Democratic Palestine : 34 (ص 14)
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Cooperation between the new Germany and a renewed
volkishnational Hebrium would be possible, and the
establishment of the historical Jewish state on a national and
totalitarian basis bound by a treaty with the German Reich
would be in the interest of a maintained and strengthened
future German position of power in the Near East. (Quoted in
Yizraeli, The Palestine Problem in German Politics 1889 - 1945
(Hebrew), Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 1974)
Proceeding from these considerations LEHI offered to actively
take part in the war on the side of Germany.
In 1943 Yitzhaq Gruenbaum, head of the World Zionist
Organization/Jewish Agency rescue committee made the
following statement:
And in this time in Eretz Israel there are comments: ‘Do not
put Eretz Israel in priority in this difficult time, in time of
destruction of European Jewry’. I do not accept such a saying.
And when some asked me: ‘Can you not give money from
keren ha-yesod [the Zionist Foundation Fund designated to
fund Jewish settlement in Palestine] to save Jews in the
diaspora’ I said: ‘No’. And again I say: ‘No’... I think we have
to stand before this wave that is putting Zionist activity into the
second row... I think it is necessary to say here: Zionism is over
everything. (Gruenbaum, In the Days of Destruction and
Holocaust (Hebrew), Haverim Publishing House, Tel Aviv,
1946)
Those sections (mainstream or otherwise) of the Zionist
political leadership, who were motivated by such ideological
perspectives, were willing to compromise and betray their own
people in order to promote the totally unworthwhile political
programme of the establishment of a Zionist Jewish state in
Palestine. They were also the sections of the Zionist leadership
(both labour Zionist and revisionist Zionist) that spearheaded
the birth of the state of Israel. A leadership that was willing to
act in this way against its own people in order to secure unwor-
thy Zionist political aims would not hesitate, and, indeed, did
not hesitate to perpertrate war crimes against another people,
namely, the Palestinian Arab people, if deemed necessary to
secure these aims.
I am an anti-Zionist Israeli Jew. My position vis-a-vis the main
body of Israeli Jewish society is analogous to the position of a
white citizen of the Republic of South Africa who is a public
opponent of apartheid. The Palestinian peace initiative at-
tempts to reach for a peaceful solution of the Israeli-
Palestinian conflict through the establishment of an indepen-
dent state of Palestine alongside the state of Israel, where there
will be Arab citizens of the state of Israel and Jewish citizens of
the state of Palestine, subject to UN Charter and all UN
resolutions. By every standard, moral and political, I regard
the Palestine Liberation Organization to be a _ superior
organization to the World Zionist Organization. And I regard
Yasir Arafat to be a better President of the Arab and Jewish
citizens of the state of Palestine than Haim Herzog as Presi-
dent of the Jewish and Arab citizens of the state of Israel.
The PLO peace initiative will rightly expose you as Prime
Minister and your government for what you are: staunch op-
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ponents of the rights of the Palestinian people as endorsed in-
ternationally since 1947 in all UN resolutions, including the
resolutions that give legitimacy to the establishement of the
state of Israel alongside the state of Palestine. You and your
government refuse to concede to the Palestinian people any of
their internationally sanctioned rights to national territory in-
dependence and sovereignty. Your visit to the UK aims to
make sure that the PLO peace initiative comes to nothing.
It remains for anti-Zionist Israeli and non Israeli Jews like
myself to raise their voice and tell the truth loud and clear:
Given the continued occupation by Israel of the West Bank and
the Gaza Strip since 1967, and, given your policies as Prime
Minister of the government of the state of Israel, war against
your government, like war against the government of the
Republic of South Africa, is justified. It may be the only
realistic means to force the state of Israel to submit to the
norms of justice and universal humanity as embodies in inter-
national law and codified in UN Charter and resolutions.
How sad.
Uri Davis (Dr)
1 A Highbury Grove Court
Highbury Grove
London N5 2NG
Dr Uri Davis is Honorary Research Fellow in Palestine Studies
at the Department of Politics, University of Exeter; an ex-
patriate Israeli Jewish academic and anti-Zionist activist of
dual Israeli and UK citizenship; author and associate author on
the question of Palestine (eg Israel: An Apartheid State and,
The Jewish National Fund). His forthcoming book The State
of Palestine will be published by Mansell. @
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