Just like 1948: Ongoing Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine one Village at a Time

It took the colluding US and its European poodles 80 years to begin imposing sanctions on a few of those barbarian Bronze Age foreign Jewish settlers who kill, rape, harass, and expel indigenous Palestinians from their villages.

But the US and its European poodles know that the problem is not with a handful of Jewish terrorists who occasionally cause trouble. They know that these few settlers are only a tiny part of the Israeli State's ongoing plan for the ethnic cleansing of Palestine that began in the 1920s and 1930s. And because they know, the US and the Europeans are in collusion with the Zionizt movement to completely eliminate Palestine from existence.

Israel's history lays the trajectory of the colonization of Palestine. First the foreign Jewish settlers arrived illegally in Palestine. They embarked on a campaign of terror to force the Palestinian villagers and townspeople to flee their homes. That is why the 1947 "Israel" initially was the strip of Palestinian land along the Mediterranean plus the Naqab desert which was essentially empty and easy to take. The foreign Jewish invaders basically landed from the boats and controlled the villages and towns along the seacoast.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With time and expansion wars, the foreign Jewish settlers began encroaching further inland. Look at the map of today's Israel and you'll notice that Jerusalem is at the tip of an arrow of Jewish penetration into the Palestinian interior. Netanyahu keeps saying that Israel is tiny. That is true (although Lebanon is tinier) but Israel is so because it is an artificial construct that emerged out of a series of expansionist wars. In fact, at his latest press conference Netanyahu showed a map of "Israel" in which there was no West Bank. Of all the stolen Palestine, only Gaza was shown to make his point about the Philadelphi corridor. 

 

Netanyahu and his criminal Jewish settlers have already deleted the West Bank and will soon delete Gaza. The ongoing war in Gaza is purely genocidal: it is NOT about revenge; it is NOT about destroying Hamas; it is NOT about recovering the hostages. The October 7 attacks were the golden opportunity, the perfect pretext to fulfill the plan as laid out as early as the Zionist Congress in Basel in 1897. 

The October 7 attacks have revealed the true intentions of "Israel". The Jewish colony in Palestine does not want peace; Having peace means running out of pretexts for further expansion. Having peace means recognizing Palestinian sovereignty over some parts of Palestine and admitting that Israel has borders. But Israel has no borders; it has no constitution that spells out its boundaries. Israel is indeed not a "state" in the proper definition of the term; it is a colony that might keep expanding by stealing land, demolishing indigenous villages and replacing them by settlements. Have you ever wondered why Palestinian places are called villages and Israeli places are called settlements?

For the foreign Jewish invaders, Palestine and the indigenous Palestinians must be completely eliminated from existence so that only a purely Jewish supremacist racist state takes its place. 

Below is the story of a tiny Palestinian village where the Israeli judicial authorities allowed the indigenous inhabitants of the village to return after they were chased out of it by foreign Jewish settlers. Now don't jump to the conclusion that since an Israeli court has allowed this particular case, Israel is a fair arbiter between the indigenous population and the foreign settlers. Of every 100 cases brought by Palestinians before Israeli courts on issues of home ownership, home demolition orders, home expansion, building permits, land ownership.... a mere 1% is resolved in favor of the Palestinians and this 1% is marketed with grand pomp to the media. Why is that? Precisely because the Israelis use this to say that they are treating the Palestinians fairly in a legal framework worthy of "democratic" Israel. What you never hear about are the remaining 99% of cases where the Israeli court system acts a kangoroo colonial legal system whose job is to violate every judicial and ethical norm and grant discriminatory judgments in favor of the foreign Jewish settlers.

In the case of the village below, the court allowed the indigenous inhabitants of the village to return BUT they cannot build new homes. They cannot grow and expand inside their own land. Meanwhile the Jewish terrorists who expelled the Palestinians in the first place remain in place, along the village's vicinity ready to pounce again, and fear no punishment or retribution.

