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NEW YORK — Last week, a small item of news shed piercing light on the reason for the intractability of the Arab war on Israel. The well-known 1970s disco group, Boney M, invited by the Palestine International Festival to give a concert in Palestinian Authority (PA)-controlled Ramallah, was pressured to drop performing one of its signature hit songs, ‘Rivers of Babylon.’
This is revealing. It reflects the fact that, since its inception in 1994, the PA has sought to deny and erase all Jewish connection with the land of Israel. This in turn reflects the fact that the PA and Palestinian society in general – as confirmed by many polls – reject Israel’s existence as a Jewish state, whose validity stems from the Jewish people’s religious and historical connection to the country.
Thus the demand that Boney M not perform ‘Rivers of Babylon,’ the lyrics of which come straight from the famous passage in the Book of Psalms, describing the longing of exiled Jews to return to their biblical homeland – ‘By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, Ye-eah we wept, when we remembered Zion.’
Though little-reported, Palestinian officials over the years have been emphatic and repetitive in their denial of Jewish rights and connection to the country. Instead, they substitute an exclusive Muslim claim, often resorting to falsification of history that is mind-boggling to educated Westerners:
These claims not only contradict well-recorded history, but even statements previously made by Muslim religious authorities themselves. For example, publications during the 1920s and 1930s of the Jerusalem waqf (Supreme Muslim Council), spoke plainly of the Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, upon which the mosques are built, as the historical site of Jewry’s Temple.
Today, however, the PA seeks to obliterate every indication or affirmation of Jewish history: thus the archeological vandalism beneath Temple Mount practiced over the years by the Jerusalem waqf. Underground construction and trench-digging has involved destroying walls, carved stones and artifacts and the removal and dumping of hundreds of truckloads of archeologically rich soil. This occurred with neither standard care practiced as at other archeological sites, nor with due supervision by the Israel Antiquities Authority or indeed any other archeological experts.
The reason for this historical counterfeiting and archeological vandalism are obvious. Palestinian replacement ideology demands that Jewish history be utterly erased in order to facilitate demonizing Israel as an illegal interloper.
This carries important ramifications. Palestinian demonization of Israel is not merely a tactical war-time maneuver that can be ended with peace, but the result of the non-acceptance of Israel that lies behind the absence of peace. It is also a major contributor to the fostering of conditions that make for continued war. Accordingly, further U.S. aid to the PA should conditional on its termination. Yet, with the Obama Administration showing routine lack of interest in Palestinian incitement, its chances of promoting a genuine peace are non-existent.
Original piece is http://sdjewishworld.wordpress.com/2010/08/05/commentary-pas-editing-of-boney-ms-songlist-epitomizes-effort-to-erase-jewish-history/