Circus of Recycling – Part II

This is the continuation from Part I and will examine the next four additional areas of how and why the United States and the United Nations were pawns for Zionist Judaism’s conquest and occupation of Palestine.
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Self-determination. What does it mean? The fast answer is “the freedom to make your own choices.” Sure that’s a true pure definition… if one lives on an island in the Pacific and no other human beings are on the island. Is that a very comprehensive definition and representation of real life? Not really. The Merriam-Webster dictionary has another definition:  the people of a territorial unit to determine their own future political status. Better? Yes and no. I would imagine this extended definition raises more questions than it answers. The principle of self-determination according to these definitions seem well and good, but the practice of self-determination in life and the world, even within family dynamics, is not so cut-and-dry. Taking these two definitions to a macro-scale or global-scale, and the waters begin to get quite muddy; in some cases, sludge or quicksand.

“The UN Charter clarifies two meanings of the term self-determination. First, a state is said to have the right of self-determination in the sense of having the right to choose freely its political, economic, social, and cultural systems. Second, the right to self-determination is defined as the right of a people to constitute itself in a state or otherwise freely determine the form of its association with an existing state. Both meanings have their basis in the charter (Article 1, paragraph 2; and Article 55, paragraph 1). With respect to dependent territories, the charter asserts that administering authorities should undertake to ensure political advancement and the development of self-government (Article 73, paragraphs a and b; and Article 76, paragraph b).”
Encyclopædia Britannica Online, s. v. “self-determination”, accessed April 05, 2016, http://www.britannica.com/topic/self-determination.

A better definition don’t you think? Not really…
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Paris Peace Conference of 1919
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1919 Paris Peace Conference

After the defeat of the European Central Powers in World War I, the victors of the Allied and Associated Powers met in Paris, France to address and discuss the fate of those beaten nations (peoples) and their territories. The Central Powers primarily consisted of the Ottoman Empire, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Bulgaria. Both the Germans and the Ottomans had colonies in Asia and Africa as well. See world map below.

Two new terms or principles are introduced into future world conferences over nations or “territories” and their defeated peoples:  1) trusteeship, and 2) mandate.

Trusteeship — a defeated nation’s territories and it peoples, that are considered unable to govern themselves, are entrusted to another state which was victorious.
Mandate — a victorious trustee-nation receives a mandate to rebuild the defeated territory creating the necessary foundations for self-determination and independence.

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Map of World War I. The Allies are depicted in green, the Central Powers in orange, and neutral countries in grey.

All very simple, right? No. The above world map is of July 1914, at the beginning of World War I. The Paris Peace Conference begins in January 1919. When the some 25 nations around the world — representing a global jury — participating in the post-war conference convened, they were unaware of the Sykes-Picot Agreement of May 1916, when the outcome of the war was still far from certain. It was signed by Sir Mark Sykes of Great Britain and François Georges-Picot of France with the assent of imperial Russia. Why is this highly volatile monkey-wrench important? Because as early as November 1915 Sykes and Picot, with the knowledge of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, began negotiating how the Ottoman Empire would be divided up if defeated. Key leaders and nations in East Europe, the Near and Middle East… who had sacrificed their soldiers and resources into the war against the Central Powers — including against fellow Muslim Arabs — and with certain major political “promises” given to them by Western powers for siding with them… were never notified of this secret agreement.

“This secret arrangement conflicted in the first place with pledges already given by the British to the Hāshimite dynast Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī, sharif of Mecca, who was about to bring the Arabs of the Hejaz into revolt against the Turks on the understanding that the Arabs would eventually receive a much more important share of the fruits of victory. It also excited the ambitions of Italy, to whom it was communicated in August 1916, after the Italian declaration of war against Germany, with the result that it had to be supplemented, in April 1917, by the Agreement of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, whereby Great Britain and France promised southern and southwestern Anatolia to Italy. The defection of Russia from the war canceled the Russian aspect of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, and the Turkish Nationalists’ victories after the military collapse of the Ottoman Empire led to the gradual abandonment of its projects for Anatolia. The Arabs, however, who had learned of the Sykes-Picot Agreement through the publication of it, together with other secret treaties of imperial Russia, by the Soviet Russian government late in 1917, were scandalized by it, and their resentment persisted despite the modification of its arrangements for the Arab countries by the Allies’ Conference of San Remo in April 1920.”
— Encyclopædia Britannica Online, s. v. “Sykes-Picot Agreement”, accessed April 05, 2016, http://www.britannica.com/event/Sykes-Picot-Agreement.

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Arab Delegation to Paris

No one from the West bothered to ask the peoples of these “minor” territories or their leaders how they wished themselves to be self-determined or governed.

