Our War and Terrorism Part 2. 

American Free Press, Jan. 7, 14, 2002, pp. 14, 21.
WHO ELSE REMEMBERS SEPTEMBER 11?
Analyzing the Roots of Middle East Turmoil
A history of perfidy and betrayal in the Mideast gives insight into the
motivations behind the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

By Dr. Robert John

Presidents Bush and Clinton said that "we are a target because we stand
for democracy, freedom, and human rights in the world. Nonsense! People
in Canada enjoy democracy, freedom, and human rights. So do the people of
Norway and Sweden. Have you heard of Canadian embassies being bombed? Or
Norwegian, or Swedish?" Robert Bowman, bishop of the United Catholic
Church in Melbourne Beach FL, who marched in protest of Israeli attacks
in Bethlehem and other Palestinian towns. He flew 101 combat missions in
Vietnam.

Essentially, from the end of World War I to World War II, the empires of
Britain, France, and Italy, controlled Arab territories. Since then, the
United States has been the controlling imperial power in the Middle East.

Prior to World War I, Arab territories were part of the Ottoman Empire.
The Sultan had taken the title of Khalif-al-Islam, or supreme religious
leader of Moslems everywhere. When Essentially, from the end of World War
I to World War II, the empires of Britain, Turkey joined Germany in the
war, the Sultan sent a summons to Sherif Hussein of Mecca,
great-grandfather of the present King of Jordan, to declare a Jihad, or
holy war, against the Allies. The British promised to support Arab
independence, if Hussein revolted instead.

There is a moment in the film Lawrence of Arabia when Peter O'Toole, clad
in an Arab clothes not unlike Osama bin Laden, asks General Allenby (Jack
Hawkins) to confirm that he can promise Sherif Hussein independence in
return for Arab support in destroying the Turkish army. For just a brief,
devastating moment, Hawkins hesitates; then his face becomes all smiling
benevolence: "Of course!" he says. Eventually shamed by what happened to
British honor, Lawrence returned his medals to the British government. 

I have held in my hand the long-secret document for the inner group (USA,
Britain, France, Italy) at the Paris Peace Conference that clearly
recognizes that the Arabs had been promised their independence in 1915,
including Palestine! It is marked "SECRET This Document is the property
of His Britannic Majesty's Government."
Kept secret, because in 1917 the British government-through international
bankers-offered a national home for Jews in Palestine, at the expense of
the land and future of the Palestinians.

This promissory note to Lord Rothschild for the Zionist Federation, the
Balfour Declaration, partly drafted by Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court Louis Brandeis, and underwritten by the Congress of the United
States of America, has cost and continues to cost American taxpayers
billions of dollars a year. The intervention has caused suffering to
millions of people, and death to many, and its consequences are major
influences on domestic and international affairs.

Brandeis, who joined the Court in 1916, was actually nominated by trial
attorney Louis Untermeyer, in return for his pre-1916-election purchase
and suppression of Wilson's passionate letters to Mary Allen Peck, with
whom Wilson had committed adultery.

Similarly, Lloyd George was beholden to a barrister, Rufus Isaacs, by
whom he was implicated in insider trading in Marconi shares. When Isaacs
was offered and accepted the post of Lord Chief Justice less than six
months later, Rudyard Kipling wrote Gehazi, since described as 'one of
the greatest hate poems ever written.' Instead of jail, within the
shortest time ever, Isaacs was made a baron, a viscount, an earl, and
Marquess-of Reading.

The noted Jewish author Arthur Koestler wrote that in the perfidious
correspondence "one nation solemnly promised to a second nation the
country of a third." More than that, the land was still part of the
empire of a fourth, namely Turkey.

Lloyd George had only headed the Government since December 1916, when his
predecessor Asquith was ousted by a coup de main.  George had been legal
counsel for the Zionists, and while Minister of Munitions, had assured
Chaim Weizmann, future president of Israel, that "he was very keen to see
a Jewish state established in Palestine." George's choice as his Foreign
Secretary was Arthur Balfour, already known for his Zionist sympathies.
After World War I, Prime Minister Lloyd George wrote in his Memoirs of
the Peace Conference, where, as planned years before, the Zionists were
strongly represented, that there was competition with Germany for Jewish
support:
"There is no better proof of the value of the Balfour Declaration as a
military move than the fact that Germany entered into negotiations with
Turkey in an endeavor to provide an alternative scheme which would appeal
to Zionists. A German-Jewish Society, the V. J. O. D., was formed, and in
January 1918, Talaat, the Turkish Grand Vizier, at the instigation of the
Germans, gave vague promises of legislation by means of which "all
justifiable wishes of the Jews in Palestine would be able to meet their
fulfillment."
"Another most cogent reason for the adoption by the Allies of the policy
of the Declaration lay in the state of Russia herself. Russian Jews had
been secretly active on behalf of the Central Powers from the first; they
had become the chief agents of German pacifist propaganda in Russia; by
1917 they had done much in preparing for that general disintegration of
Russian society, later recognized as the Revolution. It was believed that
if Great Britain declared for the fulfillment of Zionist aspirations in
Palestine under her own pledge, one effect would be to bring Russian
Jewry to the cause of the Entente.
"It was believed, also, that such a declaration would have a potent
influence upon world Jewry outside Russia, and secure for the Entente the
aid of Jewish financial interests. In America, their aid in this respect
would have a special value when the Allies had almost exhausted the gold
and marketable securities available for American purchases. Such were the
chief considerations which, in 1917, impelled the British Government
towards making a contract with Jewry" (p. 726).

