“Freedom! Justice!” Demand of Generations of Palestinians Will Not Be Denied All That Much Longer

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Hamas fighters during a ceremony in Gaza, 2014.

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Israelis are very proud of their Biblical God given cry and order, 'Let My People Go,' but never seem to accept, nor hear, nor acknowledge, that 'Let Us Have Our Freedom' be the imagined cry of generations of captive Palestinians suffering Israel's merciless, and very often deadly, illegal military occupation.

Israeli government policies have consistently made Israel's intentions seem to be something like 'We Will Keep These People Captive While We Take Their Land As Ours Piece by Piece,' and 'Get These People Gone the sooner the better.'[1].

'I, Me Mine' or this case, 'We Us Ours' is a phrase that comes to this writer's mind when considering Israel's intentions regarding the land of Palestinians, and most certainly no consideration whatever for the 'They Them Theirs' of Palestinians.[1]

Since the event of October 7, 2023, CIA overseen Western media [2] has up to now made little or no mention that Hamas is fighting against the decades-long Israeli military occupation of Palestine land and Israel's sealing off the population of Gaza from the outside world. Little or no mention is made of Hamas fighting for Palestinian freedom and independence. CIA controlled Western media [} does not wish to admit that one side is fighting for freedom and justice when going overboard in massacring, while the other side is fighting to keep its captives imprisoned (and vulnerable to the colonization of their land) as it has gone beyond sane behavior and massacred thousands of children, women and men with the weapons and warplanes the USA has provided, while cutting off all electricity, fuel, food and water.

During the same period of time, Israel has made it clear that it aims to completely destroy Hamas, both its military and its government of Gaza.
Although Israel's Prime Minister leaves the question of the future of Gaza aside for now, it is noteworthy that the future of the West Bank and East Jerusalem goes unmentioned in media as if there is no change expected despite its present long occupation by Israel, which for years has been colonizing the West Bank with Israeli settlements now containing a total of some million and a half settlers. For both Israel and the US, the strategy continues to be Israel’s domination and subjugation of the Palestinian people and theft of their land and resources.

Is it conceivable that Israeli military power can defeat the Palestinian fight for freedom and justice, which Hamas seems to have instilled anew in the minds and hearts of a substantial segment of the Palestinian population since winning a huge majority in the 2006 parliamentary election in both the West Bank and Gaza with Palestinian voters rejecting the long-time rule of the Fatah movement? (The subsequent collaboration of Fatah with UK secret services and the US CIA in fomenting a bloody civil war against Hamas, has been for some time an 'open secret' for Palestinians.'[3]

Will Netanyahu (now criticized for having once supported Hamas in order to divide Palestinian solidarity for a Palestinian state [4]) retain power for himself and rescue and protect the Israeli state's status quo by killing thousands more Palestinian children, destroying their homes and starving to death even more thousands?

Hardly imaginable. Netanyahu defending his now internationally condemned mega genocidal collective punishment rained down upon Gaza with outrageous allegations, such as the story of Hamas “beheading 40 babies‘ and repeated gruesome tales of Hamas terror, a good deal of which Israeli Hebrew newspapers have debunked [5], will eventually no longer wash.

Too many people remember as do Palestinians that the state of Israel was founded in 1948 by the most reprehensible Israeli massacres of Palestinians in order to ethnic cleanse British misgoverned Palestine of its 2 to 1 Arab majority by Israelis owning only 7% and constituting only 1/3 of its population.

Israel condemning Hamas terror is like 'the kettle calling the pot black.] On December 4, 1948, Albert Einstein condemned the macabre Israeli massacre at the Arab village of Deir Yassin and warned against supporting Fascism in Israel in a letter to the New York Times signed by other prominent Jews

If he tries to keep to his genocidal agenda, will Netanyahu not alienate even Israel's  closest allies, who will be needing to protect their own public projected honorable images?

Hamas is demanding an independent Palestinian state, one that, according to its 2017 manifesto, would at the very least include the land Palestinians held in 1967, and include Jerusalem, and the right of return.[6]

What shall the hundreds of times wealthier state of Israel be offering Palestinians remains a mystery. Could it possibly be further bondage and poverty? How many Israelis see or sense and are ashamed of the similarity between Israel's persecution and treatment of Palestinians and their own past persecution and treatment under the Nazis? Will these conscience bound Israelis not begin to clash with their fellow citizens who are gung-ho fanatic for a bible based 'Greater Israel' encompassing and swallowing up even more than just the Palestinian lands?[1]

As humanity's majority in the world's southern hemisphere begins to become aware of its power and influence in today's modern changing world, could it spell trouble for the apartheid nature of Israel and Israel's dependence on, relationship with, and support from, the still all powerful USA/NATO, which is now for the first time being internally discussed and questioned because of the international embarrassment of having too long continued to support the inhuman and genocidal excesses of Israel's war in Gaza? -

 A  'war?' against one's own long ago captured and surrounded population of Israeli's former Arab neighbors in British ruled Palestine imprisoned on their own but less than half smaller land. A 'war?' In which there is little or no reporting of militaries clashing with each other, but lots of reporting of tens thousands of dead and maimed women and children, of tens of thousands of their homes destroyed often with family members buried underneath the ruble.

Maybe it's time to go back and recall when, how and why this intractable murderous violence in Palestine began.


