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Even anti-Israel ardent critic R. Goldstone admits the "apartheid" slur, is a lie, a slander!

Even anti-Israel ardent critic R. Goldstone admits the “apartheid” slur, is a lie, a slander!

Richard J. Goldstone, is a former justice of the South African Constitutional Court, who led the United Nations fact-finding mission on the Gaza conflict of 2008-9. He was quick to “accuse” Israel of “war crimes” in its (2008-9) anti-Terror operation (‘Cast Lead’). But retracted it after learning the facts.[1] In 2011 (Oct.) he wrote an Op Ed in the New York Times: “Israel and the Apartheid Slander.”

The need for reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians has never been greater. So it is important to separate legitimate criticism of Israel from assaults that aim to isolate, demonize and delegitimize it.

One particularly pernicious and enduring canard that is surfacing again is that Israel pursues “apartheid” policies. In Cape Town starting on Saturday, a London-based nongovernmental organization called the Russell Tribunal on Palestine will hold a “hearing” on whether Israel is guilty of the crime of apartheid. It is not a “tribunal.” The “evidence” is going to be one-sided and the members of the “jury” are critics whose harsh views of Israel are well known.

While “apartheid” can have broader meaning, its use is meant to evoke the situation in pre-1994 South Africa. It is an unfair and inaccurate slander against Israel, calculated to retard rather than advance peace negotiations.

I know all too well the cruelty of South Africa’s abhorrent apartheid system, under which human beings characterized as black had no rights to vote, hold political office, use “white” toilets or beaches, marry whites, live in whites-only areas or even be there without a “pass.” Blacks critically injured in car accidents were left to bleed to death if there was no “black” ambulance to rush them to a “black” hospital. “White” hospitals were prohibited from saving their lives.

In assessing the accusation that Israel pursues apartheid policies, which are by definition primarily about race or ethnicity, it is important first to distinguish between the situations in Israel, where Arabs are citizens, and in West Bank areas that remain under Israeli control in the absence of a peace agreement.

In Israel, there is no apartheid. Nothing there comes close to the definition of apartheid under the 1998 Rome Statute: “Inhumane acts … committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime.” Israeli Arabs — 20 percent of Israel’s population — vote, have political parties and representatives in the Knesset and occupy positions of acclaim, including on its Supreme Court. Arab patients lie alongside Jewish patients in Israeli hospitals, receiving identical treatment.

To be sure, there is more de facto separation between Jewish and Arab populations than Israelis should accept. Much of it is chosen by the communities themselves. Some results from discrimination. But it is not apartheid, which consciously enshrines separation as an ideal. In Israel, equal rights are the law, the aspiration and the ideal; inequities are often successfully challenged in court.

The situation in the West Bank is more complex. But here too there is no intent to maintain “an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group.” This is a critical distinction, even if Israel acts oppressively toward Palestinians there. South Africa’s enforced racial separation was intended to permanently benefit the white minority, to the detriment of other races. By contrast, Israel has agreed in concept to the existence of a Palestinian state in Gaza and almost all of the West Bank, and is calling for the Palestinians to negotiate the parameters.

But until there is a two-state peace, or at least as long as Israel’s citizens remain under threat of attacks from the West Bank and Gaza, Israel will see roadblocks and similar measures as necessary for self-defense, even as Palestinians feel oppressed. As things stand, attacks from one side are met by counterattacks from the other. And the deep disputes, claims and counterclaims are only hardened when the offensive analogy of “apartheid” is invoked.

Those seeking to promote the myth of Israeli apartheid often point to clashes between heavily armed Israeli soldiers and stone-throwing Palestinians in the West Bank, or the building of what they call an “apartheid wall” and disparate treatment on West Bank roads. While such images may appear to invite a superficial comparison, it is disingenuous to use them to distort the reality. The security barrier was built to stop unrelenting terrorist attacks; while it has inflicted great hardship in places, the Israeli Supreme Court has ordered the state in many cases to reroute it to minimize unreasonable hardship. Road restrictions get more intrusive after violent attacks and are ameliorated when the threat is reduced.

Of course, the Palestinian people have national aspirations and human rights that all must respect. But those who conflate the situations in Israel and the West Bank and liken both to the old South Africa do a disservice to all who hope for justice and peace.

Jewish-Arab relations in Israel and the West Bank cannot be simplified to a narrative of Jewish discrimination. There is hostility and suspicion on both sides. Israel, unique among democracies, has been in a state of war with many of its neighbors who refuse to accept its existence. Even some Israeli Arabs, because they are citizens of Israel, have at times come under suspicion from other Arabs as a result of that longstanding enmity.

The mutual recognition and protection of the human dignity of all people is indispensable to bringing an end to hatred and anger. The charge that Israel is an apartheid state is a false and malicious one that precludes, rather than promotes, peace and harmony.[2]

Goldstone’s article anticipates the forthcoming “Russell Tribunal on Palestine,” to be held in South Africa. Named after the hearings held in the 1960s by philosopher Bertrand Russell in the United Kingdom to protest the Vietnam War, the Russell Tribunal will bring the emotive symbolism of apartheid to a make-believe judicial process whose outcome is already predetermined.

The chair of the panel, anti-war activist Terry Crawford-Browne, has already called for international boycotts of Israel. One of the star witnesses is Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, who conducted a reign of terror in South Africa’s black townships in the 1980s. Another is former U.S. Representative Cynthia McKinney, who recently busied herself with propaganda for Muammar Gaddafi.

Despite the panel’s obvious lack of credibility, it will no doubt be touted by western leftists and third world governments as the basis for a renewed push at the United Nations to isolate Israel and promote unilateral Palestinian statehood. Goldstone’s op-ed is a timely rejoinder and the beginning of what appears to be sincere penance for the damage done by his slanderous report on the Gaza conflict of 2008-9.[3]

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posted by Free Israel @ 6:48 PM 0 comments

Israeli Democracy vs. Arab Apartheid [AT]

Israeli Democracy vs. Arab Apartheid

By JanSuzanne Krasner

October 26, 2011

It is a falsehood to say that Israel is an apartheid state. This indictment, made by Mahmoud Abbas repeatedly in his speeches, is an Orwellian distortion of the truth, but it has been extremely effective in the public relations war of words that plays out in the United Nations, on the international stage, in the media, and on college campuses every day.

This is a grave and toxic travesty that needs to be made right. In light of the "Arab Spring" spreading seeds of sharia law throughout the Middle East, Western civilization needs to see the truth. Americans are being hijacked by propaganda against Israel...and not defending Israel's right to be a Jewish state will lead to our own eventual downfall.

The analogy of Israel to South African apartheid commands a response. Because of its catchy, slick word combination and its connotations that evoke vivid images of human unfairness and suffering, it has became a fashionable narrative for the media and international community's discourse. But it is not factual, and it is very deceptive.

Labeling Israel "apartheid" is meant to provoke worldwide criticism and elicit human rights-based anger that sanctions demonstrations, boycotts, and the denigration of Jewish morals. This finger-pointing is an intentional attack on Israel. It condones terror in the guise of "freedom-fighters," encourages prosecution of Israeli officials in foreign courts, promotes laws against Israeli goods, and supports boycotts of stores selling Israeli products. It sees the advantage of kidnapping soldiers, allows the destruction of Jewish artifacts and religious sites, and tries to exclude Jews from their legitimate claim to their historic homeland.

Factually speaking, apartheid was the policy of the South African government as a way of dealing with the white and non-white social, political and economic issues up until 1992. It was the official policy that established and maintained racial segregation and racial discrimination. The South African non-whites could not vote, and they had to carry a "Pass Book," or they risked being jailed or deported. By contrast, all citizens of Israel have equal voting rights. Arabs have eleven representatives in Israel's Knesset, including an Arab on the Israeli Supreme Court. Every citizen must carry an identity card, along with all legal residents.

In addition, non-white South Africans were kept from a wide range of jobs. They had no free elementary through high school education; mixed sexual relationships were restricted and segregated; hospital and ambulance services were segregated; they could not use most public amenities; sports were segregated; and public facilities were labeled for correct racial usage. Non-whites could not enter a building through the main entrance, be a member of a union, or participate in a strike. That is apartheid, and Israel is not an apartheid state.

