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Zionism  and the road to Gaza’s killing fields 
George  Anthony explains the murderous Israeli strategy
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Zionism  and the road to Gaza’s killing fields 
George  Anthony explains the murderous Israeli strategy 
Joining  the Young Communist League in Hackney during 1949 wasn’t too 
difficult: the Cold  War, initiated by Truman and Churchill at Fulton in March 1946 
hadn’t yet  sunk  into the  Hackney psyche. 
Indeed,  there were 1,500 members of the Communist Party in the borough, and 
three  Communist councillors on the Hackney Borough Council. 
These  impressive figures were due to the anti-fascist struggle waged against 
Mosley  Fascism amongst the large Jewish community and led by the Communist  
Party. 
Zionism,  as represented by the Hashomair Hatsair in the area was not 
considered a force  of any significance. Indeed Zionism was seen as a diversion in 
that struggle  against reaction. 
Furthermore  the Soviet Union’s recognition of Israel during that period was 
hailed as a  progressive move and revenge for the horrors of the  holocaust. 
Books  like John Hersey’s The  Wall,  on the horrors of the Warsaw ghetto, 
and Howard’s Fast’s My  Glorious Brothers,  on the siege at Masada and the mass 
suicide, following the Roman assault, was in  the lexicon of required reading 
about anti-Semitism throughout  history. 
In  retrospect, through the lens of present day Gaza, this was a naive view 
of the  deadly forces at work in the Jewish community. And the debate with 
Hashomair  Hatsair on whether the Jews are a nation or a religion, academic sixty 
years  ago, making a deadly impact in the Middle East at the expense of the 
Arab  peoples. 
Peter  Ustinov described the Holocaust as a curse fallen finally on the Arab 
peoples.  With  Zionism the tool that  motivates the world wide Jewish 
community and persuades them that the Arab  peoples are the untermensch that they 
once were, when the Nazis - Kaltenbrunner,  of Nuremburg infamy, compared Jews 
with rats - shovelled them into the Auschwitz furnaces.   
In  the Islip Newsletter of November 2000, I revealed the history of Zionism 
and  Israel, which exposed  the thinking  that has now produced the slaughter 
at Gaza; in the following  extract-“The  Jews are not a nation, prominent 
French writer Philippe de Saint Robert wrote in  1970, that ‘From Herzel to Ben 
Gurion, the founders and realisers of Zionism  were not believers; they were the 
conscious and organised initiators of an  entirely political enterprise 
which, prior to clinging to British imperialism,  did not fail to offer its 
services to Kaiser Wilhelm II’. 
There  it is, Zionism was never about religion. But a conspiracy to create a 
gendarme  state amongst the ‘unreliable’ indigenous Middle East states and to 
protect oil  interests. This has been proclaimed consistently since the 
official foundation  of the World Zionist Organisation in August 1897. Theodore 
Herzel writing to  Cecil Rhodes, said, ‘I believe that the Zionist idea,...is a 
colonial..idea’.  That the Zionist programme in Palestine should ‘form a 
portion of a rampart of  Europe against Asia’ and be ‘an outpost of civilisation 
as opposed to  barbarism’. 
The  Balfour Declaration of November 2nd 1917, made just a few days before 
the  October Socialist Revolution, was an agreement to  form in due time, a ‘
Jewish national  home’. To free the British Government from the commitment (made 
to the Arabs bv  T.E.Lawrence to motivate the Arab nations to fight Turkey), 
and make Palestine  into an Arab state. 
In  1920, while Churchill was Secretary for War and Air, he wrote that ‘
Zionism was  the answer to international communism and that Zionism must therefore 
win the  soul of the Jewish people. 
General  Patrick Hurley told President Roosevelt in May 1943: ‘the Zionists 
envisage  Jewish leadership for the whole Middle East in the fields of economic 
 development and control’. In 1945, the US Senator Edwin C. Johnson said, ‘
a  Jewish Palestine is needed as an anchor and bulwark in the Middle  East’. 
In  1973, Israeli Prime Minister. Golda Meir. explained that ‘Israel is 
really a  safeguard for the maintenance of American interests in the area. and the 
first  line of defence for American interests in the Mediterranean basin’. A 
former  Israeli Minister of Defence Ezer Weizman went further, ‘Washington 
doesn't need  to ask us for bases; without being asked. Israel will give the 
United States all  it requires’. 
Hannah  Arendt. the U.S political commentator, wrote that Adolf Eichmann 
despised the  Assimilationists; that Orthodox Jews bored him, but he loved the 
Zionists  because they were ‘idealists'’  like him. The fathers of Zionism 
used anti-Semitism to recruit to Israel. In  1952, the editor of the social 
Zionist newspaper Davar. Wrote, ‘If I had the  power and I have the will, I would 
select a score of young men, intelligent,  decent, devoted to our ideal and 
burning with the desire to help redeem Jews, I  would send them to the countries 
where Jews are absorbed in sinful self  satisfaction. The task of these 
young men would be to disguise themselves as  non-Jews, and plague Jews with 
anti-Semitic slogans, such as, ‘Bloody Jew, Jew-  go to Palestine’. 
They  also made it clear that to make room for these would be immigrants, the 
Arabs  would have to be banished. In 1973, Chief of the Israeli General 
Staff. Moyshe  Dayan said. ‘Zionism is being realised at the expense of the Arabs’
. Sentiments  echoed by former Prime Minister Menachin Begin, ‘You should 
never be kind to  the  Arabs that we may undermine the  so-called Arab culture. 
On whose ruins we shall build a civilisation of our  own’.  
Dr  David Hacohen. a prominent member of the social-Zionist Labour Party, 
told Tory  MP R.J. Maxwell Hyslop, The  Times-November 28th 1975.  ‘The Arabs 
are not human beings. they are not people, they are Arabs’.   
In  1919. Zionist leader, Nalnun Sokolow had written, ‘Absolute purity does 
not  exist, but relatively the Jews are doubtless the purest race among 
civilised  nations’. David Ben Gurion, the first Israeli head of government 
declared in  1957 that ‘1 believe in our moral and intellectual superiority, our 
capacity to  serve as a model for the redemption of the human race’”. 
Now  the people of Gaza and indeed of Israel have reaped the whirlwind of 
these  reactionary ideas. Millions throughout the world have engaged in 
unprecedented  protests at the killing of innocent women and children, by a highly 
developed  war machine operated by young men and woman, brainwashed into believing 
they are  killing people who are less than human beings.  
Unfortunately  for them, their government has been taken aback by the world's 
rejection of this  benighted view, and that this response is held right 
across the spectrum of  opinion, from left to right, except in Israel and the 
United States. So much so  that the recent United Nations Security Council, 
unanimously called for an  immediate ceasefire.  But, as with all previous 
resolutions, rejected by Israel*.   
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