Attempted Genocide From the Start
Louis Rene Beres
11 August 2002
To fully understand current conflicts in the Middle East, history must be
recalled. Acknowledged by the United Nations and the civilized community of
nations, Israel became a recognized and sovereign state on May 14, 1948.
Immediately, the five armies of Egypt, Syria, Transjordan (which was renamed
Jordan one year later, in 1949), Lebanon and Iraq invaded the fledgling country.
Their combined intention, celebrated enthusiastically all over the Arab world,
was expressed plainly and publicly by Azzam Pasha, Secretary-General of the
Arab League: "This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre,
which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades."
Hence, scarcely a few years after the Holocaust and resultant codification of
Crimes Against Humanity, the intent of these Arab states toward the tiny new
State of Israel was openly genocidal.
On May 15, 1967, Israel´s nineteenth Independence Day, Egyptian troops began
moving aggressively into the Sinai, massing purposefully near the Israeli border.
By May 18, Syrian troops, too, were preparing for battle along the Golan
Heights, almost 3000 feet above the Galilee, from which they had been shelling
Israel´s farms and villages for several years. Egypt´s Nasser ordered the U.N.
Emergency Force (UNEF), stationed in the Sinai since 1956, to withdraw. After
the withdrawal of UNEF, the Voice of the Arabs radio proclaimed, on May 18,
1967: "As of today there no longer exists an international emergency force to
protect Israel. We shall exercise patience no more. We shall not complain any
more to the U.N. about Israel. The sole method we shall apply against Israel is
Total War, which will result in the extermination of Zionist existence." Two
days later, a jubilant echo came from Hafez Assad, then the Syrian Defense
Minister: "Our forces are now entirely ready... to initiate the act of liberation
itself, and to explode the Zionist presence in the Arab homeland.... The time has
come to enter into a battle of annihilation." President Abdur Rahman Aref of
Iraq joined the chorus of genocidal threats: "The existence of Israel is an error
which must be rectified. This is our opportunity to wipe out the ignominy which
has been with us since 1948. Our goal is clear - to wipe Israel off the map."
Today, in late summer 2002, this goal remains fixed and unchanged.
Significantly, the goal remains nothing less than another Jewish genocide. Arab
terrorism, as a complementary strategy of attrition, is consciously directed at the
very same goal. With particular reference to the Palestinians, the Charter of
Hamas - the Islamic Resistance Movement - exclaims proudly: "There is no
solution to the Palestinian problem except by Jihad... In order to face the
usurpation of Palestine by the Jews, we have no escape from raising the banner
of Jihad.... We must imprint on the minds of generations of Muslims that the
Palestinian problem is a religious one to be dealt with on this premise.... ‘I
swear by that (sic.) who holds in His Hands the Soul of Muhammad: I indeed
wish to go to war for the sake of Allah! I promise to assault and kill, assault and
kill, assault and kill.’”
Arab/Islamic plans for genocidal extermination of Israel have never been kept
secret, perhaps because these plans don´t really disturb the rest of the world.
With rampant anti-Semitism again in fashion, especially (and ironically) in
Europe, few seem to recall that, prior to 1967 - when all Arabs were already
screaming for Israel´s "annihilation" and "liquidation" - there were no
"Palestinian territories" under Israeli control. Exactly what was the Palestine
Liberation Organization and the Arab world in general seeking to "liberate"
between 1948 and 1967, when Gaza was held illegally by Egypt and
Judea/Samaria (West Bank) by Jordan?
There is no "peace process" with Arab states or authorities today, nor has there
ever been such a process. The formal treaties extant between Israel and Egypt
and Israel and Jordan are little more than a temporary expedient by the Arab
parties to buy time for critical rearmament and doctrinal refinement. Even before
Israel´s declaration of statehood in 1948, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, on
November 28, 1941, met in Berlin with Adolph Hitler (still a great hero in the
Arab world). The subject of Haj Amin´s meeting with Hitler was "...the final
solution of the Jewish Question." Further, this meeting, which followed Haj
Amin´s active organization of Muslim SS troops in Bosnia, included the Mufti´s
promise to aid Nazi Germany in the War. Haj Amin did everything possible to
ensure Hitler´s success with the Final Solution. He even urged the foreign
ministers of the Lesser Axis Powers (Italy; Rumania; Bulgaria) not to permit
Jews to leave for Palestine. It was essential, Haj Amin asserted, that Jews be
sent to countries "...where they would find themselves under active control, for
example, in Poland, in order to protect oneself from their menace and avoid
consequent damage." The Haj, who was in regular contact with both Himmler
and Eichmann, knew exactly what "active control" in Poland meant during the
summer of 1943.
Now the Arab world seeks "active control" in Israel itself. Preparing for
genocidal war against Israel with weapons of mass destruction, the Arab states -
together with the Palestinians - argue repeatedly that the post-Holocaust
concentration of Jews in "the Zionist entity" is proof of Allah´s plan to make
Jewish annihilation more practicable. Hence, the state created by the Jews to
prevent another Holocaust is described by Israel´s genocidal enemies as the
literal means to create another Holocaust. Moreover, unless all people of good
will begin to recognize and understand this inversion of Israel´s purpose, Israel
could indeed become the Arab/Islamic world´s Final Solution to the Jewish
Question. This bitter irony is so overwhelming and terrible that it is almost
unutterable, but it cannot be disregarded.
Let us all listen to the following: For all believing Muslims, according to both
Hamas and the Palestinian National Authority, “...peace with Israel was and still
remains nothing less than a poison threatening the life-blood of Islam.... The
Prophet is said to have predicted a final war to annihilate the Jews. Muhammad
had stated: ‘The hour (i.e., salvation) will not come until you fight against the
Jews; and the stone would say, “O Muslim! There is a Jew behind me; come
and kill him.”’”
History must be recalled.
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Louis Rene Beres is the author of twelve books and many articles dealing with
international law. His work is well-known to the Prime Minister of Israel, to
senior government and military officials, and to the Israeli and American
intelligence communities. |
