Will Masada II be the endgame?
I am withdrawing from the battlefield of the war for the truth of history as it relates to the making and sustaining of the conflict in and over Palestine that became Israel, and the following is an explanation of why.
More than three decades ago when I made my commitment to this war effort, in the full knowledge that it would make me persona non grata in the eyes of the mainstream media I had served with some distinction, I believed that the single most amazing thing about the conflict was Zionism’s success in selling its propaganda lies – lies which were told not only to justify anything and everything the Zionist (not Jewish) State of Israel did and does, but also to establish and fix the boundaries of what could and could not be discussed in public discourse about Israel’s policies and actions. (I mean what could and could not be discussed by non-Jews, Europeans and Americans especially, if they didn’t want to be terrorized by smears and false charges of anti-Semitism which could result in them losing their positions and jobs).
What could be called the Mother and Father of Zionism’s propaganda lies is the assertion that all the Jews of the world are descended from the ancient Hebrews and therefore have a common ethnic origin and national heritage. In other words, according to Zionism’s assertion, Palestine is by definition the ancestral homeland of all the Jews of the world; and this, it is further asserted by Zionism, means that Israel has the right to sovereignty over all the land it occupies today and Jews from anywhere have the right to settle on it.
As Israeli historian Shlomo Sand explains in his book The Invention of the Jewish People, that is simply not true. And as I noted in my book Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews (which was published before Sand’s work), almost all if not all the Jews who went to Palestine in answer to Zionism’s call had no biological connection to the ancient Hebrews. They, like almost all Jews, were the descendants of peoples from many homelands (mainly in Eastern and Western Europe) who converted to Judaism centuries after the brief rule of the ancient Hebrews ended and who, after their conversion, had only their religion and its rituals in common.
Though they subsequently converted to Islam and Christianity, it is possible that when Zionism declared itself to be in existence 1897 there were more Palestinian Arabs than Palestinian Jews who were descended from the ancient Hebrews.
Zionism’s claim that the Jews of the world have a right to the land now occupied by Greater Israel does not bear honest examination.
One of the most influential of Zionism’s follow-up propaganda lies asserted that Israel was given its birth certificate and thus its legitimacy by the United Nations Partition Resolution of 29 November 1947. As I document in detail in my book and have indicated over the years in more than a few articles and presentations of public platforms of all kinds, that is propaganda nonsense.
In the first place the UN without the consent of the majority of the people of Palestine did not have the right to decide to partition Palestine or assign any part of its territory to a minority of alien immigrants in order for them to establish a state of their own.
Despite that, by the narrowest of margins, and only after a rigged vote (rigged by Zionist pressure amounting to blackmail on the leaders and governments of some member states), the UN General Assembly did pass a resolution to partition Palestine and create two states, one Arab, one Jewish, with Jerusalem not part of either. But the General Assembly resolution was only a proposal – meaning that it could have no effect, would not become policy, unless approved by the Security Council.
The truth is that the General Assembly’s partition proposal never went to the Security Council for consideration. Why not? Because the US knew that, if approved, it could only be implemented by force; and President Truman was not prepared to use force to partition Palestine.
So the partition plan was vitiated (became invalid), and the question of what the hell to do about Palestine after the occupying British had been driven out it by Zionist terrorism was taken back to the General Assembly for more discussion. The option favoured and proposed by the US was temporary UN Trusteeship. It was while the General Assembly was debating what to do next that Israel unilaterally declared itself to be in existence - actually in defiance of the will of the organised international community as it then was, including the Truman administration.
The truth of the time was that Israel had no right to exist. It came into existence because Ben-Gurion had done everything necessary to guarantee that his Jewish forces would be more than sufficient in numbers and well enough armed to roll back and defeat any Arab military response to Israel’s unilateral declaration of independence, and that Zionist might would prevail over Palestinian right.
Thereafter Zionism was successful in convincing the Western world that poor little Israel lived in constant danger of annihilation, the “driving into the sea” of its Jews. The truth is that Israel’s existence has never, ever, been in danger from any combination of Arab military force. Despite some stupid, face-saving Arab rhetoric to the contrary, which played into Zionism’s hands, the Arab regimes never, ever, had any intention of fighting Israel to liberate Palestine. (When elements of the armies of the frontline Arab states went to war with Israel in 1948, their objective was not to destroy the “Jewish state” but to hold the land that had been assigned to the Palestinian Arab state by the vitiated partition plan, and they failed miserably, as Ben-Gurion was confident they would, to do that. Also true is that Jordan, whose king had been in secret dialogue with Zionism’s in-Palestine leaders, would not have been a serious party to the Arab war effort if Ben-Gurion had not tried to grab Jerusalem; if, in other words, he had been content for the Holy City not to be part of either the Jewish or Arab state of the vitiated partition plan).
Israel always was the aggressor and oppressor, not and never the victim.
Its assertion, repeated over and over again, that it didn’t have Arab partners for peace was also a big, fat, propaganda lie (as the documented truth of history, including de-classified Israeli state papers, which are ignored by the mainstream media, proves).
When I made my commitment to the war for truth more than three decades ago, I believed that calling and holding Israel to account for its crimes, in order for there to be peace based on justice for the Palestinians and security for all, would remain a mission impossible unless the citizens of the Western nations, enough of them and Americans especially, were informed about the truth of history.
That seemed obvious to me because it was clear that, unwilling to confront the Zionist lobby in all its manifestations, the governments of the major Western powers were not going to use the leverage they have to oblige Israel to end its defiance of international law unless and until they were pushed to do by informed public opinion – by manifestations of real democracy in action. THE problem was that most citizens of the Western nations, Americans especially, were too mis-informed and uninformed to do the pushing. In other words, because they had been conditioned by Zionist propaganda, peddled without question by the mainstream media, most citizens were too ignorant to make their democracies work for justice and peace in the Middle East.
So my starting point was the belief that the real conflict is an information war between Zionism’s masters of deception on the one side and the truth tellers on the other.
The truth tellers were few in number but among those who produced major truth-telling works (books) were Jews of real integrity including, for example, the Jewish-American Alfred M. Lilienthal, the first two Israeli “revisionist” meaning honest historians – Avi Shlaim and Ilan Pappe, the Jewish-American Norman Finkelstein and Auschwitz survivor Hajo Meyer. (In such company the Gentile me felt secure in the frontline trenches of the war for truth. There was also comfort in knowing that we were taking on Zionism from the moral high ground).
Over the last 20 years or so, with their books, articles and public speaking, the truth tellers have made an impact but not on a big enough scale to change the outcome of the war.
The truth today is that the situation of the occupied and oppressed Palestinians is worse than it has ever been and is worsening as Israel continues its defiance of international law and gobbles up more and more Palestinian land and water resources.
