Israel Seeks Compensation Related to Stealing Historic PalestineStephen Lendman stephenlendman.org (http://www.pravdareport.com/) | Pravda (//http://) | 9 January 2019
http://www.pravdareport.com/news/world/09-01-2019/142166-israel_stealing-0/
Extract: The Jewish state gives chutzpah new meaning. It seeks $250 billion from seven Arab states and Iran in connection to its theft of historic Palestine - one of history's great crimes.
It took 78% in 1948, the Palestinian Nakba, the remainder in June 1967, including the West Bank, Gaza, and Jerusalem, the UN-declared international city, illegally occupied by Israel, illegally declared its exclusive capital.
David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, set the tone during the Nakba for what followed, saying "(e)very attack has to end with occupation, destruction and expulsion" - forcefully eliminating resistance, assuring Israeli control over historic Palestine.
According to Israeli Hadashot TV news, Israel demands Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Morocco, Syria Tunisia and Yemen correct what it calls a "historic injustice" - a colossal perversion of truth.
It's reinventing history, blaming countries it attacked and other regional ones for its illegal 1948 and 1967 land grabs - demanding they compensate Jews for the loss of property, assets and other possessions they left behind in Arab countries because of war the Jewish state waged against neighboring ones.
Israel's 1948 war without mercy depopulated Palestinian cities, towns and villages, massacring innocent victims, raping their women, committing other atrocities - notably burning, bulldozing, blowing up, or stealing homes, property and other possessions, dispossessing around 800,000 Palestinians, preventing them from returning home.
Israel's 1967 six-day war was planned "16 years in advance," according to IDF general Mordechai Hod, saying "(w)e lived with the plan. We slept on the plan. We ate the plan. Constantly we perfected it."
It was all about stealing the remaining 22% of historic Palestine not taken in 1948, including East Jerusalem.
It had nothing to do with self-defense to avoid annihilation, the falsified claim at the time - later debunked by PM Menachem Begin and IDF generals, admitting Israel faced no threats from Arab states.
General Haim Barlev later said "(w)e were not threatened with genocide on the eve of the six-day war, and we had never thought of such a possibility."
The world community did nothing to intervene against Israeli aggression, nor at any time throughout the Jewish state's existence.
Militarism, institutionalized racism, and apartheid rule define the state of Israel, its young (male and female) children indoctrinated to be warriors.
Militarized education begins in kindergarten, at home, and in all other aspects of society - the line between military and civil society blurred.
Children are taught to believe Palestinians must be subjugated, violence against them OK, along with destroying their property and killing them - notions ingrained in developing minds before they're able to understand how they're manipulated.
They're taught to believe Arabs are inferior and Palestinians are enemies, military service essential, wars and other forms of violence natural, peace unattainable.
The history of the Jewish state isn't pretty. Over half a century of illegal occupation continues. Israel aims to steal all valued parts of Judea and Samaria.
Its plan calls for confining Palestinians in isolated cantons on worthless scrubland, militarized rule controlling virtually all aspects of their lives, endless war against them continuing without declaring it.
The world community remains dismissive about what's been going on for decades. The lives, rights and welfare of millions of Palestinians don't matter.
Israeli law demands any no-peace/peace deal with Palestinians must compensate the Jewish exodus from Arab countries as explained above.
Palestinians are the aggrieved, not Jews. They warrant major compensation for Israel's theft of their homeland, private property, and other possessions - along with damages for loss of their fundamental rights, illegal occupation, and brutalized treatment.
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