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Liberation of the Palestinians

Dan Lieberman — Wed, 14 May 2025 14:50:33 +0000

Israel and its worldwide supporters are relatively few, maybe 50 million confined to the western world, compared to those who recognize the genocide of the Palestinian people, maybe 500 million throughout all continents. Despite the disparity in numbers, Israel and its followers have overwhelmingly controlled the information sources, media involvement, and government apparatuses throughout the western world. The Palestinians have won the “battle of minds,” and are ready to lose the “battle for liberation.” How can this be?

How can governments and those in powerful positions permit an obvious genocide? What does a human being gain from being party to the murder of others? No reason and no necessity. The indigenous Palestinians have always been willing to share space with the foreign Jews, and the Jews can live anywhere. They don’t need barren hilltops and parched deserts to satisfy their daily living.

The “how” is best answered by the Zionists’ organization ability. From day one of their origin, the Zionists carefully planned the manipulations of western life — political, cultural, entertainment, educational, and economic — providing the questions and controlling the answers, steering populations from disbelief into their beliefs, making their victims the aggressors and their aggressions a defense of their victimhood. This did not occur unnoticed and has infuriated populations in many countries, resulting in a backlash against the Jewish people, which the Zionist used to their advantage — reaction to nefarious deeds and protests against genocide are anti-Semitism. Oh, how they suffer.

The success of the Zionists’ mission is due to their diabolical organization ability. The military prowess, complete with a nuclear arsenal, evolved from organizing trickery and knavery into establishing themselves as helpless and desperate, a subterfuge that fooled an unknowing and innocent world. Failure to halt the oppression of the Palestinian people is related to the inability to counter the Zionists’ methodical planning and regional operations, to create a worldwide organization that takes the offensive, exposes the Zionist manipulations of societies, and sets a different tone to the happenings, a tone that is beneficial to the Palestinians. The trajectory to destruction has been unidirectional and, without effective organizations to stand against the thought control, the destruction will soon be complete.

Difficulties emerge. it is difficult for those who walk the high road and will not compromise with accepted moral values to contend the Zionists who use treacherous methods to promote their cause — harassments, illegitimate accusations, and profane charges of anti-Semitism, even assassinations, bribery and coercion. Their public relations efforts can be subtle, injected into programs such as PBS’ Antiques Roadshow and Finding Your Roots as everyday conversation. Tomorrow is too late. The Palestinians need organizations.

(1) Website(s) that articulate clearly expressed information that guide messages to audiences and respond to the misinformation distributed by Israel’s loyal army of followers.

My experience is that too few have sufficiently detailed information that counter fraudulent narratives perpetrated by Israel’s supporters. As examples:

Nobody had to obey UN Resolution 181, the partition plan. The UN General Assembly does not have the power to enforce its own actions directly. Its resolutions are recommendations, and not legally binding.

The UN did not create two states; it divided one Palestinian state into two states — a Palestinian state composed of almost 100 percent Palestinians, and a Palestinian state composed of about 650,000 native to the area, of whom about 60 percent were Palestinians (400,000 Palestinians), and 40 percent were foreign Jews and their children (250,000), who had arrived earlier to live permanently in Palestine. Another contingent of foreign Jews (250,000) had arrived for expediency and not with intention of remaining in the British Mandate.

Arab armies did not invade and attack Israel. Besides the Jordanian Arab Legion, which remained in Jerusalem, the only Arab army of significance in numbers and unified command was the Egyptian army. The Egyptians only entered territory that was awarded to the state composed of nearly 100 percent Palestinians and with the attempt to recapture Palestinian territories that were seized by the Zionist forces.

The propagation of misleading information is punishing and importunes a website(s) that can provide credible information.

(2) Organizations in all nations that design daily protests, rallies, meetings, and discussions and provide information on the legal aspects, logistics, and formation of the meetings and protests.

Street and campus protests have been rewarding — energizing crowds and alerting masses, but running into two barriers — unless there is violence, media coverage is limited, and the protests are made to appear as expressions of anti-Semitism.

These barriers are overcome by abundant protests, daily, worldwide, in every plot of land, and more personally directed — before embassies, before media headquarters, before industrial partners to the crimes, on street corners, on main boulevards, in libraries, in homes, in cultural and religious centers; an inundation of anger at those who support the genocide, a touch at the nerves of those who are humane and regard then sanctity of human life. Where are the 1.4 billion Catholics following the deceased Pope Francis’ pleas to halt the genocide? Don’t they vote?

