A His­to­ry of Zion­ism and Its Ide­o­log­i­cal Roots

Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi

Intro­duc­tion

This arti­cle was writ­ten to pro­vide a schol­ar­ly analy­sis on the ide­ol­o­gy of Zion­ism, its ori­gins and pur­pose, as well as its past achieve­ments” in hav­ing suc­cess­ful­ly dis­placed thou­sands of Pales­tini­ans who sud­den­ly lost their home­land to this group of ter­ror­ists. We seek to con­front and expose the true nature of the ide­ol­o­gy of Zion­ism, often tout­ed as Jew­ish nation­al­ism”. Can Zion­ism be equat­ed with the Jews and Judaism ? Is Zion­ism whol­ly ground­ed on reli­gious grounds as the Zion­ist them­selves try to claim, or just anoth­er name for the sec­u­lar and/​or racist ide­olo­gies that we have seen in the last cen­tu­ry in the likes of Nazism, Fas­cism and Apartheid ? These are the fruits of our research on the Israeli-Pales­tin­ian con­flict, and we leave it to the read­er to form their own con­clu­sions and decide whether Zion­ism should be right­ful­ly con­front­ed and opposed, or otherwise.

The Ori­gins of Zionism

Tyran­ny is always weak­ness”, said James R. Low­ell, and tyran­ny con­sti­tutes the fun­da­men­tal imple­men­ta­tions of Zion­ism. Con­trary to com­mon belief, Zion­ism first emerged as a sec­u­lar ide­ol­o­gy in the 19th cen­tu­ry. Under Zion­ism”, the Ency­clo­pe­dia Bri­tan­ni­ca (Vol. 12, 1990, p. 922) states that :

…Zion­ism orig­i­nat­ed in East­ern and Cen­tral Europe in the lat­ter part of the 19th century.

This is fur­ther col­lab­o­rat­ed by Sier­ra Ref­er­ence Ency­clo­pe­dia (Col­lier’s, 1995), when it states under Zion­ism” that :

ZIONISM, a Jew­ish nation­al move­ment, which had as its objec­tive the recon­sti­tu­tion of an inde­pen­dent Jew­ish life in Pales­tine, the ancient home­land of the Jews. Zion­ism was root­ed in the tra­di­tion­al attach­ment of Jews to their home­land. This feel­ing was strength­ened when the polit­i­cal eman­ci­pa­tion of Jew­ish com­mu­ni­ties in West­ern Europe in the 19th cen­tu­ry and their assim­i­la­tion of Euro­pean cul­ture failed to gain them accep­tance. The move­ment was giv­en urgency by new waves of anti-Semi­tism in Europe in the late 19th cen­tu­ry, par­tic­u­lar­ly the pogroms in Rus­sia, and by the geno­ci­dal poli­cies of Hitler’s Ger­many in the 1930’s and 1940’s. The Zion­ist move­ment achieved its aim with the found­ing of Israel in 1948

Theodor Her­zl was an Jew­ish-Aus­tri­an jour­nal­ist large­ly cred­it­ed with being the Father of Zion­ism”, just as Karl Marx and Hitler were cred­it­ed with being the fathers of Com­mu­nism and Nazism respec­tive­ly. Theodor Her­zl’s book Der Juden­stat (The Jew­ish State), clear­ly stat­ed that a future Jew­ish state should not build upon democ­ra­cy, and in fact sug­gests that it should be built upon dic­ta­tor­ship. This is con­trary to the Zion­ist cries of Israel being the only democ­ra­cy in the Mid­dle East”.

We read that :

Peo­ple are not fit for democ­ra­cy, and will no be so in future either. Sane and mature poli­cies are not the prod­uct of par­lia­men­tary insti­tu­tions. Per­son­al­i­ties, which are the prod­uct of forces of his­to­ry, best rep­re­sent the wish­es of the peo­ple and safe­guard the inter­ests and secu­ri­ty of the state. It is these per­son­al­i­ties and not peo­ple who are born to rule and it is their will which should ulti­mate­ly pre­vail. Theodor Hert­zl, The Jew­ish State, p. 69

A pub­li­ca­tion issued by the Zion­ist Orga­ni­za­tion in Lon­don wrote that :

