III. III. Balfour Declaration and the Zionist Opportunistic Nature

 

Because of the great importance of revealing major aspects about the history of Zionism, two more essays will be devoted to providing a historical account of the international Zionist movement. A number of rationales were behind such discourse: (a) The current need of the Muslims to know about the major historical developments that led to the occupation of Palestine by Zionists. (b) The great efforts and sacrifices that many devout Zionist have executed to achieve their ultimate aim of establishing a Zionist state in Palestine. (c) Realizing the weak spots in our recent history that allowed such atrocities and catastrophes to take place in the heart of Muslim land.



During the previous two articles on Zionism, I tried to shed light on:

(a) The beginning of Zionism and the principles on which it was established.



(b) The main Zionist figures and some of the major roles they have played in promoting Zionist aspirations.



(c) The different schemes they followed to keep the Zionist front united for the sake of exerting a strong pressure on the world’s leading countries to support their cause.



This essay will be concerned with the real reasons behind the Balfour Declaration and Zionist investment on it and the exaggerated Holocaust in attracting international sympathy to establish the ultimate goal of Zionism, which is a Jewish state in Palestine.



The Zionist Movement invested in World War I by selling the support of the world Jewry in exchange for the Balfour Declaration in 1917. However, I think there are other factors that convinced the British Government to take such a daring step in granting the Jews a homeland in Palestine and seek the approval of the League of Nations.



Among the main factors behind the Balfour Declaration are Chaim Weizmann’s personal efforts and connections. Weizman was a Russian-born chemist and Zionist leader who became the first president of Israel (1949-52). He became a lecturer in chemistry at the University of Geneva in 1901 and reader in biochemistry at the University of Manchester in 1904. In 1910, he became a British subject. He invested on his key position as director (1916-19) of the British admiralty laboratories. Weizmann became more influential and was responsible for the discovery and development of a method for synthesizing actone, used in explosives manufacturing which was highly appreciated by the British government; he was personally admired for a discovery which was most needed. He invested in his key position and convinced Balfour of the (claimed) historical right of the Jews to have a homeland in Palestine.





The New (20th Century Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge) stated that “the Balfour declaration was a product of religious as well as political activities” (p.894).



Christian Zionists who believe that the Messiah will appear in Palestine pressured the British government to grant the Jews a homeland in Palestine. Using his personal contact, Weizmann invested on misinterpretations of the Old Testament to convince the British Cabinet of the time and the foreign minister Balfour about the legitimacy of the decision. So, there is no doubt about the existence of religious motivations behind the Declaration.



Other claimed rationale was to obtain the support of the International Jewry during the war.



The latter rationale as a reason behind Balfour Declaration could be refuted because of two reasons:

First: the Jews formed a small minority among the population of the countries they lived in during the war.



Second: the Arab leader of the time King Hussein ibn Ali of Alhijaz sided with Allies during the World War I and later led the Arab revolt against the Ottomans in 1916 and proved to be reliable ally with the British. In contrast, the Zionists rebelled against the British White Paper decree.



So, none of the rationales presented by the British to legitimize their decision to displace a nation from its own country and place in another. The only possible interpretation is the one mentioned above.



After World War I, the Zionist movement faced two major setbacks. The new Soviet regime sealed off Jewish migration, the traditional source of increasing the Jewish population in the newly established settlements.



A dispute erupted between two of the main Zionist leaders: Judge Louis Brandies, leader of the American reform Jews, and Dr. Chaim Weizmann the man credited for obtaining the Balfour Declaration and the president of the World Zionist organization (1921-29) and lately became the first president of the Zionist State. The dispute involved both personal issues and an ideological debate over the future of Zionism.



American Reform Judaism, for example, proclaimed that Palestine was no longer a Jewish land and that the USA was “Zion”. To these Jews, Zionism was damaging to the fabric of Judaism and only served to stir up Russians that resulted in the claimed death of thousands of Jews on the hands of Russian army units (1919-1921). However, the unbelievable killing of millions of Jews during the exaggerated Nazi Holocaust during World War II drew all Jews together in support of Palestine as a Jewish commonwealth a heaven for the persecuted and the homeless. Even if that would result in creating another genuine Holocaust against the original people of Palestine who were driven out of their homes at the point of the gun to become unwanted refugees.



Therefore, Weizmann’s synthetic Zionism, which advocated both political struggle and colonization, won over Brandeis’s pragmatic approach, which concentrated on colonization with no reference to future nationhood.



Due to these emerging events, Weizmann was turned into an unchallenged Zionist leader. Nevertheless, Brandeis and his group gave up their difference with Weizmann and turned into supporters of his proposals.



