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The European invasion of West Asia: Part Four

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AT the end of 1947 CE, the Zionists initiated what was known as Plan Daled (D), which was meant to secure the borders of white Jewish territories.
Plan D entailed the destroying of Palestinian towns and population centres located inside or near the settler territory.
This would strategically hinder the Palestinians from forming bases for armed forces.
Plan D also involved the destruction of Palestinian villages by setting them on fire, causing them to explode and also planting land mines.
This was done to cause Palestinians to flee out of the borders of white settlers. The villages were also encircled and randomly searched to seek out weapons and if any Palestinians were found with guns, they were arrested.
If no resistance was found, Zionist garrisons were set up with armed forces to gain complete tactical control over the areas they were occupying.
All political figures and influential spiritual leaders were detained.
Weapons, vehicles and communication devices were confiscated.
The Palestinians were stripped of their traditional authorities.
Village administrators who were chosen by white Jews were put into power.
The Zionist armed forces destroyed 200 Palestinian villages and massacred many Palestinians during March 1948 CE’s Plan D.
There were massacres in towns such as Deir Yassin.
Palestinians were driven out of the towns of Jaffa, Acre, Haifa, Tiberias and many others.
Within two months, the Zionists expelled over 250 000 Palestinians from their own land.
The Palestinians were caught in utter surprise and the continued operations forced them to retaliate.
The Palestinians only killed 70 whites in retaliation, yet thousands of them were killed and displaced overnight.
The garrisons placed by the Zionists in areas they were occupying had each about 30 Zionist troops armed with automatic guns.
From these garrisons, the whites would shoot anyone in sight at any time to terrify the inhabitants of the land, particularly the farmers and force them to flee.
This was a blatant form of terrorism.
The Gaza strip was taken over by the Zionists and divided into two, with one side occupied by the whites and the other by the Palestinians.
This remains the case to this day.
Twenty-four (24) tanks were placed by the strip to guard against Palestinians entering the settler side.
On the Palestinian side, schools were lit up and bombed.
Wells were also closed.
It is important to note that while all this ethnic cleansing was taking place, there was heavy British presence in the land.
The British troops totalled 70 000, but not one of them intervened on the side of the Palestinians.
Meanwhile, the Zionists were falsely announcing to the world that a second holocaust (massacre of white Jews) was imminent, this time at the hands of Palestinians.
The international community did not intervene, but sided with the white settlers of Palestine in their defence.
Zionist Ben-Gurion said: “We will be able to take over Palestine as a whole because we can face all the Arab forces.”
On May 14 1948 CE, the Zionists declared their independence and Ben-Gurion became the first prime minister of the settler state which the Zionists named Israel. It has become a common trend in Zionist politics that brutal military leaders end up becoming the heads of state.
The Palestinians had never attacked the white settlers, yet all these atrocities had been committed against them.
Inevitably, the offences by the Zionists would force the Palestinians to engage the whites in a war.
A war was exactly what the white settlers needed to undertake a total expulsion of the Palestinians without inviting international intervention.
Within a day after the Zionists announced their independence from Britain, seven neighbouring countries including Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, declared war against the white settlers of Palestine.
The Palestinian armies had been demobilised and their arms dismantled.
The intervention of the neighbouring countries was also in response to the influx of Palestinian refugees to their lands.
When the war began, the Arab countries had mobilised an army of 22 000 fighters. The Zionists had almost twice the number of soldiers totalling 40 000.
This was because the Zionists had premeditated the war and had prepared for it. Neighbouring Jordan could have evened up the balance because it had 20 000 troops, but decided not to join the other seven countries in aiding Palestine.
Palestine is bordered by the following states; Egypt in the south, Lebanon in the west, Syria in the north and Jordan in the east.
All these countries, with the exception of Jordan had declared war on the white settlers.
The absconding of Jordan cost the Arab countries greatly because the white settlers could not be surrounded and did not have to watch their backs against Jordan.
The King of Jordan sought to betray his neighbours in their time of tribulation for he had struck a secret deal with the white settlers whereby they agreed to give to Jordan some Palestinian land located close to the Jordanian border.
This land had been in dispute between Palestine and Jordan since historical times.
In addition, King Abdulla I of Jordan signed a non-aggression pact with the Zionists.
The Zionists gave the West Bank to Jordan as agreed and the extended land became known as Trans-Jordan.
The Arab countries were unco-ordinated and such warring had not occurred in that region since the so-called First World War, thus they were not as prepared as the Zionists.
The Zionists went on a propaganda campaign, falsely claiming they were outnumbered simply because they were facing more countries, yet they had twice as many troops, strong co-ordinated allies from the West and advanced weaponry.
The neighbouring nations of Palestine had entered the war because of genuine concern over their Palestinian neighbours and the land of Jerusalem, which is a holy site for the Muslim community.
The Zionists were the aggressors who instigated the war and once it started they accelerated their ethnic cleansing efforts of killing and expelling the Palestinians.
Unimaginable brutality took place against the Palestinians once the war began.
The Zionists, in deliberate breach of the United Nations (UN) resolution which allocated to the white Jews 56 percent of Palestinian land, went after the rest of the Palestinian land that was not allocated to them.
The towns of Hula, Saliha and Bassa were taken.
All Palestinians associated with resistance were rounded up and killed.
Death lists were also provided by white intelligence officers and the Palestinians were captured and killed according to the lists provided.
The biggest killings took place in the towns of Lydda and Ramle, where in one day, 500 men, women and children were killed and up to 70 000 people were expulsed. Bodies lay all over and they were eaten by dogs.
Zionist general Yitzhak Rabin led this particular attack and signed for the mass expulsion.
He would later serve two terms as prime minister for the settler state.
The number of Palestinian refugees quadrupled and this time the refugees were stripped of all their belongings to incapacitate their livelihood.
When Zionist forces found Palestinian men, women and children together, they would kill them all.
At the end of the war, the Zionists had conquered 80 percent of Palestine.
The Arab forces only managed to retain a few remote areas that amounted to about 20 percent of the land.
The Zionists had destroyed over 531 villages and 11 urban neighbourhoods, in the process displacing 750 000 Palestinians.

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