THE world’s most power leaders, U.S. President, George W. Bush, Germany’s Angela Merkel, France’s Nicholas Sarkozy, and England’s former Prime Minister, Tony Blair will gather in Jerusalem next week to celebrate Israel’s 60th birthday. “A state built on blood, murder, theft and lies.” Their presence in occupied-Jerusalem signals to the world and especially to the Arabs their support of Israel’s subjugation, humiliation and terror against the Palestinians. Only recently Israel recognized the existence of Palestinians. Its founders were all members of terrorist organizations — Ben Gurion, Golda Meir and Yitzhak Shamir, Moshe Dayan, among others, refused to acknowledge that Palestinians existed, and after 60 years of a brutal occupation, the Zionists quest to eliminate the Palestinians from their homeland continues unabatedly, but Palestinians refuse to disappear.

It’s no secret that Israel was founded by a terror network led by terrorists groups such as Irgun, Haganah, and Stern Gangs. A reference to encyclopedias of the 40s-60s will confirm that. By 1948, and before the UN recognition of Israel, the Zionists amassed the financial and military support to occupy Palestine. They terrorized the British who abruptly left Palestine to Zionist fanatics from Europe. “There is no doubt that many sexual atrocities were committed by the attacking Jews. Many young (Arab) girls were raped and later slaughtered. Old women were also molested.” (General Richard Catling, British Army Assistant Inspector after interrogating several female survivors).

Zionist terror started as early as 1937, but the younger generation today is unaware of it. Between 1937-1939 Zionist terrorists attacked Palestinian buses resulting in 24 deaths. In 1939 Haganah blew up the Iraqi oil pipeline near Haifa. Then in 1940 Stern Gang assassinated the British Minister, Lord Moyne, in Cairo. As well as, on 25th November 1940, the S.S. Patria was blown up by Zionist terrorists in Haifa Harbour, killing 268 illegal Jewish immigrants aimed at drawing sympathy and to force the British to allow Jews to migrate to Palestine. In 1946 they blew up the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, both Haganah and Irgun Gang were involved. As well, in 1946 Irgun Gang bombed the British Embassy in Rome, and in 1947 a postal bomb exploded in the British War office. The British squarely blamed the terror on Irgun and Stern Gangs (The Sunday Times, Sept. 24, 1972), p. 8.

From 1947 to 1948 thousands of Palestinians were killed by Zionist terror and 700,000-800,000 were uprooted from their ancestral home, Palestine. These facts are all well documented, and I will discuss only a few because of limited space to chronicle them all. In December 1947, six Palestinians were killed when bombs were thrown from Jewish trucks at Arab houses in Haifa; 12 Palestinians were killed in a village near Haifa. On the 13 December 1947, Zionist terrorists believed to be members of Irgun Zevi Leumi murdered 18 Palestinian civilians in Jerusalem, Jaffa and Lud areas. In Jerusalem, they bombed Arab market-places near the Damascus Gate; in Jaffa bombs were thrown into an Arab café; and in the Arab village near Lud, 12 Arabs were killed in an attack with mortars and automatic weapons.

In 1948 Haganah blew up the Sarai in Jaffa killing 40 and on January 5 they bombed the Semiramis Hotel in Jerusalem, among the dead was the Spanish Consul. From December 13, 1947 to February 10, 1948, they blew up 9 Palestinian buses and attacked passenger trains four times killing 93, as well, cafes and markets were bombed, killing 138 people. The Salam building in Haifa, a seven-story building of apartments and stores was bombed on March 22, 1948 by Stern Gang, and between April 25, 1948- May 13, 1948 Jaffa was looted and destroyed by Irgun and Haganah terrorists. And let’s not forget that on 17 September 1948, Count Folke Berndadotte, UN Mediator in Palestine was assassinated by members of the Stern Gang.

And adding fuel to the fire, the United Nations in 1947 with 56 members was not a democratic body that represented the world when it voted to divide Palestine, and of the 56 members, only 58% supported the division of Palestine. In 1947, most of Africa, Asia and the Caribbean were under the imperial power of France, England, Holland, Spain and Portugal. Thus, it’s a myth that the UN created Israel. These European powers held back independence of their colonies because they conspired to create Israel and knew that it would have never happen if Africa, Asia and the Caribbean were free from European chains. Some brave nations that voted against the partition were, Afghanistan, Cuba, Egypt, Greece, India, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, and Yemen.

Another myth is that Israel is a beacon of freedom and democracy; on the contrary it is a religious state that affords only Jews freedom and democracy. The entire Jewish world is awarded Israeli citizenship, a despicable act, and an affront to the millions of Palestinians who live under Israel’s brutal-military occupation and those whose properties were confiscated and uprooted out of their land of birth and can’t return today yet the world Jewry are welcome there and awarded Israeli citizenship. Bush, Merkel and Sarkozy will toast to this.

Today Israel is feeding fear into the minds of people in its campaign to demonize the Palestinian liberation struggle as terrorism and parading itself as the eternal victim. Israel lectures the world that she is the defender of Western civilization and values against a barbaric enemy. This fear benefits the Jewish state. The same European nations that for hundreds of years tried to exterminate the Jewish are today its biggest consumer of this “fear tactic.” France, the United States, Germany and England have all armed Israel since its illegitimate founding in 1948. The Zionists were bent in occupying more Arab land, naturally their eyes were set on the West Bank and the Golan Heights, and thus it’s a fallacy to assert that the Arab attack on Israel led to the lost of these territories. And today the facts are staring us in the face. Israeli is not serious about peace, it continues to steal more Palestinian land, kill and terrorize. The West Bank is occupied and Gaza is under siege. People are deprived of healthcare, food and water, and in this backdrop, Merkel, Sarkozy, Blair and Bush are cheerleaders of Israel’s brutal 60-year occupation of Palestine. Israel can only celebrate its military might, “but in terms of justice, morality and humanity, one struggles to name a country on earth that so openly practices oppression and racism. As such Israel, on its 60th birthday, remains what it was when born six decades ago: a state built on blood, murder, theft and lies.” (Al Ahram)
R CHICKERY