ETHNIC CLEANSING REDUX
Don Jaffa, LCMB Member Opinion
While serving in Germany in 1995, a neighbor told us about members of his family that had ‘disappeared’ during a Serbian incursion into Kosovo. Of course it was assumed that they would eventually turn up in a mass grave somewhere in the aftermath. Because of the egregious character of the Serbians involved, it resulted in President Clinton declaring an ‘Air War’ against the Serbs, which forced a resolution during a ‘Peace’ conference held at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, resulting in the ‘Dayton’ Accords, and the deployment of the US Army’s 1st Armored Division into Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Since I was serving as ‘Emergency Essential’ civilian Chief, Force Modernization, with 1st Armored Division, I too ended up serving in Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina. The first mission of the Commanding General was to disarm the combatants. A subsidiary mission was to locate mass graves and provide support to the forensic effort to identify the dead. The Serbs were an Army with logistic support, and the victims, the Kosovars, were lucky to have knuckle-dusters and baseball bats, resulting in the mass murder of 7,000 – 9,000 unarmed civilians.
Despite the presence of NATO peacekeepers, and the set up of UNMIK, the ethnic strife continued on with outbreaks of violence and warfare. Camp Bondsteel was set up as the location of US Peacekeeping Forces and US aid to Kosovo is enormous. But the ethnic strife is now cooling off. On the other hand, the Arab-Israeli conflict as it is called, has a long and resolute history.
Apart from the long suffering patience of the Zionist movement, there were two factions within British Imperialism that marched forward with ‘what to do with the Jews!’ One faction decided that there was a home for the Jews, in what we now call ‘Uganda.’ The second faction, on religious grounds, established in 1809, the London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews, in the belief that if the Jews were converted to Christianity, it would be the entre to ‘The End of Time.’ In neither case, did it deflect the Zionist goal of return to ‘Palestine’ as the Holy Land, Jerusalem. From the arrival of the 20th Century until the 1922 Cairo Conference, it was clear that Jews, especially Chaim Weizman, were instrumental in aiding and achieving Arab sovereignty over Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and the Emirates.
The 1922 Cairo Conference was the victor’s dissolution of the German Imperial empire in the Near East, along with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. The key representative at the Cairo Conference was Winston Churchill. T. E. Lawrence, and King Faisal, were the heroes of the War in the Near East against the Turks (who were allied with the Germans). King Faisal, using T.E. Lawrence to write in English, wrote to Felix Frankfurter, to assure him that the Arabs were in accordance with the Zionist cause for a home for the Jewish People in Palestine, in March of 1919. But even earlier, Emir Faisal was quoted in the London Times:
“The two main branches of the Semitic family, Arabs and Jews, understand one another, and I hope that as a result of interchange of ideas at the Peace Conference, which will be guided by ideals of self-determination and nationality, each nation will make definite progress towards the realization of its aspirations. Arabs are not jealous of Zionist Jews, and intend to give them fair play and the Zionist Jews have assured the Nationalist Arabs of their intention to see that they too have fair play in their respective areas. Turkish intrigue in Palestine has raised jealousy between the Jewish colonists and the local peasants, but the mutual understanding of the aims of the Arabs and Jews will at once clear away the last trace of the former bitterness, which indeed, had already practically disappeared before the war by the work of the Arab Secret Revolutionary Committee, which in Syria and elsewhere laid the foundation of the Arab military successes of the past two years.” (Jews and Arabs in Syria: ‘The Emir Faisal looks to a Bright Future,’ The Times, Thursday, 12 December 1918; pg. 7.)
Despite the success of the Cairo Conference and the birth of Arab sovereignty over their homelands, the British Foreign Office kept a firm grip on the British Mandate over Palestine, and their control over Egypt. In the waning days of the 19th Century the British Navy converted to the use of oil to fuel its ships, based on the enormous oil fields obtained under the Anglo-Persian oil company’s leases in Persia. But with the closure of the Suez canal, and oil tankers having to travel around the Cape of Good Hope, at a crucial point in the war, the British Navy at Scapa Flow, ran out of oil.
