Know and Understand The Facts
          And Decide For Yourself
          What Should Be Done
          To Achieve
          True Justice and Lasting Peace
 

 When it comes to the Mideast conflict, the media generally neglects 
to raise the historical facts and issues that have led to this unholy 
mess. Ironically, it would seem that events of the last century in the 
Holy Land are considered to be ancient history. Even if you just read 
this page without clicking a link, you will probably be alarmed by what 
you did not know, and were never told.
 

* To clarify and simplify matters, on this page Palestine will refer 
solely to the area that was to be partitioned into Jewish and Arab 
states and an international zone, as depicted in the image above and as 
stipulated in the 1922 Churchill White Paper. Please note that the May 
1949 refugee data on this page are conservative estimates by the UN.
 

The preventable abomination of the Holocaust should forever remain a 
stark reminder of how very important it is to always be vigilant for 
injustice. Its rhetoric should never be tolerated and sincere 
compassion should be universally bestowed upon all of its victims. 
Human suffering knows no race, colour, nationality or creed. Above all, 
absolutely everything necessary should invariably be done to put an end 
to injustice. History has shown that dealing with one iniquity by 
conveniently committing another iniquity against an innocent third 
party is no convenient solution at all, only a guarantee of more 
needless suffering, hatred and injustice. There is no peace without 
justice.

 

Recommended links pertaining to the Middle East conflict
 

The Origin of the Palestine-Israel Conflict (Third Edition) 

A concise document touching base with all the salient issues
Very highly recommended reading
Published by Jews for Justice in The Middle East
 
A Quick Summary of the Conflict

 

The Expulsion of the Palestinians Re-examined

Israeli historians re-examine the facts.
 

Zionist-Israeli Massacres

On November 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly Resolution 181 partition 
plan is passed with the requisite help of Truman?s extortion of 
vulnerable poverty-stricken voting member countries. When asked why he 
was so resolved, the US President replied, ?I am sorry gentlemen, but I 
have to answer to hundreds of thousands who are anxious for the success 
of Zionism. I do not have hundreds of thousands of Arabs among my 
constituents.? Soon after its passage, Zionist forces began committing 
indiscriminate shootings, bombings and massacres in order to terrorize 
Palestinians from their homes and land. On May 14, 1948, the British 
mandate ended and Israel declared its statehood, which the USA 
immediately recognized. The most infamous massacre codenamed Operation 
Unity occurred prior to this, on April 9 in Deir Yassin, an Arab 
village in the international zone on the outskirts of Jerusalem. The 
British were aware of the ongoing slaughter but did nothing. As 
expected, this sadistic mass murder of unarmed civilians, including 
babies and pregnant women, struck great fear throughout Arab 
communities. This was but one of many atrocities that compelled 
Palestinians to flee for their lives, as part of the ethnic cleansing 
operation codenamed Plan Dalet. In combination with a far greater full-
scale forced removal under the threat of death, Plan D was quite the 
rousing success for Zionism. Against international law, Israel blocked 
Palestinians from returning to their rightful land and property and 
razed the large majority of Arab villages. By May 1949, Israel had 
created well over 726,000 Palestinian refugees. After Zionism?s ?non-
racist? ethnic cleansing, fewer than 133,000 non-Jews were left in 
Israel. Israel had effectively rid itself of at least 85% of its 
Gentile population, the indigenous Arab Palestinian people who for over 
1200 years were the vast majority population in the area that became 
Israel, and throughout Palestine, until the recent flood of Jewish 
immigrants in the few years just before the creation of Israel. By 
confiscating the land and property belonging to the killed and 
displaced Palestinians, Zionism achieved its dream of a truly Jewish 
state instead of the UN approved state where almost half the population 
was non-Jewish and almost all of the land belonged to non-Jews. Under 
the 1948 UN Resolution 194, the Right of Return of Palestinians, Israel 
still owes hundreds of billions of dollars in compensation to the 
Palestinians because Israel never permitted them to return to their 
rightful land and property. Since Israel is unable to pay and unwilling 
to give back any of the land unlawfully seized in 1948, the USA and 
other UN countries will wind up having to foot the whole bill. 

