Admission of a peacenick on self-inflicted Arab "palestinians" (1976)

Book: Eliav, 'The Ladder of Israel: A Dream and Its Breakdown; A Socio-Political Analysis of Israel' | 1976

[Words Matter]

[This is from a peacenick MK , Aryeh Lova Eliav (1921–2010)]

Aryeh L. Eliav, The Ladder of Israel: A Dream and Its Breakdown; A Socio-Political Analysis of Israel, Zmora-Bitan-Modan, 1976, pp. 41-44.

Let us make a reckoning – a true and terrible reckoning – with those Palestinian Arabs. Not only with the million or more Arabs who are under our rule, but with all of them. All those two and a half million Arabs who call themselves “the Palestinian people” and who are now in the bosom of the Arab world that surrounds us.

Since our settlers, the first Zionists, set foot on the sandy and marshy land of the land a hundred years ago, the Arabs, the locals, harassed them, robbed them, plundered them, beat them, humiliated them (Awlad al-Mawt") 'children of death', [used as a derogatory slur to mean 'cowards' or 'the helpless ones'] and murdered them (I am not now doing the whole account with the Arabs and the Muslims regarding their attitude towards the Jews. This is a very long account, and it has very dark and terrible chapters. But it also has beautiful chapters in comparison to other cultures and peoples, among whom the Jews lived).

Thus the first Zionists spent the first decades, in constant fear of highwaymen, of murderers for the sake of plundering booty and of murderers for the sake of blood; and thus they were forced to create for themselves a self-defense belt, to teach their hands not only hard manual labor but also the bow [combat/weapons training. See 2 Samuel 1:18]; and thus the first defense organizations arose for them and "Hashomer" at their head. This is how they lived. In the world of the "local Arabs", where Turkish law supposedly ruled, but in reality the law of "every man for himself" of "blood vengeance" might makes right/[survival of the fittest], of "an eye for an eye" ruled.

The Jews quickly learned that if they did not rise up and kill those who rose up against them, the Palestinians would come, rob and murder them all.

All this – before an active and conscious Arab nationalism had taken shape. All this only because the Jews were "condemned to death" and it was good to kill them or at least rob them at every appropriate opportunity.

After World War I and after the 'Balfour Declaration', when the Arab-Palestinian national movement began to take shape – did not this movement use its darkest instincts to incite bloody riots and murder Jews (Zionists and not Zionists) in the Land of Israel?

The yeshiva students and with them women, children and infants, who were murdered, beheaded and slaughtered in Hebron during the events of 1929, were only one of the peaks in the wave of "Atbakh al-Yahud", which was now carried as a battle slogan not only by highwaymen, but by the murderers recruited by the Mufti Hajj Amin al-Husseini. This man had set himself the task of burning, killing, losing and destroying the Zionist enterprise at its peak and with it – all the Jews of Palestine.

These bloody events were followed by waves of other bloody "events", greater and more terrible than them.

For three consecutive years – from 1936 to 1939 – the small Jewish community in Israel struggled with tens of thousands of armed and organized Arabs, who harassed it, pillaged its, hounded isolated settlements, murdered women and children without batting an eyelid, raped women and slaughtered Jewish passers-by.

Moreover – since the First World War, from the beginning of the bloody path, where the blood of the Jews was shed here, the leaders of the Palestinian Arab national movement have committed an ancient sin, which haunts them to this day: the sin of unwillingness to compromise with the Jews on even one thing! On any part, on any piece of land. The Arabs, led by the Mufti, have repeatedly shown insane stubbornness.

And what is worse – they have murdered or threatened to murder every moderate Palestinian Arab who is ready to compromise (and there were such! And not a few! But they were mortally afraid of the sword of the fanatics, who have no restraints, and many, many of them were killed only because of their moderation).

The worst of all is also related to that ancient sin: the lack of understanding, the unwillingness to understand, even slightly and even for a moment, the other side. A terrible numbness and ignorance in relation to the Jews and in relation to Judaism, to the Zionists, and for Zionism, blind adherence to the clichés and slogans of "Jews to the sea", "Jews are not a people" "Zionism serves British imperialism". And from here – just one step to the fiery anti-Semitism of the Palestinian Arabs (Semites! Children of Ishmael!) towards Jews in Israel. And from here – just one step to education for revenge and blood, and to belief in the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion," in the "blood libel" and in all the abominations that the [in] world has written about the Jews for hundreds and thousands of years. No spark of understanding, no willingness to get along. to share. to compromise and live in peace alongside each other.

With the rise of the Nazis to power, they had the Mufti and his loyal allies – advisors to Hitler and his associates in the "Final Solution" of the extermination of the Jews.

And with what joy, with what joy in their hearts, most of the Palestinian Arabs received the news of the first defeats of the Allies, of the Nazi conquests and the mass murder of the Jews in Europe! Here is the one who did the "red, black work" for them: here is the one who annihilated their enemies!

And with the approaching War of Independence in the "five before twelve" of changing the face of the bloody history of the conflict, with the decision of the United Nations to give the remnant of the amputated Jewish people a piece of land, a small part of the land of its ancestors – did not the Palestinian Arabs accept the remnant of the Holocaust and the half million Jews who were then in the land, with bayonets, swords and bombs? The fact that those who stood against them were remnants of the sword and those pursued by fate meant nothing to them. Everywhere, everywhere they could find their hands, they wanted to kill them and destroy them under the face of the sky.

And so, out of a lust for murder, out of a total lack of understanding, out of mixing and mingling and dragging Arab peoples into the boiling abyss, the Palestinian Arabs brought upon themselves the wrath and heroism of the Jews. The desperate ones, who stood with their backs to the wall. And so the Palestinian Arabs brought upon themselves the wrath and the heroism of the desperate Jews, who stood with their backs to the wall. And so the Palestinian Arabs brought upon themselves the greatest tragedy in their history – their defeat, their hundreds of thousands of refugees.

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TOPICS: History; Politics
KEYWORDS: 1921; 1929; 1936; 1948; arabnazis; arabs; aryeheliav; hebronmassacre; jews; muslims; socalledpalestinians; ww2

[Words Matter]

Link in heb.

[Freeleesy]

Thanks. Especially the piece about Arab behavior in WW2 and how they “welcomed” the survivors.

[ScaniaBoy]

Thanks for the post. Just goes to show that nothing has changed. Even the slogans are the same (with Britain exchanged for the US as the only bow to modernity in the present day slogans).