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Footnotes and Further Reading
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[1] “THE CRISIS OF 1933: In 1933,
ordinary Jews all over the world banded together and came within an inch of
destroying the Hitler regime. They did not fail. Their leaders failed them”;
from THE PROBLEM OF JEWISH SELF-DEFENSE, An HIR series; Historical and
Investigative Research; 06 May 2006; by Francisco Gil-Whitehttp://www.hirhome.com/israel/leaders0.htm
“How the
mainstream Jewish leadership failed the Jewish people in World War II”; from
THE PROBLEM OF JEWISH SELF-DEFENSE; Historical and Investigative
Research; 17 January 2006; by Francisco Gil-White; http://www.hirhome.com/israel/leaders1.htm
“The
responsibility of the mainstream (Labor Zionist) Israeli leaders
during the Shoah ('Holocaust')”; from THE PROBLEM OF JEWISH
SELF-DEFENSE; Historical and Investigative Research - 21
February 2007;
by Francisco Gil-Whitehttp://www.hirhome.com/israel/leaders4.htm
[2] Levin, K. 2005. The Oslo syndrome: Delusions of a people
under siege. Hanover, NH: Smith and Kraus. (p.ix)
[3] The 1968 Arab PLO Charter states
the objectives of the Arab PLO as follows. Article 9 says that “armed
struggle is the only way to liberate Palestine.” That’s worth chewing on for a
second, because the Arab PLO could have written the same thing like this: “it
is required that Palestine aka The Land of Israel be
liberated in the act of killing people.” Killing which people? This is
relatively obvious. Article 15 of the Arab PLO Charter states that it is “a
national duty to repulse the Zionist imperialist invasion from the great Arab
homeland and to purge the Zionist presence from Palestine,” and article 22 declares that “the
liberation of Palestine will liquidate the Zionist and
imperialist presence.” In other words, the Arab PLO, which organization
asserts that ‘Palestine’ may be ‘liberated’ only in the act of killing
people, explains that its goal is purging and liquidating -- that is to say,
exterminating -- “Zionists.”
SOURCE: The Arab
PLO Charter articles were translated by: The Associated Press, December 15,
1998, Tuesday, AM cycle, International News, 1070 words, Clinton meets with
Netanyahu, Arafat, appeals for progress, By TERENCE HUNT, AP White House
Correspondent, EREZ CROSSING, Gaza Strip.
[4] Howard M Sachar, A History of Israel (New York: Knopf, 1979) p. 333
[6] “In 1974, when much of the world
was promoting Arab-Israeli negotiations in the wake of the Yom Kippur War,
Yasser Arafat, leader of Fattah and of the Arab PLO, formulated what he
called the ‘Plan of Phases.’ The plan declared that the Arab/Palestinians
would seek to acquire territory by negotiations and would then use that
territory as a launching pad for military pursuit of Israel’s annihilation. With this agenda as
backdrop, Arafat offered to enter into negotiations with Israel.”
SOURCE:
Levin, K. 2005. The Oslo syndrome: Delusions of a people
under siege. Hanover, NH: Smith and Kraus. (p.161)
[7] 1991 -- Bush Sr.'s administration
forced Israel to participate in the Oslo process, which
brought the Arab PLO into the West Bank aka Judea and Samaria and Gaza;
from “IS THE US AN ALLY OF ISRAEL: A Chronological look at the evidence”;
Historical and Investigative Research; by Francisco Gil-White.http://www.hirhome.com/israel/hirally2.htm#1991
[8] The Baltimore Sun, July 11, 2001
Wednesday, FINAL EDITION, Pg. 1A, 1574 words, Israelis
taking darker view of Arab/Palestinian intentions; Many see existence of
Jewish state at risk, Mark Matthews.
[9] “A tape-recording has surfaced of Arab
PLO leader Yasser Arafat speaking to Moslem followers in a Johannesburg mosque… Mr Arafat was exhorting
his followers to prosecute a ‘jihad ... to liberate Jerusalem’. Mr Arafat does not deny the tape’s
authenticity, but now says he meant ‘jihad’ in a metaphorical sense. A verbal
jihad. A jihad of ideas. Nothing to do with violence. Mr Arafat’s effrontery
adds insult to injury. In 1980, King Fahd of Saudi Arabia gave a clear
definition: ‘What is meant by jihad is a united, comprehensive, integrated
Arab-Islamic confrontation in which we place all our resources and our
spiritual, cultural, political, material and military potential in a long and
untiring ‘Holy War’ against Israel, of course, who else?’ So even if Mr
Arafat really did mean ‘jihad’ in this novel, non-violent sense, his legions
of followers would not have picked up the sophisticated nuance. They would have
taken it to mean that the peace process was just a stratagem: a Trojan Horse
which should now be exploited with maximum violence. At best, Mr Arafat was
irresponsible. At worst, deeply dishonest.”
