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Yes, there should be a "Palestinian" state--in Jordan. In Syria. These "Palestinian" people belong in their home country, not in Israel.
Land claims are moot if not meaningless. Only the strong hold the land. (Ask American Indians. That's right, we still have our land--not only literally, but legally. We're American citizens!--all declared such by the US government in 1924.) The Arabic people who actually do come from families in Palestine since 586 BCE are very few. Today's "Palestinian" is basically a Jordanian native, or a Syrian. And the first Arabic people in Palestine never formed a country, a nation, nor ever had a unified religion or social structure at all. We're not talking about an ancient nation here, with any particular claim or right to such a status or its accoutrments. "Palestinians" are not the descendents of some ancient Arab nation in Palestine.
What we're talking about today is an illusion, a professional reactionary social response. We're talking basically rhetoric, nothing more. We're talking Hanan Ashrawi. There is no "Palestinian" people, or any semblence of a "Palestinian nation." In 1949, Arab activist Musa Alami said of the Arabs in Palestine regarding the idea of a nation, "most of them do not know the meaning of the word." "How can people struggle for their nation?" "The people are in great need of a 'myth.'" (See, "The Lessons of Palestine," in The Middle East Jounral, October, 1949.) Sixty years hasn't created a nation, a nationality, a religion, a language, or any basic fundamentals of nationhood. It has produced a prolonged piece of failed political strategem, targeting Israel, which has brought nothing but suffering to all involved.
Hussein bin Talal, King of Jordon
Jordon's King Hussein said in a 1960 (Associate Press interview):
Since 1948, Arab leaders have aproached the Palestine problem in an irresponsible manner...They have used the Palestine people for slefish political purposes. This is ridiculous and, I could say, even criminal."
Cited by Terence Prittie, "Middle East Refugees," in The Palestinians: Pople, History, Politics, ed. Michael Curtis (New Brunswick, 1975)
The dynamic hasn't changed in the last 60 years, either. The "Palestinian" thing has simply been a black hole for any amount of aid, help, or personnel offered. As in any condition of mental depression, anger is the immediate (if not the sole) motivating factor. Enter: Hamas. Feeding on anger, frustration, and desperation, Islamic leaders keep the "Palestinian" people titilated with violence and passion. Whipped up emotion is the essence of Islam in these situations, and it is difficult to separate from the nature of the human species in volved.
The 'cause and effect' relationship has been actually reversed by the media in the last half-century. This reversal permeates all media perspectives, from the most basic, to the highest imagined academic political rhetoric. It's all a fabrication.
In Jordon, in 1958, UNRWA director Ralph Galloway declared,
The Arab states do not want to solve the [Palestinian] refugee problem. They want to keep it as an open sore, as an affront to the United Nations, as a weapon against Israel. Arab leaders do not give a damn whether Arab refugees [Palestinians] live or die.
Funny, Truman's administration recommended the "refugess" all re-settle in Iraq. At least 750,000 of them. This was especially pertinent at the time, since at least 120,000 Jews had just left Iraq to come to Israel. Britain thought Syria could absorb at least 200,000 "Palestinian" refugees. Alas, no Arab state wanted their "Palestinian" brethren. Not even Jordon. When eight and a half million Hindus fled from Pakistan in 1950, and six and a half million Muslims migrated from India to Pakistan, they just worked it out, not bloodlessly, but effectively. But the Arab states would not accept their own kin, despite their common religion, Islam. It was more important to have a strategic prick wherewith to poke Israel perpetually.
After a half century of poking, there are those who think there is actually a "Palestinian" people, with national identity, who are being cruelly denied something.
But, the world will never fool Israel. For Israel's sake, the world cannot be fully fooled about "Palestinians," either. The Arab attitude towrad the "Palestinians" has not changed. The only difference today is that the numbers of "Arabs" crammed into Gaza and the West Bank have increased. They have achieved the highest birth rate in the world, as well as a fine immigration rate--only the immigrants are militants come with weapons in hand. Truly, the only function of "Palestinians" is to hate Israel. The "Palestinian" social entity is a parasitic illusion, fueled with weapons from Arab and Islamic nations (like Iran).
