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The Israel Problem
By Issa Nakleh, LL.B.
In the weeks and months preceding the September 11, 2001, attacks on Manhattan and the Pentagon, a global upsurge of anti-Zionist feelings culminated in the dramatic UN Conference on Racism and Colonialism in Durban, South Africa. Thousands of delegates witnessed massive street demonstrations by hordes of people, mostly Third Worlders. The protesters were shrill and nearly riotous, with their graphic posters and slogans. Israel was repeatedly condemned as a terrorist state, and the delegates were largely in agreement with the protesters. Before the world press, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan bluntly told the Israelis to stop using the “holocaust” as a pretext to brutalize the Palestinian people in their own homeland. Here is a look at the history of the Jewish state in Palestine, which is so relevant to what is happening in America and the world today.
Part 1
The Crime of Genocide Committed
Against the Palestinian People
The Palestinians are 75 percent Muslims and 25 percent Christians. They are the descendants of all the races and nations that have lived in Palestine from the times of the Canaanites to the British occupation of Palestine in 1918. The Christians among them are descendants of the first Christians, who adopted Christianity at the time of Jesus Christ and the Apostles.
The Muslims are those who were either Christians or pagans and who adopted Islam after the Arab conquest of Palestine in the 7th century A.D.
Before 1918, when Palestine was occupied by Britain, the Palestinians had self-rule under the Ottoman regime. They had several representatives in the Ottoman Parliament and many of them were high officials in the government including judges in the high court. Article XXII of the Covenant of the League of Nations recognized the people of Palestine as a “provisionally independent nation subject to the rendering of administrative assistance and advice by a Mandatory until the people of Palestine are able to stand alone.” While the Mandate of Palestine was being drafted, the Zionists pressured the British Government and the Allied Powers to inject the Balfour Declaration in it.
Britain ruled Palestine from 1918 until 1948. The Palestinians made many revolutions against the British government demanding their independence (which was given to many countries placed under mandates).
In 1938 the British government issued a White Paper granting Palestine independence within 10 years and the establishment of a democratic government representing the Palestinian majority and Jewish minority. The Jews carried out a campaign of terrorism against the Palestinians and against the British government from 1938 to 1948.
In 1947, the British government submitted the case of Palestine to the United Nations. On November 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly decided to partition Palestine into an Arab state and a Jewish state. The areas of the Arab state and the Jewish state were precisely defined by the UN. In 1948, the Jewish minority in Palestine declared Israel as a Jewish state and requested recognition by America, the Soviet Union, and the UN within the boundaries defined by the Partition Resolution of November 29, 1947.
In November 1947, trouble began between the Palestinian majority and the Jewish minority. Although the Jewish minority had a great deal of weapons which was supplied to them by the British government and by the Soviet Union through Czechoslovakia, the Palestinians, although they had fewer weapons, defeated the Jews in every battle. Palestinian victories continued until the end of March 1948. The Jews committed the massacre of Deir Yasin on April 9, 1948. The Zionist forces massacred 300 men, women and children. This massacre was a great tragedy which frightened the Palestinians in their villages. Zionist forces, with the help of the British forces and the British Glubb Pasha, leader of the Jordanian army, were able to occupy 12 cities and 625 villages in 80 percent of Palestine.
Zionist forces committed more than 50 massacres throughout Palestine and were able to expel 850,000 Christians and Muslims from these 12 cities and 625 villages. The Zionists violated the terms of Resolution 181 (II) of November 29, 1947, and Resolution 194 (III) of 1948 and committed war crimes—crimes against humanity and genocide against the Palestinians as follows:
1. They violated the territorial integrity of Palestine and occupied 80 percent thereof;
2. They expelled from Palestine more than 850,000 Palestinian Arabs by violence and massacres;
3. They prevented the Palestinian refugees from returning to their homes;
4. They erased from the map of Palestine 492 Arab small towns and villages and usurped all of the houses, lands and properties of the Palestinian Arabs in these towns and villages;
5. They usurped about 95 percent of the houses, apartments and commercial buildings of Palestinians in 12 cities, namely Safad, Tiberias, Acre, Beisan, Haifa, Jaffa, Lydda, Ramleh, New Jerusalem, Majdal, Beersheba and Ainkarem;
6. They looted, pillaged and plundered all of the furniture, machinery, equipment, merchandise and all worldly possessions of the Palestinian Arabs in 80 percent of Palestine;
7. They destroyed and desecrated Christian and Muslim holy places. They destroyed or profaned 400 Muslim mosques and plowed 400 Muslim cemeteries and the remains of the dead;
8. They violated the right of self-determination of the Palestinian Arabs, their sovereignty over their wealth and natural resources, and their political, civil, proprietary and religious rights and made the Palestinians a refugee nation, thereby committing the crime of genocide.
Crimes Committed by the Israelis Against the Pales tinians in the West Bank and Gaza 1967 Until 2001
In 1967, Israel launched a war of aggression and occupied 20 percent of Palestine in the West Bank and Gaza. They expelled 300,000 Palestinians from the region, usurped 75 percent of the lands of the Palestinians and established 200 Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza. They transferred Israeli citizens to these settlements. At present there are 350,000 Israeli citizens living in these settlements. They arrested, imprisoned and tortured 850,000 Palestinian men, women and children. They established roads between Jewish settlements and roads connecting these settlements to Israel, thereby destroying the integrity of the West Bank. They usurped and polluted 90 percent of the water resources of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.
Crimes Committed by the Israelis Against the Palestinians During the Intifada of 2000-2001
On September 28, 2000, the leader of the Likud Party of Israel, the war criminal Ariel Sharon, with the consent of the other war criminal Ehud Barak, carried out a premeditated and provocative visit to Al-Haram Al-Sharif, accompanied by 2,000 armed Israeli soldiers and police. The visit caused a serious outcry among the Palestinian people, who felt that their most important holy site was being invaded, and led to serious clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli army and police forces in Jerusalem.
Israeli forces attacked Palestinians with firearms, rockets and missiles, from helicopters and tanks, killing more than 500 people and injuring more than 25,000.
The Israelis destroyed more than 2,000 Palestinian homes and damaged their furniture. Israelis uprooted more than 100,000 olive and fruit trees and used bulldozers to destroy farms and crops in the West Bank and Gaza.
