{"id":274688,"date":"2023-10-19T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T06:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=274688"},"modified":"2023-10-20T07:13:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T07:13:17","slug":"ethnic-cleanser-a-biography-of-david-ben-gurion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=274688","title":{"rendered":"Ethnic Cleanser – A Biography of David Ben Gurion"},"content":{"rendered":"

HenryMakow.com \u2013 Oct 18, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n

A biography of the first Prime Minister of Israel<\/h2>\n

“For Ben-Gurion, the ‘Arabs’ were no more than one-dimensional objects on the landscape that had to be removed. They had no right to be in Palestine let alone the right to stay there. Had he seen them as equal human beings he could not have been a Zionist.”<\/p>\n

Source<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Tom Segev, A State At Any Cost. The Life of David Ben-Gurion<\/strong>\u00a0(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019), 804pp. ISBN-13: 9781789544626. Paperback.<\/div>\n

Citation Information: Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies<\/em>, Volume 22 Issue 1, Page 129-138, ISSN 2054-1988 Available Online Apr 2023<\/p>\n

(https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3366\/hlps.2023.0308<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Book Review \u2013 Excerpt by henrymakow.com<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In 1940 the Haganah bombed the Patria,<\/strong> a ship carrying Jewish refugees from Romania to Palestine. About 250 of them plus some British servicemen who had boarded the ship in Haifa port were killed. [The British were going to send the Jews to Mauritius. This was intended to look like the Jews blew themselves up rather than be deported.]<\/p>\n

Asked his opinion, Ben-Gurion approved of the bombing as a ‘Zionist action’ although ‘no one expected so many victims’.<\/p>\n

Deluding himself again, he said it was an ‘act of God’, not of the Haganah. In 1948, another ship, the Altalena — Jabotinsky’s pen name — arrived with a cargo of refugees, arms, and ammunition. Menahim Begin and Ben-Gurion could not agree on how the arms should be shared. Ben-Gurion was prepared to shoot it out and did: the ship was raked with gunfire, ‘Jews shooting Jews’ as Yitzhak Rabin remarked, and eventually set it on fire. The next morning Ben-Gurion responded with this comment: ‘Blessed is the cannon that bombed the ship. The cannon is worthy of standing in the Temple, if it gets built’ (435)…<\/p>\n

Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“For Ben-Gurion, the ‘Arabs’ were no more than one-dimensional objects on the landscape that had to be removed. They had no right to be in Palestine let alone the right to stay there. Had he seen them as equal human beings he could not have been a Zionist.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":274693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Hidden_and_Revisionist_History","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274688"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274692,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274688\/revisions\/274692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/274693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}