israeli War Crimes in Palestine

Hmmm, interesting application of the editorial policy.

Were you objecting to style or content?

Some indication of how I have infringed publishing guidelines would be appreciated.

Is it surprising that I should be terse given the appalling standard of replies to my comments?

"Cretin" seems mild in context and by comparison to other posts to the site.

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=cult&x=18&y=13

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Bzzzt - Wrong again !!!

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The sound you hear is truth being stretched by a zionist
by Bzzzt - Wrong Again !!! • Friday, Jul. 29, 2005 at 8:51 PM

It seems to me "scholar" that your "explanations" are the ones that are expediently patchy and patently dubious.

Looking backwards through the telescope of history you assert that the "first Hebrews eliminated or absorbed the diverse Canaanite tribes".

While you're gazing into this crystal ball of yours could you explain how the cult that Abraham founded managed, in around 600 years, to breed to critical mass (despite the restriction of inbreeding demanded by this new religious cult) whereby it was possible to wipe out all the people who lived in the area which "today encompasses Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, and the southern portions of Syria and Lebanon."?

That snapping sound you just heard was your credibility reaching breaking point.

"Around 1200 BC the Hittite empire was conquered by allied tribes from the north. The northern, coastal Canaanites (called the Phoenicians by the Greeks) were temporarily displaced, but returned when the invading tribes showed no inclination to settle." (wiki)

This would appear to be a more realistic interpretation of Palestinian responses to aggression from invaders. An amorphous mass of people who adapted to circumstances i.e. rather than wait to be slaughtered they would simply have fled the danger. In this case, the Kingdom of Israel was only ephemeral anyway. "Thus, after a duration of two hundred and fifty-three years, the kingdom of the ten tribes came to an end." (wiki)

At any rate, what does it say of "Gods chosen people" if they were so hell bent on wiping out the indigenous Palestinians? And, are you suggesting that you are responsible for the only 100% successful genocide in history? What a marvelous and proud claim!

No, I think it is safe to assume that even if you did murder every Palestinian/Canaanite within the Kingdom of Israel the Palestinian/Canaanites on the fringes of this vanquished empire would have quickly drifted back into their ancestral lands. I would like to hear your explanation of how this did not happen.

"The idea that five millenia of history left the peasant son the land undisturbed is preposterous."

Preposterous? Au contraire! All the evidence suggests that Palestinian Arabs are the legitmate heirs to the land of Palestine.

Here's preposterous : The land of Palestine was inhabited by Palestinian Arabs. In 1850 these consisted of approximately 400,000 Muslims, 75,000 Christians, and 25,000 Jews. For centuries these groups had lived in harmony: 80 percent Muslim, 15 percent Christian, 5 percent Jewish.

Yet you believe the Palestinian Arabs cannot claim a connection to this land. What you do believe is that a Russian Jew who arrives in Palestine in the 1990s, and who conceivably has absolutely no semitic genes, has a "god-given" right to claim some part of Palestine as their "ancestral" homeland. This Jew may then bulldoze the two thousand year old olive groves of the local Palestinians, murder the Palestinians with impunity and steal their land.

Now that is preposterous.

Here's the analogy;

We're at the cinema, I get kicked out for talking too much.

Two thousand years later ALL my descendants turn up and demand that the cinema be handed over to them as it is rightfully theirs.

Does the word chutzpah mean anything to you?

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The jews planted them!!
by Olive Trees as witness to Jewish Longevity • Friday, Jul. 29, 2005 at 9:29 PM

"This Jew may then bulldoze the two thousand year old olive groves of the local Palestinians"

Er...that would make them Jewish olive groves...
(arabs didn't invade until the 7th century

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Desperate semantics of the zionist
by Bzzzt - Wrong Again !!! • Friday, Jul. 29, 2005 at 9:43 PM

You're just not listening are you?

Or is it that you prefer semantics because your arguments lack substance? Yes that must be it.

Once more for the cretin...

"But all these [different peoples who had come into Canaan] were additions, sprigs grafted onto the parent tree... And that parent tree was Canaanite ... [The Arab invaders of the 7th century A.D.] made Moslem converts of the natives, settled down as residents, and intermarried with them, with the result that all are now so completely Arabized that we cannot tell where the Canaanites leave off and the Arabs begin." Ilene Beatty, "Arab and Jew in the Land of Canaan."

"Throughout history, the Canaanites were the first to settle the land, which was named after them: the Land of Cana'an. As such, the Cana'anites may be defined as the native and original owners of Palestine. Through thousands of years, they received an admixture of blood from each of the different invaders: Egyptians, Hyksos, Israelites, Persians, Philistines, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Turks, Crusaders and others. Each of these invaders came and left and none of them has any right to claim the land as its own. Those individuals, of the different invaders, who stayed, settled down and intermarried with the original native population, the Cana'anites, became an integral part of the natives.

Get it yet?

There is no meaningful distinction between todays Palestinian Arabs and the original Palestinians i.e. Canaanites.