The Israeli Merkava tank is one of the biggest in the world. Hamas fighters are destroying them almost with their bare hands, although in some cases they are able to use the Russian-made Kornet anti-tank weapon.


In November of 1946, American power over an incipient United Nations of only 56 nations, produced a genocidal stratagem of torching the Holy Land with a phony, never expected nor intended to be implemented resolution for a crazy quilt partition [7] of Palestine meant to immediately provoke a civil war prepared for and expected by the Colonial Powers supported revisionist Zionists leadership and their terrorist groups the Irgun Zvai Leumi (National Military Organization) and Lehi or the Stern Gang - ultimately led by future Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.

(The vote for partition was approved with 25 in favor versus 32 against, abstaining or absent)

If the reader would like to read Albert Einstein's commentary on events in Palestine from 1923 through 1948 please read on.

More than a year before this civil war producing vote, Albert Einstein made headlines in the New York Times, EINSTEIN URGES UNITED NATIONS RUN PALESTINE, February 15, 1946

A government in Palestine under the UN’s direct control and a constitution assuring Jews’ and Arab’ security against being outvoted by each other would solve the Jewish-Arab difficulties.” [8]

During the debate of two UN plans for Palestine, Egyptian delegate Fawzi noted

an aim to establish military bases for the benefit of Powers that wanted to gain a strong hold in the oil rich Middle East,”

Fawzi had asked for an advisory opinion on the legal issues from the International Court of Justice.  His delegation denied that the General Assembly had any power to decree the partition of Palestine, and described the partition plan as “shameless illegality,” contrary to the principle of self-determination for the overwhelming majority of the people of Palestine.

If the alternate UN plan for an independent and democratic Palestine had not been suffocated by colonial power politicking, Jews would have had access to the entire Mandate of Palestine. With all the intellectual prowess that immigrating Jews were bringing as engineers, doctors, scientists and workers knowledgeable in advanced technology, and the international financial connections available to their leaders, both sides might have opted to stay mixed, legislating a great degree of regard for cultural, religious distinctions that would see Jews sharing economic social benefits with Arabs in a Israel-Palestine smack in a sea of Arab nations accepting a Jewish lead in the affairs of a prospering single unique mixed Jewish-Arab state. The culturally rich Ladino culture in Muslim ruled Spain comes to mind.


BELOW: A 2014 view of Hamas underground tunnels in Gaza. Note the report in by Reuters, a media asset controlled by the US Empire.

How welcomed by all the concerned world would freedom and justice for Palestinians be!

It is to be expected that Israel will try to continue to deny freedom and independence and justice, even dignity, for Palestinians by continuing to delay acceptance of any kind of two state arrangement. But, a single democratic state might even become to be preferable to Israel's having to remove the Israeli settlers from the West Bank, and having to tolerate a still belligerent Arab population on its border and along its Mediterranean shore. The homeland Jewishness within a wisely negotiated new Israel-Palestine state could continue alongside or interspersed within a Muslim population equally at home in a Middle East of Islamic religion.

In 1927, in “The Jews and Palestine, “ in  About Zionism, Einstein wrote referring to his experience during his 1923 visit,

“At no time did I get the impression that the Arab problem might threaten the development of the Palestine project. I believe rather that, among the working classes especially, Jew and Arab on the whole get on excellently together.”

Albert Einstein writing in regard to his joy in participating in fund raising for a Hebrew University there.

“I firmly believe that the Jews, given the smallness and  dependence of their colony in Palestine, will be immune from the folly of power.” (Einstein Letter to Maurice Solovine, March 8, 1921)

Four months later Einstein tempered his joy with his first apprehension about Zionist organizing.

“I am very glad to have followed Weizmann’s invitation. In several places, however, a high-tensioned Jewish nationalism shows itself that threatens to degenerate into intolerance and bigotry, but hopefully this is only an infantile disorder.” (Einstein Letter to Paul Ehrenfest, June18, 1921)

After Einstein’s stay in Palestine in 1923, he had written in his ‘My Impressions of Palestine’ article for New Palestine Magazine,

“A remarkable tribute to the real power of Palestine is the fact that the Jewish elements which have been resident in the country for decades stand distinctly higher, both in the matter of culture and in their display of energy, than those elements which have only recently arrived.”

(An observation that would reflect itself as a Revisionist conquering attitude eventually replaced the original Labor Zionists international socialist philosophy, which was shared by Einstein.)

 I have myself seen more than once insurance of friendly relations between Jewish and Arab workers. I believe that most of the difficulty comes from the intellectuals and, at that, not from the Arab intellectual alone.” Einstein, Albert,“My Impression of Palestine,” in New Palestine Magazine February 3rd 1928.  Published by The Zionist Organization of America.

Two years later, Einstein said he would not remain associated with the Zionist movement unless it tried to make peace with the Arabs, in deed as well as in word.

“The Jews should form committees with the Arab peasants and workers, and not try to negotiate only with the leaders.” Clark, Ronald W., Einstein: The Life and Times, (William Morrow & Company) p.482, citing Norman Bentwich, My 77 years, (NY: Jewish Publication Society) p.99

Interestingly, Einstein never wavered from expressing confidence in Arab-Jewish peaceful and cooperative co-existence even after the horrific Arab massacre of Jews at Hebron and other places in August of 1929.

