Know and Understand The Facts
And Decide For Yourself
What Should Be Done
To Achieve
True Justice and Lasting Peace
When it
comes to the Mideast conflict, the media generally neglects to raise the historical
facts and issues that have led to this unholy mess. Ironically, it would seem
that events of the last century in the Holy Land are considered to be ancient
history. Even if you just read this page without clicking a link, you will
probably be alarmed by what you did not know, and were never told.
* To
clarify and simplify matters, on this page Palestine will refer solely to the
area that was to be partitioned into Jewish and Arab states and an
international zone, as depicted in the image above and as stipulated in the
1922 Churchill White Paper. Please note that the May 1949 refugee data on this
page are conservative estimates by the UN.
The preventable abomination of the Holocaust should forever
remain a stark reminder of how very important it is to always be vigilant for
injustice. Its rhetoric should never be tolerated and sincere compassion should
be universally bestowed upon all of its victims. Human suffering knows no race,
colour, nationality or creed. Above all, absolutely everything necessary should
invariably be done to put an end to injustice. History has shown that dealing
with one iniquity by conveniently committing another iniquity against an
innocent third party is no convenient solution at all, only a guarantee of more
needless suffering, hatred and injustice. There is no peace without justice.
Recommended links pertaining to
the Middle East conflict
The Origin of the Palestine-Israel Conflict (Third
Edition)
A concise document touching base with all the salient issues
Very highly recommended reading
Published by Jews for Justice in The Middle East
A Quick Summary of the
Conflict
The Expulsion of
the Palestinians Re-examined
Israeli historians re-examine the facts.
On November 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly Resolution 181
partition plan is passed with the requisite help of Truman’s extortion of
vulnerable poverty-stricken voting member countries. When asked why he was so
resolved, the US President replied, “I am sorry gentlemen, but I have to answer
to hundreds of thousands who are anxious for the success of Zionism. I do not
have hundreds of thousands of Arabs among my constituents.” Soon after its
passage, Zionist forces began committing indiscriminate shootings, bombings and
massacres in order to terrorize Palestinians from their homes and land. On May
14, 1948, the British mandate ended and Israel declared its statehood, which
the USA immediately recognized. The most infamous massacre codenamed Operation
Unity occurred prior to this, on April 9 in Deir Yassin, an Arab village in the
international zone on the outskirts of Jerusalem. The British were aware of the
ongoing slaughter but did nothing. As expected, this sadistic mass murder of
unarmed civilians, including babies and pregnant women, struck great fear
throughout Arab communities. This was but one of many atrocities that compelled
Palestinians to flee for their lives, as part of the ethnic cleansing operation
codenamed Plan Dalet. In combination with a far greater full-scale forced
removal under the threat of death, Plan D was quite the rousing success for
Zionism. Against international law, Israel blocked Palestinians from returning
to their rightful land and property and razed the large majority of Arab
villages. By May 1949, Israel had created well over 726,000 Palestinian
refugees. After Zionism’s “non-racist” ethnic cleansing, fewer than 133,000
non-Jews were left in Israel. Israel had effectively rid itself of at least 85%
of its Gentile population, the indigenous Arab Palestinian people who for over
1200 years were the vast majority population in the area that became Israel,
and throughout Palestine, until the recent flood of Jewish immigrants in the
few years just before the creation of Israel. By confiscating the land and
property belonging to the killed and displaced Palestinians, Zionism achieved
its dream of a truly Jewish state instead of the UN approved state where almost
half the population was non-Jewish and almost all of the land belonged to
non-Jews. Under the 1948 UN Resolution 194, the Right of Return of
Palestinians, Israel still owes hundreds of billions of dollars in compensation
to the Palestinians because Israel never permitted them to return to their
rightful land and property. Since Israel is unable to pay and unwilling to give
back any of the land unlawfully seized in 1948, the USA and other UN countries
will wind up having to foot the whole bill.
The Arab conquest of Palestine occurred about five centuries
after the Romans decided to expulse the Jews subsequent to Jewish rebellions.
Palestinians have a mixed ancestry since Palestine has been conquered by
various ethnic powers but they are in essence the descendants of the people who
always lived there, long before and long after the Israelites invaded and
departed. Furthermore, the great majority of Jews have absolutely no ancestral
link whatsoever to the land because they actually descend from the Eurasian
Khazars who by royal edict converted en masse to Judaism during the 7th century
AD.
Nazareth was among the towns seized in 1948. As the hometown
of Jesus, Nazareth is obviously of significant religious importance to
Christians. In contrast, Jews, at least those who even knew of Nazareth’s
existence, considered it to be a tiny, insignificant village in Biblical times.
