
I must begin with a clarification. “The world” of my headline is inhabited only by our so-called leaders and their governments, not the civil societies of nations. And the complicity of our so-called leaders and their governments in Zionism’s crimes is in my view more by default out of fear of offending Zionism than design. But that doesn’t make the complicity any less real in effect.
The fear Western leaders and their foreign policy advisers have of offending Zionism is more complex than even some of the most informed and perceptive critics of Israel’s policies and actions seem to appreciate.
Yes, one part of the reason for the refusal of Western governments (the one in Washington D.C. especially) to use the leverage they have to try to cause Israel to end its defiance of international law and denial of justice for the Palestinians is fear of losing election campaign funding and votes and fear of being overwhelmed by false charges of anti-Semitism.
But the other, and in my view the biggest part of the reason, is fear of what Zionism’s nuclear-armed monster child might do if it was pushed further than its deluded leaders were prepared to go for the sake of peace based on an acceptable amount of justice for the Palestinians and security for all.
The leader who alerted me to this fear was President Jimmy Carter in a private conversation my wife and I had with him and Rosalynn after they were denied a second term in the White House. (Carter invited me to meet with him to brief him on my experience when in 1980 I accepted the challenge of being the linkman in a secret, exploratory dialogue between Arafat and Shimon Peres. At the time Peres was Israel’s main opposition leader and believed that he would win Israel’s next election and deny Begin a second term by becoming prime minister himself. When Carter invited me to meet with him he asked me to bring my wife because, he said, he and Rosalynn worked as a team).
In this conversation, which has its context in CONFLICT WITHOUT END?, the sub-title of Volume Three of my book Zionism: The Real Enemy Of The Jews, I took Carter back to the early months of his first and only term in 1977 and his real determination then to construct and push forward a plan for a comprehensive and lasting Middle East peace.
I was aware that when on 20 May 1977 it became clear that against all expectations Menachem Begin (the most successful terrorist leader of modern times) would win a second term as Israel’s prime minister, Carter, who had privately welcomed my unofficial shuttle diplomacy, was in despair. He understood that he had no chance of overcoming the inevitable opposition from a Begin-led Israel and the Zionist lobby in America to his plan for a comprehensive peace and, first of all, the construction of a framework for negotiations.
And that was why Carter instructed Cyrus Vance, his cool and admirable secretary of state, to work with the Soviet Union on the production of a joint US-Soviet Declaration of Principles on which a comprehensive peace was to be based. Carter allowed himself to believe, or perhaps only to hope, that Zionism’s stooges in Congress, the Senate especially, would not dare to try to block a joint superpower initiative.
The joint US-Soviet Declaration of Principles was published on 1 October 1977. It was American and Soviet diplomacy at its best on paper. It was an outline plan for a comprehensive settlement of what was then called the Arab-Israeli conflict which not only contained all the necessary ingredients for peace. It presented them in a way that was calculated to prevent a knee-jerk rejection by any of the parties. The PLO was not mentioned by name – this was to make it easier for Israel to accept the declaration as a discussion document; and there was no reference to UN Security Council Resolution 242 – this to make it easier for Arafat’s PLO to give its seal of approval.
Essentially the joint US-Soviet Declaration required the Arab states and the Palestinians to make peace with Israel, and therefore to formally recognise and legitimize it at the end at the end of the negotiating process. This was to be in return for an Israeli withdrawal “from territories occupied in the 1967 conflict.” In addition to real peace Israel was to be offered a joint superpower guarantee of its existence; and the Israelis were required to recognize “the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people.” The obvious implication was that after an Israeli withdrawal, a Palestinian mini-state would be created on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
The idea was that “the representatives of all the parties involved including the Palestinians” would assemble in Geneva to talk their way to an end to the conflict based on the principles set down in the joint US-Soviet Declaration.
It was hailed by most mainstream media institutions throughout the Western world (and beyond) as a real breakthrough offering real hope for real peace.
What happened?
The Arab states and the PLO welcomed and accepted the joint US-Soviet Declaration as a basis for negotiations leading to peace with Israel. Because the PLO had not been mentioned by name, and because there was no specific commitment to the establishment of a Palestinian mini-state, a minority of Palestinian leaders (not the mainstream) were unhappy and made their usual rejectionist noises, but Arafat had no trouble in getting his mainstream (and majority) leadership colleagues to accept the declaration as the basis for negotiations with Israel.
