RALPH SCHOENMAN'S history of Zionism is compulsory reading for anyone interested in the current uprisings on the West Bank and Gaza against Israeli occupation — which should be everyone. It is the best factual indictment available in a compressed form in English. Perhaps its only weakness is that it is so damning that some people will simply find it impossible presents. he was in the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps on Lebanese militias, guided by murdered up to 3,000 Palestinians. And that experience is enough to permanently shape What Schoenman reveals is one of the worst ironies in history - that the Jewish people, who suffered the holocaust at the hands of the Nazis, should be the bulwark of a state whose methods are now among the most barbaric and horrific in the world. That is the degree of corruption which Zionism has led to.
The catalogue overwhelming.
First how Zionism, by its nature, lead its supporters from the beginning to cooperation with every form of imperialism. the approach of Theodor Herzl to the Ottoman Empire for a Zionist state in Palestine as a bulwark of that Empire against Arab revolt. As Max NorLa prominent Zionist leader, Turkish government may feel itself compelled to defend its reign in Palestine and Syria with armed force...In these circumstances, Turkey can be convinced that it will be important for her to have in Palestine and Syria a strong and well-organised group which...will resist any attack on the authortty of the Sultan and defend his authority with all its might. The road from there to a puppet of US imperialism was straight and narrow.
Collaboration Second that direct collaboration with imperialism was inevitable given the aim of Zionism to crush the Palestinian. wrote: escapable meaning understood by every Jew and every Arab ... It has been necessary to carry on colonisation against the will of the Palestinian Arabs hope for the Arabs to impede us, they will not sell these hopes tasty morsel, because this is not a rabble but a people, a living people. And no people makes such enormous concessions on such except where there is no hope lett, removed every opening visible in the Iron Wall! Schoenman makes clear the methods to which the Israeli state resorts to ensure 'there is no hope lett. The history of aggression, massacre, and torture in the book is not easy reading.
Finally the logic of Zionism leads to contact with the Jews' greatest enemy the most disgusting episode recorded in the entire pamphlet is Kastner the Budapest and the Nazis whereby Jews were to be saved on condition that silence was maintained about the Hungarian Jews. general Kurt Becher, is now head of a German company wnich trades will Islae.
We don't agree with all political analyses in Schoenman's pamphlet. But as a factual exposé of Zionism it is truly devastating. widest possible circulation.
Ralph Schoenman, The Zionism, is available from PO Box 50, London N1 2XP. Price £1.50 + 50p p&p.
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