Israel’s Scheme to Bury the Nakba. “The Ethnic Cleansing oF Palestine”

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By Stephen Lendman

July 10, 2019

Israel’s 1947-48 Nakba against the Palestinian people was and remains one of history’s great crimes — what Ilan Pappe called “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine” in his book by this title.

Establishment of the Jewish state came at the expense of the Palestinian people, their descendants and refugee population.

The final master plan’s goal aimed to create a state with maximum Jews and minimum Arabs — by any means, including mass murder of defenseless people.

Around 800,000 Palestinians were forcibly driven from their homeland, many thousands slaughtered in cold blood.

The six-month campaign beginning in late 1947 destroyed 531 villages and 11 urban neighborhoods in cities like Tel-Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem.

According to Nuremberg Principles, ethnically cleansing people from their land is a high crime against humanity.

Israeli accountability was never forthcoming for mass-murder; destruction of homes, villages, crops and other property; countless atrocities; showing no mercy to defenseless men, women, children.

Nuremberg-level crimes were  expunged from official Israeli historiography, replaced by the myth that Palestinians left voluntarily, fearing harm from invading Arab armies.

A Palestinian shared memories of that nightmarish experience, saying the following:

“I cannot forget three horror-filled days in July of 1948. The pain sears my memory, and I cannot rid myself of it no matter how hard I try.”

“First, Israeli soldiers forced thousands of Palestinians from their homes near the Mediterranean coast, even though some families had lived in the same houses for centuries.”

“My family had been in the town of Lydda in Palestine at least 1,600 years. Then, without water, we stumbled into the hills and continued for three deadly days.”

“The Jewish soldiers followed, occasionally shooting over our heads to scare us and keep us moving. Terror filled my eleven-year-old mind as I wondered what would happen.”

“I remembered overhearing my father and his friends express alarm about recent massacres by Jewish terrorists. Would they kill us, too?”

“We did not know what to do, except to follow orders and stumble blindly up the rocky hills. I walked hand in hand with my grandfather, who carried our only remaining possessions-a small tin of sugar and some milk for my aunt’s two-year-old son, sick with typhoid.”

Survivors remember the horror of Deir Yassin. On April 9, 1948, soldiers representing the soon to be announced Israeli state entered the village violently. They machine-gunned houses randomly. Many inside were slaughtered.

Remaining villagers were assembled and murdered in cold blood. Among them were children, infants, the elderly and women, some raped before slaughtered. Estimates placed the death toll at up to 120.

An eyewitness recounted the horror as follows, saying:

“I was (there) when the Jews attacked…(They) closed on the village amid exchanges of fire with us.”

“Once they entered the village, fighting became very heavy in the eastern side and later it spread to other parts, to the quarry, to the village center until it reached the western edge.”

“The Jews used all sorts of automatic weapons, tanks, missiles, cannons. They enter(ed) houses and kill(ed) women and children indiscriminately. The (village) youths…fought bravely.”

Fighting killed dozens more. Many other villages met the same fate. It was well planned, systematic slaughter — a pattern Israel followed throughout its history with much more powerful and banned weapons.

According to a Haaretz investigative report, Israel’s ministry of war’s secretive security department (Malmab) has been tasked with making the Nabka disappear, saying:

Its teams have been scouring Israel’s archives and removing historic documents…conceal(ing) (them) as part of a systematic effort to hide evidence of the Nakba.”

Haaretz learned Malmab (a Hebrew acronym) “concealed testimony from IDF generals about” about mass slaughter of Palestinians and destruction of their towns and villages, as well as dispossession of Bedouins during Israel’s first 10 years of statehood.

Former security department head Yehiel Horev told Haaretz he began the project to erase Israel’s ugly past — even though detailed information about the Nakba has been published.

His aim and others involved was and continues to be an effort to reinvent history, a common practice in many countries with disturbing pasts authorities want expunged from the public record — notably burying the historical record of horrific mistreatment of Black African slaves and Native Americans by US ruling authorities.

Documents on Israel’s nuclear weapons development and hostile relations with regional countries, along with on the Nabka, are concealed in vaults.

Haaretz’s detailed account is titled “Burying the Nakba: How Israel Systematically Hides Evidence of 1948 Expulsion of Arabs” — historical documents concealed from public view.

Along with burying Israel’s ugly past, Malmab aims to undermine the credibility of published documents.

History the way it should be published and taught isn’t pretty. The truth is there for historians seeking it.

Pappe’s “Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine,” and Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States” reveal the public record citizens of these countries, and everyone else, have a right to know.

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Award-winning author Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG)

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Nakba Day Tuesday. Commemorating Palestine’s “Catastrophe”

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من مذكّرات حكيم الثورة [1/4] جورج حبش: الاشتباك الأخير

سيف دعنا

  السبت 26 كانون الثاني 2019

• في الذكرى الحادية عشرة لرحيل المناضل والقائد الفلسطيني والعربي جورج حبش (26 كانون الثاني/ يناير 2008)، أحد أبرز مؤسسي حركة القوميين العرب، والأمين العام المؤسس للجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين، يُصدر «مركز دراسات الوحدة العربية»، مذكّرات جورج حبش في كتاب بعنوان «صفحات من مسيرتي النضالية»، في تغطية لأبرز محطات تجربته النضالية. خصّ المركز «الأخبار» ببعض فصول الكتاب، تولّى تقديمها ومراجعتها الكاتب سيف دعنا وستُنشر تباعاً في حلقات.

  «سوف أذهب إلى أرض وطني وأقول:
  عانقيني بلا أي خوف،
  وإذا كان كل ما أعرف القيام به هو أن أتكلم، فأنني لن أتكلم إلا من أجلك
  وسأقول لها أيضاً:
  فمي سوف يكون صوت كل تلك المآسي التي ليس لها فم،
  وصوتي سوف يكون صوت حرية كل الذين يقبعون في زنازين القهر
  وعلى الطريق سوف أظل أردد لنفسي
  وقبل أي شيء، لجسدي وكذلك لروحي:
  حذارِ حذارِ
  من القبول بموقف المتفرج العقيم، لأن الحياة ليست مشهداً،
  ولأن بحراً من المآسي ليس مجرد مقدمة مسرحية،
  ولأن إنساناً يصرخ من العذاب ليس مجرد دباً راقصاً»
  إيميه سيزير «مذكرات العودة إلى أرض الوطن»

  «إلّا رجال مؤمنون، ونساء مؤمنات، يحفظ الله بهم الأرض، بواطنهم كظواهرهم، بل أجلى، وسرائرهم كعلانيتهم، بل أحلى، وهممهم عند الثريا، بل أعلى، إن عُرفوا تنكروا، وإن رُئيت لهم كرامة أنكروا. فالناس في غفلاتهم، وهم في قطع فلاتهم، تحبهم بقاع الأرض، وتفرح بهم أفلاك السماء».
  ابن الجوزي في وصف الأبدال

  «الأبدال» أو «البدلاء» في التقليد الصوفي، كما جاء في «لسان العرب»، هم «قوم من الصالحين، بهم يقيم الله الأرض، أربعون في الشام وثلاثون في سائر البلاد، لا يموت منهم أحد إلا قام مكانه آخر فلذلك سُمّوا أبدالاً». ويذكر ابن عربي في «الفتوحات المكية» أن «ثم رجالاً سبعة يقال لهم الأبدال يحفظ الله بهم الأقاليم السبعة، لكل بدل إقليم، وإليهم تنظر روحانيات السموات السبع، ولكل شخص منهم قوة من روحانيات الأنبياء الكائنين في هذه السموات»‏i. وينقل هادي العلوي عن ابن شميل: أن «الأبدال خيار بدل من خيار»، وعن ابن السكيت: «سمي المبرزون في الصلاح أبدالاً لأنهم أبدلوا من السلف الصالح (أي قاموا مقامهم بعد ذهابهم). والأبدال هم الأولياء والعباد، سُموا بذلك لأنهم كلما مات منهم أحد أبدل بآخر». أما علامتهم، كما نقل الزبيدي في تاج العروس أنه لا يولد لهم، أو «لا يولد لهم ولدا ذكراً»، كما جاء في ترجمة صاحب «مطالع المسرات بجلاء دلائل الخيرات»، محمد المهدي الفاسي (وهو من الأبدال، كما ينقل البعض)ii. وإذا وقفنا عند قول الزبيدي أنه لا يولد لهم ولد ذكر، يقول هادي العلوي: فـ «هذه حال المسيح الذي لم يتزوج أصـلاً. وحال محمد الذي لم يكن له ولد ذكر. وكذلك حال معظم الصوفية من الأقطاب. ومن المعاصرين لم يكن لكارل ماركس ولد ذكر ولم يولد للينين»iii.

  

  رسم سحر برهان

  أما «الأوتاد»، «الذين يحفز الله بهم العالم»، فهم كما يذكر ابن عربي «أخص من الأبدال»iv. أو أخص الأبدال، في المذاهب الصوفية، وهم أيضاً «أضنان الله». والأضنان، كما يشير هادي العلوي، من الضن، «أي البخل الشديد»، و«ضنائن الله» هم الذين يضن الله بهم عن الفساد. وفي «لسان العرب» هم «الخصائص من أهل الله تعالى الذين يضنّ بهم لنفاستهم عنده تعالى، كما قال عليه الصلاة والسلام»: «إنّ لله ضنائن من خلقه ألبسهم النور الساطع يحييهم في عافية ويميتهم في عافية». والأوتاد من الأبدال، كما جاء عند ابن عربي في «الفتوحات». والقول «إن الله يقيم بهم الأرض هو ما يعطيهم اسم الأوتاد»، وهذا «مأخوذ من الفلك القرآني حيث اعتبرت الجبال أوتاداً للأرض تمنع ميلانها وتثبتها في مستقرها، واستعيرت للأبدال الأوتاد لأن وجودهم على الأرض يمنع أهلها من الفساد ويبقيهم على حال الصلاح والاستقامة فلا تنخسف بهم»‏v.

  لهذا، فالأبدال، في مذهب الصوفية، هم قوة الخير المضادة، في هذا الكون، لقوة الشر والخراب التي يمثلها الفاسدون والخونة وأصحاب السلطة والمال والجشع. وهم قوة الإنسانية وروحها التي تعطي الحياة معناها وتوازنها وتحميها من خراب قوى الخراب في هذه الأرض. لذلك هم أيضاً كالأوتاد (الجبال) التي تحمي الأرض من الميلان وتحفظ لها توازنها بموازنتها للفساد والخراب الذي يمثله جشع أهل الدولة ورأس المال ورجال الدين.

  هكذا كان جورج حبش، من ضنائن الله، ومن أوتاد هذه الأرض. أفنى عمره ثائراً يقاوم العدو، وأفناه يُقَوِّم زيغَ المتنفذين الغارقين في الفساد والخيانة والشر والخراب، ليجعل منا بشراً أفضل، وليعطي لهذه الحياة توازناً يجعل العيش فيها ممكناً ويبقي الأمل حياً. تقرأ كلمات هذا الثائر غير المهزوم، رغم كل الهزائم، وغير المقهور، رغم كل القهر، فلا تطلب ولا تتمنى إلا أن يكون لدى كل منا شيء قليـل من هذه القناعة التي لا تتزعزع، وحظ قليـل من هذه الشجاعة الفائقة التي لا تهزم، ونصيب صغير من تلك القوة الروحية العظيمة غير القابلة للكسر. تقرأ جورج حبش فتعرف أنه هكذا فقط يكون الثوار الحقيقيون. تقرأ جورج حبش فتتأكد أن هناك طريقاً واحداً ووحيداً للنصر وطريقاً واحداً ووحيداً لتحرير فلسطين هو طريق جورج حبش. تقرأ جورج حبش فتعرف أن هناك تعريفاً واحداً ووحيداً فقط للحرية الحقيقية وتعريفاً واحداً ووحيداً للكرامة هو تعريف جورج حبش. تقرأ جورج حبش فتعرف أن هناك معنىً واحداً ووحيداً للوطن ومعنىً واحداً ووحيداً لفلسطين هو معنى الوطن ومعنى فلسطين عند جورج حبش.

  لقد بدا لي صائباً أول الأمر، قبل أن تبدأوا بقراءة النص الأخير لحكيم الثورة الفلسطينية، أن أتكلم قليـلاً (وسأتجرأ لأقول باسم الجميع)، في مديح ذلك الرجل الشجاع، الذي سعى، بأكثر مما يستطيع أي إنسان آخر، إلى صوغ الفكرة وصناعة الأمل الذي لا يزال يعيش فينا ويعطينا القدرة على العيش والاستمرار رغم كل شيء. لقد بدا لي الأمر صائباً جداً ونحن نقف أمام كلماته الأخيرة، أن أكتب متحدثاً، ولو قليـلاً، باسم جيل جديد أعيد بناؤه في عقيدة الجبهة الشعبية وعقيدة فلسطين الأصلية والأصيلة التي أسس لها وأسسها جورج حبش، تلك العقيدة العروبية الأصيلة التي لا تعرف أي مهادنة مع العدو، ولا تعرف أي مساومة حتى على حبة رمل واحدة من أرض فلسطين. لهذا، فإذا كان هناك أي شيء يجعل من المناسب أن أكتب أنا، أو أي رفيق من جيلي هذا النص، بدلاً من أحد آخر من الرجال ذوي الشعر الأبيض الآن، أولئك الذين كانوا مع الحكيم منذ البداية، وشاركوه في المقاومة وفي المعاناة والتفاني في مشروع تحرير فلسطين لعقود، فهو فقط الأمل بأن تكون هذه مناسبة لنا جميعاً لنجدد التزامنا ووفاءنا مرة جديدة لهذا الرجل العظيم، ولنهجه، ولطريقه الذي اختطه منذ خسارتنا فلسطين وحتى اللحظة الأخيرة من حياته.

  تقرأ جورج حبش فتعرف أنه هكذا فقط يكون الثوار الحقيقيون

  لا أكتب مدخلاً لهذا الكتاب الذي يصدر في الذكرى الحادية عشرة لرحيله خضوعاً للحزن، أو للوعة المشتاق المصاب بفقدان الحبيب والقدوة، بل من أجل تمجيد هذه الروح العظيمة التي أعطيت لنا، ولكي ندخل مجدداً في شراكة وثيقة وعهد جديد وقَسَم جديد مع هذا الرجل الشجاع والمثال. فالكثيرون منا يشعرون بهذه الشراكة، ويشعرون بحاجتهم إليها الآن أكثر من أي وقت مضى. فلقد كان جورج حبش قائداً ومقاوماً ومثالاً؛ كان مثالاً في نعمة البطولة الفريدة، والتفاني اللامحدود، التي كانت طريق حياة وطريقة عيش واحدة ووحيدة له. كان مثالاً في قوة روحه ووضوحه وصدقه وتفانيه وصلابته وشجاعته التي فضحت كل أولئك «القادة» المزورين بضعف روحهم وكذبهم واستسلامهم وخنوعهم وجبنهم. وكل هذه الروعة والعظمة والقوة كانت متوافقة تماماً، رغم كل ذلك، مع التواضع المذهل لرجل مثله وبمقامه، وببساطة التفاني اللامتناهي حتى اللحظة الأخيرة من أجل فلسطين وأهلها والوطن العربي وأهله. وشراكتنا مع الحكيم وعهدنا له هما شراكة وعهد، كذلك، مع كل الذين أفنوا أعمارهم يقاومون على طريق تحرير كل الوطن المسلوب. شراكة وعهد حتى النهاية مع كل الذين أفنوا أعمارهم يقارعون الصهيونية في الزنازين أو في ساحات القتال. شراكة وعهد مع كل الذين أصبحت فلسطين قضيتهم الأولى والأخيرة، قضيتهم العامة وقضيتهم الخاصة، وأعطوها، مستلهمين القليل من نموذج القائد جورج حبش، كلَّ ثانية من أعمارهم الفانية. أكتب باسمنا جميعاً لنتعهد للحكيم، ونتعهد لكل هؤلاء الأبطال، بالوفاء والقسم والعهد، وأن نتعهد أولاً وقبل أي شيء لفلسطين حبنا إلى الأبد، واستعدادنا للتضحية من أجلها وفي سبيلها بكل شيء وبأي شيء، وأن نتعهد للصهاينة الأعداء كرهنا وحقدنا وعزمنا على مقاومتهم حتى النهاية.

  عن النص

  «ولادة القارئ ستكون حتماً على حساب الكاتب»، جادل رولاند بارث في «موت الكاتب». فعلى القارئ، يقول، تقع مسؤولية الإمساك بالمعنى النهائي للنص، وبالتالي، فالقارئ، بكل مواصفاته وخلفيته وإمكانياته وهوياته، وليس الكاتب، هو المسؤول الأول والأخير عن فهم النص (وبالتالي عن نجاح هذا النص أو فشله). لهذا يجادل بارث، أيضاً، بأنه ينبغي فصل النص عن صاحبه لتحريره من «طغيان التفسير». وفي مخالفة ظاهرية (ظاهرية فقط في رأيي) لهذه الرؤية، يركز ميشيل فوكو، في نص يقصد منه، كما فهمه كثيرون، مخالفة زعم بارث، على «وظيفة الكاتب» التي تتمحور حول دوره التصنيفي للنص في سياق خطابي معين. يبدو في نص فوكو، ما هو الكاتب، دورٌ ما للكاتب (ظاهرياً في الحقيقة لا أكثر)، وهو ممكن فقط في سياق خطابي. بصورة أدق، تضيء رؤية فوكو، بتركيزه على الخطاب، على مجالات وإمكانيات السيطرة والتحكم بالمعنى الذي تحدد معه وتحد بدورها بالضرورة دور الكاتب. هذا الجدال الباريسي – الباريسي ما بعد الحداثي، بالشكل والجوهر، لم ينتهِ حتى رغم التدخل الساخر لجاك دريدا لاحقاً في «ميتات رولاند بارث». هو جدال باريسي – باريسي يشوبه الكثير من الترف الذي لا يعرفه ولا حتى يهتم به الكثير من الكتاب (والنصوص) الذين تأخذ الكتابة عندهم معنىً وهدفاً ودوراً ووظيفة مختلفة.
  فالكتابة «فعل تاريخي» لدى من يرى نفسه منخرطاً جدياً في واقع عصره. وفي حالة العرب، وخصوصاً بعد هزيمة عام 1967، أصبحت الكتابة «فعـلاً مقاوماً» بامتياز، كما جادل الناقد المصري غالي شكري. ففي حين شكلت النكبة سؤال العرب الوجودي، وسؤال إمكان استمرارهم التاريخي كشعب وثقافة، وسؤال تحولهم من أمة في طور عملية تاريخية من التشكل أصابتها النكبة بحالة قطع عنيفة إلى أمة تدخل مسرح التاريخ، أصبح على الكاتب العربي «إنتاج فكر ولغة يجسدان إرادة الدفاع عما هو مهدد بالانقراض في الحياة العربية»‏vi.

  الكتابة فعل مقاومة وفعل اشتباك. لهذا بالضبط لا يزال الشهيد غسان كنفاني يحتل مكانة فريدة ومتميزة بين كل الكتاب العرب والفلسطينيين. فهو لم يكن مسكوناً في كتاباته بتصوير الحاضر القادم من ماضي النكبة فقط، بل، وربما أهم من ذلك، كان مهموماً باستتباع ذلك بفتح آفاق للمستقبل. لهذا كان كل نص لكنفاني، أدبياً كان أم سياسياً، أشبه ببيان ثوري. فكنفاني كان نموذجاً لكاتب من نوع خاص جداً اقتضت وجوده الحالة العربية الجديدة. فما بعد النكبة، وتحديداً ما بعد ثورة 1952 في مصر، التي ساهمت في التأسيس لنشوء حركات التحرر، «تفاقم دور الكاتب»، كما جادل إدوارد سعيد في «تأملات في المنفى». هكذا كانت الدعوة إلى الثورة «دقوا جدران الخزان» في «رجال في الشمس». ولهذا ذكر الحكيم في رسالة التعزية لآني كنفاني «إننا تلقينا (باستشهاد غسان) ضربة موجعة جداً»‏vii.

  الكتابة فعل مقاومة وفعل اشتباك. فأهم ما قام به قسطنطين زريق، صاحب معنى النكبة، وأحد ملهمي الحكيم، في كتابه عن النكبة، غير تعريفه للحدث وحفره للمصطلح، هو «إلقاؤه الضوء على مشكلة الحاضر، موقع المعاصرة الإشكالي، الذي يشغله العرب ويعملون على إعاقته». فلقد أدرك مبكراً أن ما ينبغي على «الكتَّاب» العرب القيام به بمعرفة ودراية هو خلق الحاضر تمهيداً لمعركة استعادة الاستمرارية التاريخية، ورأب الصدع الذي تسببت به النكبة، والأهم من كل ذلك إطلاق إمكان تاريخي للتغيير.

