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2022-02-13 - Radio Ranch 2.13.22 Alison Weir - How The U.S. Was Used to Create Israel - Buried History: How the U.S.-Israel Relationship Was Built · Global Voice Radio Network's tracks

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  Unknown: When I began to look into this and wake up to this
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  late in my life,
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  I wondered much more.
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  How did this all begin? What's going on? What's what's Israel Palestine about?
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  Who really did initiate the violence? You know, we've seen from January 1, we've seen going back to
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  the January
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  Going back to 2000,
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  2001.
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  Where where and how did this all start?
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  And how did The US get such a uniquely special relationship
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  with a tiny country without resources?
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  How did this happen?
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  Well, one of the first things I learned was that when
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  I was born,
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  there was no Israel.
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  So,
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  where did this come from? Well, what I discovered was that there was a movement
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  that began over a century ago,
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  and began operating in Europe and in The United States.
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  It was and
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  is a political movement
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  that has profoundly
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  and negatively
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  impacted our country.
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  It has tragically impacted The Middle East,
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  and it has dangerously impacted the entire world.
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  And yet most of us, I think,
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  have never heard of it and could certainly not define it.
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  It's political Zionism.
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  This was a movement to create a Jewish state in Palestine.
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  It began in the late eighteen hundreds. Well, let us look at Palestine in the late eighteen hundreds.
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  It was what we largely think of now as a somewhat multicultural
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  land,
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  and that was about 80% Muslim,
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  about 15%
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  Christian,
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  and about 5% Jewish.
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  All living together quite successfully.
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  There are mosques, synagogues,
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  churches
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  throughout Palestine,
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  throughout The Middle East, and throughout North Africa.
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  These populations had been living without conflict for centuries.
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  But this movement
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  was created
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  largely in Israel, largely in Europe,
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  and then taken up at the same time in The US.
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  To create a Jewish state on land
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  that was already inhabited
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  in which 95%
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  were not Jewish.
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  Therefore,
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  this would involve,
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  and this was known by the leadership,
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  even though many followers didn't know it, this would mean that 95%
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  of those people were going to be dispossessed.
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  By money if possible,
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  by force if necessary.
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  This was written in Zionist journals early on.
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  Now my book and my talk concentrates on The US aspect of all of this. What surprised me in my research is how early and how active this movement was in The United States. A movement I'd never heard of, although I was born here and my parents were born here and some ancestors go back to the beginning.
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  It turns out that this was a very significant movement long before my parents were born.
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  And then by 1910,
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  there were already 20,000 Zionists in The US. They included lawyers, professors and businessmen.
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  It was already in 1910,
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  a movement to which congressmen listened.
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  Then in 1912,
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  we had a very significant development.
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  A prominent lawyer
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  named Louis Brandeis
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  became a Zionist.
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  Brandeis not only just be didn't just become a Zionist, within about two years, he then became the head of world Zionism.
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  This
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  was public, it's not some secret knowledge, it's just that most of us don't know it.
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  And then within a few years, he was also a Supreme Court Justice,
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  named by Woodrow Wilson.
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  When you're a Supreme Court Justice,
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  you're supposed to resign
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  your various board memberships and affiliations,
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  because you're supposed to not have any conflict of interest, but be neutral.
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  So he did resign his leadership of world Zionism,
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  but in reality, he continued it.
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  He would receive reports in his Supreme Court chambers
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  by his loyal lieutenants,
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  and then he would give them directives to go out and to
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  follow
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  and work for Zionism. And this is mentioned in a number of very reliable books. If you get my book, you'll see that my book is over half footnotes.
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  It's all cited.
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  By the way, one of his loyal lieutenants also went on to become a very prominent Supreme Court Justice, Felix Frankfurter.
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  So I'd read that. That to me was shocking right there.
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  But then I discovered something more. So I'll give you my citations for this next information, so you can evaluate whether you find it reliable or not.
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  The way I did my research is I would read books, then I would look at their footnotes to see where they had gotten that information.
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  Then I would often get those books and read those footnotes, and then order those books and read those footnotes, and on and on.
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  So one of the books that I read was really a fairly well known one. Israel and the Mind of America, published by a very mainstream establishment publisher,
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  and the author was a very mainstream
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  author.
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  He had been diplomatic correspondent for the New York Times. He had been at Harvard. He'd written a number of well regarded, very establishment
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  non fiction books.
