A great new(to me) anti-Zionist site, in this age of appeasement of
terror, at: http://www.gregfelton.com
"We are to admire a state that tortures children, ransacks orphanages,
humiliates and terrorizes non-Jews as a matter of national policy, and
has openly threatened genocide against Palestinians if they stand up
for themselves??!!"
http://www.gregfelton.com/int_politics/2008_05_13.htm
The world marks 60 years of zionist terror made possible by a corrupt
U.S. president
Canadian Arab News
May 13, 2008 (expanded)
Over the past few weeks, The Lobby and its Christian acolytes in
government and the media have been forcing the world’s governments to
celebrate 60 years of Israeli “statehood.” Even the three U.S.
presidential [sic] nominees are falling over themselves to pay homage
to their political master.
I said “forcing” because I find it impossible to believe that any
law-abiding democratic government would of its own free will celebrate
a geopolitical perversity founded on torture, theft, murder,
gangsterism and blackmail. If that were not the case we should have
seen official celebrations of:
• Nazi Germany (Jan. 30, 1933);
• Chile’s military dictator****p (Sept. 11, 1973); or
• Democratic Kampuchea (April 17, 1975).
These tyrannies, fortunately, have all wound up on the ash heap of
history. The fact that the same fate has not befallen the Jewish
tyranny in Palestine is entirely due to the coercive power of The Lobby
and the corruption of President Harry Truman, who, 60 years ago, sold
the U.S.’s political soul for the sake of re-election.
The following account from Edwin Wright, Middle East specialist for
Near East-South Asian-African Affairs, shows what sort of soul-selling
coercion was put on Truman:
“When the election was coming up in 1946 in New York, [a] group of New
York Jews called upon Mr. Truman. Emmanuel Cellar was the head of this
committee. Rabbi Steven Wise and several others were in it. They called
upon Mr. Truman and said, ‘We have just been talking with Mr. [Tom]
Thomas Dewey. He is willing to come out and declare for a Jewish state,
and we are going to turn our money and urge the Jews to vote for him
unless you beat him to it.’ Then Emmanuel Cellar pounded upon Mr.
Truman’s desk and said, ‘And if you don't come out for a Jewish state
we’ll run you out of town.’”*
Against his better judgment Truman capitulated, but his statement on
the founding of Israel is anything but a ringing endorsement.
Truman’s Act of Betrayal
The handwritten edits belong to presidential advisor Clark Clifford,
who was pre-occupied with Truman's chances for re-election.
• “Provisional” is added to the description of the new government,
thereby distancing the U.S. from full recognition and endorsement;
• “Jewish state” is crossed out in favour of “State of Israel.”
Based upon this do***ent it’s hard to tell that the U.S. even
recognized Israel as a legitimate state. In fact, the creation of
Israel is mired in so much coercion, blackmail and bribery that any
reasonable student of the event would have to conclude that Israel has
never had a moral right to exist. For The Lobby, therefore, the
historical record is very much something to be feared since it contains
the truth about Israel’s origins.
Since this history is accessible to any discerning scholar via the
Internet, the Lobby has to do more than spread lies about Jews finding
“empty” Palestine, censor of contrary information, and smear those who
stand up for honest scholar****p. History, itself, has to be torqued to
sup****t the myths of Israeli legitimacy and necessity.
A May 7 opinion piece by former U.S. diplomat and Wa****ngton Post
columnist Richard Holbrooke is an excellent example of the kind of
slick, tendentious dissembling that masquerades as plausible
scholar****p.
As Holbrooke describes the matter, Truman and his neophyte domestic
political advisor Clark Clifford, who would later make the textual
changes to Truman's statement, were virtually alone in sup****ting
partition and recognition of Israel, whereas the highly respected
Secretary of State George C. Marshall and almost the entire foreign
policy establishment wanted Palestine to be placed under UN trustee****p.
The big problem for the reader is less what Holbrooke says but
Holbrooke himself. How far can he be trusted? What is he not telling?
Is the picture he paints believable? On the one hand, Holbrooke has
great credentials and intimate knowledge of the event. On the other
hand, he co-authored Clifford’s memoirs, which means his version of
events is biased.
This bias comes through in his subtle denigration of the foreign policy
establishment. He praises Marshall and the “wise men” who formulated
“the great Truman foreign policy of the late 1940s” but he never gives
us insight into their arguments. They are mentioned only to be
attacked. Holbrooke even invokes the canard of “anti-Semitism” to
condemn Defence Secretary James Forrestal for having pointed out the
uselessness of sacrificing the interests of 30 million Arabs for the
sake of 600,000 Jews.
For Holbrooke, the anti-recognition side was driven by the parochial
interests of “oil, numbers and history.” Those for recognition were all
sweetness and light. Not surprisingly, Holbrooke makes no mention of
zionist strong-arm tactics, the corrupting influence of zionists on the
1948 election, or the electoral imperative of selling out. According to
Loy Henderson, director of Near Eastern and African Affairs:
“If Truman had taken positions that would have resulted in a failure to
establish the Jewish State, he would almost certainly have been
defeated in the November elections, since the Zionists had almost the
full sup****t of the Congress, the United States media and most of the
American people.Ӡ
Against this observation and the abovementioned re****ts of zionist
threats, Holbrooke offers this weak apologia: “Clifford insisted to me
and others in countless discussions over the next 40 years that
politics was not at the root of his position—moral conviction was.”
