Anti-Zionism is a political ideology; anti-Semitism is a racial matter.

by Garcia Wilde | VT

Every country has myths but everyone recognizes their myths as fanciful stories, fables—except Israel. The genocidal state wants us to believe its myths are HISTORY.

by Garcia Wilde

Let’s start with Abraham’s myth which ridiculously asserts God, Jehovah, Adonai, Hashem, etc. promised the land of Canaan to them. Why would God order a 70-year-old man living in Ur (a town in Iraq) to pick up his family and cross the desert to distant Canaan? Of all the Urians/Chaldeans why did God pick Abraham to steal the land of Canaan from its natives? What God would approve theft? Then there’s the fairy tale of 100-year-old Abraham fathering a son whom he was about the kill because God told him to do so. Some compassionate God.

Now let’s enumerate just 10 of the many myths Zionists have been spreading for more than a century to claim Arab Palestine.

1. When European Zionists started clamoring to grab Arab Palestine, their mendacious slogan was: “Give the land without people to a people without a land.” Of course, Palestine was not a “land without people.” A related Zionist myth was that Palestine was desert. With great chutzpah, they continued these lies although Theodore Herzl, the founder of Zionism, wrote the following after touring Palestine: “We abroad are used to believe the Eretz Yisrael (Arab Palestine) is now almost totally desolate, a desert that is not sowed…But in truth, this is not the case. Throughout the Country, it is difficult to find fields that are not sowed.” The myth is still alive and lies that Israelis turned the desert into a garden. That Zionist garden was funded by the $280 billion from the U.S., not to mention billions of dollars diaspora Jews have sent to Israel in addition to know-how practically in every field.
2. “After 2,000 years, Jews have returned to their homeland.” According to any number of scholars and a celebrated Jewish writer Arthur Koestler (“The Thirteenth Tribe”), the Ashkenazi Jews, who founded Israel are not Jewish. They are Khazars from northern Caucasus who converted to Judaism. They spread west to Europe and came to be known as Ashkenazi. The Sephardim of Israel come from Arab countries and since the 7^th century have mixed racially and culturally with Arabs. Many of these Sephardim “returned” to Palestine through Zionist trickery. Zionist agents, for example, placed bombs in Iraqi Jewish community canters to convince Jews that their lives were in danger in Iraq.
3. Israelis condemn Arab refusal to recognize Israel as the historic land of the Jews.

Long ago the founder of Israel David Ben-Gurion said: “Why should Arabs make peace? If I was an Arab leader, I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural. We have taken their country…they only see only one thing. We have come here and stolen their country. Why should they accept that?” Ehud Barak expressed similar sentiments a few years ago. When Israeli leaders admit their grand theft, why shouldn’t the Palestinians, the Arab world, and the world not do so?

4. To justify their theft of Palestine, Zionists deny the existence of a Palestinian people. In the words of mannish Prime Minister Golda Meir, “There is no such thing as Palestinians” (Sunday Times, 1969.) Years later, she said: “I am Palestinian. I was Palestinian from 1920 to 1948.” She said it although she was born in Ukraine and was an American citizen when she went to Palestine.
5. In Israel and around the world Zionist begin their gathering by proudly singing Hatikvah, Israel’s anthem. It’s supposed to express Israeli patriotism and is presumably composed by an Israeli. The anthem was based on Vitara (My Homeland) composed by Czech composer Betrich Smetana.
6. Israel’s flag has the so-called Star of David at its center. The star is supposedly a reproduction of the star on mythical King David’s shield. However, the star, which is of Indian origin, was adopted by Zionist in recent centuries. But the false “King” David connection is still propagated by the Zionists. As Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels said: “A lie told once remains a lie, but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth.”
7. Israelis say that in 1948 they were surrounded by five Arab nations intent at throwing them into the sea. A soft-headed Arab leader did say that but at no time were the five Arab nations (Lebanon and Saudi Arabia barely participated in the war) a threat to Israel. The CIA and British intelligence agencies maintained that in 1948 the Israeli forces were stronger than the combined Arab forces. For the past 75 years Israel has presented herself as a victim country being threatened by stronger and collective Arab forces. If that was true, why has Israel won all its wars with the Arabs?
8. Israelis claim that for 2,000 years, Jews had dreamt of returning to their homeland. However, Herzl, the founder of Zionism, wanted to establish a Jewish homeland in Uganda and Patagonia (South America.) Some connection to the land of Palestine.
9. Israelis claim Jews founded Jerusalem. However Canaanites occupied Palestine and founded Jerusalem thousands of years before the appearance of Jews. They called the town Urushalim (Uru means “founded by”) and Shalim was a Canaanite god. Thus, it’s false to call Jerusalem City of David.)

• “Anti-Zionism is antisemitism” is another Zionist myth. Anti-Zionism is a political ideology; anti-Semitism is a racial matter.

P.S. For years Israel has claimed it is not responsible for the 1948 Naqba (catastrophe in Arabic) when some 750,000 Arabs fled for their lives from what is now Israel. The Israelis lie that Arab radio stations were advising the Palestinians to leave so that they would not be caught in the fire when Arabs attacked the Israelis. At the time the British monitored the war from Cyprus and taped the broadcasts of every Arab radio station. The British tapes don’t contain any mention of Arab states advising Palestinians to evacuate.

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