  الكتابة فعل مقاومة وفعل اشتباك. لهذا بالضبط علق باولو فريري في كتابه «تعليم المقهورين» أن «أسلوب [تشي] غيفارا الواضح في سرد تجاربه هو ورفاقه، ووصف علاقته بالفلاحين الفقراء الموالين لهم بلغة إنجيلية تقريباً، يكشف القدرة الكبيرة لهذا الرجل المدهش على الحب والتواصل مع الناس»viii.
  الكتابة فعل مقاومة وفعل اشتباك. هكذا يتوجب قراءة النص الأخير، وفهم الفعل الأخير، لجورج حبش وإدراك الهدف منه. فهذا النص ليس سرداً بلا غاية، أو هذا ليس سرداً أراد له صاحبه أن يكون نوعاً من التاريخانية أو السرديات الأكاديمية أو المذكرات الذاتية. ليس سرداً أراد له صاحبه أن يكون مجرد أرشفة أخرى للتاريخ بلا غاية أو لمجرد الأرشفة. فالتاريخ يجب أن يُقرأ أولاً وأخيراً كحالة أيديولوجية. يجب أن يُقرأ كتحفيز لعمل مستقبلي. يجب أن يُقرأ كخارطة طريق للمقاومة والتغيير والثورة. ففي نهاية الأمر، كل الحقائق التي يختارها مؤرخو أي مرحلة من بين آلاف الحقائق الأخرى، هي (لذلك) ذاتية وسياسية أولاً وأخيراً، كما جادل مؤرخ الثورة البلشفية إدوارد هاليت كار. لهذا، فجوهر التأريخ ليس النص وحده أو بحد ذاته (على أهميته)، بقدر ما هو الاستشراف والأفق الذي يفتحه أمامنا، فيضع السرد أو النص نفسه في حيز المقاومة وسياقها في المستقبل، وحتى يمكن أن يعمل على تأسيس مسارها بفتحه آفاقاً من الإمكانات التحويلية – هذا هو المعنى الحقيقي لفكرة أن «الناس تموت والفكرة لا تموت».
  الكتابة فعل مقاومة وفعل اشتباك، لأن الفعل والاشتباك المقصودين هنا بالذات هما اشتباك وفعل من أجل تكوين الوعي وخلق الإنسان من جهة، وإسقاط الخرافات (من خرافة «إسرائيل» نفسها إلى كل الخرافات التي يسوقها المهزومون)، من جهة أخرى. الكتابة فعل مقاومة واشتباك، لأن الكتابة عمل، ولأن العمل نفسه (والفعل المشتبك نفسه) هو الشيء الحقيقي الوحيد في التاريخ، والشيء الحقيقي الوحيد في هذه الحياة، وما عداه هو الخرافة والتزوير. لهذا، فالكتابة كـ «فعل مقاومة وفعل اشتباك» هي أكثر توصيف مناسب للنص الأخير الذي تركه لنا جورج حبش، ويُنشر بعد أحد عشر عاماً على رحيله. فهذه ليست محاولة للتأريخ بقدر ما هي أحدى محاولات الحكيم المتعددة للاشتباك مرة أخرى مع الأسئلة الكبرى التي أرَّقته منذ اتفاقيات أوسلو، وتحديداً مع انعقاد المؤتمر الخامس للجبهة الشعبية (1993) حين أرسل الحكيم أول إشارات العزم على التخلي عن الأمانة العامة، وأصر عليها ونفذها في المؤتمر السادس (2000) من أجل خوض مرحلة جديدة من النضال تتمثل، كما كتب، بالعمل «على إنشاء مركز [الغد] الذي يُعنى بدراسة تجربة حركة القوميين العرب ومن ثم الجبهة الشعبية والأحزاب القومية الأخرى، وكذلك تجربة الثورة الفلسطينية المعاصرة، وأيضاً العمل القومي منذ النكبة، بحيث تكون تجربة الجبهة والحركة والأحزاب والتجارب الأخرى درساً مفيداً لمتابعة النضال الوطني والقومي، من دون أن يعني ذلك ابتعادي من ساحة النضال الوطني والقومي»ix.

  في ثنايا هذا النص لا توجد فقط الكثير من الأسئلة التي كانت تؤرق حبش وكان يرى في التصدي لها والإجابة عنها مسؤولية ثورية ووطنية وقومية وإنسانية، وليس في هذا النص فقط الكثير من الحديث في التاريخ وعن التاريخ والأحداث والتجارب الفردية والجمعية، بل يوجد أيضاً الكثير مما يمكن أن نفهمه ونعرفه عن شخصية صاحب هذا النص وروحه وقلبه، والنموذج الذي ينبغي أن يكون عليه الثائر الحقيقي والقائد الحقيقي والمقاوم الحقيقي، ما دفعني إلى البحث عميقاً في نصوصنا التراثية لاستلهام توصيف لهذه الروح الفذة والفريدة. فعقب النكبة مباشرة، يكتب الحكيم، «حصلت عملية الاندماج الكلي والصادق بيني وبين العمل الكلي من أجل قضية شعبي ووطني»x. وهذا النص يؤكد أن هذا الاندماج الكلي رافق الحكيم حتى اللحظة الأخيرة من حياته، فقد رحل هذا المقاوم العظيم مبتسماً وهو يسمع أخبار أبطال غزة يكسرون الحدود بين فلسطين ومصر، فتأكد أن المراهنة على الناس التي أفنى عمره من أجلها لا يمكن أن تخيب أبداً.

  في ثنايا هذا النص صدق ووضوح وشجاعة نادرة في زمن يدعي فيه «البطولة» و«الصراحة» و«الوضوح» كل من أراد ذلك فقط لتبرير تخاذله وعجزه وكذبه واستسلامه. «إنني عادة أحدد موقفي السياسي وموقف الجبهة بعد تأنٍ وتفكير، ولكنني أعترف أنه في سياق الثورة تأتي لحظات أفكر فيها بعقلي وقلبي ووجداني معاً»xi. هذا ما قاله الحكيم، في سياق تفسيره لمقولة «سادات فلسطين» التي نعت بها عرفات عقب زيارته نظام كامب دايفيد، وظل يرددها لاحقاً رغم عتب البعض من رفاقه عليه لخروجه عن «حدود اللياقة السياسية». لهذا فنص الحكيم الأخير يصلح أن يكون بياناً ثورياً حقيقياً يؤسس لمراجعة حقيقية لمرحلة سابقة مليئة بالبطولات، وحتى مليئة بالمعجزات، ولكنها مليئة أيضاً بالمآسي والهزائم والخداع.

  في ثنايا هذا النص أيضاً حديث عن التاريخ وفي التاريخ، ولكن بإيقاع ثوري فريد يعيد إلى الذاكرة الخطاب الثوري الفلسطيني الأصلي والأصيل، ويعيد إلى الذاكرة بيانات الجبهة الشعبية ووثائقها الأولى ونصوص الميثاق الوطني غير المعدل، وكأنها محاولة لبث الحياة من جديد في روحنا: «كانت وجهة نظر أبو عمار وفتح وعدد كبير من أعضاء المجلس الوطني وبعض الفصائل هي قيام دولة فلسطينية إلى جانب «إسرائيل»، أي قيام دولتين على الأرض، بينما كانت الجبهة الشعبية تريد دولة على الأرض مع الاستمرار في النضال من أجل إزالة هذا الكيان الصهيوني البغيض»‏xii. هكذا يذكرنا الحكيم، بما قاله مرة الشهيد عماد مغنية، عن الهدف الذي علينا ألّا ننساه أبداً وأن نعمل من أجله كل لحظة، وأن نضحي في سبيله بكل شيء: «الهدف واضح ومحدد ودقيق: إزالة «إسرائيل» من الوجود».

  الخروج من اللد: ولادة الثائر جورج حبش

  يوم الإثنين الموافق 24 أيار/مايو 1948، دَوَّنَ دايفيد بن غوريون في مذكراته: «علينا تنظيم مجموعة الألوية الجديدة وتعزيز [الألوية] القديمة. وينبغي إقامة لواء من أفراد «كرياتي» بقيادة لرر [تسادوك]. لدى تسلم المدافع، يجب تدمير الرملة واللد فوراً»xiii. بعدها بأسبوع، في 30 أيار/مايو 1948، سَيَرِدُ ذِكر اللد والرملة مرتين في تدوينات بن غويون لذلك اليوم: «أثرت مسألة الرملة – اللد، إذ إن هاتين النقطتين خطرتان من جميع النواحي، ومن شأنهما أن تشكلا قاعدة للهجوم على تل أبيب والمستوطنات و[الطريق] إلى القدس. وفي مقابل ذلك، فإن احتلالهما يحرر مناطق وقوات ويعزل خطوط المواصلات العربية. أليس من المجدي خفض قسم من القوة الناشطة في الشمال «البعيد»؟ بموجب الخطة – المفروض على «كرياتي» أن ينشط ضد اللد هذه الليلة، علاوة على القليل من الإزعاج [المدفعي] للرملة»‏xiv. وفي مساء ذلك اليوم (30 أيار/مايو 1948)، خرج بن غوريون مسرعاً من جلسة الحكومة قبل أن تنتهي متوجهاً إلى «رامات غان» حيث القيادة العامة (الساعة السابعة مساءً) عقب وصول برقية في شأن قرار مجلس الأمن المتعلق بوقف إطلاق النار في اليوم التالي، واستدعى «يغئيل [يادين]، ويوحنان [راتنر]، ويسرائيل [غاليلي]، واقترح[ت] عليهم أن نرسل إلى ييغال [آلون] فوراً أمراً بأن ينزل مع كتيبة واحدة غداً فجراً كأقصى حد، كي نتمكن من احتلال اللد والرملة، إذا تمكنوا من احتلال اللطرون، وأن ينقلوا كتيبة أخرى إلى القدس هذه الليلة من أجل ضمان صمود القدس والسعي لإزعاج المثلث من جنين وطولكرم [كي] يحين موعد بدء وقف إطلاق النار – إذا انصاع له العرب هذه المرة ـ ونكون في وضع أفضل مما نحن عليه الآن»‏xv.

  نص الحكيم الأخير يصلح أن يكون بياناً ثورياً يؤسس لمراجعة حقيقية لمرحلة سابقة

  ورغم انشغال بن غوريون بجبهتي الشمال والجنوب المشتعلتين بشدة حينها، إلا أن جبهة الوسط (حيث اللد والرملة) كانت الأكثر إثارة للقلق لديه، كما تشير مذكراته. وكما يتضح من يوميات الحرب التي تركها. فالحرب على اللد والرملة كانت جزءاً أساسياً من حرب القدس، و«حرب القدس هي حرب أرض إسرائيل»، يقول بن غوريون، «لا بسبب أهميتها التاريخية فحسب، بل لأسباب استراتيجية أيضاً، والحرب ليست من أجل طريق القدس فحسب. لا يكفي طريق بين تل أبيب والقدس من أجل إحكام سيطرتنا على القدس. هناك حاجة إلى امتداد جغرافي. وقد ثبت في هذه الحرب أنه لن تقوم للقدس اليهودية قائمة من دون ارتباط ما بالدولة اليهودية ذي امتداد إقليمي»xvi. لهذا بالضبط أثار بن غوريون قضية اللد والرملة منذ البداية في إحدى جلسات «القيادة» في 11 أيار/مايو 1948: «أبديت ملاحظتين: (1) تدمير الجزر العربية في المستوطنات [في المناطق] اليهودية (الرملة – اللد، وبيسان، وزرعين) التي تشكل خطراً خاصاً في حال الغزو، ومن شأنها أن تفرض إشغال قوات؛ (2) تسليح القدس بصورة متزايدة – حتى لو استمرت الهدنة، [وذلك بسبب] أهمية القدس في حد ذاتها»‏xvii.

  اللافت للنظر في تدوينات بن غوريون هذه، وغيرها الكثير، ليس الحديث الواضح عن «التدمير» و«التدمير الفوري» و«تهجير العرب»، بل إنهم قاموا بذلك فعـلاً. لهذا كانت المجازر أولاً، كما حدث في مسجد اللد حيث احتمى المدنيون العزَّل قبل أن تقوم العصابات الصهيونية بقتلهم في مجزرة رهيبة أصبحت موثقة في الأرشيفات الصهيونية رغم أننا لا نحتاج إلى ذلك لنعرف أن أهلنا قد ذبحوا هناك بلا رحمة (500 مدني تقريباً، برغم الاعتراف الصهيوني بما بين 200 و300)‏xviii ، وكان كذلك القتل العشوائي أيضاً وإطلاق النار على أي شيء وكل شيء أثناء محاولة احتلال اللد والرملة. في ذلك اليوم (11 تموز/يوليو 1948) فشلت الكتيبة الثالثة للبلماح من اقتحام دفاعات اللد التي أقامها أهلها والمتطوعون من القوات الشعبية، فقام ييغال آلون بإرسال اللواء الثامن (الكتيبة الثامنة والتاسعة) بقيادة موشي ديان. فدخلت، كما تروي الأرشيفات الصهيونية نفسها، «عرباتهم نصف المجنزرة، عربة مدرعة، وسيارات جيب عسكرية يعتليها مدافع رشاشة، مسرعة جنوباً من طريق بن شيمين باتجاه اللد ووصلت أطراف الرملة – ثم استدارت عائدة حول اللد إلى بن شيمين. استغرقت الغارة سبعاً وأربعين دقيقة. ويظهر أن القوات كانت تطلق النار على أي شخص في طريقها»‏xix. ويذكر أحد أفراد العصابات الصهيونية ويدعى «جدعون» في شهادته: «كانت سيارة الجيب العسكرية التي أركب فيها تقوم بالدوران أمام مدخل أحد المنازل، وفي المقابل كانت طفلة تقف وتصرخ وعيونها مليئة بالخوف والفزع. كان جسدها ممزقاً وينقط دماً، وحولها كانت جثث أفراد عائلتها ملقاة على الأرض. [ثم تساءلت] هل أطلقت أنا النار عليها؟ ولكن لماذا هذه الأفكار، فنحن في أوج معركة، في أوج احتلال مدينة. العدو في كل زاوية. الجميع أعداء. اقتل! دمر! اذبح! وإلا سوف تُقتل أنت ولن تستطيع احتلال المدينة»‏xx.

  عقب سقوط اللد والرملة وطرد من بقي حياً من أهلها العرب بالقوة، بدأت مسيرة طويلة وصعبة في أشد أيام العام حرارة على الأقدام باتجاه رام الله – تشبه إلى حد بعيد «مسيرة الدموع» التي سارها سكان أمريكا الأصليون المطرودون من وطنهم في جنوب شرق الولايات المتحدة باتجاه الشمال الغربي. وفي أثناء المسيرة سقط العشرات من سكان اللد الصغيرة من الأطفال والعجائز من العطش والجوع والحر وكانت جثثهم ملقاة على جوانب الطريق إلى رام الله – يذكر الحكيم الذي عاش كل تلك الأيام بتفاصيلها المؤلمة أن كتاب «الطريق إلى بئر السبع» للإنكليزية إيثيل مانين‏xxi التي تصف رحلة الخروج المؤلمة من اللد والمسيرة إلى رام الله وعذاباتها، ليس فيه «أي مبالغة، بل أستطيع القول إن المأساة كما عشتها كانت أكثر حدة مما أظهرته تلك الرواية»‏xxii.

• لكن من يقرأ الرواية يعرف أن أكثر ما شد الحكيم إليها، ربما، ليس التفاصيل المؤلمة لسقوط اللد أولاً ثم الترحيل القسري لأهلها، فتلك تجربة عاشها حبش لحظة بلحظة. لكن في كتاب مانين ما يلفت الانتباه من إصرار على التمسك بالوطن وعدم اليأس رغم كل ما حصل، ويبدو أنها كانت فعـلاً تدور في خاطر الحكيم حينها. فتقرأ على لسان بطرس منصور: «لم يستطيعوا أن يقتلونا. لم يقتلوا منا إلا الطاعنين في السن فقط والصغار جداً. لقد أخرجونا إلى البرية لنموت كالكلاب ولكننا لم نمت. إننا لم نزل هنا. معظمنا على الأقل»‏xxiii. والأهم، تقرأ على لسان وليد، أحد الشخصيات الرئيسية التي انتهت بالتسلل إلى بئر السبع للتأسيس للمقاومة في رفضه لكل مبررات الاستسلام والإصرار على المقاومة: «وإسرائيل؟ ألم تبدأ فكرتها بحلم أشد من هذا الحلم (تحرير فلسطين) إمعاناً في الخيال؟ لو سيطر هذا الحلم على قلوب مليون فلسطيني شاب فلا بد من أن يحفزهم على تحويل الحلم إلى حقيقة، بالإصرار والكفاح»‏xxiv.

  لكن الدمار، والمجازر، والتهجير القسري التي حلت باللد، وكان الحكيم شاهداً حيَّاً عليها وعاش مآسيها لحظة بلحظة مع أهله وأبناء بلدته، لم تشكل لحظة الولادة الحقيقية فقط لثائر حقيقي ومقاوم عنيد لا يتعب ولا يعرف التعب، ولا يهزم ولا يعرف الهزيمة، كما تدل على ذلك مذكراته. لكن تلك الظروف وتلك المآسي كانت مناسبة لتكشف الجوهر الحقيقي لجورج حبش وروحه الثائرة. ليس ذلك فقط لأن الحكيم عرف منذ البداية أن الهدف من هذه الحرب ومن هذا المشروع الصهيوني هو «اقتلاعنا من الجذور»‏xxv لذلك لم يتردد في حمل السلاح منذ البداية حين انضم إلى «كتائب الفداء العربي»‏xxvi. وليس ذلك فقط لأن الحكيم قاوم لأكثر من ستين عاماً بعدها من دون أن ينال منه اليأس أو الهزيمة للحظة واحدة. بل لأن هذا المقاوم العنيد، جورج حبش، كان معداً أصـلاً لأن يكون إنساناً من نوع خاص جداً وثائراً من نوع خاص جداً عرفنا القليل مثله في تاريخنا العربي كما في تاريخ الشرق. وفي هذه الأيام، الأسابيع الأولى من تموز/يوليو 1948، تكشفت الأحداث التي حلت باللد وفلسطين عن ثائر عربي من نوع خاص جداً أفنى عمره حتى اللحظة الأخيرة يقاوم من أجل استعادة وطنه المسلوب والعودة إليه. ثائر من نوع خاص لم يكن ليقبل أقل من تحرير حقيقي وكريم لكل فلسطين، وعودة كريمة لكل أهلها علها تمسح قليـلاً من عار الهزيمة وذل الشتات. لهذا رفض أن يعود بالشروط التي عاد بها الآخرون جازماً أن عودته ستكون فقط مع عودة آخر لاجئ من الشتات. في تلك الأيام تكشفت الأحداث عن ثائر عربي حقيقي هو امتداد لتقليد ثوري إنساني فريد عرفه تاريخ العرب وتاريخ الشرق فكان خير سليل لهذا التقليد الثوري العظيمxxvii. ما يلي هو بعض من سيرة هذا القائد العظيم، ونشرها في الذكرى الحادية عشرة لرحيله يعني أنه، برغم كل شيء، لا يزال حياً بيننا. فـ «أن تعيش في قلوب من تركت خلفك، يعني أنك لن تموت أبدا.»xxviii

  

  ** هذا النص هو جزء من مقدمة أطول لكتاب مذكرات جورج حبش، «صفحات من مسيرتي النضالية: جورج حبش»، الذي يصدر عن مركز دراسات الوحدة العربية في الذكرى الحادية عشرة لرحيله.