Some years later I asked Arafat if he had truly believed that the Americans and the Soviets had opened the door to peace. And I told Carter exactly what Arafat said to me in reply.
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Yes, yes, yes. I was very happy. Very excited. It was an historic moment. For the first time the two superpowers were committed to doing something for us Palestinians. Truly I believed there would be peace with some justice for my people. I was more optimistic than at any time in my life.
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Israel rejected the US-Soviet Declaration.
General Moshe Dayan, Israel’s one-eyed warlord and former defence minister, had crossed the Knesset floor to become foreign minister in Begin’s second-term coalition government, and he, Prime Minister Begin, sent Dayan to Washington to bully and blackmail President Carter into tearing up the joint US-Soviet Declaration and substitute for it a joint US-Israel memorandum of understanding, the terms of which Dayan more or less dictated to Carter and Vance. (Dayan had long been of the view that Israel’s task was not to explore the prospects for peace but to create settlement facts on the ground. According to a report in Time, Dayan was on the record just before the 1973 war with this statement. “There is no more Palestine. It’s finished!”)
The joint US-Israel memorandum of was, in effect, the list of Israel’s conditions for its attendance at a Geneva conference. Palestine was back to being a “problem of refugees”, in other words the Palestinians had no right to self-determination; 242 was back on the agenda, which meant that the PLO could not involve itself; and Israel would “discuss”, not negotiate about, the West Bank. Dayan also announced that Israel would walk out of any Geneva conference if the question of a Palestinian state was brought up.
The question I wanted to explore in depth with Carter was why, really, he had surrendered to Dayan and his new political master, Menachem Begin.
The conversation took place in the Oval Office equivalent at the Carter Center in Atlanta where, in partnership with Emory University. Jimmy and Rosalynn had set up a non-profit foundation which was driven by their true commitment to human rights, the alleviation of human suffering, the prevention and resolution of conflicts and advancing the prospects for freedom and democracy and improving health.
From the outset I knew I was going to have a very honest conversation with Carter and here’s why.
My wife and I were taken to meet the Carters by one of their Zionist lobby minders. When he closed the doors behind the five of us he was clearly assuming that he would sitting with us and would be able to report back to his masters what had been said. Jimmy raised his left hand in a stop gesture and said to the minder: “Please leave us. Rosalynn and I want to be alone with Alan and Nicole.”
When I zeroed in on why Carter had surrendered to Dayan and Begin and torn up the joint US-Soviet Declaration, I said there was speculation at the time that he had been told he could forget about being re-elected for a second term if he required Israel to make what its leaders would regard as unacceptable moves for peace.
I then said to Carter that I didn’t buy the notion that the threat to withdraw Jewish campaign funds and votes would have been sufficient to cause him to back down. He was, I went on, less than 10 months into his first term, had probably factored the traditional Zionist blackmail threat into his own equation, and concluded that the peace he was confident he could deliver, with Soviet assistance, would win him the support of most Jewish Americans, enabling him to put the Zionist lobby out of business.
I rounded off by saying with a smile, “Mr. President, if you had been allowed to deliver peace, the constitution might have been changed to give you a third term in office!”
Carter smiled and said my speculation that a threat to deny him a second term would not have been enough to blow him of course was essentially correct. He then went on to tell me the essence of the threat that Dayan had actually presented to him.
If he pushed Israel too far, Begin would let the IDF of the leash in the region and it would, among other things, invade Lebanon with two objectives – liquidating the PLO and taking for keeps Lebanese territory south of the Litani River.
Carter was, of course, fully aware that such a demonstration of Israel’s arrogance of power would de-stabilize the region and might well put a comprehensive peace beyond reach for all time.
As told to me by Carter, Dayan’s final flourish was this.
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Mr. President you must know that my prime minister is mad. He could even bomb the Gulf oil wells.
