Israel Admits To Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians

Of course, when one speaks about Israeli ethnic cleansing of Palestinians it is always important to start at the beginning. From the early days of the Zionist movement, the Zionists led by Theodore Herzl had to answer the question "how does one build a Jewish state, a Jewish democracy at that, in a land that is nearly all Arab?" The early Zionists knew, contrary to subsequent propaganda of "a land without a people for a people without a land", that Palestine was 89% Arab and only 11% Jewish. How do you establish a Jewish state against such demographics? Immigration by European Jewry into Palestine was part of the plan, but there would never be enough Jews to immigrate and so there had to be another idea: ethnic cleansing.

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Do not believe the Zionist-Israeli revisionist myth that 800,000 Palestinians left their homes at the behest of Arab leaders (in order to clear the road for a slaughter of Jews) or that even if Israel had a role in forcing Palestinians into refugee camps and exile it was done only in the chaos of war and not a deliberate ethnic cleansing. The Israeli records themselves suffice to refute both these canards. Israel's ethnic cleansing was always part of the plan and was premeditated. The Arabs simply had to be forced out if the Jews could establish an Astroturf majority presence, nay occupation, on the land. As far back as 1896, at the first Zionist conference at Basel, Switzerland the founder of Political Zionism Herzl answered the aforementioned question with the French proverb, "Those who desire the ends, desire the means." Years before the Nakba, the Catastrophe, of the Palestinians in 1948, Israel's founding prime minister David Ben-Gurion wrote to his son that they, the Zionists, needed to kick out the Arabs.

And that's what happened. Zionists militias committed massacres against Arab towns and then went around warning other towns of the same fate if they did not leave as well. So it was not Arab leaders telling Palestinians to leave so Arab armies could "push the Jews into the sea", but, rather, Zionist terrorist militias warning Palestinians of impeding massacres if they did not leave. The complete reserve of the Zionist pedaled myth. (And, for the record, no Arab was the origin of that quote "push the Jews into the sea", it was invented by Zionists to make it appear as if they, the victimizers, are the ones imperiled when in reality not only they do the pushing out of another people off their land, but in 1967 an senior Israeli air force commander said that his objective in Israel's wars against Egypt and Syria was to "push the Arabs into the desert".)

So Israeli ethnic cleansing and the accompanying lies are long-standing, and beyond 1948 there was also 1967 and then an unceasing expulsion of Palestinians ever since then through numerous trickery. Last year, in 2010, over 4,000 Palestinians lost their rights to live in (occupied) Jerusalem.

But in an age when Israel continues to deny the Nakba and the far-right elements in the increasingly militaristic Knesset and apartheid state have drafted censorship laws threatening any institution that mentions the Nakba of lose of state aid and any municipality that recognizes the Nakba of lose of state financing as well, and this law is a precursor to banning any public mention of the Nakba for fear of prosecution; and the man who serves as premier today, Netanyahu, expressed lament to Israeli students in 1991 that when the world was distracted by the Tienanmen Square massacre Israel did not use the opportunity to expel at least 100,000 Palestinians and, more recently, standing in the Knesset issued an omission threat to Israel's Arab citizens that if their percentage of the population ever exceeds 30% (it is currently at 23%), that is so say if they continue to procreate (and Golda Mier wrote in her memoir that Palestinian procreation kept her up at night), then the state will have to take drastic action (i.e. expulsion or at least lose of citizenship), because of all this and the congenial nature of lies and cover-up of crimes that is Israel this recent news merits attention:

"Israel has used a covert procedure to cancel the residency status of 140,000 West Bank Palestinians between 1967 and 1994, the legal advisor for the Judea and Samaria Justice Ministry's office admits, in a new document obtained by Haaretz. The document was written after the Center for the Defense of the Individual filed a request under the Freedom of Information Law."

Of course, no one in the US political elite will be bothered by such news, including Bushama, and the US Congress may pass a resolution expressing great anguish that Israel expelled so few Palestinians when it could have ridden the West Bank of 500,000 in order to "advance the (interminable) 'peace process'".