  المراجع:

  i محيي الدين بن عربي، الفتوحات المكية (بيروت: دار الكتب العلمية، 2006)، ج 1، ص 236.

  ii «مطالع المسرات بجلاء دلائل الخيرات» هو شرح الفاسي لـ «دلائل الخيرات وشوارق الأنوار في ذكر الصلاة على النبي المختار» لأبي عبد الله الجزولي.

  iii هادي العلوي، مدارات صوفية (دمشق: دار النهج للثقافة والنشر، 1997)، ص 112.

  iv ابن عربي، المصدر نفسه، ص 345.

  v العلوي، المصدر نفسه، ص 112.

  vi Edward Said, Reflections on Exile and Other Essays (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000), p. 48.

  vii انظر صفحة ٢١٩ من الكتاب

  viii Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (New York: Bloomsbury, 2012), p. 171

  ix انظر صفحة ٣٠٥ من الكتاب

  x انظر صفحة ٦٢ من الكتاب

  xi انظر صفحة ٢٧٤ من الكتاب

  xii انظر صفحة ٢٩١ من الكتاب.

  xiii ديفيد بن – غوريون، يوميات الحرب: 1947 – 1949 (بيروت: مؤسسة الدراسات الفلسطينية، 1993)، ص 359.

  xiv المصدر نفسه، ص 369.

  xv المصدر نفسه، ص 371 (30 أيار/مايو 1948).

  xvi المصدر نفسه، ص 414.

  xvii المصدر نفسه، ص 316.

  xviii Benny Morris, 1948:A History of the First Arab-Israeli War (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008), p. 290.

  xix Ibid., p. 289.

  xx Ibid., p. 289.

  xxi إيثيلمانين، الطريق إلى بئر السبع (دمشق: طلاس للدراسات والنشر، 1985).

  xxii انظر صفحة ٥٩ من الكتاب

  xxiii الطريق الى بئر السبع، صفحة ٨٢

  xxiv المصدر نفسه، ص 207

  xxv انظر صفحة ٣٤ من الكتاب

  xxvi انظر صفحة ٦٥ من الكتاب

  xxvii سيف دعنا. جورج حبش: سليل المشاعية الثورية. الأخبار. ٢٧ كانون الثاني ٢٠١٨
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In Case You Missed It: What Is Antisemitism?

By Michael Neumann

March 27, 2018 “Information Clearing House” – Every once in a while, some left-wing Jewish writer will take a deep breath, open up his (or her) great big heart, and tell us that criticism of Israel or Zionism is not antisemitism. Silently they congratulate themselves on their courage. With a little sigh, they suppress any twinge of concern that maybe the goyim–let alone the Arabs–can’t be trusted with this dangerous knowledge.

Sometimes it is gentile hangers-on, whose ethos if not their identity aspires to Jewishness, who take on this task. Not to be utterly risqué, they then hasten to remind us that antisemitism is nevertheless to be taken very seriously. That Israel, backed by a pronounced majority of Jews, happens to be waging a race war against the Palestinians is all the more reason we should be on our guard. Who knows? it might possibly stir up some resentment!

I take a different view. I think we should almost never take antisemitism seriously, and maybe we should have some fun with it. I think it is particularly unimportant to the Israel-Palestine conflict, except perhaps as a diversion from the real issues. I will argue for the truth of these claims; I also defend their propriety. I don’t think making them is on a par with pulling the wings off flies.

“Antisemitism”, properly and narrowly speaking, doesn’t mean hatred of semites; that is to confuse etymology with definition. It means hatred of Jews. But here, immediately, we come up against the venerable shell-game of Jewish identity: “Look! We’re a religion! No! a race! No! a cultural entity! Sorry–a religion!” When we tire of this game, we get suckered into another: “anti-Zionism is antisemitism! ” quickly alternates with: “Don’t confuse Zionism with Judaism! How dare you, you antisemite”

Well, let’s be good sports. Let’s try defining antisemitism as broadly as any supporter of Israel would ever want: antisemitism can be hatred of the Jewish race, or culture, or religion, or hatred of Zionism. Hatred, or dislike, or opposition, or slight unfriendliness.

But supporters of Israel won’t find this game as much fun as they expect. Inflating the meaning of ‘antisemitism’ to include anything politically damaging to Israel is a double-edged sword. It may be handy for smiting your enemies, but the problem is that definitional inflation, like any inflation, cheapens the currency. The more things get to count as antisemitic, the less awful antisemitism is going to sound. This happens because, while no one can stop you from inflating definitions, you still don’t control the facts. In particular, no definition of ‘antisemitism’ is going to eradicate the substantially pro-Palestinian version of the facts which I espouse, as do most people in Europe, a great many Israelis, and a growing number of North Americans.

What difference does that make? Suppose, for example, an Israeli rightist says that the settlements represent the pursuit of aspirations fundamental to the Jewish people, and to oppose the settlements is antisemitism. We might have to accept this claim; certainly it is difficult to refute. But we also cannot abandon the well-founded belief that the settlements strangle the Palestinian people and extinguish any hope of peace. So definitional acrobatics are all for nothing: we can only say, screw the fundamental aspirations of the Jewish people; the settlements are wrong. We must add that, since we are obliged to oppose the settlements, we are obliged to be antisemitic. Through definitional inflation, some form of ‘antisemitism’ has become morally obligatory.

It gets worse if anti-Zionism is labeled antisemitic, because the settlements, even if they do not represent fundamental aspirations of the Jewish people, are an entirely plausible extension of Zionism. To oppose them is indeed to be anti-Zionist, and therefore, by the stretched definition, antisemitic. The more antisemitism expands to include opposition to Israeli policies, the better it looks. Given the crimes to be laid at the feet of Zionism, there is another simple syllogism: anti-Zionism is a moral obligation, so, if anti-Zionism is antisemitism, antisemitism is a moral obligation.

What crimes? Even most apologists for Israel have given up denying them, and merely hint that noticing them is a bit antisemitic. After all, Israel ‘is no worse than anyone else’. First, so what? At age six we knew that “everyone’s doing it” is no excuse; have we forgotten? Second, the crimes are no worse only when divorced from their purpose. Yes, other people have killed civilians, watched them die for want of medical care, destroyed their homes, ruined their crops, and used them as human shields. But Israel does these things to correct the inaccuracy of Israel Zangwill’s 1901 assertion that

“Palestine is a country without a people; the Jews are a people without a country”.

It hopes to create a land entirely empty of gentiles, an Arabia deserta in which Jewish children can laugh and play throughout a wasteland called peace.

Well before the Hitler era, Zionists came thousands of miles to dispossess people who had never done them the slightest harm, and whose very existence they contrived to ignore.

Zionist atrocities were not part of the initial plan. They emerged as the racist obliviousness of a persecuted people blossomed into the racial supremacist ideology of a persecuting one. That is why the commanders who directed the rapes, mulilations and child-killings of Deir Yassin went on to become prime ministers of Israel.(*) But these murders were not enough. Today, when Israel could have peace for the taking, it conducts another round of dispossession, slowly, deliberately making Palestine unliveable for Palestinians, and liveable for Jews. Its purpose is not defense or public order, but the extinction of a people. True, Israel has enough PR-savvy to eliminate them with an American rather than a Hitlerian level of violence. This is a kinder, gentler genocide that portrays its perpetrators as victims.

Israel is building a racial state, not a religious one. Like my parents, I have always been an atheist. I am entitled by the biology of my birth to Israeli citizenship; you, perhaps, are the most fervent believer in Judaism, but are not. Palestinians are being squeezed and killed for me, not for you. They are to be forced into Jordan, to perish in a civil war. So no, shooting Palestinian civilians is not like shooting Vietnamese or Chechen civilians. The Palestinians aren’t ‘collateral damage’ in a war against well-armed communist or separatist forces. They are being shot because Israel thinks all Palestinians should vanish or die, so people with one Jewish grandparent can build subdivisions on the rubble of their homes. This is not the bloody mistake of a blundering superpower but an emerging evil, the deliberate strategy of a state conceived in and dedicated to an increasingly vicious ethnic nationalism. It has relatively few corpses to its credit so far, but its nuclear weapons can kill perhaps 25 million people in a few hours.

Do we want to say it is antisemitic to accuse, not just the Israelis, but Jews generally of complicity in these crimes against humanity? Again, maybe not, because there is a quite reasonable case for such assertions. Compare them, for example, to the claim that Germans generally were complicit in such crimes. This never meant that every last German, man, woman, idiot and child, were guilty. It meant that most Germans were. Their guilt, of course, did not consist in shoving naked prisoners into gas chambers. It consisted in support for the people who planned such acts, or–as many overwrought, moralistic Jewish texts will tell you–for denying the horror unfolding around them, for failing to speak out and resist, for passive consent. Note that the extreme danger of any kind of active resistance is not supposed to be an excuse here.

Well, virtually no Jew is in any kind of danger from speaking out. And speaking out is the only sort of resistance required. If many Jews spoke out, it would have an enormous effect. But the overwhelming majority of Jews do not, and in the vast majority of cases, this is because they support Israel. Now perhaps the whole notion of collective responsibility should be discarded; perhaps some clever person will convince us that we have to do this. But at present, the case for Jewish complicity seems much stronger than the case for German complicity. So if it is not racist, and reasonable, to say that the Germans were complicit in crimes against humanity, then it is not racist, and reasonable, to say the same of the Jews. And should the notion of collective responsibility be discarded, it would still be reasonable to say that many, perhaps most adult Jewish individuals support a state that commits war crimes, because that’s just true. So if saying these things is antisemitic, than it can be reasonable to be antisemitic.

In other words there is a choice to be made. You can use ‘antisemitism’ to fit your political agenda, or you can use it as a term of condemnation, but you can’t do both. If antisemitism is to stop coming out reasonable or moral, it has to be narrowly and unpolemically defined. It would be safe to confine antisemitism to explicitly racial hatred of Jews, to attacking people simply because they had been born Jewish. But it would be uselessly safe: even the Nazis did not claim to hate people simply because they had been born Jewish. They claimed to hate the Jews because they were out to dominate the Aryans.

Clearly such a view should count as antisemitic, whether it belongs to the cynical racists who concocted it or to the fools who swallowed it.

There is only one way to guarantee that the term “antisemitism” captures all and only bad acts or attitudes towards Jews. We have to start with what we can all agree are of that sort, and see that the term names all and only them. We probably share enough morality to do this.

For instance, we share enough morality to say that all racially based acts and hatreds are bad, so we can safely count them as antisemitic. But not all ‘hostility towards Jews’, even if that means hostility towards the overwhelming majority of Jews, should count as antisemitic. Nor should all hostility towards Judaism, or Jewish culture.

I, for example, grew up in Jewish culture and, like many people growing up in a culture, I have come to dislike it. But it is unwise to count my dislike as antisemitic, not because I am Jewish, but because it is harmless. Perhaps not utterly harmless: maybe, to some tiny extent, it will somehow encourage some of the harmful acts or attitudes we’d want to call antisemitic. But so what? Exaggerated philosemitism, which regards all Jews as brilliant warm and witty saints, might have the same effect. The dangers posed by my dislike are much too small to matter. Even widespread, collective loathing for a culture is normally harmless. French culture, for instance, seems to be widely disliked in North America, and no one, including the French, consider this some sort of racial crime.

Not even all acts and attitudes harmful to Jews generally should be considered antisemitic. Many people dislike American culture; some boycott American goods. Both the attitude and the acts may harm Americans generally, but there is nothing morally objectionable about either. Defining these acts as anti-Americanism will only mean that some anti-Americanism is perfectly acceptable. If you call opposition to Israeli policies antisemitic on the grounds that this opposition harms Jews generally, it will only mean that some antisemitism is equally acceptable.

If antisemitism is going to be a term of condemnation, then, it must apply beyond explicitly racist acts or thoughts or feelings. But it cannot apply beyond clearly unjustified and serious hostility to Jews. The Nazis made up historical fantasies to justify their attacks; so do modern antisemites who trust in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. So do the closet racists who complain about Jewish dominance of the economy. This is antisemitism in a narrow, negative sense of the word. It is action or propaganda designed to hurt Jews, not because of anything they could avoid doing, but because they are what they are. It also applies to the attitudes that propaganda tries to instill. Though not always explicitly racist, it involves racist motives and the intention to do real damage. Reasonably well-founded opposition to Israeli policies, even if that opposition hurts all Jews, does not fit this description. Neither does simple, harmless dislike of things Jewish.

So far, I’ve suggested that it’s best to narrow the definition of antisemitism so that no act can be both antisemitic and unobjectionable. But we can go further. Now that we’re through playing games, let’s ask about the role of *genuine*, bad antisemitism in the Israel-Palestine conflict, and in the world at large.

Undoubtedly there is genuine antisemitism in the Arab world: the distribution of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the myths about stealing the blood of gentile babies. This is utterly inexcusable. So was your failure to answer Aunt Bee’s last letter. In other words, it is one thing to be told: you must simply accept that antisemitism is evil; to do otherwise is to put yourself outside our moral world. But it is quite something else to have someone try to bully you into proclaiming that antisemitism is the Evil of Evils. We are not children learning morality; it is our responsibility to set our own moral priorities. We cannot do this by looking at horrible images from 1945 or listening to the anguished cries of suffering columnists. We have to ask how much harm antisemitism is doing, or is likely to do, not in the past, but today. And we must ask where such harm might occur, and why.

Supposedly there is great danger in the antisemitism of the Arab world. But Arab antisemitism isn’t the cause of Arab hostility towards Israel or even towards Jews. It is an effect. The progress of Arab antisemitism fits nicely with the progress of Jewish encroachment and Jewish atrocities. This is not to excuse genuine antisemitism; it is to trivialize it. It came to the Middle East with Zionism and it will abate when Zionism ceases to be an expansionist threat. Indeed its chief cause is not antisemitic propaganda but the decades-old, systematic and unrelenting efforts of Israel to implicate all Jews in its crimes. If Arab anti-semitism persists after a peace agreement, we can all get together and cluck about it. But it still won’t do Jews much actual harm. Arab governments could only lose by permitting attacks on their Jewish citizens; to do so would invite Israeli intervention. And there is little reason to expect such attacks to materialize: if all the horrors of Israel’s recent campaigns did not provoke them, it is hard to imagine what would. It would probably take some Israeli act so awful and so criminal as to overshadow the attacks themselves.

If antisemitism is likely to have terrible effects, it is far more likely to have them in Western Europe. The neo-fascist resurgence there is all too real. But is it a danger to Jews? There is no doubt that LePen, for instance, is antisemitic. There is also no evidence whatever that he intends to do anything about it. On the contrary, he makes every effort to pacify the Jews, and perhaps even enlist their help against his real targets, the ‘Arabs’. He would hardly be the first political figure to ally himself with people he disliked. But if he had some deeply hidden plan against the Jews, that *would* be unusual: Hitler and the Russian antisemitic rioters were wonderfully open about their intentions, and they didn’t court Jewish support. And it is a fact that some French Jews see LePen as a positive development or even an ally. (see, for instance, “`LePen is good for us,’ Jewish supporter says”, Ha’aretz May 04, 2002, and Mr. Goldenburg’s April 23rd comments on France TV.)

Of course there are historical reasons for fearing a horrendous attack on Jews. And anything is possible: there could be a massacre of Jews in Paris tomorrow, or of Algerians. Which is more likely? If there are any lessons of history, they must apply in roughly similar circumstances. Europe today bears very little resemblance to Europe in 1933. And there are positive possibilities as well: why is the likelihood of a pogrom greater than the likelihood that antisemitism will fade into ineffectual nastiness? Any legitimate worries must rest on some evidence that there really is a threat.

The incidence of antisemitic attacks might provide such evidence. But this evidence is consistently fudged: no distinction is made between attacks against Jewish monuments and symbols as opposed to actual attacks against Jews. In addition, so much is made of an increase in the frequency of attacks that the very low absolute level of attacks escapes attention. The symbolic attacks have indeed increased to significant absolute numbers. The physical attacks have not.(*) More important, most of these attacks are by Muslim residents: in other words, they come from a widely hated, vigorously policed and persecuted minority who don’t stand the slightest chance of undertaking a serious campaign of violence against Jews.

It is very unpleasant that roughly half a dozen Jews have been hospitalized–none killed–due to recent attacks across Europe. But anyone who makes this into one of the world’s important problems simply hasn’t looked at the world. These attacks are a matter for the police, not a reason why we should police ourselves and others to counter some deadly spiritual disease. That sort of reaction is appropriate only when racist attacks occur in societies indifferent or hostile to the minority attacked. Those who really care about recurrent Nazism, for instance, should save their anguished concern for the far bloodier, far more widely condoned attacks on gypsies, whose history of persecution is fully comparable to the Jewish past. The position of Jews is much closer to the position of whites, who are also, of course, the victims of racist attacks.

No doubt many people reject this sort of cold-blooded calculation. They will say that, with the past looming over us, even one antisemitic slur is a terrible thing, and its ugliness is not to be measured by a body count. But if we take a broader view of the matter, antisemitism becomes less, not more important. To regard any shedding of Jewish blood as a world-shattering calamity, one which defies all measurement and comparison, is racism, pure and simple; the valuing of one race’s blood over all others. The fact that Jews have been persecuted for centuries and suffered terribly half a century ago doesn’t wipe out the fact that in Europe today, Jews are insiders with far less to suffer and fear than many other ethnic groups. Certainly racist attacks against a well-off minority are just as evil as racist attacks against a poor and powerless minority. But equally evil attackers do not make for equally worrisome attacks.

It is not Jews who live most in the shadow of the concentration camp. LePen’s ‘transit camps’ are for ‘Arabs’, not Jews. And though there are politically significant parties containing many antisemites, not one of these parties shows any sign of articulating, much less implementing, an antisemitic agenda. Nor is there any particular reason to suppose that, once in power, they will change their tune. Haider’s Austria is not considered dangerous for Jews; neither was Tudjman’s Croatia. And were there to be such danger, well, a nuclear-armed Jewish state stands ready to welcome any refugees, as do the US and Canada. And to say there are no real dangers now is not to say that we should ignore any dangers that may arise. If in France, for instance, the Front National starts advocating transit camps for Jews, or institutes anti-Jewish immigration policies, then we should be alarmed. But we should not be alarmed that something alarming might just conceivably happen: there are far more alarming things going on than that!

One might reply that, if things are not more alarming, it is only because the Jews and others have been so vigilant in combatting antisemitism. But this isn’t plausible. For one thing, vigilance about antisemitism is a kind of tunnel vision: as neofascists are learning, they can escape notice by keeping quiet about Jews. For another, there has been no great danger to Jews even in traditionally antisemitic countries where the world is *not* vigilant, like Croatia or the Ukraine. Countries that get very little attention seem no more dangerous than countries that get a lot. As for the vigorous reaction to LePen in France, that seems to have a lot more to do with French revulsion at neofascism than with the scoldings of the Anti-Defamation League. To suppose that the Jewish organizations and earnest columnists who pounce on antisemitism are saving the world from disaster is like claiming that Bertrand Russell and the Quakers were all that saved us from nuclear war.

Now one might say: whatever the real dangers, these events are truly agonizing for Jews, and bring back unbearably painful memories. That may be true for the very few who still have those memories; it is not true for Jews in general. I am a German Jew, and have a good claim to second-generation, third-hand victimhood. Antisemitic incidents and a climate of rising antisemitism don’t really bother me a hell of a lot. I’m much more scared of really dangerous situations, like driving. Besides, even painful memories and anxieties do not carry much weight against the actual physical suffering inflicted by discrimination against many non-Jews.

This is not to belittle all antisemitism, everywhere. One often hears of vicious antisemites in Poland and Russia, both on the streets and in government. But alarming as this may be, it is also immune to the influence of Israel-Palestine conflicts, and those conflicts are wildly unlikely to affect it one way or another. Moreover, so far as I know, nowhere is there as much violence against Jews as there is against ‘Arabs’. So even if antisemitism is, somewhere, a catastrophically serious matter, we can only conclude that anti-Arab sentiment is far more serious still. And since every antisemitic group is to a far greater extent anti-immigrant and anti-Arab, these groups can be fought, not in the name of antisemitism, but in the defense of Arabs and immigrants. So the antisemitic threat posed by these groups shouldn’t even make us want to focus on antisemitism: they are just as well fought in the name of justice for Arabs and immigrants.

In short, the real scandal today is not antisemitism but the importance it is given. Israel has committed war crimes. It has implicated Jews generally in these crimes, and Jews generally have hastened to implicate themselves. This has provoked hatred against Jews. Why not? Some of this hatred is racist, some isn’t, but who cares? Why should we pay any attention to this issue at all? Is the fact that Israel’s race war has provoked bitter anger of any importance besides the war itself? Is the remote possibility that somewhere, sometime, somehow, this hatred may in theory, possibly kill some Jews of any importance besides the brutal, actual, physical persecution of Palestinians, and the hundreds of thousands of votes for Arabs to be herded into transit camps? Oh, but I forgot. Drop everything. Someone spray-painted antisemitic slogans on a synagogue.

