Ben Gurion: "We are the aggressors"

[georgephillip]

Agreed. The Jews had 1900 years to learn the bitter truth of that before they took their fate back into their own hands and reclaimed their ancestral or spiritual homeland.

That's true - but to bring us back to the topic of Ben Gurion's quotes; he also acknowledges the irony and unacceptability of Israel oppressing a people after a thousand years of being oppressed.

It's puzzling to see posters suggest that Palestinians be paid off and scattered to the winds - shouldn't we remember what happened to the Jews who fled to Europe?

They should go back to their home countries of Jordan and Egypt.


Israel isn't their country and Palestine never existed.

Palestine existed long before Tel Aviv:

"His Majesty's government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine.."

 

[Saigon]

They should go back to their home countries of Jordan and Egypt.


Israel isn't their country and Palestine never existed.

Prior to 1948, Israel had never existed as a country, either.

Palestine existed as a region on ancient maps for 600 years - something neither Germany, Canada nor Italy can claim.

It is important to be clear about historical facts before pretending either civilisation have no legitimate claims to statehood.

 

[georgephillip]

It is also important to be clear about the eternal usefulness of divide and conquer to the Agents of Empire in parts of the world as diverse as Northern Ireland and Palestine.

DIVIDE and CONQUER

"Following the absorption of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, the British set about shoring up their rule by the tried and true strategy of pitting ethnic group against ethnic group, tribe against tribe, and religion against religion.

"When British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour issued his famous 1917 Declaration guaranteeing a 'homeland' for the Jewish people in Palestine, he was less concerned with righting a two thousand year old wrong than creating divisions that would serve growing British interests in the Middle East.

"Sir Ronald Storrs, the first Governor of Jerusalem, certainly had no illusions about what a 'Jewish homeland' in Palestine meant for the British Empire: 'It will form for England,' he said, 'a little loyal Jewish Ulster in a sea of potentially hostile Arabism.'”

Storrs’ analogy was no accident. Ireland was where the English invented the tactic of divide and conquer, and where the devastating effectiveness of using foreign settlers to drive a wedge between the colonial rulers and the colonized made it a template for worldwide imperial rule."

It was 1609 when an English King removed two large clans from northern Ireland, replacing the Catholics with 20,000 English and Scottish Protestants, forming the Plantation of Ulster; in 1969 the Catholics and Protestants were still killing each other in North Ireland for the economic benefit of rich English Royals.

We don't have that much time left on the Zionist Plantation.