Democ­ra­cy in Amer­i­can too com­mon­ly means major­i­ty rule with­out regard to diver­si­ties of types or stages of civ­i­liza­tion or dif­fer­ences of qual­i­ty. Democ­ra­cy in that sense has been called the melt­ing pot in which that quan­ti­ta­tive­ly less­er is assim­i­lat­ed into quan­ti­ta­tive­ly greater. This doubt­less is nat­ur­al in Amer­i­ca, and works on the whole very well. But if Amer­i­can idea were applied as an Amer­i­can admin­is­tra­tion might apply it to Pales­tine, what would hap­pen ? The numer­i­cal major­i­ty in Pales­tine today is [Pales­tin­ian] Arab, not Jew­ish. Qual­i­ta­tive­ly, it is a sim­ple fact that the Jews are now pre­dom­i­nant in Pales­tine, and giv­en prop­er con­di­tions they will be pre­dom­i­nant quan­ti­ta­tive­ly also in a gen­er­a­tion or two. But if the crude arith­meti­cal con­cep­tion of democ­ra­cy were to be applied now, or at some ear­ly stage in the future to Pales­tin­ian con­di­tions, the major­i­ty that would rule would be the Arab major­i­ty, and the task of estab­lish­ing and devel­op­ing a great Jew­ish Pales­tine would be infi­nite­ly more dif­fi­cult. The prob­lem at the heart of the Zion­ist claim was rarely artic­u­lat­ed so clear­ly : the Zion­ist dream ran counter to the prin­ci­ple of democ­ra­cy. One Pales­tine Com­plete, p. 119

The Zion­ist desire for the alien­ation and even­tu­al expul­sion of the orig­i­nal inhab­i­tants resid­ing in the land designed for a Jew­ish state” is no secret. Ear­li­er in 1895, Theodor Her­zl wrote in his Diary that :

We must expro­pri­ate gen­tly the pri­vate prop­er­ty on the state assigned to us. We shall try to spir­it the pen­ni­less pop­u­la­tion across the bor­der by procur­ing employ­ment for it in the tran­sit coun­tries, while deny­ing it employ­ment in our coun­try. The prop­er­ty own­ers will come over to our side. Both the process of expro­pri­a­tion and the removal of the poor must be car­ried out dis­crete­ly and cir­cum­spect­ly. Let the own­ers of the immove­able prop­er­ty believe that they are cheat­ing us, sell­ing us things for more than they are worth. But we are not going to sell them any­thing back.Amer­i­ca and The Found­ing Of Israel, p. 49

In Octo­ber 1882, Validimir Dub­now, one of the ear­li­est Zion­ist pio­neers in Pales­tine, wrote to his broth­er artic­u­lat­ing the ulti­mate goals of the Zion­ists movement :

The ulti­mate goal…is, in time, to take over the Land of Israel and to restore to the Jews the polit­i­cal inde­pen­dence they have been deprived of for these two thou­sand years…The Jews will yet arise and, arms in hand (if need be), declare that they are the mas­ters of their ancient home­land.Right­eous Vic­tims, p. 49

In Octo­ber 1882 Ben-Yehu­da and Yehiel Michal Pines, few of the ear­li­est Zion­ist pio­neers in Pales­tine, wrote describ­ing the indige­nous Pales­tini­ans, that

…There are now only five hun­dred [thou­sand] Arabs, who are not very strong, and from whom we shall eas­i­ly take away the coun­try if only we do it through strat­a­gems [and] with­out draw­ing upon us their hos­til­i­ty before we become the strong and pop­u­lous ones. Right­eous Vic­tims, p. 49

In 1916 Lord Bal­four declared that he is a Zion­ist” dur­ing a British Cab­i­net meet­ing. In an encounter between Weiz­mann and Balfour :

[Weiz­mann] laid out his much repeat­ed argu­ment – that Zion­ists and British inter­ests are iden­ti­cal. The Zion­ist move­ment spoke, Weiz­mann said, with the vocab­u­lary of mod­ern states­man­ship, but was fueled by a deep reli­gious con­scious­ness. Bal­four, him­self a mod­ern states­man, also con­sid­ered Zion­ism as an inher­ent part of his Chris­t­ian faith.… Soon after, Bal­four declared in a cab­i­net meet­ing, I am a Zion­ist.“One Pales­tine Com­plete, p. 41

In 1936 the Mapai leader David Haco­hen explained how Zion­ist social­ism should be for Jews not Arabs, he stat­ed that :