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Another truth Carter revealed to me was that any American president has only two windows of opportunity to confront the Zionist lobby – the first nine months of his first term because after that the fund raising for the mid-term elections begins, and the last year of his second term if he has one. (In the last year of his second term President Obama has washed his hands of the conflict in and over Palestine that became Israel and walked away from it).
Reinforcing the fear that all Western (and other) leaders have of confronting the Zionist (not Jewish) state is their knowledge, which they will never admit to having, of why, really, Israel possesses nuclear weapons. They know that Israel’s leaders were driven to acquire them not for defence but the need to have a nuclear blackmail card, to enable them to say to any American president, “Don’t push us too far or we’ll use these things!”
In my book I quote Dayan admitting this to me by obvious implication in a conversation I had with him in 1969.
When I add to that what Prime Minister Golda Meir said to me in an interview for the BBC’s Panorama programme – in a doomsday situation Israel would be prepared “to take the region and the world down with it” – I think that only one conclusion is invited.
The complicity by default of Western (and other) leaders in Zionism’s crimes will be never ending because Israel is, as it has long been, a nuclear-armed monster beyond control.
Footnote
The above will be my last but one post for several months. As things are and look like going there will be nothing new to say until Hillary Clinton has won the race to the White House. My last post before I take a break will be the text of a presentation I’ll shortly be making in Italy in support of the publication of the Italian version of my book. (As expected the Zionist lobby put great effort into trying to prevent publication but its threats have been counter-productive). The title of my Italian presentation is Palestine and Zionism: The Whole Truth.
During my break from commenting on events in Israel-Palestine I’ll be working on a book I am writing about my own global learning experiences and what they’ve taught me about why our world is in such a dangerous mess and what must be done if our children and grandchildren are to have a future worth having. The working title I have assigned to the book is Our Children Will Not Forgive Us.
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Thank you for this splendid essay. I wish you well for the future. By the way, the title you have chosen for the book you are writing could not have been more 'prophetic' perhaps? I know that at the end of the day, like all other humans, journalists have to focus first and foremost on their bread and butter. This fact enabled the bastards to brainwash the unenlightened and control governments.
The whole situation is disgusting, this hold over AMERICA by ZIONIST. They are in every state, influencing. Working hard against Hillary!
The nuclear threat is a bluff --- even the "you know how crazy we are" posture is a bluff. One has only to call the bluff and Israel will fold up. A strong President should counter bluff with the entire Mediterranean fleet and a couple thousand F-16's aimed at Israel. They will come crawling and sniveling. They are deceivers and liars and they are weak where it matters --- character!
Furthermore, it's about campaign money and nothing else. Nothing else. The Congress is weak also where it matters....character. Just the money.
Thank you. Do please read Rania Hammad's piece for our web site.She is based in Italy by the way so perhaps you could meet up at your bool launch. http://peaceinourname.com/palestine-heart-of-the-middle-east
Thank you. Please read the piece by Rania Hammad who is based in Italy. Perhaps you could meet up at your Book Launch. http://peaceinourname.com/palestine-heart-of-the-middle-east
I think oNTOGRAM has underestimated the power of the Zionists who are the most dangerous crime syndicate in the US and will have no hesitation in physically eliminating any president who stands in their way. JFK was one gutsy president and we know what happened to him - his VP collaborated with them in the crime and covered it up too! LBJ could not even do anything about the deliberate attack on the USS Liberty. It will take nothing short of a military coup to decontaminate the corridors of power in DC or a catastrophic war where the people might wake up from their induced slumber and take decisive action.
As usual, an informative and clearly-expressed article.I think Alan Hart's , and, I hope, my children will forgive us because we have each tried within the limits of the blatant or subtle disinformation/ misinformation peddled by the Zionists and their placemen (that is, almost all the "mainstream" media) to open the eyes of our entourages and warn of the dangers of ostrichism. In the context of the cowardly conformism of "Western" statesmen-again, with very few exceptions, perhaps including Carter-even Alan Hart's sisyphean labours must be , well, sisyphean.
It is becoming increasingly difficult to excuse the various bodies which claim to represent Jewish people in "the West"-their cretinous , often hysterical defence of the indefensible behaviour of the Jewish( Zionist) State will foment anti-semitism, recklessly but -dare one ask ? deliberately, so as to trade on it, as Hart tells us Golda Meir commented .
