During all bad economic times, any ethnic or religious minority who has lots of money is looted. This happened to more than one ancestor of mine. Today, the New York Times has an editorial counseling the Palestinian people to accept their fate--to be shoved into ever-smaller gehttos---so the Jews may exploit and colonize the Holy Land in peace. There are some Palestinians who have accepted this fate only they are being deluded, the Zionist plan calls for them to be totally eliminated and replaced by European and American Jews. This is ethnic cleansing of the poor but it is intimately connected to ethnic cleansing of the rich...many of whom are Jews.
The life of a Palestinian is one of squalor and misery, yet his leaders play the international game as though they were powers. An accommodation with Israel is imperative — if only out of economic self-interest and political necessity — but the Palestinians, in a democratic experiment some 18 months ago, tipped power to a Hamas movement whose very charter is pledged to the destruction of the Jewish state and the imposition of Islamist rule.
The reason the Palestinian citizens of the Holy Land must 'accommodate' is because the European and American empires have decided to eliminate them. They can't fight off the two biggest military imperial powers on earth! We are talking about poor peasants! The Europeans, after their latest bout of looting Jews, felt no compunction in looting the Palestinians to right their own wrong. The USA which prevented Jews from fleeing Nazi Germany, happily enabled the Jewish invasion of Palestine and cheerfully applauded the Zionist's ethnic cleansing and murders.
All this happened right on the heels of the biggest religious/ethnic cleansing spasm Europe has seen in the last 500 years! Thanks to Christian bigotry and persecutions, Jews in Europe were confined to noxious ghettos. They were kept deliberately poor and most industries were shut to them except for banking which was considered the Devil's Own Doing. Every time a king or lord was in trouble, financial or political, he would unleash the mobs upon the ghetto and thus, turn aside the fury of the masses.
This history of scapegoating and persecution has had a huge impact on the Jewish culture. I used to be married to a Jewish man who is a very fine and gentle person. But at first, the family tried to declare him 'dead' and only after much effort, would they accept me as a second-class citizen. There were, until the bitter end, members of this family who refused to eat in the same room with me or ride in the same car, just for example. It was a very unpleasant experience.
But I also understand their feelings: this is how they preserved themselves in the teeth of ferocious persecution and discrimination. Earlier this week, I mentioned one of the more gruesome crusades in Europe against a religious minority, the Albeginsian Crusades. Every last one of them was burned at the stake or killed outright! Not only that, my very own ancestors in Paris, France, were Huguenots. The battles between the Protestants and Catholics killed 1/3 of the people in Bohemia, for example.
In particular, the Huguenots were Puritans and like them, industrious to a fault. My Pettit ancestors took their name from their condition: they were city bourgeoisie, traders and merchants. When the St. Bartholomew's day massacre hit their minority religious community, most of my relatives were murdered. The head of the household escaped only by chance: he was away in the Low Countries on business. It did impact on him, he ceased be a nice guy and became a pirate.
The persecution of religious minorities for imperialist agendas is very old. For example, French Catholics in the outlying lands of Canada called by them, Arcadia, were suddenly, with no warning, divested of their rich farmlands and ports and deported to Louisiana. The Cajun are their descendants.
The removal and elimination of all the native tribes in the New World and the enslavement of the African people are all part of this imperial need to exploit foreigners or minorities so the Crown or the rulers can be richer and more powerful. The confiscation of money and or lands as well as literally enslaving people like the Scots and Irish, for example, is what rulers do regularily.
The Jewish people would like to flatter themselves into pretending the Holocaust was all about them. It most emphatically was not! The poorest people of Europe, the unfortunate Gypsies, were brutally rounded up and murdered even faster than the Jews! They are nearly never mentioned in the Holocaust game playing. And worse, the entire Slavic people who fill all of Eastern Europe and much of Russia, were set for annililation, too. Virtually every Soviet soldier captured was murdered! The starvation and brutality visited upon these people is what turned them against what they first saw as their liberators and helped Stalin utterly annihlate the Germany Army.
