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How Israel Promotes Anti-Semitism (Part 1)

In this mailing: Letter on Israel from Becky Johnson
and Response by Steve Argue.

Letter to Editor,

You have to go back and read your history books.
Palestine was the name the
British gave to the mandate they took over (in typical
British imperial fashion) from the crumbling Ottoman
Empire. Palestinians at the time included everyone
who lived there, including the Jews. Palestine ceased
to exist when Israel was formed in 1948. The plan
from the UN was to have the state of Palestine right
next to Israel. But all the Arab neighbors (and the
Arab population within the borders of the new state of
Israel) rejected this two state solution and responded
by out and out war waged on the Israelis.

The Palestinians (Arabs who live or lived within
the boundaries of Israel) didn't even start to call
themselves that until 1968--- twenty years after the
establishment of Israel. Basically the concept of
Palestine is a manufactured one to drum up support for
these Arabs and to decrease support for Israel by the
claim that Israel is on THEIR land.

Remember, the Arabs and muslims who did not flee in
1948, but stayed in Israel have full citizenship, have
freedom to practice their religion, own property,
vote, have representation in the Knesset, and compose
18% of the population.

There is no Palestine. And there never was except
as a British invention.


---Becky Johnson

Editor responds:

Actually history is one of my strong points. You
state that I need to consult my history books, yet you
make statements that are inarguably historically
incorrect. Palestine was in existence as a recognized
territory of the Ottoman Empire long before British
control and even before the beginnings of Jewish
colonization by the Zionist movement.

These inhabitants of the region also had Arab
nationalist sentiments that opposed the control of the
Ottoman Empire before the creation of the Zionist
State and have since opposed many of the U.S., French,
and British imposed kings, crown princes, emirs,
sheiks, etc. that Zionists like to claim represent the
aspirations of the Arab people.

Your attempt to deny a people of even the name of
their homeland is consistent with an ideology that
denies an entire people of the right to their
homeland. The fact that bloody repression and
horrible discrimination has driven the majority of
Palestinians from large parts of their homeland
without the right of return is not enough. The
Zionist movement wants to wipe away the rightful name
of the land they have conquered by re-writing history
and denying there ever was a Palestine.

From its beginnings in the eighteen hundreds the
Zionist movement had little concern for the Arab
inhabitants of the Palestinian land they would settle.
Instead they appealed to imperialist powers as
potential allies against the Arab people in setting up
their Zionist state. For example Zionist leader T.
Herzl stated around 1897: "If his majesty the Sultan
were to give us Palestine, we could undertake to
regulate Turkey's finances. For Europe, we would
constitute a bulwark against Asia down there; we would
be the advance post of civilization against barbarism.
As a neutral state, we would remain in constant touch
with all of Europe, which would guarantee our
existence" (from Rodinson, "Israel a Colonial Settler
State?").

By being neutral Herzl is obviously referring to
the Zionist dealings with powers of Europe and not to
the colonial "barbarians" already in and around the
land he would settle and conquer.

An Arab leader in Jerusalem named Nassif Bey
al-Khalidi who tried unsuccessfully to work out an
agreement between Arabs and the Zionist movement
warned the Zionists with the following statement, "Be
very careful, Messieurs Zionists, governments
disappear, but peoples remain. The Jewish immigrants
came to Palestine believing it to be a desolate,
sparsely inhabited country. They were too busy with
their own business and too ignorant of Arabic to
notice what was going on around them. Since it was
the Turks who ruled Palestine, they turned all their
attention toward the Turks. This did not make them
popular with the Arabs" (from Neville Mandel,
"Chapters of Arab-Jewish Diplomacy 1918-1922").

The Jewish immigrants never became integrated in
any way with the native Arab population. This was
true economically, politically, socially, and
linguistically. These Jewish immigrants were so
separate from the Palestinian people that they were
only Palestinian to the extent that they were
physically living in Palestine.

It took the weakening of the Sultan during the
First World War for Europe (specifically England) to
move in and grant the colonial framework for Jewish
colonization that aimed itself at the goal of an
exclusively Jewish state. This framework was set
forth in a British political charter in November 1917
called the Balfour Declaration which stated, "His
Majesty's government views with favor the
establishment in Palestine of a national home for the
Jewish people."