Although many pro-Palestinian organizations are aware that the Israel-apartheid analogy is inaccurate, this rhetoric is continually used to condemn and isolate Israel. Just visit Israel to see the truth...Israeli Arabs shopping at Jerusalem's Mamila Mall, enjoying Tel Aviv beaches, enrolled in the universities, getting hospital care, going on school trips to the zoos, and having free access to public places.

One of the more outspoken defenders of Israel is Benjamin Pogrund, a Jew born in Cape Town, now living in Israel. Pogrund lived under apartheid, and as an anti-apartheid activist, he took grave risks by reporting the injustices against blacks. He often comments that the comparison of Israel to South African apartheid "greatly minimizes the oppression and misery caused by apartheid and is debasing to its victims."

In his rebuttal, Pogrund argues that "Israel is not unique in declaring itself a state for a specific people."

Everyone knows that Egypt is for Egyptians, Ireland is for Irishmen, France for Frenchmen, Italy is for Italians, Serbia for Serbs, China for the Chinese, Iran for the Persians...and the list goes on.

"Apartheid"-supporters substantiate their stance by claiming that Israel discriminates against Israeli Arabs by barring them from buying land.

The facts regarding land ownership are clarified by Mitchell Bard, the executive director of the non-profit American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE) and a foreign policy analyst who frequently lectures on U.S.-ME policy:

In the early part of the century, the Jewish National Fund was established by the World Zionist Congress to purchase land in Palestine for Jewish settlement. This land, and that acquired after Israel's War of Independence, was taken over by the government. Of the total area of Israel, 92% belongs to the State and is managed by the Land Management Authority. It is not for sale to anyone, Jew or Arab. The remaining 8% of the territory is privately owned. The Arab Waqf (the Muslim charitable endowment), for example, owns land that is for the express use and benefit of Muslim Arabs. Government land can be leased by anyone, regardless of race, religion or sex. All Arab citizens of Israel are eligible to lease government land.

The reality is that both Arabs and Jews build homes illegally throughout Israel. And the fact is that the number of illegal Arab homes scheduled for demolition is miniscule compared to Jewish homes that must adhere scrupulously to the rules for fear of condemnation. (Please check Bard's point-by-point rebuttal.)

The problems in Israel's Arab communities are much like conditions others face in various places in the world, but Arabs don't point a finger at those places. Only Israel is labeled and attacked as "apartheid." Arabs need only to look at their neighboring countries in the Middle East to find real apartheid. Does anyone honestly believe that Muslim women do not suffer from apartheid in countries with sharia law? Or that Christians and Jews in some Arab nations are being attacked and killed purely because of their religion? More pointedly, both Jordan and Saudi Arabia do not allow Jews to live there, and Saudi Arabia doesn't even let Jews visit.

There are many "no-class" citizens in the world that Arabs don't care to talk about. One must believe that Abbas just doesn't recognize "apartheid" as he declares that the State of Palestine will be "Judenrein" -- a Jewish-free state. Instead, the label of "apartheid" is stuck on Israel, keeping eyes focused away from the intolerance and bigotry that the PLO and Hamas preach.

Recently, I took issue with "Students for Justice in Palestine" (SJP), an on-campus pro-Palestinian organization that orchestrated the first National Anti-Israel Conference at Columbia University to "educate" students for participation in "Israel Apartheid Week 2012" on university campuses.

The SJP supports the Apartheid Movement, the Gaza Freedom Movement that tried to break the Israeli-Egyptian blockade, the BDS movement against Israeli goods, and a One-State Solution with the "Right of Return." There can be no doubt that SJP, hiding behind the veil of human rights activism, supports the end of a Jewish state while "freedom-fighting" terrorists try to accomplish the same goal through violence.

One question needs to be asked of all those who accuse Israel of being an apartheid state: if Israel gave up all the land rights, forfeited all of the natural resources, and agreed to a One-State Solution with the "Right of Return," would the Jews be able to live in peaceful coexistence with their Arab neighbors? The answer to this question determines the fate of the Jewish people and whether peace is ever attainable.

Labels: apartheid slur, arab apartheid, Israel palestine 101

posted by Free Israel @ 8:58 AM 0 comments

The real racism: Expecting Jews to die meekly [JPost]

The real racism: Expecting Jews to die meekly

By MARTIN SHERMAN
10/27/2011 23:00

Into the Fray: Israel needs to once again convey, unapologetically, to the world the rationale for its founding.

The most accurate way to describe Israel today is as an apartheid state... 3.5 million Palestinians and almost half a million Jews live in the areas Israel occupied in 1967, and yet while these two groups live in the same area, they are subjected to totally different legal systems. The Palestinians are stateless and lack many of the most basic human rights. – Neve Gordon, “Boycott Israel,” Los Angeles Times, August 20, 2009.

Taken from an article by a senior Israeli academic, this excerpt typifies the racist Judeophobic rhetoric that has come to dominate the public discourse on the Israeli- Palestinian conflict.

Sadly it is rhetoric that has been endorsed by many in the Israeli academia and media. Even more disturbing is the complicity — or at least complacency — of Israeli officialdom in allowing it to become the defining feature of this discourse.

Expecting Jews to die meekly

This mode of rhetoric is no less than inciteful, Judeophobic racism, because in effect, it embodies the implicit delegitmization of the right of Jews to defend themselves.

It embodies the implicit expectation that Jews should consent to die meekly. And how can an expectation that Jews die meekly be characterized other than as “inciteful, Judeophobic racism?” For no matter what the measures Israel adopts to protect its citizens from those undisguisedly trying to murder and maim them — because they are Jews — they are widely condemned as “racist,” “disproportionate violence” or even “war crimes/crimes against humanity.”

It matters not whether these measures are administrative decisions or security operations, defensive responses or anticipatory initiatives, punitive retaliations or preemptive strikes. It matters not whether they entail the emplacement of physical barriers to block the infiltration of indiscriminate murderers; the imposition of restrictions to impede their lethal movements; the execution of preventive arrests to foil their deadly intentions; the conduct of targeted killings (with unprecedentedly low levels of collateral damage) to preempt their brutal plans; the launch of military campaigns to prevent the incessant shelling of civilians...

Lip service to Israel’s right to self-defense

The depiction of these measures as arbitrary acts of wrongdoing, whose only motivation is racially driven territorial avarice and discriminatory embitterment of the lives of the Palestinians, distorts reality and disregards context. But far more perturbing, is the moral implication of this condemnation.

For if all endeavors to prevent, protect or preempt are denounced as morally reprehensible, the inevitable conclusion is that they should not be employed. This implies a no less inevitable conclusion: To avoid the morally reprehensible, the Jewish state should — in effect — allow those who would attack its citizens, to do so with total impunity, and with total immunity from retribution.

True, many of Israel’s detractors protest with righteous indignation that they acknowledge that it “has a right to defend itself.” But this is quickly exposed as meaningless lip service, for whenever Israel exercises that allegedly acknowledged right, it is condemned for being excessively heavy-handed.

It makes little difference if Israel imposes a legal maritime blockade to prevent the supply of lethal armaments to Islamist extremists; or if Israeli commandos are forced to use deadly force to prevent themselves from being disemboweled by a frenzied lynch mob; or if, in response to the savage slaughter wrought by Palestinian suicide bombers — which relative to its population, dwarfed the losses on 9/11 — Israel clears the terror-infested and boobytrapped Jenin, using ground troops rather than its air force to minimize Palestinian collateral damage, thus incurring needless casualties of its own.

No matter how murderous the onslaughts initiated by the Palestinians, no matter how blatant the Palestinian brutality, no matter how outrageous the Palestinian provocation, the Israeli response is deemed inappropriate.

Despite the declaration of recognition of some generic abstract right to defend itself and its citizens, it seems that in practice the only “appropriate” response is for Israel to refrain from defending itself.

Exigencies of security

Then there is the reverse racism emblazoned in the subtext of the discourse of Israeli policy towards the Palestinians: The victims of racist hatred are condemned as racist for fending off their racist attackers.

