By Hermit

On the Founding of Israel and the Slow Genocide of Palestinians

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In 1917 there were 690,000 Arabs (Christian and Muslim) compared with 59,000 Jews in Palestine.

Article  22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations stated in part: "To those colonies and territories which as a consequence of the late war have ceased to be under the sovereignty of the States which formerly governed them and which are inhabited by peoples not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world, there should be applied the principle that the well-being and development of such peoples form a sacred trust of civilisation and that securities for the performance of this trust should be embodied in this Covenant."

This "sacred trust of civilisation" was embodied in the British “Mandate for Palestine":

The Preamble of the Mandate was as follows: "Whereas the Principal Allied Powers have agreed, for the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, to entrust to a Mandatory selected by the said Powers the administration of the territory of Palestine, which formerly belonged to the Turkish Empire, within such boundaries as may be fixed by them; and Whereas the Principal Allied Powers have also agreed that the Mandatory should be responsible for putting into effect the declaration originally made on November 2nd, 1917 [the Balfour Declaration], by the Government of His Britannic Majesty, and adopted by the said Powers, in favor of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, it being clearly understood that nothing should be done which might prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country…"

This "sacred trust of civilisation" was adopted by the UN on its formation to replace the League of Nations in Chapter XI, entitled the “Declaration Regarding Non-Self-Governing Territories”, "Members of the United Nations which have or assume responsibilities for the administration of territories whose peoples have not yet attained a full measure of self-government recognize the principle that the interests of the inhabitants of these territories are paramount, and accept as a sacred trust the obligation to promote to the utmost, within the system of international peace and security established by the present Charter, the well-being of the inhabitants of these territories…Which obliterates the claim sometimes made that Palestine did not exist.

On  April 2, 1947, as a direct consequence of Zionist terrorism, Britain requested to relinquish its mandate due to Zionist terrorism. Accordingly, on May 15, 1947 the UN adopted Resolution 106, establishing the U.N. Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) to "submit such proposals as it may consider appropriate for the solution of the problem of Palestine”.

On September 3, UNSCOP issued its report to the General Assembly, explicitly recognizing that it was in violation of the spirit and letter of the mandates,  exceeded the legal authority of the UN, and with a population of 1,203,000 Arabs (65%) who owned some "85 percent of the land” and only and 608,000 Jews (33%, mostly through immigration), who owned less than 7% ran in the face of the wish of the majority and the principle of self-determination, nevertheless recommended that Palestine be partitioned into separate states with an economic union, an Arab state constituting some 45.5% of Palestine, and a Jewish state with 55.5%, with the proviso in Resolution 181 [ Retrieved January 29, 2018.]

10. The Constituent Assembly of each State shall draft a democratic constitution for its State and choose a provisional government to succeed the Provisional Council of Government appointed by the Commission.  The constitutions of the States shall embody chapters 1 and 2 of the Declaration provided for in section C below and include inter alia provisions for: 

(a) Establishing in each State a legislative body elected by universal suffrage and by secret ballot on the basis of proportional representation, and an executive body responsible to the legislature; 

(b) Settling all international disputes in which the State may be involved by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security, and justice, are not endangered; 

(c) Accepting the obligation of the State to refrain in its international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity of political independence of any State, or in any other manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations;

(d) Guaranteeing to all persons equal and non-discriminatory rights in civil, political, economic and religious matters and the enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including freedom of religion, language, speech and publication, education, assembly and association;

(e) Preserving freedom of transit and visit for all residents and citizens of the other State in Palestine and the City of Jerusalem, subject to considerations of national security, provided that each State shall control residence within its borders

It should be noted that contra Israeli claims, this did not establish Israel (that would have been beyond the powers of the UN). The resolution made recommendations, which were voided by the Zionists’ subsequent activities. In any case, even if Israel wished to assert that Resolution 181 did authorize the founding of Israel, the same resolution authorized the founding of Palestine, and the article 10 requirements, every one of which Israel has violated. For a more thorough treatment of this material, I recommend  The Myth of the U.N. Creation of Israel. (2018, January 13). [Retrieved January 29, 2018, from https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2010/10/26/the-myth-of-the-u-n-creation-of-israel/.]

