Unreasonable to accuse Israel – only now

Published 24 November 2024 at 11.25

Column. The only unreasonable thing about the ICC's arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is that it only comes now. In fact, since the state was founded, Israel has engaged in terrorism and other crimes, writes Jonas De Geer.

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Israel and its apologists claim constantly that:

– the Arabs began

– they themselves only defending against terrorism.

It is, of course, strong from a military power that allows explosive charges to be planted in technical devices that kill more than fifty and injure several thousand, but it is not least a projection, because it was terrorism that actually laid the foundation for the state of Israel, which is worth remembering in today's mode.

During the British Palestine Mandate 1920-1948, the Zionists were given the opportunity to seriously realize the colonization of Palestine, which the British promised them in the Balfour Declaration of 1917. During the mandate's scarce three decades, its Jewish population increased eightfold. Young Zionists, mainly from Eastern Europe, poured in, naturally meeting resistance from the local Muslim and Christian population.

In the conflicts this inevitably led to, systematic, organized terror was precisely the method the Jews chose to achieve their goal , which from the very beginning was to take over the whole country and expel those who had lived there since time immemorial.

It was done not least through terror against civilians, for example bombs in vegetable markets and bus stops, buses and trains. Perhaps the most famous is the massacre in Deir Yassin on April 9, 1948, where, according to a contemporary UN report, around 250 men, women and children were murdered. It wasn't a run-of-the-mill bomb that obliterated it and many other villages; it was slaughter, in a way that is disturbingly reminiscent of how Israel and its friends portrayed the atrocities of Hamas on October 7 of last year (although the latter have not been allowed to be investigated by an outsider).

This mass murder thus took place just one month before the proclamation of the State of Israel. All major Jewish militias participated in different ways, including the Haganah, which would soon become the backbone of the new Israeli military force, the IDF. However, it was its more fanatical affiliates the Irgun and Lehi (“Stern League”) that did the actual handiwork this time.

It was through systematic massacres like the one in Deir Yasin the ethnic cleansing of 700,000 Palestinians, the Nakba , was carried out. The Zionists were never satisfied with this and what is now happening in Gaza is just a long-awaited continuation.

Not only the Arabs were affected. The British had made possible the foundation of the state of Israel and the Jews gave thanks in the later years of the mandate by directing their terror against them as well.

The most famous acts in that way are perhaps the assassination of Lord Moyne, the highest British official in the Middle East , outside his home in Cairo on 6 November 1944 and the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on 26 July 1946 where 91 people were killed.

Although there were also many more, less well-known. On February 29, 1948, for example, Lehi blew up a British military train outside Rehovot: 28 British soldiers died and 35 were wounded. The following day, the Irgun blew up a British officers' club in Jerusalem: 20 dead and 30 injured.

It was not only in the Middle East that the Zionist terrorists were on the move. The Irgun blew up the British Embassy in Rome on 31 October 1946. On 16 April 1947 they placed a bag bomb (which accidentally did not detonate) at the Colonial Office in London, on 4 August of the same year they detonated two bag bombs in the basement of the Hotel Sacher in Vienna where the British Army Headquarters was housed.

In addition, at this time Lehi sent letter bombs to several British authorities, including Secretary of State Ernest Bevin, but also to the White House. Lehi also carried out the assassination of Swedish UN envoy Folke Bernadotte on September 17, 1948.

These are just a few examples; the macabre list of Zionist terrorist acts during the 40s is very long.

In any case, the proud British Empire had to pull down the Union Jack in humiliation and retreat with its tail between its legs in 1948. Its mission was accomplished for that time. since then and is still celebrated in the country. Not least this has shaped Benjamin Netanyahu himself. His predecessors as Likud leader and prime minister, Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir, were leaders of the Irgun and Lehi, respectively, when these terrorist groups were at their worst. Netanyahu's father, Benzion, was their generation mate and prominent intellectual in the same ideological camp.

Then Israel, its fellow runners in advanced positions and hordes of useful idiots in the West can hypocritically howl about self-defense against terrorism all they want, but lies do not become truer because they are repeated more often, louder and angrier.

In this case it is actually so simple that the one who said it va're.

And has been from the beginning.

JONAS DE GEER

Jonas De Geer is a freelance writer.