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<\/figure>\nBy MICHAEL TALMO From the time of the Ancient Roman Empire to our modern era, the Jewish people have been hated and\u00a0persecuted.<\/a>\u00a0They were blamed for every crime and evil that befell the human race, from killing Christian children and using their blood to make matzohs to the\u00a0bubonic plague<\/a>\u00a0that killed over a third of Europe, because, after all, they murdered Christ. Anti-Semites delight in quoting I Thessalonians\u00a02:14-16<\/a>\u00a0where the Apostle Paul states that the Jews \u201ckilled the Lord Jesus.\u201d In reality, this passage is a\u00a0forgery,<\/a>\u00a0or, as historians call it, an interpolation. In other words, Paul didn\u2019t write it.<\/p>\n During the Middle Ages, some European and Muslim\u00a0fiefdoms<\/a>\u00a0forced Jewish people to wear colored\u00a0badges<\/a>\u00a0to identify them. In the early 20th century, Nazi Germany copied this tactic. But even prior to Nazi Germany, Jews began to call for a country of their own where they would have a safe haven from hate and persecution and from which they could defend themselves if attacked. The preferred location for this Jewish nation was Palestine, which, according to the Old Testament (the\u00a0Tanakh<\/a>\u00a0in Judaism), was given to them by God. This quest for a Jewish homeland is called\u00a0Zionism.<\/a><\/p>\n The modern Zionist movement was founded by\u00a0Theodor Herzl<\/a>\u00a0(1860-1904), who, oddly enough, wasn\u2019t religious. As explained\u00a0here,<\/a>\u00a0Herzl \u201cspoke neither Hebrew or Yiddish\u201d and \u201chad no Jewish education.\u201d In one of his letters, he wrote: \u201cEveryone should believe in, or not believe in, whatever he wants.\u201d<\/p>\n Originally, the Zionist movement wasn\u2019t popular. Most Jewish people wanted to remain in the countries they lived in and believed in working to overcome any prejudices that existed in them. That is, until the Holocaust, or\u00a0Shoah.<\/a>\u00a0Once that\u00a0happened,<\/a>\u00a0\u201csupport for Zionism became nearly universal.\u201d On May 14, 1948, three years after the fall of Hitler\u2019s Third Reich (May 1945), the Jewish State of Israel was born.<\/p>\n But as explained in this United Nations (U.N.)\u00a0report,<\/a>\u00a0THE QUESTION OF PALESTINE,\u00a0<\/em>this was accomplished by brutally taking the land from the indigenous Palestinian people who had lived there for centuries.<\/p>\n Like South Africa used to be, Israel has been, and still is, an\u00a0apartheid<\/a>\u00a0state that has oppressed and killed the Palestinian people for over 70 years. How ironic that this Jewish nation became what they hated and feared in the Nazis. I\u2019m not talking about all Jewish people. Like all other people, the overwhelming majority are good and decent human beings. But there are assholes and sadistic psychopaths in every nation, culture, religion, and ethnic group. In this case, it\u2019s the Israeli government, its military, and their supporters that are evil. And that includes the American government, my government, which is allowing the current\u00a0genocide<\/a>\u00a0to continue. But history has taught us that a large percentage of otherwise good people can be misled by fear.<\/p>\n As explained\u00a0here,\u00a0<\/a>while most Israelis dislike Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for numerous reasons, most of them support the genocidal war on Gaza because the attack by\u00a0Hamas<\/a>\u00a0on October 7, 2023, rekindled their fear of persecution and isolation. And since the Jewish people have indeed endured centuries of persecution and discrimination, it\u2019s hard to blame them for taking a bite out of the crazy muffin. Nevertheless, the genocide being perpetrated in their name has killed many thousands of Palestinians, compared to over 1200 Israelis.<\/p>\n The United Nations\u00a0reports<\/a>\u00a0that over 38,000 Palestinians have been killed so far. 14,500 of that number are children, as reported\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0here.<\/a>\u00a0In fact, as reported\u00a0here,<\/a>\u00a0\u201cIsrael killed more children in the first four months of its assault than in all of the world\u2019s conflicts in the past four years combined.\u201d And even though we really can\u2019t know for sure if those numbers are accurate because they mainly come from Hamas, does it really matter? Many thousands have died, even if it\u2019s only half the reported amounts, not to mention the tens of thousands wounded and maimed for life.<\/p>\n Here in the US, things are different.\u00a0One-third<\/a>\u00a0of American Jews view Israel\u2019s war on Palestine as genocide. Over\u00a051%<\/a>\u00a0oppose giving arms to Israel. As reported\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0here,<\/a>\u00a0many of the college students protesting in support of Palestine are Jewish. On March 27, 2024, Gallup\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0that 55% of Americans oppose Israel\u2019s military actions against Gaza. Gallup further reported that on the sociopolitical spectrum, as of March 24, 2024, 75% of Democrats oppose Israel\u2019s military action in Gaza, along with 60% of Independents. But only 30% of Republicans oppose what Israel is doing to the people of Gaza. Republicans supposedly want to protect kids from porn and drag queens, but not Palestinian kids from war, starvation, and death. What a bunch of hypocrites!