*Sidenote — For an exceptional more comprehensive perspective of pre, World War I, and post-WWI, watch Al-Jazeera’s World War One Through Arab Eyes.

U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and the State Department was sympathetic to the Arab cause presented by Emir Prince Faisal, however, the American delegation to Paris, along with heavy support from the U.S. Senate in Congress and a delegation of Jewish Zionists attending — which incidentally included U.S. Supreme Court Justices Louis Brandeis and Felix Frankfurter, and officials from the WZO — had already outmaneuvered Wilson and the State Department as well as several prominent American Christian leaders, such as Harry E. Fosdick and Henry S. Coffin, both who firmly opposed Zionism and a state of Israel in Palestine. With the Sykes-Picot Agreement and the Balfour Declaration, both done privately years before with France and Great Britain, President Wilson tried one more tactic:  send a commission to Palestine to examine the Palestinian Mandate in person.

King-Crane Commission

Many American students, history teachers, or the general public know anything about the King-Crane Commission to Palestine in 1919. The purpose of the commission was to learn, from Syrians and Palestinians living there, the attitudes and real viability for “resettling” their land and homes. After interviewing the inhabitants between June 10 and July 21, 1919, also entitled Inter-Allied Commission on Mandates in Turkey, the commission reported that if a Jewish state were created in Palestine, it would accomplish only:

“…the gravest trespass upon the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine,” [and subjecting them] “…to steady financial and social pressure to surrender the land, would be a gross violation of the principle [of self-determination] and of the peoples’ rights…”

“…the well-being and development [by the existing inhabitants formed] a sacred trust [where those present peoples should become free and their national governments] should derive their authority from the initiative and free choice of the native populations.”

[The report continues stating that following meetings with Jewish representatives who made it clear that]“the Zionists looked forward to a practically complete dispossession of the present non-Jewish inhabitants of Palestine…”

The report ended stating that in order for dispossession to take place, armed force would be required and unavoidable, so the commission urged the Peace Conference to dismiss the Zionist proposals stating “the project for making Palestine distinctly a Jewish commonwealth should be given up.

A digital copy of the entire report can be viewed and read here: King-Crane Commission Report, submitted by Charles R. Crane and Henry Churchill King, 28 August 1919.

President Wilson’s and the King-Crane Commission’s efforts would be heavily suppressed and for naught due to the publicity power wielded by Brandeis, Frankfurter, Chaim Weizmann, the WZO and Yiddish newspapers, further backed by their associated U.S. Senators in D.C. All combined they simply buried the above report.

The en mass immigration of Jews to Palestine commenced. Consequently, the four continents, arguably the world, were pushed on turbulent bloody hyper-convoluted paths for centuries to come.

Inspiration or Coercion?

After the newly formed (Western) League of Nations made it acceptable for Jews to migrate to Palestine, most less-Zionistic Jews at the time felt little need to go. This is clearly evident by a plethora of documented cases, but for the sake of your time I list three below.

U.S. Supreme Court and ZOA vs. Gibson — From 1919 to 1924 Hugh S. Gibson was the U.S. Ambassador to Poland. Most of his work there was to accurately assess Poland’s needs for self-determination in the immediate wake of WWI and how the U.S. could help. Back home in American newspapers were numerous stories of anti-Semitic violence throughout Poland. After investigating the alleged incidents and severities, Gibson reported to William Castle and the State Department that the American news articles of “Polish militarism, anti-Semitism and expansionism” were over estimated and in a personal letter to his mother wrote: “These yarns are exclusively of foreign manufacture for anti-Polish purposes.” (Hoover Institution, HGP, Box 17, f. William R. Castle, 1920 and Hoover Institution, HGP, Box 24, Diaries, f. Mary K. Simons-Gibson, 1919)

When Supreme Court Justice Brandeis and ZOA delegate Frankfurter were made aware of Gibson’s dispatches, they both demanded a meeting with him. Gibson described their meeting this way accusing him that:

“I had done more mischief to the Jewish race than anyone who had lived in the last century. They said… that my reports on the Jewish question had gone around the world and had undone their work… They finally said that I had stated that the stories of excesses against Jews were exaggerated, to which I replied that they certainly were and I should think any Jew would be glad to know it.”
— Fallen Pillars: U.S. Policy towards Palestine and Israel since 1945. Reprint Ed. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, 2002, p. 20

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Ambassador to Poland, Hugh S. Gibson

Gibson also noted that Frankfurter alluded to him that if he continued writing such reports, Zionists would block his upcoming Ambassador’s confirmation by the U.S. Senate. By May 1924 Gibson was reassigned as U.S. Minister to Switzerland.

