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00:00Have you ever wondered how we've come to normalize the idea
00:03of people returning to their ancestral homeland after 3,000 years
00:07while at the same time demonizing those who had been living there
00:11and were forced out from their homes and villages?
00:16Because for years, not just you, but Jewish people around the world
00:20have been told lie after lie to justify it.
00:23We were conquered by the Romans, we were conquered by the Byzantines.
00:26They did a lot of bad things to us, but they didn't really exile us,
00:31contrary to what people think.
00:32The loss of our land actually occurred when the Arab conquests took place in the 7th century.
00:39What if I told you that by the time Arabs entered Jerusalem in the 7th century,
00:44there were no Jews left there?
00:46And more importantly, that it is the Arabs who invited them back.
00:50And that's not even a disputable historical fact.
00:53The Muslims are the ones who allowed the Jews to return and live in Jerusalem.
00:58I am not familiar with any sources showing the exiling of Jews or others
01:03from the land during the Arab conquest,
01:05or of any testimonies of such an expulsion.
01:08In fact, the opposite.
01:10These are respected Jewish historians.
01:13Do you think the prime minister of the only Jewish state
01:17doesn't know the history of his own people?
01:19This wasn't an incidental lie.
01:22It's a lie carefully designed to demonize the victim.
01:26To make sure that no matter the crimes Israel commits,
01:30the children its followers,
01:31or how often this plays in front of your eyes,
01:34you remain incapable of empathy for Palestinians.
01:40The lie about Arabs expelling Jews wasn't Netanyahu's first, nor his last.
01:45Hitler didn't want to exterminate the Jews at the time.
01:48He wanted to expel the Jews.
01:50And Khadj Amin al-Husseini went to Hitler and said,
01:52If you expel them, they'll all come here.
01:54So what should I do with them?
01:56He asked.
01:57He said, burn them.
01:58A lie so obvious, so offensive,
02:02that even a pathological liar like Netanyahu had to retract it.
02:06Nor was he the only Israeli leader to lie.
02:09They all have from the very, very start.
02:12And on the 78th anniversary of the creation of Israel,
02:16it is time to expose these lies.
02:19So you know that Israel's history is not much different
02:23than the brutal present the world is finally seeing.
02:32You've heard many times that Israel accepted partition,
02:36that it wanted peace with its Arab neighbors.
02:38But that is a lie.
02:39After the formation of a large army
02:41in the wake of the establishment of the state,
02:44we will abolish partition and expand to the whole of Palestine.
02:48That is a direct quote from David Ben-Gurion,
02:51Israel's founding father and its first prime minister.
02:54He said this in a meeting of the Jewish executive agency in 1938.
02:59That was 10 years before the so-called Arab attack on the Jewish state.
03:04Could he have changed his mind?
03:07No.
03:08It was, according to his own words, a strategy.
03:11A very effective one.
03:13The establishment of a state, even if only on a portion of the land,
03:17is the maximal reinforcement of our strength at the present time
03:20and a powerful boost to our historical endeavors to liberate the entire country.
03:25A strategy that he and other major leaders of the Zionist movement agreed on.
03:30We shall spread in the whole country in the course of time.
03:33This is only an arrangement for the next 25 to 30 years.
03:38That's Haim Wiseman, Israel's first president.
03:42And he wrote that in a letter to the British High Commissioner again back in 1938.
03:48In fact, in 1948, the Palestinians did not want to fight.
03:53While the Palestinians were trying to maintain calm in the country,
03:58the Haganah did all it could to escalate the situation.
04:02Yes, that's from the British High Commissioner.
04:05And that wasn't even controversial.
04:08Israeli leaders knew this reality very well.
04:11I believe the majority of Palestinian masses accept the partition as a fait accompli.
04:18They don't believe it is possible to overcome or reject it.
04:23The decisive majority of them do not want to fight us.
04:26So why was there a war?
04:28Because these Zionist leaders didn't just want part of the land.
04:33They didn't want all land either.
04:35They wanted it all empty of Palestinians.
04:41The total population of the Jewish state at the time of its establishment will be about a million,
04:47including almost 40% non-Jews.
04:50Such a population composition does not provide a stable basis for a Jewish state.
04:56There can be no stable and strong Jewish state,
05:00so long as it has a Jewish majority of only 60%.
05:04And their solution for this was ethnic cleansing.
05:08We must expel the Arabs and take their places.
05:12And if we have to use force to guarantee our own right to settle in those places,
05:19then we have force at our disposal.
05:22To achieve that, they started provoking the Palestinians.
05:26Actions such as the one in Al-Khissas will prompt quiet Arabs to act against us.