<\/p>\n One of the major reasons my country supports Israel is religion. Many conservative Christians, including many politicians, believe that Israel\u2019s existence is the\u00a0fulfillment<\/a>\u00a0of Bible prophecy and signifies that the second coming of Christ will happen very soon. They are referred to as\u00a0Christian Zionists.<\/a>\u00a0This article will not address whether or not the Bible is true. But according to what it literally says, creating a Jewish state in the Middle East and calling it Israel doesn\u2019t amount to a pile of dog poo.<\/p>\n T<\/strong>he Jews are not Israel<\/strong><\/p>\n Ancient Israel consisted of\u00a0twelve tribes<\/a>\u00a0who were named after the twelve sons of Jacob: Reuben, the eldest, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, and Benjamin. Jacob was the grandson of the patriarch Abraham (originally Abram), the first to be called by God after the Flood. Two sets of promises were made to Abraham and the multitudes of descendants who would come from him: the birthright (national greatness) and the scepter (spiritual salvation), Genesis\u00a012:1-3.<\/a><\/p>\n The aforementioned promises passed from Abraham to his son Isaac and then to Jacob, whose name was later changed to Israel, which means\u00a0\u201cGod prevails\u201d<\/a>\u00a0(Genesis\u00a032:27-28<\/a>). However, among Jacob\/Israel\u2019s twelve sons, the promises were divided. The scepter went to his son, Judah (Genesis\u00a049:10<\/a>). The birthright went to Joseph, his favorite son (I Chronicles\u00a05:1-2<\/a>). But there was further division. Joseph had two sons: Manasseh and Ephraim. When Jacob\/Israel was on his deathbed, he placed his hands on both children and said, \u201cLet my name be named on them\u201d (Genesis\u00a048:16<\/a>). As a result, the tribe of Joseph was divided into the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh. So, ancient Israel really consisted of thirteen tribes.<\/p>\n To quote Joshua\u00a014:4:<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cFor the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim:\u201d<\/p>\n When the Israelites conquered Palestine, back then called\u00a0Canaan,<\/a>\u00a0each tribe was given their own lands and cities. Except for the tribe of Levi, who were the priestly caste. They were only given their own cities. Each tribe maintained its own separate identity. Joshua, chapters 13-19. Under King David and his son Solomon, Israel supposedly became a powerful, nearly\u00a0800-mile empire<\/a>\u00a0that stretched from the Euphrates River to the Red Sea.<\/p>\n King Solomon taxed his people heavily. After Solomon\u2019s death, his son\u00a0Rehoboam<\/a>\u00a0became king. The people of Israel petitioned him for lower taxes. Rehoboam refused and promised to further increase their taxes. As a result, Israel made Jeroboam of the tribe of Ephraim king. Because of this, and to preserve King David\u2019s dynasty, the tribe of Judah (David\u2019s tribe) seceded from the nation of Israel (I Kings\u00a0Chapter 12<\/a>). Since Jerusalem, the capital of Israel, was one of the cities given to the Tribe of Judah, Israel later chose the city of\u00a0Samaria<\/a>\u00a0as their new capital. Jerusalem became the capital of the new, smaller nation.<\/p>\n In order to strengthen the tribe of Judah, God made the tribes of Benjamin and Levi go with them. They became the Kingdom or the House of Judah. It was these three tribes that became known as the Jews. Jew is a nickname for Judah. The other ten tribes now ruled by the tribe of Ephraim were never called Jews. In I Kings\u00a011:29-31,<\/a>\u00a0the prophet Ahijah tells Jeroboam that God will give him ten of the thirteen Israeli tribes to rule over. The first time the word Jew is mentioned is in II Kings 16:6. In this\u00a0chapter,<\/a>\u00a0we read that Israel forms an alliance with Syria and makes war with the Jews.<\/p>\n People often incorrectly refer to all of ancient Israel as \u201cthe Jews.\u201d But consider this: the USA consists of fifty states. New Yorkers are Americans. But most Americans aren\u2019t New Yorkers. If the USA were destroyed and only New York State remained, it could no longer call itself the United States of America. The people of New York could rightly call themselves Americans, but they would no longer be the United States of America. In the same way, the Jews are Israelites, but Israel itself is the tribe of Joseph, which was divided into the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh. The Kingdom or House of Israel of ancient times also consisted of the other eight tribes. But when Israel is mentioned in prophecy, it\u2019s referring specifically to the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh.<\/p>\n For over two hundred years, the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah co-existed. But the two biggest sins they couldn\u2019t resist committing were sabbath-breaking and idolatry. Upon becoming King of Israel, Jeroboam immediately instituted idol worship in the form of two golden calves (I Kings\u00a012:27-33<\/a>) because he didn\u2019t want his subjects traveling to the temple in Jerusalem during high holy days, fearing they might be seduced into reuniting with the Kingdom of Judah. In II Kings chapters 17, 21, and 24, we read that the Kingdom of Judah also engaged in idolatry and rejected God. For this reason, God punished both Israel and Judah.<\/p>\n In 721 BC, Israel was conquered by Assyria, who eventually removed the ten tribes from their lands (II Kings\u00a017:1-18<\/a>). 130 years later, Babylon, under King Nubuchadnezzar, conquered the Kingdom of Judah and removed them from their lands (II Kings, chapters\u00a024<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a025<\/a>). The armies of the Babylonian Empire, after a two-year siege, took Jerusalem, destroyed the temple built under King Solomon, forced King Zedekiah to watch his family executed, then blinded him, imprisoned him in Babylon, and removed the Jews from their homeland. 70 years later, under the Persian Empire, which had conquered the Babylonian Empire, the Jews were allowed to return home. But the Kingdom of Israel never returned and, unlike the Jews, forgot who they were. They became known as the\u00a0Ten Lost Tribes.<\/a><\/p>\n So, who is Israel? Where did the lost tribes go? The Bible offers some clues. In Genesis\u00a035:11,<\/a>\u00a0God tells Jacob, after changing his name to Israel, \u201ca nation and a company of nations shall be of thee.\u201d Going back to chapter 48 of Genesis, when Jacob\/Israel specifically put his name on Joseph\u2019s two sons, he said that while Manasseh\u2019s descendants would be a great people\/nation, Ephraim, the younger brother\u2019s descendants, would be greater because they would become multiple nations. In other words, \u201ca company of nations.\u201d<\/p>\n In Jeremiah\u00a031:8-10,<\/a>\u00a0Israel of the distant future is referred to as \u201cthe Isles afar off,\u201d as the people of the \u201cnorth country\u201d and living on the \u201ccoasts of the earth.\u201d Isaiah\u00a049:1<\/a>\u00a0also refers to Israel in prophecy as \u201cO isles.\u201d In Genesis\u00a022:17,<\/a>\u00a0God tells Abraham, \u201cI will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the seashore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies.\u201d Among the many\u00a0meanings<\/a>\u00a0for this word are port, gateway, inlet, and entryway. In other words, major seaports and waterways. This would make modern Israel a colonizing, conquering people.<\/p>\n Micah\u00a05:7-9<\/a>\u00a0prophesizes that \u201cthe remnant of Jacob\u201d (Israel) will be a lion among the nations and can utterly destroy them. These prophecies describe Israel as a major superpower consisting of a single nation (Manasseh) and a company of nations (Ephraim). Two superpowers with huge populations dominating the entire world. Obviously, this doesn\u2019t apply to the modern Jewish nation that calls itself Israel.<\/p>\n In 1967,\u00a0Herbert W. Armstrong<\/a>\u00a0(1892\u20131986), founder of the\u00a0Worldwide Church of God,<\/a>\u00a0wrote a comprehensive and fascinating book on this topic entitled\u00a0THE UNITED STATES AND BRITIAN IN PROPHECY\u00a0<\/em>that<\/em>\u00a0documents why Israel could be the United States and the former, far more vast\u00a0British Empire.<\/a>\u00a0The United States is a single great nation, which is the tribe of Manasseh. The nations that made up much of the now-defunct British Empire\u2014mainly the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland), Southern Ireland, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand\u2014are the tribe of Ephraim. The entire book can be read\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Mr. Armstrong also explains that when Israel fell to the Assyrians, the birthright promise was withheld for over 2,500 years. This is why, after being moved through many nations \u201cas corn is sifted in a sieve,\u201d Amos\u00a09:9,<\/a>\u00a0Israel, now the US, and Britain became global superpowers. Starting in the late 16th<\/sup>\u00a0century, Britain grew into a\u00a0world empire\u00a0<\/a>in 1801. The United States became a\u00a0world power\u00a0<\/a>in 1898, after the Spanish-American War. It\u2019s also interesting to note that, just as ancient Israel consisted of thirteen tribes, the USA originally began with thirteen states.<\/p>\n Mr. Armstrong further explained that modern Israel would have to have a monarchy because King David\u2019s dynasty, which God established forever (II Samuel\u00a08:8-16<\/a>), was transferred to Israel by the prophet Jeremiah after the Kingdom of Judah fell to the Babylonians. So, according to Mr. Armstrong, King Charles III now sits on David\u2019s throne. And as stated in Luke\u00a01:32,<\/a>\u00a0Jesus will take over David\u2019s throne at his second coming, which is why John\u00a04:22<\/a>\u00a0declares, \u201csalvation is of the Jews.