Monday, April 18, 2022
Elder of ZiyonI could not find the source of the poll, so I don't know if it was from a respected pollster or an online Internet survey.
The so-called prophecy was created by Sheikh Dr. Bassam Jarrar, a Hamas preacher, who wrote a book in 1996 making this prediction.
He says he was inspired to look for the prophecy after hearing a third hand story about an old Jewish woman in Iraq who told a Muslim friend in May, 1948 that Israel would not last longer than 76 years.
A Muslim Brotherhood leader in Iraq heard this story from his mother, and Jarrar heard it from him. So the provenance is rock-solid, because old anonymous Jewish women are clearly prophets.
Basing his calculations on the Islamic calendar, Jarrar finds some truly ridiculous reasons that all point to 2022, by counting verses in various sections of the Koran. The number 19 is prominent, as 76 is 19 x 4. He also claims that there were 19 kings in Judea and 19 kings in Israel, and 19 Knessets - I'm not sure where the fourth 19 is. (We are currently in the 24th Knesset.)
He also claims that Menachem Begin said in 1982, during the invasion of Lebanon, that this will herald 40 years of peace. A footnote says, "I do not know what he meant by the forty years of peace, as his statement contradicts reality. Perhaps it has a hidden purpose that only the Jews know."
Yes, that's it!
There's more: Halley's Comet is associated with Jews and comes around every 76 years, and reaches its aphelion point in 2022. Sure, 76 solar years is not 76 Hijra (lunar) years, and no one associates Halley's Comet with Jews, but don't worry about that.
The Haaretz writer, Ori Nir, who works at Americans for Peace Now, says:
Palestinians are not uneducated. Youth literacy in the West Bank and Gaza Strip is almost 100 percent. Enrollment ratio in higher education is among the highest in the world. It is not a society governed by irrational notions or sentiments. And Jarrar is no yahoo. I spoke with him several times in the mid-1990s, after his return from being briefly deported by Israel to Lebanon together with 414 other Palestinian extremists. He is a highly educated, compelling, charismatic interlocutor.So why do they believe this stupidity? Nir says:
Palestinians are attracted to these notions because their society and polity are so weak in comparison to powerful Israel, because they are in deep despair, having lost hope for liberating themselves from Israel’s rule and have lost hope for achieving political independence, and because they seek retribution for what they view as injustice.
This is a refraction of the truth.
This isn't the first prophecy of Israel's demise. These predictions have been part of Palestinian culture since it began.
The West said that Israel would not last. Arab nations said they would destroy Israel. Arafat put a plan forward to destroy Israel. So did Qaddafi, and Iran, and BDS, and the Israeli far-Left. Any news that hints that Israel is in trouble gets amplified and any news about Israel being successful is quashed in Palestinian media.
Palestinians have been told from birth that Israel is a temporary anomaly, not a hard fact. That is why they don't work towards peace or consider compromise - why give up any advantage when time is on their side and Israel's demise is inevitable?
This is the magical thinking of Palestinians. It is the same magical thinking that claims that Palestinian solidarity protected Al Aqsa Mosque from being invaded by Jews who otherwise would have offered the Paschal sacrifice on Friday.
Nir thinks that Israel can provide the hope that Palestinians need to feel like they have a horizon for peace. Nonsense - they could read Israeli media and see that most Israelis would love to live next to an Arab state that doesn't threaten them with destruction. But Palestinians are against Israel existing in any form, and this has been proven again and again, from statements by their leaders to public opinion polls. Israeli concessions don't make them want to accept Israel more - they look at concessions by Israel as weakness and as evidence that the inevitable destruction of Israel has begun. When other polls say that they support a two-state solution, what they really mean (the few times they are asked) is that is a temporary measure and merely a stage towards Israel's inevitable destruction.
Israel cannot extricate Palestinians from their fantasies. Only real Palestinian leadership, telling their people the truth that Israel isn't going away, teaching in their schools that Israel exists, and that Israel wants peace and will not accept terrorism against their people - only when they are taught the truth from their own leaders and teachers will Palestinians begin to rid themselves of their magical thinking.
Like everything else, it is up to them. And the Western Leftists who believe that Israel can solve Palestinian inability to recognize reality are the ones who encourage Palestinians to continue to act like infants who allow the world to do all their work for them.
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