Also true today is that there is a rising, global tide of anti-Israelism, but it has little or nothing to do with the work of the truth tellers. It is being provoked by Israel’s policies and actions.
Some people (including perhaps President Obama) hope that Israel’s growing isolation will bring a majority of Israeli Jews to their senses and cause them to insist that their government be serious about peace on terms the Palestinians could accept. That has to be a possibility, but I think it is much more likely that the rising, global tide of anti-Israelism will have an opposite effect. I mean that it will assist Zionism’s deluded leaders to reinforce the message that what is happening is proof of what they have always said – that the world hates Jews, and that Israel’s leaders must therefore do whatever is necessary to preserve and protect their state as an insurance policy, a refuge of last resort, for all Jews everywhere, even if that means telling an American president and the whole world to go to hell.
On reflection today I believe that Zionism could have been contained and defeated by now if the resources (yes, I do mean money) had been available to assist the promotion and spread of the truth of history on the scale necessary to empower the citizens of the Western nations, Americans especially, to make their democracies work for justice and peace, by demanding that their governments end their unconditional support for Israel right or wrong. (In my view, which is based on my own engagements with audiences across the U.S., Americans in great numbers would have been open to the truth of history if they had also been made aware that unconditional support for Israel right or wrong is not in their own best interests).
Because the resources were not made available, the war for the truth of history has remained the most asymmetric of all information wars. Zionism’s masters of deception have, as they always have had, virtually unlimited funds for the co-ordinated promotion of their propaganda lies. The truth-tellers are, as they always have been, without the resources needed to put together and implement a co-ordinated, winning campaign strategy.
The main providers of the resources necessary for winning the information war ought to have been seriously wealthy Arabs in general and seriously wealthy diaspora Palestinians in particular. They ought to have done for Palestine what seriously wealthy Jews did and still do for Zionism.
There are two main reasons why seriously wealthy diaspora Palestinians declined to play their necessary part in funding promotion of the truth of history.
Those who live in Western Europe and America are frightened that any association with the work of people who credibly challenge Zionism’s version of history would invite Zionist retribution which could result in their businesses being damaged and perhaps even destroyed.
Those who live in the Gulf States are frightened that assisting the truth-tellers could put their very comfortable positions and relationships with the rulers of those states at risk because they, the rulers, would not take kindly to blow back hassle from Zionism. (Zionist heavyweights in America do sometimes call Gulf Arab rulers directly to tell them what they should not do or allow. One such call was made to tell a ruler that he should not support Alan Hart and Ilan Pappe. The call was made after Ilan and I had made a joint presentation in the particular state, at its invitation, and had been promised support for our work).
Another possible reason why some seriously wealthy diaspora Palestinians have not assisted the promotion of the truth of history could be that they don’t understand (at all or well enough) that Western governments are not going to confront the Zionist monster unless the citizens of nations, the voters, are informed enough to demand that they do.
It’s also not impossible that some seriously wealthy diaspora Palestinians have not contributed to the information war effort because they believe but dare not say that Palestine has long been a lost cause.
The brutal truth about seriously wealthy non-Palestinian Arabs is that most of them don’t care about the occupied and oppressed Palestinians and the many others, refugees still living in camps, who were dispossessed of their homes, their land and their rights. The Arab masses do care but their elites don’t. (That statement is something of an exaggeration to make a point but it contains much truth).
Today I can quantify the cost of my own commitment to the war for truth.
If I had written a pro-Zionist book, I would have had wealthy Jews throwing money at it and me for global promotion of all kinds. But with Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews, (which is a complete re-writing of the entire history of the conflict exposing Zionist propaganda for the nonsense it is and replacing it with the documented truth of history), I was on my own. To fund the research and writing over nearly five years, then the printing and publication of the original, two-volume hardback edition, and then some promotion, I took out a loan against the security of the home my wife and I owned outright and have lived in for a quarter of a century.
At the time I decided to do so (with my dear wife’s complete understanding and support), I didn’t think I was being stupid. My previous book (Arafat, Terrorist or Peacemaker?) had earned me significant income from the sale of the Arabic newspaper serialization rights, and I assumed that my latest book would do the same, enabling me to clear the re-mortgaged debt on my home.
I was, of course, aware that there were truths in Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews that would be more than uncomfortable for the Arab regimes and which they would not want their newspapers to publish. (When I was writing the book I had to be guided by the fact you can’t tell the truth about Zionism with telling the truth about why the Arab states were never a threat to Israel’s existence). But newspaper serialization of a two-volume book (which became three volumes in its updated American edition) would have taken only a relatively small amount of total content. Arab editors doing the serialization could have left out everything that offended their political masters and still had more than enough material to inform and entertain their readers.
But it was no go. My book was not only red-flagged by Zionism and therefore all the major Western publishing houses, this despite the fact that my extremely well connected and respected literary agent had on file letters from the CEO’s of some of them with rare praise for my manuscript. (One of the letters, which I quoted in the Preface to the original hardback edition, described my manuscript as “awesome… driven my passion, commitment and profound learning.” It added, “There is no question it deserves to be published.”). For their part the Arab regimes were at one with Zionism in wanting the full truth of history to be suppressed to the maximum extent possible. They effectively endorsed Zionism’s strategy for dealing with me and my work – “Alan Hart and his book do not exist.” (I think my dear friend Ilan Pappe may well have been right when he said that Zionism was more frightened of my book than any other because of its title, which he described as “the truth in seven words.”)
Today I have to face the cost consequences of my commitment to the truth of history. To avoid being dispossessed of my home and land in the not too distant future because I don’t have the money to pay the principal sum of the outstanding re-mortgaged debt (I have been paying only the interest on it), I now have to sell and downsize. Preparing to downsize will require, among other things, months of my fulltime to sort through and dispose of much of what has been accumulated over decades and could not be accommodated and stored in a much smaller property with little or no land. And that in the proverbial nutshell is why I am withdrawing from the battlefield of the war for truth. The days when I could serve causes beyond self in order to feel that I was doing something useful with my life are gone. Like seriously wealthy diaspora Palestinians and other Arabs, I must now put my own interests, and above all those of my dear wife, first.
Back in the early 1970′s when I was making Five Minutes To Midnight, my documentary on global poverty and its implications for all, I had a verbal boxing match with Mother Teresa in Calcutta. After a day of filming with her as she collected some of those dying from poverty on the pavements to give them a few more days of life with shelter and loving care, she invited my camera crew and I to a frugal evening meal with some of her sisters. The question I posed for discussion over the meal was this: Which is the most important word in any language – love or justice?
Mother Teresa argued with passion, sometimes angry passion, for love. I argued, with equal but not angry passion, for justice. If she was alive today I would say to her, “Mother Teresa, it’s justice not love that is required if the countdown to catastrophe in Palestine that became Israel is to be stopped.”
