Covenant Connection

We write about Israel, the Jews and Palestinianism because we think that Noachides (Benei Noach/ B'N, non-Jews, gentiles, goyim) and Jews need to stay abreast of them.

It takes work and intellect to stand with the right, true and holy,  to perceive goodness, in human affairs and history, and also recognize evil.

Here's evil: the Arab League's plans for Gaza just came out March 5th, “Categorically rejecting any form of displacement of the Palestinian people."

Deliberately deploying words of law and righteousness mendaciously to effect a planned future war crimes, namely, the genocidal “ethnic cleansing” of the Jews of Israel – that’s evil.

This is evil, too: mischaracterizing the obviously necessary rescue of an utter train wreck of an afflicted population – the Gaza “Palestinians” – as anything but necessary.  It's abhorrent.

The ultimate general scheme here, clearly, is to sacrifice millions of people, “Palestinians,” to effect Israel’s annihilation.

It is past time to call it what it is.

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Here below is a fairly representative sample of Palestinian outreach – that is, propaganda - material. Lots of their stuff is way worse. It's printed, in English, as a handy teaching paragraph to help people in Gaza learn English. It’s found in advertising flyers scattered all over Gaza. In fact, it’s kind of a catechism: a fixed ideological principle.

"GAZA NOW IN ENGLISH! Teach your children the truth: Israel is not a state; it is a terrorist gang built on murder and plunder. A group of outcasts and vagrants from the West were gathered by colonial Britain and unjustly granted the land of Palestine. They established their illegitimate entity on the blood of children, women, and men, stealing homes and lands, and displacing the rightful owners into exile and refugee camps. Teach your children that this artificial entity is doomed to vanish, that the hour of liberation is approaching, and that the occupiers will return to their homelessness, just as they began. Despite all the world's conspiracies, Palestine will return to its free people."

Notice the promised future here: the complete ethnic cleansing of the Jews from every bit of "the land of Palestine." [To condemn them, yet, to “homelessness”!] Combined with contempt and total refusal to honestly engage with the reality of the Children of Israel, the Jewish people (They say, "a group of outcasts and vagrants from the West").

Can you see little Israel – “Greater Israel” – in this map?

This is a religious war. Today's Palestinians have no centuries’ old ties to the land, no connection to the Bible’s ancient Philistines or Cana'anites any more than they do to Abraham Lincoln.

Improving the lives of Palestinians - the success of Palestinianism as a national liberation movement – depends, supposedly, on annihilating Israel. The thing is, Islam wouldn’t have any problem with any other people - Christians, Japanese, Zoroastrians or Hindus-  restoring “Palestine,” re-establishing a dynamic society in the Land of Israel.

That it’s Jews - that’s it’s the Children of Israel - threatens Islam.

This - the restoration of the people of Israel to the Land of Israel - suggests that Allah does NOT after all despise the Jews. The Jews are, after all, the Qur’an’s promised people - until Allah cursed them, so it’s taught.

This would be a revolutionary jolt to Islam! If Allah fully, faithfully restores the Jews to “Palestine,” it follows, Q.E.D., according to Islam's own logic, that devout Muslims should be sitting at the Jews' feet, to learn Allah's ways.

Since 1948, the Arab countries and wealthy Arabs worldwide have channeled funds (along with tons of hate-inflaming anti-Jewish propaganda) to jack-up the birthrates of the immediately neighboring enemies of Israel, and support them (since they do not support themselves) with enormous continuing subsidies. The recipients, who are polygamists, have been sustaining one of the world's highest birthrates, an ongoing population explosion - a doubling of Gaza's and "the West Bank's" Arab population every 24-years.

In fact, when Gaza first filled with people, after the Nakba ("the Catastrophe," in Arab lore, of Israel’s failure to fail), the population was under 64,000. Now it's more than two million.

It's expected to reach nearly ten million by 2050.

Demographers keep warning about the untoward consequences of such fantastic growth – where there’s no productive industry and everything depends on foreign subsidies; overflowing sewage, bad water, worsening air pollution… - but the Arab League keeps demanding more births, to contribute to the cause: swamping the neighborhood of Israel with Palestinians, even if it poisons the land for everybody.