Security barriers are not erected, roadblocks are not put in place, travel restrictions are not enforced as a racist response to Palestinian ethnicity but as a rationale response to Palestinian enmity. To believe otherwise is to fall prey to what Binyamin Netanyahu once called the “reversal of causality.” The blockade of Gaza is a consequence, not a cause, of Hamas’s violence; the West Bank security barrier is the result of, not the reason for, Palestinian terrorism.

If not for the massive carnage at Sbarro pizzeria, at Dizengoff Center, at the Passover Seder in the Park Hotel, there would have been no IDF operation in Jenin in 2002. Without the indiscriminate bombardment of Israeli civilians, there would have been no Cast Lead operation in Gaza in 2009. If pregnant women and ambulances were not used to smuggle explosives into Israeli cities, there would be no need for checkpoints and roadblocks. If Palestinian gunmen would not open fire from vehicles on Israeli families passing by, there would be no need to restrict the movement of Palestinians on certain roads. If Palestinians did not ambush Israeli cars traveling though Palestinian towns, there would be no need to construct special roads for Israelis to bypass those towns.

The outcome of Judeophobic enmity

Of course, the standard Judeophobic response to this will be... “occupation,” that all-purpose, all-weather, one-size-fits-all excuse for every racist Palestinian atrocity perpetrated against the Jews.

According to this morally base and factually baseless contention, all Palestinian violence is an expression of understandable rage and frustration due to years of repressive “occupation” of Palestinian lands.

This claim is as egregious as it is asinine. It must be rejected with the moral opprobrium and the intellectual disdain it so richly deserves.

Indeed, as I have demonstrated in several recent columns, the call for the destruction of the Jewish state was made long before Israel held a square inch of what is now designated as “occupied Palestinian land.” (In fact, the original 1964 Palestinian National Covenant explicitly disavows any sovereign claim to the “West Bank” and Gaza as the Palestinian homeland.) The founding documents of the PLO, Fatah and Hamas are all committed to the destruction of the Jewish state, irrespective of time and regardless of frontiers. This too was the sentiment reiterated by Mahmoud Abbas in his recent UN appearance.

So clearly “Occupation” is not the origin of Palestinian ill-will towards Israel. Quite the reverse. The Israeli presence in Judea, Samaria and Gaza is a direct outcome of Arab ill-will towards Israel, when in 1967 their massive military offensive to destroy Israel failed catastrophically.

It was not Jewish territorial avarice that brought Israel to “the territories” but Arab Judeocidal aggression.

What if there had been no ‘Occupation’?

Even if it can be irrefutably shown that “occupation” is not the origin
of Palestinian hostility, might it is not be possible that elimination
of “occupation” would induce, if not Palestinian amitié, then at least
Palestinian acceptance of Israel? Sadly, all evidence seems to point the
other way. Every time Israel has made tangible efforts to remove
“occupation,” the frenzy of Palestinian terrorism has soared to a higher
crescendo, and forced abandonment or even reversal of these efforts:

• This was the case from 1993 to ’96, when the implementation of the Oslo agreements brought forth a huge wave of suicide bombings.

• This was the case in 2000, when Ehud Barak offered sweeping concessions to
the Palestinians, who responded with a wave of unprecedented terrorism
which continued under Ariel Sharon’s “restraint-is-strength-policy”
until the carnage made military response unavoidable. The result was
Operation Defensive Shield in 2002 that brought the IDF back in force to
the “West Bank,” where calm has been largely maintained ever since.

This was the case in 2005, when Israel withdrew from Gaza and erased every
vestige of “occupation,” and in return received continuing and
escalating violence that culminated in Operation Cast Lead.

Clearly, not only can “occupation” not be attributed as the cause of Palestinian enmity, but attempts to remove — or at least attenuate — it seem only to exacerbate this enmity.

Here intriguing questions arise: What if Israel had never taken over the “West Bank” or had withdrawn immediately after doing so, transferring control back to Jordan? What
then would have become of the Palestinians and their claims to “national
liberation?” What “occupation” would have then been blamed for their
plight? What territory would have then been the focus of their efforts
to establish their state? These are weighty questions which must await
discussion at some later stage, but merely raising them poses a serious
challenge to the factually flawed conventional wisdom that dominates and
distorts the debate on the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

‘Criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitism’

“Criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitism” is the mantra sounded with Pavlovian regularity by Israel’s detractors. And they are of course right. Criticism of Israel is not necessarily anti- Semitism.

However, the enduring practice of holding the nation-state of the Jews to
discriminatory double standards does makes anti-Semitism an increasingly
plausible explanation for that criticism, an explanation can no longer
be summarily dismissed without persuasive proof to the contrary.

After all, atrocities of ferocity and scale far beyond anything of which
Israel is accused, even by its most vehement detractors, are perpetrated
regularly with hardly a murmur of censure from the international
community. By contrast the slightest hint of any Israeli infringement —
real or imagined — of human rights immediately results in expression of
shock and revulsion in headlines in all major media outlets across the
globe, precipitates emergency sessions of international organizations,
and produces worldwide condemnation, from friend and foe alike.

Of course, the implication is not that Israel should be judged by the same
criteria as the tyrannies of Sudan or North Korea; or by the bloody
standards of Damascus or Tehran.

The question is, however, why
should it be judged by standards and criteria which are far more
stringent than those applied to the democracies that make up NATO.

For in the Balkans, in Iraq and in Afghanistan they have enforced blockades
and embargoes far more onerous and damaging to civilians than that
imposed on Gaza. They conducted military campaigns far from their
borders that caused far more civilian casualties than Israel has in
campaigns conducted only a few kilometers from the heart of its capital
city...

Yet international outcry has been — at best – muted.

So, while holding the Jewish state to standards demanded of no other nation in the exercise of its right to self-defense may have explanations
other than anti-Semitism (or Judeophobia to be more precise), no really
compelling ones come readily to mind.

The real racism

This brings us back to where we began.

While the Jewish state faces unparalleled threats, and unconditional enmity,
it is continually condemned for acting to meet those threats and to
contend with that enmity — no matter what measures it adopts, no matter
how grave the peril, no matter how severe the provocation.

This then is the real racism that permeates the discourse on the Israel-Palestinian conflict:

• The expectation that the Jews jeopardize their security in order to maintain the viability of manifest falsehoods.

• The perverse portrayal of every coercive measure undertaken by the IDF
to protect the lives of Jews against those striving to kill them, merely
because they are Jews, as racially motivated, disproportionate
violence.

• The disingenuous depiction of the inconvenience caused to Palestinians by these measures as a more heinous evil than the Jewish deaths they are designed to prevent.

• The attitude that shedding Jewish blood is more acceptable than the measures required to
prevent it, an element that appears to be becoming increasingly
internalized into the discourse on the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

Israel needs to once again convey, unapologetically, to the world the
rationale for its founding: Jews will no longer die meekly.
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=243452

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posted by Free Israel @ 12:16 PM 0 comments

Arab-Islamic Apartheid VS. Israel's cosmopolitan beautiful equal-for-all transparent democracy

ARAB-ISLAMIC APARTHEID

VS ISRAEL'S COSMOPLITAN DEMOCRACY

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posted by Free Israel @ 6:39 PM 0 comments

Genocidal racist Arab leader: Ahmad Shukairy, 'father' of 'Apartheid' slander

Genocidal racist Arab leader: Ahmad Shukairy, 'father' of 'Apartheid' slander

[Also transcribed:
Ahmad Shukairy
Ahmad Al-Shukairy
Ahmad al-Shukairi
Ahmad el-Shukairy
Ahmed Shukeiry
al-Shuqayri
Shukeiri
Shukeiry
Shuqeiri
Shuqairy]

The Arab led slur of “apartheid" [a tactic of diverting attention from the largely Arab leaders’ fault in Arabs' condition, as well as general Arab oppression of its people and discrimination against minorities, a criminal strategy with the aim of de-legitimizing Israel’s quest for survival, as if Israel's security and defense has anything to do with "race"], dates back to an October 1961 speech by Saudi Arabia's Ahmad Shukairy during a strongly anti-Western chide. He went as far as to object Israel's right to try Nazi extermination chief of WW2: Adolf Eichmann.

[It was amidst a season of strong UN condemnation of S. Africa, a tactic of vilification by fictitious comparison.]

