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The Daily News received on June 27 last a long letter from Mr. Mario H. Sejatovich by the press office of the Embassy of Israel, which is reproduced below. The purpose of the newspaper's management was published in full and as soon as possible. Unfortunately when that purpose was fulfilled, there was the death of Lieutenant-General Perón and News as part of the people joined the Peronist-duel their readers devoting more of their publications to report on the life, work and death of the great Patriot disappeared. Now fulfill
that request, formulating three explanations: 1) the newspaper's management actually supports the views expressed by Rodolfo J. Walsh in his series of articles on the Palestinian revolution appeared in News for the week of 12 to 19 last June. It should be noted here that Walsh traveled to Arab countries as a special envoy this morning, 2 º) Walsh used soon this column to answer the Embassy of Israel, 3 º) The objective description of the historical injustice that has been supporting the Palestinian people only by malice can be interpreted as anti-Semitism or persecution of the Jewish community of our country.
This is the text of the embassy of Israel:
"Sir: I hereby write to you in relation to the series of articles entitled" The Palestinian Revolution "published in News whose behalf the author relies on several occasions. As it appears that the paper appears to support the claims of Mr. Walsh from which s are gross inaccuracies and distortions of historical facts, this Embassy appeals to the right of reply, hoping that will accommodate the full text of this letter in the columns of his diary. She will not try to be a comprehensive rebuttal of the extensive work of Mr. Walsh, but we understand the urgency to establish the truth about some of the thickest misleading in that the appointed, namely: "1 .- The Palestinian refugee problem was created by Arab leaders themselves, noting the United Nations Resolution of November 29, 1947, which determined the creation of two states , one Jewish and one Arab, in violation of their duties as members of the Organization, and to compel the Arab residents to leave their homes to make way for invading armies, whose proclaimed aim was to destroy the nascent State of Israel. "Mr. Walsh intends to show that Jewish immigration meant the displacement of the Arabs. The truth is different: the end of World War the Land of Israel was a country almost uninhabited. The Arab population was 557,000 and the Jewish population of 100,000. Less than 30 percent of Arabs living in the area that is today Israel. Until the beginning of the decade of 30 was a land of Arab emigration, a trend reversed in subsequent years when the economic and social development promoted by the Jewish community attracted the influx of Arabs from neighboring countries. The proclamation of independence of Israel, the number of Arabs who inhabited the territory was 600 to 700,000. Of these, stayed where they were 160,000. Consequently, the actual number of Arab refugees coming out of Israel in 1948 is estimated at 450,000 and still leaving room for statistical error, no more than 550,000, a figure that is roughly the same number of Jewish refugees from Arab countries (97 percent of the total Jewish population of the latter) that were forced to emigrate to Israel. In fact there was a transfer of populations. While Israel joined these brothers came from Arab countries, Palestinian refugees were concentrated by Arab countries in squalid camps, preventing its integration to today despite their ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious to usufruct the situation as a weapon policy against Israel. "Who caused the Palestinian exodus? The answer lies in the words of Arab leaders. Explicitly admitted Mr. Emile Ghoury, secretary general of the Palestine Arab Higher Committee, on September 6, 1948: "The fact that there are these refugees is the direct result of the action of Arab States in opposing the participation and the State Jewish. Arab states unanimously agreed this policy and must participate in solving the problem. " Even before the April 23, 1948, the Security Council of the United Nations, then President of the Arab Higher Committee, Mr Jamal Husseini, confessed: "We have never hidden the fact that we have started the fight." The Jordanian daily Al-Difaa contributed September 6, 1954 the testimony of a refugee: "The Arab governments told us: Get out so that we can enter. So we went out but they did not enter. "2 .