Israel Founded On Terror

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Israel Founded On Terror

By Rev Ted Pike

Zionist-dominated mainstream media vividly
portrays Israel as a tiny embattled nation seeking
peace in a sea of Arab hostility.¹ Arabs, we are
told, commit acts of terror while Israel only
resorts to violence out of self-protection. The
facts of history paint a very different picture.

Far from deploring terror, Israel has sanctioned
terror to seize and expand its territory since its
beginnings. In 1944, Zionist leaders in Israel faced
two alternatives. They could continue to allow the
British and Arabs to occupy Palestine, who would
continue to pressure Israel to concede a Palestinian
state. Or they could drive both British and Arabs out.
Israelis chose the latter.

Members of the Zionist ruling elite and their clandestine
terrorist enforcers--the Jewish Agency, Hagana, Irgun
and the Stern Gang--began to exert every possible terrorist
means to dominate Palestine . Their strategy was
simple: the more respectable Zionist establishment would
take the "high road" and officially disavow terrorism.
Meanwhile, Zionist terrorists would commit any crime
needed to disrupt British occupation and to panic
Arabs into flight. The Encyclopedia of the Palestine
Problem, available in most university libraries, documents
from British records more than five hundred violent or
terrorist incidents against Palestinians and the British
occupation between 1939 and 1948. These included
bombings, booby traps and landmines, kidnappings and
torture of prisoners, bank robberies, murders of Arabs,
and assassinations of police and British officials. ²

Chief terrorists were David Ben-Gurion, Menachem Begin,
Yitzhak Shamir and later, Ariel Sharon. Begin headed Irgun,
and Shamir led the Stern Gang. They cooperated intimately
with the highest political body of the Zionist establishment,
the Jewish Agency, and the popular Zionist resistance
army, Hagana. Ben-Gurion headed Hagana and later the
Jewish Agency.³

After 1944--when Ben-Gurion formally rejected the
British plan for partition of Palestine into Jewish/Arab
states--most Israelis, particularly the young, favored
expulsion of British and Arabs.
Here is the short list of Zionist atrocities from
1944 to the present:

• Assassination of Lord Moyne on November 6, 1944 .
Under orders from Yitzhak Shamir, terrorists of the
Stern Gang shot Lord Moyne, British resident minister.
Purpose: To drive the British from Palestine .

• The King David massacre, July 22, 1946. Begin's Irgun
terrorists, with encouragement from Ben-Gurion’s
Hagana, blew up the King David Hotel in Jerusalem,
murdering 92. Purpose: Destroy British records that
proved the highest members of the Zionist government
backed anti-British terrorism. ⁴

• British sergeants hanged, July 12, 1947. Begin, Shamir,
and Haganah authorized kidnapping and hanging of two
British sergeants, booby trapping their bodies and mining
the area. During this time, Shamir sent many letters and
package bombs to British officials. 1947 also included
multiple cases of kidnappings (including brutal floggings of
British soldiers) by Jewish terrorists.

• The Semiramis Hotel massacre, January 5, 1948. Jewish
Agency leader David Ben-Gurion and Haganah leaders blew
up the Seramis Hotel in Jerusalem , killing 20 and wounding
17. Purpose: Terrorize Arabs into fleeing Israel . ⁵

• Deir Yassin massacre, April 9, 1948 . Begin’s Irgun soldiers
killed 250 sleeping Arab villagers at Deir Yassin, a suburb
of Jerusalem . "25 pregnant women were bayoneted in
their abdomens while still alive. 52 children were maimed
under the eyes of their mothers and then were slain and
their heads cut off." ⁶ "…Menachem Begin, the leader of
the Irgun gang, himself admitted on December 28, 1950 in
a press interview in New York, that the Deir Yassin incident
had been carried out in accordance with an agreement
between the Irgun and the Jewish Agency and Haganah."⁷
Begin was always proud of what he had done, considering
Deir Yassin a legitimate military target. Irgun trucks drove
throughout Judea, announcing by loudspeaker to hundreds
of thousands of Arabs that unless they fled Israel they
would meet the same fate. Deir Yassin and subsequent
terrorist acts precipitated flight of more than 800,000
Arabs from Palestine. In town after town Zionist soldiers
drove Palestinians out, usually killing any person who
delayed or attempted to take any possessions with them.
Arab towns were bulldozed, replaced with Jewish communities.
⁸ Begin comments on the level of Palestinian terror
generated by Irgun’s massacre at Deir Yassin. “Out
of evil, however, good came. This Arab propaganda spread
a legend of terror amongst Arabs and Arab troops, who
were seized with panic at the mention of Irgun soldiers. The
legend was worth a dozen battalions to the forces of Israel .”
⁹ Israel exiled these unfortunates to concentration camps in
Lebanon, the West Bank, and Gaza, refusing to allow
them repossession of their land and property or adequate
compensation.¹⁰ This is the seminal cause of international
Arab terrorism and the Mid-East conflict that rages today.