I remem­ber being one of the first of our com­rades [of the Ahdut Ha’avo­dah] to got to Lon­don after the first World War. … There I became a social­ist. … [In Pales­tine] I had to fight my friends on the issue of Jew­ish social­ism, to defend the fact that I would not accept Arabs in my trade union, the His­tadrut ; to defend preach­ing to the house­wives that they not buy at [Pales­tin­ian] Arab stores, to pre­vent [Pales­tin­ian] Arab work­ers from get­ting jobs there. …. To pour kerosene on the [Pales­tin­ian] Arab toma­toes ; to attack Jew­ish house­wives in the mar­kets and smash the Arab eggs they had bought ; to praise to the skies the Keneen Kayemet [Jew­ish Nation­al Fund] that sent Han­kin to Beirut to buy land from absen­tee effen­di [land­lords] and to throw the fel­lahin [peas­ants] off the land– to buy dozens of dunums– from an Arab is per­mit­ted, but to sell, God for­bid, one Jew­ish dunam to an Arab is pro­hib­it­ed.Expul­sion Of The Pales­tini­ans, p. 25

In 1937, David Ben-Guri­on elo­quent­ly artic­u­lat­ed the Zion­ist goals regard­ing pop­u­la­tion trans­fer as the following :

With com­pul­so­ry trans­fer we [would] have a vast area [for set­tle­ment] ….I sup­port com­pul­so­ry trans­fer. I don’t see any­thing immoral in it.Right­eous Vic­tims, p. 144

Such racist sen­ti­ment was the norm among the ear­ly Zion­ist lead­ers, sim­i­lar state­ments were con­stant­ly repeat­ed by Ben-Guri­on and Jabotin­sky. Zion­ism has always been rec­og­nized as a form of racism and this is evi­dent when in 1975 the U.N. Gen­er­al Assem­bly first adopt­ed a res­o­lu­tion equat­ing Zion­ism with racism. The U.N. adopt­ed that res­o­lu­tion annu­al­ly until 1991 when the Madrid Accord began.

The Zion­ist Expan­sion­ism and The Pales­tin­ian Dilemma

…after a lapse of 1800 years, it could not be said that Pales­tine was the land of the Jews. Oth­er­wise the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca should now belong to the Red Indi­ans and the sit­u­a­tion in Eng­land, and in many coun­tries of the world should be dif­fer­ent. In my opin­ion, the Jews have no right in Pales­tine except their right to per­son­al prop­er­ty. They do not have the right to estab­lish a State. It is most unfor­tu­nate that a state is based on reli­gious basis.

The above cita­tion is from A. Toyn­bee, a well-known his­to­ri­an. His crit­i­cism of the Zion­ist the­o­ry of return­ing to Pales­tine clear­ly under­lined the sen­ti­ments of those who clear­ly see no jus­ti­fi­ca­tion for a Jew­ish State to be estab­lished in Pales­tine. Pales­tine has always been rec­og­nized as belong­ing to Pales­tini­ans, not to a group of sec­u­lar ter­ror­ists who uses reli­gion as a jus­ti­fi­ca­tion for a State. As a researcher points out :

His­to­ry tells us that the first peo­ple to set­tle in Pales­tine were the Canaan­ites, six thou­sand years BCE. They were an Arab tribe who came to Pales­tine from the Ara­bi­an Penin­su­la, and after their arrival, Pales­tine was named after them [i.e., Canaan]. Ahmad al-‘Awadi, al-Suhy­ooniyyah, Nash’atuhaa, Tanzeemaatuhaa, Inshi­tatuhaa, p. 7

And fur­ther, he added that :

As for the Jews, the first time they entered Pales­tine was approx­i­mate­ly six hun­dred years after Abra­ham had entered the land, i.e., they entered it approx­i­mate­ly 1400 years BCE. So the Canaan­ites entered Pales­tine and lived there approx­i­mate­ly 4500 years before the Jews.Ibid., p. 8