* Not even the ADL and B’nai B’rith include attacks on Israel in the tally; they speak of “The insidious way we have seen the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians used by anti-Semites“. And like many other people, I don’t count terrorist attacks by such as Al Quaeda as instances of antisemitism but rather of some misdirected quasi-military campaign against the US and Israel. Even if you count them in, it does not seem very dangerous to be a Jew outside Israel.

Michael Neumann is a professor of philosophy at Trent University in Ontario, Canada. He can be reached at: mneumann@trentu.ca

This article was originally published by “Counterpunch” –

The views and opinions expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect those of Information Clearing House.

TAKFIRI NAKBA AT WORK IN TARTOUS AND JABLEH TODAY: 145 SYRIAN CIVILIANS BUTCHERED

MAY 23, 2016 MADDCOLDSONOFKUFA

by Jonathan Azaziah

Indescribable inhumanity in Tartous and Jableh today. No grouping of words, no matter how eloquent or impassioned, can really express the pain, the shock and the sheer horror felt after the viciousness inflicted on the Syrian people in these gorgeous coastal regions this morning by the Takfiri maniacs of Ahrar al-Sham. At least 145 civilians have been martyred, most of them women and children, and hundreds more have been wounded, in a sophisticated septuple assault consisting of five suicide attacks and two car bombs. This barbaric terrorism comes as the Syrian Arab Army, Hizbullah and their comrades are on the move throughout every major battle front, including the “Vengeance For Hajj Moustafa Badreddine” operations in East Ghouta, the fresh advancement in Deir Ez-Zor and the reactivation of maneuvers in Aleppo’s southern countryside. It doesn’t take a geopolitical genius to figure out the Wahhabi murderers’ motivation here: Unable to subdue Mouqawamah Axis forces in toe-to-toe combat, these beasts engage in the mass murder of the unarmed, innocent and vulnerable, true to their cowardly nature.

And perhaps it is this cowardice that bonds the Takfiris and their ‘Israeli’ masters together so closely, beyond the strategic symbiosis–it was indeed ‘Israel’ alongside the American regime and Al-Saud which created ISIS, Nusra, Ahrar al-Sham, etc. to undermine, subvert and overthrow their adversaries, chiefly Syria and the Resistance Axis–as well as the similar delusional notions of supremacy which are foundational to Zionism and Wahhabism. Today’s atrocities in Tartous and Jableh, along with the recent string of malevolent attacks in Iraq, are a stark reminder of the 2006 July War, when the ‘Israeli’ enemy, after being thoroughly beaten to a pulp and humiliated by Hizbullah, unleashed four million cluster bombs on Dahiyeh, slaughtering hundreds in this bombardment alone and rendering the southern Beirut suburbs to rubble. Operation Mighty Cliff in summer 2014 also comes to mind, when the Zionists eviscerated the Gaza City suburb of Shuja’iyah after getting smacked around by the Palestinian Resistance.

Thinking about it further I am reminded of the carnage in Deir Yassin on April 9th, 1948; the wanton bloodshed and expulsions in Ramle and Lydda throughout July 1948; the ungodliness in Dueima in November 1948; the cold-blooded killing in Kufr Qassem on October 29th, 1956 and the Khan Younis barbarity only days later on November 3rd; the butchery of 3,500 Palestinians and Lebanese Shi’a in Sabra and Shatilah by the Zionist-backed Phalangists on September 16th-18th, 1982; the pure evil of the first Qana Massacre on April 18th, 1996; the monstrosities against the civilians of Jenin during the Second Intifada, and too many more to heartrendingly recall. Takfiris literally learned everything they know about terrorism from these Zionist savages who have been colonizing and putrefying the Arab-Islamic world for the last 132 years.

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah called the proliferation of this aggressive, sanguinary, expansionist Wahhabi terror the “Takfiri Nakba” for a damn good reason. And just as we must uproot ‘Israel’ and its entire psychopathic settler population to end the Nakba in Palestine, we must uproot every last Zionist-backed Wahhabi terrorist goon from every last corner of our region to finish off the Takfiri Nakba for good if crimes like what happened today in Tartous and Jableh are to cease once and for all. May ALLAH (SWT) grant eternal serenity to the martyrs. ‪#‎DeathToTakfirism‬ ‪#‎DeathToIsrael‬

Jewish Murderers and What to Do About Them: A Suggestion from David Ben-Gurion

Posted on April 11, 2016

by Richard Edmondson

By Richard Edmondson

Recently Sen. Patrick Leahy and ten other members of Congress sent a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry expressing concern over possible extrajudicial executions by Israeli forces of four Palestinians named in an Amnesty International report.

The signatories to the letter cite “allegations of gross violations of human rights” (in both Israel and Egypt) and request Kerry to look into the matter with a view toward determining whether a cutoff of US military assistance might be mandated as required under the Leahy Law.

The letter was dated February 17 but wasn’t made public until late March after a video went viral showing Israeli soldier Elior Azaria firing a gunshot at point blank range into the head of a Palestinian who had been wounded and lay on a street practically motionless.

What that video clearly shows is an act of murder, but the charges against Azaria have been reduced to manslaughter, and some say even that is nothing more thanpublic relations. The video comes at a time when approximately 200 Palestinians have been killed in what the Israelis in most instances have alleged to be stabbing attacks, but in a number of these cases witnesses have refuted the official version of events, and there have been numerous allegations of knives being planted on or near bodies.

Moreover, the killings didn’t start with the outbreak of the latest intifada. In July of last year, Jewish settlers threw petrol bombs into a Palestinian home, killing three members of the Dawabsha family, including an 18-month-old baby, and a few months after that a video surfaced showing Jewish radicals celebrating the attack while stabbing the baby’s photo.

Four people are presently facing charges in the Dawabsha case, though only one has officially been charged with murder, and even if he is convicted, it’s doubtful he will face more than a couple of years in prison. Moreover, the arson attack on the Dawabsha home wasn’t the first time Jews in Israel burned someone to death. In the summer of 2014, Jewish settlers kidnapped 16-year-old Muhammad Abu Khdeir off the street and set him on fire after forcing him to swallow gasoline. It would require a diseased mind to do that to anyone, much less a 16-year-old kid who had done nothing to harm the attackers.

Clearly there is a problem in Israel with murderers running rampant, but this is nothing new. It has been a problem ever since the the Jewish state has been in existence–something recognized by no less than David Ben-Gurion. Moreover, Ben-Gurion put forth a proposal for stemming the tide of butchery, though actually his solution was not that novel or new. Simply put, he advocated imposing the death penalty. Only this, he reasoned, would deter Jews from the gratuitous killing of Arabs. The former prime minister’s thoughts on the matter were expressed in a cabinet meeting in 1951, and were the subject of a recent article in Haaretz.

“I’m not the justice minister, I’m not the police minister and I don’t know all criminal acts committed here, but as defense minister I know some of the crimes, and I must say the situation is frightening in two areas: 1) acts of murder and 2) acts of rape,” he said.

Ben-Gurion at the time was serving simultaneously as prime minister and as defense minister, and the subject up for discussion that day was whether or not to abolish the death penalty–a statute still left on the books from the years of the British mandate. Most of those present were in favor of abolishing it. Ben-Gurion and a few others were opposed.

“In general, those who have guns use them,” Ben-Gurion asserted, adding that some Israelis “think Jews are people but Arabs aren’t, so you can do anything to them. And some think it’s a mitzvah to kill Arabs, and that everything the government says against murdering Arabs isn’t serious, that it’s just a pretense that killing Arabs is forbidden, but in fact, it’s a blessing because there will be fewer Arabs here. As long as they think that, the murders won’t stop.”

Ben-Gurion said he, too, would prefer fewer Arabs, but not at the price of murder. “Abolishing the death penalty will increase bloodshed,” he warned, especially between Jews and Arabs. “Soon, we won’t be able to show our faces to the world. Jews meet an Arab and murder him.”

Keep in mind Ben-Gurion’s comment about the “mitzvah to kill Arabs” and the Israelis who regard Arabs as less than human. One who sided with Ben-Gurion  on the death penalty debate was Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett, but for the latter it was a complete reversal from a previous position he had taken on the issue. When the capital punishment issue first had come up in 1949, Sharett had been in favor of abolishing it. But by 1951, Sharett had had a complete change of heart.

“With great regret I’ve become convinced that abolishing the death penalty is inconceivable,” he announced, noting that even countries “which are immeasurably more humane than we are – I’ve spent years there and I live here – maintain the death penalty.”

The main reason for his U-turn, however, was “the crimes that have happened and are happening week after week, especially in the army,” including some that weren’t public knowledge. Sociopaths might not be deterred by the death penalty, Sharett admitted, “but that Jewish chap who kills two Arabs he met on the road, I’m not willing to say, without trying it first, that he’s a killer by nature and won’t fear the death penalty.”

Some Jews, Sharett said, think “every Arab is a dog, a wild dog that it’s a mitzvah to kill.” And “to save them from killing human beings, it’s a mitzvah to have the death penalty here. As long as we don’t have it, these murders will continue, and we’ll be held accountable, and it will create moral corruption here…”

Once again we have a reference to Jews regarding Arabs as subhuman, and note also Sharett’s comment about “sociopaths” as well as his remark about countries “which are immeasurably more humane than we are.” It is as if Sharett is conceding that Jews by nature are not especially humane–you could almost read that into the quote.

In any event, the death penalty in Israel was officially abolished in 1954.

The world just a few days ago marked the 68th anniversary of the Deir Yassin Massacre. On April 9, 1948 members of the Ergun and Stern Gang terrorist groups invaded the village of Deir Yassin at about 3 a.m. and began slaughtering its inhabitants. When they met with resistance from the villagers, they put out a call for help to the Haganah (which later became known as the “Israeli Defense Forces”), which indeed responded to the call. By the time it was over, some 250-360 Palestinians lay dead.

And Deir Yassin has been repeated in one form or another down through the years, including in Gaza which seems to get a thunderous torrent of murder and mayhem unleashed upon it every other year or so.

It is kind of ironic that Sharett and Ben-Gurion, as we can see now, shared at least one thing in common with Adolph Hitler–all three advocated the death penalty for Jews. The reason I invoke Hitler’s name is because history, and particularly Jewish history, has a tendency to run in cycles (109 expulsions since the year 250 A.D.), and Israel’s ability to flaunt its barbaric behavior, while at the same time continuing to receive support from Western politicians, simply underscores in people’s minds the extent to which Jews hold power over them.

Politicians such as Hillary Clinton may think they’re doing a service to American Jews by pandering to AIPAC and pledging their eternal fealty to Israel, but in reality they may be accomplishing just the opposite. A good many of America’s problems right now are attributable to bankers and media owners, and the fact that Jews dominate in both industries (“and so what if we do?” wrote one rather famously) is not being lost on increasing numbers of people.

In other words, the anger is spreading outward. It is no longer confined simply to “Israel” or its “lobbies.” It is spreading outward–to encompass Jews in general. You don’t see it so much in public spaces, but on the Internet it is plainly visible. And probably for this reason the Department of Homeland Security has awarded more than 90 percent of its grants to Jewish organizations–a gesture which may increase security at a few synagogues and community centers but which will also have a tendency to stoke the public anger even further.

For this and other reasons, it might be well, for those with the capability of thinking rationally, to actually go ahead and invoke the Leahy Law at this time and cut off military aid to Israel. Doing so would act as an escape valve; it would help defuse some of the public anger. And for whatever it’s worth, I think David Ben-Gurion would approve, for it might well impress upon the Israelis that there are consequences to actions–something they don’t presently seem to understand.

Invoking the Leahy Law would have other bonuses as well. A cutoff of military aid would reduce Israel’s ability to wreak havoc in the Middle East, and reducing its capacity for creating havoc will make for a saner world than we have at present. It will not, of course, cleanse the collective Jewish psyche of its supremacist tendencies, its murderous urges, or its inclinations to view others as subhuman.

How that may ever be achieved, I do not know. It may well require an act of God.

Deir Yassin Massacre

April 9, 2016 10:54 AM IMEMC News

09 APR 10:54 AM

Today, Saturday, is the sixty-eight anniversary of Deir Yassin massacre committed by the Ergun and Stern Zionist terrorist organizations against this village in 1948, killing 250-360 Palestinian in cold blood, after the two groups invaded the village of 750 inhabitants.

By the time the villagers realized the intensity of the terrorist attack, hundreds were already dead, and the rest fled for their lives, before the terrorist groups occupied it.

The attack and bloodshed started approximately at 3 at dawn, but the two Zionist groups were met with armed resistance that also led to the death of four attackers and the injury of 32 others.

After that, terrorists of Ergun and Stern called for help from the “Hagana” leadership in Jerusalem, and once more armed terrorists arrived, many carrying automatic machine guns, they started firing on the villages, including women, elderly and children, and managed to retrieve their dead and wounded.

The assailants also asked for reinforcement from the “Palmach” striking company under the Hagana leadership.

The Palmach, stationed in a military base near Jerusalem, started shelling Deir Yassin with mortar shells, in order to facilitate the invasion by Stern and Ergun.

By noon that day, all forms of resistance in Deir Yassin were eliminated, then Stern and Ergun terrorists started detonating the village’s homes, one by one, with dynamite.

Many villagers were detained, forced against walls and executed on the spot, and the terrorists then loaded cars and trucks with Palestinians captured in the village, and paraded through the streets while chanting racist slogans.

The massacre in Deir Yassin remains a historic mark in the Palestinian struggle that witnessed dozens of massacres, forcing hundreds of thousands of terrified Palestinians to fled Palestine into nearby Arab countries before the 1948 war that eventually led to occupying historic Palestine, and the establishment of Israel.

The Nakba led to the displacement of 750,000 Palestinians in 1947-48, after hundreds of villages and towns were destroyed, and depopulated.

 

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Israel: ‘Barbarism by an Educated and Cultured People’ — 1948 Dawayima Massacre was Worse than Deir Yassin

By Jonathan Ofir

Global Research, February 09, 2016

“There was no battle and no resistance (and no Egyptians). The first conquerors killed from eighty to a hundred Arabs [including] women and children. The children were killed by smashing of their skulls with sticks. Is it possible to shout about Deir Yassin and be silent about something much worse?” For the first time ever, a letter quoting one of the Israeli soldiers who were part of the Al-Dawayima massacre in October 1948 is published in full.

On Friday, February 5th 2016, Haaretz published an article in Hebrew by Israeli historian Yair Auron [pictured left], which covers one of the biggest massacres of 1948. The massacre is of Al Dawayima, west of Al-Khalil (which is often referred to as Hebron). In a 2004 interview with Haaretz, Israeli historian Benny Morris refers to this as a massacre of “hundreds”.

After the massacre, a letter was sent to the editor of the leftist affiliated newspaper Al-Hamishmar, but never published. As Auron notes, there are still many archives of the time which are classified. Auron also states that there was an investigation that was never concluded and “died out” as a massive amnesty was provided to military personnel in February 1949.This is a very exhaustive article, but I found it useful enough to translate this letter in full on its own. The letter, which first “disappeared,’ was provided to Auron by historian Benny Morris. Although these matters have been referred to in passing in historical summaries, the letter has never been published before in full.

To comrade Eliezer Peri, good day,

Today I have read the editorial of “Al Hamishmar” where the question of our army’s conduct was aired, the army which conquers all but its own desires.

Historian/sleuth Benny Morris

A testimony provided to me by an officer which was in [Al] Dawayima the day after its conquering: The soldier is one of ours, intellectual, reliable, in all 100%. He had confided in me out of a need to unload the heaviness of his soul from the horror of the recognition that such level of barbarism can be reached by our educated and cultured people. He confided in me because not many are the hearts today who are able to listen.

There was no battle and no resistance (and no Egyptians). The first conquerors killed from eighty to a hundred Arabs [including] women and children. The children were killed by smashing of their skulls with sticks. There was not a house without dead. The second wave of the [Israeli] army was a platoon that the soldier giving testimony belongs to.

In the town were left male and female Arabs, who were put into houses and were then locked in without receiving food or drink. Later explosive engineers came to blow up houses. One commander ordered an engineer to put two elderly women into the house that was to be blown up. The engineered refused and said he is willing to receive orders only from his [own] commander. So then [his] commander ordered the soldiers to put the women in and the evil deed was performed.

One soldier boasted that he raped an Arab woman and afterwards shot her. An Arab woman with a days-old infant was used for cleaning the back yard where the soldiers eat. She serviced them for a day or two, after which they shot her and the infant. The soldier tells that the commanders who are cultured and polite, considered good guys in society, have become vile murderers, and this occurs not in the storm of battle and heated response, but rather from a system of expulsion and destruction. The fewer Arabs remain – the better. This principle is the main political motive of [the] expulsions and acts of horror which no-one objects to, not in the field command nor amongst the highest military command. I myself was at the front for two weeks and heard boasting stories of soldiers and commanders, of how they excelled in the acts of hunting and “fucking” [sic]. To fuck an Arab, just like that, and in any circumstance, is considered an impressive mission and there is competition on winning this [trophy].

We find ourselves in a conundrum. To shout this out in the press will mean to assist the Arab League, which our representatives deny all complaints of. To not react would mean solidarity with moral corruption. The soldier told me that Deir Yassin [another massacre, by Irgun militants, April 1948] is not the peak of hooliganism. Is it possible to shout about Deir Yassin and be silent about something much worse?

It is necessary to initiate a scandal in the internal channels, to insist upon an internal investigation and punish the culprits. And first of all it is necessary to create in the military a special unit for the restraint of the army. I myself accuse first of all the government, which doesn’t seem to have any interest to fight the phenomena and perhaps even encourages them indirectly. The fact of not-acting is in itself encouragement. My commander told me that there is an unwritten order to not take prisoners of war, and the interpretation of “prisoner” is individually given by each soldier and commander. A prisoner can be an Arab man, woman or child. This was not only done at the exhibition windows [major Palestinian towns] such as Majdal and Nazareth.

I write this to you so that in the editorial and in the party the truth will be known and something effective would be done. At least let them not indulge in phony diplomacy which covers up for blood and murder, and to the extent possible, also the paper must not let this pass in silence.

Kaplan

The original source of this article is Mondoweiss

Copyright © Jonathan Ofir, Mondoweiss, 2016

Paul Eisen on Jeremy Corbyn – The finest man in British politics

June 05, 2015  /  Gilad Atzmon

By Paul Eisen

http://pauleisen.blogspot.co.uk/
I just heard that Jeremy Corbyn is going to stand for the leadership of the British Labour Party.

I hate all politics and I hold the hopelessly compromised and Zionised Labour party in particular contempt. But if Jeremy Corbyn does stand for leader I’m going to join that party so I can give him my vote.

Jeremy has been my MP for pretty much the entire thirty-five years myself and my family have lived here in North Islington so, over the years, I’ve got to know a little about the man.

One thing I and every single resident of Islington knows is that if you’ve got a problem and you go to his surgery and you need his help, you’ll get it –  and I’ll bet that if Jeremy were to become leader of the Labour party, or indeed of the nation, that won’t change one bit.

I’ve also noticed that his support isn’t confined to those issues which he personally supports. I’ve seen Jeremy as busy with a Barnsbury Residents Association concerned about the preservation of their Georgian Square as with a refuge for asylum seekers.

One issue he most certainly does support is that of Palestine solidarity and one evening fifteen years ago I cycled over to see him. I was just beginning to establish Deir Yassin Remembered in the UK and I wanted him to join. I’d hardly begun my feverishly-rehearsed pitch before his cheque book was on the table. From that day on, without fuss or bother, whether DYR was flavour-of-the month or the maggot-at-the-bottom-of-the-food-chain, he attended every single Deir Yassin commemoration.

Since then I’ve seen him here and there. I’ve seen him at solidarity meetings and also at events unconnected with Palestine. One was a meeting of firmly middle-class Islingtonians rabbiting on about protecting the trees in their neighbourhood. But Jeremy Corbyn was there and Jeremy Corbyn was as Jeremy Corbyn always is – fair, approachable, non-judgmental and always committed to the finest ideals of a British Parliamentarian i.e. representing the wishes and feelings of his constituents.

But there’s one final thing I want to tell you about Jeremy Corbyn because it means a lot to me. During the time when I felt so marginalised and isolated, when the movement with which he was associated so despised me, Jeremy always said hello. What’s so great about that? Well, if you ever find yourself in that situation you’ll know exactly what so great about it.

I can hear them now: “Oh sure, Corbyn’s a fine man, a man of principle but that’s not necessarily what we need in a leader”. I disagree. In these terrible times, that’s exactly what we need in a leader.

