Dear Mr. Cameron,
After reading the published text of your answers to questions put to you by Danny Finkelstein at the annual business lunch of the Conservative Friends of Israel, the following question occurred to me:
Would you still declare yourself to be a “Zionist” if you knew what Zionism actually was and is?
I’ll be suggesting, not asserting, that if your answer is “yes”, it would amount to an endorsement by you of Zionism’s crimes, as well as putting you at odds with the moral values and ethical principles of Judaism.
But let’s start with what you actually said. “If (my emphasis added) what you mean by Zionist is someone who believes that the Jews have a right to a homeland in Israel and a right to their country, then yes I am a Zionist, and I’m proud of the fact that Conservative politicians down the ages have played a huge role in helping to bring this about.”
The first thing you need to know if you are to be anything other than a Zionist propagandist (like Tony Blair was and I fear Prime Minister Brown might be)is the difference between Judaism and Zionismand why they are total opposites.
JUDAISM is the religion of Jews (not “the” Jews because not all Jews are religious)and, like Christianity and Islam, it has at its core a set of ethnical principles and moral values.
ZIONISM, which proclaimed its existence some four decades before the obscenity of the Nazi holocaust, is a secular, colonialist ideology, which made a mockery of, and has contempt for, the moral values and ethical principles of Judaism. How so? Short answer in two related parts.
The first is thatthe return of Jews to the land of biblical Israelby the efforts of man? one possible but woefully inadequate definition of Zionism – wasPROSCRIBED by Judaism. (Not many of today’s Jews seem to be aware of this but it is a fact). Put another way, Zionism was, is, a rebellion against Judaism.
The second is that Israel was created, mainly, by Zionist terrorism and ethnic cleansing. And this crime, which dispossessed about three quarters of the indigenous Arabs of Palestine of their land and their rights, didn’t happen by accident. It was pre-planned.
At this point, Mr. Cameron, I’ll recommend two books which you and your shadow foreign secretary would be well advised to read if you want to be informed enough to play a part if stopping the countdown to Armageddon.
The first is The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. It’s the latest work of Professor Ilan Pappe, Israel’s leading “new” or “revisionist” (honest) historian. Though at the very top of Zionism’s official “S.H.I.T” (“Self Hating Israeli Traitor”) List, Ilan is respected and admired by many people of all faiths and none around the world, for his humanity and his courage as well as his scholarship.
The second isA Threat From Within, A CENTURY OF JEWISH OPPOSITION TO ZIONISM. Its author is a Canadian Jew, Yakov Rabkin, who is Professor of History at the Universityof Montreal. When Yakov was in London, I asked him, on the record, a very explicit question: “Is it reasonable to say that the Jews of the world now have a choice to make? either to reaffirm their commitment to Judaism and renounce Zionism, or to reaffirm or affirm their commitment to Zionism and renounce Judaism?”He replied with one word, “YES!”
You said “the Jews”(presumably meaning any Jew and/or all the Jews of the world) have a right to a homeland in Israel and a right to “their country.”
Let’s take first of all the notion of “their country”.
It is a fact that many if not most of the Jews who went to Palestine in answer to Zionism’s call hadno biological connection to the ancient Hebrews. The incoming Zionist Jews were mainly foreign nationals of many lands, descended from those who became Jewish byconversion to Judaism centuries after the fall of the ancient Jewish kingdomof Israeland what is called the “dispersal” into “oblivion” of its people. The notion that there aretwo entire peoples with an equally valid claim to the same land is an historical nonsense. The relatively few Jewswitha valid claim were, are, the descendants of thosewho stayed IN Palestinethrough everything. They numbered only a few thousand at the time of Zionism’s birth; they regarded themselves as Palestinians; and they were fiercely opposed to Zionism’s colonial enterprise? because they rightly feared that it would makethemas well as the incoming, alien Zionist Jews enemies of the Arabs among whom they had lived in peace and security.