SOURCE:
Evening Standard (London) May 19, 1994; SECTION: Pg. 9; LENGTH: 907 words;
HEADLINE: A NEW KIND OF JIHAD
[10] Before 1982 the Arab PLO was using
its bases in southern Lebanon to murder Israeli civilians in
the Galilee. In 1982 Israel launched an invasion of Lebanon, under prime minister
Menachem Begin, that chased the Arab PLO out of Lebanon and forced it to seek asylum in Tunis. The Arab PLO would have been utterly
destroyed if not for the intervention of the United States, which exerted very strong pressure
on Israel to allow the Arab PLO to
survive, and then provided a military escort for the Arab PLO so that it
could take refuge safely in Tunis. But though the Arab PLO managed to
survive thanks to the US (and France), it was still defeated, because
from Tunis it was almost impossible for the Arab PLO to murder
Israelis. To read about all this, visit:
1982-1983
-- The US military rushed into Lebanon to protect the Arab PLO from the
Israelis; from “IS THE US AN ALLY OF ISRAEL: A Chronological look at the
evidence”; Historical and Investigative Research; by Francisco Gil-White.http://www.hirhome.com/israel/hirally2.htm#1982
[11] Levin, K. 2005. The Oslo syndrome: Delusions of a people
under siege. Hanover, NH: Smith and Kraus. (p.x)
[12] Here is an example of what the Arab/Palestinian
Authority drills into the heads of West Bank and Gaza Arabs, every Friday,
when it broadcasts the Islamic sermons of the mullahs on Arab/Palestinian
Authority TV:
“Oh beloved,
we must be certain that victory will come! Shame and remorse on whoever
refrained from raids [against the enemy] or refrained from preaching to
himself [to raid]!; shame and remorse on whoever refrained from raising his
children on Jihad [holy war]!; shame and remorse on whoever hated his Muslim
brother while loving one of the infidels!; shame and remorse on whoever hid
behind excuses that have no basis with Allah! Blessings to whoever waged
Jihad for the sake of Allah!; blessings to whoever raided for the sake of
Allah!; blessings to whoever put a belt of explosives on his body or on his
sons’ and plunged into the midst of the Jews crying: ‘Allah Akbar, praise to
Allah!’”
MEMRI TV
(Middle East Media Research Institute) took the video off its website. We
will post it on HIR as soon as we receive it from them, so that you can see
the mullah saying this. In the meantime, you may consult other sources for
similar documentation. For example,
“A story in
the Philadelphia Inquirer in September, 1997, reported the following Arab PA
[Arab/Palestinian Authority] broadcast segment: ‘A schoolgirl, perhaps 8
years old and all nervous giggles, stands before a television camera and
sings in a squeaky voice?: ‘I am a daughter of Palestine…Koran in my right
hand, in my left -- a knife.’ A slightly older girl with her ponytail wrapped
in a checkered kaffiyeh gives an emotional recitation of a poem for
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat: ‘I am finished practicing on the submachine
gun of return…We swear to take vengeful blood from our enemies for our killed
and wounded. We will board a bustling boat with will take us to Jaffa [an Israeli city].’ The girl
approaches Arafat, who plants congratulatory kisses on her cheeks.”
SOURCE:
Levin, K. 2005. The Oslo syndrome: Delusions of a people
under siege. Hanover, NH: Smith and Kraus. (p.407); Kenneth Levin is citing the
following article: Barbara Demick, “Broadcasts’ Warlike Tone Angers Israelis
/ Listening to a Arab PLO Network,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, September
7, 1997.
[13] Levin, K. 2005. The Oslo syndrome: Delusions of a people
under siege. Hanover, NH: Smith and Kraus. (p.x)
[14] “...in the fifteen months between
Arafat’s establishment in Gaza and the signing of the next
accord, Oslo II (September 28, 1995) another ninety people were killed in
Palestinian attacks. By way of comparison, Arab/Palestinian terror had taken
about 400 lives in the twenty-six years from the 1967 war and Israel’s entry into the territories to the
inception of Oslo.”
SOURCE:
Levin, K. 2005. The Oslo syndrome: Delusions of a people
under siege. Hanover, NH: Smith and Kraus. (p.346)
For greater
ease of comparison, this means that after Arafat’s Arab PLO was brought
inside Israel, the rate of terrorist murders against Israelis by ‘Arab/Palestinians’
was equal to 72 people per year. By contrast, before the Arab PLO was brought
in, the rate had been around 15 people per year. The Oslo process therefore
immediately quintupled the ‘Arab/Palestinian’ terrorism against the
Israelis.
