by William James Martin 2009-09-11
In pondering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict I have found that very few people actually have a basic understanding of the conflict nor could they define it in even rough approximating terms.
Thus one sometimes hears that it is all about Arab/Palestinian ‘terrorism’ and suicide bombings and the ultimate goal of the terrorists-Palestinians is to ‘push all the Jews into the sea, dead or alive” and that their motives are those of anti-Semitism and hatred of Jews. Those who hold this view see the conflict as one of the survival of the Jewish state amid a sea of irrational hatred.
That is the view of the Zionists, and the one they would like for the world to accept.
One also hears that the conflict is a religious one between Jews and Arabs and that it has been continuous for ‘thousands of years’.
Neither is correct.
The first Palestinian suicide bombing occurred in 1994, 40 days after the massacre by the Brooklyn native Baruch Goldstein of 29 praying Muslims at the Al Ibrahim Mosque in Hebron. The ’67 War and the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip was 25 years old at that time. Thus an entire generation of Palestinians had grown to maturity knowing nothing but occupation before the first suicide bomber struck.
The phrase, ”push all the Jews into the sea, dead or alive”, can be traced to a 1961 speech to the Knesset delivered by Prime Minister David Ben Gurion. This apparently was the first use of this phrase by a significant political personality, and thus, for all intents and purposes, the phrase has a Jewish and not an Arab origin. The propagation of this emotional phrase throughout the Israeli-Palestinian debate has its source the Israeli Prime Minister himself. (See “Who is Pushing Whom into the Sea?“)
The view that the conflict is religious and that it has been ongoing for thousands of years is inaccurate. For approximately 2000 years Jews and Arabs enjoyed a harmonious relation, and for four hundred years up until World War I, as citizens of the Ottoman empire with equal rights. Indeed, Jews enjoyed high government position within the Ottoman Empire.
Change occurred in 1896 with the publication of Theodore Herzl’s book, The Jewish State, in which Herzl propounded the idea of inevitability, immutability, permanence, and omnipresence of anti-Semitism and argued that the only solution was a separate state for Jews.
Herzl’s understanding of the inevitability of anti-Semitism was possibly self fulfilling, for rather that opposing anti-Semitism in the first half of the 20th century, the Zionists found common cause with Hitler, Eichmann and the Nazis and used anti-Semitism and Nazism as a means of achieving their end which was the establishment of a Jewish state. The two reactionary movements shared the view that German Jews were living there as a ‘foreign race’ and that the racial divide was essential to maintain. (Historian Lenny Brenner has written three excellent books on the Zionists-Nazi collaboration.) The Zionist’s use of Nazism involved, among other things, the blocking of avenues of escape to other countries of Europe’s Jews and diverting them to Palestine, even as the death trains began to roll in Europe. The rise of Nazism and Hitler to power was never, or almost never, opposed by the Zionist prior to the establishment of Israel.
History might have been very different had the Zionists component of Jewry opposed Nazism and there might never have been a Holocaust. And there might never have been a state of Israel, as many of the Zionists well understood.
Lenni Brenner puts it:
… of all of the active Jewish opponents of the boycott idea [of Nazi Germany], the most important was the world Zionists Organization (WZO). It not only bought German wares; it sold them, and even sought out new customers for Hitler and his industrialist backers.
The WZO saw Hitler’s victory in much the same way as its German affiliate, the ZVfD [the German Zionist Organization]: not primarily as a defeat for all Jewry, but as positive proof of the bankruptcy of assimilation and liberalism. (Brenner, Zionism in the Age of Dictators)
Zionist collaboration with the Nazis, as well as with the Fascists and Mussolini is a deep and extensive topic and must be abandoned here.
Though a region of Argentina as well as Ethiopia were considered by Herzl, Palestine was the site for which there was the greatest consensus.
Of the indigenous Palestinians, of which there were about a million at the time living in Palestine, he said: “[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 Palestine by Zionism was introduced.
It is not rocket science. If you want to create a state exclusively of European Jews in the heart of the Middle East, you must first get rid of the Arabs.
Herzl went on the found the World Zionists Organization, whose intent was to establish a Jewish state in Palestine and to make itself into proto-government from which the actual state government would seamlessly emerge upon the establishment of the Jewish state.
Though the world seems not to understand the intent of the Zionist program, there was no misunderstanding among the Zionists themselves.