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You got a point there
by Death Cult Revived Friday, Jul. 29, 2005 at 10:03 PM

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There is no meaningful distinction between todays Palestinian Arabs and the original Palestinians i.e. Canaanites"

Yeah, except ARABS are from ARABIA .
But you have a point. The Canaanites celebrated death, much as today's "palestinians" do. They even murdered their own children, much likke today's "palestinians "do. In those days however the canaanite/palestinian death cultists didn't have explosives, so they marched their chjildren into the fires for the Palestinian god Moloch
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Now you're just acting weird!
by Bzzzt - Wrong Again !!! • Friday, Jul. 29, 2005 at 10:34 PM

"Yeah, except ARABS are from ARABIA "

Linguistic obfuscation is futile.

I know the small collective of Zionist propagandists working the IMC circuit have your hands full trying to suppress the swelling awareness of Zionist propaganda techniques but you do yourself a disservice by not reading the posts of people like myself thoroughly.

Your latest ploy was pre-empted in one of my earlier posts.

http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Palestinian

I know Zionists would like to be considered the final and highest authority on what defines an Arab but I believe that honor should be reserved for the people who identify themselves as Arab. Do Arabs demand the right to define who is Jewish?

" On its formation in 1946, the Arab League defined an "Arab" as follows:

"An Arab is a person whose language is Arabic, who lives in an Arabic speaking country, who is in sympathy with the aspirations of the Arabic speaking peoples." "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabs#Who_is_an_Arab.3F

Offhand, I'd suggest that maybe they've gotten tired of your cut-and-paste spamming practices. If they hide a post of yours, accept the editorial decision and don't repost it. And certainly don't complain if your reposted post is hidden as well.

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gehrig likes neither your position nor your ability to substantiate it. Of course, he'll never just SAY this -- noooo, not manipulative enough -- so instead he pretends you should leave your stuff deep-sixed as a matter of PROTOCOL. Ri-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-ight.

I thought you were doing really well. Especially with this barb:

"I know the small collective of Zionist propagandists working the IMC circuit have your hands full trying to suppress the swelling awareness of Zionist propaganda techniques..."

Amen, bro. Keep swinging

You can recover the stuff the mods shit-canned by going here:
http://www.indybay.org/news/hidden.php?id=1750317

To the mods: it's very annoying when you delete reasonable stuff just because it violates a taboo set down by U.S. IMPERIALISTS (i.e. "don't criticize our strategic beachhead in the Middle East. It be sacrit, sho nuff"). Meanwhile fanatical assholes like gehrig keep getting equal time. Either ban gehrig and all the other zionist PR vermin -- their obnoxious interventions are half of why these threads fly off the handle -- or let the site be a free-for-all on this subject.

Their obnoxious interventions are MOST of why these threads keep flying off the handle

Oh, goodness, is it time for another one of those floods of self-praise from your self-congratulatory sock puppets _already_? How many do you plan to leave this time?

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These threads keep flying off the handle because the editors permit it. Compare with SF-IMC, where the zero tolerance policy for racist propaganda has made Zionist flooding a thing of the past.

It is *immoral* to distribute racist propaganda. Throw the racists out.

The Israelis poisined King Fahd

"You add nothing to Indybay."

Not strictly true; he adds antisemitism disguised as "anti-Zionism."

He tells you, (a) hate racists, (b) anyone who thinks Israel has the right to exist is a racist, (c) 99.5% of American Jews think Israel has the right to exist, and then -- because he leaves it to the reader take that final step along the path he's carefully painted and clearly demarked -- insists he's _not_ telling you to hate 99.5% of American Jews.

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Il Duce: "the zero tolerance policy for racist propaganda has made Zionist flooding a thing of the past."

He means, "the zero tolerance policy for dissent against Nessie's Proclamations of the One True Way has made pretty much _all_ posting to SF-IMC a thing of the past, as anyone with a browser can confirm."

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"According to Nashashibi, King Fahd was one of the few Arab leaders who were not afraid to tell the PLO leaders what he really thought about them. "He loved the Palestinians with his brains, not heart," he explained. "Once he told a visiting Palestinian delegation that if they accepted United Nations resolution 242 he would secure US recognition of the PLO. He told them to go and think about it and to come back to him with an answer. They promised to do so but never came back to him. They let him down.

"When I met him several weeks later, King Fahd told me: 'Your leaders are liars.' I asked him why, and he said that they did not fulfill their promise to come back to him with a reply. He believed that this was a golden opportunity for the PLO and that they had missed it. That's why he had certain clashes with Yasser Arafat."

"King Fahd of Saudi thought they messed up"

The Israelis poisoed Fahd, just like they poisinged Arafat...secret Mossad agents did it, because they're planning another attack on London

These War Crimes were Sponsored by The Bush Iran-Contra Cabal. The Hyaenas behind the Surge in Arms Deals to the Likud Extremist since 1980, when Honest Ron was President and Daddy Bush was VP. Daddy's Son is Selling the Sharon Junta Tons of Nukes these days. Ever hear of Armageddon?

