Sunday, July 24, 2016

We shall consider: ”Anyone in Israel considering the surrender of Jewish territory is treason and must be prosecuted”



We shall consider: ”Anyone in Israel considering the surrender of Jewish territory is treason and must be prosecuted”



Clipping from Saint Petersburg Times (approximately 1946)

Washington - (UP) - Britain's treaty grafting independence to Trans-Jordan violates agreements with the United States, the United Nations and the Old League, as well as the rights of the people of Palestine, Senator Francis J. Myers, Pennsylvania democrat, charged yesterday. 

Echoing the words of Senator Claude Pepper, Democrat, Florida, who flayed U.S. foreign policy, Thursday, Myers asserted that Trans-Jordan is not ready for the statehood and "illegally granted".  And in offering that goal of all dependencies, he added Britain has acted "in contempt of the senate of the United States." 
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"WHY THIS HASTE and Stealth?"  he asked in a floor speech.  "The British government which has fought all attempts at freedom, all movements for independence in the Middle East, is now discovered in the gracious role of liberator. 

"Are there perhaps some hidden resources, mineral wealth or oil which are involved?"

He demanded that the state department explain its failure to protest the treaty violation, and urged that the senate demand all the facts.

Pepper charged that the United States had become a guarantor of British Imperialism, and that the British-Trans-Jordan agreement was but a "subterfuge" so long as his majesty's troops are allowed to remain in that country.  He also asserted that the United States and Britain were ganging up on Russia, and added: 

"WHAT I DECRY is the international hypocrisy, sham and pretense.  If the British people want the Russians to get their troops out of Iraq, let them get their troops out of Trans-Jordan.  Let them get their troops out of Lebanon and Syria, and let them get their troops out of Palestine."

Myers picked up that tune, changing only the words.  In angry mood, the dark-haired Pennsylvanian told his colleagues that: 

1. The territory of Trans-Jordan is contained in the original mandate for Palestine, and under its terms, the mandate could not be unilaterally altered.

2. Under the Anglo-American Convention of 1924, Britain could not change the mandate's terms without the consent of the United States

3. This violation of the treaty with the United States also "strikes at the charter of the United Nations adopted at San Francisco" which "specifically states that no change can be made in the status of mandated territories without the approval of the UNO's general assembly."

Myers asserted that there was no more justification for separating Trans-Jordan from Palestine then there was for "the separation of the United States into two nations:  Trans-Mississippi and Cis-Mississippi."

"Aaron Burr tried to do that to our nation" he said.  "He was tried for treason".  


We shall consider: ”Anyone in Israel considering the surrender of Jewish territory is treason and must be prosecuted”

1 comment:

  1. No Jew has the right to yield the rights of the Jewish People in Israel -
    David Ben Gurion
    (David Ben-Gurion was the first Prime Minister of Israel and widely hailed as the State's main founder).
    “No Jew is entitled to give up the right of establishing [i.e. settling] the Jewish Nation in all of the Land of Israel. No Jewish body has such power. Not even all the Jews alive today [i.e. the entire Jewish People] have the power to cede any part of the country or homeland whatsoever. This is a right vouchsafed or reserved for the Jewish Nation throughout all generations. This right cannot be lost or expropriated under any condition or circumstance. Even if at some particular time, there are those who declare that they are relinquishing this right, they have no power nor competence to deprive coming generations of this right. The Jewish nation is neither bound nor governed by such a waiver or renunciation. Our right to the whole of this country is valid, in force and endures forever. And until the Final Redemption has come, we will not budge from this historic right.”
    BEN-GURION’S DECLARATION ON THE EXCLUSIVE AND
    INALIENABLE JEWISH RIGHT TO THE WHOLE OF
    THE LAND OF ISRAEL:
    at the Basle Session of the 20th Zionist Congress at Zurich (1937)

    "No country in the world exists today by virtue of its 'right'.
    All countries exist today by virtue of their ability to defend themselves against those who seek their destruction."
    “Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope”
    “The Jews are a peculiar people: Things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews.

    Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people, and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it. Poland and Czechoslovakia did it. Turkey threw out a million Greeks and Algeria a million Frenchmen. Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese--and no one says a word about refugees.

    But in the case of Israel, the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees. Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single Arab. How about the million Jewish refugees terrorized and expelled, from Arab countries (who lived there for over 2500 years) who lost over 120,000 sq. km. – 75,000 sq. mi. of land, homes, businesses and personalassets valued in the trillions of dollars. Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms. But when Israel is victorious it must sue for peace and sacrifice its security by conceding land for peace which makes the situation worse.

    Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real most honorable in this world.”

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