\u201d The scepter promise given to Judah represents Christ (Galatians\u00a03:8,16<\/a>).<\/p>\n All empires, no matter how powerful they are, eventually die. The Bible predicts that modern Israel will fall and be conquered just as it did in the past due to its wickedness, and rightly so. Both the US and British empires have committed genocide many times over. They have supported death squads and dictatorships, engaged in torture, ruthlessly plundered the resources of other countries, overthrew democratically elected governments, and betrayed and exploited their own citizens. So, God will strike them down. The House of Judah, which now calls itself Israel, will suffer the same fate for the same reasons. This is supposed to happen during the time the Bible calls \u201cgreat tribulation,\u201d Matthew\u00a0chapter 24,<\/a>\u00a0and Revelation\u00a0chapter 7.<\/a><\/p>\n But God won\u2019t abandon Israel, Judah, or the other eight tribes. As explained in Jeremiah\u00a0chapters 30<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a031:7-12,\u00a0<\/a>after a brief period of punishment, God will save Israel and Judah. At the second coming, Jesus himself will rescue them from captivity and bring them back to the promised land, meaning Palestine, in a modern exodus, repeating what Moses did (Jeremiah\u00a023:3-8,<\/a>\u00a0Revelation\u00a0chapter 7<\/a>). That\u2019s the actual prophecy, which is why a Jewish state that calls itself Israel physically occupying Palestine means absolutely nothing.<\/p>\n Finally, consider this: the people of England are called the British. In the Old Testament, the word covenant is translated from the Hebrew word brit, as explained\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0here.<\/a>\u00a0The Hebrew word for man in the Old Testament is\u00a0ish.<\/a>\u00a0Get it? British, which in Hebrew means covenant man. Of course, this could just be a coincidence. Or is it?<\/p>\n The Jewish takeover of modern Palestine<\/strong><\/p>\n Not all of the Jewish people returned to Palestine after the Babylonian exile, as explained\u00a0here.<\/a>\u00a0Many went on to establish settlements in other parts of the Greek and later Roman Empires. They became known as the Diaspora. It was the large Jewish community in Egypt that created the\u00a0Septuagint,<\/a>\u00a0the Greek translation of the Old Testament, between the third and second centuries BC. because they no longer spoke Hebrew.<\/p>\n In the fourth century BC, the Jews in Palestine were conquered by Alexander the Great, experienced periods of conquest and independence after his vast empire fell, and were later conquered by the Roman Republic in the last century BC, which would, under the Emperors, become the Roman Empire.<\/p>\n There were\u00a0three Jewish rebellions<\/a>\u00a0against Roman rule. The first and most famous rebellion (66-73 AD) began under Emperor\u00a0Nero<\/a>\u00a0(37-68) and ended under Emperor\u00a0Vespasian<\/a>\u00a0(9-79). The Romans, upon conquering Jerusalem, destroyed the second temple and prohibited the Jews from rebuilding it. The second rebellion (115-117) under Emperor\u00a0Trajan<\/a>\u00a0(53-117) was called the Kito War. It was fought outside of Palestine. The third rebellion (132-136) under Emperor\u00a0Hadrian<\/a>\u00a0(76-138) was called the\u00a0Bar\u00a0<\/a>Kokhba revolt.<\/a>\u00a0As explained\u00a0here,<\/a>\u00a0after the rebellion was crushed, Hadrian outlawed the Jewish religion and kicked the Jews out of Jerusalem, which he renamed Aelia Capitolina. As a result, the Jewish people lost control of their ancestral homeland for the next 1800 years.<\/p>\n In the late 19th century, European and Russian Jews who were being persecuted in their native countries began\u00a0establishing settlements<\/a>\u00a0in Palestine, which was part of the\u00a0Ottoman Empire<\/a>\u00a0that existed from 1299-1922. Nearly 100% of the 500,000 native inhabitants were Arab. At that time, much of Palestine was semi-feudal. Farmers lived and worked on land owned by wealthy absentee owners. The Montefiores and the Rothschilds were among the wealthy Jewish philanthropists who sponsored the settlements and purchased the needed land, which evicted the native inhabitants. While this led to conflict, overall the earliest settlers, as explained in this U.N.\u00a0document,<\/a>\u00a0\u201chad the goodwill and cooperation of the Arabs\u201d until they realized that the Zionist leaders wanted all of Palestine.<\/p>\n In 1897, Theodor Herzal convened the first\u00a0Zionist Congress<\/a>\u00a0in Basel, Switzerland. Participants from seventeen countries attended and established the World Zionist Organization. Herzel was elected its president and began lobbying countries to support and fund the establishment of a Jewish homeland. In this 1896\u00a0pamphlet,<\/a>\u00a0Herzel promised that the Jewish nation he wanted to establish in Palestine would be \u201can outpost of civilization as opposed to barbarism\u201d and would \u201cremain in contact with all Europe, which would have to guarantee our existence.