Is Israel a “Jewish State,” or an Apartheid State?

The following debate took place on the Facebook wall of an ex-acquaintance…

Chris C.: Amazing short film comparing apartheid in South Africa and Palestine…if you have a problem with RACISM or were concerned about APARTHEID in South Africa – then you should be very concerned about the system of apartheid and racism taking place in the Holy Land due to the terroristic government of Israel…Jews in Israel are now the VICTIMIZERS (and they wonder why the Arabs lash out???)

Road Map to Israeli Apartheid:

Diana B.: love it how so-called “open minded” ppl that have never stepped foot in this land….take videos and reports from left wing media and never seem to cite any historical sources – love to jab their jaws about apartheid?! stop inciting and promoting a buncha hateful propaganda!!!

Chris C.: Well actually, these filmmakers DID step foot in the land (both the non-occupied and occupied territories) – that’s how they got the footage. And I wanted to learn and understand more about what was going on over there, so I started doing some research. I have always had Jewish & Israeli friends, but after getting to know Palestinians as well, I find it is very important that THEIR voices be heard also. There are countless innocent Palestinians who have been ravaged and traumatized by the Israeli occupation. And it is a very bad example for the Israeli government to be setting, especially so soon after Israelis themselves were victims of one of the greatest holocausts in history. It is also in complete violation of the laws Moses laid down for the Jews in the Torah. These Palestinians are people too, and it is also THEIR ancestral homeland. It is unacceptable to be treated like that. The state of Israel was founded on terrorism from the Zionists. So they shouldn’t be shocked that these people have responded in the only way they felt they could. Just remember Moses clearly warned the Jews about this type of behavior. It’s all there in Deuteronomy. And in any event, we should have compassion for ALL people. The Jews have no right to displace innocent families. God said the Jews did not EARN that land, they are not ENTITLED to it, it was a GIFT. And they had to act properly to be allowed to keep it. There has been harm inflicted on both sides. It’s time to acknowledge BOTH sides and ALL affected people and LEAD BY EXAMPLE. It is not right to TAKE that land by force and military occupation.

Chris C.: “Gather me all the elders of your tribes, that I may speak these words, and call heaven and earth to record against them. For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the… sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.” DEUTERONOMY 28-29

Chris C.: The Jews fled to Palestine to escape oppression, but then they turned around and oppressed others. This is not something good.

www.youngjewishproud.org – the ocupation of Palestine DELIGITIMIZES Israel, the siege on Gaza DELIGITIMIZES Israel, ethnic cleansing DELIGITIMIZES Israel, the politics of Israel are a BETRAYAL of Jewish values…THANK GOD there are many Israeli citizens and Jews who are aware of this

Diana B.:  well…when you throw around words like “apartheid” – be very careful becuase what happened in south africa and whats happening here are two different things completely….your empty ‘apartheid’ slogans just perpetuate ignorance!!!! and hatefulness against israel with people who read such a thing, not knowing the historical situation which lead to the facts on the ground ’round these parts…..

of course the palestinians ‘are people too’…..but you seem very one sided chris…claiming occupation, claiming SEIGE, claiming ethnic cleansing?!??!?!? you really have no idea whats going on and really seem very one sided – since you obviously are going to left wing media sources, which are very biased themselves. you want to talk about gaza, but you dont mention Sderot, which has ohhh about 5,000 rockets fall on it since the withdrawl and ETHNIC CLEANSING of jews from gaza since 2005. its funny how no one is trying to cleanse arabs out of israel, but arabs cant seem to talk about peace as long as every jew is out of their co-called land. and the only siege on gaza is by their own corrupt fuck-off leaders- the hamas, which sadly enough the palestinians of gaza voted for and are stuck with now. shariyah law, violence, a hostile government which will never accept israel and cause them to be cut off from the rest of the civilized world is the price they are paying for their own mistakes in voting for islamic extremists that will never accept peace. do you know about human rights violations in gaza at the hands of hamas!?!?!? prolly not. coz when arabs kill their own that aint news. besides, its more gratifying to blame the jews….ya’ll been doing it since we killed christ

Chris C.: Well that is true – it would seem one-sided because I haven’t called out the Arabs yet! (That’s coming, don’t you worry)….ALL need to be held accountable….ALL will be judged….but you MUST realize that Hamas is a very RECENT group, comparatively…I have stressed many times that this conflict is about a lot more than recent events….yes Hamas has RECENTLY committed terroristic acts, but before you and I were born – it was tit for tat…and the Zionists DID BEGIN the terroristic acts against Palestinian Arabs LONG BEFORE this recent slate of retaliations….there is a compex history between Israel & the Palestinian Arabs (and neither side is INNOCENT)….this is very important to understand….Jews have been victims of horrible violence, but two wrongs do NOT make a right….and the Jews are SUPPOSED to be the BETTER example, but they are not living up to God’s commandments for them….there is a BIG responsibility in that…it was NOT a free ride or a FREE gift…God has rules and expectations….and precisely BECAUSE the Jews were singled out by God so long ago, they have a LARGER responsibilty to live right….they are DELIGITIMIZING themselves by their actions….I am talking about the government not the individual…but it IS up to the individual to decide if he or she is going to SUPPORT oppression and violence or NOT…regardless which side…it’s not about that….it’s about treating your neighbor as you would yourself….and you just can’t say the Palestinians have not been just as unfairly treated by the Israelis as the other way around….Being a Jew doesn’t make you automatically righteous….you still have to live by the commandments…and everyone is called on their deeds – believe that…it is a disgrace to the HOLY LAND to be anything less than what God commanded…and there is A LOT of hatred coming from the Israeli side too….it goes both ways….the BLAME rests on all humanity – regardless of race, religion or creed – for totally disrespecting the wonderful gifts YHWH has given us….it’s not about blame….but as far as Christ goes – what if, just WHAT IF, the Jews WERE wrong and he really WAS the Son of God come to teach us how to treat one another? You have to be open to that possibility! I know what I know because YHWH has spoken to me…but that’s another story.

Chris C.: and i’ll tell you something – I LOVE YOU DIANA. I used to believe we were best friends. You have no idea how many times I have prayed for you. I’ve seen you turn your back on a true friend, who never did anything but love you, so I am not surprised you could numb yourself to what is going on outside your own personal world. But I love you no matter what. When you look back at all the things we went through together, and see how real I was and have always been, you will know me better than that. I am not about HATE. In any way, shape or form. But we all gotta become BETTER people, you and I included. God Bless.

Chris C.: i’m looking at a picture of you and me right now….and I just don’t understand

Diana B.:  i do agree with you on one thing – that the jewish people *should* have higher moral standards. yes, we are the people of the book. and it takes 2 to tango. everyone makes mistakes. but the fact of the matter is jews have been defending their LIVES since day one out here…people dont want us here and thats just too bad for them. and tho we live by higher standards we’re still HUMANS that are faulty (and hey we gotta defend our livelihood no???). moses, our greatest leader, was faulty. even king solomon the wisest man that ever lived, made mistakes. but if you look at the situation out here its the same as its been for thousands of years. no one wants us here. people really dont want to share. people are easily threatened. people are greedy. and israel was ready from day one to share this land with arabs, when the U.N. partitioned the land for 2 states – and who started the war? who was against 2 states here? it was the arabs honey. read history. there was no terrorist acts from jews on arabs before the state of israel was founded. but there were MANY terrorist acts from arabs on jews – read about the mufti of jerusalem, how many massacres he organized before the state of israel even existed. read about the massacre of hebron in the 1920’s.

and yes we were best friends once chris, a long time ago, but i saw that you loved yourself more then anyone around you and i never expect you should love me more then yourself- but at least have a little more respect for me. you know the situation when we stopped talking. im over it and dont really wanna go reminding you…..

