Two nonagenarians on Israel: Dov Yirmiya, Bertrand Russell
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Dec 3, 2010, 8:19:28 AM12/3/10
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Two nonagenarians on Israel: Dov Yirmiya, Bertrand Russell
Dov Yirmyia - Reflections of a 96 year-old warrior
Dov Yirmiya, the man who plays the accordeon for Palestinian children,
wrote this:
The end of Sicarii Zionism* / by Dov Yirmiya
18/06/10
I am one of the remaining veterans of the Haganah, who had served in
the British Army and thereafter were among the initiators of the
Ha'apala [illegal immigration] of Holocaust survivors, struggling with
the forces of victorious Great Britain for the right to arrive at the
shores of this country.
Its warships and soldiers, those who had just fought and defeated the
worst of all enemies, went over to attacking with fury and hatred our
cockleshell boats which set to this country from the shores of Italy,
full of survivors of the Nazi hell. The warships chased after them,
closed around them, sometimes actually crushing them - and shot at
them, killing and wounding many of their passengers.
And now I have observed with horror and a broken heart the repetition
of the same scenes – but with the roles reversed. It is the soldiers
and sailors of the force which boasts of being the "Israeli Defense
Forces" who are now the pursuers and killers. There is no limit to the
disgrace, the cruelty and the hypocrisy which wrap our criminal acts
with words of lie and malice.
I am depressed to the bottom of my heart ... how could we have fallen
so low??? How did we become an unjust and cruel people, turning from
persecuted to persecutor?
Yes! It could have been expected! For 19 years we have "contented
ourselves" with a system of a military government over the Arab
minority which remained with us after the War of Independence,
dispossessing and discriminating them. There followed the 43 years of
intoxicating nationalist bravado, which spread through our people like
an addictive drug after our victory in 1967, which brought the Greater
Israel movement to the power which it since then holds in Israel.
Our golden opportunity as victors, to make peace with the Palestinian
people, vanished at once. The fascist Zionist regime, governing in the
style of the Italian in North Africa, violent conquest and rapist
settlement of the land of Palestine and its people… But with the
latest move, the tragicomic charge of the ridiculous Zionist "armada"
in an effort to tighten its stranglehold on an enclave of a million
and half miserable Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, our arrogant little
people have clearly gone too far.
The huge burden of injustice and mad villainy with which Sicarii
Israel is loaded brings about quick disaster. Already in the
foreseeable future it is about to finally destroy Israel's chances of
survival. The "Mene Mene" of destruction is already inscribed in blood
on our walls. Woe to our children, our grandchildren and great-
grandchildren to whom we leave such a legacy...
On the final days of Bertrand Russell
Wikipedia gives us the following paragraphs:
«
Russell published his three-volume autobiography in 1967, 1968, and
1969. On 23 November 1969 he wrote to The Times newspaper saying that
the preparation for show trials in Czechoslovakia was "highly
alarming". The same month he appealed to Secretary General U Thant of
the United Nations to support an international war crimes commission
to investigate alleged torture and genocide by the USA in South
Vietnam. The following month, he protested to Alexei Kosygin over the
expulsion of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn from the Writers Union.
On 31 January 1970, Russell issued a statement which condemned Israeli
aggression in the Middle East and called for Israeli withdrawal from
territory occupied in 1967. The statement said that:
The tragedy of the people of Palestine is that their country was
"given" by a foreign power to another people for the creation of a new
state. The result was that many hundreds of thousands of innocent
people were made permanently homeless. With every new conflict their
numbers increased. How much longer is the world willing to endure this
spectacle of wanton cruelty? It is abundantly clear that the refugees
have every right to the homeland from which they were driven, and the
denial of this right is at the heart of the continuing conflict. No
people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled in masses
from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine
to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate? A permanent
just settlement of the refugees in their homeland is an essential
ingredient of any genuine settlement in the Middle East. We are
frequently told that we must sympathise with Israel because of the
suffering of the Jews in Europe at the hands of the Nazis. [...] What
Israel is doing today cannot be condoned, and to invoke the horrors of
the past to justify those of the present is gross hypocrisy.
—Bertrand Russell, 31 January 1970
This was Russell's final political statement or act. It was read out
at the International Conference of Parliamentarians in Cairo on 3
February 1970, the day after his death.
Russell died of influenza on 2 February 1970 at his home, Plas
Penrhyn, in Penrhyndeudraeth, Merionethshire, Wales. He was cremated
in Colwyn Bay on 5 February 1970. In accordance with his will there
was no religious ceremony; his ashes were scattered over the Welsh
mountains later that year.
