Happy Birthday Israel: Company is Coming and they are Carrying UN Flags!

Eileen Fleming

Happy Birthday Israel: Company is Coming and
they are Carrying UN Flags!

[Israel Palestine] As candidate McCain pandered to militants and fundamentalists during his trip to Jerusalem, giving firm "
support for Israel's military response" [1] in Gaza,
he ignored B'Tselem/the Israeli Information Center for Human
Rights in Occupied Palestine Report which affirms.

As of "27 February to the afternoon of 3 March,
106 Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip. Contrary to
the Chief of Staff's contention that ninety percent were
armed, at least fifty-four of the dead (twenty-five of them
minors) did not take part in the hostilities. In addition, at
least forty-six minors were wounded… including the killing of
four children and wounding of two others while they played
soccer in the street, east of the Jabalya refugee camp on
28 February. B'Tselem's investigation indicates that Qassam
rockets may have been fired earlier about 100 meters from
where the children were. However, no armed Palestinians
were killed or injured in the incident." [2]

McCain, the son of Vice Admiral McCain, the man who directed
the rush job, white wash known as the Court of Inquiry
regarding the June 8, 1967 attack by Israeli jets and torpedo
boats on the lightly armed spy ship, the USS LIBERTY, as she
sailed in international waters also issued a "further signal of
solidarity with Israel, [by supporting] the Jewish state's claim
to Jerusalem as its capital, which the international community
rejects." [3]

But, hope and wisdom has spoken, for the most promising
of a Palestinian Martin Luther King, Jr. has a risen in Ramallah.

Ziad Abu Ein, a senior Fatah operative and Deputy Minister
for Prisoners' Affairs in the Palestinian Authority, is offering
the world a vision to begin the world again with a nonviolent
plan to defeat the culture of terrorism, racism and denial of
the other.

On the very same day McCain was beating the drum of discord,
disharmony and disunity, the Jerusalem Post [4] reported on
the Palestinian visionary, Ziad Abu Ein, who has chosen the
way of accord, harmony, unity and civilian obedience by
activating the United Nations Resolution 194 regarding the
rights of refugees to return home.

From May 14-16, the Palestinian Diaspora will be commemorating
Israel's 60th birthday in the Holy Land by arriving with suitcases,
tents and their house keys, carrying UN flags along with their
UNRWA-issued ID cards.

As human beings have rights and states and nations have
obligations, this global citizen, American civilian journalist
and justice and peace seeker, phoned Ziad on March 19,
2008 to learn more about his dream; because one dream can
change everything and only in solidarity do "we have it in our
power to begin the world again"-Tom Paine.

Ziad informed me, "I was born in 1959 in a tent in a refugee camp
in Ramallah. Before 1948, my family had lots of land. My family has
suffered so much and so have my four children.

"The Palestinians did not make Resolution 194, the UN did!

"We are calling all the refugees to come home and be UN
peaceful soldiers!

"We are calling all Israelis and all the people of the world to
wake up and participate in seeking justice and peace with us
because this is the only way we will stop the terrorists!

"This initiative is seeking full human rights for all the Palestinians
in exile. This initiative is seeking peace with the Jewish people
which requires justice for Palestinians. This initiative is
accepting and implementing UN Resolution 194!

"We cannot succeed in the peace process until we solve the
refugee problem!

"We must expel the hate from hearts and minds! The only
discrimination is in not accepting the other."

On December 11, 1948 The UN General Assembly passed
Resolution 194 in regards to the crisis in Palestine that erupted
and continues to flame because of the actions of 'civilized' white
men who carved up the Holy Land in a misguided attempt to
semi-repent for the atrocities of the Third Reich by forcing
the indigenous peoples of Palestine to pay for the sins of
the Nazis.

The birth of the state of Israel resulted in Al-Nakba/The
Disaster for Palestinians who were forced out of their legally
owned homes and off their legally owned property because of
the lust of Zionists supremacists who violently pursued grabbing
more than the UN had partitioned unto them.