But it was not only my complete identity with the Palestinians’ irrefutable claim for justice and my admiration of the incredible, almost superhuman steadfastness of the occupied and oppressed that inspired, drove and sustained my commitment to the war for the truth of history.
I feared, as I do even more so today, that if the information war that probably could have been won by now is lost, the end-game will most likely be a final Zionist ethnic cleansing of Palestine, followed, quite possibly, by another great turning against the Jews, provoked by Zionism’s insufferable self-righteousness and contempt for international law
For three decades I have done my best to contribute to the understanding needed to prevent both obscenities from happening, but I have now reached and passed the outer limits of what I can do when there’s a lack of will on the part of seriously wealthy diaspora Palestinian and other Arabs to assist the promotion and spread of the truth of history.
In the days and weeks to come I will no doubt find myself wondering if I was naive to believe that Palestinian right could be assisted to triumph over Zionist might.
To those all over the world who down the years have expressed appreciation for my books, articles and presentations on public platforms of all kinds – Thank You, your moral support helped to sustain my commitment.
Final Footnote
A Palestinian friend once asked me if, on matters to do with Palestine, I was aware of the main difference between Arabs and Jews. He didn’t wait for me to respond. He said: “Arabs almost never do what they say they will do. Jews often do what they say they will not do.”
I said I thought there was an element of truth in that.
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Alan, that's desperately sad that you are packing up. You have battled for a lifetime. It will send a much needed message though.
I think you should take a much needed break and return.
Warm regards,
Debbie
Alan
I've posted what you would probably categorise as hostile comment here in the past - especially as regards your writing on 'The Holocaust'. But there was no personal animus involved. I am quite sure you have been selfless and single minded in your promotion of justice for the Palestinians. However, I am equally sure that, in company with the vast majority of the Post WWII western generation (myself included until fairly recently) you have been duped into a thoroughly false understanding of the role of orthodox Judaism (by which I mean Kabbala inspired and Talmud directed leadership) through the 20th century. Antisemitism isn't some strange virus affecting Gentiles; it is an understandable (if sometimes regrettable) response to the actual behaviour of a clear and self-defined, 'Chosenite' group within the cultures and societies that host it.
You may turn out to be rights about the possible consequences a continuing upsurge of so-called 'antisemitism'. If so then Israeli Zionism will indeed have been a major factor; but Zionism in its present contemptible manifestation would not be possible without near total infiltration and subornment of the major western power centres by its supporters and agents who, sad to say, remain in overwhelming ascendancy in the Jewish diaspora.
Anyway, I do wish you all the best in coping with the legacy of your advocacy - a legacy which is imposed on anyone who effectively opposes the designs and agenda of the 'Chosenites'.
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Thank you for all you have done for more than 3 decades
Good bye Mr Hart. I’m proud to read man like you, I just a young person under 20 , but i want to thank you for you have done for 3 decades now ..
I don’t kwon the people you had met very well they almost all died , but through your fight for justice and peace and liberty i hear from them. You are a great thinkers and a great Man with justice in the heart but unfortunaly you are so unknown by the Arabs.
I will pray , and ask god to help you …
I’m sad because all people i respect and read stop publishing or die … it’s just hard for me to be confronted to this …
I will read this book and translate. Does it translate in French ?
As a Jerusalemite living in exile, I bow to your integrity, a quality which is sadly lacking in most western journalists.
Sorry to hear about the financial difficulties. Yes, it's true - the rich often do not care about anything but their own wealth. And it's true that the money is invariably on the side of those with power.
Hopefully at some point in the future when your affairs are in order you will be able to return to the fight.
But I have to agree that the odds of this fight being won before Palestinians are ethnically cleansed are probably low if not nil. However, I don't think the actions of the Zionists will reflect on Jews everywhere in the future. I think the reaction will be squarely focused on Israel and that Israel as a Jewish state is doomed by its own actions.
I don't think it correct to say that the Partition resolution was vitiated. Yes it didn't have the force of law because it was a GA resoltuion, - everyone knows that. But there are many GA resolutions that don't go to the Security Council - it doesn't invalidate them.
In fact the 1988 Palestinian declaration of independence sites resolution 181 as a basis for the legitimacy of Palestinian statehood.
Frankly, the Arabs were perfectly within their rights to reject the partition plan - if I had been one of them at the time I probably would have opposed it to. It didn't seem fair to them. That doesn't mean that the Zionists were wrong for supporting it or declaring their state based on the resolution - or for taking up arms to see it implemented.
I'm sorry for your troubles - I don't agree with you but you seem to come from a place of sincerity.
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You have been an insightful voice in what has been taking place in the middle east. Collective delusion, wherever hyper-nationalism rears its head, is nothing new in history. In fact it is how nationalism is amplified into the echo chamber we experience in the world around us. Israel is no exception. Britain is no exception. Britain created its own historical justification for invading Ireland and appropriated 9/10 of the land from the native Irish, first as conquerors, then as a landed aristocracy, then as a landlord elite who continued to live in England. It has taken 300 years for the country to be returned to it's native people (although lacking the northern six counties). North America was appropriated in more blatant ways from indigenous people and without compensation & with multiple treaties being abrogated or ignored. Now in modern times Israel continues the European (ie British) colonial policies, having learned from the masters of duplicity how to appropriate a colony through disinformation & misinformation. That so many Americans willfully ignore the obvious shows just how oblivious to history both the learned & the semi-literate are. Or perhaps, as Walter Lippman first enunciated it, they have become habituated to "manufactured consent".
Good luck in your future. I hope you return to your blog in the near future.
I'm so sorry to read of your troubles Alan, I've been there myself and had to downsize to this tiny terrace. Your wife must be an angel and a strong support, a true, 'better half'. I do hope you return to the fight one day as I'm really going to miss my e-mails, and the information, and knowledge they bring.
Good luck to you and your family.
Alan,
Very good luck to you, I have enjoyed and appreciated your writing for the past 2 years or so, after I came to understand Zionism by reading Mondoweiss.
I hope to catch you again "on the other side" after you have recovered your situation.
Best Regards, Frankly Speaking
Alan, I understand your frustration. Everyone fighting this evil of Zionism must feel the same way. Sometimes it seems like we'll never win because the Zionists control most of the news sources, If it weren't for the internet, almost no progress would have been made. But take comfort in knowing that tens of millions of people throughout the world have been awakened to this ugly beast called Zionism...because of patriots like you, Alan Hart.
Just remember one thing: Now there are lots of Alan Harts out there and I'm one of them.
Let me assure you Alan that your campaign has not been in vain. I know that your books were decisive in my own awakening on this ugly business and I praise your books whenever possible. Of course, my opinions and activism are heavily constrained by some of the same forces impacting your career, though on a smaller scale. I also am persona non grata in many quarters because I will not relent on this fat lie that is Zionism.