»
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Dov Yirmyia - Reflections of a 96 year-old warrior
Dov Yirmiya, the man who plays the accordeon for Palestinian children,
wrote this:
The end of Sicarii Zionism* / by Dov Yirmiya
18/06/10
I am one of the remaining veterans of the Haganah, who had served in
the British Army and thereafter were among the initiators of the
Ha'apala [illegal immigration] of Holocaust survivors, struggling with
the forces of victorious Great Britain for the right to arrive at the
shores of this country.
Its warships and soldiers, those who had just fought and defeated the
worst of all enemies, went over to attacking with fury and hatred our
cockleshell boats which set to this country from the shores of Italy,
full of survivors of the Nazi hell. The warships chased after them,
closed around them, sometimes actually crushing them - and shot at
them, killing and wounding many of their passengers.
And now I have observed with horror and a broken heart the repetition
of the same scenes – but with the roles reversed. It is the soldiers
and sailors of the force which boasts of being the "Israeli Defense
Forces" who are now the pursuers and killers. There is no limit to the
disgrace, the cruelty and the hypocrisy which wrap our criminal acts
with words of lie and malice.
I am depressed to the bottom of my heart ... how could we have fallen
so low??? How did we become an unjust and cruel people, turning from
persecuted to persecutor?
Yes! It could have been expected! For 19 years we have "contented
ourselves" with a system of a military government over the Arab
minority which remained with us after the War of Independence,
dispossessing and discriminating them. There followed the 43 years of
intoxicating nationalist bravado, which spread through our people like
an addictive drug after our victory in 1967, which brought the Greater
Israel movement to the power which it since then holds in Israel.
Our golden opportunity as victors, to make peace with the Palestinian
people, vanished at once. The fascist Zionist regime, governing in the
style of the Italian in North Africa, violent conquest and rapist
settlement of the land of Palestine and its people… But with the
latest move, the tragicomic charge of the ridiculous Zionist "armada"
in an effort to tighten its stranglehold on an enclave of a million
and half miserable Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, our arrogant little
people have clearly gone too far.
The huge burden of injustice and mad villainy with which Sicarii
Israel is loaded brings about quick disaster. Already in the
foreseeable future it is about to finally destroy Israel's chances of
survival. The "Mene Mene" of destruction is already inscribed in blood
on our walls. Woe to our children, our grandchildren and great-
grandchildren to whom we leave such a legacy...
On the final days of Bertrand Russell
Wikipedia gives us the following paragraphs:
«
Russell published his three-volume autobiography in 1967, 1968, and
1969. On 23 November 1969 he wrote to The Times newspaper saying that
the preparation for show trials in Czechoslovakia was "highly
alarming". The same month he appealed to Secretary General U Thant of
the United Nations to support an international war crimes commission
to investigate alleged torture and genocide by the USA in South
Vietnam. The following month, he protested to Alexei Kosygin over the
expulsion of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn from the Writers Union.
On 31 January 1970, Russell issued a statement which condemned Israeli
aggression in the Middle East and called for Israeli withdrawal from
territory occupied in 1967. The statement said that:
The tragedy of the people of Palestine is that their country was
"given" by a foreign power to another people for the creation of a new
state. The result was that many hundreds of thousands of innocent
people were made permanently homeless. With every new conflict their
numbers increased. How much longer is the world willing to endure this
spectacle of wanton cruelty? It is abundantly clear that the refugees
have every right to the homeland from which they were driven, and the
denial of this right is at the heart of the continuing conflict. No
people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled in masses
from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine
to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate? A permanent
just settlement of the refugees in their homeland is an essential
ingredient of any genuine settlement in the Middle East. We are
frequently told that we must sympathise with Israel because of the
suffering of the Jews in Europe at the hands of the Nazis. [...] What
Israel is doing today cannot be condoned, and to invoke the horrors of
the past to justify those of the present is gross hypocrisy.
—Bertrand Russell, 31 January 1970
This was Russell's final political statement or act. It was read out
at the International Conference of Parliamentarians in Cairo on 3
February 1970, the day after his death.
Russell died of influenza on 2 February 1970 at his home, Plas
Penrhyn, in Penrhyndeudraeth, Merionethshire, Wales. He was cremated
in Colwyn Bay on 5 February 1970. In accordance with his will there
was no religious ceremony; his ashes were scattered over the Welsh
mountains later that year.
»
CONTACT US AT: canaa...@gmail.com
OR VISIT THE FOLLOWING WEBSITES:
http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan.com/latest/index.html
http://www.grazian-arhive.com
ALFRED DE GRAZIA
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