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.