[The following are excerpts from Ralph Schoenman's "The Hidden History
of Zionism." WARNING: Extremely gruesome.]
The Zionist movement subdued Palestine and assaulted its culture with a
relentless barbarity shocking even to those familiar with the cruel
annals of colonial conquest. This history has been suppressed during
the past one hundred year...
The Israeli response to the [rock-throwing Arab] uprising [of 12/21/87]
was brutal. Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin ordered the use of tanks,
armored vehicle and automatic rifles against an unarmed populatio...
As the uprising intensified, the Israeli cabinet and Defense Minister
Yitzhak Rabin implemented "collective punishment," a tactic
characteristic of the Nazi occupation of France, Denmark and
Yugoslavia. Food, water and medicine were prevented from reaching
Palestinian refugee camps in Gaza and the West Bank. The United
Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees…personnel
reported that children seeking powdered milk at U.N. depots were shot
at and beaten with stick...
One of the most vicious incidents occurred in the town of Qalquiya.
Soldiers entered the house of workers and poured gasoline over them,
setting them alight. Six workers were covered in flame...
On February 20, two youths were arrested in Khan Yunis, beaten savagely
and taken to the beach where they were buried alive under the sand.
After the soldiers left, villagers managed to dig them out...
Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin announced that Israeli civilians
have the same authority as soldiers to shoot. He added that soldiers
need not fire warning shots before shooting Palestinian...
... Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir [vowed] that Palestinians "would be
crushed like grasshoppers...heads smashed against the boulders and
walls."...
Israel'...Minister of Defense, Yitzhak Rabin, launched the 1967 war as
Chief of Staff with "Iron Will." As Prime Minister in 1975 and 1976 he
declared the policy of Hayad Barzel, the "Iron Hand" in the West Bank.
Over 300,000 Palestinians were to pass through Israeli prisons under
conditions of sustained and institutionalized torture...
In 1948, there were 475 Palestinian villages and towns. Of these, 385
were razed to the ground, reduced to rubble. Ninety remain, stripped
of their land...
Chairman Heilbrun of the Committee for the Re-election of General
Shlomo Lahat, the mayor of Tel Aviv, declaimed: "We have to kill all
the Palestinians unless they are resigned to live here as slaves."...
...Between November 29, 1947, when the United Nations partitioned
Palestine, and May 15, 1948, when the State was formally proclaimed,
the Zionist army and militia had seized 75% of Palestine, forcing
780,000 Palestinians out of the country.
The Butchery Begins: Deir Yasin
The process was one of sustained slaughter as village after village was
wiped out. The killing was intended to cause people to flee for their
lives.
The commander of the Haganah, Zvi Ankori, described what happened: "I
saw cut off genitalia and women's crush stomachs… It was direct
murder."
Menachem Begin gloated over the impact throughout Palestine of the
Nazi-like operations he commanded at Deir Yasin. Lehi and IZL
Commandos stormed the village of Deir Yasin on April 9, 1948,
slaughtering 254 men, women and children….
...like massacres occurred on a similar scale throughout the country.
The massacre at Dueima in 1948 was perpetrated by the official Labor
Zionist Israeli Army... The account of the massacre, as described by a
soldier who participated in the horror, was published in Davar, the
official Hebrew daily newspaper of the Labor-Zionist-run Histadrut
General Federation of Workers:
"...They killed between eighty to one hundred Arab men, women and
children. To kill the children, they [soldiers] fracture their heads
with sticks. There was not one home without corpses. The men and
women of the villages were pushed into houses without food or water.
Then the saboteurs came to dynamite them.
"One commander ordered a soldier to bring two women into a building he
was about to blow up... Another soldier prided himself upon having
raped an Arab woman before shooting her to death. Another Arab woman
with her newborn baby was made to clean the place for a couple of days,
and then they shot her and the baby..."
The program of massacre did not end with the formation of the state...