On November 25, 1929, Einstein wrote to Chaim Weizmann – the future first President of Israel – stating:

“If we do not succeed in finding the path of honest cooperation and coming to terms with the Arabs, we will not have learned anything from our two thousand year old ordeal and will deserve the fate which will beset us.”  (“Einstein and Germany – Physics Today,” [Letter to Chaim Weizmann, 29 November. 1929, in the Weizmann Archives; Einstein on Peace, Schocken, New York (1960), p. 25.)

Einstein, a strong and outspoken socialist, (see his ‘Why Socialism?’[9]) followed the progress of Jewish settlement in the British Mandate, and when, in the 1930s, international socialist Zionism came under pressure from the political right, he wrote,

“Under the guise of nationalist propaganda Revisionism seeks to support the destructive speculation in land; it seeks to exploit the people and deprive them of their rights,” in JEWISH-ARAB AMITY URGED BY EINSTEIN, New York Times. April 20, 1935

Quoting below perceptive writings of Albert Einstein during the morphing of a Zionism that had begun as Cultural and International Socialist Labor Zionism into its domination by Revisionist Zionism and some militant terrorist Zionism. In 1938, the Irgun instituted a wave of bombings against Arab crowds. *(The Irgun was a Zionist paramilitary organization that operated in Mandate Palestine between 1931 and 1948.)

In August 1945, Einstein was publicly sharply critical of the Jewish underground paramilitary groups, such as the Irgun and the Stern Group. In his words,

“I regard it [the Irgun] as a disaster. I am not willing to see anyone associated with those misled and criminal people.” (letter to Shepard Rifkin)


EXODUS, Paul Newman, 1960. Hollywood has always been 100% pro-Israel. The blockbuster Exodus (1960), based on Leon Uris melodrama about the Exodus, carrying 600 Jews from Cyprus to Palestine, glorified the Zionist cause. Paul Newman and an A-list cast plus Otto Preminger's direction gave the film far more credibility (and box office success) than it deserved.


In an Address by Einstein at the Manhattan Opera House to the National Labor Committee for Palestine, on January 11, 1946, Einstein spoke of what he saw as the basic human problem in Palestine, namely, colonialism, British Empire colonialism

“I wish to explain why I believe the difficulties in Palestine exist.  First, the difficulties between the Jews and Arabs are artificially created, and are created by the English…Of course the English had two interests. First was to have raw materials for their industry. Also the oil in those countries. I find everywhere there are big landowners who are exploiters of that race of people. …The British are always in a passive alliance with those land-possessing owners which suppress the work of the people in the different trades. It is my impression that Palestine is a kind of small model of India… Now how can I explain otherwise that national troublemaking is a British enterprise? I believe that the Palestinian people, under severe influence of the United Nations, will be able to create a better state of affairs. But with the British rule as it is, I believe it is impossible to find a real remedy…The state idea is not according to my heart. I cannot understand why it is needed. It is connected to many difficulties and a narrow-mindedness. I believe it is bad.… If people are united with each other and they come to the idea that they do not need the foreign rule, then they want to make themselves independent.”

Einstein Hits British Rule Testifying before the AngloAmerican inquiry commission on Palestine Jewish Telegraphic Agency WASHINGTON January 18, 1946.

Prof. Albert Einstein charges that British colonial rule was responsible for the trouble between the Arabs and Jews. Accuses Great Britain Of Double Dealing.” Prof. Albert Einstein, testifying before the Anglo-American Inquiry Commission, said he was against a Jewish State…He urged, however, that the bulk of the Jewish refugees in Europe be brought to Palestine. Emphasizing that he believes there will be no peace between Jews and Arabs as long as the British rule Palestine, Prof. Einstein charged Britain with violating the basic responsibilities undertaken in the Balfour Declaration. Asked by British members of the committee whether the Americans should take over Palestine from the British, Prof. Einstein replied that the administration of Palestine should be international. He emphasized that he holds Americans responsible for what the British are doing in Palestine.

"Difficulties between Jews and Arabs were largely artificially created by the British," Einstein declared.

He criticized the British colonial policy as based on the principle of “divide and rule,” and charged the British administration with using the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem to foment trouble. Queried by Dr. Frank Aydelotte, one of the American members of the committee, as to what he would do if Arabs resisted the immigration of Jews from Europe into Palestine, Prof. Einstein replied,

“this will not be the case if they are not incited.”

Questioned by Dr. Aydelotte concerning political versus cultural Zionism, he stated:

“I was never for a political state.”

A few days later, Einstein again made his position clear,

“I am in favor of Palestine being developed as a Jewish Homeland but not as a separate state. It seems to me a matter of simple common sense that we cannot ask to be given political rule over Palestine where two thirds of the population are not Jewish.” (Letter to Maurice Dunay, January 19, 1946)

November 1946

With the announcement of the partition resolution, the Jewish and Arab communities of British Mandate Palestine immediately began to clash in violence.  After the partition resolution, the British, again unilaterally, brought the date of the end of its mandate forward to May 14.

Britain announced that it would accept the partition plan, but refused to enforce it, arguing it was not accepted by the Arabs. Britain also refused to share the administration of Palestine with the UN Palestine Commission during the transitional period, and requested the UN Palestine Commission not to enter Palestine until two weeks before the British withdrawal.

The UN General Assembly by its charter was and still is only granted the power to make recommendations, therefore, UN General Assembly Resolution 181 was actually not legally binding, but there was no significant expression of doubt about the de facto power of the UN resolution and its having torched Palestine.

