By: Burton H. Wolfe 

They begin with the lunatic decision to create a Jewish homeland amid hostile Arabs.

Amid all the accusations against the instigators of the Near East mess according to the inevitable bias of the individual accuser, critically important history is forgotten.  Without that history, the accusers and their accusations are all wrong.  Here is what you need to remember in order to arrive at the truth.

It begins with the Zionist movement that took shape toward the end of the 19^th Century.  Zionism arose from persecution and slaughter of Jews.  It was the position of the Zionist leaders that as long as Jews were scattered in different nations where they remained a small minority, they were easily subjected to atrocities inflicted upon them by the government and majority populace.  That would continue, the Zionists reasoned, until Jews were gathered together in a homeland where they could erect their own government and militia, and their own power to fight back against their oppressors.

Sympathetic leaders of European nations approved the idea.  On November 2, 1917, the British government issued the Balfour Declaration promising a “Jewish National Home.”  Then came the fundamental error: the placement of that home in the region formerly known as Palestine.

 Sense and Nonsense

Why Palestine?  There were other areas of the world where a Jewish state might have been located.  The ideal choice would have been Africa.  Except for an occasional eruption of hostilities in certain neighborhoods, Jews and people of dark skin color (“blacks” is a bogus term for them), as two persecuted classifications of human beings, have cooperated well with each other.  It would have made perfect sense to call a meeting between the heads of African states and Zionist leaders wherein a mutually beneficial deal was effected: land for the Jews in return for their technological help.  The end result might have been an Africa different from that which exists today.  It is conceivable that with the help of the Jews’ brilliant technological and organizational skills, today there would be African nations so advanced in democracy and prosperity that the rampant disease, hunger, and violence now raging there would be at least greatly reduced.

Instead of pursuing that sensible course, the Zionists were obstinately determined to create a Jewish nation in Palestine, smack dab in the midst of hostile Arabs.  Why?  There was only one reason: because “God” promised the “holy land” (Judea and/or other nearby areas of the Roman Empire) to “his chosen people” (the ancient Hebrews or Israelites who became known later as Jews).  It is that nonsense which remains one root cause, though not necessarily the entire cause, of the madness now taking place in the Near East (wrongly identified as the Middle East or Mideast no matter how many millions or billions of times that misnomer is used in the communications media).

First Signs of Forthcoming Violence

As early as 1919 there were signs of the fighting between Muslim Arabs and Jews that was bound to ensue if the madcap scheme to plunk the Jews into the middle of people hostile to them was carried out.  The leaders of the most strident opposition group, the Jaffa Muslim Organization, issued this statement: “We will push the Zionists into the sea or they will push us into the desert.”  [Quoted in Righteous Victims by Benny Morris (Knopf, 1999)].  With blind determination to avoid the predictable, on July 24, 1922, the League of Nations issued a Palestine Mandate approving the Jewish homeland promised in the Balfour Declaration, modifying the Declaration with clauses recognizing the rights of non-Jews in the region identified as Palestine.

Once persecuted European Jews and pogrom victims in Russia began their exodus to the area of Palestine where Israel was taking shape, Arabs began rioting and fighting what they construed as unacceptable incursions into their land.  The violence was so alarming to the British government which controlled the region that its political leaders issued its 1939 “White Paper” drastically limiting Jewish immigration to Palestine.  The end result was that millions of European Jews were trapped in Nazi-occupied Europe.

The reason why the Jews were trapped in countries occupied by the Nazis was that they were refused admission elsewhere.  Acting on orders from President Franklin D. Roosevelt, ironically depicted as “friend of the Jews,” the U.S. Government turned away thousands of Jews on ships which had carried them to American shores.  Nor would the governments of other nations accept them.  They were forced either to return to the countries where they were to be imprisoned and slaughtered or to sail on to Israel.  Jewish leaders kept begging the government of the U.S. to allow immigration.  Had their pleadings been heeded, a far greater number of Jews than those who eventually settled in Israel would have become citizens of the U.S., and the picture in the Near East might be different than it is now.

Creation of an Israeli State

On November 29, 1947, ignoring the certainty of the forthcoming violence that was bound to occur, the United Nations voted to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab states.  As was to be expected, leaders of Arab countries refused to cooperate.  What was then the Arab League of Nations, consisting of 22 countries, in effect declared “war on the Jews,” determined to “drive them into the sea.”  A small, vastly outnumbered army of Jews, providing the first signs of their brilliant military skills and innovative technology, soundly thrashed the troops from 22 Arab nations that encompassed a combined population of several hundred million.