That’s almost 6 years before the so-called "occupation" came about, yet it was picked up by Arab propaganda machine ever since, and has been "adjusted" to any situation between Israel and its Arab attackers. Demagogue-like symbolism [like the security fence] have been used and included to be "updated," to make the criminal propaganda seem somehow "legitimate."

* Ahmad Shukari (1908-1980) was born in Lebanon.
* Expelled from Lebanon by authorities for radical agitation on campus.
* Served as an aide to infamous Haj Amin al-Husseini Hitler's ally [the Mufti, who called to 'kill the Jews wherever you find them,' and prevented Jewish children from being rescued during WW2] and he himself admired Nazism and with the Mufti assisted in ideas of extermination.
* Became assistant Secretary General for the Arab League from 1950–56.
* Served as Saudi Arabia's representative to the UN from 1957-1962.
* Famous for his 1956 admission to the falsehood of a "Palestinian" (distinct) people, or Palestine as a "separate" Arab entity.
* His openly pro-Nazism was expressed in 1962 at the UN while praising a Nazi group.
* Spearheaded the major shift in Arab strategy in the "creation" of a "Palestine entity" in 1963 (as mentioned, as late as 1957, Shukairy himself pleaded on behalf of "Palestine" as nothing but a part of Syria), seeing that the collective Arab VS Israel war lacks support. It was to tap into the anti-colonialism that spread in the UN with the fight in Algeria and to suggest parallels, in order to gather support among Africans.
* Was the first to head the PLO in 1964, the 'Palestine Liberation Organization' was created in a clear aim to 'wipe out Israel.' In [his] then "Palestinian" original charter, there's no call for a "homeland" or so-called "rights," but as part of a 'pan-Arab' struggle.
* Known for his hate speeches.
* Was very instrumental in the six-day war of June 1967 by collective Arab nations whose leaders, like Shukairy called to annihilate Israel.
* Coined the [extermination] phrase: "Driving the Jews unto the sea." ['Throwing the Jews into the sea']
* Years before the "occupation" (what is referred to Israel's victory over Arab aggression in 1967) he called for "liberation" (of what?)

There you have it, Arab racism, Nazism and Arab genocide hiding behind "liberation," has invented the "apartheid" meme against its victim: Israel.

The typical hypocritical element of "accusing" Israel with the crime of the Arabs, that of "nazism" was also encapsulated by this Arab-Nazi mastermind of 'Arab-Palestine' in his elaborated opposition to try Eichmann.

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Sources

1927, AT THE AGE OF 19, SHUKAIRY IS EXPELLED FROM LEBANON FOR AGITATION

Outspoken Arab Orator; Ahmad Shukairy

[1950]

THIRTY-THREE years ago, a 19-year-old Arab under-graduate was seized at the American University in Beirut for making an over-zealous speech. He was hauled into court as a political agitator and ordered out of Lebanon.

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60C13FE3F551A7A93C7A9178AD95F448685F9&scp=4&sq=shukairy&st=cse

THE MUFTI'S AIDE / ASSSISTING IN EXTERMINATION

Congressional record: proceedings and debates of the United States Congress: Volume 113, Part 12 - United States. Congress - Govt. Print. Off., 1967 - Page A-525

Shukairy has had a remarkable history. As has been revealed In the pages of Prevent World War III, he worked with the Nazis in the Middle East and was a henchman of the notorious Mufti of Jerusalem who advised Hitler on ways and means of extermintaing Jews...

http://books.google.com/books?id=8HEuAAAAIAAJ&dq=henchman

Six Day War - timeline NOTE: AHMED SHUKEIRY - formerly an aide to the late Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini. The Mufti notoriously sought friendship with Hitler ...
http://www.sixdaywar.co.uk/timeline-concise.htm

Amazon.com: David Green "David Green"'s review of Strangers in the ...Ahmed Shukeiry, aide to the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, envisioned "the elimination of the Jewish state," while Abd al-Rahman Azzam Pasha, ...
http://www.amazon.com/review/R2LHIKPJR5ML11

DECLARING IN 1956 [TO THE UN] THAT "PALESTINE" IS NOTHING BUT SOUTHERN SYRIA

United Nations review: Volume 3
United Nations. Dept. of Public Information, United Nations. Office of Public Information - 1957 - Snippet view (Page 8)
That, stated Mr. Shukairy, was how Syria's Prime Minister had given his formal assurance to observe the cease-fire and how the ... Thus, although it was common knowledge that Palestine was nothing but southern Syria, the whole question of sovereignty had definitely been suppressed in the armistice agreements.
http://books.google.com/books?&id=HCUoAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22southern+Syria%22

Politics, lies, and videotape: 3,000 questions and answers on the Mideast crisis - Page 392
Yitschak Ben Gad - (SP Books,) 1991 - 479 pages - Preview
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE THE CONCEPT OF A "GREATER SYRIA" It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but southern Syria. AHMED SHUKAIRY, then-Saudi Arabian delegate to the UN, founder of the PLO, May 31, 1956, to the Security Council ...
http://books.google.com/books?id=zRyAT5qNtjQC&pg=PA392

Like all the nations?: the life and legacy of Judah L. Magnes - Page 117
William M. Brinner, Moses Rischin - 1987 - 241 pages - Google eBook - Preview
As late as 1956, Ahmed Shukairy, subsequently head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, argued at the Security Council that "it is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but southern Syria."
http://books.google.com/books?id=OzaSXCyV1JQC&pg=PA117

American Jewish women and the Zionist enterprise - Page 294
Shulamit Reinharz, Mark A. Raider - 2005 - 393 pages - Preview
As late as 1956, Ahmed Shukairy, subsequently head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, argued at the Security Council that "it is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but southern Syria."
http://books.google.com/books?id=S9Fm_AQi0k8C&pg=PA294

The Real History of Palestine and the Israeli Conflict Mar 2, 2011 ... "It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing more than southern Syria" — Ahmed Shukeiry, head of the PLO, to UN Security Council, May 31, 1956. "
http://emetnews.org/palestinian_myths/

The Jewish Claim To The Land Of Israel
[...]
The representative of the Arab Higher Committee to the United Nations submitted a statement to the General Assembly in May 1947 that said "Palestine was part of the Province of Syria" and that, "politically, the Arabs of Palestine were not independent in the sense of forming a separate political entity." A few years later, Ahmed Shuqeiri, later the chairman of the PLO, told the Security Council: "It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but southern Syria."
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/The_Jewish_Claim_To_The_Land_Of_Israel.html

Politically motivated mythology of PalestineThat which had been created by more than a thousand years of Jewish history ... that "It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but Southern Syria. ...Ahmed Shukeiry, as head of the PLO, to Security Council on May 31, 1956, cited by Syrkin in "Nationalism," in Curtis et al., Palestinians, p. 201.
http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~peters/mythology.html

INVENTED THE "APARTHEID" ANALOGY IN HIS ANTI-WEST RANT OCT. 1961 - LONG BEFORE THE SO-CALLED "OCCUPATION" TOOK PLACE

Middle East Record Volume 2, 1961 - Page 188
Yitzhak Oron, Ed. - Full view
The representative of Saudi Arabia, Ahmad Shukairy, [in a strongly anti-Western speech], chided the Western powers... ..... Concluding her statement, Mrs Meir declared that "no Israel-Arab issue can be solved without negotiation;... Shukairy said.... He quoted from a number of newspapers and books to prove his thesis that "the apartheid of South Africa is being practised by Israel" against the Arab minority. He denied Israel's right to try Eichmann since Israel was "another Eichmann in a State."
http://books.google.com/books?id=vzZ71Eh5QvMC&pg=PA188

Middle East record: Volume 2
Ḥevrah ha-Mizraḥit ha-Yiśreʼelit, Merkaz le-meḥḳar ʻal shem Reʼuven Shiloaḥ, Mekhon Shiloaḥ le-ḥeḳer ha-Mizraḥ ha-tikhon ṿe-Afriḳah - (Israel Oriental Society, Reuven Shiloah Research Center,) 1961 - Snippet view (Page 188)
(A/PV, 1020, Oct 2) The representative of Saudi Arabia, Ahmad Shukairy, [in a strongly anti-Western speech], chided the Western powers because to them " divided Berlin is everything, and Jerusalem, the holy, is nothing," although " the ...He quoted from a number of newspapers and books to prove his thesis that "the apartheid of South Africa is being practised by Israel" against the Arab minority. He denied Israel's right to try Eichmann since Israel was "another Eichmann in a State."
http://books.google.com/books?&id=qFDVAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22another+Eichmann%22