So, while we are losing a leader and a warrior, there are others carrying on. I will keep at it and others are making some headway as well. There are numerous signs that the wrongness of Israel is getting through to some and that they are taking action. It is still a long ways to go and I think you are right that PAlestinians will be eliminated from all of mandate Palestine and that the world will watch and wretch at what it has allowed to happen.
IN the end, though, I have to agree with some of Atzmon's opinion: It is not Zionism but Jewishness after all that is the problem, i.e. the conceit of "chosen ness" and the "separateness" that is such a part of Jewish upbringing. It is this ancient, tribal conceit that is so out of place amid the universalism of the great religions in the modern world. This little tribal cabal should have been encompassed by Islam and/or Christianity long ago but, somehow, it survived in all its ancient and vile brutalism and supremacism. I am a Jew and I know what I am saying. It is time to unmask this bs tribal religion and everyone raised to believe that they are "special" and don't have to behave like everyone else. The ugly little men who made the monster of Israel -- I am thinking of Sharon, Begin, Shamir, all murderers -- were possessed of the idea that they (and their people) are special and can get away with murder. And with genocide, when it comes down to it. I loathe and despise these criminals.
Alan, your voice will be greatly missed. Your book is one of the key texts in the whole debate. May your financial troubles be quickly solved so that you can re-enter the fray.
Best wishes,
Gene
Alan, it was an honor knowing and working with you for our brief period of time in late 2009-early 2010, and I will never forget it. I will always deeply respect you and your work. I am so sorry that you must withdraw from this war, but you do so in triumph, not in defeat, because truth always triumphs over lies. Take care, be well, and live in peace. Salamak.
There issn't a case more trying to the nerves, than to try and fathom the benefits of sympathy to a person who is in the process of drawning. there is no need for all of us to overemphasize that even the most hard-hearted Jew has a part of the that that appreciates what Allan Heart has done. The real issue at hand is that the GOOD man Allan (even when you disagree with him) needs some funds to save his house. If we all contribute, then it will take him somewhere. We can then begin to talk about what he did or didn't when Allan has been rescued from water. But not to start taking our mental cameras and try to get Allan's best picture when he is in the process of drawning. Please Allan, may you post your US$ account number please. I am not rich like the people you thought should have assisted you, but they say a big river gets flood as a result of the few waters from various tributeries upstream.
Dear Alan Hart,
I well understand your situation and decision.
By experience, I've seen how ignorantly and greedy publishing companies (and newspapers)act these days. All too often, their top priority is simply making profit. And nothing else.
Nevertheless, your articles and books have, indeed, deepened and clarified the facts and the perspectives of the Palestine/Israel conflict.
Wikileaks has confirmed how badly various elites run the world. They have access to knowledge, advisors, institutes, science, but exchange the currency of power, position and responsibility into prestige and short-term interests and "feats".
Axel Oxenstierna Axel Oxenstierna, Swedish Lord High Chancellor, 1583 – 1654),“Do you not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?”
A good hypothesis is that hierachies makes it possible for psychopaths - charming, energetic, efficient, amoral - to climb to the economic, political, and meadia summits.
Conclusion: away with hierachies and build participatory democracies! Of course, the psychopaths will still be there, but have nothing to climb on, and will be socially marginalized.
Even though time is short: build for eternity!
You have done what every journalist should do: "to speak the truth and expose lies" (Noam Chomsky, "The Resposibility of intellectuals).
Many thanks, Alan!
PS: Nevertheless, my guess is that the old news-hawk still will keep its eyes open.
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Björn Lindgren
Vassmolösa, SWEDEN.
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Alan, this is desperately sad, bad news indeed. Not only because of your personal crappy situation, but for justice and truth at large.
I'm heartbroken but not surprised, though. One by one, "they", the Masters of the Universe and their chums, the Chosenites, are picking you out and, one way or another, disposing of you. The future would look bleak in any case, but today, to me, looks bleaker than ever; so I'll refrain from making prophecies... I just wonder who's gonna be next.
And you're right. It's all largely about resources, that is, money and the power money brings."Their" money, which the more they have the more they want; and power (ditto). Anything or anybody that threatens this privileged position is on for the chopper.
Have you thought of a counter-attack campaing, though? A fundraising massive op to save at least your home? Samuel Dowel's list contains some very dubiuos names (pro-Palestinian doesn't mean much, these days), but some of them may be good bets.
In any case I want to thank you for your struggles, for your courage, for your integrity (fast becoming a dirty word and an even dirtier concept), and for all your hard work. Your articles have been a great comfort to me. Not only they have provided me with bits and pieces of information I didn't have, but they have reinforced my certainty that I'm neither bad nor mad.So yes, there is a personal sense of loss here, too. I feel I'm loosing a friend I never knew. Life stinks, sometimes.
I also hope that there'll remain, somewhere, online, an archive of sorts of all your articles. And I will make a point of saving some sheckles to buy your lates book, before it gets put on the Index.
I won't end saying "They shall not pass!" because I suspect that "they" will. Pass, and trample all over everything that's clean and right and healthy. But one might as well go down fighting in any case.
Once more, thank you.
Alan Hart, Please don`t stop posting. Yours is the One Clear Voice in this wilderness of ' dead and dying'. We need your Clarity So we can one day find our way back to What is most Basic in Life ( Honesty, integrity and To Always speak The Truth....no matter Which way the wind blows ! ) Too many Wishy-washy People Out here who are only interested in Muddying the water...not in Speaking the Facts as they really are.. Thank you for Staying true to your Principles... You are One in ten Million Who has Perservered.. thru Every Knock-down > Don`t let`em drag you Out ! WE who love the truth...love you, Alan. VGF
Our God will prevail !!
Farewell Alan. (Is there no possibility of getting a raise from Press TV?)
Alan - I believe, as I trust do you, that saving Palestine today (a thought too difficult to conceive) is no less and no more inconceivable than salvaging much of the human-friendly world we felt we live in.
Cheers on your effort with down-sizing and spousal-pleasing....I've long admired you and what you have accomplished.
Nelson Wight, Belfast, 04915
Mr Hart's mistake is that he accepts the fundamental thesis of Zionism, namely that if it can be shown that the modern Jews are descended from the Jews of biblical times, they are entitled to invade Palestine, steal the present occupants' land and squat on it. He then tries to disprove that thesis by claiming the contrary. None of that is relevant. Entitlement to live in a territory comes not from some difficult to prove (or disprove) claim of historic right but from a present occupation which has been continuous for a certain period of time, usually a few centuries at least. That is not some rational construct but an instinctive and natural human feeling, one could even say a gut feeling. All the Zionists can say is that a certain number of Jews have always lived in Palestine, a few more arrived from Europe in the early 20th century, that number increased after WWI, became a flood after WWII but has dropped off recently. Indeed, Israel now loses more Jews each year than it gains through immigration. Thus, Zionism has not succeeded. It is on the wrong side of history and Israel, besieged and totally dependent on its (declining!) American bully for protection, is, in many ways, already a failed state. Essentially, the Palestinians are winning and only the Zionist propaganda machine to which Mr Hart refers is claiming otherwise.
