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28.05.03, 18:56
Condoleezza Rice: Huckster of Israeli Myths
by Kurt Nimmo
www.globalresearch.ca 28 May 2003
The URL of this article is: http://globalresearch.ca/articles/NIM305A.html
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In an interview with the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot, National
Security Adviser and daughter of a Presbyterian minister, Condoleezza Rice,
recently expanded upon her Christian Zionist ideology. "I first visited
Israel in 2000. I already then felt that I am returning home despite the fact
that this was a place I never visited. I have a deep affinity with Israel. I
have always admired the history of the State of Israel and the hardness and
determination of the people that founded it."
While Rice does not elaborate on this "hardness and determination," or
provide specifics, we can safely assume she is talking about Israel's
relationship with the Arabs, both Palestinian and those surrounding the
Zionist state. "Israel was a state who in the beginning was not given a
chance to survive," Rice explained. "She survived mainly because of the
hardness of the Israelis and their readiness to sacrifice their lives for the
state."
Rice may know something about Russia, her area of expertise, but when it
comes to the history of Palestine and Israel she appears to be seriously
misinformed. Rice is simply perpetuating the overworked myth of hardscrabble
Zionists rising above the hatred of duplicitous Arabs.
In fact, the British promoted the economic destabilization of the indigenous
Palestinian economy in favor of Zionist settlers as a colonial tactic well
before the creation of Israel. "The Mandatory Government granted a privileged
status to Jewish capital, awarding it 90% of the concessions in Palestine,"
writes Ralph Schoenman (The Hidden History of Zionism). "This enabled the
Zionists to gain control of the economic infrastructure (road projects, Dead
Sea minerals, electricity, ports, etc.). By 1935, Zionists controlled 872 of
a total of 1,212 industrial firms in Palestine. Imports related to Zionist
industries were exempted from taxes. Discriminatory work laws were passed
against the Arab workforce resulting in large scale unemployment and a
substandard existence for those who were able to find employment."
These conditions, and the awareness that the Zionists intended to grab as
much land as possible, led directly to the Arab uprisings of 1936 and 1939.
The British declared martial law in response and sent in an estimated 20,000
troops. "Anyone suspected of organizing or sympathizing with the general
strike or other resistance was detained," explains Schoenman. "Houses were
blown up throughout Palestine. The British destroyed a large section of the
city of Jaffa on June 18, 1936, rendering 6,000 people homeless. Homes, as
well, in the surrounding communities were demolished."
As if to add insult to injury, and to send a message to the Arabs, the
British employed Zionists as a local police force. According to Ghassan
Kanafani (The 1936-1939 Revolt in Palestine), this Zionist "quasi-police
force" consisted of 2,863 recruits. 12,000 men were organized in the Haganah,
and 3,000 in Jabotinsky's National Military Organization (Irgun). Again, to
make certain the Arabs knew what to expect, these Zionist
paramilitary "police" forces were named the "Defense of the Jewish Colonies,"
and later the "Colony Police."
"Between ourselves it must be clear that there is no room for both peoples
together in this country," Joseph Weitz, the head of the Jewish Agency's
Colonization Department, said in 1940 (A Solution to the Refugee Problem,
Dal'ar, September 29, 1967). "We shall not achieve our goal if the Arabs are
in this small country. There is no other way than to transfer the Arabs from
here to neighboring countries
