The position of the Jewish Population in Iran shocking to the Rest Of Us

 Nadene Goldfoot                                           

The position of the Jewish population in Iran is shocking to the rest of us.

Since June 12, when Israel started bombing Iran, Nazila—an Iranian Jewish expatriate who asked me to withhold her last name for fear of regime retaliation against her relatives in Iran—had been anxious about the welfare of her family members. The text came from Nazila’s sister, who, along with her husband and children, is among the roughly 9,000 Jews who still live in Iran. After the escalation of hostilities with Israel, and the wave of arrests that Iran has conducted throughout the country, several dozen Jews were detained, according to human-rights-agency sources. Authorities have interrogated them, scoured their social-media and messaging-app activity, and warned them to avoid contact with any Israeli citizen or relatives abroad.                           

      Iranian Jews burning Israel's flag caused by Ayatollah regime

Jews maintain a presence within the Islamic Republic of Iran—the "Ayatollah regime"—as a recognized, protected religious minority, but they operate under strict constraints that require navigating the regime’s anti-Zionist ideology and adhering to Islamic laws. While their community has shrunk from over 100,000 to an estimated 8,000–15,000 since the 1979 revolution, those who remain are integrated into Iranian society, though they often do not openly advertise their identity and must remain politically neutral or pro-regime to stay safe. 

Here is how Jews are a part of the Ayatollah regime:

• Constitutional Recognition: Iran’s constitution recognizes Jews as a "People of the Book," granting them the right to practice their religion, operate synagogues, and run Hebrew schools.
• Mandated Parliamentary Seat: The Iranian Parliament (Majles) has a reserved seat for a Jewish representative. This representative, such as Homayoun Sameh elected in 2020, ensures the community has a voice in government, although this role is often seen as largely ceremonial and compliant with the regime.
  
      Jewish cemetery in Tehran
• Distinction Between Jews and Zionists: Ayatollah Khomeini established a policy separating the Jewish community from "Zionists" (Israel), which has generally protected Iranian Jews from being treated as enemies of the state, provided they do not openly support Israel.
• Forced Loyalty and Anti-Zionism: Jews in Iran are often coerced into demonstrating loyalty to the regime. They have been required to attend pro-regime rallies, condemn Israeli actions, and sometimes chant "Death to Israel" at school. Jewish leaders often publicly criticize Zionism to ensure the safety of their community.
• Adherence to Sharia Law: As non-Muslims, Jews are subject to Islamic, or Sharia, law. This means they cannot hold senior government positions, work as judges, or serve as military commanders. They are also subjected to discriminatory legal practices, such as different legal penalties in cases involving Muslims and non-Muslims. 
  
  
  

In summary, Jews in Iran are part of the system by living as a "protected minority" (dhimmi),or 2nd class citizens,  accepting limitations on their political and civil rights, and publicly separating themselves from Israel while participating in the life of the Islamic Republic. 

Now we can understand how they have been held for fear of their

lives and how they are breaking out of this brain-washing today.

After criticizing Iranian president, Jewish representative in parliament makes about face.  

Homayoun Sameh Najafabadi is an Iranian politician. He has served as the Jewish representative in the Islamic Consultative Assembly since 2020. According to Voice of America, Sameh said in 2024 that "Iranian government aid to the Jewish community's synagogues, schools, restaurants and social clubs has "increased greatly" in recent years."  One can easily see how the Jews have been used.

Homayoun Sameh expressed unqualified support for the regime in Tehran, and also held a sign that read: 'The day of the Islamic Revolution is the day of the triumph of light over darkness'; Meanwhile, two Jews arrested during the protests were released, another Jew is still detained.  Homayoun Sameh Najafabadi, the Jewish representative in Iran’s Parliament, announced in an open letter to the Iranian Jewish community that he has been summoned in recent weeks by intelligence bodies of the Islamic Republic of Iran. According to him, the reason for these summonses was “the comments and likes posted by some community members on Persian-language Israeli channels.” So he was caught by the government.

Resource:

AI, 

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/07/precarious-position-iranian-jews/683486/

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202310190352

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202310195998

Palestine Days As a Dhimmi-Causing anti-Semitism- Part 1

 Nadene Goldfoot                                               

                           1st Temple destruction by the Assyrians in 721 BCE

Moses finally reached Canaan with his 600,000 freed Israelites and others, former slaves of Egypt, in 1271 BCE whom he had freed; then he died just outside the land.   