The genocidal methods needed to impose the colonial settler state
within the pre-1967 borders of Israel are regarded as the model for
dealing ultimately with the Palestinians in the post-1967 occupied
territories...
Collaborating with the Nazis
[The] strategy of enlisting Europe's virulent Jew-haters, and of
aligning with the most vicious movements and regimes as financial and
military patrons of a Zionist colony in Palestine, did not exclude
Nazis...
The World Zionist Organization broke with the Jewish boycott and became
the principal distributor of Nazi goods throughout the Middle East and
Northern Europe. They established the Ha'avara, which was a bank in
Palestine designed to receive monies from the German-Jewish
bourgeoisie, with which sums Nazi goods were purchased in very
substantial quantities...
Consequently, the Zionists brought Baron Von Mildenstein of the S.S.
Security Service to Palestine for a six-month visit in support of
Zionism. This visit led to a twelve-part report by Joseph Goebbels,
Hitler's Minister of Propaganda, in Der Angriff (The Assault) in 1934
praising Zionism. Goebbels ordered a medallion struck with the
Swastika on one side, and on the other, the Zionist Star of David...
In 1937, the Labor "socialist" Zionist militia, the Haganah...sent an
agent (Feivel Polkes) to Berlin offering to spy for the S.S. Security
Service in exchange for the release of Jewish wealth for Zionist
colonization. Adolf Eichmann was invited to Palestine as the guest of
the Haganah.
Feivel Polkes informed Eichmann:
"Jewish nationalist circles were very pleased with the radical German
policy, since the strength of the Jewish population in Palestine would
be so far increased thereby that in the foreseeable future the Jews
could reckon upon numerical superiority over the Arabs."
The list of acts of Zionist collaboration with the Nazis goes on an
on...
...The lesson of Nazi destruction of the Jews was that it was
permissible now for Zionists to visit the same fate upon the entire
Palestinian population...
The invasion of Lebanon in the summer of 1982 had as its purpose the
scattering through massacre and terror of the entire Palestinian
population...
The massacres that ensued bore a grim resemblance to the slaughter of
the innocents engulfing Deir Yasin, Dueima, Kibya and Kfar Qasim...
Twenty thousand Palestinians and Lebanese died. 25,000 were wounded
and 400,000 were made homeless during the first months of the 1982
Israeli invasion. The tonnages dropped on Beirut alone surpassed those
of the atomic bomb which devastated Hiroshima. Schools and hospitals
were particularly targeted...
The use of torture in Israel prisons has been the subject of extensive
inquiry...
The investigation resulted in concrete conclusions: Israeli
interrogators routinely ill-treat and torture Arab prisoners.
Prisoners are hooded or blindfolded and are hung by their wrists for
long periods. Most are struck in the genitals or in other ways
sexually abused. Many are sexually assaulted. Others are administered
electric shock...
Fazi Abdel Wahed Nijim was arrested in July 1970. He was tortured at
Sarafand and set upon by dogs. Arrested again in July 1973, he was
beaten in Gaza prison. Zudhir al-Dibi was arrested in February 1970
and interrogated in Nablus where he was beaten on the soles of his
feet. His testicles were squeezed and he was hosed with ice water.
Shehadeh Shalaldeh was arrested in August 1969 and interrogated at
Moscobiya. A ballpoint refill was pushed into his penis...
Jamil Abu Ghabiyr was arrested in February 1976 and held in Moscobiya.
He was beaten on the head, body and genitals and made to lie in ice
water. Issam Atif al Hamoury was arrested in October 1976. In Hebron
prison the authorities arranged his rape by a prisoner trustee.
In February 1969, Rasmiya Odeh was arrested and brought to Moscobiya.
Her father, Joseph, and two sisters were detained for interrogation.
Joseph Odeh was kept in one room while Rasmiya was beaten nearby. When
they brought him to her she was lying on the floor in blood-stained
clothes. Her face was blue, her eye black. In his presence, they held
her down and shoved a stick into her vagina....
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