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Zionist Freedom Alliance- historical facts are only an illusion.

by MC
In recent years I have grown accustomed to Zionists reinventing themselves. Every couple of months a new Zionist sect tries to make the past disappear, re-brand Zionism, and accuse every one of….you guessed it, being anti-Semitic.
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I stumbled upon this “new and improved” Zionism while walking on the UC campus. The new group, “Zionist Freedom Alliance” claims that its establishment is due to “the apologetic and ineffective nature of many pro-Israel student groups”, which I guess in translation to human language means showing any remorse or guilt for the brutal occupation of Palestinians for more than fifty years.

I have to admit that looking at the t-shirts, posters, and slogan made me feel like walking into a scene of “1984”. The past is what ZFA said it should be.

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by MC
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The ideology of this new sect is inspired by Zaav Zabotinski who they describe as being “very sensitive to his people”. That’s depends on how does one defines “his” and “people”. Here are some interesting quotes made by Zabotinski in regard to Palestinians

"We Jews have nothing in common with what is called the 'Orient,' thank God. To the extent that our uneducated masses have ancient spiritual traditions and laws that call the Orient, they must be weaned away from them, and this is in fact what we are doing in every decent school, what life itself is doing with great success. We are going in Palestine, first for our national convenience, [second] to sweep out thoroughly all traces of the 'Oriental soul.' As for the [Palestinians] Arabs in Palestine, what they do is their business; but if we can do them a favor, it is to help them liberate themselves from the Orient.'"
"We Jews, thank God, have nothing to do with the East. . . . The Islamic soul must be broomed out of Eretz-Yisrael. . . . [Muslims are] yelling rabble dressed up in gaudy, savage rags."
http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Famous-Zionist-Quotes/Story640.html

Zabotinski admired Fascist movements in Europe and in particular Mussolini. At one point he even took a picture of himself (the picture above) dressed in Fascist uniforms. In 1931 Zabotinski established a terrorist organization called the Irgun, who later split into the Lehi and Etzel. The Irgun and the Lehi adopted an ideology of targeting not only British soldiers who were occupying Palestine at the time but also civilians as well (more on that later).
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by MC
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In the poster above the word Palestinian is never used, since if Palestinians represent a nation, in what way would it be justified to kick them of their land?
http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Palestine-Remembered/Story413.html

So Palestinians are not a nation unlike Jews who are a nation by their religion and oppression? So a Jewish person from Israel is related to a Jewish person from America because their tradition uses the same language? In the same way a Muslim in Pakistan is of the same nation of a Muslim in China, and Women compose a nation for being oppressed.

Also the poster never explains who the “Arabs” were who attacked the Jewish settlement.
The lynch-mob mentality of “our women were violated so lets go and kill some Arabs” goes unquestioned. The fact that three Zionist fighters took it upon themselves to throw a grenade at a bus full of civilians is taken for granted- after all, Arabs are all the same and collective punishment is the only thing that they can comprehend. But if throwing bombs into busses is a legitimate respond when a “nation” fights to defend its people, why all the criticism of Hamas targeting civilians busses in Israeli cities?

Before dying Shlom apparently said that “it is good to die for our country”, which is not very surprising for someone who belongs to an organization that was inspired by Fascist movements in Europe. Another sentence “I’m not going to die like the humiliated exile Jew”, shines a light on the attitude of many Zionists towards the “Diasporatic Jew” or the need to create the “New Jew”. The founding fathers of the state of Israel believed that Jews who lived in Europe suffered from “Diaspora mentality”. This is not the place to describe their thinking about Jews from Arab countries.
§They used to call him “Roxy”.
by MC
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What this leaflet will not disclose:
The Lehi (and the Irgun) movements, which ZFA draws inspiration from, saw terrorist attacks against civilians (Palestinians) as a legitimate means for the liberation of the “Land of Israel”.
Here are a very small numbers of examples:

July 5, 1938- 3 Arabs were killed by a bomb detonated in a bus in Jerusalem.

July 6 1938 18 Arabs and 5 Jews were killed by two simultaneous bombs in the Arab Melon market in Haifa.

July 6 1938 18 Arabs and 5 Jews were killed by two simultaneous bombs in the Arab Melon market in Haifa.

