Shock-Horror
at the Jewish Chronicle as I Tell the Truth about the Israeli State
It
must have been a shock to the Zionist spy in Palestine Expo 2019 this summer
when I stated, in a workshop, that Israel was Hitler's bastard offspring.
Even worse I was applauded and commended by the Chair! The problem is that it's
true.
Zionism
never had any principled disagreement with the Nazi conception of a racially
pure, ethno-nationalist state nor that of similar ethnically based states in
Europe such as Hungary and Romania. That is why Israel has swung to the far-Right
politically and why every single opinion poll confirms the popular racism and
anti-Arab sentiments of Israeli society.
According
to that political and intellectual lightweight, Labour’s Shadow Attorney
General Shami Chakrabarti, Zeev Sternhell, a child survivor of the Holocaust,
is an anti-Semite. In her
report on racism in the Labour Party, Chakrabarti argued that
‘it is always
incendiary to compare the actions of Jewish people... to those of Hitler or the
Nazis or to the perpetration of the Holocaust.’ [The
Shami Chakrabarti Inquiry].
In
Chakrabarti's mind 'Jewish people' translates as Israel and Zionism.
Chakrabarti provided no reasoning and it is doubtful if she could. The most
obvious response would be that Israel as a state is not a Jewish person and in
any case Jews are perfectly capable of behaving like Nazis.
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| Like the Nazis? According to Chakrabarti, no |
Sternhell
is a retired professor at the Hebrew University. He is also a world authority
on fascism and a child survivor of the Holocaust having been smuggled out
of the Przemysl ghetto in Poland. He was also injured in a
terrorist attack by the Zionist underground some years ago.
The left is no longer capable of overcoming the toxic ultra-nationalism that has evolved here, the kind whose European strain almost wiped out a majority of the Jewish people. ... we see not just a growing Israeli fascism but racism akin to Nazism in its early stages.
One can only imagine
the look on the face of the Jewish Chronicle’s Political Correspondent, ‘Liar’
Lee Harpin’s, who was arrested but unfortunately not charged by the Police in
the Mirror hacking affair, as he heard a tape recording of my impromptu speech
at Palestine Expo 2019.
I turned up late to
the fringe meeting and I hadn’t intended to speak until someone mentioned
Ha'avara, the trade agreement between the Nazi state and the Zionist movement
which destroyed the Jewish and Labour movement Boycott of Nazi Germany.
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| Israel's neo-Nazi Rabis Cashtiel and Radler instructing their yeshivah students in Jewish morality |
Today Zionists pretend
that the aim of Ha'avara was to help rescue Germany’s Jews. This is a complete
fabrication. In 1933 no one seriously thought that Nazi Germany would built
extermination camps to murder millions in.
However most Jews did
realise that the Nazi state, a fascist state, was different from previous
anti-Semitic regimes. This was a state that officially declared the Jew as the
enemy. It openly stated that Jews were not part of the national collective,
although it took until the 1935 Nuremburg Law for Jews to be stripped of German
citizenship.
From the very
beginning of its rule the Nazis had moved to begin the process of stripping
Jews of their political, social, civil and economic rights. The first law
passed, The
Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service led to the dismissal
of anyone who is Jewish from the civil service, apart from Jewish war veterans
(at least for a time).
Jews and socialists
realised from the start that this would be a state of violence and brutality,
not just towards Jews. The first concentration camps established, Dachau in
March 1933 and Sachsenhausen soon after, were intended mainly for communists,
socialists and trade unionists.
The Zionist movement
never, at any time, condemned the Nazis. You will search in vain for any
resolution at any World Zionist Congress for any condemnation of the Nazis.
From the very start
the Zionist movement sought to do business with and establish a working
relationship with the Nazi state. Not in order to make the life of German Jews
easier but in order to help built their state-in-the-making. The Zionist
attitude to the Nazi state was the same as its attitude to anti-Semitism had
always been. To use it to its advantage.
That was why on June
21 1933 a letter was written from the Zionist Federation of Germany to Adolf
Hitler. The letter was never answered. It can be found in Lucy
Dawidowicz’s Holocaust
Reader.
The memorandum agreed
with the Nazis that Germany's Jews were not part of the German nation.