The Arab counterproposal of an independent state of Palestine in which the rights of the Jewish minority would be recognized and respected, and which would afford the Jewish population representation in a democratic government remained on the table when, on the expiry of the mandate, Zionist terrorists, far better armed and trained, and greatly outnumbering any other forces in the region, launched a brutal wave of genocidal attacks on Palestinians across Palestine creating a massive refugee crisis that overwhelmed the region which persists today, in part because the US justifiably insisted that the crisis be resolved by ensuring the Palestinian "Right to Return" when the High Commissioner for Refugees was formed in 1952. 

At this point Israel, the world's only apartheid state, the world's only country without official borders, the world's only country where the US has exercised its security council veto to protect it at least 43 times [http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/42-times-us-has-used-its-veto-power-against-un-resolutions-israel-942194703], the country with the most UN resolutions about its activities [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Nations_resolutions_concerning_Israel] has made a two-state state impossible, by stealing over 90% of the [original] Palestine and most of the Palestinians’ assets.

Worst of all is the impending genocide that Israel, shown above to be an apartheid state, founded in terrorism and supported by a massive theft of land and assets, has made an inevitable consequence, due to Israel having deliberately salinated the aquifers stolen from the Palestinians by over-pumping, repeatedly exceeding the "red line" set by the Israeli water authority marking the point where salination would occur, and importing millions of additional immigrants from the USSR, despite having been warned by its own water authority that the population was already unsustainable. Then, once Israel had established high capacity desalination plants to supply her own needs while turning the Eastern Mediterranean into an aquatic desert with soaring levels of brine, began pumping untreated sewage into the aquifers ensuring that the Palestinians, barred from access to high-technology by Israel, far too poor after decades of being dispossessed, marginalized and terrorized by Israel to be able to pay for desalination, will now be forced to move or die in vast numbers. And Israel will wash its hands, say that it has no part in this genocide, and ask why the Arab nations do not help the Palestinians.

No matter how good the propaganda, some people will know what Israel has planned and how it is being implemented and will speak out. This is why Israel will become a pariah and eventually collapse under the weight of boycotts, disinvestment, and sanctions. Karma, as they say in the classics, is a bitch.

At which point, hopefully, other countries will take in enough Israelis and Palestinians to reduce the population to the sustainable, the huge caches of nuclear, biological, and chemical arms built up by Israel will be safely disposed of, and the Palestinians will have their chance to establish a state in which the rights of all the inhabitants, irrespective of religion, will be recognized and respected, afford the entire remaining Jewish representation in a democratic government.

The alternative is undoubtedly thermonuclear war, the deaths of millions, and perhaps the elimination of mankind in the all but inevitable nuclear winter that will follow.

On Genetics Palestinians and Israel

The original inhabitants of Palestine appear to be the ancestors of the Ugaritic people who eventually became the Canaanites. Parts of the Levant including Palestine were successively ruled by the Canaanites, Amorites, Ancient Egyptians, Israelites, Moabites, Ammonites, Tjeker, Philistines (Aegean Sea People), Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Ancient Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, different dynasties of the Early Muslim period (Umayyads, Abbasids, Seljuqs, Fatimids), Crusaders, Late Muslim dynasties (Ayyubids, Mamluks, Ottoman Turks), the British, Jordanians (1948–1967, on the "West Bank") and Egyptians (in Gaza), and modern Israelis. Between the late bronze age collapse c. 1200 and 1150 BCE and the defeat of the Assyrians by the Babylonians in the Battle of Nineveh in 612 BCE, the Hebrews emerged as an identifiable subgroup of the Canaanites.

Contemporary Palestinian facesAnd of course the Hadid sisters, world-class beauties of Palestinian-Dutch ancestry. 

