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Nov 23 2007
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By William Cook   
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We must not overlook the initial impetus of the Jews, the real Jews, to further their condition by full co-operation with the Arabs that inhabited Palestine when the British were in charge of the Mandate. “Since authentic Jewish people are opposed to the notion of a State altogether, there would be no problem whatsoever in Jews living in the area of Israel and Palestine. For hundreds of years there were Jewish communities of Prayer and study in the area that the State of Israel rules today. These communities lived in complete peace with the surrounding Arabs. … The hatred between Jews and Arabs in Palestine was caused by Zionism.” “The true definition of a Jew is faith and Torah. Zionism says it is nationalism.” (Pat Harrington interview with Rabi Beck of Neturei Karta, 1991).

To what extent will Zionists go to attain their predetermined ends? Theodore Herzl in 1895, founder of the Zionist movement, made clear the original intent: “We should try to spirit the penniless Arab population across the borders by procuring employment for it in transit countries, while denying it any employment in our own country. Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly.” Thus begins the deception that has characterized the ethnic cleansing and genocidal actions of the Zionists ever since. “In 1921, Dr. Eder, a member of the Zionist Commission in Jerusalem, told the British court of enquiry appointed to investigate the causes of the first riots to break out between Arabs and Jews that ‘There can be only one national home in Palestine, and that a Jewish one, and no equity in the partnership between the Jews and Arabs, but a Jewish preponderance as soon as the numbers of the (Jewish) race are sufficiently increased.’” (Sami Hadawi, Journal of Historical Review). “One National Home without equity,” so has it been ever since.

Let us not forget that beneath these pronouncements resides an insidious set of assumptions, never enunciated lest the truth of their horrific consequences be unveiled, that the right of a National Home in Palestine to exist must remain unquestioned because the Jews were given that real estate by their God in a covenant almost 4000 years ago. How do we know this? Because a group of Jewish Rabbis over an extended period of years, estimated as between 400 BCE to 90 BCE, determined which books composed the Old Testament, and those books alone represented the word of God to His chosen people. In those books the covenant resides. Who wrote the books? On whose authority do the claims stated in the Bible rest? Since only a miniscule percent of the world’s population believes in this book, must the world accept the confiscation of Palestinian land as just?

Who is this God? Does the international community and International Law acknowledge the right of a small religious group to assert that their belief in a God who dispensed real estate to their fore bears centuries ago gives them a right to confiscate that land from people who have lived on it and worked it for over two thousand years? Should that right be acknowledged, then the Native American population, asserting the sacredness of the land they occupied for thousands of years before the arrival of the Europeans, could claim the return of the United States to its rightful owners. Indeed, they would have a more valid claim since they never left the land that was stolen from them while over 90% of the Jews now in Israel are immigrants and most had never been to Palestine. Without this assertion of land rights from centuries ago, the Zionists have no claim to the lands of Palestine. So this “nationalist” and secular group uses the religious beliefs of the Jews to force into existence the state of Israel. In the process two horrific consequences emerge: the true nature of the Jews as represented by Rabbi Beck above is destroyed as they become complicit in the genocide taking place in Palestine, and the Palestinian people are destroyed, their lands and homes confiscated or demolished, and those with rights under International Law portrayed as terrorists. Hope destroyed, justice denied.

With these consequences in mind, let’s continue the march of Zionism over the years. In 1943, General Patrick Hurley, Personal Representative of U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt disclosed the Zionist plans for expulsion and dispossession of the Moslem and Christian inhabitants of Palestine and beyond. This reference comes from pages 776-777 in Foreign Relations of the United States: Near East and Africa, Washington D.C., 1960 as reported by Sami Hadawi in the Journal of Historical Review:

The Zionist Organizations in Palestine has committed itself to an enlarged program which would include

(1) a sovereign Jewish state which would embrace Palestine and probably eventually Trans-Jordan;
(2) an eventual transfer of the Arab population from Palestine to Iraq;
(3) Jewish leadership for the whole Middle-East in the fields of economic development and control.

The Rhodes papers referred to above contain seized documents from the Jewish Agency and the Hagana papers among others that describe details of Plans A and B covering the period from 1941 on as the illegal Zionist military imposed its will on the Jewish communities in Palestine. Indeed, every 18 year old was conscripted into the Hagana army and sworn to alliegeance by an oath that culminated with this statement:

“I hereby swear to devote all my strength, and even to sacrifice my life, to defence (sic) and battle for my people and my Homeland, for the freedom of Israel and for the redemption of Zion.”

In this personal commitment lies the true deceit since no individual had freedom to not serve and thus all Jews were immersed in the intentions of the Zionist Organization whether they understood the totality of its illegal goals, as outlined by General Hurley to President Roosevelt, or not. The full implications of their intent are present in the first of the program goals Hurley presented, the “redemption of Zion” means in reality a “sovereign Jewish state which would embrace Palestine and probably eventually Trans-Jordan,” in short, a plan to steal lands already occupied by other people.

To maintain this secret and illegal army, the Zionist Organization needed funds. It created a levy system that was imposed on all Jews, a taxation on top of that imposed by the British Mandate government. Some objected. A letter in Hebrew dated 5/4/46 from Y. Gesundheit in Tel Aviv to D. Ben Gurion of the Jewish Agency decries both the levy of this tax to fund the military and the need to use violence to establish the National Home.

He expresses concern that he has paid out LP 1000 “more than I can afford, to the Resque Committee … for the express provision that it was only to be used for the rescue of refugees from Europe and not for volunteering purposes or for Hagana and weapons.” He expands on this point to drive home his real feelings as a Jew. “I am opposed to the use of arms except in self-defense … I do not believe in conquering the country by violence, be it directed against the British or against the Arabs.” And he goes one step further by referring to Ben Gurion’s answers to the Enquiry Commission Hearing, telling him, “… it is impossible to rebuild the country and to found a Jewish State by resort to obvious lies.” But conscientious objection carried no weight with the Zionist Organization. In the document that lays out how these funds were to be assessed and collected there is this item: “Everyone who assists a shirker or who refuses to comply with the directions of the disciplinary committee will have all the requisite steps taken against him.” The steps mentioned can culminate in death. (appendix XLb).

The systemization of the expulsion process adopted by the Zionist Organization as the critical years of 1946 and 1947 approached are detailed in yet another set of Plans C and D. The nature of these plans does not appear in the MacMichael/Catling files at Rhodes, but they are presented by Professor Ilan Pappe in his carefully documented and authoritative work, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. “It was this Plan (D Dalet) that sealed the fate of the Palestinians within the territory the Zionist Leaders had set their eyes on for their future Jewish State. Indifferent as to whether these Palestinians might decide to collaborate with or oppose their Jewish State, Plan Dalet called for their systematic and total expulsion from their homeland.” (28).



 
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