Our acknowledgement of
Jewish nationality provides for a clear and sincere relationship to the German
people and its national and racial realities. Precisely because we don’t wish
to falsify these fundamentals, because we too are against mixed marriages and
are for maintaining the purity of the Jewish group
It is important to
understand that the Zionist Federation was not forced into saying this. There
was no coercion. They sincerely believed this. They were trying to win the
favour of the Nazis vs the non-Zionist Centralverein which
represented 95%+ of German Jews.
The Zionists had been
saying this for years and anti-Semites had been quoting them against their
Jewish detractors for years. The important part of the letter was
the final paragraph of part IV:
The realisation of Zionism
could only be hurt by resentment of Jews abroad against the German development.
Boycott propaganda… is in essence fundamentally unZionist, because Zionism
wants not to do battle but to convince and to build.
The Zionists did not
see the Nazis as an enemy to be fought. At the 18th Zionist
Congress in Prague in 1933 they refused to even condemn the Nazis or their
treatment of German Jewry.
Berl Katznelson, a
founder of Mapai, the Israeli Labour Party and second only to David Ben Gurion,
saw the rise of Hitler as “an opportunity to
build and flourish like none we have ever had or ever will have”. [Francis
Nicosia, Zionism and Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany, p.91.] Ben Gurion expressed
similar sentiments.
The main reason for
Ha'avara was in order to save the wealth of the Jews of Germany, not the Jews
themselves. The Zionist Federation gave out relatively few
immigration certificates to German Jews, preferring Polish Jews instead.
Werner Senator, a
member of the Jewish Agency Executive even warned his counterparts in Germany
that
‘if it did not improve the
quality of the “human material” it was sending, the Agency was liable to cut
back the number of certificates… set aside for the German capital.’
Some 60% of capital
investment in the economy of Jewish Palestine between 1933 and 1939 came from
Nazi Germany. [David Rosenthall, Chaim
Arlosoroff 65 Years After his
Assassination.
It was literally Nazi
Germany which built the Zionist state. Ha'avara benefited the richest Jews who
could take out the equivalent of £1,000 in cash (those with £1K could enter
Palestine as capitalists without the need for an immigration certificate).
The Nazis greatly
feared the Boycott since Germany was heavily dependent on exports. It was the
fear of Boycott that that made the Nazis reign in the SA’s violence against
Jews. The Zionists however were unconcerned about the effect of
Ha'avara.
However when I called
Israel ‘Hitler’s bastard offspring’ I didn’t have Ha'avara in mind so much as
the Israeli state now. I was thinking of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians
as the untermenschen.
There is this idea
abroad that people should be tread very carefully when it comes to Israel and
watch what they say because it is a Jewish state. I disagree. Israel is one of
the most vicious militaristic states in the world. It is one of the
few countries that supplies the Burmese regime with the weapons it needs to
massacre the Rohinga people. It is the state that broke the sanctions on arming
South Africa and it supplied it with nuclear technology. It is the state that
trained and helped the Guatemalan military murder 200,000 Mayan Indians in the
1980's.
Israel has maintained
an open air concentration camp in Gaza for the past 11 years as it punishes the
Palestinians for having voted the wrong way.
But above all the
concept of a Jewish racial state began with European anti-Semitism. The idea of
a state based on a religious/racial ethnicity originated in the Europe of the
1930’s.
Hitler sought to build
an Aryan state. Israel’s aim is to maintain a Jewish racial state based on the
same principles. To that end it opposes mixed marriages. Israel likes to claim
it is part of the West but its refusal to have civil marriage is indicative of
the fact that Israel strives to maintain the purity of the Jewish nation/race
in Israel. That is why you have fascist groups like Lehava which patrol the
streets of Jerusalem and other cities attacking Arabs who are seen as a threat
to Jewish women. They use
slogans such as ‘ “Arab, watch out, my
sister is worth more!” and “The daughters of
Israel belong to the people of Israel!” The belief that Arab
males are a sexual threat is no different to the idea in Nazi Germany of the
lecherous Jew.
Although nominally
citizens, Palestinians are essentially resident aliens in Israel. They are
limited to just over 2% of the land despite forming 20% of the population. In
the past 70 years their numbers have increased 10 fold yet there hasn’t been
the creation of a single Arab village or town. In that period Jewish
communities have multiplied.
