I am indebted to Ilan Pappé and his book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Oneworld Publications; London; 2006) for the basis of this article.
Fantasy. The Zionist savages “explain” their problems with the Palestinians by claiming they are unruly militants who behead babies. In doing so, they have successfully and far too easily hoodwinked an unquestioning world’s media. Daily, the Washington Post and other supposedly reputable journals like the New York Times claim that the Philistines brutally murdered 1,200 innocent Jews in Israel. The Times even asserts that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (UNRWA) partnered with Hamas freedom fighters to kill blameless Israelis.
The Apartheid Entity that styles itself Israel too often asserted that it “made the desert bloom” and that it found a home “in a land with no people for a people without land”.
Reality. The Zionists invaded Palestine. The Zionists uprooted and forcibly removed that country’s population. The Zionists destroyed the Palestinians’ houses and villages—either with dynamite or bulldozers or both.
And this was long planned. The genocide of the Philistines was not something that simply happened. The design began in the late 19th century and was augmented in the first decades of the 20th century. Look at how the Zionists and their easily manipulated British servants formulated their actions.
· 1882. 25,000 Jewish immigrants begin to settle in Palestine.
· 1891. Jewish Colonization Association founded in London to aid Zionist settlers in Palestine.
· 1896. Der Judenstaaat (Jews Country), advocating for a Jewish State, by Austrian Jew Theodor Herzl published. World Zionist Association (WZA) set up and petitions for a home for the Jews in Palestine.
· 1901. Jewish National Fund established to acquire land in Palestine exclusively for Jews.
· 1904-1914. 40,000 Zionist immigrants arrive in Palestine. Jews now total 6% of the population.
· 1905. Zionist leader Israel Zangwill states Jews must drive out the Arabs.
· 1917. Balfour Declaration. To gain votes and money from British, Canadian, and American Jews, British Foreign Secretary pledges support for a Jewish National Home in Palestine.
· 1919. First National Palestinian Congress rejects Balfour Declaration. Demands independence from British Mandate. Chaim Weizmann of the Zionist Commission at the Paris Peace Conference claims Palestine is as Jewish as England is English.
· 1919-1933. 35,000 Zionists emigrate to Palestine. Now comprise 12% of the population. Hold 3% of the land.
· 1920. Founding of the Hagana, Zionist underground military organization.
· 1922. British census of Palestine: 78% Muslim; 11% Jewish; 9.6% Christian; total population 757,182.
· 1924-1928. 67,000 Zionist immigrants arrive. Jewish population 16%; hold 4% of land.
· 1931. Irgun (terrorist organization) founded to support more militancy against Arabs.
· 1935. Arms smuggling by Zionists discovered at Jaffa port.
· 1937. Peel Commission recommends partition of Palestine.
· 1939. Zionist leader Vladimir Jabotinsky advocates for removal of Arabs from Palestine.
· 1947. UN adopts resolution on partition of Palestine. Mass expulsion of Palestinians by Jews begins.
· 1948. War between Jews and Arabs begins. Plan Dalet (Hebrew for Plan D), the last proposal for the cleansing of Palestinian Arabs finalized. After receipt of a $2 million bribe, U.S. President Truman recognizes Israel as a state, 11 minutes after independence announced.
British Bias. From the beginning, the British authorities had permitted the Zionists “to carve out an independent enclave for [themselves] in Palestine…Zionist preparations…for taking the land by force included the building of an efficient miliary organization—with the help of British officers [notably Orde Wingate].” The Mandate “allowed Jews to carve out an independent enclave.” Wingate aided the Zionists in realizing they needed an army to link disparate settlements into a state. “…[A]cts of armed aggression were an effective deterrent against the possible resistance of the local Palestinians…” Wingate attached Hagana soldiers to British forces and used them against the Arabs when they revolted against British complicity in allowing the Zionists to take over Palestine. (Pappé, p. 15. Et seq.).