"On March 10, 1948, in Tel Aviv, eleven men had a meeting
in the Red House headed by Ben Gurion. The eleven decided
to expel one million Palestinians from historical Palestine. No
minutes were taken, but many memoirs were written about
that fateful meeting. A systematic ethnic cleansing of Palestine
began and within seven months the Zionists managed to expel
one half of all the Palestinian people from their villages
and towns." [5]

Dr. Ilan Pappe, spoke those words on Nov. 8, 2006, on
the seventh day of Sabeel's [Arabic for THE WAY] 6th
International Conference; The Forgotten Faithful/AKA
the Palestinian Christians, and this civilian journalist was
in the audience.

Dr. Pappe spoke to over 330 International ecumenical
Christians in the Ramallah Cultural Palace on that day about the
"Dynamics of Forgetting" and because of the "fierce urgency of
now" [Rev. MLK, Jr.] the world is beginning to remember that
once there was a Red House where a most diabolical plan was
hatched.

Dr. Pappe informed the crowd, "The Red House in Tel Aviv
is gone now. It was a typical building in Tel Aviv that had all the
characteristics of Mediterranean homes but with the local
Palestinian architecture of the '20's. Today a USA Sheraton
Hotel stands in its place. The Red House was the home of
the Hagganah; a Jewish underground organization but before
1948 it was the home of a socialist movement, from which it
received its name."

Haganah is Hebrew for "The Defense" and was a Jewish
paramilitary organization formed in what was then the British
Mandate for Palestine from 1920 to 1948. It began as a small
group of "Jewish immigrants who guarded settlements for an
annual fee. At no time did the group have more than 100
members until after the Arab riots of 1920 and 1921. The
Jewish leadership in Palestine believed that the British, whom
the League of Nations had given the Mandate of Palestine in
1920, had no desire to confront the Arabs about attacks on the
Palestinian Jews, and thus created the Haganah to protect
their farmers and settlements. The initial role of the Haganah
was to guard the Jewish Kibbutzim and farms, and to warn the
residents of and repel attacks by Palestinian Arabs.

In the period between 1920 and 1929, the Haganah lacked a
strong central authority or coordination. Haganah "units" were
very localized and poorly armed: they consisted mainly of
Jewish farmers who took turns guarding their farms or their
kibbutzim. Following the Arab 1929 Hebron massacre that
led to the ethnic cleansing by the British authorities of all Jews
from the city of Hebron, the Haganah's role changed dramatically.
It became a much larger organization encompassing nearly all the
youth and adults in the Jewish settlements, as well as thousands
of members from the cities. It also acquired foreign arms
and began to develop workshops to create hand grenades and
simple military equipment. It went from being an untrained
militia to a capable army."

The British did not officially recognize the Haganah,but
the British security forces cooperated with it by forming the
Jewish Settlement Police, Jewish Auxiliary Forces and Special
Night Squads. By 1931, the most right-wing elements of
Haganah branched off and formed Irgun Tsva'i-Leumi (the
National Military Organization), better known as "Irgun"
(or by its Hebrew acronym, pronounced "HaEtsel"). The
members were discontented with the policy of restraint when
faced with British and Arab pressure and "terrorists" in their
own right. Irgun later split in 1940, and their off-shoot
became known as the "Lehi" (Hebrew acronym of Lochamei
Herut Israel, standing for Freedom Fighters of Israel, and
also known by the British as the "Stern Gang" after its leader,
Abraham Stern. Because the British severely restricted
Jewish immigration to Palestine, in 1939 the Haganah
created the Palmach - the Haganah's strike force, which
also organized illegal Jewish immigration of over 100,000
Jews to Palestine.

In 1944, in response to the assassination of Lord Moyne,
the British Minister of State for the Middle East, by members
of the Jewish Lehi underground, the Haganah worked with
the British to round up, interrogate, and, in some cases,
deport Irgun members. This action was called the Saison
(or hunting season), and seriously demoralized the Irgun
and reduced its activities.

