Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Qumsiyeh Mazin Butros
Title : Sharing the Land of Canaan Human rights and the Israeli–Palestinian struggle
Year : 2004

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Foreword. Dr Salman Abu Sitta. On the evening of Wednesday, October 31, 1917, Allenby’s army, known as the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, encircled Beer Sheba in a surprise move and overcame the small Turkish garrison. The British flag was raised and Palestine lay open to Allenby’s conquest. Thus ended 1,400 years of Arab and Muslim rule (with the exception of the brief Crusades period). The British military handed over Palestine to the Civil Administration headed by the Zionist High Commissioner, Herbert Samuel. His mission was to put into effect the Balfour Declaration and plant a Jewish state on Arab soil. Thus, Palestine came under foreign rule, first British, then Israeli, which has lasted to this day. Palestine entered a century of wars, bloodshed, and suffering; the victims were the national majority of the country. Why? European colonialism of the nineteenth century found its belated expression among European Jews in colonizing Palestine, for a complexity of historical and financial reasons, first riding on the shoulders of the British Empire, then on its home-grown strength, still supplied generously by Western resources. One of the little known facts is that Zionism, which took a socialist character, is in fact a capitalist movement aiming to secure a territory from which it would express its ambitions, instead of manipulating European policies and wars. In other words, the Zionist capitalist movement aimed to exercise its power openly and with the recognition of the Western world, not indirectly by proxy. Some examples to illustrate this will suffice. One of the first colonial settlements in Palestine was established by the French financial tycoon Rothchilde in Caesaria. Affluent bourgeois families became Israel’s ruling class. The Hacohen, Ruppin, Shertok, and Elyashar are all related or intermarried. From this ‘family’ emerged Rosa Cohen, Yitzhak Rabin, Pinchas Sapir, Yigal Yadin, Uzi Narkis, Arthur Ruppin, Asher Yadlin, Eliahu Golomb, Moshe Dayan, Ezer Weitzman, Lord Mund, Ya’akov Meridor, and many others who created and ran the military-financial-industrial complex of Israel. They have no time for international law or human rights. They forged ahead assured of the support of the British Empire and now of the new US imperial power. ...