Yasser Arafat -The REAL truth

When researching the real truth regarding Abu Ammar aka Yasser Arafat.  I found both a front page interview in the Wall Street Journal, from Saturday, January 12, 2002. Entitled; "The Arafat I Knew" by Ion Mihai Pacepa, who was the former acting chief of Communist Romania’s espionage, and another 2004 FrontPage Magazine interview.  His WSJ interviews as well as the information in "The Mitrokhin Archive" were to say the least, quite "informative".

"The PLO and the "Palestinian Narrative" was dreamt up by the KGB, which had a penchant for ‘liberation’ organizations.”... like that of the  National Liberation Army of Bolivia, created by the KGB in 1964 with help from Ernesto "Che" Guevara." Arafat was an Egyptian bourgeois turned into a devoted Marxist by KGB foreign intelligence and was the main KGB asset." according to Ion Mihai Pacepa.

The truth about Yasser Arafat

Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini, popularly known as Yasser Arafat or by his kunya Abu Ammar was born in Cairo, Egypt on the 24 August 1929. His father was Abdel Raouf al-Qudwa al-Husseini, was from Gaza, his father's mother, Yasser's paternal grandmother, was Egyptian. His mother, Zahwa Abul Saud, was from a Jerusalem-based family. He was a member of the Al-Qudwa tribe of the al-Husseini clan to which the al-Qudwas belonged.

Arafat's biographer, the British historian Alan Hart, relayed the story that Arafat was heavily beaten by his father for going to the Jewish quarter in Cairo and attending religious services. When his faher asked Arafat why he would not stop going, he responded by saying; "I wanted to study Jewish mentality."

In 1944, Arafat enrolled in the University of King Fuad I and graduated in 1950. He later claimed to have sought a better understanding of Judaism and Zionism by engaging in discussions with Jews and reading publications by Theodor Herzl and other prominent Zionists.

During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Arafat left the University and sought to enter the British Mandated Area of Palestine to join Arab forces fighting against Israeli troops but instead of joining the ranks of the "Palestinian fedayeen", Arafat joined  the Muslim Brotherhood, and fought with them, he later denied joining the Muslim Brotherhood organization. 

In early 1949, as the war turned in favor of the Israeli forces. Arafat returned to Cairo to university where he studied civil engineering and served as president of the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS) from 1952 to 1956.

During the 1956 Suez War he was called to duty to fight with Egyptian forces but was not involved in the fighting. With the defeat of Egypt and the introduction of the UNEF -UN "Peace Keepers" into the Gaza Strip. Members of the "fedayeen" forces, which included Arafat was expelled.

Arafat originally attempted to obtain a visa to Canada and later Saudi Arabia, but was unsuccessful in both attempts. In 1957, when Kuwait was still a British protectorate, he applied for a visa based on his work in civil engineering and was approved. 

As Arafat began to develop friendships with Palestinian refugees, some of whom like Abu Iyad he had met while attending Cairo University and Abu Jihad in Gaza, both of whom were official members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. Khalil al-Wazir ("Abu Jihad"), had arrived in 1959 Kuwait worked as a teacher and Salah Khalaf ("Abu Iyad") arrived in Kuwait in late 1960 became Arafat's top aides in  Al Fatah.

Arafat and the others gradually founded the group that became known as Fatah. The exact date for the establishment of Fatah is unknown. In 1959, the group's existence was attested to in the pages of a Palestinian nationalist magazine, Filastununa Nida al-Hayat (Our Palestine, The Call of Life), which was written and edited by Abu Jihad

The full name Harakat al-Tahrir al-Watani al-Filastini which translates into "The Palestinian National Liberation Movement" or FaTaH the reverse acronym of the Arabic name and in early Islamic times to refer to "conquest." Fatah differed from other Palestinian political and guerrilla organizations in that it dedicated itself to the liberation of Palestine by an armed struggle carried out by Palestinians themselves.

The turning point for Arafat and the PLO was the battle of Karameh in Jordan. The events of the battle were covered in detail and Arafat's face appeared in the world press. The coverage brought Arafat fame and fortune as he came to be regarded as a national hero who dared to confront Israel. 

Yasser Arafat was elected chairman by the Palestinian National Council convened in Cairo on 3 February 1969.

The KGB and the PLO

"The KGB had trained him at its Balashikha special-operations school east of Moscow and in the mid-1960s decided to groom him as the future PLO leader"according to Ion Mihai Pacepa. 

The  major turning point, that forever changed the conflict in the Middle East and opened the door to the KGB and Soviet Union / Russian control was the Egyptian-Czechoslovak Arms Agreement from September 1955, between the USSR and Egypt, under Gamal Abdel Nasser. The Arms Agreement, not only led to the supply of more than $83 million worth of modern Soviet weaponry to Egypt, through Czechoslovakia. It opened the way for thousands of Soviet technicians and instructors to land in Egypt and enter the Middle East. This Arms Agreement greatly impacted the Arab–Israeli conflict forever. 

In the aftermath of the disasterous defeats, of 1956 and later in the 1967 Six-Day War. When a "Tiny David"-Israel, handed the "Goliath", two of the Soviet Union's Arab client states, Egypt and Syria, who had been armed with the latest word in modern Soviet weaponry, failed in their quest to defeat Israel and suffered a disasterous major military defeat. 

Because of the post 1956 war backlash to Israels close cooperation with Washington and England during the Suez Crisis, and Israels unwillingness to side with the Soviet Union, The KGB felt it was time to identify Israel and Zionism as the "Colonial" "Imperialists" foothold in the heart of the Arab heartland. So with the resounding a devasting defeat of Soviet armaments in the hands of their Arab proxies. 

As early as 1965, with the increased influence that the dependence on the purchase of weapons from the USSR by Egypt and Syria had brought them. The Soviet Union had formally proposed in the UN a resolution that would draw in more Arab countries by condemnating colonialism as racism. 

According to Pacepa, the Kremlin had charged the KGB to repair their own severly damaged prestige, from the failures of their weaponry and that of their clients, "our Arab friends." 

The head of Soviet foreign intelligence, Gen. Alexander Sakharovsky, was thereby sent to Bucharest According Yuri Andropov, former KGB chairman: “[T]he Islamic world was a waiting petri dish in which we could nurture a virulent strain of America-hatred, grown from the bacterium of Marxist-Leninist thought. Islamic anti-Semitism ran deep… We had only to keep repeating our themes — that the United States and Israel were ‘fascist, imperial-Zionist countries’ bankrolled by rich Jews.”  

Gen. Sakharovsky asked us in Romanian intelligence to help the KGB bringing Arafat and some of his fedayeen fighters secretly to the Soviet Union via Romania, in order for them to be indoctrinated and trained. During that same year, the Soviets maneuvered to have Arafat named chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organizaiton, with public help from Egypt's ruler, Gamal Abdel Nasser.

When I first met Arafat, I was stunned by the ideological similarity between him and his KGB mentor. Arafat's broken record was that American "imperial Zionism" was the "rabid dog of the world," and there was only one way to deal with a rabid dog: "Kill it!" In the years when Gen. Sakharovsky was the chief Soviet intelligence adviser in Romania, he used to preach in his soft, melodious voice that "the bourgeoisie" was the "rabid dog of imperialism," adding that there was "just one way to deal with a rabid dog: Shoot it!" 