But, the Saison could not stop the Irgun, Haganah and the
Stern Group from working together. The three groups had
different functions, which served to move the British out
of Palestine and to make Palestine a Jewish state rather
than create a Jewish home in Palestine.

Menachem Begin, an Irgun commander, stated in a 1944
meeting: "In fact, there is a division of roles; one
organization advocates individual terrorism (the Lehi),
the other conducts sporadic military operations (the Irgun)
and there is a third organization which prepares itself to
throw its final weight in the decisive war."

On November 8, 2006, Dr. Pappe also illuminated the
crowd of committed justice and peace seeking Christians that,
"The New York Times followed Israeli troops and reported the
truth of the expulsion and separation of men and women,
and of the many massacres. The world was well informed in
1948, but a year later not a trace was reported in the USA
press or books. It was as if nothing ever happened.

"From March to October 1948 the USA State Department stated
what was happening was a crime against humanity and ethnic
cleansing. When ever one ethnic group expels another group
they should be treated as War Criminals and the victims should
be allowed to return. This is never mentioned in the USA about
Palestine.

"Israel is so successful in their ethnic cleansing because the
world doesn't care! The ethnic cleansing continues via the
apartheid policies of the Israeli government and because of
the denial of the truth by the USA media.

"To claim Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East is bullshit!
The Six Day War of 1967 escalated the ethnic cleansing and today
in Jerusalem every Palestinian who fails to pay taxes, or has a
minor infraction will loose their citizenship.

"In 1948 the mechanism of denial and ethnic cleansing as an
IDEOLOGY, not a policy but a formula began. When Zionism
began in the 19th century it was meant to be a safe haven for
Jews and to help redefine Judaism as a national movement,
not just a religion. Nothing wrong with either of those goals!
But by the late 19th Century it was decided the only way these
goals could be achieved was by ridding the indigenous
population and it became an evil ideology.

"Israeli Jewish life will never be simple, good, or worth living
while this ideology of domination, exclusiveness and superiority
is allowed to continue. The mind set today is that unless Israel is
an exclusive Jewish State, Palestinians will continue to be obstacles.
However, there has always been a small vocal minority
challenging this.

"The only thing that can save Palestinians is for the world to
say "ENOUGH is ENOUGH!" The way to challenge and change
the ethnic cleansing is to pursue true democracy and the use
of sanctions and divestment, for money talks." [IBID]

Since 1948, USA taxpayers have provided over 100 Billion
dollars to Israel, which is not a democracy, but an ETHNOCRACY!

"Israel is a not a democracy but is an Ethnocracy, meaning a
country run and controlled by a national group with some
democratic elements but set up with Jews in control and
structured to keep them in control."-Jeff Halper, Founder
and Coordinator of ICAHD/Israeli Committee Against House
Demolitions and a Noble Peace Prize Nominee for 2006. [6]

In 1973, Ariel Sharon told Winston Churchill III, "We'll
make a pastrami sandwich of them. We'll insert a strip of
Jewish settlement, in between the Palestinians, then another
strip of Jewish settlement, right across the West Bank, so that
in 25 years time, neither the United Nations, nor the United
States, nobody, will be able to tear it apart."

Just weeks before Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated,
he envisioned Israel "as one of the greatest outposts of
democracy in the world...an oasis of brotherhood and
democracy."

One man's dream can change
everything.

Learn More and Do Something:

http://www.return08.com/Eng/index.html


1. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080319/wl_mideast
_afp/mideastdiplomacyusmccain

2. http://www.btselem.org/english/
Press_Releases/20080303.asp

3. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080319/wl_
mideast_afp/mideastdiplomacyusmccain

4. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?
cid=1205420712985&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

5. http://www.ilanpappe.org/News/The%20Peoples%20Voice.html

6. Memoirs of a Nice Irish-American 'Girl's
Life in Occupied Territory, Eileen Fleming, page 15.
--
Only in Solidarity do "we have it in our
power to begin the world again.

"-Tom Paine

http://www.wearewideawake.org/

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