The Gulf Crisis and New World Order — Page 223
The Gulf Crisis & The New World Order aggrieved countries whose territories have been occupied by Israel have no right even to make their own efforts to get a U. N. resolution implemented. But Israel enjoys total immunity and freedom to do whatever it chooses. One thing I could not mention earlier was that during the period of I 947 to 1949, Israel laid the foundation of modem day terrorist activities, under the command of Menachem Begin. A British Deputy Governor of Palestine was among those killed as a result of these terrorist activities. The king David Hotel in Jerusalem was blown up, resulting in the death of over a 100 people, besides causing a huge loss of property. Palestinians were openly attacked, resulting in the slaughter of over 3,000 Muslim men, women and children in a short period of time. They even clashed with the British, for the reason that in those days the Labour government in Britain, and Mr. Bevin who was its Foreign Secretary, were convinced that the Muslims were the oppressed and the Jews were committing the atrocities. Mr Bevin even made some efforts to stop the illegal immigration of the Jews into Palestine. To quote one such instance, the British forces intercepted a ship carrying over 4,000 Jews intending to enter Israel illegally. Mr. Bevin ordered them back to Germany. The Western journalists launched a strong protest against their action, vilifying and insulting Mr. Bevin to an amazing degree. In fact his government had been assigned the responsibilities as trustees of this region to not allow the entry of any more Jews into Palestine, and he was simply carrying out his duties in sending the ship back to Germany. But the hostile reaction of the British media against the compliance of a provision of the U. N. resolution by their own government was quite astonishing. A book entitled "The Making of Israel" by James Cameron has written about this incident. He states, "imagine what terrible injustice it was, that over 4,000 Jews were sent back to the unfortunate and cruel land of Germany. . ". But he forgot that this incident happened in 1947, i. e. , almost two years after the end of World war II. If Germany was considered such a cruel and unfortunate land, even at a time when the Nazis had been defeated and Germany had been reduced to a rubble and the British, American and French forces had established their occupation - and 223