                                                   

Rebuilding 2nd Temple in 538 BCE, destroyed in 586 BCE by Nebuchadnezzar, 
                                                      

After the destruction of the 2nd Jewish temple in 70 CE and the suppression of the Bar Kochba revolt in 135 CE, Jews have always maintained a presence in Palestine, praying and waiting to establish this Jewish state again.  Many other empires held this land and caused the remaining Jews to live under degrading conditions.  

13th century attire forced on German Jews for identification purposes. 

For those Jews living outside the land, oftentimes they were treated even worse.  The Jews had always been different in their religion being monotheistic in a polytheistic world.  Only naked Jewish men were identified by their circumcision up until the year 632 with the introduction of Islam who copied this custom.     

                                                                                                                                             
                        Jews in 1880s draining Hula swamps

Ottoman rule of the country lasted without interruption for three centuries, until its conquest by Muhammad Ali's Egypt in 1832. Eight years later, the United Kingdom intervened and returned control of the Levant to the Ottomans in return for extraterritorial rights for Europeans living in Palestine, so the Ottomans held the land for 400 years.   Considerable demographic changes happened during the 19th century and with the regional migrations of Druze, Circassians and Bedouin tribes. The emergence of Zionism also brought many Jewish immigrants from Europe, and the revival of the Hebrew language.

Other Jews from Russia fled to Palestine starting in the 1880s in 5 different movements, called making aliyah. By the 19th century, Palestine, which was under the Ottoman Empire Muslim rule, Jews were still under dhimmi ruling.  Jews had to walk past Muslims on their left, as the left is identified with Satan, and they always had to yield the right of way to a Muslim, by "stepping into the street and letting him pass."  Failure to abide by these degrading customs often provoked a violent response.  

This is so much like what Blacks in the United States had to do with their white masters, and even after they were freed in the Civil War in some states. Both Jews and Blacks have known what it was like to be 2nd class citizens, or even a non-citizen.  

                                                     

  "The Ruin Synagogue"), also known as Hurvat Rabbi Yehudah he-Hasid (Hebrew: חורבת רבי יהודה החסיד‎, "Ruin of Rabbi Judah the Pious"), is a historic synagogue located in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem.

It was founded in the early 18th century by followers of Judah HeHasid on the ruins of a 15th century synagogue, but was destroyed a few years later in 1721 by Ottoman authorities, for failure of its proprietors to pay back a debt to local Muslims.  The plot became known as "The Ruin", or Hurva, where it lay desolate for 116 years until it was resettled in 1837 by members of the Ashkenazi Jewish community, known as the Perushim.   In 1864, the Perushim rebuilt the synagogue, and although officially named the Beis Yaakov Synagogue, it retained its name as the Hurva. It became Jerusalem's main Ashkenazi synagogue, until it too was destroyed by the Arab Legion  during the fighting in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

Jews and Christians in Muslim countries were 2nd class citizens, called dhimmis.  In Palestine as elsewhere, Jews had to avoid anything that could remind Arabs of Judaism, so synagogues could be located only in hidden, remote areas, and Jews could pray only in muted voices.  At the same period, Jews living in Europe were being treated even worse; not even as citizens of any class. 

                                                     

            Rachel, mother of Joseph and Benjamin, 2nd wife of Jacob and her tomb.  

 In addition, even though most Jews were suffering from widespread poverty in Palestine, they had to pay a host of special protection taxes, a form of extortion, one of the things dhimmis all had to do.  Jews had to pay 100 pounds a year to the Muslim villagers of Siloam (just outside Jerusalem) not to disturb the graves at the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives, and 50 pounds a year to the Ta'amara  Arabs not to deface the Tomb of Rachel on the road to Bethlehem.  They also had to pay 10 pounds annually to Sheik Abu Gosh not to molest Jewish travelers on the road to Jerusalem, even though the Turkish authorities were already paying him to maintain order on that road.

These anti-Jewish laws, taxes, and practices had an intimidating effect on the Jews, psychologically.  The British consul, James Finn, who lived in Jerusalem in the 1850s, described in his book, STIRRING TIMES, how "Arab merchants would dump their unsold wares on their Jewish neighbors and bill them, safe in the knowledge that the Jews so feared them that they would not dare return the items or deny their purchase."

                       When Allenby, a Brit entered Jerusalem, end of WWI 1917. The Ottoman Empire held the land for 400 years, losing it at end of WWI because of being on the German axis side.                                   