In his 1923 book, The Iron Wall, Vladimir Jabotinsky, founder to the “Revisionists” wing of Zionism, wrote
There can be no discussion of voluntary reconciliation between the Arabs, not now and not in the foreseeable future. All well-meaning people, with the exception of those blind from birth, understood long ago the complete impossibility of arriving at a voluntary agreement with the Arabs of Palestine for the transformation of Palestine from an Arab country to a country with a Jewish majority.
Any native people view their country as their national home, of which they will be the complete masters. They will never voluntarily allow a new master. So it is for the Arabs. Compromisers among us try to convince us that the Arabs are some kind of fools who can be tricked with hidden formulations of our basic goals. I flatly refuse to accept this view of the Palestinian Arabs.
The Palestinians will struggle in this way until there is hardly a spark of hope.
It matters not what kind of words we use to explain our colonization. Colonization has its own integral and inescapable meaning understood by every Jew and every Arab. Colonization has only one goal. This is in the nature of things. To change that nature is impossible. It has been necessary to carry on colonization against the will of the Palestinian Arabs and the same conditions exist now.
… a voluntary agreement is inconceivable. All colonization, even the most restricted, must continue in defiance of the will of the native population. Therefore, it can continue and develop only under the shield of force which comprises an Iron Wall which the local population can never break through. This is our Arab policy. To formulate it any other way would be hypocrisy.
Whether through the Balfour Declaration or the Mandate, external force is a necessity for the establishing in the country conditions of rule and defence through which the local population, regardless of what it wishes, will be deprived of the possibility of impeding our colonization, administratively or physically. Force must play its role – with strength and without indulgence. In this, there are no meaningful differences between our militarists and our vegetarians. One prefers an Iron Wall of Jewish bayonets; the other an Iron Wall of English bayonets.
If you wish to colonize a land in which people are already living, you must provide a garrison for that land,… . Or else? Or else, give up your colonization, for without an armed force which will render physically impossible any attempt to destroy or prevent this colonization, colonization is IMPOSSIBLE! Zionism is a colonization adventure and there fore it stands or it falls by the question of armed force. It is important to speak Hebrew but, unfortunately, it is even more important to be able to shoot – or else I am through with playing at colonization.
To the hackneyed reproach that this point is unethical, I answer – absolutely untrue. This is our ethic. There is no other ethic. As long as there is the faintest spark of hope for the Arabs to impede us, they will not sell these hopes – not for any sweet words not for any tasty morsel. Because this (the Palestinians) is not a rabble but a people, a living people. And no people makes such enormous concessions on such fateful questions, except when there is no hope left, until we have removed every opening visible in the Iron Wall.
The ‘Revisionists’ advocated the revision of the British Mandate for Palestine to include the east bank of the Jordan, now the state of Jordan, as well as the west bank, the Jordan River forming the eastern boundary of the mandate at that time. The ‘Revisionist’ transformed over time into the present day Lukud party, the right wing party of Menachem Begin, who regarded Zabotinsky as his model and philosophical father, of Yitzchak Shamir, who became the leader of the Revisionists at the time of Zabotinsky’s death, of Ariel Sharon, and of Benjamin Netanyahu.
Thus in 1937, Ben Gurion stated: “The compulsory transfer of Arabs from the valleys of the proposed Jewish state could give us something which we never had, even when we stood on our own feet during the days of the First and Second Temple.”
And in a letter to his son, also in 1937, he stated: “We must expel the Arabs and take their places and if we have to use force, to guarantee our own right to settle in those places then we have force at our disposal.”
And in early 1948 Ben Gurion wrote in his War Diary, “During the assault we must be ready to strike the decisive blow; that is, either to destroy the towns or expel its inhabitants so our people can replace them.”
And in February 1948, Ben Gurion told Yoseph Weitz, director of the settlement of the Jewish National Fund and head of the official Transfer Committee of 1948: “The war will give us land. The concept of ‘ours’ and ‘not ours’ are peace concepts, only, in war they lose their whole meaning.”
And in 1940, Joseph Weitz, who was head of land purchasing for the World Jewish Organization, and head of one of several ‘transfer committees’ (committees to study ways of transferring the Arabs from Palestine) wrote:
Between ourselves it must be clear that here is no room for both peoples together in this country. We shall not achieve our goal if the Arabs are in this country. There is no other way than to transfer the Arabs from here to neighboring countries – all of them. Not one village, not one tribe, should be left.
And in 1983, Raphael Eytan, then chief of staff of the Israeli Defence Forces, said,
We declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle on even one centimeter of Eretz Israel .… Force is all they do or ever will understand. We shall use the ultimate force until the Palestinians come crawling to us on all fours…. When we have settled the land, all the Arab will be able to do will be to scurry around like drugged cockroaches in a bottle.
