Post by Islamic Revival on Apr 13, 2006 23:40:06 GMT -5
By Hassan Tahsin
Arab News, April 13, 2006
Since the appearance of the Zionist movement and their fraudulent claiming of the Promised Land, the Zionists and then Israelis have taken Palestine by force. They have been trying to create a history for themselves on the Palestinian lands, especially in Jerusalem, yet all their attempts have failed. Therefore, they are trying a different technique they have inherited it from their ancestors. They are trying to pirate history, fake it or demolish it if it exposes their lies and fraud. Naturally, they couldn’t find any source to pirate their history from but the history of Arab countries, especially Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and undoubtedly Palestine. They used fake historical details to support their geographical expansion.
Since 1967, Israel started destroying Palestinian archeological sites after capturing the Palestinian Museum and demolishing 300 sites in Jerusalem, Al-Khalil, Nablus and Bait Laham (Bethlehem). We still remember the serial killer Menachem Begin who stood in front of the big pyramid in Egypt and said that it was his ancestors’ inheritance because Jewish slaves built the pyramids. He also claimed that there are Zionist properties in Egypt that must be returned to Israel.
Many attempts to smuggle archeological artifacts, manuscripts and documents from Egypt to Israel through Rafah were stopped. And there were other attempts to violate various Arab archeological sites in Lebanon, Yemen and Syria in trying to attribute them to Jews.
Yet what happened after the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq in March 2003 was unexpected and exceeded the Tatars’ savageness that historians said was a rare incident that would never occur again.
The ransacking of the National Museum in Baghdad was done by Jewish groups that were well trained and organized. They did their dirty work under the supervision of American forces.
The Baghdad National Museum’s security guard told the story to many reporters in the American forces saying, “One American armored vehicle stood in front of the museum’s main gate while it was closed. The vehicle aimed the muzzle toward the main gate and fired the guns at it. Afterwards ten people entered the museum carrying demolishing tools and went to specific locations inside the museum destroying certain pieces of art for four hours continuously. Then they took special art pieces and disappeared. A number of professional thieves then entered the museum and stole valuable things and that was how Iraq’s history was stolen.”
The crime was organized and previously planned and it was implemented accordingly. Confronting the world’s condemnation concerning the failure of the US forces in protecting the rare Iraqi antiques, Washington announced that the incident happened by irresponsible, angry Iraqis who were cursing Saddam Hussein’s government. Their excesses were considered to be a sort of cathartic venting of decades worth of frustrations and hurt under a brutal dictator.
Demolishing and looting the Baghdad National Museum is only proof of the desperate need to take revenge not only from people but also from history. The things that couldn’t be stolen were ruined in spite of the fact that what the ten professional thieves stole was worth millions. After a while, it turned out to be that the thieves demolished the portrait that recorded the Babylonian King the Great Nebuchadnezzar’s triumph over the Jews. He banished 40,000 Jews from Palestine after they tried capturing it and turned them into Babylonian slaves. The thieves eliminated everything that was related to the bleak history of the Jews in Babylon’s exile.
Before anyone accuses me of peddling tired and old Jewish conspiracy theories in explaining what happened, I would like to make this point: If some rabble-rouser Iraqis destroyed the portraits of the Babylonian king out of ignorance, did the same Iraqis burn the rare manuscripts that are parts of the Holy Qur’an written by the hands of Abu Taleb, peace be upon him?
The thieves were aware of what they were going to rob because the most valuable and important pieces were gone and smuggled out of Iraq at the speed of light. More than 5,000 stolen Iraqi antiquities were caught at Paris airport, tens of other pieces were found with American soldiers in Qatar and many others were caught at US airports with journalists who had been accompanying the American forces in Iraq.
How come the thieves were Iraqis, as the Americans tried to convince the rest of the world? Iraqis were besieged inside Baghdad helplessly unable to execute smuggling operations or carrying stolen pieces so quickly and accurately.
Undoubtedly, Washington failed in not assigning its invading forces to protect Iraqi archeological sites and antiquities. Unfortunately, it was an intentionally deliberate mistake. The US was wrong in allowing the Jews to demolish the Babylonian artifacts.
This historical crime pushed Martin Sullivan, the chairman of the US Presidential Advisory Committee on Cultural Property, and two other members to resign their positions protesting the fact that the American authorities colluded in demolishing and robbing the Baghdad National Museum.