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Chased away by Israeli settlers, these Palestinians returned to a village in ruins
JALAL BWAITEL and JULIA FRANKEL
Sun, September 8, 2024

Palestinians Ribhi Ahmad Battat, left, and Issa Ahmad Battat, residents of the West Bank village of Khirbet Zanuta, take shelter from the midday sun in a cave Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024. Ten months after settlers threatened to kill them if they didn't leave their village, some Palestinian residents are finally home, under a rare court order. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) ASSOCIATED PRESS

KHIRBET ZANUTA, West Bank (AP) — An entire Palestinian community fled their tiny West Bank village last fall after repeated threats from Israeli settlers with a history of violence. Then, in a rare endorsement of Palestinian land rights, Israel’s highest court ruled this summer the displaced residents of Khirbet Zanuta were entitled to return under the protection of Israeli forces.

But their homecoming has been bittersweet. In the intervening months, nearly all the houses in the village, a health clinic and a school were destroyed — along with the community’s sense of security in the remote desert land where they have farmed and herded sheep for decades.

Roughly 40% of former residents have so far chosen not to return. The 150 or so that have come back are sleeping outside the ruins of their old homes. They say they are determined to rebuild – and to stay – even as settlers once again try to intimidate them into leaving and a court order prevents them from any new construction.

“There is joy, but there are some drawbacks,” said Fayez Suliman Tel, the head of the village council and one of the first to come back to see the ransacked village – roofs seemingly blown off buildings, walls defaced by graffiti.

“The situation is extremely miserable,” Tel said, “but despite that, we are steadfast and staying in our land, and God willing, this displacement will not be repeated.”

The Israeli military body in charge of civilian affairs in the West Bank said in a statement to The Associated Press it had not received any claims of Israeli vandalism of the village, and that it was taking measures to “ensure security and public order” during the villagers’ return.

“The Palestinians erected a number of structural components illegally at the place, and in that regard enforcement proceedings were undertaken in accordance with law,” the statement said.

The villagers of Khirbet Zanuta had long faced harassment and violence from settlers. But after the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas that launched the war in Gaza, they said they received explicit death threats from Israelis living in an unauthorized outpost up the hill called Meitarim Farm. The outpost is run by Yinon Levi, who has been sanctioned by the U.S., UK, EU and Canada for menacing his Palestinian neighbors.

The villagers say they reported the threats and attacks to Israeli police, but said they got little help. Fearing for their lives, at the end of October, they packed up whatever they could carry and left.

Though settler violence had been rising even before the war under the far-right government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, it has been turbocharged ever since Oct. 7. More than 1,500 Palestinians have been displaced by settler violence since then, according to the United Nations, and very few have returned home.

Khirbet Zanuta stands as a rare example. It is unclear if any other displaced community has been granted a court's permission to return since the start of the war.

Even though residents have legal protection Israel's highest court, they still have to contend with Levi and other young men from the Meitarim Farm outpost trying to intimidate them.

Shepherd Fayez Fares Al Samareh, 57, said he returned to Khirbet Zanuta two weeks ago to find that his house had been bulldozed by settlers. The men of his family have joined him in bringing their flocks back home, he said, but conditions in the village are grave.

“The children have not returned and the women as well. Where will they stay? Under the sun?” he said.

Settler surveillance continues: Al Samareh said that every Friday and Saturday, settlers arrive to the village, photographing residents.

Videos taken by human rights activists and obtained by The Associated Press show settlers roaming around Khirbet Zanuta last month, taking pictures of residents as Israeli police look on.

By displacing small villages, rights groups say West Bank settlers like Levi are able to accumulate vast swaths of land, reshaping the map of the occupied territory that Palestinians hope to include in their homeland as part of any two-state solution.

The plight of Khirbet Zanuta is also an example of the limited effectiveness of international sanctions as a means of reducing settler violence in the West Bank. The U.S. recently targeted Hashomer Yosh, a government-funded group that sends volunteers to work on West Bank farms, both legal and illegal, with sanctions. Hashomer Yosh sent volunteers to Levi’s outpost, a Nov. 13 Facebook post said.

“After all 250 Palestinian residents of Khirbet Zanuta were forced to leave, Hashomer Yosh volunteers fenced off the village to prevent the residents from returning,” a U.S. State Department spokesman, Matthew Miller, said last week.

