us. The Jew-the world's
scapegoat since the ancient kingdoms of
Egypt, Babylon and Persia-once more bears
the heaviest condemnation of all. And today's
world barely blinks.
In
these days, in newscast after newscast referring
to the land of Israel, we hear the one-liner
"the occupation" bandied about.
And just what occupation is being spoken
of, may we ask? But Joseph Goebells knew
that the bigger the lie, the better it was
swallowed. Not much has changed in 60 years!
If
one would only take the time and effort
to probe the annals of the last century
and a half with regard to the so-called
Palestinians, he would find some startling
statistics.
Historians,
theologians and authors, including the celebrated-and
less than biased- Mark Twain, spoke as if
with one solitary voice of the barrenness
and desolation of this land the Romans had
belligerently renamed Palestine in 132AD.
But in spite of most Jews being driven far
from their homeland in those days, there
was always a remnant Jewish population in
what was historically known as Judea and
Samaria. By 1893 the total Arab population
within the Jewish settled areas was but
92,300 souls. Many of these Arabs were even
recent arrivals who had followed their Jewish
cousins as they trickled back to their ancient
lands from the middle of the 19th Century
onwards.
An
intriguing work by Joan Peters, From Time
Immemorial published by Harper and Row in
1984 tells the entire story.
Ms.
Peters was a no-nonsense secular English
journalist, who in deep empathy for the
displaced Arabs-from the wars their own
leaders happened to initiate in 1948 and
again in 1967-had initially absorbed the
propaganda as it was served up. And as an
idealistic and bright-eyed young professional,
she assumed that the Arab generated fiction
of their rights to this hotly contested
bit of Middle East real estate was built
on solid fact. With the plight of these
refugees deeply embedded within her soul,
her own integrity set her on a course to
expose and defend their miserable situation.
Then
the shocker. Digging deeply into the pre-1915
Ottoman records, and the ensuing postwar
statistics from the British Mandate period
that lasted until 1947, Ms. Peters discovered
that the majority of the present day Arabs
flooded into the land only after World War
I. And the more she probed, the more she
came up with an impelling revelation of
the truth that all the world should know.
But all the world does not want to know.
No one is so blind as he who does not wish
to see!
Peters
discovered that from the Ottoman census
in 1893 until the recognition of Jewish
independence in 1947, Arab population in
the predominately Arab-only areas of western
Palestine grew by a little over 200%, a
figure that demographers would describe
as "natural increase".
BUT,
the revelation of the hour was that during
that identical period of time, the Arab
in-migration within the expressly Jewish
areas of population was no less than 500%
increase, or two and a half times above
what demographics would allow as natural
growth! Why the massive Arab influx? Historians
inform us that Muslims from neighboring
Middle East countries migrated in because
of the job and economic opportunities being
created with the Jewish reclamation of barren
sites and wastelands. And not a few others
came with less honorable reasons of internecine
ambitions!
So
much for the crude media propaganda that
the Jews have replaced the "Palestinians"
and driven them out of their 5000 year homeland!
Unfortunately, far too many journalists
today-not to mention an ever-ready potentially
anti-Semitic reading clientele-have once
again swallowed the Big Lie revisited, like
Australian crocodiles coming off a hunger
strike!
In
a globe of widening gaps of injustice at
the expense of political greed and expedience
and
with a corresponding escalation of trial
by media, the victim is once again blamed
for the crime!
| 
Victor
Schlatter 
