Religious Genocide

In 1917 British Foreign Secretary Arthur J. Balfour declared that Britain supported the establishment of a national home for the Jews in Palestine. At that time there were 56,000 Jews and 600,000 Arabs living in Palestine. (See Avi Shlaim's book The Iron Wall page 7). The Balfour Declaration emphasized, "it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine."

However Zionist leader David Ben-Gurion had other ideas. By 1947 Jews only owned 5.8% of the land in Palestine. Greedy for more, Ben-Gurion established an ethnic cleansing cabal, known as the Consultancy, which devised a "Plan Dalet" in March 1948 to systematically eliminate the Palestinian Arabs through terrorism, mass murder, and expulsion. (See Ilan Pappe's book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.) They were highly successful, killing thousands and creating 800,000 Arab refugees in the first six months alone.

The recent Israeli slaughter of thousands in Lebanon and Gaza is simply a continuation of this genocide. Indeed 80% of Gaza's 1.5 million residents are Palestinian refugees whose families were forced from their homes or fled due to Jewish terror in 1948. (See "Israel Is Committing War Crimes" by Professor George Bisharat Wall Street Journal 1/10-11/09.)

This religious genocide traces back to Biblical times. According to the Old Testament, the ancient Jews believed their God wanted them to commit mass murder in order to steal land. For instance, regarding the Jews' conquest of Jericho, (Joshua 6:21) "And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox,and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword."

Similarly, the Lord tells Saul "Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.' (Samuel I 15:3)

And David sings to the daughter of Babylon "Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones." (Psalms 137:9) Certainly in Gaza we recently saw lots of dead little ones in addition to all others including animals.

It turns out the rabbis played a major role in encouraging this slaughter. As reported in The New York Times 3/22/09, the military's chief rabbi Brig. Gen. Avichai Rontzki, a West Bank settler, told the soldiers not to show mercy to the civilians, preaching that "humanistic' values should be subordinated to the law of the Torah. Gaza was portrayed as a re-enactment of Biblical conquest, slaying non-Jews without mercy at the behest of God. Religious genocide.