Most Israelis come from families that came from the Arab League countries, after 1947-48. Not all but most of them came as desperate refugees fleeing violent persecution, including government-sponsored anti-Jewish riots, pogroms, and – beyond even the Arabs’ traditionally intolerable persecution of the Jews - highly organized campaigns of robbery, rape and murder.

That was ethnic cleansing. Ancient Jewish communities settled across North Africa and the Middle East since ancient Roman times, even under persecution, were emptied. About 900,000 Jews fled the Arab League countries for Israel between 1947-49. About the same number of Arabs left Israel.

But the Arabs adamantly refused to absorb the "Palestinians."

The Arab states all insisted that Israel was responsible for their Arab brethren and their fellow enemies of Israel; that they were refugees, who needed to return, eventually, "to their homes."

This is why Lebanon, Jordan and "the West Bank" are dotted everywhere with Palestinian "refugee camps" - four and five generations after the events that first made the people refugees. Outside the Palestinian Authority in "the West Bank," even after FIVE generations, they still aren't accepted as full citizens in any Arab country.

Palestinianism is no ordinary national liberation movement. It’s the establishment of a nation that didn't exist before - Arab Palestinians - complete with a destiny imposed by that people's own brethren, fellow Arabs, all united by language, religion, common customs, and blood. Palestinian liberation means to live life as their brethren's sacrificial offering, committed, body and soul, not to self-fulfillment but to the destruction of another people.

REMEMBER what you saw in the post-October 7th fighting in Gaza. The people there, most of them under 15, "had nowhere to go" in the fighting. They crowded against the razor-wire walls that Egypt erected against them. The Egyptians refused to admit any! So it was, and is, with Jordan and Saudi Arabia, near neighbors. "Israel's not going to solve its problems by exporting them to us," the Arabs said; "we're not taking any of them." (Later, Jordan allowed in some two thousands injured children, not to settle but only for short-term medical care.)

What the world needs is ethnic rescue – saving Arab Palestinians from the horrible fate decreed for them. The Arab League and their fellow Muslims and Arabs have engaged them just for this: to dash themselves to bits against the Jews, generation after generation, until, God forbid, they successfully effect the Jews’ annihilation.

The mischief in the Arabs' program is obvious. This is a death struggle, the opposite of a liberation struggle: destroy Jewish Israel by sacrificing Arabs.

It came to me with a heading over the picture: Jai Mata Ki, which Facebook translates as “Hail to the Mother Goddess.”

It puts me in memory of a famous line of Thomas Jefferson’s:

“It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”

We remember that any image of God represents something that isn't God! But, as Jefferson himself might have noted, sometimes you just have to give some space to the personal beliefs of friends, eh?

I know Sanjay to be a good guy and certainly a highly civilized one. His religion is his business. If it directed him in horribly wayward paths, God forbid, to do awful things that no deity worth worshiping would ever tolerate - like some of the excesses that make jihadist Islam such a nuisance, say - that would be another thing. Indeed, that would be a Seven Commandments felony - a Universal Law violation. This, on the other hand, is just the old, old story: of human beings trying to get God down to imaginable size.

As a classic Jewish hymn says:

“You are HaShem… and though those who serve idols vain, Thine honor is not detracted from, for they all aim to Thee to come.”
(Rav Shlomo ibn Gabirol, c. 1050)

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Here’s a wonderful prayer in the Jewish siddur:

"Master of Everything, Lord of all Souls."  It’s associated with the much better-known “Shalom Aleichem” prayer of Friday night Shabbos/shabbat-welcoming  services.

I remember Noachides expresssing reservations about Shalom Aleichem, which seems to greet angels - “O ministering angels, angels of the Exalted One” - and petition them, and thank them again and again.  Which makes no sense, since HaShem alone, the Exalted One, deserves prayer. Angels are merely instrumentalities. To pray to an angel would be like praying to a car or airplane.

“It’s good to give thanks unto HaShem, and to sing praises unto Your name, O Most High”
- Psalm 92:2

That’s exactly where we directly go with "Master of Everything, Lord of all Souls.” It’s a really beautiful prayer – please take a look at it -  and a useful corrective, I’d say, to all misconceptions about angels. It puts the angels in their place, you might say, as (mere) holy emanations of the one and only Being to Whom prayer is due.

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Michael Dallen

Detroit

April 7, 2025