After obtaining the support of major Jewish leaders and organizations, Weismann set up the wider Jewish Agency in 1929, a body that harnessed the financial support of Jews who were willing to aid their brethren in Palestine. This political and financial support resulted in the increased number of Kibbutz and the escalating inhumane deportations of Palestinians. The number of Jews emigrants jumped from 50,000 in 1929 to 600,000 during the British mandate, which was one of the factors encouraging Jews immigration. In the next essay, discussion will be focused on the many historical fallacies behind the Holocaust.





Dr. Abdallah H. Al-Kahtany

* from his book new zionism

IV. Zionist Propaganda and the Myth of the Holocaust.

 

In continuation of my review of the history of the international Zionist movement, I think it is crucial to reevaluate the strong version of the Zionist claimed Nazi Holocaust. Because of the intensive and exaggerated propaganda around the Holocaust, the Zionist movement was able to attract a lot of sympathy from many internationally influencing countries and sought their support when declared their Zionist state in 1948.



I think it is essential for the respected readers, to rethink the truthfulness of the strong version about the Holocaust.

First: a brief background about the continuous efforts of the Zionists to attract larger numbers of Jewish immigrants under the protection provided by the British mandate over Palestine.



Second: reassessing the truth of the Holocaust by providing evidence that may negate many exaggerated claims by the Zionists.



During the heydays of Yishuv (settlements) around 1935, a more radical Zionist terrorist group emerged. It was called the National Military Organization (Irgun Zvai Leumi). Its major aim was to advocate the establishment of the Jewish state on both sides of the Jordan River. This group was led by the Zionist Ze’ev Vladimir Jobotinsky who later formed the New Zionist party in the late1930s. He devoted himself to a futile campaign to arrange the evacuation of European Jews to Palestine while executing all possible means to terrorize the Palestinians and drive them out of their homes; in order to make space for the flush of immigrating Jews. Nevertheless, hundreds of thousands of Jews rushed to Palestine during and aftermath of the World War II as a result of the anti-Zionist sentiments in Europe and not because of Zionist aspiration like that of Zionist leaders.



A few years before World War II (1933), the Nazi regime came to power in Germany and immediately began to take systematic measures against non-Aryans; including communists, Zionists and others. During the years 1941-1944, the Zionist movement accused the Germans of killing six million Jews in concentration camps for the purpose of: (a) drawing sympathy of the Allies who turned out victorious after WW II for the Jews, and (b) hasten the Jews in many countries to immigrate to Palestine in order not face the same destiny as those who were in German controlled areas.



It would be unfair to deny the fact that Jews and other non-Aryans had faced persecution on the hands of the Nazis. However, the count of deaths among the Jews was highly exaggerated for the reasons mentioned below: (1) There is no historical tangible evidence for the strong version of the Holocaust exemplified in the burning of six million Jews in Nazi gas chambers.



(2) Most evidence was based on contradictory testimonies given by Jewish survivors.



(3) There is no census evidence regarding the number of Jewish population living under Nazi controlled countries.



(4) Historical records can only estimate the number of Jews under German controlled areas before World War II to be fewer than four millions. Two millions were able to find their way into the Soviet Union and one million were able to escape the war and were compelled to migrate to Palestine under the influence of Zionist propaganda.



In 1975, Simon Witzntal (a Jewish writer) wrote an article in which he confirmed what the French intellectual Roger Garaudy’s supported doubts that the burning of six million Jews by the Nazis was a fabrication and a wild exaggeration. Witzntal argued that the Jewish victims were not burnt in gas chambers in Germany as many were made to believe, but rather in Poland with much smaller number of victims than exaggerated by the international Zionist movement. Fred Lauschter, an American specialist in designing and constructing gas chambers, visited Auschwitz (the city claimed to be the center of gas chambers where Jews were burnt). After examining these chambers, reported that it would be ridiculous to claim that such chambers were used for executing people.



The only evidence collected that Auschwitz was used as a death camp came from the Rudolf Haus’s (one of the captured commanders of the Nazi army) confessions that were extracted under sever torture and interrogation by British Intelligence. Such confessions cannot be used as reliable evidence. Especially when having the fact that they contradict with professional opinions. The estimated number of Jews killed during the war was 300.000; much less than the number of Muslims killed in the Jewish Holocaust in Palestine.



As the number of Jewish settlements increased and more Jews were attracted to Palestine, the question of coexistence with the original people of Palestine became increasingly a problem that the Zionist leaders wanted to solve the problem based on their radical way of displacing the helpless Palestinians. The Zionist movement adapted various approaches, including that of Judah L. Magres, president of the Hebrew University, who advocated the foundation of a joint Arab-Jewish State. However, David Ben-Gurion argued that accommodation with the Arabs could come only from a position of Jewish strength.