Yasser Arafat met Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap on a number of occasions, the first being in 1969 when Arafat first came to Vietnam to study guerrilla warfare tactics...

So when Yasser Arafat met Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap he asked him:

 “You expelled the French and the Americans. How do we expel the Jews?” I tell them that the French went back to France and the Americans to America. But the Jews have nowhere to go. You will not expel them.’

The Soviets decided to introduce the "Zionism is Racism" resolution to the UN after the third major defeat of the Soviet supplied Egyptian and Syrian armies in their attempt to "eradicate the Jewish / Zionist State during the 1973 October War - The Yom Kippur War had failed. 

All the new pro-Moslem countries, who had recently gained independence from colonial status, were more than eager to abide their "Masters" will and turned out overwhelmingly in favor of the November 1975, Resolution 3379 condemning Zionism as "a form of racism and racial discrimination".

Arafat made a political career by pretending that he has not been involved in his own terrorist acts.

All we NEED to remember is WE in Israel signed a "Peace Agreement" on the White House lawn with Arafat in front of President Clinton. Yet, it was the American Intelligence community (NSA) who cynically FAILED to enlighten President Clinton  and Israel ( the Ally) of the documentation of Yasser Arafat's deceit and under dealings.

Arafat and his deceit

In 1972,  a Romanian intelligence adviser assigned to the PLO headquarters in Beirut reported that Arafat and his KGB handlers were preparing a PLO commando team headed by Arafat's top deputy, Abu Jihad, to take American diplomats hostage in Khartoum, Sudan, and demand the release of Sirhan Sirhan, the Palestinian assassin of Robert Kennedy.

"St-stop th-them!" Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu yelled in his nervous stutter, when I reported the news. He had turned as white as a sheet. Ceausescu had become deathly afraid that his name might be implicated in that awful crime. 

It was already too late to stop the Abu Jihad commandos. After a couple of hours we learned they had seized the participants at a diplomatic reception organized by the Saudi Embassy in Khartoum and were asking for Sirhan's release. 

On March 2, 1973, after President Nixon refused the terrorists' demand, the PLO commandos executed three of their hostages: American Ambassador Cleo A. Noel Jr., his deputy, George Curtis Moore, and Belgian charge d'affaires Guy Eid. 

In May 1973, during a private dinner with Ceausescu, Arafat excitedly bragged about his Khartoum operation. "Be careful," Ion Gheorghe Maurer, a Western-educated lawyer who had just retired as Romanian prime minister, told Arafat. "No matter how high up you are, you can still be convicted for killing and stealing."

"Who, me? I never had anything to do with that operation," Arafat said, winking mischievously.

In January 1978, Said Hammami the PLO representative in London, who had  established contacts with British politicians and journalists, as well as building relations with Israeli peace activists. Began to promote co-existence between the Palestinians and Israelis, calling for a two-state solution to the Question of Palestine.

Arafat was unhappy with  Hammami and ordered Ali Hassan Salameh, (The infamous "Red Prince" of  Black September whom the Mossad dubbed "Burner" and who had led the PLO commando team that took the Israeli athletes hostage at the Munich Olympic Games) to assassinate him in his office. 

Soon after the assassination convincing pieces of evidence started to come to light allegedly showing that the crime was committed by the infamous terrorist Abu Nidal, who had recently broken with Arafat and built his own organization. 

Salameh who was Arafat's liaison officer for Romania, told Col. Constantin Olcescu Ceausescu's adviser to Arafat: "That wasn't a Nidal operation. It was ours (Black September / PLO)"! Olcescu who was well familiar with Arafat's craftiness, was taken by surprise asked: "Why kill your own people?" 

"Arafat wanted "Black September" to mount some spectacular operations against the PLO, making it look as if they had been organized by Palestinian extremist groups that accuse the chairman of becoming too conciliatory and moderate," Salameh explained. According to him, Arafat even asked the PLO Executive Committee to sentence Nidal to death for assassinating the PLO representative in London.

Ali Hassan Salameh,.Salameh was eventually killed by a car bomb planted by the Mossad in Beirut in January 1979.

James Welsh, a former intelligence analyst for the National Security Agency (NSA) which is responsible for global monitoring, collection, and processing of information and data for foreign and domestic intelligence and counterintelligence. Once told U.S. journalists that in March 1972 the NSA had secretly intercepted the radio communications between Yasser Arafat and Abu Jihad during the PLO operation against the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, including Arafat's order to kill Ambassador Noel. The conversation was allegedly recorded by Mike Hargreaves, an NSA officer stationed in Cyprus, and the transcripts were kept in a file code-named "Fedayeen." 

Despite all this deceit the western powers "trusted" Arafat and his outward professed willingness to live in peace.

Sources:

Mr. Pacepa was the highest ranking intelligence officer ever to have defected from the former Soviet bloc. He is author of "Red Horizons" (1987), a memoir. 

Vasili Mitrokhin was a former senior officer of the Soviet Foreign Intelligence service, who was later demoted to KGB archivist. At immense risk to his own life, he spent 12 years diligently copying secret KGB files that would not otherwise have become available to the public (the KGB foreign intelligence archives remain sealed from the public, despite the demise of the Soviet Union). 

When Mitrokhin defected from the Russia in 1992, he brought the copied files with him to the UK. The declassified parts of the Mitrokhin archives were brought to the public eye in the writings of Cambridge professor Christopher Andrew, who co-wrote The Mitrokhin Archive (published in two volumes) together with the Soviet defector. Mitrokhin’s archives led, among other things, to the discovery of many KGB spies in the West and elsewhere.

The Mitrokhin archives ate located at the Churchill Archives Center at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.

Yom HaShoah -Holocaust rememberance day 2024

Yom HaShoah -Holocaust rememberance day in Israel is where we Israelis remember the very REAL "Genocide" of our relatives, our MORE than SIX MILLION -recorded-Jewish people who perished due to virulent anti-Semitic hatred!

With the elevation of Adolph Hitler to be the leadership of Germany from 1933 to 1945. Hitler and the German implemented a policy that came to be known as the “Final Solution”, a horrific episode in the history of mankind.
A plan made worst by the utter silence and complicity of the world!!

After the infamous Wannasee conference in January 1942 Hitler’s Final Solution became official Nazi policy.

The Final Solution plan of the mass liquidation eradication of the Jewish People made horribly worst by the sheer hypocricsy of the British through their control over the Mandated Area of "Palestine". The British government's cynical White Paper enforced sealed "door"- "entrance denied", to our "Balfour Declaration" and League of Nations ordered promised "Jewish State"! A gateway to life slammed shut by the demands of the "Arabs of the Mandated Territories" to Jews who desparately wished to flee Nazi Germany and Europe.

Hitler was determined not just to isolate Jews in Germany and countries annexed by the Nazis, but by subjecting them to dehumanizing regulations and random acts of violence. Hitler was convinced that his “Jewish problem” would be solved only with the elimination of every Jew in his domain.

In my multiple blog entries, some from years passed, I have attempted to explain how Hitler and his subordinates used all the orchestrated means of a modern industrialized and highly educated civilisation to complete the task known as the "Final solution to the Jewish question" -in German Die Endlsung der Judenfrage a very REAL coldly calculated and laid out plan of "genocide" of our Jewish people.