Since 1967, the Israelis have arrested and imprisoned more than 1 million Palestinian men and women and tortured them in their prisons and concentration camps.
The Palestinians today are a population of 8 million. They are the only nation in the world which is a member of the UN but not independent.1 There are 1.1 million Palestinians living in Israel as third-class citizens. There are 3.1 million living in the West Bank and Gaza under the barbaric Israeli occupation. There are 3.8 million Palestinians living in refugee camps in neighboring Arab countries.
The Israelis, since 1948, killed 200,000 Palestinians and injured more than 300,000. The Israelis robbed the Palestinians of their national wealth throughout 80 percent of Palestine and robbed 75 percent of Palestinian lands in the West Bank and Gaza. The Israelis established 200 Jewish settlements and robbed Palestinians of 90 percent of their water resources. The Israelis stole Palestinian lands and constructed more than 50 roads between Jewish settlements and Israel, thereby dividing the area of the West Bank into different cantons separated from each other.
All these crimes constitute genocide committed by the Israelis against the Palestinians. Congress and the U.S. administration, which supports Israel financially, militarily and politically in the UN, are accessories to these war crimes—crimes against humanity and genocide committed by the Israelis.
According to international law, the Palestinians are en titled to try as war criminals 5,000 political and military leaders of Israel who committed these crimes. These criminals constitute all members of all Israeli cabinets and top military officers who served in the Israeli army since 1948.
In order to settle the Palestinian-Israeli dispute, the following steps should be taken:
1. Israel must withdraw to its boundaries recognized by the Partition Resolution of November 29, 1947;
2. Israel must allow the Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and lands, which have been usurped since 1948;
3. Israel must restitute to Palestinians all their homes, lands, farms, furniture, other possessions and money, which have been usurped from them since 1948;
4. The Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza must be given to the Palestinians as part compensation for the properties usurped by Israel since 1948;
5. Israel must pay to the Palestinians hundreds of billions of dollars as compensation for the crimes of genocide committed against them by Israel.
Part 2
Religious Rabbis, Their Followers & Racism
I want to quote to you from two books. The first one, Israel’s Fateful Hour, is by Israeli Gen. Yehoshofat Harkabi, now professor of International Relations and Middle East Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The second is Jewish History and Jewish Religion, by Dr. Israel Shahak, former professor of organic chemistry at the same Hebrew University. Dr. Harkabi states the following:
1. “The Jews, as the chosen people, are superior in their essence to all other human beings. Their divine election is a fact, an absolute fact. The difference between Jews and non-Jews is thus part of the very nature of things. [God] separated between the profane and the holy, between the light and the darkness, between Israel and the nations.” (163-64)
2. “Judaism has been radicalized in two ways: politically, in supporting extreme nationalism and annexation of the West Bank; socially, in fostering hostility to gentiles in general and Arabs in particular. We find ourselves in a grave predicament. True, expressions of hostility and discriminatory enactments existed earlier, but until now they were moot. Since 1967, they are no longer so, and the possibility has been breathed into them by the demand that such laws should be applied here and now. Thus, they have been actualized and made plausible. We can no longer shrug our shoulders at the hostile material on the pretext that it is a very minor as well as extinct part of the Judaic tradition.” (165)
3. “We are commanded to inherit the land that God gave to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and must not leave it in the hands of any other nation. . . . We must not leave the land in the hands of the (seven Canaanite nations) or any other people in any generation. . . . Rabbi Zvi Yehudah Kook, the mentor of Gush Emunim, commented as follows: ‘These are explicit words of halakha. . . . The main thrust of the commandment is conquest by the state, Jewish national rule in this holy territory.’ ” (144)
4. “According to halakha it is forbidden for a non-Jew to live in Jerusalem, and in accordance with the ruling by Maimonides it is forbidden to permit even a resident alien in Jerusalem. . . . Rabbi Eliezer Waldenberg, winner of the 1976 Israel Prize (given for outstanding achievement), has said: ‘It is forbidden for gentiles to live in Jerusalem. I, for example, favor upholding the halakhic prohibition on a gentile’s living in Jerusalem. If we would uphold this halakha as we should, we would have to expel all non-Jews from Jerusalem and purify it absolutely.’ ” (149)
5. “Rabbi Hess explains the commandment to blot out the memory of Amalek and says that there is no mercy in this commandment: the commandment is to kill and destroy even children and infants. Amalek is whoever declares war against the people of God. . . . Hess implies that those who have a quarrel with the Jews instantly become Amalek and ought to be destroyed, children and all. Amalek is identified with the Arabs. . . . Amalek is not an ancient extinct tribe but a generic enemy that each generation may identify for itself. . . .
“Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, in a collection of articles intended to justify the religious terrorist underground that emerged in Israel in the mid-1980s, explained that the killing of a non-Jew is not considered murder: ‘It follows from Maimonides’ words that a Jew who killed a non-Jew was exempt from human judgment, and has not violated the prohibition on murder. As Maimonides writes in The Laws of Murderers: “A Jew who killed a resident alien is not sentenced to death by a court of law.” ’ ” (150)
6. “The fact that there were Jews who plotted to blow up the Dome of the Rock should be a source of grave concern. It cannot be assumed that those who were brought to trial were alone. Might a group opposed to eventual negotiations for resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict plant a bomb in the mosques as a means to derail them? Given the psychosis prevalent in some circles in the country, the chance that something like this will happen is not negligible.
“In this context we cannot dismiss the significance of the widely disseminated aerial photograph of the Old City in which the mosques were airbrushed out of existence and replaced by a model of the Second Temple. Such a picture is apt to inspire yearnings for its realization. Jewish extremists call the mosques an ‘abomination,’ and this designation itself seemingly requires action to remove them.
“In a Yeshiva adjacent to the Temple Mount, garments for the temple priests are already being woven in anticipation that they will be needed in the near future. In other yeshivot, the detailed laws of animal sacrifices have become a popular topic of study, as if they will soon have contemporary relevance. Before, the messiah was a hope; now he has become a necessity.” (169)
Dr. Israel Shahak, in his book Jewish History, Jewish Religion, states many quotations from Jewish sources similar to these racist quotations. Dr. Shahak states the following:
1. “In 1962, a part of the Maimonidean Code referred to above, the so-called Book of Knowledge, which contains the most basic rules of Jewish faith and practice, was published in Jerusalem in bilingual edition, with the English translation facing the Hebrew text. The latter has been restored to its original purity, and the command to exterminate Jewish infidels appears in it in full:
“ ‘It is a duty to exterminate them with one’s own hands.’