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  Well, in this book, he had a few pages in which he told about a secret Zionist society
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  that had operated in The United States,
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  of which Louis Brandeis,
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  while a Supreme Court Justice, had been a leader.
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  So I looked at where he got that information,
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  and I went to that source. It turned out to be from a scholarly journal
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  called
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  The American Jewish Historical Quarterly.
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  A very respected journal.
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  So then I looked at the author.
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  Well, is this a reliable author? Who wrote this very,
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  to me, explosive information,
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  and turned out to be well regarded Israeli historian
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  at a mainstream
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  Israeli university.
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  She had written an article in 1975
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  called The Parashim,
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  a secret episode in American Zionist history.
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  And she told about what this was, an elitist secret society.
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  The word meant Pharisees and separate.
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  They would go around the country and influence people to push the Zionist agenda.
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  By the way, at this time,
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  the Jewish population
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  were not Zionists
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  at all. The large majority were not Zionists.
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  Many were opposed to Zionism.
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  This was a very
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  fringe
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  element to a certain regard.
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  Then in the secret society, they even had a secret induction ceremony.
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  So that when somebody joined the society, and many, their membership included professors and recent
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  Harvard graduates,
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  significant people around the country were sometimes members.
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  And in this initiation ceremony,
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  they were told by the inductor,
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  and they swore to this,
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  until our purpose shall be accomplished, you will be the fellow of a brotherhood whose bond you will regard as greater than any other in your life.
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  Dearer than that of family, of school,
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  of nation.
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  As
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  early as November
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  1915,
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  a leader of the Parashim
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  went around suggesting that the British might gain some benefit
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  from a formal declaration
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  in support of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.
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  Those of you who have heard of the Balfour Declaration that came in 1917
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  might find this relevant.
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  I'll get into that a little bit more.
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  Let's remember
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  what was going on during this time period now in the world,
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  especially
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  that involved Britain?
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  Well,
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  of course, in 1914 began what was called at that time the Great War
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  of massive carnage.
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  British forces in the first day of the Battle of the Somme lost, according to historians, somewhere around 50,000
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  to 60,000 men
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  in one day of a battle that went on and on and on.
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  The British and the German, both sides of course, wanted The US to come in on their side
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  to join this carnage.
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  But the American population were that bad thing, they were isolationists.
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  They didn't want to go kill and be killed in a foreign pointless war.
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  In fact, Woodrow Wilson was elected with the slogan, He kept us out of the war.
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  But of course, as you know, with hindsight, no he didn't.
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  Well, what happened is that the Zionist
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  leaders,
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  some of them, in Britain,
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  a man named Chaim Weitzman, who is quite well known, went to the British government
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  and said, well, we can help you win this war. Now why would they want to do that? Because the war wasn't just against Germany,
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  it was against the Ottoman Empire.
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  The Ottoman Empire
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  held Palestine.
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  Palestine was under the Ottoman Empire. So by defeating them, the British would come into control of Palestine.
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  So the Zionists went to the British and said, we can help you get The United States into the war.
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  Our Zionist colleagues in The United States, for example, they said in writing,
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  Louis Brandeis, who is close to President Wilson,
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  can help to do that.
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  In exchange for that, the British did
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  issue a declaration
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  that was quite significant, mild as it may sound.
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  It was really considered a gentleman's agreement.
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  This is written about in a number of books, just most of us don't know this about our own history.
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  So the Balfour Declaration was basically a promise that the British would help to facilitate
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  the Zionist objective of creating a Jewish state in Palestine.
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  After the British, of course, did win, then at the Paris Peace Talks, the Zionist pushed to push this wording into the mandate in which Britain
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  took charge of
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  Then jumping ahead to some of the American aspects again.
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  Then we find during the thirties and the forties,
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  in Palestine itself,
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  there were some
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  the violence
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  increased.
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  Naturally, as soon you know, when there was
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  colonization
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  beginning around the turn of the century
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  to a land with the intention of pushing out the land,
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  the indigenous
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  population at some point is going to wake up and
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  there will be violence.
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  That has happened in the early twenties and again 1929.
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  There was violence between the two populations.
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  As now, the large number of those killed were the Palestinians.
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  So as the violence increased, there were some terrorist organizations created in Palestine by the Zionists.
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  One of them led by a former in fact, two of them led by future Israeli prime ministers.
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  And those those terrorist organizations in Palestine, the Irgun and the Stern Gang, it turns out had front groups in The United States
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  with duplicitous
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  names.
