The Support Thing began with the socalled ”Balfour Declaration” from 1917
[during World War I], which was a Letter from Lord Arthur Balfour, British
foreign secretary, to Lord Rotschild, leader of the British Zionist Movement [26]
In that Letter Lord Balfour guaranteed Lord Balfour to promote ”the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people” [27]
I quote the most important part of the Letter:
””His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object……” [28]
And thus the zionists had a powerful colonial Power on their side!
Of course this ”Balfour Letter” [Balfour Declaration indeed] was a
Monstrosity and fitted well enough in the Colonial Thinking:
Because without in the least considering the rights of the present
population [the Arab Palestines], then still ”belonging” to the Ottoman Empire, a Jewish National Home was created by Colonial Great Britian, for
Jewish people who came from Europe!
The Jewish writer Arthur Koestler wrote about the ”Balfour Declaration”
as follows:
””One Nation solemny promised to a second nation the country
of a third” [29]
I couldn’t have said it better!
THE BRITISH MANDATE FOR PALESTINE
The Palestine Tragedy began to unfold more and more……
After the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire, that bet on the wrong horse [30],
Palestine [that had been part of the Ottoman Empire] became British Mandatory Palestine [31]
YES:
Palestine fell into the hands of the Colonial Power, that made the
”Balfour Declaraion” deal with the zionists…….[32]
And that the British meant business, soon became clear……
For in the Preambule and article 2 of the Mandate Palestine document [under
the responsibility of the League of Nations, established in 1920] [33], was stated, that
the British Mandatary aws responsible for the establishment, in Palestine, for a
Jewish National Home.
I quote from article 2:
”The Mandatory shall be responsible for placing the country under such political, administrative and economic conditions as will secure the establishment of the Jewish national home, as laid down in the preamble, and the development of self-governing institutions, and also for safeguarding the civil and religious rights of all the inhabitants of Palestine, irrespective of race and religion.” [34]
So the Arab Palestinians were in big trouble from the beginning, since
with the rise of nationalist movements in the colonies or semi-colonies
[like mandate areas like Palestine and Syria, results
of that horror Sykes Picot Agreement] [35], for Palestine the cards had already been shuffled:
By the later independence of Palestine, unlike other madate areas like Syria,
Jordan and Iraq [36] , there would not be one independent Palestine, but already ”a Jewish National Home” was included! [37]
And all this without any approval of the original Palestinian people.
THIS WAS COLONIALISM AND SOWED THE SEEDS FOR TROUBLE IN
THE VERY FUTURE…….
JEWISH COLONIZATION
With the establishment of Palestine as ”British Mandatory Palestine” [38]
the way was prepared for the establishment of East and West European
Jews in Palestine.
With the financial means of the Jewish National Fund and wealthy zionist Jews in Europe and the United States land could be purchased from
Palestinian major landowners on behalf of Jewish settler/farmers.
Often those Palestinian landowners themselves didn’t live in Palestine,
but in Lebanon and Syria.[39]
The Palestinian tenants, who had worked on that -purchased- land
paid a high price, since this purchase often was accompanied with their
eviction. [40]
Furthermore there was a dramatic growth of the Jewish population in
Palestine!
UN organisation UNISPAL writes:
”The Jewish population in Palestine increased from 56,000 in 1918 to about 88,000 in 1922, when the total population was officially estimated at 750,000. By 1939, the Jewish population had increased to 445,000 out of a total population of about 1.5 million. This dramatic increase was primarily due to the large numbers of Jews fleeing the Nazi terror.
In percentage terms, the Jewish population rose from about 10 per cent in 1919 to 17 per cent in 1929 to nearly 30 per cent in 1939! [41]
PALESTINE
THE TWENTIES OF THE CENTURY
TO THE THIRTIES AND THE ARAB REVOLT IN PALESTINE!
I wrote it before:
Because of the Balfour Declaration and with the establishment of Palestine as ”British Mandatory Palestine” [42] the seeds for Trouble in
the very future were sown….”
It was inevitable that with the spectacular increasement of the Jewish
colonization in Palestine, all with the blessing of the British authorities [43],
tensions grew between the Jewish migrants, zionists or not [not all Jewish m,igrants were zionists] and the Arab Palestinian population grew.
The Jewish colonization, especially in the thirties continued
to increase dramatically[understandably!] by the danger Nazi Germany formed for the Jews! [44]
In 1936, the year of the uprising against the British Mandate authorities
and the zionist settlers [45], the Jewish population in Palestine consisted
of 384,078, 28,1 percent of the total population [46]
Given the fact of this dramatic immigration increasement, the problem
of the evicted Palestinian tenants and the British favouritism of
Jewish settlement [47], it is no wonder, that Palestinian Arabs stood up against the British Mandatory rulers ![48]
The uprising lasted from 1936 until 1939 and was violently suppressed by the
British Mandatory authorities, who used all sorts of harsh measures
like Martial Law and collective punishment. [49]
Thousands of Arab prisoners were held in administrative detentiion
in overcrowded prisons without proper sanitation. [50]
About the collective punishment:
The main form of collective punishment was destruction of property.
Sometimes even entire villages were reduced to rubble, as happened
to Mi’ar in october 1938!
More often houses were blown.
The biggest ”destruction action” happened in Jaffa on june 1936, making
6000 people homeless……[51]
‘Villages were also frequently punished by fines and confiscation of livestock. [52]
But leave it to British colonialism to make things even worse
and read more about the Al-Bassa massacre
and moreover the description of this warcrime by an eue
witness, a British officer of the Royal Ulster Rifles!
Read and be shocked! [53]
Thus were the ways of British colonialism when it came
to suppress an uprising………
But there is more:
Therefore the reader must keep in mind one of the
main causes of the Arab revolt:
The British favouritism of the zionist settlers! [54]
So of course the zionists were the ”natural” helpers
of the British in suppressing the uprising!
The Zionist Partners in Crime of the British was the Haganah,
a Jewish paramilitary organisation, that actively supported
the British troops.
Although the British administration did not officially recognise the Haganah, the British security forces cooperated with it by forming the Jewish settlement police, Jewish Supernumerary Police and Special Night Squad.
Especially the latter [Special Night Squad] were no more or
less then death sqauds, notorious for their cruelty. [55]
Apparently the British found those zionist gangs so useful, that
they maintained, financed and armed them from this point onward until the end of the Mandate….. [56]
”Useful tools to keep the Arabs down”, they must have thought.
WHAT A PITY [But not really/HAHAHA], that those ”trusted
Zionist friends” of the British would later turn against the very
British Mandatory authorities that had financed and armed them……..[57]
But of course, that is not my Fight.
MY Fight is to defend the Palestinian right of self determination
and show how that was destroyed……..
AFTER WORLD WAR II
THE END
Now we come to the End of our Story about Zionism.
For the attentive reader knows how the Story of the
Palestinian Arab Society and the legitimate right on selfdetermination
ended in a complete disaster, following the end of the British Mandate,
the Partition of Palestine [without any saying of the Arab Palestinian people,
who of course were against], ending in the
foundation of the ”State of Israel” and the Palestinian Nakba, resulting
in the ethnic cleansings of more than 750. 000 Palestinians! [58]
Destroying everything that once was in the Palestinian Society.
BY ZIONISM AND ZIONIST INTRUDERS, WITH THE BLESSING OF BRITISH
COLONIALISM!
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