 

The Arab conquest of Palestine occurred about five centuries after the 
Romans decided to expulse the Jews subsequent to Jewish rebellions. 
Palestinians have a mixed ancestry since Palestine has been conquered 
by various ethnic powers but they are in essence the descendants of the 
people who always lived there, long before and long after the 
Israelites invaded and departed. Furthermore, the great majority of 
Jews have absolutely no ancestral link whatsoever to the land because 
they actually descend from the Eurasian Khazars who by royal edict 
converted en masse to Judaism during the 7th century AD.

 

Nazareth was among the towns seized in 1948. As the hometown of Jesus, 
Nazareth is obviously of significant religious importance to 
Christians. In contrast, Jews, at least those who even knew of Nazareth?
s existence, considered it to be a tiny, insignificant village in 
Biblical times. When told by Philip that Jesus was from Nazareth, 
Nathanael replied, ?Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?? (John 
1:46) In an attempt to Judaize Galilee, the almost exclusively Jewish 
twin city of Nazareth Illit (Upper Nazareth) was founded in 1957 on 
expropriated land immediately beside predominantly Arab Nazareth. 
Needless to say, it has been a source of much conflict, in addition to 
tensions between Christians and Muslims, which Israel endeavours to 
exacerbate. The situation is even worse around East Jerusalem, 
Bethlehem and other major towns in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. As 
of August 2000, the number of illegal Israeli settlements and land use 
sites in the Occupied Palestinian Territories was up to 285 and 
counting. Despite international condemnation, Israel continues to 
unlawfully confiscate land and demolish Palestinian homes in order to 
erect these monuments to Zionist expansionism, which could have been 
built far more easily within Israel. Endless checkpoints, permits and 
restrictions make it extremely difficult for Palestinians to travel to 
and fro. While Israeli settlers enjoy green lawns and bathe in backyard 
swimming pools, Palestinians struggle for drinking water. Locating 
settlers amidst justifiably irate Palestinians hardly seems to coincide 
with claims that the occupation is necessary for the security of 
Israeli citizens. As for Christianity, Zionism has all but succeeded in 
eliminating it. Christians represented about 10% of Palestine?s 
population in 1918, the year after the Balfour Declaration. Now at the 
dawn of the 21st century, the Christian faith has dwindled down to a 
mere 3% of the combined population of the Palestinian territories and 
Israel.

 

As of June 2000, there were 3,737,494 registered Palestinian refugees. 
It is estimated that one quarter of all Palestinian refugees are not 
registered, mostly out of pride. This would bring the total number of 
Palestinian refugees to about 5 million. The total population of the 
Occupied Palestinian Territories was 3.6 million including 
approximately 360,000 Jewish settlers. Of registered refugees, 32.4% 
lived in camps in Lebanon, the Gaza Strip, Syria, the West Bank and 
Jordan. While illegal Jewish settlements keep growing in the West Bank, 
East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, 62.3% of all registered refugees 
were forced to live outside the Palestinian territories. Estimates put 
the total number of refugees living outside the Palestinian territories 
at 3 million. The population density of the Palestinian territories is 
already about 600 people per sq km, even without the three million 
refugees on the outside looking in. By comparison, Israel?s population 
density isn?t even half that amount, at 275 people per sq km. When 
terrorist attacks occur against these Israeli government subsidized 
settlements, it is seldom mentioned that they exist in violation of 
Geneva Conventions. Not that terrorism should ever be condoned, but 
deliberately taunting an already oppressed people by continuously 
robbing them of what little land they have left and bulldozing their 
homes does little to dissuade it. As England can attest, Jewish 
Zionists were terrorists long before Palestinians. Even after more than 
50 years of existence, 74% of Israel?s Jewish citizens were born 
outside of Israel, most having immigrated from the United States and 
the former Soviet Union. Israel still does not have a constitution. As 
a democracy, it would require granting equal rights to Jews and non-
Jews alike, which would contradict current Jewish laws and policies. It 
is so sickeningly sad that the US government has been, and continues to 
be, so very willing to completely dismiss its own democratic values and 
aggravate worldwide anti-American sentiment against its own citizens in 
order to financially, politically and militarily support a lawbreaking 
state built on terrorism and ethnic cleansing.