\u201d In other words, he was promising that his new Jewish nation would be an extension of Western military power and provide trade opportunities for the rich.<\/p>\n But for the past 130 years, the goal of the Zionists\/Israelis is and always has been, as explained\u00a0here,<\/a>\u00a0\u201cto seize and ethically cleanse Palestinian land.\u201d A famous slogan of the early Zionists was \u201cA land without people for a people without land,\u201d which ignored the fact that well over half a million Arabs were living there at the end of the 1890s. But it didn\u2019t matter because, as pointed out in this U.N.\u00a0study,<\/a>\u00a0\u201cthe goal of Zionism from the start was the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine. The rights of the people of Palestine themselves received no attention in these plans.\u201d<\/p>\n As shown on the above 1918 map posted on the U.N. website, the World Zionist Organization wanted more than just Palestine. They wanted all of the territory that corresponds to the Kingdom of Solomon, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, which also includes parts of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt. This is referred to as\u00a0Eretz Yisael,<\/a>\u00a0or the Land of Israel.<\/p>\n At first, Zionists couldn\u2019t be open about their intention to drive the native population out of Palestine. They had to be more discreet in order to garner support for colonization. In 1895, regarding the Palestinians, Theodor Herzel\u00a0wrote<\/a>\u00a0in his diary:<\/p>\n \u201cWe shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it employment in our country. But the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly.\u201d<\/p>\n After World War I, the Ottoman Empire lost control of Palestine to the British Empire. The Palestinians weren\u2019t happy about being dominated by another imperial empire. But the Jewish Zionists were tickled pink because they needed the aid of a major power to create a Jewish nation, and the British were a lot more sympathetic to their cause. In the 1917\u00a0Balfour Declaration,<\/a>\u00a0the British Government announced its support for \u201cthe establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine.\u201d This allowed the Zionists to be less cautious about their plans to get rid of the native Palestinians.<\/p>\n In a 1937\u00a0letter<\/a>\u00a0to his son,\u00a0David Ben-Gurion<\/a>\u00a0(1886-1973), the primary founder of the State of Israel and its first Prime Minister, declared:<\/p>\n \u201cWe must expel the Arabs and take their places and if we have to use force, to guarantee our own right to settle in those places\u2014then we have force at our disposal.\u201d<\/p>\n As explained\u00a0here,<\/a>\u00a0in 1920, Ben-Gurion founded a Jewish-only labor union in Palestine called the Histadrut. But this was just a means to a later end, which Ben-Gurion made clear when he stated, \u201cWe are not workers. We are conquerors. Conquerors of the land.\u201d<\/p>\n As\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0by CounterPunch, \u201cthe concept of transfer, a euphemism for expulsion, was embraced by the entire Jewish leadership from the earliest stages of Zionism until the 1948 extirpation of the indigenous population. Transfer committees were actually set up from 1937 on until 1948 in order to study ways of ridding Palestine of as many Arabs as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n The \u201cArchitect of Transfer\u201d was\u00a0Yosef Weitz<\/a>\u00a0(1890-1972) of the\u00a0Jewish National Fund.<\/a>\u00a0Weitz was one of the major players in acquiring land for the\u00a0Yishuv,<\/a>\u00a0or Jewish residents, in Palestine prior to the creation of the State of Israel. In 1940, Weitz wrote in his diary:<\/p>\n \u201cIt should be clear to us that there is no room in Palestine for these two peoples\u2026Without the Arabs, the land will become wide and spacious for us; with the Arabs, the land will remain sparse and cramped\u2026Not one village, not one tribe should be left\u2026There is no other way out.\u201d<\/p>\n The conflict between Zionist Jews and native Palestinians put the British Government between a rock and a hard place because they wanted to please both sides in order to keep the peace. Their Arab allies helped the British defeat the Ottoman Empire. But a Jewish nation would be more friendly to helping them further their imperial interests. But the Arabs knew the Zionists wanted their entire country to themselves. And in addition to allowing some 300,000 more Jewish settlers into Palestine between 1920 and 1939, one of the major things the British did was give the Zionists military power.