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  And they were funneling massive amounts of money and weaponry
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  to these terror groups in Palestine.
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  They put on major pageants where Supreme Court justices attended and thousands of people attended.
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  They were very prominent.
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  One of them was led by a man named
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  Peter Bergson, people thought. His real name was Hillel Cook. He was the operative for the Irgun.
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  I looked into one of the leaders a bit more,
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  just because I needed to find out his first name. When you're writing a book, you can't just write someone's last name, you need to know their first name. And I had heard about another leader
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  of one of these types of front groups connected to killing
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  in Palestine,
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  and his name was Rabbi Korf,
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  but I didn't know the first name.
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  None of the books that I had had a few paragraphs of them, but none of them gave his first name. So I looked into it on the internet, tried to do various searches,
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  and eventually I came up with a UN report
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  that gave his first name, Baruch Korf, and told a little bit about a plot
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  he was part of.
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  Using those search terms, I then could put
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  in more information into my search bar, and suddenly all these PDFs
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  of American newspapers popped up, all of these returns.
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  It turned out that Rabbi Baruch Korf was part of a
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  cell
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  in Paris
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  that was planning to
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  fly an airplane and bomb Britain after the war. Britain that had just defeated Hitler.
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  But they were so angry at the British because the British were not allowing
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  a large enough Jewish immigration
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  into Palestine.
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  So they were gonna kill the British.
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  So,
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  Baruch
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  Korf and his section of the Stern Gang had this plan,
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  but there was one problem. They didn't know how to fly an airplane.
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  They weren't pilots.
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  So they needed to find somebody, and they recruited a young American aviator named Reginald Gilbert, I discovered.
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  Reginald Gilbert had been an ace during the war.
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  He was in Paris, and they recruited him to fly the airplane for them.
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  He pretended to go along with the plot, but then he went to the American Embassy.
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  And the American Embassy informed
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  the Paris Police and Scotland Yard.
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  So for a week, he pretended to go along with this cell,
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  and then when it came time to actually take off,
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  to fly the plane, to drop these
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  incendiary
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  bombs
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  onto the foreign ministry,
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  they were caught.
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  By the way,
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  the original plan had been to bomb parliament, but then they decided they hated the foreign ministry more.
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  And Gilbert, at one point, had said to them, Well, what if I can't find the foreign ministry in the London fog? They didn't have this degree of instrumentation
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  we have today, and that was a real possibility.
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  And they said then just drop them anywhere. Kill anybody.
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  All British are our enemy.
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  So they were caught.
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  Corf was in prison for a few months in Paris, and he eventually got off. He had very powerful friends in The United States.
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  But I was curious about him. I looked into him some more. This was so astounding to me, and none of these
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  dozens and dozens of books I have, none of them had this story in there at all.
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  And so in looking at him, I discovered that later in life, he was a friend of Richard Nixon.
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  In fact, it was reported that he had helped to influence Nixon's
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  policies
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  on The Middle East.
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  In fact, Nixon sort of in a fond way called him my rabbi.
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  Now the precursor to today's very powerful Israel lobby
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  was a group called the American Zionist Emergency Council, AZEK.
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  This was formed in around 1940,
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  and by 1943,
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  had a budget of $500,000
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  at a time when a nickel bought a loaf of bread.
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  Within a few years, they had maneuvered their way into access to an even far larger sum, in which they had access to $14,000,000
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  in 1941,
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  and $150,000,000
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  by 1948.
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  That's the equivalent in today's dollars of $1,000,000,000,000
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  to use to manipulate
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  The United States.
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  So they targeted with that money every sector of US society.
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  You know, this isn't ancient history. They had annual reports, they had directives,
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  all this was written down on paper. They targeted congressmen,
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  Christian clergy,
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  editors, professors,
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  business and labor, Jewish war veterans.
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  They published
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  books all over. They had 400 local committees.
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  There were massive campaigns throughout the country.
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  They also worked especially to manufacture Christian support.
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  They secretly
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  funded
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  sort of Christian groups that would push the same Zionist ideology.
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  They
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  funded books that became huge bestsellers.
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  It was an
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  enormously successful campaign throughout the country.
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  Even though during this time, there was a great deal of opposition to Zionism by many different groups,
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  by Christian leaders, by State Department, Pentagon, intelligence agencies,
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  Jewish anti Zionists,
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  many people were opposed to it. Two of the most celebrated
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  Christian pastors
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  opposed it on religious and moral grounds.
