Democratic Palestine : 34 (ص 13)
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AN OPEN LETTER TO YITZHAQ SHAMIR ON THE
OCCASION OF HIS OFFICIAL VISIT TO LONDON
MAY 1989
FROM URI DAVIS
I was born in Jerusalem in 1943 and I was five years old when
the state of Israel was established in 1948. By then, your
Organization, the LEHI (Stern Group) Zionist armed
underground, had attempted to negotiate collaboration with
Nazi Germany, and you yourself, as LEHI chief of operations,
already had behind you actions which are classified under in-
ternational law as war crimes, notably the Deir Yasin
‘massacre.
Under UK law you are a wanted person with a reward on your
head. A warrent for your arrest is still on file in London.
And yet, instead of being jailed immediately upon arrival, you
will be received as official guest of Her Majesty’s Prime
Minister in Downing Street. You must inwardly chuckle with
satisfaction.
As Prime Minister of the state of Israel you take pride in hav-
ing led the Zionist LEHI organization. Indeed, it is correctly
observed that as Prime Minister of the state of Israel you still
embody the principles of the LEHI official political pro-
gramme: the demand to the territorial borders given in the
Torah (Bible) from the river of Egypt, the Nile, to the great
river, the river of Euphrates; the advocacy of a so-called solu-
tion of the problem of those designated as aliens (the Palesti-
nian Arab people) through population exchange; and the pro-
posal to construct a Third Jewish Temple on the Holy Mount
in Jerusalem as a symbol of the process of total redemption.
(Quoted in Committee for the Publication of the Works of
LEHI, Fighters for the Freedom of Israel) (Hebrew), Tel Aviv,
1959). There is no record of your renouncement of these
principles.
It is often asked: how is it possible that the government of the
state of Israel, which appropriated massive German repara-
tions (741 million US$ to be exact) as the claimed inheritor of
the mass of the Jewish communties annihalated by the Nazi
Holocaust can perpetrate and endorse policies of occupation
and war crimes against another people, namely, the Palestinian
Arab people.
Your record, Yitzhaq Shamir, as Prime Minister of the state of
Israel directly responsible for war crimes against the Palesti-
nian Arab people since the beginning of the intifada in 1987 in
the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip is staggering: denial of
supplies of fuel and electricity; arrests of many thousands;
demolition of homes of detainees; illegal deportations; in-
discriminate beating directed to maim and mutilate; illegal
application of tear gas in confined places resulting at times in
miscarriage of pregnant women; the injury of many thousands
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and the murder of some 500 unarmed protestors over the past
eighteen months against the Israeli occupation, mostly youth,
many children under fourteen, at the rate of one peron every 24
hours. Adjusted for population size, the equivalent figure in
the United Kingdom would be 500 persons per month.
The truthful answer to the question: ‘how is it possible...’ is
represented in the political career of the Prime Minister of the
state of Israel Yitzhaq Shamir.
Sections of the Zionist leadership (e.g. your leader Avraham
Stern) believed that in order to secure the establishment of the
state of Israel it was correct to collaborate with Nazi Germany
- not to mobilize with the Allies, first and foremost with the
UK, for resistance to the Nazi occupation. Other sections of
the Zionist leadership (e.g., Yitzhaq Gruenbaum, head of the
World Zionist Organization/Jewish Agency rescue committee)
believed that it was necessary to abandone the mass of Euro-
pean Jewish communities to annihalation rather than divert
Zionist funds to finance mass rescue activities in Europe.
In 1941 Abraham Stern, the leader of the LEHI organization,
sent to the German Nazi government a proposal concerning the
solution of the Jewish question in Europe and participation by
the LEHI in the war on the side of Germany. Against the
backdrop of the mass annihalation of European Jewry the
memorandum by LEHI notes that the organization recognizes
that:
Common intevests could exist between the establishment of a
new order in Europe in conformity with the German concept,
and the true national aspirations of the Jewish pecple... > - هو جزء من
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