It appears that any criticism of Israel, any at all, is anti-Semitic. Or so the major news outlets would have us believe. Criticize the out-sized influence Israel holds over our own government, criticize the murder of medics, unarmed protesters, and children, and you will be dubbed an anti-Semite. It’s a race card, and, as it is with all race cards, is brandished by a coward who realizes he has no real argument to counter with. Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar recently experienced this firsthand, when she pointed out the obvious-to-everyone fact that Israel, via AIPAC and other entities, wields enormous influence over our own government. That influence does include large sums of money, which Omar acknowledged with the statement, “It’s all about the Benjamins.” Cries of anti-Semitism erupted from the four corners, along with the usual sob stories of historical Jewish plight and persecution. And in my effort to learn a bit about the history of Israel, I came upon a recent piece by Philip Giraldi, entitled, Israel’s Story, with the subtitle, “Lies from start to finish”. Giraldi writes about an historical incident I had not known, specifically, the massacre at Deir Yassin:
“Israel was founded as a product of terrorism, some would say the “first modern” style terrorism, to include bombings of non-military targets and random massacres of civilians. In a notorious attack on the village of Deir Yassin on April 9, 1948, more than two hundred Palestinians may have been slaughtered by Jewish terrorists affiliated with the Irgun and Lehi groups. The exact count of the victims is unknown because a subsequent Zionist clean-up team systematically destroyed many of the bodies.”
The massacre at Deir Yassin triggered the massive 1948 Palestinian exodus, where 700,000 Palestinian Arabs fled their homes in face of the real threat of more massacres to come.
He also mentions another historical tidbit on the founding of the modern state of Israel, the assassination of Folke Bernadotte by the murderously fanatical Zionist group, Lehi. Bernadotte’s murder is ironic in the extreme, because he had previously negotiated the release of 31,000 prisoners from Hitler’s concentration camps. He was unanimously chosen to be the mediator in the Arab-Israeli conflict of 1947-48, only to be killed by members of Lehi who didn’t take kindly to the split-down-the-middle approach. Lehi wanted everything, and wanted the Arabs out of Palestine. His assassins fled to Israel, and the few Lehi members arrested by Israeli police were pardoned and released.
This is history that no one I’ve ever met knows. But mention it, and you’re an anti-Semite!
