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By Sarath de Alwis<\/a> –<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Sarath de Alwis<\/p><\/div>\n

The United Staes had never in its history intervened to stop genocide and had in fact rarely even made a point of condemning it as it occurred,\u201d\u00a0 ~ <\/span>Samantha Power -A Problem from Hell\u00a0 – <\/span>America and the Age of Genocide\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Jerusalem is an old nymphomaniac who squeezes lover after lover to death, before shrugging him off her with a yawn, a black widow who devours her mates while they are still penetrating her. \u00a0~ <\/span>Israeli Novelist Amos Oz – Tale of Love and Darkness \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the hands of the victor, history is pure simple propaganda. This observation is attributed to historian AJP Taylor whose principal focus was on 19th<\/sup><\/span> and 20th<\/sup><\/span> Century European diplomacy. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Nowhere is this truer than in the struggle between what\u2019s unfolding before the world today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The State of Israel is a war machine. It has no choice. Since its disputed founding it has practiced domination and oppression of the people of Palestine. Settlers Colonial Homeland that Zionism achieved must rely on violence for its existence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The blood feud between \u2018Settler Jew\u2019 and the \u2018Homeless Hopeless Arab\u2019 in what\u2019s called the \u2018Occupied Territories of Palestine\u2019 continues to unfold in horrendous detail in digital imagery.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Arabs have always lived in Arabia. That\u2019s why they are called Arabs. The Jewish state is 75 years. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Modern state of Israel founded in 1948, is the result of phenomenal courage, prodigious imagination, and supernatural guile of a band of people who founded the Zionist movement in the latter half of the last decade of the 19th<\/sup><\/span> century.<\/p>\n

Zionist Dream \u2013 An ethnonational state<\/span> \u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u2018Dream\u2019 is a key word for Zionists who founded modern Israel.\u00a0 <\/span>It is a dream realized. The dream is for an Ethnonational state.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The state of Israel is an accomplished fact. It is a dream and a promise the Jewish people held on to, through four thousand years. The ancient Jewish state came to an end in 70AD when Romans evicted them from their land.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Viewed in the present context, it seems that uprooting people is an ancient business.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The modern, powerful Israel is the singular achievement of the Zionist movement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What is Zionism?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Theodor Herzl founder of the Zionist movement explained it 1896. \u201cWhen nations wandered in historic times, they let chance carry them, draw them, fling them hither and thither, and like swarms of locusts they settled down indifferently anywhere. For historic times the earth was not known to man, but this modern Jewish migration must proceed in accordance with scientific principles \u2026.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In his address to the United Nations in 1975 Yigal Allon Soldier, Politician of the Labour party and Foreign Minster defined Zionism.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cZionism is the modern expression of the ancient Jewish heritage. Zionism is the national liberation movement of a people exiled from their homeland and dispersed among the nations of the world. Zionism is the redemption of an ancient nation from a tragic lot and the redemption of a land neglected for centuries.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A story our grandchildren should know\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Here, I must digress. I decided to write this brief essay for two reasons. My granddaughter Binali told me on WhatsApp:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLooking at history it seems so unfair that Palestinians even must defend their land. It\u2019s rightfully\u00a0theirs.\u00a0 <\/span>I don\u2019t know. It seems very unfair.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Born in the 21st<\/sup><\/span> Century she has no clue as to how Brtish perfidy, American exceptionalism, Israeli adeptness, and Arab dull wittedness made Palestinians refugees in their own land.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Second, my reading on the Zionist Aarab struggle over territory and control convinced me that there is much to learn about the subject or the topic of Terrorism. Terrorism by both sides has contributed to perpetuate this problem from hell.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This is a meek, modest effort to arrive at a summarization of a conflict that has lasted a century and more, with many forgetting how it all started. I intend it for my grandchildren and their generation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I owe it to them. I belong to the generation that watched the mercurial Yasser Arafat of the PLO who internationalized the plight of his people. Vietnam and Palestine in the sixties and seventies made it a global offensive against European perfidy and America\u2019s off target design to be the world\u2019s patrolman.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That world changed in my lifetime. It happened in the sixties and the seventies in Palestine and Vietnam. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Maestro Image Managers\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Since the founding of the state of Israel, the Zionist movement has succeeded in sustaining the most successful image management exercise in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The destitute Palestinians burdened with destructive discord have never come near the sophistication of their adversary.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

US discovers Jews\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

The world watched how President Biden assured Premier Netanyahu of \u2018iron clad solidarity reaffirming Israels right of Self Defense \u2013 even if it means bombing Gaza into rubble. This is 2023.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s go back to 1939 when the Nazis got down to the serious enterprise now labeled as the holocaust.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On 13 May 1939, more than 900 Jews fled Germany on board the cruise ship the SS St Louis. The ship hoped to reach Cuba and then travel to the US.<\/p>\n

It was turned away in Cuba and the US refused entry to any of its ports and was forced to return to Europe. More than 250 of them were killed in Nazi death camps. The story was retold in a film \u2013 \u2018Voyage of the damned\u2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Therein lies the journey of the Zionist movements in the last hundred years. It <\/span>has taken nearly a century for the United States to move from latent prejudice to unabashed admiration of the Jewish people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How did it all happen?<\/b> \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