When Netanyahu said of
the Black African refugees in Israel, who he calls ‘infiltrators’, that they
are threatening ‘the security and
identity of the Jewish state.’ he is speaking in terms of racial demographics. Netanyahu
went on to say that
“If we don't stop their
entry, the problem that currently stands at 60,000 could grow to 600,000, and
that threatens our existence as a Jewish and democratic state... and our
national identity.’
When Netanyahu spoke
of ‘our
national identity’ what he meant Israel’s Jewish identity. An identity of
Jewish racial supremacy. There is no Israeli national identity because there is
no Israeli nationality. Israel's population is 7.8 million. There isn’t even
the pretence that this is about social facilities, jobs or employment. It is a
crude appeal to racial demographics. Too many non-Jews threaten the Jewish
demographic majority of Israel. It is quintessentially racist.,"
Yet at the very same
time as trying to deport its non-Jewish African refugees Israel is trying its
best to increase the number of Jewish immigrants. So it’s not a question of
numbers, as racists in this country often pretend the immigration debate is
about, but the racial/national composition of Israel’s population. [Israel
PM: illegal African immigrants threaten identity of Jewish state]
Culture Minister Miri
Regev described the African refugees as ‘a cancer in the body
of the nation’ and when criticised apologised to cancer patients for
having compared them to refugees. [52%
of Israeli Jews agree: African migrants are ‘a cancer’ 7.6.12.]. 52%
of Israeli Jews agreed with her.
Deputy Defence
Minister Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan, the Head of the Civil Administration (actually
the military administration) on the West Bank explained that “[Palestinians]
are beasts, they are not human.” Dahan also explained that “A
Jew always has a much higher soul than a gentile, even if he is a homosexual.” Menachem
Begin described the Palestinians as “beasts walking on two legs." [ “Begin
and the Beasts”, New Statesman, 25.6.82]. Netanyahu described the
purpose of a wall around Israel as being to protect it from the ‘wild beasts’.
How is this different from the Nazis’ description of Jews as ‘human cattle.’?
“this
is a country of all its citizens, and all people are born equal. The Arabs are
also human beings. And also the Druze, and the gays, and the lesbians and…
gasp… leftists.”
Netanyahu explained that
with the Jewish Nation State Law ‘Israel is the state of the Jewish
people — and belongs to them alone,”. In other words Israel is now officially an apartheid state. The
important caveat is ‘officially’ because Israel has always been a Jewish
state.
Comparing Israel to Nazi Germany
According to the
IHRA definition, anti-Semitism could, taking into account the overall context,
include, ‘Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli
policy to that of the Nazis’. Zionists nearly always miss out this qualifying clause.
However even assuming that we follow their dishonest omission let us examine
this argument.
Is
it really the case that comparing a state, a racist state, to Nazi Germany is
anti-Semitic ? Does that apply to all states or just the ‘Jewish’ state? If so
then we are entitled to ask what is Jewish about Israel in anything other than
a racial sense.
There are a host of
comparisons that can be made between Israel and Nazi Germany. This doesn’t mean
that Israel is the same as Nazi Germany but that they have certain things in
common, not least a shared view of the other as sub-human. In Germany the other
was the Jew, in Israel it is the Palestinian.
For example
Israel’s Admissions
Committees Law 2011 permitted 434 Jewish communities, 43% of all
residential areas, (subsequently increased) to reject Arab members of these
communities. How is this different from Nazi policies to exclude Jews from
Aryan housing? [‘Israeli
Supreme Court upholds "Admissions Committees Law’]
This law was passed in
reaction to the 2000 Supreme Court ruling that the Ka'adan family could not be
refused housing solely on the grounds that they were not Jewish. It was upheld
by the Supreme Court in 2014. [Contradicting
its own ruling, Israel’s Supreme Court legalises segregated communities] ,
+972 Magazine, 18.9.14.] The purpose of the law was openly declared
to be to prevent Arabs moving into ‘Jewish’ towns.[Israel
builds town to ensure "the Arabs won't rear their heads", +972
Magazine, 28.3.11.]