[15] 1994 -- Yasser Arafat was
given a Nobel Peace Prize, and the CIA trained the Arab PLO, even though
Arafat's henchmen were saying in public, this very year, that they would use
their training to oppress Arabs and kill Jews; from “IS THE US AN ALLY OF
ISRAEL: A Chronological look at the evidence”; Historical and Investigative
Research; by Francisco Gil-White.http://www.hirhome.com/israel/hirally2.htm#1994
[16] The following is stated in article
27 of the Hamas Charter:
“The Arab/Palestinian
Liberation Organization is the closest to the heart of the Islamic Resistance
Movement. It contains the father and the brother, the next of kin and the
friend. The Muslim does not estrange himself from his father, brother, next
of kin or friend. Our homeland is one, our situation is one, our fate is one
and the enemy is a joint enemy to all of us.”http://www.mideastweb.org/hamas.htm
To see how
closely Hamas and the Arab PLO have cooperated in the killing of both Arabs
and Jews, visit:
1994 --
Yasser Arafat was given a Nobel Peace Prize, and the CIA trained the Arab PLO,
even though Arafat’s henchmen were saying in public, this very year, that
they would use their training to oppress Arabs and kill Jews; from “IS THE US
AN ALLY OF ISRAEL?: A CHRONOLOGICAL LOOK AT THE EVIDENCE”; Historical and
Investigative Research; by Francisco Gil-White.http://www.hirhome.com/israel/hirally2.htm#1994
As for
Islamic Jihad, in 1987, it was reported that Islamic Jihad has “ties to the
Fattah wing of the Arab/Palestine Liberation Organization.”
SOURCE:
United Press International, October 15, 1987, Thursday, AM cycle, International,
592 words, Suspected Arab guerrillas arrested, By LOUIS TOSCANO, JERUSALEM
In fact, it
was Islamic Jihad that helped produce the First Intifada for the Arab PLO,
for which read:
1987-1988 --
The ‘First Intifada’ was a US-Arab/PLO strategy used to represent the Arabs
in West Bank and Gaza as supposedly oppressed ‘underdogs’; from “IS THE US AN
ALLY OF ISRAEL: A Chronological look at the evidence”; Historical and
Investigative Research; by Francisco Gil-White.http://www.hirhome.com/israel/hirally2.htm#1987
[17] Levin, K. 2005. The Oslo syndrome: Delusions of a people
under siege. Hanover, NH: Smith and Kraus. (p.348)
[18] Levin, K. 2005. The Oslo syndrome: Delusions of a people
under siege. Hanover, NH: Smith and Kraus. (p.xi)
[21] SOURCE: Levin, K.
2005. The Oslo syndrome: Delusions of a people under
siege. Hanover, NH: Smith and Kraus. (p.329)
[22] 1991 -- Bush Sr.'s administration
forced Israel to participate in the Oslo process, which
brought the Arab PLO into the West Bank and Gaza; from “IS THE
US AN ALLY OF ISRAEL?: A Chronological look at the evidence”; Historical and
Investigative Research; by Francisco Gil-White.http://www.hirhome.com/israel/hirally2.htm#1991
[23] The
following is taken from: Levin, K. 2005. The Oslo syndrome:
Delusions of a people under siege. Hanover, NH:
Smith and Kraus. (pp.393-411).
“The most significant for Netanyahu of the pressures to
resume negotiations despite PA [Palestinian Authority -- i.e. Arab PLO]
non-compliance [i.e. despite Arab PLO sponsorship of terror attacks against
innocent Israelis] were those coming from domestic sources and from the
Clinton Administration.
...Netanyahu had measures available to him to try and
counter both. He could potentially have used his exceptional oratorical
skills to go over the heads of political foes and even a hostile Israeli
media and effectively present the merits of his positions directly to the
Israeli public. In addition, his insistence on Arab PA compliance enjoyed
extensive support in the American Congress... But...on August 14, 1996, he reentered
negotiations with [Arab PLO leader Yasser] Arafat without having made any
headway on the compliance issue.
...[In late 1996] Arafat issued an urgent call to his
people to defend the holy sites on the [Temple]
Mount [which were in absolutely no danger], and he succeeded in triggering widespread
rioting, initially in Jerusalem and
then elsewhere as well. In addition, he unleashed his armed forces, including
snipers, to attack Israeli soldiers in what became known in Israel as
the ‘Checkpoint War.’ In the ensuing four days, fifteen Israeli soldiers were
shot dead by Arab/Palestinian police and about sixty Arab/Palestinians were
killed.
In the public relations war that accompanied the battles
on the ground, Arafat again bested Netanyahu as he had done vis-à-vis the
resumption of negotiations. The Israeli left attacked Netanyahu for allegedly
having acted provocatively by opening the tunnel exit [to an excavation near
the Temple Mount]
and having thereby triggered the violence. The Israeli media echoed this
view. Most foreign governments and foreign media took the same stance, with
many in the media claiming that Israel had
dug a tunnel under the Temple Mount.
Again, as any of their correspondents in Jerusalem could
have ascertained for themselves, Israel had
not dug a tunnel nor was the existing tunnel under the Temple Mount.
The Checkpoint War demonstrated once more Arafat’s
continued commitment to using violence and terror as weapons against Israel.
But most observers outside the country, and indeed half of Israel,
chose to ignore this and to continue perceiving Arafat as Israel’s
‘peace partner.’
...Netanyahu, failing to counter effectively the increased
pressure on him mounted in the wake of events around the tunnel opening,
responded to the pressure by reentering negotiations with the Arab PA,
briefly terminated in the context of the fighting, and by agreeing in the
ensuing weeks to terms of withdrawal from Hebron.
He did so despite his still not having secured any reversal of the Arab PA’s
pattern of noncompliance with its Oslo obligations.
