{"id":382,"date":"2023-10-11T05:35:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T05:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manzoorahmedmanzoor.com\/?p=382"},"modified":"2023-10-11T05:35:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T05:35:00","slug":"theodor-herzl-a-fool-and-a-swindler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manzoorahmedmanzoor.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/11\/theodor-herzl-a-fool-and-a-swindler\/","title":{"rendered":"Theodor Herzl: A fool and a swindler"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(This article is based on my book &#8216;Why Israel will not get Recognition?&#8217; 200 pages, January 2008, Lahore Pakistan. For presentation here as an independent article, it has been updated accordingly. &#8211; Manzoor Ahmed Manzoor 23-04-2018, Lahore)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Theodor Herzl, the theoretician and founder of Zionism wrote in his booklet \u2018The Jewish State\u2019 in 1896:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe should there [in Palestine \u2013 by the author] form a portion of a rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of civilization [the Christian \u2013 by the author] as opposed to barbarism [the Muslim world \u2013 by the author]. We should as a neutral State remain in contact with all Europe, which would have to guarantee our existence. \u2026 It is true that the Jewish State is conceived as a peculiarly modern structure on unspecified territory. But a State is formed, not by pieces of land, but rather by a number of men united under sovereign rule. \u2026 Everything must be systematically settled beforehand. I merely indicate this scheme: our keenest thinkers will combine in elaborating it. \u2026 Every valuable invention, which exists now, or lies in the future, must be used. By these means a country can be occupied and a State founded in a manner as yet unknown to history, and with possibilities of success such as never occurred before. \u2026 Universal brotherhood is not even a beautiful dream. Antagonism is essential to man\u2019s greatest efforts. But the Jews, once settled in their own State, would probably have no more enemies. As for those who remain behind, since prosperity enfeebles and causes them to diminish, they would soon disappear altogether. I think the Jews will always have sufficient enemies, such as every nation has. But once fixed in their own land, it will no longer be possible for them to scatter all over the world. The diaspora cannot be reborn, unless the civilization of the whole earth should collapse; \u2026 The world will be freed by our liberty, enriched by our wealth, magnified by our greatness. And whatever we attempt there to accomplish for our own welfare, will react powerfully and beneficially for the good of humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before we proceed further, let me state that the mischief of \u2018Zionism\u2019 did not go unnoticed and was understood. Here Adolf Hitler will suffice. He wrote in 1924 in his \u2018Mein kampf\u2019:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c[The Jews] have not the slightest intention of building up a Jewish State in Palestine so as to live in it. What they are really aiming at is to establish a central organization for their international swindling and cheating. As a sovereign State, this cannot be controlled by any of the other States. Therefore it can serve as a refuge for swindlers who have been found out and at the same time a high school for the training of other swindlers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is there any doubt that the actions of Israel since 1948 prove that Hitler was right in every way? If for Israel to exist, the Zionists will have to permanently dominate the Middle East, they have<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>not built this \u2018Jewish State in Palestine so as to live in it\u2019. Amazing, Hitler was right about them quarter of a century before founding of Israel. Therefore, collectively Christianity or the West owe to the world especially to the Muslim world to discover this and help change the course accordingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What was not possible to state publicly is missing from \u201cThe Jewish State\u201d. There is no mention of Arabs-Muslims and what treatment they would get if they resisted. I believe Herzl deliberately downplayed the most important element for a state: Land; by saying, \u201ca State is formed, not by pieces of land, but rather by a number of men united under sovereign rule.\u201d And such ideas, which were to be kept secret, he wrote in his diary. Rabbi Dr. Chaim Simons writes in his book \u2018A Historical Survey of Proposals to Transfer Arabs from Palestine 1895 \u2013 1947\u2019:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Herzl\u2019s Diaries<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u2018Herzl had kept a diary as a young lawyer in the 1880s, but in May 1895, he started keeping a diary devoted entirely to the Jewish cause.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOn 12 June 1895, Herzl confided to his diary his programme for the removal of the indigenous non-Jewish population from the Jewish State and the expropriation of private property by the Jewish State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn those days, countries consisted of the few rich landowners and the multitude of poor, and Herzl had plans for each of these classes of population. With regard to the landowners, Herzl wrote in his diary, \u201cWhen we occupy the land, we shall bring immediate benefits to the state that receives us. We must expropriate gently, the private property on the estates assigned to us.\u201d For the remainder of the population, he wrote in his diary on the same day, \u201cWe shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries whilst denying it any employment in our own country.\u201d We can thus see that the means Herzl envisaged to transfer non-Jews out of the Jewish State, was to deny them sources of livelihood in the Jewish State, and find them employment elsewhere. \u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHerzl realized that secrecy and discretion were necessary to put these ideas into practice. His diary entry thus continues, \u201cThe property-owners will come over to our side. Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly. Let the owners of immovable property believe that they are cheating us, selling us things for more than they are worth. But we are not going to sell them anything back.\u201d \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn early July 1972, Braham [a man who had written about Herzl in his book \u201cJews Don\u2019t Hate\u201d] went to Jews\u2019 College Library in London to look up Herzl\u2019s diary, in particular the reference for 12 June 1895 \u2013 the date that Herzl had proposed transfer. He informed Stewart [One of Herzl\u2019s biographers, Desmond Stewart] that the impression that he got from these diary entries was that \u201cHerzl was simply setting down a formula in the abstract for setting up a state in a territory inhabited by \u2018natives\u2019,\u201d and that his attitude towards non-Europeans was the typical 19th century European attitude with Herzl being a typical example. In a paper presented by Braham to an Adult Jewish Study Circle in New South Wales, Australia in May 1974, he brought further evidence of this attitude, by mentioning a case in 1837, just a generation prior to Herzl, where \u201cthe Australian responsible for the Myall Creek murders had pleaded in court that they did not know it was against the law to shoot aborigines.\u201d \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLater in his letter, Braham considered that Herzl\u2019s \u201cscheme to buy the land at excessive prices and in secrecy\u201d was \u201cthe classic ploy of property developers and businesses whose stock in trade is to pay what appears to be a handsome price for a piece of land without disclosing its true potential. My conclusion is that Herzl was a coloniser, certainly; there is no doubt he intended to create a state over the heads of the indigenous population \u2013 but by stealth rather than force of arms.\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUnlike his books, Herzl\u2019s diaries were not intended for publication during his lifetime. Soon after his death, the question of publishing his diaries arose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDavid Wolffsohn, Herzl\u2019s successor as President of the World Zionist Organization, quoted Max Nordau [a prominent Zionist leader], who, in emphatically opposing their publication, said, \u201cYou will ruin Herzl\u2019s name if you publish his diaries. Whoever reads them is bound to believe that he was a fool and a swindler.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[\u2018A Historical Survey of Proposals to Transfer Arabs from Palestine 1895 \u2013 1947\u2019 by Chaim SIMONS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Zionist Crime\u201d Collection, Gengis Khan Publishers, Ulaan Baator, Internet 2004. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palestineremembered.com\/download\/Palestinian-Transfer-Chaim-Simons.pdf\">http:\/\/www.palestineremembered.com\/download\/Palestinian-Transfer-Chaim-Simons.pdf]<\/a>\u25a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(This article is based on my book &#8216;Why Israel will not get Recognition?&#8217; 200 pages, January 2008, Lahore Pakistan. 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