Within this framework an exclusive Jewish state was
the stated goal of all but a small minority in the
Zionist movement, a goal that obviously would be at
the expense of the Arab people already living in
Palestine. In order to placate the Palestinians,
however, the Balfour declaration stated, "it should be
clearly understood that nothing should be done which
may prejudice the civil and religious rights of the
non-Jewish communities in Palestine."

While Britain was trying to placate the Arabs
Zionist leader Jabotinsky was very clear on Zionist
intentions stating in 1923 in his Book the "Iron
Wall", "There can be no discussion of voluntary
reconciliation between us and 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.
Each of you has some understanding of the history of
colonization. Try to find even one example when the
colonization took place with the agreement of the
native population."

In understanding the existence of a Palestinian
people and the struggles yet to come Jabotinsky went
on to state, "They have the precise psychology we
have. They look upon Palestine with the same
instinctive love and fervor that any Aztec looked upon
his Mexico or any Sioux upon his prairie. Each people
will struggle against colonizers until the last spark
of hope that they can avoid the dangers of conquest
and colonization is extinguished. The Palestinians
will struggle in this way until there is hardly a
spark of hope."

Jabotinsky's view, and the policy that would later
be carried out against the Palestinians could not be
made any clearer than his following statement from the
same writing: "We can not give any compensation for
Palestine, neither to the Palestinians nor to the
other Arabs. Therefore a voluntary agreement is
inconceivable. All colonization, even the most
restricted, must continue in defiance of the native
population. Therefore it can continue and develop
only under the shield of force which comprises an Iron
Wall through which the Arab population can never break
through. This is our Arab policy. To formulate it
any other way would be hypocrisy."

In explaining the differences between Zionist
factions in dealing with the Palestinians Jabotinsky
stated, "Force must play its role - with strength and
without indulgence. In this, in this there are no
differences between our militarists and our
vegetarians. One prefers an Iron Wall of Jewish
bayonets; the other prefers an Iron Wall of English
bayonets."

On these issues Rabbi Judas L. Magnes, President of
the Hebrew University Jerusalem wrote, "by definition
a Jewish state means that Jews will govern other
people, other people who live in this Jewish
state…Jabotinsky knew this long ago. He was the
prophet of the Jewish state...In his early writings he
said: 'Has a people ever been known to give up its
territory of its own volition? Likewise, the Arabs of
Palestine will not renounce their sovereignty without
violence.'"

On the morals of Jabotinsky's plans and his desire
to extinguish all hopes of the Palestinian people he
is as clear in the "Iron Wall" as Hitler is of his
intentions in "Mein Kampf" with Jabotinsky stating:
"To the hackneyed reproach that this point of view is
unethical, I answer 'absolutely untrue.' This is our
ethic. There is no other ethic. As long as there is
the faintest hope for the Arabs to impede us they will
not sell these hopes - not for any sweet word nor for
any tasty morsel, because this 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."

In 1940 Jabotinsky states in "The Jewish War
Front": "Since we have the moral authority for calmly
envisaging the exodus of the Arabs, we need not regard
the possible departure of 900,000 with dismay. Herr
Hitler has recently been enhancing the popularity of
population transfer."

While the Arabs of Palestine were extremely
tolerant of the Zionists who were moving in to take
their land and their hopes the Zionist movement was
never interested in forming any sort of alliance with
the Arab people. Instead the Zionist movement from
its inception was openly anti-Arab and
pro-imperialist, even though those same imperial
powers were the same ones who were carrying out
pogroms against the Jews in the ghettos across Europe.
This pro-imperialist policy included close relations
with the pogromist leaders of anti-Semitic Czarist
Russia who murdered tens of thousands of Jews, and
later Zionist support and deals that aided the fascist
death camps of Nazi Germany.

Jews, in fact, are victims of Zionism along side
Arabs. From the beginning of Hitler's seizure of
power in 1933 the Zionist movement lent their support
to the Nazis, support which lasted until at least 1944
when they aided Hitler's "final solution" in Hungary
killing 800,000 Jews. On the surface the idea of
Zionist relations with the Nazis may sound illogical
and seem made up. Those relations, however, are well
documented.