...The Israeli army completed its withdrawal from the
ceded areas of Hebron within
hours of the Knesset approval of the agreement on January 16. Almost
immediately, the Arab PA initiated harassment of the Jewish enclave in Hebron,
with rioting, stone throwing, firebombing, and gunfire. This continued on and
off thereafter. The [Israeli] government added the events in Hebron to
its list of talking points on the Arab/Palestinian Authority’s violations of
its Oslo commitments
and frequently reiterated its demand for reciprocity. But it nevertheless
went ahead and offered on March 7 to hand over another 9.1 percent of West
Bank territory to the Arab/Palestinians as the first of those
‘further deployments’ called for in the Interim Agreement.
...Also during this time, additional incidents of
violence, in many instances perpetrated by Arab/Palestinian ‘police,’
including terrorist attacks initiated by Arab/Palestinian armed forces, added
further to the violations invoked by the Netanyahu government in its demands
for Arab/Palestinian compliance. Among such incidents were the murder of
another thirty-eight Israelis, injury of hundreds more, many aborted
terrorist attacks, and myriad stoning, fire bombings, and acts of arson.
...In January, 1998, the Cabinet unanimously passed a
resolution linking further redeployment [i.e. further handing of territory to
the Arab PLO’s PA] to Arab PA fulfillment of commitments made or reiterated
as part of the Hebron agreement.
But...Israel’s
political opposition and media continued to urge [Netanyahu’s] government to
move forward with territorial concessions, to advance the ‘process,’ and the
[so-called] Peace Movement held rallies protesting the government’s alleged
foot-dragging. To the degree that the government’s arguments regarding Arab/Palestinian
non-compliance and the importance of reciprocity were noted at all, they were
characterized as ploys being used by Netanyahu to obstruct ‘progress.’
…the Clinton Administration...effectively
rejected Netanyahu’s demands for reciprocity. Indeed, it not only
pushed Israel to
proceed with territorial concessions without Arab/Palestinian compliance but
insisted that the next round of territorial concessions exceed the dimensions
proposed by the Israelis in March, 1997. Early in 1998, the State Department
came up with the figure of 13 percent as the proper size of the next West
Bank aka Judea and Samaria withdrawal, based not on any consideration of
Israel’s strategic position and defense needs but simply on the fact that an
additional 13 percent would place the nice round number of 40 percent of the
West Bank aka Judea and Samaria under Arafat’s control. In effect, the
administration reneged both on its formal endorsement of the reciprocity
principle in the ‘Note for the Record’ and on its acknowledgment at the time
of the Hebron accord
that Israel had
the right to determine the dimensions of the further interim redeployments.
Once more, there appear to have been steps that Netanyahu
could have taken to counter both domestic and American circles that were
undermining his stance on Arab/Palestinian noncompliance. At home, he could
have done more to go over the heads of the opposition parties, the media, and
even elements of his fractious coalition who did not fully share his
jaundiced views of Oslo. he
could have addressed the Israeli public [which public, after all, had elected
him to office on an anti-Oslo platform] more directly and more forcefully on
the dangers posed by Arab/Palestinian policies and evasions.
...When Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, in the
spring of 1998, imperiously, and with veiled threats, summoned Netanyahu
to Washington to
finalize a 13 percent withdrawal plan, Netanyahu chose to remain at home. In
response to this confrontation, many members of Congress publicly and
forcefully sided with Netanyahu...
...But [Netanyahu] failed in both the domestic and
American arenas to utilize effectively the resources available to him.
Domestically, the pressures for more unilateral Israeli concessions persisted
unchecked. With the United States,
Netanyahu simply yielded and acceded in October, 1998, to attending a summit
with Arafat and Clinton at Wye Plantation in order to hammer out a
redeployment agreement that was obviously to be based on the American
proposals of Israel ceding,
an additional 13 percent of the West Bank.
...[Netanyahu ] capitulated, and in doing so not only failed to make
effective use of congressional backing but undercut those in Congress who
most firmly supported him and had most vociferously argued, with Netanyahu,
that a withdrawal of the dimensions prescribed by the administration, at
least under current circumstances, posed too great a threat to Israel.”
[24] Imediately
below, Barak’s offers to the Syrians (his offers to the Arab PLO are below
the offers to the Syrians):
“With regard to Syria,
Barak essentially followed the path of his three predecessors, soon making
clear that he was prepared to return the entire Golan to Syrian sovereignty
in exchange for ‘peace.’ He apparently did so, again, like his predecessors,
with the full expectation that Assad would ultimately accept Israel’s
offer...
In December, 1999, Barak began American-mediated
negotiations with Syrian foreign minister Farouk al-Shara in Washington.
The talks ended without a breakthrough, but over the following weeks Israel continued
to pursue a Syrian agreement. The major territorial point of contention,
according to news leaks, was whether Israel, in descending from the entire
Golan, would withdraw only to the international border or, as Syria demanded,
also leave those areas along the Sea of Galilee that Syria had seized [from
Israel by force] prior to the 1967 war and that Israel had then retaken [in
the war].
