Malicious intent: The war on Palestine, the Palestinians and everything Palestinian has been going on for over a century
Oct 22, 2024It’s often said that faith moves mountains.
This might be true for people who have faith in their mythical God. The faith I have is the unshakeable faith in, the courage, the heroism and the steadfastness of my people, the Palestinians.
Western leaders, western journalists and western pundits would like you to believe that the genocidal war that has been conducted against my people since October 7 2023 happened on that day, October 7th 2023. I am here to tell you that this is as far from the the truth as your imagination could carry you. For the war on Palestine, the Palestinians and everything Palestinian has been going on for over a century.
The Zionist forces who advocated for the creation of a Jewish State in Palestine over a century ago knew very well that Palestine was not empty land, as they proclaimed, and knew that for them to realise their dream they would have to get rid of most, if not all, the indigenous inhabitants of Palestine.
Gabor Maté, Holocaust survivor described in an interview a few days ago, the words of an early Zionist, Asher Kingsburg in 1896 saying, “if we continue to treat the Arabs like this we will finish up with a small Levantine people tormenting another small Levantine people. If this is the Messiah coming I don’t want to see him arrive.”
Nevertheless, those early Zionists went upon their task with alacrity and decided that nothing and no-one was going to get in the way of their plans. The malicious intent of those early Zionists is there, clearly, for everyone who decides to look. Unfortunately, the majority of western leaders and journalists do not bother to look. They just swallow the Zionist propaganda. They just regurgitate it all without any question. That malicious intent towards us, the Palestinians, who bore them no malice or enmity was clear since the late 19th century. Here are but a few examples:
“Spirit the penniless population across the frontier by denying it employment… Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly.”
Theodore Herzl, founder of the World Zionist Organisation, speaking of the Arabs of Palestine,Complete Diaries, June 12, 1895.
“We will establish ourselves in Palestine whether you like it or not…You can hasten our arrival or you can equally retard it. It is however better for you to help us so as to avoid our constructive powers being turned into a destructive power which will overthrow the world.”
Chaim Weizmann, First President of Israel and founder of The Jewish Agency. Published in “Judische Rundschau,(Jewish Review” No. 4, 1920).
“We must expel the Arabs and take their places….”
David Ben Gurion in a letter to his 16 year old son Amos, 5 October 1937.
“Not one village must be left, not one tribe. And only after this transfer will the country be able to absorb millions of our brothers and the Jewish problem will cease to exist. There is no other solution.”
Joseph Weitz, Head of Jewish National Fund, from his diary, December 1940.
“We came here to a country that was populated by Arabs and we are building here a Hebrew, a Jewish state; instead of the Arab villages, Jewish villages were established. You even do not know the names of those villages, because these villages no longer exist. There is not a single Jewish settlement that was not established in the place of a former Arab Village.”
Moshe Dyan, March 19, 1969, speech at the Technion in Haifa, quoted in Israeli National Daily, Ha’aretz, April 4, 1969.
“We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population.”
David Ben Gurion, Founder of Israel and First Prime Minister; May 1948 to the General Staff, from ‘Ben Gurion’, a biography by Michael Ben Zohar. Published NY 1978.
“We declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle on even one centimetre of Eretz Israel… Force is all they do or ever will understand. We shall use the ultimate force until the Palestinians come crawling to us on all fours.”
Rafael Eitan, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defence Forces – New York Times 14 April 1983.
“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.
Menachem Begin from Iron Wall, by Z’ev Japotinsky p. 25 & Simha Flapan, p. 32
“There were no such thing as Palestinians, It was not as though there was a Palestinian people in Palestine and we came and threw them out and took their country away from them. They did not exist.”
Golda Meir, quoted in The Sunday Times, London and The Washington Post. June 1967.
“The way to deal with Palestinians is to beat them up. Not once, but repeatedly. Beat them up so it hurts so badly, until it’s unbearable”.
Benjamin Netanyahu, caught on video speaking to Israeli settlers 2001.
This malicious intent was adopted, facilitated and enabled by western powers from the word ‘go’. All in the name of protecting their interests. Winston Churchill described the creation of a Jewish State in Palestine as according the best possible result for the British Empire.
Churchill also said “I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right… I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.”
The Peel Commission July 1937.
The Jewish armed militias at the time took Mr. Churchill at his word and started a campaign of murder, destruction and ethnic cleansing in Palestine that lead to the destruction of over 500 towns and villages and the expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians in 1948.
The offspring of those refugees make up 80% of the current inhabitants of Gaza.
In 1945, at the end of WWII and with the creation of the United Nations, America became the super power, replacing Britain and leading the western allies. Every American leader since Truman aided and abetted the Zionist malicious intent in Palestine by supplying them with the latest machinery of war, affording them financial help and giving them total political and diplomatic cover at the UN, no matter what war crimes and crimes against humanity the leaders of Israel perpetrated. Again, all in the name of colonial western interest. The current incumbent of The White House, Mr Joe Biden, described it, in a speech to Congress in 1986.
“Were there not an Israel the United States would have to invent an Israel to protect her interests in the region.”
Alexander Haig, former US Secretary of State described Israel as “the largest, unsinkable air-craft carrier.”
There you have it. In the name of western interests Israel has not only to survive, but to reign supreme over our part of the world ‘to protect western interests’. We, the indigenous population of that region, specifically the Palestinians, are rendered irrelevant and disposable. The result of which is Israel has been committing incremental genocide and ethnic cleansing in Palestine, on camera, for over a year now in Gaza and the West Bank and recently in The Lebanon, while American money, armaments and support continues to pour in.
This morning, Friday 15th October, came the news that Israel has assassinated yet another leader of the resistance in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar. Israel has been assassinating resistance leaders since the 1950s. As Mr Netanyahu said in a recent speech at the UN, there isn’t a place the Middle East and beyond that Israel’s long arm cannot reach. That may be true, but what did Israel gain in almost a century of occupation, murder and apartheid? Did they achieve peace? Did they achieve acceptance? I don’t think so.
What they did achieve was to show the world, live on TV, the true, brutal sadistic nature of Israel. Ordinary citizens, men and women of the world, including young Jews, have been horrified by what they have seen for themselves, and like a great tide they have turned against Israel.
As for us Palestinians and Lebanese? The latest genocide in our two countries will not quell the spirit of our people and make them lay down their arms and give up. On the contrary, a new generation of determined fighters are coming to the fore and will continue the struggle for justice and for freedom.
As a former President of the United States said:
“When tyranny becomes law rebellion becomes a duty”. Thomas Jefferson. 1743 – 1826