Neither Hashomer Yosh nor Levi responded to a request for comment on intrusions into the village since residents returned. But Levi claimed in a June interview with AP that the land was his, and admitted to taking part in clearing it of Palestinians, though he denied doing so violently.

“Little by little, you feel when you drive on the roads that everyone is closing in on you,” he said at the time. “They’re building everywhere, wherever they want. So you want to do something about it.”

The legal rights guaranteed to Khirbet Zanuta's residents only go so far. Under the terms of the court ruling that allowed them to return, they are forbidden from building new structures across the roughly 1 square kilometer village. The land, the court ruled, is part of an archaeological zone, so any new structures are at risk of demolition.

Distraught but not deterred, the villagers are repairing badly damaged homes, the health clinic and the EU-funded school — by whom, they do not know for sure.

“We will renovate these buildings so that they are qualified to receive students before winter sets in,” Khaled Doudin, the governor of the Hebron region that includes Khirbet Zanuta, said as he stood in the bulldozed school.

“And after that we will continue to rehabilitate it,” he said, “so that we do not give the [Jewish] occupation the opportunity to demolish it again.”

Columbia Arrests Pro-Palestine Protesters. U South Carolina Applauds Racist Proud Boys

There you have it.

In New York, Columbia University succumbs to Zionist terror and continues to collude with the police in arresting students speaking out against the Palestine Genocide.

In South Carolina, the University of South Carolina, also in collusion with local authorities, enables the Fascist Right-Wing White supremacist organization the Proud Boys (a sister of the Zionist Organization of America which preaches a Fascist Right-Wing Jewish supremacy and endorses violent means to ethnic cleanse Palestine), to hold an event on its campus.

Calls to prohibit the event go unheard. The filthy Proud Boys have been calling Kamala Harris, Cumala, as a sexist, disgusting and cheap distortion that demonstrates the abysmal intellectual level of these inbred white mongrels from the backward southern state of South Carolina.

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White House reacts to ‘obscene’ campus roast of VP Harris at University of South Carolina
Gerren Keith Gaynor
Thu, September 5, 2024



Kamala Harris, theGrio.com

The event, organized by student organization Uncensored America, will feature a right-wing provocateur and the founder of the Proud Boys, a designated white supremacist hate group.

The White House on Wednesday avoided commenting on recent outrage over a planned comedy “roast” of Vice President Kamala Harris on the University of South Carolina campus.

The event is steeped in controversy due to the event’s vulgar advertising and the involvement of far-right extremist figures, conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos and Gavin McInnes, the co-founder of Proud Boys, a designated white supremacist hate group.

Uncensored America, a nonprofit that bills itself as an organization fighting for freedom of speech, is hosting the event. Advertisement for the scheduled Sept. 18 campus event makes vulgar and sexual references to Harris, the nation’s first female vice president.

In a letter condemning the event, the NAACP, the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization, said of the advertisement, “Lest there be any doubt of the obscene nature of the image, rather than listing the Vice President’s name as Kamala, the advertisement changes the first three letters to a vulgar term for semen.”

NAACP President Derrick Johnson and the group’s South Carolina state conference president, Brenda Murphy, called on USC President Michael Amiridis and the institution’s board of trustees to cancel the event.

During a White House press briefing on Wednesday, Karine Jean-Pierre, press secretary and spokesperson for President Joe Biden, declined to comment specifically about the University of South Carolina campus roast. Jean-Pierre told theGrio she wasn’t “familiar with this particular event” but reiterated President Biden’s praise of Harris as the “best decision” of his political career when selecting her as his vice president.

“I can’t speak to every racist, misogynistic, sexist comment that’s been out there,” said the White House spokesperson.

Critics of the USC campus event say it goes beyond free speech and exposes its students, particularly its Black student population, to hate speech and a hostile environment.

Johnson and Murphy of the NAACP point out in their letter that Black female students who objected to the campus “roast” on social media have been subjected to “racist, misogynistic, sexually explicit and lewd verbal attacks” after Yiannopoulos reposted their posts on his social media platform, which includes hundreds of thousands of followers.