Even many supporters of Oslo and
of the return of the Golan to Syria balked
at Assad’s demand for more. They did so in part for pragmatic reasons, in
particular because the additional territory potentially to be ceded, by
extending Syrian control to the shores of Galilee,
would present critical difficulties such as compromising this key resource
of Israel’s
water supply. But there were also issues of principle. The Arabs were
demanding the return of all territory taken by force of arms and yet they
were in this instance insisting that Syria be
given territory it had taken by force of arms prior to the 1967 war.
Nevertheless Barak, with the support of most of his government, indicated a
readiness for additional concessions.
Still, the Syrians would not budge, even refusing to
resume direct negotiations. In February, 2000, President Clinton met with
Syrian President Assad in Geneva to test Assad’s intention and effect what he
anticipated would be a major breakthrough. In the event, Assad indicated that
he was unprepared for a full peace with Israel no
matter how forthcoming Barak was on ceding territory...
[Just a few months earlier,] Syria’s
state-controlled media [had been running] several stories with anti-Semitic
themes. One such, in late November [1999], regurgitated the blood libel, the
claim that Jews use blood of gentiles for their religious rituals, which was
also the theme of a popular book by Syria’s defense minister, Mustafa Tlas
(The Matzah of Zion, 1984). An editorial in late January [2000] in Syria’s
leading newspaper, Tishreen, a mouthpiece for the Assad regime, focused on
denial of the Holocaust while insisting that Israeli policies are worse than
those of the Nazis... [Barak’s] most notable comment regarding the Syrian
government during this period was his characterization of Assad as a
‘courageous leader’ (November 9,
1999).”
SOURCE: Levin, K. 2005. The Oslo syndrome:
Delusions of a people under siege. Hanover, NH:
Smith and Kraus. (pp.415-416)
On Barak’s offers to the Arab PLO:
“Barak…floated the idea of moving directly to final status
negotiations, and reports surfaced in the media of secret talks between the
parties in which the Israelis indicated the extent of the territorial
concessions they were prepared to make as part of a final agreement. Those
concessions, according to the reports, encompassed more and more territory as
the weeks passed and soon far exceeded what any of the military commentators
thought feasible from a strategic perspective, even in the context of a
genuine peace. However, the fact that [architect of the Oslo accords] Yossi
Beilin, Justice minister in the Barak government, was one of the Israelis
allegedly engaged in these talks lent credence to media claims of wholesale
territorial concessions, as such a negotiating stance seemed to conform to
the territorial offers Beilin had apparently made to the Arab/Palestinians
during the previous Labor-Meretz government. News leaks triggered rising
anticipation of the country again being presented with a
Labor-Meretz fait accompli.
These reports of secret talks were surfacing against a
background of information that one might have thought would have given the
government pause in its proffering of additional concessions. Intelligence
assessments provided to Barak in the preceding months informed him that the
intensity of Arab/Palestinian incitement was increasing and was having an
impact in stoking anti-Israel sentiment not only in the territories but also
among Israeli Arabs and throughout the Arab states. Moreover, intelligence
reports spoke of seeing this sentiment already being translated into
increased violence in the territories and within Israel.
Barak chose essentially to ignore the import of these assessments, remain
silent on the incitement, and press on for an agreement.
In March, 2000, the Foreign Ministry did issue a bulletin
expressing concern over increased anti-Israel ‘incitement, hostility, and
demonization,’ much of it with anti-Semitic content, emanating from official
state media in the Arab world, including official Egyptian media. But the
government did not consistently press its concerns, nor did it amend policy
in response to this dangerous development.
Also in 2000, media monitoring organizations such as
Middle East Media Research Institute [MEMRI] and Arab/Palestinian Media Watch
reported on anti-Semitism and delegitimization of Israel not
only in Arab/Palestinian media and in statements by PA officials but also in
the new curriculum and textbooks introduced by the Arab/Palestinian Authority
for the 2000-2001 school year. For example, Jews are mentioned in the new
texts almost exclusively in negative, derogatory terms, and maps consistently
omit Israel,
depicting all of the land between the Jordan and
the Mediterranean as ‘Palestine.’
But this latest chapter of the campaign waged in Arab/Palestinian classrooms
against Israel and
the Jews had no impact on the government’s pattern of ignoring Arab/Palestinian
incitement and violence and pushing ahead with offers of concessions in
exchange for ‘peace.’
Despite Barak’s blandishments, however, Arafat, according
to media reports, was balking at concluding a final status agreement. Some
argued he was holding out for yet more concessions; and various Israelis
aligned with the Peace Movement, including members of the government, urged
Barak to provide those concessions. But as Arafat made clear in speeches to
his own constituency and the wider Arab world and in his actions, he was not
interested in signing any final accord.
…Seeing Arafat continuing to balk despite all his
blandishments, and expecting that sufficient pressure from Clinton would
change Arafat’s stance, Barak began to urge on Clinton a
three-way summit to conclude a final settlement.
…As additional leaks emerged of what Barak was offering
Arafat in the pre-summit meetings, elements of Barak’s coalition began to
abandon the government.