Winston Churchill said:
"The Balfour Declaration must, therefore, not be regarded as a promise
given from sentimental motives; it was a practical measure taken in the
interests of a common cause at a moment when that cause could afford to
neglect no factor of moral or material assistance."  Speaking in the
House of Commons on 4 July 1922, Winston Churchill asked rhetorically,
 "Are we to keep our pledge to the Zionists made in 1917? Pledges and
promises were made during the war, and they were made, not only on the
merits, though I think the merits are considerable. They were made
because it was considered they would be of value to us in our struggle to
win the war. It was considered that the support which the Jews could give
us all over the world, and particularly in the United States, and also in
Russia, would be a definite palpable advantage.

I was not responsible at that time for the giving of those pledges, nor
for the conduct of the war of which they were, when given, an integral
part. But like other members I supported the policy of the War Cabinet.
Like other members, I accepted and was proud to accept a share in those
great transactions, which left us with terrible losses, with formidable
obligations, but nevertheless with unchallengeable victory."

As for Britain, Oxford historian Elizabeth Monroe's study, Britain's
Moment in the Middle East (Chatto & Windus, 1963, p. 43) concludes,
"Measured by British interests alone, the Balfour Declaration was one of
the greatest mistakes in our imperial history."

Sir Arnold Toynbee, historian and a delegate to the (1919) Paris Peace
Conference, wrote in his foreword to The Palestine Diary (New World
Press) that there are Palestinian refugees because "Jewish immigration
was imposed on the Palestinian Arabs by British military powerb^@&The
tragedy in Palestine is not just a local one; it is a tragedy for the
World, because it is an injustice that is a menace to the World's peace.
Britain's guilt is not diminished by the humiliating fact that she is now
impotent to redress the wrong that has been done."

William Yale, who was special agent of the State Dept. in the Near East
in World War I, told me on 12th May 1970 that Woodrow Wilson had asked
him in 1919 to interview persons who might be influential to the future
of the area.  He interviewed General Allenby, Chaim Weizmann and others.

Yale asked Weizmann what he would do if the British did not support the
Balfour Declaration for the establishment of a national home for the Jews
in Palestine. Yale said, "Weizmann pounded his fist on the table and the
teacups jumped.  'If they don't,' he said, 'we'll smash the British
Empire like we smashed the Russian Empire."

For some Germans and others following World War I, the weight given the
Balfour Declaration by British Prime Minister Lloyd George, Winston
Churchill, and other powerful figures, in securing allegedly critical
Jewish support resulting in the Allied victory, lent credence from the
highest authorities to anti-Jewish feeling.  Is this a way of
understanding subsequent German susceptibility to discrimination against
Jews following the Great War? The integrating relationship between German
Jews and non-Jews was disrupted, a relationship that had been so firm
that many German Jews could hardly accept that it had been jeopardized.
President Wilson was no better than the British imperialists, for all the
advertising of self-determination of peoples as an American value. A
commission, headed by his appointees, King and Crane, was sent to
elucidate the state of opinion in the area. They sent a telegram to the
President on 20 June 1919, warning "There was a deep belief in American
peace declarations 'as in those of the British and French Governments of
9 November 1918 on right of people to self-determination." The
Commission's Report stated "There was hostility to French control of
Syria, and "The feeling against the Zionist program was not confined to
Palestine but was shared very generally throughout the area."
Permission was not given for the printing of extracts of the Report until
after the U. S. Congress had confirmed the Balfour Declaration, where the
Resolution was introduced by Mr. Hamilton Fish of New York, and the
League of Nations had approved a proposed British Mandate for Palestine.
Thus, in the one area of the Near/Middle East where the wishes for
self-determination of the inhabitants had been determined, Wilson
suppressed the information. Wilson was-in the words of his Secretary of
War Lindley Garrison-a man of high ideals and no principles.
The resolution adopted by the United States Congress: on June 30, 1922
was the following:

Resolved by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled. That the United States of
America favours the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the
Jewish people, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done
which should prejudice the civil and religious rights of Christians and
all other non-Jewish communities in Palestine, and the holy places and
religious buildings and sites in Palestine shall be adequately protected.
Why have American presidents and the United States Congress dishonored
the American people by not keeping that pledge to the "Christians and all
other non-Jewish communities in Palestine"?