The term "Genocide" has been horrifically been misused by Palestinian apologists and lately by "Senior News correspondents" in their quest to defame Israel in the eyes of the world by quoting the high (inflated) number of casualties -read "Human Shields"- libelously and falsely reported by the Hamas controlled Ministry of Health conflict in Gaza. Casaulties that are a direct outcome of the conlict STARTED by Hamas!

I have written my previous blog entries to explain how the "Genocide" of the Jewish People differed from that of the other nations and peoples.

Not to belittle them -but to show how a nation of "superior intellect" and highly educated leaders could be so utterly cruel in their inhuman- coldly calculated- (read my blog entry regarding the use of the IBM German subsidiary Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft, or Dehomag, produced punch card and card sorting system-a precursor to the computer) to literally eradicate a people!

A machine designed and calculated to expedite and, in many ways, automate, all six phases of Hitler's war against the Jews.
Those six phases were: identification, expulsion, confiscation, ghettoization, deportation and ultimately even extermination.
The Dehomag machine was designed, calculated and used to NOT just exterminate and eradicate all evidence of their Jewish citizens but to gain financially for the effort!

The Final solution was a fullscale Extermination Plan, from the creation of the Ghettos, to the use of the Seven Einsatzgruppen Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary death squads. After the opening of the "War in the East", during Operation Barbarosa, these "Death Squads" murdered over ONE million Jewish men, women and children. Their numbers NOT included in the "Six Million" as they were NOT recorded.

The fullscale Extermination Plan also incorporated industrilized "death Camps" with the use of Zyklon "B" gas to murder hundreds cheaply at a time in gas chambers and crematoriums, that used the foremost deigned German made ovens / furnaces to wipe out any sign of the deed. NOT JUST by cremating the remains but to crush their bones into ash as well!

The sheer immensity of the hatred and brutality of the cold blooded murder of innocent men, women and children seers the mind.

Truly as Hannah Arendt so correctly asserted "the banality of evil".

Many ask. Why was the day January 27 designated as International Holocaust Remembrance Day in most countries?
The reason is that on this day it is noted that Auschwitz-Birkenau, the most well known slave labor and death camp was liberated by the Russian's. Auschwitz is where the Nazis implemented the industrialized mass production scale of the genocide of the Jewish people.

Why was Auschwitz-Birkenau so special?
The answer as the saying goes; "Location".

Located in southern Poland, Auschwitz was deemed an ideal death camp locale, for it was situated near the center of all German-occupied countries on the European continent and in close proximity to a hub of railway lines from Western Europe and from the East. It made for the rapid transportation of detainees by rail "expeditious" and economical since the cost of "transport" was deducted from the wealth collected from the Jews and their communities! Some poorer Jewish communities transportation costs -like that of the SS documented records of the Jews of the Balklands and the Aegean Islands, were deducted from the wealth collected from the wealthier Jews of Austria.

Auschwitz-Birkenau was initially converted from a Polish Army Cavalry Base in 1940 later evolved into a network of camps. Auschwitz became operational as a death camp, in February 1942. By the time it was liberated slightly less than 3 years later, 960,000 Jews were killed at Auschwitz and another 100,000 non-Jews were killed. On average, over 1,000 Jews per day were murdered at Auschwitz once the gas chambers became operational. Industrialized mass-murder.

In January 1945, with the Soviet army approaching, Nazi officials ordered the camp abandoned and sent an estimated 60,000 prisoners on a forced march to other locations. When the Soviets entered Auschwitz, they found thousands of emaciated detainees and piles of corpses left behind.

But the Holocaust didn’t start at Auschwitz. The Holocaust didn’t also start with the many other death camps, concentration camps, slave labor camps, ghettos and killing fields in Europe where over 5 million other Jews were murdered.

The Holocaust started because of systemic and endemic Jew-hatred, and the prevalence and wide-spread acceptance of antisemitic conspiracy theories.
The Holocaust started with the indifference to that hatred and to the violence it inspired.
The Holocaust happened because Jews had no organized way to defend themselves and no country of our own. The Holocaust occured because humanity did not care enough to try and stop their genocide or even give the Jews shelter from the rising storm of antisemitic hate in Europe. Today, we can readily witness the very same rise in extremely vile, and even worst vulgar pro-Palestinian Jew-hatred! We can readily see the same increasing prevalence of despicable mendacious lies and antisemitic conspiracy theories in the press and more importantly on the world news media and social media. We can also see an increase in those brainwashed by Palestinian disinformation, into not only demonizing the one Jewish state, but to try to delegitimize it out of existence. Their concerted effort is to finally eradicate and destroy the LONE JEWISH State of Israel the one thing that may have prevented the very REAL GENOCIDE of the SIX MILLION PLUS in the Holocaust had it existed before 1939. The vile vulgar HATE filled anti-Semitic pro-"Falestinian" propagandists have branded the Jews of Israel as "White European Colonists" to those brainwashed and horribly duped UNEDUCATED "Prestigeous University students" demonstrators. I wish to also point out that NOT "just" Ashkenazic "European", read "White Jews"- were exterminated!

I have several entries on my Blog site filled with documented historical facts regarding the horrors of the truth behind the Nazi Final solution to the Jewish question in German Die Endlsung der Judenfrage. I ask, plead with you to read them and share the truth widely. As Rabbi Jonathan Sacks once stated;

"People ask me; Where was God at Auschwitz? My reply is: Where was humanity at Auchwitz?" Where were we when he called to us, to warn us?" When human life is no longer sacred Aushwitz became possible."

The Palestinian Plan to Eradicate the Zionist State

 

“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” Mark Twain

As I "tossed and turned" in my attempt to sleep once more. Those two old men held a ever so loud and boisterous lively debate regarding the news reports of the widespread anti-Israel demonstrations throughout the world and especially the scene of the "encampments" on university campuses all over the USA.

For those of us, "Hasbaraniks"(literally "explainers") who support Israel, and do voluntary "Hasbara"(relaying of the factual documented truth). We have regretfully witnessed the overwhelming success by the massive global media Palestinian dezinformatsiya campaign of vitriolic anti-Zionist / anti-Israel / anti-Semitic hatred. A KGB campaign known as the "Active Measures Plan" designed to vilify and "negate" (read eradicate) the lone pro western democracy -read Zionist- Jewish State.

What stands out in the massive media campaign of "news" and "journalistic reports", of the participants in marches and demonstrations, is the absolute ignorance of so many naïve and duped participants.

What stands out glaringly in interviews of participants, of ALL ages, but specifically in young “Prestigious University student” men and women. Is the extent of utter bamboozlement* and brainwashing of the naive zombies by the ex-Soviet inspired Idealization Subversion or as the Soviets termed it the "Active Measures Plan" which was defined by former KGB agent Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov who defected to Canada in 1970 as:

“changing the perception of reality to such an extent that despite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions.”

“A person who was demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him. Even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents, with pictures; he will refuse to believe it.”

"They are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern [alluding to Pavlov]. You can not change their mind even if you expose them to authentic information. Even if you prove that white is white and black is black, you still can not change the basic perception and the logic of behavior 

*"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough,we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken." Dr Carl Sagan - "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark" 

These "blank slate" minded individuals are indoctrinated into participating alongside persons who readily identify with members of US Government designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations -FTOs- Hamas, PLO PIJ and Hezbollah in direct violation of the written US laws and regulations.

