Terrorists at work
November ’23
The Romans expelled the Jews from ancient Israel thousands of years ago.(Google it!)
They renamed the area Palestine. This much we know, but there is so much more we need to know before we support the present state of Israel’s claim to occupy that hotly contested patch of dirt, to the exclusion of all others.
Were the Jews the sole occupants of the area?
Were the Jews themselves colonizers of some previous indigenous community?
Were all the Jews killed or banished, or did some convert to Christianity or Islam in order to stay put?
For how long were the Jews banished?
For how long have they been free to return?
Why didn’t they return until the Holocaust?
The legitimacy of the state of Israel is based on the answers to these questions.
Do the Israelis have a legitimate right to claim all of ancient Israel, to the exclusion of all others, including the present inhabitants? The Palestinians have lived there for thousands of years. Surely they have a right to stay there? If not, then 97% of the present inhabitants of Australia have no right to stay here either. All non-native Americans must also leave the area.
If we support the Israelis kicking out the Palestinians then we must play a global game of musical chairs, where each ethnic group goes back to where they came from. Is it possible to reconcile the Jews right to return to their ancestral homeland and the Palestinians right live there as well?
Who gets to be in charge?
Could they share power?
Many Israelis desperately want to share Palestine/Israel with the Palestinians in peace and harmony. But they are not the ones in power at this moment in history. The people in power in Israel at the moment, extremist Zionists zealots*, one and all, have made it abundantly clear that they want to occupy all of ancient Israel, to the exclusion of all others. To achieve their aims they must kick out all the Palestinians or annihilate them. To convince their fellow Israelis to support them in this crusade, it is necessary to make Israelis hate Palestinians so much that they abandon all ideas about peaceful coexistence. Hatred is crucial to the success of their mission.
On the other side of the fence, literally, Hamas has very similar aims to the Zionists. They want to occupy all of Palestine/Israel to the exclusion of all others.
To do this they must generate enough hatred that no Palestinians would even contemplate peaceful co-existence withJews.
These are implacable positions that have not wavered in 75 years,
It is safe to say, both Hamas and the Zionists zealots will never change.
Don’t bother trying to change them. You would be wasting your time.
The only person who can change the situation is Sleepy Joe Biden. He is the commander in chief of the most powerful military machine in the history of the world. As long as he supports Israel in their quest for exclusive occupation of all of Palestine/Israel, nothing will change.
It will continue to be the intractable quagmire it has been for all our lifetimes.
Ironically, the very same nation that has given Israel unconditional support over the years for whatever bloodthirsty actions they choose to execute, and that includes some pretty gruesome stuff, is also the nation that has done the most to resolve the conflict, via the Camp David (vale Jimmy Carter, the best and least belligerent U.S. president they have ever had) and Oslo peace accords. Unfortunately, when those accords are were undermined by bad actors, the U.S. has not complained. They have made it abundantly clear that their unconditional support of Israel will never waiver, no matter what despicable atrocities they commit. That sends a clear message to Israel that they can do as they please, with no consequences. That is not a good signal to send to a bunch of unhinged psychopaths with nuclear weapons!
So where were we?
The Roman empire expelled the Jews some time ago.(Google it!)
The British Empire let them return some 75 years ago.
Both these empires were acting without consultation and against the wishes of
the inhabitants of the area.
In 1917, Britain’s foreign secretary, Lord Balfour, expressed his government’s support for “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people” in a letter to Baron Rothschild, the head of the British wing of the influential European Jewish banking family.
To Israelis, the missive marks a formal utterance of the Israeli state’s right to exist; to Palestinians, it was an early sign of their dispossession. The declaration also noted that it was “clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine,” nodding to the overwhelming majority Arab population in the region at the time.
(About 90% of the population was Muslim in 1850, and about 80 percent in 1914.)
1918
Mandate of Palestine
At the end of WW1, The British took over from the Ottoman Empire in Palestine.
A British census of 1918 estimated 700,000 Arabs & 56,000 Jews lived in the area.
1937
A commission recommended Partition into an Arab state linked to Transjordan and a small Jewish state, including most of the best agricultural land. The transfer required the relocation of some 225,000 Arabs living in the envisaged Jewish state and 1,250 Jews living in a future Arab state.
1946
100,000 European Jews allowed into Palestine
Palestinians violently oppose European Jewish immigration and call for their annihilation.
1947 United Nations General Assembly passes Resolution 181
– urging the partition of the land into two independent states.
1948 – Partition plan proposed
Accepted by the Zionists – Rejected by the Palestinians
Civil war ensues
Plan not implemented
The proposed plan is considered to have been pro-Zionist by its detractors, with 62% of the land allocated to the Jewish state despite the Palestinian Arab population numbering twice the Jewish population and owning over half the land.
David Ben-Gurion states that partition is a first step to control of all of Palestine.
1956 The Suez crisis
Egypt’s President Nasser nationalizes Suez canal
Israel invades Egypt, followed by British and US forces
1967 – 6 Day war!
Israel takes control of the Gaza Strip, Sinai, the West Bank, the Golan Heights and predominantly Palestinian East Jerusalem.
All still under harsh military control today, leading to Amnesty International and other human rights groups calling the arrangement Apartheid.
1972 – Munich Olympics
Black September group take Israeli athletes hostage.
All end up being killed
1973 – Yom Kipur War
Egypt & Syria attack Israel
1978 – Camp David Peace Accords
Menachem Begin – Anwar Sadat & Jimmy Carter
1987 – First intifada leading to harsh Israeli military crackdowns.
