Terrorism followed: the blowing up of bridges, railroads and utility plants, assassinations, kid napping of British officers, detonation of buildings occupied by British personnel most notably the King David Hotel where 91 civilians were killed including Jews. David Ben Gurion, addressing a press-conference in New York declared "We are on the eve of historic decisions re- Palestine Ben Gurion declared, these decisions may be in favor of our demand for the establishment of a Jew state in Palestine or they may be against us. Both are possible //but one thing is certain should Britain decide to maintain the White Paper restrictions she shall be able to do it only through regime of bloody terror."(punctuation and wording as in original in Mss. Medit. 20). Reaction to this press conference in an editorial from the Jewish Post, Indianapolis of 29th June, 1948 "The double blast from Dr. Chaim Weizmann and David Ben Gurion threatening bloodshed in Palestine, is definitely the start of a new and fateful Zionist policy...The first has to do with the threat of bloodshed, and as a natural consequence, the second has to do with the actual spilling of blood." (Mss. Medit.20). But Americans are told nothing of these actions and threats, only that the little Jewish state was in peril against overwhelming odds. Duplicity and hypocrisy override the irony.    

Consider the terrorist acts taken by the Zionists against the legitimate government of Palestine. Just as the Sharon and Olmert governments have cried to the world community that Gazans obtain weapons via underground tunnels from Egypt, so did the Mandate government discover arms factories in Hasharon Street in Tel Aviv (one of many) where, behind a voltmeter panel an opening was discovered to a chamber containing arms, explosives, ammunition, and other illicit articles. Another was found beneath a school playground, and we thought only Palestinian' terrorists hid behind civilians. The only observation one might make at this point is that the Zionists had no legitimate right to the land they claimed to be taking back from the occupying force, especially since in 1947 Jews owned only 6% of the land in Palestine and represented less than 30% of the population. On the other hand, the Palestinians in Gaza are the indigenous population and have legal rights under International Law and the UN charter to fight against the occupying forces, the Israelis. Yet the American government extols Israel's right to self-defense and condemns the real victims. Duplicity and hypocrisy hide the irony from Americans.

Consider as well the outcry to the world over the "kid napping" of two Israeli soldiers near the Lebanon border, a crime that forced Israel to invade and pulverize Lebanon's electric and water plants, destroy its sea ports and railroads, devastate sections of the city of Beirut, scatter thousands of cluster bombs in southern Lebanon, and kill over 1100 people, most of them civilians, even orphans. However, when Zionists "kid napped" it was not a crime, indeed, the resistance movement condemned the British government for punishments issued by court order after due process, something the current Israeli government does not provide either to the 11,000 Palestinians incarcerated or those they assassinate by extrajudicial execution. Duplicity and hypocrisy drown the irony though it screams to be heard.

Consider finally the atrocity committed against the innocent at the King David Hotel in July 1946 when six Jewish "resistance" fighters dressed as Arabs entered the hotel with milk cans containing high explosives. This is called a "false flag" operation as it intended to assign the criminal act to the indigenous population. Indeed, after the deaths were counted, Hagana denied all knowledge of it and condemned those responsible. Unfortunately, the resistance fighters were outraged that their efforts were denied by those in Hagana that worked with them to carry it out and issued a paper a year later describing how it was done. In their own defense they claimed that the warning they intended to provide was not executed as planned nor was the detonation. The true irony of this crime can only be appreciated today since the present government has seen fit to remove the plaque from the wall that recounted the atrocity of the King David Hotel and replaced it with a commemorative plaque praising the patriotism of those who killed 91 innocent people. Duplicity and hypocrisy enshrined. (All examples taken from Mss. Medit. 20).

From conception to nourishment in the womb of Nakba, how the blood flowed.

I should begin here with the massacre at Deir Yassin because it was beneath a tree in the field outside the mental hospital now placed there that I heard about the atrocities committed in this town and felt the anguish that hung like a pall over the land. Deir Yassin had an agreement with Hagana, a non-aggression pact, but unknown to its residence it lay in a pre-determined path of destruction and ethnic cleansing that sealed its doom. On April 9, 1948, a little more than a month to the UN date that removed Britain from its Mandate responsibilities in Palestine and the date that gave Israel its right to its segment of Palestine, the 55% allotted to the Jews, their forces " ... burst into the village, the Jewish soldiers sprayed the houses with machine gun fire, killing many of the inhabitants. The remaining villagers were then gathered in one place and murdered in cold blood, their bodies abused while a number of the women were raped and then killed." Pappe continues his recital of this massacre with this comment: "One only has to be told that thirty babies were among the slaughtered in Deir Yassin to understand why the whole 'quantitative' exercise – which the Israelis repeated as recently as April 2003 (that the number killed cannot be considered a massacre) – is insignificant." Indeed, at the time the Jewish forces greedily accepted a much larger number of dead as a "warning to all Palestinians that a similar fate awaited them if they refused to abandon their homes and take flight." (Pappe 90-91).

But the Jewish forces in their eagerness to grab as much land as they could before the legally established date for the Israeli nation, found time of the essence and efficiency a necessity if they were to enlarge the land holdings far beyond what the UN resolution had provided to them. Realizing that the remaining British troops could do nothing during the "lame duck" months between the acceptance of the resolution and its date of implementation, the months between March and May of 1948, the Hagana forces moved with great speed to erase as many villages and towns as they could from the landscape of Palestine. Walid Khalidi's research tome, All That Remains, accounts for 418 such sites leveled by the Jewish forces, with their populations killed or expelled from the borders of Israel.  

And the blood flowed.

"The Jewish troops rolled barrels full of explosives, and huge steel balls, down into Arab residential areas, and poured oil mixed with fuel down the roads, which they then ignited. The moment panic-stricken Palestinian residents came running out of their homes to try to extinguish these rivers of fire, they were sprayed by machine gun fire."

"Armed with machine guns the Jews sprayed the coffee-house (Lifta), while members of the Stern Gang stopped a bus nearby and began firing into it randomly." The same plan operated throughout the area, the Jewish forces would surround the town on three sides, leaving the fourth for those who could to escape. The remainder were killed. "The Hagana blew up most of the houses in the village and drove out all the people who were still there." Some 700,000 to 800,000 were forcefully driven from their homes and beyond the borders of Palestine. The terror campaign included psychological warfare, heavy shelling of civilian populations, expulsions, witnessing of the deaths of family members, relatives and friends, physical abuse, robbery and rape. A United Nations envoy, Count Folke Bernadotte arrived in Palestine on May 20, and having seen the devastation proposed a division of the country into two equal parts including repatriation of the refugees. Despite Bernadotte's activity on behalf of the Jews in Europe during WWII as President of the Swedish Red Cross, instrumental in saving many from the Nazis, he was assassinated by the Zionists.