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In the last week or so there have suddenly appeared in
misc.activism.progressive numerous propaganda articles
for Israel and Zionism from the "PNEWS" list run by
Hank Roth ("the golem"). This material is the very
opposite of progressive.
The origin of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is simply
that from 1948 through the present time, millions of Jewish
immigrants entered Palestine and expelled the inhabitants
by military force from their cities and villages, taking their
homes and land, and killing many thousands of them.
The Nazi holocaust in Europe did not confer upon the Jews
any moral right whatsoever to treat the Palestinians similarly
to the way the Nazis had treated them.
And the text in their Torah/Bible that someone wrote saying
that their diety "gave" them this land does not give them
any moral right either to attack, rob, expel, and kill the people
who were already living there.
The websites below show that Palestine had about 700,000
inhabitants in 1918, of which only 8% were Jews. Many
of the Palestinians were farmers, and even early Zionists
who visited Palestine before 1900 to investigate it as a
possible location for a Jewish state reported that all the
arable land was already in use by the people who lived
there, for growing grain, fruits, and vegetables, much
of it for export.
This is not a symmetrical situation. The Israelis attacked
the Palestinians, who had been living peacefully and doing
no harm to anyone. The Palestinians then tried to fight
back to regain their homes and freedom, but were totally
overmatched by the Israelis' military weapons of mass
murder -- tanks, jet fighters, helicopter gunships, rockets,
cluster bombs, etc., supplied by the tens of billions of
dollars worth by the United States.
Israel has been practicing state racism, terrorism and
mass murder for 53 years. The propaganda for Israel from
PNEWS is totally anti-progressive! Why is it being
approved by the m.a.p moderators?
http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Palestine-Remembered/Story414.html
http://www.palestineremembered.com/ZionistFAQ.html
http://www.palestineremembered.com
http://www.palestine-net.com/history
http://www.palestine-net.com
This one is by Jews. Click on the "History" link.
http://www.nimn.org
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