When told by Philip that Jesus was from Nazareth, Nathanael replied, “Nazareth!
Can anything good come from there?” (John 1:46) In an attempt to Judaize
Galilee, the almost exclusively Jewish twin city of Nazareth Illit (Upper
Nazareth) was founded in 1957 on expropriated land immediately beside
predominantly Arab Nazareth. Needless to say, it has been a source of much
conflict, in addition to tensions between Christians and Muslims, which Israel
endeavours to exacerbate. The situation is even worse around East Jerusalem,
Bethlehem and other major towns in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. As of
August 2000, the number of illegal Israeli settlements and land use sites in
the Occupied Palestinian Territories was up to 285 and counting. Despite
international condemnation, Israel continues to unlawfully confiscate land and
demolish Palestinian homes in order to erect these monuments to Zionist
expansionism, which could have been built far more easily within Israel.
Endless checkpoints, permits and restrictions make it extremely difficult for
Palestinians to travel to and fro. While Israeli settlers enjoy green lawns and
bathe in backyard swimming pools, Palestinians struggle for drinking water.
Locating settlers amidst justifiably irate Palestinians hardly seems to
coincide with claims that the occupation is necessary for the security of
Israeli citizens. As for Christianity, Zionism has all but succeeded in
eliminating it. Christians represented about 10% of Palestine’s population in
1918, the year after the Balfour Declaration. Now at the dawn of the 21st
century, the Christian faith has dwindled down to a mere 3% of the combined
population of the Palestinian territories and Israel.
As of June 2000, there were 3,737,494 registered Palestinian
refugees. It is estimated that one quarter of all Palestinian refugees are not
registered, mostly out of pride. This would bring the total number of
Palestinian refugees to about 5 million. The total population of the Occupied
Palestinian Territories was 3.6 million including approximately 360,000 Jewish
settlers. Of registered refugees, 32.4% lived in camps in Lebanon, the Gaza
Strip, Syria, the West Bank and Jordan. While illegal Jewish settlements keep
growing in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, 62.3% of all
registered refugees were forced to live outside the Palestinian territories.
Estimates put the total number of refugees living outside the Palestinian
territories at 3 million. The population density of the Palestinian territories
is already about 600 people per sq km, even without the three million refugees
on the outside looking in. By comparison, Israel’s population density isn’t
even half that amount, at 275 people per sq km. When terrorist attacks occur
against these Israeli government subsidized settlements, it is seldom mentioned
that they exist in violation of Geneva Conventions. Not that terrorism should
ever be condoned, but deliberately taunting an already oppressed people by
continuously robbing them of what little land they have left and bulldozing
their homes does little to dissuade it. As England can attest, Jewish Zionists
were terrorists long before Palestinians. Even after more than 50 years of
existence, 74% of Israel’s Jewish citizens were born outside of Israel, most having
immigrated from the United States and the former Soviet Union. Israel still
does not have a constitution. As a democracy, it would require granting equal
rights to Jews and non-Jews alike, which would contradict current Jewish laws
and policies. It is so sickeningly sad that the US government has been, and
continues to be, so very willing to completely dismiss its own democratic
values and aggravate worldwide anti-American sentiment against its own citizens
in order to financially, politically and militarily support a lawbreaking state
built on terrorism and ethnic cleansing.
Destroyed
Palestinian Villages
Over a month before the founding of Israel and the British withdrawal, Israeli forces started destroying Arab villages. Eight out of thirteen major Zionist military attacks in April 1948 took place within the territory allotted to the Arab state. Upon declaring its statehood, Israel already occupied most Arab cities in Palestine including the Arab quarters in the new international city of Jerusalem and Jaffa in the Arab partition. Israel deliberately instigated the Israeli-Arab war viewing it as an ideal opportunity to expand its boundaries by means of far superior military preparation. Though intermittent fighting had been going on between Zionists and Arabs since December 1947, the armies of the Arab states didn’t enter Palestine until May 15, 1948, the day after Israel declared its statehood. Unsurprisingly, almost all hostilities occurred in the Arab partition. In 1949, the final outcome of the war was that Israel expanded to occupy 77% of Palestine including the larger part of Jerusalem, intended to be international under the UN partition resolution. Gandhi was obviously quite justified in 1946 when he stated, “Why should they depend on American money or British arms for forcing themselves on an unwelcome land? Why should they resort to terrorism to make good their forcible landing in Palestine?” In the destroyed Arab villages, Jewish settlements were built over Palestinian owned land and the original Arabic village names were discarded for Hebrew names. Ultimately, Israel destroyed over 400 villages. In other villages, Israel just got rid of the people and kept the buildings in order for Jewish settlers to move into the homes of the displaced Palestinians. In 1949, a tripartite committee [British/French/Turkish] estimated the value of the expropriated land and property at £1,124,000,000 sterling. Today's value is several hundred billion dollars.