Chris C.: no i don’t know the situation…i know you have misperceived me Diana…because I have always LOVED you so much….and no I do n’t care more for myself than for others…I’m not sure where you got that…we have all been through shit, but I always tried to be there for you in every way possible…don’t you see that?…when you walked away from me, it hurt me so deeply….i wish you had talked to me….TOLD me your thoughts….I have worked so hard to be a better person…but I thought I was always a good person to YOU…what did I do bad to you? PLEASE tell me….I miss you so much…and I have been through so much…you were my best friend….my BEST FRIEND in the whole world….and I have cried so much to think why you left me as a friend…I will respond more later…I need a minute…

Chris C.: I DO respect you Diana, and I am NOT over it…I will never be over it…I never meant to hurt you…what did I do to you???

Chris C.: A LOT of questions about Israel…I feel for them…but there is a lot more to the story than you state…I would like to know more…I WANT to know….

Chris C.: a·part·heid /əˈpɑrtheɪt, -haɪt/ Show Spelled
[uh-pahrt-heyt, -hahyt] Show IPA

–noun
1. (in the Republic of South Africa) a rigid policy of segregation of the nonwhite population.
2. any system or practice that separates people according to race, caste, etc

Chris C.: You have NEVER told me anything!!!…you just walked away that day in San Francisco…no explanation AT ALL..you didn’t even come to my mother’s funeral…did you even TRY to reach out to me or to “help” me

Chris C.: best friends are supposed to HELP each other through life’s problems….how did you help me?

Diana B.: chris- i appreciate what you’re saying but if you really want to know- i grew tired of your self-centeredness which grew to much for me to handle….and im not and never have been a selfish person…im actually a giver. but you know that. and every time i came to cali to visit you i felt like we weren’t doing us – we were doing you. and if i dared to want something, i was being selfish or some shyt?!? i think deep down inside you’re a good person but u dont see outside yourself at the people around you, their needs and how u might be oblivious to them becuase youre so wrapped up in yourself. but i do realize that your ego is your nature…i cant be mad at that. and so i just distanced myself becuase i didnt wanna be in those vibes. plus we were thousands of miles away, living different lives. so its no love lost. i do remember alot of fun times too. but you’re still a judgemental person, seeing your 1-sidedness on this whole conflict out here. of course there’s so much more to it then what i (or you) are saying in this post. thats why i keep repeating the same thing. read some history books so u can better understand what/why the situation is what it is today.

Rayn: Great video posting, Chris! I’ve been following the TYRANNICAL APARTHEID system in Israel for years, now, and have a few important points I’d like to add.

For starters, Nelson Mandela has a GREAT DEAL to say on the subject of Israel’s systemic oppression of the Palestinian people. Considering his South African citizenship, his 18-year political imprisonment, his title as first brown-skinned president of South Africa (after fighting for the first anti-segregated elections), and his Nobel Peace Prize, his wise words SIMPLY CANNOT BE DISMISSED as “left wing” or “hateful propaganda.” Keep this in mind when considering the following words, spoken by Mandela in December of 1997, in Pretoria, at “The International Day Of Solidarity With The Palestinian People”:

“When in 1977, the United Nations passed the resolution inaugurating the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people, it was asserting the recognition that injustice and gross human rights violations were being perpetrated in Palestine. In the same period, the UN took a strong stand against apartheid; and over the years, an international consensus was built, which helped to bring an end to this iniquitous system.

But we know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians…”

(Mandela’s entire speech located here: http://anc.org.za/show.php?id=3384)

Even before this, in October of 1990, while visiting Australia, Mandela used much, much harsher language than “Apartheid” to describe Israel’s oppression of Palestinians!

Read this news piece, by Jewish Telegraphic Agency for evidence:
http://www.jta.org/1990/10/25/archive/mandela-angers-australian-jews-with-fresh-anti-israel-rhetoric

According to the article, Mandela said:

“We agree with the United Nations that international disputes should be settled by peaceful means. The belligerent attitude which is adopted by the Israeli government is to us unacceptable.”

He also asserted the following:

“If one has to refer to any of the parties as a terrorist state, one might refer to the Israeli government, because they are the people who are slaughtering defenseless and innocent Arabs in the occupied territories, and we don’t regard that as acceptable.”

 Expanding upon this, Mandela also said:

“We do not believe it is right for the Israeli government to suppress basic human rights in the conquered territories.”

As you can read for yourself in the prior-mentioned article, though he “unreservedly” supported Israel’s right to exist within secure borders, Mandela was opposed to Israeli policy “when it meant deprivation of human rights in the occupied territories.”

Meanwhile, in February 27 of 1990, the New York Times reported the following information, when Mandela was greeted by Yasir Arafat at the airport in Zambia, Southern Africa:

“Mr. Mandela said that, like the foes of apartheid, Mr. Arafat ‘is fighting against a unique form of colonialism, and we wish him success in his struggle’.”

(article located here: http://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/28/world/old-allies-greet-mandela-in-zambia.html)

The very next day, February 28, 1990, the New York Times then reported the following follow-up information about Mandela’s words:

“In response to a question about whether such remarks might alienate South African Jews, Mr. Mandela said ‘if the truth hurts’ South Africa’s Jews, ‘it is too bad.’

According to the same article, Mandela then said:

‘We expect everybody who is exploring the possibility of lasting solutions to be able to face the truth squarely,’ Mr. Mandela said. ‘I sincerely believe that there are many similarities between our struggle and that of the P.L.O. We live under a unique form of colonialism in South Africa, as well as in Israel, and a lot flows from that.’

(article located here: http://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/01/world/mandela-refuses-to-make-concessions-to-pretoria.html)

The former South African president was  certainly not “jab[bing] his jaw” when he repeatedly reinforced his position that an oppressive apartheid-like, even possibly terrorist, system has been taking place in Israel, to the devastation of Palestinian civilians!

Years later, in 2002, Nelson Mandela was among only a few prominent figures to point out the racism of the American-British-spearheaded “War on Terror” crusade against Iraq, with no regard for Israel’s cache of WMDs:

“Scott Ritter, a former United Nations arms inspector who is in Baghdad, has said that there is no evidence whatsoever of [development of weapons of] mass destruction. Neither Bush nor [British Prime Minister] Tony Blair has provided any evidence that such weapons exist. But what we know is that Israel has weapons of mass destruction. Nobody talks about that. Why should there be one standard for one country, especially because it is black, and another one for another country, Israel, that is white.”

Mandela then discussed what he saw as America’s racially-biased policy of side-stepping the U.N. in order to attack Iraq, as an indication of disregard for the voices of the brown-skinned members, saying:

“In fact, many people say quietly, but they don’t have the courage to stand up and say publicly, that when there were white secretary generals you didn’t find this question of the United States and Britain going out of the United Nations. But now that you’ve had black secretary generals like Boutros Boutros Ghali, like Kofi Annan, they do not respect the United Nations. They have contempt for it. This is not my view, but that is what is being said by many people.”

