– https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2009/07/10/the-israel-projects-secret-hasbara-handbook-exposed/
– https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2010/3/6/mossad-might-or-myth
Zionism in itself called for one religious/ ethnic/racial superiority of one group while neglecting everyone living here. The leaders made use of the poor persecuted Jews in Europe and convinced them that they will always be persecuted , and will always be under threat without establishing a state they rule , hence established a racist colonial imperial regime in Palestine.
https://intercoll.net/Anti-Zionism-is-a-rejection-of-racism-and-imperialism-not-just-criticism-of
So they started finding and funding the Zionist colonization projects in Palestine and elsewhere.They labeled themselves as colonization projects. The social and economic institutions founded by the early Zionists, which were central to the success of the Zionist project, were also unquestioningly understood by all and described as colonial. The most important of these institutions was the Jewish Colonization Association(in 1924 renamed the Palestine Jewish Colonization Association , and was renamed again and now known as the Jewish Charitable Association (ICA))This body was originally established by the German Jewish philanthropist Baron Maurice de Hirsch and later combined with a similar organization founded by the British peer and financier Lord Edmond de Rothschild. The JCA provided the massive financial support that made possible extensive land purchases “and the subsidies that enabled most of the early Zionist colonies in Palestine to survive and thrive before and during the Mandate period. Unremarkably, once colonialism took on a bad odor in the post–World War II era of decolonization, the colonial origins and practice of Zionism and Israel were whitewashed and conveniently forgotten in Israel and the West. In fact, Zionism—for two decades the coddled step-child of British colonialism—rebranded itself as an anticolonial movement.
– https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2012/12/24/zionism-anti-semitism-and-colonialism
– https://palestina-komitee.nl/when-will-the-statue-of-theodor-herzl-fall/
The colonization plan was prior to the 1900s. An article about a Conference of Zionists published on July 20, 1899 in the New York Times depicts how the Conference sought to “colonize Palestine” and discussed the purchasing of land with English Zionists.
The article explains that the conference discussed a paper from the English Zionist Federation “proposing the reestablishment of Judea as an independent State, suggesting the purchase of the Maccabean sites in Palestine, and the beginning of the work by the establishment of a Jewish colony and a Jewish Agricultural College there.” It further clarifies that “The site to be purchased comprises about fifty acres, six miles from a station on the railroad between Jappa and Jerusalem, and within sight of the sea and a large stretch of the Palestinian coast.” It notes that English Zionists have gathered 2,500 dollars in the currency of the period and request that quantity from the American Zionists. The article also explains that “On motion of Dr. Wise, the Federation voted $100 as the nucleus of the required fund of $2,500, the remainder to be raised by subscriptions from the 125 societies and individuals, both Jews and Gentiles. A general appeal to the public will be made.” It also conveys that delegates will be elected at the Zionist meeting in Baltimore.
The straightforward and comfortable manner with which the colonization is pursued is indicative how, before having to be concerned with the image of Zionism and public relations, Zionist leaders depicted their movement as a colonial mission during a time in which European nations were colonial powers.
When Palestinians understood the motives and the plan of the Zionists to build a state on their homeland, they rejected such preposterous colonial notion. Palestinians refused to sell their lands , and are still doing so until the current day. The Zionists then realized for their colonial project to work , they need to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians, as of what happened in the Nakba/catastrophe in 48 and Naksa in 67. Mussolini’s Zionist fascist friend Jabotinsky made it clear : “Zionist colonization must either be terminated or carried out against the wishes of the native population. This colonization can, therefore, be continued and make progress only under the protection of a power independent of the native population – an iron wall, which will be in a position to resist the pressure to the native population. This is, in toto, our policy towards the Arabs…” (Vladimir Jabotinsky, The Iron Wall, 1923) Jabotinsky was a Russian Jewish Revisionist Zionist leader who founded well renowned Zionist terrorist organizations like Irgun in Palestine.
The Zionists’ colonial enterprise, aimed at taking over the country, necessarily had to produce resistance.