Gigi and Bella Hadid

Each ruling group resulted in a transfer of slaves, hostages, and Quislings to the territory of the conquerors. In addition, there were significant bulk exiles under the Assyrians, Babylonians, and Romans. The exiles eventually became subsumed in local population groups with large admixtures of southern Europeans in the Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews and other inhabitants of the region in the North African Jewish population. Beta Israel are largely Ethiopian in origin. Meanwhile, "Our recent study of high-resolution microsatellite haplotypes demonstrated that a substantial portion of Y chromosomes of Jews (70%) and of Palestinian Muslim Arabs (82%) belonged to the same chromosome pool." ... "Using BATWING analysis, the median estimate for the start of exponential population growth from an initially constant-size population was 7780 years BP (95% credibility interval = 2780–22856 years BP)" ... "part, or perhaps the majority, of the Moslem Arabs in this country descended from local inhabitants, mainly Christians and Jews, who had converted after the Islamic conquest in the seventh century AD (Shaban 1971; McGraw Donner 1981). These local inhabitants, in turn, were descendants of the core population that had lived in the area for several centuries, some even since prehistoric times (Gil 1992). On the other hand, the ancestors of the great majority of present-day Jews lived outside this region for almost two millennia. Thus, our findings are in good agreement with historical evidence and suggest genetic continuity in both populations despite their long separation and the wide geographic dispersal of Jews." [Nebel, Almut; Filon, Dvora; Weiss, Deborah A; Weale, Michael; Faerman, Marina; Oppenheim, Ariella; Thomas, Mark G (2000). "High-resolution Y chromosome haplotypes of Israeli and Palestinian Arabs reveal geographic substructure and substantial overlap with haplotypes of Jews". Human Genetics. 107 (6): 630–41. Accessed 2019-01-29 at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/tcga/tcgapdf/Nebel-HG-00-IPArabs.pdf], reflecting the fact that unlike modern Israelis, the modern Palestinians are the descendants of the original population of Palestine with low levels of admixture.  Which undoubtedly demolishes the claims that Zionists have a “historical claim” or even a “greater right”  to Palestine than the Palestinians.

On the Biblical claim to Palestine

Far from the so-called bible predating things, we know it is syncretic. We might begin in Genesis with my “Once Upon A Time in Genesis” and we could go on from there to the Noah's Ark fables, borrowed directly from the Sumerian Eridu Genesis, dating to the 17th century BCE (or perhaps an earlier common source). 

And then we might profitably carry on with the fact that the Elohim of the Hebrews (אֱלֹהִים‬ ’ĕlōhîm) were undoubtedly the 70 Yahweh, the children of El, or 'l-h-m found in Ugaritic, and the pantheon of Canaanite gods, also vocalized as "Elohim", and that we find that the Song of Moses parallels the Ugaritic Baal cycle where we read of the "seventy sons of Asherah" each with their nations. 

We might think on the implications of the fact that when camels are used to carry goods, their bones develop thickening, making it easy for even a child to differentiate between the bones of a domesticated camel and a wild one. This wouldn't be relevant except that the archaeologists Erez Ben-Yosef and Lidar Sapir-Hen used radiocarbon dating to date the earliest known domesticated camels in Israel to the last third of the 10th century BCE, centuries too late for all the earlier bible stories including camels supposedly earlier than that anachronistic. 

And we might note that Egyptologists have determined that the Egyptians were not slavers and that those who worked on the pyramids were well fed, housed, and Egyptian. And geneticists say that the Hebrews are Ugaritic Canaanites with none of the Egyptian admixture that would have occurred had large numbers of Hebrews been in Egypt for any time and vice versa. And ceramic experts say that the Egyptian potters learned nothing from the Canaanites and the Canaanites learned nothing from the Egyptians which would be unique in all the history of ceramics if the two cultures had mingled. And archaeologists point out that there was no transfer of art and note that the Canaanite cities became vassals to the Egyptian New Kingdom during Late Bronze Age until the 1178 BCE Battle of Djahy (Canaan) during the wider Bronze Age collapse. And that, aside from the arrival of the Phoenicians in the 1200s, which resulted in observable social restructuring, there are no signs of violent invasion or even of peaceful infiltration of a clearly defined ethnic group from elsewhere until the Assyrians wrested control from the Egyptians in 740 BCE. And philologists say there was no transfer of language in either direction. And graphologists say there was no transfer of textual styles. And biologists say that no large numbers of people wandered around the delicate ecosystem of the Sinai in the past 25,000 years. And so on. Meaning that we know that the story of the so-called Moses with its unlikely parallels with Sargon (the Great) is entirely mythical. Besides, at the times Moses was supposed to have been fleeing Egypt, the Egyptians maintained fortresses in the Sinai and Israel. They didn't need to chase him, they could just wait for him to arrive.

