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The theoretical foundations of Zionist terrorism

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(1) Terrorism in Zionist doctrine

Theodore Herzel , founder of the Zionist movement, is considered to be a proponent of terrorism, having formed and given leadership to a band of terrorists in the beginning of the Zionist movement against Russia and European countries in order to take revenge on them for their persecution of the Jews.
At the first Zionist Congress, Herzel delivered a series of lectures aimed at rousing Jews' hatred against the world. These talks were kept secret for some time, until they were published by the Old France magazine, which later gathered them together into a book entitled, The ?Jewish Conspiracy. The most notable aspect of the lectures was the plans which they contained to take over the world by means of terrorism, means the application of which we have been witnessing on Palestinian soil ever since the first [Zionist] Jews set foot there earlier in this century.
Among the things which Old France published on the subject of terrorism, and which it took word for word from Herzel's lectures, is his statement, "And when the fires of the revolution which we have spawned throughout the world begin to die down and the fall of existing governments is officially announced, we shall condemn to death every clandestine association in order to guarantee our influence and power in the new state" (1).
In another lecture, he specifies the meaning of terrorism and its various applications saying, "All have been condemned to die. Therefore, being ourselves those who have established these [new] regimes, it is better for us to hasten the deaths of those who have interfered in our affairs than to see ourselves or our children die."
Herzel continues his discussion of dominion over others, saying, "And when we have become lords over all people, we shall not permit the existence of any religion but our own, which proclaims the one God upon Whom our destiny depends. After all, we are the chosen people of God, and the destiny of the world is determined by our own destiny. It is therefore our duty to annihilate all religions toward the end of becoming sovereign over all peoples."
Perhaps one of the most striking things found in Herzel's secret lectures is his plan to convert rulers of the world to Judaism so that they will all be agents for the Jews. He states, "At that time, all agents of all the countries of the world will either be Jews or of Jews' making. This is where the Jewish international covenant begins, whereby every organization and every action will be in Jewish hands alone. As for the renegades, they will be nothing but guards and underlings who carry out the orders of others."
After Herzel came Trotsky, who resisted persecution of the Jews in Czarist Russia by committing various sorts of violence. Later he was able to join the Leninist revolution, one of its first resolutions being to consider anti-semitism or persecution of Jews to be an unpardonable crime. Eventually, Jews actually became the leaders of this revolution.
But if Herzel was more theoretical than he was practical, laying plans for murder without actually carrying them out, Trotsky differed from him in that not only did he plan all manner of terrorist operations; he also carried them out (2).
Trotsky authored the theory of the necessity of "destroying every middle-aged and every elderly man, every maimed or weak individual who cannot help himself, just the way insects and vermin are destroyed, as well as complete liberation from materialism . . . " [Yet] it is precisely the theory of materialism which is said to have been the foundation of Nazi theory, Hitler having made use of the idea as found in the thought of Trotsky, the Zionist Jew. The same idea then ended up being part of the Nazi criminal operations which were first carried out in detail on the Jewish people.
As for the heinous terrorist theory which Trotsky first acted upon on his own responsibility and which he attempted later to extract a decision from the Communist leadership to put officially into practice, it calls for "purifying society by annihilating the greatest number of human beings possible in order that those who remain may live in opulence and ease" (3).
The most prominent individuals who gathered around Trotsky were a group of terrorists who came to hold important positions in the Zionist movement, the most well-known of them perhaps being Menachem Begin and Ishaq Shamir.

