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What Churchill Thought About the Palestinians and Jews
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in this video I want to discuss Winston Churchill uh Palestine and the
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Palestinians and the Jews now Winston Churchill is a fascinating character
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historically uh a few years ago the BBC did a poll uh called 100 greatest
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Britain and in this TV poll um Winston Churchill came top uh of all of Britains
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throughout time he beat Shakespeare and Darwin and Isaac Newton Elizabeth first
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uh Oliver Cromwell he was number one of course he was Britain's uh prime minister during the second world war
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he's actually prime minister twice and uh is a hero uh to many many people but
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uh to other people uh he is a much more darker figure and just recently I I got
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up hold of this uh interesting book Winston Churchill his times his Crimes
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by TK Ali who's a British writer and he's very critical and there's awful lot
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of dirt unfortunately uh about Winston Churchill is not very widely known and
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um he says on the back cover I think summing up very well the way many people see him the modern Churchill cult is out
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of control closing down historical debate and encouraging support for 21st
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century Wars the man has become a houseold God for many preserving an
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Antiquated vision of Britain tck Ali audits Churchill's crimes both globally
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and at home and shows the celebrated wartime leader to be Britain's most
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Shameless imperialist and uh this book covers many many of his crimes and some of them T
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Ramadan calls them war crimes and indeed it seems to be entirely appropriate description and I'm just going to read
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though from a section of the book uh subtitled Churchill Palestine and the Jews now some of what I'm going to read
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is to Modern ears indeed to many people in the past highly offensive so U just
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there a health warning before uh you listen any further and one of the things
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he doesn't cover in too much detail in the book I think um is the bombing raids
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on Germany in the second world war where Churchill as the Prime Minister uh
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authorized indeed directed uh that bomber Harris you know the head of the RAF Target Civ Ians civilian cities
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Berlin Hamburg dresen Etc uh for bombing and over a million uh Germans were uh
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men women children civilians were obliterated burnt to death they were
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bombed uh and this was uh a war crime obviously and actually the Britain did
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it to Germany first Germany didn't do it to us despite what most people seem to think uh but the historical evidence
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suggests otherwise and there's interesting uh book also the bomb ing War Europe 1939-45 by Professor Richard ovaries
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professor of history at exitor University who meticulously documents
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how Britain came to decide fairly early on in the war that it would bomb um
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German cities targeting civilians and Britain did this first and then Germany
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reciprocated and bombed London Birmingham Manchester Liverpool Etc uh but most people don't know this now of
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course Churchill made decision so that's one of his most famous or inFAMOUS war
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crimes but there were others and I'm not going to go through them all because there's quite a lot of them uh but I
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just want to focus on his attitudes to the Palestinians to non-white people
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this is a really key Point uh and to the Jews and to Israel and Palestine because
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what church said what he stood for still matters today he's he was cited Winston
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Churchill was mentioned in a recent TV interview you might might uh well have seen it where the interviewer Piers
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Morgan I think cited him as one of the great if not the greatest British Heroes
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uh and this uncritical uh what Ty Ramadan will call you know um Cult of
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Churchill is why he wrote this book and the evidence is uh to put it mildly
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horrific anyway this uh this book is still published last year I think uh and
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is still useful background reading to the current attack on the Gaza because
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Churchill's name is still used by many people to justify this anyway I'm just going to read the section then church of
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Palestine and the Jews starting on page 357 it gives a bit of background to
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Churchill uh historical context um and then we will move on to his views about
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non-white people and why he thought it was perfectly justifiable to remove
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Arabs blacks and so on from their land for reasons which will become quite
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clear uh shortly so uh T Ramadan uh sorry T Ramadan tarck ali uh writes as
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follows in the in the post first world war period no this after
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1918 the states to be carved out of former German Ottoman and austr
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Hungarian possessions were characterized by the newly created League of Nations
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like the UN of the day as being either Advanced Nations brackets white
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populations or nations that could not yet stand up for themselves in other
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words nonwhite populations and so required imperialist Tage they had to be
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looked after like children in other words within the latter category a further distinction was made between
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those closest to self-rule and those furthest away way in the Middle East the
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top category included Palestine Syria Lebanon and Iraq hence these were listed
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as states that would ultimately be granted self-rule very kind of the West
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to grant them self-rule of course Palestine on this description was not
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empty land but a functioning Province until self-rule was granted these states
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would be governed by mandates from the leag of Nations awarded to Britain and
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France so these vast areas were awarded to European imperial's powers the
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British had already created Iraq because many people don't realize that the modern Iraq is is created by Britain
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itself it didn't exist before to this day Lebanon remains what it was at the
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time of its birth the artificial creation of French colonialism a coastal
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band of greater Syria sliced off from its Hinterland by Paris once it became
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clear that Syrian Independence was inevitable the French wanted a colony of
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their own everyone has to have a colony in Europe it seems a regional client dominated by a Marite minority that had
