The Root of ZIONISM
In the latter part of the 1800's, there arose in Europe a political movement
known as "Zionism". Zionism in particular referred to the effort among
certain jews to establish a jewish nation in the land of Palestine. Today,
the term Zionism is more commonly applied to those jews who want to expand
the borders of what was already established, at the expense of the
Palestinians who once owned the land. In a more general sense, the term
"Zionist" is also used to describe a certain element within the jewish
community (not all of them!), who believe in Jewish Supremacy, thus putting
their own interests ahead of those of the nation in which they reside. It is
a mistake to assume that all jews are supporters of the "Zionist Mafia" or
Jewish Supremacy. In fact, some of the strongest condemnations of Zionism
and Jewish Supremacy comes from jews themselves! There exists an enormous
collection of hard-hitting anti-Zionist writings compiled by such notable
jewish authors, historians, and journalists as John Sack, Alfred
Lilienthal, Noam Chomsky, Israel Shahak, Benjamin Freedman, and Victor
Ostrovsky just to name a few. There is even a jewish religious group called
"Neturei Karta, Jews United Against Zionism." For their brave efforts,
these men have had to tolerate vicious abuse from Zionist smear groups like
the Anti Defamation League (ADL) - an organization which actually
specializes in defamation!. So let us put to rest now and forever the
slanderous lie, and strategic Zionist propaganda ploy, that labels anyone
who dares to call attention to the dangers of the Zionist Mafia is an
"anti-semite", a "hatemonger", or a "skin-head".
Now the Zionists of the late 1800's faced one small problem with their bold
takeover scheme of Arab Palestine. Palestine was under the sovereignty of
the Ottoman Turkish Empire and the Arabs certainly weren't about to just
give away prime real estate in Palestine to the Zionists of Europe. There
were very few jews even living in Palestine and the jews had not controlled
Palestine since the days of the Roman Empire. This destroys the commonly
believed myth that the Arabs and the jews "have been fighting over that land
for centuries". The handful of Arab jews who lived in Palestine got along
well with their Muslim hosts and never expressed any desire whatsoever to
overthrow the Ottoman rulers and set up a nation called "Israel". The
movement to strip Palestine away from the Ottoman Empire came strictly from
European Zionists who had become very influential within several European
nations.
Great Britain issued the* "Balfour Declaration" in November 1917 which
allowed mass jewish immigration to conquered Palestine while promising to
preserve Arab rights. The Arabs living in Palestine weren't buying these
promises. They protested, but there was nothing that they could do to stop
the coming wave of jewish immigration. This was the first step in creating
what was to later become the state of "Israel" 20 years later.
*"THE BALFOUR DECLARATION". "The Balfour Declaration" was a letter prepared
in March 1916 and issued in November 1917, during World War I, by the
British statesman Arthur James Balfour, then foreign secretary....
Specifically, the letter expressed the British government's approval of
Zionism with "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the
Jewish people." The letter committed the British government to making the
"best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being
clearly understood that nothing shall be done to prejudice the rights of
existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine." The immediate purpose was to
win for the Allied cause in World War I the support of Jews in the warring
nations and in the United States. As a result of the Balfour Declaration,
"Israel" was established as an independent state in 1948 in the mandated
area. It's also worth mentioning at this point that when the British
dismantled the Ottoman Empire after World War I, they created many smaller
nations. The oil rich, puppet kingdom of Kuwait was formed by slicing off
the southern coastal tip of what we now know as the nation of Iraq. As a
result of this arbitrary redrawing of the Ottoman map, a bitter conflict was
created between Iraq and Kuwait. Iraq has always considered Kuwait as its
true southern province. This is what ultimately led to Iraq's invasion of
Kuwait in 1991 and the Gulf War.