…The rapidly declining support at home for his government,
and in particular the very meager public backing for the wholesale
concessions he was evidently prepared to make, did not inhibit Barak. He went
to Camp David and put on the table, according to what could be gleaned from
media reports (there was no official revelation of the proposed Israeli
concessions), the transfer of about 95 percent of the West Bank aka Judea and
Samaria, as well as all of Gaza, to Arab/Palestinian sovereignty. This
included the Jordan Valley and
other territory long deemed vital to Israel’s
security and survival, as well as parts of Jerusalem,
among them sections of the Old City and
perhaps even the Temple Mount…
The summit continued for seventeen days. But, despite the
dimensions of the Israeli offer and intense pressure from President Clinton,
Arafat demurred. He apparently was indeed unwilling, no matter what the Israeli
concessions, to sign an agreement that declared itself final and foreswore
any further Arab/Palestinian claims.”
SOURCE:
SOURCE: Levin, K. 2005. The Oslo syndrome: Delusions of a people
under siege. Hanover, NH: Smith and Kraus. (pp.419-422)
[25] 2005 -- Mahmoud Abbas, who will
soon have total control over Gaza, is the one who invented the strategy of
talking ‘peace’ the better to slaughter Israelis. The US ruling elite loves Mahmoud
Abbas.; from “IS THE US AN ALLY OF ISRAEL?: A CHRONOLOGICAL LOOK AT THE
EVIDENCE”; Historical and Investigative Research; by Francisco Gil-White.http://www.hirhome.com/israel/hirally2.htm#2005
[26] “How did the ‘Arab/Palestinian
movement’ emerge? The British sponsored it. Then the German Nazis, and
the US”; from UNDERSTANDING THE ARAB?PALESTINIAN
MOVEMENT; Historical and Investigative Research; 13
June 2006; by
Francisco Gil-White.http://www.hirhome.com/israel/pal_mov4.htm
[29] The problem, so eerily reminiscent
of the 1930’s prelude to anti-Jewish genocide, has become so acute, that more
than one organization has been formed to monitor repression against people
who speak in favor of the Jews on US campuses. For example, Campus Watch.http://www.campus-watch.org/
[31] The Oslo syndrome (p.404)
[32] “Gideon Levy, Shimon Peres’s
former personal aide and one-time Labor Partys pokesman.”
SOURCE:
Honig, Sarah. “Brains in deep freeze.” The Jerusalem Post, Pg. 8B. Friday,
October 20, 2000.
[33] UN force takes over as Israel lifts sea blockade, The
Irish Times, September 9, 2006 Saturday, WORLD; Other World
Stories; Pg. 10, 633 words, Nadim Ladki in Beirut
[34] 1967 -- After the Six-Day
War, the US put pressure on Israel to relinquish the territory gained, even
though it knew it was indispensable to Israeli defense; from “IS THE US AN
ALLY OF ISRAEL?: A CHRONOLOGICAL LOOK AT THE EVIDENCE”; Historical and
Investigative Research; by Francisco Gil-White.http://www.hirhome.com/israel/hirally.htm#1967b
[35] “The Shebaa Farms lie at the
borders of Lebanon, Syria and Israel. Israel has occupied it since winning it
from Syria in the six-day war of 1967. The
UN has ruled that the land belonged to Syria, but a majority of Lebanese claim it
as their own, including Hizbollah, who use Israel’s occupation of the area as the logic
behind their maintenance of armed militia.”
SOURCE:
Israelis exchange fire with Hezbollah in disputed area, The Independent
(London), February 4, 2006 Saturday, Second Edition, NEWS; Pg. 26, 475
words, By Hugh Macleod in Shebaa, south Lebanon
To learn more
about the phony ‘Lebanese’ claim to Shebaa Farms, see “What is the supposed
grievance against Israel?” in the following piece:
[36] The following piece quotes the
relevant portions of the Pentagon study and analyses it in its political
context, with links to the original document (to go directly to the Pentagon
study, see further below):
“1967 --
After the Six-Day War, the US put pressure on Israel to relinquish the territory
gained, even though it knew it was indispensable to Israeli defense”; from
“IS THE US AN ALLY OF ISRAEL: A Chronological look at the evidence”;
Historical and Investigative Research; by Francisco Gil-White.http://www.hirhome.com/israel/hirally.htm#1967b
< PENTAGON
STUDY:
»» This
Pentagon document was apparently declassified in 1979 but not published until
1984. It was published by the Journal of Palestine Studies:
"Memorandum
for the Secretary of Defense"; Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 13, No. 2.
(Winter, 1984), pp. 122-126.< This file is especially useful because
it shows a map with the "minimum territory needed by Israel for defensive purposes"
http://www.hirhome.com/israel/pentagon.pdf
»» And
as an appendix in:
Netanyahu, B.
