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I’ve built this section around three
sets of facts that everybody on both sides acknowledges:
1. the
population in Palestine in 1890 before the conflict began;
2. the U.S.
government’s King-Crane Commission report in 1918 (a document that can
be verified by anyone);
3. the 1947-48 United Nations deliberations on
Palestine (also easily verifiable).
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Fact #1—In
1890, 25,000 Jews lived in Palestine.
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1890
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Palestine & most midEast countries petition their Ottoman Turk
rulers to restore their democratic constitution.
Thousands of Jews moved to Palestine to escape pogroms [in
Russia & Romania]. There
was no conflict between Arabs & Jews.
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1896
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Herzl, provoked by the Dreyfuss trial in
France, writes The
Jewish State, arguing that Jews must have a country of
their own. Herzl asks
the Ottoman Sultan for Palestine: no dice! Then he tries the
British—they offer him Uganda!
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1905
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After Russia’s abortive revolution, thousands of Jews move to
Palestine—still no conflict.
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1908
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The Ottoman constitution is restored;
Syria, Lebanon, & Palestine become parliamentary democracies.
Within a few
years, Palestine had 8 newspapers, 21 new
periodicals, 477 schools, etc.—Lebanon & Syria thrived as
well.
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The Zionist strategy for getting Jews to move to Palestine would
surely be considered genocidal if anyone applied it to Jews: The
Zionists pretended that Palestine was an empty desert.
Their ‘recruiting’slogan’ was
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“A country without a people for a people without a
country.”
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Many Jews were so shocked when they
came to Palestine & found it full of people that they spoke
out against the injustice.
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1915
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WW
1: Ottoman Turks back the Germans; the Brits promise the Arabs
independence if they help fight the Turks.
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1916
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5: Hussein declares Arab independence, revolts against Turks;
Palestine & Syria join the fight
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1917
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C. Weizmann, British Zionist, gets Lord Balfour to write a
‘Declaration,’ for ‘the establishment of a national home for
the Jewish people’ that doesn’t ‘prejudice the...rights of
existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine’
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1918
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WW
1 ends; British & French sign the Mudros Armistice, again
promising the Arabs independence
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Somewhere along the line, the
Palestinians notice that the new immigrants, the Zionists, don’t
want to just live in Palestine. They want to own
it. And they want to
throw the Palestinians out. That’s when the conflict starts.
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1918
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Zionists claim that Palestine belongs to them; Palestinians
strongly disagree. U.S.
Prez Woodrow Wilson, thinking democratically, sent the King-Crane
Commission to Palestine to talk to the people.
What they learned was clear & creepy.
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Fact(s) #2
In 1918, 60,000 Jews lived in Palestine—an increase of 240%
since 1890
n 90% of Palestine’s
population was non-Jewish (after
22 years of all-out Zionist efforts, Jews made up only 10% of
Palestine’s population)
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The
Palestinians did NOT want a Jewish state in
Palestine
n Zionists
admitted that, if they were given Palestine, they intended to throw out non-Jews
Source: US
Government, King-Crane Commission report, 1918
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The
King-Crane Commission reported that a Jewish State in Palestine
would violate the Palestinian people’s right to
self-determination—they recommended that the Zionists leave
Palestine alone and find another place to plant
Israel. Some very enlightening quotes from the
King-Crane Commission report:
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"the
erection of a Jewish state cannot be accomplished without the
gravest trespass upon the civil and religious rights of existing
non-Jewish communities in Palestine."
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"The
fact came out repeatedly in the Commission's conference with
Jewish representatives that the Zionists looked forward to a
practically complete dispossession of the present non-Jewish
inhabitants of Palestine."
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"No
British officer consulted by the Commissioners believed that the
Zionist program could be carried out except by force of arms.
That itself is evidence of a strong sense of injustice of the
Zionist program."
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"The
initial claim, often submitted by Zionist representatives, that
they have a 'right' to Palestine, based on an occupation of two
thousand years ago, can hardly be seriously considered."
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1919
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The Covenant of the League of Nations, Article 22: granted
the ”provisional independence of the former Ottoman provinces.”
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1920
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The League of Nations makes England the ‘mandatory’ [temporary
teacher/ruler] of Palestine/Jordan/Iraq
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1920-21
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Anti-Zionist riots convince Brits to support Arabs more, Zionists
less. Brits attribute the riots to their failure to deliver on
“promises of [Arab] independence and to their fear of economic
& political subjugation to the Zionists."
