ZIONISTS IN PALESTINE An Illegal Entity By ABU BACKER
An article entitled “Holy Land’s Pin-up Warriors” in the Outlook (4 August, 2014) highlights the illegal existence of ‘Israel’ in Palestine. The magazine raised two questions: (1) ‘Is Israel becoming a rogue state?’ (2) ‘Can’t the international community rein it in?’
To this few people responded. Richard Anderson Falk (Former UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Palestine) said: ‘I believe that Israel is a rogue state in the regional context of West Asia. It has been defiant toward international law in war/peace contexts, especially since the Lebanon war of 2006, but also in its periodic massive military operations carried out in Gaza over the last six years (2008, 2009, and 2014) against an essentially defenceless civilian population encaged within a crowded space.’
Gregory Shipak (Lecturer, Media Studies, University of Guelph-Humber, Toronto) said: ‘Israel has long been [a] rogue state in that for decades it has violated international law [in] countless ways. Examples of that include its illegal occupation and settlements in Palestinian territories; its refusal to allow Palestinian refugees the right to return to their homes in accord with UN Resolution 194; its seven-year old siege of Gaza, characterised as illegal by such groups as the Red Cross and Amnesty International as well as by UN officials like Desmond Tutu, Navi Pillay and Richard Falk.’
Iian Pappe (Historian, University of Exeter, UK) said: ‘It is becoming a rogue state in the eyes of the civil society worldwide, but it is not depicted this way by the political elites or the mainstream media.’
Talmiz Ahmad (Indian Diplomat) said: ‘A rogue state is one that functions with total disregard for international law, norms and values.’
HISTORY
Palestine is the land of Palestinians from the time immemorial. The Israeli people live there for a short while after they lost ground in Egypt. Thus, they are not the aboriginal inhabitants of Palestine. The Jews were driven out from Palestine by the Romans in 78 C.E. After that they mingled with the European races, and consequently, they lost the purity of race. They lived in Europe for 1900 years, a time more than their settlement in Palestine. The Jews’ claim of Palestine as their homeland is totally absurd.
There are many places in the world where the original population turned to another faith. The Chinese converted to Buddhism. Even though they were the original inhabitants of the land and their faith was different before, no one claimed the old faith as the law of the land. The Romans and Greeks were pagans before converting to Christianity. Pagans never claim that Rome was the land of Pagans.
Professor Comas writes: “The anthropological fact is that Jews are racially heterogeneous and there is no foundation for the claim that there is a Jewish race. Their constant migrations through history and their relations with the widest variety of nations and people have brought about such a degree of cross-breeding that the so-called people of Israel can produce examples of traits typical of every people.”
M. Fishberg says: “The claims of Jews to purity of descent are of radical difference between Jews and the so-called Aryan race which anti-Semitism is based.”
A famous scholar, R.N. Salman opines that ‘the purity of the Jewish race is imaginary; the widest variety of ethnic type is found among the Jews.’
The life of Israeli people is mentioned in the Old Testament as well as in the Holy Qur’ān.
Shail A Mayaram, in his article ‘Israel a gift of the Arabs’ (The Hindu, September 11, 2014), opines that the Jewish state of Israel was a gift of the Arab people. The author points out that the Jews enjoyed much freedom and equal rights as Muslims in Muslim countries. Jews and Muslims lived peacefully in Morocco, Algeria, Iraq, Turkey, Iran and Palestine for centuries.
The author writes: ‘There is substantial historical evidence available to show how Jews were thriving in the Abbasid and Ottoman Empires’. He points out that ‘anti-Semitism has plagued the Jews for two millennia and is often involved to justify Israeli impunity. Ironically, the Arabs have historically not been participants in the history of racial hatred. On the contrary, it was in Arabia that the Jews sought refuge after they fled Jerusalem following destruction of second Temple.’
The author also suggests that the whole world, especially democratic India, should support Palestinians for a sovereign and independent state. The author was an eye witness to the terror of Israel in Gaza on 31 May, 2010 when 400 Palestinians were killed of which one third is children. (The Hindu, 11 September, 2014).