Supposedly in response to the civil war already raging, or making it look like in response, President Harry S. Truman made a statement on 25 March proposing UN trusteeship rather than partition. This dissimulating statement, clearly so woefully belated, to have any effect, by a US president who had overseen all his administration’s threats and arm twisting machinations to accrue the votes needed for the passing of the partition resolution which brought the deadly violence about, must be seen as pure window dressing – a pretending that a civil war had not been contemplated by the plainly absurd UN resolution, plan,

The British decided in early February 1948 to support the annexation of the Arab part of Palestine by Transjordan.

As the last British were leaving on May 14 ending the Mandate, in Tel Aviv, Jewish Agency Chairman David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the State of Israel comprising 73% of Palestine for 33% of its people.

Letter to the New York Times, December 4, 1948, from Albert Einstein and other prominent Jews, warning of Zionist Facism In Israel, denouncing Menachem Begin, a future prime minister of Israel and his Irgun's horrific massacre of a peaceful Arab village.

Complete text with all the names of those who signed it. From Letters to the Editor, New York Times, December 4, 1948

“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. Begin’s 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 Begin’’s 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 Begin’’s 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 Begin’’s 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.”

(signed) Albert Einstein and twenty-seven other prominent Jews [10] in New York, Dec. 2, 1948

In spite of Einstein’s efforts, the Palestinians Arabs, while still suffering British military occupation as a colony since the end of the First World War, became re-colonized after the Second World War by another group of Europeans through a genocidal civil war openly planned and provoked by Anglo-American machinations.

Ever since then, Israel has been in bed with the Military Industrial Complex of a US business elite that once heavily invested in Hitler, was itself anti-Semitic in outlook and coldly indifferent and even complicit during the Holocaust its investments had made possible.

The U.S., via military aid between 1950 and 2022, has provided Israel with over 70,000 weapons — aircraft, ground vehicles, missiles and bombs — , of which a considerable amount has been used according to an Axios analysis of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

"I think it's a safe assumption to say that U.S. weapons are being used extensively in the current Israeli operations in Gaza," (a U.S. arms transfer expert at the Stimson Center, told Time Magazine, November 3, 2023)

Yes, and the U.S. weapons, as so often in the past, are indiscriminately killing and maiming thousands of Palestinians, who by international law are wards of the illegal occupying State of Israel. However, this time a large enough part of humanity in this age of instant world wide communication is outraged enough to bring about a larger confrontation, and a somewhat consequential moral defeat for the White nations' 'Rules Based International Order,' for their seventy years of support of Israeli crimes against humanity.

That is to say if Hamas has forced Israel into perpetrating unacceptable crimes against humanity, while not stopping Hamas from continuing to fire rockets into Israel, then Hamas has already won the current confrontation and won in the name of freedom and justice for Palestinians.

Present circumstances might lead to the present State of Israel suffering future options that now are still thought of as intolerable.

In 1991, the famous violinist Yehudi Menuhin, had advised:

The only solution is keep intact the territory and create a federated union, allow people to live where they were, together, apart, schools apart or together – what ever they want – with Jerusalem capital of both like Bern is the capital of German Switzerland and French Switzerland and each president is there for a year and no one knows his name – that is the only solution, otherwise there’ll always be war.” —Yehudi Menuhin in 1991

These are not the words and sentiments of an accusing Iranian President Ahmadinejad, or of a defiant Hezbollah, Hamas or other Palestinian spokesperson, but the words of a sensitive, soft spoken, internationally beloved and Israeli prize awarded musician whose very given name, Yehudi, means “the Jew” in Hebrew, his first language.

Menuhin, who died in 1999, had insisted that a single federated state “is the the only solution possible,” echoing the statements of Albert Einstein, Martin Buber, Eric Fromm and so many other Jewish intellectuals and a good many orthodox rabbis who had warned against partition before it became a fact more than seventy-seven years ago.

If Menuhin was right that a single federated state is the only possible solution, then it would seem to be just a matter of time before those who presently wield power, or those who follow them, come around to effecting its realization – strict interpretations of religious fanatics, of nationalist Zionism and U.S. foreign policy goals notwithstanding.

End Notes

  1. Nov 5, 2023 — Rabbi at Israeli Military Training Base Says 'Whole Country' Is 'Ours,' Including Gaza and Lebanon - Israel News - haaretz.com.
  2. “Worldwide Propaganda Network Built by the C.I.A,” December 26, 1977, New York Times

3.  "Israel, US, and Egypt back Fatah's fight against Hamas" Archived October 26, 2010, at the Wayback Machine, Christian Science Monitor, 25 May 2007)

The Presidential Guard of Mahmoud Abbas was enlarged and equipped, and its members trained by the US, Egypt and Jordan. The US had helped build up the Presidential Guard to 3,500 men since August 2006. The US committed $59 million for training and non-lethal equipment for the Presidential Guard, and persuaded Arab allies to fund the purchase of further weapons. Israel, too, allowed light arms to flow to members of the Presidential Guard. Jordan and Egypt hosted at least two battalions for training. Institute for Strategic Studies, Volume 13, Issue 5; June 2007

4.  Many accuse Netanyahu of deliberately empowering the Hamas for decades as part of a strategy to sabotage a two-state solution based on the principle of land for peace.