PRO-NAZISM - PRAISING NAZIS

When Hitler became Abu Ali
By Julian Schvindlerman - June 7, 2002
[...]
Nazi slogans were translated into Arabic. A Mideast song popular toward the end of the 1930s crooned: "No more Monsieur, no more Mister. In Heaven Allah, on earth Hitler." The Fuehrer himself was even Islamicized under the new name of Abu Ali.
Love of Nazism spread like wildfire in the region. Among the many Nazi sympathizers at the time were Haj Amin al-Husseini (Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and president of the Arab Higher Committee); Ahmed Shukairi (first chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization); Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat (both future presidents of Egypt); Islamic fundamentalist leaders; and the founders of the Pan-Arab socialist Ba' ath party, currently ruling Syria and Iraq. (One Ba'ath leader proudly recounted: "We were racists, admiring Nazism, reading their books and sources of their thought. We were the first who thought of translating Mein Kampf.").
http://christianactionforisrael.org/antiholo/hitler_abu.html

Israel in the Third World - Page 158 Michael Curtis, Susan Aurelia Gitelson - (Transaction Publishers,) 1976 - 410 pages - Google eBook - Preview
Mobilization of extreme right-wing and left-wing organizations: Arab groups find much to work on among extremist groups... A curious result of this policy took place at the United Nations in 1962: Ahmed Shukairy, then head of the Saudi Arabian delegation, openly praised the Argentine Nazi group Tacuara. The Argentine delegate expressed dismay. Another example of cooperation between pro-Nazi groups and the Arabs is the Chilean publication Cruz Gamada (swastika), most of which is devoted to " Palestine. Arab land" and "Communist- Jewish infiltration" or "capitalist-Jewish exploitation...
http://books.google.com/books?id=vLZHUlI6GmoC&pg=PA158

Israel-Latin American relations - Page 87 Edy Kaufman, Yoram Shapira, Joel Barromi - (Transaction Publishers,) 1979 - 256 pages - Google eBook - Preview
Ahmed Shukairy, then head of the Saudi Arabian delegation, openly praised the Argentine Nazi group Tacuara. The Argentine delegate expressed disma..
http://books.google.com/books?id=X40T9b0SwUEC&pg=PA87

The re-emergence of fascism
Dennis Eisenberg - 1967 - 348 pages - Page 322

The United Nations was also informed that Ahmed Shukairy, chief Saudi Arabian delegate, had publicly identified himself with Nazi groups in the Argentine.... Colonel Anwar Sadat, a member of the original junta and the director of the largest publishing house in Cairo, Dar al Hilal, gave his opinion that 'Hitler was a great German patriot who had many outstanding merits and from whom we learn ...
http://books.google.com/books?&id=oihnAAAAMAAJ&dq=shukairy

American Jewish year book: Volume 64 - Cyrus Adler, Henrietta Szold, American Jewish Committee - 1963 - Page 141

Anti-Jewish Agitation...

ARAB AND PRO-ARAB PROPAGANDA Agitators promoted the pro-Arab line largely by using the terms "Zionist," "Jew," and "Communist" interchangeably in their lurid depictions of sinister schemes to subvert the nation and the world.

[...]

The principal sources of Arab propaganda in the United States continued to be the Arab League's Arab Information Office (AIC), with branches in several cities; the Organization of Arab Students, whose approximately 4000 members were active in many American colleges, and the embassies and UN delegations of the Arab countries.

http://books.google.com/books?&id=s7QSAAAAIAAJ&dq=aic


While Arab propaganda was for the most part limited to "Zionists," Saudi Arabian representative to the United Nations Ahmad Shukairy, in a General Assembly debate on November 30, lapsed into a vituperative speech in which he saluted the antisemitic terrorist Tacuara movement in Argentina (p. 281). He expressed the hope that Tacuara would spread throughout Latin America and that its principles would be adopted by the United Nations.

http://books.google.com/books?&id=s7QSAAAAIAAJ&dq=vituperative

THE INVENTION OF A "PALESTINE ENTITY" - 1963

Congress bi-weekly: Volume 31 - American Jewish Congress - 1964 - Snippet view
The "Palestine Entity" JOSEPH B. SCHECHTMAN ... NOTABLE AND LARGELY overlooked — feature of the present-day strategy of Arab states with regard to the Palestine Arabs is the emphasis on the "Palestine Entity" (Al- Kiyan Al-Falastin). It represents a major departure from the policy the Arab governments had pursued during the decade following the establishment of Israel. Throughout that period, Arab states' delegations in the United Nations acted as the sole...
http://books.google.com/books?&id=1tAMAQAAMAAJ&q=Al-+Kiyan+Al-Falastin

... In 1960, the Arab states submitted to the 1 6th Assembly session a request for a hearing for "the Palestine [instead of "a Palestinian"] Arab delegation," this time of ten persons. At the 17th session, thirteen persons were listed, and they were described as "the Palestine Arab Delegation representing the views of the Palestine Arab people." Mr. Gallin-Douathe, of the Central African Republic, was puzzled by this procedure, and asked how could there be a "Palestine Arab Delegation" when there was no longer a country called Palestine. The committee chairman, Dr. Leopold Benites of Ecuador, somewhat impatiently answered that he could not go into the substance of the problem. The Israel delegation did not press the point, and a Mufti henchman, Emile El- Ghouri, was permitted to present the Arab refugees' case. At the 18th session ( 1963), representatives of all the 13 Arab League states submitted a fresh request (UN document A/SPC/89), this time for 18 persons described as as "the Palestine Arab Delegation representing the Arab people of Palestine, the principal party to the Palestine question." Shukairy was listed as chairman of this body, and was invited to address the Special Political Committee.
http://books.google.com/books?&id=1tAMAQAAMAAJ&dq=18th

It authorized him to lead a "Palestine Arab Delegation" of his Own selection that would plead the cause of "Palestine" at the UN.
Shukairy's emergence as a central figure in the struggle for the "Palestine Entity" is a matter of concern. He vehemently advocates the establishment of a " Palestine Government-in-Exile" and has announced his willingness to head such a government if it receives the financial, military and political support of the Arab states..
http://books.google.com/books?&id=1tAMAQAAMAAJ&dq=shukairy

It would be a grave mistake to underestimate the significance and dangers of the latest shift in the Arab strategy. The Arab states seem to have realized the increasing unpopularity of their open war threats against Israel in the prevailing climate of "peaceful coexistence." The resurrection of a "Palestine Entity" with a "Government-in-Exile" would create a convenient instrument for aggressive propaganda, since it would seek to link in the public mind Algeria and Palestine and tap the anti-colonialist feelings that are so strong in the UN. By equating the plight of the refugees with that of the still unliberated peoples of Africa they confidently expect to enlist the sympathy of the Afro-Asian delegations. The "Palestine Entity" device must be viewed in the light of these considerations. It should no longer be regarded as a mere question of procedural formality but as a most dangerous weapon for exploiting Middle East tensions.
http://books.google.com/books?&id=1tAMAQAAMAAJ&dq=anti-colonialist

A Palestine entity? - Don Peretz, Evan M. Wilson, Richard Joseph Ward - Middle East Institute, 1970 - 119 pages - Page 39

Remnants of the old Arab Higher Committee, still led by the Mufti, denounced Shukairy for seeking a "faked entity," charging that delegates to the Congress had been hand picked. Election, insisted the Mufti, was the only way for the Palestinians to choose true representatives (Shukairy had discarded elections as "impossible and unfeasible"). Support of the former Jerusalem Mufti received by Saudi Arabia aroused

http://books.google.com/books?&id=QNlAAAAAIAAJ&dq=shukairy+mufti

The Palestine State: a rational approach - Richard Joseph Ward, Don Peretz, Evan M. Wilson - Kennikat Press, 1977 - 206 pages - Page 41

http://books.google.com/books?id=oXxtAAAAMAAJ&q=shukairy+mufti

FOUNDING THE VIOLENT "LIBERATION" ORGANIZATION P.L.O. (1964) - AIMED AT 'WIPING OUT ISRAEL'