Cecil B. deMille and Chuck Heston notwithstanding, the Red Sea Crossing is pure myth, say the critics. And so is the Egyptian persecution.

Then we could look at the myths of "King David" who parallels Thutmose III, and King Solomon who parallels Amenhotep III, and read for ourselves the parallels between Psalms and the Book of the Dead including, e.g. Psalm 104 and the Hymn to Aten. We might note that at the time Solomon was supposed to have a magnificent empire, Jerusalem had a population of some 200 living in squalid hovels, not really enough people to administrate a tribe, let alone provide and manage his supposed wives and run an empire.

This is just as likely, note modern commentators.

Next we might ponder the fact that the cultures surrounding the Levant were record-keeping civilizations, all of which carefully documented the geography of their world, including the people, habits, agriculture, deities, and preferred trade goods for those far away as well as for their neighbors, and who serially ruled the area. None of them indisputably noted the Hebrews until the conquest of the region by the Assyrians. This suggests that there probably were no Hebrews until about that time. This impression is reinforced by the earliest indisputable records of the Hebrews leaving records of themselves and their gods, at least two of the 70 Yahweh, the sons of El, the Canaanite supreme deity, and their Asherah or consorts in the 850-750 BCE era around Kuntillet Ajrud. 

There are, however, some heavily disputed references on the 1209 BCE Merneptah Stele to bands of homeless wanderers whose seed was utterly destroyed - which biblical maximalists try to claim as a reference to Israel (ysrỉꜣr); and again on the 925 BCE Bubastite Portal where the towns of Rafah (rph), Megiddo (mkdi) and Ajalon (iywrn) were claimed destroyed; and again on the 850 BCE Mesha stele where the destruction of what is alleged to be the "House of David" (BT[*]WD) was recorded; and the 850 BCE Kurkh Monoliths where "A-ha-ab-bu Sir-ila-a-a" argued to be Ahab king of Israel was destroyed. As you can see, outside of the so-called bible, probably syncretically established by the Akkadian priests of Babylon as a tool to help separate the Hebrews from their previous overlords, the Egyptians, bad guys in all their stories, if we accept these alleged references, Israel spent a lot more time being utterly destroyed than doing anything more productive. 

This is why legitimate archaeologists and historians are now largely "biblical minimalists" who reject viewing the so-called bible as anything but myth, and how we have learned more about the Middle East since the replacement of "bible studies" with scientific archeology over the past 5 decades than we achieved in the previous 5 centuries. 

So you might read any of the hundreds of works written on this topic by actual scholars in the last half-a-century. Robert Eisenman, the preeminent authority on the Qumran Community and so-called "Dead Sea Scrolls" is one author worth heeding. The deliberate destruction of documents by christers means that the earliest largely complete so-called "old testament" is the eleventh-century Codex Leningradensis. I have written a brief historical  introduction to the Bible at http://bit.ly/OnTheBible.

On the Historical Claim to the Palestine

The Egyptians referred to some of the occupants of the Levant as peleshet, the migratory people. A description also applied to the ancestors of the Jews if the Victory Stele of Merneptah is taken to refer to Israel. By the 5th Century BCE the historian Herodotus referred to the entire region as Palestine. In the 2nd century CE, Emperor Hadrian crushed the Shimon Bar Kokhba revolt, and restored the earlier name Palaestina. In c. 390CE the imperial province of Syria Palaestina was reorganized into Palaestina Prima, Palaestina Secunda and Palaestina Salutaris. These names continued to be used until the present day, despite blatantly specious propaganda to the reverse put about by Zionists.

