Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America (42 page)

13.
Robert Spencer, “Ending the Saudi Double Game,”
FrontPage Magazine,
June 23, 2005,
http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18520.

14.
"Saudi Minister of the Interior, Prince Nayef Ibn Abd-Al-Aziz: 'Who Committed the Events of September 11 ... I Think They [the Zionists] Are Behind These Events. ... It Is Impossible That 19 Youths, Including 15 Saudis, Carried Out the Operation of September 11,'” MEMRI Special Dispatch Series no. 446, December 3, 2002,
http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP44602.

15.
"MEMRI TV Special Report: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories on Arab and Iranian TV Channels 2004-2005,” MEMRI Special Report no. 38, September 9, 2005,
http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sr&ID=SR3805.

16.
United Nations,
Arab Human Development Report (AHDR 2002), p. 51.

17.
For a discussion of the Merneptah Stele, see Hershel Shanks, William De-ver, Baruch Halpern, and P. Kyle McCarter,
The Rise of Ancient Israel
(Washington, D.C.: Biblical Archaeology Society, 1992), pp. 17-19,54-55. See also Yohanon Aharoni,
The Land of the Bible: A Historical Geography
(Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1979), pp. 183-84, 195; H. H. Ben Sasson, ed.,
A History of the]eioish People
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1976), pp. 42, 50-52; Jack Finnegan,
Archaeological History of the Middle East
(New York: Dorset Press, 1979), pp. 312-313; Michael Grant,
The History of Ancient Israel
(New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1984), pp. 37; Baruch Halpern,
The Emergence of Israel in Canaan
(Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1983), pp. 93, 216.

18.
Amihai Mazar,
Archaeology of the Land of the Bible—10,000-586 B.C.E.
(New York: Anchor Bible Reference Library/Doubleday, 1990); Ephraim Stern,
Archaeology of the Land of the Bible vol. 2; The Assyrian, Babylonian and Persian Periods (732-332 B.C.E.)
(New York: Anchor Bible Reference Library/Doubleday, 1990); Ephraim Stern, ed.,
The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land
4 vols. (New York: Israel Exploration Society/Simon and Schuster, 1993); Thomas E. Levy, ed.,
The Archaeology of Society in the Holy Land
(New York: Facts on File, 1995); Yohanan Aharoni,
The Archaeology of the Land of Israel
(Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1982); Avraham Negev, ed.,
The Archaeological Encyclopedia of the Holy Land
3rd ed. (New York: Prentice Hall Press, 1990); Amnon Ben Tor, ed.,
The Archaeology of Ancient Israel
(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992).

19.
Parliament,
Report by the Royal Commission on Palestine
(Peel Report), Cmd. 5479 (1936-37), p. 7, para. 14; p. 11, para. 23.

20.
In an effort to fabricate a more ancient connection, the Arab world has claimed that “Palestinian” Arabs are descended from the Philistines, from whom the name “Palestine” is derived. However, there is no historical or cultural connection between the Philistines and the “Palestinian” Arabs. The Philistines were one of the “Sea Peoples"; they originated in Cyprus, Crete, or southwest Asia Minor. They spoke a proto-Greek language, and were related to the Phoenicians and Carthaginians. The “Palestinian” Arabs of today bear no cultural or ethnic relationship to the ancient Philistines, who were wiped out by the Assyrian and Babylonian conquests (eighth century B.C. and sixth century B.C., respectively). See, e.g., Trude Dothan and Moshe Dothan,
People of the Sea
—
The Search for the Philistines
(New York: Macmillan, 1992); Michael Grant,
The History of Ancient Israel
(New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1984), pp. 67-68. It is critical to note that the Philistines are not mentioned in either Philip K. Hitti,
History of the Arabs,
10th ed. (London: Macmillan/St. Martin’s Press, 1970); or Albert Hourani,
A History of the Arab Peoples
(Cambridge, MA: Belknap/Harvard, 1991). If “Palestinian” Arabs were descended from or related to the Philistines, it surely would have been mentioned in at least one of these comprehensive histories of the Arabs. Since the myth of “Palestinian” descent from the Philistines has been debunked, the “Palestinians” have claimed that they are descended from the Canaanites. Recently, the Saudis have asserted that the Jebusites migrated to Jerusalem from the Arabian Peninsula in 3000 B.C. However, as with the claim of “Palestinian” descent from the Philistines, there is no historical or archaeological evidence to support these assertions. Neither of these theories is mentioned in Hitti,
History of the Arabs,
or Hourani,
A History of the Arab Peoples.

