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Arabs & Israel for Beginners

by Ron David

 

 

 

 

from the A.D.C. website/update

click on the above graphic for why A.D.C. calls ARABS & ISRAEL FOR BEGINNERS 

"the one book to read in order to understand the ongoing conflict between Israelis & Palestinians"  

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If I can find the right vision and the words to convey it, maybe I can stop all these beautiful people from killing each other. I'm doing everything in my power to open the sections on Israel and Palestine with something that cuts straight to the heart of the problem.

 

 

 

The Heart of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

I'm not going to beat around the bush or bullshit you.  When you cut away all the crap, there is basically one question at the heart of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.  It's a tough question.  It is, in my opinion, the question that is behind the behavior of people like Ariel Sharon or Meir Kahane.  

Here's the question:  How can Israel look forward to a peaceful future as long as the people they stole their country from live right next door to them?  In my opinion, Israel has no future until it answers that question.  The tough part: neither Israelis nor Diaspora Jews seem to have the guts to even ask that question ... because part of asking it is acknowledging the fact that they stole Palestine from the Palestinian people.

Hey, if you want evasive bullshit English, go to someone else.  I do my best to go straight to the truth and to tell it with such clarity that you can't misunderstand it. 

The problem in all its brutal simplicity is --

How do you live in peace next door to the people

from whom you have stolen EVERYTHING?

 

Since I live in America, and since I wouldn't bother opening my mouth if all I wanted to do was preach to the choir, I'm going to have to spend some time proving that Zionist Jews stole Palestine from the Palestinians.

You heard me right.  I didn't equivocate or tap dance around the issue.  I said straight out that Zionist Jews STOLE Palestine from the Palestinians.  

I have a question for you: How many times have you heard from any TV Talking Head or read in any newspaper (including the one that prints "all the bullshit that's fit to print") that plain, simple, indisputable fact: Zionist Jews STOLE Palestine from the Palestinians?  

I've never heard it, not once, not even from Palestinians. 

That plain simple truth that explains so much -- why do those damn Palestinians refuse to give up or go away or stop fighting?  Why, when all else fails, why are they willing to use their own bodies as weapons?   

They do it because Zionist Jews stole their country, their land, their homes, the lives of their fathers and brothers ... and the truth. 

 

How do I prove to you beyond a reasonable doubt that the Zionist Jews did, without question, steal Palestine from the Palestinians?  By using facts that nobody on either side disputes and asking you to use your common sense or whatever else you judge with.  

Nobody on either side disputes the fact that the great majority of Jews had left the Middle East right around the time of Christ.

Nobody on either side disputes the fact that Jews constituted only about 5% of Palestine's population at the turn of the century.

Nobody on either side disputes the fact that Palestinian Arabs fought on the side of the Allies  in World War I to win their independence from the Ottoman Turks.  Nobody on either side has ever claimed that Zionist Jews fought to help liberate Palestine from the Turks.

Nobody on either side denies that Zionist Jews petitioned U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in 1919 in an attempt to build a "Jewish state" in Palestine.  Nobody on either side disputes the fact that President Wilson dispatched the King-Crane Commission to survey the people who lived in Palestine to ascertain "the will of the people."  Nobody on either side denies that the King-Crane Commission concluded that:

< no more than 60,000 Jews lived in Palestine -- about 10% of the population

< 90% of Palestine's population were non-Jewish and did not want a Jewish state in Palestine

< a Jewish state in Palestine would violate the Palestinian Arabs' right to self- determination 

The Commission recommended that the Zionists respect the wishes of Palestine's inhabitants and find another place to start a Jewish state.

 

The following direct quotes from the King-Crane Commission's report were downright prophetic.  They anticipated almost exactly what would happen if the Zionist Jews went against the will of people and build a Jewish state in Palestine:

< "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."  True.

< "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."  True.

< "No British officer consulted by the Commissioners believed that the Zionist program could be carried out except by force of arms."  STILL true.

< "That itself is evidence of a strong sense of injustice of the Zionist program."  Amen to that!

< "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."  God, I'm glad to hear them say that plain and straight.

The Jewish claim they had a right to Palestine was so preposterous ... let me put it this way: How would you feel if some guy came up to you and said, "God gave me your house.  God gave me the land your ancestors have lived on for hundreds of years."  You would feel, to put it the way us Detroit boys feel it, that he was out of his fucking mind!

God gave him your house!  Anyone who'd say that shit with a straight face belongs in an asylum. 

(I didn't put you there, shithead.  God did.)

Why am I bringing up all that old stuff?

Because what was true in 1919 is still true now.

Not only could "the Zionist program [not] be carried out except by force of arms" in 1919, the Zionist program STILL can't be carried out "except by force of arms." 

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For those would like details, see 

At-a-Glance: How could Israel put a Jewish country on Palestinian land, against the will of the Palestinian people? (at a looong glance)