Those sort of conspricy theory posts come when people take off their aluminum foil hats.

"The Israelis poisoed Fahd, just like they poisinged Arafat."

Uh, yeah....right.

Does Arafat Have AIDS?
by Malcolm Thornberry
365Gay.com European Bureau Chief

Posted: November 1, 2004

(Paris) As French doctors continue to run tests on Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat some medical authorities not connected directly to his case are suggesting that he may have HIV/AIDS.

Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath Monday said that all types of cancer had been ruled out.

Arafat has been visibly ill for more than two weeks. Last Wednesday he collapsed and briefly lost consciousness. Initial blood tests performed in the West Bank revealed a low blood platelet count. The Palestinian leader was airlifted to France where he is undergoing more tests.

But, with leukemia and other forms of cancer ruled out, the list of possible diseases is narrowing.

A low blood platelet count is a sign of a weakened immune system. In addition to cancer, the low count could be attributed to bleeding ulcers, colitis, liver disease, lupus, or HIV. It is believed that ulcers and colitis have already been ruled out.

Arafat has lost a considerable amount of body weight. Hopital d'Instruction des Armees de Percy, southwest of Paris, also has some of France's best HIV/AIDS doctors.

For several years there have been suggestions that Arafat was bisexual.

Ion Pacepa, who was deputy chief of Romanian foreign intelligence under the Ceaucescu regime and who defected to the West in 1978, says in his memoirs that the Romania government bugged Arafat and had recordings of the Arab leader in orgies with his body guards.
If the suggestions that Arafat has AIDS are true, it is doubtful it would be made public.

©365Gay.com 2004


Hospital concealment strengthens suspicion: Arafat died of AIDS
November 11, 2004

Editor's Update 11/11/04: As James Taranto wryly notes in Opinion Journal, citing this original Israel Insider report, "Yasser Arafat is in stable condition after dying in a Paris hospital. A hospital spokesman 'said there would be no details about the cause of death because of French privacy laws,' reports the Associated Press." Now why do you think there would be a need to invoke privacy laws in reporting a man's death? And why, suddenly, is it no longer a "mysterious illness" but an illness that must be concealed?

The article as originally reported on November 6, 2004:

Former White House speechwriter David Frum has joined the growing chorus of pundits, medical experts, and intelligence operatives who claim Yasser Arafat is likely suffering from AIDS.

Frum, a key figure in Republican politics and the man who coined the terms "axis of evil," writes in National Review Online that Arafat's undisclosed illness is well-known, but has been kept under wraps by the mainstream media.

"Speaking of media bias, here's a question you won't hear in our big papers or on network TV: Does Yasser Arafat have AIDS?" asks Frum, who also writes for the National Post.

"We know he has a blood disease that is depressing his immune system. We know that he has suddenly dropped considerable weight -- possibly as much as one-third of all his body weight. We know that he is suffering intermittent mental dysfunction. What does this sound like?"

Earlier, John Loftus told John Batchelor on ABC radio on October 26 that Arafat is dying from AIDS. Loftus said the CIA has known this about Arafat for quite awhile and that as a result the US has encouraged Sharon not to take Arafat out because the US has known Arafat was about done. It was deemed better to have Arafat discredited as a homosexual.

Although homosexuality is rife in the Arab world, it is at least officially considered a sin and a crime, and regarded--especially in fundamentalist circles--as a mark of great shame and depravity.

Frum's Diagnosis

David Frum, on his NRO blog, speculates about Arafat's "blood disease" that dare not speak its name (scroll all the way down).

"We know he has a blood disease that is depressing his immune system. We know that he has suddenly dropped considerable weight – possibly as much as 1/3 of all his body weight. We know that he is suffering intermittent mental dysfunction. What does this sound like?"

AIDS?

Well, according to some reports, Arafat is a friend of Dorothy's, though the rumours are entirely unconfirmed and really creepy (though his young, blonde wife Suha spends roughly all her time in Paris). Of course , it could have also come from all that blood the man has on his hands.

But while Arafat's AIDS, er, I mean aides, run around assuring the world he is fine, and that his reign will endure ad infinitum, as promised, French doctors (who tend to know more about these things than, say, Saeb Erakat) have been mum on Arafat's condition . And as Frum notes, if it were AIDS, it would seem the kind of thing the media would kindly keep under their hats. Well, except maybe these guys.

: Does Arafat Have AIDS?:

the Queen of Palestine used to roar like a lion when he mounted his young "security guards"

http://jewsnotzionists.org/

Abu Mazen today announced the PLC's passage of the "Global al Nakba Denial Act" or GANDA and the "Global Anti-Palestinianism Act" or GAPA which require the extradition and trial of any persons deemed in violation of the Acts to Ramallah for trial. HAMAS formally announced its intention to help with enforcement of the new laws. The maximum penalty is a 10 year prison sentence. Israeli officials refused comment at this time - (Interpress Service (IPS) August 1, 2005 1232pm GMT Ramallah).

