The State archives of Israel contain documents that provide a perspective into the mentality of those driving the Zionist "Consultancy," as Pappe labels it. In a section made available through "Palestine Remembered," a newly established Internet site, labeled "Plunder of abandoned Arab property, looting, possession without permit, robbery," the following comments are revealing: "None of us behaved during the war in a way we might have expected the Jewish people to behave, either with regard to property or human life, and we should all be ashamed." (Yosef Lamm, MK MAPAI). Another observation made by the Minister of Agriculture Aaron Cizling to Ben Gurion: "Again and again in our meetings we discuss the issue of the abandoned property. Everyone expresses shock, bitterness and shame, but we have yet to find a solution up to now we have dealt with individual looters, both soldiers and civilians. Now, however, there are more and more reports about acts which, judging by their nature and extent, could only have been carried out by government order. I ask ... on what basis was the order given?" And one more because it is so telling in that it foreshadows the issues facing the Diaspora Jew now: "If I thought that the State of Israel would be capable of Deir Yassin, I would not only not wish to be an Arab here – I wouldn't want to be a Jew here." (Zalman Aran, MAPAI).   

All of the above references come from declassified Israeli documents as recorded by Professor Pappe in his recent book on ethnic cleansing or from the detailed research of Dr. Khalidi's All That Remains or from documents I have found at the Rhodes House library of the Bodleian that records either British evidence of these actions or documents that were seized by the British from Jewish sources recounting their own perspectives. Virtually none of this information has been made available to the American public through main stream media sources; rather what Americans know comes through a controlled press that presents the birth of the Jewish State as a glorious achievement born of democratic principles and accomplished against great odds.

Given this information that comes courtesy of the very Zionists that carried it out, would one not think that a reevaluation of this coming anniversary should be considered? But it will not be, not by our main stream media and not by our politicians. Instead, the American taxpayer will give the State of Israel an additional 30 billion dollars to augment the usual 3 billion we provide annually to ensure their security and economic stability, even as our economy tumbles into three trillion of debt.

Indeed, our politicians will proclaim the virtues of the Israeli state as they raise their cocktails to toast "This year in Jerusalem!" The crystal will glisten in the chandelier's light, the celebratory speeches will be made, the appropriate level of applause will greet each keynote speaker as the invited guests turn to each other with knowing glances that confirm the dedication of all present to the promise now fulfilled by the grace of G-d Almighty.

None will let the thirty babies slaughtered at Deir Yassin cross their minds lest it cast a cloud over the delightful evening; none will find fault with kid napping executed by "resistance fighters" against the brazen British or consider it in contrast to that done by the "real" terrorists, Hezbollah; none will walk beside the mothers, children, and fathers forced from their homes to wander over the barren hills of Galilee to Lebanon bereft of all but the clothes on their backs, a scene too uncomfortable to mar the pleasantries passed from guest to guest; none will recall that the UN proposal that created Israel provided 55% of the land of Palestine for their state lest someone note that Israel now occupies all but 14%; none will bother to bring the evening paper that thunders the continued rocket attacks against the citizens of Sderot in the Negev where two have died as a result of almost 5000 rockets fired by those resisting occupation or see that the paper does not list the 88 killed in Gaza in four days by Israeli missiles, 8 of them children including a two month old baby; none will consider the enormity of the contrast between the military might of Israel, the only country in the mid-east to possess over 200 nuclear weapons, and the defenseless condition of the Palestinian people that are ground beneath the boots of their oppressors day after day lest it cause someone to choke on his ice cube; none will remember that they arrived at their splendid conference hall by passing a Wall, a 25 foot high wall that prevented them from seeing the horrors on the other side; and none will accost their Congressman or Congresswoman to ask why we continue to support a nation founded by terror, nourished in blood and catastrophe, grown huge in weaponry, and sustained by violence, duplicity and hypocrisy.  

Thus do we return to Arthur Koestler's admonition to the Jews in the Diaspora, the dilemma they must face that will become more acute with time: choose between the Zionist controlled, amoral state that acts in your name casting lies like seeds before the multitudes and justifying brutal acts of vengeance and racism as necessary for the security of a state that stands alone in the mid-east as a bastion of technological and nuclear power or choose the truth of the Torah, as those Jews from across the world who remain compassionate, giving and loving people who seek peace in Palestine for both Jews and Palestinians.

William Cook, a senior editor of MWC News, is a professor of English at the University of La Verne in southern California and author of Tracking Deception: Bush's Mideast Policy, "The Rape of Palestine" and "The Chronicles of Nefaria." By this author: http://mwcnews.net/william-cook

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