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the ultimate chutzpah ...

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The game is afoot. Israel, believe it or not, is demanding that seven Arab countries and Iran pay $250 billion as compensation for what it claims was the forceful exodus of Jews from Arab countries during the late 1940s.

The events that Israel is citing allegedly occurred at a time when Zionist Jewish militias were actively uprooting nearly one million Palestinian Arabs and systematically destroying their homes, villages and towns throughout Palestine.

The Israeli announcement, which reportedly followed “18 months of secret research” conducted by the Israeli government’s Ministry of Social Equality, should not be filed under the ever-expanding folder of shameless Israeli misrepresentations of history.

It is part of a calculated effort by the Israeli government, and namely by Minister Gila Gamliel, to create a counter-narrative to the rightful demand for the ‘Right of Return’ for Palestinian refugees ethnically cleansed by Jewish militias between 1947-1948.

But there is a reason behind the Israeli urgency to reveal such questionable research: the relentless US-Israeli attempt in the last two years to dismiss the rights of Palestinian refugee rights, to question their numbers and to marginalize their grievances. It is all part and parcel of the ongoing plot disguised as the ‘Deal of the Century’, with the clear aim of removing from the table all major issues that are central to the Palestinian struggle for freedom.

“The time has come to correct the historic injustice of the pogroms (against Jews) in seven Arab countries and Iran, and to restore, to hundreds of thousands of Jews who lost their property, what is rightfully theirs,” said Gamliel.

The language – “.. to correct the historic injustice” – is no different from language used by Palestinians who have for 70 years and counting been demanding the restoration of their rights per United Nations Resolution 194.

The deliberate conflating between the Palestinian narrative and the Zionist narrative is aimed at creating parallels, with the hope that a future political agreement would resolve to having both grievances cancel each other out.

Contrary to what Israeli historians want us to believe, there was no mass exodus of Jews from Arab countries and Iran, but rather a massive campaign orchestrated by Zionist leaders at the time to replace the Palestine Arab population with Jewish immigrants from all over the world. The ways through which such a mission was achieved often involved violent Zionist plots – especially in Iraq.

In fact, the call on Jews to gather in Israel from all corners of the world remains the rally cry for Israeli leaders and their Christian Evangelical supporters – the former wants to ensure a Jewish majority in the state, while the latter is seeking to fulfill a biblical condition for their long-awaited Armageddon.

To hold Arabs and Iran responsible for this bizarre and irresponsible behavior is a transgression on the true history in which neither Gamliel nor her ministry are interested.

On the other hand, and unlike what Israeli military historians often claim, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1947- 48 (and the subsequent purges of the native population that followed in 1967) was a premeditated act of ethnic cleansing and genocide. It has been part of a long-drawn and carefully calculated campaign that, from the very start, served as the main strategy at the heart of the Zionist movement’s ‘vision’ for the Palestinian people.

“We must expel the Arabs and take their place,” wrote Israel’s founder, military leader and first prime minister, David Ben Gurion in a letter to his son, Amos in October 5, 1937. That was over a decade before Plan D – which saw the destruction of the Palestinian homeland at the hands of Ben Gurion’s militias – went into effect.

Palestine “contains vast colonization potential,” he also wrote, “which the Arabs neither need nor are qualified to exploit.”

This clear declaration of a colonial project in Palestine, communicated with the same kind of unmistakable racist insinuations and language that accompanied all western colonial experiences throughout the centuries was not unique to Ben Gurion. He was merely paraphrasing what was, by then, understood to be the crux of the Zionist enterprise in Palestine at the time.

As Palestinian professor Nur Masalha concluded in his book, the ‘Expulsion of the Palestinians’, the idea of the ‘transfer’ – the Zionist term for “ethnic cleansing’ of the Palestinian people – was, and remains, fundamental in the realization of Zionist ambitions in Palestine.

Palestinian Arab “villages inside the Jewish state that resist ‘should be destroyed .. and their inhabitants expelled beyond the borders of the Jewish state,” Masalha wrote quoting the ‘History of the Haganah’ by Yehuda Slutsky. .