Michael Kenny, your point is a very good one indeed. Still is SO good & healthy to have the pseudo-science of the Zionist propaganda debunked and exposed for the pack of lies that it is, wouldn't you say?
Also very interesting is you claim that Israel now loses more Jews that it acquires. I suspecteed as much playing it by ear alone, but I didn't know where to get my facts & figures. Any links/tips on where to go get this information would be most welcome.
Please keep un informed about any change of you situation !
With All my heart thank you for all you have done .. why it is when people leave what we see their importence ?
Take a bow sir, you have earned it. You will be remembered as a voice of truth and integrity by countless many for decades to come. You words have meant more than you will ever know. You fought the good fight, against an enemy vast and powerful. You were not victorious but it was still a cause worth fighting for.
Alan, it is sad to lose your authoritative and articulate voice. The price for clearly and insistently advocating truth and justice has always been high. We will greatly miss your presence among us.
Thank you Sir for all the years of standing up for what is right and good.
I will simply say that even if no one hears it, the truth is worth telling. Not just to have it out there on record, but also to personally know that one has lived honestly and courageously, as you indeed have done.
Thank you again, and I am sure God will helpyou through any troubles.
I wanted to mention that I enjoyed reading your commentaries.
I became really interested in the Israel-Palestinian conflict in early 2006. Even though I was 60 years old (at the time) and followed international news avidly, Israel and the Palestinian situation did not really interest me.
My interest was perked when I read an article titled "Ahmadinejad Needs to Learn".
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22905
The article mentioned that David Ben-Gurion, once said to his General Staff, "We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population."
When I read this, I was totally shocked.
I realized that Ben-Gurion said this at the same time when our media was parading holocaust victims across the universe and showing Jewish Folks crying and screaming “Never Again”.
In 1948, with Hitler dead less then 2 years, …. At the very heart of the newly formed country of Israel, …. at the highest levels of government, …. within the Israeli cabinet, the Jewish folks were actually talking about committing a holocaust against the Arabs and which is the exact same crimes as Hitler was being chastised for.
Calm
Hi Alan,
Thanks for your work over the years. Starting 30 years ago, you must really have felt like a voice in the wilderness. I began only 10 years ago, and even then I questioned my sanity sometimes (at least when I was in the US) because the people around me seemed so utterly convinced of things that were not even close to the truth.
After spending two years in Palestine, I decided to write a book about it, trying to reach mainstream Americans with stories (and some facts, analyses, and footnotes) that would speak to ordinary people about what life and the situation are really like there. I'd love to get your thoughts on it, and I'll be glad to send you a signed copy as a gift. It's called Fast Times in Palestine, and you can learn more about it here: http://pamolson.org
If you'd like a copy, I believe you have my email -- just send me an address, and I'll mail it to you.
Best of luck with your financial situation. Working for justice isn't exactly a way to strike it rich, as I well know, but I think it makes for a more satisfying life over all and hopefully a positive stamp on the human story!
Dear Alan,
I feel very sad about your Final Thoughts. but I can understand you. I tell you I feel in a similar way, all the struggle and the dirty fights. I wish you all the best for your future.
but the truth about your books and writing will remain for ever!
You earn a big place in struggle and fight for the right of Palestine. I hope they will remeber!
You have provided unflinching support for the Palestine cause for many years and proved to be an inspirational figure for justice loving people.
It was deeply moving and revealing to read the account of your struggles to tell the whole truth on the issue and it is indeed sad that you have been forced to give up your efforts because of the high price.
It is amazing that in the 21st century powerful vested interrests can exert enough pressure to prevent the truth being told, regardless how people concerned suffer.
Mr Hart, please consider returning to provide support for the struggle.
Alan, thank you for all your insightful writings, they have been an inspiration for me.
I therefore cannot believe you are giving up the cause, although I do understand. But even so please please do not give up. Are you going the way of Roger Walters???? no, I think not
Thankyou Alan on behalf of all our Palestinian brothers and sisters.
We all will miss you greatly. The World will miss you
Alan. Sorry to hear you are retiring from this fight. I've always felt you have done more than any other journalist to get the truth over about this and that is one thing you should be rightly proud of.
It is sadly the true. I am sad , I will devote all my to continue the work of Hart and all people who fight for justice. I am a student and I want follow Alan’s example. I have few money but I do my possible to spread the true.
Thank you again for all you have done. Forgive us our mistake, our disinterest to your work and that for the true you risk your home.
Today It is a sad day because of meteo it is rain on spring and because a great man retire himself from a great battle.
Thank you again ! I hope to show you post again one day .. but Take care of you and your family
Alan,is it the horseman dismounting for good? It is sad but really sobering for me as a Palestinian to read what all respondents to your latest post have said about you.We still have the rare chivalric hero biting onto his cause.You have been an inspiration over a long time and you will leave a heavy legacy.As you put it bluntly, three decades were not long enough for Arab billionaires to spot a visionary fighting for the only just Arab cause.Wish I had the means to keep you in the same trench.What you have given to the Palestinian cause will be a tremendous landmark on the road to the freedom of Palestine-the land and the people.You will be greatly missed. And, no illusion, you have triumphed against the biggest of odds.So long.
As the old saying goes; "If you're not part of the solution - you're part of the problem". It's up to you to decide Alan to decide which side you want to be. Personally, I would hate to see you in the second camp.
Rachelle Marshall, a free-lance Jewish editor living in Mill Valley, CA, wrote an interesting review about the Israel’s elections in January 2013 – titled Israeli elections come and go, but Israel remains an outlaw state.
http://rehmat1.com/2013/04/28/israel-an-outlaw-state/
Allen, it's taken me a few days to absorb the enormity of your post, not only because we're losing a rare source of the truth, but also because the evil ones are becoming ever more powerful in crushing any dissent.
If civilization survives the coming conflagration (I'm not so sure failure would be a bad thing), perhaps they'll learn from us.
I wish you peace and happiness in your your next endeavor. Know that "you done good" and have brought the truth to so many.
I will miss your posts.
This is a great blow to us, Alan. Not only will I miss your interesting articles, but also the joint correspondence with many others on here, some of whom are Jewish themselves; and it is this that still gives me hope. When a great change has been effected in history, it has nearly always started from within. Thus, the courage of Jewish and Israeli commentators like Chomsky, Finkelstein, Pappe and Avnery indicates to me that there must be many others of honesty and conscience who can resist the Zionist narrative.
But most important of all, of course, is the personal difficulty that your sacrifice has brought about. I'm sure all of us are very disturbed at this. For my part, I really hope and believe that your voice will be heard again in the not-too-distant future.