 

Destroyed Palestinian Villages

Over a month before the founding of Israel and the British withdrawal, 
Israeli forces started destroying Arab villages. Eight out of thirteen 
major Zionist military attacks in April 1948 took place within the 
territory allotted to the Arab state. Upon declaring its statehood, 
Israel already occupied most Arab cities in Palestine including the 
Arab quarters in the new international city of Jerusalem and Jaffa in 
the Arab partition. Israel deliberately instigated the Israeli-Arab war 
viewing it as an ideal opportunity to expand its boundaries by means of 
far superior military preparation. Though intermittent fighting had 
been going on between Zionists and Arabs since December 1947, the 
armies of the Arab states didn?t enter Palestine until May 15, 1948, 
the day after Israel declared its statehood. Unsurprisingly, almost all 
hostilities occurred in the Arab partition. In 1949, the final outcome 
of the war was that Israel expanded to occupy 77% of Palestine 
including the larger part of Jerusalem, intended to be international 
under the UN partition resolution. Gandhi was obviously quite justified 
in 1946 when he stated, ?Why should they depend on American money or 
British arms for forcing themselves on an unwelcome land? Why should 
they resort to terrorism to make good their forcible landing in 
Palestine?? In the destroyed Arab villages, Jewish settlements were 
built over Palestinian owned land and the original Arabic village names 
were discarded for Hebrew names. Ultimately, Israel destroyed over 400 
villages. In other villages, Israel just got rid of the people and kept 
the buildings in order for Jewish settlers to move into the homes of 
the displaced Palestinians. In 1949, a tripartite committee 
[British/French/Turkish] estimated the value of the expropriated land 
and property at £1,124,000,000 sterling. Today's value is several 
hundred billion dollars.

 

Before the immigration of Zionist colonists began in the 1880?s, 
native Jews represented less than 5% of the population. In 1917, 
Britain announced the foolhardy, nonsensical and contradictory Balfour 
Declaration, favouring ?the establishment in Palestine of a national 
home for the Jewish people.? At the time, the Jewish population was 
only about 9% and their land ownership was a mere 2.5%. Moreover, 
Palestine didn?t belong to the British, nor did it ever. Britain was 
essentially reneging on earlier promises to France and the Arabs 
regarding Palestine. After World War I, the Arab states of the former 
Ottoman Empire, except for Palestine and Jordan, were granted their 
independence for having supported and fought for the Allies. In 1922, 
the League of Nations entrusted the mandate of Palestine to Britain 
with the clearly written condition that ?nothing should be done which 
might prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish 
communities in Palestine.? By 1947, Jews legally owned only 6.2% of the 
land in Palestine while their population had ballooned to about 32% due 
to massive and often illegal immigration. This means that most of the 
land in today?s Israel actually belongs to Palestinian refugees. This 
leads back to the question of why did the UN give 56% of the 
Palestinian territory to Israel when Jews owned only 6.2% of the land 
and represented only 32% of the population, a great proportion having 
only just arrived. The result was a Jewish state with the Jews owning 
less than 10% of the land and nearly half of the population consisting 
of Arab Christians and Muslims. To make matters worse, the Jewish state 
included most of the prime agricultural land cultivated by the 
indigenous Arabic Palestinians for over a millennium. Palestinians 
depended primarily on agriculture for their livelihood before the 
Nakba, the catastrophe that were the years 1947 to 1949, from the 
undemocratic and blatantly corrupt passage of Resolution 181 to the 
ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people to the war. Before and 
throughout the British mandate, one report after another concluded that 
all fertile land in Palestine already had crops. After the war, many 
Palestinian farms were turned into kibbutzim. Many others were just 
destroyed or paved over since there weren?t enough Israelis interested 
in becoming farmers. The Charter of the United Nations upholds the 
principle of self-determination. Clearly, it was ignored.