Hence it is clear that the Jews have no right to the land, whether accord­ing to reli­gious law or in terms of who lived there first and pos­sessed the land. Despite this, the state of Israel was rec­og­nized by the U.N. in 1948 on con­di­tion that it accept­ed the right of the Pales­tini­ans to an inde­pen­dent state, and imple­men­ta­tion of Secu­ri­ty Coun­cil Res­o­lu­tion 194 guar­an­tee­ing the right of Pales­tin­ian refugees to return to their homes. Over half a cen­tu­ry lat­er, these inalien­able rights remain unful­filled. The implan­ta­tion of the Zion­ist enti­ty in Pales­tine has been right­ly described as An-Nak­ba (The Cat­a­stro­phe) by the Pales­tini­ans. The hoopla sur­round­ing Israel con­ve­nient­ly ignores the fact that Pales­tine was stolen by Euro­pean Jew­ish ter­ror­ists in con­nivance with the Euro­pean pow­ers, pri­mar­i­ly Britain but also France (and lat­er the U.S.) to cre­ate a west­ern beach-head in the heart­land of Islam. This was only made pos­si­ble by dri­ving out the indige­nous pop­u­la­tion — the Pales­tini­ans — from their ances­tral lands, through ter­ror and mass murder.

The Zion­ists have also con­stant­ly ped­dled the mythol­o­gy of turn­ing deserts into orchards’, a claim already respond­ed to, with the active col­lab­o­ra­tion of the West­ern media. Their claim to Pales­tine is based on a com­plete per­ver­sion of his­tor­i­cal facts sprin­kled with Bib­li­cal ref­er­ences to geog­ra­phy. The Zion­ists — most of them sec­u­lar fanat­ics who have noth­ing to do with Judaism — have reduced the Bible to a real estate manual.

The Zion­ist colo­nial set­tler enter­prise was launched by shed­ding the blood of the Pales­tini­ans. It has been sus­tained through ter­ror, the most com­mon char­ac­ter­is­tic of the Zion­ists, for 50 years. More than 475 Pales­tin­ian towns and vil­lages were com­plete­ly wiped out. There is no trace left of them any­more. Soon after the June 1967 Arab-Israeli war, Moshe Dayan, the one-eyed Israeli gen­er­al, had boast­ed to a group of vis­it­ing Jews from the U.S. that the present gen­er­a­tion had expand­ed the bound­aries of the State of Israel this far. Now it was up to the next gen­er­a­tion to take them fur­ther. He also can­did­ly admit­ted that hun­dreds of Pales­tin­ian vil­lages and towns had been wiped out. And it was this same gen­er­al who pro­claimed that :

…a new State of Israel with broad fron­tiers, strong and sol­id, with the author­i­ty of the Israel Gov­ern­ment extend­ing from the Jor­dan [riv­er] to the Suez Canal.Iron Wall, p. 316

The above quote should clar­i­fy the real­i­ty of Zion­ist expan­sion­ism. This cer­tain­ly refutes the Zion­ist pro­pa­gan­da that Pales­tin­ian inhab­i­tants of towns fled on orders from the Arab gov­ern­ments, it is clear that they fled in the face of the Zion­ist ter­ror machine. Deir Yassin (April 9, 1948) was but one exam­ple of numer­ous Zion­ist atroc­i­ties per­pe­trat­ed against inno­cent civil­ians. Pales­tin­ian women were parad­ed naked in the streets. Many of them were bay­o­net­ed to death before their bod­ies were dumped in wells. At least 750,000 Pales­tini­ans were expelled from their homes in this cam­paign to set­tle the Euro­pean Jews in Pales­tine. This obscen­i­ty is being cel­e­brat­ed today as a great achieve­ment. For­mer Israel Prime Min­is­ter, Men­achem Begin, boast­ed of the impor­tance of the mas­sacre of Deir Yassin in his book The Revolt : The Sto­ry of the Irgun”. He wrote that there would not have been a State of Israel with­out the vic­to­ry” of Deir Yassin : The Hag­ganah car­ried out vic­to­ri­ous attacks on oth­er fronts… In a state of ter­ror, the Arabs fled, cry­ing, Deir Yassin’.”

Nor did the mas­sacres cease after the estab­lish­ment of the Jew­ish State ; they con­tin­ued in times of both peace and war. Fol­low­ing are the names of some of them : Sharafat Mas­sacre, Kibya Mas­sacre, Kafr Qasem Mas­sacre, Al-Sam­mou’ Mas­sacre, the Sabra And Shati­la Mas­sacre, Oyon Qara Mas­sacre, Al-Aqsa Mosque Mas­sacre, the Ibrahi­mi Mosque Mas­sacre, the Jabalia Massacre.