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long been France's catspa catp in the Eastern Mediterranean uh T Ali here's
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language is very poetic actually lebanon's confessional checker board has
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never been permitted an accurate census in other words an an accurate census of
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the population of Lebanon has never really happened he says for fear of revealing that a substantial Muslim
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majority is denied due representation in the political system sectarian tensions
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have never disappeared the British demanded and got a division of the Palestinian mandate into two two parts
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the new Jewish Home Inver commers the new Jewish Home and
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Palestine here was the first example of a colonial partition via an influx of
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white settlers in Brackets ashkanazi Jews the war of independence used by
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most official Israeli historians to describe the 1947 to 49 conflict is a
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misn at best it could be applied to the three years 46 to 48 when Zionist interest
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clashed with the Strategic needs of the British Empire in the region Jewish
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terrorist attacks on the King David hotel and the British casualties brought
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Churchill close to a break with Zionism but he hung on the official Declarations
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of Independence were the bow for declaration famously in
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19177 and the Mandate of the League of Nations in 1919 without the consistent political
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economic and ideological support of the British Empire for a Zionist Jewish homeland for over 50 years it is
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unlikely that the foundations of Israel would have been laid and a state as it
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exists at present would have come into existence regardless of the judeo side
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judeo I think he means the Holocaust so in other words he he's arguing that for 50 years the British Empire's support
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for this Zionist project was absolutely essential so Britain's role was that key
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and Churchill's role was that key Churchill was strongly in favor of a Jewish homeland but even before he was
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born the seventh Earl of Shaftsbury and Evangelical Christian was a Tory MP as
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well had in 1838 take taking it upon himself to
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Kickstart the process of sending European Jews off to
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Palestine this is happened that early 1838 and suggested as much to paliston
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the then foreign secretary asking him to ensure great Power Protection Old
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Testament pities were mixed in with Britain's own strategic needs addressing
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Parliament a few decades later shury helping to create the myth that the
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lands were depopulated explained in further detail why a new British colony was almost a
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necessity for the Empire so this is seen as a British colony this Jewish presence in Palestine and he said as a short
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quote from his speech Syria and Palestine will before long become very
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important the country needs capital and population the Jews can give it both
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and has not England a special interest in promoting such
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restoration it will be a blow to England if either of her two Rivals should get
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hold of Syria does not policy there exort England to Foster the nationality
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of the Jews and Aid them to return to England then naturally belongs the role
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of favoring the settlement of Jews in Palestine end quote so the British
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interest is to populate that part of the world and tar Ali continues as early as
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1891 there's a particularly interesting paragraph this and I'm I'm glad T Ali has mentioned it as early as
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1891 the Zionist Pioneer Asher Ginsburg is a Jewish Pioneer visiting Jerusalem
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at a time when Jewish people as individuals owned less than 1% of the
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land can you imagine that in 1891 Jews ear less than 1% of the land reported
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that quote throughout the country it is difficult to find fields that are not
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sewed only sandunes and stonely mountains that are not fit to grow
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anything but fruit trees and this only after hard labor and great expense of
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clearing and Reclamation only these are not cultivated so there's a picture of a
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Palestinian land that is heavily farmed all of it virtually all of it as much as
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humanly possible this is the Zionist Pioneer Asher Ginsburg in 1891 Ginsburg provided a vivid
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description of settler racism and was farsighted in predicting its likely
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outcome so now we have a description in 1891 by a Jew himself of Jewish settler
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racism and of course literally as as we watch this now at this moment we have that going on in the West Bank actively
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going on we've seen this on countless news programs Ginsburg said they treat
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the Arabs with hostility and cruelty unscrupulously deprive them of their
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rights insult them without cause and even boast of such deeds and none
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opposes this despicable and dangerous inclination we who live abroad in other
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words Europe in this case are accustomed to believe that almost all erat Israel
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that's a Hebrew way of saying the land of Israel is now uninhabited desert and
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whoever wishes can buy land there as he pleases but this is not true he says it
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is very difficult to find in the land cultivated fields that are not used for
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planting the Arab like all seites is sharp-minded and shrewd for now they do
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not consider our actions as presenting a future danger to them isn't it
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interesting Palestinians didn't think that this was a threat to them for now they do the Palestinians do not consider
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our actions the Jews as presenting a further danger to them but if the time
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comes that our people's life in erat Israel the land of Israel will develop
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to a point where we are taking their place either slightly or
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significantly the natives are not going to just step aside so easily end quote W
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so this was an incredibly farsighted prediction of the likely outcome of
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Jewish settler uh settling in the land of Palestine and he accurately predicted
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this in 1891 what would happen in the next Century in the 20th century how
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amazingly prophetic that was and then T Ali goes on compare this to Theodore
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herzl's diary entry four years later now Theodore Herzel of course was an Ostro