National Socialism and Anti-Semitism in the Arab World

Anti-Semitism based on the notion of a Jewish world conspiracy is not rooted in Islamic tradition but, rather, in European ideological models. The decisive transfer of this ideology to the Muslim world took place between 1937 and 1945 under the impact of Nazi propaganda. Important to this process were the Arabic-language service broadcast by the German shortwave transmitter in Zeesen between 1939 and 1945, and the role of Haj Amin el-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem, who was the first to translate European anti-Semitism into an Islamic context. Although Islamism is an independent, anti-Semitic, antimodern mass movement, its main early promoters - the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and the Mufti and the Qassamites in Palestine - were supported financially and ideologically by agencies of the German National Socialist government.

"Listen!" says a rabbi to a young Jew. "We have received an order from above. We need the blood of a Christian child for the unleavened bread for the Passover feast." In the following shot, a terrified youngster is seized from the neighborhood. Then the camera zooms in on the child for a close-up of his throat being cut. The blood spurts from the wound and pours into a metal basin.

The Al-Manar satellite channel that broadcast this episode is run by the Islamist Hizbollah ("Party of God"). The scene is part of a twenty-nine-part series entitled Al-Shatat ("Diaspora"), produced by Al-Manar with Syrian government backing and broadcast for the first time during Ramadan in 2003. Episode by episode, the series peddles the fantasy of the Jewish world conspiracy: Jews have brought death and destruction upon humanity, Jews unleashed both world wars, Jews discovered chemical weapons and destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear bombs.

With a permanent staff of three hundred, this channel has the greatest reach in the Arab-Islamic world after al-Jazeera. Ten million people a day tune in to the round-the-clock broadcasts from Beirut. Al-Manar ("the Beacon") is the first and to date only satellite channel that, not even pretending to objectivity, sees itself as the global voice of Islamism. Its popularity is due to its countless video clips, which use inspiring graphics and uplifting music to promote suicide bombing. Al-Manar not only pushes for terrorist acts against Israel but inspires, justifies, and acclaims them.2

Yet three months after the broadcast of the Al-Shatat series, the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), a think tank with close ties to the German Social Democratic Party (SPD), and the Hizbollah's "research department" organized a joint conference in Beirut titled "The Islamic World and Europe: From Dialogue to Agreement." Just as remarkable as the cooperation between an institution of a German party of government and an Islamist terror organization was the conference agenda, which included an item on "occupation and resistance" but nothing on Al-Manar's anti-Semitic agitation.3

This casual attitude toward Islamist Jew-hatred is typical of the discourse in Europe. Whereas the right-wing anti-Semitism of politicians like Le Pen in France or of German MP Martin Hohmann provokes public indignation, when Muslims express exactly the same anti-Semitism it is often ignored or played down as an alleged reaction to the Middle East conflict. This silence over Islamist anti-Semitism persists alongside an accompanying silence over its roots in National Socialism, as the example of the Zeesen transmitter confirms.

In Zeesen, a town with some four thousand inhabitants to the south of Berlin, once stood one of the world's most powerful shortwave transmitters. From 1939 onward, it broadcast its daily Arabic-language program. Of all the foreign-language services, the Oriental Service had "absolute priority. It reached out to Arabs, Turks, Persians, and Indians and had an eighty-strong staff, including freelance announcers and translators."4 Between 1939 and 1945, at a time when, in the Arab world, listening to the radio took place primarily in public squares or bazaars and coffee houses, no other station was more popular than the Zeesen service, which skillfully mingled anti-Semitic propaganda with quotations from the Koran and Arabic music. The Allies in the Second World War were presented as lackeys of the Jews and the notion of the "United Jewish Nations" drummed into the audience. At the same time, the Jews were attacked as the worst enemies of Islam. "The Jew since the time of Mohammed has never been a friend of the Muslim, the Jew is the enemy and it pleases Allah to kill him."5 Today, this same message is being put out on satellite by Hizbollah's Al- Manar TV channel. So what are the historical connections between the shortwave transmitter in Zeesen and the Beirut satellite channel?

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check it out
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/media/

This poorly researched website has as its main focus a page of misleading statistics. For example, although they compare the raw numbers f Israeli children versus Palestinian children killed in the current war, they fail to mention that the vast majority of the Palestinian child casualties are male teenage combatants. The real issue is the Palestinian use of child soldiers.
assistance given to Israel and Palestinians.

It is telling that despite horrific crimes against humanity there is not a single UN Resolution condemning attacks on Jewish civilians. At the same time, the most ludicrous of anti-Israel resolutions pass with a huge majority. Its because of the dominance of Arab and Moslem members of the UN and their oil bribed allies.