 

The Truth about Khazars (the so-called Jews)

There is strong and compelling evidence intimating that the vast 
majority of today?s Jews are not descendants of the Israelites at all, 
but of the non-Semitic Khazars whose nomadic central Asian ancestors 
first invaded farming communities within and around Caucasia circa the 
1st century BC. By royal decree of the Khagan, the Khazars converted en 
masse from paganism to Talmudism during the 7th century AD. This would 
account for the sudden appearance of large numbers of Jews in the ever 
expanding Russian Empire and nearby eastern and central European states 
shortly after the Khazar kingdom had been all but conquered by Mongols 
and then finished off by Russia. It is historically indisputable that 
the Khazarian conversion did occur. This is well documented. For 
instance, a map in The Jewish Encyclopedia depicts the Chazars as Jews 
inhabiting an area of 800,000 square miles in the 10th century AD. At 
the time of its mass conversion and throughout most of its existence, 
Khazaria covered approximately one million square miles, well over a 
hundred times the current size of Israel. This powerful kingdom was 
comparable in size to all the continental nations of western and 
central Europe combined, from Portugal to Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, 
Austria and Italy. A kingdom of such magnitude doesn?t simply vanish 
without a trace. Its large lineage surely lives on today. Zionists have 
always had a vested interest in keeping people in the dark about the 
Khazarian conversion since it could completely refute their ancestral 
claims. Ironically, this also infers that while most Palestinians are 
actual Semites, most Jews are not even descendants of Shem, let alone 
Jacob. Furthermore, Jews from eastern and central Europe are known as 
the Ashkenazim, Ashkenazi in singular form. This particular term was 
likely chosen intentionally to indicate that Ashkenazic Jews are not 
really Semites. In the Book of Genesis, Ashkenaz was a grandson of 
Japheth and hence not a Semite. Japheth was a son of Noah and a brother 
of Shem.

 

?The main part of Jewry never was in Judea and had never come out of 
Judea.?

     - H.G. Wells, Outline of History

 

Just to put things in perspective, if millions of Caucasian Christians 
claimed to be the descendants of Arab Christians, skepticism would be 
widespread, and quite warranted. Intermarriage between Caucasians and 
Hebrews would have been far more unlikely since Hebrews looked like 
Arabs, they rarely married Gentiles and both racism and anti-Semitism 
have always been rampant throughout history. Why then do the great 
majority of Jews resemble Caucasians with Asian and Turkish influences? 
Quite simply, eastern and central European Jews are not descendants of 
the Israelites, but of the non-Semitic Khazars who became Jews through 
mass conversion.

 

Over 1200 years of vast majority population and tenure by the 
indigenous Arab Palestinians and the fundamental democratic principle 
of self-determination should have in all justice rendered this entire 
ancestral issue inconsequential by comparison. At no point in time did 
the Israelites rule over the entire region of Palestine. The 
Phoenicians (Canaanites) and Philistines controlled all or most of the 
Mediterranean coast. The Israel to which Zionists allude, the extended 
kingdoms of David and Solomon with Jerusalem as the capital, existed 
only for 73 years before conflicts between tribes over the choice of 
the next king caused it to fall apart and split in two after the death 
of King Solomon. Formed by the tribes of Judah and Benjamin with 
Jerusalem remaining as its capital, the southern kingdom of Judah 
lasted less than 350 years. Formed by the other ten tribes with Samaria 
as its capital, the northern kingdom of Israel lasted slightly less 
than 200 years. United or divided, the Israelite tribes ruled over most 
of the Palestine region including Jerusalem for less than 275 years. In 
total, the kingdoms of Israel and Judah existed for less than 450 
years, in most or just in part of the region of Palestine, including 
the 25 years or so when the first king of Israel, Saul, and his 
successor son, Ish-bosheth, reigned from their respective capitals of 
Gibeah and Mahanaim while the Jebusites (Canaanites) still held 
Jerusalem (Jebus). The fall of the longer lasting southern kingdom of 
Judah occurred over 2500 years ago. It was then deemed that the 
covenant of the Promised Land between God and the Jews had been 
fulfilled and then nullified because they did not abide by God?s will 
and His law but instead had forsaken Him by allowing themselves to be 
corrupted by lust, power and greed. It should be noted that the 
Canaanites are among the ancestors of the Palestinians. The Canaanites 
inhabited Palestine for at least 1800 years before being conquered by 
the Israelites. As mixed as their ancestry may be, the Palestinians 
have in essence always inhabited and cultivated this land, long before 
and long after the Israelites came and went just like many other 
peoples and empires.