In 2006, Gulf Times (Qatar), quoting report by Reuters under the title ‘Syrian Christians support Hezbollah’ revealed that ‘Syrian Christians in Lebanon support Hezbollah against Israel’. The report says, ‘Seventy seven year old Mona Muzaber lights a candle for Hezbollah at the Orthodox Church of the Cross Centre of Damascus. She says; ‘I love him. I never felt Nazrullah was a religious zealot. He is a patriot who does not seek personal ‘gain’. I light a candle daily for him to remain under God’s protection’. (Gulf Times, 5 August, 2006).
The report says: ‘Israel’s offensive against Lebanon has brought Christians in neighbouring Syria closer to Nazrullah.’ Bishops and priests say Syria’s Christians, a devote community of around three million people out of a population of 18 million, identify strongly with Nazrullah’s battle with Israel, which has occupied Syria’s Golan Heights since 1967. Pray for resistance, pray for Hassan Nazrullah. He is defending justice’, Father Elias Zahlawi told the congregation at special mass held at the Lady of Damascus, a Catholic Church. (Gulf Times, 5 August, 2006).
Even the Israeli people support Palestinian cause and oppose Israeli onslaught on Palestinian people, especially children and also Israeli occupation of Palestinian land. Professor A.K. Ramakrishnan speaking at JNU in December 2012 described the human rights violation of Israel in Palestine and cruelty of Israel on Palestinian children.
Zionist occupation of Palestine was not as a result of Hitler’s anti- Jewish attitudes, as many of us believe. In fact, the seeds for a Jewish State were sown in the 19th century itself. Zionism came into existence during 1880s and Hitler’s Fascism was introduced in 1945. It is very clear that the formation of ‘Israel’ was as a result of crooked planning of Judaeo-Christian extremists in Europe. The reports clearly indicate that Britain and America had a pre-planned policy on Arab nations.
To strengthen the illegal state of Israel, Britain and America helped Zionists to make nuclear weapons and destructive bombs. A news report in Peninsula (Qatar) entitled ‘Britain knew 1950s nuclear ingredient was Israel-bond’ reveals that Britain admitted that it knew that heavy water it sold in the 1950s, a key ingredient in making nuclear weapons, was bond for Israel, amid claims of cover-up’. This secret was disclosed by BBC reporter Michael Crick. He revealed that Norway also sold nuclear materials to Israel. Michael Crick said: ‘Britain’s Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) wrote Foreign Office official Donald Cape, who gave the Ministry’s approval for the deal. America also involved in the deal. (Peninsula, December 11, 2005).
A news report entitled ‘Against the survival of Israel’ (Gulf Times, 1 January, 2004) says that Israel will not last long. Citing historical evidences of the fate of ‘Crusaders’, the author, Gwynne Dyer opines that Israel’s existence in Palestine is illegal and illogical. He refers to the speech of Avraham Burg, former speaker of Israel’s Knesset (parliament). Burg warned Israel with the words: ‘It turns out that 2000 years struggle for Jewish survival comes down to a state of settlements, run by an amoral clique of corrupt law breakers. A state lacking justice cannot survive. More and more Israelis are coming to understand this as they ask their children where they expect to live in 25 years. Children who are honest admit, to their parents’ shock, that they do not know. The countdown to the end of Israeli society has begun.’ (Gulf Times, 1 January, 2004). Gwynne Dyer points out that in spite of Arab’s willingness to recognise Israel as it was in 1948, Israelites are not willing to recognise Palestine state. Gwynne Dyer opines, ‘There can be no lasting peace with the Arab world that does not reconcile with the Palestinians.’
The World Book Encyclopaedia states: “Muslim rulers controlled the region until the early 1900’s. The rulers allowed Christians and Jews to keep their religions. However, most of the local population gradually accepted Islamic culture of their rulers.” (Vol. 15, 1990, P.104). In fact, many original Israel people embraced Islam. It was the Christian Bishop who handed over the key of Jerusalem to Omar bin Khattab, the second Caliph, and the inhabitants commented that the Muslim rule was a blessing to them comparing the rude rule of the Romans.
DISTORTION OF HISTORY
Excavations are made in Palestine to unearth past reminiscence of historical buildings to establish Jewish claim over the Palestinian land. It is true Israeli people lived in Palestine for a certain period, but the places of worship they built were entirely different from Jewish synagogues. Judaism is known after Judah, one of the twelve sons of Yaqoob (Israel), the son of Ishaq (a Prophet of Muslims). The other 11 tribes were not known as Jews in the beginning. Abraham (Prophet Ibrahim) is the father of Muslims also. The Jews are divided into two groups, Ashkanazism and Sephardim. These two groups have different cultures. The former speaks a language called Yiddish while the latter speaks Ladino.