July 16, 1938 10 Arabs were killed by a bomb at a marketplace in Jerusalem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Irgun_attacks_during_the_1930s

While the drowning of a boat full of refugees is a crime, why is the planting of bombs in civilians markets, or the throwing of explosives on busses is acceptable? So let me rephrase: is the targeting of civilians justified?
Here is something else that the leaflet will not discuss; in 1940 the Lehi offered the Nazi regime to assist it in its war against the British in return for the establishment of the “Land of Israel”. While Zionists like to accuse anyone who criticizes any aspect of the apartheid government as being Anti-Semitic, they seem to have no problems upholding a group that was willing to fight for the Nazis.
§Yeir Seteren
by MC
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The t-shirt (wear by members of ZFA) carries the picture of Yair Steren, the person who led the split from the Irgun (and tried to align his organization with the Nazis). Steren was murdered by the British authorities and his group kept his legacy alive after his death. No surprise that on April 9 1948 members of the Lehi rounded 100 civilians, half of them women and children from the village of Deir Yassin, and systematically killed them all. Another 25 civilians were paraded through the streets of Jerusalem before being shot on the side of the road.
http://www.deiryassin.org/mas.html

Then again, does history matter? Can’t history be whitewashed and distorted of any real meaning to serve a Zionist ideology?
§but I’m a rock star.
by MC
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Later some representatives of ZFA spoke at Sproul Plaza, note the cultural appropriation in the blue and white kaffiyya. I wonder what would happened if a yamika in the color of the Palestinian flag was to be wear by non Jewish activists.
§the Zionist revolution
by MC
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“we are the real indigenous people of Palestine”

“Zionism is not racism; it’s the ideology of securing our ancient land that belongs to us”

“people who condemn Zionism are Anti-Semite”

1. what I say is true
2. what I say is true because I say so (and because history can be distorted)
3. people who challenge what I say are Anti-Semitic.

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by Neutral
The Israelis and the Palestinians have been kicking each other out of the region for thousands of years. For either side to say they have the superior claim is pure BS.
by accountability
There is no "neutral" or "outside" or "objective" position to step into to get out of the U.S. relationship with the government of Israel. The U.S. government is on the side of Israeli government occupation, partition, and transfer of the Palestinian people because that is where U.S. tax payer dollars and military aid go. Let's hope Obama's "change" includes cutting aid to Israel.
by Full circle
Actually one of the ZFA's positions is the elimination of US aid to Israel- they feel it makes Israel unwilling to act in its own best interest
The above writer must have been joking when s/he said s/he hopes Obama cuts aid to Israel; I see "change" was in quotes. Obama made it very clear when, immediately after he had the required states to win the Democratic nomination in June, he went to AIPAC and cheered Israel, including calling for all of Jerusalem, a divided city, to be part of Israel, better known as the US military base paid to protect US oil profits in the Middle East to the tune of $4 billion a year, while we have a Great Depression, no schools, no healthcare, no jobs, no housing, no public transportation, no pensions.

All of these pro-Israel groups are fronts for the American government, which is to say the oil and munitions profiteers as it is maximization of profit that is the primary goal of capitalism and law of a capitalist society, and the biggest profits are in war. The military is the biggest user of oil and munitions are very profitable. These rich kids attending UC Berkeley, the rich folks’ finishing school, who act like thugs, as we have reports of the Zionists acting, can only get away with their bully act on campus. The minute they go south of Shattuck, where the workingclass lives, the rich kids had better have good running legs because the poor are very hungry and growing in numbers geometrically by the minute as the war economy sinks to the bottom of the sea. For more on the Zionists’ thuggery, see:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/11/14/18550656.php
Note, they attacked female students as well. The workingclass would not have tolerated that at all.

The Zionists’ racism was heard loudly and clearly, and that is the voice of the American government, a profoundly racist government, including the Obama administration, as it supports Israel, a profoundly racist little fiefdom of 4 million Zionists.