Judaism: Volume 16; Volume 16 American Jewish Congress - 1967 - Snippet view (Page 399)
in the first place by Egypt and Jordan in open combat against the newly founded State of Israel; ... There are, of course, crucial differences between the Vietcong war and the sabotage and terror operations of Ahmed Shukeiri's units.
http://books.google.com/books?&id=CpPjAAAAMAAJ&dq=Ahmed

Middle Eastern terrorism - Page 22
Arie Perliger - 2006 - 111 pages - Google eBook - Preview
... the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) was established under the leadership of Ahmad Shukeiri.
http://books.google.com/books?id=rTZhyGadxD4C&pg=PA22

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Middle East Conflict
Mitchell G. Bard - (Penguin,) 2008 - 462 pages - Google eBook - Preview
Ahmed Shukeiri, a onetime Saudi delegate to the United Nations, was chosen by the Arab League to wage a terror campaign, and he established the Palestine Liberation Army of the PLO to do so.
http://books.google.com/books?id=sVeKwfsHevgC&pg=PT218

October 21, 1964

Shukairy Says He Will Turn to Moscow, Peiping for Military Help
LONDON -

Ahmed Shukairy, chairman of the "Palestine Liberation Organization" set up by the 13 Arab states at their recent Alexandria summit meeting, for the express purpose of wiping out Israel, said in Damascus today that he is ready to turn to the Soviet Union and Communist China for military help, according to Syrian dispatches received here today.


Complaining that "the doors of the West are closed to us," Shukairy declared he would send delegations to Moscow and Peiping to seek help for his "Palestine Liberation Army." That "army," to be made up of Arab refugees now living in United Nations camps along Israel's borders, was instructed at the Alexandria meeting to cooperate with a new, unified Arab military command, aimed at Israel, under the command of Egyptian officers.

http://archive.jta.org/article/1964/10/21/3078354/shukairy-says-he-will-turn-to-moscow-peiping-for-military-help

Brief Histor
... On May 14, 1948, the Jews proclaimed the independent State of Israel... Both had the declared aim of destroying Israel. After the 6-day war, Ahmad Shukairy, who had headed the PLO, was replaced as Chairman by Yasser Arafat,
http://www.eylerz.net/brief_history.htm

HIS "PALESTINIAN" CHARTER CALLS FOR A 'PAN-ARAB' STRUGGLE NOT A SEPARATE "HOMELAND"

The Original Palestine National Charter...
This Covenant was written by the first Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Ahmed Shukeiry. This version of the PLO Charter reflects the Pan-Arab nationalism espoused by then, Egyptian President Jamal Abd El-Nasir. This can be clearly seen in the emphasis on the view of Palestine as part of an Arab collective homeland. The pan-Arab objective in the Arab-Israeli conflict is rather pervasive – the destruction (al-qada-ala) of Israel. However, noticeably missing is the call for a Palestinian state and the subordinate position of the Palestinians in what is expressed as a battle for their rights and homeland.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/cove1.html

INITIATED THE "VICTIMHOOD" COMPLEX - IGNORING ARAB LEADERS' FAULT IN CREATING AND MAINTAINING THE "REFUGEES" PROBLEM

Chronicle of United Nations activities - Hasid Pub. Co., 1958 - Page 39

The second fateful date, Mr. Shukairy declared, was 29 November 1947, when the United Nations decided to partition Palestine and to establish a Jewish state. This 'flagrant injustice, " he said, "had been extracted from the United...

Since the governments of the Arab states had created the refugee problems, Mr. Eban asserted, the world community had a right to claim their full assistance to its solution. It was painfully evident, Mr. Eban declared, that the "refugee problem had been artificially maintained for political motives against all the economic, social, and cultural forces which, had they been allowed free play, would have brought about a solution

http://books.google.com/books?&id=ncsSAAAAIAAJ&dq=shukairy

United Nations review: Volume 5 - United Nations. Dept. of Public Information, United Nations. Office of Public Information - 1959 - Page 42

The "central issue," he asserted, is that there can be no solution until the Arab governments abandon their opposition to integrating the refugees into the economic life of the Near East. The problem was caused, he stated, by "a war of aggression" launched by 'the Arab states against Israel in 1947 and 1948. "It is painful evident," he continued, "that this refugee problem has been artificially maintained for political motives against all the economic, social and cultural forces, which, had they been allowed free play, would have brought about a solution. Mr. Eban contended that the refugees had been "nourished for ten years on hatred of Israel...

http://books.google.com/books?&id=ESYoAAAAMAAJ&dq=nourished

CALLED TO ASSASSINATE JORDAN'S KING HUSSEIN, TO "LIBERATE" JORDAN

Near East report: Volume 10 - Near East Report, Inc., 1966 - Page 87
"I hate to think that there is a racial element in this policy in addition to the economic and strategic ... PLO Chairman Ahmed Shukairy charged last week that Hussein was cooperating with Israel and called for his assassination. "The battle for the liberation of Palestine," he said, "cannot be fought until we have won the battle for the liberation of Jordan." Jordanian Legion units last week opened fire on terrorists entering Jordan from their Syrian base.

http://books.google.com/books?id=3bMMAQAAMAAJ&q=cooperating

1967: CALLING FOR ANNIHILATION

Jewish spectator: Volumes 34-35
School of the Jewish Woman (New York, N.Y.) - 1969 - Page 31
The Arabs were poised to annihilate Israel. The Jeivish pacifists of the New Left and of various ... Our basic aim is the destruction of Israel." Ahmed Shukairy, head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, declared, on May 28,
http://books.google.com/books?&id=xUguAQAAIAAJ&dq=annihilate

Righteous victims: a history of the Zionist-Arab conflict, 1881-1999 Benny Morris - (Random House Digital, Inc.,) 1999 - 751 pages
...the pan-Arab invasion. "Abd al-Rahman Azzam Pasha, the Arab League's secretary general... declaring: “This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre, which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades.” Ahmed Shukeiry. one of Hajj Amin al-Husseini"s aides, described the aim of the invasion as "the elimination of the Jewish state."
http://books.google.com/books?id=3ZHXkyAIl7cC&pg=PT351

Midstream: Volume 30 - Theodore Herzl Foundation - 1984 - Page 6

Yearning to be rid of the albatross of the Holocaust, the West longed for a respectable Arab leader who could make Israel seem unreasonable. A Nasser or a Shukairy who spoke openly of "finishing Hitler's job" could scarcely accomplish this.

http://books.google.com/books?&id=_HgMAQAAMAAJ&dq=finishing

The war against the Jew - Dagobert David Runes - Philosophical Library, 1968 - 192 pages - Page 187

"We shall liquidate the Jews," came the voice of Radio Amman ; "After this war, there will be no Jewish survivors in Israel," echoed the commander of the Arab " Liberation Front," Achmed Shukairy; "We are prepared to annihilate Israel," exclaimed Jordan's King Hussein; "We shall destroy Israel," responded Nasser...

http://books.google.com/books?&id=MOqAAAAAIAAJ&dq=shukairy
Shukairy, like Hitler, was outspoken and sincere in his hate which was amplified by modern communication media into apocalyptic thunder. The hellish intent of both was loud and clear,...

http://books.google.com/books?&id=MOqAAAAAIAAJ&dq=sincere

Among lions: the battle for Jerusalem, June 5-7, 1967 - J. Robert Moskin - Arbor House, 1982 - 401 pages - Page 44

He called for "driving the Jews into the sea." The story was told that when a journalist asked Shukairy what he would do about the Jewish problem if war came, he replied, "There's not going to be a Jewish problem." The Jews feared another Holocaust. They felt their backs were to ...

http://books.google.com/books?&id=JuNtAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22The+story+was+told+that+when+a+journalist+asked+Shukairy+what+he+would+do+about+the+Jewish+problem+if+war+came%2C+he+replied%22

Founding the Palestine Liberation Organization
What led to the founding of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1964?
In 1964 the Arab League, a loose confederation of fourteen Arab countries including Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon, met in Cairo and established a political body to deal directly with the problem of the Palestinian Arabs. They called it the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The PLO’s first leader was an Egyptian, Ahmed Shukairy. He coined the organization’s famous slogan about “driving the Jews into the sea.” He is also remembered for saying on May 31, 1956, to the UN Security Council:
It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but Southern Syria. So what were they “liberating”? From whom? There were no “occupied territories” and no “illegal settlements” at that time, and Jordan controlled East Jerusalem. The PLO was intent on the destruction of Israel without any of the causes or reasons they now claim are fundamental. Their emblem includes a map — Israel is part of their concept of Palestine.
http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1948to1967_plo_backgd.php

October 21, 1964

Shukairy Says He Will Turn to Moscow, Peiping for Military Help
LONDON -

Ahmed Shukairy, chairman of the "Palestine Liberation Organization" set up by the 13 Arab states at their recent Alexandria summit meeting, for the express purpose of wiping out Israel, said in Damascus today that he is ready to turn to the Soviet Union and Communist China for military help, according to Syrian dispatches received here today.


