Princely Visits
by Uri Avnery, … with Gush Shalom, Tel Aviv
[ Editor’s Note: Oh my, the Prince goes to Israel, mentions “occupied territories”, and is not smeared as an anti-semite and/or a holocaust denier. Maybe the “Royal blood” has some special immunity cells working for it.
As he often does, Uri uses contemporary news as a vehicle to take modern citizens on a “back in time journey”. Today he chose the time when Gush Shalom was among the first group to call for a two state solution, which was considered a heresy at the time.
One of the things we like about Uri is that he has not been sitting in the bleachers on the Palestine-Israel conflict. He was on the front lines, like when he met secretly with Arafat in Beirut during the Sabra-Shatilla camp massacre and the Israelis were trying to kill Arafat. Being around him at that time was a risk.
We also like Uri when he gets his fish-filleting knife out but uses it on people, like his critics, but never personally, just their political positions. We do the same, except that we get personal, too.
He knows how to use satire, too, which we love. This statement of Trump being a genius was a joke, and so was Prince Jared Kushner, way in over his head with Papa Trump, bringing nothing to the table other than being a hustler like his father-in-law.
Without overtly doing so, Uri slices the Trump-Kushner secret plan to ribbons. It is DOA because Jerusalem was taken. Trump’s pull out of his butt plan was to take Jerusalem, thus taking it off the table as a done deal, and then put the Palestinians into a “get something or nothing” corner.
With Trump seeing the Arab money behind him, and Sisi in Egypt still consumed with playing the new Pharaoh, who else do the Palestinians have to turn to? This is how gangsters think and operate.
As for William, I am wondering how he pulled off not getting savaged, if not by the Likud government itself, then its junkyard dogs in the media that it can sic on anyone they want. Inquiring minds want to know … Jim W Dean ]
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– First published … June 30, 2018 –
“The Big Plan is just another prescription for eternal war”…Uri
Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, second in line to the British throne, visited Israel this week. He seems a likable person. He looked like a prince should look, did all the right things, said all the right things, and even ate a watermelon with our mayor on the sandy shore of Tel Aviv.
If the British had not left Palestine 70 years ago, William would now be my prince, too. I remember having a day off from school on his great-grandfather’s birthday.
The British had obtained the League of Nations “mandate” over Palestine by posing as the protectors of Zionism (with the famous “Balfour Declaration). But they did not like us very much. The picturesque Arabs, gracious hosts by nature, attracted them much more strongly.
My own relationship with the British crown has always been a bit complicated. When I was 14-years-old, the economic situation of my family compelled me to go to work. I found employment at a lawyer’s office.
The boss had studied at Oxford, and all our business was conducted in English, a language I had to learn in a hurry, and that I have loved ever since. Some of our clients were members of the British administration.
A few months later, the British hanged a young Jew who had thrown a bomb at an Arab bus. I decided to fill his place and got in contact with the Irgun underground. I was instructed to present myself at a certain school building at a certain time.
When I approached the building, it seemed totally deserted, except for a young couple kissing in the doorway. I was shown my way in the dark and ushered into a room, where I was seated facing a dazzling light. I felt, rather than saw, people around me.
A voice from the darkness asked me several questions, and then it asked: “Do you hate the Arabs?”
“No'” I answered truthfully. Working in the courts I had met a number of Arab colleagues, and they seemed nice people.
For a moment, the people behind the projector were dumbfounded. Then a young woman’s voice asked: “Do you hate the British?”
Foolishly, I told the truth: “No! I rather like them.”
Behind the projector, there was a deep silence. Then the female voice asked: “If you don’t hate the British, why do you want to join the Irgun?”
“I want them to go back to Britain and leave us alone.” I answered.
Somehow, this answer seemed to satisfy them, and a few weeks later I was received into the organization.
Why did the British leave Palestine?
There are several possible answers. Former members of the Irgun and its smaller sister, the Freedom Fighters (known to the British as “the Stern Gang”) are convinced that it was their daring assassinations and bomb attacks that did the job, including their bombing of the King David hotel in Jerusalem, which served as a British HQ.
Ninety-one persons of both sexes, British, Arabs and Jews, were killed there on July 22, 1946. However, the official Zionist leadership believed that it was their clever application of political pressure that did the job.
I believe that it was the general change in the global situation. After WWII the British Empire was weak. It could not keep its hold on India, the jewel of the crown, and without India the Suez Canal became less significant. British Palestine was a fortress for the defense of the Canal, and lost its importance without it. With all the violence in the country, the British thought that it was just not worth the candle.