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Hungarian Jewish journalist and political activist who was the father of
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modern political Zionism and he formed the Zionist organization and actively
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promoted Jewish immigration into Palestine in other words to form uh a
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Jewish state so he he he is absolutely key figure in Zionism and in Theodore
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herz's diary entry just four years later in June 1895 we read where he fantasizes on how
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the future Zionist state will be created so this is the father of Zionism this is
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what he said we shall have to Spirit the penulis population across the border by
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procuring employment for it in the transit countries while denying it any
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employment in our own country both the process of
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expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and
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circumspectly so right at the beginning even before Israel existed
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Zionism envisaged the ethnic cleansing of the inhabitants of that that land the
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Palestinians quite explicitly in 1895 Theodore Herzel fantasized the Jewish
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state would have to do that both the process of expropriation and the removal
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of the poor must be carried out see in other words don't let it be seen very openly try and do it a little bit
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secretly but get rid of them get these people out of their land we want to live there instead and that is from uh the
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complete Diaries of Theodore Herzel volume 1 page 88 to continue at a cabinet meeting in
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1919 balfor this is the British F secretary informed his colleagues that
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the that in implementing the Declaration that bore his name the Bal for declaration there was no need to waste
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too much time bford said in Palestine we do not propose even to go through the
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form of Consulting the wishes of the present inhabitants end quote let me
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read that again this is B who the author of the B the famous B declaration said
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in Palestine we do not propose even to go through the form of Consulting in
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other words you know the formality of talking to the Palestinians getting their views getting their input talking
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to them we do not propose to go through this formality we do not to consult the wishes of the present the present
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inhabitants so slightly contingent there it's just the present inhabitants not the future inhabitants there was no need
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for this since quote all the four Great powers are committed to Zionism he said
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this was of far greater import he said than the desire and prejudices of the
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700,000 Arabs so what really matters was the four Great Powers obviously Britain
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was one of them that's what really mattered they were all committed to Zionism much more important than the
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prejudices the views of 700,000 Arabs their views did not matter
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at all and I would suggest that is based purely or largely on racism the white
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man British Empire versus the the brown Arab this is very white supremacist
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language Churchill Amplified this further comparing the Palestinian Arabs
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to aboriginals in Australia and Native Americans we're going to come here we're going to come in a second to a quote
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directly from Winston Churchill which is shocking to Modern ears indeed shock people in his time by the way not just a
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a modern sensitivity as many say Well church was racism was common place in
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his day and people didn't object it was It was kind of conventional language but some people didn't object but many did
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on historical record many were outraged by what he said then anyway T Ali
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continues the intentions the intentions of Western imperialism were implicitly
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genocidal from the very beginning of the process so T Ali is not forward Theodore
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herz's language is clearly genocidal from the very beginning of the process
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from the conception from the ideological uh thought itself was genocidal it was the Palestinian
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resistance prior to and post the NABA that prevented such and occurrence so
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was actually Palestinian resistance that stopped the complete genocide he says racism was always an integral part of
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Churchill's political makeup he made no bones about it he didn't he was
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completely open and shames about it unlike some of his colleagues in all the three parties who prefer preferred to
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wear a mask so some kind of hid it behind a mask he viewed Arabs as an
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inferior race compared to Europeans of any stripe in the case of Palestine he
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accused the Arabs of behaving like quote a dog in the manger a view he spelled
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out in his evidence to the peel commission set up in
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1936 to report on the Palestinian Uprising then in motion and which had
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paralyzed the country so this is actually a a very famous um paragraph I'm not going to read uh very very
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offensive um then and now but it tells us a lot about the British government's
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attitude Churchill's attitude to Palestine Zionism Israel Arabs other
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races non-whites it tells us a lot and uh this is a this is the dominant view
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in in his in his time he wrote quote I
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do not agree that the in the manger has the final right to the manger even
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though he may have laay there for a very long time so even though to decode it
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even though the Palestinians may have lived there for Millennia they have no right to it just because they've been
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living there just because it's their land they have no right to it in his view I do not admit that right he says I
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do not admit for instance that a great wrong has been done done to the red
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Indians of America or the black people of Australia I do not admit that a wrong
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has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race a higher grade
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race or at any rate a more worldly wise race to put it that way has come in and
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taken their place and quote and T
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Ramadan understandably says this is the voice of white supremacy a view that was
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reiterated interestingly with remarkable Clarity by Israel's foremost revisionist
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historian the former paratrooper Benny Morris over half a century later
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Churchill would have been delighted by such a display of cander which admitted