“In the English translation this is somewhat softened to: “ ‘It is a duty to take active measures [to] destroy them.’
“But then the Hebrew text goes on to specify the prime examples of ‘infidels’ who must be exterminated: ‘Such as Jesus of Nazareth and his pupils, and Tzadoq and Baitos and their pupils. May the name of the wicked rot.’ Not one word of this appears in the English text on the facing page (78a).” (24-25)
2. “The second example comes from the United States, again from an English translation of a book by Maimonides. Apart from his work on the codification of the Talmud, he was also a philosopher, and his Guide to the Perplexed is justly considered to be the greatest work of Jewish religious philosophy and is widely read and used even today. Unfortunately, in addition to his attitude toward non-Jews generally and Christians in particular, Maimonides was also an anti-black racist. Toward the end of the Guide, in a crucial chapter (Book III, Chapter 51), he discusses how various sections of humanity can attain the supreme religious value, the true worship of God. Among those who are incapable of even approaching this are: ‘Some of the Turks [i.e., the Mongol race] and the nomads in the north, and blacks and nomads in the south, and those who resemble them in our climates.
“ ‘And their nature is like the nature of mute animals, and according to my opinion they are not on the level of human beings, and their level among existing things is below that of a man and above that of a monkey, because they have the image and the resemblance of a man more than a monkey does.’ ” (24-25)
3. “A number of discrepant versions of Biblical borders of the land of Israel, which rabbinical authorities interpret as ideally belonging to the Jewish state, are in circulation. The most far-reaching among them include the following areas within these borders: in the south, all of Sinai and a part of northern Egypt up to the environs of Cairo; in the east, all of Jordan and a large chunk of Saudi Arabia, all of Kuwait and a part of Iraq south of the Euphrates in the north, all of Lebanon and all of Syria together with a huge part of Turkey (up to Lake Van); and in the west, Cyprus. An enormous body of research and learned discussion based on these borders embodied in atlases, books, articles and more popular forms of propaganda is being published in Israel, often with state subsidies, or other forms of support.” (9)
4. “According to the halakha, the duty to save the life of a fellow Jew is paramount. . . . As for gentiles, the basic Talmudic principle is that their lives must not be saved, although it is also forbidden to murder them outright. . . . Maimonides explains: ‘As for gentiles with whom we are not at war . . . their death must not be caused, but it is forbidden to save them if they are at the point of death. If, for example, one of them is seen falling into the sea, he should not be rescued, for it is written ‘neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy fellow,’ but [a gentile] is not thy fellow.” (80)
5. “If a Jew finds property whose probable owner is Jewish, the finder is strictly enjoined to make a positive effort to return his find by advertising it publicly. In contrast, the Talmud and all the early rabbinical authorities not only allow a Jewish finder to appropriate an article lost by a gentile, but actually forbid him or her to return it.” (89)
6. “The Talmud and Talmudic literature reiterate the genocidal biblical exhortations with even greater vehemence. Influential rabbis, who have a considerable following among Israeli army officers, identify the Palestinians (or even all Arabs) with those ancient nations, so that commands like ‘thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth’ acquire a topical meaning. In fact, it is not uncommon for reserve soldiers called up to do a tour of duty in the Gaza Strip to be given an ‘educational lecture’ in which they are told that the Pal estinians of Gaza are ‘like the Amalekites.’
“Biblical verses exhorting to genocide of the Midianites were solemnly quoted by an important Israeli rabbi in justification of the Qibbiya massacre, and this pronouncement has gained wide circulation in the Israeli army. There are many similar examples of bloodthirsty rabbinical pronouncements against the Palestinians, based on these laws.” (91-92)
Part 3
The American Zionists Railroaded the United States Into World War I
American Neutrality
It is pertinent to keep in mind that the neutrality of America in World War I became the most important issue in the 1916 presidential election. The Republican platform called for “a strict and honest neutrality in the European war.” The Democratic platform condemned the efforts of every organization “that has for its object the advancement of the interests of a foreign power.” This leaves no doubt that the continued neutrality of the United States was the deciding issue upon which Woodrow Wilson was re-elected president in November, 1916. On January 22, 1917, President Wilson in his address to Congress asked:
Is the present war a struggle for a just peace, or only for a new balance of power? If it be only for a new balance of power, who will guarantee the stable equilibrium of the new arrangements? There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power, not organized rivalries, but an organized common peace. . . . A permanent peace must be based upon equality of nations and national rights. It must be a peace without victory.
Wilson concluded that address by stating:
We do not desire any hostile conflict with the imperial German government; we are the sincere friends of the German people and earnestly desire to remain at peace with the government that speaks for them.
In 1916 the Jews in the United States Were Pro-German
James A. Malcolm, the intermediary in London be tween the Zionist leaders and the British war cabinet in the October, 1916, secret agreement, states in his account of his negotiations which resulted in that agreement (Origins of the Balfour Declaration: Dr. Weizmann’s Contribution. Lon don, 1944) that he visited Sir Mark Sykes in late autumn of 1916 and that Sykes told Malcolm of the military deadlock in France, the growing menace of the submarine warfare, the unsatisfactory situation which was developing in Russia and the generally bleak outlook:
The cabinet was looking anxiously for the U.S. intervention. I asked him what progress was being made in that direction. He shook his head glumly, “precious little.” He had thought of enlisting the substantial Jewish influence in America but had been unable to do so. Reports from America revealed a pro-German tendency among the wealthy Jewish bankers and bond issuing houses, nearly all of German origin, and among Jewish journalists who took their cue from them. He was sorely disappointed and puzzled that two missions that had been sent from France and Italy had completely failed to have any effect.
The Secret British-Zionist Deal of 1916
Mr. Malcolm reports in this account that he told Sykes: “You can win the sympathy of Jews everywhere, in one way only, and that is by offering to try to secure Palestine for them.”