"There's been a lot of criticism of Netanyahu in Israel for instating a policy for many years of strengthening Hamas and keeping Gaza on the brink while weakening the Palestinian Authority," said Mairav Zonszein of the International Crisis Group. CBC News, 10/28/2023

5.  A report in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz has said that Israel Defense Forces (IDF) combat helicopter that engaged Hamas fighters at the Nova music festival near the Kibbutz Re’im during the Oct 7 attack hit festival participants as well. The Hebrew-language Haaretz newspaper article published on 20 October quotes a kibbutz resident survivor trembling as he spoke of Israeli Defense Force shelling houses with all their occupants inside in order to eliminate the terrorists. Photos show that only the heavy munitions of the Israeli army could have destroyed residential homes in this manner. Yasmin Porat, another survivor from Kibbutz Be’eri, said in an interview for an Israeli radio-show, hosted by state-broadcaster Kan, that Israeli forces “eliminated everyone, including the hostages,” going on to state that “there was very, very heavy crossfire” and even noted tank shelling.
Israel’s fleet of Hermes 450 “Zik” armed drones carried out attacks on Israeli military bases, settlements, and civilians during the Hamas attack on 7 October, according to a 14 November report from Mishpacha Magazine.

6. Wilson Center article: Doctrine of Hamas, October 20, 2023

7. UN Map of proposed partition.                                          
https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-208958/

8. New York Times of February 15, 1946

9. "Why Socialism?" By Albert Einstein, Monthly Review

10. 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, SYMOUR MELMAN, MYER D. MENDELSON, M.D., HARRY M. ORLINSKY, SAMUEL PITLICK, FRITZ ROHRLICH, LOUIS P. ROCKER, RUTH SAGER, ITZHAK SANKOWSKY, I.J. SCHOENBERG, SAMUEL SHUMAN, M. ZNGER, IRMA WOLPE, STEFAN WOLPE


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Mao's and Xi's opinions of the CR

With his educational reforms underway, Mao next addressed peasants’ health:

Tell the Ministry of Public Health that it only works for fifteen percent of the population and that this fifteen percent is mainly composed of urban gentlemen, while the broad masses of the peasants get no medical treatment: they have no doctors and they have no medicine. The Ministry is not a Ministry of Public Health for the people, so why not change its name to the Ministry of Urban Health, of Gentlemen’s Health, or even to the Ministry of Urban Gentlemen’s Health? The methods of medical examination and treatment currently used by hospitals are not at all appropriate for the countryside and the way doctors are trained only benefits the cities. Yet in China over five hundred million of our people are peasants. Medical education must be reformed. It will be enough to give three years’ training to graduates from higher primary schools. They can then study and raise their standards, mainly through practice. If this kind of doctor is sent down to the countryside–even if they haven’t much talent–they will be better than the current quacks and witch doctors, and the villagers can afford to keep them”.

His Rural Cooperative Medical System trained Barefoot Doctors – who lived in their villages all their lives and were available day and night – to administer vaccinations, demonstrate correct handling of pesticides, introduce new sanitation methods and, by teaching nutrition and child care, cut infant and maternal mortality in half. Urban doctors, now required to tour the countryside, provided free treatment and trained promising barefoot doctors at urban hospitals. By the end of 1976, every village in China had a clinic and the death rate had fallen by 18%. Thanks to the US National Institutes of Health, A Barefoot Doctor’s Manual is still in print.

The Little Red Book

Finally, Mao turned to politics, insisting that true democracy requires financial equality, “For democracy to work for the betterment of all, all must be empowered and there can be no privileged class”. In the manual of his advice on democratic activism, The Little Red Book, he told them how to go about it:

  • Pay attention to uniting and working with comrades who differ with you. This should be borne in mind both in the localities and in the army and applies to relations with people outside the Party. We have come together from every corner of the country and should be good at uniting in our work not only with comrades who hold the same views as we but also with those who hold different views.

  • Guard against arrogance. For anyone in a leading position, this is a matter of principle and an important condition for maintaining unity. Even those who have made no serious mistakes and have achieved very great success in their work should not be arrogant. In the political life of our people, how should right be distinguished from wrong in one’s words and actions?

  • On the basis of the principles of our Constitution, the will of the overwhelming majority of our people and the common political positions which have been proclaimed on various occasions by our political parties and groups, we consider that, broadly speaking, the criteria should be as follows:

  • Words and actions should help to unite, and not divide, the people of our various nationalities.

  • They should be beneficial, and not harmful, to socialist transformation and socialist construction.

  • They should help to consolidate, and not undermine or weaken, the people’s democratic dictatorship.

  • They should help to consolidate, and not undermine or weaken, democratic centralism.

  • They should help to strengthen, and not discard or weaken, the leadership of the Communist Party.

  • They should be beneficial, not harmful, to international socialist unity and the unity of the peace-loving people of the world. It is necessary to criticize people’s shortcomings but, in doing so, we must truly take the stand of the people and speak out of wholehearted eagerness to protect and educate them.

  • To treat comrades like enemies is to take the stance of the enemy.

New rules for the ruling class

Officials who remained at their post spent the next ten years living in ordinary houses, sending their children to local schools and bicycling to work. Peasants elected village leaders who worked in the fields for three hundred days a year and county officials who spent two hundred days working beside them.

To dramatize their empowerment, Mao promoted peasant ‘Red expert,’ Chen Yonggu, to Minister of Agriculture. Chen spread best practices through cooperative networks and The New York Times, reported⁠ the 1974 visit of American agronomists, quoting Nobelist Norman Borlaug, “You had to look hard to find a bad field. Everything was green and nice everywhere we traveled. I felt the progress had been much more remarkable than I expected”.