During the second Intifada wave of suicide bombings and despicable terrorist activities secretly initiated by our "Peace Partner" Yasser Arafat in the year 2000, after the disasterous failure of the offering of the Oslo Accords. I had written an article, an "opinion piece", that in the days before "Social Media" I had emailed out to Jewish groups and newspapers.

In my "opinion piece" I began with four very relevant quotes:

“They lay crafty plans against Your People… they say: ‘come, let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be remembered no more’.” -Tehilim 83:3-4 (Psalm 83:3-4)

“Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.”  Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson

“Wipe out the argument that Israel is a small state whose existence is threatened by the Arab states, or the reduction of the Palestinian problem to a question of refugees; instead, present the Palestinian struggle as a struggle for liberation like the others. Wipe out the impression …that in the struggle between the Palestinians and the Zionists, the Zionist is the underdog. Now it is the Arab who is oppressed and victimized in his existence because he is not only facing the Zionists but also world imperialism.” Mohamed Yazid, who had been minister of information in two Algerian wartime governments (1958-1962) 

“Stop talking about annihilating Israel and instead turn your terror war into a struggle for human rights. Then you will have the American people eating out of your hand.”- Võ Nguyên Giáp, a General in the Vietnam People's Army.

The strategy of the "Falestinians" plan is to mark Israel as a "Pariah among nations", an unwanted, "Apartheid, racist, colonist entity" has achieved a remarkable success.

They have inverted much of the world's perception of the Middle East and perverted documented historical fact by transforming the previous world image of tiny Israel from its natural role of "David" against the massive Arab population and lands, to one of "Goliath" against the "stateless," "oppressed," and "occupied" "Palestinians".

The overall purpose of this cynical "Pariah among nations" plan based on the soviet "Active Measures" program, was to have the nations of the world call for the forceful dissolution of the State of Israel by a cancellation or negation of the UNR181 Partition by the nations of the world.-read "those member nations of the UN who voted for Partition"   whom the Palestinians blame and see as responsible for their tragedy!

Their diabolical plan intended to dissolve the “Jewish State” by those “Global Forces” -read UN member states that created the “Zionist Entity”. A sinister Palestinian plan of vengeance for their self-inflicted 1948 Nachba failure to “Drive them (the Jews of the Yishuv-Israel) into the Sea”-as mentioned in their infamous litany;

“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!”

The true intent of the litany is clearly stated in the charters of Hamas and the PLO, as the forcible removal of ALL “White European Colonizers / Settlers” from ALL of the former Mandated Area of "Palestine" - West of the Jordan River, Gaza the "West Bank and Israel inclusive, by UN / Global forces who will enforce the “transfer” and deportation. 

Furthermore, the "Palestinians"are demanding that England renounce the validity of the"Balfour Declaration"!

This "Palestinian" active measures plan, against the "Zionist Entity", includes the use of Nazi inspired highly anti-Zionistic -Zionist occupation government or (ZOG) conspiracy theories based on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, or The Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion. A Czarist period text that purported a highly antisemitic conspiracy theory claiming that the Jews secretly control the governments of the world in a plot for global world domination.

This theme of “Zionist /Jewish” global domination is repeated over and over again especially by White Aryan racists and Neo Nazis in their comments regarding US Aid to Israel and in false Talmudic quotes.

The Palestinian active measures plan comprises vile and vulgar anti-Israel and anti-Jewish dezinformatsiya accusations based on semi actual facts which are manipulated,edited, distorted and warped to manipulate the minds of the "least intelligent" through deception and intellectually misleading details.

This distortion of truth was embodied in several “accusations of genocide” recently in Gaza which were widely published and covered by “Senior Correspondents” on Mass Media TV news channels and in almost ALL major newspapers -without ANY “due diligence”!

One such incident took place on 17 October 2023, when a devastating explosion took place in the car park of the al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City. The (Hamas controlled) Gaza Health Ministry reported that a large number of displaced Palestinians seeking shelter there were killed or injured.

The truth was that the PIJ- Palestinian Islamic Jihad fraction had launched a “R160” rocket that “misfired” from the cemetery behind the Al-Mamadani Hospital that landed in the parking area at the Al Ahli hospital in Gaza causing the fiery explosion from its payload of explosives and fuel.

The R160 is the Palestinian Islamic Jihad- a US recognized FTO - name for the Khaibar-1 also known as the Khyber-1, M-302 which is a Syrian-made 302mm unguided artillery rocket. It is a derivative of the Chinese WS-1 rocket. This rocket is slightly larger than a BM-21 Grad.

Surveillance camera footage-with a time mark- from the Israeli village of Netiv Ha’shira showed a large barrage of rockets being launched from northern Gaza, followed by a massive blast in the Gaza Strip in the vicinity of Al Ahli hospital, apparently caused by the aforesaid failed rocket.

Before the incident at Al Ahli hospital, there was a history of Palestinian terrorist groups firing rockets from within the Gaza Strip that fell short of their target, resulting in property damage and casualties.

According to Human Rights Watch, armed Palestinian groups had unlawfully launched thousands of "homemade rockets" with only basic guidance capabilities towards Israel since 7 October 2023. The IDF said that in the 11 days preceding the explosion at the Al-Ahli Hospital, 450 rockets fired by Palestinian militant organizations had apparently "misfired" landing on civilians inside Gaza. 

It was only weeks afterwards on the 15 February 2024 did the world media “recant” the Hamas propaganda by meekly stating; "what happened at al-Ahli remains inconclusive"

This "Negation of Israel Plan", otherwise known as "the 1974 plan" was known by all Arabs as the "plan of stages" for the destruction of Israel. This "plan" was the culmination of an outline delivered by Yasser Arafat in a speech before the General Assembly in November 1974 where Zionism was equated with racism.

"Our resolve to build a new world is fortified-a world free of colonialism, imperialism, neo-colonialism and racism in each of its instances, including Zionism."

'The world is in need of tremendous efforts if its aspirations to peace, freedom, justice, equality and development are to be realized, if its struggle is to be victorious over colonialism, imperialism, neo-colonialism, and racism in all its forms, including Zionism."

"An old-world order is crumbling before our eyes, as imperialism, colonialism, neo-colonialism and racism, the chief form of which is Zionism, ineluctably perish." 

"Zionism is an ideology that is imperialist, colonialist, racist; it is profoundly reactionary and discriminatory; it is united with anti-Semitism." 

What we are witnessing today on our TV screens and in the "Social Media" is the culmination of a KGB inspired operation named as "SIG" ("Zionist Governments") devised to turn the whole Islamic world against Israel and the United States. This sinister plan originated in 1958 but was revised in 1972, according to Vasili Nikitich Mitrokhin a major and senior archivist for First Chief Directorate of the KGB. 

In light of the massive defeat of Arab armies, in the 1956 Sinai and Six Day Wars with their billions in “Soviet made weaponry”, together with the withdrawal and loss of sympathy for communism by Israelis. The leaders of the Soviet Union – read KGB, wanted to "repair the prestige" of "our Arab friends" at the hands of the Israelis. It was General Alexander Sakharovsky, who was head of the First Chief Directorate (foreign intelligence) of the KGB from 1955 until 1970, who directed the KGB to destroy Israel through operation "SIG".

