"Zionism is a colonization adventure and therefore it stands or falls by the question of armed force. It is important.... to speak Hebrew, but, unfortunately, it is even more important to be able to shoot - or else I am through with playing at colonizing." Vladimir Jabotinsky in: The Iron Wall (We and the Arabs), 1923
Lenni Brenner's kritiek op het Zionisme
The Times (London), February 11, 1984)
"Who told a Berlin audience in March 1912 that each country can absorb only a limited number of Jews, if she doesn t want disorders in her stomach. Germany already has too many Jews ?
No, not Adolf Hitler but Chaim Weizmann, later president of the World Zionist Organization and later still the first president of the state of Israel.
And where might you find the following assertion, originally composed in 1917 but republished as late as 1936: The Jew is a caricature of a normal, natural human being, both physically and spiritually. As an individual in society he revolts and throws off the harness of social obligation, knows no order nor discipline ?
Not in Der Stuermer but in the organ of the Zionist youth organization, Hashomer Hatzair.
As the above quoted statement reveals, Zionism itself encouraged and exploited self-hatred in the Diaspora. It started from the assumption that anti-Semitism was inevitable and even in a sense justified so long as Jews were outside the land of Israel.
It is true that only an extreme lunatic fringe of Zionism went so far as to offer to join the war on Germany's side in 1941, in the hope of establishing the historical Jewish state on a national and totalitarian basis, and bound by a treaty with the German Reich . Unfortunately this was the group which the present Prime Minister of Israel chose to join.
That fact gives an extra edge of topicality to what would in any case be a highly controversial study of the Zionist record in the heyday of European fascism by Lenni Brenner, an American Trotskyist writer who happens also to be Jewish. (The Times (London), February 11, 1984)
Zionism in the Age of Dictators - Lenni Brenner
In 1941 the most extremist Zionist group, the "LEHI" ("Fighters for the Liberation of Israel"), led by Abraham Stern and, after his death, by a triumvirate of which Itzak Shamir was a member, committed " an unforgivable crime from the moral point of view : advocating an alliance with Hitler, with Nazi Germany, against Great Britain." (Source : Bar Zohar. "Ben Gourion." Fayard, Paris 1966, p.99.)
"The Zionist leaders all pursue the same racist goal, notwithstanding their internal rivalries : to chase all the native Arabs out of Palestine through terror, expropriation or expulsion, in order to remain the sole conquerors and masters.
Ben Gurion once declared :
"Begin undeniably belongs to the Hitlerian type. He is a racist, ready to destroy all the Arabs in his dream of unification of Israel, prepared to resort to any means to realize this sacred goal." (Source : E.Haber. "Menahem Begin, the man and the legend." Delle Book. New York 1979, p. 385.)
"The hopes of Europe's six million Jews are centered on emigration. I was asked: 'Can you bring six million Jews to Palestine?' I replied, 'No.' ... From the depths of the tragedy I want to save ... young people [for Palestine]. The old ones will pass. They will bear their fate or they will not. They are dust, economic and moral dust in a cruel world. ... Only the branch of the young shall survive. They have to accept it."
"In May 1935, Reinhardt Heydrich, the chief of the S.S. Security Service, wrote an article in which he separated Jews into "two categories." The Jews he favored were the Zionists:
"We must separate the Jews into two categories, the Zionists and the partisans of assimilation. The Zionists profess a strictly racial concept and, through emigration to Palestine, they help to build their own Jewish State...our good wishes and our official goodwill go with them."
"In February, 1939, when rumors were current that the British Government intended to grant independence to an Arab-dominated Palestine, there were bomb outrages throughout the country in which 38 Arabs were killed and 44 wounded."
"In 1944 the terrorist underground Jewish group, the Irgun Zvai Leumi, began a partisan war to drive the British out of Palestine. The many bloody misdeeds of this group included assassinating British Soldiers, raiding British military depots, assassinating the British High Commissioner in Egypt, dynamiting the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, etc. until the British finally quit Palestine on May 15, 1948. "
"Zionism has never rested on consent, either of the Arabs of Palestine, of the influential English Jewish community which opposed it when first proposed or of the occasional gentile politician who warned of its dangers. Zionism has always demanded "Bow Down Before Me"!
Peace is an interest because, in an atmosphere of just peace, the Palestinian people will be able to achieve their ambitions for independence and sovereignty, to develop their national and cultural existence through relations of good neighborliness, mutual respect, and cooperation with the Israeli people. 
"I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
De Israëlische premier Ariel Sharon heeft geen gevoel voor internationale verhoudingen. Zelfs niet voor het Amerikaanse belang om de, ook voor het welzijn van Israël, nogal problematische coalitie met islamitische landen tegen Afghanistan en Osama bin Laden in stand te houden.