The British Ambassador, hat in hand, went to see the President of Standard Oil of New Jersey. The next day some 90 oil tankers sailed for Scapa Flow. Strategic reserves of oil became a National Security issue thereafter. British presence in the Near East, in the Mandate over Palestine, remained because of the exploration for oil resources. American efforts to explore for oil in the Mandate were quickly discouraged. And such efforts came to end quickly as enormous discoveries in Texas and Oklahoma kept American Oil companies at home. Legendary photos of Indians in full bonnet regalia driving Rolls Royce Limousines became signals that competition from American oil was being left behind. Anglo-Persian Oil company began pumping oil to fuel the British Fleet and sales funded much of British Naval Construction.
British and French Imperial concerns, Palestinian Mandate and Egypt to the British, Syrian and Algeria to the French, left the leadership of the new Arab Nations to conduct their own relations with the Jewish community in Palestine. So in 1924 they allowed the Fourth Aliyah to bring Jews to Palestine with few if any restrictions until its’ end in 1928. The only complaints, as indicated by King Faisal, were from Arab ‘peasants.’ This came from the Aliyah arrivals who went to work reclaiming the land from the Desert. This was recognized in the collective settlements (kibbutzim) and villages (moshavot) that continued to grow everywhere. At the end of the Fourth Aliyah the city of Tel Aviv was a Jewish city of 40,000. The Jewish community in Palestine, the ‘yishuv,’ was a shadow government that operated separately from the British Colonial structure.
Where, one might inquire did such a massive schism between Arab and Jew emerge. Then even with a British Imperial Mandate over Persia, and their oil interests, as a national security requirement, there was little or no enmity noticed by the British in Persia between Farsi speakers and the Jews that lived in Persia. There was none of that for the most part anywhere in the near east and middle east. The old enmity of the Moors in Spain, and then the Spanish, the Portuguese, and the Catholic Inquisition with mandated conversion of Jews, or being burned at the stake, were matters of historical fact.
Historical fact is here the source of revelation. In the early 1930s a very wealthy businessman from Beirut, Lebanon, who traveled regularly between Beirut and Berlin, and who was fluent in German, became enamored of the Nazi Party, and was frequently gifted with German editions of ‘Mein Kampf.’ On his own initiative he had portions of ‘Mein Kampf’ translated into Arabic and published in a Beirut newspaper.
The immediate result in Beirut struck such an impression that the German Propaganda Minister, Dr. Goebbels, ordered the immediate translation into Arabic of the entire volume, and arranged for an immediate printing of 100,000 copies for immediate export to Lebanon, which was accomplished in 1934. A subsequent edition and printing was done for Turkey as well. And in 1938 an edition in Farsi was completed, printed and shipped to Tehran.
What effect did the publication in Arabic of ‘Mein Kampf’ have in the Arab world? It became the ‘bible’ of the nationalist movement in Arab military though out the middle east. In 1934, among the thousands of Arab military officers, like young Captain Gamel Abdel Nasser Hussein, and his friend Lieutenant Anwar Sadat, it shaped their view of Colonial Imperialism, and the rabid anti-Semitism within ‘Mein Kampf’ as their own. As the Arab nations created in 1922 succumbed to generational transfer, the original sentiments were replace by those in ‘Mein Kampf.”
Even here in America the original ‘Nation of Islam’ espoused the teachings in “Mein Kampf,” and allowed no heresy. In the autobiographies of Redd Foxx and Malcom X, there was no disparity between the Jew and the Gentile, they were both the ‘Devil.’ But when Malcom X made his Haj to Mecca, he converted to the truth and broke from the ‘Nation of Islam,’ and was murdered for his heresy. In the same vein, young Lieutenant Anwar Sadat won the 1935 Al-Ahram (Cairo Newspaper) essay contest on “Who is the Greatest Influence in your Life?”
In that essay he espoused the cause of “Mein Kampf.” And because he engaged Israel in a Peace Treaty, he too was assassinated. But Sadat was nuanced in his political message. While he addressed the Knesset in the Peace Treaty process, it was noted by Professor Paul Eidelberg (now at Bar-Ilan University) in a lecture on Sadat in the 1970s at the Claremont Colleges, that no one noticed that his tie was a pattern of interconnected Swastikas!