When the bus of my comrades and I in the pre-state army was on its way to our first battles, we sometimes passed buses of British soldiers on their way to Haifa harbor. The usual obscene jokes were exchanged. And that was that.
While the British prince was touring the country and uttering the fitting phrases about a “just peace”, another prince from overseas was doing the same. Jared Kushner, the Jewish son-in-law of President Trump, was also touring the country. He was accompanied by Jason Greenblatt, another Jewish emissary from Trump.
This holy pair, who make no secret of their utter contempt for the Palestinians, is supposed to make peace. How will they succeed where dozens of other initiatives have failed? Why should they have more chance than the dozens who preceded them?
Well, they have a Big Plan. A Plan so Big that cannot be refused. A Secret Plan. Secret from whom? From the Palestinians, of course. Binyamin Netanyahu was a partner in shaping it. If not actually its author.
Years ago, we had a celebrated theater critic. Once, at the premiere of a new play, he got up after ten minutes and made for the exit.
“How can you write a review if you have not seen the whole play?” demanded an actor. “I don’t have to eat the whole apple to know that it is rotten,” the critic answered.
The same is true of a Big Plan. The details that have already leaked quite suffice. It is not a plan to be accepted by the two sides. It is a plan to be imposed on one side. The Palestinian side.
When the British left in 1948, there was already a UN plan in place. Palestine was to be divided into a Jewish and a Palestinian state, with Jerusalem as a neutral unit, all these parts united in a kind of economic federation. The Palestinians rejected the plan. They considered the whole country their homeland, and hoped to regain it with the help of the Arab armies.
The Jewish side accepted the plan without hesitation. Like everyone who was alive in the country at the time, I remember the wild jubilation in the streets. But David Ben-Gurion did not dream for a moment of remaining satisfied with it. He knew that a war would break out, and hoped that our side would enlarge its territory decisively. As indeed happened.
The day after the 1948 war ended, the Partition Plan was dead. A new reality had come into being. The war had partitioned Palestine into three units: Israel proper, the West Bank – which was now a part of the Kingdom of Jordan – and the Gaza Strip, which was governed by Egypt.
Today, several wars later (who is counting?), Israel dominates in different ways all of historical Palestine. And peace seems far, far away.
In theory, what are the alternatives?
Right after the 1948 war, in early 1949, a tiny group of young people in the country, including a Muslim Arab, a Druze Arab and myself (curiously enough, all three of us later became members of the Knesset) devised a plan for the solution: the so-called Two-State Solution. One country, two states – Israel and Palestine, Jerusalem as a joint capital, open borders between all parts, a joint economy.
We found no takers. Everybody was against it: the government of Israel, the Arab states, the USA, the Soviet Union (until 1969), Europe, the Muslim world. That was 70 years ago.
And see the miracle: today that is almost a world consensus. Everybody is for the “two-state solution”. Even Netanyahu sometimes pretends to be. There is no third alternative. It’s either two-states or a colonial Jewish state in all the country.
Jared Kushner may well be a genius, just like his father-in-law. But even his brilliant Jewish brain will not find another solution. And all the power of the United States will not suffice to keep the Palestinian people down forever. The Big Plan is just another prescription for eternal war.
I wish that Europe, including the post-brexit Britain, were willing and able to prevent this catastrophe. If I had met the prince on the sandy seashore, I would have told him just that.
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I’m frankly disappointed! After all these years you still haven’t told us the identity of the Original Israelites yet VT has managed to tell us of aliens and the real instigators of perpetual war and endless planetary fraud. Here goes: they were culturally,ethnically,linguistically and racially identical to the Ancient Egyptians.
Even Israeli experts themselves admit it:
“These are actually the true original inhabitants of Palestine-the Natufians who migrated from Africa between 10 to 15 kya.. They have been variously called Kushite/Nubian/Nilotes but were unmistakably African as even Israeli experts admit. “microlithic forms such as arched backed bladelets and La Mouillah points” as well as the parthenocarpic figs found in Natufian territory originated in the Sudan. ”
http://karanjazplace.blogspot.com/2014/10/zioilluminati-not-yet-outbut-definitely.html
In fact Ashkenazis and the Ghanaian Ga Adangbe people share first names! OR RATHER THE ASHKENAZI FOR SOME REASON USE GA ADANGBE FIRST NAMES.