• Assassination of UN mediator Count Folke Bernadotte,
September 17, 1948 . This killing by the Stern Gang
was on orders of Shamir. Purpose: To sabotage UN efforts
to create a Palestinian state.

• Massacre at Dawayma, October 29, 1948. Israeli soldiers
killed between 80 and 100 men, women, and children in
Dawayma, a suburb of Haifa. Purpose: Intensify terror
generated by Deir Yassin and compel the remaining
Palestinians to leave Israel.¹¹

• Massacre at Kibya, October 14, 1953 . In an atrocity
condoned by the highest levels of the Israeli government
and military, Ariel Sharon led 700 crack paratroopers to
attack the Jordanian town of Kibya . They slaughtered 75
innocent men, women, and children primarily by locking
families in their homes and blowing them up. ¹² Purpose:
Collective punishment to avenge the alleged killing of a
single Jewish family.

• Massacre of Kafr Kassim, October 29, 1956. 51 men,
women, and children were murdered by Israeli troops as
they returned to their villages in the evening after work.
13 more were severely wounded by the gunfire. Purpose:
Terrorize Palestinians into not siding with Egypt in case of
war. ¹³

• Massacre of USS Liberty, June 8, 1967. Israel 's jet
fighters and torpedo boats repeatedly attempted to sink
US intelligence monitoring vessel USS Liberty during the
1967 Israel/Egypt war. They killed 34 and wounded 171
American sailors. Purpose: Minister of Defense Moshe
Dayan ordered the attack ostensibly to protect Israel
's intelligence communications, even though the war was
virtually over. ¹⁴

• Libyan airliner massacre, February 21, 1973. Straying
over Israeli-controlled Sinai air space, a Libyan 727
commercial airliner was intercepted by Israeli fighters
and, despite the clearest identification, shot down, killing
106. Purpose: Flexing Zionist power against Libya .¹⁵

• Massacre in Sabra and Shatila refugee camps, Beirut,
Lebanon, September 23, 1982. Gen. Ariel Sharon and
Yitshak Shamir, in cooperation with "Christian" Phalangist
forces sealed all exits and provided aerial flares, illuminating
the slaughter of up to 2,750 men, women, and children,
according to a body count by the committee of the Red Cross.
Purpose: collective punishment of Palestinians. ¹⁶

What About Arab Terrorism?

It was inevitable that Zionism’s threatened and
actual expulsion of Arabs from land the Arabs occupied
from the seventh century should incur hostility –
even terrorism. Jews of Hebron were massacred by
Arabs in 1929. The Arab revolt in Palestine beginning
in 1936 resulted in acts of violence against many
Jews, followed by anti-Jewish mistreatment during
the 1948 war. Suicide bombings and rocket attacks
continue against Israel in recent years.
Who is most at fault? Consider this: If someone,
claiming divine right to occupy your house and land,
drives you from them, condemning you and your
children to a distant, arid concentration camp for
generations, would you resort to violence?
There is only one word that describes the
one who displaced you. Aggressor. The Palestinians,
fanatical and terrorist as many have become, are
nevertheless defenders of ancient rights and territories
that have been horrifically violated.
They are victims hitting back.

Becoming "Civilized" Terrorists?

During the past 40 years, Israel's continuing
atrocities are justified as "collective punishment" of the
Palestinian people. Israel’s attack on Lebanon in 1982,
described by Israel as such punishment, killed over 19,000
innocent men, women and children. Under Sharon’s invasion
of the West Bank under Sharon in 2002, whole villages were
attacked with Hellfire missiles from Apache helicopters, with
occupied homes shelled by tanks or bulldozed over. 4,185
Palestinian men were seized, beaten, jailed. The number of
dead is still uncertain since Sharon would not allow
western observers to document the aftermath.¹⁷
Israel's present policies in the West Bank and Gaza,
routinely killing large numbers of innocent men, women
and children, remain full of atrocities. I have also written
about one of the greatest atrocities Israel still indulges in:
the systematic and fiendish torture of many thousands of
Palestinian prisoners, incarcerated, most without trial, in
Israeli prisons. ¹⁸

After leaders of the Third Reich committed atrocities against
the Jews during World War II, they were tried, hanged and
buried, both physically and under the contempt of humanity.
The opposite happened to the bloody and arrogant terrorists
of Israel. Ben-Gurion, Begin, Shamir, and Sharon were all
elected to leadership of the nation. This reflected the
anti-Palestinian, terrorism-friendly mentality of many Israeli
voters.¹⁹ The Encyclopedia of the Palestine Problem
documents, from United Nations records, more than
650 attacks by Jewish settlers and the Israeli military
against Arabs between 1948 and 1998.²⁰

Shamefully, evangelical Christians have given
uninterrupted support to Israel’s terrorist leaders.
Evangelicals believe God brought to birth the state of
Israel by divine assistance at every stage. Actually,
statehood (i.e. expulsion of the British and Arabs) was
made possible by massacre – starting at Deir Yassin.
Yet there has never been an atrocity in Israel searing
enough to alienate Christian idealism, or even prompt
criticism from major evangelical leaders. Dr. Jerry
Falwell said Begin was a "man of God." George Bush
described Sharon as a "man of peace."