- It was the Arab States of the region that prevented its sequel aggression and therefore the establishment of the Palestinian Arab State envisaged by the Partition Resolution of the UN. Mr. Trygve Lie, former Secretary General of the United Nations, said: "The Arabs have repeatedly said they would resist partition with force. " And so it happened: the May 14, 1948 the regular armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq, and contingents from Saudi Arabia and Yemen, invaded the State of Israel. On May 15, 1948 in Cairo, the secretary general of the Arab League, Azzam Pasha, called on Arabs to a holy war against Israel, and said: "It will be a war of extermination, a massacre which will be discussed as speaking of the massacre of the Mongols and the Crusaders. " Mr. Andrei Gromyko, then representative of the Soviet Union and now the Minister of Foreign Affairs, told the Security Council of the UN, May 21, 1948: "The USSR delegation can not but express his surprise at the attitude adopted by the Arab States on the Palestinian question and especially to the fact that these states have sent troops to Palestine to carry out military operations aimed at the abolition of the liberation movement Palestinian national "(Official Records of the Security Council, Third Year, No. 71, p. 299 meeting 4 May 1948)." The Arab military aggression was defeated, but the Kingdom of Transjordan annexed most of the territory destined to become in a Palestinian state, while Egypt did the same with the Gaza Strip. Were the Arabs, then, that prevented the creation of a Palestinian state. "3 .- Mr. Walsh said that the Jewish people has no right to the Land of Israel. At this point in history this is a non-issue: The Land of Israel was an independent state only three times in its history and every one of them was a Jewish state. Only when it was identified with the Jewish people entered the annals of mankind as a geopolitical and historical. Was occupied by foreign conquerors, but only the Jewish people achieved their independence in this land and considered the soul and the heart of its national existence. "4 .- Mr Walsh said that Britain" gave Palestine 'to Jewish people colonial mentality leading to the creation of the State of Israel. The truth is the opposite: the rebirth of Israel, aspiration of centuries, took shape as a national liberation movement of the Jewish people through Zionism, in the second half of the nineteenth century and was further strengthened by the work of three generations of Jewish pioneers. " The Balfour Declaration was not simply the recognition of that historical reality, as enshrined by the international community when the League of Nations resolved to establish the Palestine Mandate to establish the Jewish national home. "He was the first time the age-old dream the return to Zion received universal sponsorship. Even the most representative Arab leaders at the time, as King Hussein of Hejaz, who wrote: "We saw the Jews emigrating to Palestine ... The phone can not escape those who have a deep intuition, know that this country has been for its original sons despite all their differences, a sacred and beloved homeland. " (Al Kibla, Mecca No. 183, March 23, 1918, George Antonius, Arab Awakening pg. 269). "This recognition of the formation of the Jewish state is integrated in the context of the creation of national states Arabs in the Middle East, the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire in Europe as the dismemberment of the Austro-Hungarian Empire gave rise to the achievement of sovereignty by the national movements of the subjugated countries. "5 .- Mr Walsh argues in its articles the objectives proclaimed by the Al Fatah, to establish a replacement of the State of Israel, an Arab state with an Arab majority, implying fully liquidate the sovereignty and independence of Israel. The instrument adopted for this purpose is terrorism that deliberately target innocent civilians in Israel and abroad, and who does not hesitate in killing women and children. Mr Walsh admits to having visited those terrorist bases, seeking shelter in refugee camps in the territory of Lebanon, whose government tolerated this situation. "A of the most significant expressions of this is that the Lebanese government has suspended the right of its army and police to enter the bases of terrorists and refugee camps under their control, to the point of having no competition even common crimes, or assaults by the 'fedayeen', Lebanese soldiers, or to clashes between opposing terrorist groups. "Mr. Walsh gives dramatic testimony of what education means to hate, without repudiating it. Celebrates the fact that children are trained to kill. And such examples abound in content to attribute a 'revolutionary' to overflow criminal terrorist Arabic. Thus, Mr. Walsh appears to justify the killings of Lod, Munich, Fiumicino, Athens, Zurich, Khartoum, Kiryat Shmona, Ma'a lot, Shamir, and Nahariya, and others. "The real revolution in