You can read all the standard stuff about Jeremy Corbyn here and click the ‘YES’ button to show your support. Also, under party rules a candidate needs to be nominated by 35 fellow MPs to appear on the ballot. You can sign a petition here to press Labour MPs to support this fine man.

Palestinian right of return, sacred and inalienable objective

القضية الفلسطينية ستبقى القضية المركزية لسورية

Palestinian right of return, sacred and inalienable objective

Saturday, 16 May 2015 09:25

As the Palestinians commemorate the 67th anniversary of the Nakba Day, they are more determined to liberate their occupied lands and establish their independent state with Jerusalem as its capital. They are also more determined to the repatriation right which has been guaranteed by UN resolutions.

On the 15th of May 1948, more than 800 thousand of Palestinians were forcibly displaced, by Zionists, from their indigenous towns and cities into the West Bank and Gaza Strip, neighbouring Arab countries, and other countries of the world.

Since then, the Zionists have been committing heinous massacres against the Palestinian people with the aim of perpetuating the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories and obliterating the repatriation right of the Palestinian refugees to their indigenous homeland. The Zionist criminal record includes scores of savage massacres against the defenceless Palestinians. The Zionist gangs confiscated 775 towns and villages and destroyed 535 Palestinian towns and villages during the Nakba. The atrocities of Israeli Zionists also included over 70 massacres in which 15 thousand Palestinians were killed by Zionist terrorist gangs. The Zionist terrorist paramilitaries carried out massacres and forced expulsions, including the infamous massacre of Palestinian men, women, and children in the village of Deir Yassin in April 1948. The Israeli military continued to carry out a campaign of uprooting and expelling the indigenous Palestinian people, forcing Palestinians to flee their homes and land. Altogether Israel expelled more than 80 percent of the Palestinian population. This campaign continued long after hostilities ceased and included the razing of nearly 400 Palestinian villages.

 Zionism and Wahhabism are two faces of the same coin, where events bring to light the clear cooperation between the Zionist entity, Gulf States and Turkey that involved in the aggression on Syria by supporting terrorist organizations infinitely. The Zionist entity aims at obliterating the Right of Return for the whole Palestinian people through its clear support for the terrorist organizations in Syria which launched intensive assaults on the Palestinian camps and displaced their residents. The Israeli regime has denied Palestinian refugees the right to return, despite UN resolutions and international laws upholding the people’s right to return to their homelands. Palestinians have held rallies in various parts of the world to commemorate the 67th anniversary of the Nakba Day. Palestinian protesters took to the streets of various world capitals to demand that the Israeli regime leave their lands after decades of occupation.

  Today the Palestinian refugees and their descendants number 4 million people, many still living in refugee camps in the Occupied Territories, Syria, Lebanon, and elsewhere. Israel has been refusing the right of these refugees to return to their homes in violation of international law and numerous United Nations resolutions. At the same time, in a striking example of inequality and discrimination, Israel has declared itself the state of all the Jews in the world and automatically grants citizenship to any Jewish person anywhere in the world who seeks to immigrate to Israel. A Jew living in Texas, for example, who has never lived in Israel, can automatically gain the benefits of citizenship under the so-called Law of Return, one of Israel’s racial Laws, while a Palestinian refugee whose family lived in Palestine for hundreds of years is unlikely even to gain a visa for a brief visit to his or her  home, let alone obtain the right to return there to live.

Successive Zionist governments have been following a racist settlement policy through confiscating Palestinian lands and constructing Jewish settlements with the aim of changing the geographic and demographic status of the occupied Palestinian territories and perpetuate the Israeli occupation. But the Palestinians will not be subjugated by the racist Zionist measures and will press ahead with their struggle until the achievement of their noble rights, especially the right of return and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.

  K.Q

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An Ode to Said El-Said by Stanley L. Cohen

I love Said. He’s everything that’s good and decent and kind-and so much more. he’s the laughter of a toddler who’s just learned to run; the panic of young lovers who race to remake the bed as parents return home early; the broad grin that intoxicates us when the rare and sweet aroma of justice fills the room and gives us hope. Said is all things to all good people– those that are and those that aspire to be.

He’s been with us since the beginning of time and will smile down on us long after the last meteor shower has found its mark and we are gone. Palestinian by birth, humane by trade, and free by choice Said is a Muslim, a Christian, a Jew and none of the above. While many march in lockstep to the beat of the safe, quick and easy, Said has journeyed long and hard to rear his beloved family, to raise our voice and to lift our spirits. Even now in his final days with us Said speaks with determination and no regrets; sorry only that when a free independent Palestine, a State for the stateless, arrives, he will not be here to rejoice in person. For Said, resistance is much more than a mere chant and BDS not a choice. They are sacred covenants which speak for eleven million of his Nation and the many who came before. Said’s journey will end far too soon where it all began, where its always been- with Palestine. Like all Palestinians, young and old, those past and yet to come, he was at Deir Yassin when genocide rained down as the world slept and the trail of tears began. He’s walked the blood stained roads of Jenin and Tulkarim and those of a hundred other Palestinian villages brutalized or laid to waste for no reason but their existence. He has known the hardscrabble streets of refugee camps that stretch from the destruction of Yarmouk to the time-tested despair of Sabra-Shatilla. To Said, the coastline of Gaza offers little safety but in its resistance comes boundless pride and dignity. Said has wept at the side of age-old olive trees ravaged by the same evil that has demolished the Bedouin village of Al-Araqib time and time again. In Quds, he is every young boy, stone in hand, who by his resistance honors the key still worn around his great grandmother’s neck. He is the detained uncharged hunger striker who will not eat so long as his Nation is starved day after day after day. Yes, Said is Palestine-proud, resilient and eternal. It was, it is and it will always be. I have been truly blessed to know many great women and men- a first among equals, Said is one of them. His has been a life of warmth, wonder and wisdom and I will miss him sorely. If compassion is to be our currency, Said is richest of all; If humanity is to be our light then he is the sun that shines through the darkest of all nights to lead us to safety; If greatness is to be measured by the size of one’s heart, Said is truly among our giants. To be blue is all too easy at this time, but it can steal our breath and leave us speechless. So smile, shout out and give thanks for Said- that rare man, that wondrous gift. Have no fear, he lives on wherever women and men of conscience and principle fight for truth and justice. My brother, thank you for your friendship, your inspiration, your unwavering support and strength. I have no idea where you’re going Said, but if I am very, very fortunate one day I will go there too. Until we meet again . .. . Up the Rebels

———————————-Stanley L. Cohen

(For those unfamiliar with Said, he is a long time presence, and will remain so in our hearts, minds and actions, in social media [Twitter @elsaidst ] and a dedicated activist in the struggle to free his homeland, Palestine.  He is a friend to, and beloved by, thousands.  Said recently let it be known that he has come to the end of his battle with cancer and will soon leave us, physically.  Learning of this, Stanley (well known as a devoted activist in his own right) composed this deeply beautiful homage to his dear friend, Said.  Said’s friends and family in social media will honour him with the hash-tag #SaidLives and we will continue to nurture the many seeds of hope and strength he has sown for the children of Palestine throughout his life…Stanley’s heart-felt expression, above, provides a true attest to the special being that is Said.  Said has stated he will close his Twitter account when it is time. Before that time, we do what we can to surround him with love. Please use the hash-tag along with us.  //MDP/Mala114)

67 YEARS LATER, DEIR YASSIN STILL BLEEDING WOUND FOR PALESTINIANS

April 10, 2015 By FalastinNews Staff

Palestinians on Thursday marked the 67th anniversary of the massacre of more than 100 Palestinian civilians by Zionist Jewish forces at the village of Deir Yassin.

“The Deir Yassin massacre was a turning point in the history of the people of Palestine, and it continues to serve as a necessary reminder of Israel’s ongoing policies of displacement, dispossession and dehumanization, and its willful erasure of the Palestinian narrative and human presence in historical Palestine,” senior PLO official Hanan Ashrawi said in a statement.

Ashrawi noted that the massacre was one of the first in what would become a long line of Israeli military attacks on Palestinian civilians, noting: “Deir Yassin, Nasir al-Din, Haifa, Yazur, Bayt Daras, al-Tantura, al-Lydd, al-Dawayima, Saliha, Qibya, Kafr Qasim, and Shuja’iyya, among other names, will remain forever engraved in our hearts and minds and always serve as symbols of Palestinian steadfastness and perseverance.”

“Peace and justice for Palestine is long overdue, and it is time for the international community to join us as we strive for freedom, dignity and self-determination,” she said.

Deir Yassin has long been a symbol of Israeli violence for Palestinians because of the particularly gruesome nature of the slaughter, which targeted men, women, children, and the elderly in the small village west of Jerusalem. The number of victims is generally believed to be around 107, though figures given at the time reached up to 254.

The attack was part of a broader strategy called Plan Dalet by Zionist groups to scare Palestinians into flight ahead of the expected partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states. It was led by the Irgun group, whose head was future prime minister Menachem Begin, with support from the Haganah and Lehi.

In order to ensure only Jews were left in the “Jewish state” — nearly half of whose inhabitants were Palestinians — massacres were committed by these Zionist groups in a number of villages in the hope that the ensuing terror would lead to an Arab exodus.

Thus the attack on Deir Yassin took place a month before Partition took place, and was part of the reasons later given by neighboring Arab states for their intervention in Palestine.

The combination of forced expulsion and flight that the massacres — most prominent among them Deir Yassin — precipitated left around 750,000 Palestinians as refugees abroad. Today their descendants number more than five million, and their right to return to Palestine is a central political demand.

The Palestine Liberation Organization said in a statement released Thursday that the episode “characterizes the atrocities of the Nakba (catastrophe), and highlights the impunity that Israel still enjoys today.”

“As with almost every single crime committed by Israel before and since its inception, the criminals responsible for this horrific and bloody massacre enjoyed full impunity.”

“A few weeks after this tragic event, the man politically responsible for the Haganah (future Israeli Army), David Ben Gurion, became Israel’s first Prime Minister,” the organization said in a statement.

“Even more astonishing is the fact that the head of the ‘operation’ at Deir Yassin, Menachem Begin, and Yitzhak Shamir, the leader of the Lehi who participated in the massacre, would also go on to become Israeli Prime Ministers.”

Source: Maan

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TABOO TOPICS AND JEWISH LOBBY TALK BY HENRY HERSKOVITZ AND GREG FELTON

 http://seattlecommunitymedia.org/series/moral-politics/episode/taboo-topics-and-jewish-lobby-talk-henry-herskovitz-and-greg-felton

https://archive.org/embed/scm-434550-tabootopicsandjewishlobbytalk

Henry Herskovitz addressed the Mideast Conflict Forum on September 20, 2014.  After several visits to Palestine, Henry attempted to impart the harsh realities observed about Israel-Palestine to his Ann Arbor Jewish Community.

 Three rabbis and two Jewish ladies of Ann Arbor, Phyllis and Lorrie, the later two headed the Palestine Peace Movement no less, thwarted his every effort.  Clearly, there is an enforced TABOO against topics reflecting poorly on Israel or the Jewish Community.

 Henry’s unintended story, due to years of stonewalling, developed into one about Jewish Power.  Henry shares his core discovery viz. Runaway Jewish Power – not Occupation or Zionism – vexes the globe.

Henry Herskovitz urges everyone to expose Jewish Power in order to diminish it!

Ann Arbor typifies dug-in DENIAL pervading Jewish Communities across America.

 Greg Felton spoke next at the Mideast Conflict Forum.  Greg authored “The Host and the Parasite” and speaks on Israel-Palestine.

Greg warned that LANGUAGE can be taken hostage and with it our thinking.  He further ripped away religion from the troubles besetting the Mideast.  It is Fascism coated with Chauvinism that accompanied Jewish émigrés to Palestine.

 The creation of Israel – a monster later to enslave its creator – was reviewed as part compromise and part extortion.  Truman faced “money, votes and strong-arm tactics” extraordinaire dished out by Organized American Jewry of the day.   A New York Jew, and long-serving congressman, Emanuel Celler, Greg calls out for his ultimatums to Truman “Support Israel or we’ll run you out of town!”

Ultimatums pale in comparison to an assassination plot.

According to Greg Felton [story by journalist Alison Weir http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/ob-assassinations.html] President George (Herbert) Bush Sr. was targeted for a Mossad hit 1991 in Madrid.  A leak thwarted that plot in the nix of time.  Former Stern Gang leader and then  Israel prime minister Yitzhak Shamir wanted no genuine negotiations towards peace as conducted by President Papa Bush.

Greg summarizes that shared values little exist with Israel.  He analogizes a “master-slave” existing relationship.    We can only escape if we “opt out” of any Zionist mindset.  Our attention he directs to barcode 729 that identifies products of Israel.

Boycott he urges!

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Hot Off The Press-Har Nof Jerusalem Is Deir Yassin and it is Remembered

November 18, 2014  /  Gilad Atzmon

By Gilad Atzmon

The attack on a synagogue in Jerusalem today took place in Har Nof, a Jewish neighborhood  built over the ruins of Deir Yassin, a Palestinian village whose inhabitants were wiped out on  April 9, 1948.

The Deir Yassin Massacre delivered a clear message to the Palestinian people. The Jewish militias were driven by genocidal inclinations and the Arabs better run for their lives. However, it seems as if the Palestinian collective memory is alive and kicking – it may be possible that the Deir Yassin Massacre was commemorated today.

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Jewish State and Islamic State, Like Breeds Like

Sep 16, 2014, Palestine Chronicle

By Ali Kazak

Sixty-six years after the establishment of the “Jewish State” in the Middle East, the world is witnessing the establishment of an “Islamic State” with many similarities. Both states were established by extreme ideologies exploiting religion, both were accomplished by mainly foreign elements to the region and by terrorism, brutal atrocities, horrifying massacres and ethnic-cleansing on ethno/religious grounds.

Sir Gerald Kaufman, British MP, said in the House of Commons on 15 Jan 2009 “Israel was born out of Jewish terrorism.”

Short of conversion and selling women, very few differences exist between the crimes used by the Jewish and Islamic terrorists. ISIS beheads Muslims (both Sunnis and Shi’ites), Christian Arabs and Westerners, the Zionist Jews also killed Muslims and Christians as well as British; while they did not behead them in front of the cameras, they mutilated and executed their victims by lining them up against walls and shooting them and by hanging them as they did with the British soldiers.

In the course of the establishment of “the Jewish State” over 70 horrendous massacres were committed by European Jewish terrorists in Palestine against defenceless civilians in which more than 15,000 Palestinians were killed (out of a population of 1.4 million Palestinians at the time, this is equivalent to 345,000 Iraqis or 255,000 Australians or 3,360,000 Americans today).

On 22 October1979 The New York Times reporter David Shipler cited Red Cross and British documents on the massacre of Dir Yassin, as saying that the attackers “lined men, women and children up against walls and shot them.” Abu Mahmud, 70, said in an eye-witness testimony of the massacre which took place on the eve of 9 April 1948 and was published in full by the Gulf News newspaper on 9 April 1997, “The Jews used all sorts of automatic weapons, tanks, missiles, cannons. They used to enter houses and kill women and children indiscriminately… They took about 40 prisoners from the village. But after the battle was over, they took them to the quarry where they shot them dead and threw their bodies into the quarry.”

The Jewish terrorists looted the houses, shops, banks, factories, farms and everything that came under their control in Palestine. Women were raped and then killed. They destroyed 531 Palestinian towns and villagesand hundreds of Mosques, Churches and cemeteries. They occupied 78% of Palestine and ethnically-cleansed 70% of the Palestinian nation and despite numerous UN resolutions, they refuse, until today, their right to return to their homeland on religious and racial ground because they are not Jews.

Splitting the Arab world is an Israeli strategy articulated in a document titled “A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties.” It aims to encourage separatist groups to establish religious and sectarian states in the region in order to justify the establishment of its Jewish State and to weaken and destabilize the Arab countries, fuelling endless sectarian wars between Arabs and Muslims and to prevent Arab unity.

Revealed in February 1982 and published by the Department of Publicity/The World Zionist Organization, Jerusalem, the plan states that “Lebanon’s total dissolution into five provinces serves as a precedent for the entire Arab world including Egypt, Syria, Iraq and the Arabian peninsula and is already following that track. The dissolution of Syria and Iraq later on into ethnically or religiously unique areas such as in Lebanon, is Israel’s primary target on the Eastern front in the long run, while the dissolution of the military power of those states serves as the primary short term target. Syria will fall apart, in accordance with its ethnic and religious structure, into several states such as in present day Lebanon, so that there will be a Shi’ite Alawi state along its coast, a Sunni state in the Aleppo area, another Sunni state in Damascus hostile to its northern neighbor, and the Druzes who will set up a state, maybe even in our Golan, and certainly in the Hauran and in northern Jordan. This state of affairs will be the guarantee for peace and security in the area in the long run, and that aim is already within our reach today.

“Iraq, rich in oil on the one hand and internally torn on the other, is guaranteed as a candidate for Israel’s targets. Its dissolution is even more important for us than that of Syria. Iraq is stronger than Syria. In the short run it is Iraqi power which constitutes the greatest threat to Israel. An Iraqi-Iranian war will tear Iraq apart and cause its downfall at home even before it is able to organize a struggle on a wide front against us. Every kind of inter-Arab confrontation will assist us in the short run and will shorten the way to the more important aim of breaking up Iraq into denominations as in Syria and in Lebanon. In Iraq, a division into provinces along ethnic/religious lines as in Syria during Ottoman times is possible. So, three (or more) states will exist around the three major cities: Basra, Baghdad and Mosul, and Shi’ite areas in the south will separate from the Sunni and Kurdish north. It is possible that the present Iranian-Iraqi confrontation will deepen this polarization.”

Now, 32 years later we are witnessing the implementation of Israel’s vicious strategic plan in the Middle East, thanks to the USA and its coalition’s destruction of Iraq in 2001. Additionally, the establishment of Israel as a “Jewish State” in the region is a motivation to the Islamic movement to establish an Islamic State.

In an article printed in the New York Times on 29 August 2014 by Mr John Kerry, the Secretary of State of the United States, describing the so-called Islamic State as a “cancer”, he said “The world can confront this scourge …no decent country can support the horrors perpetrated by the Islamic State, and no civilised country should shirk its responsibility to help stamp out this disease. …Extremists are defeated only when responsible nations and their peoples unite to oppose them.”

While the United States is lining up other countries to fight “the Islamic State”, it is the one, together with a handful of other Western countries, who is providing unconditional political, military and economic support and international protection to “the Jewish State”, without which Israel would not dare to unceasingly challenge the international community with its crimes in the Middle East.

No one possessing human values would be against confronting ISIS and it’s so called “Islamic State” by all means, and the abhorrent crimes it’s committing against humanity in the name of Islam, but the unbearable hypocrisy and double-standard of US policy when it comes to dealing with Israel’s crimes is what is harming the standing and interests of the US and its close allies in the Middle East and around the world.

The US behaves like a lion and a superpower with Russia, China and other countries but like a pussy cat and a banana republic when dealing with Israel.

US President Barack Obama said in his recent speech broadcast live to the nation “This is American leadership at its best: We stand with people who fight for their own freedom. And we rally other nations on behalf of our common security and common humanity.” He should try saying this to the Palestinian people.

When the US and its allies say they are doing what is right by humanity, and by their values, the question begging to be asked is where is their humanity and values in regard to the Palestinian people, and why are they not equally doing what is right by humanity, and by their values towards “the Jewish State” and its aggression, crimes and gross violations of human rights, international law and resolutions?

– Ali Kazak is a former Palestinian ambassador to Australia, New Zealand, Vanuatu, East Timor and the South Pacific region. He contributed this article to PalestineChronicle.com.

Mohammed Daif, resistance Gen: We decide محمد الضيف جنرال المقاومة: الأمر لي

عمر معربوني

هل يمكننا القول إنّ محمد الضيف هو عماد مغنية فلسطين؟
إنّ ما بين الرجلين لا يمنعنا من هذا الإدّعاء كونهما ينتميان لمدرسةٍ واحدة، ويجمعهما عدوٌّ مشتركٌ واحد.

خلال السنوات الأخيرة استطاعت المقاومة في غزّة أن ترتقي بقدراتها بشكلٍ كبيرٍ جعلها في المعركة الدائرة الآن تفرض معادلات صراع جديدة مع العدو الصهيوني، الذي وصل الى مرحلة من الإرباك يمكننا أن نسميها معركة اللاعودة عن القرارات الهوجاء والمتسرعة واللامتجانسة، والتي ستكون خلال السنوات القادمة سبباً رئيسياً في زوال هذا الكيان الغاصب.