On May 15, 1948, the State of Israel was formally established.  While the heads of Arab countries refused to recognize Israel’s existence, neither were they of the mind to try any more wars against Jews.  The fanatical leaders of Muslim organizations and Islamist sects, however, were of a different mindset.  “Death to the Jews” became their motto, and it was clear immediately that they would never accept co-existence with Jews in the region that ceased to be Palestine because it was carved by the British who had controlled it into separate states.

The Creation of Islamic Fanatics

While the madness of plunking Jews into the middle of hostile Arabs was taking its inevitable course, oppression of people in oil sheikdoms, and U.S. recognition of and cooperation with the brutal regimes of the Near East, were causing more and more people in that part of the world to turn to religion for succor and, indeed, what seemed to them to be their only hope to escape wretched poverty.  U.S. political leaders, and Americans in general concerned mostly with how cheap the gasoline for their cars would be, blindly refused to recognize the buildup of a new force in the world based on quasi-religious fanaticism.

The end result of decades of horrendous mistakes is now exploding in the Near East and other parts of the world where perhaps as many as a billion human beings believe that Islam in one form or another should rule the world, that anyone who does not believe in whatever Islamic clerics preach are “infidels”, and that Americans and Jews wherever they may be are the enemy and deserve to be conquered if not destroyed.

Just as the non-German world failed to heed the threat of Hitler and the Nazis to wipe out the Jews and to create a Nazi empire across the world, so has the non-Arab Muslim world failed to take seriously the public announcements of leaders and followers of Islamic quasi-religious organizations that they intend to destroy Jews and Americans and to create an Islamic empire across the globe.  Instead of crushing the genocidal maniacs before they can acquire the technology and weaponry to achieve their goal – eventually through biological and nuclear weapons if they are allowed to advance that far – the rest of the world has allowed them to grow, unchecked, into a force of armed hatred.

Long before the attack on the World Trade Center, plans of Islamic maniacs to attack areas of the U.S. were known. It has been known for years that Hezbollah, this Islamic militia that wiped out a U.S. Marine contingent and that has wreaked other kinds of havoc, was acquiring the means to rain missiles on Israel.  Nothing was done to stop them.   

Thus, the Monster created by a series of madcap mistakes has been allowed to grow and gain strength.  It should be evident to anyone who has any sense at all that this Monster will allow peace to be arranged neither between the occupants of Israel and the occupants of other Near East countries nor between the Israelis and the people living in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.  Any time it appears that some kind of peace negotiations are advancing, the Monster will engender an incident to disrupt it, whether by genocidal bombings preposterously called “suicide bombings” or by kidnappings or by whatever kind of method may be necessary.

This is the lesson of the war now in progress.  Those who have eyes but remain blind, because they refuse to see, now blame “the Jews” for the violence that has erupted in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.  But the Jews did not create the Monster.  We Americans and our British allies created it.  Now it is too late to feel sorry for it, to try to reason with it, to make peace with it. The Monster is attempting to develop biological and nuclear weapons that it will use for genocidal attacks on whole populations just as readily as its alleged “martyrs” will turn themselves into bombs to kill and maim.  Consequently, as terrible as the prospect may seem, there is only one course left to follow: to destroy the Monster.  Either it will be destroyed or it will create a conflagration that makes World War II appear to have been a minor military excursion by comparison.

The U.S. should pull all of its troops out of Iraq, leave the lunatics there to their devices in slaughtering each other, and join Israel in eradicating Al-Quaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Islamic Jihadists, and all other genocidal maniacs, before they eradicate whole populations consisting of those they construe as “infidels” opposed to their creation of a worldwide Islamic empire.  Until the Monster is destroyed, seek no peace, all you good but blind humanitarians; for until then there will be no peace.

The above article was contributed by: Burton H. Wolfe: Burton is an award winning journalist and the author of hundreds of published articles and of books such The Hippies (New American Library), Hitler and the Nazis (Putnam), and Pileup on Death Row (Doubleday).  Wolfe publishes an occasional newsletter called "Burton Wolfe's Internet Rag" and maintains a web site.

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