South Carolina state Senator Tameika Isaac Devine also issued a letter calling for President Amiridis to cancel the campus event. Devine argued that it not only violates the institution’s policy on discrimination but also sends the “wrong message to students, faculty, alumni and donors” and will “harm the progress” the university has made toward establishing reconciliation after previously confronting its “challenged history with race.”

“I adamantly oppose our state-funded institution providing a platform to individuals or groups that promote hatred, division, and violence, and I strongly urge the university to reconsider hosting such a harmful event,” said Devine.

The NAACP noted that inviting McInnes and Yiannopoulos, in particular, poses a great danger to the student body and campus personnel. The leaders of the organization pointed out that the extremist leaders and the Proud Boys have a “history of violence,” including the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Right-wing provocateur and Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes (C) pumps his fist during a rally at Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park on April 27, 2017 in Berkeley, California. Protestors gathered in Berkeley to protest the cancellation of a speech by American conservative political commentator Ann Coulter at UC Berkeley. (Photo by Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)

“As President, you have a duty to protect the students who have chosen to matriculate at USC, your employees, and campus guests,” said their letter. “We urge you to make the correct decision and cancel the proposed event.”

A petition led by students calling on the university to pull out of hosting the campus roast has garnered nearly 25,000 signatures. In a letter reported by the local TV news station Wis10, USC President Amiridis refused to cancel the event, which he said is organized by the student chapter of Uncensored America and is “not endorsed by the university.”

“We remain steadfast in safeguarding the First Amendment rights of our students, even when we may be offended by their choices and statements,” he said.

Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, has repeatedly been the target of racist and sexist attacks from Republicans and conservatives. In a recent interview with CNN, Harris, who is of Jamaican and Indian descent, chose to take the high road when asked about her Republican opponent, Donald Trump, falsely claiming she decided to “turn Black” for political reasons.

“Same old, tired playbook. Next question, please,” said the vice president.

Democrats and strategists have previously told theGrio that Harris and her campaign should remain focused on running a campaign that keeps the attention on American voters and the issues that matter to them — not cheap shots lobbed against her by her opposition.

“I think that what we’re witnessing is the fear that we’ve got a very strong candidate and a very qualified candidate who will be able to prosecute the case against Donald Trump, and at the same time share the contrast in the two visions for this country,” said U.S. Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, who is the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in Delaware. Blunt Rochester is also a national co-chair of the Harris-Walz campaign.

“Our focus is to keep our eyes on the prize. It is winning. It is keeping that momentum going,” she told theGrio. “You want to get across that finish line … But I think they may be struggling to figure out how to define her, and we already know how to define her as a leader.”

 

Zionists, Again, Equate Palestinian National Resistance with Defunct Antisemitism

If there is antisemitism in the world today, it is in places like Germany, Great Britain, Italy and other European countries where hatred of Jews was born out of an extremist Christian ideology that lasted from the Middle Ages and well into the 20th century.

Muslim and Jews in fact have always lived together for centuries and millennia in the Arab world as well as in Andalusia and Moorish Spain from which the Christians expelled them both, forced them to convert or subject them to the Inquisition. Why did this change in the 20th century? Because the European Jews decided to have their own little me-too colony, just like King Leopold of Belgium in the Congo and every other barbarian European monarchy with their "empires" in which they decimated entire indigenous populations or turned them into free labor slaves and pilfered their wealth.

Perfidious Zionist propaganda continues brainwashing the West by equating Palestinian national resistance against the one-hundred-year long colonial dispossession and genocide by foreign Zionists with antisemitism.

If European lemurs had invaded Palestine in the 1920s, bedecked with weapons and money, and dispossessed the native indigenous population with untold violence - rapes, home demolitions, exterminating entire villages, bombings, expulsions into refugee camps and other refined European civilizing methods - the Palestinians would still be fighting, like any other indigenous people would do if attacked with such virulence by foreign invading forces. And the Zionists would call these lemurs antisemites.

But anachronistic lies persist. To wit, the following opinion below in which the author ponders, "Hamas murders 6 more hostages, and have 'we' learned anything from history about antisemitism." I wonder whom the "we" represents? Zionists? or plain brainswashed non-Jews? Let me help him:

Hamas is an Islamic terror organization, just as Israel is a Jewish terror state. 