                     David Ben Gurion stated: “The state of Israel will be open to Jewish immigration and to the coming home of our exiles. Israel will develop the country for the sake of its inhabitants, it will be founded on the teaching of freedom, justice and peace, according to the visions of the prophets of Israel, it will promote the full social and political equality of all its citizens, without any distinction in faith, race or sex, it will guarantee the full freedom of conscience, religion, education and upbringing, it will hold dear the holiness and inviolability of the holy places of all religions, and it will be loyal to the principles, as written down in the Constitution of the United Nations.”

Only a few hours after the Declaration of Independence on May 14, 1948, five Arab countries, the armies of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Iraq attacked the newborn Israel to try to eliminate the ‘Zionist Aggression’.  By the Grace and plan of God,  The new Jewish state survived.

1948 was the year that Israel was established in this modern world, and we still have seen the Palestinian Arabs' hatred for Jews.  As Yeshoshafat Harkabi, a leading scholar of the Arab world's attitude toward Israel put it: "The existence of the Jews was not a provocation to Islam....as long as Jews were subordinate or degraded.  But a Jewish state is incompatible with the view of Jews as humiliated or wretched."  The call for a Palestinian Arab state in place of Israel is for a state in which once again "Islam dominates and is not dominated."  

This hatred of Jewish nationalism was so intense that during World War II, most Arab leaders were pro-Nazi.  Among them was the head of the Muslims in Palestine the mufti Haj Amin el- Husseini (who in 1929 had helped organize the large-scale murders of the ultra-Orthodox, non-Zionist Jews of Hebron.) 

                                                 

The mufti, a supporter of Hitler, spent much of the war in Nazi Germany at a time when thousands of Jews were  being murdered daily, On November 2, 1943, the mufti made a speech:  

"The overwhelming egoism which lies in the character of Jews, their unworthy belief that they are God's chosen nation and their assertion that all was created for them and that other peoples are animals...makes them incapable of being trusted.  They cannot mix with any other nation but live as parasites among the nations, suck out their blood, embezzle their property, corrupt their morals....The divine anger and curse that the Holy Koran mentions with reference to the Jews is because of this unique character of the Jews."  

The Palestine refugee issue was not of Israel's doing but was caused by their Arab leaders.  They had been using the Palestinians as pawns in a chess game, keeping them apart in refugee camps for psychological warfare against Israelis.  These were the ones who were told to leave their homes in 1947 by their Arab leaders when the Arabs were fighting against the Jews. Some 276,000 moved to the West Bank.  By 1949 more than half the prewar Arab population of Palestine lived in the West Bank (from 400,000 in 1947 to more than 700,000). Between 160,000 and 190,000 fled to the Gaza Strip. More than one-fifth of Palestinian  Arabs left Palestine altogether. The center of Palestinian life shifted to the Arab towns of the hilly eastern portion of the region—which was immediately west of the Jordan River and came to be called the West Bank.

In reality The West Bank, called that by Jordan, was the ancient Judea and Samaria.  

 Those who ignored this directive stayed and became Israeli citizens.   Albert Memmi, the noted French-Jewish novelist who had grown up in North Africa had noted, that without minimizing the personal difficulties of the Palestinians, "The Palestinian Arabs' misfortune is having been moved about 30 miles within one vast Arab nation." (Jews and Arab, p. 35.) 

Resource:

Why the Jews?- the reason for antisemitism by Dennis Prager & Joseph Telushkin.  Dennis Mark Prager is an American conservative radio talk show host and writer. He was born into an Orthodox Jewish family. His initial political work concerned Soviet Jews who were unable to emigrate. He gradually began offering more and broader commentary on politics. Wikipedia

https://www.britannica.com/place/Palestine/Palestine-and-the-Palestinians-1948-67

https://www.c4israel.org/_teachings/birth-of-the-state-of-israel/?gclid=CjwKCAiAlNf-BRB_EiwA2osbxbhTcVcYHb_Dmf60xPOUvowS0IFADOx3jz5wQi5ESAvBU11i7CEprRoCZoEQAvD_BwE

The Settlers by Meyer Levin, a novel.  Excellent.  epic novel of one family returning to the Jewish Homeland, once Palestine, now Israel, always Eretz Yisroel.  It tells of the tyranny of the Turkish overlords, blighted relationship between neighboring Jews and Arabs...WWI, Russian revolution, creation of a Jewish fighting force...

Are Palestinians the Middle East American Indian?

Nadene Goldfoot                                      

How goodly are your tents, Oh Israel! G‑d spoke to Moses and Aaron saying: The children of Israel shall encamp each man by his division with the flag staffs of their fathers' house; some distance from the Tent of Meeting they shall encamp. (Numbers 2:1-2)  This is of the Five Books of Moses, who Jews feel is the author.
He learned to write in Egypt's school for princes as he was a prince of Egypt. 

