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http://www.mediamonitors.net/mosaddeq24.html#1 The Blood on Israel's Hands When War Criminals Play The Victim, And The World Nods in Agreement I. State Terrorism: Intrinsic to Israel’s Zionist Ideology “A war of terrorism was forced on us”, announced Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in a live televised broadcast outlining Israeli war plans in the wake of the weekend suicide attacks within the Zionist State. “If you ask what the aim of this war is, I will tell you. It is the aim of the terrorists… to exile us from here.” He added that: “This will not happen. We know who is responsible… Arafat is responsible for everything that is going on.”[1] We should contrast this with the eye-witness report of New York Times journalist Chris Hedges in Gaza, published in Harpers Magazine: “It is still. The camp waits, as if holding its breath. And then out of the dry furnace air, a disembodied voice crackles over a loud speaker. ‘Come on dogs,’ the voice booms in Arabic. ‘Where are all the dogs of Khan Younis? Come! Come!’ I stand up. I walk outside the hut. The invective continues to spew: ‘Son of a bitch!’ ‘Son of a whore!’ ‘Your mother’s cunt!’ “The boys dart in small packs up the sloping dunes to the electric fence that separates the camp from the Jewish settlement. They lob rocks toward two armored jeeps parked on top of the dune and mounted with loudspeakers. Three ambulances line the road below the dunes in anticipation of what is to come. “A percussion grenade explodes. The boys, most no more than ten or eleven years old, scatter, running clumsily across the heavy sand. They descend out of sight behind a sandbank in front of me. There are no sounds of gunfire. The soldiers shoot with silencers. The bullets from the M-16 rifles tumble end over end through the children’s slight bodies. Later, in the hospital, I will see the destruction: the stomachs ripped out, the gaping holes in limbs and torsos. “Yesterday at this spot the Israelis shot eight young men, six of whom were under the age of eighteen. One was twelve. This afternoon they kill an eleven year old boy, Ali Murad, and seriously wound four more, three of whom are under eighteen. Children have been shot in other countries I have covered - death squads gunned them down in El Salvador and Guatemala, mothers with infants were lined up and massacred in Algeria, and Serb snipers put children in their sights and watched them crumple onto the pavement in Sarajevo - but I have never before watched soldiers entice children like mice into a trap and murder them for sport.”[2] Does this sound like a “war of terrorism” was forced on Israel by Palestinian children - or more like the other way round? According to the American Heritage Dictionary, ‘terrorism’ is defined as follows: 1. The use of terror, violence, and intimidation to achieve an end. 2. Fear and subjugation produced by this. 3. A system of government that uses terror to rule. In light of this authoritative, lucid and comprehensive U.S. definition of ‘terrorism’, Sharon’s words take on a new light. It so happens that the facts are exactly the opposite to his claims. Contrary to Sharon’s spin, it is a matter of record that throughout the history of the State of Israel, the regime has consistently foisted wars of terrorism on the indigenous Palestinians in order to secure the State’s expansion and consolidation. As early as 1940, the noted Zionist Yossef Weitz, Director of the Jewish National Fund affiliated to the World Zionist Organization, wrote that: “It should be clear for us that there is not room for two peoples in this country. If the Arabs leave it, there will be enough for us… There is nothing else to do but to remove them all; we mustn’t leave a single village, a single tribe... We must explain to Roosevelt and all the heads of friendly states that the land of Israel isn’t too small if all the Arabs leave and if the borders are pushed back a little to the north, as far as the Litani, and to the east, on the Golan Heights.”[3] It is therefore not the Palestinians who desired to expel all the Jews from the region. On the contrary Jews and non-Jews had lived in peace for thousands of years in the land of Palestine. It was the foreign Zionist movement which at its inception envisaged the complete “exile” of the non-Jewish Palestinian people from their ancestral homeland, to make way for the new Zionist regime. Israeli historian Professor Benny Morris of Ben-Gurion University records the little known fact that: “Ben-Gurion clearly wanted as few Arabs as possible to remain in the Jewish state. He hoped to see them flee. He said as much to his colleagues and aides in meetings in August, September and October [1948].”[4] What was the principal methodology Israel planned to use to ensure the expulsion of Palestinians from their own homes? Nothing less than brutal, violent, indiscriminate, cold-blooded terrorism. Professor Morris elaborates that: “During May [1948], ideas about how to consolidate and give permanence to the Palestinian exile began to crystallize, and the destruction of villages was immediately perceived as a primary means of achieving this aim… [Even earlier] On 10 April, Haganah units took Abu Shusha… The village was destroyed that night…Khulda was leveled by Jewish bulldozers on April 20…Abu Zureiq was completely demolished…By mid- 1949, the majority of the [350 depopulated Arab villages] were either completely or partly in ruins and uninhabitable.”