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  The Christian leaders in the Middle East had gone to the Paris Peace Talks to advocate on behalf of the Arab population,
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  that there should be self determination of peoples there.
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  One
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  very prominent
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  American Christian,
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  who was a Dead Sea scholar,
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  wrote a wonderful book called Palestine Is Our Issue Is Our Business. And,
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  you know, to read that book, it's
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  very strong. It talks about the right of return,
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  about Palestinian
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  resistance fighters, etcetera.
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  But it was buried.
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  Diplomats,
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  the State Department,
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  the military, the Pentagon, the intelligence agencies
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  wrote directive after directive,
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  study after study, memo after memo,
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  talking about how damaging to The US
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  and to US strategic interests and how in violation of American principles Zionism would be.
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  Starting from under
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  Taft, there was then a commission to Palestine during the time of the Paris Peace Talks.
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  They went there to investigate the situation, to
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  look into the possibility of creating a Jewish state there, and they came back with a very powerful report saying this would be a grave trespass
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  on the rights of the people there.
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  This was entirely buried and
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  had no effect whatsoever.
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  Dean Acheson, a major
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  statesman for many years, wrote that the Zionist agenda would imperil
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  not only American but all Western interests in the Near East.
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  The CIA wrote that they were pursuing objectives that would endanger the strategic interests of the Western powers in the Near And Middle East.
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  There's so much evidence of this. Some people debate about whether the lobby is powerful. It's been powerful since the beginning.
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  And the evidence is all there. It's just buried.
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  Alfred Lilienthal was part of the American Council for Judaism. I had the honor of meeting him. He wrote excellent books about this. That group was arguing
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  against Zionism.
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  And
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  part of what they were arguing in the State Department was that there would be massive bloodshed
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  and chaos
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  if this was pushed through.
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  When the Zionists began to work to push through what's called the partition plan through the United Nations, That's portrayed to Americans as this wonderful compromise.
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  Palestinians just
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  ignored this wonderful opportunity
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  that Palestinians pushed through. Well, they knew and the State Department were saying this would be
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  a disaster if this gets pushed through.
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  The idea was that Palestine,
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  half of it would be given to a Jewish state.
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  Even though these were mostly recently arrived and had originally only been
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  5% of the population.
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  And even after decades of immigration,
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  we're 30% of the population.
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  And this plan wasn't actually half.
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  The plan was that they would get 55%
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  of Palestine approximately,
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  and the Palestinians would get about 45%
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  of their own land.
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  Now,
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  I know what the Americans would say if the UN did that to us,
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  but this is portrayed with, oh, those foolish Palestinians not accepting that.
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  And by the way, many
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  people are under the illusion
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  that
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  Israel bought up all that land.
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  That's what's been told, and that was the attempt.
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  And they did increase Jewish ownership about over, you know, from what was originally about 1%,
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  because it was an urban population,
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  to at most 8%.
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  Most historians said they owned about five to 6%. So a group that owned 8% under this plan was getting 55%,
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  a good deal for them. No wonder they said they would go along with it,
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  and secretly in their journal said it's the first step, then we will get it all.
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  But rather than bringing peace,
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  which was what the UN was charged with, instead of bringing peace,
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  it did the opposite.
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  It created, of course, still more violence,
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  and there was a war that Israel calls its war of independence,
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  and Palestinians call it Al Nakba,
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  the catastrophe.
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  Because it was a massive humanitarian
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  catastrophe.
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  At least three quarters of a million men, women, and children were very ruthlessly and violently pushed off their land.
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  There were at least 16 massacres
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  before a single Arab army finally joined the fray.
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  And by the way, those of you that grew up with the myth that I did that Little Israel declared its independence and suddenly, you know, five to seven Arab armies suddenly just attacked, but Israel somehow won
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  because God
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  was on their side or something.
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  Well, in reality,
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  before Israel declared its independence on about May fourteenth, fifteenth, it's a midnight
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  type of situation,
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  They had already committed 16 massacres.
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  These are quite grisly, you can read the details of them. They had already ethnically cleansed at least 200,000
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  people.
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  When these Arab armies did come into the fray, they were smaller in number, including the Palestinian forces,
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  than the Zionist forces were.
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  And by the way, virtually
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  all of the battles were actually fought on the part that according to the UN plan,
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  was going to be Palestinian territory.
