Zionism Should be on Trial, Not Ken Livingstone

• Zionism, the modern Zionist movement, is Satanic. At the heart of the Zionist flag is the Satanic ‘666’ Hexagram. It does not get any clearer than this.
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• Zionism Should be on Trial, Not Ken Livingstone 
  by JOHN WIGHT, http://www.counterpunch.org/  
  What is Zionism? This is the question that millions of people across the United Kingdom will undoubtedly have been asking themselves over recent days in light of the political crisis and media firestorm that’s been whipped up over allegations that the Jeremy Corbyn-led Labour Party has a problem with antisemitism. It is a crisis that has seen Labour MP Naz Shah suspended by the party, along with former mayor of London and Labour Party veteran Ken Livingstone – the former over Facebook comments that came to light, the latter over comments made in an interview he gave defending Shah during which he brought up the existence of the Haavara Agreement between the Nazis and Zionists in Germany to arrange the transfer of Jews from Germany to Palestine. It was a collaboration that was fiercely opposed within the wider Zionist movement and unanimously so within the wider Jewish Disapora at the time. In fact this opposition led to the assassination of leading Zionist Chaim Arlosoroff in Tel Aviv in1933 by, it is thought, Zionists belonging to Vladimir Jabotinsky’s Revisionist faction, over Arlosoroff’s support for and role in the Haavara Agreement.
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  This is a complex and, for obvious reasons, delicate history, which Livingstone was ill advised to attempt to unpack in the course of a short interview. If anything he was guilty of being crude in attempting to over simplify it, but no serious person could accuse him of antisemitism for having done so.
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  Regardless, such has been the intensity of this media firestorm, Labour has decided to establish an independent inquiry into antisemitism within its ranks. This development constitutes a clear gift to Corbyn’s opponents – both those within and without the Labour Party – for in establishing such an inquiry the leadership has effectively surrendered to the allegations, thus tainting the party’s 400,000 members with the inference that Labour is a party dripping with antisemitism.
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  In taking things this far, however, in subjecting Ken Livingstone to trial-by-media over his comments on Zionism, his detractors have also unwittingly placed Zionism itself on trial, with the question of Zionism, as mentioned, undoubtedly now being pondered by millions of people who previously would have had zero interest in the subject. And what most of those people will inarguably find if they delve deep enough into that question, despite the determined efforts of Israel’s supporters to conflate Zionism with Judaism, is that this is a political doctrine and ideology responsible for crimes against humanity on a grand scale.
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  Parenthetically, into this mix must be mentioned the book that Ken Livingstone revealed was the main source of his information on the history of the aforementioned Haavara Agreement – Lenni Brenner’s Zionism in the Age of the Dictators (Lawrence Hill, 1983).
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  Brenner’s book will now be enjoying the kind of upsurge in sales the author and his publisher could only ever have dreamed of prior to this row breaking out. Of course, and predictably, Brenner – who also happens to be Jewish – is now being roundly traduced and dismissed as a conspiracy theorist, ultra left loon, his credentials as a historian ripped to shreds. Anyone who’s read the book, however, including yours truly, can testify that it is impeccably and exhaustively referenced, and also extremely well written. You don’t have to take my word for it either. A review of the book appeared in the London Times newspaper, the UK’s newspaper of record no less, in 1984, written by Edward Mortimer, who went on to be appointed Director of Communications, Executive Office of the Secretary General, United Nations. Of Brenner’s book, Mortimer writes, “It is short (250 pages), crisp and carefully documented.”
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• Zionist, Moshe Sharett, who was Israeli’s first Foreign Minister from 1948-1956, and Prime Minister from 1954-1956 said (emphasis mine):
  In his diary, Sharett quotes a conversation with Army Chief of Staff Moshe Dayan in May 1955:
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  “We face no danger at all of an Arab advantage of force for the next 8-10 years…Reprisal actions which we couldn’t carry out if we were tied to a security pact are our vital lymph…they make it possible for us to maintain a high level of tension in our population and in the army. Without these actions we would have ceased to be a combative people… “
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  Sharett concludes: “The state…. must see the sword as the main if not the only, instrument with which to keep its morale high and to retain its moral tension. Toward this end it may — no it MUST — invent dangers, and to do this it must adopt the method of provocation and revenge…. And above all, let us hope for a new war with the Arab countries so that we may finally get rid of our troubles and acquire our space.”
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  Jews Against Zionism: (emphasis mine)
  It has been the age-old intention of Zionism to intentionally stir up anti-Semitism anywhere possible, and even more commonly, to take advantage of any Jewish suffering anywhere in order to enhance its cause. Indeed, hatred of Jews and Jewish suffering is the oxygen of the Zionist movement, and from the very beginning has been to deliberately incite hatred of the Jew and then, in feigned horror, use it to justify the existence of the Zionist state – this is, of course, Machiavellianism raised to the highest degree. Thus, the Zionists thrive on hatred and suffering of Jews, and seek to benefit thereby through keeping Jews in perpetual fear, causing them to ignore the true nature of Zionism, and instead to consider the Zionist state is their salvation.
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  As far as Zionism is concerned, the founder of Zionism and apostate, Theodor Herzl, sought to intensify hatred of the Jew in order to enhance the cause of political Zionism. Here are some of his “pearls”:
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  “It is essential that the sufferings of Jews. . . become worse. . . this will assist in realization of our plans. . .I have an excellent idea. . . I shall induce anti-semites to liquidate Jewish wealth. . . The anti-semites will assist us thereby in that they will strengthen the persecution and oppression of Jews. The anti-semites shall be our best friends”. (From his Diary, Part I, pp. 16)
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  There is a huge amount of literature describing how the Zionists made it very difficult to save Jews during and after World War II. As various individuals and organizations were trying to arrange departures of Jews to western countries, the Zionists worked overtime to prevent this from happening. They expressed the opinion that building up the Jewish population of Palestine was more important than enabling Jews to go to third countries, and they insisted to western powers that Jews should not be accepted anywhere other than Palestine. Indeed, Yitzchak Greenbaum, a famous Zionist, proclaimed that “one cow in Palestine was worth more than all the Jews in Poland.” The infamous David Ben-Gurion said in 1938:
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  “If I knew it was possible to save all the children in Germany by taking them to England, and only half of the children by taking them to Eretz Israel, I would choose the second solution. For we must take into account not only the lives of these children but also the history of the people of Israel.”

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