This may well be your last post for the time being, but I think any bugle playing would be far too premature.
I'm a Palestinian and I am filled with shame that none of the Palestinian rich and powerful came to your aid. The irony of it all is that none of those filthy rich in our community are aware that a beacon of truth and justice has just been extinguished. I am sadly unable to help you financially, but I shall do all in my power to make this tragic loss a whip to lash their treacherous faces.
Alan Hart, I do appeciate what you have accomplished/ Yes, accomplished. The fight to bring truth to light may never end, but every disclosure has an impact. You are right thta the impact has not been enough! I thik that what we are also up against is learned helplessness of Western society. Yes the lies of zionism are blared about by the complicit press and the Western leaders, but as with the raging calls to unnecessary and damaging wars which the majority of the people oppose, even as they see and know the truth - the people have been taught that they are helpless in changing things!
This is a practical move on your part. Of course, for now you must concentrate on saving what is left of personal security. That should not preclude a continuation of the fight at a different level, yes? YOu have a gift and knowledge. i hope you will continue when and where possible.
Dear Alan: It saddens me more than I can say that you are leaving the battle for justice. In the past year, I have thought many times of doing the same thing. Like you, I will have to put my house on the market, since I lost all of my business after being the spokesperson for Freedom Flotilla 1. Looking back on my 45 years of advocacy for justice in Palestine, I would not change a thing.
At the end of our lives, we have to be able to say we did the right thing. And both of us have.
On the issue of wealthy Palestinians ignoring the plight of their fellow Arabs, I would also like to share that many Palestinian businessmen stepped forward when we returned from that first voyage to Gaza in August, 2008, and they bought us the yacht called DIGNITY. They continued to fund many of our voyages, supplying us with enough money to buy fuel and supplies for the four successful trips and the five trips brutally stopped. They did this work without wanting to be acknowledged and we have been eternally grateful for that support.
Good luck. Best wishes.
I Guess this will be MY Last Post too!
I mentioned earlier that I began to seriously research events surrounding the Israel-Palestinian situation in April 2006.
It was because of websites and writers like Alan Hart that allowed me the opportunity to learn and study the Israel-Palestinian situation.
And, believe me, since my interest was perked in the topic beginning in early 2006, I have studied diligently.
http://www.dotandcalm.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=183&Itemid=272
And this is what I learned ....
http://www.dotandcalm.com/calm-archive/Israel-Israel-Palestine-Conflict-Historical.html
Calm
If , all people who put comment in this post will buy his wonderful book , we can help him.
Then, i has been on bookshop after school in order to buy your book but obviously they had not the book. So i will and i swear buy it
the futher day
What a loss, Mr. Hart, I always looked forward to your posts and forwarded many of them out to my lists. I sell copies of your book, Zionism, the Real Enemy of the Jews at cost at our events and look forward to a possible fourth installment of the series. Best wishes to you and your family.
I guess that leaves violence.
@ calm: Wow! Quite a summing up. There are things here that even I didn't know about.
And this is what I learned ....
http://www.dotandcalm.com/calm-archive/Israel-Israel-Palestine-Conflict-Historical.html
Thanks.
@ wiss: I have purchased and given dozens of copies of Alan's book away.
Dear Alan,
DON’T DO IT! Have a Break and RETURN!
The Palestinians and the Arab peoples have been fools to themselves at times-But never forget that Their Palestinian Struggle is a Principled, Moral and Noble Cause!
I have been a supporter for 46 years now. However I do appreciate that you as a professional have had more to risk in your career during the time of your unflagging support!
Remember the Edmund Burke quote:-
‘All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing’!
@ Gene : Did you buy it on Amazon ? Thanks
Alan please , go back. I know i will miss you a lot.
THANK YOU AGAIN FOR EVERYTHING BUT You must know that you hava people who respect and admire you a lot.
@ Mister Watson ,
Despite, The Edmund Burk quote is my favorite quotation. Ii was the slogan of my blog before it had been shut down by French AIPAC.
Long Live Palestine , Long live the Palestinians support and journalist
@ wiss: No. I purchased the books through my local book shop here in Geneva, where they know how to find books one needs. They now keep Alan's books in stock.
I strongly recommend you (and all) read Pam Olson's book (above). I commend her for giving a dedicated copy to Alan. I have read it, and like Alan's book, have given copies away to friends. It too is kept in stock at our local. A wonderful book.
I am not wealthy enough to help Alan out of his financial problems, alas, but I can circulate books.
@Gene , good evening
Thank you , but it is impossible in my town ( the 2nd of the country ) to buy it on book shop and we can purchase it only in Amazon.
It is Fast Times in Palestine from Pamela Olson ?
Alan, This is a sad post to read. Thank you so much for your integrity & your courage. I've already helped you (and myself) buy purchasing your 3 volume "Zionism..." set - as well as your Arafat biography years ago. Nevertheless I'm happy to help you again if you provide a paypal account or similar I'd be prepared to make a small donation. You deserve my support. I commend you.
Found your paypal link. Donation made. All the best Alan.
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Greetings Allan: The scale of justice, out weighed by dollars. The seed's of the Palestinian olive tree's, stretching for the sun have been planted well. With your words and writings. They will live, bring on new trees stretching for the energy of freedom under the sun. Thank You. Ron
Thank you for your incredible work. Please have break and Return. You will miss me a lot.
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You like people are blessings from god, definetly almighty god will reward you, when i have money definetly i will support u with copies of your great books
Sorry , i will miss you and not you will miss me.
An Other A.Hart who struggle for justice and true leaves us ! Andy P Hart an attornay of guantanamo's prisoners. But him he leaves for true , he left a daughter of 11
Your efforts will not be in vain....if you don't see it now, am sure you will sooner or later!
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Alan, you are mixing up issues. You went into debt and now you are losing your home. This too shall pass. And, you have to admit, it's nobody's responsibility to figure out how you are going to pay your mortgage but you and your wife. If you have to go through your stuff and sell it on EBay well, so did I. We fight for Palestine and Truth because we believe in God. The reward is in the Hereafter. We don't just give up because we lost our home. Our home is in the Hereafter. All we have right now is today. Yes, you went bankrupt. But you haven't been assassinated yet. So, take a break, recover yourself, and come back to the fight. What I REALLY need you to write is a 6th grade Ancient World History textbook or supplement. I really need to sue the State of Massachusetts for their curriculum law but I NEED an alternative book to promote. Not that I have money to do so. But I downsized and I survived to write another day. Except my main problem is that the computer is really hurting me and I need a back rub so badly I feel ill. At least you have a wife that loves u and at the end of the day that's the only thing that matters. When you have someone to be homeless with, you are the richest man in the world. Trust me because I've slept outside and it's not that bad.