AND THEN, IN CASE YOU DID NOT PAY ANY ATTENTION TO THE FACT THAT THE DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS, AT EVERY LEVEL OF OFFICE, ALL SUPPORT ISRAEL 100% FOR ITS ENTIRE 60 YEAR EXISTENCE, Obama chose as his Chief of Staff a rabid Zionist Warmonger, Rahm Emanuel. See:
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/nov2008/obam-n07.shtml

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9939.shtml

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/474.html

http://zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticlePrint/19380

http://chicago.indymedia.org/feature/display/70350/index.php

http://firedoglake.com/2007/11/19/rahm-emanuel-immigrant-bogeymen-and-nafta-profiteers/

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=15343449958

http://chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display/74401/index.php

Of course, we still have elections in this country and we had 2 excellent anti-Zionist peace candidates, Cynthia McKinney and Ralph Nader. Are the Obama sheep now regretting they ignored McKinney and Nader, or do they need more? Many more horrors are sure to come.

And for those who need a reading list on the Zionist-Nazi collaboration, no different from the Zionist-USA collaboration, see:

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe
(2006) Oneworld Publications, ISBN 978-1-85168-555-4
(Has full details on the 1948 to present mass murder of boys and men, rape and murder of girls and women and theft of Palestinian land all planned by David Ben-Gurion, first president of Israel, and cohorts, as Ben-Gurion described in his diary quoted in Pappe’s book.)

Israel-Palestine on Record by Howard Friel and Richard Falk
(2007) Verso, ISBN 978-1-84467-109-0 (Contains eyewitness testimony for 2000 to 2006 of Israeli destruction of Palestinian homes and the horrors of daily life in Occupied Palestine due to daily Israeli terrorism, all paid for with $6 billion US tax dollars annually, making Israel the 4th largest military gang in the world).

Zionism in the Age of Dictators by Lenni Brenner at
http://www.marxists.de/middleast/brenner/

The Iron Wall by Lenni Brenner at
http://www.marxists.de/middleast/ironwall/

The Hidden History of Zionism by Ralph Schoenman at
http://www.marxists.de/middleast/schoenman/

http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/

51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis edited by Lenni Brenner
(2002) Barricade Books, New Jersey, ISBN 1-56980-235-1

The Transfer Agreement by Edwin Black
(1984, 2001) Carroll & Graf, NY, ISBN 0-7867-0841-7

The Third Reich and the Palestine Question by Francis Nicosia
(1985) University of Texas Press, ISBN 0-292-72731-3
by NO neutrality here!!
The collaboration between Hitler's Nazi regime in WW2 era Germany and the developing Zionist state of Israel is a documented historical fact, only heavily suppressed and censored in our good ol' U.S. political system..

One cannot become elected as President of U.S. without bowing down to AIPAC and the Israeli Zionist lobbyist cabal. Obama and McCain were both heavily influenced by both AIPAC and the Christian Zionists (Hagee, CUFI, etc...) to support Israeli apartheid over Palestinian self-determination..

Terrorism and self defense groups can be traced to oppression long ignored and unanswered. Push anyone against the wall long enough, terrorism and self defense will be their response. Our current conflict with the group calling itself al Queda is tied into U.S. foreign policy errors over several decades..

Al Queda's demands include; Cease and desist interfering with Palestinian self determination, autonomy and freedom by unilaterally supporting Zionist Israel's apartheid policies against the Palestinians..

Al Queda doesn't care about "our freedoms" or women showing their belly buttons as the GW Bush regime implanted neo-cons duped people into thinking, their demands are simple; stop interfering politically and militarily with ALL Muslim nations, including Israeli occupied Palestine..

For the Jewish people of modern Israel who experienced genocide only 60 years ago in Nazi occupied Germany to now be acting so brutally towards the Palestinians by supporting apartheid programs (border wall, bulldozing homes, settler intrusions, killing olive trees, etc...) funded by Christian Zionists and AIPAC here in the U.S., this is a sad statement for humanity..

Since WW2 and the settlement of Israel by Jews who survived the Nazi Holocaust, the situation has deteriorated for the Palestinians. There are theories that this was a planned event by the U.S./British victors to have a well armed settler state of Israel prepared for the long term conflicts with Muslim nations about the petroleum reserves located there..

If the pro-Israeli Jewish community (AIPAC, Zionist activists, etc..) could get their heads out of their collective asses and realize that they are being used by the U.S. for a long term battle over Middle Eastern oil reserves, maybe they would be less likely to dance to the tune of the Zionist (Nazi) Israeli state..

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