Exactly why the indigenous people of Palestine do not have right to live on the land of their and their ancestors births, or why the colonial European Jews have this right, Mr Eytan is silent.
Between the time that Israel declared itself a state in May of 1948 and the summer of 2005, Israel killed 50,000 Palestinians, according to Israeli Historian Ilan Pappe. And since October of 2000, Israel has killed 6348 Palestinians, according to the web site, If American Knew. The latter figure averages to about 2 Palestinians killed per day by Israel (1.932, by my calculation.)
One thing is certain: Israel is not the victim, as it is constantly screaming, but the victimizer.
What then is the conflict all about? What is the theme that runs through the entire history of
Zionism?
It is about the ongoing program of Zionism to destroy the Palestinians as a people and to assume possession of their ancestral land.
There are Zionists who would settle for a two state solution and a withdrawal of the Israel presence to the 1967 borders allowing a mini-Palestinian state on the remaining 22% of Palestine. But the reality on the ground is that Israel has expanded beyond the point of retreat with 300,000 settlers in the West Bank, 183,000 in East Jerusalem, as of this writing, with 200 or more settlements in the West Bank some twice the size of Manhattan containing their own, schools, universities, shopping malls and the billions of dollars of invested infrastructure, both private and public, and a segregated, for-Jews-only, highway system, 300 miles long, cutting up the West Bank with Palestinians imprisoned between these disjoint concrete and asphalt barriers.
But whatever the views of these moderate Zionists, who call for contraction to the ’67 borders, the dynamics of Israel is and has always been expansion. The centrifugal forces pushing the expansion are multivaried and complicated. They are religious, they are military, they are for want of security, they are from want of power for its own sake, but they are persistent and they have an entire century of momentum and a century of Zionism on the move.
What the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is all about then is the destruction of the Palestinian people and their evacuation and the complete takeover of Palestine to the Jordan River by the Jewish state. And what hangs win the balance is whether or not the Palestinians will be destroyed and eliminated as a people with a distinct culture and history and with an attachment to the land of their birth and their parent’s and ancestor’s births.
Comments:
Ismail Zayid 2009
William James Martin deserves full credit for his accurate analysis of the Zionist program, as asserted by all Zionist leaders from Herzl in 1896 to Netanyahu in 2009. The ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people from their homeland was planned and effected as outlined in this excellent aricle. And the process continues.
B99 2009
Alan – When the Hebrews arrived with their goatherds from where ever, the region was inhabited by Palestinians – called Canaanites then (the collective term for the various tribes). When the Jews left the region for greener pastures all who remained, including a few Jews, were Palestinian. When the Zionists shipped into Palestine in the early 20th century – they found the land inhabited by its indigenous people – the Palestinians.
The Native-Americans were removed by force in recent history. Those who support Palestinians usually also support Native-American claims as well. Jews willingly left Palestine under their own locomotion beginning nearly two-thousand years ago and continued to do so until only a handful were left. Emigrants have no right of return. Only refugees have a right of return. That would be the Palestinians.
Synic3
With two hundred Israeli settlements and more than 300,000 settlers living in them and these settlements are connected by roads for Israelis only, there is nothing left for the Palestinian but isolated urban ghettos to live in. This is not a viable so called state. If Israel abandon the settlements and retreat to pre 1967 borders, which will never happen, then the two states solution might worth looking into. Without an Israeli withdrawal to pre 1967 borders, anyone thinking that the two states solution is a viable solution either kidding himself or is trying to bullshit us. In my humble opinion, the only solution is Israel become a secular nation with equal rights for all and the right of return for the Palestinians.
Mulga Mumblebrain 2009
I’d say what the Palestinians want, like the Iraqis, is an end to their imprisonment, humiliation, torture, murder, the murder and maiming of their children and the continued studied indifference of Western elites in hock to the Judaic Herrenvolk. If they are released from their torture chamber, I’m sure it will only be in order to be ruled by a thuggish Yankee stooge like Abbas or Dahlan, in the Mubarrak, Saddam, Shah mould, but at least even the worst despot will not treat them with the sadistic cruelty of the Israelis. The element of racial and civilizational contempt will also be absent.
Mary 2009
Mulga For ABC read BBC. Snap!