The next essay insha’allah will shed light on how the Zionists with the unlimited support of world leading powers took advantage of the situation of disarray in the Muslim world to achieve their goal of establishing a Zionist state in Palestine.





Dr. Abdallah H. Al-Kahtany

* from his book new zionism

V. Genocide of Jews on the Hands of WZM.

 

In an earlier essay, I brought in a number of counter evidence to argue against the truthfulness of the strong (exaggerated) version of the Holocaust committed by Nazis against non-Aryans, including Jews during World War II.



Monopolizing their strong grip on the media, the Zionists were able to make people, (especially Americans and a large portion of the Europeans), believe that the Nazis had eliminated six million Jews in a very short period of time. By doing so, they were able to derive sympathy from the majority of Americans towards the Jews, the Jewish cause, consequently, winning them to their side. This sympathy helped the Zionists tremendously to execute their plans and establish their state on an occupied land whose original people went through a genuine holocaust and were mercilessly forced into Diaspora.



In addition to generating support for the Jews, the Zionist leaders were able to hasten the Jewish migration from all parts of the world to escape any possible holocaust against the Jews in other places where they had settled.



In previous writings about the Holocaust, a number of factors were also listed defying the exaggerated version of the Holocaust. These included the absence of any tangible historical evidence; presumably all pieces of existing evidence were fundamentally based on contradictory testimonies by some Jewish “survivors”, confessions that were extracted under severe torture, and interrogation from very few captured Nazi commanders by the British intelligence. My counter evidence was based on the writings of several prominent historians and scholars; among them were Simon Witental (a Jewish historian), Roger Garudy (a French philosopher) and Fred Lauch… (An American specialist in designing and constructing gas chambers).



In writing the previous article about the Holocaust, I had little evidence about the involvement of World Zionist Movement during the World War II in the genocide of Jews who were judged unfit for migration to Palestine. This will be the theme of a number of forthcoming articles. Rabbi Moshe Shonfeld, in his book The Holocaust Victims Accuse (Part I, Neturei Karata of the U.S.A., New York, 1977), quoted Dr. Chaim Weizmann (the man behind the November 1917 Balfour Declaration and the first president of the State of Israel in 1941 during the Zionist Congress of 1937, which was attended by Zionists only) as saying:

“The hopes of Europe’s six million Jews are centered on emigration. I was asked: "Can you bring six million Jews to Palestine?", I replied: No … From the depth of the tragedy I want to save two million young people … The old ones will pass. They will bear their fate or they will not. They were dust, economic and moral dust in a cruel world … Only the branch of the young shall survive … They have to accept it.” (P.5).



So, the Zionists’ aim was to force the young to migrate. Children and the elderly were to be sacrificed since they could not participate in creating the Jewish homeland.



Another Zionist leader was also quoted by Rabbi Shonfeld boasting that, “Only through blood will the land be ours”.



Zionist leaders were very selective about the type of Jews who should escape the miseries of Europe and participate in the creation of Israel through working in the Kibbutz or waging a war of aggression against Palestinians in the battlefield. There is very strong evidence that the Zionist leaders in charge of the European Jewry were, one way or another, involved in escalating the death of Jews under German control during World War II.



The ultimate goals of the World Zionist Organization during WWII were to:

(a) establish a Zionist State in Palestine, after they were promised a homeland by the British government, at any cost, and (b) push for the escalation of Jewish settlements in Palestine by bringing in young and skillful Jews from all over the world while eliminating the old and the disabled.



Yitzhak Greenbaum, chairman of Rescue Committee of European Jewry, arrogantly repeated his slogan about the type of Jews who should be allowed to migrate to Palestine, while disregarding cries of the sick and the elderly by saying:

“One goat in the Eretz Yisrael is more important than an entire community in the Diaspora” (Reported in Faris Glubb, Zionist Relations with Nazi Germany, New York Press, New York, 1979, p.44).



Another evidence of the role played by the Zionist leaders in intensifying the misery of the European Jewry is exemplified by the behavior of Henry Mentor of the United Jewish Appeal. While collecting tremendous wealth from rich Jews all over the world, he played a decisive role in hindering the migration of children, women, old and sick people to Palestine. Instead they were left to face the agony of sickness and starvation in concentration camps, not gas chambers as claimed by many Zionist leaders.



In the next article on the topic, I will bring historical supporting evidence on some of the criminal practices perpetrated by prominent Zionist leaders against their own people during one of the supposedly decisive period in Jewish history.







Dr. Abdallah H. Al-Kahtany

* from his book new zionism

VI. VI. The United Zionist-Colonial Efforts and the Fragmented Mus

 

In the aftermath of the World War I and the turmoil of the collapse of the Ottoman Caliphate, the fragmented Muslim World was cut into pieces by colonial powers. Therefore, it was not in a position to rightly respond to the many dramatic catastrophes.



