by Eric Margolis

December 8, 2023

Palestinians have become sand in the eyes of the Mideast. How did this
happen? From where did they come?

Nowhere, according to the late Israeli prime minister Golda Meir. She
insisted Palestinians did not exist and were merely human flotsam and
jetsam. That was pretty rich coming from Golda Mabovich, born to a
Jewish family in Kiev, Russia.

So where did the Palestinians come from who are now under terrifying
siege by Israeli forces in and around Gaza, with 15,000 killed so far
by Israeli bombing, half of them children? These Palestinians came
from next door Galilee in Palestine. They are third generation
refugees.

In the early 1950’s, my mother, a journalist and lecturer, went to
Palestine sponsored by a number of US newspapers and, secretly, by the
US State Department.

Newly founded Israel’s official position was that Palestine – and
particularly the fertile Galilee region – was a ‘land without people
for a people without land (meaning Jewish immigrants).’

My mother discovered hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees
living in huts made from tin cans or cardboard boxes. There were some
tents erected by foreign aid agencies and the United Nations. The
refugees were huddled together in the biting cold. Many were near
starvation.

There was only a handful of doctors or medical personnel, and no
hospitals. Jewish settlers from Eastern Europe were moving in and
seizing all the arable land. The United States was financing these
settlers. Donations to Israel in the US were, mostly, tax deductible.
The propaganda book ‘Exodus’ and subsequent film paved the way for the
seizure of Palestinian land.

Those who opposed the Zionist agenda were viciously attacked. The
newspapers for whom my mother wrote were cowed into silence.
Newspapers were threatened with boycotts by their vital advertisers if
they did not eliminate my mother’s writings and lectures on Palestine.

Worse, pro-Israel supporters began banging on our front door in New
York City, screaming death threats that included throwing acid into my
mother’s face and mine. The war was not long over then and emotions
after the Holocaust were still raw.

My mother was eventually terrified into silence because of threats of
me being blinded by acid. She was forced to give up exposing the
miserable fate of Palestinians. Meanwhile, Jews and non-Jews from
Eastern Europe continued to pour into Palestine and expropriate Arab
owned land. Usually with help from the Israeli government or American
Zionist organizations.

When Israel’s new hard right government coalition came to power this
year, one of its first acts was to proclaim it would continue ethnic
cleansing in Galilee and further expand settlements on the border with
Gaza. Israel’s newly impowered hard right – a group that the late
great Israeli columnist Uri Avnery termed ‘Jewish fascists’ – also had
its eye on Gaza and its 2 million Arab inhabitants, who were the
victims of the very kind of ethnic cleansing the US rightly condemned
in Kosovo and Serbia. That’s what lit the fuse for attacks near Gaza
by Hamas – ironically whose founding was abetted and financed by
Israel to split the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) led by the
late Yasser Arafat, who was later likely murdered by Israeli poison
experts from Russia.

Israel’s far right has secured almost total control of the Biden
administration, including the president and secretary of state.
Congress jumped to its feet to applaud Netanyahu while
cold-shouldering President Obama. Those tax-deductible US donations
and over $5.5 billion annual overt and covert aid to Israel (before
Ukraine became the leading recipient of American money), plus
similarly generated aid to Ukraine make the capture of US foreign
policy possible. The few media critics who protest this kidnapping of
US policy and funds are ignored, sidelined or blacklisted.

For a shocking example, I was just ‘bought off’ a major TV public news
network for a payment of $2 million.

Americans who rely for news on the big six news outfits get data
prepared for them by Israel’s mighty propaganda machines. That’s why
the Mideast news in France, Italy and Spain is so very different. Even
Britain’s once independent-minded BBC now toes the line from Israel
while the man who exposed US war crimes in Iraq – Julian Assange –
rots in a British maximum-security prison. So much for the famed ‘free
press.’

https://ericmargolis.com/2023/12/stop-the-slaughter-in-palestine/

"From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free"

On Sun, 17 Dec 2023 21:36:58 -0800, NefeshBarYochai wrote:

> Israel´s far right has secured almost total control of the Biden
> administration, including the president and secretary of state.

That's key, but is it accurate to label Jews left wing or
right wing? There's no evidence that Jews differ a bit
when it comes to the subject of antisemitism. All Jews
say that antisemitism is always wrong and Jews are always
right.

With Biden and Trump on the same side, why bother to
vote? [rhetorical question]

> Congress jumped to its feet to applaud Netanyahu while
> cold-shouldering President Obama.

Obama is just as much pro-Israel as Biden / Trump.
All reputable experts are the same, or they wouldn't
be reputable! Outlawing antisemitism has outlawed
dissent!

> Those tax-deductible US donations
> and over $5.5 billion annual overt and covert aid to Israel (before
> Ukraine became the leading recipient of American money), plus
> similarly generated aid to Ukraine

not "to Ukraine" but to the Jewish government in
Ukraine. Putin's War On Antisemitism is a Jewish War.
Antisemites are the primary opponents to Putin
and Zelensky and they may have been working
together in this war to kill their opposition.

> make the capture of US foreign
> policy possible. The few media critics who protest this kidnapping of
> US policy and funds are ignored, sidelined or blacklisted.
>
> For a shocking example, I was just `bought off´ a major TV public news
> network for a payment of $2 million.

Details! Who was paid 2 million not to criticize
Israel?

>
> Americans who rely for news on the big six news outfits get data
> prepared for them by Israel´s mighty propaganda machines. That´s why
> the Mideast news in France, Italy and Spain is so very different. Even

I'm skeptical their media is all that different, but
I could be wrong. "American" media likes to keep
us as ignorant about the world as possible.

> Britain´s once independent-minded BBC now toes the line from Israel
> while the man who exposed US war crimes in Iraq - Julian Assange -
> rots in a British maximum-security prison. So much for the famed `free
> press.´
>
> https://ericmargolis.com/2023/12/stop-the-slaughter-in-palestine/
>
> "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free"