israel is the real terrorist in the Middle East

The last few days of 2008 have been dominated by news of israeli airstrikes against the Palestinian area of the Gaza Strip in occupied Palestine, or what the capitalist media calls israel. Hundreds of innocent Palestinians have been killed in these airstrikes. The capitalist media staunchly defends israel's right to engage in these monsterous acts under the guise of "protecting israeli's security against terrorist attacks." Allegedly, the popularly elected Hamas government has been launching missile attacks against so-called southern israel.

This defense of israeli aggression is so outrageous, it defies common sense. Regardless of whether you know anything about Middle East politics, let's start with the basic assumption that the country you know as israel today was actually Palestine before 1948 (please reference your geography/history for confirmation). So, how did Palestine become israel? The answer is during the end of the 19th century, some dishonest Europeans from different parts of Europe organized a conference which was called the first zionist conference in Balse, Switzerland, in 1897. The term zion was selected because of its biblical translation to a movement to return home. These Europeans met and devised a plan to steal land for the purpose of empowerment. According to the memoirs of conference leader Theodore Herzl, the strategy to put a religious purpose behind the quest for land was agreed upon because that would give the quest legitimacy while permitting the scam to escape logical rationalization and remain within the context of emotional and spiritual purpose.

These early zionists, according to Herzl, admitted they were not particularly religious, but that this guise would assist them in their quest for land. The next question was which land to seize. Several possibilities were discussed at the conference. Countries like Uganda and Veneszuela had viability, but each had issues such as lack of water and/or landlock. Finally, the country of Palestine was chosen because of its strategic location in the Middle East and because its historical location and significance would make the religious aspect easier to implement. Around the turn to the 20th century, Europeans who considered themselves Jewish were encouraged to settle in areas of Palestine. Since practitioners of Judiaism saw persecution in areas of Europe like Russia and Germany, many of these white people began to pick up and move to settle in Palestine. The effort was aided by the organization of the zionists. In 1917, Chaim Weizman, then a leading zionist proponent, established a partnership with General Smuts, the prime minister over the racist South African dominance of the African peoples in Southern Africa. To this end, a relationship of support from racist South Africa to the zionist quest was established that would continue strongly in the areas of political and economic support well into the 1990s. During these early periods of the zionist movement. Many people were confused into believing that the zionist movement had sincere roots in its stated desire to establish a home for practitioners of Judiaism that would be free from persecution for the religious practice. This is the reason Weizman was able to solicit and receive support from the NAACP in the 1920s to sponsor his speaking tour to African audiences around the U.S. to support the zionist movement.

Settlements continued into Palestine inspite of increased resistance to the forced settlements by the Palestinian people. In 1933, the Third Reich and its young leader Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. The Nazi persecution of its Jewish citizens is well documented and so its not a surprise that the overwhelming sympathy for the suffering incurred by these people during the Nazi rule resulted in overwhelming support for the zionist movement after Hitler's defeat. So, just three short years after the end of world war II, imperialist world support was so adamently in favor of this zionist state that the zionists were able to declare a seizure of the state from the Palestinian people in 1948 and the country was renamed israel with all of the support of the imperialist international community such as the governments of Western Europe, the U.S., and South Africa.

Fast forward to 2009. The Palestinians have been repressed and reduced to being forced to flee to the surrounding Arab countries. There are just the small areas of occupied Palestine where Palesinians are permitted to live like the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and less and less frequently, the Golan Heights. A couple of years ago, the more radical Hamas, a group committed to Islam and Palestinian self-determination, was elected the majority of the seats in the Palestinian Authority in Gaza. This reflected the frustration of the Palestinian people with the suffering they have endured and a willingness to accept, as Malcolm X often taught - "that extreme conditions require extreme solutions." Of course, the imperialist countries have never accepted Hamas legitimate victory or the desire of the Palestinian people to be free. The imperialist press has spent the last 60 years denying the suffering of the Palestinian people. Denying the destruction reaped upon them. Denying their lack of access to basic human rights and dignity.

So, we ask you several questions to properly understand this issue:

1. If someone kicks you out of your house, and you fight to get it back using whatever means are
at your disposal, how does that make you the terrorist?

2. Since Judiaism is a religion, like Christianity and Islam, how does a person establish a nationa-
lity based on religion since people from any nationality can belong to any religion? Also, how
is it that it is commonly accepted today that you can be a Jew, but not practice the religion?
Everyone knows if you don't practice Christianity or Islam, you can't say you are a member
of either religion?

3. Since all scholarly and academic reference indicates Judiaism started in Africa, how can
Africans who speak out against israel like the late Kwame Ture and Minister Farrakhan be
labeled anti-Judiac?

4. Finally, why is it so easily assumed by many people that the political movement discussed
here - zionism, is the same as the religion of Judiaism?

We know that the answers to all of these questions are found in the craftiness of the zionist movement and its efforts to hide its racist and imperialist aspirations behind religious intentions. Any person of God knows that God would never support a religion that steals land, represses and kills people, and exists based on the exploitation of millions of people (a primary export of israel is diamonds which have been shipped from Southern Africa to be refined in israel since the 1920s. This has been the standard processing mechanism for the so-called conflict diamonds).

The truth is that israel was established and is maintained on lies. The country exists to provide an imperialist ally in the Middle East. That is why the imperialist powers prop up israel (she is the number one recepient of U.S. foreign aide - a welfare state). The Palestinian people have every right to fight for their land back just as you would have every right to fight for your house if it was home invaded like Palestine was. Don't be confused by imperialist doubletalk. The Palestinian people are right and they will keep fighting until justice prevails!