Hassan Tahsin, hassan_tahsin@hotmail.com
Arab News, April 13, 2006
Since the appearance of the Zionist movement and their fraudulent claiming of the Promised Land, the Zionists and then Israelis have taken Palestine by force. They have been trying to create a history for themselves on the Palestinian lands, especially in Jerusalem, yet all their attempts have failed. Therefore, they are trying a different technique they have inherited it from their ancestors. They are trying to pirate history, fake it or demolish it if it exposes their lies and fraud. Naturally, they couldn’t find any source to pirate their history from but the history of Arab countries, especially Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and undoubtedly Palestine. They used fake historical details to support their geographical expansion.
Since 1967, Israel started destroying Palestinian archeological sites after capturing the Palestinian Museum and demolishing 300 sites in Jerusalem, Al-Khalil, Nablus and Bait Laham (Bethlehem). We still remember the serial killer Menachem Begin who stood in front of the big pyramid in Egypt and said that it was his ancestors’ inheritance because Jewish slaves built the pyramids. He also claimed that there are Zionist properties in Egypt that must be returned to Israel.
Many attempts to smuggle archeological artifacts, manuscripts and documents from Egypt to Israel through Rafah were stopped. And there were other attempts to violate various Arab archeological sites in Lebanon, Yemen and Syria in trying to attribute them to Jews.
Yet what happened after the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq in March 2003 was unexpected and exceeded the Tatars’ savageness that historians said was a rare incident that would never occur again.
The ransacking of the National Museum in Baghdad was done by Jewish groups that were well trained and organized. They did their dirty work under the supervision of American forces.
The Baghdad National Museum’s security guard told the story to many reporters in the American forces saying, “One American armored vehicle stood in front of the museum’s main gate while it was closed. The vehicle aimed the muzzle toward the main gate and fired the guns at it. Afterwards ten people entered the museum carrying demolishing tools and went to specific locations inside the museum destroying certain pieces of art for four hours continuously. Then they took special art pieces and disappeared. A number of professional thieves then entered the museum and stole valuable things and that was how Iraq’s history was stolen.”
The crime was organized and previously planned and it was implemented accordingly. Confronting the world’s condemnation concerning the failure of the US forces in protecting the rare Iraqi antiques, Washington announced that the incident happened by irresponsible, angry Iraqis who were cursing Saddam Hussein’s government. Their excesses were considered to be a sort of cathartic venting of decades worth of frustrations and hurt under a brutal dictator.
Demolishing and looting the Baghdad National Museum is only proof of the desperate need to take revenge not only from people but also from history. The things that couldn’t be stolen were ruined in spite of the fact that what the ten professional thieves stole was worth millions. After a while, it turned out to be that the thieves demolished the portrait that recorded the Babylonian King the Great Nebuchadnezzar’s triumph over the Jews. He banished 40,000 Jews from Palestine after they tried capturing it and turned them into Babylonian slaves. The thieves eliminated everything that was related to the bleak history of the Jews in Babylon’s exile.
Before anyone accuses me of peddling tired and old Jewish conspiracy theories in explaining what happened, I would like to make this point: If some rabble-rouser Iraqis destroyed the portraits of the Babylonian king out of ignorance, did the same Iraqis burn the rare manuscripts that are parts of the Holy Qur’an written by the hands of Abu Taleb, peace be upon him?
The thieves were aware of what they were going to rob because the most valuable and important pieces were gone and smuggled out of Iraq at the speed of light. More than 5,000 stolen Iraqi antiquities were caught at Paris airport, tens of other pieces were found with American soldiers in Qatar and many others were caught at US airports with journalists who had been accompanying the American forces in Iraq.
How come the thieves were Iraqis, as the Americans tried to convince the rest of the world? Iraqis were besieged inside Baghdad helplessly unable to execute smuggling operations or carrying stolen pieces so quickly and accurately.
Undoubtedly, Washington failed in not assigning its invading forces to protect Iraqi archeological sites and antiquities. Unfortunately, it was an intentionally deliberate mistake. The US was wrong in allowing the Jews to demolish the Babylonian artifacts.
This historical crime pushed Martin Sullivan, the chairman of the US Presidential Advisory Committee on Cultural Property, and two other members to resign their positions protesting the fact that the American authorities colluded in demolishing and robbing the Baghdad National Museum.
Hassan Tahsin, hassan_tahsin@hotmail.com