Hitler seized power in 1933 with a clear fascistic
program that called for the annihilation of all
socialists, communists, labor leaders, and Jews.
Despite this fact the Zionist Federation of Germany
sent the Nazi Party a memorandum on June 21, 1933
stating: "…a rebirth of national life such as is
occurring in German life … must also take place in the
Jewish national group. On the foundation of the new
[Nazi] state, which has established itself on the
principle of race, we wish to fit our community into
the total structure so that for us, too, in the sphere
assigned to us, fruitful activity for the Fatherland
is possible…." (Brenner, Zionism, pg. 48).

The policy of supporting Hitler was later upheld at
the World Zionist Organization Congress in 1933 where
a motion to take action against Hitler was defeated
240 to 43. Thus the Jewish boycott of the German
economy at a time of economic weakness and
vulnerability was broken with the World Zionist
Organization's Anglo Palestine Bank resuming trade.
In fact the World Zionist Organization became the
principal distributors of Nazi goods in Northern
Europe and the Middle East.

Feivel Polkes was a member of Zionist leader
Jabotinsky's Haganah militia. He was sent by
Jabotinsky to Berlin to inform Nazi leader Adolf
Eichman of his intention to spy for the S.S. in
exchange for the release of the money of German Jews
for use on the Zionist project. Zionist Feivel told
Nazi Eichman, "Jewish Nationalist Circles are very
pleased with the radical German policy, since the
strength of the Jewish population in Palestine would
be so far increased thereby that in the foreseeable
future the Jews would reckon upon numerical
superiority over the Arabs" (from Brenner, "Zionism"
pg. 99).

Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's minister of propaganda,
felt so fond of the Zionist movement and their close
working relations that he wrote a 12 part report in
Der Angriff (The Assault) praising the Zionist
movement and ordered a medallion struck with a
swastika on one side and the Zionist Star of David on
the other.

Collaboration included an agreement in Hungary
between Zionist agent Dr. Rudolph Kastner and Nazi
leader Adolph Eichman. Under the 1944 agreement the
Nazis would murder 800,000 Hungarian Jews without
Zionist interference and with complete silence from
the Zionist movement. In exchange 600 prominent Jews
would be freed from Hungary. The Nazis then opened up
a Rescue Department in Hungary headed by Kastner.
These facts were exposed by a survivor named Malchiel
Greenwald who was subsequently sued by the Israeli
government, sued by the same leaders that had
fashioned the deal made by Kastner in the first place.


Kastner's collaboration with the Nazis was
confirmed with the Israeli court stating, "The
sacrifice of the majority of the Jews, in order to
rescue the prominents was the basic element in the
agreement between Kastner and the Nazis. This
agreement fixed the division of the nation into two
unequal camps, a small fragment of prominents, whom
the Nazis promised Kastner to save, on the one hand,
and the majority of Hungarian Jews whom the Nazis
designated for death, on the other hand." (Judgment
given on June 22, 1955, Protocol of Criminal Case
124/53 in District Court, Jerusalem)

The Zionists subsequently ignored a plan drawn up
by the resistance that could have saved many, if not
most, of Hungary's Jews. The Zionist silence and lack
of action against Nazi atrocities in fact
characterizes their stance throughout the entire
holocaust. A plan complete with maps was drawn up
that would blow-up railroad tracks to the death camps
and crematoria and airdropped ammunition to the 80,000
Jews in Auschwitz. Part of the plan also included the
parachuting of saboteurs to blow up the Auschwitz
facility that was murdering 13,000 people a day. Had
the Zionist movement not been so intent on fighting
the Arabs rather than the real anti-Semite butchers of
Europe they could have gathered the resources to carry
out such operations. Likewise Great Britain and the
United States could have carried out the proposed
measures as well, but chose not to save the Jews and
felt no pressure from the silent Zionist movement to
do so.