Blackfoot Indians of Montana and their tepees (tents)  of 1850 

There are those who think that the Palestinians are in the same position as the American Indians were, and feel they rightfully should have all of what used to be called "Palestine."  They don't realize that there are very big differences that matter, changing the whole picture.
                                                                       

102 Separatists "Pilgrims"  including 40 "Saints" on Mayflower-1620

The Caucasians or "white man," the antagonists of the Indians, started populating North America when the Pilgrims sailed here in 1620 and settled  in the northeast of what became Massachusetts.  Ten years later a whole fleet of ships came over with English people.  People of other countries and England kept coming over.  They found a land  already populated with many different tribes of what they called "Indians," now referred to as Native Americans.  Indians inhabited this wilderness living close to nature.  They hadn't developed writing other than pictographs similar to the early Egyptians' form of writing.  They lived in simple housing compared to the white development of house building skills.

Their descendants in New Amsterdam (New York)  would try to turn away a boatful of Jews from Holland until they found out that they were part owners of the business they were working for.
    These  Jews actually arrived in New Amsterdam from Holland before 1650.                                                                          

Blackfoot hunted the buffalo in 1850. 

 Because they lived simply and were still at the level of food gatherers and hunters, the white man looked down on them as undeveloped natives.

Israel's history was that the Israelites were in the position of the Native Americans,  being that they were  populating the land first as its major people.  The Jews were the population that came from the East over 4,000 years ago starting around 2,000 BCE as a family  who became captives of Egypt after moving there escaping a famine and then returning 400 years later.  To regain their family's land, they had to fight the population that had moved in before their return.  They built an Empire with kings.  King Saul of the 11th century BCE was their first king, and David was the 2nd who ruled from 1010 to 970 BCE.  The empire was overrun by the Assyrians in 722 -721 BCE where much of the population was taken away as captives and again by the people that overcame the Assyrians who were the Babylonians.  Their Nebuchadnezzar had attacked and taken people away from 597  and again in 586 BCE.
                                                                           

Young David of 1015 BCE  tending his herd of sheep
By now people were growing food and managing herds of animals-no longer depending on hunting.  In fact, Moses's law forbids hunting.  Animals were killed by kashrut (kosher) law.
This was 2,865 years before the Indians and pioneers of 1850. The sheep were the
main source of meat and clothing similar to the buffalo of the Indians.  One was tended, the other
hunted.  

Israel divided into Israel and Judea when David's son, King Solomon,  had died in 920 BCE.  Later, Judea  was occupied by the Romans who destroyed Jerusalem and their Temple in 70 CE.  The Jews believed in one G-d which was very different from the Greeks and Romans who believed in a pantheon of gods.  The people were taken as prisoners or killed but many did escape such a fate.  They wound up in nearby lands as well as those who made their way to European places of trade, such as Spain, Germany and France.

Jerusalem fell about 70 years after Jesus had died on the Roman cross along with many other Jews.  The fall was a terrible fate for those Jews who dispersed in many directions  while some stayed on the land, but not in Jerusalem, which was forbidden to them by the Romans who took it over and built a temple to their many gods where the Jews' temple had once stood.

For 2,000 years, Jews (named for Judeans) have prayed to return to their native land and the opportunity finally came in 1880. The 1st  of five returns of  large Jewish groups took place called an aliyah or aliyote (plural).  Jews feel returning is "going up" in the religious sense as well as returning to the land as pioneers.  They were leaving Russia and the pogroms against them that were happening because they were not Christians.  Arabs followed them when they saw that the Jews were building and would need workers for this task.  The Arabs needed jobs and none were offered to them in their own countries.  At the time the cultures were divided between the very rich and the very poor or peons and there wasn't any way to move up.  At this time, anyone living on the land which had been previously been taken by the Ottoman Empire, were called Palestinians.  There were Jewish Palestinians and Arab Palestinians.

The Arab religion is behaving like Christianity did in its beginning.  Muslims proselytize and expect quick results.  In their beginning efforts, they proselytized with swords if given the wrong answers.  Jews have had to dodge these two religions when they came in contact with each other.

 What ISIS is doing to people that differ from them is how the Christians were treating Jews in those days.  Attacks would happen of mobs coming into Jewish villages and physically attacking.  Many died from such attacks.  The idea of one people being better than others and looked down on, in this case because Jews would not convert to Christianity, was the basis for such hatred and attacks.