Before the immigration of Zionist colonists began in the 1880’s, native Jews represented less than 5% of the population. In 1917, Britain announced the foolhardy, nonsensical and contradictory Balfour Declaration, favouring “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.” At the time, the Jewish population was only about 9% and their land ownership was a mere 2.5%. Moreover, Palestine didn’t belong to the British, nor did it ever. Britain was essentially reneging on earlier promises to France and the Arabs regarding Palestine. After World War I, the Arab states of the former Ottoman Empire, except for Palestine and Jordan, were granted their independence for having supported and fought for the Allies. In 1922, the League of Nations entrusted the mandate of Palestine to Britain with the clearly written condition that “nothing should be done which might prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine.” By 1947, Jews legally owned only 6.2% of the land in Palestine while their population had ballooned to about 32% due to massive and often illegal immigration. This means that most of the land in today’s Israel actually belongs to Palestinian refugees. This leads back to the question of why did the UN give 56% of the Palestinian territory to Israel when Jews owned only 6.2% of the land and represented only 32% of the population, a great proportion having only just arrived. The result was a Jewish state with the Jews owning less than 10% of the land and nearly half of the population consisting of Arab Christians and Muslims. To make matters worse, the Jewish state included most of the prime agricultural land cultivated by the indigenous Arabic Palestinians for over a millennium. Palestinians depended primarily on agriculture for their livelihood before the Nakba, the catastrophe that were the years 1947 to 1949, from the undemocratic and blatantly corrupt passage of Resolution 181 to the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people to the war. Before and throughout the British mandate, one report after another concluded that all fertile land in Palestine already had crops. After the war, many Palestinian farms were turned into kibbutzim. Many others were just destroyed or paved over since there weren’t enough Israelis interested in becoming farmers. The Charter of the United Nations upholds the principle of self-determination. Clearly, it was ignored.
The Truth about Khazars (the so-called Jews)
There is strong and compelling evidence intimating that the vast majority of today’s Jews are not descendants of the Israelites at all, but of the non-Semitic Khazars whose nomadic central Asian ancestors first invaded farming communities within and around Caucasia circa the 1st century BC. By royal decree of the Khagan, the Khazars converted en masse from paganism to Talmudism during the 7th century AD. This would account for the sudden appearance of large numbers of Jews in the ever expanding Russian Empire and nearby eastern and central European states shortly after the Khazar kingdom had been all but conquered by Mongols and then finished off by Russia. It is historically indisputable that the Khazarian conversion did occur. This is well documented. For instance, a map in The Jewish Encyclopedia depicts the Chazars as Jews inhabiting an area of 800,000 square miles in the 10th century AD. At the time of its mass conversion and throughout most of its existence, Khazaria covered approximately one million square miles, well over a hundred times the current size of Israel. This powerful kingdom was comparable in size to all the continental nations of western and central Europe combined, from Portugal to Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria and Italy. A kingdom of such magnitude doesn’t simply vanish without a trace. Its large lineage surely lives on today. Zionists have always had a vested interest in keeping people in the dark about the Khazarian conversion since it could completely refute their ancestral claims. Ironically, this also infers that while most Palestinians are actual Semites, most Jews are not even descendants of Shem, let alone Jacob. Furthermore, Jews from eastern and central Europe are known as the Ashkenazim, Ashkenazi in singular form. This particular term was likely chosen intentionally to indicate that Ashkenazic Jews are not really Semites. In the Book of Genesis, Ashkenaz was a grandson of Japheth and hence not a Semite. Japheth was a son of Noah and a brother of Shem.
“The main part of Jewry never was in Judea and had never come out of Judea.”
- H.G. Wells, Outline of History
Just to put things in perspective, if millions of Caucasian Christians claimed to be the descendants of Arab Christians, skepticism would be widespread, and quite warranted. Intermarriage between Caucasians and Hebrews would have been far more unlikely since Hebrews looked like Arabs, they rarely married Gentiles and both racism and anti-Semitism have always been rampant throughout history. Why then do the great majority of Jews resemble Caucasians with Asian and Turkish influences? Quite simply, eastern and central European Jews are not descendants of the Israelites, but of the non-Semitic Khazars who became Jews through mass conversion.