Linguistically, and culturally, the people who ultimately became the Jews were a small subset of the Canaanites. The other Canaanites and Philistines did not leave. Instead, they lived in the region continuously, some breeding with people passing through, most of them adopting Christianity or Islam. Today they are called the Palestinians. 

The Egyptians largely controlled the region directly or through the Hittites, until the late bronze age collapse c. 1200-1150 BCE. After a brief interregnum, where smaller local powers thrived, by 935 BCE Assyria began to reorganise, and once more expand outwards, leading to Neo-Assyrian Empire control of the Levant 911-605 BCE, with their conquest of the entire Levant c. 856-732 BCE, followed by the Neo-Babylonian Empire from c605-548 BCE, succeeded by the Achaemenid Empire (539-332 BCE), followed by the Seleucid Empire (312-150 BCE), succeeded by the Romans until long after the Jewish revolts and the expulsion of many Jews from the region. 

All of the cultures of the region maintained extensive records of the regions they controlled, and the people they knew about. In all those records the Hebrews are alleged to be mentioned four times, though not conclusively. Once as a wandering band of homeless people called "I.si.ri.ar", whose "land is laid waste and seed [their grain-store] utterly destroyed" on the Victory Stele of Merneptah c. 1209 BCE. The others are the Mesha Stele 840 BCE referring to "the House of OMRI" describing how Moab defeated Israel, the Tel Dan Stele c. 870–750 BCE, describing how an unnamed king (possibly Hazael) boasts of his victories over the king of Israel and his apparent ally, the king of the "byt[d]wd" (There is no separation between "byt" which might be "house", the "d" is interpolated as the character cannot be read and "wd", claimed to be "David") and the Shalmaneser III Kurkh Monolith 852 BCE which mentions "A-ha-ab-bu Sir-ila-a-a" which some claimed to be a reference to "Ahab of Israel" though it would be the only known reference to "Israel" in the Assyrian and Babylonian records, but more recent scholars have said refer to an unknown but powerful northwest Syrian ruler. If any of these attributions are accurate, "Israel" spent an awful lot of time being defeated and utterly destroyed. If not, it was effectively invisible. Either way, it is a dubious claim to a title.

As for supposed biblical claims, the bible is a work of fiction which I address at https://goo.gl/xxN6XE “On the Bible”. We know that no Jews were dragged off to Egypt as told in Genesis by camel caravans, because the camel was only domesticated as a pack animal in the last third of the 10th century NVE, far too late for "Bereshit" or "Genesis". Nobody left  Egypt and conquer the Levant or part of it, not only because there would be evidence of wars which there is not, but also because if they had, the Egyptians would not have had to chase them, they could have waited for them to arrive. We know that no bunch of wanderers ever meandered from Egypt across the Sinai, to defeat the Canaanites, not only because had any significant number of people wandered around the Sinai supposedly taking years for a hike that can be accomplished in days, especially on the Egyptian post roads, but because trampling on the delicate lichens, which preserve damage for over 7,000 years which would still be visible today. Most importantly, we know this did not happen, because neither the Hebrews nor their ancestors were ever slaves in any large numbers in Egypt (which did not have a slave economy), although they certainly provided mercenaries to the Egyptians.

There are three major genetic groups in the Jews, the Ashkenazi (originating in the Holy Roman Empire, combining Hebrew and Babylonian practices and culture, who settled in Germany and France); Sephardi (originating in Moorish Spain); and Mizrahi (or Middle Eastern) Jewish populations. Only the last has a small number who maintained a presence in the Palestine. According to Ottoman statistics studied by Justin McCarthy, the population of Palestine in the early 19th century was 350,000, in 1860 it was 411,000 and in 1900 about 600,000 of which 94% were Arabs. In 1914 Palestine had a population of 657,000 Muslim Arabs, 81,000 Christian Arabs, and 59,000 Jews.

