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In the
wake of World War II, in which the Nazi war criminals looted,
pillaged and plundered the property of Jews and non-Jews in Europe,
it is astonishing that similar crimes were committed against the
Palestinian Arabs by Jews, many of whom were either victims or the
relatives of victims of Nazi persecution.
The crimes committed by the
Zionists against the Palestinian Arabs were verified in their own
unguarded remarks.
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For example,
Levi Eshkol “went on a tour of the Arab villages which had
recently been abandoned and captured.” As he put it, he saw “the
traces of what had been and was no longer-- the houses broken
into, plundered and burned. The sight sank through my head, brain,
blood and heart.”
Many cases of robbery committed against Palestinian Arabs
during their expulsion by Israeli soldiers acting under the orders
of their commanders have been reported.
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For example,
Aharon Cohen, the director of Mapam’s Arab Department, recalls
that Israeli “troops at the checkpoints out of Lydda had been
ordered to take from the expelled Arabs every watch, piece of
jewelry or money.”
The homes these people were
forced to leave behind them were then systematically looted by
Israel.
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Yosef Lamm, a
Member of the Knesset, officially admitted on November 22, 1949:
“None of us behaved during the war in a way we might have expected
the Jewish people to behave, either with regard to property or
human life, and we should all be ashamed.”
The
punishment of the Nazi war criminals by the international community
was meant to deter the future commission of such war crimes as those
to which the Zionists have in some cases confessed their guilt. That
they should also be brought before the same type of bar of justice
is a moral imperative facing the international community.
It is a
generally accepted principle of law that “a criminal may not derive
benefit from the perpetration of his criminal act.” The entire
Zionist edifice is constructed on the foundation of usurped
Palestinian lands and proceeds of plundered Palestinian possessions.
The Zionist regime in Palestine and its people have nothing of any
value that does not incorporate the use of usurped Palestinian lands
and proceeds of plundered Palestinian possessions. The Zionist
regime in Palestine and its people have nothing of any value that
does not incorporate the use of purloined Arab property. The
establishment of Israel and its survival would not have been
possible without the benefits the Zionists have derived from usurped
Arab lands and possessions.
The
Custodian of Absentee Property reported to the Finance Committee of
the Knesset in 1949 that they were the receivers of “great
quantities of property in hundreds of thousands of dwellings, shops,
storehouses and workshops, as well as produce in fields and fruit
orchards, groves and vineyards.”
Israeli leaders officially
admitted to the United Nations in 1966:
So far
as the facts are concerned, the abandoned properties in question,
mainly agricultural land, have long become an integral and
indivisible part of the country’s economy.
So it
is beyond question, from the admissions of the Israelis themselves,
that the gains they received from their crimes against the
Palestinians “have long become an integral and indivisible part” of
their economic life-blood.
The
Nazi Jurist Hans Frank who was tried and found guilty of war crimes,
for which he was subsequently hanged, made autobiographical notes in
the Nuremburg prison. In these notes he recalled that one of his
teachers of law, old Geheimrat von Calker, had warned him to stay
away from the infant Nazi movement: “I beg you to leave these people
alone! No good will come of it! Political movements that begin in
the criminal courts will end in the criminal courts.” The prophetic
words of the wise German professor were unheeded by Hans Frank, to
his later regret. The same words are equally applicable to the
Zionist movement, which has ended up as an ignoble perpetrator of
war crimes and crimes against humanity. The only difference is that
the Nazi war criminals have already been brought to justice, and the
Zionist war criminals have not yet been brought to justice.
If
readers should consider the equation of the Zionists with the Nazis
to be too extreme, they should simply examine the facts of their
crimes. The facts themselves can only lead objectively to the
conclusion that the Zionists and the Nazis are culpable of many of
the same crimes.
This was admitted by Israeli
Minister of Agriculture Aharon Cizling, recorded in the Minutes of
the Cabinet Meeting of November 17, 1948:
I often
disagreed when the term Nazi was applied to the British. I wouldn’t
like to use the term, even though the British committed Nazi crimes.
But now Jews too have behaved like Nazis and my entire being has
been shaken.
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