2000. A durable peace: Israel and its place among the nations,
2 edition. New York: Warner Books. (APPENDIX: The
Pentagon Plan, June 29, 1967; pp.433-437)
[37] Levin, K. 2005. The Oslo syndrome: Delusions of a people
under siege. Hanover, NH: Smith and Kraus. (p.411)
[38] UN force takes over as Israel lifts sea blockade, The
Irish Times, September 9, 2006 Saturday, WORLD; Other World
Stories; Pg. 10, 633 words, Nadim Ladki in Beirut
[39] The 1968 Arab PLO Charter states
the objectives of the Arab PLO as follows. Article 9 says that “armed
struggle is the only way to liberate Palestine.” That’s worth chewing on for a second,
because the Arab PLO could have written the same thing like this: “it is
required that Palestine aka The Land of Israel be
liberated in the act of killing people.” Killing which people? This is
relatively obvious. Article 15 of the Arab PLO Charter states that it is “a
national duty to repulse the Zionist imperialist invasion from the great Arab
homeland and to purge the Zionist presence from Palestine,” and article 22 declares that “the
liberation of Palestine aka The Land of Israel will
liquidate the Zionist and imperialist presence.” In other words, the Arab PLO,
which organization asserts that ‘Palestine’ may be ‘liberated’ only in the
act of killing people, explains that its goal is purging and liquidating --
that is to say, exterminating -- “Zionists.”
SOURCE: The Arab
PLO Charter articles were translated by: The Associated Press, December 15,
1998, Tuesday, AM cycle, International News, 1070 words, Clinton meets with
Netanyahu, Arafat, appeals for progress, By TERENCE HUNT, AP White House
Correspondent, EREZ CROSSING, Gaza Strip.
[40] The US installation of Nazi war
criminals as the post-war German intelligence service is documented in the
following HIR piece:
“THE CIA
PROTECTED ADOLF EICHMANN, ARCHITECT OF THE HOLOCAUST: Has the US ruling elite been pushing a
pro-Nazi policy?”; Historical and Investigative Research; 8
June 2006; by
Francisco Gil-White.http://www.hirhome.com/israel/eichmann.htm
Here below is
the relevant excerpt (but consult the above piece for the footnoted
documentation):
[quote from
HIR begins here]
The day
before yesterday, 6 June 2006, the New York Times reported
the following:
“The Central
Intelligence Agency took no action after learning the pseudonym and
whereabouts of the fugitive Holocaust overseer Adolf Eichmannn in 1958,
according to CIA documents that shed new light on the spy agency’s use of former
Nazis as informers after World War II.
The CIA was
told by West German intelligence that Eichmannn was living in Argentina under the name ‘Clemens’ -- a
slight variation on his actual alias, Klement -- but kept the information
from Israel...”[1]
For those
unfamiliar with the history of the Holocaust, Adolf Eichmann was the central
architect of Adolf Hitler’s Final Solution: the German Nazi program of
extermination of the European Jews. What the New York Times is
reporting is that the CIA protected Eichmann after he became a fugitive. This
is amazing, but the whole truth is even more amazing, and that's what
the New York Timesfails to report.
When
the New York Times says that “[the] CIA...use[d] former Nazis as
informers after World War II,” it is leaving most of the truth out. What is
true is that the CIA itself was created by absorbing practically the
entire Nazi war-criminal infrastructure. This was documented already in 1988
with material obtained from the US government through the Freedom
of Information Act by historian Christopher Simpson:
Simpson,
Christopher. 1988. Blowback: America's recruitment of Nazis and its
effects on the Cold War. New York: Weidenfeld & Nicholson.
The documents
Simpson obtained allowed him to establish just the tip of the iceberg, but
that is already plenty. In the same year of 1988, when Simpson’s book was
published, the Washington Post reviewed it, and said:
“It is no
longer necessary -- or possible -- to deny the fact: the U.S. government
systematically and deliberately recruited active Nazis by the thousands,
rescued them, hired them and relied upon them to serve American interests and
purposes in postwar Europe.”[2]
I’ve read
Simpson’s book, so I know that the Washington Post was pulling its
punches: it was tens of thousands -- not “thousands” -- of Nazi war
criminals that the CIA absorbed, and these Nazis did not serve “American
interests and purposes,” but the interests and purposes of the US ruling
elite, whose values, I would submit, do not coincide with the values of the
great majority of ordinary US citizens.
In its own
review of Simpson’s book, the Toronto Starexplained one of the
consequences of bringing a veritable horde of Nazis in secret to US soil,
with new identities:
“Many East
European Nazi collaborators, leaders of fascist groups and governments
in Eastern
Europe, and
leaders of pro-fascist East European émigré organizations soon became
politically active in the [United] States and gained remarkable access to the
most powerful intelligence chiefs, politicians, business associations and
media moguls in America.”[3]
Now, one of
the most important Nazi assets absorbed by the CIA, according to Simpson’s
documentation, was Reinhard Gehlen, a major war criminal who during World War
II was head of the Nazi German Foreign Armies East (Fremde Heere Ost).
According to the released US government documents, “Working
immediately after the war with Army Intelligence, the Gehlen Organization
became the responsibility of the CIA, which continued the relationship until
1956.”[4] What happened in 1956? “Gehlen’s
organization became the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), West Germany’s foreign intelligence agency,” when
the CIA handed over the Gehlen Organization to the West Germans.[5]
So, after
the world war, the CIA made sure that a major Nazi war criminal, and his
organization, became the foreign intelligence agency of West Germany.