1930’s Germany and Zionism — Unlike the inaccurate news reports of anti-Semitic violence in Poland, the rise of the German National Socialist Workers Party (Nazis) certainly gave cause to Jews in Germany to flee for their lives. President Franklin D. Roosevelt took action to help on two separate occasions:  in 1938 and 1943. The British tried to follow suit in 1947. Morris Ernst – International Envoy for Refugees for Roosevelt, and Harry N. Howard – U.S. State Department Near East, both wrote about American-British efforts to welcome in near 1-million Jews from Eastern Europe:

“…active Jewish leaders [in the U.S.] decried, sneered and then attacked me as if I were a traitor. At one dinner party I was openly accused of furthering this plan of freer immigration [into the U.S.] in order to undermine political Zionism… Zionist friends of mine opposed it.” Ernst continued writing that the Jewish leadership in America were “little concerned about human blood if it is not their own.”

“…there was discussion of liberalizing American immigration laws in this period.” Harry Howard states in a 1950 interview, “The Zionists opposed that liberalization on the ground that this would not be a solution as far as they were concerned. They wanted a political, not necessarily a humanitarian, solution — that is, they wanted a state.”

By 1949 the Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion admitted the in-gathering of Jews into Palestine was not going well. He “urged U.S. parents to send their children to Israel for permanent settlement.” And “even if they decline to help us, we will bring the youth to Israel.

In the 1960 July issue of The Spectator magazine, journalist Erskine Childers wrote discussing in detail the talks between FDR, Britain, Ernst, and the Jewish DP’s (Displaced Persons) from Europe…

“…[Zionist sabotaging] was done by seeing to it that Western countries did not open their doors, widely and immediately, to the inmate of the DP camps.”

“It is incredible that so grave and grim a campaign has received so little attention in accounts of the Palestine struggle — it was a campaign that literally shaped all subsequent history. It was done by sabotaging specific Western schemes to admit Jewish DPs.”

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image courtesy of Timothy Hughes Rare & Early Newspapers

Hate Attacks on Iraqi Jews Faked? — By 1949-50 Iraqi Jews were either being coerced out of the country or due to economic conditions willing to consider immigration to Palestine, or both. Due to the ancient history of exiles and the Jewish Diaspora, Zionists had fervent inspirations to persuade Iraqi Jews to Palestine. Many Iraqi Jews were not that motivated to leave their current homes. Rabbi Sassoon Khadourie, Chief Rabbi of Iraq, spoke about covert Zionist bombings during Operation Ezra and Nehemiah to Israel from Iraq. Although counterarguments spoke of Sassoon being a propaganda puppet for pro-British Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Said, in his last weeks and days before dying in 1971 Rabbi Khadourie never recanted his statements. However, the former CIA operative Wilbur Crane Eveland to the Middle East, specifically Iraq in 1950-53, reappraised his life and work in his book Ropes of Sand he writes about the synagogue bombings as…

“…attempts to portray the Iraqis as anti-American and to terrorize the Jews”

“Soon leaflets began to appear urging Jews to flee to Israel… most of the world believed reports that Arab terrorism had motivated the flight of the Iraqi Jews whom the Zionists had ‘rescued’ really just in order to increase Israel’s Jewish population.”

Both of these men are joined in agreement by many authors and journalists. Naeim Giladi, a Jewish-Iraqi author, describes the consensus of his colleagues reappraisals…

“I write about what the first prime minister of Israel [Ben-Gurion] called ‘cruel Zionism.’ I write about it because I was part of it. Jews from Islamic lands did not emigrate willingly to Israel. Jews killed Jews.”

“…[Zionist] Jews on numerous occasions rejected genuine peace initiatives from their Arab neighbors.”

As can be expected inside the political game of counter-intelligence and disinformation, Zionist organizations and prominent members cried then and will cry today ‘forms of anti-Semitism.‘ I invite YOU to decide after examining all the relevant information now available.

Now for a brief respite from endless strife, I give some comic relief for you…

Alright, now back to business. We can laugh and enjoy life afterwards.
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The Modern Israeli Lobby on Harry S. Truman
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She is a prolific author, noted educator and academic, and has achieved prominence as a historian of the United States and its Jewish Americans. Naomi W. Cohen has been published several times over, but in her 2003 book The Americanization of Zionism, 1897-1948, she writes:

“Although Brandeis participated in the negotiations with England leading to the Balfour Declaration, his primary focus after [World War I] shifted from political to “pragmatic” or “practical” Zionism. Active behind the scenes and with his lieutenants throughout the decade, he encouraged American Jewish investment in the physical upbuilding of Palestine. That emphasis, also adopted by the ZOA, well suited the shift of world Zionism into its second phase, “Palestinianism”.” (p. 7)