“If you wish to colonize a land in which people are already living,” Jabotinsky wrote in 1925,“you must find a garrison for the land, or find a benefactor who will provide a garrison on your behalf.… Zionism is a colonizing venture and, therefore, it stands or falls on the question of armed forces.”(Expulsion of the Palestinians,P.45)
At least initially, only the armed forces provided by Britain could overcome the natural resistance of those being colonized.All Zionists who would justify such colonialism and land theft on the basis of ridiculous indigenous claims need to have a look in History , archaeology, law and genetics. The indigenous native Palestinians don’t have to use such argument , because they have nothing to justify. They realize they are indigenous, and at the same time they realize all humans are traced back to Africa. Such justification for establishing a racist state based on massacres and ethnic cleansing is ridiculous to Palestinians and people of the free world. Ancient peoples move from one place to another .They settle where they find a fertile land that suits them.We are not living in 2000-5000 BC. This is the 21 century.
The genes of Canaanite individuals proved to be a mix of local Neolithic people and the Caucasus migrants, who began showing up in the region around the start of the Bronze Age.
Haber’s first mission was to figure out who the Canaanites were, genetically speaking. Ancient Greek sources suggested they had migrated to the Levant from the East. Now that Haber had confirmed who the Canaanites were, he set out to find out what happened to them. He compared their genomes to those of 99 living Lebanese people and hundreds of others in genetic databases. Haber found that the present-day Lebanese population is largely descended from the ancient Canaanites, inheriting more than 90% of their genes from this ancient source. The other 7% may have come from migrants from Central Europe who moved to the Levant around 3000 years ago.
– https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/07/ancient-dna-reveals-fate-mysterious-canaanites
According to Israeli media : Today’s Jews and Arabs in Israel(Palestinians),Jordan, Lebanon, and parts of Syria get half their ancestry from Bronze Age Levantines, who descended from a mix of locals and migrants from Iran or the Caucasus
Populations in the Southern Levant during the Bronze Age were not static,” says Liran Carmel of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. “Rather, we observe evidence for the movement of people over long periods of time from the northeast of the Ancient Near East, including modern Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, into the Southern Levant region.
“The Canaanites, albeit living in different city-states, were culturally and genetically similar,” he adds. “In addition, this region has witnessed many later population movements, with people coming from the northeast, from the south, and from the northwest.”
– https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/05/200528115829.htm
An international team of researchers has found they were descended from a combination of two main groups of people: Neolithic inhabitants of the Levant and populations related to Copper Age Iranians, specifically the region of the Zagros Mountains, and Bronze Age people from Caucasus.
Over hundreds of years, Canaanites migrated from the Ancient Near East – what is now modern Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan – into the Southern Levant.
Modern-day inhabitants share much of this Canaanite DNA, as only at three points in the last 4,000 years has an external influence penetrated the gene pool. – https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8365839/amp/Biblical-Canaanites-gradually-moved-Near-East-Southern-Levant.html
Other scholars,historians ,and archaeologists show a strong evidence that Canaanites came from the Arabian peninsula as well The English historian Phillip Van, the late learned scholar Muhammad Kurd Ali , the former president of the Damascus Arab Academy, the Andalusian historian Ahmad ibn Sacd and Amir Maurice Shihab, Director of the Lebanese Department of Archaeology, all agree that the first people to emigrate from the Arabian Peninsula to what is now Lebanon, were the Canaanites who came in two waves. The city of Beirut was established in 4000 B.C. by the first wave of these Canaanites and named Fakhidh Kanani ( a branch of Canaan) – indicating that this first wave of Canaanites settled on the Lebanese coast. Further, archaeologists have found ruins of other cities built by this first wave of Canaanites at about the same time.The Arab historians, Amir Shakib Arsalan, Isa Maluf, and Dr. Philip Hitti, all write that after emigrating from the Arabian Peninsula this first wave of emigrants became known as Canaanites, a name derived from one of three Arabic words: kan, khana or khadha – all having the same meaning: ‘to bend down’ or ‘to be low’. Hence, the first wave of emigrants was named Canaanites because they settled on the coastal lowlands of the Greater Syria coast. Their Semitic brothers who also came from the Arabian Peninsula and settled in the Syrian highlands came to be known as Aramaeans, from the old Arabic/Semitic word arm, found in the Bible and the Qur’an and meaning ‘lofty’ or ‘high’.