the Middle East is peace." Greeting Mr. Director atentamente.Mario H. IsraelRespuestaFlagrantes SejatovichOficina of PrensaEmbajada of inaccuracies, distortions of historical facts, thick confused, are some of the virtues that the Press Office of the Embassy of Israel in Buenos Aires attributed to my recent series on Palestine, according to the letter published in the Sunday News Mr. Sejatovich 14.The it, an official of that office, aims to "reestablish the truth" and tries holding, in essence, that Palestine was "a country almost depopulated" at the end of the First World War the problem of Palestinian refugees was "created by Arab leaders themselves, in 1948," to compel the Arab residents to leave their places of residence "and that the May 14, 1948 the Arab States" invaded the State of Israel ". In my series of notes I have argued that Palestine was in the seventh century a land populated by Arabs; the exodus of 1948 was caused by terrorist organizations Haganah, Irgun and Stern, and that it was these organizations that triggered the guerra.Frente to such disparate views, a distant reader is entitled to know the sources on which they rely to figure out where is the verdad.EL MYTH OF THE "LAND WITHOUT PEOPLE" I explained in my notes that since late last century became the Palestinian Zionist propaganda "the invisible man "Middle East to such an extent that Theodore Herzl was a trip to Palestine and wrote a report which did not include the word" Arab. " The myth of the "land without people" were useful to encourage the immigration of "people without land." That myth is reborn in the letter from the Embassy of Israel, as if there had been refutado.Según the Israeli writer Amos Elon, in a book of 1971, when Herzl traveled to Palestine in 1898, "should have been there more than 500,000 Palestinian Arabs." This is complemented by an observation made in 1891 by the Jewish Achad Haam, who knew Palestine: "Abroad we tend to think that Palestine is now almost deserted, an uncultivated wilderness ... But it's not at all. It is difficult to find land uncultivated Abroad ... we tend to think that Arabs are all savages, comparable to the animals, but this is a big mistake. "One wonders if this is not a racist way of thinking, which became" invisible "to Palestinian and that even today, makes the Embassy of Israel make up the population figures different from those in the only known census. So Mr. Sejatovich said, without citing sources, that at the end of World War I "the Arab population was 557,000 and the Jewish population of 100,000." The truth is that in 1914 the Turks took a census gave a population of 689,272, and the Zionist Arthur Ruppin estimated that 60,000 were judíos.El December 31, 1922 the "Government of Palestine" (ie the British rule) was a census that gave these results: Arabs say 757.182Es 663.914Judíos 83.794Otros 9.474Total that four years after saying the Embassy, \u200b\u200bthe Jewish population has not yet reached 100,000. Neither did the Embassy when he says that Palestine "until the beginning of the decade of 30 was a land of Arab emigration." Comparing the 1922 census with the 1931, we see that the Arab population grew by 28% and the Jewish population, 108% what can only be explained by immigration policy, imposed by the Mandate británico.De the figures just quote follows that the terms "Palestine, depopulated country," are a fallacy at any time under consideration. In 1922, the population density stood at 22 inhabitants per square kilometer, which is higher then the U.S. or the USSR, and Argentina did not reach a century: what I hope not provide arguments to any colonizador.EL MYTH OF "ARAB AGGRESSION" To explain the Palestinian exodus of 1948, the Embassy of Israel appeals to an argument that Zionism has virtually ceased to use since 1961, when it was pulverized by the English researcher Erskine Childers.El argument claimed that "Arab leaders" had spoken by radio to the Palestinians ordered to evacuate their homes. Childers traveled to Israel in 1953 and asked for proof of that allegation, without obtaining them. Then came the British Museum, which preserves the version recorded by the BBC of all radio broadcasts of the Middle East since 1948 and found not only only the Arabic call to evacuate, but many calls, and even orders to stay in their houses reasons that prompted the Palestinians to flee to the cry of "Deir Yassin!" is the destruction of villages and the massacres that preceded the 15 May 1948. This is demonstrated, first, by one of the perpetrators of these massacres, the Irgun leader Menachem Begin, in his book The Revolt. But there are also hundreds of testimonios.El UN mediator, Count Bernadotte (assassinated by Zionist terrorists) said in its report: "The exodus of Palestinian