[quote ends
here]
[41] Simpson, C.
1988. Blowback: America's recruitment of Nazis and its
effects on the Cold War. New York: Weidenfeld & Nicholson.
To read more
about this, visit:
1945 -- After
1945, the US created US Intelligence by recruiting tens of thousands of Nazi
war criminals; from “IS THE US AN ALLY OF ISRAEL?: A CHRONOLOGICAL LOOK AT
THE EVIDENCE”; Historical and Investigative Research; by Francisco Gil-White.http://www.hirhome.com/israel/hirally.htm#1945
[42] To learn about this episode,
consult chapter 7 of:
[43] To understand the political
context of this genocide, read chapter 1 of:
[43a] It is common to hear
disparagement of the ancient sicarii was supposed
'terrorists,' but that is not what they were. The sicarii did
not murder innocent people. On the contrary: they murdered members of the
Jewish ruling class who assisted the Romans in their terrorist violence
against innocent Jews. They were careful to target only the guilty, for they
were self-consciously ethical. The evidence we have of their activities is
mostly from Josephus, their enemy, and this evidence makes them look very
good.
The following
excerpts are from: Horsley, R. A. 1979. The Sicarii: Ancient Jewish
"Terrorists". The journal of religion 59:435-458.
“The Sicarii
emerged in Jerusalem during the 50s. They received their
name from the weapons they used, that is, ‘daggers resembling the scimitars
of the Persians in size, but curved and more like the weapons called by the
Romans sicae’ (The Jewish Antiquities [herafter cited as Ant.] 20.186). Josephus's accounts
of this distinctive group are both precise and consistent.
… Especially
during the festivals they would mingle with the crowd, carrying short daggers
concealed under their clothing, with which they stabbed their enemies. Then
when they fell, the murderers would join in the cries of indignation and,
through this plausible behavior, avoided discovery. The first to be
assassinated by them was Jonathan the High Priest. After his death, there
were numerous daily murders. [BJ (Bellum Judaicum -- The Jewish War) 2.254-561].”
-- p.436
“The strategy
of the Sicarii was apparently focused on the Jewish ruling groups, the
sacerdotal aristocracy, the royal family, and other notables. This is only to
be expected in a rationally calculated strategy; for in Jewish Palestine, as
elsewhere in the empire, the Romans ruled largely through the upper classes
who collaborated in the imperial system.” -- p.445
“In a second
and closely related tactic the Sicarii extended their activities from Jerusalem into the countryside where the
estates of the pro-Roman gentry were located, eliminating the Jewish notables
and destroying their property.” -- p.440
[43b] Under violent pressure from the
Catholic Church, many Jews converted to Christianity during the Middle Ages.
“These new converts were extremely zealous in their efforts to return to
their former co-religionists and to convince them of newly discovered truths”
(Chazan 1977:829). Some of these new converts became leaders of the Catholic
repression against the Jews, a famous example being Pablo Cristiani,
responsible for reviving the famous yellow star that Jews were forced to
wear, and for policies of forcing Jews to hear Christian sermons in France (Roth 1950:143, fn. 41). It was
another Jewish convert to Christianity who instigated the great burning of
the Talmud that took place in Paris in 1243 (Schechter 1892:82).
SOURCES:
Chazan, R.
1977. The Barcelona "Disputation" of 1263:
Christian missionizing and Jewish response. Speculum52:824-842.
Roth, C.
1950. The Disputation of Barcelona (1263). The Harvard
theological review 43:117-144.
Schechter, S.
1892. Nachmanides. The Jewish quarterly review 5:78-121.
[43c] Consult the section entitled “The
push for Jewish assimilation in the 19th century” in the piece:
“The Crisis
of 1933: In 1933, ordinary Jews all over the world banded together and came
within an inch of destroying the Hitler regime. They did not fail. Their
leaders failed them.”; from THE PROBLEM OF JEWISH SELF-DEFENSE, An HIR
series; Historical and Investigative Research; 06 May 2006; by Francisco Gil-White.http://www.hirhome.com/israel/leaders0.htm#assimilation
[43d] “THE CRISIS OF 1933: In 1933,
ordinary Jews all over the world banded together and came within an inch of
destroying the Hitler regime. They did not fail. Their leaders failed them”;
from THE PROBLEM OF JEWISH SELF-DEFENSE, An HIR series; Historical and
Investigative Research; 06 May 2006; by Francisco Gil-Whitehttp://www.hirhome.com/israel/leaders0.htm
[44] “How the mainstream Jewish
leadership failed the Jewish people in World War II”; from THE PROBLEM OF
JEWISH SELF-DEFENSE; Historical and Investigative Research; 17
January 2006;
by Francisco Gil-Whitehttp://www.hirhome.com/israel/leaders1.htm
[45] “How mainstream Diaspora Jewish
leaders are failing the Jewish people today”; from THE PROBLEM OF JEWISH
SELF-DEFENSE; Historical and Investigative Research; 22
March 2006;
by Francisco Gil-White.http://www.hirhome.com/israel/leaders2.htm
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