History of Israel State
The prime Minister of Israel - Feiglin said recently, "Gaza is part of our Land and we will remain there forever". But why did he say such a statement?
To understand the Gaza - Israel conflict over the years, you need to know the history.
Who are the Jews of Isreal?
Many people ask why the Israeli are so unlike the Jews in the bible by advocating...violence at all costs. Some want to know whether the Jews in Israeli are the same Jews in the Bible. Well here is what I found...
According
to the Scientist website, "majority of Ashkenazi Jews are descended
from prehistoric European women, according to study published today
(October 8) in
Nature Communications.
While the Jewish religion began in the Near East, and the Ashkenazi
Jews were believed to have origins in the early indigenous tribes of
this region, new evidence from mitochondrial DNA, which is passed on
exclusively from mother to child, suggests that female ancestors of most
modern Ashkenazi Jews converted to Judaism in the north Mediterranean
around 2,000 years ago and later in west and central Europe." The original Jews migrated into Africa after a series of persecutions and intermarried there.
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| Here is an artwork by the Assyrians of what ancient an Jew looked like - short kinky hair with kinky beards |
Birth of Israel
In the 19th century, increasing pogroms against Jews in Europe led to
the birth of the Zionist movement. This movement aimed to establish a
Jewish state to escape anti-Semitism.
However, its colonialist character, rooted in racism, was clear from
the start. Zionism’s founder, Theodore Herzl, wrote in 1896: “For Europe
we would constitute over there part of a bulwark against Asia as well
as the advance post of civilization against barbarism."
Effects of World War 1 and World War 11
Despite strong anti-Semitism across Europe, Zionism was a marginal
movement until the horrific events of the Holocaust and World War II.
In 1917, British foreign minister Lord Balfour had sent a public
letter to Lord Rothschild, a leading member of the Jewish community. The
letter became known as the Balfour Declaration. It said that the
British government “view[ed] with favour the establishment in Palestine
of a national home for the Jewish people”.
The declaration gave the British government an excuse for claiming
the territory after defeating the Ottoman Empire in WWI. British and
French bureaucrats divided the Middle East into their own spheres of
influence. Britain got control over Palestine.
British and USA's role in the 1947 partition plan
However, with mass Jewish emigration from Europe during and after the
Nazi reign, tensions rose between growing numbers of Jewish migrants
and Palestinian Arabs.
The territory was still under British rule and, to win an exclusively
Jewish state in Palestine, Zionists began a guerrilla war. The ensuing
conflict resulted in the 1947 United Nations General Assembly resolution
181, which recommended partitioning Palestine into “independent Arab
and Jewish states”.
This partition plan, which handed over more than half of historic
Palestine to a specifically Jewish state, was met with anger in the Arab
communities. In 1948 Israel accepted the division of the previously mandated
land, but the Arabs rejected it and launched a war of annihilation
against the Jews
War begins
During the violent struggle over the establishment of Israel, up to
700,000 Palestinians, up to 80% of the Arab population, fled or were
expelled. To this day, those who fled and their descendants remain
refugees. Only 100,000 Arabs remained.
By the time Israel defeated an alliance of Arab states to secure its
independence, it had claimed 78% of historic Palestine. Jewish migrants
and settlers moved onto former Palestinian lands, and in some cases,
directly into the homes of expelled Palestinians.
Assumptions by the rest of the world
In reality, while the UN General Assembly recommended the creation of
a Jewish state in part of Palestine, that recommendation was
non-binding and never implemented by the Security Council. In fact, the U.S. State Department opposed this partition plan strenuously,
considering Zionism contrary to both fundamental American principles and
US interests but President Truman ignored them in order to win the elections.
Second, the General Assembly passed that recommendation only after
Israel proponents threatened and bribed numerous countries in order to
gain a required two-thirds of votes.
Third, the US administration supported the recommendation out of
domestic electoral considerations, and took this position over the
strenuous objections of the State Department, the CIA, and the Pentagon.
Support for Palestinian refugees
Swedish diplomat Folke Bernadotte was the UN Security Council’s mediator in Palestine in 1947-48. After visiting the refugee camps, he wrote: “It would be an offence against the principles of elementary justice if these innocent victims were denied the right to return to their homes, while Jewish immigrants flow into Palestine, and, indeed, at least offer the threat of permanent replacement of the Arab refugees who have been rooted in the land for centuries.”
His proposal for fixed boundaries through negotiation, an economic union between both states, and the return of Palestinian refugees was turned down. On September 17, he was shot dead by Zionist militants.
What Zioniosts claim
Zionists have long claimed that Palestinians were not expelled, but left on their own volition or under direction of Arab leaders. This myth is important for denying the right of the refugees’ return.
But Shay Hazkani,
writing in Haaretz, said: “Most historians today — Zionists, post-Zionists and non-Zionists — agree that in at least 120 of 530 villages, the Palestinian inhabitants were expelled by Jewish military forces, and that in half the villages the inhabitants fled because of the battles and were not allowed to return.
“[Israel prime minister] Ben-Gurion appeared to have known the facts well ... The Israeli military not only updated Ben-Gurion about these events but also apparently received his prior authorization, in written or oral form, notably in Lod and Ramle, and in several villages in the north.”
The six day war
During the Six Day War in 1967, Israel capturing Gaza from Egypt and the West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan. This gave Israel control over the all of British Mandate Palestine
However, only those who live in the borders of the official Israeli state as declared in 1948 are citizens of Israel, and in these borders, the Jewish majority had been made secure by the expulsion of most Palestinians. Those in Gaza and the West Bank — the Occupied Territories — live as occupied subjects.
Isolating Gaza
When Israel withdrew all settlers and forces from Gaza in 2005, it merely enabled it to shut the territory off to the outside world, subjected it to a crippling siege and frequently bombing it.
In the Times of Israel,
Netanyahu was reported as telling a July 13 press conference: “I think the Israeli people understand now what I always say: that there cannot be a situation, under any agreement, in which we relinquish security control of the territory west of the River Jordan.”
The continued existence and struggle for justice by the Palestinian people in the Occupied Territories, and within Israel for full equality, is a permanent thorn in Israel’s side and threatens the stability of its apartheid state — that is, a state for one section of the population, Jews, over all others who live within it.
This is what drives Israel’s violence and ongoing push to subdue, expel or destroy Palestinians and end their fight for their national rights. The extreme genocidal calls from some Israeli politicians are merely giving voice to this logic.
Culled from Greenleft website. Comments welcome.
