by Dr. William A. Cook
“Jerusalem– Israel wants peace. Period. The Jewish people have never held a desire to rule over ohers and this remains true today.
Not only are we ohev shalom ["lovers of peace"], but we are also rodef shalom ["active pursuers of peace"].” So says , Magazine editor of the Jerusalem Post, in an opinion piece just published in Al Jazeera.
The man is delusional. Lest this illusion of a peace loving Israel pass unnoticed, let me set the record straight.
The information below provides evidence that thoroughly discredits the assertion that “The Jewish people have never held a desire to rule over others and this remains true today.”
The following is an article I wrote based on classified Top Secret files obtained from The Rhodes House Archives of Oxford University and later expanded into a long Introduction for the book The Plight of the Palestinians: a Long History of Destruction published by Palgrave Macmillan Company in 2010.
A Tale of Lies, Deceit and Terrorism: the Birth of Israel
[The Untold Story of the Zionist Intent to Turn Palestine into a Jewish State. Based on the (classified documents of Sir Richard C. Catling), seized by the British Mandate Police from the Jewish Agency and its affiliated organizations, materials that confirm that the Zionist-controlled Jewish community intended to remove the Arab inhabitants of Palestine from their land and make the whole of Palestine a Jewish State.]
On May 14, 1948 President Harry S. Truman received a letter from the Jewish Agency for Palestine announcing the impending proclamation of the independent republic of Israel (Harry S. Truman Library, document filed August 22, 1949).[i] That date marks not only the beginning of the State of Israel but, sub missa voce, the assumption by the State of Israel of the calculated, systematic and determined ethnic cleansing of the indigenous population of the land of Palestine that had been the business of “The Consultancy” and its agents before May 14, as identified by Dr. Ilan Pappe in his monumental The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Ilan Pappe 5).[ii]
The letter notes that the republic has been established within “frontiers approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations in its Resolution of November 29, 1947, and that a provisional government has been charged to assume the rights and duties of government for preserving law and order within the boundaries of Israel, for defending the state against external aggression, and for discharging the obligations of Israel to the other nations of the world in accordance with international law.” The letter was signed by Eliahu Epstein, Agent, Provisional Government of Israel.
The letter is notable not for what it announces, but for what it does not reveal. Truth requires revelation of all the facts, not concealment by omission of that which would prejudice an understanding. During the six months between the adoption of UN Resolution 181 and the date of this letter, and in subsequent months, the prospective state of Israel launched a massive military incursion into territory designated by that same Resolution for the Palestinian people, creating in its wake “three quarters of a million Palestinian refugees,” the destruction of “hundreds of entire villages … not only depopulated but obliterated …and houses blown up or bulldozed” (Walid Khalidi, All That Remains, xv).[iii]