As the widow of Michael Adams who also fought the good fight, but died in '05, I would just like to express my sympathies on your predicament as described in your article. I well know and understand the difficulties that you must have faced in your career since taking up the cause of Palestine. My husband also paid dearly in his professional life by sticking his head over the parapet, when the then Editor of the 'Guardian', Alastair Hetherington, severed connection with my husband, when he wrote describing the destruction of Palestinian villages just after the war in 1967. He was also attacked whenever he was interviewed in news programmes on the BBC, which ultimately ended his connection with the corporation as a commentator. Later he became Director of CAABU as he was unable to get the truth out in the British press. I supported him throughout, as did your wife, with whom I identify. One day the truth will come out about Palestine. Things do not remain the same for ever as one learns from history. You have my sympathies and I hope you pursue other interests meanwhile, which give you more satisfaction and pleasure and that you can find a way of retaining your home. Yours sincerely Celia Adams
Your work is a gift to humanity. Including, and especially, to the Jewish people. The grasp of history displayed by truth-tellers, such as yourself, Ilan Pappe, Norman Finkelstein, and Gilad Atzmon, eludes the American public. They are busy amusing themselves with Hollywood trivia. Much to the delight of war-mongering, war-profiteering Zionists here and abroad. May your retirement bring you peace, in the knowledge that your legacy of truth-telling will be treasured as long as the universe endures.
Dear Alan,
I will miss your truthful and uncompromised opinions on the most important issues of the modern world. We all need the voice like yours from behind unisonic mainstream media. Someone must keep telling "them" the truth!
Thank you for all you have done!
Lech
Dear Alan, what a rich chord of empathy and experience you have uncovered. When I read your Final Thoughts On Zionism I had to reply instantly, had to share my thoughts and deep sympathy with you. I continue to read the stream of comments that you have elicited from others and am so impressed by their warmth and also their own experiences. I just read Celia Adam's memories of her husband Michael, whom I remember well and always admired. I have never met Karin Friedmann, but what a woman! What drive, what determination and all in the name of justice and humanity. I am also struck and heartened by how many Jews are standing up to be counted in this struggle. This must be the way forward, mustn't it? I continue to wish you well and hope that your personal problems will never diminish your spirit.
Please be happy ! I just add THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU HAVE DONE !
I want you to be small to your life. You are one of my hero, irespect you and admire you so much.
I contact Frederic Kanouté a football player through his fondation in order to help you. I hope he will
You deserves more than everything
I feel sorry that this will be you're last post. I just have to say this, PLEASE DON'T GIVE UP YOU DO A LOT OF GREAT WORK!
Thank you Alan for helping me see the light about Zionism. I look forward to hearing again from you when the battle IS over ... I have a feeling that this edifice of manufactured fear and decades of secrecy, lies and cover-up may soon fall -- quite unexpectedly and finally. From w i t h i n and without. You ARE right no thinking Jew wants to be identified with these misguided, cruel people.
May Allah giveyou the force to continue and help you.
AS Algerians I want to thank you for everything you did about Palestine.
I wish you the best , but please when your situation will be better post again ! I miss you so much yet ...
How does one adequately thank a mentor who has so profoundly affected ones thinking?
The last two paragraphs of this article, while regional in context, give me hope for Palestine:
http://english.al-akhbar.com/blogs/sandbox/mideast-backlashes-yet-come
David Evans
Former Sergeant USMC
Veterans For Peace Member
Palestine and Middle East Working Group
Dear Alan,
We need your voice and wisdom back where it belongs. Take your rest and plz reconsider. Perhaps you can make some friends on Twitter too (saw you followed nobody). Also your number of followers was/is much to low for the kind of (experienced) person you are.
Independence isn't the same as being a complete standalone. Following (on Twitter for example) some great journalists - there are a few - and whistleblowers can develop great synergy. On the other hand, not only focusing on Zionism can empower the occasions when you do speak about this important issue. Bringing some air and space into this subject will wash away some of the taste of anti-Semitism that is so successfully implemented by those who take advantage of it.
As a fighter for 9/11 truth I deal with the same problem that what I'm trying to say is directly connected with 'foolish' conspiracy theorists. Previously we where associated with fools and dreamers, later on when the information kept bugging the powers that be, they tried to associate us with homegrown terrorists.
By keeping by the facts I stay grounded and I love to read stuff from other independent thinkers and sources, not only about 9/11.
But I'm hurrying to say that I can't judge about the losses that you have experienced by being straight to your goals: which is truth.
Hope I will see you back on the battlefield of honesty and truthful news reporting.
Frank
Here is a good assessment of Alan Hart's career and decision to retire:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/05/17/alan-hart-and-what-it-takes-to-struggle-on/print
Whatever he decides to do next, I wish Alan well.
Dear Alan your work was great , your books are awesome !!! Thank you so much
Protect your family
Your book, "Real Enemy ...", was truly an eye-opening book to me and I have recommended it to many of my friends. I'm sorry to see that you've had to leave the war for the reasons you mention. But, I'm confident that your heart-felt message will survive and spread. I cringe every time I see people like John Hagee rant and rave about the Jews' right to the land. (He needs to read and appreciate your book but that would mean having to back down, something he's not about to do, of course.) Best wishes to you and your wife.
I have the first two volumes of your magnus opus and they're terrific, it is tragic indeed that your archive is to be divided up and further output stifled.
However, some may think that Zionism has won, while I believe you've helped draw its teeth.
In the mid-70s two things happened - the world discovered that the Holocaust was the most important event in the whole history of mankind (more significant to colleged educated Americans than their own Civil War or Pearl Harbour) - but something else happened too.
Israel started losing its military edge, a process that has accelerated greatly. Driven from Lebanon in 2000 and from Gaza in 2005, Israel has now suffered effective defeat in both places a second time (2006 and 2008/12).
So, while there are many more atrocities to come and the West Bank Palestinians face a hideous future, the apartheid regime is faced with terminal decline, a failure of morale amongst its population. The entire professional and political class of Israel is getting themselves second passports and sending their children to be educated abroad.
And the effects of this drain can be seen - Israel's vaunted "technological edge" is now clearly seen to be a mirage. The development that's currently most urgent, "Iron Dome", looks like a total failure. Interception of relatively short-range missiles was supposed to have been practical for 20 years and more ... its not happening. Israelis (1/2 a million of whom fled their homes in 2006) can see the writing on the wall.
Alan - I think of you as philo-semitic, convinced that something called Israel could work in that part of the Middle East. Perhaps you were right, but its not happened that way and its not going to happen that way. Israel has proved to be a doomed and ghastly experiment, heading for the same failure as the Crusader Kingdoms. Take heart, good man.
Alan, we will miss your penmanship but have no doubt that your work will oneday be immortalized and sought after, such is the nature of truth.