Complaining that "the doors of the West are closed to us," Shukairy declared he would send delegations to Moscow and Peiping to seek help for his "Palestine Liberation Army." That "army," to be made up of Arab refugees now living in United Nations camps along Israel's borders, was instructed at the Alexandria meeting to cooperate with a new, unified Arab military command, aimed at Israel, under the command of Egyptian officers.

http://archive.jta.org/article/1964/10/21/3078354/shukairy-says-he-will-turn-to-moscow-peiping-for-military-help

Shukairy Resigns as Chairman Of Palestine Liberation Group;
Ahmed Shukairy, the fiery orator who had nourished Arab dreams of destroying Israel, resigned today as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. ...

December 25, 1967

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60F12FD3E5F107A93C7AB1789D95F438685F9&scp=7&sq=shukairy&st=cse

Coining the phrase: 'Throwing the Jews into the sea'

Escape the Global Storm - Page 147
 Bob Sullivan - Xulon Press, 2008 - 256 pages - Preview
The goal of the PLO has always been to destroy Israel and replace it with the state of Palestine. Ahmad Shukeiri, the first leader of the PLO, coined the phrase "driving the Jews into the Mediterranean Sea."
http://books.google.com/books?id=Ghd1rDNamvgC&pg=PA147

Politics, lies, and videotape: 3,000 questions and answers on the Mideast crisis - Page 200
Yitschak Ben Gad - (SP Books,) 1991 - 479 pages - Preview
In its declaration, Ahmad Abd Alrahman, the PLO spokesman said: "Those who were killed are the victims of the ... PLO leader, Ahmed Shukeiri, denounced? A: Shukeiri said, before the 1967 war, that the Jews should be thrown into the sea...
http://books.google.com/books?id=zRyAT5qNtjQC&pg=PA220

Why the Jews?: the reason for antisemitism - Pages 156-7
Dennis Prager, Joseph Telushkin - Simon and Schuster, 2003 - 244 pages

In the words of the Israeli leftist writer Amos Kenan, written in the aftermath of the Six-Day War: “Shukairy [the head of the Palestine Liberation Organization before Yasir Arafat] used to say that the Jews should be driven into the sea.

http://books.google.com/books?id=VK0llzUqQ2YC&pg=PA157

Holocaust | Holocaust victims are martyrs of all humanity
[...]
The calls by Ahmad Shukeiri and Nasser to "dump all the Jews into the sea" were nothing but steps along this trend that reached its peak when the defunct dictator Saddam Hussein threatened "to burn half of Israel" with binary chemical weapons, and more recently with the Iranian nuclear and missile weapons program and the accompanying threats by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to wipe Israel off the map, exterminate the Jews, and deport the survivors to European countries. Add to all this the Iranian mullahs' efforts to wreak total havoc in the region through their proxies and allies, such as the Mahdi Army, Al-Qaeda, the remnants of the Saddam regime, the Baathist regime in Syria, the Lebanese Hezbollah, and Hamas...
http://www.projetaladin.org/holocaust/en/articles-and-essays/holocaust-victims-are-martyrs-of-all-humanity.html

The Thin Green Line - Op-Eds - Israel National News May 25, 2011... “throw the Jews into the sea,” a statement originally attributed to Palestine Liberation Organization Spokesman Ahmad al-Shukeiri, ...
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/10272

On May 23, Nasser closed the straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping. The United States failed to live up to its guarantees of freedom of the waterways to Israel. A torrent of rhetoric issued from Arab capitals and in the UN. At the UN, PLO Chairman Ahmed Shukhairy announced that "if it will be our privilege to strike the first blow" the PLO would expel from Palestine all Zionists who had arrived after 1917 and eliminate the state of Israel. In a speech to Arab Trade Unionists on May 26, 1967, Nasser justified the dismissal of the UNEF, and made it clear that Egypt was prepared to fight Israel for Palestinian rights. He also attacked the Jordanians as tools of the imperialists, stepping up the constant pressure on Jordan's King Hussein...
While Israel had acquired territories and a military victory... The Fatah organization (The Movement for Liberation of Palestine) was founded about 1957 (though it was formalized much later), and the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) was founded in 1964. Both had the declared aim of destroying Israel. After the 6-day war, Ahmad Shukairy, who had headed the PLO, was replaced as chairman by Yasser Arafat who headed the Fatah.
http://www.mideastweb.org/briefhistory.htm

The 'old' Arab-Islamic statenmens: 'wipe Israel off the map and throw the Jews into the sea'

A history of the Jewish people - Page 1066
 Abraham Malamat, Haim Hillel Ben-Sasson - 1976 - 1170 pages - Preview
Many Jews also left Turkey and Iran for Israel. Of the 13.5 million Jews in the world at the end of the 1960s, ... when the Arab rulers declared that the time had come 'to wipe Israel off the map and throw the Jews into the sea'. ...
http://books.google.com/books?id=2kSovzudhFUC&pg=PA1066

[PPT] How we swallowad the bluff
Ahmad Shukeiri was born in Lebanon to a Turkish mother, was a lawyer in Jordan ... Arab countries were plainspoken and primitive: “Throw the Jews into the sea”, “The men to the sea and the women for us”, ...
http://www.shoebat.com/documents/pstineNationalism.pps

The clear genocidal meaning of Shukairy's phrase and in-context with the over all Arab attitude readiness for extermination

Arab attitudes to Israel - Page 38 - Yehoshafat Harkabi - 1974 - 527 pages - Preview
The formula "to throw Israel into the sea" certainly does not mean that only the State coat-of-arms will be flung into the water while the Israelis continue to dwell in the land each under his vine and under his fig tree, especially as the less ambiguous term "to throw the Jews into the sea"- which has an undoubted genocidal signficance — is quite frequent. Genocidal motifs may also be seen in the typical caricature which depicts the liquidation of Israel as the killing of a scorpion, or for example the text of a manifesto published in al-Ahram (February 3, 1964) for distribution among the Jews of the world to warn them against migrating to Israel, describing such a move as a "free" one-way road to death, and making the point unmistakably clear with the aid of a drawing showing the Angel of Death with his sickle.