Palestinians receive more aid per capita than any other group in the world. They have their very own UN agency UNRWA to supply their needs. They also receive aid from Japan, the Eu and the Arab states. Aid-wise, residents of the West Bank and Gaza have hardly been neglected until now. They receive about $300 per person, making them, per capita, the world's greatest beneficiaries of foreign aid. Strangely, their efforts to destroy Israel have not inspired efforts to crush this hideous ambition but rather to subsidize it. Money being fungible, foreign aid effectively funds the Palestinian Arabs' propaganda machine, their arsenal, their army, and their suicide bombers. Consider that after Oslo, USAID tackled the housing problem in Gaza by building 192 apartments at a cost of $35,000-$42,000 each, in a place where per capita income was around $1,200 a year. Guess who got the apartments: politically well-connected families, some of whom occupied multiple units without paying. What's more, wasted money can often beget additional wasted money. For instance, after the EU built a beautiful hospital in Gaza, the EU auditor's report noted, "The cost of maintaining and using this hospital will be well over the financial means of this country." So the hospital stayed shut. But meanwhile, the P.A. had to pay to truck in sewage to the empty facility to prevent a breakdown of its otherwise idle waste-processing equipment.When Jimmy Carter brokered a peace deal between Israel and Egypt, he promised that both Israel and Egypt receive substantial aid from the US. Israel returned the Sinai to Egypt, more territory that it retained. This web site apparently either doesn’t know that or has chosen to mislead its readership and to conceal that fact.

Israeli holds Palestinians who have committed crimes rather than“political prisoners”. On the other hand, the Palestinians simply shoot any Israelis who happen to come into custody.

Israeli law, derivative of applicable British and Turkish law authorizes home demolitions. Rather than demolish homes, Palestinians slaughter civilians in discos and pizzerias.

The respective unemployment rates changed when the Palestinians decided to trash their economy by starting the current war. Before that they employment rates were much better.

Palestinians and other Arabs stole as much Jewish land as they could in 1948, much of it was only returned by force in 1967 land. Palestinians aren’t taking Israeli land at the moment, but its not for lack of trying.

Finally, this site is replete with poor history of the Middle East and of the conflict. Its rather obvious that the author’s understanding of history began with Oslo.



However, the most important part of this commercial web site is;

“We depend on donations to fill the critical need of informing Americans on Israel/Palestine.

It will take all of us donating everything we can to overcome the information blockade on this subject.

Thanks to whoever posted this. I would suggest ignoring the above poster whi is likely a racist pig.

...so, err, why hasn't Israel left the "West Bank"? Why has Israel continued to steal more and more Palestinian land? Palestinian water?
Why does Israel continue to take U.S. BILLION$ every year...and yet hire foreign laborers to do their dirty work?

Hmm?

Why is that, again?

What's the excuse, again?

"..so, err, why hasn't Israel left the "West Bank"? "

Because Israel captured the territoty as a result of an aggressive war by the arabs...back then, there wasn't any such thing as a "palestinian", they didn't come into existence until the Arabs lost the SIX DAY WAR.
All of a sudden, arabs were "concerned" about "palestinians" and "their" land...(you know the folks that were locked into "camps" BY THE ARABS

Anybody out there old enough to remember that after Israel offered to trade back the West Bank and Gaza in nexchange for peace, they got the "Three No's of Khartouum", no peace, no negotiation, no recognition from the Arab League? Shortly thereafter the Arab League "discovered Palestinians" and founded the PLO. Strange, issn't it? That the PLO wasn't founded by Palestinians but by the well financed Arab League?

Why did Arabs reject the proposed UN GA partition plan which split Palestine into Jewish and Arab states? (typical zionist question/claim)

The 1947 UN GA proposed partition plan of Palestine is often used by Israelis and Zionists to obscure facts from those new to the argument. As demonstrated below, the myth has been concocted to legitimize Israel in the eyes of many Jews and Western people. It should be noted that each of the facts below can be independently verified either from the Zionist archives in Jerusalem, or from the British Mandate books.

The best way to present the facts concerning this question is by asking the following questions:

Are you aware that Palestine's Jewish population was under 8% of the total population as of 1914? (Righteous Victims, p. 83) It should be noted that the mass majority of the Jews residing in Palestine were not citizens of the country, but they recently fled anti-Semitic Tsarist Russia.


Are you aware that in 1914 Jewish land ownership in Palestine was under 2%?


Despite the active British assistance to establish a "Jewish National home" in Palestine (based on the British commitment in the Balfour Declaration), Palestine's Jewish population in 1947 was increased to 33% of its total population. (Righteous Victims, p. 83). Click here for a map illustrating Palestine's population distribution per district as of 1946. Again, prior to the 1948 war many of the Jews in Palestine were not recognized as legal citizens by the Government of Palestine, however, they mostly maintained citizenship of their respective countries, such as Russian, Polish, Romanian, and Germany citizenships.

It's worth noting that even after five decades of ethnic cleansing, occupation, and dispossession, the demographic ratio between Palestinians (8.5 million) and Israeli Jews (4.5-5 million) is still the same as it was in December 1947, which was (and still is) 2 to 1 in favor of the Palestinian people. However, for Israel to maintain its democratic "Jewish state", and above all its "Jewish character", it opted to ETHNICALLY CLEANSE 80% of the Palestinian people out of their homes, farms, businesses.