In a letter, written by Mandela in March of 2001, and addressed to Thomas Friedman, a columnist for the New York Times, the former South African president was not “jabbing his jaw” when he elaborated on the specific details that reinforce his position that an apartheid system has been taking place in Israel, to the devastation of Palestinian civilians:

“Today the world, black and white, recognize that apartheid has no future. In South Africa it has been ended by our own decisive mass action in order to build peace and security. That mass campaign of defiance and other actions could only culminate in the establishment of democracy.

Perhaps it is strange for you to observe the situation in Palestine or more specifically, the structure of political and cultural relationships between Palestinians and Israelis, as an apartheid system. This is because you incorrectly think that the problem of Palestine began in 1967. This was demonstrated in your recent column ‘Bush’s First Memo’ in the New York Times on March 27, 2001.

You seem to be surprised to hear that there are still problems of 1948 to be solved, the most important component of which is the right to return of Palestinian refugees.

The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is not just an issue of military occupation and Israel is not a country that was established ‘normally’ and happened to occupy another country in 1967. Palestinians are not struggling for a ‘state’ but for freedom, liberation and equality, just like we were struggling for freedom in South Africa.

In the last few years, and especially during the reign of the Labour Party, Israel showed that it was not even willing to return what it occupied in 1967; that settlements remain, Jerusalem would be under exclusive Israeli sovereignty, and Palestinians would not have an independent state, but would be under Israeli economic domination with Israeli control of borders, land, air, water and sea.

Israel was not thinking of a ‘state’ but of ‘separation’. The valua of separation is measured in terms of the ability of Israel to keep the Jewish state Jewish, and not to have a Palestinian minority that could have the opportunity to become a majority at some time in the future. If this takes place, it would force Israel to either become a secular democratic or bi-national state, or to turn into a state of apartheid not only de facto, but also de jure.”

(Read Mandela’s full letter here: http://www.progressiveaustin.org/mandelap.htm)

As you can see, Mandela does not feel that “what happened in South Africa and whats happening here are two different things completely.” And, it would be LAUGHABLE to claim that HIS words “just perpetuate ignorance,” or “hatefulness against israel.” He simply stands up for FREEDOM in the face of TYRANNY, no matter where the OPPRESSION exists!

Rayn: My second point is simple: IMPERIALISTIC British Empire SEIZED areas of the Middle-East from the Ottoman Empire during WWI, including all of the civilians within it. And, their ILLEGITIMATE WAR of AGGRESSION resulted in the MILITARILY-OCCUPY OF MANY INNOCENT PEOPLE. And, as FOREIGN INVADERS, Britian had no right to officiate over ANY OF THE PEOPLE LIVING IN THE REGION! And, to be COMPLETELY HISTORICALLY ACCURATE, all that was taken by Britian did not even truly belong to the IMPERIALISTIC Ottoman Empire, anyway:

“Young Ottomans” (formed in 1865):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Ottomans

Young Turk Revolution of 1908:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Turk_Revolution

Arab Revolt (1916-1918):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Revolt

Rayn: Anyway, with my posted comment in mind, here are the true SPARKS that started the CURRENT FIRE in the Middle-Eastern Holy Lands (as there were many conflicts that took place in the area in the past – between Jews, Christians and Muslims ). And, without a bit of surprise, Britian is responsible for ALL OF IT:

McMahon–Hussein Correspondence (1915-1916):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMahon%E2%80%93Hussein_Correspondence

Sykes–Picot Agreement of 1916:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes-Picot_Agreement
(publicly released only three weeks after Balfour Declaration)

Balfour Declaration of 1917:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration_of_1917

Faisal–Weizmann Agreement of 1919:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faisal-Weizmann_Agreement

1920 Palestine Riots:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riots_in_Palestine_of_1920
(update: Wikipedia article has since been scrubbed of this information, and so, can now only be accessed here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20110606103910/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riots_in_Palestine_of_1920)

As you can read in the last link cited, “1920 Palestinian Riots”:

“…On 5 December 1918, The Eastern Committee of the British Cabinet met to discuss the future of Palestine. Lord Curzon chaired the meeting. General Smuts, Lord Balfour, Lord Robert Cecil, General Sir Henry Wilson, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, T. E. Lawrence, and representatives of the Foreign Office, the India Office, the Admiralty, the War Office, and the Treasury were present. Lord Curzon stated:

‘The Palestine position is this. If we deal with our commitments, there is first the general pledge to Hussein in October 1915, under which Palestine was included in the areas as to which Great Britain pledged itself that they should be Arab and independent in the future . . . Great Britain and France – Italy subsequently agreeing – committed themselves to an international administration of Palestine in consultation with Russia, who was an ally at that time…

A new feature was brought into the case in November 1917, when Mr Balfour, with the authority of the War Cabinet, issued his famous declaration to the Zionists that Palestine ‘should be the national home of the Jewish people,’ but that nothing should be done – and this, of course, was a most important proviso – to prejudice the civil and religious rights of the existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine. Those, as far as I know, are the only actual engagements into which we entered with regard to Palestine.

Now, as regards the facts, they are these. First, Palestine has been conquered by the British, with only very insignificant aid from small French and Italian contingents, and it is now being administered by the British. The Zionist declaration of our Government has been followed by a very considerable immigration of Jews. One of the difficulties of the situation arises from the fact that the Zionists have taken full advantage – and are disposed to take even fuller advantage – of the opportunity which was then offered to them. You have only to read, as probably most of us do, their periodical ‘Palestine’, and, indeed, their pronouncements in the papers, to see that their programme is expanding from day to day. They now talk about a Jewish State. The Arab portion of the population is well-nigh forgotten and is to be ignored. They not only claim the boundaries of the old Palestine, but they claim to spread across the Jordan into the rich countries lying to the east, and, indeed, there seems to be very small limit to the aspirations which they now form. The Zionist programme, and the energy with which it is being carried out, have not unnaturally had the consequence of arousing the keen suspicions of the Arabs. By ‘the Arabs’ I do not merely mean Feisal and his followers at Damascus, but the so-called Arabs who inhabit the country. There seems, from the telegrams we receive, to be growing up an increasing friction between the two communities, a feeling by the Arabs that we are really behind the Zionists and not behind the Arabs, and altogether a situation which is becoming rather critical…’ “

(The original source of this information is the National Archives of the United Kingdom, PRO. CAB 27/24 quoted in Palestine Papers, 1917–1922, Doreen Ingrams, George Braziller Edition, 1972, pages 48-51)

Rayn: I will finish the rest of my points later, since I have things to do right now.

Chris C.: Word Origin & History

apartheid

1947 (policy begun 1948), from Afrikaans apartheid (1929 in a S.African socio-political context), lit. “separateness,” from Du. apart “separate” (from Fr. àpart ; see apart) + suffix -heid, cognate of Eng. – hood. The official Eng. synonym was separate development (1955).