Plant geneticist and father of the Green Revolution, Sterling Wortman, the delegation’s leader, described the rice crop, “Really first rate. There was just field after field that was as good as anything you can see. They’re all being brought up to the level of skills of the best people. They all share the available inputs”. Wortman’s Green Revolution was just then lowering world grain prices, destroying millions of small farms, ruining farmers and communities throughout the developing world, causing millions of suicides and creating vast shanty towns that persist in to this day.

Mao compared this misguided development to the USSR’s centralized model of industrialization which, during its development dash, had located gigantic cement and fertilizer plants in cities and built expensive highways to deliver their products to the countryside. China, Mao insisted, would build small plants locally, save money and create local jobs. The peasants would exploit use the surplus labor created by Wortman’s technology to man local industrial enterprises and learn skills without leaving their communities.

Teams constructed 1,500 chemical fertilizer plants and thousands of farm machinery factories and the economy grew 58% during the decade, faster than Germany’s and Japan’s development phases.

Journalist Sidney Rittenberg recalled the transformation in their collective consciousness, “Nobody locked their doors. The banks–there was a local bank branch on many, many corners–the door was wide open, the currency was stacked up on the table in plain sight of the door, there were no guards and they never had a bank robbery. Never”.

The Arts

Rural participation in the arts rose. Short stories, poetry, paintings and sculpture, music and dance flowered and, in place of old court dramas, revolutionary works in opera and ballet–some of which have entered the international canon–emphasized workers’ and peasants’ resistance to oppression. In a play from the time, If I Were Genuine, a peasant youth disguises himself as a general’s son to get privileged treatment, free theatre tickets and an apartment from officials hoping to win the general’s favor. Arrested, he refused to admit guilt, saying that his only fault was not having a real general for a father because, if his father were a general, everything he did would have been legitimate. The play was produced uncensored on TV and became a national favorite.

Mobo Gao describes⁠ the impact on peasant culture, “The rural villagers, for the first time, organized theater troupes and put on performances that incorporated the contents and structure of the eight model Peking operas with local language and music. The villagers not only entertained themselves but also learned how to read and write by getting into the texts and plays. And they organized sports meets and held matches with other villages. All these activities gave the villagers an opportunity to meet, communicate, fall in love, and gave them a sense of discipline and organization and created a public sphere where meetings and communications went beyond the traditional household and village clans. This had never happened before and has never happened since”.

In response to peasants’ demands, Mao suspended college entrance examinations and called for high school graduates to work at least two years in a factory, the countryside or the army to become eligible for college entrance. In 1973 the academic test was dropped and students were selected by fellow workers and peasants based on their work performance and, later, graduates were required to return to serve the communities that had sent them.

Revolution’s end

China did not have the luxury of endless social experimentation, and government officials did not have superhuman endurance. The grievances and antagonisms Mao’s reforms unleashed often took on lives of their own and many eruptions were local, with groups making demands in apparently unrelated contexts, including millennial clan quarrels. Some rebels began questioning the existing political order and the combination of disorder caused by mass activism below and leadership power conflicts above created a genuine political crisis that Mao decided to tactfully neutralize and resolutely resolve.

Counterrevolution

Upon Mao’s death Deng Xiaoping, scion of an elite family, dissolved the communes, clinics, and schools and, despite fierce resistance, forced peasants back to small producers’ status.

His Reform and Opening, says Orville Schell, “Rammed Chinese society into reverse gear, stampeding the country into a form of unregulated capitalism that made the US and Europe seem almost socialist by comparison”. A new generation of illiterate peasants, particularly women, emerged. Life expectancy fell as poverty, prostitution, drug trafficking and addiction, the sale of women and children, petty crime, organized crime, official corruption, pollution, racketeering, and profiteering returned. Mao’s frazzled successors set about destroying most of the Cultural Revolution’s gains, says Dongping Han:...


In 1966, when the Cultural Revolution started, there were many illiterate people in my village. My mother never went to school and my father had learned how to read and write simple words by attending night school in his factory. My elder sister had only three years of primary school education. In my neighborhood, many children who were a few years older than I either never went to school or dropped out after one or two years of primary school. Not many people finished primary school, and only a few went as far as junior high school in my village. During the educational reforms of the Cultural Revolution, my village set up its own primary school and hired its own teachers. Every child in the village could go to the village school free of charge. My village also set up a junior middle school with six other villages. Every child could go to this joint village middle school free of charge and without passing any examinations. The commune that included my village set up two high schools. About 70 percent of school-age children in the commune went to these high schools free of charge and without passing any screening tests. All my siblings except my elder sister, who was four years older than I, were able to finish high school. At the time we did not feel this was extraordinary at all. Most people took going to high school for granted. Upon graduation from high school, I went back to my village like everybody else, and worked on the collective farm for one year and then worked in the village factory for three more years before going to college in the spring of 1978.

While I was in college the Cultural Revolution, together with its educational reform, was denounced by the government. Deng Xiaoping, the paramount Chinese leader then, said that schools should be like schools. The implication was: the rural schools set up during the Cultural Revolution educational reforms were not like real schools..