[5] The Zionist leadership had thus clearly planned from the very beginning to absorb the entirety of Palestine in accordance with consolidating the State of Israel. In internal discussion in 1938, the first Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion declared that: “[A]fter we become a strong force, as a result of the creation of a state, we shall abolish partition and expand to the whole of Palestine… The state will only be a stage in the realisation of Zionism and its task is to prepare the ground for our expansion into the whole of Palestine.”[6] He also articulated Israel’s opposition to the United Nations Partition Plan: “The State of Israel considers the UN resolution of 29 November 1947 to be null and void.”[7] A later Israeli Prime Minister Menachim Begin elaborated that: “The partition of the Homeland is illegal. It will never be recognized. The signature of institutions and individuals of the partition agreement is invalid. It will not bind the Jewish people. Jerusalem was and will forever be our capital. Eretz Israel (the Land of Israel) will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And forever.”[8] As a consequence of this dogmatic mentality, the policy of pursuing the mass ethnic cleansing of the indigenous population from their own land was an integral Israeli military strategy, although this was never widely publicised to avoid international and historical condemnation. Tzvi Shiloah, a senior veteran of the Mapai Party and a former deputy mayor of the town of Hertzeliyah recalled that “in 1948, we deliberately, and not just in the heat of the war, expelled Arabs. Also in 67 after the Six-Day War, we expelled many Arabs.”[9] Israeli historian Ilan Pappe, associate Professor in Middle East History at the University of Haifa, concurs that: “There was an unwritten Zionist plan to expel the Arabs of Palestine in 1948.” From 1 April 1948 to the end of the war, “Jewish operations were guided by the desire to occupy the greatest possible portion of Palestine.”[10] Unprovoked and systematic genocidal massacres of Palestinians in their villages subsequently occurred as a consequence of these operations, as has been documented by the Israeli military historian Aryeh Yitzakhi – Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Eretz Yisrael Studies at Bar Ilan University (Tel Aviv) and Senior Lecturer in Military History in Israeli Defence Force (IDF) courses for army officers. Yitzahki is particularly qualified in this area due to his in-depth acquaintance with IDF archives, on which his conclusions are based. In the 1960s, Yitzakhi served as Director of the IDF archives within the framework of his IDF service in his capacity as historian. He records that: “In almost every conquered village in the War of Independence, acts were committed, which are defined as war crimes, such as indiscriminate killings, massacres and rapes… For many Israelis it was easier to find consolation in the lie, that the Arabs left the country under orders from their leaders. This is an absolute fabrication. The fundamental cause of their flight was their fear from Israeli retribution and this fear was not at all imaginary. From almost each report in the IDF archives concerning the conquest of Arab villages between May and July 1948 - when clashes with Arab villagers were the fiercest - a smell of massacre emanates.”[11] One of the biggest but least publicised massacres is that of al-Dawayima village in Hebron District (population 4,300). On the afternoon of Friday, 29th October 1948, three units of the 89th Battalion (8th Brigade) entered the village from three directions, leaving the east open, and occupied it “without a fight” according to an Israeli soldier’s testimony. The soldier continued: “The first wave of conquerors killed about 80 to 100 Arabs, women and children. The children they killed by breaking their heads with sticks. There was not a house without dead. One woman, with a newborn baby in her arms was employed to clean the courtyard.... (they) shot her and the baby.... This was not in the heat of battle.... but a system of expulsion and destruction”.[12] The 1948 war of Zionist terrorism thus resulted in a large-scale Palestinian refugee problem, with at least 750,000 men, women and children forced to flee from their homes, many of them forcibly expelled by the Israelis. More than 300,000 Palestinian refugees went to the West Bank, and some 200,000 went to Gaza Strip, to settle in squalid, crowded, barren refugee camps managed by United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). After 1948 Palestinian refugees attempted to return to what had by then become the State of Israel, in violation of the Zionist regime’s concocted ‘Law of Return’. An estimated 2,700-5,000 of them were subsequently killed by Israeli troops while crossing the borders - only very few succeeded. Dubbed “infiltrators” by Israel, the returning refugees had clashed with Israeli settlers, army and police, during which the number of Israeli casualties amounted to approximately 190-220 dead during 1949-1954.[13] To stave off the return of the indigenous population, the Israeli army had began launching attacks on Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. 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