The collusion of most world powerful countries of the time (Great Britain, The United States and France) with the Zionist against the Palestinians and the rest of the Muslim World hindered any successful and united reaction by the Muslims against the Zionist well planned proposal to establish a state in Palestine. All what the Muslims did was, simply condemn the grave atrocities committed against the Palestinians by notorious Zionist militia in addition to some sporadic but extremely unorganized military actions. Nobody thought that such efforts by the Zionists would result into the establishment of a Jewish State in the heart of the Muslim’s Holy Land. Moreover, the Muslims lacked an influential Islamic leadership capable of uniting the fragmented Ummah against this vicious Zionist-Crusader invasion.



In a tactical move to appease the anger of the Muslim people and to disavow its responsibility towards the creation of the problem via Balfour Declaration, the British declared their termination of Britain’s commitment to Zionism in a document known as the “White Paper” in May 1939. This action left the door wide open for Jewish immigration to Palestine. The decision was in no doubt in the best interest of the Zionists, regardless of a minor displeasure shown by the Jews.



During the years following the White paper, atrocities of extremist and well-organized Zionist guerrilla groups became more violent. The year 1944 witnessed notorious crimes committed against the Palestinians by the Irgun Zvai Leumi terrorist group led by the future Israeli prime minister Manachem Begin, among which the massacre of Dair Yasseen in the 9th of April 1948. In that massacre, Begin and his villains butchered hundreds of civilians including children, old people, and women; even unborn babies were not spared.



As a mere exchange of role among the superpowers, the Zionist were able to secure the support of a more reliable and powerful surrogate mother, the United States of America, with a very well organized and powerful Zionist community that managed to exert great influence on matters related to Palestine.



Zionist efforts to secure the support of the United States started as early as 1897 with the establishment of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA). The ZOA played an instrumental role in mobilizing support for the Zionist plans in Palestine. Their influence penetrated U.S. Congress and the Senate to reach the President himself. President Truman was the first to recognize Israel as an independent Jewish State eleven minutes after the Zionist declared the establishment of their state in 15 May 1948.



In May 1942, the American Zionist leaders meeting in Baltimore Hotel in New York City demanded the establishment of a Jewish Commonwealth that is a state in all of western Palestine, as a part of the new world order after World War II. They also approved the establishment of organized military militias lately known as ‘Haganah’ who played an oppressive role in crushing the Palestinians and driving them out of their homes in order to make room for the newly migrating Jews. Since then, the U.S. has become the most reliable ally to Israel and extended its financial, military as well as full diplomatic support to the Zionist State.



Great Britain contradicted its own decision (the White Paper) by exercising certain measures favoring the Jews and promoting their grab of Palestine. The Labor Party approved a bill in May 1944 to encourage the Palestinians to leave their homeland in front of the new floods of Jewish immigrants. At the same time on the opposite shore of the Atlantic, the American Congress asked the American government to exert all international diplomatic efforts to ease the way for Jewish immigration to Palestine. This was the first step in order to achieve the Zionists immediate goal of turning the country into a Jewish Commonwealth and then hasten the establishment of a Jewish state.



The UN plan of 1947 proposed that, upon termination of the British mandate on May 15,1948, Palestine be partitioned into separate Jewish State with 56% and Palestinians with 43%, with the city of Jerusalem under UN trusteeship. When the General Assembly of the UN proposed then approved the resolution for partition in October 29th, 1947 that was never applied; the Zionists had control over 5% of Palestine only. So, what an unjust decision it was!, Such an international measure worked as a historical landmark to remind the Muslim World that the World Order after the WWII was no different from the one being proposed today. Both have the same features when dealing with Muslims; they use unjust double standards. What was really astonishing was that the Arabs were blamed for not complying with the UN resolution regarding partition; overlooking the fact that the UN was granting a country to the occupiers as a reward for their vicious brutality against the indigenous people. No Muslim could bare the historic responsibility towards the Muslim Ummah and generations to come by trading their Holy Land in order to please the UN. Nevertheless, the Palestinian authority accepted a much lesser share of Palestine in the Oslo Accord, but will never peacefully have the rest.



Another more serious step was taken when the British government ended its mandate over Palestine at the midnight of May 14,1948. Such decision paved the way for the Jews to immediately declare their new Zionist State. The Palestinians were so powerless to gain their independence and consequently have their state while the Jews were having all the military, political and financial support of the world most powerful nations. With the declaration of Israel as a Zionist state in May 15, 1958, the Nakbah (catastrophe) has started and continued for 50 years until now. When it will be cleared out? The answer to such a question is on the hands of Allah the Almighty.