As Europe began sliding back to political, ethnic, and economic turmoil in the 1920’s and 30’s, general American sentiment wanted nothing to do with their constant problems. In contrast to that U.S. sentiment, however, were American Zionist activists, Cohen explains, and their leaders maneuvering to divert polarizing Zionism into covert Palestinianism:

“…the retreat to Palestinianism wasn’t all bad. Coping with antisemitism, which increased in the 1920s, and with the grim conditions spawned by the Great Depression of the 1930s, American Jews dared not risk any major outbursts about Jewish statehood from their non-Jewish fellow Americans. Within American Jewish circles, Palestinianism, far less strident than political Zionism, permitted the spread of a “quiet” Zionism in synagogues and Jewish schools.” (p. 8)

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AZEC Madison Square Garden rally, NY Sept 1945

Special interest groups, otherwise known as lobbies, play an important and controversial role in American politics and legislation. American Zionism recognized this tool early on and by 1943 was one of the most well-funded lobbies in the U.S. due in no small part to Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver. He created the American Zionist Emergency council (AZEC) and by the middle of WWII when buying a 5-pound bag of flour was 0.25-cents, the AZEC had a budget of $500,000. Its fundraising umbrella was the United Jewish Appeal which gained financial resources of $14 million in 1941 and $150 million by 1948 — four times more than the Red Cross received in donations from all Americans; in today’s dollars:  $1.5 billion. In 1945 when Hillel Silver was made aware of a British move against Zionism…

“AZEC booked Madison Square Garden, ordered advertisements, and mailed 250,000 announcements — the first day. By the second day they had organized demonstrations in 30 cities, a letter-writing campaign, and convinced 27 U.S. Senators to give speeches.”

“Grassroots Zionist action groups were organized with more than 400 local committees under 76 state and regional branches. AZEC funded books, articles and academic studies; millions of pamphlets were distributed. There were massive petition and letter writing campaigns. AZEC targeted college presidents and deans, managing to get more than 150 to sign one petition.”
— Against Our Better Judgement, by Alison Weir, CSI Publishing, San Bernadino, CA: 2014, p. 37

This level of organization and swift action would make any of today’s wealthy Washington D.C. lobbies green with envy. If political leverage is the goal, then understanding the ropes and pulleys of our U.S. government and how to activate them for specific interests, then 1940’s AZEC’s and their UJA umbrella is a superb blueprint to follow.

Harvesting American Christianity

Today, Jews and Christians have a convenient interest in the other’s historical background. The relationship has certain mutual dynamics which are readily exploitable. This was no less true in the decades before, during, and after World War II. Hillel Silver, Louis Brandeis, AZEC, and other Zionists, including Felix Frankfurter, recognized this avenue toward a stronger Israel in Palestine as a significant long-term role. Heading up this push would be the original American Palestine Committee founded by Emanuel Neumann, later known in 1946 as the American Christian Palestine Committee (ACPC). The primary goal of the ACPC was to harness a group of prominent Christian Americans in moral and political support of Zionism…

“The initial impetus was given late in 1942 by prominent Protestants such as Reinhold Niebuhr, S. Ralph Harlow, Henry A. Atkinson, Daniel A. Poling, and Paul Tillich. Working with them as liaison with the Emergency Committee for Zionist Affairs were Milton Steinberg and Philip Bernstein, who enjoyed the full cooperation of Stephen S. Wise and Emanuel Neumann.

The Christian Council emphasized the need to destroy racial and religious discrimination and to demand justice for the Jewish people everywhere, but it considered Zionist objectives in Palestine the paramount goal and the basic solution to Jewish national homelessness. The council strove to gain the sympathy of churchmen and clergy by organizing conferences, arranging seminars, and publishing literature. The influence it exerted was out of proportion to its relatively limited membership.”
— Encyclopaedia of Zionism and Israel (ed. Patai), accessed April 10, 2016, http://www.iahushua.com/Zion/zionhol10.html

While American Protestant and Catholic leaders and their followers were being cuddled by Zionists at home, the reality in 1947-48 Palestine was bloody and covert. Palestinian Christians and Muslims, their institutions, churches, and mosques were attacked by Israeli militants. Citing a June 1948 report from the Haganah/IDF operations:

“The Christian “exodus” from the Holy Land can be traced to 1948, when more than 750,000 Palestinians were forced from their homes by the creation of the State of Israel. With hundreds of Palestinian villages destroyed and at least half of the indigenous population displaced to refugee camps internally or in neighboring countries, Christians and Muslims — whose roots in the Holy Land stretched back for centuries — suffered the same fate.”
— What sparked the Christian exodus from the Holy Land?, Institute for Middle East Understanding, 2012, accessed April 10, 2016, http://imeu.org/article/christians-in-the-holy-land-under-israeli-siege

This sort of harassment, attacks, and human-rights violations by Zionist-Israeli operations on Palestinians still continue to this day along with America’s political Right and U.S. military support.