This horror was reported on Palestine Monitor but there was not a mention on the ZBC. Imagine that if an Israeli child had been shot in the chest it would be ZBC’s lead story. Do the words ‘camp’ and ‘watchtowers’ ring any bells?
http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article1067
Child Shot Dead By Israeli Snipers
Palestine Monitor
7 September 2009
Israeli soldiers, shooting from a settlement watchtower, shot three bullets into the chest of a Palestinian teenager at the entrance of the refugee camp in which he lived. The boy was then left to bleed for one hour as the Israeli army shot at the Palestine Red Crescent ambulance which was trying to reach him.
Around 9.30pm on Monday 31 August, Israeli troops opened fire on five Palestinian children walking by a UN School, close to the south-eastern entrance of the camp. The snipers, shooting from a watchtower guarding the Jewish settlement Beit Eil, shot 15-year-old Mohammed Riad Nayef ’Elayan three times in his chest. The boy’s father had been killed by Israeli soldiers seven years ago.
Dozens of civilians gathered to help the boy, but they were bombed with tear gas canisters. Thirty Israeli soldiers blocked the Palestinian ambulance, coming from Sheikh Zayed Hospital in Ramallah, from reaching the area where the boy lay bleeding. Ambulance driver Osama al-Najjar was shot in his leg, and Ali Al-Qaisi, sustained similar injures, while trying to rescue the victim. There was no help given to the boy for around an hour, then Mohammed was transferred by helicopter to Hadasa ’Ein Karem Hospital in West Jerusalem. Early the next morning, Mohammed died of his gunshot wounds. The other four children who were with him were detained in the settlement until 3am.
According to eye witnesses, stones were thrown only after Mohammed was shot by the Israeli soldiers, and left bleeding without any medical help.
An Israeli military spokesman claimed that soldiers started firing, allegedly in self-defense, in response to Palestinians throwing fire-bombs outside the settlement. However an investigation by the Palestinian Center For Human Rights found that all the boys were unarmed. Regardless, it is hard to believe that armed and trained soldiers, inside a fortified tower, was in great danger because of children throwing stones or firebombs, particularly considering that the UN School, where the incident took place, is around two hundred meters from the Israeli outpost. Further, even if the boys had thrown firebombs, surely this did not warrant the death penalty.
In the last 10 months, three other children have been shot dead by soldiers from the same watchtower which guards the illegal Israeli settlement. Mohammad Ali Abed Al-Fattah Nowarah, aged 16, killed on April 17 2009, Abed Al-Qader Badawi Zeed, aged 16, killed on October 14 2008 and Mohammad Al-Romhi, aged 15, killed on October 15 2008, were all students at the UN school for boys in al-Jalazoun refugee camp.
B99 2009
Yes Mulga, to condemn Palestinians to a life under Israeli culture (political and otherwise) is a fate no others would choose (not even American Jews to any degree). Yet this is the future that awaits Palestinians, a small state now and the slow recovery of their entire homeland, or to cast their lot fully with one of the least attractive cultures on earth. The third option is that the Israelis, knowing no one can stand to live with them, will continue the process of beneficently banishing the gentiles to the desert.
B99 2009
Max – The Palestinians did not have a state prior to the invasion of the zyonz because nobody did. It was a subset of a region in the Ottoman Empire. With the dissolution of the Empire it was then occupied by Britain. Everybody else in the region got a state or at least a UN mandate on the road to becoming a state. Even in Africa, the borders of the European colonies became the borders of the successor states – the only exceptions being those that combined to become larger like Cameroon and Somalia.
States emerged in Europe with the rise of the mercantile class and the decline of feudal society. Merchants needed the protection of a central power to secure their markets, the delineation of borders and the establishment of a state apparatus being parts of that.
That Western framework is now the global framework with the exception of a few ‘failed’ states. It’s no longer merely a Western paradigm because its absence creates a political vacuum that surrounding states would be eager to fill. But what IS a western paradigm is the notion of a post-state world. That’s something that must begin at home before imposing it upon a besieged people.
Shabnam 2009
Herzl tried even before World Zionist Organization to put his hand on Palestine, but Abdul Hamid, the Ottoman Sultan, denied him. Abul Hamid was aware of Jewish aristocracy’s intention on taking over the wealth of his empire. He also was aware of Rothschilds’ control of British Empire where was looking to destabilize the territories under his rule to engineer crisis to destabilize the empire towards partition to bring the wealth of Ottoman Empire under its control. Herzl try to bribe Abul-Hamid with Jewish aristocracy’s money where was gained by stealing other people’s resources like Diamond, Gold, Silver, to get permission for Jewish emigration to Palestine in 1882 but Abdul-Hamid refused.
