The Heart and History of Zionism

"The birth of a new specimen of human being"
—Menachem Begin, 1948

On 14-May-1948 the Zionist state of Israel declared itself to be in existence. Before and after that event most of the Arabs of Palestine were dispossessed of their land and their rights. How did it happen? a 40 minutes documentary presented by Alan Hart.

As a former BBC Panorama and ITN Middle East correspondent, Alan Hart knew and interviewed most of the main players in the Israel-Palestine conflict (Golda Meir, Moshe Dayan, Shimon Peres, Yasser Arafat and other PLO leaders, George Habash, Nasser, King Hussein of Jordan, King Feisal of Saudi Arabia, and many others). He also exhibited a wealth of research into a full spectrum of viewpoints.

Alan Hart's Website: http://www.alanhart.net

Zionism’s goal, since before Israel's inception, has been to displace Palestinians from their land and reduce those who remain to a struggle for basic subsistence:

"10 March 1948, a group of eleven men, veteran Zionist leaders together with young military Jewish officers, put the final touches on a plan for the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. That same evening, military orders were dispatched to units on the ground to prepare for the systematic expulsion of Palestinians from vast areas of the country.

The orders came with a detailed description of the methods to be used to forcibly evict the people: large-scale intimidation; laying siege to and bombarding villages and population centers; setting fire to homes, properties, and goods; expelling residents; demolishing homes; and, finally, planting mines in the rubble to prevent the expelled inhabitants from returning. Each unit was issued its own list of villages and neighborhoods to target in keeping with the master plan. Code-named Plan D (Dalet in Hebrew)...

Once the plan was finalized, it took six months to complete the mission. When it was over, more than half of Palestine’s native population, over 750,000 people, had been uprooted, 531 villages had been destroyed, and 11 urban neighborhoods had been emptied of their inhabitants."

"The 1948 Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine"
by Ilan Pappé
Journal of Palestine Studies
Vol. 36, No. 1 (Autumn 2006), pp. 6-20 (15 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/jps.2006.36.1.6

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Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews, Volume 1: The False Messiah eBook : Hart, Alan: Kindle Store
https://www.amazon.com/Zionism-Real-Enemy-Jews-1-ebook/dp/B004XJ4YD8/

SOURCE:
"1948: 'The Birth of a New Specimen of Human Being'"
Press TV (2008)
Writer: Alan Hart
Director: Hossein Setareh