President Harry Truman is Bought

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Truman with Senators McGrath and Green, c. 1948

Howard McGrath was the Chairman of the Democratic Party from 1947-49 and bluntly informed Abraham Feinberg and other Zionist supporters that President Truman cannot possibly win the 1948 election against Dewey unless he sees the American people, stating:

“The President [Truman] has to make a trip from coast to coast. He wants to do it by train, he wants to see the people, and there is no money.”

“I [Feinberg] had to get back to New York and I got up. I was the youngest of the group, and maybe for that reason the brashest. I said, “Howard, the President has done a great deal for my people. I feel that we owe him a great deal. We certainly owe him a chance, and I will pledge on behalf of Ed Kaufmann and myself that within two weeks we’ll have $100,000 towards this [train]trip.”

“I [Feinberg] had already got the commitments for the $100,000 from people around the country, all of whom understood that without Truman, Israel would have had very difficult days and times trying to even come into existence. As that train went into towns where there were Jewish communities, I arranged that a Jewish delegation would ask to see the President and be received on the train and that, in as many cases as possible, they would bring him donations above these original commitments. So, the trip was a triumphant trip from his point of view as a politician, forgetting the money, He was right when he said, “If I see the people, I can be elected.” And that made the difference. He often said, “If not for my friend Abe, I couldn’t have made the trip and I wouldn’t have been elected.”
— Harry S. Truman Library and Museum, “Abraham Feinberg Oral History Interview” by Richard McKinzie, August 23, 1973. http://www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/feinberg.htm – Accessed April 17, 2016, sections 22-24

Zionist Militarism and Conquest of Palestine

By 1952 Feinberg was found by the CIA to be smuggling arms into Israel for Jewish fighters against Palestine, and by 1970 also found by the FBI to be a long-term Soviet spy inside the U.S. and Washington D.C. government. With this type covert aid since 1946 to Israeli fighters, 33 massacres of Palestinian men, women, and children commenced:

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When Israel’s War of Nationalism had officially ended (1944-1952), 750,000 Palestinians were horribly expelled and in those 33 villages in the slide show above, Red Cross workers first on the scenes of atrocities stated the aftermath “reminded them of Nazi S.S. troops they had seen in Athens, Greece.
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Pressuring the U.N. General Assembly
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During the spring of 1947 after Britain was exhausted with problems and conflicts of increased Jewish immigrations into Palestinian lands, Great Britain dumped the problem onto the United Nations. A committee was formed known as the U.N. Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) to propose resolutions. It consisted of 11 member nations. Two initial solutions were proposed, both rejected by the Arab coalition who proposed a third solution:  a single secular democratic state in Palestine with citizens receiving equal rights. Zionists vehemently rejected it. By the fall of ’47 when it became clear Resolution 181 did not have the required two-thirds vote to pass,  Zionists members began an intense campaign to sway U.N. delegates to vote for the passing of R-181.

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Philippine U.N. delegate Gen. Carlos Romulo

As this 1982 New York Times magazine article describes (p. 6 and previous), delegates from Liberia, Greece, Cuba, Costa Rica, Haiti, and the Philippines were targets of high value. Liberia stood to lose Harvey Firestone’s increased rubber expansion plan which made up the bulk of the Liberian economy. Wives of a number of Caribbean nation delegates received mink coats from Macy’s — offended, the wife of Cuban delegate returned hers. President Jose Figueres of Costa Rica reportedly received a blank checkbook. Haiti had been promised economic aid but it became conditional on their partition vote of yes. Seven different bills for the Philippines were in deliberation in the U.S. Congress at the time and Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, ten Senators, and Truman’s domestic advisor Clark Clifford strongly advised President Manuel Roxas that their bills would take the highest priority if the Philippine delegate reversed his position against the partition resolution. Just months earlier the delegate from the Philippines General Romulo made a passionate speech against partitioning saying…

“…it is clear to the Philippine Government that the rights conferred by mandatory power, even if subsequently confirmed by an international agreement, do not vitiate the primordial right of a people to determine the political future and to preserve the territorial integrity of its native land.