Charles Orde Wingate
Zionist Plans. By the late 1930s, the Zionists had archived comprehensive information on Palestine villages they planned to take over and ethnically cleanse. This included location of the villages, access to roads, quality of land, water, sources of income, religious affiliations, names of leaders, ages of men between 16 and 50 (fighting age), and other details.
David Ben-Gurion, a terrorist and leader of the Zionist movement from the 1920s until the 1960s, had a central role in deciding the fate of the Palestinians. In the 1930s, he and his aides worked on a series of plans from A to C to remove the Palestinians from their own country.
David Ben-Gurion
Plan C (Gimel in Hebrew) provided for:
· Killing the Palestinian political leadership
· Killing Palestinian financial supporters
· Killing Palestinians who acted against Jews
· Killing senior Paleoindian officers and Mandatory system officials
· Damaging Palestinian transportation
· Damaging the sources of Palestinian livelihood, such water, wells, mills, etc.
· Attacking nearby Palestinian villages likely to assist in future attacks on Zionists
· Attacking Palestinian clubs, coffee houses, meeting places, etc. (Pappé, p. 28)
Zionist Actions. Against the Philistines:
· Obliterating villages and shooting their inhabitants
· Planting non-native trees and grasses over the destroyed buildings
· Torching fields
· Seizing (looting) Palestinian property, real and personal, such as bank accounts
· Destroying mosques and churches
Depopulated Palestinian Village
Turning Destroyed Palestinian Villages into Parks for Israeli Jews
These were the people who had experienced similar actions by the Nazis.
This was what the Arbs called the Nakba (Disaster).
This was Ethnic Cleansing: the expulsion, imprisonment, or killing of an ethnic minority by a dominant majority in order to achieve ethnic homogeneity (Merriam-Webster dictionary)
This was Genocide: an internationally recognized crime where acts are committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. (U.S. Holocaust National Museum).
COMMENT: As noted above, the U.S. and European news media don’t report truthfully. Israelis are peace-loving, righteous people; Palestinians are barbaric murderers. Now, they’ve decided to drop coverage of Israel and the war against Hamas and the Palestinians. Presumably because 1. They’re tired of the subject; and 2. Israel isn’t winning and the poorest country in the world, Yemen, is fighting back. If covered at all, the reportage appears buried in the back pages of newspapers. And there is always an article on the spate of anti-Semitic attacks on Jews everywhere in the world (with no link as to what the Jews are doing to Palestine and to anyone who opposes their view of history—which omits the Nakba).
According to the United Nations, by 1948, the Zionists had forced out 85% of Palestine’s population, at least 700,000 people. And, contrary to international law, refuse to permit them and their descendants to return.
Instead of concentrating on Israeli crimes, American politicians (who apparently need a dose of therapy and an education in international affairs) are demanding war against Hamas, war against Yemen, and war against Iran. The Islamic Republic has been careful to stay away from direct military confrontation, so successfully, unlike the United States, that it hasn’t invaded another country in two centuries.
The Jews of Israel and the Jews of the United States are demanding an attack on Iran, just as they effectively did in wars against Iraq, Syria, and Libya. But the birdbrains in Washington don’t realize that bombing Iran wouldn’t be like a strike on the Vatican. Although, as one African journalist noted, “They know, which is why they're concentrating their efforts on impoverished Yemen.”
J. Michael Springmann is an attorney, author, political commentator, and former diplomat, with postings to Germany, India, and Saudi Arabia. He previously authored, Visas for Al Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked the World: An Insider’s View, recounting how the U.S. created and used Islamic Terrorism. Additionally, he penned Goodbye, Europe? Hello, Chaos? Merkel’s Migrant Bomb, an analysis of the alien wave sweeping the Continent. He currently practices law in the Washington D.C. Area. Internationally-recognized as a knowledgeable pundit, he is a frequent commentator on Arab, Iranian, and Russian news programs.
Blacklisted by the US news media, he is also on the Ukraine’s “Enemies List”, having questioned, inter alia, that country’s refusal to honor the Minsk Accords and for stating that its government is Nazified.