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Thailand and the Middle East. What policy? |
Author: Manfred
Date:
19 Jan 2552 03:00
Israel, the Zionist dream and reality The Jews need a state, their own state, a safe haven offering shelter and protection against racism and persecutions. The Austrian Zionist Dr Theodor Herzl was convinced that the Jews could get their state. In his book "Der Judenstaat" (The Jewish State) published in the year 1896, he wrote: "The Jews who wish for a State will have it. We shall live at last as free men on our own soil, and die peacefully in our own homes." - "Antagonism is essential to man's greatest efforts. But the Jews, once settled in their own State, would probably have no more enemies." This state should be established in Palestine. At the time Herzl was writing Palestine was part of the Osman Empire. According to British records the Jews living there amounted to only 24, 000 individuals, before the Zionist immigration began in 1882. After the desintegration of the Osman Empire during World War One Palestine was administered by the High Commissioner of the British Mandate for Palestine on behalf of the League of Nations (predecessor of the United Nations,UN). The task of the British was to prepare Palestine for independence. In order to get the Jewish state Herzl was even willing to make a deal with the Osman ruler: "If His Majesty the Sultan were to give us Palestine, we would in return undertake to regulate the whole finances of Turkey". It is significant to note that when Herzl talks about Palestine, he does not mention people. He simply ignores the fact that Palestine was a populated territory, not an empty strip of land waiting for settlers. This strange absence of people in the land where the Jewish state was to be established continues throughout the book. Words like "Palestinian" or "Arab" are not part of his vocabulary. When Herzl talks about people, he talks about Jewish people; and when he talks about land, he talks about the "Promised Land", "the native land". This land is God's gift to His chosen people and belongs to them alone. The legitimation of the Zionist claim of exclusive rights to all of Palestine is based on religious fundamentalism with an inherent racist component. In the Jewish state there is no place for the Palestinians; this explains their total absence in Herzl's book. There is, however, an indirect reference to the Palestinians: "On their arrival the emigrants will be welcomed by our chief officials with due solemnity but without foolish exultation, for the Promised Land will not yet have been conquered (!)". But what should be the fate of the non-Jewish indigenous people? Herzl carefully avoids this topic. But other Zionists are very explicit. A term frequently used is "transfer". The Palestinians should be "transferred" from their homeland to other parts of the Arab world: "We cannot allow the Arabs to block so valuable a piece of historic reconstruction... And therefore we must gently persuade them to 'trek'. After all, they have all Arabia with its million square miles... 'To fold their tents' and 'silently steal away' is their proverbial habit: let them exemplify it now". (Israel Zwangwill) But what, if they refuse to do so? Well, then the land must be conquered (Herzl) and the people be forced to leave. This was done with great success during the 1948 / 49 war when 720,000 (UN estimates) Palestinians became refugees. Initially, Jewish immigration to Palestine met little opposition from the Palestinian Arabs. However, when Jewish immigration increased markedly, tensions and conflicts arose. The history of the relations between Jewish immigrants and Palestinians is a trail of violence and suffering. Attacks on Jewish settlements and massacres prompted Jewish underground organisations such as Irgun and Lehi to conduct their own campaigns of violence. Both groups were labelled as terrorist organisations by the British government. Wars involving neighbouring Arab countries should follow. The Zionist dream of a peaceful Jewish state without enemies became a nightmare, for Jews and Palestinians alike. Instead of a safe haven Israel has been a threatened state. Even walls cannot guarantee its security. Immigrants from far away places cannot build a state on other people's land and expect to live in peace ever after. From a historic perspective, the establishment of the state of Israel, at the expense of the Palestinians, led to one of the world's most intractable conflicts causing instability in the entire region. As the current events in Gaza indicate, there is no light at the end of the tunnel. MANFRED LIEBIG GERMANY |
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Date: 28 Jan 2552 14:14
Israel is a state where Arabs have more rights than they do in neighbor countries. All the talk about Jews being evil is just nonsense. I have many Jewish friends who are wonderful people. I hope for both Israelis and Arabs to live in peace. |
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Author: Big Brother
Date: 27 Jan 2552 22:06
Hello Englishman,
Speaking of racists, have you bothered to look in the mirror lately? |
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Author: Englishman
Date: 27 Jan 2552 01:25
I am so glad to hear from Manfred.
But regret ..that we helped the Zionists to get them Israel, and in return they took our country.
Should have never trusted them.
Now i belive in muslims Koran of what it has been said about the zionists that its one the untrust worth , racists community in the world. |
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Author: Observer
Date: 24 Jan 2552 11:57
Reply# Manfred
You are absolutely right about the Jews .
There s no doubt about it, i wonder why they can never ever live in peace . |
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Author: Big Brother
Date: 24 Jan 2552 03:55
Hello Manfred,
I am pleased to make this easy for you. The current Israel came into existence in 1948, the country exists today. With nuclear weapons among the options Israel has for explaining the county's national interests, Israel will continue to exist long into the future. Palestinian people living in the same area never had a real country of their own and based on their ongoing preferences for suicidal stupidity, probably never will. Those are the facts. Everything else being said on this subject is either nonsense or noises from the ignorant and basically irrelevant. |
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