Violence in Zionist thought and doctrine
As for the religious foundations for violence and terrorism, this may be seen clearly in the following quotation from the Old Testament: "And when you draw near to a city to fight against it, offer terms of peace to it. And if its answer to you is peace and it opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall do forced labor for you and shall serve you. But if it makes no peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it, and when the Lord your God gives it into your hand you shall put all its males to the sword, but the women and the little ones, the cattle and everything else in the city, all its spoil, you shall take as booty for yourselves; and you shall enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which the Lord your God has given you. Thus shall you do to all the cities which are very far from you, which are not cities of the nations here. But in the cities of the peoples that the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes." (4)
Thus, the Jews have found inspiration for their terrorist policies in the Torah itself. Their destruction of Jericho in times of old and their annihilation of all its inhabitants, including even the livestock; and the massacre at Deir Yasin, the Arab village which was demolished by the Jews in 1948 and whose inhabitants were slaughtered young and old, men and women, these bear eloquent testimony to Zionist barbarism, which draws inspiration from the Torah for its central ideas and its practical points of departure.
The Old Testament is filled, in fact, with verses which foment such behavior, with commands to employ the most extreme forms of violence against the enemy, including brutal measures such as striking cities with the sword, communal punishment, and mass annihilation. Hence we read that "barbaric measures must descend to the lowest depths of bestiality, calling for their [enemies'] children to be dashed against the rocks, for their houses to be looted, their women to be ravished, and for them [the Jews] not to have mercy upon the fruit of a woman's womb or take compassion upon her children" (5). And perhaps what has happened and what continues to happen to the Palestinians is the most irrefutable evidence of the continuation of this very policy.
Modern-day Zionist thought bears major responsibility for this continuation due its unreasoned, subjective attitude toward the genocide campaigns being carried out by Israeli authorities against the Arab minority [in the occupied Arab lands]. Such campaigns are inconsistent with the most basic human rights and values, values and rights recognized by the international community and according to which, "every human being has the natural right to life."
There are numerous examples of the genocidal practices being suffered by the Palestinians, such as the massacres which have occurred at Qibya, Deir Yasin and Kafr Qasim. The Zionists resort to such measures in order to reduce the high birth rate among the Arab population, which threatens the "Jewish stamp' of the Israeli state upon which Zionism places such importance as it prepares the way to enforce total segregation between the two communities at some point in the future (6).
Herzel states, "So let them grant us the right of dominion over a piece of land on this earth, an area sufficient to meet the legitimate needs of a particular nation. As for the rest, we shall take care of that ourselves" (7).
The Jewish concept of "struggle" is a primitive notion reminiscent of the life of fishing and hunting and the dangers of the open desert, where every stranger is considered a threat to be killed, captured, or at the very least, put to use for one's own purposes, being looked upon no differently than would an animal. In the stories of the Old Testament one finds innumerable examples of this struggle. We read, for instance, that after the death of Moses, Joshua son of Nun wished to enter Palestine with his people. So he encamped around the city of Jericho and commanded the people to blow their horns. "As soon as the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people raised a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city. Then they utterly destroyed all in the city, both men and women, young and old, oxen, sheep, and asses, with the edge of the sword " (Joshua 6:20-21).
The notion of struggle has taken root over time in the hearts of the Jewish people, evolving into a mentality characterized by racial prejudice and social reclusiveness" (8). Moreover, in the ancient Jewish writings we find a type of religious literature referred to as "eschatological" writings, the literal meaning of this term being "description of the end". (The Greek term eschatologie is composed of two words, namely eschatos, meaning "the end", and logos, meaning speech, or description.) Such writings depict a particular end to which the world must inevitably come. And in all Jewish writings on this theme we find that the notion of struggle in associated with this inevitable end, while the final victory in the struggle is, inescapably and by the nature of things, Israel.
In the book attributed to the Old Testament prophet Ezekiel, we find numerous visions related to this unavoidable end, one which begins with the cleansing of Jewish society from all impurity. It is a purification which will take place through wars, siege and death and in which God pours out His wrath upon Jerusalem and its inhabitants: "A third part of you shall die of pestilence and be consumed with famine in the midst of you; a third part shall fall by the sword round about you; and a third part I [God] will scatter to all the winds and will unsheathe the sword after them" (Ezekiel 5:12). Once this purification has taken place, the chosen people - or what is left of them - will be worthy to enter the final battle in which they will win victory and dominion over the world (9).