If that be the case, how does Holbrooke explain what happened to
Henderson (and doubtless others) who championed UN trustee****p out of
moral conviction? As Edwin Wright recounted:
“The Zionists went to various people like Drew Pearson and Walter
Winchell and said, ‘Smear this fellow. Destroy his character and get
him out of Government.’… The result was Mr. Henderson became the target
of Zionist attacks. All kinds of false stories were told about him in
these columns by Walter Winchell and others. I was at that time Mr.
Henderson’s assistant and I answered many of the letters, because he
didn’t have time to do it himself. I was his sort of alter ego in
handling much of this correspondence, and I saw the kind of letters
that he got. They were vituperative. Walter Winchell accused him of
crucifying the Jews the way that the Jews had been crucified earlier,
and so forth, and so on…”§
If Truman had taken positions that would have resulted in a failure to
establish the Jewish State, he would almost certainly have been
defeated in the November elections, since the Zionists had almost the
full sup****t of the Congress, the United States media and most of the
American people.
Loy Henderson
Holbrooke presents Truman’s decision to recognize Israel as a rational
choice between two alternatives, but rationality had nothing to do with
it. Truman caved under pressure. Contrary to Holbrooke's assertion,
Truman was neither wholly opposed to UN trustee****p of Palestine nor
wedded to the idea of partition. In a March 25, 1948 statement, Truman
declared sup****t for trustee****p, albeit tem****arily, to stabilize the
region and maintain law and order:
“It has become clear that the partition plan cannot be carried out at
this time by peaceful means. We could not undertake to impose this
solution on the people of Palestine by the use of American troops, both
on Charter grounds and as a matter of national policy. The United
Kingdom has announced its firm intention to abandon its mandate in
Palestine on May 15. Unless emergency action is taken, there will be no
public authority in Palestine on that date capable of preserving law
and order.…
“The United States has proposed to the Security Council a tem****ary
United Nations trustee****p for Palestine to provide a government to
keep the peace. Such trustee****p was proposed only after we had
exhausted every effort to find a way to carry out partition by peaceful
means. Trustee****p is not proposed as a substitute for the partition
plan but as an effort to fill the vacuum soon to be created by the
termination of the mandate on May 15.”
Besides painting a false black-and-white view of conflict over Israel,
Holbrooke commits serious errors of omission. He causally speaks of the
partition of Palestine as if it were a legitimate option, but the UN’s
Partition Plan passed by the General Assembly on Nov. 29, 1947, was not
legitimate. The UN had no authority to take land from one people to
give to another, and even if it had, the plan was not ratified by the
Security Council, which means it does not exist. Since the plan was
never ratified, partition was never a legitimate option; because
partition was never a legitimate option, Truman had no legal basis for
recognizing Israel.
Now, watch as Holbrooke tries to trick the reader: “To this day, many
think that Marshall and Lovett were right on the merits and that
domestic politics was the real reason for Truman's decision. Israel,
they argue, has been nothing but trouble for the United States.”
“It has become clear that the partition plan cannot be carried out at
this time by peaceful means. We could not undertake to impose this
solution on the people of Palestine by the use of American troops, both
on Charter grounds and as a matter of national policy.
President Harry Truman
Bang on accurate! But now comes the cheat: “I think this misses the
point. Israel was going to come into existence whether or not
Wa****ngton recognized it. But without American sup****t from the very
beginning, Israel’s survival would have been at even greater risk…”
What about the Arabs' survival? Israel has been nothing but trouble for
the United States, but note how Holbrooke mentions this fact only to
discredit it. Now comes the point of the piece:
“Truman’s decision, although opposed by almost the entire foreign
policy establishment, was the right one—and despite complicated
consequences that continue to this day, it is a decision all Americans
should recognize and admire.”
We are to admire a state that tortures children, ransacks orphanages,
humiliates and terrorizes non-Jews as a matter of national policy, and
has openly threatened genocide against Palestinians if they stand up
for themselves??!!
It’s a matter of debate which is the more responsible for the
Palestinian genocide—the perpetrator (Israel) or the facilitator (the
U.S.) Can a monster, following its nature, be held responsible for
committing atrocities if its creator, knowing the monster’s nature,
deliberately failed to prevent the atrocities and then actively
participated in them?
More than a just celebration [sic] of Israeli “statehood,” May 15
commemorates The Lobby’s purchase of the White House, and the beginning
of the U.S.’s role as an accessory to a war crime. This is the real
history that Holbrooke and others try to cover up.
Sources
* Cited in Greg Felton, The Host and the Parasite—How Israel’s Fifth
Column Consumed America, pp. 27–28.
† Ibid., p. 27.
§ Ibid., p. 28.
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