In area wars resulting from the British pledge and its implementation,
and American support, millions of the Palestinians' neighbors in Egypt,
Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria, even Saudi Arabia, have been involved. Can one
deny righteous anger - even hatred - of descendants who learn the truth?
Did the men who piloted those planes on September 11, 2001 know?

Public ignorance in Europe and America of these facts, and many more
supporting them, allows Britons and Americans to be free from guilt for
the enormity of crimes resulting from the perfidy--the breach of faith of
their representatives Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson, and those who
followed them. The German people have been required to acknowledge, atone
and pay for the sins of some of their fathers "unto the third and fourth
generation." Should the British, American and Jewish people acknowledge,
atone and pay for the deaths, dispossession and exile of millions of
Palestinians? (See footnote)

When Britain withdrew its forces from Palestine in response to Jewish
terrorism, Field Marshall Montgomery, Chief of the Imperial General
Staff, wrote, "The result of being driven out of Palestine was to weaken
our overall strategic position in the Middle East, and that of the
Western world generally in the struggle between East and West."
At the beginning of the 20th century millions of people in the Near and
Middle East from Lebanon to Afghanistan believed that an Englishman's
word was his bond and that the States of America were neutral in Near and
Middle Eastern matters. A century later, millions there who know the
facts believe the USA is their enemy - even a Great Satan - and Britain
has become its running dog with Blair barking ?"bin Laden!"

Too much history? The peoples of the Middle East live it. The Economist
Oct. 15, 2001 edition about the attack on the World Trade Center and
Pentagon, noting "the day a British mandate came into force in Palestine,
over the heads of unyielding Arab opposition," quoted from a dispatch
from Jerusalem to London's The Times of 1922. "The Arabs declared a day
of mourning throughout the city and the shops were closed as a protest
against today's formal proclamation of the Mandate, but no Jews were
molested."-The day was September 11.

Lawrence of Arabia would understand US911.

(Footnote.       "Let us not forget that the founders of modern,
international terrorism were the Zionist revisionists led by Jabotinsky,
who inspired Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun Zwei Leumi, and Yitzhak
Shamir's leader of the Stern Gang (Lehi). Have we forgotten the huge bomb
these people left in the basement of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem?
"Have we forgotten the massacre at Deir Yassein and numerous other
similar act of extermination which were designed to terrorize the
Palestinian people and send them fleeing for their lives away from their
land? Have we forgotten the slow hanging with piano wire of the kidnapped
British Army sergeants Mervyn Paice and Clifford Martin in the eucalyptus
groves of Netanya? (Their bodies were also booby-trapped with
explosives."
Bamford, James. Excerpts from Body of Secrets, in The Guardian, Sept 8,
2001.)

B) 2002. A New Enlightment Feature
This the second of a series of three on Our War and Terrorism
Dr. John is a leading foreign affairs expert, and diplomatic historian.
He is the author of The Palestine Diary: British, American and United
Nations Intervention 1914-1948. In his foreword, Arnold Toynbee, the
outstanding historian of the 20th century, wrote, "I hope this book will
be widely read in the United States, and this by Jewish and non-Jewish
Americans. If the American Government were constrained by American public
opinion to take a non-partisan line in Palestine, the situation in
Palestine might quickly change for the better."
John K. Cooley, Middle East Bureau, The Christian Science Monitor, wrote,
"It is a most illuminating and useful book. It should be in universities
and libraries, and especially in the hands of historians, throughout the
world."

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"Of all the tyrannies on human kind
The worst is that which persecutes the mind."
Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Essay on Man, Epistle II, line 239.

 Letter from a Jew 

The following letter was sent to Debbie Ducro, an American-Jewish
journalist with the Kansas City Jewish Chronicle. She published this
letter, and was fired the next day for publishing it.
Contact information for the author is included at the bottom of the
message.
Jeff Pribble
 