So in all this time the only period in which the ancestors of the Hebrews can be said to have ruled this region was between 1150 and 732 BCE, a period of some 416 years about 2,700 years ago. Tenuous indeed. The French controlled England as late as 1436, the Indian tribes had the US stolen from them from the 1600s to as late as the 1870s and Poland was a part of the Soviet Union into the 1990s. If Israel's claims to ownership on an historical basis have any weight, then surely England should be returned to France, the US to the Indian tribes and Poland to Russia?

Einstein and 27 other Jewish Leaders Recognize the Nature of Israel in 1948

TO THE EDITORS OF THE NEW YORK TIMES:

New Palestine Party Visit of Menachem Begin and Aims of Political Movement Discussed

Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties.  It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine.

The current visit of Menachem Begin, leader of this party, to the United States is obviously calculated to give the impression of American support for his party in the coming Israeli elections, and to cement political ties with conservative Zionist elements in the United States. Several Americans of national repute have lent their names to welcome his visit.  It is inconceivable that those who oppose fascism throughout the world, if correctly informed as to Mr. Beginâs political record and perspectives, could add their names and support to the movement he represents.

Before irreparable damage is done by way of financial contributions, public manifestations in Beginâs behalf, and the creation in Palestine of the impression that a large segment of America supports Fascist elements in Israel, the American public must be informed as to the record and objectives of Mr. Begin and his movement.

The public avowals of Beginâs party are no guide whatever to its actual character.  Today they speak of freedom, democracy and anti-imperialism, whereas until recently they openly preached the doctrine of the Fascist state.  It is in its actions that the terrorist party betrays its real character; from its past actions we can judge what it may be expected to do in the future.

Attack on Arab Village

A shocking example was their behavior in the Arab village of Deir Yassin.  This village, off the main roads and surrounded by Jewish lands, had taken no part in the war, and had even fought off Arab bands who wanted to use the village as their base.  On April 9 (THE NEW YORK TIMES), terrorist bands attacked this peaceful village, which was not a military objective in the fighting, killed most of its inhabitants÷240 men, women, and children÷and kept a few of them alive to parade as captives through the streets of Jerusalem.  Most of the Jewish community was horrified at the deed, and the Jewish Agency sent a telegram of apology to King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan.  But the terrorists, far from being ashamed of their act, were proud of this massacre, publicized it widely, and invited all the foreign correspondents present in the country to view the heaped corpses and the general havoc at Deir Yassin.

The Deir Yassin incident exemplifies the character and actions of the Freedom Party.

Within the Jewish community they have preached an admixture of ultranationalism, religious mysticism, and racial superiority.  Like other Fascist parties they have been used to break strikes, and have themselves pressed for the destruction of free trade unions.  In their stead they have proposed corporate unions on the Italian Fascist model.

During the last years of sporadic anti-British violence, the IZL and Stern groups inaugurated a reign of terror in the Palestine Jewish community.  Teachers were beaten up for speaking against them, adults were shot for not letting their children join them.  By gangster methods, beatings, window-smashing, and wide-spread robberies, the terrorists intimidated the population and exacted a heavy tribute.

The people of the Freedom Party have had no part in the constructive achievements in Palestine.  They have reclaimed no land, built no settlements, and only detracted from the Jewish defense activity. Their much-publicized immigration endeavors were minute, and devoted mainly to bringing in Fascist compatriots.

Discrepancies Seen

The discrepancies between the bold claims now being made by Begin and his party, and their record of past performance in Palestine bear the imprint of no ordinary political party.  This is the unmistakable stamp of a Fascist party for whom terrorism (against Jews, Arabs, and British alike), and misrepresentation are means, and a "Leader State" is the goal.

In the light of the foregoing considerations, it is imperative that the truth about Mr. Begin and his movement be made known in this country. It is all the more tragic that the top leadership of American Zionism has refused to campaign against Beginâs efforts, or even to expose to its own constituents the dangers to Israel from support to Begin.