By 1917, European Jews who had been emancipated by Napolean in the early 1800s,  had the edge over Jews living as Dhimmis or 2nd class citizens in Arab countries closer to the Israel-Judea area.  They had developed leadership in some of their men.
                                                                             

Napoleon Bonaparte emancipating the Jews-1806
He's the one standing in red.  

Just think, Jews were never accepted as a regular citizen anyplace in Europe, not treated the same as others till this period by Napoleon, and all because of their difference in religion, and because they were blamed for killing Jesus even though it was the Roman way of discipline and the Roman deed.    The 1st World War had lasted from 1914 to 1917 and the Allies of Europe and the USA had gained the Turkish centered Ottoman Empire's land which included the land mass of Palestine; Judea and Samaria . Palestine was never used as a country.  It simply implied the land of the Jews taken by the Romans who never really lived there, except in Jerusalem for a few centuries in their occupation era.
 The Jewish leaders made a deal with the Allies to be given back their long lost land and the Allies agreed that this was proper.  It took years of negotiating but wound up that it wouldn't go to the Jews till 30 years had passed in which England would hold the reigns and govern till the time came which would be on May 14, 1948.

Five minutes after announcing the creation of Israel once more and the Jews were attacked by Arabs who had been led by angry Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Sherif of Jerusalem-so called Grand Mufti.  He held a position in Jerusalem and didn't want to hand it over to the Jews.  The odd thing is that it was an English Jew who had offered and given him this position in the first place during that 30 years of English power in the land.  Husseini was concerned with his own luxuries, and not the Arabs.  The Arab spokesman was Emir Feisal who was in agreement with their return, as long as it didn't interfere with his dreams and expectations of being king and king he became of Syria and of Iraq at different times.
                                                                           

Huma Abedin's parents are active in the Muslim Brotherhood,
whose charter is to destroy Israel.  Huma was Hillary's right hand worker,
like a daughter to her, said Hillary.  

Hillary was an admirer of Arafat, the head of the PLO terrorists.
Hillary still doesn't understand why she lost again in the last election.
She blames Trump, of course, who won.  

So now we must have 90% of  Americans in solace with the "poor" Palestinian . President Trump was almost sucked into sympathy with Abbas until he was caught lying to Trump recently.  Abbas rewards terrorists financially for the terrorism that gets them into Israel's prisons.

 They are not in the same position as the American Indian as first inhabitants of a land.  The Jews were the first inhabitants of the land and had been there for almost 2,000 years before losing it to Rome in 70CE.  Even at that, Jews remained on the land and had never left.  Jews obtained the land back through legal channels, not by attacking the inhabitants.  They only defended themselves when attacked by the Arabs.   By doing things legally, they are looked upon with scorn and hatred by others.  

As far as that goes, the people that Kings Saul and David had to fight were not of a country. of Canaan.  There were city-states  there but it wasn't a country.   By Solomon's day, there was mostly peace throughout the land.
                                                                       

Our American Indians had migrated to our continent and no one knows who they had found.  There are no written records as they had no writing skills.  We do know that their tribes fought with each other.  It was not one big friendly empire of native Americans.  Whats' sad, though, is that the native American went through the same process that Jews have experienced in becoming 2nd class citizens on the land that was once their own land.  The Jews experienced more in being 2nd class citizens all over the world.  Finally, things changed on May 14, 1948 when they had their own Israel once again.  What they didn't know was that they would be forced to fight for it over and over; 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982, and so on in multiple intifadas and bombings.  *

The fact is that there were very few Arabs who actually had deeds of ownership of land in the first place in the time of the Ottoman Empire.  Most who did exist were most happy to find a Jewish chump willing to pay excessively high prices for the land and surprise, surprise, received.  To the Jews, this was their motherland.  This dry weed-infested soil that couldn't grow anything or swampy land full of mosquitoes was a headache to the Arab owners, and they were delighted to be able to sell it and be free to go to Damascus or Beirut and live it up.  Palestine had been ignored by everyone for centuries and centuries.  It was no man's land.
                                                                                                                   

Why do Arabs want a land that grows
grapes so well?  They cannot drink wine.

      The land cried out to its original inhabitants of the Jews.  In their hands, it has bloomed again.  But if the antagonists of the Jews had their way, it would be in the PLO or Hamas hands and turn into weeds and swamps and mosquitoes again, producing nothing of worth.  The Jews have a love affair with this ancient land.  It birthed their belief in G-d.  It is their home.  No other people have such a connection.