Lt. General Ion Mihai Pacepa, a former three-star general in the Securitate, the secret police of Communist Romania, who defected to the United States in July 1978, relayed how KGB chairman Andropov described to him in detail operation "SIG" ("Zionist Governments") as:

"a billion adversaries could inflict far greater damage on America than could a few millions. We needed to instill a Nazi-style hatred for the Jews throughout the Islamic world, and to turn this weapon of the emotions into a terrorist bloodbath against Israel and its main supporter, the United States.” operation "SIG"

KGB chairman Yuri Andropov did this by helping them organize terrorist operations that would humiliate Israel through the use of the main KGB asset -- Yasser Arafat, who was the co-founder of Fatah. Yuri Andropov described Yasser Arafat to Pacepa as a;

"…devoted Marxist-Leninist since his days in the membership of the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS) from 1952 to 1956”. 

This operation "SIG" ("Zionist Governments") campaign of dezinformatsiya became an overwhelming obsession with the Soviets after the utter embarrassing defeat, once again, of Arab armies who had once more been armed with billions of rubles of the "Latest Soviet Arms" in the Yom Kippur war of 1973.

Realizing that through warfare they could not succeed in defeating Israel the KGB set the stage for the infamous Yasser Arafat 1975 -Zionism equals Racism speech where he outlines the method to "Negate Israel". This "Negation of Israel Plan" embodies the Ten Fundamental Principles of the "Art of Dezinformatsiya" created by Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria, chief of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD)

1) The "Big Lie" - Always chose the greater lie at first over the lesser one, so that the masses (the listening or reading audience) can more readily accept it as fact and to make it harder for the real truth to be told.

2) Focus - Use one or two readily "acceptable" or "actual" events as the basis of "truth."

3) Repetition - Always repeat the same line in your retelling of the event to lend further credibility to hide the "lie".

4) Accusation - "Blame" be consistent in your libel of the "scapegoat". Do not leave room for doubt and use the three "D's"; Debase, Defame and Dehumanize."

5) Issues - Critical or Crucial - events or concerns have no "gray areas" leaving no room for doubt regarding what immediate action should be taken.

6) Terminology (Loaded language) - Rhetoric used to influence an audience by using words and phrases with strong connotations associated with them in order to elicit an emotional response and/or exploit stereotypes. Provocative words like: "Genocide" "Apartheid" "Occupation".

7) Emotional triggers - the use of specific phrases or slogans that will induce an intense emotional reaction based on; memories, experiences, or events.

8) Denigrate - vilify, defame, denounce, malign, stigmatize and skewer your "scapegoat" as undesirables.

9) Disregard Facts - Ignore intellectuals and reasonable arguments; target the least-able minded with powerful emotional pitches.

10) Unethical - be disingenuous, unscrupulous, amoral with no limitation -"The end justifies the means." 

Now the truth has been relayed to you and it is up to you to relay the real story to others! 

 

The REAL truth regarding US AID to Israel

As I wrote in a previous blog entry of mine from March 2015. When the truth is really, told regarding funds allocated to Israel, only a fraction of the aid "given" actually stays in Israel. 

By far the largest share remains with American defense contractors. Peter McPherson, a former administrator of the Agency for International Development, estimated that every billion dollars of aid to Israel creates 60,000 to 70,000 jobs in the United States.

Compared to the ~ $3.0 billion yearly military aid to Israel, the U.S. contributes more than $130 billion(!) every year to the defense of Europe and more than $30 billion to the defense of Japan, Korea, and the Far East. 

Over 300,000 U.S. troops are stationed with NATO and over 30,000 U.S. troops in the Far East. 

In contrast, not one single U.S. soldier needs to be stationed and put at risk in Israel. U.S. military analysts estimate that the U.S. would have to spend the equivalent of $150 billion a year in the Middle East to maintain a force equivalent to Israel’s.

Israel is the only country that has gained battlefield experience with U.S. weapons -mostly used surplus vehicles, helicopters and artilley (M109). There use in combat situations is relayed to the U.S. military. 

It should also be noted that after their capture by the IDF in the '67 and '73 wars, enormous quantities of captured Soviet made weapons-including aircraft and missile defense systems were turned over to the U.S. military for analysis,

Israel, in the light of its experience, continually modifies U.S. weapons systems. For instance, Israeli engineers have made over 200 improvements in the F-15 alone and similar improvements, mostly in avionics, in later-generation planes. It would be more in line with reality if military aid to Israel were classified as part of the defense budget, rather than as “aid”.

Here is a partial list of Israeli manufactured military equipment used by the U.S. (as of January 2014):

a) ADM-141 TALD (Improved Tactical Air Launched Decoy)

Jet powered unpiloted decoys look and maneuver like an airplane. TALD's are used to confuse enemy radar and draw the fire away from piloted aircraft so they can perform their missions under "safer" conditions. Earlier unpowered glider versions of the ITALD were used extensively during the initial stages of the Gulf War and in Bosnia.

b) Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing System

This helmet-mounted display (HMD) system allows fighter pilots to target enemy aircraft by using a display within their helmet to guide the missiles at the target they are looking at rather than having to maneuver their aircraft into an attack position.

c) Reactive Armor Tiles

Developed by the IDF after the Yom Kippur War, these tiles protect tanks and the soldiers within them. The tiles overlay the tank's armor and have embedded explosives that detonate outward when hit by missiles. The explosion destroys and repels the incoming missile before it penetrates the tank's main armor. During the 1982 Lebanon war, not a single Israeli tank equipped with these tiles was lost to enemy fire.

d) LITENING Targeting Pod

Litening is a navigation and targeting device that enables aircraft to fly and target in bad weather and at night. The Litening transforms older planes into round-the-clock fighters. The Litening is equipped with two cameras - one uses heat sensors to identify targets at night and during bad weather, while the second provides powerful images from long-range distances during the day. The U.S. Air National Guard, a quarter of whose fleet cannot fly at night, has purchased the Litening to enhance the capabilities of its F-16s. The Litening is also being purchased by the U.S. Marine Corps.

e) AGM-142 Have Nap

Known as "the Popeye," this missile is used to destroy targets, such as concrete military bunkers, with exceptional precision from great distances. It is the only air-to-ground missile that can be retargeted after launch. The United States uses the Popeye on B-52 bombers. A small number of aircraft armed with the Popeye were deployed to Europe for use in Kosovo.

f) UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles)

The UAV has been one of the most important factors enabling the United States to fight effectively with minimum casualties. The U.S. has one of the largest fleets of Israeli-made UAVs which are used to identify targets and assess bomb damage without putting pilots at risk. During the Gulf War and Kosovo, Israeli-made Pioneer and Hunter UAVs were used to stop hard-to-detect targets such as missile launchers, artillery units and command and control bunkers.

g) Python-4 Air-to-Air Missile

The Python-4 is recognized as the world' most advanced short-range air-to-air missile. Unlike other missiles of its kind, the Python can fire at targets from any angle, not just those directly in front of it. This gives it a much larger zone in which in can effectively destroy enemy aircraft.

h) SIMON breach grenade

A rifle grenade designed to breach through doors. It is mainly used to access buildings with locked or barricaded doors without endangering U.S. troops or the people inside. A variant is currently in service with the United States army.