"Quest for Justice", By Judith Stone
I am a Jew. I was a participant in the Rally for the Right of Return to
Palestine. It was the right thing to do. I've heard about the European
holocaust against the Jews since I was a small child. I've visited the
memorials in Washington, DC and Jerusalem dedicated to Jewish lives lost
and I've cried at the recognition to what level of atrocity mankind
is capable of sinking.
Where are the Jews of conscience? No righteous malice can be held
against the survivors of Hitler's holocaust. These fragments of humanity
were in no position to make choices beyond that of personal survival. We
must not forget that being a survivor or a co-religionist of the victims
of the European Holocaust does not grant dispensation from abiding by
the rules of humanity.
"Never again" as a motto, rings hollow when it means "never again to us
alone." My generation was raised being led to believe that the biblical
land was a vast desert inhabited by a handful of impoverished Palestinians
living with their camels and eking out a living in the sand.
The arrival of the Jews was touted as a tremendous benefit to these
desert dwellers.
Golda Mier even assured us that there "is no Palestinian problem."
We know now this picture wasn't as it was painted. Palestine was a land
filed with people who called it home. There were thriving towns and
villages, schools and hospitals. There were Jews, Christians and Muslims.
In fact, prior to the occupation, Jews represented a mere 7 percent of the
population and owned 3 percent of the land.
Taking the blinders off for a moment, I see a second atrocity perpetuated
by the very people who should be exquisitely sensitive to the
suffering of others. These people knew what it felt like to be ordered
out of your home at gun point and forced to march into the
night to unknown destinations or face execution on the spot. The people
who displaced the Palestinians knew first hand what it means to watch your
home in flames, to surrender everything dear to your heart at a moment's
notice.
Bulldozers leveled hundreds of villages, along with the remains of the
village inhabitants, the old and the young. This was nothing new to the
world. Poland is a vast graveyard of the Jews of  Europe. Israel is the
final resting place of the massacred Palestinian people. A short distance
from the memorial to the Jewish children lost to the holocaust in Europe
there is a leveled parking lot. Under this parking lot is what's left of
from the memorial to the Jewish children lost to the holocaust in Europe
there is a leveled parking lot. Under this parking lot is what's left of
a once flourishing village and the bodies of men, women and children whose
only crime was taking up needed space and not leaving graciously. This
particular burial marker reads: "Public Parking".
I've talked with Palestinians. I have yet to  meet a Palestinian who
hasn't lost a member of their family to the Israeli Shoah, nor a
Palestinian who cannot name a relative or friend languishing under
inhumane conditions in an Israeli prison. Time and time again,
Israel is cited for human rights violations to no avail. On a recent trip
to Israel, I visited the refugee camps inhabited by a people who have
waited
52 years in these 'temporary' camps to go home. Every Palestinian
grandparent can tell you the name of their village, their street,
and where the olive trees were planted.
Their grandchildren may never have been home, but they can tell you
where their great-grandfather lies buried and where the village
well stood. The press has fostered the portrait of the Palestinian
terrorist. But, the victims who rose up against human indignity in
the Warsaw Ghetto are called heroes. Those who lost their lives are
called martyrs. The Palestinian who tosses a rock in desperation is a
terrorist.
Two years ago I drove through Palestine and watched intricate sprinkler
systems watering lush green lawns of Zionist settlers in their new
condominium complexes, surrounded by armed guards and barbed wire in the
midst of a Palestinian community where there
was not adequate water to drink and the surrounding fields were sandy and
dry. University professor Moshe Zimmerman reported in the
Jerusalem Post (April 30,1995), "The [Jewish] children of Hebron are just
like Hitler's youth."
We Jews are suing for restitution, lost wages, compensation for homes,
land, slave labor and back wages in Europe. Am I a traitor of a Jew for
supporting the right of return of the Palestinian refugees to their
birthplace and compensation for what was taken that cannot be returned?
The Jewish dead cannot be brought back to life and neither can the
Palestinian massacred be resurrected. David Ben Gurion said, "Let us
not ignore the truth among ourselves...politically, we are the aggressors
and they defend themselves...The country is theirs, because they inhabit
it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we
want to take away from them their country..."
Palestine is a land that has been occupied and emptied of its people.
It's cultural and physical landmarks have been obliterated and replaced
by tidy Hebrew signs. The history of a people was the first thing
eradicated by the occupiers. The history of the indigenous
people (only 52 years old) has been all but eradicated as though they
never existed. And all this has been hailed by the world as a miraculous
act of G-d. We must recognize that Israel's existence is not even a
question of legality so much as it is an illegal fait accompli realized
through the use of force while supported by the Western powers.
The UN missions directed at Israel in attempting to correct its violations
of have thus far been futile.
In Hertzl's "The Jewish State," the father of Zionism said, "...We must
investigate and take possession of the new Jewish country by means of
every modern expedient." I guess I agree with Ehud Barak (3 June 1998)
when he said, "If I were a Palestinian, I'd also join a terror group.
" I'd go a step further perhaps. Rather than throwing little stones in
desperation, I'd hurtle a boulder.
Hopefully, somewhere deep inside, every Jew of conscience knows that
this was no war; that this was not G-d's restitution of the holy land to
it's rightful owners. We know that a human atrocity was and continues to
be perpetuated against an innocent people who  couldn't come up with the
arms and money to defend themselves against the
western powers bent upon their demise as a people. We cannot continue to
say, "But what were we to do?" Zionism is not synonymous with Judaism. I
wholly support the  rally of the right of return of the Palestinian
people.
The author can be contacted at
Meadowrock1@aol.com


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