 

Regardless of the lack of authenticity of most Israelis by Biblical 
standards, dispossessing the innocent Palestinian people of their home, 
their land and their livelihood can never be justified. And refusing to 
acknowledge blatant despoliation, benefiting from it and denying full 
and equitable restitution is just plain dishonest and criminal, not to 
mention very undemocratic and downright hypocritical. But abetting the 
endless oppression of the Palestinian people through the repeated abuse 
of UN veto power and billions in taxpayers? hard earned money is truly 
unconscionable. This behaviour hardly qualifies the United States as an 
honest broker.

 

Joshua and the Conquest of the Promised Land

As explained by an American rabbi in Jerusalem

 

In the Land of Christ, Christianity is Dying

Christians of the world over may have been largely responsible for the 
creation of Israel and for billions in financial support of Israel, but 
Israel has not shown much appreciation for Christians living in the 
Holy Land.

 

Was Gandhi Anti-Semitic?

A thoughtful article from the Cape Cod Times including excerpts from 
Tom Clancy?s ?The Sum of All Fears?

 

Mahatma Gandhi Rejected Zionism

A more extensive look at Gandhi?s opposition to Zionism
 

Zionist Rationalization

An overview of the ideology behind Israel
 

Zionist-Israeli Terrorist Activities 1939-1974

Zionist terrorist attacks against British soldiers and officials were 
key in England?s decision to get out of Palestine and hand off its 
mandate to the UN.

 

Rabin's Widow Says Israelis also were Terrorists

 

Israel's Sacred Terrorism (Third Edition)

A study based on Moshe Sharett?s personal diary, and other documents

By Livia Rokach, foreword by Noam Chomsky

Moshe Sharett was Israel?s first foreign minister.

 

From Its Beginning, Israeli Policy Promoted War, Not Peace

Israel never intended to accept non-Jews; ethnic cleansing was policy 
from the very start.

 

Zionist-Israeli Terrorism and War Crimes

Many terrorists rose to the upper echelons of Israeli politics.

 

Some Prevailing Zionist Myths Challenged

Despite having truth and justice on their side, the Palestinians have 
had little success in delivering their message, particularly in 
America. On the other hand, Zionists and their supporters have been 
quite proficient at propaganda and historical dissimulation through far 
superior media access. Palestinian terrorism has made people even more 
susceptible to Israeli deception by fostering the misleading portrayal 
of the primary and overwhelming victims as the instigators and 
aggressors. Ironically, Zionist terrorism and ethnic cleansing played 
essential roles in the creation of Israel. The Arabs were not lambs, 
but they certainly regret not having been much more aggressive and 
emphatic from the very beginning of the Zionist movement. As pacifist 
Mahatma Gandhi remarked so appropriately, ?As it is, they (Zionists) 
are co-sharers with the British in despoiling a people who have done no 
wrong to them. I am not defending the Arab excesses. I wish they had 
chosen the way of non-violence in resisting what they rightly regard as 
an unacceptable encroachment upon their country. But according to the 
accepted canons of right and wrong, nothing can be said against the 
Arab resistance in the face of overwhelming odds.? Zionist myths seek 
to justify the unjustifiable. Most can be easily debunked through a 
little common sense.

 

Worldwide Hypocrisy: Immigration and Refugee Policies

America was by far the staunchest and most aggressive supporter of 
Israel?s creation but it was by no means keen in taking in Jewish 
immigrants itself. Whereas Zionism and the land policies of the Jewish 
National Fund gave Palestinians legitimate reasons to fear massive 
Jewish immigration, the rest of the world?s nations had no such 
reasons, other than anti-Semitism, and yet their immigration and 
refugee policies were far more restrictive than those of tiny 
Palestine. A classic example of this was the ?Voyage of the Damned? of 
the SS St. Louis, a ship full of Jewish refugees that no country in the 
Americas would accept, not even the United States. In 1917, the Jewish 
population of Palestine was 9%. By 1947, it had swelled to 32%. No 
country in the world would ever consider tolerating such a drastic 
demographic change, especially when the stated intention of the 
immigrants is to take over the country. Sadly for the Palestinians, it 
did in fact turn out to be tantamount to knowingly allowing an invasion 
army into their country.