21.
Between ca. 925 B.C. and 586 B.C., a succession of Jewish kings ruled the independent kingdoms of Israel and Judah. During the second and first centuries B.C., the independent state of Judea was ruled by the Hasmonean dynasty, descendants of the Maccabees. During the rest of that three-thousand-year period, the land was a tiny sliver ruled from a distance by a succession of empires: the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Byzantines, the Arabs, the Crusaders, the Mamluks, and finally the Ottoman Turks.

22.
Yohanan Aharoni, Michael Avi-Yonah, Anson Rainey and Ze’ev Safrai,
The Macmillan Bible Atlas, 3rd ed.
(New York: Macmillan, 2002); Meir Ben-Dov,
Historical Atlas of Jerusalem
(New York: Continuum, 2002); Hitti,
History of the
Arabs; Hourani,
A History of the Arab Peoples;
Bernard Lewis,
The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years
(New York: Touchstone/Simon and Schuster, 1995); Bernard Lewis, “The Palestinians and the PLO, a Historical Approach,”
Commentary,
January 1975, pp. 32-48; Joan Peters,
Prom Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over Palestine
(New York: Harper and Row, 1984) p. 139; James B. Pritchard, ed.,
The Times Atlas of the Bible
(New York: Crescent Books/Random House, 1996).

23.
Peel Report
(see chap. 11, n. 19).

24.
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181, November 29, 1947,
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/un/res181 .htm.

25.
United Nations Security Council Resolution 242, November 22, 1967,
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/un/un242.htm
.

26.
See, e.g., Khaled Abu Toameh, “Abbas Vows to Bring 'Saboteurs' to Trial,”
Jerusalem Post,
February 27, 2005; Itamar Marcus and Barbara Cook, “Saboteur or Shahid,”
Jerusalem Post,
March 2, 2005 (Tel Aviv nightclub suicide bombing, February 25, 2005); Khaled Abu Toameh, “Palestinians: Thorns in His Side,”
Jerusalem Post,
July 15, 2005 (Netanya shopping mall suicide bombing, July 12, 2005); Khaled Abu Toameh, “Abbas Condemns Kissufim Shooting,”
Jerusalem Post,
July 24,2005 (Kissufim border crossing shooting attack, July 12, 2005); Khaled Abu Toameh, “Tensions Build Between PA and Hamas,”
Jerusalem Post,
August 28, 2005 (Beersheba suicide bombing, August 28, 2005); David Rudge, “Hadera Victictims Buried,”
Jerusalem Post,
October 27, 2005 (Hadera market suicide bombing, October 26,2005); “An Absence of Morality,”
Jerusalem Post,
December 5,2005 (Netanya shopping mall bombing, December 4, 2005); Khaled Abu Toameh, “Abbas Criticizes Rocket Attacks,”
Jerusalem Post,
December 10, 2005 (continuing rocket and mortar barrages from Gaza); Tom Gross, “Yasser Abbas,”
Wall Street Journal,
December 22, 2005 (Netanya shopping mall bombing, December 4, 2005).

27.
CNN World,
"Arafat Condemns Bombing, Calls for Cease-Fire,”
http://transcripts.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/meast/06/02/israel.explosion

28.
See, e.g., Khaled Abu Toameh, “Female Terror Bomber Becomes a Palestinian heroine,”
Washington Post,
August 4, 2005; Marcus and Cook, “Saboteur or Shahid"; Toameh, “Abbas Condemns Kissufim Shooting"; Gross, “Yasser Abbas"; Itamar Marcus and Barbara Cook, “PA on Terror: 'Condemns' on Paper, Praises in Practice,” Palestine Media Watch, December 5, 2005,
http://www.pmw.org.i1/Latest%20bulletins%20new.htm#b051205
.