Dr. Abdallah H. Al-Kahtany

* from his book new zionism

VII. VII. Great Israel in the Schemes of Early Zionist Sages.

Zionists never had in mind to have the tiny land between the Dead Sea and the Midetrainnian as the Eretz Yisrael of the Talmud but rather the claimed Promised Land from the Euphrates to the Nile, as stated at the entrance to the Kenest.

This aspiration is reflected on the Israeli flag. The two blue stripes symbolize the Nile and the Euphrates and what they claim to be David’s star in between the two blue stripes, stands for the land of Israel.

A look at the currently used Israeli coins constantly reminds the Jews of their dream of Greater Israel. Many Zionist leaders declared that they could not coexist with the Arabs on the same land. All Arabs should be deported to make room for the greedy Jews!!

Yes, such an aspiration sounds like a wild dream. However, we should not forget that the establishment of the Zionist State a century ago seemed impossible. The Jews are well known for their opportunistic tactics and deceitful maneuvering, not just in politics and the military, but in all aspects of life.

When prophet Mohammad was in war with all Arab tribes who surrounded Madinah during the 7th year of Hijrah, the Jewish tribe of Banu Guraydhah who had signed a treaty with the Muslims to unite against outside attacks, sided with the polytheists and tried to stab the Muslims in the back. When the chance to occupy the Goaln Hights emerged during 1967, they did not hesitate. They did the same in Sinai and later on in Southern Lebanon. So, such Zionist dreams must be taken seriously.

While visiting Washington D.C. in July 1945, Ben-Gorion held a meeting with nineteen American Zionist leaders who promised to purchase the most sophisticated American weapons and weapon factories for Zionist guerillas. Only four months after the military deal was wrapped and weapons were already received by the Zionists, the US through its Department of State imposed a ban on all types of weapons to be sold to the Palestinians or any Arab countries. Yet, most Arab countries were still under occupation at the time.

All the previously mentioned unjustified sympathy and support towards the Jews (I talked about in detail in a number of preceding essays) took place by linking the question of Jewish refugees in Europe with the right to a state in Palestine under the extensive Zionist propaganda of the claimed historical rights in Palestine. The Soviet Union and the US kept the Jewish refugees’ issue linked to the right to have a homeland in Palestine. Arabs, weak out cries, were overlooked in a world where the oppressed is only brutally crushed. Some Arab and Palestinian armed groups (like that of Al-Jihad troops led by Al-Husaini) showed extraordinary courage in resisting the Zionist occupation.

Many Christian fundamentalist sects and Zionist Christians, like the Jehovah’s witnesses, adopted the position of full and unlimited supports for the Jews. They were misled by the claim that the Jews will establish the kingdom of the lord in the Holy Land as if they were blind to the fact that Jews do not even recognize Christianity as a legitimate religion nor Jesus (peace be upon him) as a messiah; an issue that I will be discussing in coming essays insha’allah.

The Zionist dream of Greater Israel, from the Nile to the Euphrates, has been the basis for the industrious and continuos planning and hard work of the genuine father of contemporary Zionism, Theodore Herzel, the Austrian Jewish Journalist. His dream from the beginning was the claimed land of the Torah (Old Testament). Palestine was perceived as a base from which the Zionists could launch the execution of their ultimate plan. This plan was saliently stated in his diary as follows: “the base should be Palestine or its surroundings … we have got to establish our state based on our Jewish nationality. Therefore, we must obtain the means for political attraction… I cannot say more than this” (P1473).

In another place, Herzl stated that “the slogan we must raise is Palestine of David and Sulaiman”.

According to the Zionists, the land of claimed Greater Israel was referred to in the Old Testament as the land promised to Prophet Abraham (Peace be upon him) in Genesis (15:19); It was on that occasion that the lord made a covenant with Abraham saying: “To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the Great River (the Euphrates)”.

In other words, the real State of Israel is different from the Palestine that we know from current political maps, with its defined boundaries; but rather is to extend Greater Israel from the Nile to Euphrates. To Zionist extremists, who have become very influential in current Israeli governments, it is the Promised Land.

In his diary, Hirzl designed a scheme for Zionists to follow in order to achieve the dream of Greater Israel, by stating:
“The area from the Nile to the Euphrates… we need a transitional period under the control of our Jewish leadership and institutions. Afterwards, political relations like that of Egypt and the Ottoman Sultan could be established. [He said this before his efforts to get a permission to have a homeland for the Jews in Palestine from Sultan Abd Alhamid II were rejected. However, his followers were able get a much stronger support through Balfour Declaration] As soon as the Jewish population reaches two thirds in one area, the Jewish administration will be in control” (Herzl’s Diary, 2:711).