Malcolm further states in this account that Sykes told him that:
Lord Milner was interested to learn of the Jewish nationalist movement but could not see any possibilities of promising Palestine to the Jews.
I replied that it seemed to me the only way to achieve the desired result and mentioned that one of Wilson’s most intimate friends, for whose humanitarian views he had the greatest respect, was Justice Brandeis, of the Supreme Court, who was a convinced Zionist.
Malcolm then describes the protracted negotiations be tween the Zionists and the British war cabinet and concludes by saying:
The talks resulted in a general understanding which I called a “gentlemen’s agreement,” that the Zionists should work for active Jewish sympathy and support for the Allied cause, especially in America, so as to bring about pro-Allied tendency in that country and that the British Cabinet would help the Jews to gain Palestine in return for this.
The secret 1916 London agreement between the World Zionist Organization and the British war cabinet supplied the Zionists in America with their “green light” to then “go to work” on Wilson himself personally through their contacts, and to take all necessary steps to change the sentiment for neutrality in America into violent anti-German feeling. Re ports appeared in the press of alleged German atrocities, ex aggerated Zionist inventions to inflame public opinion in America against Germany.
The Right Honorable Francis Neilson, M.P., a prominent member of the British House of Commons until his resignation in 1915, in his classic book about World War I, The Makers of War, states with authority:
In America, Woodrow Wilson, desperate to find a pretext to enter the war, found it at last in a story of the “sinking” of the Sussex in mid-channel.
Someone had invented a yarn that American lives had been lost. With this excuse he went to Congress for a declaration of war. Afterward, the Navy found that the Sussex had not been sunk, and that no American lives were lost.
Wilson, in his history-making address to Congress on April 2, 1917, four days before America declared war on Ger many, recommended to the Congress:
. . . that Congress declare the recent course of the imperial German government to be in fact nothing less than war against the government and the people of America; that it formally accept the status of a belligerent which has been thrust upon it and that it take steps not only to put the country in a more thorough state of defense, but also to exert all its power and employ all its resources to bring the government of the German empire to terms to end the war.
Following the reading of Wilson’s history-making message to the Congress, resolutions were introduced in both houses of Congress, declaring a state of war had been thrust upon the United States by Germany, and on April 6, 1917, America declared war on Germany. Great Britain and France thereupon promptly dispatched missions to Washington requesting “money, food, raw materials and men.”
France also pleaded for U.S. troops to be sent as quickly as possible, because the French people “had suffered cruelly and were war weary and despondent.” France’s Marshal Joffre declared at that time: “The sight of American troops, no matter how few, as tangible evidence of America’s intentions, would have a tonic effect upon French morale.”
Before the end of 1917, 2 million U.S. troops were in training in America and France, and war industries in America were stepped up to supply increased requirements. This great Zionist success, Zionist influence on Wilson, and exerting Zionist pressure to railroad the United States into World War I, is most accurately described by Malcolm in The New Judaea, the official publication of the World Zionist Organization in London. In the October-November, 1944, issue Malcolm states:
The “gentlemen’s agreement” between the Zionist leaders and the war cabinet, which I was entrusted to bring about, was the basis of cooperation, and within a few months, despite numerous setbacks due to war conditions, solid progress was achieved. The support of Wilson was, of course, the main achievement, because America’s help was vitally needed by the Allies. It was only in the following April that America came into the war.
Samuel Landman of London, from 1917 to 1922 secretary of the World Zionist Organization, discloses in an official pamphlet Great Britain, the Jews and Palestine, published by the New Zionist Press, London, 1936, how the World Zionist Organization in 1916 entered into a secret agreement with the British war cabinet, by the terms of which Britain promised Palestine to the Zionists as payment for using Zionist pressure in the United States to railroad America into World War I as Britain’s ally. Landman states on page 4 that:
. . . the only way . . . to induce the American president to come into the War was to secure the cooperation of Zionist Jews by promising them Palestine, and thus enlist and mobilize the hitherto unsuspectedly powerful forces of Zionist Jews in America and elsewhere in favor of the Allies on a quid pro quo contract basis.
In connection with U.S. participation in World War I, The World Almanac states that 4,734,991 American citizens were mobilized in World War I; 116,516 Americans were killed in action, and 204,002 were injured or maimed for life.
The American people were never told the painful truth that the great sacrifices in life and money suffered by America in World War I were not to protect American interests but were made solely to enable Zionists throughout the world to acquire Palestine for their so-called “Jewish Commonwealth.” The treasonable role played by Zionists in America in railroading this country into World War I has so far been kept a secret from the nation by Zionist censorship.
Jews Caused ‘Anti-Semitism’ in Germany
Samuel Landman wrote in his Great Britain, the Jews and Palestine, page 6:
The fact that it was Jewish help that brought the United States into the war on the side of the Allies has rankled ever since in German—especially Nazi—minds, and has contributed in no small measure to the prominence which anti-Semitism occupies in the Nazi program.
Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president of the World Zionist Organization, in a significant article on the psychology of German anti-Semitism appearing in the March 21, 1932, issue of Opinion: A Journal of Jewish Life and Letters (New York), wrote inter alia:
They [the Jews] were held responsible for the defeat as well as for every disadvantage that had ensued from the debacle. . . . This also accounts more than any of the other reasons for the depth of hatred, the passionate rage, and the brutality of Hitlerism.
The Jewish Daily Bulletin (New York) on October 30, 1934, carried the following Jewish Telegraphic Agency dispatch from Berlin on page 3:
The New Germany persists toward the complete extermination of the Jew because it was Jews who instigated America to enter the World War, accomplishing the defeat of Germany, and who later caused the inflation in Germany, Herr [Richard] Kunze, a leading Nazi parliament figure, declared at a mass meeting in Magdeburg yesterday.
David Lloyd George, British prime minister from 1916 to 1922, wrote in his The Truth about the Peace Treaties (London, 1938), volume 2, page 1,140: “The Jews in Germany are suffering today for the fidelity with which their brethren in Russia and in America discharged their obligations under the Zionist pledge to the Allies.” The American people were never told why they were railroaded into World War I.