Many lead­ers of the Zion­ist ter­ror­ist gangs — Men­achem Begin, Yitzhak Shamir, et al – lat­er became prime min­is­ters of the only democ­ra­cy in the Mid­dle East’. The most pow­er­ful democ­ra­cy’ in the world — the U.S. — has such a close rela­tion­ship with the so-called only democ­ra­cy’ that mas­sive annu­al hand­outs are bestowed upon it even while Amer­i­can cit­i­zens are denied many of their basic needs. Fur­ther, these very same Zion­ists are wast­ing U.S. tax­pay­ers’ mon­ey by advo­cat­ing and sup­port­ing the build­ing of a shrine to a mil­i­tant Jew, Baruch Gold­stein who mas­sa­cred a group of pray­ing Mus­lims at a mosque in Hebron, in 1994. And we see that until today, thou­sands of mil­i­tant Jews vis­it his grave annu­al­ly to cel­e­brate’ the mur­ders com­mit­ted by this Jew­ish ter­ror­ist. This is just one out of the var­i­ous exam­ples on why it is the Zion­ist régime of Israel that is the only Amer­i­can-fund­ed coun­try in the Mid­dle East’ to fund and to sup­port State ter­ror­ism. But as we have seen, State ter­ror­ism is noth­ing new to the Zion­ist régime.

And if tak­ing away their land is not enough to humil­i­ate the Pales­tini­ans, the Zion­ists tried to wipe out the iden­ti­ty of the Pales­tini­ans, by pre­tend­ing that they do not exist as a peo­ple and as a nation. A Zion­ist schol­ar, Israel Eldad, also pro­mul­gates this claim of no Pales­tine or Pales­tini­ans’ , in his book The Jew­ish Rev­o­lu­tion as follows :

Can this [Jew­ish] rich exis­tence be com­pared with the Pales­tin­ian nation ? Who is that nation ? What is it ? Where and when was it born ? What is its iden­ti­ty ? What are its dis­tinc­tive fea­tures- phys­i­cal and men­tal ? And except for the feats of its maraud­ing gangs, what has it ever been known for?” (p. 119)

In an inter­view with the Sun­day Times, Gol­da Meir, Israel’s Prime Min­is­ter between 1969 – 1974, stat­ed in June 1969

It is not as though there was a Pales­tin­ian peo­ple in Pales­tine con­sid­er­ing itself as Pales­tin­ian peo­ple and we came and threw them out and took their coun­try away from them, they did not exist.Iron Wall, p. 311

Of course Ms. Meir con­ve­nient­ly fails to men­tion that pri­or to 1948, the Jews do not exist with a sin­gle nation­al iden­ti­ty, but that did not stop them from being iden­ti­fied as such, did it ? We don’t expect her and her ilk to men­tion it any­way, since it is clear that it was the Zion­ists who drove Pales­tini­ans into the sea, not vice-ver­sa. And as recent as 1968, the Jew­ish his­to­ri­an Maxime Rodin­son wrote that

the Arab pop­u­la­tion of Pales­tine was native in all the usu­al sens­es of the word. Rodin­son, M., Israel and the Arabs, Pen­guin, 1968, p. 216

Claim­ing that there was no such thing as Pales­tini­ans is mere­ly but one of the many ways the Zion­ists per­form their ver­sion of eth­nic cleans­ing’, effec­tive­ly wip­ing out the exis­tence of the Pales­tini­ans as a dis­tinct social, polit­i­cal, and cul­tur­al enti­ty and rewrit­ing the his­to­ry books with their per­vert­ed ver­sion’ of the events.

The Pales­tin­ian Resis­tance and Zion­ist War Machine

The attacks by the Zion­ists, whether mil­i­tar­i­ly or by pro­pa­gan­da, prompt­ed sev­er­al Pales­tin­ian resis­tance groups to be formed against the Zion­ist régime, which the régime con­ve­nient­ly labels them as ter­ror­ists”. But a dis­tinc­tion must be made between ter­ror­ism and the resis­tance to occu­pa­tion which inter­na­tion­al con­ven­tions autho­rize. The Dec­la­ra­tion on Prin­ci­ples of Inter­na­tion­al Law (1970) empha­sized that all states are under a duty to refrain from any forcible action which deprives peo­ple of their right to self-deter­mi­na­tion. The Dec­la­ra­tion also notes that in their actions against, and resis­tance to, such forcible action” such peo­ples could receive sup­port in accor­dance with the pur­pose and prin­ci­ples of the UN Char­ter. Var­i­ous UN res­o­lu­tions have reaf­firmed the legit­i­ma­cy of the strug­gle of peo­ples for lib­er­a­tion from colo­nial dom­i­na­tion and alien sub­jec­tion, by all avail­able means includ­ing armed strug­gle” (see UNGA 3070, 3103, 3246, 3328, 3481, 3191, 3242 and 32154). Arti­cle 1(4) of Pro­to­col I (addi­tion­al to the Gene­va Con­ven­tions) con­sid­ers self-deter­mi­na­tion strug­gles as inter­na­tion­al armed con­flicts sit­u­a­tions. The prin­ci­ple of self-deter­mi­na­tion itself pro­vides that where forcible action has been tak­en to sup­press the right, force may be used in order to counter this and achieve self-determination.

