JUNE 2007
BOOK REVIEWS
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
By JOHN WHITBECK
For anyone who possesses a strong stomach
and an equally strong desire to know the truth, I
strongly recommend Israeli historian Ilan Pappe's new
book "The
Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine", which makes
painstakingly and painfully clear the extent to which the
expulsion of the great majority of Palestinians from
their homes and homeland between 1947 and 1949 (an
expulsion absolutely essential to create a "Jewish
state" in a country where, in 1947, the population
was still 70% Muslim and Christian and these non-Jews
still owned 94% of the land) was meticulously planned,
programmed and documented, ruthlessly carried out and,
thereafter, efficiently covered up, sanitized, erased
from minds and memories and, to the extent necessary,
denied. Pappe also makes clear that the cleansing spirit
and cleansing practices have continued ever since, with
public discussion in Israel of the "demographic
threat" posed by those Palestinians still remaining
in Palestine never more openly conducted and with a
recent poll showing 68% of Israeli Jews in favor of
expelling all Palestinian citizens of Israel.
Unfortunately, this book, published in England (and
available from amazon.com), is highly likely to go
unreviewed and largely unnoticed in the United States, a
country where objective historical truth is much less
popular than "revealed truth" and pure fantasy
and where the Israel-First Lobby starts with a distinct
home-field advantage in pursuing its successful efforts
to convince American public opinion that American
interests and values are identical to Israeli interests
and values and to make American foreign policy and
America's wars indistinguishable from Israeli foreign
policy and Israel's wars.
While most of mankind, being comprised of peoples who
have themselves been the victims of colonialism and
racism, views racial-supremicist settler-colonial states
founded upon the genocide or ethnic cleansing of an
indigenous population as an abomination, Americans,
exceptionally, are favorably inclined toward such states.
The reason is simple. Until very recently, America was
itself such a state, and the official Israeli narrative
replicates the widely accepted American narrative of
brave pioneers bringing civilization and economic
advancement to a backward and savage land.
Furthermore, notwithstanding its history, America, as a
nation, appears to have no regrets and to be troubled by
no sense of national guilt. While, for reasons having
less to do with bearing universal witness against man's
inhumanity toward his fellow man than with justifying one
particular instance of such inhumanity, there is a
Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, there are no
museums there devoted to the genocide of the Native
Americans, to slavery or to the century of legalized
segregation which followed abolition.
In addition, a significant proportion of the American
population embraces a perverted interpretation of
Christianity which ignores the humane message of Jesus
Christ and the Golden Rule and focuses the devotions of
its adherents not on God but, rather, on "God's
Chosen People", through whose success in ethnically
cleansing Palestine and provoking cataclysmic warfare
these so-called "Christians" hope to achieve
their personal, selfish "rapture" and
"salvation".
Still, even in America, where Nakba denial is as
obligatory as Holocaust denial is condemned, objective
historical truth is available in Professor Pappe's book
for anyone who cares.
John V. Whitbeck, an international lawyer, is author of "The World According to Whitbeck". He can be reached at: jvwhitbeck@awalnet.net.sa
A New World Is Possible
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THE BLACK MATRIX
The Modern Mental and
Social Suppression of African American Under National
Interest
© 2006 by Franklin G. Jones
Now available on line at http://divineblacktruth.org/franklin_jones
This book offers the truth for those who will listen
for it; and the truth is that we, African Americans, can
no longer survive as a race hanging on to lies. A
reality of truth must prevail if we are to be a part of
the future. The many problems now facing Black America
will not be corrected by implementing outdated strategies
of foot marches, speeches, the commemoration of fallen
Black martyrs, nor from governmental regulated
preaching from religious texts, but instead by
initiating the next and more profound stage of the battle
for human rights, thus breaking into previously
unexplored territories, thus exposing the fiercest and
most lethal system of institutionalized racism now facing
Black America.
THE RISE OF THE BLACK MATRIX
In 1968 after the death of Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. there was much unrest, discord
and wide-spread violence that which increasingly
placed the peace and stability of the nation in dire
jeopardy. This resulted in the decline of
national stability and loss of lives and property that
cost the nation and taxpayers millions of dollars. These
factors, combined with the rapidly tarnishing American
global image, led to the then president, Lyndon B.
Johnson, ordering that a commission be formed, later
known as the Kerner Commission, to investigate and
prescribe a cure or recommendations for the
problem. The Kerner Commission concluded that
blatant White racism was the single aggravating factor
for the collective problems. This finding required
that the U.S. Government abandon its usage of
blatant forms of racism used to control and maintain its
White dominance. This abandoning of dated tactics led to
the need for developing an improved method of controlling
and suppressing its Black population.
The U.S. Government’s agents of White
supremacy quickly reformed their techniques of
institutionalized racism. Changing times made
it necessary for the U.S. government to change its
methods to a much more subtle and socially acceptable
means of continuing its racial suppression of Blacks and
to maintain its White dominance.
Because the blatant methods, of assuring that its White
dominance be maintained, used and condoned in the past
are no longer morally and socially acceptable, the U.S.
Government secretly implemented a far more sophisticated
method of maintaining its white dominance.
The United States government secretly implemented its
largest ever covert assault operation against its Black
population through its educational, judicial, and prison
systems and, most detrimentally through a campaign
of psychological warfare that uses mis-information, false
statistics, and negative propaganda media reports. The
unrelenting daily assaults on the Black psyche corrupts
African Americans’ sense of reason and unity thus
creating the culture of failure and disparity that now
afflicts modern Black America.
Today’s modern method of white racism in the United
States is now secretly applied through the
government’s proven method of Covert
Counterintelligence Program [COINTELPRO: A misnomer for
Domestic Covert Actions.] A system of white
governmental racism that is implemented through the
American educational, judicial and prison systems-- that
prevails and is concealed through the usage of
Psychological Warfare implemented through the national
media that fosters a consensual environment for its
suppression of its black population. It is a
sophisticated system of white racism that deliberately
wears only the appearance, if any, of being totally self
afflicted by African Americans themselves.
In doing so, the United States Government have acquired a
far more insidious and covert method of ensuring that its
white dominance is maintained that exists behind a clever
shroud of secrecy and deceit — for it is in this way
that the evils of racism thrive best -- when its victims
do not recognize the evil.
This modern system of institutionalized racism is so in
fact so sophisticated , that one may compare
America’s old system of white racism- used against
African Americans in the past-- to that of
this modern type by saying that the previous system
had a GED while today’s methods has a PHD. For
today’s system is for more sophisticated, elaborated
and proficient then any system of racism previously faced
by African Americans-even slavery. Most African
Americans have never heard of this method of asserting
White racism, therefore many will find it too shocking
and stunning to contemplate—nevertheless, it is
directly intertwined with the many problems adversely
affecting Black America today.
Because this book exposes the hidden, conspiratorial, and
profound dimensions of racism that secretly exist at
governmental levels in the
Nevertheless there is neither a struggle nor fight
more pressing for African Americans today than the
exposing and eradication of this real-life Black Matrix
that is used to suppress us, confuse us, and turn us
against each other.
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