Zionism's Dead End - The Diigo Meta page

• 17 Jul 08
  

  Arne Løining

  The Israeli leadership therefore developed a plan for ethnic cleansing under cover of war, compiling detailed dossiers on the communities that needed to be driven out and then passing on the order, in Plan Dalet, to commanders in the field. During the 1948 war the new state of Israel was emptied of at least 80 per cent of its indigenous population.

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  • The Israeli leadership   therefore developed a plan for ethnic cleansing under cover of war,   compiling detailed dossiers on the communities that needed to be driven   out and then passing on the order, in Plan Dalet, to commanders in   the field. During the 1948 war the new state of Israel was emptied   of at least 80 per cent of its indigenous population.
  • One of Jabotinsky disciples, Menachem Begin, who would later become   a Likud prime minister, was leader in 1948 of the Irgun militia that   committed one of the worst atrocities of the war. He led his fighters   into the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin where they massacred over   100 inhabitants, including women and children.
  • It was placed under a military   government for nearly two decades, a system designed to enforce separation   between Palestinians and Jews inside Israel. Such separation -- in   education, employment and residence -- exists to this day, even if   in a less extreme form.
  • The current siege of Gaza offers the template. After disengagement,   Israel has been able to cut off at will Gazans’ access to aid,   food, fuel and humanitarian services. Normality has been further eroded   by sonic booms, random Israeli air attacks, and repeated small-scale   invasions that have inflicted a large toll of casualties, particularly   among civilians.
    
  • om the values upheld by most societies   and ideologies. The nature of Zionist ambitions is likely to be ever   harder to conceal, as is evident from the tide of opinion polls showing   that Western publics, if not their governments, believe Israel to   be one of the biggest threats to world order.

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