Israeli Zionism Now

No one can understand the Palestinian vs Israeli conflict today, if they do not understand Zionism - it's history, policy, and methods. Zionism is essentially Jewish nationalism rooted in 19th century racist, colonialist thinking gilded over with a "religious" patina. The policy which the state of Israel is executing today is nothing more than a continuation of that Zionist policy begun in 1897. Listen:

• "We cannot make peace with the Palestinians until we reduce the Population of the West Bank by 50 percent." says Labor's Dr. Ephraim Sneh, a minister in Sharon's Cabinet. (August 2002).
• Approximately 80,000 Palestinians have left the West bank and Gaza Strip since the beginning of the year (August 2002), a rise of 50% compared to last year, says a senior Palestinian authority official. Today, there are over 4,000,000 Palestinian refugees - Palestinians Israeli Zionists drove out of Palestine one way or another during the past one hundred years.
• According to a U.S. government report in 2002, 70% of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza are now living below the poverty line; unemployment has risen to 50% while there are a minimum of 300,000 non-Palestinian foreign workers in Israel. (Unemployment rose to 80% in 2003.) Israel will not let Palestinians leave the occupied territory and go to work in Egypt, where many of them have jobs, or Israel where they had jobs.
• In a 21 month period in 2002 Israel has murdered over 1,450 Palestinians, 240 of them children. Over 23,000 Palestinians have been injured.
• By now 90% of the land in Israel proper is held under: "restrictive land covenants" barring non-Jews, even those with Israeli citizenship from owning the land or from earning a living on it. Yet, according to Israeli law, a Jew from anywhere in the world can come to Israel and automatically be a citizen with the right to own land.
• Israeli Prime Ministers, repeatedly acting against international law, have encouraged more and more Jews to establish illegal settlements in Palestine. Today, while these settlers take up 1.7% of the West Bank, they control 41.9% of the land in the West Bank through a system of Jewish local and regional councils Zionist Israel has set up in Palestine.
• Israel's Labor Party platform in 1984 had the "Four No's" in it: 1) No to a Palestinian state, 2) No negotiation with the P.L.O., 3) No return to the 1967 borders, and 4) No removal of any settlements.
• And now the Israeli Zionists are building an apartheid wall over 451 miles long, 20 feet high, topped with barbed wire, with guard towers every so often to keep the Arab left in Palestine locked in. In America we would call these prison like reservations; in South Africa, Bantustans. Furthermore, throughout the West Bank, Israel has set up over 700 military checkpoints that Palestinians must stop and get permission to cross - even to get to the other side of their village, or their farmland, or to get to their hospital, or to go to school.

The objective of present day Zionist Israeli policy is an intensified version of Jewish Zionist policy used by Theodor Herzl and Ben-Gurion: get rid of the Palestinians from Palestine; their methods are also the same: persecute the Palestinians so they flee, take their land, starve them through unemployment, tear up the territorial integrity of Palestine with Jewish settlements, murder them, and keep the other Middle Eastern nations dysfunctional. This is a state policy of ethnic cleansing - of slow genocide - which ends up establishing Israel as an apartheid state. Zionists have been slowly, patiently, and successfully working at this for over 100 years. Sometimes they have had to take a step back to take two forward but they have never lost their focus. Most want to establish "Greater Israel". By that they mean all of Palestine - PLUS. Many times you will hear Israeli settlers, the Likud party, or other Zionists talk about "Greater Israel". Zionists speak of the occupation of Greater Israel as a right, given to them by God. Below is a map of what the Zionist plan to be "Greater Israel."

Ben-Gurion from the beginning knew that the Jewish Zionists were the aggressors and did not care. He cared only to take the land at any cost - he used diplomacy when it succeeded, deception and lies when needed, and the Haganan (a Zionist terrorist group) when the others failed. Justice was not then and is not now a concern. Sharon is no different today. He is known as the "butcher of Sabra and Shatila" for a reason. Ohmert is no different either.⁸ 

The UN's Mistake: the Creation of Israel

In 1947 the Zionists got Washington to affirm their creeping takeover of Palestine. They won over President Truman, and then with his help the United Nations.

The British who were in charge of Palestine for fifty years thought it impossible to peacefully create two separate nations out of this little piece of land. They recommended to Washington and the world: one federal nation with two states. ⁹ But Truman, a sort of biblical Zionist himself, running for re-election in a close race that needed the Jewish vote, took the Zionist position and said in 1946 that he wanted two separate nations: Israel and Palestine. ¹⁰ In 1946, after WWII, the U.S. was more powerful than Britain.

Jewish lobbying in this country had focused on Truman and succeeded. The Jewish Agency in 1946 raised $100 million annually - money they used to pressure the President and the U.S. Congress. By then American Jews had created a mammoth lobbying machine in Washington that when activated could within days flood Congress with letters, petitions, and campaign finance donations.¹¹

In 1947 there were 1,300,000 Arabs in Palestine along with 560,000 Jews. Over the years Zionists encouraged and financed Jewish immigration to Palestine as they continue to do today. The Nazi's brutal policies of the 1940's, (World War II) also encouraged it.

The 1947 vote in the UN to create Israel out of Palestinian land was 33 countries for, 13 against, and 10 abstentions.¹² Not one Arab or predominately Muslim country voted yes. War was inevitable. And the nations of the UN knew it. The United Nations had made a terrible mistake.

This Palestinian, Arab-Jewish war, in one form or another, has gone on from 1897 until today. The Palestinian intifada and suicide bombers, Hamas and Hezbollah, along with Zionist Israel's tanks and Apache helicopters are just a continuation of it.

Today, American, Zionist Jews continue their lobbying effort by bribing Congress and the President with "campaign donations" and with a strong influence and presence in the American media to force American support for Zionist Israel and its policy of Palestinian annihilation. These American Zionists have hung Israel like an albatross around America's neck. And because they have put Israel first over American interests are bordering on being traitors to America.

Without America's support, financial and diplomatic, Zionism could not succeed. The rest of the world, especially the Arabs, know this and are today holding America and Americans accountable. The many attacks on American interests, including that of September 11th, are manifestations of it.