 

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 (2) Resentment and Hatred
One of the most dangerous aspects of the Talmudic ideology within Judaism is the call to destroy the family, morals and religion. In fact, the call to licentiousness is at the heart of the plans included in the protocols for the rulers of Zion, their purpose being to gain domination over the world by spreading a kind of "pathological morality".
Protocol No. 13 states, "We shall spread among the world's peoples a pathological morality by which souls will be rendered ill. It will aid in the destruction of the family, and of all the moral underpinnings of societies opposed to us. And we shall continue to promote this morality until shortly after our rule has been recognized."
From this morality there springs the call to absolute libertinism for the destruction of the family and of morals in society. And there can be no doubt that these are means of doing away with a society's ability to resist or defy Zionist control. In this social-moral destruction Zionists find a power which allows them to more effectively bring about the kind of ideological destruction which they promote in the scientific, economic and philosophical movements which they have launched at particular times.
In his book entitled, Pieces on a Chessboard, William J. Garvey depicts the dangerous, critical role which the Jews have played in sabotaging the world, their plan being to destroy all the governments and religions of the world. As for the means to this end, it entails first making a division between the goyim, or non-Jews, into opposing camps over a number of problems - economic, political, racial and social - which are constantly being generated yet without solutions ever being reached. In each case, some event is engineered behind the scenes as a result of which the opposing camps turn on one another, devastating national governments, institutions and religious foundations.
The author also points to the use of bribes and sex as means of achieving the desired control over individuals who occupy sensitive posts on various levels in governments throughout the world, and in various areas of human activity. In particular, gaining control over the press and the media as a whole is viewed as a fundamental aim toward the end of carrying out their plan, such that they are led ultimately to believe that the formation of a unified world government is the way to solve all the world's problems (11).

 

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 (3) Achieving the nationalist end and deliverance of the Jewish "self" Psychological motives:

There is a saying repeated often in the Talmud that "just as the world cannot live without air, neither can it live without Israel" (12). On the basis of this saying one may gain a sense of the racial bent which causes the Israeli to feel that he is "a cut above" the rest of humanity in some sense, that his superior nature contains mysteries and talents not found in others, and that the Israeli was created in this way by divine decree because the world which God Almighty created could not survive without the Jews.
Hence, one can see how a sense of inferiority and degradation may be transformed into such unparalleled conceit, delusions of grandeur and arrogance that the return of such a group of people to the arena of healthy human society becomes a near-impossibility, something which, were it to occur, would require profound reform and prolonged treatment (13).
The Jews wax eloquent in praise of themselves, using such phrases as "the chosen people of God", "the people that has existed since all eternity", "the people that will endure through all eternity", as well as a "holy people" whose holiness is independent of its obedience to or worship of God. Not only so, but it is permitted to go beyond mere non-observance of God's ordinances to wantonly spilling the blood of other nations, and treating other nations' property, honor and homelands with contempt as if they were theirs for the taking. In the Old Testament we read the following words attributed to God Almighty: "... you [the Jews] shall make no covenant with them [the other nations around them], and show no mercy to them. You shall not make marriages with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons. For they would turn away your sons from following me to serve other gods; then the anger of the Lord would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly. But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire. For you are a people holy to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, out of all the peoples that are on the face of the earth. It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love upon you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples; but it is because the Lord loves you, and is keeping the oath which he swore to your fathers . . . " (Deuteronomy 7:2-8).
We will make brief mention of the effect which such complexes and delusions have had upon modern Zionist writings. Ma'ir Paraylan , former leader of the Mizrahi movement and originator of the idea of the cultural struggle between religion and secularism in Israel, states, "Our people and our religious doctrine differ entirely from those of all other peoples and religions. Even the most devout Christians and Muslims will not be able to find in the teachings of their religions a light capable of guiding them in their political lives."
Vladimir Japotinsky refers in a similar way to the Jews as the most special, distinctive people in the world, while Ben Gurion makes a distinction between the Jewish revolution and all other revolutions throughout the world, be they against political, social or economic systems. He states, "Our revolution is directed not only against a system or regime, but rather against fate: against the strange fate of a unique people" (15).

