COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE INDEPENDENT
I'm glad the Independent’s headline put
"anti-Semitic" in quotes.
I think The Guardian would not have.
What I saw quoted from Labour MP, Naz Shah, from Facebook
could only be called anti-Semitic by extremists of the Israel Lobby.
Critical, yes. Anti-Semitic, no.
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A reader comment: “There has never , ever , in history been a
"Palestinian state " . Israel wasnt "recognised" is was
created by United Nations decree in a free vote.
“You clearly dont know
what you are talking about.”
I know very well the history of Israel's "creation,”
and it is a pretty sordid story, full of deception, pressure, terror, and
unfulfilled promises.
As just one example, Israel accepted the Right of Return, a
UN principle, when it was given membership and has always ignored it, just as
it has ignored more than twenty UN Resolutions condemning its acts for decades.
Israel is simply a lawless state by any definition.
And today's re-created state got its start by wheedling a
British official, Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour in 1917, during the Great
War to make a rather vague promise in a brief note to Britain’s Zionist
Federation. This was later elevated into a “founding document” for Israel.
And later, in 1948, as the people who were to become
Israelis were busy shooting up and terrifying the native Palestinians, Israel’s
lobbyists abroad won crucial American recognition from President Truman by
intense lobbying and the promise of substantial support in the form of media
and cash for his election campaign. Truman was in serious political trouble in
the 1948 election and grabbed the offer of help much as a drowning man grabs a
life preserver thrown to him. Yet he believed sincerely that recognizing Israel
was a bad idea, and he left us some sharp comments on the whole matter.
Imagine the pride you could feel in a state based on a vague
promise from an imperial power which itself had no business being in Palestine
and which had even less business making the suggestion of offering it to a
third party as though it were a load of used furniture?