05:31Our actions against Khissas ignited the Galilee.
05:34And this was a good thing.
05:37They knew the Palestinians didn't want to fight,
05:40but they started provoking them, terrorizing them,
05:43so they could ethnically cleanse them.
05:45It's impossible to expel 114,000 people who lived in the Galilee without terror.
05:51There had to have been an element of initial terror for them to live.
05:55They did it through massacres all over Palestine, in Tantura.
06:00They were in Tantura.
06:30and they were in the massacres all over Palestine.
06:31It was something that was a great thing.
06:33And it's impossible to say that I don't want to talk about it,
06:35because it can be a serious scandal with this idea of a problem.
06:40In Safsaf.
06:41In Safsaf, after the inhabitants had raised a white flag,
06:46the soldiers collected and separated the men and women,
06:50tied the hands of 50-60 fighting peasants and shot and killed them and buried them in a pit.
06:56Also, they raped several women.
07:00Cultured officers had turned into base murderers, and this not in the heat of battle, but out
07:06of a system of expulsion and destruction.
07:09The less Arabs remained, the better.
07:11This principle is the political motor for the expulsions and the atrocities.
07:17This British intelligence report describes the attack on Haifa.
07:22There was considerable congestion outside the East Gate, of hysterical and terrified
07:26Arab women and children and old people, on whom the Jews opened up on mercilessly with
07:31fire.
07:32And in the infamous Dear Yassin.
07:34I saw cut-off genitalia and women's crushed stomachs.
07:38It was direct murder.
07:39Soldiers shot everyone they saw, including women and children.
07:43Parents begged commanders to stop the slaughter, to please stop shooting.
07:47We were living in the house, a family.
07:52If you were living with Arimond, then what is that Arimond would call you?
08:01It was a bad thing.
08:04Until today, I can't forget it.
08:06There was a big death, and there was an Arab man, and there was an Arab man.
08:11And the death was after a crash.
08:17There was a feeling of considerable slaughter and it was hard for me to explain it to myself as having
08:23been done in self-defense.
08:25My impression was more of a massacre than anything else.
08:29If it is a matter of killing innocent civilians, then it can be called a massacre.
08:42You can hear directly from the Ergun commander at Deir Yassin explain why they did it with such brutality.
08:50I wanted to say that the truth is, until today, my love is in the sky.
08:54I wanted to open the door of Deir Yassin.
08:59And everyone started to open the door. Why did they take the door of Deir Yassin on us?
09:03They took the door from Egypt, they took the door from Egypt, they took the door from Egypt.
09:06It was all because of Deir Yassin. Deir Yassin on us, the hatred of Deir Yassin.
09:10There were no longer, there were no longer in Deir Yassin in Israel.
09:15There was no one in Israel.
09:18There was no one in Israel.
09:19What do you think of all these authorities?
09:21In Lebanon, in Erden, in Syria?
09:23From what?
09:24Because of who?
09:25I don't know because of who?
09:28There's no one in Israel who can say it because of me.
09:31I took the door from Deir Yassin.
09:37You need more evidence on who was the oppressor and who was the victim, because there is.
09:43All of this was the result of direct orders from David Ben-Gurion.
09:48We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us.
09:52Alton repeated his question, what is to be done with the population?
09:56David Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said, drive them out.
10:00That's a testimony from future Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was personally involved in the ethnic cleansing of the
10:09Palestinians.
10:10And David Ben-Gurion didn't just order the ethnic cleansing.
10:13He even ordered the brutality against women and children.
10:16We need to harm them without mercy, women and children included.
10:22Otherwise, this is not an effective reaction.
10:25During the operation, there is no need to distinguish between guilty and not guilty.
10:31And he knew all the gruesome details as soldiers perpetrated his vision.
10:37Battalion 22 arrested the men and women.
10:41They killed the men, washed her, and then 22 men gang raped her.
10:45And this was not a random incident.
10:48Here is what hardcore Zionist historian Benny Morris said when asked about how many rape cases took place in 1948.
10:57In Acre, four soldiers raped a girl and murdered her and her father.
11:00In Jaffa, soldiers of the Kiryati brigade raped one girl and tried to rape several more.
11:06At Hunin, which is in the Galilee, two girls were raped and then murdered.
11:10There were one or two cases of rape at Tantula, south of Haifa.
11:13There was one case of rape at Tantula in the center of the country.
11:17At the village of Abu Shusha, near Kibbutz Geza.
11:19There were four female prisoners, one of whom was raped a number of times.
11:23And there were other cases.
11:25Usually more than one soldier was involved.