(3) Websites in all nations that describe the activities, protests, meetings, and discussions appearing in every country. Three websites, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Arab Resource and Organizing Center, and Popular Resistance partially fill the gap. A decade ago, and found on the Wayback Machine, websites published a calendar of all resistance and protests events throughout the nation. The calendar with all events is mandatory. Where is any today, and why not?

(4) Political action that analyzes the means by which a small coterie of Zionists can influence government officials to defend Jewish citizens and a foreign nation before defending their own constituents and their own nation. Seems anything can be said about Catholics, Quakers, Chinese, atheists, and zebras without arousing official replies. Curse USA and the pilgrims and no condemnation. Hint you might not like Jews, Israel is committing genocide, and the Zionists are deceptive oppressors and expect a call from the FBI.

Government officials supporting Israel are “enemies of the state” and are committing treason. Aren’t there any “think tanks” that can give thought to exposing this treason and forcing the genocidal representatives to change their behavior. Aren’t there any “think tanks” that can give thought to resolving the number one issue that has enabled the oppression? Why cannot governments learn they are responsible for a genocide and why aren’t there programs that force them to change their actions?

(5) Legal fund that supports activists caught in the fraudulent legal processes that Zionists use to stifle opposition. The scurrilous Anti-discrimination League (ADL) has been sued and been judged guilty on several occasions. Obtain some of the deep pockets from Qatar and the Zionists might learn to behave more legally and correctly.

I have attempted to create a website that answers organization number one and acts as an information source.
Organizations number two and three are not complex and can be handled by those who can gather and publish information.
Organization number four is difficult, but an abundant good thinkers and “think tanks” exists. Getting brains together that can solicit information, absorb it, discuss it and provide a path to nirvana is not unreasonable. Preventing genocide is a worthwhile motivation.
Organization five needs experienced fund raisers, access to philanthropists, and a capable legal team.

For those interested, which I hope will be everybody and those receiving chain messages that encompass the world, the website that contains a list of “talking points” information is available at: https://www.alternativeinsight.com/ME_TalkingPoints.html.

From this site, the articles can be reached. I will continually update the website and am open to suggestions of making the website more effective. I will not be able to address adding any articles to the website; too time consuming.

If a unidirectional past dictates the future, then I have doubts this message to the universe will have much effect. I have tried previously and have had no success. Millions of dedicated, well-meaning and praiseworthy individuals and thousand of groups have labored energetically and resourcefully to prevent the oppressions and halt the genocide. Unfortunately, the efforts have not changed the reality. My unbiased opinion is that this is the only way to stop the genocide, it is the last opportunity, and, if not implemented, the Palestinians are doomed.

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Ashkelon Speaks: The Story of the Middle East Conflict

Dan Lieberman — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 15:00:31 +0000

The bold and suicidal actions by Gaza militants defy reason… to the reasonable. To those frustrated by decades of oppression, with no apparent means to alleviate the suffering, the actions become comprehensible. Looking north from the Gaza border, the Gazan people can reconstruct their ancient village, al-Majdal, now called Ashkelon.

The modern Israeli city of Ashkelon, 20 kilometers north of the Gaza border, presents a picturesque setting along the Mediterranean coast.

Sparkling white beaches matched by white-faced apartment buildings, green lawns, and several wide boulevards depict a tranquil and content city. Ashkelon, the modern city with a biblical name, is not peaceful. Grad rockets from Gaza have struck the city on several occasions. By arguments of war, the damage has not been extensive, but no damage can be ignored.

More noticeable is that Ashkelon has an important story, relating a narrative that describes the Middle East conflict. The story begins with the Canaanites of 1800 B.C.

Ashkelon’s archaeological park has a treasure; a Canaanite gate from the walled city that gave the modern city its name. The Canaanites constructed a port on the Mediterranean Sea and used the sea, together with city walls, to provide a unique defense against invaders. The archaeological park contains artifacts from the Canaanite and succeeding civilizations; Philistines, Babylonians, Greeks, Romans, Persians, Arabs, and Crusaders, all of whom eventually ruled the area until the Mamelukes destroyed Ashkelon in the year 1270 A.D.