Now let’s come to grips (all too briefly and therefore inadequately) with the matter of Israel‘s right or not to exist.
According to first and still existing draft of Judeo-Christian history which is constructed on Zionist mythology (more on this in a moment), Israel was given its birth certificate and thus legitimacy by the UN Partition Resolution of 29 November 1947. This is nonsense.
In the first place the UN without the consent of the majority of the people of Palestinedid not have the rightto decide to partition Palestineor assign any part of its territory to a minority of alien immigrants in order for them to establish a state of their own.
Despite that, by the narrowest of margins, and only after a rigged vote, the UN General Assembly didpass a resolution to partition Palestine and create two states, one Arab, one Jewish, with Jerusalem not part of either. But the General Assembly resolution was only a proposal? meaning that it could have no effect, would not become policy, unless approved by the Security Council.
The truth is that the General Assembly’s partition proposal never went to the Security Council for a policy decision. Why not? Because the US knew that, if approved, it could only be implemented by force; and President Truman was not prepared to use force to partition Palestine.
So the partition plan was vitiated (becameinvalid)and the question of what the hell to do about Palestinewas taken back to the General Assembly for more discussion. The option favoured and proposed by the US was temporary UN Trusteeship. It was while the General Assembly was debating what do that Israel unilaterally declared itself to be in existence ? actually in defiance of the will of the organised international community, including the Truman administration.
The truth of the time was that the Zionist state, which came into being as a consequence of Zionism terrorism and ethnic cleansing, had no right to exist and, more to the point, could have no right to exist unless?.. Unless it was recognised and legitimizedby those who were dispossessed of their land and their rights during the creation of the Zionist state.In international law only the Palestinians could give Israel the legitimacy it craved. And that legitimacy was the only thing the Zionists could not and cannot take from the Palestinians by force.
The question which should be put to all who are demanding that Hamas recognise Israel is this: WHICH ISRAELis to be recognised?. Israel inside its borders as they were on the eve of the 1967 war and thus in accordance with Security Council Resolution 242; the Greater Israel of today, which, on a daily basis, is expanding its illegal settlements on the occupied West Bank; or (possibly) a slightly reduced Greater Israel of tomorrow ? i.e. an Israel inoccupation for ever of some of the land and water resources it grabbed in 1967?
What, Mr. Cameron, is your answer to that question?
I said above that the first and still existing draft of Judeo-Christian history (of the making and sustaining of the Arab-Israeli conflict) is constructed on Zionist mythology ? a version of history which is not in accordance with the facts and documented truth and is little more than pure propaganda.
It was to provide the first evercomprehensive account of the truth of history that I devoted more than five years of my life to researching and writing my latest book ? Zionism, The Real Enemy of the Jew.Given that it’s a re-writing of the entire story of the making and sustaining of the Arab-Israeli conflict, replacing Zionist mythology with the facts and documented truth, you might ask why I chose such a title?. I insisted on Zionism, The Real Enemy of the Jewsbecause it reflects in seven words two related truths for our time. The first is that the sleeping giant of classical anti-Semitism has been re-awakened in the Western nations where most of the world’s Jews live. The second is that the prime cause of the re-awakening is the behaviour of the Zionist state of Israel.
That said, I wonder, Mr. Cameron, if you are aware of the fact that prior to the obscenity of the Nazi holocaust, most of the best Jewish minds of the time were OPPOSED to Zionism’s colonial enterprise. Why? They believed it to be morally wrong. They feared that it would lead to unending conflict given the opposition of the entire Arab and Muslim world. They also feared that the creation in the Arab heartland of a Zionist state for some Jews (a minority) would not be in the best interests of those (the majority) who preferred to live, as they still do, as integrated citizens in the many lands of the mainly Gentile world. Simply stated, they feared that Zionism, if it was allowed by the major powers to have its way, would provoke anti-Semitism.