11:27Usually there were one or two Palestinian girls.
11:29In a large proportion of the cases, the event ended with murder.
11:33Because neither the victims nor the rapists like to report these events, we have to assume that the dozen cases
11:39of rape that were reported, which I found, are not the whole story.
11:43They are just the tip of the iceberg.
11:44When a New York Times reporter discovered one of the massacres, David Ben-Gurion did exactly what Israeli leaders do
11:53today when the IDF is caught red-handed.
11:56First, he denied it, and then issued a public apology saying it was a mistake.
12:01But three months later, he included the bombing that resulted in the murder of five Palestinian children in a list
12:08of successful operations.
12:10Of course, Israeli leaders considered it successful.
12:14You heard the Israeli commander at Deir Yassin explain why.
12:18But now, hear from Menachem Begin, who became Israel's prime minister in 1977.
12:23In 1948, Begin was the leader of the Ergun, the Jewish terrorist group that committed many of those massacres.
12:33Panic overwhelmed the Arabs of Eretz Israel.
12:36The legend of Deir Yassin helped us in particular in the saving of Tiberias and the conquest of Haifa.
12:43All the Jewish forces proceeded to advance through Haifa like a knife through butter.
12:49The Arabs began fleeing in panic, shouting, Deir Yassin! Deir Yassin!
12:55These horror stories didn't spread organically.
12:58Here is Yagal alone, commander of the Balmakh, Israel's elite forces,
13:03explaining how they used a tactic called whisper propaganda to ensure that tens of thousands of Arabs would flee in
13:11fear.
13:12And I asked them to whisper in the ears of several Arabs that a giant Jewish reinforcement had reached the
13:18Galilee
13:19and were about to clean out the villages of Hula, and to advise them as friends to flee while they
13:25could.
13:26But remember what Israel's leaders told the world.
13:29Their lands hadn't seen the reason why they left their lands.
13:33We didn't compel them to leave.
13:35They left on their own view, or rather on the view of the Arab leaders.
13:39A lie their supporters continue to repeat to this day.
13:43The Arabs said, leave your homes and then, you know, when the war is over, you're gonna come back and
13:46take everything.
13:47Just like the lie that Israel wanted peace in 1948,
13:52while Arab countries attacked the infant Jewish state.
13:56The Deir Yassin massacre, for example, was on April 9th, 1948.
14:01Do you know when the Arab armies declared war?
14:04May 15th, 1948.
14:07Only weeks later, after its horror stories had reached Arab capitals from Palestinian refugees.
14:14In fact, if you read the Arab League statement in May 1948,
14:19it clearly stated that these massacres are the reason they entered the war,
14:24to protect the defenseless Palestinian population.
14:27The events which have taken place in Palestine have unmasked the aggressive intentions
14:32and the imperialistic designs of the Zionists,
14:35including the atrocities committed by them against the peace-loving Arab inhabitants,
14:40especially in Deir Yassin, Tiberias and others.
14:43But Israel and its supporters often describe the Arab rejection of partition as a desire for war.
14:50But this too is a lie.
14:52The Arabs were pushing for a democratic state with protection for all religions.
14:58They were making a simple argument.
15:01How can 55% of the territory be given to the Jewish state,
15:06when the Jewish people only own 7% of the land?
15:10That wasn't an unreasonable stance at the time.
15:12In fact, both George Marshall, the U.S. Secretary of State,
15:17and James Forstall, the Secretary of Defense, were against the partition.
15:23But Truman infamously said,
15:25I have to answer to hundreds of thousands who are anxious for the success of Zionism.
15:30I do not have hundreds of thousands of Arabs among my constituents.
15:34While the Arabs were pursuing the diplomatic path,
15:37the Zionist leaders wanted the war.
15:40We will be able to not only defend ourselves,
15:43but also to inflict death blows on the Syrians in their own country
15:47and take over Palestine as a whole.
15:50We can face all the Arab forces.
15:53This is not a mystical belief,
15:55but a cold and rational calculation based on practical examination.
15:59They even killed the U.N. peace mediator, Count Folk Barnadot,
16:05because peace would have put an end to their ethnic cleansing project.
16:09The order was given by a leader of another Jewish terrorist group, the Lihi.
16:14Like Begin, Yitzhak Shamir also went on to become Prime Minister of Israel,
16:19and he famously said,
16:21I did what I had to do.
16:23I have no regrets and I have no apologies.
16:29Since when does someone who seeks peace kill the mediator?
16:34These leaders presented the war as an existential threat to Jews,
16:39that the Arabs were attacking Israel because they're anti-Semitic,
16:43to get world Jewry to blindly support the Zionist cause,
16:47a tactic they use to this day.