The sinister designs of Christian fanatics of Europe (Christians of Arab region are entirely a different community from European Christians whose culture is deep rooted in Roman despotism) have a similarity with the anti-human ideals of Hindutva forces in India. Both were trying to hide their past crimes from their enemies – Jews, the enemies of Christians and non-Brahmanical Hindu castes (Sudras, Harijans etc.), and the enemies of Brahmanical class. Brahmins persecuted low caste Hindus for centuries and European Christians persecuted Jews for centuries under the pretext that Jews are responsible for ‘Crucification’ of Jesus. As the world is ‘free’ now and the Jews have become powerful, Christians feel that Jews would take revenge for what fanatic Christians have done to them. There is similarity in the case of Brahmanical class who feels that its past crimes on non-Brahmanical Hindus would be retaliated. Hence, they distort history with the false propaganda of persecution of Hindus by Muslim rulers which is totally absurd and illogical.
THE PLOT
The formation of Israel on Arab land was the result of a plot by anti-Muslim forces in Europe and America. In fact, the Jews were living peacefully in Muslim countries like Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Algeria and Morocco. Zionism as a terrorist organisation was formed to capture Palestine where all three religions existed with equal status. Zionist activity started in Russia in the beginning of the 19th century. In 1813, Mordacai Manual Neach (1785-1851) pleaded to the Christian world to settle down the Jewish people in Palestine. As Christians had guilty consciousness of ‘killing’ Jesus, they wanted to avoid revenge from the Jews who were developing in the post-war periods. Nephali Hertz (1861-1909) wrote a national anthem for the Jews. Writings of famous scholars like George Eliot, Moses Hess, Asher Ginsberg (Ahad Aham) also influenced Jews to have a separate homeland. Theodor Herzl, an Austrian, was the first Jew to give political interpretation to Zionism. He wrote a pamphlet entitled Deer Judonstaat (Jewish state). He was followed by Weizmann. He along with Sokolow persuaded Balfour to make ‘Balfour Declaration’ by which Jewish people should be settled down in Palestine.
According to the UN plan, Israel was to be formed in America or Uganda (see Encyclopaedia Britannica Vol. 15). But, later, America compelled the UN authorities to create a Jewish state in Palestine. In fact, according to the original plan, Israel is a country with 6000 square miles and no expansion should have been made. In 1919, only Arab people lived in Palestine and the population was estimated at 7,00,000 (7 lakhs). The British government had assured that Israel would be formed protecting the civil and religious rights of the Palestinians. But, after the establishment of the Mandate, Palestine was open to European Jews to migrate. The non-Jewish races also took advantage of the situation. From 1914 to 1934 their number reached 9,00,000 (9 lakhs). Still, Jew and non-Jew population in Palestine was 1:3. (See, World History, K.L Khanna, Laksmi Narayan Agarwal Publication, 2010.)
On 29 November, 1947, the U.N. General Assembly agreed to divide Palestine into an Arab State and a Jewish State. Arabs did not agree to this plan. However, Israel came into existence on May 14, 1948, under the leadership of David Ben-Gurion. A series of conflicts took place between Palestinians and Zionists. But, the UN remained a mute spectator, and did not help Palestinians against the culprits with western powers misusing the Veto power. In 1948 the Jewish population of Israel was only 6,50,000 (six lakh fifty thousand) only. Between 1948 and 1970 about 13 lakhs migrated to Israel. Encyclopaedia Britannica writes: “The emergence of Israel as a Jewish state on the former territory of Palestine was the central political issue of the Middle East after World War II (Vol. 22, 1988).
Large scale migration of the Jews came from 1939 C.E. onwards. They captured the Palestinian land with crooked methods. During night time the Zionists climbed hilly areas and from there they threw heavy stones at residential areas of Palestinians. Subsequently, the Palestinians vacated the places fearing danger in life. The Zionists cheated the Arabs and occupied the land. The Palestinians who were suffering war ravages were given cheap money and their lands were occupied by the Zionists.
