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Do You Really Want Peace in the Middle East? Try Starting The Peace Talks With, "I'm Sorry"


BENEATH THE SPIN ERIC L. WATTREE, SR.

Do You Really Want Peace in the Middle East?

Try Starting The Peace Talks With, "I'm Sorry"

Well, "God's chosen people" are raising unholy hell in the Middle East again. And please don't buy into the nonsense that it's about Israel being attacked, or the defense of democracy, or Israel having the right to exist--it's not about any of that. What this is about is hubris, injustice, and greed. Sure Israel has a right to exist--if that's what the indigenous people decide they want to continue to call it. But whatever it's called, be it Israel, or Palestine, Europeans have absolutely no justifiable right to be making demands in the Middle East. They don't even have the RIGHT to be in the Middle East-at all. That's the two-ton gorilla that needs to be appeased, but Israel, the United States, and Europe are bringing up every other issue on the face of the Earth to avoid having to address that very simple fact.

But those who seek the destruction of Israel are being unrealistic as well.  Yes, the Palestinians were robbed during the creation of Israel, but the fact is, as funky as it was, what's done is done.  They can no more expect the current Israelis to just pack up and leave Israel than Native Americans can expect Americans get on a boat and return to Europe. So there must be a compromise--but the onus of that compromise rests squarely on the shoulders of the Europeans.  Because regardless to whatever argument you decide to indulge, there's one fact that will always remain constant--there would be no Middle Eastern conflict if the Europeans had stayed in Europe.  

The dispute over Israel is nothing less than "The Manifest Destiny" being re-enacted. When the Europeans came to America and began to strip the indigenous people of their land, they justified their unholy atrocities by declaring that it was God's will that they settle, and bring his word to this "uncivilized land"-it was their manifest destiny. So in true civilized Christian fashion, they began to spread the Holy word of God, through the muzzle of a Gatlin gun. It was a brutally unconscionable and gruesome event, but what could these good Christians do--after all, it was God's will that they slaughter those "Godless savages." That is the exact same scenario that is currently taking place in the Middle East today. It began with the "creation" of the state of Israel in 1948, and the campaign continues as I speak--but this time, it's called Zionism.

In 1882, while Jews were being massacred throughout Russia, Leo Pinsker, the founder of the Zionist movement, published a small booklet entitled "Auto-emancipation". It pointed out that Jews would never find equality in Russia, so it was necessary for world Jewry to establish their own homeland. At first, he didn't care where it was located--in fact, the area encompassing Zaire, Africa was even considered. But later, Pinsker recognized that in order to get Jews to immigrate in numbers large enough to establish a homeland, he needed a location that would inspired the Jewish soul, and no location in the world would suit that purpose like Palestine, the land of Zion-the land that God had promised the Jews. The fact that there were indigenous people already living in Palestine never even crossed his mind.

The American Heritage Dictionary defines Zionism as follows:

"Zionism (zº"...-n¹z"...m) n. An organized movement of world Jewry that arose in Europe in the late 19th century with the aim of reconstituting a Jewish state in Palestine. Modern Zionism is concerned with the development and support of the state of Israel." Thus, Zionism, by definition and design, is a doctrine dedicated to the taking of Palestine-and on May 14, 1948, European Jews did just that.

Between 1944 and 1948, due to their experience with the Nazi's, Eastern European Jews wanted to get off the European continent by any means necessary, so various Zionist organizations created the Bariha (escape) Organization that helped close to 200,000 Jews to leave Europe and settle in Palestine. Prior to that time, in July of 1922, the League of Nations (the progenitor of the United Nations) gave Great Britain a mandate to protect the people of Palestine, but on November 29, 1947 when the U. N. General Assembly passed a resolution to partition off Palestine between the Arabs and Jews, Great Britain announced that it was terminating its mandate. The end of the British mandate was to go into effect on May 15, 1948, but on May 14, 1948 the Zionists declared the creation of Israel, a Jewish state.

But in order for the new State of Israel to have any legitimacy, it had to be recognized by the United States. The U.S. State Department was less than enthusiastic about creating a Jewish state in Palestine, but shortly after President Truman took office, European Zionist, Chaim Weizmann, convinced the president that it was only just that the survivors of the holocaust would be given their own homeland. Truman agreed, and recognized the State of Israel on May 14, 1948, and all hell's been breaking loose every since.

The Israeli-American alliance is a match made in Hell-they don't even trust each other. One of the largest units in the CIA is dedicated to the prevention of Israeli spying on the United States, and one of the biggest spy scandals in U.S. History involved an Israeli spy name Jonathan Pollard, an American of Jewish descent, born in Galveston, Texas. But in spite of that, Israel receives more U.S. Foreign aid than any other country in the world, and we've made them one of the most formidable military forces in the world. The reason for that--oil. Israel stands as an extension of the United States in the Middle East, within easy striking distance of Middle Eastern oil fields. So what we have in the Middle East is an unholy quid pro quo-The United States will help the Israelis steal Arab land, and the Israelis will help the United States steal the oil beneath the land.

