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Posted on August 2, 2001
This is the question asked most frequently by Israelis and Zionists. We will answer the question indirectly by asking the question below:
Are you aware that Israeli Zionists, during the 1948 war, pushed over tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees into the sea?
For a long time, Zionists have been propagating fear based propaganda to their followers, probably this picture can tell you a bit of the real story, click here for more details. It's misleading and unfair to focus on what Palestinians might allegedly do in the future, while the past and present of Palestinians are filled with Israeli war crimes. These types of accusations are meant to deflect and confuse the core issues of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The core issues of the conflict are the collective DISPOSSESSION and ETHNIC CLEANSING (compulsory population transfer) of the Palestinian people for the past five decades. It should be emphasized that the conflict would have been at the same level of intensity, even if both warring parties had been Muslims, Christians, or even Jewish.
Since the inception of Zionism, its leaders have been keen on creating a "Jewish State" based on a "Jewish majority" by mass immigration of Jews to Palestine, primarily European Jews fleeing from anti-Semitic Tsarist Russia and Nazi Germany. When a "Jewish majority" was impossible to achieve, based on Jewish immigration and natural growth, Zionist leaders (such as Ben Gurion, Moshe Sharett, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, and Chaim Weizmann) concluded that "population transfer" was the only solution to what they referred to as the "Arab Problem." Year after year, the plan to ethnically cleanse Palestine of its indigenous people became known as the "transfer solution". David Ben-Gurion, the first Israeli Prime Minister, eloquently articulated the "transfer solution" as the following:
"From your entry into Jerusalem, through Lifta,
Romema [East Jerusalem Palestinian neighborhood]. . . there are no
[Palestinian] Arabs. One hundred percent Jews. Since Jerusalem was destroyed
by the Romans, it has not been Jewish as it is now. In many [Palestinian]
Arab neighborhoods in the west one sees not a single [Palestinian] Arab. I
do not assume that this will change. . . . What had happened in Jerusalem. .
. . is likely to happen in many parts of the country. . . in the
six, eight, or ten months of the campaign there will certainly be great
changes in the composition of the population in the country." (Expulsion
Of The Palestinians, p. 180-181) For Israelis and Zionists to excuse themselves from any war crimes, such as compulsory population transfer (Ethnic
Cleansing) and dispossessing the Palestinian people, they've resorted to a myth that Palestinians left their homes,
farms, businesses, banks, boats, cars, etc. based on their free will, click
here to read our rebuttal of this concocted myth.
Jaffa May
1948, Palestinians were being pushed
into the see by the attacking Israeli Army
There is no denying the fact that some Palestinians think as many Zionists do (a Palestinian version of Zionism), and very possibly they do so because they were the victims of such treatment themselves. Regardless of whether it's right or wrong, you have to agree that it is human nature to respond to terror with terror, and to racism with racism, these are facts that all decent people must accept and deplore simultaneously. No matter what the circumstances are (such as the urge to seek vengeance, revenge, reprisals, etc.), targeting civilians to achieve political or military objectives, in either war or non-war situations, is terrorism. It should be noted that the Palestinian people have been on the receiving end of Israeli terrorism (the chief aspect of which are the collective DISPOSSESSION and ETHNIC CLEANSING of 8.5 million Palestinians) for the past five decades.
Finally, the Palestinian mainstream does not and will not condone massive ethnic cleansing such as that which Israelis and Zionists have perpetrated against to the Palestinian people. Palestinians, as Muslim and Arabs, have a long history and track record which proves exactly the opposite. Omar Ibn al-Khatab's and Saladin's conquest of Jerusalem are solid proof of how Arabs and Muslims treated their defeated subjects fairly during the Byzantines and the Crusades respectively. Ironically, many of today's Christian Palestinians trace their roots to the Crusades, such as the famous Rock family of Jaffa. In other words, if freeing Palestine would imply perpetrating war crimes similar to the ones perpetrated against the Palestinian people, Palestinians will wait for another Omar or Saladin to right the wrongs of the past. The Muslim Arabs have their history to prove their tolerance towards their subjects, however, the Israelis and Zionists have their track record to speak for them. Palestine Remembered has been explicitly built to expose and uncover Israeli war crimes and to AMPLIFY the voices of the Palestinian refugees.
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The prophecy in the bible, which is GOD's word, states that Israel will again become a nation. Through GOD's divine providence this prophecy has come true like every other in the bible. There is nothing anyone can do to stop it. I do not wish any palestinian to suffer or die, but you cannot stop
GOD's will and none will ever remove or destroy Israel. Any attempts to do so is an exercise in futility.
I am ashamed of my country (USA) for supporting Israel. I can think of nothing beneficial that has resulted from Israel's existence.
