It was the British - precisely the crook English - Conservatives who sold Palestine to the Zionists in 1917, in exchange for money to fund the war. The Zionists would not support the English-American war effort against Germany, Austria and Turkey for free. They demanded Palestine when Britain was on its knees, and they got it.
Britain was given a mandate - not a property deed - over Palestine by the ancestor of the UN, for as long as is required for the Palestinians to organize themselves after 400 years of Turkish occupation. Britain was supposed to help them build their state institutions and draw up a constitution for the nascent Arab State of Palestine. Next door, the French had a similar mandate over Lebanon, and the French did exactly what was expected of them: They helped the Lebanese build their institutions and draw up a constitution, then they left the country in 1943. The French did not sell Lebanon to some wealthy Jewish creepy bankers from Europe to re-create after 3,000 years a fantasy Jewish colony from the Bronze Age.
But the English crooks did just that. They got lots of money for their war, but the Zionists insisted they wanted the real estate of Palestine. That is what the Balfour Declaration is about. As a declaration, it doesn't even rise to the level of a legal contract. But if you thought Zionists cared about the law, you're mistaken. Thus began the illegal migration of European Jews - long before the Holocaust and WWII - as colonial invaders and settlers of Arab Palestine - with much terrorism, displacement and forced evictions from their villages an towns. The English crooks pretended to oppose the illegal Jewish migration into Palestine but did nothing to stop it. They were colluders with the Zionists.
The Palestinians, rising from 400 years of brutal Turkish occupation, were unsophisticated, innocent and poor. At first they welcomed the Jewish refugees, but quickly realized those were not just refugees: They had weapons, they created terrorist organizations (Haganah, Palmach, Lehi, Stern...), they had money to buy up land from credulous Palestinians at ten times the value of their property. But most of all, they acquired land by the good old primitive way: Rape, steal, uproot, demolish, terrorize and expel.
The European Zionists were wealthy and sophisticated: Weapons and propaganda flowed into Palestine which began shrinking between one act of ethnic cleansing and the next. Over the course of two decades (1920s-1940s), Palestine (600,000 native indigenous Palestinian population, 5,000 Jewish pilgrims) shrank from the totality of its historic territory to the bantustan reservations in which the criminal colonial Zionists have the Palestinians corraled, and is now on the verge of total annihilation, non-existence and deletion from the maps.
Those poor Holocaust survivors: They applied to their Palestinian victims what their own Nazi tormentors did to them. They can't help it. They are victims of the European Nazis, and instead of fighting the Nazis like everyone else did and staying in their European homelands they chose to flee like cowards and instead rape Palestine and fight the naive, innocent and poor Palestinians who had nothing to do with the Holocaust. As psychologists tell us: the abused victim becomes the abuser criminal.
They keep trying to silence Pink Floyd's Roger Waters, slapping the non-stick antisemite label on him, because he too speaks the truth about colonial and Fascist Israel and its genocide of the Palestinians.
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UK court drops terror case against Kneecap rapper
Cheers erupted from supporters inside and outside the London court when the judge found there had been a technical error in the case against Liam O'Hanna and told him he was "free to go".
Speaking outside Woolwich Crown Court, in southeast London, O'Hanna said the decision showed attempts to muzzle the band's very vocal support for the Palestinians had failed.
"It was always about Gaza, about what happens if you dare to speak up," he told dozens of jubilant supporters massed in front of the court.
"Your attempts to silence us have failed because we're right and you're wrong."
O'Hanna, 27, was charged in May when a video emerged from a November concert in London, in which he was alleged to have displayed a flag of the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.
He had denied the offence, filed under UK anti-terror laws, and his lawyers had challenged whether the charge was lodged within legal time limits.
In a 13-page written ruling, chief magistrate Paul Goldspring sided with O'Hanna, deciding: "These proceedings were not instituted in the correct form."
"Consequently, the charge is unlawful and null. This court has no jurisdiction to try the charge," Goldspring said, reading from his decision, to cheers from the public gallery.
Belfast-based lawyer Darragh Mackin, representing the Kneecap member, said the case was "always a political persecution masquerading as a prosecution".
"This is not just a victory for Kneecap, it's a victory for the freedom of expression," he told the crowds outside.
O'Hanna, who performs under the stage name Mo Chara, and his two bandmates had arrived earlier wearing balaclavas in the colours of the Irish flag.
Known as Liam Og O Hannaidh in Irish, he sat in the dock with a Palestinian keffiyeh scarf around his neck and opted to speak in, and have proceedings translated into, the Irish language.
He had faced a single charge of having "displayed an article, namely a flag, in such a way or in such circumstances as to arouse reasonable suspicion that he is a supporter of a proscribed organisation".
Since the UK banned Hezbollah as a "terrorist" organisation in 2019, it has been an offence to show support for it and is punishable by up to 14 years in jail.
O'Hanna has said in earlier interviews he did not know what the Hezbollah flag was and that he was part of a sometimes satirical musical act not to be taken at face value.
Kneecap has also said the video that led to the charge was taken out of context and insisted "they do not, and have never, supported Hamas or Hezbollah".
The group has grabbed headlines for statements denouncing Israel's war in Gaza.
It has seen its notoriety increase since the start of the legal proceedings, having been banned in Canada and Hungary, with some of their concerts cancelled in Germany and Austria.
Kneecap cancelled all 15 dates of a planned US tour next month because they fell too close to the court case.
The group has said the media attention and gig cancellations have helped raise their profile.
"There's no doubt there's more people coming to the gigs, which leads to obviously more profit," O Hanna told AFP on September 9.
- Legal controversies -
The UK legal case comes amid growing controversy over support for organisations that have been banned.
Hundreds have been arrested, mostly at demonstrations, since the Palestine Action group was outlawed in early July under anti-terrorism laws.
The government ban on Palestine Action came into force days after the group took responsibility for a break-in at an air force base in southern England that caused an estimated £7.0 million ($9.3 million) of damage.
The group said its actions were to protest against Britain's military support for Israel during the Gaza war.
Daring provocateurs to their fans, dangerous extremists to their detractors, Kneecap was formed in 2017 and is no stranger to controversy.
Its lyrics are filled with references to drugs, members have repeatedly clashed with the UK government and they have vocally opposed British rule in Northern Ireland.
Last year, the group was catapulted to international fame by a semi-fictional film based on them that scooped multiple awards, including at the Sundance festival.
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