Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews (Volume One) by Alan Hart (9780955020704)

The Zionism of the book's title is Jewish nationalism, the creating and sustaining force of modern Israel. And this Zionism, political Zionism, is not to be confused with what could be called the spiritual Zionism of Judaism. Awareness of the difference between political Zionism and Judaism is the key to understanding why it is perfectly possible to passionately anti-Zionist without being in any way, shape or form anti-Semitic or anti-Israel inside its pre-1967 borders.

ZIONISM: THE REAL ENEMY OF THE JEWS was chosen by the author as the title for the book because, in seven words, it reflects two terrifying truths for our time.

The first is that more than half a century on from the obscenity of the Nazi holocaust, anti-Semitism is on the rise again in the nations of the mainly Gentile world where most of the world's Jews (diaspora Jews) live as assimilated citizens of those nations.

The second, a great and tragic irony, is that the behaviour of Zionism's child, Israel, where only a minority of the world's Jews live giving substance to Jewish nationalism in action, is the prime cause of the re-awakening of the sleeping giant of anti-Semitism. As all the best Jewish minds of the pre-holocaust period feared would be the case if Zionism was allowed to have its way.

The book has two central and related themes.

One is how Israel, a Zionist not a Jewish state, became its own worst enemy and a threat not only to the peace of the region and the world, but also to the best interests of Jews everywhere and the moral integrity of Judaism itself.

The other is why, really, the whole Arab and wider Moslem world is an explosion of frustration and despair waiting for its time to happen.

It is the first ever book to empathise with both sides: with the real fear of diaspora Jews - Holocaust II (shorthand for another great turning against Jews) and thus the perceived need, if only in the sub-consciousness, for Israel as an insurance policy, a refuge of last resort; and with the anger and humiliation of the Palestinian and other Arab masses - humiliation which is the product of Israel's arrogance of power, American support for Zionism right or wrong, and the impotence, corruption and repression of the regimes of the existing Arab Order, regimes which, generally speaking, are perceived by their masses to be doing the bidding of America-and-Zionism.

The book is epic in length (two volumes) as well as sweep and substance for a good reason.

Since Israel's unilateral declaration of independence in 1948 to the present, informed and honest debate about who must do what and why if there's to be a peaceful resolution of the Palestine problem, the prerequisite for averting a Clash of Civilisations, has not been possible throughout the Judeo-Christian world. Why not? Because its first and still existing draft of history - which to his shame today the author helped to write as an ITN and BBC Panorama reporter - is constructed on Zionist mythology. At the core of this is the assertion that, from its birth, Israel has faced the danger of annihilation, with its Jewish citizens being "driven into the sea". In the real history of the conflict sparked by Zionism's determination to create a state for Jews on Arab land, Israel's existence has never, ever, been in danger. As the book reveals, the assertion to the contrary was never more than propaganda to enable the Zionist state to get away with having its aggression perceived where it mattered most, in America and Europe, as self-defence.

To make informed and honest debate possible for the first time since the Nazi holocaust, the author has re-written the entire history of the conflict, replacing Zionist mythology with real history - events as they actually happened not as Zionism asserts they happened. And he has given these events their necessary global context, which is why what happened behind closed doors in London, Paris, Washington and Moscow has its place in the book as well as events in Palestine that became Israel and Arab capitals.

In short, ZIONISM: THE REAL ENEMY OF THE JEWS offers the first ever second and more honest draft of history, comprehensive and fully documented; and showing how all the pieces of a very complicated jig-saw puzzle fit together. It is a must read for all who want to understand why a political resolution of the Palestine problem has remained beyond the reach of diplomacy, why unending conflict in the Middle East is producing more and more deadly global fallout - 9/11 in America, terrorist bombs in Madrid and London and so on, and how the countdown to Armageddon can be stopped.

To make the book accessible to all, the so-called ordinary peoples of nations especially, the author has written it in plain, everyday, earthy language. He writes, for example, "In effect Ben-Gurion was telling President Eisenhower to get stuffed."



