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by Donald Dinelli, M.A.
In the Beginning
Zionism is a movement started, partly in response to Russion pogroms, by
a number of European Jews in the 1890's. At the first Zionist conference
which was convened in 1897 in Basel, Switzerland, and lead by Theodor
Herzl, a tenacious, Austrian Jew, the 197 Jewish delegates passed the
following resolution: "Zionism seeks to secure a publically recognized,
legally secured home in Palestine for the Jewish people."1 These Jews
formed an organization called the World Zionist Organization, later just
called the Jewish Agency or Jewish Committee. By 1914 the Zionists had
127,000 dues paying members world-wide.2 Today, you can find a chapter
of the Jewish Agency in every Jewish community throughout the world.
Without delay the Zionists set out to implement their mission of
removing Palestinians from the land. They set up "the Fund" or "the
Jewish National Fund" to buy land from under the Palestinians' noses and
deposited it in a trust which allowed only Jews to use or rent it. Most
Palestinians at this time were peasants working the land of rich,
absentee, Arab landlords. Theodor Herzl avowed: "We shall try to spirit
the penniless (Palestinian) population across the border by procuring
employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it any
employment in Palestine ... Both the process of expropriation and the
removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly," 3
From the beginning of Zionism this was the essence of Zionist policy:
use Jewish money, collected from throughout the world, to run the
Palestinians out of Palestine by buying their land and/or their jobs. If
that didn't work the Zionists would use the money to terrorize the
Palestinians into fleeing or kill them.
Out of a population of 1,000,000 people in 1897 Palestine, only 5% -
50,000 - were Jewish. Those few Jews reacted negatively to Zionism. They
neither saw the need for a Jewish state in Palestine, not did they want
to exacerbate relations with the Palestinian Arabs. At this time in the
Holy Land, religions lived together in relative harmony - a harmony only
disrupted when the Zionists began to claim that Palestine was the
'rightful' possession of the 'Jewish people' to the exclusion of its
Muslim and Christian inhabitants.
In 1919 Ben-Gurion, who later would become the first prime minister of
Israel, saw that the Zionists were creating a problem with no just
solution. "No solution! There is a gulf, and nothing can fill this guilt
... I do not know what Arab will agree that Palestine should belong to
the Jews. ..We, as a nation, want this country to be ours; the Arabs, as
a nation, want this country to be theirs." Later, during the Arab revolt
of 1936-39 against this takeover, Ben-Gurion continued: "This is an
active resistance by the Palestinians to what they regard as a
usurpation of their homeland by the Jews ... But the fighting is only
one aspect of the conflict, which is in its essence a political one. And
politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves." 4 He
proceeded to strengthen the Jewish terrorists organizations like the
Irgun with more guns and explosives so that they could, with bullets
when necessary, force the Arabs into relinquishing their ownership of
Palestine.
In 1938, he was most explicit on what land the Zionist intended to take
and make part of "Greater Israel." "The boundaries of Zionist
aspiration," he told the World Council of Poale Zion is Tel aviv,
"include southern Lebanon, southern Syria, today's Jordan, all of Cis-Jordan
(West Bank) and the Sinai."5
Later he continued, "After we become a strong force as the result of the
creation of the state, we shall abolish partition (the UN's partition
which created Israel and left some of Palestine) and expand (Israel) to
the whole of Palestine. The state will only be a stage in the
realization of Zionism and its task is to prepare the ground for our
expansion. The state will have to preserve order - not by preaching but
with machine guns."6 As to the Palestine inhabitants who are in the way
of all this expansion, his answer was always, "Drive them out."7
Zionists are terrorists. Their movement is a terrorist movement
continuing today. Israel practices state terrorism as it implements
these Zionist plans.
Israeli Zionism Now
No one can understand the Palestinian vs Israeli conflict today, if they
do not understand Zionism - it's history, policy, and methods. Zionism
is essentially Jewish nationalism rooted in 19th century racist,
colonialist thinking gilded over with a "religious" patina. The policy
which the state of Israel is executing today is nothing more than a
continuation of that Zionist policy begun in 1897. Listen:
• "We cannot make peace with the Palestinians until we reduce the
Population of the West Bank by 50 percent." says Labor's Dr. Ephraim
Sneh, a minister in Sharon's Cabinet. (August 2002).
• Approximately 80,000 Palestinians have left the West bank and Gaza
Strip since the beginning of the year (August 2002), a rise of 50%
compared to last year, says a senior Palestinian authority official.
Today, there are over 4,000,000 Palestinian refugees - Palestinians
Israeli Zionists drove out of Palestine one way or another during the
past one hundred years.
• According to a U.S. government report in 2002, 70% of Palestinians in
the West Bank and Gaza are now living below the poverty line;
unemployment has risen to 50% while there are a minimum of 300,000
non-Palestinian foreign workers in Israel. (Unemployment rose to 80% in
2003.) Israel will not let Palestinians leave the occupied territory and
go to work in Egypt, where many of them have jobs, or Israel where they
had jobs.
• In a 21 month period in 2002 Israel has murdered over 1,450
Palestinians, 240 of them children. Over 23,000 Palestinians have been
injured.
• By now 90% of the land in Israel proper is held under: "restrictive
land covenants" barring non-Jews, even those with Israeli citizenship
from owning the land or from earning a living on it. Yet, according to
Israeli law, a Jew from anywhere in the world can come to Israel and
automatically be a citizen with the right to own land.
