Jared Kushner’s Pocahontas Moment, Polemic
New York Times’ opinion columnist Bret Stephens writes that Israel is not a settler- colonialist enterprise. And he offers as proof that “virtually every Israeli schoolchild can read Hebrew inscriptions on Jewish coins found in archaeological sites throughout Israel dating back more than 2,000 years.“ What proof is that? Children can learn. That’s what they do. Every schoolchild in Singapore can read the Roman Latin alphabet. Does that make them all Italians? In fact, virtually every schoolchild on our planet including Israelis can read our Roman Latin alphabet. Does that make them all Italians? A ridiculous example “as proof” by Bret Stephens.
Stevens goes on to quote the old wives’ tale of the Exile. When Jews speak of the Exile, they are referring to the expulsion of Jews from Judea by the Romans in the first and second centuries A.D. And according to this myth, they miraculously ended up in Europe. Roman chroniclers kept meticulous records (it stands to reason since we still use their alphabet to this day) and there is no such account nor mention ever made of any such expulsion ever taking place. None written by neither Romans nor Jewish scribes nor by any of the six other literate provinces they would have had to travel through to get to Europe. It is the greatest stealth migration in human history because it never happened.
Moreover, why would they flee from home to the heart of the Roman Empire, to the mouth of the tiger, to the belly of the beast. It would be like during Hitler’s time, Jews from Eastern Europe fleeing to Germany. Absurd! Even the Jewish Encyclopedia in its chapter on the Exile gives no evidence of any such Exile ever having taken place. We know and have historical records that people in Europe converted from Hellenism or idolatry to Judaism or Christianity. And we know and have historical records that Jews and Hellenists back in Roman Palestine first converted to Christianity and then later on by will or by force to Islam. Jews in Europe became Jewish the same way Christians in Europe became Christian — the old-fashioned way, by conversion. And if there is no Exile, then it follows suit that Israel is not the ancestral homeland of European Jews. The “Ancestral Homeland” claim is a hoax.
David Ben Gurion, the founder of the state of Israel and its first Prime Minister did not believe in the Exile lie. Ben Gurion believed that the Palestinians of today are the descendants of the original Judeans and Israelites. (For a more thorough background and fuller explanation on how Ben-Gurion came to this conclusion read: Jared Kushner‘s Pocahontas Moment.) It was Adolf Hitler who believed in the Exile lie. Hitler believed European Jews came from the Middle East. That is the lifeblood of Hitler’s anti-Semitic beliefs: that European Jews are an alien population and don’t belong in Europe. If you believe the Exile lie, then you believe Hitler was right. Hitler‘s Big Lie and the Exile lie are one and the same. And DNA evidence today confirms that Ben-Gurion was right all along and Hitler was wrong. That European Jews have European DNA not Middle Eastern DNA. Follow the science not the Exile lie.
This, of course, begs the question. If David Ben-Gurion believed that the Palestinians were the descendants of the ancient Israelites and Judeans, then why would he have ordered their expulsion (which he did). Because he wasn’t about ancient Israel. He was about a homeland for European Jews like himself. Ben-Gurion saw this opportunity and he took it just as many conquerors before him had done the same. David Ben Gurion knew all along it was a settler- colonialist enterprise and he said so repeatedly. That’s how he presented it to the world. And when the conquest of brown people fell out of favor, the storyline changed to the Exile lie to fit modern times. The Exile lie has now become the nouvelle raison d’être of Israel. The Exile lie became the origin lie. And the Exile Lie a.k.a. Hitler’s Big Lie took front and center for New York Times’ columnists Tom Friedman and Bret Stephens.