Contents:

Prologue: Waiting for the Apocalypse

PART ONE: Mother Israel
Chapter 1: Voice from the Grave

PART TWO: Zionism and the Nazi Holocaust
Chapter 2: Britain Plays the Zionist Card, Eventually
Chapter 3: Britain Betrays the Arabs
Chapter 4: Why Britain Played the Zionist Card
Chapter 5: Ahad Ha-am and the Wrong Messiah
Chapter 6: The Honest Zionists
Chapter 7: America Retreats from the Moral High Ground
Chapter 8: Britain Admits, Too Late, "We were wrong"
Chapter 9: Holocaust - Jewish Death, Zionist Life
Chapter 10: Zionist Terrorism and Ethnic Cleansing
Chapter 11: President Truman Surrenders to Zionism
Chapter 12: Forrestal's Suicide
Chapter 13: The Annihilation Myth
Chapter 14: David Becomes Goliath
Chapter 15: Bernadotte's Assassination

PART THREE: The Wrong Messiah in Action
Chapter 16: Israel Says "No" to Peace
Chapter 17: Making Nasser the Enemy, Act 1
Chapter 18: Making Nasser the Enemy, Act II
Chapter 19: No Go with Nasser for the Palestinians
Chapter 20: Goodbye Mr. Sharett - Victory for "Satan"
Chapter 21: War with Nasser, Act 1; and Confrontation with Eisenhower
Chapter 22: The Showdown that Never Was

Alan Hart, a young 63, has been engaged with events in the Middle East and their global consequences and terrifying implications - the possibility of a Clash of Civilisations, Judeo-Christian v Islamic, and, along the way, another great turning against the Jews - for nearly 40 years:


As a correspondent for ITN's News At Ten and the BBC's Panorama programme (covering wars and conflicts wherever they were taking place in the world).

As a researcher and author. (His first book Arafat, Terrorist or Peacemaker? was published by Sidgwick & Jackson in 1984 and subsequently in several updated editions over a decade).

As a participant at leadership level, working to a Security Council background briefing, in the covert diplomacy of the search for peace.

Alan Hart thus brings to the pages of his latest book, Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews, and to the debating chamber, a deep understanding of why, really, the Countdown to Armageddon is on and how it can be stopped.

He's been to war with the Israelis and the Arabs but the learning experience he values most, and which he believes gave him rare insight, came from his one-to-one private conversations over the years with many leaders on both sides of the conflict. With, for example, Golda Meir, Mother Israel, and Yasser Arafat, Father Palestine. The significance of these private conversations was that they enabled Alan to be aware of the truth of what leaders really believed and feared as opposed to what they said in public for propaganda and myth-sustaining purposes.

It was because of his special relationships with leaders on both sides that, in 1980, Alan found himself sucked into the covert diplomacy of conflict resolution. President Carter had been prevented by Prime Minister Begin from involving the PLO in the peace process, an opening made possible because Arafat had signalled, secretly and seriously, that he was ready to make peace with an Israel inside more or less its pre-1967 borders. Carter was in despair and said, in private, that events had once again proved that it was impossible to advance the peace process by institutional diplomacy (because of the pork-barrel nature of American politics and the Zionist lobby's awesome influence). It was then suggested to AH that he should undertake an unofficial, covert diplomatic mission to get an exploratory dialogue going between Arafat and Peres, with AH initially the linkman. The assumption at the time was that Peres would win Israel's next election and deny Begin a second term... The initiative was funded by a small number of wealthy British Jews led by Marcus Sieff (the Chairman of Marks and Spencer) with the approval of Lord Victor Rothschild... It happened and enough progress was made to get Peres and Arafat into public dialogue in the event of Peres winning the 1981 election. Unfortunately, and against all expectations, he did not. (Full story of this initiative in Chapter 35 - The Blood Oath).

In the course of this mission AH learned two things. The first was the truth about the miracle of Arafat's leadership - his success in persuading his side (most of it) to be ready for unthinkable compromise with Israel for peace. (Which was why Alan wrote his first book). The second was why it is difficult to impossible for any Israeli prime minister, even a rational, well-motivated one, to make peace on any terms the Palestinians can accept.

A decade later, Alan's initiative became the Oslo process, which might have delivered peace if Prime Minister Rabin had not been assassinated by a gut-Zionist.

Alan has long believed that what peacemaking needs above all else is some TRUTH-TELLING, about many things but, especially, the difference between Zionist mythology and real history, and, the difference between Jews and Judaism on the one hand and Zionists and Zionism on the other. (The Zionism of the title and substance of Alan's latest book is, of course, political Zionism or Jewish nationalism as the creating and sustaining force of the Zionist state, not what could be called the spiritual Zionism of Judaism).