Ga-Dangmes Names Hebrew Names
“1. Aryeh Aryeh
2 Afra Ofra
3. Otto Yishai
4. Aryelle Aryelle
5. Ofei Ofer
6 Ada Ada
7 Tema Tema
8 Nunu Nun
9 Dodoo Dodo
10 Ashi Ashi”
There are 40 Ghanaian derived names and a pic of a traditional priest using unleavened flour at this link.
Please,VT,help demolish old myths justifying crime
Rgds
Kay
“Avnery”:
It is not only the Palestinians but the entire Arab and Muslim peoples that detest you migrant-squatting-predatory-foreign-European presence on our land. Palestine is not your grandma’s land, is it? What connects you to our land except greed? When we look at you, you look like the British tourists in Kenya – so out of place, so alien! And you have been squatting on Arab land for 70 years only because the Jews secured guarantees from the most powerful nations to come to their aid when threatened. If it takes 1,000 years, we will continue to detest your colonial presence in our midst.
Please understand that the Jews in Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria were
French Jews who came with the French when they colonized the
North African Arab countries and they left with the French back
to France when the North African countries gained their independence.
1962: “Of the 3,907,000 Jews in Europe, 2,385,000 were in the Soviet Union,
340,000 in the countries of the Soviet bloc, and about 1,180,000 in the nonCommunist
countries. After the establishment of the independent Algerian
state, the mass movement of Algerian Jews to France transformed the French
Jewish community. It was estimated that by the fall of 1962 this migration,
together with the previous influx of Tunisian and some Moroccan Jews, had
raised the number of Jews in France to 500,000, making the Jewish community
there the fourth largest in the world and the largest in Western
Europe. The United Kingdom’s 450,000 Jews formed the second largest
community in Western Europe.”
http://www.ajcarchives.org/AJC_DATA/Files/1963_14_WJP.pdf …
French Jews
1950 … 235,000
1951 … 235,000
1952 … 235,000
1953 … 235,000
1954 275,000
1955 … 300,000
1956 300,000
1956 … Morocco and Tunisia became independent
…
1957 … 325,000
1958 … 350,000
1959 350,000
1960 … 350,000
1961 350,000
1962 … Algeria became independent
1962 … 375,000
1963 … 500,000
1964 … 500,000
william is uncomfortable with his right hand outside his jacket.
Maybe Prince William visited Palestine in a quest to better understand the motivations of his mother which would reach well beyond any loose ideological or religious ties and which ultimately may have resulted in her death. When Diana partnered her lover Dodi El Fayed born Emad El-Din Mohamed Abdel Mena’em El-Fayed, she learned of the plight of the Palestinians. Fresh from world success in the banning of land mines, her power to unite a population behind a just cause was renounced and was now turning to the Palestinian occupation.
Israel could not allow their Zionist dream to be destroyed by Diana or the many “suicided” individuals who have attempted this. The Mercedes driven by ex Mossad agent Henri Paul, under the influence of alcohol and drugs was serviced just days before the fatal “accident”. A Mercedes just like the one journalist Michael Hastings supposedly “suicided” in at 140 miles per hour. Remote cruise control is not rocket science and as always with these incidents the “cleaners” are the first at the scene.
I wonder what deep down thoughts William has?
Also why every rape in India is announced, while local rapes are not mentioned pretty much anywhere in the US. They are under “Domination”. It is a process that is not complete until all are subjects and spiritual wisdom is stomped out. This is an agreement between the 3 Abrahamic religions and the ‘sovereigns” .
India is in the Commonwealth, as a former Realm which identifies the Queen as head of state. It is now considered a Dominion, and that is the root of Christian domination history. Dominionism.
Gotta keep knowledge down to promote and spread religion, “How does one begin to explain India’s economic performance over the past hundred years? The Indian nationalist blames the first fifty years’ stagnation on British colonialism.” http://gurcharandas.org/rich-nation-poor
“The Palestinians rejected the plan. They considered the whole country their homeland, and hoped to regain it with the help of the Arab armies.” Really? Who was in the Palestinian leadership?
Yea, it is like saying the Algerians rejected to partition their land because they considered Algeria to be their land! Why does “Avnery” think the Palestinians would not consider Palestine to be their land? That it is the land that belongs to European migrants from Germany, Ukraine, Lithuania?
I recorded my message to Mr. “Uri Avnery” on this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aEKtvowg94
Where are the French who colonized Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia. 1962, over 1,000,000 French were forced out of Algeria. Why must Arab land be used to settle the European Jews that the European Christians hated and wanted removed out of Europe?