The Jewish National
Fund was formed in 1901. It was given official recognition under the 1953 JNF
Law. Its role is to purchase and administer land on behalf of Jews. The land it
controls, 93% of Israel, is held on behalf of the ‘Jewish people’. Non-Jews
cannot gain access to that land. Land in Nazi Germany was also reserved for the
use of Aryans.
Today there is the
phenomenon of marches in Israel where the main slogan is ‘Death
to the Arabs’. How can it be anti-Semitic to compare such
marches to similar marches in the Europe of the 1930s when the slogan was
‘Death to the Jews’? [Far-right
Activists Chant 'Death to Arabs,' Assault Passersby in Jerusalem After Terror
Attack, Ha’aretz, 4.10.15.
We have had the
pleasure of hearing Rabbis Kashtiel and Radler, in the prestigious Eli pre-
military school declaring that
Hitler was right. According to Radler ‘Hitler was
completely right but he was on the wrong side, meaning against the Jews.’
Zionists argue that
because Israel has not exterminated the Palestinians, comparisons cannot be
drawn with Nazism. But during the period 1933-41, the Nazi policy was
discrimination against and the expulsion of the Jews not genocide.
Despite protesting any
comparison between themselves and Nazi Germany, Zionists don’t hesitate to make
such a comparison themselves. Menachem Begin told a group of holocaust
survivors that ‘We
do not want the Arab Nazis to come and slaughter us.” [Tom Segev, The
Seventh Million, p.369.
Begin’s
ostensible reason for
the mass bombing of Beirut in 1982 was to “destroy
Arafat/Hitler in his bunker in Beirut/Berlin”.
Deputy Defence Minister Matan Vilnai threatened
to give “Gaza a taste of the 'shoah' “[Israeli minister warns of Palestinian 'holocaust
Eliezer Livner, a
former Knesset member for Mapai, wrote in the period before the 6 Day War that ‘We must crush the
machinations of the new Hitler at the outset, when it is still possible…’ As
Tom Segev observed:
‘During
those weeks of drumbeating, the newspapers continually identified Nasser with
Hitler. The proposals to defuse the crisis by any means other than war were
compared with the Munich agreement forced on Czechoslovakia before World War
II.’ [Segev, The 7th Million,
pp. 390-391. Ha’aretz 31.5.67].
Today many on
Israel’s far-Right identify with the Nazis. In the words of a member of Lehava,
a group campaigning against miscegenation, “Hitler
was right, but got the nation wrong. We’re the chosen race.’ David
Sheen.
When a group of far-right thugs attacked an anti-war demonstration in Tel-Aviv in 2014, they wore the insignia of the neo-Nazi right in Europe – ‘Good Night left Side’. [Ha’aretz 15.7.14. Right Wing Demonstrators in Tel Aviv Wore Neo Nazi Shirts:] Amos Oz, the Israeli novellist and a left-Zionist who has always been extremely tolerant of the Zionist right, nonetheless termed those who indulged in so-called ‘price-tag’ attacks as Hebrew neo-Nazis. [Amos Oz calls perpetrators of hate crimes 'Hebrew neo-Nazis Haaretz May 10, 201]
When a group of far-right thugs attacked an anti-war demonstration in Tel-Aviv in 2014, they wore the insignia of the neo-Nazi right in Europe – ‘Good Night left Side’. [Ha’aretz 15.7.14. Right Wing Demonstrators in Tel Aviv Wore Neo Nazi Shirts:] Amos Oz, the Israeli novellist and a left-Zionist who has always been extremely tolerant of the Zionist right, nonetheless termed those who indulged in so-called ‘price-tag’ attacks as Hebrew neo-Nazis. [Amos Oz calls perpetrators of hate crimes 'Hebrew neo-Nazis Haaretz May 10, 201]
The late
Professor Amos Funkenstein, Head of the Faculty of History at Tel Aviv
University referring to the refusal of soldiers to serve in the Occupied
Territories, comparing them to soldiers in the German army who refused to serve
in concentration or extermination camps. To those who asked how it was possible
to compare the actions of Nazi soldiers with Israelis, Funkenstein replied
“As a historian I know that every comparison is limited. On the other hand, without comparisons, no historiography is possible. Understanding a historical event is a kind of translation into the language of our time. If we would leave every phenomenon in its peculiarity, we could not make this translation. Every translation is an interpretation and every interpretation is also a comparison.”