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this historian admitted that the the long denied crimes and atrocities
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committed against the Palestinians in 1948 during the so-called war of
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independence today this is the common sense of Jewish Israel from top to
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bottom the ultimate logic of the bow for declaration and a distillation of
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Churchill's own views so Churchill's views the BF for's views summed up in
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that quote about the dog in the manger but now permeate that Society from top to bottom this is the ideological
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structure or substructure of the political life of that uh country
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detaching myths from realities in Palestine became more and more difficult after the ball
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declaration the Palestinian Arabs paid an exorbitant price and are continuing
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to do so the myth still persists that Palestine was almost uninhabited that
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vast tracks of the promised land were thirsting for the new Jewish settlers
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the principal propagators of this lie were the Zionist leaders of the Yu and
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their English backers the fact that Palestinian historians continue to
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produce books demonstrating that this was not the case is in itself an indication of how deep Zionist ideology
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remains within Israel and the diaspora Churchill did not write a great deal on
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his own attitudes uh Zionism and Jewish people in general but from what he did
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write it's clear that his views on the creation of Israel were not always
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consistent his reasoning veered from Pure instrumentalism it would be of used to
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the British Empire in the region filled with such enemies I.E the Arabs to
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civilizational racism with anti-bolshevism playing its part as well
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the Jews were an ancient race the chosen people and iof Factor superior to the
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Arabs this view was spelled out in what appears to be Churchill's lengthiest
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pronouncement on the subject an article published on page five of The Illustrated Sunday Herald in
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1920 the title spelled out programmatic priorities enshrined in the text Zionism
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versus bolshevism a struggle for the soul of the Jewish people some people like Jews and some do
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not Church informs the reader but no thoughtful man can doubt the fact that
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beyond all question they are the most formidable and most remarkable race
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which has ever appeared in the world end quote on one level this was surprisingly
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generous since he did not add a qualifi that specified after the English of
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course or words to that effect more importantly the notion itself is
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nonsensical and a throwback to Old Testament literalism surely Churchill
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knew English History well enough why then no mention of the fact that the
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worst pograms and persecution of the Jews in Old Europe had begun in England
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German fascists would would be would have been pleased by the fact that in
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1218 Henry III had announced a Royal Decree the Edict of the badge which made
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it compulsory for Jews to wear a marking badge because that reminds us of course
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of the Nazi Germany where Jews had to wear a star of David but they were doing
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they were required to wear something similar in the 13th century in England amazingly 60 years later pograms carried
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out by thieving Barons led to the killing of over a thousand Jews 500 in
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London alone the so-called Edict of expulsion was issued by Edward I in
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1290 all the Jews were rounded up and expelled their property looted and the
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blood liable charge spread with a Zeal that Geral would have envied a classic
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case of what's ped is prologue some of the Jews fled to France others found a
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Haven in Muslim Spain and Del Lucia of course where they were large and free
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where there were large and free Jewish communities participating on every level
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of the state I'm going to end there I could go on there's much fascinating detail historical detail here but that
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last sentence here after the pograms and persecutions of Christian Europe because
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this is the height of the Middle Ages when people were were God-fearing Christian folk and the church had power
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total power in England in the 12th and 13th century Jews were persecuted
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expelled murdered in vast numbers some fled to France but many found a Haven in
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the Muslim world where there were they were large and free Jewish communities
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free in the Muslim World participating on every level of the State isn't that
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interesting the contrast to the way Christian Europe treated the Jews and how the Muslim World treated the Jews
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anti-Semitism in its proper historic definition is I would argue a Christian
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virus we even see it arguably in the New Testament in the Gospel of John for example uh where Jesus speaks about the
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Jews as if there were some kind of your father Satan you your you Jews your
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father is Satan very kind of extreme language which of course was picked up later in the church
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as it became increasingly anti-semitic in the third and fourth centuries the Jewish uh the Muslim world is very
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different and they welcomed uh Jews and Islam saved jewry to quote from the
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title of a very famous and celebrated article which you can Google by an American Professor Jewish Professor who
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acknowledged how vital uh the Islamic world has been to save the Jews over the centuries and I only stress all this
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historical stuff because how different it is since uh 1948 when uh anti-Semitism well the
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relations between Jews and Muslims have taken a very different turn because of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian and
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the continued attacks on Palestinians up to today and it's just getting worse and worse obviously we know all about this
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so I do recommend this book Winston Churchill his times his crimes he was
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guilty it seems of many terrible war crimes crimes against Humanity in fact
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and many of them are listed and gruesome detail in this book and his legacy endures and influences politics today
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attitudes today towards the Arabs towards the Palestinians and towards Zionism so there's really matters that
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we understand what on Earth's going on with this man Winston Churchill anyway enough said for now until next time
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