And last the most important of All the Iron Dome (Hebrew: kippat barzel)

The Iron Dome System is an anti- "projectile defensive system. It is designed to "neutralize" -explosive laden rockets, artillery shells and mortar rounds. 

It's radar which was developed by Elta compliments a"specialized rapid data system" to correct the interceptors in mid flight to their target. The system's radar is referred to as EL/M-2084. It detects the rocket's launch and tracks its trajectory. The BMC calculates the impact point according to the reported data, and uses this information to determine whether the target constitutes a threat to a designated area. Only when that threat is determined, is a Tamir interceptor missile fired to destroy the incoming rocket before it reaches the predicted impact area

It should be noted that within the US-Israel "Joint Military" assistance program -"the US AID package"- Israel purchases most of the components from Raytheon, a US Defense Contractor, who since July 2014 has been a major U.S. partner in co-production of major components for the Iron Dome's Tamir intercepting missile. 

The U.S. Defense Contractor Raytheon supplies components through various US owned and subcontractors -with US workers - in a Tamir missile manufacturing facility in East Camden, Arkansas USA NOT JUST FOR ISRAEL BUT for the US Marine Corps and partner forces.

This means that ALL the US Aid Funding is going back into the pockets of a US Defense Contractor who employs some 70,000 US citizens. 

More importantly the Iron Dome Defensive System is a means of warding off missiles sent in an act of a  blatant "International War Crime", against non military civilian targets within Israel.

In case you think the relationship is only military, Israel had more companies listed in 2012 on the NASDAQ stock exchange than any country outside the United States, except for China. After Silicon Valley and Boston, Israel receives more Venture Capital than anywhere else in the world.

What does this mean in jobs for Americans?

In 2010, U.S. subsidiaries of Israeli-owned firms employed 23,600 U.S. workers, with compensation for those employees totaling $1.8 billion, and U.S. affiliates of Israeli-owned firms also contributed $256 million to U.S. exports.

In my opinion, that's a pretty good return for the US Taxpayers. I wonder if we should now demand that the media and these brainwashed members of congress explain exactly what we get in return for the unaccounted millions given -with absolutely NO restrictions nor accounting to UNWRA and the Palestinians.

Let the truth be told

It is so appropriate, in light of what is happening in our world at this very momment, the truism in the portion from the Haggada that states;

"For not just one alone has risen against us to destroy us, but in every generation they rise against us to destroy us; and the Holy One, blessed be He, saves us from their hand!"

This line of the Haggadah written many hundreds of years ago, literally stands out in light of the tsunami of vile anti-Jewish/antiSemitic/anti-Zionist/anti-Israel hatred.

How many times have we, the Jewish People, "sojurned" in foreign lands and suffered from all sorts and forms hatred, discrimination, persecution, Ghettoization, pogroms, massacres and marginalization in EVERY land we wandered to. 

Grossly vilified and mocked just like the character Shylock in the "Merchant of Venice".

Just how many generations of Jews were tormented and slaughtered solely because we were a people without a land of our own?

How many fathers and mothers, sons and daughters have had to weep as their homes and families were wiped out? 

How many stateless-landless Jews fled to the forests and roads in their fruitless attempts to escape certain death at the hands of their neighbors! 

And how like today, how many "Dathans" -read "JINO"-Jews In Name Only -KAPOs according to the Talmud wicked from beginning to end, openly side with our enemies in their false belief that they will be spared the same fate as ours?

Those anti-Israel "members of the tribe", haters who brashly call themselves "anti-Zionists". These  fools can be seen standing willingly alongside those who wish to slaughter ALL the Jews. Those who cite "as a Jew" in their vile fabrications and lies as though only they have the right to speak for our People!

How these gullible "brainwashed and bamboozled" zombies -like those of Code Pink and the "Jewish Voice of Peace" -who oh so willingly believe the utter lies, endorse and spread, ALL the abject,vile, fabrications lies of falestinian dezinformatsiya. 

The JVP -an oxymoron - are infamously known for their "Not in my Name", "As a Jew",openly  anti-Israel and anti-Zionist rhetoric and social media comments.

These Jews in name only (JINOs) are especially overly extreme in their hate of Jews who have returned to our ancestral lands in Judaea and Shomron.

Nary a time have they ever acknowledged the fact of the reasoning for the creation of the Jewish State and the historical background of Israel's creation. Nor the very real legality of our right to be in our indigenous homeland of Judaea and Shomron!

They are totally oblivious to the historically document truth of the ethnic cleansing of 900,000 of their fellow Jews, who had lived for generations in Arab lands who were "cast out" deprived of all they possessed but who were absorbed as full citizens in the one Jewish State.

These same "JINOs" -anti-Zionists, who so like the KAPOs of the Ghetto's and later in the "Death Camps", willingly obeyed the SS and helped in the very real "Genocide" the implementation of the so-called Final solution to the Jewish question (Die Endlsung der Judenfrage).

Yet, here we are. Once more, again, this Passover eve, faced with that timeless wave of utter vile disgusting hatred of the (Zionists) Jewish People merely because we exist ain our hard fought reclaimed indigenous homeland!

I ask in all humility; How it is that all these -non Arab Moslem - "Christian" hate filled youth, who are "flocking" to those University demonstrations or those who march "In Solidarity", have never read or been taught the real and documented historical TRUTH?

 Are they NOT students in the "pretigeous" Ivy League group of eight universities that have similar academic and social prestige; Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth College, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale? Those same universities as Oxford and Cambridge in Britain, that have been respected for providing an excellent education for a long time? 

Do their "esteemed professors" not pride themselves in relaying actual and factually documented and proven historical truth?

The documented historical truth of how from the birth of the "Zionist" effort in 1880 Jews wishing for better lives free from persecution had strived to return to the "Promised Land" in a provence of the Ottoman Empire. 

How Jews from all over the world saved monies which were used to purchase land from Ottoman Turkish Arab (absentee) landlords. 

Many times the lands offered were "useless" rocky barren or swamp filled areas with Malaria and sickness. Because of this the Arabs labled the Jewish pioneers as "The Children of Death". 

And how as these "Children of Death" gave life to the barren swamp filled Malaria infested lands into lush fruitful agriculture lands and created towns and villages in which education and commerce began to flourish. 

How as the pre-state pre World War I Jewish Pioneers transformed the land, so too did the hatred, jealousy and envy of the Arabs grew and became more pronounced!

The documented truth, of how in the post World War I period, the Ottoman Empire - the Middle East -was re created with previously nonexistent nations and NON existent border lines where arbitrarily drawn up according to the interests laid out in French and British agreements? 

That "Palestine" like "Eretz Yisrael" is a geographical term immortalized in the "Mandate for Palestine" and specifically in Mandatory Government documents and coinage, as we see used over and over again by the pro-falestinians as "Proof" of the existence of their supposed entity!

How the British used "Perfidious Albion" in the "Balfour Declaration" and its influence and power to gain the "Stewardship" over the previous Ottoman Turkish areas for their own nefarious reasons. Mainly to gain the Mandate over "Palestine" so as to use it as a forward military bastion to guard the Suez Canal. 

How England upon being granted the "Mandatory" they turned around and paid off their WWI Arab ally by giving over 2/3rd of the territory assigned them by the League of Nations EAST of the Jordan river with the added stipulation that it be "Jew Free".

