Celebrating the denial of ethnic cleansing
“If our dreams for Zionism are to end in the smoke of assassins’ guns and our labours for its future produce only a new set of gangsters worthy of Nazi Germany,then many like myself will have to reconsider the position we have maintained so consistently and so long in the past.” (Emphasis added).
In Palestine the Irgun concentrated on bombing British installations, facilities and communications networks of all kinds, for the purpose of making government impossible. The blowing up of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on 22 July 1946 was the most spectacular and politically important of the Irgun’s operations against the occupying British. They had taken over the southern wing of this most prestigious hotel to house the central institutions of their administration. It was the very heart of British authority and power in Palestine. Ben-Gurion denied that he or Zionism’s official military organisations – the Haganah and the Palmach – had anything do with, or advance knowledge of, the blowing up of the King David.. He was not telling the truth. At least 91 people were killed and twice that number were injured. And Britain was humiliated.
So, having made a mess of it, Britain decided to get out of Palestine by midnight on 13 May 1948; and it dumped the problem of what to do about Palestine into the lap of infant United Nations. Zionist terrorism had succeeded in its mission to break Britain’s will to stay.
On 20 November 1947, at the end of a voting process that was influenced by the Zionist lobby, the General Assembly of the UN approved by a narrow majority a resolution, number 181, to partition Palestine. It was a proposal for injustice on a massive scale. IFit was approved by the Security Council, 56.4percent of Palestine was to be given for a Jewish state to people – many of them recently arrived, alien immigrants with no biological connection to the ancient Hebrews- who constituted 33percent of the population and owned 5.6percent of the land.
But the bare facts abut the Partition Plan proposal itself tell only a fraction of this part of the truth of history.
Without the consent of the majority of the people of Palestine, the UNdid not have the rightto 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.
Even so, the partition plan proposal approved by the General Assembly did NOTbecome UN policybecause it did NOT go to the Security Council for approval- because the US believed that, if approved in the face of Arab and other Muslim opposition. it could only be implemented by force; andPresident Truman was NOT prepared to use force to partition Palestine.
So the partition plan was vitiated, becameinvalid,and the question of what to do about Palestine 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 do that Israel UNILATERALLY declared itself to be in existence – actually in defiance of the will of the organised international community, including the Truman administration.
Zionism’s assertion that Israel was given its birth certificate and thus its legitimacy by the UN Partition Plan is a myth. Propaganda nonsense. The truth of the time was that the Zionist state of Israel had no right to exist andcould have no right to exist unless….. Unless it was recognised and legitimizedby those who were dispossessed of their land and their rights during its creation. In international law only the Palestinians could give Israel the legitimacy it craved. And that legitimacy was the only thing the Zionists could not take from the Palestinians by force.
The Arabs were not only the overwhelming majorityin the territory to be allotted to them by the Partition Plan proposal, they were also about 40 percentof the population in the territory to be allotted to the Jews. For Ben-Gurion and his most senior leadership colleagues, this gave added urgency to their task of finalising the plan – Plan Dalet- to ethnically cleanse, de-Arabise, as much as Palestine as possible.
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