From the NYT editorial:
The political maxim that people get the leaders they deserve must be reckoned too cruel to apply to the Palestinians. Before Hamas, for four decades, the vainglorious Yasir Arafat refused to tell his people the basic truths of their political life.
What are these 'truths'? Verily, I say, they are this: The Jews will annihilate any and all other people living in the Holy Land and take it for themselves because they think God gave it to them even though their own wretched books admit they are invaders! The Palestinian people are from many sources because this land has been invaded many times: Phoenicians, Arabs, Jews, refugees from Ur 7,000 years ago, Frankish invaders, Greek invaders, Roman invaders, all sorts of people!
The facts the citizens of this piece of land refuse to accept is their second and third class rights while Jews and only Jews, a perennial invader, grants themselves thanks to the political and economic power they have gained in the European and American empires!
In a rare alignment of the universe, there came Mr. Arafat’s way in the late 1990s an American president, Bill Clinton, eager to redeem Palestinian claims and an Israeli soldier-statesman, Ehud Barak, who would offer the Palestinians all that Israeli political traffic could bear and then some.But it was too much to ask of Mr. Arafat to return to his people with a decent and generous compromise, to bid farewell to the legend that the Palestinians could have it all “from the river to the sea.”
I love this Jewish generosity. Brings back memories. Namely, they get the best and I get the left overs..if that. I was treated to this more than once. Literally, I was told, 'We got what we wanted here so if there is anything left, you can have it,' when refering to a relative moving to Florida. Needless to say, there was only trash left in the house.
And this is the wonderful 'deal' these Jews running Israel are offering: trash! They pick the trees clean, steal everything in sight and then want the real residents to sign off on getting the scraps the Jews have less interest in...only this is a total lie.
They want everything including the trash! All signposts are on a road to annihilation! The Jews stealing Palestine have no deals but one: total ownership without buying anything! In other words, theft. And like the European rulers who stole the pitiful belongings of the Jewish people whenever things went bad, so they do likewise: they want to steal because it is fun and cheaper in the short run than buying something at a fair price.
Sort of like we did to the natives of the New World. Or Africans.
The abdication and the anarchy have damaged both Palestinian realms. Nablus in the West Bank is no more amenable to reason than is Gaza; the writ of the pitiless preachers and gunmen is the norm in both places.
The writ of the pitiless is obvious: the empire's dogs who are stealing Palestine are armed to the teeth and all this is paid for by the European and American empires who desire these lands, they have invaded many times in the past. The preachers in America demanding the Jews get the Holy Land so that Jesus can come from Heaven and KILL everyone and have the pointless and evil Apocalpyse, they are the ones fueling this fire!
They are never called to task nor are the Jewish Zionist preachers who call for the annililation of the innocent Palestinian people whose only crime was to be born in the Holy Lands which European and American Jews want exclusively for themselves so they can rule the world from their headquarters there and no one can 'touch' them only... this is going to end with them being destroyed because if there is an economic downturn again in Europe and America, they will be the most inviting target for looting!
As per usual. This is because they are a rich minority and their endorsement of ethnic cleansing, religious warfare and looting will be turned on themselve instantly by the Christians wanting Jesus to return and kill all the Jews! How on earth can they not see this consequence?
From the NYT:
The mainstream in Israel had made its way to a broad acceptance of Palestinian statehood. In the 1990s, Yitzhak Rabin, the soldier who had led its army into acquisition of the West Bank and Gaza in the Six-Day War of 1967, told his people that it was time to partition the land and to accept Palestinian sovereignty. It was an unsentimental peace, to “get Gaza out of Tel Aviv,” as Mr. Rabin put it, but it was peace nonetheless.
