Saturday, April 02, 2005

Not the promised land thankfully

I bet no one knew that Bahrain was nominated as a potential Jewish homeland before Palestine was even suggested in the Balfour Treaty of 1917. No this is no April Fool's joke. This revelation comes in a book called "Bahrain and the Palestinian Issue 1917-1948" by Bahraini author Khalid Bassam.

Had history taken a different course, Bahrainis would not exist as a people under occupation, or displaced across the Arabian peninsula and Iran. It could have just as easily been us now bombing ourselves into oblivion *cringe*.

Funny this news comes on the same day that Bahrainis celebrate Black Saturday when Bani Jamra came under seige and people were shot dead. This may sound extreme, but for a long time people have made a comparison between the Israeli government and Alkhalifa on policies of discrimination (apartheid), demographic change and the use of live ammunition against unarmed protestors.

Posted by BB @ 4/02/2005 03:23:00 AM

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I was a bit astonished to hear the news at first. Then dah! I realized it was April Fool's Day!

Anyway, when different sources confirmed the news for me, I had to carry out some investigation myself. It turned out to be that the revelation does not really refer to Bahrain of today (Awal) but rather refers to Ancient Bahrain which includes Awal (Bahrain), al-Khutt (Qatif), Hajr (Hasa/al-Ahsa) with the latter being the capital of Ancient Bahrain. The borders of Ancient Bahrain were vastly spread all over the western coast of the Persian gulf, from Basra (Iraq) to the emirates of the UAE. It was a great empire! I wish it still existed, because then we would be controlling over 40% of the world's Oil reserves and simply be the richest people on earth!

Good night.
H Ali

Posted by Anonymous Anonymous @ 4/02/2005 05:34:00 AM #
 

H Ali: what confused me is that Iqleem Albahrain or the Bahrain Province was broken up by the Portuguese in the 16th century I think, so how can they have proposed the Bahraini Province in 1917??

Odd A: Are you trying to say that you'd prefer Israeli occupation over Alkhalifa????

BBN: well i wouldn't be surprised the involvement of Gulf businessmen in Palestine after the emarati Alabbir openly declared a business venture of a similar nature.

Posted by Blogger BB @ 4/02/2005 04:29:00 PM #
 

In actuality, the idea of Bahrain as the Jewish Homeland came about from a single letter from a Russian Jew.

There was in fact, no talks over this matter at all. Israel has always been the historic Jewish homeland, not Bahrain.

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