NefeshBarYochai
2023-12-18 05:37:08 UTC
by Eric Margolis
December 8, 2023
Palestinians have become sand in the eyes of the Mideast. How did this
happen? From where did they come?
Nowhere, according to the late Israeli prime minister Golda Meir. She
insisted Palestinians did not exist and were merely human flotsam and
jetsam. That was pretty rich coming from Golda Mabovich, born to a
Jewish family in Kiev, Russia.
So where did the Palestinians come from who are now under terrifying
siege by Israeli forces in and around Gaza, with 15,000 killed so far
by Israeli bombing, half of them children? These Palestinians came
from next door Galilee in Palestine. They are third generation
refugees.
In the early 1950s, my mother, a journalist and lecturer, went to
Palestine sponsored by a number of US newspapers and, secretly, by the
US State Department.
Newly founded Israels official position was that Palestine and
particularly the fertile Galilee region was a land without people
for a people without land (meaning Jewish immigrants).
My mother discovered hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees
living in huts made from tin cans or cardboard boxes. There were some
tents erected by foreign aid agencies and the United Nations. The
refugees were huddled together in the biting cold. Many were near
starvation.
There was only a handful of doctors or medical personnel, and no
hospitals. Jewish settlers from Eastern Europe were moving in and
seizing all the arable land. The United States was financing these
settlers. Donations to Israel in the US were, mostly, tax deductible.
The propaganda book Exodus and subsequent film paved the way for the
seizure of Palestinian land.
Those who opposed the Zionist agenda were viciously attacked. The
newspapers for whom my mother wrote were cowed into silence.
Newspapers were threatened with boycotts by their vital advertisers if
they did not eliminate my mothers writings and lectures on Palestine.
Worse, pro-Israel supporters began banging on our front door in New
York City, screaming death threats that included throwing acid into my
mothers face and mine. The war was not long over then and emotions
after the Holocaust were still raw.
My mother was eventually terrified into silence because of threats of
me being blinded by acid. She was forced to give up exposing the
miserable fate of Palestinians. Meanwhile, Jews and non-Jews from
Eastern Europe continued to pour into Palestine and expropriate Arab
owned land. Usually with help from the Israeli government or American
Zionist organizations.
When Israels new hard right government coalition came to power this
year, one of its first acts was to proclaim it would continue ethnic
cleansing in Galilee and further expand settlements on the border with
Gaza. Israels newly impowered hard right a group that the late
great Israeli columnist Uri Avnery termed Jewish fascists also had
its eye on Gaza and its 2 million Arab inhabitants, who were the
victims of the very kind of ethnic cleansing the US rightly condemned
in Kosovo and Serbia. Thats what lit the fuse for attacks near Gaza
by Hamas ironically whose founding was abetted and financed by
Israel to split the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) led by the
late Yasser Arafat, who was later likely murdered by Israeli poison
experts from Russia.
Israels far right has secured almost total control of the Biden
administration, including the president and secretary of state.
Congress jumped to its feet to applaud Netanyahu while
cold-shouldering President Obama. Those tax-deductible US donations
and over $5.5 billion annual overt and covert aid to Israel (before
Ukraine became the leading recipient of American money), plus
similarly generated aid to Ukraine make the capture of US foreign
policy possible. The few media critics who protest this kidnapping of
US policy and funds are ignored, sidelined or blacklisted.
For a shocking example, I was just bought off a major TV public news
network for a payment of $2 million.
Americans who rely for news on the big six news outfits get data
prepared for them by Israels mighty propaganda machines. Thats why
the Mideast news in France, Italy and Spain is so very different. Even
Britains once independent-minded BBC now toes the line from Israel
while the man who exposed US war crimes in Iraq Julian Assange
rots in a British maximum-security prison. So much for the famed free
press.
https://ericmargolis.com/2023/12/stop-the-slaughter-in-palestine/
"From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free"
December 8, 2023
Palestinians have become sand in the eyes of the Mideast. How did this
happen? From where did they come?
Nowhere, according to the late Israeli prime minister Golda Meir. She
insisted Palestinians did not exist and were merely human flotsam and
jetsam. That was pretty rich coming from Golda Mabovich, born to a
Jewish family in Kiev, Russia.
So where did the Palestinians come from who are now under terrifying
siege by Israeli forces in and around Gaza, with 15,000 killed so far
by Israeli bombing, half of them children? These Palestinians came
from next door Galilee in Palestine. They are third generation
refugees.
In the early 1950s, my mother, a journalist and lecturer, went to
Palestine sponsored by a number of US newspapers and, secretly, by the
US State Department.
Newly founded Israels official position was that Palestine and
particularly the fertile Galilee region was a land without people
for a people without land (meaning Jewish immigrants).
My mother discovered hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees
living in huts made from tin cans or cardboard boxes. There were some
tents erected by foreign aid agencies and the United Nations. The
refugees were huddled together in the biting cold. Many were near
starvation.
There was only a handful of doctors or medical personnel, and no
hospitals. Jewish settlers from Eastern Europe were moving in and
seizing all the arable land. The United States was financing these
settlers. Donations to Israel in the US were, mostly, tax deductible.
The propaganda book Exodus and subsequent film paved the way for the
seizure of Palestinian land.
Those who opposed the Zionist agenda were viciously attacked. The
newspapers for whom my mother wrote were cowed into silence.
Newspapers were threatened with boycotts by their vital advertisers if
they did not eliminate my mothers writings and lectures on Palestine.
Worse, pro-Israel supporters began banging on our front door in New
York City, screaming death threats that included throwing acid into my
mothers face and mine. The war was not long over then and emotions
after the Holocaust were still raw.
My mother was eventually terrified into silence because of threats of
me being blinded by acid. She was forced to give up exposing the
miserable fate of Palestinians. Meanwhile, Jews and non-Jews from
Eastern Europe continued to pour into Palestine and expropriate Arab
owned land. Usually with help from the Israeli government or American
Zionist organizations.
When Israels new hard right government coalition came to power this
year, one of its first acts was to proclaim it would continue ethnic
cleansing in Galilee and further expand settlements on the border with
Gaza. Israels newly impowered hard right a group that the late
great Israeli columnist Uri Avnery termed Jewish fascists also had
its eye on Gaza and its 2 million Arab inhabitants, who were the
victims of the very kind of ethnic cleansing the US rightly condemned
in Kosovo and Serbia. Thats what lit the fuse for attacks near Gaza
by Hamas ironically whose founding was abetted and financed by
Israel to split the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) led by the
late Yasser Arafat, who was later likely murdered by Israeli poison
experts from Russia.
Israels far right has secured almost total control of the Biden
administration, including the president and secretary of state.
Congress jumped to its feet to applaud Netanyahu while
cold-shouldering President Obama. Those tax-deductible US donations
and over $5.5 billion annual overt and covert aid to Israel (before
Ukraine became the leading recipient of American money), plus
similarly generated aid to Ukraine make the capture of US foreign
policy possible. The few media critics who protest this kidnapping of
US policy and funds are ignored, sidelined or blacklisted.
For a shocking example, I was just bought off a major TV public news
network for a payment of $2 million.
Americans who rely for news on the big six news outfits get data
prepared for them by Israels mighty propaganda machines. Thats why
the Mideast news in France, Italy and Spain is so very different. Even
Britains once independent-minded BBC now toes the line from Israel
while the man who exposed US war crimes in Iraq Julian Assange
rots in a British maximum-security prison. So much for the famed free
press.
https://ericmargolis.com/2023/12/stop-the-slaughter-in-palestine/
"From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free"