Tlaib’s Hanukkah
Gift to the Jews: A New Country Named ‘Falastine’
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By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz December 20, 2019 , 12:25 pm
“And I will wipe out the inhabitants of
Ashdod And the sceptered ruler of Ashkelon; And I will turn My hand against
Ekron, And the Philistines shall perish to the last man —said Hashem.”
Amos 1:8 (The Israel Bible™)
Congressman Rashida Tlaib (Mich Dem) sent out Hanukah
greetings to the Detroit chapter of IfNotNow, an anti-Israel Jewish group that
has been widely censured by most Jewish organizations. Tlaib praised the
organization for “calling for every US official to commit to defunding the
occupation in Falastine.”
Tlaib inaccurately refers to Israel as the “occupation”,
though Judea and Samaria were illegally occupied by Jordan until 1967.
Her reference to “Falastine” is perplexing as there is no definition to be
found for the word. There is no letter pronounced as ‘P’ in Arabic, and words
containing the sound in other languages are usually pronounced with the soft ‘F’.
It is to be assumed that Tlaib’s reference to ‘Falastine’ was actually intended
to be a reference to ‘Palestine.’
It is interesting to note that the modern usage of the
term ‘philistine’ is a derogatory term meaning a person who is
hostile or indifferent to culture and the arts, or who has no understanding of
them.
Palestine has never referred to an independent sovereign
national entity. Since the British Mandate, the term “Palestine” has
been associated with the geographical area that currently covers the State of
Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Derived from the Hebrew word for
‘intruder’, the general use of the term “Palestine” or related terms to the
area at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean
Sea beside Syria has historically been taking
place since the times of Ancient Greece. The Bible paints the
Philistines as the main enemy of the Israelites with a state of
almost perpetual war between the two.
Tlaib also praised the organization for fighting
anti-Semitism and white nationalism. The praise seemed a bit ironic as just two
weeks ago, Tlaib was the keynote speaker for the American Muslims for
Palestine’s (AMP) 2020 election conference late last month in Chicago. A
report from the Anti-Defamation League, a watchdog group that combats anti-Semitism, said the
AMP promotes “extreme anti-Israel views” and provides “a platform for
anti-Semitism.”
Tlaib has been accused of making anti-Semitic comments in
the past. In a Yahoo News Skullduggery podcast, Tlaib stated
that she got a “calming feeling” when thinking about the Holocaust. In that
podcast, she claimed that the Palestinians created a “safe haven” for the Jews.
She was widely criticized since the Palestinian leaders of the time were
closely allied with the Nazi Axis and supported the genocide of the Jews.
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