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65 Years Ago
The Green Light for Zionism’s Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
By Alan Hart
March 10, 2013 "Information Clearing House" - I find myself wondering
how many of our present day leaders, President Obama in particular, are
aware of what happened in Palestine on 10 March 65 years ago.
On that day in 1948, two months before Israel’s unilateral declaration
of independence in defiance of the will of the organized international
community as it then was at the UN, Zionism’s in-Palestine political and
military leaders met in Tel Aviv to formally adopt PLAN DALET, the
blueprint with operational military orders for the ethnic cleansing of
Palestine.
They did not and never would refer to the crime they authorised as
ethnic cleansing. Their euphemism for it was “transfer”.
As noted in an excellent anniversary briefing paper by IMEU (the
American-founded Institute for Middle East Understanding), from the
earliest days of modern political Zionism its advocates grappled with
the problem of creating a Jewish majority state in a part of the world
where Palestinian Arabs were the overwhelming majority of the population.
The earliest insider information we have on Zionism’s thinking is from
the diary of Theodor Herzl, the founding father of Zionism’s
colonial-like enterprise. He wrote:
“We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by
procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it
any employment in our own country… expropriation and the removal of the
poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly.”
Those words were committed to paper by Herzl in 1895 but they were not
published (in other words they were suppressed) until 1962.
By August 1937 “transfer” was a discreet but hot topic for discussion at
the 20th Zionist Congress in Zurich, Switzerland. All in attendance were
aware that the process of dispossessing the Palestinian peasants (the
fellahin) mainly by purchasing land from absentee owners had been
underway for years. Referring to this David Ben-Gurion, who would become
Israel’s first prime minister, said:
“You are no doubt aware of the (Jewish National Fund’s) activity in this
respect. Now a transfer of a completely different scope will have to be
carried out. In many parts of the country new settlement will not be
possible without transferring the Arab fellahin…Jewish power (in
Palestine), which grows steadily, will also increase our possibilities
to carry out this transfer on a large scale.”
A year later Ben-Gurion told a meeting of the Jewish Agency that he
supported compulsory transfer. He added:
“I don’t see anything immoral in it.”
In my view that’s a most revealing statement. It tells us – does it not?
– that Ben-Gurion, the Zionist state’s founding father, was a man with
no sense of what was morally right and wrong.
Joseph Weitz was the director of the Jewish National Fund’s Lands
Department which was responsible for acquiring the land for Zionism’s
enterprise in Palestine. One of his diary entries for December 1940
reads as follows:
“There is no way besides transferring the Arabs from here to the
neighbouring countries, and to transfer all of them, save perhaps for
(the Arabs of) Bethlehem, Nazareth and Old Jerusalem. Not one village
must be left, not one (Bedouin) tribe. And only after this transfer will
the country be able to absorb millions of our brothers and the Jewish
problem will cease to exist. There is no other solution.”
Plan Dalet called for:
“Mounting operations against enemy population centres located inside or
near our defensive system in order to prevent them from being used as
bases by an active armed force. These operations can be divided into the
following categories:
“Destruction of villages – setting fire to, blowing up, and planting
mines in the debris – especially those population centres which are
difficult to control continuously.
“Mounting search and control operations according to the following
guidelines: encirclement of the village and conducting a search inside
it. In the event of resistance, the armed force must be destroyed and
the population must be expelled outside the borders of the state.”
Before the Zionist state declared itself to be in existence on 14 May
1948, more than 200 Palestinian villages had already been emptied and
about 175,000 Palestinians were already refugees. Some had fled in fear;
others were expelled by Zionist forces.
The prime fear factor was the slaughter by Zionist terrorists of more
than 100 Palestinian men, women and children at Deir Yassin near
Jerusalem. As Arthur Koestler was to write, the “bloodbath” at Deir
Yassin was “the psychologically decisive factor in the spectacular
exodus of the Arabs from the Holy Land and the creation of the
Palestinian refugee problem.”
It was, however, Menachem Begin, Zionism’s terror master and
subsequently prime minister, who provided the most vivid description of
how well the slaughter at Deir Yassin served Zionism’s cause. In his
book The Revolt, he wrote:
“Panic overwhelmed the Arabs of Eretz Israel. Kolonia village, which had
previously repulsed every attack of the Haganah (the underground Jewish
military organization that became the Israeli Army), was evacuated
overnight and fell without further fighting. Beit-Iksa was also
evacuated. These two places overlooked the road and their fall, together
with the capture of Kastel by the Haganah, made it possible to keep open
the road to Jerusalem. In the rest of the country, too, the Arabs began
to flee in terror, even before they clashed with Jewish forces… The
legend of Deir Yassin helped us in particular in the saving of Tiberias
and the conquest of Haifa… All the Jewish forces proceeded to advance
through Haifa like a knife through butter. The Arabs began fleeing in
panic, shouting ‘Deir Yassin!’”
Three decades later, in an article for The American Zionist, Mordechai
Nisan of the Truman Research Centre of the Hebrew University in
Jerusalem expressed his concern about the failure to understand the
major significance of terrorism in the struggle for Jewish sovereignty.
He wrote: “Without terror it is unlikely that Jewish independence would
have been achieved when it was.”
After the Zionist state declared itself to be in existence, its
government set up an unofficial body known as the “Transfer Committee”.
Its job was to oversee the destruction of Palestinian towns and villages
and/or their repopulation with Jews. The purpose of this Zionist
strategy was to prevent dispossessed Palestinians returning to their homes.
By 1949 more than 400 Palestinian towns and villages had been
systematically destroyed or taken over by Israeli Jews; and at least
750,000 Palestinians were refugees, dispossessed of their land, their
homes and their rights.
In his book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Ilan Pappe, Israel’s
leading “revisionist” (meaning honest) historian, documents in detail
Zionism’s systematic reign of terror which, from December 1947 to
January 1949, included 31 massacres. (Deir Yassin was only the first).
In a videoed conversation with me in 2008, which can be viewed in the
Hart of the Matter series on my site (www.alanhart.net), Ilan said this:
“Probably more surprising than anything else was not the silence of the
world as Zionist ethnic cleansing was taking place in Palestine, but the
silence of the Jews in Palestine. They knew what had happened to Jews in
Nazi Europe, and some might even have seen it for themselves, yet they
had no scruples in doing almost the same thing to the Palestinians.”
On this 65th anniversary of the authorization of the ethnic cleaning of
Palestine, the questions I would like to see put to our leaders today,
President Obama in particular, are the following:
Are you aware of Plan Dalet?
If not, why not?
If you are aware of it, could it not said be said that your refusal to
call and hold Zionism to account for its crimes makes you (and your
predecessors) complicit in those crimes by default?
lan Hart has been engaged with events in the Middle East and their
global consequences and terrifying implications – the possibility of a
Clash of Civilisations, Judeo-Christian v Islamic, and, along the way,
another great turning against the Jews – for nearly 40 years… Alan is
author of "Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews" - http://www.alanhart.net
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Robert Luis Rabello
Adventure for Your Mind
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Meet the People video:
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Crisis video:
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