<\/p>\n During WWI, five battalions of Jewish Zionists, known as the\u00a0Jewish Legion,<\/a>\u00a0were created by and served in the British Army. After the war, these trained Jewish veterans formed a powerful underground militia called the\u00a0Haganah<\/a>\u00a0(the Hebrew word for defense). It was originally formed to protect Jewish settlers from Arab attacks and to avoid dependency on British troops. The British not only permitted the Haganah to exist; they also trained Zionist strike forces, as in death squads, to massacre Arabs. More militant offshoots of the Haganah later emerged, such as the\u00a0Irgun<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Lehi,<\/a>\u00a0also known as the Stern Gang. Both are considered terrorist groups. But the Lehi referred to itself as a terrorist group and admitted to carrying out acts of terrorism. All of these paramilitary groups morphed into the IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) after Israel became a nation in 1948.<\/p>\n The expansion of Jewish settlements displaced more and more Palestinians, creating a huge refugee crisis. In 1936, the refugee crisis, along with lower wages for Arab workers and other forms of discrimination, led to a nationwide strike. The oppressive British response led to a full-scale armed rebellion. As explained\u00a0here,<\/a>\u00a0here,<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0here,<\/a>\u00a0the British Government sent 20,000 troops into Palestine, who were assisted by 15,000 British-trained Zionist militias. The rebellion was put down in 1939 with some 5,000 Palestinians dead, 15,000 to 20,000 wounded, 5,600 imprisoned, and who knows how many were tortured?<\/p>\n 1939 was also the year that Britain went to war with Nazi Germany. The last thing they needed were problems elsewhere. So, to\u00a0appease<\/a>\u00a0the Palestinians and the neighboring Arab countries, the British Government greatly limited Jewish immigration into Palestine, deported Jews who entered Palestine illegally, put restrictions on Jewish land purchases, and promised that an independent Arab state would be created within the next ten years. Britain also refused to allow Jews trying to escape the Holocaust into Palestine and refused to admit Holocaust survivors after the war. This infuriated the Zionist Militia groups, who launched terrorist attacks against the British military forces starting in 1944, when the war was almost over and it was clear that the Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) were going to lose.<\/p>\n Numerous terrorist attacks and murders were carried out by Irgun alone, as documented\u00a0here.<\/a>\u00a0One of their most famous acts of brutality was bombing the\u00a0King David Hotel<\/a>\u00a0in 1946 because it was a British military command center. 91 Arabs, British, and Jews were killed. The\u00a0leader<\/a>\u00a0of the Irgun was\u00a0Menachem Begin<\/a>\u00a0(1913-1992). This terrorist would later become Prime Minister of Israel from 1977-1983. But by 1947, no matter how brutally the British responded to the Zionist attacks, they were attacked right back, which was costing them enormous amounts of money and damaging their relations with other countries, including the US. So, in 1947, the British turned the Frankenstein monster they had created over to the U.N.<\/p>\n As explained in this U.N.\u00a0document,<\/a>\u00a0despite the fact that the Jewish Zionists \u201cowned no more than 6 per cent of the total land area of Palestine,\u201d the U.N. General Assembly gave them \u201cabout 54 per cent of the total land area of the country.\u201d As shown on the above map on the left, the Arab\u2019s portion was divided into three separate sections. This led to the civil war of 1947 to 1949, which Arabs call the\u00a0Nakba,\u00a0<\/a>the Arabic word for catastrophe.<\/p>\n Aided by an\u00a0army of volunteers<\/a>\u00a0from various Arab countries, the native Palestinians fought for their homeland. After declaring\u00a0independence<\/a>\u00a0a few months into the fighting, Ben-Gurion later claimed \u201cthat Israel was a country of 700,000 fighting against thirty million Arabs.\u201d In reality, Israel and the Arabs they were fighting each had about 100,000 men. Ben-Gurion also admitted to his cabinet \u201cthat Arab hostility grew out of the fact that \u2018hundreds of thousands of refugees have been expelled from their homes.\u201d And, as\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0by Oxford Academic, the Zionists began driving the Palestinians from their country before the Arab Liberation Army invasion. Since the Arab armies were small, uncoordinated, and not as well-armed as the Israelis, they were no match for them.<\/p>\n When this civil war ended in 1949,\u00a0over 700,000<\/a>\u00a0Palestinians were kicked out of their homeland. 