A more recent expression of the latter fear can be found in Israel’s Fateful Hourby Yehoshafat Harkabi, Israel’s longest serving and most enlightened Director of Military Intelligence. In this seminal book, published in English in 1988, Harkabi wrote the following (my emphasis added):
“Israel is the criterion according to which all Jews will tend to be judged. Israel as a Jewish state is an example of the Jewish character, which finds free and concentrated expression within it. Anti-Semitism has deep and historical roots. Nevertheless, any flaw in Israeli conduct, which initially is cited as anti-Israelism, is likely to be transformed into empirical proof of the validity of anti-Semitism. It would be a tragic irony if the Jewish state, which was intended to solve the problem of anti-Semitism, was to become a factor in the rise of anti-Semitism. Israelis must be aware that the price of their misconduct is paid not only by them but also Jews throughout the world.”
My attempt to tell all of the knowable truth with global context required two volumes, but I can sum up the essence of it in four short paragraphs. Before I do so, I must emphasise that my book is the oppositeof anti-Semitic. Stripped down to its absolute essence, Zionism, The Real of the Jewsis my Gentile call for the Jews, described by me as “the intellectual elite of the Western civilisation”, to become the light unto nations, by demonstrating that there isa place for morality in politics and that right cantriumph over might.
Now to my four-paragraph summary of the essence of the truth of history.
* Since its unilateraldeclaration of statehood in 1948, Israel‘s existence has NEVER, EVER, been in danger from any combination of Arab military force ? not in 1948, not in 1967 and not even in 1973. Put another way,the prospect of Israeli Jews being“driven in the sea” was NEVER A REAL ONE. Zionism’s assertion to the contrary ? the myth upon which the first and still existing draft of Judeo-Christian history is constructed ? was the cover which allowed Israel to get away where it mattered most, Western Europe and North America, with presenting its aggressionas self-defence; and itself as the victimwhen, actually, it was and is the oppressor.
* As the record of de-classified documentation shows, it wasIsrael NOT the Arabs which spurned opportunity after opportunity to make peace ? the latest of them being the re-presentation of Saudi Arabia‘s initiative.Israel’s often repeated claim that it had“no partner for peace”, and the assertion that it has lived indanger ofannihilation, are the main planks of one of THE BIGGEST AND MOST SUCCESSFUL PROPAGANDA LIES IN ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY. Chutzpah, one might say, at its most brilliant and terrifying best.
* The man who did mostto make peace possible on terms which any rationalIsraeli government and people would have accepted with relief was Yasser Arafat, which was why, from Zionism’s perspective, he had to be demonisedand destroyed.
* The colonial enterprise that Zionism is hasCORRUPTEDeverything it touched, beginning with the United Nations and including the mainstream media, what passes for democracy in the Western world (America especially) and Judaism itself.
Why, really, is knowledge of the difference between Judaism and Zionism so important?
The short answer in two parts.
The first is that it, the knowledge, is the explanation of why it is perfectly possible to be passionately anti-Zionist(anti-Zionism’s colonial and criminal enterprise) without being in any way, shape of form anti-Semitic. The bottom-line point is this. The false charge of anti-Semitism in response to criticism of Israel is the blackmail cardwhich the obscenity of the Nazi holocaust enabled and enables Zionism to play to silence criticism of its self-righteous and aggressive child, Israel, andto suppress informed and honest debate about who must do what and why for justice and peace. But when citizens know the difference between Judaism and Zionism, they do NOThave to be frightened into silence, as most Gentiles currently are, by the fear of being falsely charged with anti-Semitism for criticising Israel. In other words, knowledge of the difference between Judaism and Zionism is the key to neutralising (or trumping) Zionism’s blackmail card in order to make informed and honest debate possible.
The second is that if the citizens of the mainly Gentile nations of the Judeo-Christian world in which most Jews live are notinformed of the difference between Judaism and Zionism, there is a very real prospect, at a foreseeable point in the future, that all Jews everywhere will be blamed for the crimes of the hardcore Zionist few.