Missing from the list of conquerors of Ashkelon are the Israelites. No substantiated history or archaeological finds describe Israelite administration of the coastal areas. This lack of coastal identification is surprising because, if the biblical claims of the extent of David and Solomon’s realms are true, would not these empires include seaports and fortifications close to the defendable Mediterranean Sea? A Canaanite gate from 1800 B.C. is extant, but not a single identifiable structure from the reported eras of David and Solomon has been uncovered along the coast.

This brings us to the year 1596 A.D. In that year, the Arab village of al-Majdal in the Ottoman Empire, located close to the ruins of ancient Ashkelon, had a population of 559 inhabitants. An industrious village, known for a weaving industry that produced silk for festival dresses, Al-Majdal’s population grew to 11,000 by 1948. The poetic naming of their fabrics: ‘ji’nneh u nar’ – ‘heaven and hell’, ‘nasheq rohoh’ – ‘breath of the soul’ and ‘abu mitayn’ – ‘father of two hundred, signified the pride and originality of the Al-Majdal weavers.

Al-Majdal and its citizens suffered the fate of many Palestinian villages that hoped to escape the hostilities but became engulfed in the 1948-1949 war. Its residents sustained more than the usual injustices that were committed after the passage of United Nations (UN) General Assembly Resolution 181, the Partition Plan for Palestine.

Not well recognized is that the territory awarded to the Palestinians in Resolution 181 extended along the coast to present-day Ashdod, 38 kilometers above Gaza. Al-Majdal had been awarded to the new Palestinian state. Also, not sufficiently explored is the reason that the Egyptian army, after its entrance into the war, refrained from entering deeply into territory awarded to the Jewish state because its purpose was to defend the Palestinian state against Israeli transgression. Egypt’s army captured the Yad Mordechai kibbutz, eight kilometers south of Al-Majdal, and stopped at Ashdod. Its army crossed the Negev (awarded to Israel) and attacked Jewish settlements in its advance. The Egyptian military proceeded to defend Beer Sheeva, which had also been awarded to a Palestinian state and continued through Palestinian territory to safeguard Hebron and other parts of the new Palestine state. Egyptian military attacked Tel Aviv by air and sea, but the Egyptian army did not occupy territory awarded to Ben Gurion’s government. Reasons given for the Egyptian failure to seize territory awarded to Israel include (1) damage done to the Egyptian army in a battle at Ashdod halted its advance, (2) four Messerschmitt aircraft delivered by Czechoslovakia to Israel alarmed Egyptian soldiers, and (3) battles with Negev kibbutzim deterred the Egyptian army. All of these reasons are conjecture and not sufficiently convincing.

Despite the over-expressed statement that the Egyptians, together with other Arab armies, intended to “throw the Israelis into the sea,” the Egyptians did not have the military strength to accomplish the task. The path taken by Egyptian troops indicates more of a defense of the new Palestinian state rather than an occupation of the new Jewish state. The inescapable reality is that the Israelis figuratively threw the Palestinians into the sea, or at least into refugee camps, by expelling 750,000 Arabs and barring their return to the lands and homes they had possessed for centuries. History needs a more in-depth analysis of Egypt’s intentions in entering the war.

With war raging in their midst, the citizens of Al-Majdal temporarily retreated 15 kilometers to a haven in Gaza. On November 4, 1948, Israeli forces captured the city. In August 1950, by a combination of inducements and threats, Al-Majdal’s 1000-2000 remaining inhabitants were expelled and trucked to Gaza. According to Eyal Kafkafi(1998), Segregation or integration of the Israeli Arabs – two concepts in Mapai, International Journal of Middle East Studies 30: 347-367, as reported in Wikipedia, David Ben-Gurion and Moshe Dayan promoted the expulsion while Pinhas Lavon, secretary-general of the Histadrut, “wished to turn the town into a productive example of equal opportunity for the Arabs.” Despite a ruling by the Egyptian-Israel Mixed Armistice Commission that the Arabs transferred from Majdal should be returned to Israel, this never happened. When I visited in 2010, I was told that only two Arab families live in Ashkelon today.