Arabs resulted from panic caused by the fight, rumors of terrorism real or perceived and expulsion ... Almost the entire Arab population fled or was expelled from the area occupied by the Jews. "journalist (and later deputy) Israeli Uri Avnery said:" In some cases, the Jewish leaders tried to persuade the Arabs to stay , for example in Haifa. But generally prompted them to leave their towns and villages. "Yigal Allon himself said that to clean Galilee Palestinians, Arab mayors called and warned them" to be burning all the villages to flee while Huleh ... no time ". The greatest O'Ballance, English military historian, said that" Arabs expeditiously were expelled and forced to flee, as in Ramleh, Lydda and elsewhere. Advanced anywhere in Arab territory Israeli troops, the Arab population was torn as by a bulldozer. "The terror caused by type Deir Yassin massacre, and not missing calls for" Arab leaders "who is never named, was for the cause éxodo.La the majority of these massacres occurred before 14 May, when the "invasion" of Arab States, and occurred in purely Arab areas, even within the Partition Plan of the UN, included within the State Árabe.Entre 21 December 1947 and May 14, 1948, Israeli terrorist organizations set up the following major operations outside the borders of Israel, which in all cases meant occupation of territory, taking or destruction of towns and villages, and expulsion of Arabs: Qazaz (12/21/1947) Sasa (02/16/1948 ), Haifa (02/21/1948); Salameh (1.3.48); Biyar Adas (06.03.1948) Qastal (04/04/1948); Deir Yassin (04/10/1948); Lajun (04/15/1948) Saris (17.4. 48), Tiberias (04/20/1948), Haifa (22/04/1948) Jaffa (04/26/1948) Acre (27/04/1948); Safad (07/05/1948); Beisan (05/09/1948). The source is the New York Times.Estas missions, and extensive document stories that prove that Israel did not even wait for their Independence Day, established by the UN, to embark on the conquest of Arab land, and were armed organizations which set off the guerra.En this context, relatively little care appointments Arab officials belonged mostly corrupt and reactionary governments, strong links with colonialism. What I have said or not said King Farouk, or King Abdullah, or the British puppet in Iraq, Nuri as Said, has so little importance as they have stated the Commissioners appointed by the British government, who cites the Embassy (Abdul Khader, the only leader loved and followed by the Palestinians, died in battle.) To claim that such testimony can be on the right to erect domination of a people to assume that the story of "a refugee" (a million), appeared in a Jordanian newspaper, justifying the infamous Expropriation Law issued by the State of Israel on Arab land, talk about an imaginary "transfer Population "defend all that is that Mr. Sejatovich indefendible.Comprendo, this is done, the request of his embassy, \u200b\u200bwith so little respect convicción.PARA REFLEXIONARCon verifiable data, I can only add that the numbers of refugees I gave in my series of notes come from the Embassy of Israel UN.La allowed, however, theorize about my attitude to terrorism and violence, which clearly explained in my series on the Revolution Palestina.Dije there who approve of violence of the oppressed peoples who struggle against their oppressors. This means that terrorism is part of that fight is beyond the trial, including on each action, as legitimate in the case of the Palestinians as in the case of the French Resistance. And the uprising of Palestinians against the occupiers of their homeland is as legitimate as, for example, the Warsaw ghetto uprising against nazis.El testimony of a Jewish religious writer help you understand the parallel: "As far as I am concerned "said Moshe Menuhin" my religion is Judaism and not prophetic Judaism napalm. The nationalists 'Jews', the new type of warriors 'Jews' are not Jews, but Nazis 'Jews' who have lost all sense of morality and humanity beans ... Despite all the tricks of concealment and the construction of images dummy, despite the torrents of tricks sophisticated, clever advertising, controversial rhetoric, concealment of facts, biased writing of history, the tragic fact is that the nationalists 'Jews' were seized by force of arms, terror and of atrocities, households, land and the land of peasants, workers and Arab traders in the old Palestine, they built a 'Jewish Homeland' and expanded during the months prior to May 14, 1948 through massacres, offal, terrorism, between April 10 and May 14, expelling the Arab cities as typically Arabs at Deir Yassin, Jaffa, Acre, Ramleh, Lydda, etc. .. The nationalists 'Jews' are Nazis 'Jewish' and I'm ashamed that I identify with them and their causes heretics. " Rodolfo J.
Walsh
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