EDUCATE FRIENDS OF ISRAEL ABOUT THE FACTS OF ETHNIC CLEANSING SINCE 1948

I just heard a fifteen minute lecture from a fellow named Pappe? Anyway he was recounting the real history of Palestine and Israel and he very explicitly told how Ben Gurion and ten other Zionist leaders planned the ethnic cleansing of what they imagined would be, and now essentially are, Israeli territories as we know them today.

He told, very briefly, how about three quarters of a million Palestineans were cleaned out ot Palestine by a well orchestrated campaign of terror and forced evacuation in 1948. Amazingly, the world said nothing! And this sort of vicious ethnic cleansing has been going on the last sixty years. Sixty years of ethnic cleansing.

Later in his life Ben Gurion visited northern Israel and wrote in his diary how great it was but for one thing, that there were still Palestinians who had not been removed. Ben Gurion, the premier founder of the Israeli experiment was a hard core racist. He hated Arabs and Palestinians. Is this why so many enablers of Zionism don't like the term apartheid to be used vis-a-vis Israel? Is it because these racists posing as the defenders of all Jews and all Judaism really want to get rid of the Palestinians all together?

Certainly that is the endless policy of Israel for sixty years, the ethnic cleansing of the territories they call Israel proper and the colonization of the few remaining Palestinian territories. Ethnic cleansing, forced expatriation, purging Israel and the territories under its military and economic domination of all indigenous people. That is the stinking truth about Israel that must be both exposed and condemned as a matter of basic human decency.

Only when the Zionists confront their own racist ideology will peace between them and their neighbors be possible. This means they must recognize Palestinians as human beings.

Congratulations to All Parties!

Now see how easy it is to not be a pirate! Hopefully this is a sign of new flexibility and a determination to allow free access to Gaza.

There were some Palestinians on the ships, weren't there? That is to say I hope this isn't just more of that racist Zionist crap about allowing for European and non-Palestinian rights then denying them to Palestinians.

Is it hope or just a wise avoidance of a propaganda disaster?

WILL ISRAEL COMMIT ACTS OF PIRACY AGAIN?

Scores of human rights activists are putting their lives on the line as they seek to sail two ships from Cyprus to Gaza. Israel has threatened them with military attack.

That is piracy, often condemned as such when committed by other actors such as off the coast of Somalia.

However Israel's blockade of Gaza by land, sea and air is regarded as an exception to the rule at least by
a majority of American Zionists.

Of course a number of Israeli activists are involved as are some American Jews. They are putting their lives on the line for peace, justice and an end to the blockade of Gaza.