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HISTORY AND UPKEEP Of The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict W/Video

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“The History a The situation in the Middle-East in not unlike the situation of the European discovery of the Americas, in which the Americas where nothing more than a fabulous source of greater riches for the already bloated Monarchy’s  and Aristocracy’s of Europe.

And the new world of riches to plunder are the Islamic people and the territories they inhabit.  Does a 100 year war sound familiar? In the Americas, the colonialists were the predatory European power holders who raped and pillaged in the name of the Monarchy’s and Christian Church.  Since then the Monarchy’s and Aristocracy’s of Europe have been secularized to look like democracies and the new religion is “Freedom via Democracy”.

The riches in the Islamic world to be plundered are oil, other natural resources and an emerging market of about 1.5 billion people. Don’t get me wrong, democracies have the potential to provide freedom from oppression, but only when honorable, non-predatory people discuss society in the halls of governance.

Israel is but a colony of the worlds most powerful business interests.

I have heard people say about the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict that, “they have been hunting-lions-chariotfighting forever“. The truth is that we, the Europeans and the Euro-Americans have been fighting forever. Forever, well at least since the early Greeks discovered organized warfare and empire building as a way of life about 3500 years ago.

In all fairness I must say that it was the Mesopotamians, who first launched Western Civilization on the platform of warfare and empire building as an economic strategy.

I will add in order to relieve the vast majority of us from any residual ancestral guiltmcwarrior.jpg that warfare and empire building is the sport of the most savage and brutal of alpha males.  Those voracious and predatory men are an extreme minority of the human race, but they posses an unquenchable and insane drive for wealth and power.

Thousands of years ago the ruling class developed a scheme to govern the rest us and they have been all too successful in doing so.  They see the rest of us as expendable pawns to be used in their quest for riches, glory and empire.  How much longer are we, at least 99% of the population, going to tolerate that at most 1% of population spreads death, destruction and pollution in the name of obscene power and wealth?


 

 

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As the periodic bloodshed continues in the Middle East, the search for an equitable solution must come to grips with the root cause of the conflict. The conventional wisdom is that, even if both sides are at fault, the Palestinians are irrational “terrorists” who have no point of view worth listening to. Our position, however, is that the Palestinians have a real grievance: their homeland for over a thousand years was taken, without their consent and mostly by force, during the creation of the state of Israel. And all subsequent crimes – on both sides – inevitably follow from this original injustice.

This paper outlines the history of Palestine to show how this process occurred and what a moral solution to the region’s problems should consist of. If you care about the people of the Middle East, Jewish and Arab, you owe it to yourself to read this account of the other side of the historical record.

Introduction

The standard Zionist position is that they showed up in Palestine in the late 19th century to reclaim their ancestral homeland. Jews bought land and started building up the Jewish community there. They were met with increasingly violent opposition from the Palestinian Arabs, presumably stemming from the Arabs’ inherent anti-Semitism. The Zionists were then forced to defend themselves and, in one form or another, this same situation continues up to today.

The problem with this explanation is that it is simply not true, as the documentary evidence in this booklet will show. What really happened was that the Zionist movement, from the beginning, looked forward to a practically complete dispossession of the indigenous Arab population so that Israel could be a wholly Jewish state, or as much as was possible. Land bought by the Jewish National Fund was held in the name of the Jewish people and could never be sold or even leased back to Arabs (a situation which continues to the present).

The Arab community, as it became increasingly aware of the Zionists’ intentions, strenuously opposed further Jewish immigration and land buying because it posed a real and imminent danger to the very existence of Arab society in Palestine. Because of this opposition, the entire Zionist project never could have been realized without the military backing of the British. The vast majority of the population of Palestine, by the way, had been Arabic since the seventh century A.D. (Over 1200 years)

In short, Zionism was based on a faulty, colonialist world view that the rights of the indigenous inhabitants didn’t matter. The Arabs’ opposition to Zionism wasn’t based on anti-Semitism but rather on a totally reasonable fear of the dispossession of their people.

One further point: being Jewish ourselves, the position we present here is critical of Zionism but is in no way anti-Semitic. We do not believe that the Jews acted worse than any other group might have acted in their situation. The Zionists (who were a distinct minority of the Jewish people until after WWII) had an understandable desire to establish a place where Jews could be masters of their own fate, given the bleak history of Jewish oppression. Especially as the danger to European Jewry crystalized in the late 1930′s and after, the actions of the Zionists were propelled by real desperation.

But so were the actions of the Arabs. The mythic “land without people for a people without land” was already home to 700,000 Palestinians in 1919. This is the root of the problem, as we shall see.
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