ETHNIC CLEANSINGS OF PALESTINIANS [1948]
ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINE
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DESTRUCTION OF THE PEOPLE OF GAZA
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KILLING OF THE PEOPLE OF GAZA
”THAT FORCED FOUNDATION OF THE JEWISH STATE IN
PALESTINE WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF THE ORIGINAL PALESTINIAN
PEOPLE IS THE ROOT OF THE ISRAELI PALESTINIAN CONFLICT!”
Zionism in a nutshell
NAKBA DAY REMEMBRANCE/IT’S STILL ON/ABOUT DEMONIC ZIONISM AND TERROR STATE ISRAEL
Dear Readers,
Today it’s Nakba Day, the Day we remember the mass eviction of more than
800 000 Palestinians from their Homeland Palestineas a result of the neo colonialistic project they called ”The State of Israel”
And therefore I repost my earlier article about the Evil Results of the neo colonial project called Zionism, leading to the Terror State Israel
It”s still on and the Fight for a Free Palestine will continue!
SEE YOU IN BATTLE READERS!
ASTRID ESSED
THE ARTICLE
DEMONIC ZIONISM GIVES BIRTH TO TERROR STATE ISRAEL!/A TRAVEL
TO A DARK PAST…….
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
…………………and in the darkness bind them
…………………and in the darkness bind them
[The Ring of Power/Tolkien/Lord of the Rings]
[1A]
[1B]
HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
AT THE CRADLE OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL STOOD ZIONISM, NEO COLONIALISM AND……..EUROPEAN ANTI SEMITISM
This is a Story about neo colonialism [thus mentioned by Astrid Essed since it
happened in the aftermath of 19th century Western colonialism] [1]
A Story about landtheft.
A Story about flagrant violation of the fundamental right of peoples to self determination.
Oddly enough, this Horror Story [as you will read…..] also has its Evil Roots in
another Horror, the centuries old European Antisemitism! [2]
BECAUSE:
The Jewish Austrian journalist Theodor Herzl, founder of the Zionist
Movement [the political movement with as aim the foundation of
a Jewish State in Palestine, then province of the Ottoman Empire] [3] came into action because of the antisemitic Dreyfus Affair [although some modern scholars
mention, that Herzl may have exaggerated the Dreyfuss influence on his
zionism. However that’s of no importance in this article] [4]
Read all about that Dreyfus Affair, note 5
More and more Herzl became convinced of the fact, that in Europe was no
future for the Jews, that anti semitism couldn’t be defeated and that
there was only one Answer to it:
The Foundation of a Jewish State [6]
And so his Magnum Opus [7], Der Judenstaat, was born…..[8]
And in Der Judenstaat he unfolded his ideas about the foundation of
a Jewish State in Palestine, then province of the Ottoman Empire [9]
The idea was, that Palestine was the 2000 years old Homeland of the Jews. [10]
RIGHT TO SELF DETERMINATION
It is hard to imagine for the contemporary 21th century democratic thinking human being:
The GOTSPE [to have the intention to found a State into the country of
someone else, based on a claim of 2000 years ago!
That’s no more or less then trampling on the original Arab Palestinian
people and their right to self determination!
In fact [I wrote it before] a form of neo colonialism , a decision about
the country of someone else and the founding in that country of someone’s else, of another State by force!
AND THAT FORCED FOUNDATION OF THE JEWISH STATE IN
PALESTINE WITHOUT CONSENT OF THE ORIGINAL PALESTINIAN
PEOPLE IS THE ROOT OF THE ISRAELI PALESTINIAN CONFLICT!
As long as this Historical Injustice is not corrected by building a Palestinian
State from the rubble of the Israeli Apartheids State [11] and the Occupied
Palestinian Territories, there is no end to the Conflict!
BUT:
The Reader must understand this well:
Considering the background of 19th Century Thinking, the idea of
founding a State in the land of another People was not strange or extreme, since
colonialism and ideas of white supremacy were considered as ”normal” [12]
ZIONISM, A FATAL MOVEMENT
Theodor Herzl, frontman and leader of the modern political zionism [13],
was a busy guy.
He organized the First Zionist Congress in Basel [14], that laid a solid foundation
for the Zionist Disaster [15]
This Congress was followed by a number of zionist Congresses until
now [for the Herzl period only the first until the six are relevant, since
Herzl died in 1904] [16]
He contacted the Powers That Be in those Times to further promote
the concept of a Jewish State [17]
Among else Herzl approached the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire [18]
However:
His attempts to buy land from the Ottoman Sultan in order to bring his
”Judenstaat” closer, failed. [19]
EVIL ZIONIST MYTH/”A LAND WITHOUT A PEOPLE FOR A PEOPLE
WITHOUT A LAND”
To legitimize their ”Jewish State” ideal tghe zionist Movement
claimed that Palestine was barely. uninhabited.
So it would not be that strange, that persecuted people, in this case
the Jews, would settle in a barely inhabited country to build up a life,
free from prosecution and fear.
And so the Myth was born:
”A LAND WITHOUT A PEOPLE FOR A PEOPLE WITHOUT A LAND” [20]
In reality Palestine was populated since time immemoral by mostly Arab Palestinians as
other people, mixed and living together, forming a flourishing, economical and
cultural society. [21]
The ”A Land without a people for a people without a land” Slogan was
meant to justify the foundation of a State in the country of another people!
Its also called ”Settler colonialism” [22]
THE BRITISH EMPIRE TO THE RESCUE!/THE BALFOUR DECLARATION
”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, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.”
[23]
Reading this far it should come as no surprise to the Readers that the Zionist Movement for the realization of her [settler] colonial plans was helped by an
important and established Colonial Power in those Times, the British Empire.
Not only settler colonial zionist thinking fitted in British colonial logic [24], of course firstly the
British colonials had their own [geo] political reasons to support Zionism [25]
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!
READ ALL ABOUT THE NAKBA IN NOTE 59!
We know what happened after 1948!
Israeli terror, occupation, Apartheid and now in Gaza….GENOCIDE! [60]
I am fed up to write about this in detail again.
You only have to watch the news and visit some trustworthy sources….
And after all the intention of this article was to explain and
point out, how a destructive neo colonialistic theory, supported by
a Western country, eventually led to Israeli ethnic cleansings, occupation,
apartheid and thus destroying the Society of Palestine and the legitimate
Right to Selfdetermination!
BUT PALESTINE WILL RISE AGAIN!
”Spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered,
a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises!”
[61]
The Palestinian people, led by their resistance groups, will
fight the Israeli armies and win.
LONG LIVE THE LEGITIMATE FIGHT OF LIBERATION!! [62]
ASTRID ESSED
NOTES
NOTE 1A
NOTE 1B
NOTE 1
NOTE 2
NOTES 3 T/M 5
NOTE 6
NOTES 7 T/M 10
NOTE 11
NOTE 12
NOTES 13 T/M 16
NOTES 17 T/M 19
NOTE 20
NOTE 21
NOTE 22
NOTES 23 T/M 25
NOTE 26
NOTES 27 AND 28
NOTE 29
NOTE 30
NOTE 31
NOTES 32 T/M 34
NOTE 35
NOTES 36 AND 37
NOTE 38
NOTE 39
NOTE 40
NOTE 41
NOTES 42 AND 43
NOTE 44
NOTES 45 AND 46
NOTE 47
NOTE 48
NOTES 49 AND 50
NOTES 51 AND 52
NOTE 53
NOTES 54 T/M 57
NOTE 58
NOTE 59
NOTE 60
NOTE 61
NOTE 62
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