الجنرال محمد الضيف استحقّ لقبه بجدارة، بعد أن أثبت للجميع قدرة المقاومة على خوض معركة كبيرة ومتواصلة بمواجهة عدوّ مدجّج بأعتى أنواع الأسلحة والقدرات المالية والتكنولوجية، عدوّ يمتلك الدعم اللامتناهي من أميركا وأتباعها.

إضافةً الى تنامي قدرات المقاومة العسكرية، صار واضحاً القدرات القيادية لهذه المقاومة التي استطاعت أن تقود المعركة بأعلى مستوى من الحنكة والمرونة، وأظهرت قدرات عالية في السيطرة على الوحدات المتنوعة وأهمها وحدات الاستخبارات والصواريخ.
المتخصّصون في الشؤون العسكرية والمتابعون لمسار المعركة يدركون أنّ النموذج الفلسطيني للمقاومة تمّ تطويره ونقل تفاصيله من التجربة اللبنانية، مع إدخال التعديلات التي تتلاءم مع الحاجة الفلسطينية.

لم يكن هذا العمل الجبّار وليد الصدفة أو اللحظة بقدر ما كان نتيجةً لجهدٍ جبّار اشترك فيه آلاف الإختصاصيين من إيران الى سورية فلبنان وفلسطين، وقد مرّت هذه التجربة بتكامل وتنسيق رائع بين مكونات النموذج وأهمها:

الجانب العسكري: حيث تمّ تدريب مئات الضباط من كافّة المستويات، ومنهم من خضع لدورات في القيادة والأركان في سورية وإيران، حيث شملت التدريبات كافّة الإختصاصات وتحديداً أنماط القتال المتّبعة حالياً في غزة، ولم يعد سراً أنّ ضباط مشاة المقاومة تلقّوا تدريباتهم في مدارس القوات الخاصة في إيران وسورية وحزب الله، كما أنّ ضباط الصواريخ أجروا رماياتهم في حقول الرماية الإيرانية والسورية وبعضها تمّ في حقول رماية لحزب الله، بعض الضباط خضعوا لدورات مكثفة في إدارة الحرب الالكترونية والحفاظ على بنية شبكة الاتصالات التي عملوا فيما بعد على إنشائها في غزة، وهي تعتبر الآن عصب المعركة الرئيسي، ولا يغيب عن بالنا الضباط الذين خضعوا لدورات في مدارس الاستخبارات في إيران ولدى حزب الله، ولا ننسى التدريبات الخاصة لوحدات الصراع ضد الدبابات التي اكتسبت مهارات عالية في حقول الرمي في إيران وسورية، هؤلاء جميعاً تمّ إعدادهم على مراحل وأعيد إدخالهم الى قطاع غزّة ليقوموا بتدريب وتأهيل عناصر المقاومة الذين يبدون الكثير من المهارة ويتميزون بالصلابة وحب التضحية والتفاني وهم يقومون بأعمالهم القتالية.

الجانب اللوجستي: وهو عملٌ لا يقلّ أهميةً عن العمل العسكري المباشر، ونظراً لخضوع غزّة للحصار فقد كان هذا العمل معقداً جداً ومليئاً بالمخاطر وشارك فيه مئات الخبراء في العمل الاستخباراتي، الذين كانوا يخضعون لغرفة عمليات موحّدة تدير عمليات تهريب السلاح والعتاد وكل ما يلزم لبناء القوة العسكرية للمقاومة، وللمرة الأولى لا بدّ أن أذكر أنه في المراحل الأخيرة من عمليات التهريب التي سبقت اتخاذ القرار بنقل تكنولوجيا تصنيع الأسلحة كان للسودان دورٌ هامٌ ومفصلي، سواء بشكلٍ رسمي أو غير رسمي، ساعد كثيراً في إيصال المعدات والأسلحة وكلّ ما يلزم للصمود وخوض المعركة.

الجانب العلمي: وهو مرّ بمرحلتين، مرحلة تدريب مهندسي التصنيع الذين خضعوا لدورات عديدة لفهم آليات نقل التكنولوجيا واستخدام المواد، ومرحلة إنشاء قواعد التصنيع، وهنا لا بدّ من ذكر أمرٍ بغاية الأهمية هو أنّ المقاومة في فلسطين أصبحت قادرة على تصنيع صاروخٍ بديلٍ لكلّ صاروخٍ يتم إطلاقه مهما كان نوعه من صواريخ 107 ملم الى فجر بمختلف مسمياتها، وهي ميزة ستساعد في الصمود والقيام بحرب استنزافٍ طويلة.

وما الإشارة الى هذه العوامل الثلاثة إلا لنؤكد أنّ المقاومة باتت تمتلك ما يكفيها من قدرات لتحقيق أهدافها الآنية والمستقبلية، وأنها ترتكز في عملها على قواعد علمية ثابتة ورؤيا شاملة.

أما لماذا محمد الضيف جنرال المقاومة: الأمر لي؟

لم يعد خافياً على أحد أنّ هناك تناقضات في رأس الهرم السياسي في حماس وبين قيادات المقاومة الميدانية وعلى رأسهم الجنرال محمد الضيف، ومحور هذه الخلافات يتركز على الموقف مما جرى في سورية وكيفية إدارة الملفات السياسية وملف المفاوضات، وما رسالة أبو عبيدة البارحة إلا للتأكيد على انتزاع المقاومة الميدانية لآليات اتخاذ القرار في كل ما يتعلق بخوض المعركة الآن وفي المستقبل وفي أي مفاوضات يمكن أن تحصل،

وبالرجوع الى ما قاله أبو عبيدة يمكننا القول إنّ توقيت البيان جاء بعد تعرّض الجنرال محمد ضيف لمحاولة اغتيال أدّت الى استشهاد زوجته وابنه الرضيع، ومن المؤكّد أنّ ما قاله أبو عبيدة ليس مجرّد بيان غضب وثأر على ما كان يمكن أن يؤدي الى استشهاد الجنرال محمد ضيف، بقدر ما هو اختيار للحظة مؤاتية تمّ من خلالها حسم الجدل حول مسائل أساسية لن نستفيض بالكلام عنها حالياً لعدم تناسب طرحها مع دقّة الموقف.

وأبرز ما قاله أبو عبيدة في بيانه كان:

“نعد شعبنا وأمتنا الإسلامية أنّ محمد الضيف سيكون القائد العام للجيش الذي سيحرّر المسجد الأقصى”. وهو كلامٌ واضحٌ لا لبس فيه يؤكد مبايعة المقاومين بكل فصائلهم للجنرال محمد الضيف، وأنّ آفاق المعركة القادمة ستمتد الى كل فلسطين المحتلة.

 الدعوة الواضحة للفصائل بالانسحاب من المفاوضات لقناعة القادة الميدانيين أنها لن تؤدي الى نتيجة مرضية للشعب الفلسطيني.
من الواضح أننا أمام متغيّرات كبيرة ستشهدها الساحة الفلسطينية، بعد أن تمّ الأمر للقيادة الميدانية التي تملك زمام الأمر وتتمتع بدعمٍ كاملٍ من قيادة محور المقاومة التي تعتبر نفسها معنية بمعركة غزة اعتناءها بأية معركةٍ أخرى يقودها محور المقاومة.

أهم ما سيطبع المرحلة المقبلة أنّ مصطلحات قيادة المعركة ومفهومها سيكون موحداً من غزّة الى الموصل، ولن يكون هناك لبس في توصيف طبيعة المعركة ولا في تصنيف الأعداء.

إنّ أهم ما ترتكز اليه القيادة الميدانية للمقاومة هو إرادة الشعب الفلسطيني التي لم ولن يستطيع أحدٌ كسرها لا بوحشيته ولا بطشه ولا جبروته، ومن يراقب كلمات شعب فلسطين وهم يصرّحون لوسائل الإعلام من بين الرّكام حول استعدادهم للتضحية لنيل الحرية والكرامة، إضافةً الى هذا الحب العارم والكبير للجنرال الضيف، سيتأكد أننا أمام مشهدٍ شبيهٍ بالمشهد الذي حصل في لبنان بعد عدوان تموز 2006.

المعركة مستمرة وهذه المرة المقاومة هي التي تتحكم بمسارها وبقواعد اللعبة فيها، بالتأكيد سنكون أمام مشهدٍ دموي يتجاوز أضعاف ما قامت به “إسرائيل” سابقاً، ولكن مفاتيح الميدان هذه المرّة بيد المقاومة التي لم تعلن إلا عن جزءٍ يسيرٍ من قدراتها ومفاجآتها.

المرحلة القادمة من المعركة لا مكان فيها للمترددين أو الخائفين أو المساومين، إنها معركة الشرفاء المناضلين بقيادة محمد الضيف جنرال المقاومة والمقاومين.

ضابط سابق (خريج الأكاديمية العسكرية السوفياتية).

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THE JEWISH STATE’S JEWISHNESS REFLECTED IN A RETURN VISIT

MONDAY, MAY 19, 2014 AT 8:13AM GILAD ATZMON

by Lasse Wilhelmson

Bethlehem

I arrive at Bethlehem along the same motorway as all tourists, in a taxi from the Ben Gurion airport. They arrive in coaches with their Jewish guides. Pilgrims from all over the world crowd into the Nativity Church on Manger Square. Perhaps the holiest place in the world for Christians? They buy souvenirs and go back home again as if the Palestinians do not exist. Opposite the Church, lies the prestigious Peace Centre, funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, SIDA.

The town is situated just south of Jerusalem and surrounded by The Wall and by fences. Check-points further limit people’s access and they are resigned to finding inconvenient diversions. Arbitrary travel permits for areas outside the town tear apart families that have lived in and around Bethlehem for thousands of years.

On my first evening in Bethlehem I experienced music of a rare and emotional kind. A Palestinian violinist, Lamar Elias, only 14 years old, was the main attraction and there were many children in the audience. She played sonatas by Dvorak and Vivaldi and ended up, with a trio, playing a piece typical of Arabic music, with its billowing, endless rhythmic melodies. It was quite astounding how this young woman presented and played her pieces to a large audience with such ease and grace.

I was reminded of my own father who, a hundred years ago, was a promising young violinist. He could not pursue a career because he had to work for a living. This was not uncommon for a working class child. He took up the violin again when he retired and played for his children and grandchildren, his favourite was Bach’s sonata for solo violin.

My thoughts went to my Swedish father and my Jewish mother, whose family I visited in Israel 53 years ago, and the kibbutz where I worked, and the Israeli family there who came to mean so much to me and my parents. There was much mutual travel between Israel and Sweden during the 1960s.

The young Palestinian violinist appears like a flower in the ruins of the Palestinian villages that I did not even know existed when I was young. I think it was these mixed feelings that brought a tear to my eye and not just the sentimentality that comes with age or that a violin sonata can set off.

 Peace Centre and the second intifada

Two years after its millennium inauguration in 2000, The Peace Centre, funded by SIDA, was used by the Israeli army as a headquarters during the second intifada. The building served as protection for snipers, as a prison camp, a canteen, a rubbish dump and so on. The soldiers did not always use the existing toilets. An eye witness of the 40-day-long, violent siege and the attacks on, and damage done to the Nativity Church, described 10 years later in detail what happened in an article in the webpaper Countercurrents.

The Peace Centre’s Swedish architect, Snorre Lindquist, also mentions these occurrences in his fantastic account of the construction of the Peace Centre and how it changed his outlook on life and he became a staunch friend of the Palestinians. The Israeli army shot their way in instead of using the keys they had. How could it be that the international community, the Christian church and the Swedish government turned a blind eye and hardly reacted?

Jabal Abu Ghneim and Har Homa

From my hotel window I can see the remains of what was the townspeople of Bethlehem’s nicest and most loved place for outings. This is Jabal Abu Ghneim, a hill previously covered with woods. Now it is contained by the Wall and almost completely covered with the Jewish settlement Har Homa.

The theft of the hill and the subsequent buildings together with the theft of Rachel’s grave, were noted early on as crimes against the Oslo Agreement. Carefully chosen and with considerable symbolic value they confirmed the intentions of the Jewish state. And the whole world let it happen, just like the ongoing situation, which now points towards a final expulsion of remaining Palestinians to Jordan and a transfer of responsibility for the Gaza Strip to Egypt.

Rachel’s grave in northern Bethlehem, worshipped by Christians and Muslims alike, can no longer be reached because of the Wall.  It lies quite close to the Palestinian refugee camp Aida on the other side of the Wall.

Aida Camp

Aida is a result of the ethnic cleansing 1948 – Al Nakba – and has become impoverished tenements, 4 to 5 floors high. I visit Aida a few weeks after the Israeli army’s occupation of the camp due to protests there. The Israeli writer Gideon Levi’s moving description of this in Haaretz is food for thought.  I first read it when I got back to Sweden.

I speak to the head of the camp’s Palestinian youth organisation. We go to the place in the Wall where people blasted a symbolic hole towards the ruins of the villages from which they were expelled in 1948 when the Jewish state was unilaterally declared. He tells of tear gas, of paralysing sound bombs and of how the army went from house to house from the inside, through walls, instead of using the doors. He tells of the young Palestinian woman who died because of tear gas, the young man who broke his leg, and of all the wounds caused by rubber-coated projectiles and about the girl who refuses to go to school, traumatised by fear.

I visit the house that was most destroyed, up partly damaged stairs, and speak to a man who lives there. Many Palestinian children surround us, curious to know what’s going on. I can see a lot of mattresses hanging out to dry on the roof and there is a strong smell of urine, last night’s crop from traumatised children, many with psychiatric problems, not unusual in any refugee camp.

The young man tells how Israeli recruits walked down the alley to his house while receiving instructions from their officers as to how they should advance and aim tear-gas grenades and shoot their rubber-coated bullets. It was part of their training, as he put it. The Israeli army thus uses this impoverished refugee camp from 1948, which advocates non-violent methods, as a training camp for its recruits, in an obvious attempt to break down any moral barriers the trainees might have about attacking defenceless civilians.

The account I have of the events and how they effect the townspeople is different from that presented in the article in Haaretz. But after all, criticism of the Jewish occupation of Palestine is tolerated to a much greater extent in Israel than it is in the West, Sweden included.

The noose tightens year by year on Bethlehem and one of the holiest towns in the world is looking more and more like a prison, as are all the other Palestinian Bantustans, which together make up less than 10% of original Palestine. The Jewish state now controls life between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River. In retrospect it becomes all too clear that the Oslo Agreement was just a trick to create breathing space for more theft of land and that the so-called one state solution is a fact since the1967 war.

Deir Yassin and Yad Vashem

Yad Vashem is a museum that tells of Jewish suffering under the Holocaust. Over the years I have come to embrace a revised picture of the official one. I have not been able to find any credible evidence that gas chambers were used in Germany to kill masses of Jews and others, and that the number of Jews killed in World War II is decidedly overrated.

I believe that Jewish suffering is wrongly portrayed as being exclusive compared with, for example, that of the people of Ukraine, Germany and Russia. I am also very critical of the fact that the Holocaust is used politically to motivate new wars in The Middle East. But most of all I am against the use of the Holocaust to vindicate the Jewish state’s genocide, according to the UN definition, against the Palestinians who had nothing at all to do with World War II in Europe.

For holding these and other opinions I have been subjected to a witch hunt by the Swedish media which treat the Holocaust as though it were a religion and not an event in history. In many countries in the West these my opinions would render me a prison sentence.

Is it not, however, strange that as soon as someone points out that Jewish suffering during World War II was not as substantial as claimed, all Jews protest? Should they not instead be happy about it?

Yad Vashem just happens to sit on a hill outside Jerusalem, close to Deir Yassin, further down the valley. This was the Palestinian village that came to symbolise Al Nakba – the great catastrophe – when almost 800.000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes and their villages were razed to the ground. In Deir Yassin, most people were killed, among them women, children and old people and their corpses were shown to other Palestinians in order to make them leave their homes. Most of Israel is, in fact, built on the ruins of Palestinian villages. The victims turned into executioners only a few years after the Holocaust.

The central part of the ruined village of Deir Yassin is fenced in and the site has a bar and a guard. The guard denied all knowledge of the village and barked that Deir Yassin is a public hospital for the mentally ill and that there was no access unless visiting a patient.

However, from the rear end of the area, it is possible to get a limited view. Clearly, many of the houses are built on the old stones/ruins of Deir Yassin that form the lowest level of many of the stone houses. I must confess that I found it hard to control my feelings when directly confronted with it. There were no words for the desecration in this manner of the Palestinian symbol of Al Nakba – I was quite dumbfounded. What sort of mentality would produce this absurd project?

My thoughts went to a person I know in London. He has since long worked with the organisation Deir Yassin Remembered. His name is Paul Eisen and he still identifies himself as a Jew, unlike myself. Our efforts to criticize Jewish identity have lead to us becoming personae non gratae in our countries and in the solidarity movements there that claim to promote the Palestinians’ cause. Today, these organisations are in fact controlled by Jewish Marxists and do not support exiled Palestinians’ inalienable right to return to their homes. Simply because this would threaten Jewish hegemony over Palestine.

The Old City of Jerusalem

The Damascus Gate is a powerful entrance to the market in the old city where Palestinians are still permitted to live and they dominate the area. It is Saturday and the place is full of tourists. An Israeli flag marks the house across the alleyway where Israel’s prime minister Netanyahu has bought a house incognito. One or two other houses along the Via Dolorosa, where Jesus bore the cross, have been bought by Jews. I cannot help thinking about how Jesus was sentenced to death by Romans, led by Pontius Pilate, after pressure from the Jewish rabbis – whose power Jesus challenged – and who the Romans were forced to humour in order to entrench their colonisation.

This Saturday, the Al Aqsa mosquewas open only to Muslims and Israeli soldiers stood on guard. Israel does”archaeological” excavations under the mosque. Will this cause it to fall down and be replaced by the Jewish Temple? If I asked this question in Sweden the media would consider it ”anti-Semitic” and it could lead to legal sanctions for ”hate speech”.

Today a group of about 30 Jewish young men in plain clothes are sauntering along the Via Dolorosa. Each one has a machine gun slung over the shoulder. They stop and block the square on Via Dolorosa. It is Shabbat and their day off. They probably come from settlements outside Jerusalem. The message to all the tourists and the Arabs is patently clear: We are in charge here and are taking over. You can see how the Palestinians feel about this by the look on their faces but the tourists do not react. I wonder what they are thinking.

 

Epilogue

What have I seen and learnt? Maybe more of what I already knew? But not about religions, ideologies and human rights, or colonialism and apartheid. All this gets in the way and hides the meaning and understanding of this unique project – The Jewish state – in Palestine. An ever-expanding entity on stolen ground, built after ethnic cleansing of its population. A ”cancer” in the Middle East and more.

What I have described here is also an expression of Jewish mentality, seeing one’s group as chosen, above all others and realize this mentality at the expense of others – or simply Jewish ideology. It is about the meaning of the Jewish state’s Jewishness, as I understand it.

Lastly, it is significant to the answer of the question why I no longer identify myself with this state and, partly, why I have chosen to no longer be a Jew.

Relating articles:

A Portrait that Tells Many Tales

What is Zionism?

My story of Deir Yassin, by Paul Eisen

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Do Only Some Massacres Matter?

Munich Olympics, Revisited

By Alison Weir | CounterPunch | February 11, 2014

The Washington Post has published a moving article, “Russian Jews remember Israeli athletes murdered at 1972 Munich Olympic Games.” Unfortunately, it gets a few things wrong and provides a one-sided context for the tragedy.

Allow me to correct the report and fill in a few of the missing facts.

Just 23 years before the Olympic incident, Israel had be

en created through ethnically cleansing much of the indigenous Palestinian population.

This had been accomplished through at least 33 massacres and was maintained in the years following by still more acts of ethnic cleansing and additional massacres. (These included areas from which the Munich kidnappers came).

Five years before the Munich incident, Israel violently conquered even more Palestinian land (illegal under international law), pushing out another 325,000+ Palestinian men, women, and children, and killing at least 13,000 Arabs in all. About 800 Israelis died.

The violence continued, and beginning in 1968 Israeli forces repeatedly savaged 150 or more towns and villages in south Lebanon alone. By the time of the Munich Olympics, Israel held hundreds of prisoners in its notorious prison system.

It is widely known, but rarely stated, that the goal of the Munich hostage-taking was not to kill them; it was to return the athletes to Israel in return for Israel returning its Palestinian prisoners.

Many of these prisoners were also young people, and, if we could have seen them, they might have looked very much like the Israeli athletes, minus the physical health. Israel is not known for its merciful treatment of those it dislikes.