This caused Rabbi Weismandel who had drawn up the
plans against Auschwitz to ask of the Zionists in July
1944, "this special message to inform you that
yesterday the Germans began deportations of Jews from
Hungary. … The deported ones go to Auschwitz to be put
to death by cyanide gas. This is the schedule, of
Auschwitz from yesterday to the end: Twelve thousand
Jews - men, women and children, old men, infants,
healthy and sick ones, are to be suffocated daily.
And you, our brothers in Palestine, in all the
countries of freedom, and you ministers of all the
Kingdoms, how do you keep silent in the face of this
great murder. Silent while thousands upon thousands,
reaching now to six million Jews, are murdered? And
silent now, while tens of thousands are still being
murdered or waiting to be murdered? Their destroyed
hearts cry out to you for help as they bewail your
cruelty. Brutal, you are and murderers, too, you are,
because of the cold bloodedness of the silence in
which you watch, because you sit with folded arms and
do nothing, although you could stop or delay the
murder of Jews at this very hour. You, our brothers,
sons of Israel, are you insane?" (From Shoenman, "The
Hidden History of Zionism?")

The Zionists also fought against the immigration of
Jews to other countries where they could escape
extermination. Explaining their policy of pressuring
Great Britain and the United States not to adopt
immigration policies that would have saved the lives
of Jews Zionist leader Ben Gurion stated in 1938: "If
I knew that it would be possible to save all the
children in Germany by bringing them over to England
and only half of them by transporting them to Eretz
Israel, then I would opt for the second option" (from
Brenner, "Zionism", pg. 149).

The ability of the Zionist movement to sacrifice
the lives of millions of Jews for the settling of
Palestine had a consistent inner logic. That logic
speaks volumes. While some of the first victims of
these Zionist madmen were the Jewish people, the
Palestinians were next. And today the continued
Zionist mistreatment of the Palestinian people is one
of the biggest threats to the lives of Jewish people
because some of the Arab victims of Zionism now do not
differentiate between the crimes of Zionism and the
Jewish people. In addition the Israeli government
aided in the formation of the anti-Semitic
organization Hamas and today uses their suicide
bombings against civilians as a way to gain sympathy
and support in the Zionist war against the Palestinian
people (more on this later). Objectively the Zionist
capitalist state is, in fact, the common enemy of both
Jews and Arabs.

In the 1940s Jews were only one third of the
population of Palestine. The Arab majority had not
yet been driven from their land. The British, in
considering their entire imperial interests in the
Middle East and their need for good relations with
Arabs had backtracked from their original support of a
Jewish state in Palestine. Thus the Zionist minority
carried out a war of independence against Britain in
order to set up the Jewish state. The Palestinian
people, the majority of the population, were not
consulted by the Zionists on what kind of future they
would like to have for their homeland and had little
involvement in the war although a few did side with
British forces.

After independence from the Britain in 1948 the
Zionist state began a massive expropriation of
Palestinian land that has not ended. Becky Johnson's
claim that, "the Arabs and Muslims who did not flee in
1948, but stayed in Israel have full citizenship, have
freedom to practice their religion, own property,
vote, have representation in the Knesset, and compose
18% of the population" is so utterly untrue as to defy
common sense. Besides defying the facts, which we
shall establish, I ask why most of an entire people
would voluntarily flee the land in which they had
built flourishing towns, a rich agriculture, and a
vibrant cultural life with nowhere else to go? The
short answer is that they did not flee voluntarily.
They had met the "Jewish bayonets" of Zionist
Jabotinsky's "Iron Wall". To deny this fact comes in
on the same level as those who deny the Holocaust of
Europe.

The humiliating conditions of the Palestinian
people were recently observed by former anti-Apartheid
fighter Archbishop Desmond Tutu who wrote: "I have
been very deeply distressed by my visit to the Holy
Land; it reminded me so much of what happened to us
black people in South Africa. I have seen the
humiliation of Palestinians at checkpoints and
roadblocks, suffering like us when young police
officers prevented us from moving about.

"On my visit to the Holy Land I drove to a church
with the Anglican bishop in Jerusalem. I could hear
tears in his voice as he pointed to Jewish
settlements. I thought of the desire of Israelis for
security. But what of the Palestinians who have lost
their land and homes?