” ‘Segregation’ is such an active word that it suggests someone is trying to segregate someone else. So the word ‘apartheid’ was introduced. Now it has such a stench in the nostrils of the world, they are referring to ‘autogenous development.’ ” [Alan Paton, “New York Times,” Oct. 24, 1960]

Chris C.: @Diana – wow…gotta say it hurts to know that in our decade-long friendship, you really never knew me at all. To think that the main characteristics you define me as are: self-centered, judgmental & egotistical. These things could not be further from the truth. I have been judged all my life and called many things. As a result, I have searched the very depths of my soul to know for sure WHO I AM. And the Lord showed me. The person – me – you call “self-centered” has actually put his self ASIDE for just about everyone I know and hold dear. First of all, in the time I knew you, you were there to witness me rescue Monie, Denzel, Fairuza, Corbin, Travis, Roxana, Andie, Morgan, Shabana, Emmanuel – and put MY OWN NEEDS & DESIRES aside to fight for all their lives and care for them. Not only that, I supported Rebekah for YEARS – gave her food, shelter, got her jobs (at my own risk). In the months leading up to your last visit to me in LA, I experienced the death of my mother – I watched her die a slow, painful, horrible death from cancer and flew home to care for her in her final days (when you were nowhere to be found to even offer sympathy, let alone your time). I had to bear the worst pain and loss of my life WITHOUT my supposed best friend even seeming to care. Then I had to quit my job and fly home multiple times to help my Dad set the house in order. I then took my younger brother and my 89-year old grandmother into my one-bedroom apartment and took over the care and responsibility for my entire family. I also took in Coral and cared for her for five years AFTER she was left paralyzed by a hit-and-run driver and proceeded to make a documentary about her journey that has raised thousands of dollars for animal rescues all across the US & Canada (and I never made any profit). This is the person you think of as SELF-CENTERED???? That is a delusional thing to say, not based on anhy facts at all or my character or my nature. Then, when you came to visit – just months after losing my mother – I was sleeping on the FLOOR of my own apartment, so that my grandmother could have my bedroom…after all that self-sacrifice, I was given the opportunity of a lifetime…to make my first movie. This was my lifelong dream, all I had been working for, the entire reason I moved out to Cali. And it just so happened that your visit coincided with that. A true friend would have been SOOOO happy for me that I was being given this gift after all I had sacrificed and put aside of my self. You would be HAPPY to see me get a break from the tragedy and be able to follow my dreams. You want to support me and be a part of that time in my life. But all you cared about was going out to party, going to raves, etc. You weren’t there to support me, encourage me, uplift me, motivate me, comfort me or console me. So FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, check yourself Diana. Who’s judging who??? Everything I have pointed out about Israel is based on FACTS, not judgments. I am not judge, just the messenger. The egos involved when it comes to Jewish/Israeli PRIDE is out of control. And there is LOTS of HISTORY to substantiate that. But even so, I don’t JUDGE anybody. I merely illustrate that there is more to the story, so people will hopefully open their eyes and their hearts. There has been TERRORISM from the Israeli side, as well as the Palestinian – and ALL will be judged. I just want you to see it all clearly – see THE BIg PICTURE, the WHOLE of all these situations, so that you can make the wisest, most compassionate decisions concerning both your friends and your fellow man. I say these things BECAUSE I love you and respect you and give you more credit. I believe you could see the forest over the trees if you took the time.

Chris C.: as far as reading History books, I have read SEVERAL. And it is all too clear that the Jewish people are not simply “victims.” The most incriminating evidence comes straight from the history book called THE TORAH. Deuteronomy specifically. They were repeatedly admonished for being “stiff-necked” and warned about the results their behavior would have on them in the years to come and the final days. These are very clear WARNINGS linked to their BEHAVIOR, ARROGANCE, PRIDE & GREED. But what is even more disturbing is the fact that most people today who call themselves “Jews” are NOT the biological descendants of the original tribes of Israel. That alone poses a problem with this whole “law of return.” The actual genetic descendants of those original tribes have been scattered all across the globe and calling yourself a “jew” does not make you one of GOD’S CHOSEN PEOPLE from thousands of years ago. That is the WORST sin that has been committed, this false claim on a heritage that simply can not be proven…and isn’t even logical. It’s just a way for a group of people to say they are BETTER than others or MORE ENTITLED. The people who possess the Holy land today are NOT all descendants of Abraham, sorry to burst your bubble. Many of them are falsely claiming that land and oppressing others, who could be very well be the ACTUAL descendants. That amount to STEALING & CHEATING for personal gain. And maybe you don’t want to believe I have received revelations or had prophetic dreams or visions, but they never wanted to believe Isaiah, Ezekiel or Jeremiah either. OR JESUS. So maybe I’m lying??? Maybe I’m HALLUCINATING???? What if I’m not? What if I AM a prophet? WHY would I make that up??? I am putting MYSELF out there and on the line to say these things. Once again, I am sacrificng my own SELF to share the word of God and the warnings that have been revealed to me. I make myself look crazy to some or judgmental or any number of things. But on that DAY, we shall see if I am telling the truth or not….

Chris C.: what exactly do I personally GAIN from telling you these things? What purpose would I have of saying them? Why would I even care??? Have you asked yourself that?

Chris C.:  Nakba denial
Al-Nakba or “the Catastrophe” is the Arabic term to describe the displacement or ethnic cleansing of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians during the 1948 Palestine war; Nakba denial refers to the denial of the reality of this event by Jewish sources.

According to the Anti-Defamation League, what happened to Palestinian civilians during the war was “largely self inflicted.” Ghada Karmi writes that the Israeli version of history is that the “Palestinians left voluntarily or under orders from their leaders and that Israelis had no responsibility, material or moral, for their plight.” She also finds a form of denial among Israelis that Palestinians bear the blame for the Nakba by not accepting the UN’s proposed partition of Palestine into separate ethnic states. Acknowledgment of the Nakba by Israel would force it to deal with the issue of 4 million Palestinian refugees who are banned from returning to their ancestral land under Israeli law and have not received any form of restitution from the state.

Ilan Pappe has claimed that the Israeli government under Ariel Sharon have attempted to remove references to the Nakba from Israeli textbooks:

“The first reaction has been from the Israeli political establishment, with the Sharon government, through its minister of education, beginning the systematic removal of any textbook or school syllabus that refers to the Nakba, even marginally. Similar instructions have been given to the public broadcasting authorities. The second reaction has been even more disturbing and has encompassed wider sections of the public. Although a very considerable number of Israeli politicians, journalists and academics have ceased to deny what happened in 1948, they have nonetheless also been willing to justify it publicly, not only in retrospect but also as a prescription for the future. The idea of “transfer” has entered Israeli political discourse openly for the first time, gaining legitimacy as the best means of dealing with the Palestinian ‘problem.'”

In 2009, Israel banned the use of the word “Nakba” in Israeli Arab schools and textbooks; the word is not part of the curriculum in Jewish Israeli schools. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu justified the ban by saying that the term was “propaganda against Israel”. Arab MP Hanna Sweid has described the change in curriculum as “Nakba denial.”

APARTHEID exists in MANY forms, Diana!

Chris C.: @Rayn – great points! great fact! great quotes! thank you for a more ACCURATE historical picture! YHWH Bless!

Chris C.: @Diana – what is MOST important is that people EXCHANGE thoughts, ideas & feelings…so that we can have a better, fuller understanding of where each is coming from and WHY….that is how bridges are built not burned….I am very interested to hear your precise responses to all the points brought up here by both Rayn and myself

Diana B.: wow there’s so many things i wanna say here but being that im 9 months pregnant and about to drop any day now…i just dont feel like working myself up into a frenzy. im trying to be cool and meditative these days. but the absolute bullshyt coming out on all fronts is just fuking disgusting, hateful and ignorant. this aint no exchange of ideas, this is an attack. and chris i aint got no patience for your ass for a long, long time now…which is why i do prefer to go to raves then listen to your messianic psycho babble 🙂 get a life dude. JAHbless.