I'm sorry, this is pure lies. The Jews know perfectly well they are aping the Nazis. They know history. They can see the obvious. But they need to lie about things because they think they are clever. The price will not be paid because they control the media in America and have passed laws forbidding talking about the Holocaust in Europe. They can imprison young people for singing 'Happy Birthday' to Hilter.
But in an economic collapse, this will all vanish. The Jewish promise (almost all the neocons pushing for war in the Middle East are Jewish) that we would take Muslim oil easily and thus, not go bankrupt, is falling apart rapidly. If China moves against us and the chances of this is 100% if we don't hand over Taiwan in the next 10 years, we will see a sweeping financial collapse. And the costs of the empire are part of this collapse, the military spending has DOUBLED in the last 6 years and is rising rapidly.
All this points to the obvious future event: when a new Hilter arises in America and turns everyone against the Jews! Which is my own family!
It had been the German Zionists who had most fully elaborated the ideology of the WZO before 1914 and in the 1920s they developed the argument to its logical conclusion: Judaism in the Diaspora was hopeless. There was no possible defence against anti-Semitism and there was no purpose in trying to develop Jewish cultural and community institutions in Germany. The ZVfD turned away from the society in which they lived. There were only two Zionist tasks: instilling nationalist consciousness in as many Jews as would listen and training youths for occupations useful in the economic development of Palestine. Anything else was useless and palliative.In 1925 the most vehement protagonist of total abstentionism, Jacob Klatzkin, the co-editor of the massive Encyclopedia Judaica, laid down the full implications of the Zionist approach to anti-Semitism.
If we do not admit the rightfulness of anti-semitism, we deny the rightfulness of our own nationalism. If our people is deserving and willing to live its own national life, then it is an alien body thrust into the nations among whom it lives, an alien body that insists on its own distinctive identity, reducing the domain of their life. It is right, therefore, that they should fight against us for their national integrity Instead of establishing societies for defense against the anti-semites, who want to reduce our rights, we should establish societies for defense against our friends who desire to defend our rights. [4]
The American iconography of the rise of Naziism and the ugly role the Zionist movement played in all this is nearly totally hidden from view. To this day, the Zionists worry about 'out-marriages' and my own son is considered to not be a Jew---by the Israelis themselves!---because his mother isn't Jewish even though my great-grandmother in Germany was a Jewish woman! So Hilter would kill me and my son but Israel would lock us out!
So much for the fiction of Israel being a haven. The fear of Nazis is very strong in me. One of my relatives was a Nazi Wehrmacht general! I have the heritage of several people who were persecuted in the past and the present. And in the Founding Fathers, too! This is exactly why they wrote into the Constitution, the seperation of Church and State! They feared this Beast! They wanted a new way of doing things, one that would not have pogroms and ethnnic cleansings even though they, too, did this. The temptation is overwhelming! When there is something to steal, people drop all pretense and seek a reason to attack and very often, it is religious or ethnic facts.
From the above article:
Weizmann, the prestigious scientist and President of the WZO, who was well connected in London, did next to nothing for German Jewry. He had never liked them, nor did he have any sympathy for their defence efforts against anti-Semitism. As early as 18 March 1912 he had actually been brazen enough to tell a Berlin audience that “each country can absorb only a limited number of Jews, if she doesn’t want disorders in her stomach. Germany already has too many Jews.” [11] In his chat with Balfour, in 1914, he went further, telling him that “we too are in agreement with the cultural anti-Semites, in so far as we believed that Germans of the Mosaic faith are an undesirable, demoralising phenomena”. [12] He visited Germany several times in the last years of Weimar. His friends there told him that they did not even want Jews elsewhere to demonstrate on their behalf. Rather, he should get British Conservatives to let it be known that Hitler would discredit himself with them by anti-Semitic actions. Weizmann approached Robert Boothby, a Conservative MP, who told him that quite frankly most Tories saw Hitler as saving Germany from Communism and were far less concerned about his anti-Semitism. [13] By January 1932 Weizmann concluded that emigration of some of Germany’s Jews lay ahead. Although he had lost the support of the World Zionist Congress in 1931, had stepped down as President of the organisation and was thus unburdened by office, he did nothing further to mobilise the world or Jewry against Hitler.
