The West Bank documentation

Let us begin with something that everyone knows, or maybe not everyone, as current generations did not grow up in an era when there was no video but celluloid. And even then, when there were videos (VHS and Betamax), there was no YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo, TikTok, or Instagram. The first Internet video hosting site was ShareYourWorld.com, founded in 1997.

There are many definitions of history. However, the simplest way to explain it is to use the pictured images.

A celluloid film consists of a series of frames. Each frame is part of a scene, which, in return, may be part of a series of scenes. They all together form what is called a sequence. So, a movie is built up by a series of sequences.

If you watch the whole film, you will see a chronology of frames, scenes, and sequences. In today's video technology, you don't need to stretch the movie. It's already done while you load it into a video editor.

Visualizing history is similar to this, meaning that you can imagine history as a complete movie unless you cut it into pieces to remove frames, scenes, or even a whole sequence that you don't want people to watch.

Like every movie, any event must have a beginning, as nothing happens in a vacuum. There is always a main cause or root, which always lies in the very past.

And so it is about the West Bank.

Distortion is rampant among followers of Zionism, in particular American and Israeli followers, and is by selective thinking. Anyone who is familiar with the Israeli political language, hasbara, knows that.

Selective thinking in history is by focusing only on what was once Semitic but falsely still viewed as such. If you go against their view, followers of Zionism immediately accuse you of "antisemitism."

Semitism refers to the historical concept of the Semites, a linguistic grouping of peoples originating in the Middle East and Horn of Africa, such as Arabs, Assyrians, and ancient Amalek who were attacked by the Israelites, Moses' people who violated the 5th Command.

Semitism also refers to linguistic, cultural, or theological characteristics of these Semitic peoples or their languages. This also includes the theological characteristics of Islam when looking at details that Mohammed wrote in his travel journal about his visits to Palestine with his uncle.

For instance, the female dress code that you can see in countries like Saudi Arabia, comes from a question that Mohammed asked his uncle when he saw women in Palestine dressed from head to toe. However, the latter is originally from a much older eposide, namely those in which God tells Moses that he should tell his people to cover their body properly after God saw them having an orgy while poorly dressed.

Another example is seen by traditional Muslim men who wear a hat, generally known as a taqiyah or kufi, with variations like topi and kofia. As a young boy, Mohammed saw similar hats wearing by men in Palestine. When he asked, his uncle answered by saying, "These are Jewish men."

With the exception of Moses' episode, the two examples are from the post-Roman Palestine period.

When the Romans invaded Palestine, their emperor, Hadrian, turned the land into the Syria Palaestina province. Jews fled to Europe, and lost their historical continuity this way.

This brings us to an episode, the followers of Zionism accuse you for being an antisemite, while they saw themselves in the mirror:

When the Romans invaded Palestine, the Jews fled to Spain and Italy, and from there they distributed themselves to France (from Spain), Germany (from Italy) and Central Europe. They had to start to build a new life, including new theological characteristics. The following makes it clear:

Different forms of Judaism in Europe arose due to the first Jewish migration during the Roman era, leading to distinct Ashkenazi (Central and Eastern European) and Sephardic (Iberian Peninsula) cultures influenced by local host populations, laws, and historical events like expulsions. Later, modern developments like the rise of Reform Judaism during the Enlightenment and the challenges of modernity led to further divisions into religious denominations (Orthodox, Conservative, Reform) alongside the major ethno-cultural groups

Ashkenazic Jews emerged in medieval Central Europe, specifically the Rhineland (modern Germany), from Jewish populations that migrated from the Roman Empire via Italy. These groups adopted and adapted local Germanic dialects, which evolved into Yiddish, and developed a distinct cultural and religious identity based on a "Germanic rite". The term "Ashkenazi" itself derives from the Hebrew name for Germany, Ashkenaz, and was used to differentiate them from Sephardic Jews of Spanish origin.

So, the question arises: Is the claim of the followers of Zionism, that Jews are Semitic people, correct?

No, because Jews had to built a new existence, that includes new characteristics to create a new identity. Just look at the Ashkenazis, but those who settled in what is now Germany.

One is only a Semitic person when he or she is born in the region, start building and continue a life in the region, never have left the region, and who is not from a migrant, settler or colonist. That is where the term "historical continuity" refers to.

 

Judea and Samaria derive from the ancient Kingdom of Judah and Kingdom of Israel, respectively, which were established after the split of the United Monarchy in the 9th century BCE.

Judea was named for the tribe of Judah, the dominant tribe in the southern kingdom, while Samaria was named after Shomron, the capital city of the northern Kingdom of Israel.  The two regions came under Muslim control starting in 636-638 CE as part of the broader Muslim conquest of the Levant under the Rashidun Caliphate, following the decisive Battle of Yarmouk. The region remained under various Islamic caliphates for centuries. From 1517 to 1917, the area now known as the West Bank was under Turkish rule, as part of Ottoman Syria.