My heart bleeds for the injustice to the palestinias.The jews should have more compasion,consdiring what happened to them in the past.zac
It is so sad to see the hatred and intolerance mirored here. Both sides use the greeting "Peace" and both sides practise war. Truly, does anyone here really desire peace? I don't think so. The mutual hatreds are too deep and the killings will continue for generations to come just as they have done for the past 60 years. There is no hope because no one offers hope. I lived in Israel 1956 to 1961 and spoke Hebrew and Arabic. They were among the best years of my life and I had dear friends both Jewish and Arab. Eventually the Israeli secret police, the Shin Bet, forced me to leave because I lived among the Arab community in 'Akka where I had dear friends and wanted to learn more of their circumstances. I have read some articles of moderation in Palestine Remembered and I know many Jews inside and outside of Israel only desire to redress the wrongs of the past. Are peace and love stronger forces than hatred and war? Time will tell.
Gayle
It is all so sad. Everyone is right. And everyone is wrong. Jews suffered enough throughout the diaspora and, with good reason, returned to their original land...their home. Palestinians suffered and continue to suffer because, in order to have their country, the Jews had no choice but to remove them. It would have been wonderful if they could have
lived together, but it was impossible. Initially, Jews quietly and legally bought land, but the reality of their strength and resolve to create a homeland became an unstopable avalanche that surprised everyone in the world. By the time the state of Israel was envisioned, it was a force that couldn't be stopped. The Arab world was bitter and hostile, and Jews met kind with kind...with killing and atrocities. Israel would not exist and Jews would not have a home if they had acted civilly.
I don't know a way out of the mess. A two-state solution seems totally unworkable. They would remain forever hostile, frozen in bombings and tank raids and machine guns.
Ideally, Arabs and Jews would live together, house by house, side by side, in a large geographical area (not necessarially a country) stretching from the Red Sea to the Euphrates. There would be no ugly horrible walls of separation, they would share work and markets. People would travel freely. Mosques would exist next to synagogues, children would play together and share a common history...Women would gossip together, mothers would help each other, men would eat together...But I am a fool. Fear, pride, hatred, greed, and anger seem to govern this beautiful land.
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Once again history repeats itself; the holocaust of the second world war has led to another holocaust lasting 60 years in still in the making. We, the people of Palestine are being treated to that of which is similar to how the blacks were treated in early "white supremacy" America. I believe that Zionism has learned much from Nazism, and thus has become most what they claim to hate, Nazis' themselves. America is committing serious war crimes by helping out a terrorist organization such as israel, and yes i called israel an organization not a country because they treat the death of the Palestinians and orthodox jews who resist Zionism as a business. Their bank accounts stay full, while our dry lands stay covered in everlasting wet Arab blood, enough to fill not just the sea of my hometown ,Jaffa, but all the seas in general. To the Zionist controlled media we are terrorists, but to the child who prays for the day to attend her school playground without worrying about death from israeli soldiers, we are freedom fighter...VIVA LA REVOLUTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Israel should never have been created. It is the largest threat to world peace at the moment, and as long as the world greets the slaughter of women, children and young men by the Israeli terrorists with silence there can never be any hope for peace in the Middle East, or anywhere else for that matter.
Israll is an aparteid and abusive state. They steal the American's tax dollars and con American Citizens into thinking they are "allies". If you want to have some small semblance of the truth watch The "Passion of The Christ" by Mel Gibson or "Kingdom of Heaven" by Ridley Scott. The Jewish State is not supposed to exist until the coming of the Messiah. This view is shared by Christians, Muslims, and Real Jews. Read your Bible, Q'uran, or True Scroll of The ancient Jewish Prophets and Think About It. Real humans don't kill Human Babies.
i really donot know what the world wait to recognize that israel is terrorism . the zionist from the begining until now uses the ugly instruments to deal with the palestinian people..so we donot have expect any palistinian or any person to trust him any more .
How do expect Israel to turst them beging with. Beyound their few Israel jews allow jews major in state threat.Israel more likly kill Palastinian refuges let return. I say only thing the Palasitnian can afford Israel feel bad about as far 1948 goes not kill rest Palastininian refugese. Palastiniane two choice give right of return or be kill of by Israel boilgical weapons. If Israel unlease wrath on Palastinian people non thing UN can do to save them. UN try save self.
So are you saying Palestinians DON'T want to destroy Israel?
Arabs want to return the favor of driving the Arabs into the desert. Since Israeli Jews have ALREADY destroyed Palestine and driven Arabs into the desert the Arabs want to return the favor and drive the Jews into the sea. It's called Karma, or what goes around comes around, or chickens coming home to roost, or doing unto others as you would have them do unto you, of live by the sword die by the sword, and all that good biblical stuff Jews talk about.
Imagine: instead being pushed and attacked, imagine dialog, purposes, negotiations, and the main thought of being neighbors or live in peace with respect: Instead attacks or pushing out with force.