When the Israeli government refused to consider an exchange, the German police, with the Mossad at hand, were pushed into an ill-planned rescue attempt in which some of the hostages (no one knows how many) were killed accidentally by the attackers, and a German policeman was also killed.

The day after the botched and unnecessary “rescue,” Israel launched heavy air attacks against Lebanon and Syria, killing between 200 and 500 Lebanese, Syrians and Palestinians, mostly civilians.

While Washington Post reporter Kathy Lally gives a great deal of information about the position of Russian Jews, going back over 100 years, it would have been valuable for her to tell a little about what the Munich incident was about – and about all the tragic victims of violence connected to the event, not just the 11 preferred ones.

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Alison Weir is the executive director of If Americans Knew, president of the Council for the National Interest, and author of the upcoming history of US-Israel relations, Against Our Better Judgment, to be released next month.

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How Israel Gets Away with Murder

by Stephen Lendman

Israel is above the law. It’s exempt for observing rule of law principles. It’s free to rampage extrajudicially. 

 

It kills and kills again. It does so with impunity. It justifies lawlessness the old-fashioned way. It lies. It’s standard Israeli practice.

 

It calls legitimate self-defense “terrorism.” It calls acts of aggression “self-defense.” It calls nonviolent Palestinian men, women, children, infants, the elderly and infirm existential threats. 

Israel’s only ones are those it invents. World leaders able to act responsibly do nothing. They support Israel’s worst crimes. Doing so makes them complicit.

Washington is worst of all. Both countries partner in crime. America supplies billions of dollars in annual aid, the latest weapons and technology, and unconditional support.

Media scoundrels turn a blind eye to Israel’s worst crimes. Occupation harshness is ignored. Besieged Gazans don’t matter.

NAKBA mass slaughter and displacement never happened. Lawless settlements are OK. Israel is more victim than aggressor.

Palestinians choose conflict over peace. They’re responsible for their own misery. Daily Israeli security force violence goes unreported. So do settler crimes.

Peace process pretense is legitimate. Police state Israel is the region’s only democracy. It’s an oasis in a sea of despotism.

It’s rap sheet includes horrendous crimes of war, against humanity and genocide. It’s a malignancy in a troubled region. It’s a threat to humanity.

Zionism is “a machine for the manufacture of human rights abuses,” says Joel Kovel. State-terror is official Israeli policy. So is torture. Numerous other abuses are standard practice.

Homemade rockets, small arms and rocks are Palestinians’ only defense. Imagine them against the most sophisticated/powerful weapons.

Imagine never knowing when they’ll be used. Imagine Israel manufacturing reasons to do so. Imagine the terrible toll it takes. Imagine horrific crimes. Imagine them without accountability.

In its 2013 State of Israel report, Amnesty International (AI) said:

“Israeli forces responsible for the killing and injuring of Palestinian civilians (as well as) torture and other ill-treatment of detainees continued to evade accountability.”

“Periodically throughout the year, Israeli military forces carried out air strikes on Gaza…” More on the latest one below.

The IDF “continued to (use) live ammunition to enforce the land and sea ‘exclusion zones’ inside Gaza’s perimeter and territorial waters, killing at least six civilians and injuring others.”

“Israeli leaders publicly advocated bombing Iranian nuclear sites.”

“The myriad restrictions imposed by the Israeli authorities on the movement of Palestinians amounted to collective punishment of the population of Gaza and the West Bank, in violation of international law.”

AI condemned Gaza’s suffocating siege. It discussed:

• forced West Bank/East Jerusalem evictions and demolitions;

• impunity Israel enjoys;

• acts of aggression like Operation Pillar of Cloud;

• detentions without charges or trials;

• horrific prison conditions;

• torture and other ill-treatment;

• compromised freedoms of expression and assembly;

• oppressing conscientious objectors; and

• denying refugees and asylum-seekers safe havens.

B’Tselem publishes numerous reports on Israeli human rights abuses. A December 31 one discussed a five-year high in Palestinian West Bank fatalities.

B’tselem Director Jessica Montell said:

“The sharp rise in fatalities in the West Bank only serves to intensify concern about the lack of accountability.”

Investigations when conducted are whitewashed. Practically no one is ever held accountable. Failure to do so “indicates a disregard for human life,” said Montell. Palestinian ones don’t matter.

In 2007, B’Tselem published a report titled “Ghost Town: Israel’s Separation Policy and Forced Eviction of Palestinians from the Center of Hebron.”

It discussed “protracted and severe harm to Palestinians (from) some of the gravest human rights violations.”

An unnamed Israeli official acknowledged “a permanent process of dispossessing Arabs to increase Jewish territory.”

• Hebron is the West Bank’s second largest city. Its central area once thrived. On January 16, B’Tselem headlined “Ghost town: A tour of downtown Hebron.”

Photos showed the result of Israel’s “strict segregationist policy…(E)ntire neighborhoods have been deserted.”

Once viable areas are abandoned. It’s happening throughout the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Palestinians are forced out. Jewish development replaces them. Crimes against humanity repeat. They do multiple times daily.

Conditions are intolerable. Human suffering is extreme. Palestine is an open-air prison. Israel’s Separation Wall isolates them.

It entraps them. It steals their land. It has nothing to do with national security. It’s ethnic cleansing. Other daily crimes against humanity persist. Western media ignore them.

On Sunday morning, multiple Israeli air strikes targeted Gaza. A Palestinian man and child were injured.

Gaza health ministry spokesman Ahraf al-Qidra said a 22-year old man was taken to Al-Shifa Hospital. He sustained serious injuries.

A 12-year old boy suffered moderate wounds. An Israeli military spokesman lied. He said the IDF attack followed a homemade shell fired into the Western Negev.

Palestinians respond after multiple Israeli acts of aggression. It bears repeating. Israel calls legitimate self-defense “terrorism.”

It calls preemptive high crimes “self-defense.” Days earlier, Israeli missiles injured four Palestinian children. One woman was hurt.

On Sunday, Israeli soldiers kidnapped 12 Bethlehem, Hebron and Nablus residents. Mahmoud Da’ajna is a recently released Israeli prisoner. He lives in East Jerusalem.

He didn’t remain free long. Israeli police rearrested him. They lied citing a “tax related” issue. Israeli authorities didn’t want him released in the first place.

Expect other former Palestinian prisoners treated the same way. It’s commonplace Israeli practice. Its deals aren’t worth the paper they’re written on.

On December 31, Da’ajna was freed. On January 19, he was rearrested. Bethlehem area witnesses said Israeli forces invaded violently. They broke into Palestinian homes.

They ransacked them. They damaged property. They kidnapped nonviolent residents. It happens throughout the West Bank and East Jerusalem. It persists daily.

On Saturday, eight Palestinian Jenin, Bethlehem and Hebron residents were arrested. Israeli soldiers stormed the Aida refugee camp.

They did so violently. They used live fire, rubber bullets, tear gas, and stun grenades. They did so indiscriminately.

They broke into multiple homes. They forced residents outside in the cold. Detainees were abducted on the pretense of being wanted by Israel’s intelligence service.

State terror is official Israeli policy. Multiple community incursions occur daily. In the week ending January 15, Israeli forces conducted 75 – nearly 11 a day on average.

At least 66 Palestinians were arrested. They included seven children. They’re treated like adults. Israel makes no distinction.

Human rights abuses are horrific. At least 10 Palestinian civilians were wounded. So was an international activist.

Gaza was attacked. Israel conducted five airstrikes. Civilians suffer most. Property is indiscriminately damaged or destroyed. Homes are targeted. So are schools and mosques.

Israeli naval forces targeted Palestinian fishermen. They confronted them violently. They opened fire. No casualties were reported. Occasional deaths occur.

Border area shooting incidents are commonplace. Israel confronts peaceful protesters violently. On Sunday, hundreds of Gazans demonstrated against Israel’s buffer zone.

They did so peacefully. Israeli forces attacked them violently. They used live fire and tear gas. At least two Palestinians were wounded.

An IDF spokeswoman lied saying the army “was unaware of the incident.” Demonstrators marched peacefully. They did so near Israel’s border fence.

They supported Palestinian farmers. Israel destroyed their citrus trees. A Gaza Youth Coalition statement said:

“Israel destroyed most of our citrus trees. (It) prevents us from importing or exporting any products.”

Near daily attacks occur. Farmers risk injury or death on their own land. Israel’s so-called buffer zone (on stolen Palestinian land) is a free-fire zone.

Soldiers target Palestinians walking within or near it. Young children are targeted like adults.

On Sunday, dozens of Israeli settlers began farming on stolen al-Hathaleen village land. Soldiers accompanied them.

Palestinian farmers wanting their stolen land back are attacked. These type incidents and similar ones happen multiple times daily.

Palestine resembles a war zone. Imagine the worst of human rights abuses. Imagine living under these conditions. Imagine world leaders able to help turning a blind eye.

Imagine horrific human suffering. Imagine it persisting for decades. Imagine a ruthless occupier. Imagine harshness it imposes unaccountably.

Israel gets away with murder and much more. Palestinian torment continues. Relief is nowhere in sight. Conflict resolution is a convenient illusion. Maybe someday. No time soon.

Mustafa Barghouti is a Palestinian physician. He’s a leading political/human rights activist. Ongoing peace talks aren’t about conflict resolution, he said.

They’re more sham than solution. They’re “about deceiving the Palestinians and the international community,” said Barghouti. Israel wants apartheid conditions “legitimi(zed).”

It wants the worst of occupation harshness continued. It wants Palestinian rights ruthlessly denied. It wants pain and suffering inflicted.

It wants what Palestinians won’t accept. The film “When I Saw You” is must viewing. It’s been out for months. It’s being shown in New York’s Museum of Modern Art.

European cinemas showed it. So did Middle East ones. It’s coming to other US cities. It won the Berlin International Film Festival Best Asian Film award. Palestinians produced it.

It’s disturbingly realistic. It’s about Israel’s 1967 Six Day War. It’s about displaced Palestinians wanting to go home.

It’s about refugees denied their fundamental rights. It’s about resistance and hope. It’s a child’s eye-view of what happened.

It reflects life in Occupied Palestine today. Resistance and hope persist. Palestine’s liberating struggle continues.

USA Under Jewish Rule

 

Is it time to write America’s obituary?  Is it time to say, ‘Goodbye, America’?

        … by  Lasha Darkmoon

[Editors Note:  Dear readers, another wonderful piece by Lasha today and also Kevin MacDonald who we all owe a lot to for his historic  research on ‘Jews’ as a biological entity. While Jewish scholars have intensely turned every culture they could find inside out to reveal whatever laundry they felt the world should know, they have used the anti-semitism smear to intimidate anyone else doing this to them.

It is a huge stain on the history of Jewish sociology scholarship. While not all Jews have participated, their professional scholar orgs have never attacked the ‘censor and intimidation’ branch to cease and desist, so they have in effect aided and abetted through their silence.

As our readers here know, during WWII where 50 million people died before it ended, the constant theme of Jewish guilt propaganda has been that not enough was done to save more Jews, which is a not too subtle way of saying that more goyim should have died to protect Jews.

You can add to that the archival proof that the early Zionists planned that the bigger the pile of dead Jews at the end of the war, the more they could use that to push for carjacking a homeland, and they did.

I have always been amazed that Jewish groups feel such campaigns serve their long term social interests, and many Jews I know are just as shocked. It’s similar to living in a area with a corrupt political system that there is not much you can do about it, but at least people don’t cover for them…Jim W. Dean ]

We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it.” — Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, October 3, 2001

Kevin MacDonald’s review of Wilhelm Marr’s pamphlet, Der Sieg des Judenthums über das Germanenthum, 1879, (“The Victory of Judaism over Germanism”), is a fascinating compendium of pessimistic quotations in which German political pundit Marr concludes gloomily that there was no hope left for Germany.

It was finished — yes, as early as the 1870s. The Jews, he lamented, were simply too formidable a foe. 

Marr’s pamphlet ends with these chilling words: “Let us accept the inescapable, since we cannot change it. Its name is: FINIS GERMANIAE — the end of Germany!”

1.  Is America the new Germany?

I confess I had no idea the outlook was so bleak in Germany as early as 1879. (Marr’s pamphlet has recently been translated into English and is now available in pdf format).  I had been under the false impression that the notion of Jewish domination came much later — after the publication of the Protocols (1903) and the Russian Revolution (1917).

We have seen it all happen though. Germany was brought to its knees, exactly as Marr predicted. Its cadaver now lies rotting.

It was only quite recently that Israel demanded from Germany a further 1 billion Euros ($1.4 billion) in Holocaust reparations for its endlessly traumatized Jewish survivors. Almost 70 years after World War II, the grim extortion racket continues unabated.

Though World War II ended sixty-eight years ago, the number of Holocaust survivors today is truly phenomenal. This prompted Norman Finkelstein’s mother to ask somewhat cynically, after she had been cheated out of her reparations money by the rabbis who administered the Holocaust Fund: “If everyone who claims to be a survivor actually is one, who did Hitler kill?”

Good question.

The subject that interests me however — and which should be of vital importance to Americans undergoing an almost identical trauma at the hands of organized Jewry today — is the question: to what extent was Germany in the days before Hitler’s rise to power a dress rehearsal for what we are witnessing in America right now? What are the parallels?  Is it time to write America’s obituary?

Is it time to say, FINIS AMERICAE — the end of America?

Here is a pertinent, relatively modern quotation which will serve as a useful coda to the doomladen citations from Marr. Read it carefully. It will not only hammer home the points made by Marr several decades earlier, it will also provide the reader with a sharp reminder of the parallel situation in which America finds itself today.

With one significant difference: America is in a far worse condition.

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Wilhelm Marr (right, 1819–1904). His controversial pamphlet of 1879 predicted the end of Germany — sixty-six years before Germany’s catastrophic defeat in World War II in 1945.

Historian Sir Arthur Bryant summarizes Jewish power in pre-1933 Germany. I have edited this slightly for brevity, omitting the ellipses:

<img alt=”Wilhelm Marr” src=”http://www.veteranstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/wilhelm-marr.png” width=”250″ height=”296″ />Wilhelm Marr

It was the Jews with their international affiliations and their hereditary flair for finance who were best able to seize such opportunities.

They did so with such effect that, even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent  in Berlin, something like A THIRD OF THE REAL PROPERTY OF THE REICH.

Most of it came into their hands during the inflation. But to those who had lost their all, this bewildering transfer seemed a monstrous injustice.

After prolonged sufferings they had now been deprived of their last possessions. They saw them pass into the hands of strangers, many of whom had not shared their sacrifices and who cared little or nothing for their national standards and traditions.

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The Jews obtained a wonderful ascendancy in politics, business and the learned professions, in spite of constituting LESS THAN ONE PERCENT OF THE POPULATION. The banks, including the Reichsbank and the big private banks, were practically controlled by them.

So were the publishing trade, the cinema, the theatres and a large part of the press—all the normal means, in fact, by which public opinion in a civilized country is formed. The largest newspaper combine in the country with a daily circulation of four millions was a Jewish monopoly. Every year it became HARDER AND HARDER FOR A GENTILE TO GAIN OR KEEP A FOOTHOLD IN ANY PRIVILEGED OCCUPATION.

At this time it was not the ‘Aryans’ who exercised racial discrimination. It was a discrimination that operated without violence. It was EXERCISED BY A MINORITY AGAINST A MAJORITY. There was no persecution, only elimination.

It was the contrast between the wealth enjoyed — and lavishly displayed — by aliens of cosmopolitan tastes, and the poverty and misery of native Germans, that has made anti-Semitism so dangerous and ugly a force in the new Europe. Beggars on horseback are seldom popular, least of all with those whom they have just thrown out of the saddle.

Sir Arthur Bryant, Unfinished Victory (1940), emphasis added.

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Throughout history, Christianity, and especially the Catholic Church, has been a countervailing force against organized Jewry—against a “stiff-necked” people who, while claiming spotless innocence and invariably framing their detractors as irrational and pathological haters, have nevertheless been expelled from no fewer than 109 locations since the year AD250.

Why has contemporary Christianity failed so abysmally to stand up to the encroachments of organized Jewry and its influence?

This is a question I will attempt to answer now.

2.  The Christian Zionists and organized Jewry: fools conned by knaves

Despite its history as the only Western institution that has been able at times to resist Jewish power, the Catholic Church, of which I am a hopelessly dysfunctional practicing member, has proved to be an acute disappointment. It has been thoroughly subverted from within and without. It offers neither guidance nor leadership. So forget the Catholics — a spent force.

One is also forced to conclude that there is little hope that American Protestants could come to the rescue. Their infatuated legions — particularly the 60 million Christian Zionists who constitute the most influential group among them — are in many ways as rabid as the fanatical Jews who seem to have infected them with their zealotry, egging them on to find solace in eschatological ecstasies and millenarian mumbojumbo.

Life is indeed so empty and sterile for these wretched lumpengoyim that the only thing that excites their sluggish sensitivities is the prospect of Armageddon and the thought of universal and catastrophic death — the quicker the better.

Whipped into a frenzy of religious fervor by the Grahams and the Robertsons, the Falwells and the Hagees, the Lindseys and the La Hayes, these Christian Zionists have become imitation Jews almost indistinguishable from Vladimir Jabotinski and Baruch Goldstein.

They believe in a Greater Israel — entailing further conquests of Arab Land — and in the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians.

They have “adopted” illegal settlements and they directly finance the bulldozing of Palestinian homes, the uprooting of olive trees, and the daily oppression of the rightful owners of the Holy Land.

They pray every Sunday in their vast soulless churches for the destruction of Iran.

And if push came to shove, they would gladly give their blessings to genocide — and call it “the will of God.”

John Hagee – a major Zionist American agent

John Hagee, founder of Christians United for Israel: “Fifty million evangelical Christians unite with five million American Jews, standing together on behalf of Israel….The man or nation that lifts a voice or hand against Israel invites the wrath of God.”

There are now 80,000 fundamentalist pastors and clergy preaching their message of madness to these ill-educated Christian masses — in many ways as gullible and gormless as medieval peasants.

The pernicious views of their “pastors” are disseminated by 1000 local Christian radio stations as well as 100 Christian TV stations. (See here)

Consider the unimaginable war crimes committed by the state of Israel a few years ago in Gaza. The world saw it happen. Judge Goldstone saw it happen. His meticulously documented reportmakes it abundantly clear that Israel is a criminal nation and that its politicians and generals are steeped in criminality.

Later on, under intense pressure and perhaps intimidation, Judge Goldstone backtracked and made lame excuses for these war crimes. In the eyes of many, he damaged his reputation by doing this.

Yet here is Grace Halsell: “Every act taken by Israel is orchestrated by God, and should be condoned, supported, and even praised by the rest of us.”

When I first read this, I couldn’t believe my eyes.

Was this woman crazy? Where had she been since 1948? Hadn’t she heard of the Goldstone Report? Did she have no inkling of Israeli war crimes?

Had she forgotten the Deir Yassin massacre (1948), the Lavon affair (1954), the Sabra and Shatila war crimes (1982), Qana (17 villages wiped out 1996), the Jenin massacre (2002), the Lebanon and Egyptian terrorist attacks and the atrocities in Iraq from 1990 to the present time, the horrific Gaza invasion of 2009?

Had she never heard of the King David Hotel bombing of the British? Had she never heard of the Hebron Mosque massacre by Baruch Goldstein?

Had she never heard of the sneak attack on the USS Liberty? Had she never heard of American state secrets sold to the Soviets and Chinese?  Had she never heard of white phosphorus and cluster bombs and DIME weapons that slice babies’ bodies in half?

Above all: had she forgotten 9/11, the war crime of the century, dressed up to look like an Al Qaeda spectacular?

I need not have worried.

Halsell, I was relieved to learn, was being ironic. She opposed Zionism as much as I did—as any sane and reasonable person would.

3.  Why Contemporary America is far worse off than pre-National Socialist Germany

I have been accused of needless defeatism by some of my anti-Zionist colleagues. America is far from dead, they assure me. It’s alive and kicking. It’s just a matter of time before good patriotic Americans rise from their slumber, reclaim lost ground, and take back their country. I wish I could feel as sanguine about America’s prospects as these optimists do.

I should like to convince you that the problems facing Germany in the past were far less formidable than the problems facing any potential American rescuer today.

One of the serious negative factors facing America today — a problem the Germans never had — is the existence of vast numbers of Christian Zionists in their midst.

Germany of course had to cope with organized Jewry, a group working from within to undermine the foundations of German society. But one scourge Germany did not have, and which America has, is this scourge of a non-Jewish enemy within: the 60 million Christian Zionists acting in cahoots with organized Jewry to oppose the interests of their own people.