Zionists hoped to chase all the Jews into Palestine. And since the natives there were very worried about--and rightfully so-- this colonial effort, they resisted any Jews moving into Palestine. And thanks to liberalization that was sweeping the West, Jews were being rapidly assimilated, a fact that irritated Zionists no end. Because of all this, Hitler was god-send to the Zionists.
And so here we are, preparing the ground for WWIII and the Apocalypse and this is being blamed on the poor peasants of Palestine because they won't accept Jewish offers of being allowed to live in small ghettos in their own lands... and that, only if they totally surrender to the Jews and ask for nothing at all! What a bargain!
As Mao said, 'Power grows out of the barrel of the gun...and revolutionaries swim in the sea of the People.' The hyper-radicalization of the Muslim people is exactly tied to the wars and thefts of the Empires. God help us all.
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"NYT Has Big Editorial Calling For Palestine To SURRENDER"
Well... resistance has worked out so well for them...
"During all bad economic times, any ethnic or religious minority who has lots of money is looted."
So... just what does that have to do with the Pals?
"The reason the Palestinian citizens of the Holy Land must 'accommodate' is because..."
... their chances of reclaiming "the land from the river to the sea" are exactly zero.
"The persecution of religious minorities for imperialist agendas is very old."
News Flash: The Pals aren't a religious minority in the Mideast!
"As Mao said, 'Power grows out of the barrel of the gun...and revolutionaries swim in the sea of the People.' "
So what do you suggest? That the Pals redouble their efforts to expel the Zionist invader? (Good luck with THAT...)
Posted by: JSmith | June 19, 2007 at 04:16 PM
The Acadians refused to accept the fact that France had abandoned them, and continued to make trouble, so they were shipped off to the other french part of NA. Some eventually returned.
Posted by: Old Ari | June 19, 2007 at 05:17 PM
And what about all the Irish and Scots shipped out so viciously? Heh! Even in the last 50 years, Irish here were giving money to Irish terrorists blowing up stuff in London.
Posted by: Elaine Meinel Supkis | June 19, 2007 at 10:33 PM
You can't really judge the reality of a conquered people unless you are one yourself. Indians fought even when it was hopeless. Some of us still fight today. If it was just a matter of surrender and then your people could adapt and be treated with honor most of us would have done so long ago. Pride made us fight. Same with the Palestinians. The odds are hopeless but they have the balls and pride to fight against what may be hopeless odds. Mr Smith is flippant and says "resistance has worked so well for them". I say God bless them, may He give them strength, nakaha un anpetu owihanke.
Posted by: Al | June 19, 2007 at 11:37 PM
"Even in the last 50 years, Irish here were giving money to Irish terrorists blowing up stuff in London."
It would appear that the Irish have, in fact, finally bagged it. For the time being.
"Indians fought even when it was hopeless. Some of us still fight today."
Fighting with casinos, you mean? Taking the white man's money with house odds isn't a bad strategy, actually: it beats the shit out of suicide-bombing.
And on that note...
"The odds are hopeless but they have the balls and pride to fight against what may be hopeless odds."
You know, it's not so much the fighting against the hopeless odds I'm critizing as much as it is the strategy and tactics. After 60 years of being bottled up in Gaza and the West Bank... perhaps it's time for the Pals to rethink the Master Battle Plan. Because the current one just isn't working out very well.
Posted by: JSmith | June 20, 2007 at 10:35 AM
There is no way they can fight off the American/British and other empires attacking them! This is the whole problem. The only solution is a final solution: Nazi annihilation.
And this is the plan the Jews have hatched in the top levels! The government eradicating the Palestinians is planning to destroy them...FOREVER.
