By Robert Thompson Others have already commented at length on the wonderful and courageous declaration by over a hundred Jews in the United Kingdom, including that of playwright Harold Pinter published in The Guardian on 30th April 2008, whereby they explain, in a manner so often hidden from the public in the English-speaking world, why they will not be celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel, known to millions of us as al Naqba (the Disaster). I wish to take my turn in saluting each and every one of the signatories of this magnificent document, which gives the lie to all those who claim that every Jew must necessarily support the brutalities and inhumanity of Zionism. These great signatories point out the embarrassing facts behind the foundation of this racist and discriminatory state, which involved the past and continuing massive ethnic cleansing, which seem to have been successfully hidden from the consciousness of so many in the USA and the United Kingdom, who still believe the ridiculous suggestion that, in the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, Palestine was an unoccupied part of the world. Although they already enjoyed Jaffa oranges before 1948, many British people accepted the myth that Palestine, once famous for being the land flowing with milk and honey, as well as for the quality of its olive-oil and of its citrus fruits, had become an unexploited desert, criss-crossed by groups of poverty-stricken nomads leading hungry flocks of sheep and goats in search of sparse grass. |   |
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