WE -the Jewish People- those who successfully survived the very real Genocide of the Nazi regime in Europe were able to retrive our indigenous Homeland recently at the cost of the deaths of many of our fellow Jews, many of whom were "just off the boat" survivors of the horrors of the Holocaust in Europe.

Those stateless and unwanted Jews with absolutely NOWHERE to go! 

Those who languished in European Displacement Camps for years because many who tried to return "home" found that all was taken from them. Many survivors who attempted to "Go Back" were set upon in acts of murder or pograms! 

Unwanted anywhere, they cried out to the heavens; WHERE can we go!

The "educated" university students have NOT BEEN TOLD the well documented historical truth of how in 1939 the Mufti of Jerusalem and the British had slammed the "Gates of Eretz Yisrael", our "Promised Land", shut. 

The truth of how inorder to prevent a Grand Mufti threatened continuance of an Arab uprising, the British issued the infamous "White Paper" thus sealing the fate of the Jews of  Europe. 

Or how deviously the Mufti of Jerusalem-the leader of the Arabs of the Mandated Areas had communicated by telegram with the leader of the SS Hennrich Himmler to encourage the Nazi's to murder more Jews. 

How conveniently the world has forgotten how the Arabs had connived with the leaders of Nazi Germany to forbid Jews from escaping and to murder as many Jews as they could.

How the British readily acquiesced to the Arabs every demand and only gave up ONLY when they were bankrupt at the end of WWII and had lost their far eastern holdings in India and were no longer in need of the Suez Canal.

How ONLY after the UN Partition and the termination of the British Mandate Governance and withdrawal, that the White Paper blocked gates were finally removed and those Jews who had languished with NOWHERE to go, left the "Displacement Camps" in Europe and Cypress for Eretz Yisrael the Promised Land with all the hope to live as Free Jews in our homeland.

How it is never told the well documented and historically recorded facts of how in response to the UN Partition the "Arabs of the Mandated Areas", who were divided into two competing fractions. Bitterly refused to accept the "Partion" and declared a war to exterminate all the Jews and the "Jewish State".

How Arab peasantry swept out of their villages to slaughter their Jewish neighbors but when they encountered the modern Maccabeees they realized their error and fled in mass in their self-created "Nachba".

Ever since the resounding defeat of the Arabs of the Mandated Areas and the armies of the members of the Arab League in May of 1948 and later in the wars of 1956, 1967 and 1973.

The "Arabs of the Mandated areas", inspired by their KGB instructors, have been taught the "art of dezinformatsiya" to create a fantasy, a dream a vision as they have tried to imitate our narrative of our disposession at the hands of the Romans.

Just as by Israeli law any Jew who wishes to return to our -archaeological and documentary proven indigenous homeland, can do so. So too have the "Palestinians" have strived to negate our connection to the land to label us as Khazarin European Usurpers -- European colonizers.

They have imitated our "Right of Return" to mean return of ALL those supposed 5 million descendants of those 700,000 Arab actual refugees who fled in 1948.

They claim they want a "Two State" solution, yet, chant "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free"? 

And when you ask for clarification of what is meant by "From the river to the sea."? There are those "moderate" Palestinians who state that they desire the eradication of the "Jewish State" and the removal of ALL Jews who arrived after May 1948.

I ask how long will it take before the world will finally awaken to the truth?

The Truth about Hezbollah and Israel

As a long time resident of Ma'alot going on my fiftieth year I have witnessed the absurdity of the so called "Plight of the Palestinian's" and the recent history of Lebanon.

When I first arrived in Ma'alot in March of 1976 it was nearly a year after the horrific "Massacre in Ma'alot" on May 15, 1974 where a forced rescue ended in the cold-blooded murder of the civilian hostages by the remorseless Palestinian terrorists hostage takers. 

The attack was carried out by three "Arab-Israelis" who joined the  (DFLP) the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine:

Ali Ahmad Hasan al-Atmah (Linou), was 27 years old and he was born in Haifa.

Ziyad Abdar-Rahim Ka’ik (Ziyad) was 22 years old he had been born in Taibe. In his youth he had been involved with criminal activities and he had a police record as a juvenile delinquent and he had been placed in a institute for juvenile delinquents “Achvah” near Akko-Acre. According to the records of the Israeli Police upon his release he joined a criminal gang that specialized in burglaries. He also became a journeyman in laying tile floors for contractors in the area of Netanyah.

Muhammad Muslih Salim Dardour (Harbi), 20 years old, the youngest member of the group was born in Beit Hanina a neighborhood North East Jerusalem.

These three terrorists went to Lebanon to join the "Resistance" and received training in "Palestinian refugee camps" in the "No Man's" land of southern Lebanon known as "Fatahland". 

After the "Arabs of the Mandated Areas" catastrohic lost-read failure to commit a very real "Genocide"; in the extermination of ALL the Jews of the newly (UNR181) partitioned "Mandated Areas" know as the "Nakba" in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Lebanon became home to more than 110,000 Palestinian refugees. 

These refugees as ALL "Palestinian Refugees" in ALL ARAB lands, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and Jordan have NEVER been absorbed and assimilated as productive citizens. 

In the aftermath of the establishment of the state and in total difference to those  "Palestinian Refugees", some 900,000 "Mizrachi Jews of Arab Lands" were "ETNICALLY CLEANSED" robbed of their property, businesses, and possessions and expelled from their homes from 1949-1964. 

In total indeference to the treatment of fellow Moslems and Arabs,  who were enclosed within fenced in UNWRA camps. These new immigrant Jews were absorbed by Israel as citizens. They were housed initially in "Transit Camps", due to the lack of homes. These corrigated metal hut and tent refugee encampments formed the basis of the  "Development Town" project to create new towns like Ma'alot in the prepheral areas of the country. 

These communities mostly comprised of Jews of Arab lands, many of whom had lived in rural areas where they were severly mistreated and uneducated, were in need of assistance in their assimilation -especially in their process of modernization and education. 

Many of the more French or English colonialized educated and wealthy Jews choose to immigrate to other countries or to move to other sections of Israel. Leaving a cultural as well as social problem that hindered Israel's development for decades.

Lebanon

After the infamous "Black September" of 1970, the southern part of the "sovereign nation of Lebanon" was subverted to a terrorist stronghold by Yasser Arafat and the PLO -Palestinian Liberation Organization by the large influx of  some 300,000 Palestinians that had been displaced from "Palestine" aka Jordan by the forces loyal to the imposed Hashemite King Hussein.

From 1967 until 1982, many numerous murderous attacks were launched from this area into Israel unhindered by the Lebanese forces or the UN "Peace Keeping forces".

"Operation Litani" of 1978 was provoked by the "Coastal Road Massacre" of 38 Israeli civilians, including 13 children. The intended purpose of "Operation Litani" was to clear the PLO out of Fatahland but was not allowed ro be completed by pressure brought on Israel to make a "ceasefire".

"Operation Litani" ended under intensive pressure from the US and the UN for a "Ceasefire" and the "United Nations" Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) was created after the incursion, following the adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution 425 in March 1978: 

"to confirm Israeli withdrawal from Southern Lebanon, restore international peace and security(sic), and help the government of Lebanon restore its effective authority in the area."

In reality the PLO under the "watchful eyes" of UNIFIL, returned to the area with a vengenace and brought with them Soviet made 133mm artillery, Katyusha rockets and multiple launch trucks and 122mm mortars. 

