What do Palestinians think of the Hebron Massacre ?
This article below wholeheartedly summaries my views as a Palestinian. It is a must read:
UN map (updated Aug. 1950) showing Palestinians still own 94% of the lands For the past eight-plus decades, Zionist Jews (especially in the US) have been using the 1929 riots to paint Palestinians as antisemites. In this short article, we shall expose (from Israeli, Zionist, and British Mandate sources plus the NYTimes ) how Zionists use Palestinians as their patsy to deflect away from their policies and actions in the 1930s and 40s. All sources have been linked, and if we missed anything please let us know in the comments section. Now, let us contemplate David Ben-Gurion 's (the founder of the "Jewish state") response when he heard of the Kindertransport that saved ten thousand German Jewish children a month after the Kristallnacht pogrom in late 1938. Let us find how much David valued Jews' lives that Zionists "claim" to value and you shall be the judge. We are not going to quote just any source, no. We shall quote Ben-Gurion's official Zionist biographers (Teveth and Kurzman) who were cited in this 1987 NYTimes article: In his review of Shabtai Teveth's '' Ben-Gurion : The Burning Ground 1886-1948'' (June 21) Martin Gilbert mistakenly reports that Mr. Teveth does not cite ' David Ben-Gurion 's controversial remark to a 1938 Mapai Central Committee meeting: ''If I knew that it was possible to save all the children of Germany by transporting them to England, and only half by transferring them to the Land of Israel, I would choose the latter, for before us lies not only the numbers of these children but the historical reckoning of the people of Israel.'' The arrival of a Kindertransport at Waterloo Station, Feb. 2nd, 1939 The quotation does appear (in a slightly different translation) on pages 855-56 of Mr. Teveth 's text. I might add that, given Ben-Gurion's Zionist convictions, there is nothing especially surprising about the sentiment he expressed on that occasion. Mr. Teveth rightly points out that, for Ben-Gurion the Zionist, only a Jewish state could provide an enduring and authentic resolution to the Jewish question. Any rescue operation outside the Zionist framework was - in Ben-Gurion's words - ''witch doctor's medicine'' that would only perpetuate the misery of the Jewish people. Indeed, at least in the early years of the Nazi regime, Ben-Gurion actively opposed any such rescue efforts, precisely because they might have resolved - or from the Zionist perspective, might have appeared to resolve - the Jewish question without a Jewish state. Unfortunately, on this crucial point, Mr. Teveth repeatedly cites the failure of the 1938 Evian Conference to solve the problem of Jewish refugees as evidence that the West was indifferent to their fate, thereby confirming Ben-Gurion's Zionist convictions. But what was Ben-Gurion's approach to Evian ? Let me quote from another recent biography, Dan Kurzman's ' 'Ben-Gurion: Prophet of Fire '' (1983): Adolf Eichmann & company coined a special Gold Medallion to honor Nazis' Haavara relationship with Zioni