In the last analysis, the "Palestinians" have only the Arab nations to blame. The 'Palestinian" is the illegal Mexican immigrant of the Middle East.
Dr. Bacchiocchi was the first non-Catholic to graduate from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He obtained his doctorate, summa cum laude, in 1974, with the special honor of a gold medal presented to him by the Pope Paul IV. His thesis was on the change of Sabbath (Saturday) observance by the early Christians (who were Jewish) to the observance of Sunday by later Christians (who were not Jewish). The research was all done at the Vatican libraries.
Bacchiocchi’s book was published by the Pontifical Gregorian University Press in 1977, with the papal symbol (the tiara and crossed keys) on the cover, and the Vatican’s official written imprimatur on the inside.
Samuele Bacchiocchi was born to Seventh-day Adventists parents, just outside Rome, in 1938. He was educated in Adventist institutions, and lectured in Bible studies and history in Ethiopia from 1964-1969. Then he returned to Rome and entered the Pontifical Gregorian University to begin his doctoral studies.
When his book on the Sabbath was published, I was Yale Divinity School. Some of my professors were quite interested in Bacchiocchi’s work. I sold a few copies for him. I was in fact acquainted with Dr. Bacchiocchi since that very time. I corresponded with him, and eventually met with him several times. (Not too many years ago, he was preaching in Oklahoma City, and I had the honor of singing before him and the church. I sang in Italian, naturally—“Quale gioia, e Quale piaciere!” Dr. Bacchiocchi remarked to the congregation that he had never in America been honored with a hymn sung in Italian.)
Dr. Bacchiocchi wrote many other books. His chief works expounded the distinct doctrines of the (protestant) Seventh-day Adventist church. His second book, in fact, was on the meaning and observance of the Sabbath: Divine Rest for Human Restlessness. He went on to write about the role of women in the church, and another on wine. He took the “orthodox” Adventist position in all his works, meaning, the conservative, traditional, or “strict” view (that is to say, women cannot be ordained as priests or ministers, and that no alcoholic drinks can be allowed in the Christian’s life, etc.). This caused many to wonder whether or not he was in fact a salubrious influence in the church. Many looked at him as a trouble maker. Some even issued the malicious gossip that he was actually a Jesuit who had infiltrated the Adventist Church!
Such is the fate of any purist. Such is the experience of any conservative.
There is always the illusion of going backwards—only because the popular trends are off base. Anyone who holds to the original concepts, who honors the blueprints, seems to be relatively off track himself.
Orthodoxy versus development, progress, or evolution—this is the choice coerced upon us. This dilemma itself may be nothing more than a political ploy. Any philosopher, psychologist, or even a good historian, has seen the patterns of human behavior. Orthodoxy and change are two coetaneous elements. They exist side by side, always. History is a constant sway from one condition toward the other.
Bacchiocchi was an orthodox Adventist, that’s all. An Italian by culture, yes, but his works expounded Adventist doctrine. He believed these were all biblically based. He simply tried to demonstrate this through rational, scholarly work.
Of course, that’s my view.
When Richard Poe and his wife Marie were visiting me here in Oklahoma, I was introduced to another view of Dr. Bacchiocchi. Richard was unfamiliar with him, but was quite concerned about the “imprimatur” bit on the Vatican book. Richard seriously questioned whether Bacchiocchi’s Sabbath to Sunday book carried the official imprimatur. I showed him the book. He looked at it carefully, and was still unconvinced. In turn, he showed me a Catholic devotional book he had brought with him, and said it contained a real, genuine imprimatur. He insisted there was reason to doubt the Bacchiocchi Vatican imprimatur.
All I could say was this: if Bacchiocchi’s work was in any way fraudulent, I was quite sure the Roman Church would have made it known long ago. Rome honored Bacchiocchi. That is a fact.
In any case, from an Adventist point of view, Bacchiocchi was "orthodox." From a Catholic view, he was merely “progressive.”
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