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1928
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Fights at the Wailing Wall (considered the ‘official’
beginning of the ‘conflict’) grow into small wars & cause
hundreds of casualties.
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1930
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Brits issue the Passfield White Paper to clarify once and for all
their position on Palestine, stating: “Arabs have come to see in
Jewish immigration not only a menace to their livlihood but a
possible overlord of the future.”
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1931
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The
Zionists nag the Brits until the Brits rescind the Passfield White
Paper favoring the Arabs
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1933
1934
1935
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30,000 new Jewish immigrants enter Palestine.
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42,000 new Jewish immigrants enter Palestine.
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61,000 new Jewish immigrants enter Palestine.
Palestinians demand the democracy they’d been
promised—AND the right, which every country has, to limit
immigration. The Brits propose a meeting to settle things
peaceably, the Zionists refuse
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1936
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The ‘Arab revolt of 1936-39’:
The death count: 329 Jews; 3,112 Arabs.
As you will see, virtually every violent encounter
between Jews & Arabs results in 10
dead Arabs for every dead Jew.
It’s amazingly consistent.
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1938
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Irgun [Zionist terrorists] kill 76 Arabs by bombing public places;
an Irgun member is arrested by the Brits, the Irgun kill 52 Arabs
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1939
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The Brits limit Jewish immigration to Palestine to 15,000 per
year, so the Irgun terrorists kill another 27 Arabs
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Zionist leader David BenGurion shocks other Jews by
telling the
truth: “...in our political argument abroad, we minimize Arab
opposition to us [but] let us not ignore the truth among
ourselves.” Ben
Gurion said,
“We are the aggressors and they defend themselves.”
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1939
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429,000 Jews live in Palestine, they constitute 28% of
Palestine’s population. The Brits announce that unlimited Jewish
immigration & giving Arab land to Jews is contrary to League
of Nations’ & British promises to Arabs—& that an
independent Palestinian state was probable by 1949! The Zionists were so pissed off that they began aiming
their terrorism at the British.
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WW II
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Even
though Zionism started 40 years before the war and fanatical
Zionists were more concerned with taking over Palestine than with
saving Jews from concentration camps [see Alfred Lilienthal’s The Zionist Connection], no humane person should deny the wrong
done—or the debt owed—to the victims of the Holocaust.
While Hitler was humiliating, robbing, and exterminating
Jews, virtually
every
country in the world was doing nothing.
Less than nothing [see Arthur Morse’s While
Six Million Died]. In
my opinion, the survivors of the Holocaust should have been—and
still should be—treated better than they were, but they should
not have been dumped into Palestine, ignored by the Allies, and
used for Zionist propaganda.
A couple facts you may not know—
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During WW II, 12,000 Palestinians enlisted in the British Army to
fight the Nazis
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Palestine, a country of only 2 million people, accepted more
Jewish refugees than any other country in the world
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1946-47
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After the war U.S. Prez Truman joined the Zionists in demanding
that 100,000 Jews be let into Palestine. The Palestinians said
NO—it was their country. The
U.S. told the Brits to force them; the Brits said NO—so the
Zionists blew up the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 91
Brits & several Jews. The
Brits, sick of it, gave the problem to the newly formed United
Nations.
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1947
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Nov: The UN, pressured by Truman (upcoming election, was groveling for the Jewish vote), met to discuss the fate of
Palestine...
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Facts
#3
In 1947, 678,000 Jews live in Palestine—an increase of 653,000 since 1890
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1,269,000 Palestinian
Arabs live in Palestine
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Palestinians still have
an overwhelming 2-to-1 majority
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Palestinian Arabs own over 90% of the land—Jews own only 7% of the land in Palestine
Source:
United Nations General Assembly report on Palestine, Nov., 1947
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...the
U.N. delegates “provisionally partition” Palestine [they
divide it to see if it’ll work]
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They give the Zionists 55% of Palestine.
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They “give” the Palestinians (who have a 2-to-1 majority
and own 90% of the land) 45% of what was 100% theirs to begin
with—Palestine. ALL the Arab & Islamic countries protest & ask to
query the International Court of Justice on the right of the U.N.
to partition a country against the will of its people, but they
are voted down.
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The Palestinians, taking exception to the fact that they’d been
swindled out of their own country, began fighting.
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1948
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In March (after the election), the US suddenly ‘realizes’ its
affront to democracy & goes on record opposing
the forcible partition of Palestine.