We cannot believe that the majority of this General Assembly would prefer a reversal of this course. We cannot believe that it would sanction a solution to the problem of Palestine that would turn us back on the road to the dangerous principles of racial exclusiveness and to the archaic doctrines of theocratic governments.”
— United Nations General Assembly, A/PV. 124, 26 November 1947 https://unispal.un.org/DPA/DPR/unispal.nsf/0/1BCE87E6077A1A0685256CE70075D5BE Accessed April 18, 2016

Count Folke Bernadotte a few months before his death (Getty Images)

Count Folke Bernadotte months prior to murder (Photo by Frank Scherschel//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

Twenty-four hours later during voting, the Philippine delegate (not General Romulo) voted for the partition resolution. Three days later the General Assembly adopted R-181 (II). Immense Zionist pressure during these weeks leading up to November 29, 1947 are held in high esteem by Zionists and radical Israelis today.

Within just months of the U.N. partition adoption, Israeli forces expelled over 413,000 Palestinian people from their homes. Fighting soon erupted and the U.N. had another Nazi-Juden problem, but under a different guise:  “Israel Independence.” A U.N. committee requested again the expert negotiating services of Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden, who had previously and successfully rescued thousands of Jews from Nazi concentration camps, to bring a ceasefire to the Arab-Israeli conflict. However, two months after his first and only proposal for peace, Bernadotte was assassinated September 17, 1948 by Jewish-Lehi terrorists. This Sept. 1995 Washington Report reviews the details of Bernadotte’s efforts and murder.

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Next in Part III we conclude the origins, occupation, and conquest of Palestine by comparing WWII refugee camps in Europe into new ones in Palestine, and finally examine the popular U.S. media and public perception post-1953 up to our present day to end the 3-part series. Meanwhile, please feel free to share your thoughts about this widely unknown subject of almost 70-years of Israeli occupation in Palestine.

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18 thoughts on “Circus of Recycling – Part II

  1. Ah. So, views about self-determination or Bosnia-hergov are not appropriate.

    Only Israel/Palestine?

    History as ever, is as we portray it.

    Actually I have spent years struggling to understand this specific war. Only when I read a Pilger book did I get somewhere near.

    But hell, we live in a Jewish quarter and work and live with Jews and Moroccans.

    I’ll pick holes in the history later … tooo tired now.

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    • Ah. So, views about self-determination or Bosnia-hergov are not appropriate. Only Israel/Palestine?

      Hi Roughseas. No, the history cannot only cover self-determination of Israel/Palestine or Bosnia-Herzgovina, but also Native American 18th-19th century expulsions, Nicaragua, Haiti, and Cuba by the United States, East Timor by Indonesia, northern Cyprus by Turkey, Tibet by China, or Georgia-Ukraine by Russia to name a few. Obviously the League of Nations had (United Nations has) very limited member-power to enforce self-determination and its charters — barring of modern military powers enforcing their interests; e.g. Britain, China or the U.S. That said, this series is focusing only on Zionism’s historical and current occupation of Palestine in relation to my Starbuck’s encounter with Fundy-Evangy Christians during Good Friday/Easter. 🙂

      I’ll pick holes in the history later…

      LOL…happy for your feedback. Hope you can continue ADDING to the series as well, like your Part I comment. 😉

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        • Indeed Lonestar.

          …and the genocide keeps a rockin’ on!

          Yes, and very sadly Americans have allowed their Congress and ‘Commander in Chief‘ to continue the atrocities, OR some/many Americans (warmongers) want it and push the nation to commit forms of Ethnic Cleansing, or support nations who do it. 😦

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  2. Phew! Great stuff, Professor, though something of a struggle for my enfeebled powers to retain historical information – for some reason it sort of evaporates in a puff of smoke with 10 seconds of its hearing; Mission Impossible? Anyway, you spurred me to go on and read Charles Glass’ essay on all this in the The London Review of Books; here’s a couple of snippets:

    “Britain erected, and for thirty years maintained, the scaffolding that the Zionists happily tore down when their House of Israel was ready. Despite the objections of some British military commanders and civil servants in Palestine, His Majesty’s Government protected Jewish immigration, encouraged Jewish settlement, subsidised Jewish defence and protected the Yishuv, as Palestine’s minority Jewish community called itself, from the native population. Without Great Britain, there would not have been an Israel for the Yishuv, or a catastrophe – ‘nakba’ in Arabic – for Palestine’s Arab majority.” — Charles Glass, LRB

    “. . . the British army, as it withdrew from Palestine a year later, was careful to hand over its main military bases to the Zionist forces even as it attempted to protect Jaffa’s Arabs from eviction.” — Tom Segev (paraphrased by Glass)

    “. . . the Zionist project is part of the saga of white settlement, as in north America and Rhodesia. The settlers declared independence only when they no longer required the mother country’s soldiers to subdue the natives.” — Tom Segev (paraphrased by Glass)

    On Israeli statehood: “the culmination of a process that fits perfectly into the great European-American movement of expansion in the 19th and 20th centuries whose aim was to settle new inhabitants among other peoples or to dominate them economically and politically.” — Maxime Rodinson (Marxist historian) in his book Israel: A Colonial Settler State?