"Obviously, Washington is the U.S. capital where policy decision on U.S. national interests must be made. However, the impression of the people of the Middle East and Muslims in general is that certain foreign policy decisions of the U.S. are in fact made in Tel Aviv and not in Washington. 
About 100-120 of Deir Yassin's residents, a great number of whom were women and children, were massacred. The village was a Palestinian Arab town of about 750 located west of Jerusalem.
"De Israëlische premier Ariel Sharon staat onder grote druk van de Verenigde Staten. De Amerikaanse minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Colin Powell zei gisteren dat Israëlische troepen zich "onmiddellijk" terug moeten trekken uit de autonome Palestijnse steden. De VS vrezen dat het alsmaar escalerende geweld in de Westoever en de Gazastrook hun wereldwijde coalitie tegen terrorisme in gevaar brengt.
Hij was echter te veel heer om deze mensen er met het geweer in de rug uit te schoppen. De minister streefde een beschaafdere oplossing na om het beloofde land van vreemden te zuiveren. "Transfer uit vrije wil'' was de slagzin. Hij wilde de Palestijnen uitkopen, zoals eerder rabbijn Meir Kahane vurig bepleitte.
In May 1935, Reinhardt Heydrich, the chief of the S.S. Security Service, wrote an article in which he separated Jews into "two categories." The Jews he favored were the Zionists. (Zie boven)
Alice and the Red Queen walked on in silence till they got to the top of a little hill.
For some minutes Alice stood without speaking, looking out in all directions over the country -- and a most curious country it was. There were a number of tiny little brooks running straight across it from side to side, and the ground between was divided up into squares by a number of little green hedges, that reached from brook to brook. 
"The law of applied psychology is that the individual must happily be what he is not as well as what he is in quite literal sense of being both the comedian and the tragic idealist. This means not as an alternation of mood and attitude but as a fullness of rounding out into a living and effective personality. Only children seem to show this apparent ambivalence to its fullest degree and so it has been said that only children can enter into an immortal afterworld of the spirit. The kingdom of heaven can thus be seen to be the state of consciousness in which there is room for the wildly improbable as well as the inevitable and immutable certainties to which major attention is given. A diet of nonsense may well be a prime necessity of spiritual growth. "
Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said in an interview published Friday that Israel should evacuate some Jewish settlements and conduct peace talks with the Palestinians even as violence rages.
De Palestijnen zijn woedend op de Amerikaanse president Bush omdat die blijft weigeren Yasser Arafat te ontmoeten. Ook tijdens de Algemene Vergadering van de Verenigde Naties in New York heeft Bush geen plannen de Palestijnse leider te treffen.
Wat George Bush - de Witte Koningin, die in wezen heel aardig is, maar die zwaar onder de plak van de Rode Koningin zit - de inwoners van het Palestijnse Wonderland duidelijk wil maken is dat ze blij moeten reageren wanneer ze vernederd, geschoffeerd en onderdrukt worden. "Play it cool and be a fool". 
Israel said it would build new homes for Jewish settlers in the West Bank city of Hebron, a day after the United States announced a new Middle East peace drive.
"We are working toward a day when two states, Israel and Palestine, live peacefully together within secure and recognized borders as called for by the Security Council resolutions" President George W. Bush in his remarks to the U.N. General Assembly, november 10th, 2001
Bush weigert Arafat te ontmoeten, maar ontvangt Sharon wel. Bijzonder eerlijk is dat niet. Wie vrede en rechtvaardigheid nastreeft zal de partners die bij het vredesproces betrokken zijn op een eerlijke en gelijkwaardige wijze moeten behandelen.
De hardliner Sharon - zo mogen we rustig concluderen - is niet bepaald een zegen geweest voor de Israëlische natie. 
De verzetsbewegingen (met name de fundamentalisten onder hen) staan dat schizofrene schippergedrag niet toe. Wat dat betreft is fundamentalisme een last, maar ook een zegen. 
"De enthousiaste steun van rechts voor het ontmantelen van de Palestijnse Autoriteit en het verjagen van Yasser Arafat lijkt te ontspringen aan het waanidee dat als de Palestijnse Autoriteit verdwijnt daarmee ook de Palestijnen verdwijnen. Die blijven echter achter, samen met hun legitieme politieke aspiraties en de gewelddadige manier waarop ze die soms nastreven." (Volkskrant, 4-12-2001)
"General Assembly resolution 3236 (XXIX)of 22 November 1974 reaffirmed the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, which included the right to self-determination without external interference, the right to national independence and sovereignty, and the right to return to their homes and property. The rights of the Palestinian people, as set forth by the Assembly in 1974, have been reaffirmed every year since."