On March 4, 1919, Rep. Julius Kahn submitted to Wilson a memorandum signed by 300 top American Jewish leaders from all over America, which was published in The New York Times on March 5, 1919. The Jewish leaders stated in their memorandum inter alia, the following:
a. “American Zionists represent, according to the most recent statistics available, only a small proportion of the Jews living in this country, about 150,000 out of 3,500,000. (American Jewish Year Book, 1918, Philadelphia).” And:
b. “As to the future of Palestine, it is our fervent hope that what was once a ‘promised land’ for the Jews may be come a ‘land of promise’ for all races and creeds, safeguarded by the League of Nations which, it is expected, will be one of the fruits of the Peace Conference to whose deliberations the world now looks forward so anxiously and so full of hope. We ask that Palestine be constituted as a free and independent state, to be governed under a democratic form of government recognizing no distinctions of creed or race or ethnic descent, and with adequate power to protect the country against oppression of any kind. We do not wish to see Palestine, either now or at any time in the future, organized as a Jewish state.”
Part 4
Zionist Leaders Railroaded the United States into World War II
The Jews of the world, in a worldwide conference called in Amsterdam in July, 1933, declared a “holy war” against Germany.
Samuel Untermyer, president of the World Jewish Economic Federation which met in Amsterdam, upon his return to America, delivered the historic declaration of a “holy war” against Germany in a nation-wide radio broadcast over the Columbia Broadcasting System. The full text of that declaration was published in The New York Times on August 7, 1933, in which Mr. Untermyer, among many other things, said the following:
I deeply appreciate your enthusiastic greeting on my arrival today, which I quite understand is addressed not to me personally but to the holy war in the cause of humanity in which we are embarked. Jews and non-Jews alike, for we are equally concerned that the work of centuries shall not be undone, and that civilization shall not be allowed to die. It is a war that must be waged unremittingly until the black clouds of bigotry, race hatred and fanaticism that have descended upon what was once Germany, but is now medieval Hitlerland, have been dispersed.
If we will but enlist to a man and persist in our purpose, the bright sun of civilization will again shine upon Ger many, and the world will be a safer place in which to dwell. . . . What we are proposing and have already gone far toward doing, is to prosecute a purely defensive economic boycott that will undermine the Hitler regime and bring the German people to their senses by destroying their export trade on which their very existence depends. They have flaunted and persisted in flaunting and defying world opinion.
We proposed to and are organizing world opinion to express itself in the only way Germany can be made to understand.
Zionist leaders in America, in Britain and throughout the world, not only waged their “holy war” against Germany and the Germans in the economic field, but they initiated their notorious world-wide propaganda campaign to block any avenue of understanding, or settlements of disputes, be tween Germany, Britain and France. The pressure which Zio n ists were exerting upon Britain and France to wage war against Germany was quite apparent everywhere and could not be mistaken.
The following are only a few of the many available quotations which indicate the great pressure exerted by Zionist leaders throughout the world for unleashing World War II against Germany.
The late James Forrestal, secretary of defense in the Truman administration, wrote in his book The Forrestal Diar ies (New York, 1951), pages 121-22:
December 27, 1945—Played golf today with Joe Kennedy [Joseph P. Kennedy, who was Roosevelt’s ambassador to Britain in the years immediately before the war]. I asked him about his conversations with Roosevelt and Neville Chamberlain from 1938 on. He said Chamberlain’s position in 1938 was that England had nothing with which to fight and that she could not risk going to war with Hitler. Ken nedy’s view: That Hitler would have fought Russia without any later conflict with England if it had not been for Bullitt’s [William C. Bullitt, then ambassador to France] urging on Roosevelt in the summer of 1939 that the Germans must be faced down about Poland; neither the French nor the British would have made Poland a cause of war if it had not been for the constant needling from Washington. Bullitt, he said, kept telling Roosevelt that the Germans wouldn’t fight, Kennedy that they would, and that they would overrun Europe. Chamberlain, he says, stated that America and the world Jews had forced England into war.
The Sunday Chronicle of London, another leading Brit ish newspaper, on January 2, 1938, under the headline “500,000,000 POUND FIGHTING FUND FOR THE JEWS,” published an article in which the following appeared:
The Jew is facing one of the biggest crises in his troubled history. In Poland, Rumania, Germany, Austria, his back is to the wall. But now he is going to hit back hard. This week the leaders of International Jewry will meet in a village near Geneva to devise a counteroffensive. Now a united front composed of all sections of Jewish parties is to be formed. It will show the anti-Semitic governments of Europe that the Jew insists on fair play. The great Inter national Jewish financiers are to contribute approximately 500 million pounds sterling [$2.5 billion]. This sum will be used to fight the persecuting states. The battle will be fought on the world’s stock exchanges.
Since the majority of the anti-Semitic states are burdened with heavy international debts, they will find their very existence threatened. A boycott throughout Europe of their export products by way of the retailer may undermine the present uncertain economic stability of several of the anti-Semitic countries.
The eminent Zionist Rabbi Maurice L. Perlzweig, head of the British Section of the World Jewish Congress, stated to a Canadian audience as reported by The Toronto Evening Telegram of February 26, 1940, “The World Jewish Congress has been at war with Germany for seven years.”
Geoffrey Le Mesurier Mander, an important member of the House of Commons, wrote in The Jewish Standard (London) for April 17, 1941, page 3, “The cause of the Jews throughout the world is the cause for which Great Britain and her Allies are fighting. . . . ”
In an editorial in the issue of July 24, 1942, of The American Hebrew (New York), a Zionist weekly, we find the following:
Whenever an American or a Filipino fell at Bataan or Corregidor or at any other of the now historic spots where MacArthur’s men put up their remarkable fight, their survivors could have said with truth: The real reason that boy went to his death was because Hitler’s anti-Semitic movement succeeded in Germany.
Ludwig Lewisohn, honorary secretary of the Zionist Organization of America, in an article written for the Sept ember, 1942 issue of The Jewish Mirror (New York), stated:
The Jewish people is the symbol of the nature of this war. No one else. Nothing else. . . .
On this central point, on this very heart and core of the whole matter the West is still recalcitrant. I know intelligent Jews who still today try to repress the character of this war by attempting to liken the attack on the Jewish people to other acts of war. . . .
The National Socialists have one tremendous advantage over us. They repress nothing. They deny nothing. They know what war is about. . . .