The Arab goal, furthermore, is presented as not only a change in the political status of the country, but also a matter of punishment and revenge. Since the establishment of Israel is denounced as an international crime, her extinction must be carried out as a punitive operation and a massacre.
http://books.google.com/books?id=ocybbUgguOEC&pg=PA38

Arab leadership realizing the grave error to its image

CONSTRUCTIVE CONFLICTS: FROM ESCALATION TO RESOLUTION - Page 93
 LOUIS KRIESBERG - Rowman & Littlefield, 2006 - 435 pages - Google eBook - Preview
For example, the relatively radical Palestinian organization, the Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, published a circular in 1969 arguing that its goal of "throwing the Jews into the sea" had done "grave damage " to the Arab position,
http://books.google.com/books?id=O5RCMQ0DXWsC&pg=PA93

Confronting the Arab leadership - the admission to the genocidal call

JPRS report: Near East & South Asia: Issue 88075
 United States. Joint Publications Research Service, United States. Foreign Broadcast Information Service - 1988 - Snippet view - Page 8
[Question] Do you hate Jews? Do you want to throw us into the sea? [Answer] The Arabs made a grave error when they proclaimed this insane slogan.
http://books.google.com/books?&id=p0O6AAAAIAAJ&dq=error

The spectator, Volume 257, Issues 8243-8255 -
F.C. Westley, 1986 - Literary Collections - Page 16
Issam Sartawi, the physician and Palestinian politician whose plainspeaking and willingness to compromise led to his murder by fellow Palestinians in 1983, was one of the first to take the wind out of Arafat's sails after the 'victory' in Beirut when the PLO withdrew in 1982: he said that with another victory like Beirut the next PLO executive committee meeting would take place in Fiji. Sartawi was critical  Sartawi was critical of the Palestinian leadership as a whole. I once asked him why the Palestinians had had such poor leaders, from Haj Amin Husseini who led them to defeat in 1948 to Ahmed Shukairy, the first PLO head, who is remembered today only for his statement that he would throw the Jews into the sea. 'We had a good leader in Palestine once,' Sartawi said, 'but we crucified him. 
http://books.google.com/books?&id=JUjhAAAAMAAJ&dq=shukairy

The Palestinian refugees in Jordan 1948-1957 - Page 5
 Avi Plascov - 1981 - 268 pages - Preview
Sober and shrewd, Abdullah always knew that the Arab leaders were deluded and dazzled by their own statements about the "40 million Arabs who will throw the Jews into the sea". He had a quite different appreciation of the Jews' ...
http://books.google.com/books?id=daLPXTYcoewC&pg=PA5

The Arab propagandists try to revert the harm made by their genocidal declarations

Palestinians and Israel - Pages 70-71 - Yehoshafat Harkabi - John Wiley and Sons, 1975 - 285 pages
When, after the Six-Day War, the Arabs realized that their wild statements had harmed their international reputation, they moderated their shrill demands for the annihilation of Israel. Arab propagandists denied that they had ever advocated the slaughter of the Jewish population,...

Ahmed Shukeiry insisted that he never advocated throwing the Jews into the sea, that the whole thing was merely a Zionist libel. What he meant, he explained, was that the Jews would return to their countries of origin by way of the sea: ...
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(The Israeli-Arab reader: a documentary history of the Middle East conflict - Walter Laqueur - Bantam Books, 1976 - History - 585 pages - Page 532
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Society: Volume 7
 Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.). Community Leadership Project - 1969 - (Rutgers--The State University,) - Page 138
The leader of the Palestine liberation organization, Ahmed Shukeiry (who has since been pushed into the background) attempted to defend himself against the accusation of using wildly genocidal rhetoric by claiming thad he had never... He explained that what he meant was that the Jews would return to their countries of origin by way of the sea: "They came by the sea and will return by the sea." This was a means of annihilation transformed into a means of transportation and a campaign of violence transformed into an international resettlement project. At the same time as this rectification campaign was going on...
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The Arab Design for Israel’s Annihilation: The Record of Aggression, 1958-1967.
28 May 1967, Ahmed Shukairy, Head of the Palestine Liberation Organization: “China supplies us with weapons so that they be used for the liberation. The weapons of China which we have received free of charge will be put into action in order to destroy Tel-Aviv.”
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FIERY HATE SPEECHES

Prevent World War III.: Issues 58-64
 Society for the Prevention of World War III (New York, N.Y.) - 1961 - Snippet view (Pages 10, 24)
In its larger context, Mr. Shukairy's hate inciting diatribes underline the urgency for comprehensive actions to demilitarize the Middle East under appropriate controls and safeguards.
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Shukairy summed up the Arabs' bellicose attitude towards the West and staked out Nasser's claim to empire, in a speech whose tone and content were reminiscent of the diatribes hurled against the Western democracies by the Nazi leaders
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Middle East Record Volume 1, 1960 - Page 178
 Yitzhak Oron, Ed. - Full view
M. Comay of the Israel delegation rose after Shukairy's speech "to register our sense of disgust that there should be on the records of the Assembly a comparison of any people, my own and any other, with the Nazis.
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Jewish currents: Volume 21
 Morning Freiheit Association - 1967 - Snippet view - Page 47
Ahmed Shukairy, anti-Semitic adventurer heading the so-called Palestine Liberation Army, interviewed in Cairo, was quoted by the West German Bonner Rundschau in Dec. as stating that "the only possibilities for a solution" to the ... 20, for helping murder about 250000 people, mostly Jews, in the Nazi extermination camp at Sobibor, Poland, ...
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The National Jewish monthly: Volumes 82-83
 B'nai B'rith - 1967 - Snippet view
Hate in Halls of Brotherhood ... 1963. when the erstwhile head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Ahmed Shukairy, delivered an anti-Semitic diatribe in the United Nations, has there been anything there to compare with the intemperate hatred toward Israel and the
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Congressional record: proceedings and debates of the ... Congress, Volume 113, Part 12 - Page A-525
No cover image United States. Congress - Govt. Print. Off., 1967 - Snippet view
He does fine In Cairo, and perhaps this Is only natural for few Arabs can match Shukairy In his fanatical hatred of the United States. The records of the UN debates in the past contain his lengthy diatribes against the United States...
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THE BANNER OF "LIBERATION" BEFORE THE SO-CALLED "OCCUPATION" / INDEED, TERRORISM CAME BEFORE THE "OCCUPATION"

Restoring historical memory
Op-ed: Palestinian enmity towards Jews not about borders but about Israel’s existence
Martin Sherman Published: 01.19.11, 18:11 / Israel Opinion
Israel is continuously accused by its detractors of "occupying" Palestinian territory and "usurping" Palestinian land by means of an "expansionary settlement policy." "Occupation" and "Settlements" have thus become the buzzwords by which to denote and defame Israel's control of the territories across the 1967 armistices lines. This prevailing custom is wildly at odds with the realities that forced Israel to seize these territories in an unequivocal act of self-defense against threats of annihilation, in a classic preemptive exercise of the right of "anticipatory self defense."
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So, as the Arab armies massed against it, Israel began to brace itself for the coming war, preparing mass graves in Tel Aviv and other cities in anticipation of large civilian causalities. On May 27, 1967, the then-chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Ahmed Shukairy, gloated, "D-Day is approaching. The Arabs have waited 19 years for this and will not flinch from the war of liberation."

The use of the word "liberation" is both interesting and revealing. At the time, the notions of "occupation" and "settlements" had neither conceptual significance nor practical relevance and could not account for this ferocious hostility towards the Jewish nation-state by the Arabs who clearly were not seeking "liberation" in Arab-ruled Gaza and "West Bank." Impressed by this boastful bluster, and despite the bitter acrimony between Nasser and himself, King Hussein signed a military pact with Egypt on May 30, 1967, declaring:

"All of the Arab armies now surround Israel. The UAR (the United Arab Republic, the name by which Egypt called itself from 1958 to 1971), Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Yemen, Lebanon, Algeria, Sudan, and Kuwait. .... There is no difference between one Arab people and another, no difference between one Arab army and another."

In a premature flush of triumph, on June 1, 1967, PLO leader Shukairy crowed: "This is a fight for the homeland. It is either us or the Israelis. There is no middle road. The Jews of Palestine will have to leave. We will facilitate their departure to their former homes. Any of the old Palestine Jewish population who survive may stay, but it is my impression that none of them will survive....We shall destroy Israel and its inhabitants and as for the survivors - if there are any - the boats are ready to deport them."

Here again Shukairy's terminology is of interest. For quite apart from the explicit articulation of his bloodcurdling intentions, the use of "homeland" is instructive and illuminating. For it clearly did not refer to "West Bank" or to Gaza which, as previously mentioned, were under Arab rule and were certainly in no way targeted for "liberation." Cleary then, "the liberation of the homeland" must be construed as "the elimination of the Jewish state." Indeed, how else could be construed.

This view is strongly endorsed by the text of the original formulation of the Palestinian Covenant adopted in 1964, before any "occupation" or "settlements" were ever part of the discourse, much less facts on the ground. In Article 24, it specifically eschews claims to "any territorial sovereignty over the West Bank in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (sic) and Gaza."

What more authoritative source could be imagined for exposing the Palestinian claims to the West Bank and Gaza as bogus than the Palestinian themselves? The source being their own "National Covenant" no less.
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