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March 19: The U.S. calls for the suspension of United Nations
efforts to partition Palestine
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March 30: The U.S. calls for an immediate truce and further
discussion by the U.N. General Assembly
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The Zionists ignore the US & the UN and stepped up the
fighting
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April
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Zionist [Irgun] terror squads led by Menachem Begin, massacre 254
women, children, & old men (the young men were working in the
fields) in the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin.
Deir Yassin was one of hundreds of Zionist “land-clearing
operations.”
Zionist “land-clearing operations” were so successful
that 780,000 Palestinians fled their country in terror.
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May
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A few weeks after Deir Yassin, Israel declared
itself a country. (...& the US went on record OPPOSING a
Jewish state in Palestine!)
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May
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The UN appointed Count Bernadotte as mediator between Zionists
& Arabs. Bernadotte
(who had risked his life to save 20,000 Jews from concentration
camps) said that the partition of Palestine was
‘provisional’—a ‘non-binding’ test-run to see if it
would work. Since it
clearly wasn’t working, both parties must return to the UN to
establish where, and IF, the new Jewish country would be.
He also said that IF Zionists were ever given part of
Palestine, human decency dictated that Palestinian refugees be
given two options:
1. They should be allowed to return
to their homes in Palestine at any time in the future
2.
If they chose not to return to Palestine, they should be
compensated
by
the Zionists for all that was taken from them.
In summary: ALL Palestinians, at ANY
time in the future, should have the choice of either Return
or
Compensation.
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With Bernadotte’s war record, it
would be silly to accuse him of antiSemitism.
So the next day the Zionists
murdered him.
It
was common knowledge [NY Times] that the Zionist terrorist group
called The Stern Gang was responsible.
Bernadotte’s murder was ordered by Yitzhak Shamir [who
would later become Prime Minister of Israel].
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1948-49
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The war that followed has been falsified in books & movies [Exodus,
etc.] as a war the Arabs started against the peace-loving Zionists
and in which little David [Zionists] managed, against incredible
odds, to beat Goliath. The
real story is:
1. The Arabs agreed to a three-month truce but the Zionist
‘government’ rejected it by “a slim majority of 6 to 4.”
2. US Army intelligence reported that the
combined Arab forces totaled about 30,000 ill-equipped, poorly
trained men; the Zionist army, over 90,000, outnumbered the Arabs
three-to-one & had modern weapons, including new fighter
planes & bombers. They
said it would be no contest.
And it wasn’t. By the time the war was over, the Zionists had
three-fourths of Palestine.
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1949
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‘Israel’ was admitted to the U.N. in May, 1949.
But there’s an interesting footnote that nobody
mentions...
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U. S. recognition of Israel was
made contingent on Israel’s acceptance of the Palestinians’ right of
Return or Compensation—which Israel still hasn’t granted. So, as of this moment, America has legal grounds for
NOT recognizing the country of Israel.
Notes:
Virtually all of the above info is
covered in detail in Noam Chomsky’s thoroughly documented THE
FATEFUL TRIANGLE.
TAKING
SIDES
by Stephen Green is a great book based entirely on recently unclassified
documents from U.S. Government archives. It covers in detail Israel’s
pre-state period through the 1967 war.
For a real nightmare, see Menachem Begin’s THE
REVOLT, where the psychotic prick brags about the
massacre at Deir Yassin.
I have stressed the
Three Sets of Facts because those
facts, by themselves, prove beyond a doubt that the only thing the
Palestinians are guilty of is being swindled by the Zionists. The King-Crane
Report, by itself, proves the Palestinians' case: they had a huge
majority, they didn’t want a Zionist state & the Zionists had
slimy intentions all along. The UN report alone proves that the Zionists
stole 3/4 of a country they didn’t own.
And the population figures by themselves prove the
Palestinians’ case: 653,000 Jews—an increase of nearly three THOUSAND
percent—moved
into Palestine between 1890 and 1947—and now 4 million Palestinians
live in ‘diaspora.’ Don’t
be conned or misled by ‘red herrings.’ Red Herrings are picky little
details & irrelevant facts tossed in to confuse the real issue and
throw you off the track. Whether
a date was May or June, or an incident wasn’t mentioned or someone
tries to put you on the defensive by bringing up a detail you don’t
know about—nothing can change those revealing population numbers.
Or the King-Crane statistics.
Or the fact that the UN gave away a country against the will of
its people and didn’t have the guts to take it back.
And knowing that, what can change the fact that the real
criminals have blamed their victims?
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