Ten years later, in 1986, while teaching at Zhengzhou University, I was involved in a research project in rural Henan with a group of American historians and political scientists. The presence of foreigners in a rural village attracted a big crowd of children of different ages. Out of curiosity I asked some children to read some newspaper headlines. One after another they shook their heads. I thought they were simply shy, but other children explained that they were not in school. To my dismay, it was the same story everywhere that we went. I asked people why this happened. They told me that since the collectives were broken up and land was divided among individual households village schools were no longer free. Some families could not afford to send their children to school. Others needed their children to help in the fields. Girls were among the first to be sacrificed, as they were assigned to household chores and to take care of younger siblings: their parents were more reluctant to invest in their futures than in those of their brothers.

Rural children’s loss of educational opportunities shocked me and forced me to think. The government attributed the lack of educational opportunities to the poverty of Chinese rural areas. However, I reached a different conclusion. It was not poverty that deprived the rural children of educational opportunities. Poverty is only a relative term. Why were the children of villagers able to finish high school during the Cultural Revolution? China’s rural areas were poorer then than now.

Cautiously, and skeptically, I began to appreciate the significance of rural educational reforms during the Cultural Revolution. I myself am a product of these reforms. As an educator I found it hard to remain indifferent to the sad consequences of the condemnation of the rural educational reform of the Cultural Revolution years. I asked myself many questions and decided to study the issue. However, I could not do the research in China then because the Chinese government did not allow research related to the Cultural Revolution.

In 1990, I came to study in the History Department at the University of Vermont for my master’s degree. I decided to write my thesis on the Cultural Revolution. I felt that there was a need to go beneath the surface structure of the events that occurred at that time. After I entered the doctoral program in political science at Brandeis University I was able to return to China a number of times to research in depth the evolution and consequences of educational policy in the country where I grew up. As I began to investigate the education reforms of the Cultural Revolution, I came to understand that they were integrally linked with a comprehensive program of rural development. I broadened the scope of my study to include the changes in rural political culture and efforts to advance agriculture and develop rural industry that were initiated during the Cultural Revolution decade. I conclude, based on the evidence I present in this book, that educational reform, changes in political culture and rural economic development were closely linked. –The Unknown Cultural Revolution: Life and Change in a Chinese Village.


Years later, at the height of a government campaign to delegitimize the Cultural Revolution, 75% of survey respondents confessed to feeling nostalgia for those heady days. Even President Xi, whose family suffered more than most, would only say, “It was emotional. It was a mood. When the ideals of the Cultural Revolution couldn’t be realized, it proved an illusion”.

Asked later about which accomplishments he was proudest of, Mao answered, “The war, of course, and the Cultural Revolution”.


Postscript


The CIA’s operational analysis of its Tiananmen Square campaign attributed its failure to spark violence to ‘the difficulty of mobilizing young activists in the desired direction due to lack of strong polarizations in Chinese society’.

Chinese analysts attributed the lack of strong polarizations in Chinese society to Mao’s ten-year Cultural Revolution, because it taught everyone how to deal with strong polarizations in Chinese society.


ABOUT GODFREE ROBERTS
I've been visiting China since 1967 and following its rising fortunes ever since. After receiving my doctorate from UMass, Amherst, I moved to Chiang Mai, Thailand, an hour from the Chinese border, and began trying to understand the country's phenomenal success. The result is a book, "Why China Leads the World: Talent at the Top, Data in the Middle, Democracy at the Bottom," the only book in English that explains why China works so well, and why 95% of Chinese think it's heading in the right direction. 'Talent at the Top' means that only the brightest, most honest and idealistic people are admitted to politics–a policy they have not changed in 2200 years. 'Data in the Middle' means that every policy is tested, implemented, tracked, and optimized based on terabytes of data. The PRC is the world's largest consumer of public surveys.  'Democracy at the Bottom' means that ordinary people have the last say on everything. 3,000 honest amateurs from across the country assemble twice a year to check the stats and sign off on new legislation. Policies need a minimum of 66% popular support to become law. That's why 95% of Chinese say the country is on the right track.


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USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. Iran is not impressed.


Notwithstanding the abundant evidence to the contrary that has emerged over the past several years, most westerners, and Americans in particular, continue to deride Iran as a backward nation of mindless fanatics.

The idea that Iran could pose any credible threat to the American military, its incomparable weaponry, and its mighty warriors ... well, it is dismissed as an absurd notion by almost anyone sufficiently pretentious to speak authoritatively of such things — most of whom could not come within 1000 miles of locating Iran on an unmarked world map.

Few understand what it means to be among the few extant "civilizational powers" — nations such as Iran, China, and Russia — that have somehow managed to retain for millennia both their ancestral geographical integrity and cultural cohesion.

Iran is indisputably the most underestimated of the “civilizational powers”. This is partly a byproduct of recency bias, given that the people the Greeks popularized as “Persians” have recently passed through a civilizational nadir of sorts.

But Iran (the ancient name of the region — The Land of the Aryans) has been rapidly ascendant in recent times, accelerating in the 21st century, and has now become the dominant power in the Persian Gulf region.

Iranians are an intelligent, resourceful, and justifiably proud people with a long and impressive history.



Nasir al-Mulk Mosque, Shiraz, Iran


They had been subjected to various forms of western hegemony for many years, against which they decisively rebelled in the late 1970s. Then they became the target of a western proxy war for most of the next decade. But having defeated Saddam Hussein’s Iraq at great cost, Iran began in the 1990s to rebuild with a focus on developing asymmetrical means to defend itself against the seemingly invincible American military juggernaut.