America’s Christian Zionists, it would seem, are their own worst enemy — blithely planning their own demise without knowing it.

So here is Problem Number One for those of you who dream that America could once again become the self-conscious ethnic possession of people of European ancestry:  What are you going to do with these 60 million White American renegades who have joined forces with the Enemy? Who are as Jewish as Ariel Sharon or Abe Foxman. Who are hand in glove with AIPAC. Who think ADL means ‘Advanced Divine Leadership’.

How are you going to fit these thoroughly Judaized allies of organized Jewry into your democratic homeland in which 98 percent of the population are non-Jews? — your country that has been taken over and transformed by the Jews into an Israeli colony?

It cannot be done. So you have a big problem.

4.  Israel and its Jewish-American Double Agents

Another big problem America needs to solve that Germany did not have to cope with is the state of Israel and its powerful lobby in America. Germany did not have Israel hanging round its neck like an albatross. The Germans were not induced to fight wars on behalf of a foreign country. They didn’t invade other countries in order to make the world safe for Israel.

“Since September 11, 2001, the Israeli state, Zionists inside the US government, and the entire leadership of the Major American Jewish Organizations, have been entirely devoted to pushing the US into Middle East wars on behalf of Israel.” — James Petras, see here.

“Today the Jews rule this world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them.” — Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad of Malaysia, in a speech to the Tenth Islamic Summit Conference at Putrajaya, Malaysia, October 16, 2003.

Almost 5,000 U.S. military personnel have been sacrificed for Israel in Iraq. These are the “officially acknowledged” figures. The real figures have been put at between 50,000 and 70,000 and are probably higher. (See here and here.)

The number of seriously injured soldiers are perhaps ten times the number of the dead. Meanwhile, the number of Iraqis slaughtered amount to almost 1.5 million, with four times as many driven into neighboring countries as homeless refugees. The cost to the American taxpayer is (to date) over $980 billion, with a total cost of $3 trillion projected. (See here)

What is even more appalling is that nuclear weapons were surreptitiously used in Iraq, “dirty” weapons designed to produce hideous birth deformities in a “population cleansing war”. Here is America’s handiwork, courtesy of Israel, the instigator of this monstrous war crime.

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I think that even the enemies of Zionism before 1948 failed to appreciate the extent to which organized Jewry would maximize its power once it had acquired its own headquarters and homeland — complete with its own military arsenal and espionage facilities. Archimedes provides a hint in his famous quote on the lever, often loosely translated as: “Give me a place to stand and I will move the world.” The Jews now have “a place to stand” — and they certainly are “moving the world.”

The Germans, in addition, did not have a powerful Jewish Lobby holding the entire German government to ransom. German politicians, unlike American ones, were not on Israel’s payroll via campaign contributions from AIPAC and its fabulously rich Jewish supporters. These political donations or “reward money” are bribes in all but name.

Apart from the carrot, there is of course the stick, wielded to good effect by organized Jewry against all American critics of Israel. “Their willing use of force, money and media slander,” James Petras points out, “intimidates any and all critics, including dissident politicians, media, journalists and professors.”

In pre-WW2 Germany, the Mossad did not exist. No Mossad was around to monitor the Internet activities of German politicians to see what financial or sexual shenanigans they were up to. Today, in America, it is reasonable to assume that there is constant surveillance of American politicians by Mossad — if not by AIPAC, the ADL, and their various affiliates. Indeed, the ADL famously settled a spy case that yielded documents with 10,000 names and 600 organizations thought to be insufficiently slavish toward Israel. Legal filings from the case showed that an ADL agent had a floor plan and a key for the office of Alex Odeh, a murdered Arab American leader.

It follows that the potential for blackmailing American politicians (by Israel’s agents) must today be enormous. Sibel Edmonds asks rhetorically, “Are American politicians being blackmailed? Is grass green?” Her answer:  “Of course the blackmail scenario is possible; in fact, highly possible.”

5.  Seven reasons why America is in a far worse position today than Germany was when it was under Jewish domination in the pre-Hitler era

Seven crucial points need to be hammered home.  These show that America is now in a critical situation from which nothing can save it—nothing except a military coup or violent revolution.

1.   Germany did not have to cope with 60 million Christians Zionists collaborating with the goals of organized Jewry; America does.

2.   Germany did not have the state of Israel to finance, nor did it have to fight Israel’s wars; America does.

3.   Germany’s population of Jews was relatively small compared to America’s: less than 1% of  80 million (roughly 522,000 Jews in 1933) compared to contemporary America’s 2% ⁺ of 314 million (over 6 million Jews).

4.   Since Israel had yet to be founded, Germany did not have the problem of dual citizens whose primary allegiance is to a foreign country.

5.   Although there were Jewish activist organizations in Weimar Germany, they had not achieved the power and influence of the Jewish ethnic infrastructure in the US. Organizations like AIPAC, the ADL, the SPLC, the American Jewish Committee, and the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations (to name a few) are lavishly funded and influential in all areas of American life, including law enforcement, foreign policy, and all things multicultural.

6.   Jews have also erected the Holocaust Industry as a powerful guilt machine for White Americans. Traditional American culture has been substantially replaced by the culture of the Holocaust and various other non-White victimhoods, endlessly played out in the movies, television shows, and in the schools, all the way from kindergarten through the university.

7.   Above all, Germany was never threatened with multiculturalism. Promoting multiculturalism has been the focus not only of various influential Jewish intellectual movements, it has also been the most important goal of the organized Jewish community, especially since World War II.

Multiculturalism is a deadly weapon against Western civilization — a WMD of truly devastating lethality that in the long run will destroy Christianity, traditional moral values, and traditional nationalist cultures in North America, Europe, and Australia. It will also result in the dispossession and disempowerment of the white race, with the significant risk of brutal mass rape of white women in future ethnic conflicts — as happened to 2 million German women after World War II.

These are not the fanciful fears of a “racist” — for I regard all manifestations of race supremacy as fundamentally obscene — but the  predictions of a pragmatic realist historian. For if multiculturalism were so desirable, why do the Jews promote it so assiduously in all countries except Israel?

“This is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth them…” (Isaiah 42:22)

6.  Conclusion

The situation facing America is a grim one. An epidemic of escalating severity threatens us all. In the course of time, this epidemic of evil is likely to infect Eurasia and spread to other parts of the world like a cancer.

Public debt has increased to almost 70 percent in five years, from 9.9 trillion in 2008 to 16.7 trillion today. China has begun to publicly mock the level of US debt and is reluctant to continue propping up the worthless US dollar, instead earmarking the country’s $3.6 trillion of foreign reserves for the acquisition of huge chunks of real estate in Europe. Soon they will be buying up America — indeed, the process has already begun.

There are plans to sell off  America’s national parks and post office buildings and to drastically limit the value of food stamps to the tens of millions now eking out a miserable existence in tent cities or in deep underground tunnels like sewer rats. Meanwhile, ten American executives took home $100 million each last year, with the top two raking in over $1 billion each. (See here)

Homeland Security has recently acquired 2700 armoured battle tanks for use in American cities, its own secret paramilitary forces, and 1.6 billion rounds of hollow-point ammunition — enough to kill everyone in America five times over. A domestic force of this magnitude can hardly have been assembled to protect America from a virtually non-existent terrorist threat. “This force has been assembled,” Paul Craig Roberts tells us, “to deal with starving and homeless people in the streets of America.”

Alarmist? Not so. Only a few weeks ago we learned that Obama had set a new litmus test for senior military leaders. They were asked the question: “Are you willing to open fire on your fellow American citizens if asked to do so?” Those who answered “Yes” were the ones who got the smiles. Those who said  “No” were instantly dismissed.

If that doesn’t set your alarm bells ringing, nothing will.

A neo-Bolshevik style culling of America’s 314 million population appears to be on the cards. If 66 million Russian Christians, according to Solzhenitsyn, were wiped out under Jewish rule in Communist Russia, why should Americans think themselves immune to a similar bloodbath in their own country?

“Wars are the Jews’ harvest, for with them we wipe out the Christians and get control of their gold. We have already killed 100 million of them and the end is not yet.” That shocking statement was reportedly made by a French Jew whose very existence is problematic. His name was Rabbi Reichorn, and he was speaking at the funeral of the Grand Rabbi Simeon Ben-Judah in Paris in 1869. Henry Ford was to add later, “And no harvest is as rich as civil wars.”  

Even if no such rabbi ever existed, the controversial quote nevertheless encapsulates a frightening truth: that we are at war with an implacable enemy with whom we have been embroiled in a death struggle for the last 2000 years. And the tragedy is that most of us, like sleepwalkers in a mist, remain totally unaware of the machinations of this enemy or of the looming pitfalls that lie in front of us.

That the enemy is not entirely Jewish, but is made up of an equally malevolent non-Jewish component, hardly needs emphasis. Anti-Semitism, in the final analysis, is not the answer. Our enemy has two faces, and only one face is Jewish.

If you would like a detailed analysis of who controls America right now, click here.

The future looks unimaginably bleak

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Zionism and the United States Congress

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The locus of the present day conflict in Palestine may not be in Palestine but in Washington, DC, and in the US Congress, because the US Congress supports, probably unwittingly for the most part, the ethnic cleansing and destruction of the Palestinian people.

When the US Congress in 2011 gave Israel’s Netanyahu 29 standing ovations, was it aware it was applauding a genocidaire, asks William James Martin

 

by William James Martin

The ideology, or political project of Zionism, which underlies the creation of the state of Israel, had in fact a Christian origin rather than a Jewish one, as writings can be found dating from the 1500s written by Christian clergymen in England advocating the migration of Jews to the Holy Land.

The migration of Jews to Palestine was also advocated by Napoleon Bonaparte.

The first Jewish presentations of Zionism were written by Moses Hess in 1862 and 20 years later by Leo Pinsker, both of the Russian pale, with each writer advocating a separate state for Jews.

Twentieth century Zionism was initiated by Theodore Herzl who, likewise, advocated a separate state for Jews in his book, Der Judenstaat, written in 1896. One year later he formed the World Zionist Congress that held its first meeting in Basel, Switzerland, in that same year.

What to do with the Arabs present in the prospective Jewish state dominated the thoughts of the founders of Israel from Herzl up until the actual expulsion of the Palestinians in 1948.

Thus Herzl stated: “[We shall] spirit the penniless population across the frontier by denying it employment. Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly.”

Thus the concept of the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians was introduced.

It is not rocket science; if you want to create a state exclusively of Jews, mostly European, in the heart of the Middle East, then you must first get rid of the Arabs.

In 1928, Vladimir Jabotinsky, founder of the Revisionist wing of the Zionist movement, which advocated the revision of the British Mandate for Palestine to include the east bank of the Jordan and some of present-day Egypt, Jordan and Syria, and which was the progenitor of the present-day Lukud Party, wrote of the Palestinians in his booklet, The Iron Wall, that no people were ever willing to give up their land to another people through mutual agreement and that the colonization by European Jews of Palestine must be prosecuted by force and against the will of the indigenous people. It must be executed behind an iron wall of bayonets, using his metaphor.

By the 1930s, “transfer” of the Arabs was the unanimous preference of the founders of Israel. So-called transfer committees, headed by Joseph Weitz, director of land management for the Jewish Agency, were set up explicitly for the purpose of studying ways of “transferring” the Arabs out of Palestine.

At the beginning of 1948, despite 50 years of land purchases, Jews only owned six per cent of the land of Palestine. By the year’s end, the Israeli army controlled 78 per cent of Palestine in a process of ethnic cleansing that saw the destruction of 531 Arab towns or villages and 11 Arab urban areas, with massacres, large or small, at almost all of those towns or villages, the almost complete looting of Palestinian property and wealth, including looting of banks, confiscation of Palestinian homes and property, businesses, fields and orchards.

The Palestinian people lost everything. Those who survived the massacres lost their careers, their means of livelihood, only to find refuge in tent cities set up by the United Nations that were later to become squalid refugee camps of cinder block buildings dotted around the Middle East.

By just checking the timeline, one quickly disposes of the 60-year-old Israeli propaganda myth that the pre-state of Israel was innocently minding its own business when it was attacked by five armies of surrounding Arab states.

The ethnic cleansing of Palestinians began 30 November 1947 in Haifa when the Jewish army under David Ben-Gurion, along with the Jewish terrorist group, the Irgun, under Menachem Begin, began shelling Arab sections of that city. The ethnic cleansing of the Arabs of Haifa was completed by April 1948 when shelling by Jewish forces obliged Haifa’s Arab residents to flee toward the harbour where they attempted to board boats in order to escape. Thus the Arabs of Haifa were literally “pushed into the sea” by Jewish forces. Many of those fleeing were drowned when the boats were overloaded and capsized.

In March of 1948, Ben-Gurion finalised and distributed Plan D to his officers, which was a programme for destroying and depopulating Arab villages and eliminating any resistance. Already, by that date, 30 Arab villages had been depopulated of Arabs.

One revealing paragraph of this document states: “These operations can be carried out in the following manner: either by destroying villages (by setting fire to them, by blowing them up, and by planting mines in their rubble), and especially those populations centres that are difficult to control permanently; or by mounting combing and control operations according to the following guidelines: encirclement of the villages, conducting a search inside them. In case of resistance, the armed forces must be wiped out and the population expelled outside the borders of the state.”

The massacre at the Arab village of Deir Yassin, only one of many, but possibly the most famous, occurred 9 April 1948. Israel declared itself a state 14 May 1948, and it was the next day that the first regular soldier of an Arab army set foot in Palestine. By then, about half of the 750,000 to 800,000 Palestinian refugees had been generated and all of Palestine’s urban centres and been depopulated of Arabs.

Let me be clear: the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians began six months before the entrance into Palestine of any regular member of the surrounding Arab armies. And further, the intent of the Zionist movement to displace the Arab population had been in place for half a century.

One cannot understand the natural anger and resentment of the Arab people, and particularly the Palestinian people, towards Israel, and also to the West for supporting their oppressors and for being blind to their own suffering, without coming to a full understanding of the catastrophe, which the Palestinian people call the Nakba, that befell them in 1948. One cannot understand the same if one accepts the lie that the pre-state of Israel was just innocently defending itself, which is the fiction, I suspect, most members of the US Congress accept.

Nor can one understand the futility of the exalted “peace process”, ongoing now for the last 24 years, concurrent with the further erosion of Palestinian rights and freedom, and migration of new Jewish settlers into the West Bank and East Jerusalem, without understanding that Israel acquired its present status as a state not by negotiation with Palestinians, but by brute force and very much against the will of the indigenous people.

For the Arab people, Israel is an alien implant, imposed by Western powers, in the heart of the Arab world against the will of the Arab people.

The Palestinians living under occupation have been living in that situation for 45 years, deprived of basic human rights, abused and, more often than not, humiliated, suffering degradation on a daily basis, as their land and property and resources are hour-by-hour confiscated by the state of Israel, which also winks at settler violence and looks the other way as settlers, who have built their settlements on hilltops, dump their sewage onto Palestinian farmland, as they also cut down their olive trees, burn their fields and poison or otherwise kill their livestock, in order to make way for more settlers and settlements, as well as to make life as miserable as possible for the Palestinians with the intention of making their migration from Palestine more attractive than their continuing presence.

The Palestinian refugee population now stands at about five million — the largest refugee population in the world and the longest standing refugee population. There are no prospects on the horizon for any change in their situation.

Zionism is a political programme of clearing Palestine of Palestinian Arabs in order to create the space for an exclusive Jewish state. As such, its goal is to destroy the Palestinians as a people with an identity, as a people and with an attachment to the land of their births and the births of their ancestry. Such a project meets the definition of genocide under international law. Genocide is a crime against humanity was well as against its immediate victims. Genocide is a crime in which all of humanity is degraded.

When the US Congress gave 29 standing ovations to the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, in his most recent appearance before this body, they were applauding a man whose has dedicated his entire life to the destruction of the Palestinian people and their ethnic cleansing.

The US Congress does not seem to know, or to care: Those who came to Palestine in the 20th century for the purpose of ethnically cleansing the indigenous people in order to establish a racially or ethnically pure Jewish state are the victimisers, not the victims; those who are being ethnically cleansed are the victims, not the victimisers. The US Congress has it backwards.

Did it not occur to the members of this august group that Netanyahu, after receiving 29 standing ovations, would return to Israel with an imprimatur from the US Congress to continue, or even accelerate, the disenfranchise of the Palestinians?

The day that the Knesset endorsed Oslo II by a majority of one, in 1993, thousands of demonstrators gathered in Zion Square in Jerusalem. While the demonstrators displayed an effigy of Rabin in SS uniform, Netanyahu delivered an inflammatory speech calling Oslo II a surrender agreement and accused Rabin of “causing national humiliation by accepting the dictates of the terrorist Arafat”. A month later, in November 1995, Rabin was assassinated by a religious-nationalist Jewish fanatic with the explicit aim of derailing the peace process. Rabin’s demise, as his murderer expected, dealt a serious body blow to the entire peace process.

There is a YouTube video, from 2002, of Netanyahu seated on a couch in the home of an Israeli family, unwittingly on camera, and bragging that he was able to destroy Oslo, and that he deceived the US president at that time, Bill Clinton, into believing he was helping implement the Oslo Accords by making minor withdrawals from the West Bank while actually entrenching the occupation. He boasts that he thereby destroyed the Oslo process.

He dismisses the US as “easily moved to the right direction” and calls high levels of popular American support for Israel “absurd”.

He also suggests that, far from being defensive, Israel’s harsh military repression of the Palestinian uprising was designed chiefly to crush the Palestinian Authority led by Yasser Arafat so that it could be made more pliable to Israeli diktat.

Netanyahu is playing the US Congress for fools.

Days before he received 29 standing ovations in Washington, Netanyahu sat in the Oval Office with the US president and told him that he would not accept 1967 borders as the basis of a solution. The 1967 borders basis for a settlement has been the consistent American position since the 1967 war (ie for 45 years), and under both Democrat and Republican presidents.

Netanyahu told the US president that Israel needed most of the West Bank because otherwise Israel would be militarily vulnerable, and also an indefinitely long presence in the Jordan Valley, because otherwise Israel would be militarily vulnerable. Of course, Netanyahu has a consistent policy of ethnically cleansing Jerusalem of Palestinians because it was given to Jews by God, or because it is the Jewish birth right. That leaves very little for the Palestinians, does it not? The original inhabitants of Palestine, the Palestinians, were promised statehood by the British Mandate for Palestine.

It is not true, by the way, that Jews were building the city of Jerusalem 3000 years ago, as Netanyahu repeatedly claims, and even if it were, it would not override international law’s injunction against ethnic cleansing. The archaeologists tell us that Jerusalem was an abandoned village 3000 years ago surrounded by a small agrarian population. This is during the purported time of David and Solomon and the purported United Kingdom. Jerusalem did not achieve any significance until the eighth century BC and then as the continuous development of a Palestinian settlement from which artefacts have been discovered representing a variety of Palestinians deities of which Yahweh was only one of several. There is not one shred of evidence for a Jewish temple dating from 3000 years ago, or any other significant engineering structures from that time.

Furthermore, it is unlikely that Netanyahu, or any other Israeli who claims to be derived from God’s Chosen People, possesses any genetic connection to the ancient Judeans. The burden of proof is on Netanyahu to produce a verifiable pedigree or genealogical tree stretching back 3000 years into the Iron Age. In fact, no living person is able to do that.

Netanyahu derives from European Jewish ancestry, who, in turn, derive mostly from the Russian Khazars, those living near the Volga and Don Rivers, who converted en masse to Judaism in the ninth century AD bringing a much larger population to Judaic belief than any population of Judeans of the ancient world, or their descendants.

Paul Wexler, a philological archaeologist at Tel Aviv University, in his book, The Non-Jewish Origin of the Sephardic Jews, writes that Hebrew and Aramaic made their appearance in European Jewish text only in the 10th century AD, and were not products of earlier linguistic developments. During the first millennium AD, Jewish believers in Europe knew no Hebrew or Aramaic. Only after the religious canonisation of Arabic in Islam and Latin in Christianity did Judaism adopt and propagate its own religious language as a high cultural code.

It is as likely that Adolf Hitler is a descendant of the ancient Judeans as is Netanyahu, for all anyone knows.

The locus of the present day conflict in Palestine may not be in Palestine but in Washington, DC, and in the US Congress, because the US Congress supports, probably unwittingly for the most part, the ethnic cleansing and destruction of the Palestinian people.