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  Now some people, again, were trying to tell Americans what was going on.
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  One of the most important was a woman named Dorothy Thompson.
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  She was what Britannica Encyclopedia says, was one of the most famous journalists of the twentieth century.
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  In fact, I believe at one place they say that she is the most important female journalist of the twentieth century.
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  It's true, although I had never heard of her.
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  She had a newspaper column that was printed all over The United States,
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  a radio program that was listened to by millions of Americans.
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  She was such a celebrity that there was a Broadway play in which she played
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  by Lauren Bacall,
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  and there was a Hollywood movie
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  loosely based on her life, in which she was played by Katharine Hepburn.
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  She was considered the most powerful woman in The United States, after Eleanor Roosevelt.
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  She was an excellent journalist. She had been a foreign correspondent in Germany during the 30s, and had been one of the first journalists to raise the alarm about Hitler.
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  She was the first foreign journalist to be expelled by Hitler.
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  She was therefore very sympathetic to Zionism.
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  But after the war, when Israel when, you know, later when Israel began to be created, she went over to see this wonderful state of Israel,
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  the new Jewish state.
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  And when she got there, she saw hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees
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  living in squalor,
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  dying in large numbers every day.
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  And she began to write of them, to tell about them, to speak about them. She even eventually made a documentary about them.
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  And for telling about these people,
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  for writing about these people,
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  she lost her newspaper column,
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  she lost her radio program,
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  She lost her fame,
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  and she was erased from history.
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  On sort of a similar final note, if I now tried to write an article, about Dorothy Thompson, fascinating
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  person,
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  Or maybe about the Parashim,
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  or maybe about Reginald Gilbert, there's much more I could tell you about, very interesting about him. If I tried to do that for a popular American history magazine, which I would like to do,
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  I quite likely would not get it published.
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  And that's, you know, this is not paranoid speculation.
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  A few years ago, we tried to put a paid newspaper ad in American History Magazine, not about Palestine.
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  We tried to put a paid ad in about a book,
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  a memoir
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  by a 91 year old American congressman.
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  It tells about his childhood
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  in depression era America,
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  in Corn Belt America,
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  about being a small town newspaper editor,
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  about serving the Seabee's during World War II, about going to Congress,
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  about all of his various fights in Congress, and about also,
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  near the end of the book, it tells about the fact that when he started to speak about Palestine,
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  he was targeted by the Israel lobby,
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  money was funded to his opponent, and after twenty two years in Congress,
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  he lost the election, Paul Finley.
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  But our advertisement didn't even tell about that last
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  part of his very long life, it just told about his book, The usual blurbs about what a wonderful book this is.
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  But Eric Weider,
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  the publisher and owner of American History Magazine,
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  informed us
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  that they would not publish our advertisement
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  in American History Magazine
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  because we were anti Israel,
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  and that they would not publish our advertisement
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  in any
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  of the popular
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  history magazines that they own in The United States,
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  which is virtually
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  every one.
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  This is, according to their website, the largest history chain in the world, and it's certainly the largest one in The United States. So
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  what do we do about this?
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  To me, we tell people what's going on.
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  We even talk to those people that we don't want to raise something serious or uncomfortable
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  with.
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  Because right now, as we're talking, we all know what's going on in Gaza. In general.
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  We don't know which child was just killed or lost their parents.
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  We don't know which home was just destroyed, which hospital was further destroyed, but we know what's going on right now.
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  And now we know a little bit about what's going on here.
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  But we have the power to change this.
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  I feel strongly
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  that if every
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  single person
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  in The United States right now
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  that is concerned about Gaza
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  would
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  actually
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  just do something like maybe again,
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  or maybe for the first time, phone your senator.
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  If every single one of us did that
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  tomorrow,
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  it wouldn't change the policy overnight, but they would have they have their fingers to the wind, and suddenly they would realize, woah,
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  looks like the tide is changing here,
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  and half of them would love it to change.
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  They don't like being a pack puppets.
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  Now some of them
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  are ideological
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  Zionists,
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  you know, that's
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  the reality.
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  But according to a congressman that I talked to a few years ago, he said over half in congress know what they are doing is wrong, but they're
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  afraid of the Israel lobby. In
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  other cases, congresspeople have privately told individuals,
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  you need to make me do this. You need to create the grassroots movement so that I can do it. If everyone in America did that,
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  it would begin
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  the impact that would bring change.
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  Thank you very much.