• Israeli Prime Ministers, repeatedly acting against international law,
have encouraged more and more Jews to establish illegal settlements in
Palestine. Today, while these settlers take up 1.7% of the West Bank,
they control 41.9% of the land in the West Bank through a system of
Jewish local and regional councils Zionist Israel has set up in
Palestine.
• Israel's Labor Party platform in 1984 had the "Four No's" in it: 1) No
to a Palestinian state, 2) No negotiation with the P.L.O., 3) No return
to the 1967 borders, and 4) No removal of any settlements.
• And now the Israeli Zionists are building an apartheid wall over 451
miles long, 20 feet high, topped with barbed wire, with guard towers
every so often to keep the Arab left in Palestine locked in. In America
we would call these prison like reservations; in South Africa,
Bantustans. Furthermore, throughout the West Bank, Israel has set up
over 700 military checkpoints that Palestinians must stop and get
permission to cross - even to get to the other side of their village, or
their farmland, or to get to their hospital, or to go to school.
The objective of present day Zionist Israeli policy is an intensified
version of Jewish Zionist policy used by Theodor Herzl and Ben-Gurion:
get rid of the Palestinians from Palestine; their methods are also the
same: persecute the Palestinians so they flee, take their land, starve
them through unemployment, tear up the territorial integrity of
Palestine with Jewish settlements, murder them, and keep the other
Middle Eastern nations dysfunctional. This is a state policy of ethnic
cleansing - of slow genocide - which ends up establishing Israel as an
apartheid state. Zionists have been slowly, patiently, and successfully
working at this for over 100 years. Sometimes they have had to take a
step back to take two forward but they have never lost their focus. Most
want to establish "Greater Israel". By that they mean all of Palestine -
PLUS. Many times you will hear Israeli settlers, the Likud party, or
other Zionists talk about "Greater Israel". Zionists speak of the
occupation of Greater Israel as a right, given to them by God. Below is
a map of what the Zionist plan to be "Greater Israel."
Ben-Gurion from the beginning knew that the Jewish Zionists were the
aggressors and did not care. He cared only to take the land at any cost
- he used diplomacy when it succeeded, deception and lies when needed,
and the Haganan (a Zionist terrorist group) when the others failed.
Justice was not then and is not now a concern. Sharon is no different
today. He is known as the "butcher of Sabra and Shatila" for a reason.
Ohmert is no different either.8
The UN's Mistake: the Creation of Israel
In 1947 the Zionists got Washington to affirm their creeping takeover of
Palestine. They won over President Truman, and then with his help the
United Nations.
The British who were in charge of Palestine for fifty years thought it
impossible to peacefully create two separate nations out of this little
piece of land. They recommended to Washington and the world: one federal
nation with two states. 9 But Truman, a sort of biblical Zionist
himself, running for re-election in a close race that needed the Jewish
vote, took the Zionist position and said in 1946 that he wanted two
separate nations: Israel and Palestine. 10 In 1946, after WWII, the U.S.
was more powerful than Britain.
Jewish lobbying in this country had focused on Truman and succeeded. The
Jewish Agency in 1946 raised $100 million annually - money they used to
pressure the President and the U.S. Congress. By then American Jews had
created a mammoth lobbying machine in Washington that when activated
could within days flood Congress with letters, petitions, and campaign
finance donations.11
In 1947 there were 1,300,000 Arabs in Palestine along with 560,000 Jews.
Over the years Zionists encouraged and financed Jewish immigration to
Palestine as they continue to do today. The Nazi's brutal policies of
the 1940's, (World War II) also encouraged it.
The 1947 vote in the UN to create Israel out of Palestinian land was 33
countries for, 13 against, and 10 abstentions.12 Not one Arab or
predominately Muslim country voted yes. War was inevitable. And the
nations of the UN knew it. The United Nations had made a terrible
mistake.
This Palestinian, Arab-Jewish war, in one form or another, has gone on
from 1897 until today. The Palestinian intifada and suicide bombers,
Hamas and Hezbollah, along with Zionist Israel's tanks and Apache
helicopters are just a continuation of it.
Today, American, Zionist Jews continue their lobbying effort by bribing
Congress and the President with "campaign donations" and with a strong
influence and presence in the American media to force American support
for Zionist Israel and its policy of Palestinian annihilation. These
American Zionists have hung Israel like an albatross around America's
neck. And because they have put Israel first over American interests are
bordering on being traitors to America.
Without America's support, financial and diplomatic, Zionism could not
succeed. The rest of the world, especially the Arabs, know this and are
today holding America and Americans accountable. The many attacks on
American interests, including that of September 11th, are manifestations
of it.
Footnotes
1Laqueur, W., A History of Zionism, p.106.
2Sachar, Howard M., A History of Israel, (2nd editor, revised and
updated), p.66.
3Jews for Justice in the Middle East, Origin of the Palestine-Israel
Conflict (pamphlet), p.4. (Quotes from John Quigley, Palestine and
Israel: A Challenge to Justice.
4Morris, Benny. Righteous Victims. p.652.
5Schoenman, Ralph. A Hidden History of Zionism. p.32. (Herzl: p.62.)
6Ibid. p.33.
7Ibid.
8Friedman, Thomas. From Beirut to Jerusalem. pp. 160-163.
9Sachar, p. 272.
10Ibid., p.274.
11Ibid., p.289.
12Gilbert, M. Israel. p. 150.
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