Historians consider the first wave of Canaanite emigration as a pathfinder for the second wave of Canaanites who later came to be known as Phoenicians.The name Phoenician was not what the second wave of Canaanites called themselves but it was given to them by the Greeks – a name derived from the Greek word, ponikijo, meaning ‘purple’. The Canaanites who had settled on the Syrian coastline were renowned for trading in both a purple dye and the colored fabrics produced with this dye. The emigration of the second wave of Canaanites was not made during a short period of time but continued for 500 years, from 3000 B.C. to 2500 B.C.The famous archaeologist Arnot, discovered a statue of Astrate, the Canaanite or Phoenician goddess, in the first homeland of these people – the Arabian Peninsula. To be more precise, Arnot’s discovery of the statue took place amongst the ruins left by the Himyarite civilization of South Arabia.
Later, in the Chaldean ruins of Iraq, the same statue of this goddess was found indicating that the Chaldeans brought this goddess with them when they emigrated from the Arabian Peninsula to Iraq. In later centuries, the Canaanites or Phoenicians took this goddess with them to the coastal lands of the Syrian/Lebanese shores.
Strabon, a Greek traveler, and geographer who lived in the first century A.D., wrote that he saw with his own eyes in two Phoenician cities, Sur and Arwad, in Bahrain. Strabon goes on to relate that the inhabitants of these two cities talked to him about the journeys made by their forefathers to the Syrian coast.
These same stories are also confirmed by the great Greek traveler Herodotus four and a half centuries before the time of Strabon. He relates that when he visited the Temple of Baal-Melquart in Phoenicia, he asked the priests and men of knowledge about their first homeland. They all answered without hesitation: Bahrain.
The French historian, Lirchy, in his translation of the works of Herodotus, notes that when this Greek traveler talked about a people, he always tried to satisfy himself as to their origin and the former lands from where they came. Hence, his story about Phoenicia was not an isolated tale. Francais Lenormand, a learned French writer, ascertained that the stories told by Herodotus relating to Phoenicia, the tales the inhabitants used to relate among themselves and the stories that were narrated by Strabon, generally conclude that the second wave of Canaanites emigrated from the Arabian Peninsula. They moved from Bahrain to al-Qatif in eastern Arabia then to Lebanon by way of Iraq.
The origins of these people were also attested to by the historian Trogh Bomby and the French writer René Dussaud, who, relying on the verification of the scholar Winkler, wrote that ‘the Arabian Peninsula was the first homeland of all the Semitic people who, after their departure from that Peninsula, became known under various names, such as Babylonians, Assyrians, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Syriacs, Chaldeans, Nabateans, etc.These two scholarly writers conclude, after much research, that the name ‘Arab’ is synonymous with the name ‘Semitic’.
The Adnani Arabs, who originated in the Arabian Peninsula, are without a doubt the Chaldeans. This historical fact is attested to by Father Anastas al-Karmali who wrote: ‘The Chaldeans and Assyrians originate from an ancient Arab named Kaldah and this name was not lost for we find this name among the companions of the Prophet. Even in our day, there is still a tribe in Hadhramaut in South Yemen called Chaldeans.’
Al-Karmali concluded after his in-depth study of Arabic, which he referred to as ‘the mother Semitic tongue’, that the ancient Arab peoples such as the Babylonians, Assyrians, Canaanites, and other tribes spoke only dialects of this language.
The scholarly priest Louis Rahmani also came to the same conclusion. He writes: ‘The languages that were spoken by the Semitic tribes, such as the Assyrians, Chaldeans, Babylonians, Phoenicians, Arameans, Syriacs, Nabateans, etc., all were one with different dialects and every dialect was named after the people who spoke it, but all are derived from the mother tongue Arabic. Just as in our present day, the dialects of the Egyptians, Iraqis, Syrians or Moroccans relate to the people who speak these Arabic dialects. For example, if historians discussed the dialect of Iraq in the past, they would say, for clarification, ‘the Babylonian’. The relationship of Babylonian to the modern Iraqi dialect is the same as Old English is to modern English’.