The Diaspora and Persecution:
There can be no doubt that the Jews have suffered the bitterness of persecution in many phases of their history. However, there are memories in Jewish history which the Jews have turned into fuel for the fires of hatred and counter-persecution. One of these memories is that of the "diaspora". A Greek word taken by the Hebrews into their language and entering later into European languages as well, "diaspora" originally bore the meaning of being scattered haphazardly throughout the earth (16).
Diaspora is a phenomenon which has occurred frequently in the Jews' history, beginning prior to the appearance of the word itself. In fact, the Jews have come to take as a natural state of affairs what in essence is contrary to nature. Moreover, this vision of the way things should be [i.e., that they as a religious community should all live together in one geographical area defined in terms of a "state"] has become the basis for their paranoia. After all, how many peoples have followed a single religion without being of one origin, and without demanding a homeland of their own? (17)
The term "diaspora" took on a meaning peculiar to the Jews in 70 AD. At that time the Romans had reached their wits' end with the Jews' contentiousness, rebelliousness and scheming, with the result that Emperor Vespasian in Alexandria sent his son Titus against them at the head of a large army. After a bitter, protracted battle, the Romans managed to destroy the tiny Jewish presence [within the Roman empire], and thus began the Jews' dispersion not only in the Semitic world of the Middle East, but on the European side of the Mediterranean as well. It was from this time forward that Israeli strategy began, with growing hopes and dreams of returning to the land of promise, to Palestine. However, these hopes and dreams remained just that - hopes and dreams. And the more the Jews suffered by way of contempt on the part of the societies in which they lived, the more the idea of return flourished and grew in their hearts. And indeed they did suffer great persecution, which caused them to become all the more reclusive, fanatic, covetous and greedy, without any sense of loyalty to the people in whose societies they lived (18).
The hostile attitude taken by the Jews against other nations of the world, along with their weakness and small numbers, caused them to suffer constant fear. They were afraid of the isolation which they had imposed upon themselves, and at the same time they were afraid of assimilation, which threatened them with the loss of their heritage (19).
Consequently, with the occurrence of the diaspora, the Jewish community formed itself into ghettos, living in isolation from the people around them, and with a social organization of which the governments of the countries in which they lived knew nothing. Referring to this social organization as qahala qadisha, a corruption of some Aramaic, Talmudic expression meaning "the holy community", their intention was to protect themselves from assimilation into other societies.
This pathological complex in the personality of the Israeli finds its roots in the [Jews'] sense of the fragile, tumble-down condition of an edifice which cannot possibly remain standing in the face of the towering cultures being constructed by other nations (20).

 

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 (4) The Military Spirit
Ancient Jewish history as the fountainhead of modern-day military thought