What this meant in practice, as delineated by Palestinian historian, Walid Khalidi was the joint targeting by various Jewish militias to systematically attack all population centers in Palestine, without exception.

“By the end of April (1948), the combined Haganah-Irgun offensive had completely encircled (the Palestinian city of) Jaffa, forcing most of the remaining civilians to flee by sea to Gaza or Egypt; many drowned in the process,” Khalidi wrote in ‘Before Their Diaspora’.

This tragedy has eventually grown to affect all Palestinians, everywhere within the borders of their historic homeland. Tens of thousands of refugees joined up with hundreds of thousands more at various dusty trails throughout the country, growing in numbers as they walked further, to finally pitch their tents in areas that, then were meant to be ‘temporary’ refugee encampments. Alas, these became the Palestinian refugee camps of today, starting some 70 years ago.

None of this was accidental. The determination of the early Zionists to establish a ‘national home’ for Jews at the expense of the country’s Palestinian Arab nation was communicated, openly, clearly and repeatedly throughout the formation of early Zionist thoughts, and the translation of those well-articulated ideas into physical reality.

70 years have passed since the Nakba’ – the ‘Catastrophe’ of 1948 – and neither Israel took responsibility for its action, nor Palestinian refugees received any measure of justice, however small or symbolic.

For Israel to be seeking compensation from Arab countries and Iran is a moral travesty, especially as Palestinians refugees continue to languish in refugee camps across Palestine and the Middle East.

Yes, indeed “the time has come to correct the historic injustice,” not of Israel’s alleged ‘pogroms’ carried out by Arabs and Iranians, but the real and most tragic destruction of Palestine and its people.

– Ramzy Baroud is a journalist, author and editor of Palestine Chronicle. His latest book is The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story (Pluto Press, London, 2018). He earned a Ph.D. in Palestine Studies from the University of Exeter and is a Non-Resident Scholar at Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, UCSB.

The Moral Travesty of Israel Seeking Arab, Iranian Money for its Alleged Nakba

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Bunker Busters and Zionists – Or a Tsar Bomba Solution   Phil Butler  Israel has given in to the need to strike out and kill some more people. In the wake of the Barack Obama-style (563 strikes) assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, the IDF has widened its killing past beyond Beirut’s Dahiyeh suburb. Bibi Netanyahu’s forces have now entered Southern Lebanon.   Attacks in Syria and as far afield as Yemen have already taken place, and a much wider conflict is expected. We must begin to factor in the following points if the end of civilization as we know it is to be averted.

The “Go Ahead”

Watching as the world’s scattered wildfires of chaos widen, it’s difficult for many people to come to grips with the fact that God’s “chosen” people were selected for their thirst for blood. As an American who helped defend U.S. interests in the region back in the 1980s, I know now why my conscience bothered me when shipmates would talk about levelling areas in Lebanon and Syria. Our commanders, the news media, and no politician ever pointed out to us that fellow human beings were beneath our bombs and shells. Palestinians, the people of the Middle East as a whole, have been portrayed by our leaders as sub-human, barbarians, and worse in a propaganda effort to dehumanize them. Killing sub-humans, after all, is a lot easier than murdering male, female, and infant Homo sapiens.

Zionists are using Judaism as a shield to allow them impunity

And now the elites make their final play to subjugate not only Israel’s neighbours and foes but all of the rest of us as well. Gaza was the test, you see? If 50,000 trapped men, women, and children in an Israeli-created shooting gallery could be snuffed without a whimper from Americans, the Europeans, the Brits, or those peace-loving Canadians, the green light for wholesale slaughter was flipped on. If Israel is allowed to murder kids from Yemen to Tehran and back, with Washington’s go-ahead, then launching longer-range attacks from Ukraine into Russia won’t be much of a stretch.