During my many years serving in Germany an annual event of great interest was the Frankfurt Book fair. There were hundreds of publishers from all over the world, with many interesting displays. However, the one fact of interest was publishing houses in Saudi Arabia and Iran, whose display both had a note saying that display and sale of new editions of Mein Kampf, in Arabic, are forbidden here in Germany. Only today there was a photo on Yahoo showing an annotated edition of Mein Kampf in the window of a bookstore in Berlin.
The historical fact is that those publishing houses in Riyadh and Teheran, publish millions of copies of Arabic Mein Kampf (and now the 2nd Volume of Mein Kampf) every single year. More copies of Mein Kampf have been printed than the Koran, in the Arab world. In Saudi Arabia there are high school textbooks that feature “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” as historical fact. The Saudi Arabian Imams fund Madrassahs throughout Islam that provide three hots and a cot for Koran study and on Friday Imam lectures from Mein Kampf. For more than sixty years, to quote a TV series, “This is the WAY!”
To their credit, the many Arab and Persian leaders who espouse the Nazi creed, do so under the banner of “Western Culture is Anathema to Islam!” But the ‘culture war’ is a façade they hide behind. Between 1900 and 1947 there was no question that eventually that quietus of the question of a homeland for the Jews would occur. When it did, with the United Nations granting the sovereignty of Israel, in 19478, the immediate reaction from the succeeding generation of Arab leaders, now Arab Nazis, was to declare war. But the Arabs living within the borders of the new nation, had to choose. And their choice was mandated by the Arab Nazis. Leave and escape to refugee camps, or claim citizenship as Israelis.
For over seventy five years the refugee camps, and the refugees, have been a cancer. In Jordan they overthrew the government, and tried to depose the Hashemite King of Jordan. In Lebanon the refugees and the Lebanese have been under the tyranny of the Syrian regime and the Iranian funded terrorists, resulting in thousands of deaths and assassinations. Neither Egypt, Jordan, nor Syria want the Palestinian Arabs in their borders under a mass exodus from Gaza.
For the moment, like here in the USA, no one is willing to admit that it is merely a border and immigration problem. But one occasioned by a Palestinian Arab attempt to begin “ethnic cleansing” of Jews from an occupied Palestine. The massive slaughter of non-combatant women and children, with many beheaded, terminates any consideration of imposition of Geneva Conventions. Any Palestinian Arab who surrenders voluntarily would be immediately deported for mandatory resettlement in either Libya or Algeria. The Palestinian Red Crescent would be sanctioned and removed, from everywhere in the Middle East, to set up and run those resettlement camps in Libya and Algeria.
Every single asset owned, operated, by any of the terrorist organizations, including those of the Red Crescent, PLO, Hamas, Hezbollah, etc., would be seized, sold and converted into cash, and provided to the Red Crescent through Libyan and Algerian governments to build and operate the resettlement camps, by monthly allocation. Every building in Gaza would have to be destroyed and bulldozed into rubble and every tunnel filled with propane, injected with napalm and then sealed by explosive charge. It will take a long time, but the process will ensure the sanctity of Israeli sovereignty.
The same process will have to take place in the West Bank, and an eventual process for East Jerusalem. The US State Department policy wonks, who demanded of the Defense Mapping Agency, that the ‘new’ borders obtained by Israel in the ’67 war be retained under the sobriquet of ‘Occupied Territories,’ and a US position that these ‘occupied territories’ belonged to ‘Palestine.’ The ‘Deep State’ policy wonks were obviously as anti-Semitic as the Arab Nazis. The problem is that the American Progressive left, which supports the Palestinian Arab, as Arab Nazis, considers the position as ‘Politically Correct.’ SO much so, that Senator Hilary Clinton, was a speaker, and fund raiser, for Palestinian Women’s groups in NYC and its Boroughs. Yahoo is filled with reports of her appearances and efforts for the Palestinians.
The massive problem here, is that so many Americans support the Arab Nazis, as political correctness.