It is obvi­ous that with the sys­tem­at­ic eth­nic cleans­ing’ of the Zion­ist régime, these Pales­tin­ian resis­tance groups are cer­tain­ly not ter­ror­ists”. On the con­trary, these resis­tance groups are fight­ing a legit­i­mate war, against a ene­my that has oppressed their peo­ple for so long that it would be a crime to them­selves and to the Pales­tini­ans if they do not oppose the ene­my and stand by and watch the Zion­ist pil­lag­ing what is left of Palestine.

Israel is the only coun­try in the world where tor­ture of polit­i­cal pris­on­ers is not only legal but its supreme court active­ly endors­es it. Pales­tini­ans are held with­out tri­al under what is euphemisti­cal­ly called admin­is­tra­tive deten­tion.’ The max­i­mum peri­od is six months but it is rou­tine­ly extend­ed. There are Pales­tini­ans who have been held with­out charge or tri­al for four or five years. While the West­ern media rou­tine­ly present Israel as a belea­guered State in a sea of hos­tile neigh­bors, it is the only nuclear pow­er in the region with more than 200 nuclear weapons. Its army has grown to 600,000 and it can deploy more than 2,800 tanks and 700 com­bat planes, accord­ing to the Jaf­fee Cen­tre for Strate­gic Stud­ies at Tel Aviv Uni­ver­si­ty. This gives it a for­mi­da­ble mil­i­tary mus­cle against the Arab armies which it has defeat­ed in almost all the wars. But since 1982, Israel’s mil­i­tary has found itself mired in less glo­ri­ous adven­tures, includ­ing the cost­ly 1982 – 1985 inva­sion of Lebanon and its attempts to crush the Intifa­da from 1987 to 1994. In Lebanon it got a bloody nose at the hands of the Hizbul­lah, whose spir­it of sac­ri­fice put the fear of God into the plea­sure-lov­ing Zion­ist thugs. Instead of con­fronting the Islam­ic fight­ers, the Zion­ists bom­bard Lebanese vil­lages using long-range artillery and planes.

Hostage-tak­ing is also a favorite ploy of the Zion­ists. Lit­er­al­ly hun­dreds of Pales­tini­ans and Lebanese are incar­cer­at­ed in the Khi­am con­cen­tra­tion camp where tor­ture is ram­pant. Sim­i­lar­ly, Pales­tini­ans held with­out tri­al are also tor­tured in pris­ons inside what is called Israel. If young Pales­tini­ans are incar­cer­at­ed, their lead­ers are expelled from their own land. It is iron­ic that alien occu­piers from east­ern Europe and Amer­i­ca should expel peo­ple from their own homes and land where their fore­fa­thers have lived for mil­len­nia. The Zion­ists are also extreme­ly sadis­tic. Young chil­dren are tar­get­ed for spe­cial wrath. Thou­sands of Pales­tin­ian chil­dren have been bru­tal­ly beat­en up by the gun-tot­ing Zion­ists. Young stone-throw­ing Pales­tini­ans have been buried alive ; oth­ers have had their bones bro­ken with rocks, on direct orders from Yitzhak Rabin, the Nobel peace prize win­ner ! Dur­ing the Intifa­da, the Zion­ist occu­piers fre­quent­ly used tear gas in con­fined spaces, result­ing in hun­dreds of preg­nant Pales­tin­ian women suf­fer­ing mis­car­riages. Anoth­er of their favorite ploys is to mix flour and kerosene in Pales­tin­ian homes, mak­ing it unfit for con­sump­tion. Despite such cru­el­ties, the Zion­ists have failed to break the spir­it of the Pales­tini­ans. Every Israeli cru­el­ty brings out an even greater deter­mi­na­tion to stand up to the occu­piers. As the Israeli mil­i­tary his­to­ri­an Mar­tin Van Crev­eld of the Hebrew Uni­ver­si­ty in Jerusalem admit­ted, An army which fights against the weak, becomes weak itself.” He went on : In these instances, the army is the sure los­er because its vic­to­ries are with­out hon­or and its defeats are always humiliating”.