Most of these aspirations, written a century ago when the Jews were in the Diaspora for about 2000 years, became a reality fifty years later. Is Netanyahu and other Jewish leaders still getting guidance from Hertzl’s master plan?!, The Israeli government is now (during Netanyahu’s government) executing a plan to expand the municipal boundaries of Jerusalem in order to accommodate a large number of Jewish settlements out-side the city, thus outnumber the Palestinians living in the city then the Jewish administration will be in full control. It is a deliberate plot aimed at blocing any efforts for future negotiations over the final status of Jerusalem.

Do the Jews have these rights in the land they claim to be their Promised Land? Can they achieve their plan of establishing Greater Israel? The next essay will shed light on these issues insha’allah.


Dr. Abdallah H. Al-Kahtany
* from his book new zionism

VIII. VIII. Expansionist Steps to Fulfill the Devilish Dream.

 

The last essay focused on the issue related to the Zionists’ ambitions in establishing their state on the larger scale claimed to be promised in the Old Testament from the Nile to the Euphrates. This essay will be concerned with the possibility of expanding the current occupied Muslim land to achieve the Zionist dream.



For the past one hundred years, the Zionists have proved that they were very serious about accurate planning and strong commitment in executing that in which they believed. In a gradual process to accomplish their larger goal of Greater Israel, they accepted the UN resolution for partition in 1947.



However, as soon as they had the chance to exceed the boundaries drawn by the UN, they expanded their control to seize all Palestine and ruthlessly invaded neighboring Arab countries. This hostility resulted in the seizure of the Golan Heights from Syria and the forceful abduction of Sinai from Egypt in 1967. They also occupied the rest of Palestine including all of Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza Strip.



The second step was the neutralization of the most influential and militarily capable Arab country by signing the 1979-peace treaty with Egypt. By doing so Israel achieved one of its most important aims of fragmenting the Arab front at both political and military fields. Such strategic step gave the Zionists the courage to invade Lebanon in 1982 and commit unimaginable atrocities. As a result of this invasion they were able to drive the PLO from Lebanon and secure most needed water resources as well on the expanse of thousands of people in southern Lebanon and Sabra and Shatila.



A third step was taken toward achieving the dream when the majority of Arab countries including the PLO were dragged into recognizing Israel’s right for existence as an independent state right after the PLO had accepted Oslo Accords in 1993. Some went even farther to normalize relations and establish political and economical ties with Israel.



The fourth and probably the most dangerous step is the plan to change the geographic as well as the demographic structure of Jerusalem which has started since the Israeli invasion of Jerusalem during the 1967 war.



In June 18th, 1998, Netanyahu announced the plan to expand the municipal boundaries of the city to be six times the current area and attract 60,000 new settlers. As Netanyahu stated, it is a move aimed at fulfilling the promise he had made to the Jewish people of asserting the status of Jerusalem as the eternal capital of the Jews. This move to expand the boundaries of Jerusalem was preceded by two very dangerous steps: (a) The tunnel which was dug beneath Al-Masjed Al-Aqsaa (The Furthest Mosque). (b) Unleashing settlers at Abu Ghunaim Mountain, which resulted into the suspension of the application of Oslo Accord and the freezing of peace talks.



Moreover, Netanyahu arrogantly expressed his pride in taking such a decision, which reinforces the status of Jerusalem as the historical capital of the Jewish people. He emphasized that Jerusalem will not be divided. The mayor of Jerusalem referred to the step as “a historic start”. A start for what!!, It is a symbolic move for the intention to release the plan for Greater Israel. According to the expansion plot, Jerusalem will occupy about 10% of the total area of the West Bank. By doing so, the demographic distribution of Jews in Jerusalem will change their status from a minority into a majority and therefore, allow them to have full control of the city at all levels. (This is one of the tactics proposed a century ago by Herzl to strip the Palestinians out of their demographic power in Palestine).



Another pressing question is that “Why did the Israelis announce the expansion decision at this time while the peace treaty with the Palestinians has not been fully implemented?”.

The answer to this question is multifold:

(a) The Zionists think that this is a golden chance to invest in the salient division among the Arab states and their inability to form a united front to hinder the Zionist move.



(b) They concocted this plan to put more hurdles on the way of peace talks with the Palestinians and hence prevent the remaining substantial applications of Oslo Accord which was only a tactic to absorb the outrage of Muslims after the Gulf War II.



(c) The Zionist government thought it is the right time to achieve a very important episode of the Zionist dream of establishing Greater Israel by uniting Jerusalem and then converting it into a Zionist cultural, religious, as well as a political capital.



