Chutzpah (sometimes spelled as "kutzpa" or "chutzpa") is a Hebrew and Yiddish word meaning audacity, nerve, or boldness, often in a way that is shocking or disrespectful. For countries and the United Nations to demand that Israel reward the Palestinians with land in biblical Israel is beyond Chutzpah.
Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom recognized a Palestinian state on Sept. 21. Many others have and will be doing the same. The announcement was made ahead of the U.N. General Assembly in New York City; the countries had pledged to recognize a Palestinian state before the summit.
All of these countries expelled their Jews:
The Assyrians, Babylonians, the Romans, Byzantines, England, France (multiple waves, starting in the 12th century, major expulsion in 1306, and others), Germany, Italy (various cities and regions: Southern Italy, Naples, Sicily, Genoa, Venice, Milan, and more), Spain (1492 was one of the largest and most notable expulsions in history), Portugal (1496), Hungary, Austria (Vienna and other cities), Bohemia and Moravia (Czech lands), Poland and Lithuania, Russia/USSR (expulsions, forced migrations, particularly in the 18th–20th centuries), Switzerland (various towns, e.g., Bern, Basel, Zurich), various towns in the Netherlands, Belgium, Kiev and other regions in Ukraine.
Many of those countries carried out multiple expulsions.
LAST BUT NOT LEAST
These mass Arab country expulsions occurred in the 20th century!
- Egypt
- Iraq
- Libya
- Syria
- Yemen
- Algeria
- Morocco
- Tunisia
- Lebanon
- Iran/Persia
The Jews weren't expelled for committing crimes or trying to overthrow the government. They were expelled for being Jews. Surely, the Jews in every one of these countries didn't do anything as horrible as Hamas has been doing for over 20 years.
THERE ARE TWO EXCEPTIONS:
Chances are that if a country did not expel the Jews, it is because their weren't Jews living there to expel. There are two exceptions.
The first is the USA. Given Jewish history, you might wonder, why the USA never expelled the Jews?
In fact, there was a time when it nearly did. During the Civil War, General Ulysses S. Grant issued General Order No. 11 on December 17, 1862, during the American Civil War, expelling all Jews from his military district covering parts of the Southern states temporarily. There was outrage in congress. President Abraham Lincoln swiftly revoked the order in January 1863, declaring his opposition to condemning an entire group for the acts of a few. Grant later expressed regret for the order, which remains a significant example of official antisemitism in U.S.
THE ONLY EXPULSION ORDERED BY GOD
The second exception of a nation that had Jews but didn't expel them, is ancient Egypt. This is the one expulsion ordered by God. Ironically, Pharaoh in ancient Egypt did NOT want to let the Israelites go. The Exodus is the one Jewish expulsion that God ordered! Pharaoh defied God by refusing to expel the Jews.
IS "TURNABOUT FAIR PLAY"?
Why shouldn't the Jews be allowed to expel the Palestinians? Given how often in history the Jews have been expelled, doesn't it seem fair for the Jews to expel the Palestinians, especially after all the horrific things Hamas has done?
Israel has "offered the other cheek" to the Palestinians about five times, and every time the Palestinians have tried to take out our other eye!
BEYOND CHUTZPAH: THE DOUBLE-STANDARD
Here is the thing about antisemitism. It is perfectly acceptable to criticize Israel!! The definition of antisemitism, is ALL about having a "double-standard."
The ultimate chutzpa and double-standard is the United Nations. This one graphic says it all. It shows all the "condemnations" that the U.N. has issued over the last 10 years. The farther back, the worse it gets.
ISRAEL IS UNIQUE IN ANOTHER WAY
"They hate us cause they ain't us."
At this point, Israel has to protect Israel. "From the River to the Sea," Israel will always be!
Am Yisrael Chai!
THE ULTIMATE IRONY
Did you know that there is already a "Palestinian" state? It is "Jordan" and even they won't accept the Palestinians from Gaza.
There are currently around 2.3 to 2.4 million registered Palestinian refugees living in Jordan now, which has a total population of approximately 11.8 million.
Yet, Jordan has refused to accept Palestinians displaced from Gaza. The Jordanian government, including King Abdullah II and Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, has repeatedly and firmly rejected all proposals to transfer or resettle Palestinians from Gaza into Jordan.
Arab states, including Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, and Qatar, have all firmly rejected plans to take displaced Palestinians, citing political, security, and demographic concerns. No country has expressed willingness to accept Gaza Palestinians.
There is a precedent that doesn't seem to apply to the Palestinians. During the war with ISIS, European countries accepted nearly six million muslims from Iraq and Syria. But nobody wants the Palestinians. Why? Perhaps the Jews and the Palestinians have something in common.
Israel is the only country that tried to offer Palestinians a better life. But the Palestinians chose Hamas. They chose death over life! Now, they have to live with their choice. That is the ultimate irony!!
Epilogue:
Bible verses where God commands the Israelites to expel or destroy the people of Canaan:
Deuteronomy 7:1-6 (NASB) -- "When the LORD your God brings you into the land which you go to possess, and has cast out many nations before you... you shall put them to the sword and devote them to destruction... You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them."
Deuteronomy 20:16-18 (NASB) -- "In the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave alive anything that breathes. But you shall utterly destroy them—the Hittite, Amorite, Canaanite, Perizzite, Hivite and Jebusite—as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that they may not teach you to do according to all their detestable things."
Exodus 23:23-24 (NIV) -- "My angel will go before you and bring you to the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites and Jebusites, and I will wipe them out. Do not bow down before their gods or worship them or follow their practices."
Leviticus 18:24-25 (NIV) -- "You must not defile yourselves by any of these things, because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you became defiled. Even the land was defiled; so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants."
Joshua 6:21 (NIV) -- "They devoted the city to the LORD and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it—men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys."