Palestinian resistance started from the year 1939. However, the Zionists used crooked methods to defeat the Palestinians. The Zionists disguised as Arab military persons entered the Palestinian camp and stole all the weapons therefrom, subjugating the Palestine army men who were unprepared for a counter attack. Thus, the Zionists could very easily displace the Palestinians from a large portion of the land. After getting a settlement there Zionists fought an unholy war in the night, killing the Palestinians; and by rolling heavy stones from the hilly places to the bottom they frightened the natives who ran away from the places.
INDIA AND PALESTINE
India was a land of truth and justice from time immemorial. That is why ancient Indian people embraced Islam without any political subjugation. This fact was noted by Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru in his Discovery of India. Gandhiji was asked by a group of European journalists on 2 June 1947 at Bombay Dhrodi Hall regarding the solution to the Palestinian problem. Gandhiji replied that the only solution is that Jewish people should abandon terrorist activities in Palestine. The same views were published in Harijan on 18 May 1940. Gandhiji used the word ‘terrorism’ for the first time against the Jews who had planned to capture Palestine. Gandhiji also advised Jews to hold direct talk with Arabs, excluding the British and the Americans. A famous Kerala scholar, Prof. Sukumar Azhicode (a University Professor and scholar) has revealed these facts in his article “Gandhiji and Palestinian Problem” published in Mathrubhumi newspaper on 10 February 2009.
Gandhiji said: ‘Palestine belongs to Arabs in the same sense as England belongs to the English and France to the French’.
Traditionally, India had a very close and cordial relation with Palestine where only Palestinian people were inhabitants till 1939, when the European Jews migrated to Palestine and occupied lands gradually. Religiously speaking, the original inhabitants included Muslims, Jews and Christians. The Muslim Arabs or Palestinians had no problem with the Christian Arabs or with the original ‘Children of Israel’, who were the traditional inhabitants of Palestine. In the Testaments the name of the land is ‘Palestine’. Israel refers to the race rather than a nation.
‘Israel’ was one the few black listed countries of the world where Indians were not permitted to travel. This matter was shown in the Indian passport also. Later, in 1972, Moshe Dayan visited India and started bilateral relations with India. Today, they have found an ally in Hindutva forces in power, and Israel is a favoured nation, which is against the spirit of the Constitution of India.
CHANGE IN INDIAN STAND
India’s traditional attitude of supporting law and justice was turned down by Narasimha Rao, a staunch enemy of Islam and Muslims, when he established full diplomatic relation with the state once considered to be illegal by the government of India. Israel was one of the few countries where Indians were not permitted to visit. It was in 1992 that Rao, who is also named in the Babri Masjid demolition case, invited Zionists to India, and then onwards some officials seem to have been acting according to the instructions given by the Zionists. The illegal arrests of Muslim youths, bomb blasts by Hindutva forces, distortion of historical facts, etc. in India were done under the influence of Zionists. Zionists established ‘cordial’ relations with Hindutva forces, even though these two anti-social elements claim their own superiority over ‘other’ people. The present Indian stand is criticised by many patriotic Indians, including famous writers and politicians.
DANGEROUS ALLY
Referring to the Hindutva support to Zionists, Outlook weekly writes: ‘But public demonstration in support for Israel action on Gaza by pro-Hindutva groups in New Delhi and elsewhere indicates the emergence of a new force openly proud of its admiration for Israel. Ironically, the Hindutva policy is against any non-Hindu groups in India including the Jews. Then why hard-core Zionists terrorists make an ally with Hindutva? These two elements have a common enemy – the Muslims.
WORLDVIEW
Even though few people felt sympathy with the ‘Jews’ for Hitler’s anti-Jewish attitudes, now general opinion has turned against Zionists as they are crueller than Hitler. Hitler was an ultra-nationalist who showed dislike towards ‘settlers’ as the Jews and other non-Germans were called. But, the Jews, who were not the citizens of Palestine for any significant time, occupied Palestine and have been torturing and persecuting the natives with might.
The general view is against ‘Israel’ and Zionists. Even prominent Jews, including Albert Einstein opposed the formation of ‘Israel’ by saying that the term ‘Israel’ mentioned in the Old Testament is the Kingdom of God in the Heaven and not a country in the world. Recently, 543 Israeli military officials, including few top ranking officials, resigned due to the inhuman acts of Israeli government like spying and abduction of innocent Palestinian children. They told the media that they are not ready to do treacherous work. Many such incidents occurred, and in 2002, 200 Israeli soldiers rejected Israeli military order to attend a camp. The news report entitled ‘200 Israelis defy army call-up’ (Gulf Times, 18 September, 2002) says, ‘More than 200 young Israelis called up for national service said in a petition released yesterday that they would refuse to serve in an ‘army of occupation’.