How did Zionism take form and substance? \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It is a long story. Let us get the gist of it. The Zionist movement began with the rise of nationalism in 19th<\/sup><\/span> Century Europe. Marginalization and outright persecution made Jews in their adopted homelands yearn\u00a0 <\/span>for a Jewish homeland.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Church of Scotland appalled by increasing numbers of East European Jews arriving in Scotland from Hamburg to cross the Atlantic from its port in Leith decided to do something about it. It sent a clergyman Scottish Presbyterian Rev. Dr. Alexander Keith to the Holyland on a fact-finding mission to see if the land was ready for Jews to return.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On his return he published a book describing his tour. He urged fellow Christians to help Jews \u2013 \u2018a people without a country to return to Ancient Israel which was now \u201c a country without a people.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Clergyman did not see it\u2019s Arab inhabitants as \u2018a people.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>They myth of Jews returning to a land that had no people was quietly but surely framed in British elite circles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Zionist movement seized the idea of a homeless people returning to a land without a people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There are many honorable Israeli historians such as Illan Pappe who have written volumes on the subject. His book Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine is a must read. So is Palestine Hijacked: How Zionism forged an Apartheid State from River to Sea by Thomas Suarez. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Terrorism as a strategic argument \u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Distinct focus of this essay is to focus on how Zionists used \u2018terror\u2019 and \u2018terrorism\u2019 to advance their idea of a Jewish homeland.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Benjamin Netanyahu has edited a book on the subject. \u201cTerrorism \u2013 How the west can win\u201d. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Identifying terrorism as an existential threat only to the west is eloquent evidence of his fiendishly warped mind. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Zionist operatives in Palestine launched a successful terrorist campaign to weaken Brtish administration of prewar Palestine. Precipitating a hurried disorderly withdrawal of the British created the environment for the declaration of a sovereign Jewish State in disputed territory. Disorderly Brtish withdrawal enabled the founding of Israel while creating a Palestinian people dispossessed of their land.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Successful Zionist terror tactics gave the fledgling State of Israel the strategic influence to demand the world\u2019s attention and recognition. And so, it did.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Israeli historians have catalogued the unpleasant war crimes of murder, torture, and theft by Hagenah soldiers.<\/p>\n

Zionist terrorism \u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Count Folke Bernadotte was a Swedish diplomat who negotiated the release of 31,000 prisoners from German\u00a0Concentration camps.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

His humanitarian work at great risk to his life and that of family made him the obvious choice of the UN security council to mediate between Arabs and Jews.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He was assassinated by the Zionist paramilitary group Irgun, The Zionists were in no hurry for Security Council Mediation just as the Israelis today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Menachem Begin the leader of Irgun later became Prime minister of Israel. He founded the Likud party that is now led by Benjamin Netanyahu.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The most horrific massacre carried out by both Hagenah and Irgun at the formation of Israel is the massacre of the Arab village of \u2018Deir Yassin\u2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

More than 100 old men women and children were brutally killed. The village was located west of Jerusalem.\u00a0 <\/span>Hagenah led an attack on the Arab village of Deir Yassin, west of Jerusalem. Some 100 Palestinians (mainly old men, women, and children) were killed.<\/p>\n

Enormity of its brutality was such that the Prime minister David Ben Gurion sent an apology to king Abdullah of Jordan. Jewish philosopher theologian Martin Buber called it a black stain on the honour of the Jewish nation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Israel is a complex land. Some of its people who returned from the wilderness seem to be still trapped in some kind of moral wilderness. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Menachem Begin\u2019s Hot Knife through Arab butter<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Menachem Begin the founder of the Likud party did not agree with David Ben Gurion.\u00a0 <\/span>In his 1952 memoirs Menachim Begin claimed that without \u2018Deir Yassin\u2019 Zionist forces advanced \u201clike a hot knife through butter”.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You should be lucky to read the first edition. In subsequent editions of Begins memoirs \u2018the hot knife through butter \u2018is erased.\u00a0 <\/span>Erasing inconvenient history is a Zionist specialty.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That brings us to the third Zionist terror outfit which was known as the \u2018Stern Gang\u2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It was founded by Avraham Stern who called his outfit “Fighters for the Freedom of Israel”. He was killed by British forces in Palestine in 1942. Stern masterminded a spectacular series of terrorist attacks on British targets. It was Sterns way of persuading the British to leave Palestine thereby securing Jewish independence in the holy land.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

His biographer describes Stern as Implacable and Extreme. While the war engulfed Europe, he waged war on\u00a0 <\/span>Arabs and the Brtish administration.<\/p>\n

Patrick Bishop who has written about him \u2013 The Reckoning \u2013 How the Killing of One Man Changed the Fate of the Promised Land says that the Brtish saw him as the most ruthless of the Jewish terrorists. \u201cThe British saw Stern as a potential Quisling who was ready to do deals with the Italians and even the Germans. When Morton gunned him down Rommel was advancing on Egypt and threatening to break through into Palestine, where Britain’s suppression of the Arab rebellion had created sympathy for its enemies.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Yitzak Shamir who later became Prime Minister of Israel was an early recruit of the Stern Gang.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Famous members of the Haganah include Yitzhak<\/span> Rabin, Ariel Sharon, Moshe Dayan, and Yigal Allon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Hebrew Fascism<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Dan Tamir a Scholar in the Department of Politics and Government Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has produced a tract on \u2018Hebrew Fascism in Palestine 1922- 1942.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I have not read it. However, an abridged version is available on the internet.\u00a0 <\/span>In it he observes that Pre Independence-Jewish fighters for an independent homeland had its fair share of right-wing Fascists.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>At some point in the struggle for a homeland Zionists embraced the most fundamental premise of fascism.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As all Fascists, the Israelis believe that they are exceptional. They are of \u201cthe chosen people to dominate others without restraint from any kind of human or divine law, while the sole criterion defining it was the group\u2019s prowess within a Darwinian struggle\u201d,<\/p>\n

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