Rayn: In my last few posts, I illustrated Britain’s heavy involvement in the creation of the Middle-Eastern Arab-Jewish conflict. Now, I will continue where I left off: at the Palestinian Riots of 1920.

Two official reports, which investigated the Palestine Riots of 1920, the “Palin Report” and the “Haycraft Commission,” explored the complex issues between Palestine and immigrating Jews, and came to some very similary conclusions:

First, that Zionist local government was responsible for systemically disenfranchising Arab Palestinians. And second, the Palestinians, due to this disenfranchisement, were responsible for violence against Jewish settlers. By not addressing Palestinian grievances – specifically, their feelings of isolation and non-representation in government, the Zionists had fostered an atmosphere of unhappiness in the Arab community. And, the Jewish settlers had ignored many important indicators that, if taken into account and acted upon, would have headed off any acts of violence by the Arab community.

Palin Report of 1920:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palin_Report_1920

The article states the following key pieces of information:

“The Palin Report examined the rioting in Jerusalem between 4 and 7 April 1920. It foresaw increasing problems between the various parties and the administration.”

[…]

“The report refers to various ’causes of the alienation and exasperation of the feelings of the population of Palestine. It was sharply critical of the Zionists for exacerbating those concerns by their ‘impatience, indiscretion and attempts to force the hands of the Administration’. There had been direct communication between the Foreign Office and the Chief Political Officer, Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, bypassing and sometimes contradicting the Administration. In 1919 the Foreign Office, at Chaim Weizmann‘s behest, granted the Anglo-Palestine Bank a monopoly on providing mortgages, thus forcing the Anglo-Egyptian Bank to abandon its recently negotiated easy terms of 6 percent for the bank, and 0.5 percent for administrative charges.

The report was critical of some of the actions of the military command, particularly the withdrawal of troops from inside Jerusalem early in the morning of Monday, April 5 and that, once Martial Law had been proclaimed, it was slow to regain control.”

(Read entire “Palin Commission Report” in full, here: http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/yabber_palin.html)

Rayn: Haycraft Commission of Inquiry (1921):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haycraft_Commission_of_Inquiry

According to the article:

“The report blamed the Arabs for the violence, but identified a series of grievances concerning the way their interests were apparently being subsumed to the interests of the Jewish immigrants, who were then around 10% of the population and increasing rapidly. Some measures to ease Arab unhappiness were taken, but Jewish colonies were helped to arm themselves and ultimately the report was ignored…”

[…]

“The report noted that the violence by Arabs on the Jews was apparently triggered by a clash between the MPS (Miflagah Po’alim Sotzialistim) or Bolsheviks and the authorized Jewish Labour Party but that this ‘could not have been sufficient to give rise to more than a street riot of the ordinary kind’.

In the summary of the report the grievances of the Arabs were listed as follows:

1. The British in Palestine, now led by a Zionist, had adopted ‘a policy mainly directed towards the establishment of a National Home for the Jews, and not to the equal benefit of all Palestinians’.
2. An official advisory body to the government in Palestine, the Zionist Commission, placed the interests of the Jews above all others.
3. There was an undue proportion of Jews in the government.
4. Part of the Zionist program was to flood the country with people who possessed ‘greater commercial and organizing ability’ which would eventually lead to their gaining the upper hand over the rest of the population.
5. The immigrants were an ‘economic danger’ to the country because of their competition, and because they were favored in this competition.
6. Immigrants offended the Arabs ‘by their arrogance and by their contempt of Arab social prejudices’.
7 Owing to insufficient precautions, Bolshevik immigrants were allowed into the country leading to social and economic unrest in Palestine.”

Interestingly, the article notes:

“…five Jewish agricultural colonies had been attacked, but ‘in these raids there were few Jewish and many Arab casualties, chiefly on account of the intervention of the military’.”

(Read entire “Haycraft Commission Report” in full, here: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/haycraft.html)

As a result of the report:

“…an allotment of brassards and rifles, with proportionate quantity of ammunition, was made to each colony. While in theory these arms were bonded, in practice their distribution legitimised the earlier and illegal formation of the Haganah. Arab education had been a major grievance, since much better opportunities had been available under the Turks. In the event, improvements were made but the money ran out after a year.”

[…]

“Perhaps most significantly, [the report] proposed that the anomalous position of the Zionist Organisation should be abolished and the country governed with the help of a body that represented all sections of the community. These proposals by Samuel caused significant unhappiness amongst the Zionists, such that Chaim Weizmann suggested to George MacDonogh, director of military intelligence (1916-18) and a pro-Zionist sympathizer, that Samuel be replaced as high commissioner. Meanwhile, the Arabs demanded the removal of Samuel and another Zionist, Mr Bentwich, his legal adviser. The Arabs felt that they were ‘the victims of Zionist coercion of the Government, which they most thoroughly distrust,’ and that ‘nothing short of a modification of the Jewish policy and the establishment of some form of proportional representation will ease the situation’.”

Rayn: Interestingly enough, in both reports, the British TOOK LITTLE RESPONSIBILITY for HELPING TO FOSTER NEGATIVE FEELINGS IN THE ARAB PALESTINIAN COMMUNITY by DENYING THEM their OWN GOVERNMENT! Yet, along with non-representation in Jewish government, the lack of their own government was JUST AS MUCH OF AN ISSUE for the Arab community!

The above reports also barely addressed the IMMEDIATE CAUSE of the Palestine Riots available in the previously provided link, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riots_in_Palestine_of_1920
(update: As stated above, the Wikipedia article has since been scrubbed of this information, and so, can now only be accessed here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20110606103910/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riots_in_Palestine_of_1920):

“[the British provided Israelis with] only 188 policemen, among them but eight officers. The Ottoman Turks had usually deployed thousands of soldiers, and even an artillery piece, to keep order in the narrow streets of Jerusalem during the Nabi Musa procession. Zionist leaders request that the British authorities allow arming of the Jewish defenders to make up for the lack of adequate troops. Although this request was declined, Ze’ev Jabotinsky, together with Pinhas Rutenberg, led an effort to openly train Jewish volunteers in self-defense, an effort which the Zionist Commission kept the British informed of.”

(The original source of this information is here: Wasserstein (1991), p. 63; extract from a private letter from a reliable source dated 30 March 1920, citing CZA L3/27)

In strategic terms, the British set the Jewish settlers up for failure using the Hegelian Dialectic (Problem-Reaction-Solution)! The Crown wanted the Zionists to SUFFER LOSS due to WEAK SECURITY FORCES. The EXPECTED REACTION of the Jewish settlers was ENORMOUS ANGER towards the PALESTINIANS. The READY-MADE SOLUTION would be to for the JEWISH SETTLERS to HAND SECURITY OVER TO BRITAIN’S MILITARY!

Keep this in mind when reading about this proposed British conspiracy against Jews in Palestine using the surrounding Arab communities:

Britian, Haj Husseini and the Arab Riots of 1920:
http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~samuel/britainriots.html

According to the article:

“The British administration did not just wait on events to foster implementation their policy of increased British control in the Middle East.