The 213 petitioners accuse Israel of ‘committing war crimes and violating human rights’ in Palestinian territories, and back ‘any form of refusal to do military service’. They also said: ‘The occupation is not only immoral but also damages our security as it is driving the Palestinians to despair and provoking acts of terrorism’. The report says: ‘In addition, 483 reserve officers and soldiers have signed a ‘refusal petition’ saying they will not serve in the occupied territories (Gulf Times, 18 September, 2002). Rashid Khalidi of Columbia University says: “By parroting deceitful Israeli talking points about ‘self defence’ and ‘human shields’, the US and its allies make themselves complicit in what may well amount to war crimes. Until they are willing to end Israel’s impunity and allow the UN to stop this carnage, it will continue.” Even though many countries are against Israeli policy or even the existence of Israel in Palestinian land, no one is bold enough to speak publically against Israel. Indian tradition says: Satyamev Jayate – the ultimate victory belong to TRUTH
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Alliance for Justice and Accountability, a broad coalition of organisations and individuals, announced that the rally in New York City on 28 September during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s event at Madison Square Garden, was a huge success. Hundreds of people, including human rights activists, professionals, students and people from all walks of life attended the rally. Protesters were a large and spirited group of Indian Americans comprising of people of all faiths and ideological persuasions, with one thing in common: they were demanding justice and accountability in the case of Mr. Modi, and an end to repression of minorities and crony capitalism in India.
“The protests have demonstrated the rejection of a leader who represents a hateful and divisive agenda,” said Robindra Deb, a key AJA organiser of protest on 28 September. “We represent the 70% of Indians that did not vote for Mr. Modi,” added Mr. Deb.
AJA protesters were required by law to share protest space with all other groups protesting at MSG. “While we share human rights concerns, AJA does not endorse separatist calls by other groups protesting outside of MSG. These groups were not part of the Alliance,” said Shaik Ubaid, a spokesperson for the Alliance.
The first 100 days of Mr. Modi’s tenure as PM have shown to the world the grave dangers posed by the Hindu nationalist ideology to pluralism and the rule of law. Since the national elections that brought Modi’s party to power, the northern state of Uttar Pradesh alone has witnessed over 600 incidents against the Muslim minority. Mr. Modi has imposed severe restrictions on civil society institutions including world-renowned organisations like Amnesty International and Greenpeace, and is using India’s Intelligence Bureau to tarnish reputed NGOs in India and the diaspora as “anti-national groups.”
Placards could be seen in the large crowd, demanding that Mr. Modi himself be brought to justice and demanding an end to the sectarian agenda of the Hindutva ideology he espouses. Protesters also expressed determination that they would not let the victims of the Gujarat pogroms of 2002, or the subsequent extra-judicial killings and illegal detentions in Gujarat be forgotten. The anti-conversion agenda espoused by Modi’s party has now spiralled into major polarisation campaigns led by Hindu nationalist militias to restrict the religious freedoms of minority communities.
Mr. Modi was banned from entering the US by the State Department, under the International Religious Freedom Act for his “egregious violations of religious freedom.” With his election to the post of Prime Minister, the US decided to lift the travel ban, an exemption often given to heads of state.
Protesters also referred to the report released by The Ghadar Alliance (a constituent of AJA) that evaluated Mr. Modi’s first 100 days in office. The meticulously researched report details the ways in which the new government has increased repression of minorities through brazen violations of human rights and religious freedom, dismantled democratic protections, while increasing corporate giveaways. The full report can be found at http://www.modifacts.org/
“The protests have sent a clear message. The so-called ‘welcome’ given to Mr. Modi by the Indian diaspora is far from being uniform,” alledged Sonia Joseph, an organiser with SASI in NYC. “On the contrary, a large section of the diaspora has decided its time to stand up and be counted among those who will defend secularism and pluralism in India against the onslaught of Hindutva,” she further added.
“Economic development on the graveyard of human rights and rule of law can never go right,” said Parchi Patankar, another spokesperson for the Alliance.
Protesters came from all over the US, with the majority having arrived through chartered buses from New Jersey, Baltimore, Washington DC, Boston and Philadelphia
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