Where to Begin?

A Ten Minute Explanation of the Palestinian Issue

my first time tasting halwa in Palestine

I engaged with someone on social media today who knows me from another sphere of my life; he was repeating the usual Israeli lies (mass rapes, headless babies in ovens, etc.) about October 7th, “How can you condone such a thing…” We had a pretty fraught public exchange but then I messaged him directly and said if he was really open-minded I was happy to give him a call sometime and share a basic outline: I just need about ten minutes.

He ended up responding positively and we have a call tomorrow. So this article will be an attempt to outline what I’d like to tell him in that time frame. It may also serve as a model for you to engage with people who are genuinely open-minded and don’t know anything beyond what the Zionist-controlled press allows them to hear.

Herzl

I’m going to explain what Zionism is and how it started in relation to the inability of Jews to integrate into Europe. I’ll note that Herzl was not tied to the idea of Palestine, and even specifically mentions Argentina in The Jewish State. But he died and the majority of Zionists wanted Palestine, so that’s where they concentrated their energies.

England

The Zionists knew they could not do this on their own, so they need a great power patron. They cultivated Great Britain via Chaim Weizmann and through American Zionism (as noted by Alison Weir in Against Our Better Judgment) a backdoor deal was made that American Zionists would push for America to intervene in WWI on the side of the Allies in exchange for something like the Balfour Declaration. I’ll note that the Balfour Declaration is absurd on its face, promising one group of people a land that belongs to another group of people, by the “authority” of a group of people that didn’t live there.

The Mandate

The British consistently favor the Zionist program throughout the Mandate for Palestine, which leads to an Arab Revolt (1936-1939) and a White Paper in which the British government are advised to limit Jewish immigration to Palestine. This White Paper (1939) is suppressed just like the King-Crane Report (1919) of a previous generation.