Jews must not only battle enemy neighbors who want to grab their land but people who think that they should leave and give all the land to the Arabs, for that's what would happen.  Too many Arabs have it in their minds that only Muslims can live there. Their leaders have gone to meetings such as the Kartoum Conference agreeing on driving out the Jews. " (From August 29 to September 1, 1967, eight Arab heads of state attended a summit conference in Khartoum where they formulated the consensus that underlines the policies of most Arab states in conflict with Israel. Among other issues, the resolution called for the continued struggle against Israel. By adopting the dictum of no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel and no negotiations with Israel (also called "The 3 No's"), the Arab states appeared to slam the door on any possible progress towards peace.)  They had the chance to take the land in the time from 70 CE to 1914 and didn't even think of it.  They didn't get serious about taking the land until losing their battle when all the nations ganged up on Israel in 1967 and lost.  Now even the UN works  against Israel.

The Middle East developed its inhabitants way before the rest of the world who was often interrupted in their growth by the different ice ages.  Notice that while the Middle East long ago left the hunting and gathering stage and was in the herding and planting stage at a time when the rest were hunters and gatherers.  David of 4,000 years ago was a herder before becoming king while the native Americans 3,000 years later were still in the hunting and gathering state.

Here we have the Jews as the original settlers of Palestine, ousted by the Assyrians, Babylonians and finally by the Romans in 70 CE.  It took 2000 years of patience to gain the land back legally.  The Jews did not attack the Arabs to gain back the land.  It was done in agreement at the end of WWI with all the Nations of the world through both the League of Nations and finally by the United Nations.

The Palestinians were Arabs from neighboring lands who entered as immigrants in order to find work with the Jews who were building.  They were native Middle Easterners all right, but not of Palestine.  Those who had owned land had sold the land to incoming Jews and then had left, with only a few landowners remaining.  Most Arabs on the land were Bedouins, and were from nomadic areas.
                                                                   

 Julius Meyer had an additional business called the Indian Wigwam – selling trinkets, souvenirs and Indian artifacts.  This Jewish store owner was trusted by many Indians.  He closed his store in 1880 but remained friends with the Indians.   He looks like Davy Crockett.  

Both Jews and Arabs were tribal people.  The Jews are 99 3/4% of the tribe of Judah of what was originally part of the 12 tribes of Israel.  After Assyria and Babylonia, they were down to one tribe remaining, which was the largest tribe-Judah.  Jews are of the tribe of Judah.  Arabs were from 12 tribes, too, but different ones.  These tribes of Jew and Arab are listed in the Bible.    Later,  the Babylonian exiles did get the choice of returning or not by Cyrus, however, so possibly some Jews are of the other 11 tribes.

"In 1860, entire Algerian tribes immigrated en masse to Safed. The Muslims of Safed, are "mostly descended from these Moorish settlers and from Kurds that came earlier to the city."
-De Haas, Jacob, History of Palestine, The Last Two Thousand Years, New York, 1934, p. 425."**
To compare the Palestinian Arabs with the native Americans as both being an oppressed people by the terrible "white folk" is completely wrong.  As I see it, the Palestinians have opted for being greedy and wanting the Jews' land for themselves, following the dictates of their leadership.  Even before May 14, 1948, they were busily attacking Jews under the leadership of the Sherif of Jerusalem.  They haven't stopped since they have had the leadership of Arafat, the PLO leader and his follower, Abbas, and now Hamas, who has taken over half of their people who live in Gaza.
                                                                     
Indians of America had far more reverence for life than the Palestinian Muslims have shown. Palestinians have hid bombs in their own schools, and their terrorists hide behind their own civilian people in war.  They are cowards and killers.
                                                                         

Jerusalem 70 CE Roman Attack and destruction of Temple

 

The majority of  the Indian leaders chose peace instead of constant warring that led to death when battling the white invaders.  They lost the battle to a more technically advanced society. Jews also lost their 70 CE Roman battle to a more technically advanced  society.   That's where the comparison ends.  The Palestinian Arabs are "Johnny come latelies" and not in the same position as the American Indians.  Their original Homeland is a nearby neighboring country.


Resource:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_emancipation
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Israel
http://www.history.com/topics/mayflower
https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/history/people/10-things-you-should-know-about-the-blackfeet-nation/
http://longislandgenealogy.com/jews.html
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia
http://www.jmaw.org/meyer-omaha-nebraska-jewish/
**http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/182419
From Time Immemorial by Joan Peters