And the only people who can stop this grave crime is you and me, Smith. WE ARE PAYING FOR THIS. And we will reap the whirlwind from this. Ask bin Laden.
Posted by: Elaine Meinel Supkis | June 20, 2007 at 09:20 PM
The US public can't stop mowing their lawns and watching American Idol long enough to understand the rage that Israeli terror against Palestine causes in the civilized (non-USA)world. I'm not directing this towards Mr/Ms Smith, who seems to grasp the basics here. It's the combination of the indifferent stupidity of our public and the indifferent malevolence of the elected leaders. Hizbuallah's victory over the Jews, Palestinian's steadfast support of their only alternative in Hamas, Sadr's rising popularity and burgeoning statesmanship in Iraq-there is a change in the Muslim world which the Christian US and Israeli Jew cannot or will not see. Another massive Jew incursion into the territories may be catastrophic. I see a desperation among the people which was not there before, at least not so close to the surface.
Posted by: Al | June 21, 2007 at 12:54 AM
In the fires of despair rises the Phoenix. And they all know this. They know the oil royals are all corrupt and there goes bin Laden, riding on his white horse, to Mecca!
It is inevitable in the end. If anyone thinks the teeming masses of the Muslim world will vanish, is either nuts or racist.
Posted by: Elaine Meinel Supkis | June 21, 2007 at 11:02 AM
"There is no way they can fight off the American/British and other empires attacking them! This is the whole problem..."
Yeah, I know. That's what I said earlier. So far, so good.
"The only solution is a final solution: Nazi annihilation."
Suddenly... you're wrong. Another solution would be for the Pals to cut bait, work out some kind of a 2-state solution, and make the best they can out of what they have.
I saw an article recently which noted that the Palestinian Authority has soaked up more aid money per capita than Europe got out of the Marshall Plan. That's a lot of international aid. And what do they have to show for it besides some squalid cities? If they put as much energy into building a society as they do hating the Jews, things would be just fine.
But hating the Jwes is so much more fun for them, or something...
Posted by: JSmith | June 21, 2007 at 01:17 PM
If the Jews negotiated in good faith a two-state solution would have happened long ago. the situation is analogous to a bait and switch operation in that what is promised will NEVER be granted.
As far as the per capita aid being equivalent to the Marshall Plan $ for Europe, that really seems doubtful. Maybe the 1945 amount in 2007 dollars or some such trick. The biggies for US aid are Israel, Egypt and Colombia. Don't know how far down Palestine is but it's gotta be hella far down the list. That said, the PA is very corrupt which explains even secular Palestinians and Christians voting Hamas. So whatever $ goes to the PA trickles down about as well as bushes tax cuts trickled down to the working class people.
Posted by: Al | June 22, 2007 at 12:06 AM
"As far as the per capita aid being equivalent to the Marshall Plan $ for Europe, that really seems doubtful. Maybe the 1945 amount in 2007 dollars or some such trick."
Total per capita, 1993-present, inclusive of all international aid.
Posted by: JSmith | June 22, 2007 at 11:09 AM
do you happen to have a link or source to the aid thing ? It still doesn't add up, in my mind. Most countries don't provide aid unless there's something in it for them. The occupied territories don't have any resources. The biggest and most aggressive bloc in the world (US/UK/Israel)oppose them. Most of the Arab regimes give lip service but that's it.
Posted by: Al | June 22, 2007 at 08:45 PM
Smith also forgot(?) to mention that during the Marshall Plan, there was no rogue state flattening all the infrastructure in the region every 5 to 10 years with fighter jets and artillery, thus requiring that everything be rebuilt at great cost or left in ruins and the money used for some other purpose.
Posted by: DeVaul | June 23, 2007 at 03:13 PM
Hello DeVaul, that's a good point I hadn't thought of. Plus no rogue state preventing the flow of that aid.
Posted by: Al | June 23, 2007 at 05:30 PM