What kind of a god would establish a nation on terror?
A god who is as evil as the devil.

Endnotes:

1. See, Jews Confirm Big Media Is Jewish.

2. The Encyclopedia of the Palestine Problem,
by Dr. Issa Nakhleh, Intercontinental Books,
New York, 1991, pp. 65-250.

3. Ibid, pp. 65-68, 269 and elsewhere provide abundant
documentation of the close cooperation between
Ben-Gurion’s Hagana, the Jewish Agency, Irgun, and
the Stern Gang. So does Menachim Begin in his book,
“Revolt!” and in public statements.

4. Ibid, p. 269.

5. United Nations Security Counsel Official Records,
Semiramis, 1948, Document S/740 says, "Hagana
terrorists made a most barbarous attack at . . .
the Semiramis Hotel, killing innocent people and
wounding many. The Jewish Agency terrorist forces
blasted the entrance and then placed bombs in the
basement . . .the whole building collapsed with its
residents."

6. Ibid, pg. 271

7. Ibid, pg. 272

8. Ibid, pp. 295-393. “They expelled 90 percent of the
inhabitants of the occupied area by massacre and force.
They destroyed 425 Arab towns and villages as well as 67
villages and localities of the Bedouin tribes (pg. 332).”

9. Menachem Begin. “The Revolt.”
(London, W. H. Allen, 1983.) Pg. 164.

10. Israeli propaganda says Palestinians did not flee
because of pressure from Israel. Rather, Arab leaders,
fearing Palestinians would be caught in crossfire
between Jew and invading Arab armies, encouraged
them to find temporary shelter in Lebanon and Jordan.
It says that, considering their lack of loyalty to their
ancestral lands and property, as well as the newly
created state of Israel, they are worthy of neither repatriation,
repossession nor reimbursement. Instead they should have
been assimilated by wealthy Arab nations. The fact that
millions remain in virtual concentration camps is the fault of
the uncaring Arab world, not Israel. Israel also contends
that after 1948 its hundreds of Jewish settlements were
built, not on previous Arab villages, but on barren lands
the Arabs had been too lazy to develop. Evangelicals accept
these lies unquestioningly.

11. Zionist soldiers admitted, "They killed some eighty
to one hundred Arabs, women and children. The children
were killed by smashing their skulls with clubs…In the
village there remained Arab men and women who were
put in the houses without food. Then the sappers came to
blow up the houses." Quoted in David Gilmour, "Dispossessed:
The Ordeal of the Palestinians".
(London: Sphere Books, 1980), pp. 68-69.

12. General Van Bennike, testifying before the
United Nations Security Council said: “Bullet-ridden
bodies near the doorways and multiple bullet holes
on the doors of the demolished houses indicated that the
inhabitants had been forced to remain inside until their
homes were blown up over them.” United Nations Security
Council Official Records, Resolution, 1953, S/3139/Rev. 2.
Quoted in The Encyclopedia of the Palestine Problem, pg. 274.

13. The Israeli daily Kol Haam published on its front page
the full story of the Kafr Kassim massacre. It said: “…
the men of the Israeli Frontier Guard killed 47 Arab
citizens in Kafr Kassim. The killing was carried out in cold
blood and for no reason.” Kol Haam’s story is published in its
entirety in The Encyclopedia of the Palestine Problem, pg. 278.

14. The Encyclopedia of the Palestinian
Problem, pg. 282.

15. Ibid, pg 283.

16. Ibid, pg. 284.

17. Here are typical Israeli atrocities during the Gaza
invasion, as documented by Human Rights Watch:
“14-year-old Muhammad Hawashin was shot twice in
the face and killed on April 3rd, as he walked with a
group of women and children toward the local
hospital. Wheelchair bound Kamal Zghair, 57-years-old,
was shot and run over by IDF tanks on April 10th as
he wheeled himself down the road to his home,
equipped with a white flag. Afaf Disuqi, an unarmed civilian
responded to a knock on her door on April 5th and was
killed by a bomb thrown by IDF soldiers. Eye witnesses
reported that the soldiers were laughing as Disuqi was
horribly mutilated by the blast.”
“Human Rights Watch Report Into Jenin
Accuses Israel of War Crimes.” Julie Hyland.
World Socialist Web Site. www.wsws.org.
10 May 2002.

18. See, Torture in Israeli Prisons.

19. According to Israeli newspaper Haaretz,
hatred and racism toward Palestinians is still
intense.
“Study: Israeli Jews Becoming Increasingly
Racist Toward Arabs.” 19 March 2008 .

20. The Encyclopedia of the Palestine Problem, pp. 413-433.

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Rev. Ted Pike is director of the National Prayer Network,
a Christian/conservative watchdog organization.

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