"I have experienced Palestinians pointing to what
were their homes, now occupied by Jewish Israelis. I
was walking with Canon Naim Ateek (the head of the
Sabeel Ecumenical Centre) in Jerusalem. He pointed
and said: 'Our home was over there. We were driven
out of our home; it is now occupied by Israeli Jews.'

"My heart aches. I say why are our memories so
short. Have our Jewish sisters and brothers forgotten
their humiliation? Have they forgotten the collective
punishment, the home demolitions, in their own history
so soon?"

Although the Israeli government claims that
Palestinians have the right to own property, this is a
lie. Ever since 1948 Palestinians in Israel do not
have the right to own land, because their land is
often confiscated by force for Hebrew settlement and
agriculture. Water rights have been systematically
cut off and diverted away from Palestinian lands and
given to stolen Hebrew owned lands. Palestinian
laborers are then denied by law the right to work the
Hebrew owned agricultural lands, although they are
sometimes illegally employed as cheap labor with no
labor rights.

Palestinians do not have the right to freely
travel. Reminiscent of chattel slavery, Palestinian
families are often separated by Israeli officials who
commonly do not grant necessary permits for
Palestinians to enter neighborhoods or towns where
wives, husbands, or children live. In contrast the
Hebrew population has full rights to travel.

Palestinians often do not have the right to keep
their own homes, which are often confiscated or
bulldozed. The bulldozing of houses is a common
punishment of families whose children are accused of
throwing stones at Israeli soldiers. Recently in
Jenin houses were bulldozed with people inside, an act
that besides killing people also made an estimated
4,000 people homeless.

Palestinians do not have the right to freedom of
speech and regularly face arrest, torture, and
execution for their political views. Even Hebrew
speakers who support rights for Palestinians or an end
to Israeli wars have, at times, had their press shut
down by the Israeli government or had their
demonstrations attacked and beaten by Israeli
soldiers.

Palestinians do not have the same right to an
education as Hebrew speaking people based on the fact
that higher education is paid for through the forced
military inscription of Hebrew speakers while
Palestinians are excluded from the military. It would
in fact make no sense for the Zionists to allow
Palestinians into their military since military
humiliation, brutality, and outright terror against
Palestinians is a part of every day duty for an
Israeli soldier. Likewise few blacks served in the
Apartheid military of South Africa.

Those Palestinians that are then driven out of what
was once Palestine usually are not allowed to return,
while Jews who have never set foot in Israel are
granted automatic citizenship (with the exception of
two Jewish supporters of Palestinians named Ralph
Shoenman and Mya Shone who have the honor of not being
allowed into Israel because of their writings). Those
Palestinians that are forced from Israel are often
bombed by Israel in their refugee camps or massacred
in other ways. In the 1982 case of the Sabra and
Chatila refugee camps in Lebanon, Palestinians were
rounded up and systematically slaughtered in the
thousands by Israeli troops and their Phalangist
Militia allies.

As survivor Mrs. Sersawi testified in a Belgium
appeals court on the Israeli governments war crimes,
"The Lebanese forces militia [Phalangists] had taken
us from our homes and marched us up to the entrance of
the camp where a large hole had been dug in the earth.
The men were told to get into it. Then the
militiamen shot a Palestinian. The women and children
climbed over bodies to get to this spot, but we were
truly shocked by seeing this man killed in front of us
and there was a roar of shouting and screams from the
women. That's when we heard the Israelis on a
loudspeaker shouting, 'give us your men.' We thought,
'thank God, they will save us.'

"We were told to walk up the road to the Kuwaiti
Embassy, the women and children in front, the men
behind. We had been separated. There were Phalangist
Militiamen and Israeli soldiers walking alongside us.
I could still see Hassan (her husband with whom she
was 3 months pregnant) and Faraj (her brother-in-law).
It was like a parade. There were several hundred of
us. When we got to Cite Sportif, the Israelis put us
women in a big concrete room and the men were taken to
another side of the stadium. There were a lot of men
from the camp and I could no longer see my husband.
The Israelis went around saying 'Sit, sit.' It was 11
AM. An hour later we were told to leave. But we
stood outside amid the Israeli soldiers, waiting for
our men.

