Question is, if they had exterminated whole villages in USSR territories like Belarus and Ukraine, why wouldn't they exterminate millions of Jews? Or why would they not be able to? Belarus lost over 1,000 villages, people were crammed into barns and burned. We all know why Nazis were able to do that, because Stalin S.J. and his cronies did not put up defenses on their western border and let German troops advance through Ukraine and Belarus and wipe everything on their way. There were also Jews among them, you of course know about the Pale of Settlement, conveniently set up during the Tsarist Russia and conveniently located in Belarus, same Belarus that would later be overrun by the Nazi troops and raised to the ground. We know how Stalin was killing all of the generals and such who reported to him of the coming German invasion.
Friends of the family living in Israel sent me an email with a description of one long ago written book by an Italian Adriaan Reeland, who traveled to Palestine in 1695 and wrote down what he saw under the title "Palaestina ex Monumentis Veteribus Illustrata". Too bad this book is written in Latin and not translated, but I will give you the synopsis which was written in the email.
Adriaan Reeland was a geographer, cartographer, knew several European languages, Arabic, old Greek, Hebrew.
He was sent to Palestine in 1695. On his travels he visited around 2500 locations mentioned in the Bible. Examinations were done in following manner: First he created the map of Palestine. Then he marked each location which was mentioned in the Bible or Talmud in its original name. At the end he made census of the inhabitants. Here are his conclusions and facts:
- Country mostly is empty, broken, scarcely populated, with main populations in Jerusalem, Akko/Acco/Acre, Svat, Jaffa, Tveria and Gaza. Majority of the population is Jewish, the rest are - Christians, very few Muslims, mainly Bedouins. Only exception - Nablus, in Aotorom [sp] there are 120 people from Muslim family Natsha and around 70 of Samaritans.
- In Nazareth, capital of Galilee, lived around 700 people - all Christians
- In Jerusalem - around 5,000 people, almost all of them being Jews and some Christians.
- In 1695 everybody knew that roots of the country were Jewish.
- There are no locations in Palestine, whose names have Arabic roots. Many of the locations have Jewish beginnings, and in some cases Greek or Romish/Latin. Besides the city of Ramala there is not one Arabic location which has original Arabic name.
- Names in Jewish, Greek or Latin which were changed to Arabic, have no meaning in Arabic language. In Arabic there is no meaning in names like: Akko, Haifa, Jaffa, Nablus, Gaza or Djenin, and names like Ramalla, Al-Halil (Hebron), Al-Kuds (Jerusalem) - have no historic Arabic roots. For example, in 1696, Ramalla was called Beit-Al (House of God), Hebron was named Hebron and Cave of Machpelah was called by Arabs Al-Halil (nickname of Abraham).
- Reeland mentions Muslims only as Bedouins, who came to cities as seasonal workers in farming or construction.
- In Gaza there lived around 550 people, half of them were Jews and other half Christians. Jews were working in farming, mostly grape growing, olives and wheat, Christians were in transportation and market sales business.
- In Tveria and Svat lived Jews, but no background is mentioned, besides the traditional fishing in the Kinneret.
- In the village of Um-Al-Fahm for example, lived 10 families, all Christians (around 50 people). There was a small Maronite church.
http://www.amazon.com/Palaestina-Monumentis-Veteribus-Illustrata-Latin/dp/1120102979/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255666755&sr=8-2
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