They worked hard, simultaneously on a second front, in Syria, against the French. In July 1919, a ‘Syrian National Congress’ demanded the unity of Syria (that is, to include Palestine) and the installation of Faisal as king. The French expressed a fear that this sudden materialisation from nowhere of a Syrian national movement and the reversal of the popular feeling against the Sherifians was the result of a British intrigue. The British replied with denials and reassuring statements. In fact, Allenby in Cairo and his subordinates in Palestine, G.O.C. General Bols and his Chief of Staff, Col. Waters-Taylor, were secretly pressing their home government to ‘accept the situation’: to jettison their government’s pact with the French, to abandon the Zionists, and to give Syria and Palestine to Faisal.”

[…]

“In Jerusalem, Waters-Taylor and Col. Ronald Storrs, one of the original members of the Cairo school and now Governor of the city, established and maintained regular contact with the handful of militant Sherifians, notably Haj Amin el Husseini, the young brother of the Mufti of Jerusalem, and Aref el Aref. In early 1920, Waters-Taylor suggested to his and Storrs’ Arab contacts the desirability of organising ‘anti-Jewish riots to impress on the Administration the unpopularity of the Zionist policy’.”

(The original source of this information is here: J. E. Hubbard to Occupied Enemy Territory Administration, November 20, 1918. Israel State Archives, Pal. Govt. Secretariat File No. 40. Quoted in Y. Porat, Tsemihat Hatenua Ha’aravit Hapalestinait 1918-1929 (Tel Aviv, 1971), P. 24.)

Rayn: Now, if you take into account all of the information within the posts I have made so far, what history reveals is sad: the British formed an ALLIANCE with the Islamic Authorities in Palestine, promising them an Islamic State in Palestine in return for aid in defeating the Ottoman Empire. Then, as soon as the Ottoman Empire fell, Britian turned its back on their new so-called allies, and not only actively denied them their own Islamic State, but also placed them under the rule of two foreign authorities – the British Imperial government, and an ever-expanding group of local, recently-emigrated Zionist rulers, most of whom pushed a SEPARATIST agenda using the Zionist Commission. And, as the Palestinian Arabs were being completely betrayed by their British war lords, to add fuel to the fire, the newly-formed Zionist settlements were negotiating for themselves the formation of some sort of Jewish State, and Britain appeared receptive to the idea.

Yet, Britain DID NOT WANT Zionist settlers to form an INDEPENDENT JEWISH STATE, as the area they occupied was UNDER BRITISH RULE. They preferred a COLONIAL JEWISH STATE, with TRIBUTE BEING PAID TO THE CROWN. Therefore, the BRITAIN was obliged to WORK AGAINST the interests of JEWISH SETTLERS, forming a secret military alliance with militant Islamic sharif, Haj Amin el Husseini.

Chris C.: @Diana – you have asked us to cite historical sources, which we glady did…and all I have asked is for you to now address these historical facts and explain the Israeli point of view related to HISTORICAL FACTS. How else could I possibly understand why the Israelis are “right”??? Clearly, I am OPEN to hearing all you have to say and doing the proper research on all grounds and sides. From the exhaustive research I have already done, it is clear that All is NOT well, and the Israelis are in some serious denial of ALL the facts. It seems your big argument is this: “The Jews are the people of the book, so THERE!!!” You also need to read some history books, so that you will have a balanced perspective. Otherwise, it is the exact arrogance that Moses warned about, with nothing substantial to back it up. But I’m WAITING….any time you want to refute the information, I’m all ears. That is not HATEFUL (I suppose Nelson Mandela is ALSO hateful and ignorant for calling it like he sees it???). Diana, I am concerned that you are living in a tunnel-visioned cloud, and you will be very surprised when YHWH reveals the full truth. Of course, you never addressed or acknowledged all I said about my supposed “self-centeredness” either, so it is clear that your “impatience” leads to blindness as well. What happend to you? Or were you always this way?

Chris C.: @Rayn – Very informative! thank you

Chris C.: “messianic psycho-babble” – does that take into account all the things I have done for my family and loved ones, or the years of lovingkindness and interest I showed towards you? Or the reasoning and logic I have had to apply towards all my major life decisions? So now I am self-centered, egotistical, hateful, ignorant AND psycho? Who did you say was judgmental again?

Rayn: After the Palestine Riots of 1920, Britain continued to push for legal recognition as owners of the Middle-Eastern Holy Lands, using the League of Nations:

San Remo Conference (1920):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Remo_conference
(Formal Division the Ottoman Empire Between WWI Allies)

Churchill White Paper (1922):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churchill_White_Paper
(Clarifies Balfour Declaration of 1917)

British Mandate for Palestine (1923):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Mandate_of_Palestine
(Formalized Britian’s Rule Over Palestine)
(update: Wikipedia article has since been scrubbed of this information, and so, can now only be accessed here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20100116195600/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Mandate_of_Palestine)

According to the last link, “British Mandate for Palestine (1923)”:

“Article 14 of the British Mandate of Palestine required the mandatory administration to establish a commission to study, define, and determine the rights and claims relating to the different religious communities in Palestine. Article 15 required the mandatory administration to see to it that complete freedom of conscience and the free exercise of all forms of worship were permitted. Those mandates were never put into effect.”

(Read entire “British Mandate for Palestine” in full, here: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/palmanda.asp#art14)

Palestinian Riots (1929):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Palestine_riots

Two British reports explored the causes of the 1929 riots, and laid out recommendations that were quickly enacted into policy in Palestine:

Shaw Report (1930):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaw_Commission

According to the article:

“The Commission addressed two aspects of the disturbances, the immediate nature of the riots and the causes behind them. In the words of Naomi Cohen:-

‘Delving beneath the immediate causes – i.e., the Western Wall dispute, inflammatory publications on both sides, the enlargement of the Jewish Agency, inadequate forces to maintain order, the report called attention to the underlying causes of friction in England’s wartime pledges and in the anti-Jewish hostility that had resulted from the political and economic frustrations of the Arabs. It went on to criticise the immigration and land-purchase policies that, it said, gave Jews unfair advantages. The commission also recommended that the British take greater care in protecting the rights and understanding the aspirations of the Arabs. The Shaw report was a blow to Zionists everywhere,’”

Also in the article:

“In our opinion the immediate causes of the outbreak were:-

-The long series of incidents connected with the Wailing Wall… These must be regarded as a whole, but the incident among them which in our view contributed most to the outbreak was the Jewish demonstration at the Wailing Wall on 15 August 1929. Next in importance we put the activities of the Society for the Protection of the Moslem Holy Places and, in a lesser degree, of the Pro-Wailing Wall Committee.
-Excited and intemperate articles which appeared in some Arabic papers, in one Hebrew daily paper and in a Jewish weekly paper published in English.
-Propaganda among the less-educated Arab people of a character calculated to incite them.
-The enlargement of the Jewish Agency.
-The inadequacy of the military forces and of the reliable police available.
-The belief, due largely to a feeling of uncertainty as to policy, that the decisions of the Palestine Government could be influenced by political considerations.
-The Commission recommended that the Government reconsider its policies as to Jewish immigration and land sales to Jews. This lead directly to the Hope Simpson Royal Commission in 1930.
-The main victims of the rioting were Orthodox Jews, however the Orthodox community took a decision to boycott the Commission.”