The undersigned therefore take this means of publicly presenting a few salient facts concerning Begin and his party; and of urging all concerned not to support this latest manifestation of fascism.

ISIDORE ABRAMOWITZ, HANNAH ARENDT, ABRAHAM BRICK, RABBI JESSURUN CARDOZO, ALBERT EINSTEIN, HERMAN EISEN, M.D., HAYIM FINEMAN, M. GALLEN, M.D., H.H. HARRIS, ZELIG S. HARRIS, SIDNEY HOOK, FRED KARUSH, BRURIA KAUFMAN, IRMA L. LINDHEIM, NACHMAN MAISEL, SEYMOUR MELMAN, MYER D. MENDELSON, M.D., HARRY M. OSLINSKY, SAMUEL PITLICK, FRITZ ROHRLICH, LOUIS P. ROCKER, RUTH SAGIS, ITZHAK SANKOWSKY, I.J. SHOENBERG, SAMUEL SHUMAN, M. SINGER, IRMA WOLFE, STEFAN WOLFE.

New York, Dec. 2, 1948
[Source: https://archive.org/details/AlbertEinsteinLetterToTheNewYorkTimes.December41948]

When a real and final catastrophe should befall us…

On April 9th, 1948, a month before Israel declared independence, just over one hundred residents of Deir Yassin were massacred by members of two militant Zionist groups – Lehi and Irgun – as part of an effort to cleanse the area of its Arab population. The next day, Albert Einstein wrote the following passionate letter to Shepard Rifkin, a New York-based representative of Lehi who had recently written to Einstein in the hope of garnering some high-profile support for the group’s efforts. His belief that Einstein – a man who publicly backed the creation of a Jewish homeland in the British Mandate of Palestine, but by different means – would agree to such a suggestion was clearly misplaced.

Transcript follows. 
Source

Transcript

April 10, 1948
Mr. Shepard Rifkin
Exec.Director
American Friends of the Fighters for the Freedom of Israel
149 Second Ave.
New York 3,N.Y.

Dear Sir:

When a real and final catastrophe should befall us in Palestine the first responsible for it would be the British and the second responsible for it the Terrorist organizations build up from our own ranks.

I am not willing to see anybody associated with those misled and criminal people.

Sincerely yours,

(Signed, ‘A. Einstein’)

Albert Einstein

Refer also: Shlaim Avi (2021-03-01). On British colonialism, antisemitism, and Palestinian rights. Middle East Eye.  https://www.middleeasteye.net/big-story/uk-palestine-israel-policy-balfour-johnson-anitsemitism-colonialism

Raz Adam (2020-10-06). Israel founders were 'thieves', Israeli historian says. Middle East Eye.  https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20201006-israel-founders-were-thieves-israeli-historian-says

NOTES

¹ It should be noted that the "Balfour declaration" was a deal made with Lord Rothschild to bring the US government into WW I on behalf of the British at the height of the war, with all parties exhausted. The "declaration" was actually written by Leo Amery, Secretary of the British War Cabinet and a cryptozionist, and was ultimately ratified with typical British perfidy, as a deliberately meaningless undertaking "His Majesty's government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country."

² On January 22, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson told a joint session of Congress that the United States must remain neutral in World War I to ensure “peace without victory.” Eleven weeks later, on April 2, 1917, he returned to Congress to request a declaration of war against Germany, ratified by Congress on April 6, 1917. What happened in between was that the agreement that preceded the declaration, and Rothschild's successful intervention. Perhaps the first, but definitely not the last time that the USA sacrificed American lives to facilitate the Zionist theft of the Palestine despite the "sacred trust of civilisation" "to promote to the utmost, within the system of international peace and security established by the present Charter, the well-being of the inhabitants of these territories".  You cannot rebut the charges I made, so instead you parrot "talking points" which are blatant lies and distortions, while attacking the person making accurate statements? Are you actually paid to attack people who have studied the history of the Levant, or are you just a wannabe warrior working on your own time? הייעוד שלך אינו להיות לוחם אלא להיות מפגר מזדיין.

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