"Transfer [expulsion] was INEVITABLE and IN-BUILT into Zionsim."
- Norman Finkelstein quoting world-renowned scholar Benny Morris.
"Left" at its founding core means anti-imperialist, therefore "Left-Wing Zionism" is meaningless anachronism.
(13:20 in)
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Chaim Weizmann - who served as president of the Zionist Organization and later as the first president of Israel - stated at the Paris conference in 1918 that "the Zionist objective was to make Palestine as Jewish as England was English, as France was French."
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Time: 21:49
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"What distinguishes Zionism is its insistence on supremacy and exclusivity" - M. Rabbani, 22:15
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Gromyko was referring to European savagery towards the Jews, not Palestine.
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The UK and US "slammed their doors shut" to the persecution of Jews - M. Rabbani, 23:55
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2/3 rd of the land was Palestinian. Jews constituted 1/3rd and controlled even less. - M. Rabbani 24:30
He continues:
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"Palestine as as a preeminent Palestinian
historian Walid Khalidi has pointed out
the partition resolution in giving
roughly 55% of Palestine to the Jewish
Community 41% / 42% to the Arab Community (to the
Palestinians) did not preserve the
position of each Community." M. Rabbani
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"or even um favor one community at the expense of
the others rather it thoroughly inverted
and revolutionized uh the relationship
between between the two communities and
as many have written the the Naqba was
the inevitable consequence of partition
given the nature of Zionism.."
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"..given the territorial disposition given the weakness of the Palestinian Community whose leadership had been largely decimated during a major Revolt at the end of the 1930s, given that the Arab states were still very much under French and British influence" -MR
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"..the Nakba was the inevitable product of the
partition resolution and and one
last point also about the the un's
partition resolution is yes formally
that is what the International Community
decided in on the 29th of November
1947.."
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"it's not a resolution that could ever have gotten through the UN General Assembly today for a very simple reason: it was a very different General Assembly:
Most African most Asian States were not yet independent."
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"Were the resolution to be placed before the International Community today and I find it telling that the minority opinion was led by India, Iran and Yugoslavia I think they would have represented the clear majority..."
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"..so partition given what we know about Zionism given that it was was entirely predictable what would happen given the realities on the ground in Palestine as deeply unjust and the idea that either the Palestinians or .."
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"the Arab states could have accepted um such a resolution is is I think an illusion. That was in 1947... we saw what happened in 48 and
49: Palestinian Society was essentially destroyed..."
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"Over 80% I believe of Palestinians resident in the territory that became the state of Israel were either expelled or fled and ultimately were ethnically cleansed because ethnic cleansing consists of two components: "
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"it's not just forcing people into Refuge or expelling them it's just as importantly preventing their return and Benny Morris has written I think an article about Yosez Weitz, and the transfer committees..
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"...there was a very detailed initiative to
prevent their return and it consisted of
raising hundreds of Palestinian villages
to the ground which was systematically
implemented and so on and so
Palestinians became a stateless people..."
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"..now what is the most important reason that no Arab state was established in Palestine?
Well since the 1930s the Zionist leadership and the Hashemite Leadership of (Trans)Jordan[King Abdullah] as has been thoroughly researched ...by the Israeli British historian Avi Shlaim: "
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COLLUSION ACROSS THE JORDAN: King Abdullah, the Zionist Movement, and the Partition of Palestine by Avi Shlaim
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"...COLLUDED to prevent the establishment
of an independent Arab State in
Palestine in the late
1940s. There's there's much more here
but I think those those are the key
points I would make about
1948."
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THE ALL-PALESTINE GOVERNMENT
Est. Gaza, September 1948.
The dilemmas of Palestinian nationalism and dependence on Arab States.
Egyptian opposition to Abdullah and an instrument for frustrating his ambition to federate the Arab regions with Transjordan
#Palestine
#Gaza
#Cairo
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The Arabs ire was towards King Abdullah of "Transjordan". Something I found out on X Spaces in 2024 you still cannot discuss. I wrote about it in a "tweet" here:
@MRose_May
After the expulsion of some 300,000 Palestinians in 1948 much of the ire of the Arabs was directed towards King abdullah of Transjordan.
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"In Jordan, criticism of King Abdullah II – of the Hashemite dynasty installed on thrones across West Asia by the British following World War I, and himself a British Army veteran - and government officials and institutions is a very serious crime."
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32:15: Finkelstein engages Morris directly: "There's a real problem here..."
Fasten your seat belts, folks.
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Important point from the tweaker / twitcher / streamer Destiny: "I'm a new comer to this arena ... for sure." 47:10
Destiny reminds me of a child thinking they are winning at a console game, except the controller isn't plugged in.
Back to the adults in the room.
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Benny Morris: "The fact is transfer did
not occur before 1947 and Arabs later said then
and since then have said that the Jews
want to build a third temple on the
Temple mount as if that's what really
the mainstream of Zionism has always
wanted..." 52:45
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"...and always strived for but this is nonsense. It's something that [Amin al-Husseini] used to use as a way to mobilize masses for the cause using religion as as the way to get them to join him..."
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"The fact that Arabs said that they the Zionist want to dispossess us doesn't mean it's true it just means that there some Arabs thought that maybe."
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Benny Morris: "Let me concede something: The idea of
transfer was there.
Israel Zangwill, a British Zionist talked about [transfer] early on in the century, even [Theodor] Herzel - in some way - talked about transferring." 55:00
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Morris continues: "What I'm saying is that
the idea of transfer wasn't the core of
Zionism. the idea of Zionism was to save
the Jews who had been vastly persecuted
a in in Eastern Europe and incidentally
in the Arab world the Muslim world for
centuries..." 56:30
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