400-600 Palestinian villages were destroyed, and the people, including women and children, were either massacred and dumped into mass graves or forced to flee. Many were also tortured and raped. To prevent the Palestinians from returning, wells were poisoned and villages were utterly destroyed. Laws were then passed by the new Israeli government to ban Palestinians from returning to claim their property. Last year, the U.N., for the first time in 75 years,\u00a0commemorated<\/a>\u00a0\u201cthe historic injustice suffered by the Palestinians\u201d due to Israel\u2019s actions \u201cand to spotlight the ongoing refugee crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n In 1967, after a series of disputes and military skirmishes with Jordan, Syria, and Egypt, which had formed an alliance, Israel launched a preemptive attack on them. This was known as the\u00a0Six-Day War<\/a>\u00a0because that\u2019s how quickly Israel defeated all three countries, which allowed them to seize the Gaza Strip, most of the Golan Heights in Syria, the West Bank in Jordan, which included East Jerusalem, enabling them to claim the entire city as their capital, and the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. After signing a peace treaty with Egypt in 1982, Israel gave back the Sinai Peninsula. As explained\u00a0here,<\/a>\u00a0all of these occupations are considered illegal and have caused a huge refugee crisis. The pink areas on the above map show the illegally occupied territories.<\/p>\n The atrocities continue<\/strong><\/p>\n Thanks to Israel, \u201cPalestinians are the\u00a0largest<\/a>\u00a0refugee group in the world.\u201d Over five million are living in 68 refugee camps throughout the Middle East, as documented\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0here.<\/a>\u00a0A number of them have been in existence since 1948. For decades, many lived in tents. Many now live in cramped one-room dwellings without adequate sewage, sanitation, or access to adequate medical care. The current war has rendered even more Palestinians homeless. As reported\u00a0here,<\/a>\u00a0many of them can\u2019t even find tents.<\/p>\n Although a percentage of Palestinian Arabs who remain in Israel have citizenship, can vote, and hold some government positions, as\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0by the\u00a0Council on Foreign Relations,\u00a0<\/a>they have no real power over Israeli policies and still live under a brutal apartheid system that denies them equal rights and equal opportunities.<\/p>\n The\u00a0U.N.<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0H.R.W.<\/a>\u00a0(Human Rights Watch) report that many Palestinians, especially the ones in Gaza and the West Bank, live in security zones separated from the rest of the country by\u00a0\u201cthe barrier,\u201d\u00a0<\/a>which is over 443 miles of concrete walls, fences, ditches, and razor wire that include an electronic monitoring system, patrol roads, and military checkpoints. These Palestinians aren\u2019t free to travel within the country and have been separated from their families. Palestinians living in the occupied territories can be arbitrarily arrested, detained without trial, see their homes confiscated and demolished, and be arbitrarily deported. They can be beaten and killed for any reason. They have no legal way to seek justice because Israel controls all of Palestine, including the parts supposedly controlled by the native Palestinians.<\/p>\n How is Israel able to get away with all these blatant violations of international laws against apartheid and crimes against humanity? Due to backing from the US, which is the world\u2019s only remaining superpower, and by lying their asses off. For example, Ben-Gurion\u00a0claimed<\/a>\u00a0that in 1948, the Arabs left Palestine in a mass exodus voluntarily. Zionist leaders also continue to insist that they want to share Palestine with the Arabs when they never had any intention of doing so. As reported\u00a0here,\u00a0<\/a>here,<\/a>\u00a0here,<\/a>\u00a0here,<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0here,<\/a>\u00a0the Israeli government doesn\u2019t consider the Palestinians human beings and even denies their existence as a nation.<\/p>\n As stated in this U.N.\u00a0report:<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWhat we have here is the lack of recognition of the Arab people as human beings. This attitude is as racist as any attitude the Nazis ever held toward the Jews.\u201d<\/p>\n My terse definition of Fascism is promoting and carrying out genocide. A fascist is someone who advocates and practices genocide, which is what the Israeli government is doing. Therefore, Israel is a\u00a0fascist state.<\/a>\u00a0Fascists are filled-with-rage, sadistic people who need to bully and hurt others in order to feel special and superior. And when those that they brutally oppress fight back, they play the victim by claiming, \u201cWe didn\u2019t do anything. They attacked us. We were just defending ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n And what about Hamas? Is what they did justified? Didn\u2019t Israel have a right to retaliate? The question is irrelevant because Israel created the situation in the first place, as explained by\u00a0Dr. Norman Finkelsten, PhD,\u00a0<\/a>in this\u00a0interview.<\/a>\u00a0But this is what defenders of Israeli genocide will do: ask questions like, \u201cDo you condone what Hamas did?\u201d to distract people from the real issue. Watch this British student shut down two journalists in this UK\u00a0interview,<\/a>\u00a0courtesy of the\u00a0Humanist Report,<\/a>\u00a0when they tried this ploy on her.