Rayn: Passfield White Paper (1930):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passfield_white_paper

According to the article:

“The new statement resulted from the Hope-Simpson Commission’s investigation into the deeper causes of the 1929 Palestine riots, that initially started over access to the Wailing Wall. The white paper limited official Jewish immigration to a much greater degree. The paper’s tone was decidedly anti-Zionist since several of its institutions were severely criticized, including the Histadrut (General Federation of Labor) and the Jewish Agency, which both promoted Jewish employment of only Jewish labor. Like the Hope-Simpson Report, the Passfield White Paper found this Zionist policy damaging to the economic development of the Arab population.”

Hope Simpson Royal Commission (1930):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_Simpson_Royal_Commission

According the the article:

“The report recommended limiting Jewish immigration due to the lack of agricultural land to support it.”

“It reported the real estate price growth and availability to the Arabs:

‘They [Jews] paid high prices for the land, and in addition they paid to certain of the occupants of those lands a considerable amount of money which they were not legally bound to pay.’

(p. 56:) ‘Actually the result of the purchase of land in Palestine by the Jewish National Fund has been that land became extra territorial. It ceases to be land from which the Arab can gain any advantage either now or at any time in the future. Not only can he never hope to lease or cultivate it, but, by the stringent provisions of the lease of the Jewish National Fund, he is deprived forever from employment on the land.’
It concluded that Arab fears of the destructive impact of Zionist colonization were well-founded, and thus called for controls:

(p. 135:) ‘It is impossible to view with equanimity the extension of an enclave in Palestine from which the Arabs are excluded. The Arab population already regards the transfer of lands to Zionist hands with dismay and alarm. These cannot be dismissed as baseless in light of the Zionist policy described above.’

Hope-Simpson pointed out that, due to the Zionist labour policy extending to all Jewish enterprises, the displaced Arab farmer could not find non-agricultural employment, making the problem of unemployment among the Arabs ‘serious and widespread’:
‘There can be no doubt that there is at present time serious unemployment among Arab craftsmen and among Arab laborers.’

‘Arab unemployment is serious and general.’

The Zionist contention that the Arab worker benefited from Jewish immigration was therefore refuted by the report:

(p.133:) ‘The policy of the Jewish Labour Federation is successful in impeding the employment of Arabs in Jewish colonies and in Jewish enterprises of every kind. There is therefore no relief to be anticipated from an extension of Jewish enterprise unless some departure from existing practice is effected.’

The report also addressed the hypothetical situation of ‘swollen unemployment lists’:
‘[A]rab unemployment is liable to be used as a political pawn. Arab politicians are sufficiently astute to realize at once what may appear an easy method of blocking that [Jewish] immigration to which they are radically averse, and attempts may and probably will be made to swell the list of Arabs unemployed with names which should not be there, or perhaps to ensure the registration of an unemployed man in the books of more than one exchange. It should not prove difficult to defeat this manoevre.'”

Rayn: Passfield White Paper (1930):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passfield_white_paper

According to the article:

“The new statement resulted from the Hope-Simpson Commission‘s investigation into the deeper causes of the 1929 Palestine riots, that initially started over access to the Wailing Wall. The white paper limited official Jewish immigration to a much greater degree. The paper’s tone was decidedly anti-Zionist since several of its institutions were severely criticized, including the Histadrut (General Federation of Labor) and the Jewish Agency, which both promoted Jewish employment of only Jewish labor. Like the Hope-Simpson Report, the Passfield White Paper found this Zionist policy damaging to the economic development of the Arab population.”

Hope Simpson Royal Commission (1930):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_Simpson_Royal_Commission

According the the article, “The report recommended limiting Jewish immigration due to the lack of agricultural land to support it.” It reported the real estate price growth and availability to the Arabs:

‘They [Jews] paid high prices for the land, and in addition they paid to certain of the occupants of those lands a considerable amount of money which they were not legally bound to pay.’

(p. 56:) ‘Actually the result of the purchase of land in Palestine by the Jewish National Fund has been that land became extra territorial. It ceases to be land from which the Arab can gain any advantage either now or at any time in the future. Not only can he never hope to lease or cultivate it, but, by the stringent provisions of the lease of the Jewish National Fund, he is deprived forever from employment on the land.’

It concluded that Arab fears of the destructive impact of Zionist colonization were well-founded, and thus called for controls:

(p. 135:) ‘It is impossible to view with equanimity the extension of an enclave in Palestine from which the Arabs are excluded. The Arab population already regards the transfer of lands to Zionist hands with dismay and alarm. These cannot be dismissed as baseless in light of the Zionist policy described above.’

Hope-Simpson pointed out that, due to the Zionist labour policy extending to all Jewish enterprises, the displaced Arab farmer could not find non-agricultural employment, making the problem of unemployment among the Arabs ‘serious and widespread’:

‘There can be no doubt that there is at present time serious unemployment among Arab craftsmen and among Arab laborers.’

‘Arab unemployment is serious and general.’

The Zionist contention that the Arab worker benefited from Jewish immigration was therefore refuted by the report:

(p.133:) ‘The policy of the Jewish Labour Federation is successful in impeding the employment of Arabs in Jewish colonies and in Jewish enterprises of every kind. There is therefore no relief to be anticipated from an extension of Jewish enterprise unless some departure from existing practice is effected.’

The report also addressed the hypothetical situation of ‘swollen unemployment lists’:

‘[A]rab unemployment is liable to be used as a political pawn. Arab politicians are sufficiently astute to realize at once what may appear an easy method of blocking that [Jewish] immigration to which they are radically averse, and attempts may and probably will be made to swell the list of Arabs unemployed with names which should not be there, or perhaps to ensure the registration of an unemployed man in the books of more than one exchange. It should not prove difficult to defeat this manoevre.'”

Rayn: Just as with the 1920 Palestine Riots, after the 1929 riots, both Arab and Jews were blamed by the British for provoking the situation. While the Arabs were once again responsible for violence against Jewish settlers, and also for disruption of Jewish prayer at the West Wailing Wall, and the Jewish Agency was once again responsible for the political and economic disenfranchisement of Arab Palestinians, resulting in mass Arab unemployement and discontentment. Also, once again, the British did nothing to help defend Jewish settlers in the face of rioting and violence, and also did not aid the Jewish settlers in arming themselves for self-defense.

The Haganah, a paramilitary group formed right after the 1920 riots was unable to protect Jewish settlers because, once again, they were not recognized by the British, and most were left unarmed by the Crown:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haganah

Here are some of the groups that formed after the 1929 riots in Mandate Palestine, as Arabs and Jewish Settlers began to organize themselves on larger scales:

Black Hand (1930-1935):
Palestinian Armed Organization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hand_(Palestine)

Irgun (1931-1948):
Jewish Paramilitary Turned Terrorist Group
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irgun

Havlagah (1930s):
Jewish Haganah Force Turned Terrorist Group
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havlagah

Arab Independence Party (1932):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Party_(Palestine)

Arab National Defence Party (1934):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defence_Party_(Palestine)

Palestinian Arab Party (1935):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Arab_Party

Arab Reform Party (1935):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_Party_(Palestine)

Rayn: And, as Arab Palestinians continued to grow increasingly discontented by their living and working conditions under Zionist/British rule, using their new-found groups, they began to press harder for self-determination:

Palestinian General Strike (1936):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_general_strike

According to the article:

“The dissent was influenced by the Qassamite rebellion following the killing of Sheikh Izz ad-Din al-Qassam in 1935 as well as the declaration by Hajj Mohammad Amin al-Husayni of 16 May 1930 as ‘Palestine Day’ and calling for a General Strike on this day, following the 1929 Buraq (Western Wall) Uprising.