29.
Michael Matza, “Gunmen Become Lawmen to Avoid Israeli Want List,”
Philadelphia Inquirer,
March 27, 2005; Khalid Amayreh, “Joining Forces,”
al-Abram
(Egypt), no. 736, March 31-April 6, 2005; Khaled Abu Toameh, “Abbas Adds Fugitives to Security Forces,”
Jerusalem Post,
April 10, 2005; “Palestinian Gunmen Join Police Force to Keep Weapons,”
Khaleej Times Online
(Dubai, UAE), May 10,2005,
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/aboutus.asp
; Khaled Abu Toameh, “PA-Sponsored Gunmen Abet Anarchy,”
Jerusalem Post,
June 14, 2005; Khaled Abu Toameh, “PA to Grant Gunman Zubeidi Rank of Sergeant,”
Jerusalem Post,
July 5, 2005; Khaled Abu Toameh, “PA Criticizes Hamas Refusal to Join,”
Jerusalem Post,
July 6, 2005; Mortimer B. Zuckerman, “Alone at the Dance,”
U.S. News and World Report,
August 15, 2005,
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/opinion/articles/050815/15edit.htm
; Khaled Abu Toameh, “PA Rejects Call to Disarm Militias,”
Jerusalem Post,
September 22, 2005.

30.
United Press International, “Abbas Denies Seeking End to Armed Struggle,”
Washington Times,
December 15, 2004,
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20041215-083516-2665r.htm
.

31.
Charles Krauthammer, “Arafat’s Heir,”
Washington Post,
January 2, 2005,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54851-2005Jan6.html
.

32.
Evelyn Gordon, “Terrorism Works,”
Jerusalem Post,
July 14, 2005,
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid= 1121221100927&p=1006953079865.

33.
Wikipedia,
S.V. “Sbarro Restaurant Suicide Bombing,”
http://en.wikipedia
.org/wiki/Sbarro_restaurant_suicide_bombing.

34.
Larry Collins and Dominique LaPierre,
O Jerusalem!
(New York: Touchstone/Simon and Schuster, 1988), pp. 190-95.

35.
Although there were anti-Jewish riots in 1921 and 1922, the beginning of the Arab terror war against Jewish nationalism can be traced to 1929, when Arabs destroyed the centuries-old Jewish community of Hebron, the site of the tomb of the Jewish Patriarchs. Sixty-four Jews were murdered and the remainder were expelled. At the same time there were Arab riots against Jews in Jaffa, Safed, Acre, and other communities. Hundreds more Jews were murdered. There were numerous other outbreaks of violence against Jews throughout the British Mandatory period.

1.
Arab Human Development Report 2003
—
Building a Knowledge Society (AHDR 2003)
(New York, 2003: United Nations Development Programme), p. 137.

2.
AHDR 2003,
pp. 35-37, 144.

3.
AHDR 2003,
p. 51.

4.
AHDR2003, pA5l.

5.
AHDR 2003,
p. 51.

6.
AHDR 2003,
p. 71.

7.
AHDR 2003,
p. 78.

8.
AHDR 2003,
p. 157. All three patents were granted to residents of Morocco.

9.
AHDR 2003,
p. 71.

10.
Brian Whitaker, “Islamic Leaders Unveil Action Plan to Rescue a 'Nation in Crisis',”
Guardian,
December 9, 2005.

11.
Ghani Jafar, “Makkah Tidings,”
News International,
December 18, 2005.

12.
Sharon Lapkin, “Palestinian Honor”
FrontPage Magazine,
January 28, 2000.

13.
Hillel Newman, “The Worst Exploitation,”
Boston Globe,
June 7, 2004.

14.
Hillel Newman, “Recruiting Women for Terror,”
Boston Globe,
June 14, 2004.

15.
Itaman Marcus and Barbara Cook, “PA Course Honors Terrorist Wafa Idris,”
Palestinian Media Watch,
July 7, 2005.

16.
Hillel Newman, “The Worst Exploitation,”
Boston Globe,
June 7, 2004.

1.
Online News Hour with ]im Lehrer,
Osama bin Laden videotape,
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/terrorism/july-dec01/video_12-13a.html
.

2.
Sahih Al-Bukhari,
Hadid vol. 1, no. 24.

3.
"The Mind of an Islamic Terrorist, Terrorism,”
Muhammadanism.org, http://www.muhammadanism.org/Terrorism/Terrorist_Mind.htm
.

4.
Itamar Marcus and Barbara Cook, “Religious War Against Infidels' Inherent to PA Religious Ideology,” Palestinian Media Watch, .
pmw.org.il/Latest%20bulletins%20new.htm
.