Sure, the Russians will probably light up some NATO capital, or Kyiv at least, but we have been prepared perfectly. The average American still believes the people of Israel are chosen by the almighty! Is it just me, or do the rest of you reading this report understand that the Zionists are using Judaism as a shield to allow them impunity? My friends, this has nothing to do with religion. And no, the God we are taught to worship in Sunday school is not smiling on those who blast little kids to pieces so they can build a bigger, shinier, and richer Israel. This is all about conquest.

Is Zionism Fascism?

Short answer: absolutely! (see Revisionist Zionism) Those who own the media and proclaim their Judaism from the rooftops brag about the killing weapons and how wonderful our side is at snuffing people out. Read this Daily Mail advertisement for U.S.-made Bunker Busters (Boeing). Billionaire Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere, owns this influential UK newspaper. (Study the Boston Accounting Group glee club) It’s also interesting that his great-grandfather, Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere, openly supported fascism and heaped praise on Nazi Germany as a member of the British Union of Fascists. He also is credited with creating tabloid journalism, which is what the Western media is today.

Returning to the bloodlust that the IDF is being cheered on for, the sub-headline in POLITICO EU reads, “With his attack on Hezbollah, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking to reshape the Middle East.” However, convenient Bibi may be as a fire starter/destroyer of worlds, his new hatred of Iran is more about America and the Europeans losing ground to the BRICS and the emerging multipolar world. Funny, no one is addressing this point, since the wave of sentiment is to finally steamroll Israel into a parking lot (which it probably should be).

The Persians Want Our Dollars

Iran. Hmm. Don’t believe for an instant the headline from the Financial Times that reads, “Middle East’s power scales tip as Israel senses Iran’s weakness.” Israel, the country, is only a playpiece to be sacrificed in the larger game of the ruling elites in the West. The Zionists and the grandchildren of fascists and Russophobes are striking out because of their own weakened position. Iran and Ukraine are key pressure points or battlegrounds if the current order can survive.

This is the reason for all the “tests” as I call them. These international and domestic experiments govern the next moves on the grand chessboard. From dragging down statues of American heroes to slaughtering unarmed and surrounded Palestinians, what we allow, we condone. Unfortunately for the bloodletters, the green glue that holds the liberal order together, tangible value, is gone.

The Chosen

Some may ask, “How does Israel win in a worldwide conflict?” Well, that’s an easy one. If the current world order is lost, Israel would be done for anyhow. However, if the trillions in debt and the debauchery in Washington, London, Brussels, Paris, and Berlin are concealed by the biggest conflagration since the fall of Rome…. Well, you get the point. We’re broke. The United States and all its allies are in debt beyond any chance of repaying. Japan’s Debt/GDP rate was 261% as of 2022. The United States, the UK, France, Italy, and Canada all had more government debt than gross domestic product. I won’t even talk about Greece, Portugal, and Spain. Germany was the only country with a debt burden less than its GDP (63.4% in 2024). Any guesses as to which significant power has the lowest debt to GDP? (Russia 19.6%).

For further reading, I suggest a short study of the Irgun Tsvai Leumi (Hebrew for National Military Organization) as one of the original terrorist groups of the Middle East. Also, the fact that PM Netanyahu’s father was the secretary of Ze’ev Jabotinsky, the founder of Revisionist Zionism, seems significant since Netanyahu is the linchpin of the Revisionist idea of establishing a Jewish homeland over all of the Land of Israel. So, suppose this can be accomplished by a genocide across the Middle East or in the aftermath of World War 3. In that case, either will suit the only actual terrorist state on the planet—the arsonists, who have sat virtually untouched in the midsts of fires all around. The chosen people over in Palestine, our God-fearing preachers in America, convinced us that we were exceptional. For me, the solution to all the problems in the Middle East cannot be with Boeing company Bunker Buster bombs dropped here or there. The solution may just be a Tsar Bomba detonated over Jerusalem. Oh, no. Only an anti-Semite would utter such a joke.

 

Phil Butler, is a policy investigator and analyst, a political scientist and expert on Eastern Europe, he’s an author of the recent bestseller “Putin’s Praetorians” and other books. He writes exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook

    https://journal-neo.su/2024/10/07/the-threat-of-israels-expanding-war/  

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