Palestinians have been resisting the influx of illegal Jewish migrants from Europe, despite the odds stacked against them, ever since that influx began in the 1920s. It didn't start with Hamas, and it won't stop after Hamas is gone. The Palestinian cause cannot be deleted from existence, and time is on its side, regardless of the violence inflicted on its people.

When Arafat was defending Palestine, he was branded a terrorist. Haven't we learned from history that foreign colonial invaders always call the indigenous resistance "terrorist"? The German Nazis called the French resistance fighters terrrorists. The French colonial government called the Algerian resistance fighters terrorists. The English crooks (who sold Palestine to a few European Jewish bankers) called the heroes of the Indian uprisings against the vandal British empire terrorists! The Dutch called the resistors against its oppression terrorists in places like Indonesia (1602-1945), Sri Lanka (17th century-1802), the Netherlands Antilles (since 1634), Tobago (1654-1678), Suriname (17th century-1975), Guyana (1667-1815), South Africa (1652-1805), Malaysia (1610-1830), and Brazil (1630-1654).

I could go on and on about Indonesia, Vietnam, Cuba, Chile, South Africa and all the third world colonized countries that were fighting their foreign European oppressors, rapists and land and resource thieves: They were all called terrorists.

Israel is a Johnny-come-late colonial invader of Palestine; its promoters can keep distorting history and facts to fit their false narrative, but in this 21st century, most people around the world look upon Israel's rape of Palestine as a boring oft-repeated story of colonial settler rapists trying to subdue an indigenous rebellious population. What we do learn from history is that nowhere did the colonial invader succeed. The "terrorists" always win.

No matter what the Palestinians do to try and salvage their country, they'll be tagged terrorists and antisemites. In the Zionist lexicon, not one country, not one organization, not one NGO, not one court of justice, not one entity that tried to instill a modicum of justice in the 100-year-old rape of Palestine by European Jewish Zionist settlers has escaped being listed as antisemitic. At this rate, 99.99% of the world is antisemitic for trying to bring justice to the dispossessed Palestinian people. 

I ask an ethical question: Is killing someone with a knife less ethical than killing that someone with a drone? It is easier with a drone because you are not looking your victim in the eye, but that should not diminish the unethical act of killing a defenseless person with overwhelming force.

I ask another ethical question: Israel claims self-defense for indiscriminately killing thousands of people in revenge for the murder of 1,200 of its illegal settlers of raped and occupied Palestine. But the dispossessed dehumanized Palestinians, who have no choice but to fight back against the foreign invader, can also claim self-defense: It was their Palestine that was raped by those now demanding guarantees and protection from their own victim. What upside down world are we living in? 

Read the BS below (starting with a movie, not reality) about the six Israelis found dead in a Hamas tunnel. Shed tears. Learn their names and what great people they were. Learn about their parents's heartache... We all know the future movie and the Hollywoodian tear-jerker melodrama that will net millions upon its release. But will you ever know the name of just one of the 41,000 innocent Palestinians killed in cold blood by Israelis who had herded them in what was supposed a "safe zone"? Just like the Nazis used to tell their concentration camp prisoners that they were going to take a shower before they gas them to death. Is the "tactic" of luring your victim before you assassinate them this much different between Israelis in Palestine and Nazis in Germany?

Our opinion writer below says that Hersh Goldberg-Polin was kidnapped and held captive for nearly 11 months in Gaza, for no other reason than the fact that he was a Jewish man attending a music festival in Israel on the day that his murderers invaded. Not true. He was not just a Jewish man attending a festival in Israel. His presence in Israel-Occupied Palestine implies he at least sees no problem with, and perhaps even condones, the ongoing rape of Palestine and the dehumanization of an entire indigenous population. For the past 100 years, occupied Palestine has been in a constant state of war between foreign invaders claiming Palestine belongs to them because some Bronze Age toilet paper says God gave it to his pet people, and the Palestinian indigenous people who are the victims of that rape. I'm sure Mr. Goldberg-Polin knew the risks.