To give the statement immediately above some necessary context, I’m now going to paste in some extracts from a short as yet unpublished paper I have written on the subject of How to stop the monster of anti-Semitism going on the rampage again.
The giant of classical anti-Semitism is being re-awakened in the mainly Gentile Judeo-Christian world. A prime cause of the re-awakening is the behaviour of the Zionist (not Jewish) state of Israel. (In my original text Harkabi’s warning as quoted above is here).
It’s my view that after the obscenity of the Nazi holocaust, and because of it, the giant most likely would have gone back to sleep, remained asleep and, in all probability, would have died in its sleep ? IF Zionism had not been allowed by the major powers, first Britain, then America, to have its way, as Balfour put it, “right or wrong“. (There is a case for saying that with British and American politicians as “friends”, the Jews of the world have not needed enemies).
What, really, is the basis for believing that anti-Semitism is seriously on the rise?The increase in the desecration of synagogues and Jewish graves (and the like), verbal abuse and assaults on Jews are a pointer. But there is something far more sinister. It’s what a growing number of Gentiles, middle to upper class people in particular, are thinking and now beginning to say behind closed doors and at dinner parties. What do they say? “These fucking Jews!” And it’s grown, this antipathy, in response to Israel’s arrogance of power and the correct perception of Israel as the oppressor. And the more it becomes apparent that Israel is the obstacle to peace on any terms most Palestinians and other Arabs and Muslims can accept, the more this antipathy will grow, with the real danger that it will break out, become unsuppressed, and manifest itself as violent anti-Semitism.
As things are, and look like going, Holocaust II, shorthand for another great turning against Jews, is a real possibility in a foreseeable future.
It’s also my view, which I know is shared in private by not a few eminent Jews, that if the monster of anti-Semitism does go on the rampage again, it might well start its journey in America.
Two summary reasons why:
- Many members of Congress (past and present) hate themselves for doing the bidding of the Zionist lobby. If the opportunity to let rip with their suppressed, guilt-driven anger arises, they will want revenge.
- The prime pushers for the invasion of Iraq were neo-cons who are also hardcore Zionists. While few want to admit this publicly, many know it to be so.
QUESTION: What can be done to eliminate the danger of the monster of anti-Semitism going on the rampage again?
Short answer? The Gentiles of the Western nations among whom most of the world’s Jews live must be informed and educated about the differencies between Judaism and Zionism, and thuswhy it is wrong to blame all Jews for the crimes (yes crimes) of the hardcore Zionist few.
And that’s why I devoted more than five years of my life to researching and writing Zionism, The Real Enemy of the Jews.
When I take to the public speaking and debating trail coast-to-coast across America, the following are three main points I’ll be making to Americans:
- DON’Tblame the Jews who live among you for Zionism’s crimes.
- DON’Teven blame the Zionist lobby for buying influence on American foreign policy because it, the lobby, has only played the game according to the rules.
- DOblame your corrupt, pork-barrel system of politics which puts what passes for democracy up for sale to the highest bidders.
The essential difference between the Gentile me and hardcore Zionists can be summarised a follows. I want to do my bit to stop the monster of anti-Semitism going on the rampage again. They want, even need, anti-Semitism, to justify their crimes – past, present and future.
I’ll conclude (well almost) with a definition of what a Zionist is today. (A definition which has been endorsed by, among others, Professor Ilan Pappe).
A Zionist today is one, not necessarily a Jew, who, to quote Balfour, supports the Zionist state of Israel “right or wrong” and who cannot or will not admit that a wrong was done to the Palestinians by Zionism, (a wrong that must be righted on terms acceptable to the Palestinians for justice and peace).
In the light of the above are you, Mr. Cameron, still content to declare yourself to be a Zionist?
P.S. I will send a hard copy of the text of this blog post to your office by snail mail. Would you also like complimentary copies of both volumes of my book?