Funkenstein reminded
his critics that the leaflets and publications of the Zionist terror groups,
Etzel, Lehi and Haganah, talked of the Nazi-British occupation. [Tony
Greenstein, Holocaust Analogies Return 2 citing Ha'aretz 9 December 1988, Ronit
Matalon]. Funkenstein compared the lack of rights of the Palestinians under
occupation to the status of Jews in Germany in the mid-1930’s. [Renaissance
man Amos Funkenstein dies at age 58,
The moral is that any
people, given the right set of circumstances, can become racists and even
genocidalists. Jews are not excluded, as Israel’s murder of over 2,200 people
in Gaza during Operation Protective Edge in 2014 demonstrated. How else would you
characterise the mob who marched through Tel Aviv on 26th July
2014 chanting
‘"There's no school tomorrow,there's no children left in Gaza! Oleh!"
after
Israel’s bombing other than Judeo-Nazis?
It is Israelis and
Jews who make the comparison between Israeli practices and those of Nazi
Germany precisely because the Holocaust and the Hitler period is used as the
justification for the racist abominations of Zionism. Shlomo Shmelzman, a
survivor of the Warsaw ghetto, wrote a letter to the Israeli press announcing
his hunger strike against the Lebanon War.
"In my childhood I
have suffered fear, hunger and humiliation when I passed from the Warsaw
Ghetto, through labor camps, to Buchenwald. Today, as a citizen of Israel, I
cannot accept the systematic destruction of cities, towns, and refugee camps. …
I hear too many familiar sounds today, sounds which are being amplified by the
war. I hear "dirty Arabs" and I remember "dirty Jews." I
hear about "closed areas" and I remember ghettos and camps. I hear
"two-legged beasts" and I remember "Untermenschen." Too
many things in Israel remind me of too many things from my
childhood." [Beyrouthy’s review
of Noam Chomsky’s Fateful Triangle]
According to the IHRA
and disgusting racists such as Eric
Pickles, Britain’s delegate
to the IHRA, Shmelzman is an anti-Semite. And who makes this
declaration?
Prof. Moshe
Zimmerman compared the children of the Hebron settlers to those of the Hitler
Youth. In reaction to an amendment to the Citizenship Bill, requiring non-Jews
seeking citizenship to pledge allegiance to Israel as a Jewish and democratic
state, Israeli educational psychologist, Gavriel Solomon, compared Israel to
Germany in the 1930s:
“The idea of Judenrein (Jew free zone) or Arabrein is not new. . .
. Some might say ‘how can you compare us to Nazis?’ I am not talking about the
death camps, but about the year 1935. There were no camps yet, but there were
racist laws. And we are heading forward toward these kinds of laws.” [Israeli Academic: Loyalty Oath
Resembles Racist Laws of 1935]
Some on the left are
also reticent about comparing Zionism to Nazism. Gilbert Achcar for example
found it a ‘terrible comparison’ [Arabs and the Holocaust, pp.228.
234]. By Chakrabarti’s logic it is anti-Semitic to compare the settlers of
Hebron, who daub the walls of Palestinians with the slogan ‘Arabs to the gas
chambers’ with the Nazis.[ See Donald Macintyre, Breaking silence
over the horrors of Hebron,] Only Zionists should be allowed to make such
comparisons.
Israel, as an
ethno-religious state is no different in principle to Nazi Germany which was
also a state based on a racially defined section of the German people. The
definition of a Jew under the Israel’s 1950 Law of Return is extremely similar
to the definition of a Jew under the 1935 Nuremberg Laws.
There are numerous
examples of how Israelis not only compare Palestinians to Nazis but often see
themselves in the role of the Nazi. Before the massacre in Jenin, an
Israeli officer said that it is justified and in fact essential to learn from
every possible source…. ‘the commander’s obligation is to … analyse and
internalise the lessons of earlier battles – even, however shocking it may
sound, even how the German Army fought in the Warsaw Ghetto." [Yitzhak
Laor, London Review of Books, After Jenin, 9.5.02.]
In 2002, Fox News
reported how an Israeli lawmaker and Holocaust survivor expressed outrage over
Israeli troops writing identification numbers on the foreheads and forearms of
Palestinian detainees awaiting interrogation during an army sweep of a West Bank
refugee camp. Holocaust survivor Tommy Lapid told army chief of staff Lt. Gen.
