When did it all go wrong? Why did Arabs and Jews start hating each other? … For over 1,300 years since the very beginning of Islam, Jews and Muslims lived together in an unprecedented religious and cultural harmony in Palestine, North Africa and Spain. It all seemed to be going fine till the 20th century. The Zionist Story, 2009
Zionism was a national Jewish revival movement that sought to unite all Jews in a national homeland. ibid.
[Chaim] Weizmann, the head of the World Zionist Congress and future president of Israel, proclaimed the Palestinians to be the rocks of Judea, obstacles that need to be cleared on a difficult path. ibid.
Once the land was theirs, they threw out all the Palestinians that were living on it. The Zionists called this process Judifying the Land and Land Redemption. ibid.
‘Palestine became a special case because the British violated the provisions of the mandate for Palestine because they put the Balfour Declaration into the Palestine mandate.’ ibid. Professor Charles Smith
The British also exiled the Palestinian leadership and dismantled all Palestinian military units. ibid.
Following a string of pro-British policies, the Zionists launched terrorist attacks on British personnel and facilities. ibid.
In 1947 the Jews owned 5.8% of the land. In the UN partition plan the Jews ended up with 56% of the land. ibid.
David Ben-Gurion, the leader of the Zionist movement in Palestine, wrote in 1937, ‘The Arabs will have to go’. ibid.
Plan Dalet was about securing the borders of Israel by cleansing, expelling, and destroying Palestinian towns, villages and urban neighbourhoods. The plan was implemented by the Zionist armed forces. ibid.
Horrible massacres were perpetrated. ibid.
The Zionists increased their ethnic cleansing operations. Villagers were expelled en masse and massacres occurred in many places. ibid.
Palestinians stood up to the Israeli oppression, extrajudicial killings, mass detentions, house demolitions, deportations and land seizures, but they were no match for the well equipped Israeli army. ibid.
The first Intifada was put down by the Israeli government with so much brutality that the UN condemned Israel for violating the Geneva conventions. ibid.
Israel controls all sea, land and air access to Gaza. ibid.
Three and a half million Palestinians live as virtual prisoners. ibid.
There are over 10,000 Palestinians in Israeli prisons. ibid.
The Palestinians who live in Israel are treated as second-class citizens. ibid.
Today to be an anti-Zionist is construed as being anti-Semitic. ibid.
Apathetical to what Judaism is about – expressly forbidden in the Tora because we were exiled by God – we shouldn’t have a state. We should be living amongst all the nations, as the Jews were doing for two thousand years as loyal citizens – people who were serving God, emulating God and his compassion. Rabbi Yisroel Weiss, Jews United Against Zionism, Fox News interview
To me the Zionists, who want to go back to the Jewish state of A.D. 70 (destruction of Jerusalem by Titus) are just as offensive as the Nazis. With their nosing after blood, their ancient ‘cultural roots’, their partly canting, partly obtuse winding back of the world they are altogether a match for the National Socialists. That is the fantastic thing about the National Socialists, that they simultaneously share in a community of ideas with Soviet Russia and with Zion. Victor Klemperer, I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941
The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her. Psalms 87:2&5
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. Psalms 137:1
In that time shall the present be brought unto the Lord of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, the mount Zion. Isaiah 18:7
For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee. Isaiah 30:19
As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.
And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the Lord, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem. Isaiah 31:5&9
The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? Isaiah 33:14
Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.
But there the glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby. Isaiah 33:20&21
And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. Isaiah 35:10
O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God! Isaiah 40:9
For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. Isaiah 51:3
Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the Lord shall bring again Zion.
Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the Lord hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem. Isaiah 52:1&2&7-9
The Lord hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof. Lamentations 4:11
The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.
The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land. Joel 3:15-17&19
And he said, The Lord will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.
Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:
But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Benhadad.
I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir saith the Lord.
Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom: