'Palestine Never Existed'
Palestinian land lost since 1947; taken from If Americans Knew
Since the inception of Israel in 1948 both Jewish and Gentile Zionists have been making attempts to wash their hands clean from the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people that was carried out during the Al-Nakba and they've settled on one explanation:
Palestine never existed.
They want you to believe that during the entire time of Jewish exile from the land of Jerusalem in 586 B.C. to 1939 A.D. when the first Jewish settlements were made in the land, not a single group of people lived in the land during 2,524 years (not to mention that
only Jews were exiled, not Gentiles); it's such a ridiculous and frankly inane claim that it's laughable that they even try to push it, but people believe it nonetheless.
But not even pro-Zionist sources can keep up the lie, including the Jewish Virtual Library (which claims Saudi Arabia was behind 9/11), showcases that a Jewish majority in Palestine didn't exist until after the Al-Nakba.
Population of Palestine from 1517 to 1948
But in the mind of Zionism this fact is completely and totally irrelevant, the fact that the non-Jewish population in Palestine decreased by 1,168,000 million in a single year was not caused by ethnic cleansing, military expansion or the destruction of Palestinian villages by Zionist militias but that they WILLINGLY left the land en masse for no reason whatsoever, furthermore the name Palestine has been on maps for thousands of years:
Map of the known world, 43 A.D.
Map of Palestine, 1866
Lawrence of Arabia's map, 1913
Map of the World, World War I
Map of the Ottoman Empire, 1920
Map of the World, World War II
National Geographic map of Palestine, 1947
It's also very well documented that the government of Israel has seized thousands of historical records from Palestinian archives and keeps them behind lock and key, never to be seen again by the general public - so they can continue to deny the existence of a Palestinian state or people, an excerpt from an article describing this intentional erasure of a people reads as follows:
"The three items are barely a drop in an ocean of some 38,000 films, 2.7 million photographs, 96,000 audio recordings and 46,000 maps and aerial photos that have been gathered into the IDF Archive since 1948, by order of Israel's first prime minister and defense minister, David Ben-Gurion. However, a closer perusal shows that this particular "drop in the ocean" is subversive, exceptional and highly significant.
The footage in question is part of a collection – whose exact size and full details remain unknown – of 'war booty films' seized by the IDF from Palestinian archives in raids over the years, though primarily in the 1982 Lebanon War.
Recently, however, following a persistent, protracted legal battle, the films confiscated in Lebanon, which had been gathering dust for decades – instead of being screened in cinematheques or other venues in Israel – have been rescued from oblivion, along with numerous still photos. The individual responsible for this development is Dr. Rona Sela, a curator and researcher of visual history at Tel Aviv University.
For nearly 20 years, Sela has been exploring Zionist and Palestinian visual memory. She has a number of important revelations and discoveries to her credit, which she has published in the form of books, catalogs and articles. Among the Hebrew-language titles are 'Photography in Palestine/Eretz-Israel in the '30s and '40s' (2000) and 'Made Public: Palestinian Photographs in Military Archives in Israel' (2009). In March, she published an article in the English-language periodical Social Semiotics on, 'The Genealogy of Colonial Plunder and Erasure – Israel’s Control over Palestinian Archives.'
Now Sela has made her first film, 'Looted and Hidden: Palestinian Archives in Israel,' an English-language documentary that surveys the fate of Palestinian photographs and films that were 'captured' and deposited in Israeli archives. It includes heretofore unseen segments from films seized by the IDF from Palestinian archives in Beirut. These documentary records, Sela says, 'were erased from consciousness and history' for decades."
Furthermore even films from before the UN partition show that the vast majority of people living in Palestine were Arab Muslims, not Jews; infact they made up only 5% of the total population, with the vast majority of those living there being Sunni Muslims, a particular one describing this is a short film shot in 1896 by the Lumière brothers.
Lumière brothers' film of Palestine shot in 1896
Another video which describes indepth the destruction of the Palestinian people, their land and culture is a film titled 'Looted and Hidden: Palestinian Archives in Israel', which was made by the above mentioned Rona Sela - a curator and researcher of visual history at the Tel Aviv University; this film describes indepth the intentional and systemic erasure of Palestine via the seizure of photos, films, maps and audio recordings as ordered by David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister of Israel.
Looted and Hidden: Palestinian Archives in Israel
This entire hoax is flimsy, propping itself up entirely on their own censorship, looting and destruction of a people in order to promote it; this action is intentional, planned and promoted by the Israeli government at a systemic level and is supported by the US and most of the Western world; don't believe the lies, remember the genocide and erasure of the Palestinian people at the hands of the genocidal Zionist agenda pushed by those in the US, UK and the World Zionist Congress.
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