Over 1200 years of vast majority population and tenure by the indigenous Arab Palestinians and the fundamental democratic principle of self-determination should have in all justice rendered this entire ancestral issue inconsequential by comparison. At no point in time did the Israelites rule over the entire region of Palestine. The Phoenicians (Canaanites) and Philistines controlled all or most of the Mediterranean coast. The Israel to which Zionists allude, the extended kingdoms of David and Solomon with Jerusalem as the capital, existed only for 73 years before conflicts between tribes over the choice of the next king caused it to fall apart and split in two after the death of King Solomon. Formed by the tribes of Judah and Benjamin with Jerusalem remaining as its capital, the southern kingdom of Judah lasted less than 350 years. Formed by the other ten tribes with Samaria as its capital, the northern kingdom of Israel lasted slightly less than 200 years. United or divided, the Israelite tribes ruled over most of the Palestine region including Jerusalem for less than 275 years. In total, the kingdoms of Israel and Judah existed for less than 450 years, in most or just in part of the region of Palestine, including the 25 years or so when the first king of Israel, Saul, and his successor son, Ish-bosheth, reigned from their respective capitals of Gibeah and Mahanaim while the Jebusites (Canaanites) still held Jerusalem (Jebus). The fall of the longer lasting southern kingdom of Judah occurred over 2500 years ago. It was then deemed that the covenant of the Promised Land between God and the Jews had been fulfilled and then nullified because they did not abide by God’s will and His law but instead had forsaken Him by allowing themselves to be corrupted by lust, power and greed. It should be noted that the Canaanites are among the ancestors of the Palestinians. The Canaanites inhabited Palestine for at least 1800 years before being conquered by the Israelites. As mixed as their ancestry may be, the Palestinians have in essence always inhabited and cultivated this land, long before and long after the Israelites came and went just like many other peoples and empires.
Regardless of the lack of authenticity of most Israelis by Biblical standards, dispossessing the innocent Palestinian people of their home, their land and their livelihood can never be justified. And refusing to acknowledge blatant despoliation, benefiting from it and denying full and equitable restitution is just plain dishonest and criminal, not to mention very undemocratic and downright hypocritical. But abetting the endless oppression of the Palestinian people through the repeated abuse of UN veto power and billions in taxpayers’ hard earned money is truly unconscionable. This behaviour hardly qualifies the United States as an honest broker.
Joshua
and the Conquest of the Promised Land
As explained by an American
rabbi in Jerusalem
In
the Land of Christ, Christianity is Dying
Christians of the world over may have been largely
responsible for the creation of Israel and for billions in financial support of
Israel, but Israel has not shown much appreciation for Christians living in the
Holy Land.
A thoughtful article from
the Cape Cod Times including excerpts from Tom Clancy’s “The Sum of All Fears”
Mahatma Gandhi
Rejected Zionism
A more extensive look at Gandhi’s opposition to Zionism
An overview of the ideology behind Israel
Zionist-Israeli Terrorist
Activities 1939-1974
Zionist terrorist attacks against British soldiers and officials were key in England’s decision to get out of Palestine and hand off its mandate to the UN.
Rabin's
Widow Says Israelis also were Terrorists
Israel's
Sacred Terrorism (Third Edition)
A study based on Moshe Sharett’s personal diary, and other documents
By Livia Rokach, foreword by
Noam Chomsky
Moshe Sharett was Israel’s
first foreign minister.
From Its
Beginning, Israeli Policy Promoted War, Not Peace
Israel never intended to accept non-Jews; ethnic cleansing
was policy from the very start.
Zionist-Israeli
Terrorism and War Crimes
Many terrorists rose to the upper echelons of Israeli politics.
Some
Prevailing Zionist Myths Challenged
Despite having truth and justice on their side, the Palestinians have had little success in delivering their message, particularly in America. On the other hand, Zionists and their supporters have been quite proficient at propaganda and historical dissimulation through far superior media access. Palestinian terrorism has made people even more susceptible to Israeli deception by fostering the misleading portrayal of the primary and overwhelming victims as the instigators and aggressors. Ironically, Zionist terrorism and ethnic cleansing played essential roles in the creation of Israel. The Arabs were not lambs, but they certainly regret not having been much more aggressive and emphatic from the very beginning of the Zionist movement. As pacifist Mahatma Gandhi remarked so appropriately, “As it is, they (Zionists) are co-sharers with the British in despoiling a people who have done no wrong to them. I am not defending the Arab excesses. I wish they had chosen the way of non-violence in resisting what they rightly regard as an unacceptable encroachment upon their country. But according to the accepted canons of right and wrong, nothing can be said against the Arab resistance in the face of overwhelming odds.” Zionist myths seek to justify the unjustifiable. Most can be easily debunked through a little common sense.