Along the way,the bullying swagger of the Cruz types also stands out as an apparently irresistible tendency in what passes for "democracy" .
Year by year, out of the spotlight, Dayan's facts on the ground are, of course, the crucial issue.
Very good text. Please go on!
Israel far-rights won't do anything to endenger the word because they are still waiting for the Messiah to complete their "project"...
This is the best reason for having Hillary be the next president of the United States. Thank you for my decision.mm In the meantime I shall continue efforts to enlighten the misled about the lack of truth telling b y the media.
Dear Hart - please don't ignore the fact that there are nearly 80 million Christian Zionists (Evangelists) in United States who are the backbone of America's pro-Israel policies and Islamophobia.
Among the current dozen US presidential candidates, there are only two Jews, Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Zionist Jew, and Jill Stein MD, a 'self-hating Jew.
In Britain, France, Germany, Australia and Canada - politicians are controlled by the local Jewish lobby groups.
Anyone, who has watched witch-hunt of Jeremy Corbyn by the Jewish-Zionist establishment, would know how these so-called Western "democratic world" is controlled by a tiny foreign entity.
Louise Ellman, a Jewish Labour MP from Liverpool Riverside, was recently interviewed by Sky News, owned by Jewish billionaire Murdoch. During the interview she ranted Jewish problems with Jeremy Corbyn leadership. She accused her own party members of making antisemitic statements. She also accused Jeremy Corbyn for not taken action against these Jew-haters.
In response, Piers Corbyn dismissed Ellman’s allegations that Labour was not properly handing antisemitism as absurd on Twitter – adding that Zionists can’t cope with anyone supporting rights for Palestine.
Piers Corbyn is elder brother of UK’s Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. He is the founder and president of Weather Action, a weather forecasting organization.
https://rehmat1.com/2016/04/08/ooch-jeremy-corbyns-brother-supports-palestinian/
Rehmat, don't undermine an excellent piece by Alan with stupid (and arguably antisemitic) claims like Murdoch being Jewish. He is not he is a pro- Zionist cynical and malevolent media. mogul but not a Jewish one.
Thank you for your first hand account of the monstrous blackmail that has imprisoned the civilized (or so they claim to be) world from any action that would show they have the thinnest regard for justice in the ongoing rape of the Palestinians and the blind stupidity that appeasing a monster leads to anything but far greater crimes and injustice. I was under the influence for years of the so-called, "Christian Zionists" which is no more "Christian" than a "Christian Nazi" advocacy for Hitler would have been. Carter is a brave man, one of the only ever to have been in a power position and then write books about the truth of the ugly face of Zionism and the murderous invasions of Gaza. The ship of criminals and lackeys to the likes of Soros and his cabal of NWO fiends would never do anything honest as decrying what Jimmy has, because they are willing lackeys to the Zionists, making them and us, partners in their rape of humanity in the middle east. I look forward to hearing more from you and reading your books.
Thank you so much for this great information. There is just one thing I wanted to mention and that is regarding Louise Ellman - it is a psychological fact that those who use the word "hate" are the ones were full of hate themselves, so regarding her "Jewish-haters" - I really need to say no more.
Naturally, as a good decent law-abiding person of society, I completely and utterly support Palestine in their bid for freedom, being treated with respect, having a decent normal life including on the land that has been stolen from them over the last nearly 3/4 of a decade, and I am continually peeved and shocked and saddened at the huge lack of help they are receiving from world governments. Dr. E.
This article and great comments are astounding, simply brilliant. Why don't more of us, especially Americans, know about this danger to us and the world and insist that our representatives and POTUS take action?
Alan, great expose, one of Leonard Cohen's 'cracks, thru which the light gets in'.
Have you read Douglas Reed's "The Controversy of Zion"?
For me it was the perspective that revealed the whole narcissistic cult for what it was, and it explains the nature of the beast.
Hillary becomes president? Only if Obama pardons her. There is not much choice in USA politics. I view Hillary as evil incarnate and Trump as "Foghorn Leghorn". Seeing as it's all a joke anyway why not put a cartoon character in the Whitehouse?
Zionism says my way or doomsday which clearly shows their arrogance against humanity as whole!