The strike began in Nablus and soon other committees in Haifa, Jenin, Tulkarm and Jerusalem were formed to join the protest. The demands of the strike were Independence for Jerusalem and a stop to removals of workers from the land.[1].

While the strike was initially organised by workers and local committees, soon religious leaders and families were involved to help coordination. This led to the formation on 25 April 1936 of the Arab Higher Committee or HAC.

The response of the British to the strike was to impose heavy fines on villages and cities. The city-port of Jaffa was especially singled out. Under the guise of urban renewal the British ordered the demolition of hundreds of homes in the city and more than a thousand in neighbouring villages.”

“The strike was eventually called off in November 1936, by the HAC, under the influence of Britain. King Ghazi of Iraq, King Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia and Amir Abdullah of Transjordan appealed on the workers to end the strike because as they wrote in Palestinian newspapers, ‘We rely on the good intentions of our friend Great Britain, who has declared that she will do justice’.”

Yet, Britian did not do the Arab Palestinians “justice,” and the situation in the Middle-East continued to escalate.

Arab Revolt in Palestine (1936-1939)*:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936%E2%80%931939_Arab_revolt_in_Palestine
*Uprising by Palestinian Arabs against British colonial rule and mass Jewish immigration

This time, Jewish settlers were able to more adequately defend themselves – under British control, of course:

Notrim (1936):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notrim
(Jewish Militia Funded and Trained by Britian)

Jewish Settlement Police (1936):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Settlement_Police
(Funded and Armed by Britain)

Jewish Supernumerary Police (1936):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Supernumerary_Police
(Appointed, Armed and Equipped by the British)

This time, Jewish settlers were able to more adequately defend themselves – under British control, of course:

Notrim (1936):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notrim
(Jewish Militia Funded and Trained by Britian)

Jewish Settlement Police (1936):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Settlement_Police
(Funded and Armed by Britian)

Jewish Supernumerary Police (1936):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Supernumerary_Police
(Appointed, Armed and Equipped by the British)

Rayn: With the Arab community again revolting against Jewish and British rule, it was time to finally start taking the idea of an Arab State more seriously. As Britian officially looked into the Arab uprising, they formed the RATHER OBVIOUS conclusion that Britian must form the ARAB STATE that was originally promised back in 1915.

Peel Commission (1936-37)[Plan A]:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peel_Commission
(Failed Call for a Two-State Solution)

According to the article:

“The commission arrived in Palestine to investigate the reasons behind the uprising.”

“According to the Peel Commission report, Arab allegations regarding Jewish land purchase
were unfounded. ‘Much of the land now carrying orange groves was sand dunes or swamp and uncultivated when it was purchased…There was at the time of the earlier sales little evidence that the owners possessed either the resources or training needed to develop the land.’ The land shortage decried by the Arabs ‘was due less to the amount of land acquired by Jews than to the increase in the Arab population.’ However, ‘Endeavours to control the alienation of land by
Arabs to Jews have not been successful. In the hills there is no more room for further close
settlement by Jews; in the plains it should only be allowed under certain restrictions’.”

“The Arab leadership rejected the plan, while the Jewish opinion remained heatedly divided. The Twentieth Zionist Congress in Zurich (3-16 August 1937) announced ‘that the partition plan proposed by the Peel Commission is not to be accepted, [but wished] to carry on negotiations in order to clarify the exact substance of the British government’s proposal for the foundation of a Jewish state in Palestine’.”

Jewish Special Night Squads (1938):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Night_Squads
(British-Jewish Coordinated Effort)

Woodhead Commission (1938):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodhead_Commission

According to the article:

Round Table Conference of 1939:
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/jamesconf.html
(Failed Attempt by Britian to Negotiate Terms of Two-State Palestine with Arabs/Jews)

White Paper (1939):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Paper_of_1939
(Britian Rejects Partition Plan)
(Attempts to Form Unified Arab/Jewish Government)
(Places Limits on Jewish Immigration)

Patria Disaster (1940):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patria_disaster
(First Civilian Bombing Takes Place in Conflict)
(Jewish Haganah Terrorists Bomb Ship Carrying Illegal Jewish Settlers to Mauritius)
(209 Bodies Found, Mostly Jewish)

Jewish Stern Gang [Lehi] Terrorists (1940):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stern_Gang

Jewish Palmach (1941):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmach
(Elite Fighting Force of Haganah Terrorists)

SS Struma Sunk by Russia (1942):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Struma
(Carried Illegal Jewish Immigrants to British-Controlled Palestine)

Biltmore Conference (1942):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biltmore_Conference

According to the article:

“A fundamental departure from traditional Zionist policy with its demand ‘that Palestine be
established as a Jewish Commonwealth.’ The meeting was held in New York City at the
prestigious Biltmore Hotel from May 6 to May 11, 1942 with 600 delegates and Zionist leaders from 18 countries attending.

Prior to Biltmore, official Zionism steadfastly refused to formulate the ultimate aim of the
movement preferring instead to concentrate on the practical task of building the Jewish National Home. The Biltmore Program became the official Zionist stand on the ultimate aim of the movement. The major shift at Biltmore was prompted by intense common opposition to the British White Paper of 1939, which interpreted the terms of the Mandate in a way that would freeze ‘the Jewish community to a permanent minority status,’ and the then-current war negative situation. It was also prompted by the realization that America would play a larger part in fulfillment of Zionist designs after the war.

Official Zionism’s firm, unequivocal stand did not please every one, however. The pro-British Chaim Weizmann had bristled at them and bi-nationalists such as Henrietta Szold and Judah L. Magnes rejected them and broke off to establish their own party, Ichud (Unification), that advocated an Arab – Jewish Federation. Opposition to the Biltmore Program also lead to the founding of the anti-Zionist American Council for Judaism[.”

Lord Moyne Assassination (1944):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Moyne#Assassination
(Stern Gang Terrorists Responsible)

Anglo-American Committe of Inquiry (1946):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-American_Committee_of_Inquiry

Operation Agatha (1946):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Agatha
(British Soldiers Disarm Jewish Settlers)

King David Hotel Bombing (1946):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel_bombing
(Jewish Irgun Terrorist Group Responsible)

SS Exodus Seized (1947):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_(ship)
(Illegal Jewish Immigrants to Palestine are Returned to Europe)

Plan Daled (Plan D) (1947):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_Dalet

UN Partition Plan for Palestine Dissolving British Mandate (1947):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UN_Partition_Plan

Civil War in Mandatory Palestine (1947-1948):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947%E2%80%931948_Civil_War_in_Mandatory_Palestine
(Happens the DAY AFTER the Announcement of UN Partition Plan)

Arab–Israeli War (1948):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_War

Israeli Declaration of Independence (1948):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Independence_(Israel)

1949 Armstice Agreement:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1949_Armistice_Agreements

Israeli Retribution Operations (1951-1956):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retribution_operations

Suez Canal Crisis (1956):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Crisis

War Over Water (1964-1967):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_over_Water

Six Day War (1967):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War