Not content with terrorist infiltrations Arafat unleashed his arsenal of artillery and katyushas to fire indiscriminately almost nightly into Israel at civilian targets under the "watchful eyes" of the UNIFIL.

Israeli Concern For It's People

"Fortunately" the leadership of the Jewish state were wise and caring enough to construct public bomb shelters to protect it's citizens, especially in those areas neighborhood where older housing did not have any. 

Post 1967 apartment buildings were required to have a bomb shelter for all the residents. Needless to say "public" or "joint" bomb shelters lack privacy and are noisy and are not made for a stay of long extended peiods like that of "todays" "Secure room" which are available in all of todays new housing. 

In the post SCUD missile 1991 "Desert Storm" period newer housing starts by private contractors vied for providing a "secure room" in their new individual apartment housing. Since then standards for built in a "secure room"have increased.

Regretfully, for those of us who live in the prepheral areas, the once infamous "Development Towns". Our homes were built during the monetary crisis of the late 1950's early 1960's when construction mateials were scant. In my neighborhood of two floor apartments . that are 52 sq meters or 552 sq feet each; compare to average American   882 square feet. Bomb shelters were only constucted for neighborhoods in the post Six Day War period comprized of a single large underground room and toilets.

So when the shelling became increasingly a "nightly thing" each night from 1980 -1982, my wife and new born son would go downstairs to the bomb shelter to sleep in safety with the other wives and children of the building. 

We husbands and new fathers would stand guard in posts on the outskirts of Ma'alot, or in my case as a combat medic man the emergency medical center.

In 2006 during the "Second War" in Lebanon during the war, the Hezbollah rocket force fired between 3,970 and 4,228 rockets at a rate of more than 100 per day, unprecedented since the Iran–Iraq War. About 95% of these were 122 mm (4.8 in) Katyusha artillery rockets, which carried warheads up to 30 kg (66 lb) and had a range of up to 30 km (19 mi). Of those 1686 explosive ladened rockets were fired at Ma'alot, 6 landed less than 50 meters from my home.

The only difference is now we have the Iron Dome system which has been actively shooting down those missile/rockets fired at us.

Lebanon Now

In June of 1982 Israel could take it no longer after gunmen from Abu Nidal's organization attempted to assassinate Shlomo Argov, Israel's ambassador to the United Kingdom and the 1982 Lebanon War, dubbed Operation Peace for Galilee began.

From Wikkipedia:

"After attacking the PLO – as well as Syrian, leftist, and Muslim Lebanese forces – the Israeli military, in cooperation with their Maronite allies and the self-styled Free Lebanon State, occupied southern Lebanon, eventually surrounding the PLO and elements of the Syrian Army. Surrounded in West Beirut and subjected to heavy bombardment, the PLO forces and their allies negotiated passage from Lebanon with the aid of United States Special Envoy Philip Habib and the protection of international peacekeepers. The PLO, under the chairmanship of Yasser Arafat, had relocated its headquarters to Tripoli in June 1982. By expelling the PLO, removing Syrian influence over Lebanon, and installing a pro-Israeli Christian government led by President Bachir Gemayel, Israel hoped to sign a treaty which Begin promised would give Israel "forty years of peace". 

Following the assassination of Gemayel in September 1982, Israel's position in Beirut became untenable and the signing of a peace treaty became increasingly unlikely. 

Outrage following the IDF's role in the Phalangist-perpetrated Sabra and Shatila massacre of Palestinians and Lebanese Shias, as well as Israeli popular disillusionment with the war, led to a gradual withdrawal from Beirut to the areas claimed by the Free Lebanon State in southern Lebanon (later to become the South Lebanon security belt), which was initiated following the 17 May Agreement and Syria's change of attitude towards the PLO.

After Israeli forces withdrew from most of Lebanon, the War of the Camps broke out between Lebanese factions, the remains of the PLO and Syrian forces, in which Syria fought its former Palestinian allies. 

At the same time, Shi'a militant groups began consolidating and waging a low-intensity guerrilla war against the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon, leading to 15 years of low-scale armed conflict. The Lebanese Civil War would continue until 1990, at which point Syria had established complete dominance over Lebanon."

What Wikkipedia fails to elaborate on is that most of the area south of Beirut to the Israeli border was an area where members of the Shi'ite branch of Islam reside. 

And as the Israeli government favoured a close relationship with the Lebanese  Maronite Phalange Christian forces over that with the depressed and oppressed poorer Shi'ite minority animosity towards Israel grew.

As I mentioned in my other posts in addtion to this issue of the status of Christians within the Arab world. There has ALWAYS been a conflict within Islam between the majority Sunni Muslims who believe that the Prophet did not explicitly declare a successor and the Shia Muslims who believe that the Prophet publicly designated his cousin and son-in-law, Hazrat Ali, as the first in a line of hereditary Imams from the Prophet's family to lead the community after him.

With the "triumphant return" to Iran in February 1979 of the leading scholar of Shia Islam Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, whose first name means "spirit of Allah" he created a theocracy in Iran based on the Velayat-e faqih or guardianship of the Islamic Jurist. 

This is a concept in "Twelver Shia Islamic law" which holds that until the reappearance of the "infallible Imam", at least some of the "religious and social affairs" of the Muslim world should be administered by righteous Shi'i jurists.

It is out of this Shi'ite belief that Hezbollah the party of God (Hizb Allah) declared its existence on 16 February 1985. 

The sons of the ummah (Muslim community) established "The Hizballah Program" with the aid of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in order to spread the Islamic Revolution which follows a distinct version of Islamic Shia ideology.

According to "The Hezbollah Program" the principles of its ideology are: 

To expel Americans, the French and their allies definitely from Lebanon, putting an end to any colonialist entity on our land.

To submit the phalanges to a just power and bring them all to justice for the crimes they have perpetrated against Muslims and Christians.

To permit all the sons of our people to determine their future and to choose in all the liberty the form of government their desire. We call upon all of them to pick the option of Islamic government which, alone, is capable of guaranteeing justice and liberty for all. Only an Islamic regime can stop any future tentative attempts of imperialistic infiltration onto our country.

The current leader Hassan Nasrallah has described Hezbollah's ideology as having "two main axis: 

firstly, a belief in the rule by the just juris consult and adherence to Khomeini's leadership; and 

secondly, lay down the basis of a Muslim state which plays a central role in the world, as well as the continued need to struggle against the Israeli enemy"

Hezbollah views its conflict with Israel and the Jewish people as religiously motivated. 

The history of the Arab-Israeli conflict to them is a repeat of the negative interactions between the Jews of medieval Arabia and Muhammad and the early umma described in the Koran and other classical Islamic texts. 

God, according to Hezbollah theology, cursed all Jews as blasphemers damned for all time and throughout history.  Hezbollah (as well as the political/religious leaders of Iran) believe that the destruction of Israel will bring about the "reappearance of the Imam (the Shiite Islamic Messiah)"

Furthermore, the elimination of the state of Israel has been a primary goal for Hezbollah. 

Hezbollah not only opposes the government and policies of the State of Israel, but also each and every Jewish civilian who lives in Israel. 

Its 1985 manifesto reportedly states "our struggle will end only when this entity [Israel] is obliterated. We recognize no treaty with it, no ceasefire, and no peace agreements."