    “[it is] little short of miraculous that, despite its years of military occupation, Israel is never identified with colonialism or colonial practices.” — Edward Said

    “It has taken 50 years for Israeli historians to emphasise that Zionism under the British Mandate was a colonial enterprise.” — Charles Glass, LRB

    “. . . nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of the existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.” — A. J. Balfour (oy vey! 😉 )

    Anyway, Leicester without Vardy for a game or two of the remaining four – yikes!

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    • Oh Hariod, thank you again for pushing through this Part II. I realize that for the sake of a controversial historical AND MODERN topic such as the Near and Middle East, especially for our two countries (the U.S. and Great Britain), digging into the facts and the probabilities (given distorting past propoganda machines used), my research and subsequent telling of the events (story?) lack the emotional drama of a Ridley Scott film riveting the audience. My apologies Sir. 😉

      That said, the scrutinizing research and broader examination of these actual events and contextual circumstances are required, EVEN CRITICAL for me and other intelligent curious Texans and Americans who blindly spout-off erroneous opinions about the U.S. theological obligation to support Israel’s occupation of Palestine — e.g. my gentleman at Starbuck’s that evening of Good Friday/Easter weekend. I am surrounded by Fly-by-Night historians around here which think their Holy Bible is an infallible collection of historical truths! 😮

      Hence, my obligation and conviction to offer alternative perspectives to true patient thinkers/readers… like yourself. ❤ Now, if I can just have a conversation with my fellow Texans (like Mr. Starbucks) for MORE than a superficial 30-minutes! (rolling eyes laughing!)

      About Vardy… I had a strong rumbling in my abdomen you might bring that up. 😉 He will most likely be suspended for 2-games, possibly three depending on what Vardy screamed to the referee. Earlier throughout the season I noticed Jamie diving for fouls/penalty-kicks too often… and thinking back then, probably to the detriment of his team. What I noticed months ago was that apparently NO ONE (teammates, coaching staff) had seemingly told him to back off from his obvious attempts. However, I let his dramatics lie because it’s the referee’s discretion. But you play with fire long enough and you WILL get burned eventually. Viola! His ass is sitting in the grand-stands. :/ I really do hope it doesn’t seal Leicester’s fate to 2nd place.

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      • I possibly overstate my lack of enthusiasm for historical data, Professor, though not my capacity to retain chronological order in all things – not helpful when it comes to history, peut-etre? This failing in part derives from many, many years of listening – for want of a better term – to my dear friend Christopher drone on . . . and on . . . and on . . . in recounting the political history of Europe as we walk together in the country, me nodding in acknowledgment occasionally whilst for the most part silently wondering if Mourinho really ought scrap the diamond formation, or Wenger secretly fantasises about taking José up The Emirates. 😮 Oy Vardy!

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        • Hahaha… please let me know if I begin to sound/read like drone-Christopher in the countryside! Or maybe you ARE letting me know, now. HAH! 😉

          In my haste earlier this morning along with a number of interruptions, I impolitely forgot to mention how wonderful your initial comment with excellent references to Glass, Segev (quite familiar with him), Rodinson, and Said show an abundant amount of data of how much Jewish Zionism “used” the Holocaust to pander the U.S. and the world for the eventual occupation of Palestine — oddly similar to what the Nazis had done to European Jews. Do two wrongs make a right? Or more than two? I’m happy I have kindled (rekindled?) an interest in this subject for you because it is CLEAR the Arab animosity of the last 70-years is absolutely justified. Most modern Westerners have no idea that ‘Near and Middle Eastern conflict’ all started in 1897! Well, at least the vast majority of voting Texans have no clue. 😮 Nevertheless, thank you very much Hariod for your meaningful feedback. It is greatly appreciated and significant to this “Circus of Recycling“. I hope you can find the patience to finish this with us/me. ❤

          …whilst for the most part silently wondering if Mourinho really ought scrap the diamond formation, or Wenger secretly fantasises about taking José up The Emirates.

          Hah! José changing!? José overhauling decades of habit!? José’s pride and arrogance will NEVER allow it. He’d go to his grave first before admitting his tactical style is outdated! (loud hysterical laughing!) But I know you were being funny. 😉 Vardy? I do know that he is a huge part of an emotional bandwagon-high that is now spread across footballing Europe and to soccer fans in the States, and it’s hard for a highly competitve 29-yr old (previously unknown) striker to temper his excitement in the heat of the moment. BUT… couldn’t Claudio, captain Wes Morgan, or SOMEONE tell him to check his game-dramatics at least a little, let alone his dissension to the referee!? Hopefully the rest of the team can step up in his absence.