(d) The current Jewish government is not interested in exchanging land for peace because this contradicts with the dream of greater Israel that is the back of its policy maker’s minds. Therefore, continuation in peace talks that will eventually lead to the establishment of the Palestinian State with true sovereignty and independent authority can be a big hurdle in the way of achieving the dream.



(e) Netanyahu aspires to be one of the preeminent Jewish leaders like Herzl, Ben Gurion or Wiesmann; he has two more presidential years to achieve that. The American Jewish lobby celebrated the 50th year after the establishment of the State of Israel with the participation of Netanyahu as the guest of honor. He was viewed by the American Zionist leaders as a national Jewish hero who will implement Zionist aspirations. The American Jewish lobby (AIPAC) played a major role in hindering any successful initiative to salvage the trembling peace talks.



If the Zionists were not planning to expand the boundaries of Israel to fulfill their misinterpreted claimed promise of the Old Testament, then why had they been constantly and arrogantly ignoring the UN resolutions and international outcries opposing Jewish settlements in the occupied land and in Jerusalem in specific?







Dr. Abdallah H. Al-Kahtany

* from his book new zionism

IX. IX. Zionists' Monopoly of Christian Sympathy.

 

Religion and politics have been intertwined through history. It has become impossible to discuss events of rise and fall of nations and ideologies without having a comprehensive analysis of both (religious and political factors). So, any ideological account of events that divorces politics from religion will result in immature conclusions and interpretations. It is undeniable that what goes on in Northern Ireland, Southern Philippines, Kashmir, Palestine, India, Bosnia, Kosovo, Southern Sudan and many other hot spots in the world is very much a product of religious-political factors. Therefore, politically motivated solution cannot offer complete and final resolutions. The Palestinian conflict is one of that type.



In order to attract sympathy of Christian people, the Zionists linked the existence of the State of Israel to the coming of the Messiah who will establish the Kingdom of God on earth. However, do the Zionists have the same belief about the advent of the Messiah as that of Christians? Do Zionists regard Jesus Christ (peace be upon him) as the coming Messiah as the Christians? In a number of previous essays, I highlighted that religious factors were behind some of the most decisive decisions taken by Western leaders in relation to the Palestinian Issue and the Arab-Israeli conflict. As a matter of fact, Balfour Declaration, which was the igniting spark for the establishment of the Zionist State, was influenced by religious factors as stated by The Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge (1991, pp. 893-895).



Another question should be addressed and then answered first: Are the Jews the only descendents of Ibraheem (peace be upon him), and therefore the sole legitimate inheritors to receive the claimed Promised Land? The Zionists along with Zionist Christians refer to Genesis 15:19 as the statement which gives Jews the right to occupy Palestine and the neighboring areas, extending from the Nile to Euphrates as Ibraheem’s, [Abraham], (peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) claimed Promised Land.



First of all, was Ibraheem (Abraham) the forefather of the Jews only? The answer is definitely no. The first son and the only son that was born to Ibraheem for about thirteen years was Ishmael (peace be upon him), the forefather of a large portion of the Arabs. As a matter of fact, Prophet Mohammad (pbuh) was a descendent of Prophet Abraham’s progeny through Ishmael. According to the Old Testament, Abraham said to God:

Let but Ishmael live on by your favor! … As for Ishmael, I am heeding you: I hereby bless him. I will make him fertile and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall become a father of twelve chieftains, and will make him a great nation (Genesis 18: 18-21).



A question immediately emerges for those who believe in the Old Testament; who is the great nation of the descendents of Ishmael (peace be upon him)? Aren’t they the Muslims who believe in all the prophets appointed by Allah with no distinctions?

Say ye: "We believe in Allah, and the revelation given to us, and to Abraham, Isma'il, Isaac, Jacob, and the Tribes, and that given to Moses and Jesus, and that given to (all) prophets from their Lord: We make no difference between one and another of them: And we bow to Allah (in Islam)" [The Qur’an 2:136].

{قُولُواْ آمَنَّا بِاللّهِ وَمَا أُنزِلَ إِلَيْنَا وَمَا أُنزِلَ إِلَى إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَإِسْمَاعِيلَ وَإِسْحَاقَ وَيَعْقُوبَ وَالأسْبَاطِ وَمَا أُوتِيَ مُوسَى وَعِيسَى وَمَا أُوتِيَ النَّبِيُّونَ مِن رَّبِّهِمْ لاَ نُفَرِّقُ بَيْنَ أَحَدٍ مِّنْهُمْ وَنَحْنُ لَهُ مُسْلِمُونَ}

Transliteration: Qūlū 'Āmannā Billāhi Wa Mā 'Unzila 'Ilaynā Wa Mā 'Unzila 'Ilá 'Ibrāhīma Wa 'Ismā`īla Wa 'Isĥāqa Wa Ya`qūba Wa Al-'Asbāţi Wa Mā 'Ūtiya Mūsá Wa `Īsá Wa Mā 'Ūtiya An-Nabīyūna Min Rabbihim Lā Nufarriqu Bayna 'Aĥadin Minhum Wa Naĥnu Lahu Muslimūna



If it is a fact that the Muslims are descendants of Abraham (peace be upon him), aren’t they legitimate heirs to Abraham’s promise in the Old Testament?