16:49But in their closed chambers,
16:51these leaders knew it was not anti-Semitism.
16:54What cause have we to complain about their fierce hatred for us?
16:58For eight years now, they sit in their refugee camps in Gaza,
17:02and before their eyes, we turn into our homestead,
17:05the land and villages in which they and their forefathers have lived.
17:09Moshe Dayan was talking about stealing actual Palestinian homes.
17:15Israelis didn't just steal land from Palestinians,
17:18they took homes, their furniture, their belongings.
17:21And they did all of this in the most brutal way possible.
17:25Today, many Jewish people are deeply offended
17:29if anyone compares Israeli actions to those of the Nazis.
17:33But that's how their own soldiers described their behavior.
17:36Where did they come by such a measure of cruelty, like Nazis?
17:40Is there no more humane way of expelling the inhabitants than by such methods?
17:44It's telling that even for that Israeli soldier,
17:48the goal of ethnic cleansing wasn't seen as a problem.
17:50It just should have been carried out more humanely.
17:53And it wasn't just young soldiers that compared IDF actions to those of the Nazis.
17:59I couldn't sleep all night.
18:01I felt that things that were going on were hurting my soul,
18:04the soul of my family and all of us here.
18:07Now Jews too have behaved like Nazis, and my whole being is shaken.
18:10All of these crimes were not a secret back then.
18:15When a real and final catastrophe should be followed in Palestine,
18:20the first responsible for it would be the British,
18:24and the second responsible for it, the terrorist organizations built up from our own ranks.
18:29I am not willing to see any parties associated with those misled and criminal people.
18:35The criminal people Albert Einstein is referring to here are the Ergon and the Lihi,
18:41the Jewish terrorist groups whose leaders Israelis later elected as prime ministers.
18:47Begin and Shamir also founded the Likud, the party that Benjamin Netanyahu now leads.
18:55After all the lies and manipulation, the world doesn't know any of this.
19:00They only know this infamous quote from Golda Meir.
19:04When the peace comes, we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons,
19:12but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons.
19:18Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.
19:25Suggesting that Arabs hate Jews more than they love their own children is another lie,
19:32designed not just to hide Israel's crimes, but to demonize their victims.
19:37Are there any other people in history who suffered this level of brutality
19:42and then watched the world sympathize more with their oppressors?
19:46They define Zionism as Jewish people's right to sell determination in their ancestral homeland,
19:53and that opposing it is anti-Semitic.
19:56That framing is designed to manipulate you, because no one has a right to commit a crime.
20:02You have the right to live, but can you then use that right to justify killing someone,
20:08harvesting their heart, because you need a transplant to live?
20:12Because that's exactly what they did.
20:16Rape, the murder of innocent civilians, the destruction of entire villages,
20:22even the killing of children was all allowed to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians and create the Jewish state.
20:29How is opposing a crime anti-Semitic? Crimes they continue to this day, crimes they always knew they will have
20:36to commit.
20:37Listen to Lord Jacob Rothschild explain why his family found the Balfour Declaration unsatisfactory.
20:45This letter comes out as a rather compromising letter.
20:51I mean, the essential point is there for the Jewish community to fasten on to.
20:56You have the first bit, which promises a national home rather than the national home,
21:02and then you have the bit that nothing that's to be done should in any way harm the Arab community.
21:09Compromising, because it didn't allow them to harm the Arab community.
21:14And that was in 1917, before the formation of the PLO, Hamas and Hezbollah,
21:21even before most Palestinians understood what was being planned against them.
21:26They knew they would need to harm the Arab community to create the Jewish state,
21:32because Palestinians won't leave their land.
21:36Never in history or I think there will be a nation that gives up its land of its own volition.
21:46And now they're saying you're anti-Semitic if you don't accept what they do to empty the land of Palestinians.
21:55And this isn't about history, because they're doing it again now.
22:00But this time, in front of your eyes, with more brutality and more impunity,
22:06they've destroyed 80% of Gaza, blocking humanitarian aid, raping prisoners,
22:12dropping 2,000-pound bombs on families in refugee camps, hospitals, universities, mosques and churches,
22:19shooting civilians for sport, journalists, aid workers, medics, even targeting children.
22:26And opposing it is not anti-Semitism.
22:29Refusing that your tax dollars continue to fund this is not anti-Semitism.
22:34Asking questions of your politicians who enable this is not anti-Semitism.
22:39And demanding justice for Palestinians is not anti-Semitism.
22:46Have empathy for Palestine now.