All the best to you and your family
Faizal
thank-you-for-your-reporting-you-are-1005-right-dont-let-them-bastards-win--keep-up-your-work-every-one-I-talk-to-feel-the--lame-way-I-would-gladly-support-a-invasion-of-iserali-
I have enormous respect for what you did and I am sure that you will end up taking up the fight again because it lies in your very nature.
I sometimes project myself back to the situation in France during WWII. And I ask myself: what would I have done? What would he have done?
I'm convinced that you would've stood up against the Nazis and helped your jewish or communist neighbour. Because you do not accept injustice, in whatever form it comes, whomever it affects, and because you are ready to bear the consequences of resistance.
You are one of the very few righteous out there.
That's a subtle truth that all too many people do not understand. It's a truth that those that illegitimately smeared you and accused you of anti semitism ought to meditate.
And it 's a truth that reciprocally indicates that many of your critiques, many of those that have refused to assist you, many of those that prefer to remain silent, would've chosen the easy path of Nazi collaboration, back then.
I have enormous respect for what you did and I am sure that you will end up taking up the fight again because it lies in your very nature.
I sometimes project myself back to the situation in France during WWII. And I ask myself: what would I have done? What would he have done?
I'm convinced that you would've stood up against the Nazis and helped your jewish or communist neighbour. Because you do not accept injustice, in whatever form it comes, whomever it affects, and because you are ready to bear the consequences of resistance.
It's a subtle truth that too many do not understand. And it's a truth that reciprocally awakes the suspicion that many of those that have smeared you, many of those that have preferred not to assist you, that have tried to silence you, would ve chosen the easy path of collaboration with the Nazis, back then.
I salute you Alan and apologize that we failed you. May you find the courage and strength to continue this seemingly hopeless battle. Hopeless or not, it is still the right thing to do. God bless you.
Qaseem.
Sir,
why do you assume that physical descent of all living jews today would justify the crimes of a zionist faction thereof in the land of palestine today, such that you have to undercut the crimes by denying said common descent?
I see no logical connection between decent from Abraham and any asserted right to commit crimes against humanity.
Besides it is not true that modern jews have no decent from Abraham and the patriarchs. But according to your thinking my position has no coherence.
I appeal to morality and you appeal to race, or lack thereof.
You wound your own credibility and present a historical straw man.
would you have me believe there was no other alternative to opposing the crimes of the Zionists other than denying their Hebraic descent?
I hold they ARE descended from Abraham but this gives them no carte blanche to play the holocaust card and commit crimes.
This is the line of the Orthodox Religious Jews and with minor reservations the one I take
Sir,
You will remain always on my heart and head ... Perhaps you have not wone money but you gain RESPECT and LOVE of so many people...
I promise to myself to continue your work and devote my live as you've done to the Truth and justice.
I promise to myself to help you : i will buy inchallah your books
D
Mr. Hart, it is wonderful to find people that are willing to tell the truth about what happened to the Palestinians. All one has to do is look at Chomsky & Finklestein to see the grief they get for their truthfulness. They are my heros and I'm adding your name to the list. All the best to you and yours, you've earned it. Jennifer Benson
Alan, thankyou for all the work you have done in trying to get justice for the Palestinians. It would seem to me that the Zionist regime in Palestine are determined to take the country in its entirety and eventually parts of adjacent countries as well. The only thing that will stop them now is sanctions and military intervention. They are a group of moronic indoctrinated baffoons with no compassion on a mission of evil intent. They have undermined justice and democracy in many NATO countries lobbying their manic cause through financial inducements to party funding across the board. Their regimr will always be illegal. Justice would be for them all to be returned to their country of origin. They should also be forced to pay massive reparations to the Palestinians.There should be trials at the Hague for all war criminals involved including members of both the USA and the UK governments.
Alan, Thankyou for your email. It is reassuring to hear of like minds. Thankyou for all the efforts you have made in the past regarding the Palestinian demise. I have twice attempted to send you a longer email in reply as you said I could contact you.The email address you supplied me with was [email protected] this was rejected on the grounds of no account.I would be gratefull if you could check things out so I can resubmit email as I would dearly like to keep in contact with you.Yours Martin.
SUFFERING THE CONSEQUENCES
Alan Hart, the former BBC reporter and author of “Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews” has just sold his house to avoid bankruptcy. It is the price he had to pay to self-publish his very unpopular, truth telling volumes. Hart could not, of course, get any mainline, Jewish controlled publisher to produce his volumes. That would be impossible. He essentially had to mortgage his future to get the truth out. Now, in his farewell message, he admits the harsh truth that so many have had to face – it is hopeless. The enemy has the money and the blackout capacity. The truth is available to those who seek it, naturally. But there is no way the truth will get out to the vast masses who know only what they are told.
Hart realized that telling the truth about the Zionist Frankenstein’s monster in Palestine would only destroy his career with the BBC and alienate him from his friends. Thus, he wisely waited until his stint with the BBC was over before he embarked on his exceedingly well documented expose of the truth. But it still cost him his house. Hart is not the first nor will he be the last to suffer financial destruction at the hands of the Zionists. David Irving, Marge Schott and Mel Gibson and many others have suffered the same fate. The Zionists do not tolerate the truth and anyone who tells the truth, like the late Robert John, author of “The Palestine Diary”, shall suffer the consequences.
LONG TERM HISTORY; SHORT TERM POLITICS
Truth is a very long term thing. It requires starting at the beginning and proceeding, step by logical step, to the end. In the real world of politics, that never happens. Politics is full of interruptions and detours. What was true yesterday is irrelevant today. A politician concerns himself with the here and now. Yesterday is to be forgotten as soon as possible. Let no one suggest that yesterday might have something to do the problems of today.
No politician beating the anti-terrorist drums would dare to suggest that the so-called terrorist problem might have something to do with the expulsion of 700,000 Arabs into the desert in 1948. Terrorism is all about Arabs hating Americans and their “freedoms”. U.S. support for Israel has nothing to do with it because Israel is a “democracy”, just like America. The British empire betrayed the Arabs to the Jews, back in the days of the First World War, you say? What voter, who never even heard of the First World War, cares about that? The Zionist leaders once said they were never going to create a Jewish state in Arab Palestine? Why, that’s like saying that FDR promised to reduce federal spending when he took office in 1933. Who wants to recall musty details in the historical closet?
In the here and now, AIPAC wants your support of Israel as the price of a campaign contribution. Quoting history books shall not get you the campaign contribution. The TV networks shall pay you good money to pontificate on Israel’s need to protect itself from a terrorist threat. But they will not pay you to discover broken promises of the 1920’s or “contracts with Jewry”. If you want to sit in a research library and read forgotten facts, go ahead. But don’t expect to make the moolah by telling the truth to the voting public. That would never do.
Truth has very little power to oppose the Zionists. Just read the King-Crane Commission report of 1919 if you do not believe it.
thanks for a great post. Will be buying your book.
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