<\/p>\n But as\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0last June, a thorough investigation by the U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry concluded that \u201cIsraeli authorities are responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the military operations and attacks in Gaza since 7 October 2023.\u201d And while the U.N. Commission pointed out that Palestinian armed groups are also committing war crimes, these are nothing compared to the havoc wrought by the massive military might of Israel, as in deliberately murdering civilians, including medical personnel, illegal mass destruction of civilian targets, including hospitals and water supplies, starving the Palestinians and denying the wounded medical attention by not allowing food, water, and medical supplies to reach them, torture, inhuman and cruel treatment, such as forced public nudity, and attacking evacuation routes and areas designated as safe \u201cfor strategic political gains.\u201d<\/p>\n Politics is a lot like stage magic. What\u2019s important is not what has actually taken place, but what the audience or public thinks has taken place. So, naturally, Israel denounced the U.N. report, denied it\u2019s committing war crimes, \u201cobstructed the commission\u2019s investigations and prevented its access to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory.\u201d And although past US presidents did support and arm Israel, they didn\u2019t give it carte blanche to do whatever it liked. In fact, as reported\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0here,<\/a>\u00a0\u201cBiden Has Had the Power to Stop Israel\u2019s War Crimes in Gaza Since Day 1.\u201d<\/p>\n For example, in the 1950s, Israel, in cahoots with France and the UK, seized Egypt\u2019s Sinai Peninsula. President\u00a0Dwight D. Eisenhower<\/a>\u00a0(1890-1969) said no to it, and Israel was forced to withdraw. In 1982, President\u00a0Ronald Reagan<\/a>\u00a0(1911-2004) allowed Israel to bomb Lebanon. But when the Israelis started attacking civilian targets, Reagan called then-Prime Minister Menachem Begin and told him he was perpetrating a holocaust. He ordered Begin to stop attacking Lebanon. Within minutes. Begin ordered his military forces out of Lebanon. And when President Joe Biden told Israel to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza, Israel\u2019s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant admitted that \u201cwe are not in a place where we can refuse them. We rely on them for planes and military equipment. What are we supposed to do? Tell them no?\u201d Nevertheless, Biden refuses to admit Israel is committing genocide and won\u2019t order them to end the war.<\/p>\n Bottom line: In the case of Biden and Trump, it doesn\u2019t matter which of these decaying old relics wins the presidential election this November. Nothing will change when it comes to the plight of the Palestinian people. Both of them are moral monsters who will continue to support genocide. The same applies to most members of Congress. The US government, like the Israeli government, is dominated by fascists, terrorists, and psychopaths.<\/p>\n The US organization\u00a0Jewish Voice for Peace<\/a>\u00a0(JVP) summed it up best in this\u00a0report:<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cRemember that the original violence of the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of the land of Palestinians, continues on a daily basis to this day. The process of colonization never stopped. Although today we call them \u2018facts on the ground\u2019, and Palestinians are talked about, not as equal human beings with the same hopes aspirations and rights to freedom, but rather as a \u2018demographic threat.\u201d<\/p>\n We cannot allow this injustice and cruelty to go on, folks. We must make every effort to put a stop to it. The entire world must continue to speak out. But it\u2019s here in the USA that the real battle is to be fought. Without support and weapons from the United States, Israel is nothing. We need to ban AIPAC and other pro-Israel lobbying groups. In fact, we need to ban all corporate lobbyists, period. We also need to be more discreet as voters and stop electing right-wing pro-war ideologues. In fact, we really need to stop voting for the Democratic and Republican Parties. We need to truly make America great again by standing up for peace and freedom instead of fascism and war.<\/p>\n Closing thoughts<\/strong><\/p>\n If you don\u2019t believe in liberty and justice for all, then you don\u2019t believe in freedom\u2014you believe in privilege. If you believe that your race, social status, sexual orientation, religion, or gender make you better than others, then you are better than no one. If you believe that patriotism is waving the American flag and chanting \u201cUSA, USA,\u201d then you don\u2019t know what patriotism is.<\/p>\n Bottom line: if you don\u2019t believe in human rights for everyone, then you have lost your humanity.<\/p>\n
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