 
A Quick Numerical Look at Canada's Hypocrisy

Canada didn?t want Jews but Canada expected tiny Palestine to accept 
terrific multitudes of Jewish immigrants even though their well-known 
Zionist goal was to conquer Palestine, which is precisely what they 
did.

 

None Is Too Many: Canada's Jewish Immigration Policy

A more extensive look at Canada?s hypocrisy vis-à-vis Jewish 
immigration

 

America and the Founding of Israel: An Investigation of the Morality 
of America's Role

Foremost are Chapter 9: Truman - Part 2; Palestine's Partition, 
Israel's Statehood, 1947-48 and Chapter 10: Truman - Part 3; The First 
Israeli-Arab War and its Refugees, 1948-53 since they represent the 
most significant period in Palestine?s recent history. Section VI of 
Chapter 9, The UN Vote on Partition, November 1947, is of particular 
interest because it describes some of the strong-arm tactics that the 
United States exerted on other countries in order to attain the 
adoption of the iniquitous partition plan.

 

UN General Assembly Resolution 181 - Partition Plan, 29 November 1947
The cornerstone of democracy, self-determination, is smashed to bits 
by US intimidation and incentive tactics when forty-three nations 
choose to pass the buck and make Palestine pay the price for European 
atrocities and worldwide hypocrisy. The passage of this resolution was 
very convenient for many countries. It kept them from having to take in 
any more Jewish refugees from Europe and at the same time it appeased 
Zionists among their own constituents backed by much public support and 
sympathy as Holocaust horrors came to light.

 

The Catastrophe

The plight of Palestinian refugees is put into perspective.

 

Solomon's Baby

The story of a Palestinian refugee as told by his American daughter-in-
law

 

Fighting the ?Soldiers of Occupation?

A worldly British journalist gradually comes to understand Israeli 
reality ? An anecdotal article
 

UN General Assembly Resolution 194 - The Right of Return of 
Palestinians

This resolution has been repassed countless times since 1948 but 
Israel continues to violate it even though Israel owes its very 
existence to a UN resolution. In order to be granted admission to the 
UN in 1949, Israel had to promise to comply with this resolution but 
then reneged on its oath. Israel even refuses to compensate the 
Palestinians for the unlawfully seized land and property as stipulated 
in this resolution. That amount is now several hundred billion dollars. 
Its unwillingness to return any land means that the US and the UN will 
be required to pay in full on Israel?s behalf. Furthermore, the 
resolution commences with the United Nations General Assembly 
expressing its deep appreciation of the late Count Folke Bernadotte, a 
Swedish UN mediator and renowned saviour of Jews, who was assassinated 
by Israelis at an improvised roadblock in West Jerusalem on September 
17, 1948.

 

There are many other related issues such as some three million 
Palestinian refugees currently forced to live outside the Occupied 
Palestinian Territories and the serious lack of fresh water and fertile 
land, both absolutely necessary to any realistic means of livelihood 
for the Palestinians.

 

The Assassination of Count Bernadotte

UN mediator Count Bernadotte was very sympathetic to Jews but he and 
his assistant were nonetheless murdered by Israelis simply because he 
tried to do the right thing.

 

UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees 
in the Near East)

      

Question of Palestine at the United Nations

 

UN Division for Palestinian Rights

 

UN DPR Studies (dated but easier to follow)

      

UNISPAL (United Nations Information System on the Question of 
Palestine)

            

UN Maps Related to the Question of Palestine

 

Jews Not Zionists

One of many websites by Jews who believe that Zionism conflicts with 
Torah and Judaism
 

Cactus48.com
An objective website by American Christians
 

New Kach Movement (not really recommended)

An example of one of the less subtle Zionist websites

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