SUPPORT PALESTINE…..and here’s why!!

As the bloodshed continues in the Middle East, the search for a reasonable solution must come to grips with the real cause of the conflict. Most Americans believe that even if both sides are at fault, the Palestinians are unreasonable terrorists who have no point of view worth listening to. Really!

My position, however, is that the Palestinians have a real live grievance: their homeland for over a thousand years was taken, without their consent and by force, during the creation of the state of Israel. And all future crimes, by both sides are birthed from this original injustice.

This post outlines the history of Palestine to show how this process occurred and what a moral solution to the region’s problems should consist of. If you care about the people of the Middle East, Jewish and Arab, you owe it to yourself to read this account of the other side of the historical record.

The bullshit Zionist position is that they showed up in Palestine late in the19th century to repossess their ancestral homeland. Jews bought land and started building up the Jewish community there. They were met with violent opposition from the Palestinian Arabs; I assume stemming from the Arabs’ hate of Jews. The Zionists were then forced to defend themselves, and in one form or another, this same situation continues up to right now!!

The problem with this sorry ass explanation is that it’s simply not true.

What really happened was that the Zionist, from the beginning, looked forward to a practically complete removal of the native Arab population so that Israel could be a wholly Jewish state or as much as was possible. Land bought by the Jewish National Fund was held in the name of the Jewish people and could never be sold or even leased back to Arabs (this same shit continues today).

The Arab community, as it became more and more aware of the Zionists’ intentions, persistently opposed further Jewish immigration and land buying because it posed a clear and present danger to the very existence of Arab society in Palestine. Because of this opposition, the entire Zionist project never could have been realized without the military backing of the British.

A huge majority of the population of Palestine, by the way, had been Arabic since the seventh century A.D. (Over 1300 years) Hum?

In short, Zionism was based on a flawed, colonialist world view, that the rights of the native inhabitants didn’t matter one bit. The Arabs’ opposition to Zionism wasn’t really based on anti-Semitism, but on a totally reasonable fear of the removal of their people.

One further point: my Jewish friends say that my position is very critical of Zionism but is in no way anti-Semitic. Hum again? I don’t believe that the Jews acted worse than any other group might have acted in their situation. The Zionists had an understandable desire to establish a place where Jews could be masters of their own destiny, given the history of Jewish oppression. Especially as the danger to European Jewry crystallized in 1937 and after, the actions of the Zionists featured real desperation.

But so were the actions of the Arabs. The mythic land without people for a people without land was already home to 700,000 Palestinians in 1919. This is the root of the problem, as we are witnessing right now!!