1993 – The Oslo Accords
Yitzak Rabin – Yassir Arafat & Bill Clinton
Charting the expansion of Palestinian self rule in Gaza & West bank
1995 – Follow up accord – Palestinian Authority created
PLO recognized by US & Israel
Settlements and Jerusalem left unresolved
Peace accords fiercely opposed by Netanyahu, who calls Rabin a Nazi and disseminates images of Rabin with a target on his forehead.
Rabin assassinated at 100,000 strong peace rally in Tel Aviv, by right-wing Jewish extremist who aimed to derail peace process.
This is the seminal moment of no return.
In the subsequent election Israeli voters reject Rabin’s party and his Peace deal
and vote overwhelmingly for his opponent, thus showing the world their nequivocal support for assassination as a political tool.
Jewish fundamentalists resume their encroachment on Palestinian land in the West bank.
(The U.S. and its loyal lap-dog Australia, turn a blind eye to this invasion for the next 28 years, pretending that the long suffering Palestinians will take it lying down. On October 7 Hamas shattered that delusion)
2000 – 2nd Intifada
2005 – Israel withdraws from Gaza
Hamas formed with aid from Netanyahu and Qatar
2006 Hamas wins election in Gaza. No more elections.
Israel imposes harsh blockade on Gaza, controlling the flow of goods and people to and from the Enclave. As a result, most Gazans live in refugee camps and rely on UN aid to this day.
The blockade still in place
2008 – Hamas attacks Israel – Israel attacks Gaza
More than 1,110 Palestinians and at least 13 Israelis are killed.
2012 – Hamas attacks Israel – Israel attacks Gaza
At least 150 Palestinians and six Israelis are killed.
2014 Israel attacks Gaza Hamas attacks Israel
More than 2,200 Palestinians dead in Gaza and 73 Israelis dead.
Can you see a pattern emerging here?
2018 – Gazans protest at fence
170 protesters killed
2021 – Hamas attacks Israel Israel attacks Gaza
More than 200 are killed in Gaza and at least 10 killed in Israel
2022 – Palestinians in West bank kill 29 Israelis
Israelis kill 146 Palestinians in the West Bank
2023 – Israel attacks Gaza, Hamas attacks Israel
At least 33 people killed in Gaza and two in Israel
July ‘23 – Israel launches assault on Jenin refugee camp in West Bank
with 1000 soldiers
October ’23 – Hamas invades Israel, kills 1600
Israel begins carpet bombing Gaza, killing 3,00 people a day, the heaviest bombing campaign seen anywhere in the world this century, against their own people!
(people who live inside Israel’s self-proclaimed borders, but who have no rights
and are not seen as being humans, let alone Israeli citizens)
Israel invades Gaza – 12,000 innocent bystanders massacred…so far, including over 5,000 children, revenge for the massacre of 1,200 Israelis. (It is customary for Israel to exact revenge at an average rate of 30 Palestinians for every Israeli** so they still have another 24 thousand to go)
– source Wickepedia
* A zealot is a short, sharp knife deployed by Jewish partisans to assassinate collaborators with the
Roman occupation. A clear rejection of the advice of that well known contemporaneous sage,
Jesus Christ – “turn the other cheek”
** For details go to – Death in Palestine
Ben's Blog 
Learn the Hebrew language. Reliance on translations undergraduate scholarship.
I haven’t got time to learn all the languages in the world. Fortunately for me, I happen to be fluent in the dominant language of the world
The “dominant” languages of the T’NaCH: Hebrew and Aramaic.
Personally, I don’t think religious based nations are a good idea. Israel and Iran being perfect examples. Actually, I don’t think religion is a good idea. It is past its use-by-date.
Religion was a useful tool for creating unity amongst a group of people, but when that group encounters a different group, with a different religion, it becomes a a cause of conflict.
Religions attract political extremists, like moths to a flame. (just like they attract pedophiles)
That is because there is nothing more effective than religion for convincing people to commit extreme acts of violence. Just like terrorists hiding inside hospitals in Gaza, zealots hide inside religions. Therefore, after weighing up the pros and the cons, I think religions in general do far more harm than good, and should be done away with. There is no place for such anachronistic institutions in the modern world.
It’s useful to note that antisemitism, along with the attendant tropes which you echo, is alive and teeming in Australia. Out of curiosity, if your dreamworld of a Judenrein Palestine ever materialised, where would you expect the Jews to go, the ones you say Britain ‘let’ return (and their descendants), the lucky ones who were turfed out of Europe rather than murdered, and the hundreds of thousands who were driven out of the MENA lands for whom you are such a useful idiot?
Thanks for taking the trouble to make a comment, although it was spoilt by calling me an idiot. I am not the only person questioning the state of Israel at the moment.
As for your claim of anti-semitism, again, there are many people around the world questioning the state of Israel. If you label us all as anti-semitic, the word becomes meaningless.
I imagine a Palestinian state where Jews share in government, similar to Northern Ireland.
This state would be under the control of the U.N. in order to garantee that the Jewish oice could not be ignored.
The U.N. in an understandable moment of generosity, granted the Jews their cherished desire to rule the Holly land. They were offered many other choice pieces of real estate, a couple right here in Australia. No doubt they now regret rejecting those offers. Their spurious claim to be the decedents of the original inhabitants of the Holy land has been thoroughly debunked. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5532521/)
The U.S and Australia repeating ad nuesium, “Israel has the right to defend itself,” has just egged them on to further atrocities. If we actually question Israel’s very right to exist, it may just dampen their hubris and arrogance, which would be good for them in the long run. They way they are going, they are totally trashing generations of good will and sympathy.