In 1901 the Jewish banker Mizray Qrasow and two other Jewish influential leaders came to visit Abdul Hamid, they offered to give him the following:
- Paying ALL the empire’s debts.
- Building the Navy of the Ottoman empire.
- 35 Million Golden Liras without interest to the empire
- In Exchange for:
- to allow Jews to visit Palestine anytime they please, and to stay as long as they want “to visit the holy sites.”
- to allow Jews to build settlements where they live, and they wanted Jews to be located near Jerusalem.
Abdul Hamid refused again and sent them a message:
“Tell those impolite Jews that debts of the Ottoman state are not a shame, France has debts and that doesn’t affect it. Jerusalem became part of the Islamic land when Omar Bin Al khattab took the city and I am not going to carry the historical shame of selling the holy lands to Jews and betraying the responsibility and trust of my people. May the Jews keep their money; the Ottoman’s will not hide in castles built with the money of the enemies of Islam.’
The Jewish money was an important asset to finance the destruction of the Ottoman state to build the Zionist state in Palestine. Therefore, in order to fight this vicious group it is necessary to destroy their source of strength meaning economic base where is built on usury and stealing other people resources by privatization. The Jews did not give up on Abdul Hamid, later in the same year, 1901, the founder of the Zionist movement, Theodor Herzl, visited Istanbul and tried to meet Abdul Hamid. Abdul Hamid refused to meet him and he told his Head of the Ministers Council.
“Advise Dr. Herzl not to take any further steps in his project. I cannot give away a handful of the soil of this land for it is not my own, it is for all the Islamic Nation.”
Abdul Hamid is respected by Muslims because he refused Zionist’s demand for Jewish emigration to Palestine. Thus, British Empire became very active in DIVIDE AND RULE in order to destroy the empire using COMMITTEE OF UNION PROGRESS (CUP) where Jews of Salonika played a vital role in the demise of the empire. Salonika was an Ottoman province from 1864 to 1912 where hold large number of Jews, especially Donme, who helped the British Empire to bring the empire down.Donme were Jews who converted to Islam but remained faithful to their own faith.
The Donme trace their origins to the messianic rabbi Shabtai Tzvi, who converted to Islam in 1666. Unlike other Muslims, the Donme maintained a belief that Shabtai Tzvi was the messiah, practiced kabbalistic rituals. They also followed the requirements of Islam, including fasting at Ramadan and praying in mosques. The ‘Eighteen Commandments,’ ordinances articulated by Shabtai Tzvi, were observed by the Donme as late as the early twentieth century and served as the basis for the group’s organization. The Donme actively maintained their separate identity. They all lived in a particular area of Salonika, between the residential quarters of the Muslims and those of the Jews; they had their own schools, clubs, social centers, and philanthropic institutions. Most Salonika donmes were educated and many were active in the affairs of their city. In the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey, anti-Semitism was not widespread.
Many Arabs and who were looking for ‘reforms’ were active in the CUP. Later, the Zionist puppet, Young Turks, came from CUP to take over and bring changes according to British Empire’ demand, secularization, and change in dress code. Palestine as Abudl Hamid predicted came under the control of Zionist Jews. Arabs who were active in the CUP were not motivated by Arab Nationalism, contrary to the lies of Western ‘scholars’ according – to Hasan Kayah – rather they were seeking reforms. According to Kayali, Sharif Husayn’s dedication to Arab independence is highly exaggerated and his initial role as a puppet of the Ottoman government understated. Kayali argues that the Arab revolt, initiated by sharif Husayn, was not motivated by nationalism but by personal ambition of Hussein and other Arab notables. But the Zionist Jews were agents of the British Empire and its master, Rothschilds, working towards the demise of the Ottoman Empire to get hold of Palestine In the elections of 1912, the CUP lost, but the Young Turks came to power through a Coup by CUP.
Today, Zionists are playing the same musice and treating Iran like ‘Ottoman Empire’ making Persian as the enemy in order to bring the Iranian traitors and fools to help them in divide and rule game.
I am warning the Iranian fools not to give this vicious group any hand and everyone must see what has happened to Iraq in order to see what zionists are looking fro. This vicious group
Today, the zionists have created so many “CUP” like NED, Open Society, Freedom House, Documentation Center, Journalist without Borders, so on and so forth to create chaos to push the world toward ‘World Government’ according to ‘protocol.’
http://www.nogw.com/download/_07_jews_armenian_holocaust.pdf
