Just inside the occupied territories of the West Bank … The first days the bulldozers come are very hard … More land is taken from the surrounding villages. ibid.
Seeing my brother Riyad hit by these people it takes me a while to realise that they are a special Israeli unit – soldiers disguised as Palestinians. ibid.
The barrier construction continues without delay. ibid.
Israel uses lot of techniques for occupying land. Some are illegal even according to their own laws. ibid.
In the end they beat us all up. ibid.
Once they claim the land construction companies can move in. ibid.
Jaffar is my third brother to be arrested. ibid.
The army comes into the village more and more. They try to prevent people from demonstrating. ibid.
Now the soldiers start coming by night mostly for kids. ibid.
The soldiers use lots of gas and live ammunition. Snipers surround the village. ibid.
My recovery is just a drop in that sea of violence. ibid.
The world’s worst nightmare: a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. But hidden in the desert is an atom bomb factory the West helped build and it belongs to Israel. One man exposes an international conspiracy of silence. He’s up against one of the most feared secret services in the world. And they won’t stop till they’ve got him. Nuclear Secrets IV: Vanunu and the Bomb, BBC 2007
He risked a heavy prison sentence to take photos of what he’d seen. ibid.
Mossad would be coming after him. ibid.
‘Israel could have up to 200 atom bombs.’ ibid. UK expert
There was a long list of Western countries who would be very embarrassed if Vanunu’s story ever got out. ibid.
The next day Israel denied the allegations. ibid.
The Sunday Mirror printed pictures of Vanunu and ridiculed his story. ibid.
The Sunday Times finally decided on publish on October 5th. ibid.
Curiously, the world’s press didn’t want to know. ibid.
For eleven years Vanunu was in solitary confinement. ibid.
One hundred years ago the British promise – just a few words in a letter – lit a fire in the Holy Land. The Balfour Declaration ignited one of the most bitter and protractable struggles in modern times – the Arab/Israeli conflict. This World, The Balfour Declaration, Jane Corbin reporting, BBC 2017
So how has it come to this? Did the British bestow a blessing or a curse on the two peoples? ibid.
To one of Britain’s most prominent and wealthy Jews – that man was Lionel Walter, Lord Rothschild. ibid.
Soon after its publication regeneration began. ibid.
Touring the length and breadth of the country Balfour received a rapturous reception from the Jews. ibid.
Many Palestinians believe the Balfour Declaration promised a nation to the Jews, but that same commitment was never made to them. ibid.
In 1939 the British government bowed to the pressure of the Arab revolt, drastically restricting Jewish immigration. ibid.
Now it became the turn of the Jews to revolt against the British. ibid.
The occupation sparked an armed struggle. ibid.
The peace deal was quick to unravel. ibid.
700 kms long it divides Israel from the West Bank. ibid.
Which country in the Middle East has undeclared nuclear weapons? Which country in the Middle East has undeclared biological and chemical capabilities? Which country in the Middle East has no outside inspections? Which country jailed its nuclear whistleblower for 18 years? Israel’s Secret Weapon ***** BBC 2003
Mordechai Vanunu jailed as a traitor: he spent 11 years in solitary confinement. ibid.
Vanunu moved to Israel as a child with his family from Morocco. He served in the Israeli army. ibid.
Today his are still the only photographs ever seen of the inside of Israel’s nuclear bomb factory. ibid.
It took weeks for the Sunday Times to go to press with their scoop. When they finally did on October 5th 1986 Vanunu had vanished. ibid.
He’d met an American woman in Leicester Square who seemed to like him; he was vulnerable and afraid … He fell for it; it was a classic honey trap. Once in Rome the full wait of Israel’s wroth kicked in. ibid.
Israel has the world’s sixth largest nuclear arsenal. ibid.
Vanunu is the ultimate conscientious objector. ibid.
Evidence has seeped out of accidents, lies and deceit. ibid.
More than 100 Dimona workers who had developed cancer and whose claims were being ignored. ibid.
When the state was created in 1948 it was acclaimed by Jews as a sanctuary from persecution, but it’s one that has come to be defined too by the conflict with the Palestinians. We Are British Jews II, BBC 2018
One in five of Israel’s citizens aren’t Jewish. ibid.
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.