God help them – Peter
Political and media commentary on the Hamas killings of October 2023 have been preoccupied with claims that these were not only the worst terrorists but that their actions were without precedent.
That claim is part of a massive deceit, promulgated for over 100 years.
Instead of the public being conned by that deceit, a more faithful record can be obtained from several sources, from B’Tselem the Israeli Human Rights agency, from the UN’s Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs and from Ilan Pappé’s ground-breaking works, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2005) and Lobbying for Zionism On Both Sides of the Atlantic (2024).
Instead of ill-informed governments’ and mainstream media’s lazy repetition of “Hamas, Hamas” to justify a genocide, an inquiry into the colonisation of Palestine reveals a different history and a very revised way of judging the policies of Israel and the decimation of Palestine. Let’s begin with the most obvious year of deceit.
A story of deceit
In 1917, the British Government approved the Balfour Declaration which promised a homeland for the Jewish people, but not at the expense of the indigenous people of Palestine. Britain had no intention of fulfilling any obligation to the Palestinians and Zionists, representing Jewish interests, regarded indigenous inhabitants of Palestine as merely an obstacle to the creation of a Jewish state.
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