Are you aware that Jewish land ownership in Palestine was under 7% as of 1947? (Benny Morris, p. 170) Click here for a map illustrating Palestine's land ownership per district as of 1945.


Are you aware that the United States of America arm twisted the arms of dozens of small nations to get their support for the partitioning of Palestine? For example, Greece and France were threatened with a foreign aid cutoff, Liberia was threatened with a rubber embargo plus Firestone Company's president threatened to revoke his company's planned expansion in Liberia, bribing several Latin American countries by hinting at the possibility that the U.S. might fund the construction of a Pan-American highway, ... etc. (Righteous Victims p. 184 , Jerusalem Post, and America And The Founding Of Israel p. 141-143)


Are you aware that two US Supreme Court justices, Frank Murphy and Felix Frankfurter, contacted the Philippine's ambassador in Washington D.C. and sent telegrams to the Philippine's president, Carlos Rojas, warning that a vote against the proposed partition plan would alienate millions of Americans. Ten senators also cabled Rojas (Jerusalem Post).


Are you aware that the Jewish Agency budgeted a million dollars for its own bribery campaign? The money allocation appeared in the Jewish Agency's budget as "irregular political activity." (One Palestine Complete, p. 496)


Are you aware that the Zionist leaders enjoyed a clandestine advantage by BUGGING the rooms of the UN Special Committee On Palestine (UNSCOP), and they knew what every committee member and witness was saying? (Righteous Victims, p. 182)


Are you aware that in March 1948 the United States, along with China and France, was withdrawing from its earlier commitments to partition Palestine, and was pressing for "trusteeship" - an extension of Great Power rule- in Palestine beyond May 15th, 1948? (Benny Morris, p. 61) And on March 19th, 1948, Ben-Gurion responded to the idea of UN trusteeship in a press conference in Tel-Aviv with as follows:

"It is we who will decide the fate of Palestine. We cannot agree to any sort of Trusteeship, permanent or temporary. The Jewish State exists because we defend it." (Israel: A History, p. 165)

It should be noted that since November 1947 the UN GA has failed to reaffirm the 1947 UN GA proposed partition plan.


Are you aware that the 20th Zionist Congress, which convened in Zurich in August 1937, almost UNANIMOUSLY REJECTED the British proposed partition plan of Palestine (which became known as the Peel Commission Partition plan)? (Israel: A History, p. 88, and One Palestine Complete, p. 414). Although the proposed Peel Commission's partition plan was rejected because the areas allocated to the "Jewish state" was "too small," the concept of partitioning the country was adopted by the 20th Zionist Congress. Click here to view the map proposed by the Peel Commission which was rejected by the 20th Zionist Congress, and click here to view a map proposed by the U.N. GA in 1947 for the partition of Palestine. While inspecting both maps, note the following:

1) The Jewish population in Palestine as of 1937 was under 27% of the total population.
2) The Jewish population in Palestine as of 1947 was under 33% of the total population.
3) The Negev Desert was populated with Zionist Jews only in few isolated colonies.
4) The Peel Commission allocated the most fertile regions of Palestine to the "Jewish state," which included all of Galilee and a much wider area in the coastal region compared to the areas proposed by the UN GA in 1947.
5) The 1947 UN GA proposed Partition plan did not advocate compulsory population transfer (ethnic cleansing) for Palestinians out of the areas allocated to the "Jewish State", where Palestinians made up 45% of the total population. On the contrary, compulsory population transfer was a major pillar for the success of the Peel Commission Partition plan.

We call upon your sense of fairness while contemplating the following questions:

1) If the Peel Commission plan had been accepted by the Zionists in 1937, how many Jews might have been saved from the Nazi holocaust? In that respect, it's worth quoting Ben-Gurion, who wrote twenty years later:

"Had partition [referring to the Peel Commission partition plan] been carried out, the history of our people would have been different and six million Jews in Europe would not have been killed---most of them would be in Israel" (One Palestine Complete, p. 414).


2) Why is the rejection of the 1937 Peel Partition plan justifiable according to many Zionists, but the Arabs' rejection of the 1947 UN GA Partition plan is not?


To give a different perspective on the issue, it's worth contemplating what Moshe Sharett, the 1st Israeli Foreign Minister, said in justification of why the Palestinian people would reject any Partition to their country. Sharett stated behind closed doors to the Zionist Actions Committee on April 22nd, 1937:

"...in contrast to us they [Palestinian Arabs] would lose totally that part of Palestine which they consider to be an Arab country and are fighting to keep it such ... They would lose the richest part of Palestine [referring Peel Commission Partition plan]; they would lose major Arab assets, the orange plantations, the commercial and industrial centers and the most important sources of revenue for their government which would become impoverished; they would lose most of the coastal area, which would also be loss to the hinterland [Palestinian] Arab states. .... This would be such an uprooting, such a shock, the likes of which had never occurred and could drown the whole thing in rivers of blood. " (Expulsion Of The Palestinians, p. 59-60), click here to read the full quote.