The League of Nations established the Palestine Mandate in the 1920s, entrusting the administration of the territory, which included the land that would become the West Bank, to the country that just created the Palestinian problem three years earlier, Britain. The Mandate was to facilitate the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people, while protecting the rights of existing non-Jewish communities. The League of Nations allowed the British to continue. However, the Mandate system was disbanded after World War II and the League of Nations was dissolved. Therefore, the League of Nations did not make pronouncements on the "West Bank" as it is understood today, but rather administered the entire territory of Palestine before 1948.

Besides the fact that the document does not include a declaration, which would designate the regions as "Judea" and "Samaria", there is also the view from a demographic perspective: there are no descendants who can identify themselves, that their forefathers were either Judeans or Samaritans. There are only descendants who can identify themselves, that their ancestors were from Europe. (See tabel in the next tab.)

The systematically naming of "Judea" and "Samaria" is just to erase the rest of the chronology that follows those of Judea and Samaria. This particular radical Israeli behavior is called willful resorting to selective history, as it denies the way anyone would deny the holocaust.
 

In 1947, European Zionists invaded what was then British Mandatory Palestine, and started first a war against the British then uprooting and mass killing the Palestinian population, that is known as Nakba. The land, already created by the British Arthur Balfour in 1916, was taken by brutal force. The partition of the land, as proposed by the Swedish UN diplomat, Folke Bernadotte, rejected by European terrorists who assassinated the diplomat on September 17, 1948.

Foreigners have been living on the land of the Palestinians since then. According to a post in Reddit, "a possible 1/7 of the population, about 650,000 have actual Polish Ashkenazi ancestry, there are 2 million more Ashkenazis from other places like Russia, Ukraine, remnants of the German community, France, Lithuania etc."

There are over 500,000 Israelis live in the West Bank excluding East Jerusalem, with an additional 220,000 Israelis residing in East Jerusalem. Additionally, over 20,000 Israelis live in the Golan Heights.

However, they do not mention that there are an additional 60,000 Americans also live in the West Bank, not to mention nationals from other countries, including Ethiopians.

So, how to describe them?

A settler is someone who leaves his or her native habitat permanently to start and to build a new life elsewhere but peacefully. Migrants are settlers.

A colonist is someone who leaves his native habitat permanently but to take someone else's land first, then start building a new life. Anyone who arrived after those who took the land, are to consider as having known and accepted that the land is stolen, that they are also colonist.

What has been invented in 1917 by Arthur Balfour in 1917, and by brutal force renamed into a name derrived from the name of a tribe that did the same, is inhabit by foreigners with those like:.

In the context of the claim by followers of Zionism being Semitic: none of them is a Semitic person, as they are all from a migrant, settler or colonist. Like the Americans, today, the Israelis are a people from around the world

Gaza and the West Bank form together the State of Palestine, despite political differences between Hamas and Fatah.

Occupation is defined by international law as a temporary state of affairs, and the occupying power does not gain sovereignty over the territory.

More explained: Art. 42 of The Hague Convention states that a territory is considered occupied when it is actually placed under the authority of the (foreign) hostile army. The occupation extends only to the territory where such authority has been established and can be exercised. Acquire the territory by force entails the exercise of sovereignty over occupied territory, thus modifying the status quo ante, which is inconsistent with occupation law.

However, there is no situation of occupation in the West Bank. The Israelis have been annexing the West Bank in a slow-paced manner since the end of the 1967 war. With Smotrich's E1 strategy, they even want to split the West Bank to make a two-state solution impossible.

The Israelis are obligated to maintain public order, respect existing domestic laws and public services, and ensure the safety and welfare of the local population.

The so-called "security pact" between the Israeli occupying belligerent and the occupied power, the Palestinian Authority, is obsolete, as paragraph 2a in Article XIII of the Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (a.k.a. “Oslo II”) states,

"Israel shall have the overriding responsibility for security; for the purpose of protecting Israelis and confronting the threat of terrorism."

But, collected videos are proving that terrorism is by those who were illegally transferred from colonized historic Palestine to the West Bank.

Since October 2023, those who have been called "settlers," but are colonists, have taken the opportunity to take advantage on what their leadership is doing in Gaza. Each time when occupied people try to resist against attacks by colonists, the occupying armed belligerent reacts with large scale actions, that we are documenting in this way.

However, the media reports these actions as "raids," while the occupied have been exposed to large scale actions for years. This is contrary to the explanation of what "raids" means: "a rapid surprise attack on an enemy by troops, aircraft, or other armed forces."

For years, Palestinians in the West Bank know that the armed occupying belligerent will be deployed into the streets of the West Bank when anyone of the occupied people has decided actively to resist occupation, which is a right as defined in the articles 43 & 44 of the Additional Protocol I of the Geneva Conventions. So, how is it a surprise attack?

This reminds us of Amsterdam and other big cities in the Netherlands during the Nazi occupation. Jews knew that they were persecuted. Those who decided to resist the Nazi occupation were also forced to look for secret shelter places to keep themselves secure and safe. There were also non-Jews who provided these resistants safe places. When the Nazis couldn't find the person they were after, they simply rounded up all Jews living in the neighborhood where the reisistant came from, and deported them to concentration camps. These actions were described in Dutch history schoolbooks as "razzias"

It is exactly what the armed occupying belligerent does in the West Bank.

The Germans are avoiding to speak about "razzias," as the term reminds them of their own past.

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