Ancient Israeli history was primarily a military history, for we find that according to the Old Testament, the soldiers of Moses, Judah and David were in constant battle, even amongst themselves. They were relentless even toward their conquered enemies, and Yahweh, the God of Israel, was likewise the God of the Jewish armies which fought against the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Egyptians, the Persians, the Greeks and the Romans.
On this subject Ben Gurion states, " . . the entire ancient history of Israel recounted to us in the Bible is, first and foremost, the military history of Israel. The early Jews waged war against the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Egyptians, the Canaanites, the Amorites, the Persians, the Greeks and the Romans. And when they were defeated at the hands of Titus and his armies after a hopeless battle, they thought it best to kill themselves at Mossad as a symbol of their undying resistance. Today, [Israeli] recruits take an oath of loyalty at the Mossad Fortress, repeating over and over again, 'Mossad shall not fall again.'"
In order to give a stronger foundation to such military thinking, Israeli military historians have exerted special care and effort to create what they term "Jewish military history". In so doing, they draw connections between the battles waged by the Hebrews of old, and the wars launched by the state of Israel in modern times in order to convince themselves, if not others, that they are possessed of a divine mission (21). And when it is necessary to establish such concepts in the hearts and minds of Israeli citizens, the past becomes necessary as a means of continuing to affirm that this present [being lived by the Zionists] is nothing but an extension of the past, and that war is a historical inevitability if the Jewish mission is to be fulfilled.
And thus it is that [Jewish thinkers] have drawn comparisons between the horsemen of David and Solomon, and the modern tanks of Israel. Seminars have been held for the express purpose of discussing the similarities and contrasts between ancient and modern strategies and tactics based on the following conviction: that as long as Zionist work is flourishing and moving toward expansion, then there remains no choice but to adopt aggressive strategies of all types, both direct and indirect, and to do whatever is necessary to firmly instill religious doctrines and concepts appropriate to such strategies - doctrines and concepts the foundation of which is the Jewish right to expropriate the land of promise. The goal of such indoctrination is to reach the point where [Israeli] soldiers believe in the legitimacy of waging war, and are able to do so with conviction and confidence. In this way they will be motivated to engage in fierce struggle in obedience to the commands of the Lord of hosts, as a means of fulfilling the divine promise. And given that mobilizing a huge army requires the transformation of the entire society of Israel into an armed people, it is necessary that war be encircled by a halo of sanctity, so that the honor of enlisting as a soldier becomes a hope cherished by all, a privilege enjoyed only by the elite.
In order to achieve this, the Israeli military institution works day and night to instill in its soldiers the teachings of the Jewish religion, which urge them to fight, to mobilize all their resources and to be in a state of readiness for war. Similarly, it strives untiringly to propagate military-religious commands in hopes of making them a part of soldiers' lives - their daily bread, as it were - so confident are they that this is the ideal way to create the fighting military personality characterized by boldness and initiative, and charged with a spirit of aggressiveness and the desire to enter into battle.
In keeping with this approach, the Israeli army teaches its men lessons on the Jews' military history alongside lessons on war derived from world military history, both ancient and modern. Israel looks upon its history in the twentieth century as an extension of its history prior to this time, and Israeli military thinkers believe that studying the battles of the past may be of direct benefit in achieving the results which they seek in modern warfare (22).
In summary, one may say that the Jewish religion provides an overall framework for Zionist theory. The Old Testament is the source of Jewish doctrine, from which springs the notion of "salvation and return", and on the basis of which the Jews have mapped out their lives and ordered their affairs.

 

The ideological and religious foundations of Israeli military thought:
The Zionist movement has labored to transform Jewish religious doctrine into a political theory which demands a historical right, and which rests upon a divine promise. For this reason, the Jewish religion has been the foundation for Zionist political theory: the point of reference relied upon by its proponents in their call for Jewish nationalism and the demand for fulfillment of the divine promise; a carte blanche granting them the right to take possession of the land of Palestine and return there to build the modern [Jewish] state and the third temple in Jerusalem. According to the Zionists, just as the Jewish religion preserved the Jewish people from annihilation and perdition over the centuries, it can regather them now in the land of promise, securing the connection between the heritage of the ancient past, the aspirations of the present and hopes for the future. Moreover, Zionism does not content itself with the areas of Palestine which were expropriated in the Old Testament. In addition, it treats as public property every plot of land on which Israeli soldiers set foot. After all, this is the command of the Lord, His promise to His chosen people: "Every place on which the soles of your feet tread, to you I have given it, as I spoke to Moses."
Reiterating the same message in different words, Ben Gurion states. "Here shall the borders be: wherever the Israeli advance reaches. What the Lord has specified is the best guarantee for Israel. As for the guarantees given to us by the three powers, they merit nothing like the same confidence." (23)

 