Are you aware that the Syrian proposal to refer the Palestine issue to the International Court of Justice at The Hague was defeated by a single vote, twenty one votes against twenty. (Simha Flapan, p. 123)


Are you aware that the 1947 UN GA proposed partition was outside the competence of the Assembly under the Charter of the United Nations? Nowhere in the UN's charter was there the power to partition any country, especially based on racial or religious grounds. Even if the UN had the power, the resolution to partition Palestine was not binding since it was indorsed by the General Assembly rather than the Security Council.


Notwithstanding the above facts, are you aware that the 1947 UN GA proposed partition granted the "Jewish state" ABOUT 60% of the total area of Palestine?


Assuming that you are an American, based on the above facts, would you concede sovereignty and land ownership over 60% of your country to a foreign minority, such as Canadians and Mexicans, who owns under 7% of U.S.'s lands? Click here for a map illustrating such comparative partition of the U.S. in favor of one of its ethnic or religious minorities.

If you do not accept such a plan for yourself as an American, then

Why ask the Palestinian people to concede 60% of their land in favor of an ALIEN foreign minority?


For a moment, let's assume that the above arguments and facts are nonsense to the average Israeli and Zionist, and ask the following question:

Assuming that as of 1947 Israeli Jews constituted a 2/3 majority of the total population, owned and operated 93% of Israel's lands, and contributed 55%-60% of the Israeli Gross Domestic Product (GDP), would you accept a U.N. IMPOSED partition of Israel in favor of an alien minority?

It should be NOTED that currently Palestinian-Israeli citizens make up 20-22% of the total Israeli population, so is it acceptable for the U.N. to partition Israel in a favorable way to its Palestinian-Israeli minority? As an Israeli Jew, would you accept a UN GA imposed partition of your country?


We cannot help it but to a draw similarity with a famous Old Testament story, when two women disputed the motherhood of a baby. They took their dispute to King Solomon, who decided to settle the dispute by cutting the baby in half. The baby's mother quickly objected the King's decision and preferred giving up that baby rather than killing it. That is when the wise King recognized that she must be the mother, and the other woman is an imposter. In a similar fashion, the Palestinian people refused the unjust resolution that called for the division of their country with an alien colonizers.

As it will be demonstrated below, the decision by the Zionist leadership to accept the 1947 proposed UN GA Partition plan was nothing but a smoke screen, which was done solely to gain international recognition and support. This deception was a political ploy to gain initial international legitimacy for the existence of the "Jewish state", and this was well known to the Palestinian people. The reader is urged to contemplate the following Zionist leaders' quotes in an open mind. Note that most, if not all, of the quotes below are dated before the entry of any single Arab Army into British Mandated Palestine:

In a letter Chaim Weizmann sent to the Palestine-British high Commissioner, while the Peel Commission was convening in 1937, he stated:

"We shall spread in the whole country in the course of time ..... this is only an arrangement for the next 25 to 30 years." (Expulsion Of The Palestinians, p. 66)


Ben-Gurion emphasized that the acceptance of the Peel Commission would not imply static borders for the future "Jewish state". In a letter Ben-Gurion sent to his son in 1937, he wrote:

"No Zionist can forgo the smallest portion of the Land Of Israel. [A] Jewish state in part [of Palestine] is not an end, but a beginning ..... Our possession is important not only for itself ... through this we increase our power, and every increase in power facilitates getting hold of the country in its entirety. Establishing a [small] state .... will serve as a very potent lever in our historical effort to redeem the whole country." (Righteous Victims, p. 138)


In 1938, Ben-Gurion made it clear of his support for the "Jewish state" on part of Palestine was only as a stepping ground for a complete conquest. He wrote:

"[I am] satisfied with part of the country, but on the basis of the assumption that after we build up a strong force following the establishment of the state--we will abolish the partition of the country and we will expand to the whole Land of Israel." (Expulsion Of The Palestinians, p. 107 & One Palestine Complete, p. 403)


One day after the UN vote to partition Palestine, Menachem Begin, the commander of the Irgun gang and Israel's future Prime Minister between 1977-1983, proclaimed:

"The Partition of Palestine is illegal. It will never be recognized .... Jerusalem was and will for ever be our capital. Eretz Israel will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And for Ever." (Iron Wall p. 25)


Ben-Gurion was happy and sad when the U.N. voted to partition Palestine into two states, Palestinian and Jewish. He was happy because "finally" Jews could have a "country" of their own. On the other hand, he was sad because they have "lost" almost half of Palestine, and because they would have to contend with a sizable Palestinian minority, well over 45% of the total population. In the following few quotes, you will see how he also stated that a "Jewish state" cannot survive being 60% Jewish; implying that something aught to be done to remedy the so called "Arab demographic problem". He stated on November 30, 1947:


