Welcome to New Jerusalem, Germany
…or what should have happened after WWII
After the October 7th, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel something crazy happened. The West (including Europe) actually began researching the “Palestinian Question” as soon as Israel launched its thinly veiled genocide and Final Solution. Almost as quickly as the Hasbara fell apart, with unsubstantiated mass rapes and beheaded babies (not one forensic investigation to be shown), people began to read and watch alternative media. It blew me away that people were actually talking to me about this and knew what the Nakba was. They knew 1948. They knew Jonathan Pollard. They knew the U.S.S. Liberty. They knew AIPAC was bigger than the NRA. Suddenly, people became diligent and very, very pissed off.
There’s an opinion that I had held for quite a while that was seldom received well. Now, in this environment, the lights go on when I bring it up. Why were the Palestinians held to account for a crime they did not commit? We all know the Holocaust and its evil legacy. We also know that it was the Europeans and the Nordic countries that all had a hand in murdering Jews for centuries, they ran the pogroms. Not the Arabs.
The modern German Empire had been started in 1871. The former Prussia unified various states, including Germany to create a European superpower, and Prussia was no more. The point here is not to rehash the birth of Germany but ask, “Why didn’t the victors of WWII turn Germany in to Israel and leave Palestine alone?” It’s not like the Zionists were particularly religious. Mostly secularists and atheists, they were more interested in a white Jewish state, and many didn’t care where it was. All that mattered is that it was called Israel. The founder of modern Zionism, Theodore Hertzl, visited Palestine only once, never to return.
The Balfour Declaration of 1917, not only failed to mention the people that lived in Palestine, but it was also an anti-Jewish document. It was to rid the UK of Jews and keep new ones from coming in: send them to Israel! In 1905, as Prime Minister of Great Britain, Arthur James Balfour signed the Anti Alien Act. This was to prevent 300,000 Jews, escaping Czarist Russia, entrance into the UK. In the years 1920-22, the UK government offered the Zionists Argentina, Morocco, Uganda and Madagascar to call Israel. These were all being seriously considered, only to be finally shot down as to get more buy in from the more orthodox Jews who wanted Jerusalem. However, what did all of these countries have in common? They were populated by black and brown people, lots of them. It’s not like England had a soft spot for black and brown people. Their entire Empire had been built on the larceny, murder, and enslavement of the same.
Lastly, to move on, the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916, granted sovereignty to all of the Arab nations, formerly under the Ottoman Empire…all but Palestine. It was to be called Mandatory Palestine, despite its own government, banking, culture, agriculture and ports, it would not be granted independence as were Lebanon or Syria. At the time, 8% of Palestinians were Jewish and had lived there largely unperturbed for centuries. They worked, owned businesses, worshipped and paid taxes just like any other Arab in any other Arab country.
Flash forward to 1945. Germany had been soundly defeated at the hands of the Allies. It’s a fact that eight out of ten Nazis were killed by Russian troops. Now, the point here is this; if we’re going to be giving countries away, why not Germany? Barely 75 years old, they had started two World Wars, murdered millions of civilians and clearly showed that they could not play well with their toys. The sentiment at the time was none too sympathetic. The buy in would have been immense. Call Munich, or Berlin, New Jerusalem, Zionists get free land, and everybody lives.
But the UN and UK had other plans. The UN Partition of 1947 was the beginning of an end that started early in the 20th Century. They should have partitioned Germany (let’s face it, Israelis bitch about Israel anyway). In 1948, after conflict had erupted, the UN granted Israel a “nation” with UN Resolution 191. Truman had his issues with displacing seven million indigenous Arabs with a bunch of white, European, colonial settler thieves and that’s all it was. In his estimation, this was not going to go well. David Ben Gurion, Israel’s first Prime Minister, empathized on numerous occasions. Not that he was a nice guy, it’s just common sense.
So, if we’re going to steal, why not do it and punish a rouge state while we’re at it? Of course, Germans could still live in the converted Israel. Many would have viewed it as sweet relief, or maybe not. Zionists haven’t proven themselves to be vengeful psychopaths quite yet. They were doing that in Palestine since around the 1920s. The Nuremberg Trials would have had their own kosher je ne sais quoi, as it were.
Still, I think tourism would have been interesting. We can’t really change the German fate. However, Israel has proven to be deserving of the same fate of our German premise. It’s 77 years old. It invades its neighbors, steals land in violation of international law (now, an actual thing), bombs sovereign countries, kills tens of thousands of people, and has violated nearly 1,000 ceasefire agreements with more to follow.
The UN should overturn Resolution 191, thus making Israel more illegal than it has been. They are still the only nation on earth without declared borders. Let’s face it; if I have a McDonald’s franchise but choose to sleep in and skip the Egg McMuffin breakfast sales, corporate will revoke my franchise. The same should hold true for a fake national carve out like Israel.
Why didn’t this go down? Because we don’t make white people pay for their sins. We make black and brown people pay for the sins of white people, silly rabbit. The Palestinians were thrown on the altar for the sins of the Nazis. That’s the Black and Brown Man’s Burden, doncha know…
Abe Abdelhadi was the host of the Bitter Truth with Abe Abdelhadi. Past episodes are still on Spotify, iTunes, YouTube and any platform where people listen.