Exodus
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In 1917, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Arthur Balfour, hurried to ensure the Zionist Jews a national homeland in Palestine. It was as if he wanted to save the Jews from an event that had not yet happened, but was awaiting them in 1941; as if he wanted to, thru The Balfour Declaration, precede the events to save the Jews from the Holocaust, which was awaiting them in year 1941,
At that moment, Balfour declared himself a Zionist God and saviour from an oppression the Zionist Jews hadn’t suffered yet, recreating the Torah’s verse:
“And I am giving you the whole land of Canaan, where you now reside as a foreigner, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God. Genesis 17:8”.
By the time their Holocaust was over in 1945, most of the world’s Zionists were settled, militarily and economically prepared for running concentration camps, cremations, mass graves, genocide, and forced displacement of the Palestinians. It’s almost like they packed Nazi policies into their bags en route from Europe to Palestine, and applied the orders of their “Zionist God”.
“Light the torches and send it through the Palestinians/Philistines’ plants, burn the crops and the plants, even the Vineyards and the Olive groves. Judges 15:5”
The year 1947 marked the start of another — one of the most inhumane — holocaust and ethnic cleansing … in Palestine by the hands of the Zionists. The Nakba.
This hadn’t happened due to random events, nor due to a British sympathy to the “oppressed Zionist!”. Ethnic racism and prejudice is a principle of Zionism, a trait that always had a negative effect, not only on the communities that associate with Jewish people, but on Jews themselves. It is the very same principle that was a reason why the Jews are oppressed for much of history.
For that the Zionist Jews would always refuse any opportunity to merge within the communities that they live in, and that because they were convinced that they are the “ Chosen people by God” as a superior ethnicity and the rest of humankind — if classified — is a lower class than the Jews. Whenever there was a chance for them to merge within their communities, the Zionist, in one way or another, were positioning themselves as victims of an oppression that would only be resolved by self-expulsion.
The 19th century was nothing but a realistic picture that explains this Zionist principal; Europe believed itself a more aware/sensible/educated continent, and “a modern cultural stream that refuses the racist oppression from the basics, has emerged.”G.Kanafani, In the Zionist Art” . This was synchronized with improvements of the socio-economic conditions of European Jewry, demonstrated in the rise of a Jewish class that had influence among the European communities. One of the most prominent was the novelist and the politician: Benjamin D’israeli.
In 1868 Benjamin D’israeli became the Prime Minister of Britain, and again in 1874, D’israeli’s (a British-Jew out of a quarter million, the number of Jewish people who lived in Britain in 1900) political position was a continuation for multiple other British governmental positions that was lead by other Jews preceding him throughout the years of the 19th century.
D’israeli ignores all that — and ignores the needs and demands of the rest of labor, middle class Jewish community to merge into their larger Europe communities — and writes his 1883 novel “Alory”. Here he presents his Jewish-hero archetype: the superior, impeccable Jewish-hero, utilizing a violently racist context that pushes towards the extremism of political Zionism. This is, ironically,” the other face for the Hitler’s Bloody coin which will appear after a century”. Kanafani, In the Zionist Art, states
“In this Novel, Alory, D’israeli presents the zionist Jewish hero, in about half century before the birth of the Zionism in Pal: refuses the merge and all it’s opportunities. And because of that he falls immediately in the extreme ethnic attitude, the attitude that Hitler will adopt, inverted, 80 years later. Kanafani, In the Zionist Art”
That same attitude of ethnic extremism was adopted again by Britain and Zionism in year 1917, and activated in 1947, by initiating a new Holocaust, Hashowa, or Catastrophe in Palestine and ethnic cleansing the Palestinian.
A British gift to the zionists as an apology for the oppression of the Jews. Yet, for the Zionists, it’s their right for what they been through and how they believed they should be. Zygmunt Bauman says “If George Orwell was right when he said that controlling the past allows to control the future, then for the future, we must, not to allow those whom controlling the present to use the past in a way that may turn the future into dismal place, that doesn’t welcome humanity. Modernity and the Holocaust.”
What I see here, in my opinion, is both irony and contradiction. How does Britain, in 1917, apologized for the oppression and the burning of Jews, before it happens, between 1941 & 1945, by giving them a national homeland in some other people’s homeland that the British are colonizing, and empowering Zionist Jews to revive a holocaust and ethnic cleansing in Palestine, the likes of which Palestinians continue to contend with in the year 2017?
A 100 years after Britain’s “grant” to the Zionists, how could we understand the apology of Queen Elizabeth (“Err, sorry”), and Banksy, who substituted her to present an apology (yet didn’t come ) in a classical British tea party that invited the depth of those whom have suffered and still suffer the results of that British declaration without offering them any kind of reparation beyond British Flags, helmets full of bullets halls, and a British cake beneath, not just a metaphorical, but a literal shadow of the biggest symbol of racism and apartheid in the current era? Synchronized with the British government’s celebration of the 100 years anniversary of that ominous Declaration, no less. One more time, how can we understand this ?
Abdel Wahab el Messiri says,
“The roots of the zionist violence returns first from the racist imperialist western heritage, that converted the world into a useable tool employed to serve the western man who owns the power, and this is what is expected from a Nietzsche-ian materialist culture, that believes in nothing but the five senses. And zionism didn’t turn into a reality but through the western colonialism formation, it — zionism — spins into it’s frame, and perceive the world through its cognitive map, not through Torah, neither Talmud, Kabbalah Books, nor the Protocols. The Protocols, Judaism, and Zionism”
Here I question, ironically quoting Adolf Hitler: “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed” until what extent would the lie remain useful?