"In my heart, there was joy mixed with sadness: joy that the nations at last acknowledged that we are a nation with a state, and sadness that we lost half of the country, Judea and Samaria, and , in addition, that we [would] have [in our state] 400,000 [Palestinian] Arabs." (Righteous Victims, p. 190)


While addressing the Central Committee of the Histadrut on December 30, 1947, Ben-Gurion stated:


"In the area allocated to the Jewish State there are not more than 520,000 Jews and about 350,000 non-Jews, mostly Arabs. Together with the Jews of Jerusalem, the total population of the Jewish State at the time of its establishment, will be about one million, including almost 40% non-Jews. such a [population] composition does not provide a stable basis for a Jewish State. This [demographic] fact must be viewed in all its clarity and acuteness. With such a [population] composition, there cannot even be absolute certainty that control will remain in the hands of the Jewish majority .... There can be no stable and strong Jewish state so long as it has a Jewish majority of only 60%." (Expulsion Of The Palestinians, p. 176)


Ben-Gurion commented on the proposed Peel Commission Partition plan as follows in 1937:

"We must EXPEL ARABS and take their places .... and, if we have to use force-not to dispossess the Arabs of the Negev and Transjordan, but to guarantee our own right to settle in those places-then we have force at our disposal." (Expulsion Of The Palestinians, p. 66). Note the premeditated plan to ethnically cleanse the Negev and Transjordan which were not allocated to the Jewish State by the Peel Commission, click here to view a map illustrating the areas allocated to the "Jewish State" by the Peel Commission in 1937.


Moshe Sharett, director of the Jewish Agency's Political Department who later became Israel's first foreign minister, declared:

"[W]hen the Jewish state is established--it is very possible that the result will be [population] transfer of [the Palestinian] Arabs." (Righteous Victims, p. 254)


While addressing the Central Committee of the Histadrut on December 30th, 1947, Ben-Gurion said:

"In the area allocated to the Jewish State there are not more than 520,000 Jews and about 350,000 non-Jews, mostly Arabs. Together with the Jews of Jerusalem, the total population of the Jewish State at the time of its establishment, will be about one million, including almost 40% non-Jews. such a [population] composition does not provide a stable basis for a Jewish State. This [demographic] fact must be viewed in all its clarity and acuteness. With such a [population] composition, there cannot even be absolute certainty that control will remain in the hands of the Jewish majority .... There can be no stable and strong Jewish state so long as it has a Jewish majority of only 60%."(Expulsion Of The Palestinians, p. 176 & Benny Morris p. 28)


On February 7th, 1948, while addressing the Mapai Council he responded to a remark that the "Jews have no land in the Jerusalem corridor" with the following:

"The war will give us the land. The concept of 'ours' and 'not ours' are only concepts for peacetime, and during war they lose all their meaning." (Benny Morris, p. 170 & Expulsion Of The Palestinians, p. 180)


And on February 8th, 1948 Ben-Gurion also stated to the Mapai Council:

"From your entry into Jerusalem, through Lifta, Romema [East Jerusalem Palestinian neighborhood]. . . there are no [Palestinian] Arabs. One hundred percent Jews. Since Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans, it has not been Jewish as it is now. In many [Palestinian] Arab neighborhoods in the west one sees not a single [Palestinian] Arab. I do not assume that this will change. . . . What had happened in Jerusalem. . . . is likely to happen in many parts of the country. . . in the six, eight, or ten months of the campaign there will certainly be great changes in the composition of the population in the country." (Expulsion Of The Palestinians, p. 180-181)


In a speech addressing the Zionist Action Committee on April 6, 1948, Ben-Gurion clearly stated that war could be used as an instrument to solve the so called "Arab demographic problem". He stated:

"We will not be able to win the war if we do not, during the war, populate upper and lower, eastern and western Galilee, the Negev and Jerusalem area, even if only in an artificial way, in a military way. . . . I believe that war will also bring in its wake a great change in the distribution of [Palestinian] Arab population." (Benny Morris, p. 181 & Expulsion Of The Palestinians, p. 181)


Note the premeditated plan to occupy and ethically cleanse areas, such as Galilee and Jerusalem, which were not allotted to the "Jewish State" by the 1947 UN GA Partition plan. Click here to view a map illustrating the areas allocated to the "Jewish State" by the 1947 UN GA partition plan.

Finally, it's hypocritical when on one hand Zionists use UN GA partition plan as a pretext to legitimize Israel's existence, while they've rejected almost every other UN resolution since Israel's creation, chief among them UN GA resolution 194 that called for the immediate return to all Palestinian refugees to their homes in Israel. To suit Zionists' political agenda, they have deliberately chosen to ignore most, if not all, of UN resolutions concerning Palestine and its people, of course with the exception of withdrawing from occupied southern Lebanon in May 2000. Sadly, Israel has accepted that UN resolution not because it was influenced by a UN, a U.S., or even a European diplomatic pressure, but because it was compelled to do so by the heroic Lebanese resistance.