So the Israeli claim that their slaughter of the Arab people is simply an attempt to defend themselves, is nothing but a farce. Granted, when someone invades your home you do have a right to attack them, but Europeans have about as much right to call Israel their home as I'd have of tearing off a part of China simply because I converted to Buddhism.

Far be it from me, however, to say whose a Jew and whose not, but I think we can all agree that European Jews are not the same Jews that were spoken of in the Bible. But, of course, you're not suppose to even whisper such sentiments here in America. To say that European Jews don't belong in Israel, or to speak out on any atrocity that the State of Israel might commit, is considered anti-Semitic in this country. But even that's a farce. There's a big difference between being anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist-to be anti-Semitic is to be against a people, while being anti-Zionist is to be against a philosophy. After all, all Jews are not Zionist. But there's another issue here as well. How can you be anti-Semitic towards Europeans? They aren't even Semites.

So as I said, all of the killing in the Middle East is about hubris, injustice, and greed. But it's also about opportunity and racism. Think about it-- as bad as the Germans and Russians treated the Jews over the years, you'd think the Jews would have been given part of one of those countries. If they'd done that, European Jews wouldn't have even had to leave home. But White folks don't play that-no matter how much they hate each other.

 

Eric L. Wattree

wattree.blogspot.com

A moderate is one who embraces truth over ideology.

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Your informative article about Palestine and Israel, about the fact that after WWII a group of people calling themselves zionists were conveniently dumped in Palestine because neither Germany nor the USA, nor any other country, offered them refuge, has deepened my understanding about
this complex situation.
I discovered that being jewish is actually a religious matter, not necessarily racial. Therefore, people who adhere to the jewish religion cannot claim, based on religious grounds, that they have rights of ancestral ownership of most of Palestine simply
because part of Palestine was called Judea.
It is the West that has saddled the Palestinians up with this unsolvable, grave problem.

Partly this must have happened
out of ignorance about the true historical
status, and confusing claims of,
those people calling themselves zionists,
that being mixed with western political opportunism.

The fatal decision to bluntly remove
the Palestinians from their home land,
force them out of their own houses,
and repopulate that land with zionist people,
has devastated the Palestinian people,
and will have very bitter consequences
that will affect the whole world.

But Wattree, wake up, please.
Human nature in black and white people,
in all people, is the same.
Whether we live in black, white, or in
multi-colored nations like the US,
we all are at the mercy of our always
fifty years behind the times governments,
governments that maybe once upon a time did,
but certainly don't do now,
(exceptions might exist, like Bhutan?),
but hopefully one day will represent
what most people have figured out to be
beneficial for the people.

You write, "But white folks don't......".
You could know better.
Black folks, white folks,
all colors of the rainbow folks,
none of us are free from having made,
from making, and from going to make
more desperate mistakes.
White people cause suffering for white people,
black people for black people,
black for white'
white for black.

Through accumulating wrong views,
we forget about the ever present potential
of kindness and ingenuity in all human beings.
Therefore our obscured, intrinsic,
great compassionate potential
is kept from operating on the level
on which beautiful humanity wants it to operate.

The president of Australia said,
'I am sorry...' to the Aboriginal people.
A representative of the dutch government has apologized to Indonesia.

By writing generalizations like
'but white folks don't'
you risk prolonging racist thinking.

I am an insignificant 'white folks'.
Nevertheless,
I hope you don't mind me now taking
this opportunity to speak from the heart:
On behalf of all white people from the
past and present,
from the depth of my heart,
I apologize to, and ask for forgiveness from
all colored people on this planet
for the white race having caused
unimaginable suffering on a vast scale.
May this apology be accepted by all colored people.

My deepest wish is
that all races may soon realize
that all races are equally brilliant in their own right.
The time has come
to generate love for all races,
warts and all.

The situation on planet earth is desperate.
On this planet nobody,
no nation, no king, no despot, no president,
has control, nor can have lasting control over situations.

Somehow, Palestinians will have to try
to co-exist with zionist people, and jews.
The white man will not leave America,
the continent that long before they
brutally invaded and occupied that land,
was already inhabited by African and Indian people
who peacefully co-existed there.
Afro Americans, Indian Americans, All Americans
have no choice but to try to peacefully co-exist.
China invaded Tibet.
Now, fifty years later the tibetan people
are outnumbered by chinese people.
No choice but to co-exist.

The nature, essence, and energy
of relative reality is change.
Neither highest mountain
nor deepest ocean stays the same.
They will disappear.

Promoting unconditional love
for Mother Nature,
for all the peoples of the world,
helpless animals included,
is the least ordinary people can do,
and vip people occupying key positions
could do.

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Toto,

Very well stated. And you're right about my remark that "White Folks don't play that--no matter how much they hate each other," was flip, and a gross generalization. But it was meant to be, in order to make the point that by giving the Jews Palestine, instead of part of the country that persecutd them, was a racist act--on a global level.

But in retrospect, I must admit, using a divisive generalization, even as a literary device, fell far short of my finest moment. But I'll try to salvage something positive from it by making it a point to avoid such missteps in my future writings.

Thank you so much for your contribution of good, common sense.

Eric Wattree

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Good luck with spreading this message.

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