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  3. Okay, my first time reading one of your posts and holy hell was that a lot of info.

    I’ve never felt that these wars and conflicts that happen around the world are as simple as we are led to believe. The amount of “behind the scenes” twisting of people perception is truly remarkable if not sickening. I listen to people that base their opinions on media fed propaganda and find myself astounded by their inability to see from more than one perspective.

    This was an interesting read for me. I knew little about the creation of Israel other than the basics “facts” that are told to us in history class.

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    • MDS,

      First, thank you so much for stopping by and patiently getting through this Part II of three parts — number one is the reason I got back into this subject again because as you alluded to… the general (naive?) populace — who mostly don’t care to DIG into all points-of-view, i.e. do the homework, do the legwork so that as a voting citizen one can be well informed about such human atrocities such as these committed by Zionist, Britain, and the U.S. — only spend a hasty 10-20 minutes researching BEYOND media rhetoric. Thank you Sir for your patience through what I know is a lengthy very thorough and detailed read.

      This was an interesting read for me. I knew little about the creation of Israel other than the basics “facts” that are told to us in history class.

      Indeed. From purely an educational stand-point here in the U.S., particularly Texas (a very influential state in federal politics), Core Standards Curriculum is not accepted by the Texas Board of Education and hasn’t been approved ever since many states in the Union HAVE passed and been teaching the Standards. One of the CRITICAL parts of Core Standards — for middle and high school levels — is Critical-Thinking Skills and Tools. In other words, in Texas public schools (especially the Christian private schools here) teachers and staff teach students WHAT to think rather than HOW to think. At the moment, only some 44 states have adopted Core Standards Curriculum requirements. It will be a LONG LONG TIME before Texas adopts them, if ever, as long as Conservative (religious) Republicans dominate our Senate, House, and Governor’s Office like they’ve done the last 21+ years.

      Hence, the discussion I had at our local Starbucks on Good Friday/Easter weekend (Part I)… a political-historical discussion I have way too often here. :/

      Thanks again MDS for your comment! PLEASE come again and share your thoughts Sir.

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  4. I will admit honestly that as much as I enjoy reading things such as this and learning about the “hidden” truth, I don’t regularly go looking for it because I find it depressing and I would rather focus on things that make my life more pleasant.

    That is not to say that I stick my head in the sand or follow the pack. I prefer to walk my own path politically, religiously and mentally. On any day, I can argue or agree with a conservative or liberal, Christian or Muslim, man or woman depending on the conversation.

    I find the state of our world today to be rather sad and to me your post is another perfect example of how it got to the state it is in. Mankind’s greed, arrogance and ignorance is our greatest weakness and until we learn that I don’t believe our path will change. Leaving us doomed to extinction.

    I hope I did not veer too far from your posts topic. I tend to get a little passionate about such things. That’s why I don’t actually seek them out. I did very much enjoy the read and look forward to part three.

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    • I do understand your posture on these topics MDS. Can’t say I blame you. When my patience, energy, and eventually dignity begins to run thin and disrepected, I too must walk away… re-evaluate, decompress, re-energize. That sometimes/often means the “pleasantries” of which you speak. 😉

      I did very much enjoy the read and look forward to part three.

      Thank you. Although if it doesn’t suit you well, then I completely understand and tell you don’t feel obligated to return. If you do, then it’s appreciated and your feedback is welcomed. 🙂

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  6. Dear Professor,
    I shall be heading on to your website to continue on reading WW1 through Arab eyes.
    I vaguely knew to some extent what the zionists had been doing but not to this detail, quiet a shock and quiet sad to see the killings of innocent lives for your own interests.

    Thank you Professor, you have won yourself a fan and an avid reader.
    A pleasure to have found you.

    Thank you very much.

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    • Indiscriminate or discriminate killing or genocide or ethnic cleansing is by far one of humanity’s WORST traits and history. Period. It must stop! There are never any justifiable reasons/cause to go on such an offensive. This goes for all humans, including innocent faith-followers of ANY ideology. But…notice I said “offensive.” I do believe everyone has the basic right to defend themselves (and their immediate family) against an aggressive (insane?) non-negotiating killer or killers/soldiers/terrorists. Yet, even this/my personal stance isn’t infallible at all times in every circumstance. That’s the frustrating part. :/

      HUMANS are the ones capable of such atrocities, not ideologies. However, some ideologies certainly do fuel the hatred, numbing, and obliteration of decency, respect for others, and the sanctity of life. Such behavior does remind us of what primates we once were…

      or still are. 😦

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