It was on that occasion that the Lord made a covenant with Abram, Saying to your descendants I give this land (Genesis 15:19)



If the Jews, as they claim, believe in the Torah (Old Testament) and derive guidance from it, why did they strip the Muslims from their right to the land promised by Abraham? Is it their arrogant nature, which they have practiced even against Allah and His prophets? Aren’t they the ones who killed their prophets according to the Bible?

That upon you may come all the righteous bloodshed upon earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. Verily, I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation (Matthew 23:35).



Can such a people, who rebel against the teachings of God and kill his prophets, be given priority and be chosen over other nations?



Another fallacy that needs to be addressed here is the claim that Jews make that Abraham was a Jew. They even made such a claim long prior to the advent of Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him).

Ye People of the Book (Jews and Christians)! Why dispute ye about Abraham, when the Torah and the Gospel were not revealed till after him? Have you not understanding? Ah! Ye are those who fell to disputing (even) in matters of which you had some knowledge, but why dispute ye in matters of which ye have no knowledge? It is Allah who knows, and ye know not! Abraham was not a Jew nor yet a Christian; but he was upright and bowed his will to Allah’s (which is Islam) and he joined no gods with Allah. [The Qur’an 3:65-68].

{يَا أَهْلَ الْكِتَابِ لِمَ تُحَآجُّونَ فِي إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَمَا أُنزِلَتِ التَّورَاةُ وَالإنجِيلُ إِلاَّ مِن بَعْدِهِ أَفَلاَ تَعْقِلُونَ (65) هَاأَنتُمْ هَؤُلاء حَاجَجْتُمْ فِيمَا لَكُم بِهِ عِلمٌ فَلِمَ تُحَآجُّونَ فِيمَا لَيْسَ لَكُم بِهِ عِلْمٌ وَاللّهُ يَعْلَمُ وَأَنتُمْ لاَ تَعْلَمُونَ (66) مَا كَانَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ يَهُودِيّاً وَلاَ نَصْرَانِيّاً وَلَكِن كَانَ حَنِيفاً مُّسْلِماً وَمَا كَانَ مِنَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ (67) إِنَّ أَوْلَى النَّاسِ بِإِبْرَاهِيمَ لَلَّذِينَ اتَّبَعُوهُ وَهَـذَا النَّبِيُّ وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ وَاللّهُ وَلِيُّ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ}

Transliteration: Yā 'Ahla Al-Kitābi Lima Tuĥājjūna Fī 'Ibrāhīma Wa Mā 'Unzilati At-Tawrāatu Wa Al-'Injīlu 'Illā Min Ba`dihi 'Afalā Ta`qilūna, Hā'antum Hā'uulā' Ĥājajtum Fīmā Lakum Bihi `Ilmun Falima Tuĥājjūna Fīmā Laysa Lakum Bihi `Ilmun Wa Allāhu Ya`lamu Wa 'Antum Lā Ta`lamūna, Mā Kāna 'Ibrāhīmu Yahūdīyāan Wa Lā Naşrānīyāan Wa Lakin Kāna Ĥanīfāan Muslimāan Wa Mā Kāna Mina Al-Mushrikīna, 'Inna 'Awlá An-Nāsi Bi'ibrāhīma Lalladhīna Attaba`ūhu Wa Hadhā An-Nabīyu Wa Al-Ladhīna 'Āmanū Wa Allāhu Wa Līyu Al-Mu'uminīna



If it is agreeable that Abraham (peace be upon him) had lived probably thousands of years before the revelation of the Old Testament, why would the Jews claim that he was Jewish and promised the Jews the Holy Land?



Yet, the above discussion might seem irrelevant to the political discourse about the Palestinian Issue by the World Community and international media, I think it is in the heart of the problem. Zionist leaders who plotted the occupation of Palestine took in consideration all possible means to attract the sympathy of powerful nation to support their cause.



Our next discussion will focus on the fallacy the Jews ride on to derive support of the Christian World and right wing parties, that is the claim of preparing the kingdom of God in Palestine to be ready for the advent of The Messiah. The question is what Messiah? Is it Jesus Christ (pbuh)?