The Jerusalem Issue and Al-Aqsa Mosque

Jerusalem is bet­ter known to the Mus­lims by the means of Bayt al-Maqdis (the holy house) or sim­ply al-Quds (the holy); the lat­ter is the most com­mon name at the present. Since 638 A.D. when the sec­ond Caliph Umar Al-Khat­tab lib­er­at­ed the city, Jerusalem had always been ruled by a suc­ces­sion of Mus­lim rulers. But of course, the Zion­ist mind is uncom­fort­able with the fact that Jerusalem has always been Mus­lim in his­to­ry and there­fore tries to manip­u­late Jerusalem’s his­to­ry. The UN Res­o­lu­tion 181, which divid­ed Pales­tine into an Arab and a Jew­ish state, specif­i­cal­ly declared Jerusalem cor­pus sep­a­ra­tum” and placed the city under inter­na­tion­al juris­dic­tion. How­ev­er, in 1948 the mil­i­tary forces of Israel occu­pied the west­ern part of the city. In 1967 the con­quest was com­plet­ed when Israel forcibly occu­pied the city’s east­ern half. In 1980, Israel passed a Basic Law declar­ing Jerusalem its cap­i­tal. The inter­na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty respond­ed deci­sive­ly to this provoca­tive act. UN Secu­ri­ty Coun­cil Res­o­lu­tion 476 (June 30, 1980) says that Israeli actions to change the sta­tus of Jerusalem con­sti­tute a fla­grant vio­la­tion of the Gene­va Con­ven­tion” and declares such mea­sures null and void’ ”. UN Secu­ri­ty Coun­cil Res­o­lu­tion 478 (August 20, 1980) states that the enact­ment of the basic law’ by Israel con­sti­tutes a vio­la­tion of inter­na­tion­al law”. All nations have kept their embassies in Tel Aviv.

In the past, the Zion­ists tried to and par­tial­ly suc­ceed­ed in burn­ing-down Islam’s third holi­est sanc­tu­ary, the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque. The nefar­i­ous sac­ri­lege was by no means, as the Israeli gov­ern­ment then sug­gest­ed, an iso­lat­ed act com­mit­ted by a deranged man who act­ed on his own. Quite the con­trary, the mor­bid Israeli designs against the sacred Mus­lim shrine show that dia­bol­i­cal feat was a delib­er­ate col­lec­tive act of aggres­sion car­ried out with the unmis­tak­able acqui­es­cence of the Israeli polit­i­cal estab­lish­ment and the active encour­age­ment of much of the world’s Jew­ry and their fun­da­men­tal­ist Chris­t­ian allies.

The fol­low­ing is a list of the acts of aggres­sion and des­e­cra­tion against Al-Aqsa Mosque since June 71967 :

    June 7, 1967 : The occu­pa­tion author­i­ties con­fis­cat­ed the keys of the West­ern Gate known as Bab El-Maghar­ba imme­di­ate­ly after Israeli troops seized the town from the flee­ing Jordanians.

    June 9, 1967 : The con­gre­ga­tion­al Fri­day prayer was not held on orders from the occu­pa­tion author­i­ties. That was the first time the Juma’a prayer did­n’t take place since the lib­er­a­tion of Jerusalem from the hands of the Cru­sades in 1167 AD on Octo­ber 19,1990, The Juma’a prayer was delayed for two hours because the the occu­pa­tion author­i­ties denied Mus­lim wor­shiper entry to the Haram compound.

    June 21, 1969 : An Aus­tralian-born ter­ror­ist, Denis Michael Rohan, entered the mosque and set the mag­nif­i­cent Nur­rud­din Zin­ki Mihrab on fire. The fire gut­ted the unique Mihrab, which has restored. The sac­ri­le­gious act against the mosque was con­demned world-wide, but was praised by wide seg­ments of world Jew­ry and Chris­t­ian fun­da­men­tal­ists who view the cre­ation of Israeli in Pales­tine as a ful­fill­ment of Bib­li­cal prophe­cy and a prece­dence to the sec­ond advent of Jesus.