And now, at the end of a quarter-century of concerted effort and impressive ingenuity, Iran has made itself into a missile and drone power, capable of not only defending itself against local air and naval threats, but also of projecting potent strike power far beyond its own borders.


Iranian Missiles


It has now been almost five years since an Iranian domestically produced S-300 variant anti-aircraft missile shot down what was theretofore believed to be a largely invulnerable American RQ-4 surveillance drone.



American RQ-4 Intelligence / Reconnaissance Drone

For those who still entertain doubts about Iranian missile capability, I strongly recommend viewing the video of a portion of the Ayn al-Asad attack contained in the link below.



Iranian Missile Attack on American Ayn al-Asad Airbase
Also: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/03/01/al-asad-missile-attack-nearly-killed-150-us-troops-destroyed-30-aircraft-report.html
Editor's Note: Even mainstream media eventually took note:


Bear in mind that the Iranians chivalrously gave the Americans several hours advance notice of the strike in order to minimize human losses. And despite the generous advance warning, US air defenses were incapable of interdicting the attack.

Of course, many will reflexively reply, “Yeah, but that was against static targets. They could never hit an aircraft carrier cruising in the Persian Gulf.”

To which I reply, “Underestimate Iran at your peril.”


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The above clip was captured from an ABC World News report, (Dec 1, 2023).

The barbaric Israeli bombardment of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, with US and EU backing, has finally proved too much for hundreds of millions of people across the world, including people in the benighted West, who are seeing, for the first time, what is usually hidden or distorted about the true workings of the US empire and its complicit client states, such as Israel.


This clip by a US TV network (ABC News), normally a stalwart propaganda asset for the status quo, like the rest of its ilk, shows a civilian population under attack by the cowardly Israeli Air Force, with the consequent indiscriminate death and suffering of untold victims—women, children, animals, and the horrid chaos that such attacks always create. This clip (similar reporting is appearing on other mainstream media) is by no means unbiased, nor is it even good (it still fails to provide the vital historical context), but it is a damn sight better than what these entities have been serving the Western public literally for generations, making the current tragedy inevitable. Maybe the Palestinian genocide, paid with the blood of countless innocents, has finally punctured the West's disinformation bubble. If so, it may have opened the road to real liberation for this extremely heroic people, and much of the rest of humanity.


What prompted this departure from the cynical censorship approach we still see applied to Ukraine?

Probably a combination of things, powerful enough to even break ranks—to some extent— with Israel's elaborate and ubiquitous lying machine.  Basically, the crimes are so huge and depraved that the Western media could not simply ignore them or put them through the usual disinformation massage. They would have lost the last shred of credibility they retain after practically a century of "reporting" on the world through the lens of the oligarchs. Furthermore, the internet (which could not be shut down entirely at this point) and other social media technologies, including the ubiquitous smart phones, were supplying rivers of images and text to platforms outside the US/EU/NATO's power to suppress. For another, the Arab/Islamic world itself now has its own information platforms (Qatar's Al-Jazeera, Iran's PressTV, Hezbollah's Al-Manar, etc.) all of which are beginning to reach significant audiences, while often collaborating with growing media in Russia, China, Venezuela, Cuba and other sovereign nations, in addition to seeing their materials reproduced in thousands of non-commercial anti-imperialist websites around the world.

The preceding to simply remind our audience that humanity is engaged in an epochal battle of communications that the rising multipolar, sovereigntist anti-imperialist side cannot afford to lose. Let humanity NEVER forget that it was the corporate media, the corrupt mass communications system owned by criminals, billionaires and oligarchs (I'm repeating myself!), that helped lay the groundwork for Israel’s Genocide in Gaza, as well as the massive human tragedy we witness in Ukraine. 

The "Western press"—primarily US media—is so appallingly bad that even journalistic teams inside Israel itself, a half-demented, corrupt state, are able to come up with better examples of vital information, even in the midst of a fascist fanatical war, than the bought mediocrities "bringing the news" to American homes every day. Do you doubt it? Just think of this. In this very segment, clipped by TGP from a longer (but still pitifully inadequate) segment on the Israel aggression on Gaza, there is passing mention of the immensely important fact that Israel's leaders were informed way in advance that Hamas was indeed planning an assault in the near future. I'm almost certain this datum flew over the heads of about 99% of the US public. Nor was there much interest at ABC in the fact that the Israeli leadership had planned an air campaign on Gaza with all the deliberate precision of a certifiable psychopath on an exterminating mission.  Read it all here, with stunning images, thanks to the folks at +972 Magazine, journalists who define themselves as fighting apartheid :

‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza

Permissive airstrikes on non-military targets and the use of an artificial intelligence system have enabled the Israeli army to carry out its deadliest war on Gaza, a +972 and Local Call investigation reveals.

So yea, the pathetic Western TV networks and other legacy media, social media, etc, have a long way to go to qualify as moderately useful, let alone honorable. Their complete control by plutocratic cliques and intel assets beholden to the capitalist/imperialist system makes their conversion to supporting genuine democracy and service to the people a virtual chimera. This means that the US population—along with other publics throughout the West—will have to regain and defend their information space, their mental sovereignty, from those who deviously captured it: the international 0.01% and their flunkies in all spheres of pseudo-democratic power.


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