The nightmare for the expelled residents of Al-Majdal did not end with their arduous trip to Gaza. Without going into detail, the years from 1948 until the present have been years of internment in refugee camps, brutal occupation, constant strife, military raids in their neighborhoods, destruction of facilities, denial of everyday life, denial of livelihood, denial of access to the sea, denial of access to the outside world. In 1994, after the signing of the Oslo Accords, Israel constructed a 60-kilometer fence around the Gaza Strip and from December 2000 to June 2001 reinforced and rebuilt parts of the fence. Israel might be correct in presenting the fence as a necessary deterrence to infiltration, especially for terrorist acts. Personal bombings on southern Israel have declined dramatically but have been replaced by rocket bombings. Infiltration by Israeli forces into Gaza did not decline and bombings of Gaza homes and citizens continued. Whatever the reason, the lives of the surviving Al-Majdal refugees and their descendants evolved from being wards of the United Nations to virtual imprisonment in an overly crowded environment.

The Gazan wars are a coda to the horrific drama that plagued the Al-Majdal and other Palestinian refugees. The massive destruction inflicted upon the Gaza people is well documented and can be reviewed by searching the Internet. The accusations by Amnesty International and other agencies of war crimes committed by Israel are incomplete. Eyewitnesses verify the intentional destruction of small industrial businesses, educational institutions, animal husbandry, and withholding of irrigation that resulted in extensive strawberry crop losses; evidence that Israel also targeted the Gaza economy.

No discussion of Ashkelon is complete without reference to its neighboring Erez Crossing. For those entering northern Gaza, the crossing’s concrete walls and huge terminals, the traces of the 60-kilometer fence around the Gaza Strip in the distance, and an overhead balloon hanging in the sky like a full moon, evidently surveying the entire area, shock the senses.

A description by someone who exited Gaza through the checkpoint was so complicated that it was difficult to absorb and accurately report. The 100-meter walk along the empty road, remote control turnstiles, advanced body scanners, and other Kafkaesque security equipment are well described by my similar experience.

The Soviet Union previously set the bar for tyrannical control. Those who passed through a Soviet checkpoint between East Germany and Berlin during the Cold War know the fear and uncomfortable feeling of this control. Enter a barren room and gaze around in puzzlement. Finally, after several minutes, a slit in the wall opens and a voice announces, “Die papieren bitte.” Place the papers in the slit and wait in the room without knowing the time length of the wait. Realize that the room is wired and all words are heard while hidden eyes observe all movements. It is a sweating and terrifying experience. The exit from Gaza through Erez seemed magnitudes more terrifying. Israel has raised the bar on security control.

What happens when a Palestinian attempts to enter Israel from Gaza? A story related by a person, whose credentials are impeccable and whose words can be trusted, went like this.

A Palestinian, who had moved to Canada and had a Canadian passport, returned temporarily to Gaza. A friend in Ashkelon (who told me the story) invited the Palestinian with a Canadian passport for a visit. It took several weeks to prepare documentation, submit the necessary papers, and obtain approval from the Israeli military for the visit. With everything certified the Palestinian proceeded to the Erez Crossing for exit to Israel. His friend waited at the checkpoint and waited and waited. The Palestinian did not arrive. Six weeks later, the drama unfolded.

Israel’s security stopped the Palestinian, not because Israel suspected he had compromised its security – just the opposite – Israel compromised his security. If the man agreed to inform on his associates in Gaza, Israel would make life easy for him, allow him to travel, and his family would receive special conveniences. He was finally released after six weeks of being held incommunicado. Other Palestinians, who crossed the border, have complained of similar insidious activities.

The creation of modern Ashkelon and its consequences contain elements that have been subdued in public discourse but have been a major contributor to the Middle East conflict and a guide for one side of the struggle. We have Israel seizing control of an ancient area, which, for millennia, had been controlled by others. UN Resolution 181, which awarded the area to the Palestinian state, has been violated in the seizure. The original inhabitants are expelled without cause. The Arab town of Al-Majdal is mostly destroyed and memories of an Arab presence are erased. The town’s name is slowly changed, evolving from Al-Majdal to Migdal-Gad, Migdal-Ashkelon, and finally to Ashkelon; as if the city descended directly from the original bronze era seaport. The victims are consistently oppressed and reduced to impoverishment. Foreigners occupy the properties of the dispossessed. Sorrow, pain, and feelings of helplessness burst into violence against injustice and oppression. Although the violence is minimal, the retaliation is major. Al-Majdal has no escape from suffering.

Ashkelon has a story. It is the story of the Middle East conflict.

This content originally appeared on Dissident Voice and was authored by Dan Lieberman.