Open Letter to President Carter: Sanctions To Stop Slaughter
Yes, I know, there are people, including Israeli commentators, who believe that that if push came to shove for real peace, and in return for generous re-location payment, almost all the illegal Jewish settlers would be prepared to withdraw from the West Bank to make the space for a viable Palestine state with, preferably, Jerusalem an open, undivided city and the capital of two states. But that’s never going to happen. It’s possible that half, perhaps even two-thirds of the illegal Jewish settlers – in number about 500,000 and rising – would move out, but the rest will fight to the death; and that would trigger a full-scale Jewish civil war. As Shimon Peres put it to me in 1984 (the full story is in my book Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews, in a chapter titled The Blood Oath), “No Israeli prime minister is going down in history as the one who gave the order to the Jewish army to shoot large numbers of Jews to get them out of the West Bank.”)
Unfortunately the one-state solution is also not a runner. Although you didn’t elaborate, you put your finger on the reason why in your Washington Post article. You wrote:
Non-Jews are already a slight majority of total citizens in this area (the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea), and within a few years Arabs will constitute a clear majority.”
I’ll put it this way. By definition the one-state solution would mean the end of Zionism’s colonial enterprise. At a point it would be voted out of existence by an Arab majority. Zionism is simply not going to let that happen.
The truth is that Israel’s colonisation of the West Bank created a demographic time-bomb. Sharon’s unilateral withdrawal of settlers from the Gaza Strip was in no way a gesture for peace or even goodwill to the Palestinians. It was a strategic move in Zionism’s on-going process of defusing the demographic time-bomb.
That done the Zionist (not Jewish) state stepped up its efforts to humiliate the Palestinians and make life hell for them on the assumption that, at a point, and out of total despair, they will be prepared to abandon the struggle for their rights and accept crumbs from Zionism’s table in the shape of two or three bantustans, or, better still, will abandon their homeland and seek a new life in other countries.
As I have previously written and said on public platforms, the question that’s almost too awful to think about is something like this: What will the Zionists do when it becomes apparent even to them that they can’t destroy Palestinian nationalism with bombs and bullets and brutal repressive measures of all kinds?
My fear is that they, the Zionists, will invent a pretext to go for a final round of ethnic cleansing – to drive the Palestinians off the West Bank and into Jordan and beyond. That, I fear, is how the process of de-fusing the demographic time-bomb of occupation is most likely to end if Zionism is allowed to go on having its way. If that happens, the West Bank will be turned red with blood, mostly Palestinian blood. And honest reporters will describe it as a Zionist holocaust.
In my analysis the question that needs to be addressed is not what could be done to get a real peace process going, but what must be done prevent the Arabs still in Palestine that became Israel from being slaughtered at a foreseeable point in the future?
My own conclusion is that nothing short of an American-led, global boycott of Israel is likely to bring enough Israelis (brainwashed by Zionist propaganda) to their senses before it’s too late. That said, I am aware that a really effective campaign of sanctions against Israel could be counter-productive. It could provoke almost all Israelis and very many Jews of the world into thinking “Here it (Nazi-like anti-Semitism) comes again”. And were that to happen, the monster I believe Zionism to be would become a monster totally beyond control – a nuclear armed fortress prepared to take on the whole world. But that, I think, is a risk that has to be taken if the countdown to catastrophe for all of us is to be stopped. I can see no other way.
Can you, President Carter?
With respectful best wishes to you and Rosalynn,
Alan Hart
PS The kind of courage needed at leadership level in the Western world for an effective boycott of the Zionist state, in order (hopefully) to bring most Israelis to their senses, is that demonstrated by the Norwegian government with its decision on 3 September to withdraw its investments in the Israeli hi-tech company Elbit because of its involvement in the construction and maintenance of the apartheid wall.
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