"Some men came out, none of them younger than 40,
and they told us to be patient, that hundreds of men
were still inside. Then about 4 PM an Israeli officer
came out. He was wearing dark glasses and said in
Arabic: 'What are you waiting for?' He said there was
nobody left, that everyone had gone. There were
Israeli trucks moving out with tarpaulin over them.
We couldn't see inside. And there were jeeps and
tanks and a bulldozer making a lot of noise. We
stayed there as it got dark and the Israelis appeared
to be leaving and we were very nervous. But when the
Israelis had moved away, we went inside. And there
was no one there. Nobody. I had been only three
years married. I never saw my husband again."

Sabra and Shatila are only one of the massacres of
people done by the Israeli government in the past 54
years of Israeli occupation of Palestinian land.
Today all of the Palestinian towns of historic
Palestine are either occupied by Israeli troops who
are killing people or surrounded by Israeli troops and
tanks who are poised to attack. While Israeli troops
are claiming that they are only killing combatants
Human Rights Watch has documented the following crimes
in Jenin alone: murders of civilians including
children, the old, and the disabled; summary
executions; the bulldozing of houses with people in
them; and the use of Palestinian civilians as human
shields.
The cities of Ramallah and Jenin have been laid to
waste by the Zionists just as the Nazis smashed the
towns of Guarnica and Lidice in the name of collective
punishment. Likewise the heroic resistance of
Palestinian fighters in the face of superior military
force is reminiscent of the Jewish fighters in the
Warsaw Ghetto and Vilna.

The Israeli offensive will not stop those willing
to do suicide missions against civilians, attacks that
are futile attempts to combat the genocide
Palestinians face. The Israeli offensive does the
opposite in deepening the conditions that created
suicide bombers in the first place. The anger created
is by escalated Israeli murder is actually more likely
to increase the number tragic of attacks on Hebrew
civilians. At the same time Israel has not targeted
the main base of the suicide bombers, Gaza, where
Hamas is heavily organized. In fact, the murderous
Israeli repression really isn't meant to stop attacks
on Hebrew civilians because these bombings by Hamas
actually play right into the Zionist government's aims
and objectives in pushing for a final solution against
the Palestinian people and the Palestinian Authority
who the Israeli government consistently blame for the
attacks by Hamas.


(See Part 2)

Seems like there were steps taken to delete this article from the public record.

Can you explain that? If you stand by it, why try to hide it?

it wasn't me, but the suggestion is pretty absurd.

>>>>Moses, a Jew, is the most mentioned character in the Koran... it also appears that a lot of the supposed "antisemitism" in the Koran is only that way to due translation (or mistranslation)... so the antisemitism that many Muslims harbor is due to what they were taught, which is not necessarily what was meant in the Koran.<<<



Religion, another great joke man has played on himself.

O.K., great, we're going to have a thread where I have to answer various rightwing attacks against me.

As is clear in my writings, I am not an anti-Semite.

As for Afghanistan, it was U.S. intervention on behalf of murderous misogynist religious fanatics that brought Soviet troops into Afghanistan to defend the pro-woman pro-literacy PDPA government.

U.S. intervention brought the Mujahideen and Taliban to power. I think history has come to prove my position correct.

he also defends the actions of Mao Zedong

"Further more, I see religious states as superstitious and discriminatory as well."


Good point, but the problem with that is the Jews are as much a ethnicity as they are a religion


PS do you have any examples of official policy by Isreal, that shows a state policy influenced by a overly religous ideology?

<<It's really pretty simple Brent. I don't agree with providing a homeland for one people by denying a homeland of another people (as has been done by force and violence to the Palestinian people)>>


Except they weren't denied. The Arab League rejected the solution and attacked Israel from the get go.

The term "palestinian" doesn't come into existence until at least 1968.

Steven I suggest you get your facts straight....

One thing is for sure.....and sounds crazy....

The Warshaw Ghetto had their own Jewish Police ( Jüdische Ghetto-Polizei, Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst) working together with the Nazis.....and they were as brutal as the SS itself.

Shortly before the KZ Mauthauses-Gusen was "liberated" by the red Army......many Jews from the KZ volunteered to join the " "Freiwillige Srafgefangenen SS".......dug ditches around Mauthausen and fought against the Russians..............