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The Old Testament (the Torah) is the primary source of Israeli military thought:
Israeli military thought traces its roots to Zionist doctrine, at the heart of which is the use of power, killing, terrorism and violence. We read in the Torah: "If you do not cast out the inhabitants of the land from before you, those who remain shall be as pricks in your eyes and thorns in your sides. And they shall harass you in the land in which you dwell."
Israeli historians and Zionist leaders attempt to investigate the war experiences recounted in the Torah in order to [use them to] instill a fighting spirit in Jewish soldiers, employing them to demonstrate Israel's ability in the past, the present and the future to launch successful campaigns in accordance with precise planning and advanced, original thinking.
They continually stress the fact that the size of the army or its strength in numbers are not the most important factors in whether one scores a success. Rather, the willingness to be the aggressor in battle and the ability to achieve an element of surprise with respect to the time, place and manner in which one launches an attack - these are the essential components of a decisive victory.
Moshe Dayan supports such notions in an article which he wrote prior to the war of 1967. He tells the story of the man-to-man battle which took place in times of old between David and Goliath in order to draw out the similarities between these two ancient fighters on one hand, and the prevailing attitudes among the Arabs and Israel in 1967 on the other. According to Dayan, there is a parallel to be seen between David and Goliath, and the imbalance of power between the two warring sides in 1967. Dayan also does a comparison between lightness of movement and slowness and clumsiness as a way of highlighting the value of physical and mental flexibility for achieving victory (24).
Among the basic principles of war inspired by the Torah and applied by the Israeli army are the following (25):

*Surprise:
Experience shows that the side which is able to take its opponent by surprise becomes more capable of overpowering the opponent and winning the battle. Hence we find that the principle of surprise holds a place of great importance among Israeli principles of war, since it represents in and of itself a means of gaining the advantage and of compensating for inferiority or weakness in other areas.

*Initiative:
By stressing the importance of the principle of initiative, Israeli strategy aims at strengthening the army's morale and maximizing fighters' enthusiasm for taking the role of the aggressor. This is affirmed by Ben Gurion in his statement that "the best defense is a good offense".

*Deterrence and preemptive attacks:
Israeli strategy rests upon power and the imposition of one's own will without the least willingness to settle for a compromise. This policy, hard-line as it is, is based on the belief that the primary aspiration of Israel's enemy is to work toward its [Israel's] destruction, and that what will prevent the enemy from achieving this aim is its realization of (1) Israel's invincible defensive capabilities, and (2) its own weakness and its vulnerability to Israel's power.

 

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References

1. Arafat Hijazi, "Terrorism in Zionist Doctrine", in the Dustour newspaper (Amman), August 21, 1997, p. 14.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Dr. Ghazi Rababi'ah, Israeli Strategy for the Period 1948-1967, Maktabat al-Manar (Amman), 1983, p. 84, quoting from the Old Testament, Deuteronomy 20:10-14. [English translation taken from the Revised Standard Version, Nelson & Sons, 1953]
5. Ibid., pp. 21-22.
6. Dr. Muhammad Mahmoud Rabi', The Crisis in Modern Zionist Thought, Al-Mu'assasat al-Arabiyyah lil-Dirasaat wal-Nashr [The Arab Foundation for Studies and Publication], Beirut, 1979, pp. 149-150.
7. Ibid., p. 157.
8. Hasan Zaza, The Israeli Personality, Dar al-Qalam:Damascus,1990, pp. 41-42.
9. Ibid., pp. 44-45.
10. Anwar al-Jundi, Zionist Plans as Based in the Talmud, Dar al-I'tisam: Cairo, 1977, p. 171.
11. Ibid., p. 218.
12. Zaza, op. cit., p. 9, quoting from the Babylonian Talmud, Abboudah Zarah, 10/b, 1969.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid, pp. 0-5 [?], (Deuteronomy 7:2-8).
15. Rabi', op. cit., p. 102.
16. Zaza, op. cit., p. 66.
17. Ibid., p. 68.
18. Rababi'ah, op. cit., p. 231, quoting from Michael Barzohar, The Armed Prophet: A Biography of Ben Gurion, trans. by Lenortzen, London: Arthur Barker, p. 15.
19. Zaza, op. cit., pp. 50-51.
20. Ibid., p. 51.
21. The Center for Political Studies, Zionist Military Strategy, Vol. II, Mu'assasat al-Ahram [The Pyramids Foundation], Cairo 1974, p. 17.
22. Ibid., p. 16.
23. Rababi'ah, op. cit.
24. Ibid.
25. Ibid., pp. 91-94.

 
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