On March 2, 1942, Robert Ley, minister of labor in the Nazi government, declared in an address in Posen: “Germany fights on many fronts and has many enemies; but its chief enemy is world Jewry, and its most important front is the Jewish front.” Is that clear enough?. . . . Yes, the Jews are the chief enemies of National Socialism. . . . This is the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end of the whole matter. Christendom repressed the persecution of the German Jews in 1933.
Had it not done so there would have been no war. American boys would not be dying in all corners of the world today. A few divisions and a small army of occupation would have finished Hitler.
In their “Sermon of the Week” in the May 8, 1942, issue of The Jewish Chronicle (London) the following admission of Zionist antagonism toward Germany and the Germans, confirming their “holy war” as far back as 1933 appeared: “We [Jews] have been at war with him [Hitler] from the first day he gained power.”
In the October 8, 1942, issue of The Chicago Jewish Sen tinel, Rabbi S. Felix Mendelsohn wrote: “The second world war is being fought for the defense of the fundamentals of Judaism.”
The Right Honorable Walter Elliott, M.P., speaking at Albert Hall in London at a demonstration against Nazi treatment of the Jews in Germany, stated that he:
. . . considered that the atrocities of the Nazis were, more than any other single factor, the cause of Britain going to war. He well remembered how, many years before the war, Sir Austen Chamberlain drew attention to the atrocities against the Jews, and warned the world that with such a system, ordinary relations would be impossible.
At a meeting organized by the United Jewish Commit tee to Aid Soviet Russia, held in Grosvenor House, London, in November 1942, Beverly Nichols stated:
When Hitler had said this was a Jewish war, he was saying something which was largely true, in that if it had not been for the pogroms and the constant persecution of the Jews, the world would not have been aroused to a consciousness of the essential evil that was Nazism.
Sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon delivered a speech on December 20, 1951, as reported in The National Jewish Post (Indianapolis) of December 28, 1951, in which he stated, “One of the major causes for our going to war against Hitler was the persecution of the Jews in Germany.”
Zionists Again Achieved Their Objectives By Unleashing World War II
World Zionist leaders achieved their objectives by driving the world into World War II. The Zionists succeeded in crushing Nazi Germany, but the price the world was compelled to pay for their victory over Nazi Germany meant the loss of millions of lives, of men, women and children throughout the world.
The big lie of the “6 million” Jews was exposed in an article by Hanson W. Baldwin in the issue of The New York Times of February 22, 1948. Mr. Baldwin stated that:
[T]he American Jewish Committee and the Statistical Bureau of the Synagogues of America confirm that the world population of persons professing Judaism in 1939 [the year World War II started] was 15,682,259, and that in May 1948, the world Jewish population was between 15,600,000 and 18,700,000. Based on these figures, it appears that the alleged extermination of 6 million Jews is nothing but a myth.
The Jews of Europe suffered in World War II no more than other European nations which were subject to Nazi occu pation.
Was Hitler a Jew?
The Jewish Transcript of Seattle, Washington, in its issue of July 21, 1933, published an editorial under the title “Co-Religionist Hitler,” in which it stated:
Jews can hardly be happy to have proof accumulating that Adolf Hitler, arch-enemy of the Jewish people, and reincarnation of Torquemada, is one of our flesh and blood. There is something appalling in the thought that this man who has caused despair and destruction to countless thousands of Jews stems from the very people whom he is seeking to exterminate. . . . Whatever may be the outcome of this revelation of Hitler’s Jewish ancestry, there is cause for self-pity in the knowledge that out of the Jewish people there can spring so violent a repudiation of all that Jewish history has meant.
The American Council of Judaism, in its Special Interest Report of May-June 1997, published the following:
Austrian historian Brigitte Hamann, in her new book, Hitler’s Vienna: The Learning Years of a Dictator, presents evidence of Hitler’s friendship with a number of Jews during his time in Vienna before World War I.
She reports that at this time, when Hitler was between the ages of 17 and 24, most of his friends and business partners were Jews and he openly stated his sympathy “for this wise nation, which, unlike the Germans, knows how to stick together.”
Between 1910 and 1913, Hitler lived in an asylum for homeless men, an institution sponsored in Vienna by wealthy Jews. His closest friends were the Jewish co-residents Josef Neumann, who helped him sell his paintings; Siegfried Loeffner, who supported young Adolf in a row with an anti-Semitic rival; and Simon Robinson, a war invalid who backed the poor Hitler financially.
Hitler’s business partner was the art dealer Samuel Morgenstern.
Prof. Hamann reports that with Neumann, Hitler would carry out nightly discussions about Moses, the Ten Com mandments, and the philosophy of Zionism.
Zionist Leaders Financed & Glorified Hitler
Zionists suppressed the fact that Zionist leaders financed Hitler and cooperated with Hitler before 1933. Pierre van Paasen stated in The Jewish Standard, published in Toronto, Canada, on July 7, 1933, “Jewish financiers pulled Adolf Hitler out of a ditch by financing the Nazi organization.” Meyer W. Weisgal, editor of The Jewish Standard, stated in the issue of July 21, 1933, page 432, “One of the strangest phenomena in the whole German situation is that of the so-called ‘Nationalist Jews.’ They are the Jewish followers of Adolf Hitler. This group publishes a paper which glorifies Hitler.” This fact was confirmed by David Ben-Gurion in the Knes set, as reported in The Jerusalem Post of May 14, 1963. Mr. Ben-Gurion shouted at Menachem Begin and said: “I was not a partner of Herut’s when they praised, extolled and raised up the name of Hitler, set him up as a model for the conduct of a national movement, and included Hitler among the outstanding names of our era.”
An Alliance Between the Zionist Stern Gang & Nazi Germany
On January 11, 1941, Avraham Stern proposed a formal military pact between the National Military Organi zation (NMO), of which Yitzhak Shamir, prime minister of Israel (1983-1984 and 1986-1992), was a prominent leader, and the Nazi Third Reich. This proposal became known as the Ankara document, having been discovered after the war in the files of the German Embassy in Turkey. It stated:
The evacuation of the Jewish masses from Europe is a precondition for solving the Jewish question; but this can only be made possible and complete through the settlement of these masses in the home of the Jewish people, Palestine, and through the establishment of a Jewish state in its historical boundaries. . . .