Palestinians kill Israelis not because the latter are Jews. In fact, many of those detained by Hamas were neither Jewish nor Israelis. Palestinians kill Israelis because the Israelis raped them and their country. Gaza is nothing but a concentration of refugee camps in which millions of Palestinians, uprooted from their ancestral villages by vicious fanatic Zionists, have been herded like "human animals" over many decades of dispossession and hatred. 

Yes, a revolution is necessary: Against Zionist fanaticism and for a free Palestine.

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Opinion

Hamas murders 6 more hostages. Have we learned nothing from history about antisemitism?
Nicole Russell, USA TODAY
Wed, September 4, 2024

The 2023 film "Irena's Vow" tells the true story of Polish nurse Irena Gut Opdyke, who became the housekeeper for a German army major in World War II. She manages to hide 12 Jews in the Nazi officer's villa to save them from extermination in the death camps.

An innkeeper she meets encourages Irena to keep a low profile to survive. When he realizes she's hiding Jews, he feigns ignorance: "I don't want to know anything."

No one in America or anywhere else in 2024 can say they do not know about the rampant antisemitism percolating in elite American universities, around the globe and at the hands of Hamas terrorists.

But have times really changed? Have we learned anything from history about how antisemitism infects and spreads?

On Saturday, Israel Defense Forces recovered the bodies of six hostages, including Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, an Israeli American, from a tunnel in Gaza, where they had been held captive by Hamas.

Hamas insinuated Monday that the captives were executed because Israeli forces were about to rescue them. The terrorist group also threatened to murder dozens of remaining hostages if Israel attempts to free them.

Hamas has released propaganda footage of the murdered hostages, including Eden Yerushalmi, 24. In the video, she said she missed her family, did not think she would make it out of Gaza alive and blamed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of abandoning her and other hostages.

Hamas also killed hostages Ori Danino, 25; Alex Lobanov, 32; Carmel Gat, 40; and Almog Sarusi, 27.

The captives were among more than 200 hostages taken Oct. 7, when Hamas invaded Israel and murdered 1,189 innocent people, most of whom were civilians. Hamas continues to hold at least 101 hostages, including seven Americans.

The Hamas-controlled health ministry in Gaza says more than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed since the war began last fall.

The murder of hostages has exacerbated a fraught political environment in Israel. As many as 500,000 people took to the streets in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv to protest the hostages' deaths and the way Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government has handled negotiations for a cease-fire and the release of hostages.

Even President Joe Biden agreed on Monday that Netanyahu has not done enough to aid the hostages' release.

Yet, it's not clear how Biden could pin any part of these murders on Netanyahu. After all, an American hostage was killed and more Americans remain in captivity. Is Biden also not doing enough to secure the hostages' release?

The fact is that Netanyahu and the Israeli government have tried to secure a cease-fire resolution, even though it was Israel that was forced to defend itself after Hamas' Oct. 7 attack.

In August, Israel agreed to the Biden-Harris administration’s cease-fire deal, but Hamas rejected it. And U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in June that Hamas had refused to accept an earlier U.S.-backed agreement to end the war.

On Tuesday, the Justice Department charged six leaders of Hamas with the Oct. 7 attack on Israel for charges that include conspiracy to kill U.S. citizens, conspiracy to support a terrorist organization and conspiracy to use bombs and weapons of mass destruction.

As the war in Gaza rages on, Jews in the United States and around the world continue to face blatant antisemitism. Whether on elite university campuses or on the streets of New York, antisemitism in any form must be rejected.

Both presidential nominees Kamala Harris and Donald Trump must make clear that no matter the election outcome in November, the new administration will do everything in its power to protect Jewish people in America and elsewhere.

On Monday, the family of Hersh Goldberg-Polin gathered for his funeral in Jerusalem. Only 23, he was kidnapped and held captive for nearly 11 months in Gaza, for no other reason than the fact that he was a Jewish man attending a music festival in Israel on the day that his murderers invaded. 

We can never say we don't want to know what Hamas is doing to Israelis. We cannot feign ignorance for the sake of peace. "May his memory be a revolution," Jon Polin said at his son's funeral. A revolution is necessary. May it come now.

Nicole Russell is an opinion columnist with USA TODAY.