Shaul Mofaz and Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer that the practice must
cease immediately. "As a refugee from the Holocaust I find such an act
insufferable."…. During World War II, concentration camp inmates had
numbers tattooed on their forearms. [Fox News, Israel Blasted for
Writing Numbers on Arabs, 13.3.02]. A similar scheme to place numbers on the ID card of Palestinians
in Hebron ‘immediately drew comparisons to the Nazi era, when
authorities forced Europe’s Jews to bear tattooed numbers on their arms.’ IDF halts proposal to
number Palestinian IDs in Hebron after criticism, Jerusalem Post 6.1.16.]
Indeed it is just such
comparisons which forced the Israeli military to back down. According to idiots
like Chakrabarti we must not make such a comparison!
Tony Greenstein
Exclusive: Chair of event responded: 'That was an excellent contribution
and thank God it was a Jew that said it'
Tony
Greenstein, pictured at a rally outside Labour HQ (Photo: the JC)
Infamous anti-Israel activist
Tony Greenstein called the Jewish state “Hitler’s bastard offspring” at an
event dubbed the biggest celebration of Palestinian culture in Europe.
Mr Greenstein, who was expelled
by Labour over his repeated use of the
word "Zio", spoke at a session at last weekend’s Palestine Expo event
at London’s Olympia entitled Britain, Zionism and Jewish Resistance to
Israel chaired by Latifa Abouchakra, International Officer for the National
Education Union.
Also on the panel were author and
journalist David Cronin and Leah Levane, co-chair of pro-Corbyn fringe group
Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL) and a Labour Councillor.
In a recording, heard by the JC,
Mr Greenstein says: “Nazi Germany in a sense built the state of Israel at a
crucial time and you can actually say that the state of Israel today is
Hitler’s bastard offspring because the ideology, the ideology that permeates
Israel, Jewish racial supremacy, originated in the fascist states of Europe.”
Mr Greenstein, who is also an
activist with the Labour Against The Witch-hunt group, adds: “What is Zionism?
"Zionism is a movement for
Jewish racial supremacy. It imposes the needs of a Jewish racial state to the
needs of Jews and that was what Haavara [Agreement] was about.
"When Haavara came in 1933
no one believed that it was going to end up in extermination, no one believed
it, the view of the Zionists.”
He was roundly applauded for his
comments by around 50 people in the room. Chair Ms Abouchakra then says: “Can I
just say that that was an excellent contribution and thank God it was a Jew
that said it."
Spotted on the front row were
Jackie Walker, who was expelled by Labour over her comments about antisemitism
and blogger Asa Winstanley, whom the party has suspended.
Ms Walker made an impromptu
speech, saying “For any of the other people campaigning about the Labour Party
and the issue of antisemitism they’ll all tell you that it appears that a
disproportionate amount of Jews have actually been expelled and sanctioned by
the Labour Party in an apparent attempt to quash antisemitism because of course
this is not about race, this is not about race, this is about Zionism,
antisemitism that is deep within the heart of the Labour Party is the
antisemitism against anti-Zionist Jews and it’s really about time that we said
this very clearly…
"I’d also like if there was
any kind of historical aspect on this I’d like your comments.”
In one question from the floor to
Ms Levane, an audience member rambled about the Haavara Agreement of 1933 and
the formation of the Stern Gang in 1940, referring to "a Zionist settler
gang" and how it was "helping fascists win the war" before
asking: "So my question is could you help me with the parallels of Zionism
and Fascism?”
Ms Levane responded saying: “I’m
not an expert. Tony [Greenstein] however is, go see Tony he knows a lot more
than I do.”
Ms Abouchakra later said to the
panellists: “Zionism and fascism, can you make comments?”
The annual Palestine Expo event featured
culture and heritage stalls, food and activities for children including a
mosaic art stall to create a “beautiful images of Palestine using colorful mosaic pieces” and a theater event on the
storytelling of “the popular Prophets in Palestine.”
There were also talks and panel
discussions on numerous subjects including the Nation-State Law, the Great
Return Marches taking place in Gaza and “decolonsing Palestine".