The NMO, which is well acquainted with the goodwill of the German Reich government and its authorities toward Zionist activity inside Germany and toward Zionist emigration plans, is of the opinion that:
1. Common interests could exist between the establishment of a New Order in Europe in conformity with the German concept, and the true national aspirations of the Jewish people as they are embodied by the NMO.
2. Cooperation between the new Germany and renewed folkish-national Hebraium would be possible. [A]nd:
3. The establishment of the historical Jewish state on a National and totalitarian basis, and bound by a treaty with the German Reich, would be in the interest of a maintained and strengthened future German position in the Near East.
Proceeding from these considerations, the NMO in Palestine, under the condition that the above-mentioned national aspirations of the Israeli freedom movement are recognized on the side of the German Reich, offers to actively take part in the war on Germany’s side.
Part 5
The Israeli Lobby Controls the U.S. Congress & the Administration at All Levels
The Israeli lobby in the United States is an octopus of 50 Zionist organizations which takes orders from the Israeli government and its embassy in Washington. It is, in fact, an agency of the Israeli government. Its objective is to make, and keep, the U.S. administration and Congress subservient to the will of Israel.
The Israeli lobby does not represent the majority of Jews of America. Ninety percent of the Jews of America are loyal American citizens and have nothing to do with Zionism nor with the Israeli lobby.
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles told Henry Luce, owner of Time, Inc.: “I am aware how almost impossible it is in this country to carry out a foreign policy not approved by the Jews. But I am going to try to have one. We cannot have all our policies made in Jerusalem.”
The Israeli lobby controls thousands of American newspapers and many radio and television stations, and, therefore, they were able to impress all Americans aspiring to be elected to a public office that they should work with the Israeli lobby, which will secure for them Jewish votes and financial contributions from Jews.
This explains why 85 percent of members of Congress and many citizens who aspire to be elected president of the United States are forced to work with the Israeli lobby, and usually decide to visit Israel in order to obtain the blessing of the Israeli lobby.
To demonstrate the power of the Israeli lobby, let us consider what happened to various presidents of the United States, from Harry S Truman to America’s current president, George W. Bush.
President Truman
The Israeli lobby pressured President Truman to follow a policy favorable to Zionists. They used Clark Clifford and David Niles to convey Zionists’ wishes and pressure Truman.
The American Zionist stated, “Truman accepted the Zionist line reluctantly and under pressure, at first, but having accepted it, he followed through honestly and firmly.”2 Truman wrote to Mrs. Roosevelt, “I feel very much that the Jews are like all underdogs when they are on top, they are just as intolerant and as cruel as the people were to them when they were underneath.”3
President Eisenhower
President Eisenhower was the president who defied the Israeli lobby. “He resisted pressure from the Israeli lobby, and on three occasions forced Israel to abandon major policies, of which it was publicly and strongly committed.”4
“Sen. Fullbright sees little hope that Capitol Hill will effectively challenge the Israeli lobby: It’s suicide for politicians to oppose them. The only possibility would be someone like Eisenhower who already feels secure.”5
President Kennedy
John F. Kennedy, while campaigning, met one night for dinner with a small group of wealthy and prominent Jews in New York.
An episode of the evening troubled him deeply. Describing it to Bartlett as an “amazing experience,” he said one of those at the dinner party—he did not identify him by name—told him he knew his campaign was in financial difficulty and, speaking for the group, offered “to help and help significantly” if Kennedy as president “would allow them to set the course of Middle East policy over the next four years.” It was an astounding proposition. . . . Kennedy told Bartlett he reacted less as a presidential candidate than as a citizen. “He said he felt insulted.”6
President Lyndon B. Johnson
President Johnson had many Jewish friends who made him more responsive to the demands of Israel and its lobby in America.
President Johnson became subservient to the will of the Israeli lobby, and he covered up the facts concerning one of the most astonishing disasters in the history of the Navy, the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty.7 It is a fact that Lyndon Johnson was privy to the Israeli plan to launch the 1967 war against Jordan, Egypt and Syria, namely the Six-Day War.
President Richard M. Nixon
President Nixon won the election in 1968 without the help of the Israeli lobby. Nixon dispatched [Gov.] William Scranton to spread the diplomatic message of “evenhandedness” throughout the area, quickening pulses in Arab capitals and creating anxiety in Tel-Aviv.8
Nixon, Rogers, Richardson, Laird, Helms—most of the top officials—applauded [Assistant Secretary of State for Middle Eastern Affairs Joseph] Sisco’s presentation for solving the Arab-Israeli disputes. “It is time,” one of them said, “that the United States stop acting as Israel’s attorney in the Middle East.” 9
On December 9, 1969, Secretary of State William Rogers declared his plan for a Middle East comprehensive settlement and called for the withdrawal of Israel from the occupied Arab territories. Israel, through Henry Kissinger, sabotaged Rogers’ plan in every way during 1970 and 1971 and intensified its requests for American weapons, mainly Phantom jet fighter planes.
Kissinger and the Israeli lobby reversed the “evenhandedness” of the Nixon administration and the efforts of Secretary Rogers for peace, and made Nixon a tool of the Israeli policy.
During the 1973 war between Egypt, Syria and Israel, Kissinger and the Israeli lobby made America a party in the war with Israel.
On October 24, 1973, the National Security Council met in the White House at 11 p.m. and declared a national military alert. Nixon was upstairs in his quarters but had authorized his secretary of state to take whatever action was necessary. Defense Secretary Schlesinger, CIA Chief William Colby, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Thomas Moorer, White House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig and Brig. Gen. Brent Scowcroft concurred in the Kissinger decision, which was relayed to Nixon. U.S. ground, sea and air forces, conventional as well as nuclear, were placed on military alert.10
President Gerald R. Ford
Rep. Gerald Ford was one of the staunchest supporters of Israel. He helped persuade Johnson to sell Israel the first 50 Phantom jets. For 20 years he helped the Israeli lobby in Congress. “He endeavored for 20 years to turn Congress into an Israeli legislative body.”11
While president, he tried with Kissinger to mediate negotiations between Egypt and Israel, but the Israeli lobby and Israel sabotaged his efforts. “The Israelis kept stalling,” Ford wrote later. “Their tactics frustrated the Egyptians and made me mad as hell.”12
In spite of President Ford’s submissions to the threats and the will of the Israeli lobby, Jews betrayed him in the elections, and he lost to Jimmy Carter.