BENNY MORRIS:
Jews raped and murdered Palestinians ….
https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=ktVNGch8nrk
Mr. “Uri Avnery”:
I am Middle Eastern and you are not!
I am a Semite and you are not!
I am indigenous to the region and you are not!
What the hell does a German Jew want from us?
What is it that makes you feel you are entitled to our land?
When I look at your German face, I see the white man,
the same white man who had colonized parts of our region
such as the British, the French, the Italians, the Crusades.
But I find you to be the most offensive of all our past
colonial invaders because in addition to our land, you also
appropriated our food, our music, dance, art, clothing. You
did not even spare the camel and brought (or rented from a zoo)
a camel and introduced it as “Israeli camel”. A people without
shame! I feel nothing but DISGUST!
7) “Uri Avnery”: the solution: the so-called Two-State Solution. One country, two states – Israel and Palestine, Jerusalem as a joint capital, open borders between all parts, a joint economy.
Me: How do the Palestinians benefit by having millions of foreign Jews on their land?
8) “Uri Avnery”: Yared Kushner may well be a genius, just like his father-in-law. But even his brilliant Jewish brain will not find another solution.
Me: “Jewish brain”? They call that in Yiddish “Yiddishe-kop” and non-Jewish brain is “Goyishe-kop’. That simply means idiot, stupid, retarded. That is what they think of all non-Jews. You see, when “Uri Avnery” said “his brilliant Jewish brain”, it just slipped out of the force of habit. He did not realize that he is telling us “Jewish brain” are different from non-Jewish. Question: is the Yemeni Jew’s brain as competent and as brilliant as that of the German Jew? What about a Ugandan or Chinese or Indian or Iraq Jews’ brain? Are they all equally calibrated and equally “Jewish” and equally superior brains?
5) “Uri Avnery”: With all the violence in the country, the British thought that it was just not worth the candle.
Me: Yea? But it was worth the candle for other white Europeans, the Ashkenazi? The British opened the doors of Palestine to white Jewry whereas had the Ottomans remained in power that there would not be what they call “Israel” on stolen Palestine today.
6) “Uri Avnery”: WHILE THE British prince was touring the country and uttering the fitting phrases about a “just peace”, another prince from overseas was doing the same. Jared Kushner, the Jewish son-in-law of President Trump, was also touring the country.
Me: And the reason the American Jew became a “prince” is because he married the Trump’s daughter?
7) “Uri Avnery”: the solution: the so-called Two-State Solution. One country, two states – Israel and Palestine, Jerusalem as a joint capital, open borders between all parts, a joint economy.
“Uri Avnery”: If you don’t hate the British, why do you want to join the Irgun?
I want them to go back to Britain and leave us alone. I answered.
Me: Haha! A white German telling another white man from Britain to go back? Hilarious! This is the first time in history when two white European colonists colonized a land inhabited by people of color at the same time. And the German “Avnery” was telling the British to go back because the German thinks he is a Hebrew! Haha! I am on the floor – rolling with laughter. Does the German realize how European and how out of place he looks in my region. He looks like the British tourists in Kenya. May this picture may help him to understand that he is an alien colonial invader and nothing else.
https://i.imgur.com/n3PyRmv.png
1) “Uri Avnery”: If the British had not left Palestine 70 years ago, William would now be my prince, too.
Me: And what if you – the German – had not arrived in my region 70 years ago?
2) “Uri Avnery”: I remember having a day off from school on his great-grandfather’s birthday.
Me: Was this while you were in Germany?
3) “Uri Avnery”: The British had obtained the League of Nations “mandate” over Palestine by posing as the protectors of Zionism (with the famous “Balfour Declaration). But they did not like us very much. The picturesque Arabs, gracious hosts by nature, attracted them much more strongly.
Me: This is so funny the German is comparing himself with the Arabs! The Europeans hated the Jews which resulted in 100 repulsions and pogroms. For some odd reason, the German feels as if he is a part of my region and not his own German region. He simply does not seem to get it that he is in my region only because heavily armed security forced guard and protect him 24/7. How a European feels entitled to Arab land can only be described as delusion.
4) “Uri Avnery”: If you don’t hate the British, why do you want to join the Irgun?
I want them to go back to Britain and leave us alone. I answered.
Me: Haha! The German wants the British to go back! I am on the floor rolling with laughter.
When the fish is hooked, sometimes they fight back and spit the hook, swimming away. Ah, the dangers of trolling.
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