Worldwide
Hypocrisy: Immigration and Refugee Policies
America was by far the staunchest and most aggressive supporter of Israel’s creation but it was by no means keen in taking in Jewish immigrants itself. Whereas Zionism and the land policies of the Jewish National Fund gave Palestinians legitimate reasons to fear massive Jewish immigration, the rest of the world’s nations had no such reasons, other than anti-Semitism, and yet their immigration and refugee policies were far more restrictive than those of tiny Palestine. A classic example of this was the “Voyage of the Damned” of the SS St. Louis, a ship full of Jewish refugees that no country in the Americas would accept, not even the United States. In 1917, the Jewish population of Palestine was 9%. By 1947, it had swelled to 32%. No country in the world would ever consider tolerating such a drastic demographic change, especially when the stated intention of the immigrants is to take over the country. Sadly for the Palestinians, it did in fact turn out to be tantamount to knowingly allowing an invasion army into their country.
A Quick Numerical Look at Canada's Hypocrisy
Canada didn’t want Jews but Canada expected tiny Palestine to accept terrific multitudes of Jewish immigrants even though their well-known Zionist goal was to conquer Palestine, which is precisely what they did.
None Is Too Many: Canada's Jewish Immigration Policy
A more extensive look at Canada’s hypocrisy vis-à-vis Jewish immigration
America and the Founding of Israel: An Investigation of the Morality of America's Role
Foremost are Chapter 9: Truman - Part 2; Palestine's Partition, Israel's Statehood, 1947-48 and Chapter 10: Truman - Part 3; The First Israeli-Arab War and its Refugees, 1948-53 since they represent the most significant period in Palestine’s recent history. Section VI of Chapter 9, The UN Vote on Partition, November 1947, is of particular interest because it describes some of the strong-arm tactics that the United States exerted on other countries in order to attain the adoption of the iniquitous partition plan.
UN General Assembly Resolution 181 - Partition Plan, 29 November 1947
The cornerstone of democracy, self-determination, is smashed to bits by US intimidation and incentive tactics when forty-three nations choose to pass the buck and make Palestine pay the price for European atrocities and worldwide hypocrisy. The passage of this resolution was very convenient for many countries. It kept them from having to take in any more Jewish refugees from Europe and at the same time it appeased Zionists among their own constituents backed by much public support and sympathy as Holocaust horrors came to light.
The plight of Palestinian refugees is put into perspective.
The story of a Palestinian refugee as told by his American daughter-in-law
Fighting
the “Soldiers of Occupation”
A worldly British journalist gradually comes to understand Israeli reality – An anecdotal article
UN General Assembly Resolution 194 - The Right of Return of Palestinians
This resolution has been repassed countless times since 1948 but Israel continues to violate it even though Israel owes its very existence to a UN resolution. In order to be granted admission to the UN in 1949, Israel had to promise to comply with this resolution but then reneged on its oath. Israel even refuses to compensate the Palestinians for the unlawfully seized land and property as stipulated in this resolution. That amount is now several hundred billion dollars. Its unwillingness to return any land means that the US and the UN will be required to pay in full on Israel’s behalf. Furthermore, the resolution commences with the United Nations General Assembly expressing its deep appreciation of the late Count Folke Bernadotte, a Swedish UN mediator and renowned saviour of Jews, who was assassinated by Israelis at an improvised roadblock in West Jerusalem on September 17, 1948.
There are many other related issues such as some three million Palestinian refugees currently forced to live outside the Occupied Palestinian Territories and the serious lack of fresh water and fertile land, both absolutely necessary to any realistic means of livelihood for the Palestinians.
The Assassination of Count Bernadotte
UN mediator Count Bernadotte was very sympathetic to Jews but he and his assistant were nonetheless murdered by Israelis simply because he tried to do the right thing.
UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East)
Question of Palestine at the United Nations
UN Division for Palestinian Rights
UN DPR Studies (dated but easier to follow)
UNISPAL (United Nations Information System on the Question of Palestine)
UN Maps Related to the
Question of Palestine
One of many websites by Jews who believe that Zionism conflicts with Torah and Judaism
Cactus48.com
An objective website by American Christians
New Kach Movement (not really recommended)
An example of one of the less subtle Zionist websites