    Novem­ber 16, 1969 : The Israeli occu­pa­tion author­i­ties seized the Fakhriyya Cor­ner on the south-west­ern side of the Haram Al-Sharif.

    August 14, 1970 : The Ger­shon Solomon group, and ultra-fanat­ic groups ded­i­cat­ed to the so-called rebuild­ing of the Tem­ple of Solomon of the site of Al-Aqsa Mosque after it is demol­ished, forcibly entered the premis­es of the Haram, but were repulsed by Mus­lims. The con­fronta­tion result­ed in tens of wor­ship­pers being injured by Israeli troop gunfire.

    April 19, 1980 : A group of Jew­ish rab­bis and sages held a semi-secret con­fer­ence devot­ed to explor­ing ways and means to lib­er­ate the Tem­ple Mount from Mus­lim hands”.

    August 28,1980 : The Israeli occu­pa­tion author­i­ties dug a tun­nel right under­neath the Mosque.

    March 30, 1982 : Numer­ous let­ters were sent by Mus­lim Waqf author­i­ties urg­ing them to aban­don the Tem­ple Mount and warn­ing them of the dire con­se­quence of their usurpa­tion of our Tem­ple”. The let­ters were writ­ten in Hebrew, Eng­lish, French Span­ish and Polish.

    May 20, 1982 : Sev­er­al Zion­ist orga­ni­za­tions sent death threats to Waqf officials.

    April 11, 1982 : An Israeli sol­dier named Allen Good­man stormed the inte­ri­or of the Mosque, spray­ing wor­shipers with bul­lets from his M‑16 assault rifle, killing and wound­ing over 60 Palestinians.

    March 26, 1983 : The main entrance to the Jerusalem’s Waqf depart­ment col­lapsed due to Israeli exca­va­tions underneath.

    August 21, 1985 : The Israeli police per­mit­ted Jew­ish extrem­ists to hold prayers with­in the con­fines of the Haram premis­es.

    August 4, 1986 : A group of Rab­bis issued final rul­ing allow­ing Jews to pray at the Haram Al-Sharif and demand­ed the estab­lish­ment of a Syn­a­gogue in the area.

    May 12, 1988 : Israeli sol­diers opened fire on a peace­ful Mus­lim march at the Haram, killing and wound­ing about a hun­dred Palestinians.

    August 8, 1990 : The Israeli author­i­ties com­mit­ted a gris­ly mas­sacre at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, killing 22 wor­shipers and injur­ing over 200.

    July 25, 1995 : The Israeli High Court of Jus­tice issued a rul­ing, allow­ing Jews to pray at the Tem­ple Mount”. The deci­sion sparked off wide­spread protests among Muslims.

Con­clu­sions

We have seen the ori­gins and the basic goals of Zion­ism, at the expense of its orig­i­nal inhab­i­tants. The Zion­ists, in the mould of the colo­nial­ism of the British, French, Por­tuguese and Dutch in the 17th and 18th cen­tu­ry, seek to rewrite his­to­ry and thus effec­tive­ly try to blot out the his­tor­i­cal exis­tence of Pales­tine and the right of Pales­tini­ans to their own State. In the process, the Zion­ist régime have built Israel upon the blood of thou­sands of Pales­tini­ans killed dur­ing An-Nak­ba, as well as the mil­lions of Pales­tini­ans that were dis­pos­sessed of their land, cit­i­zen­ship, cul­ture and his­to­ry. Not to men­tion that these pow­er-hun­gry Zion­ist thugs also try to deny Mus­lim con­trol of Jerusalem as the cap­i­tal of a future Pales­tin­ian state and Haram As-Sha­reef, the third-most holi­est site in Islam.

No one, after weigh­ing the evi­dence above, would con­sid­er Zion­ism to be a legit­i­mate ide­ol­o­gy of peace. On the con­trary, Zion­ism must be con­demned and reject­ed in the same way Fas­cism, Apartheid, Nazism and oth­er racist ide­olo­gies had been reject­ed in the past. The day Israel shakes free of its Zion­ist ideals and its anti-Arab schiz­o­phre­nia is the day Pales­tine will final­ly exist with Jerusalem as its cap­i­tal, and only then will the Israel-Pales­tine con­flict will come to an end. A History of Zionism and Its Ideological Roots 1

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