What we gain from the research of these scholars and what has been uncovered by archaeologists is that the tribes of the Arabian Peninsula from before the dawn of history until our era were and are one, with one language. If they are called at times ‘Semitic’ and at times ‘Arab’, it makes no difference for these are only synonymous names for the same people. As for the specific use of the word ‘Arab’ to designate only one of these Semitic tribes, this is due to general use and the evolution of this word throughout the centuries.
From the inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula sprung the Iraqi, Yemeni, Lebanese, Syrian, Palestinian , Egyptian and the other Arab people of our day. Historians did not find any difference between the Aramean dialect of the Nabateans and Palmyreans – Aramaic being the language of Syria for twenty centuries – and the dialects of the other Arab tribes such as the Canaanites, Phoenicians, Syriacs, etc.
Scholars and archaeologists agree that the mother Semitic tongue of all these tribes that emigrated from the Arabian Peninsula was the Arabic language which has always been evolving until our era. Due to this development, historical researchers have found some differences between the language of the tribes which emigrated to the Fertile Crescent after the Islamic conquest, carrying the language of the Qur’an and the language of the tribes who had emigrated in the previous centuries.
The scholar, Father Lamens understood this when he wrote: ‘As for the people of Syria, their dialect is Aramean while the rest of the people speak an Arabic dialect somewhat different from the language of the Our’an. A great number of historians, western and eastern, ancient and modern, and many archaeologists all agree that the first homeland of the Phoenicians was the Arabian Peninsula where they were nomadic Arabs, knowing only their herds of animals and the nomadic way of life.
Their remains in al-Qatif in the Arabian Peninsula are well known and their settling for a time in Iraq is attested to by a tablet found in Tel al-Amarna in Egypt. The tablet contains a message from the king of the Phoenicians to the Pharaoh, their master, written in the Babylonian dialect which they had learned while in Babylon and continued to use when they settled on the Lebanese coast.”
Hashim al-Madini and Muhammad cAli al-Zucbi, are to be thanked for bringing to light the factual history of the Phoenicians. However, these two authors were not the only writers who asserted that the Phoenicians are Arabs like the brother Semite tribes. There were many others.
Sabatino Moscati, Professor of Semitic Philology at the University of Rome, in his book The World of the Phoenicians, (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1968), quotes Donald Harden who states that the Phoenicians were a part of the waves of migrating Semites who came from Arabia or the Arabian Gulf. Also, in his book Saga America, Dr. Barry Fell (Times Books, New York, 1983) makes an excellent case for the theory that the Punic North African inhabitants, the offspring of the Phoenicians, before the Islamic invasions, were the same people as the men who came carrying the banners of Islam – Arabs from the Arabian Peninsula.
If need be, one could quote many other historians to verify the origin of the Phoenicians, as being the same as that of the Arabs.There is no doubt that the Phoenicians were a part of the Arab tribes who, like their many other kingship tribes, merged with the conquering Arabs of the seventh century to create the Arab world we know today.
– https://www.arabamerica.com/the-origin-of-the-phoenicians/
In conclusion :
The Palestinians are descendants of ancient civilizations and religions that lived in the region, starting from Canaanites who came from the East and the Arabian peninsula. Applying the Israeli logic would mean people from Iran , Caucasus, Armenia , Azerbaijan, Lebanon and the Arabian peninsula( Bahrain, KSA,Kuwait,Yemen,Qatar, UAE,Oman..etc) have the right to ethnically cleanse them , would they agree to that ? I surely won’t. This is why I find the whole indigeneity argument ridiculous.This gives no right whatsoever for people to go and colonize another region.In the case of settler colonialism large-scale population movements take place where the migrants maintain strong links with their or their ancestors’ former country, gaining significant privileges over other inhabitants of the territory by such links. It’s like saying my ancestors were all over the Middle East , I have a historical / religious / ethnic/racial…. Whatever connection you may call it. Let us take parts of it by brute force and those who agree with my ideology will be superior to everyone who live there , because we as Palestinians were persecuted and have an ancient connection there. It shall be called The state of OverDose or MENA or Cannan or Qedar ..etc. This is colonialism , it’s colonization. It is absolute lunacy.