President Jimmy Carter
In his first press conference as president, Carter reaffirmed his commitment to the existence and security of Israel, but he also stated, “There has to be a homeland provided for the Palestinian refugees, who have suffered for so many years.”
Carter made a Middle East general settlement plan consisting of several points: Palestinian recognition of Israel; Israel accepts a Palestinian state or homeland; Israeli withdrawal to the 1967 boundaries with security lines beyond its legal frontiers; and normalization of relations between Israel and its Arab neighbors. Prime Minister Begin declared that Israel will never withdraw from “Judea and Samaria,” as these are part of “the land of Israel.”
Carter’s administration issued a statement on June 27, 1977, stating, “In return for Arab agreement for peace with Israel, Prime Minister Begin must agree to a withdrawal from occupied lands on all fronts and to the formation of a Palestinian homeland.”13 Carter was able to make the peace agreement at Camp David between Israel and Egypt. He was very friendly, but the Israeli lobby betrayed Carter and worked to elect Ronald Reagan.
President Ronald Reagan
During the presidential campaign in 1981, Ronald Reagan was advocating that Israel is a strategic ally of America. After he won the elections, he did whatever Israel wanted. However, Reagan annoyed the Israeli lobby when he decided to sell AWACS planes to Saudi Arabia. He requested aid from [Thomas] Dine, [quondam editor and executive director] of AIPAC [American Israel Public Affairs Committee], to obtain for him votes of some senators to have a majority to sell the planes to Saudi Arabia.
Reagan in 1982 presented a plan for a settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli dispute. The government of Israel instructed the Israeli lobby to frustrate the Reagan plan. Neither Reagan nor his secretary of state, George Schultz, pursued the peace plan seriously, and the proposal for the peace negotiations was shelved.
President George H.W. Bush
President George Bush had always been, during his political career, favorable to Israel, cooperating with the Israeli lobby, giving aid to Israel, and continuing the Reagan policy of close cooperation with Israel. Operation Desert Storm against Saddam Hussein was made to a great extent at the urging of the Israeli lobby and its activists in America in order to destroy the military power of Iraq and remove such a threat to Israel.
After the Gulf War, President George Bush and Secretary of State James Baker decided that it was time to make peace in the Middle East by settling the Arab-Israeli dispute. Baker was able to convene the Madrid peace conference.
The Israeli government, after the Madrid conference, gave orders to the Israeli lobby to wage a campaign of defamation against Bush and Baker. Some Israeli cabinet members called Bush and Baker “anti-Semites.”
The Israeli lobby urged the Jews to give their votes and campaign contributions to Bill Clinton and not to Bush, and that was the reason why Clinton won the election.
President William Jefferson Clinton
Bill Clinton won the presidency by assistance of the Israeli lobby. During his eight years of presidency, he became a tool of the Israeli lobby. He helped Israel militarily and financially more than any other president. He did the following:
1. He signed agreements to make Israel a strategic ally of America and for cooperation between America and Israel in the manufacture of strategic weapons.
2. He gave Israel all the jet planes (F-15s and F-16s) which were requested by Israel.
3. He stored in Israel military equipment and ammunitions with the value of $500 million. This equipment may be used by America and by Israel whenever it is needed.
4. He declared many times that the security of Israel is the responsibility of America.
5. He and Secretary of Defense William Cohen declared many times that America shall keep Israel stronger militarily than all the Arab states combined.
6. He employed Zionist agents, such as Martin Indyk and Dennis Ross, as intermediaries between the Palestinians and Israel.
7. During negotiations between the Palestinians and Israel, he obtained Israeli proposals and submitted them to the Palestinians as if they were American proposals. He did this more often and especially in the famous Camp David negotiations.
8. During his presidency, Congress adopted more than seven resolutions favoring Israel against the Palestinians.
President George W. Bush
President George W. Bush did not know much about the Middle East problem. He was influenced by the Christian conservatives who are working with the Israeli lobby and advised by Condoleezza Rice, whom he made his national se curity advisor. Ms. Rice visited Israel twice, where she was indoctrinated in Zionist philosophy.
George W. Bush made a declaration that he intends to transfer the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. This state ment was repeated by Secretary of State Colin Powell before Congress. When the Arab states protested, Powell stated that America had not decided yet when it would move its embassy to Jerusalem.
In the early months of his presidency, George W. Bush invited the war criminal Ariel Sharon to the White House. Sharon carried his propaganda against Yasser Arafat and the Palestinians to the White House and Congress.
Both President George W. Bush and his secretary of state kept declaring that Arafat should stop violence. They never stated that Israel, which occupied the West Bank and Gaza and rules the Palestinians under barbaric conditions, should withdraw from the West Bank and Gaza and liberate the Palestinians.
Bush and his administration are in favor of Israel and against the Palestinians. They are unwilling to exert any pressure against Israel to stop building settlements or taking barbaric measures in dividing the Palestinian areas into cantons, surrounding the towns and villages and disturbing the lives of the Palestinians.
Conclusion
As stated above, the Israeli lobby controls Congress and defies the presidents of the United States. It works for defeating any congressman or senator who is on its blacklist. The Israeli lobby has made America an occupied nation. It is the duty and responsibility of all American nationalists to work to liberate America from the Israeli lobby.
FOOTNOTES:
1 Palestine has “observer status” in the United Nations.—Ed.
2 The American Zionist, February 5, 1953.
3 Margaret Truman, Harry S. Truman, New York, Morrow, 1978, 384-85, Alfred Lilienthal, 95.
4 Paul Findley, 117.
5 Ibid., 96.
6 Ibid., 114.
7 Ibid., 121.
8 Kalb v. Kalb: Kissinger, Little Brown, 1974, 187.
9 Ibid., 187.
10 Alfred M. Lilienthal: The Zionist Connection, 619-20.
11 Ibid., 632.
12 Richard Curtis, NGO Symposium on the question of Palestine on June 25, 1992, 10.
13 The New York Times, June 28, 1977.
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