Table of Contents:

• Jewish Nation & Jewish Only
• Borders of Israel
• The Land of Israel

The Author

Professor of Humanistic Studies at the Haifa Technion and Beersheva University. "Scholar, writer and active Zionist revolutionary, Israel Eldad was born in Galacia in 1910. After graduating from the Rabbinical Seminary in Vienna and obtaining his Doctorate in Philosophy [Ph.D.], he returned to Poland to teach Jewish Studies at the Vilna Teachers' Seminary. Invited by Menchem Begin, he joined the Warsaw leadership of B'rit Trumpeldor- "Betar"- the [militant] youth section of Jabotinsky's Revisionist Zionist Party. Inn 1938 he first met Avraham Stern, founder of the underground Zionist movement "The Fighters for the Freedom of Israel- LIHI" (The Stern Group). Arriving in Palestine in 1940, he joined the underground as a member of Lehi Headquarters Staff... Eldad made secret broadcasts, wrote articles for underground publication."
Professor & scholar Eldad, Ph.D. authored books that included a commentary on the bible, he called it Hegyonot Mikrah; another book of Ma'asar Rishon; Let The Walls Speak. top

Arabs Are Parasites and Cannibals

To describe how Arabs treat themselves, scholar Eldad says:

"It [the treatment] is a kind of sadism, unknown even by cannibals, who at least desist from eating members of their own tribe." (p. 138.) He continues to says that Arabs in the resistance against Zionists resorted to the "mutilation of live and dead bodies, cutting their heads and sex organs, splitting open bellies and the like- were a common occurrence. In mitigation, however, it may be said that they practice no discrimination: They treat their own the same way." (p. 138.)

"Understanding for the subjective aspiration of our enemies- only their political aspirations but not their cannibalistic desires," (p. 145.) top

The Flawed Arab Mentality

"Anybody who is familiar with the Middle East and with Arab mentality, or who has merely followed their war bulletins, realises that the Arab sense of truth is somewhat flawed," (p. 137.) To illustrates, he uses the following "Arab story":
"An Arab father wants to rest, and his children are making a noise. To quiet them he says, "In the market-place they are distributing olives free!" The children rush there. Ten minutes later the father quickly gets dressed, exclaiming, "What! In the market-place the are distributing free olives! Why am I sitting at home!"(p. 137.)

"And here we say: precisely as Zionists we have the fullest understanding for this attitudes..... But comprehension does not imply consent, because such consent spells suicides for us." (p. 144-45.) top

Deir Yassin Massacre: A Battle Against Cannibalism

Eldad states that unlike the "cannibalist" Arabs, "we never attacked a private British citizens, women and children. That famous village of Deir Yassin... was not a terrorist attack. It was a military action against a stronghold dominating the entrance to the then besieged city of Jerusalem, a stronghold which had given shelter to marauding gangs ambushing Jewish transport and civilians.... some 250 Arabs, including women and children.... were killed. Killed in a battle."( p. 145.)

Concerning Deir Yassin again, Eldad says teaches that not all of Nazis were killers "Not all of them were Eichmanns or Mengels."(p. 146.) This was necessary to justify that the Arabs are all evils (i.e. in the case of Deir Yassin), hence, scholar Eldad concludes in connection with the massacre:-
 

"While all murderers are evil, not every evil-doer is a murderer, which does not alter the fact that what he is doing may still be evil." (p. 146.) top

Nazis Were More Humanistic Than Arabs

"Recent reliable sources reveal that even the notorious Himmler was prepared to release many Jewish children from Germany, but the Grand Mufti prevented him, and the children were sent to their deaths." (p. 112.)

Eldad makes a clear lie when he says that "Arabs used to refer to the Jews as the ""sons of death."" (p. 86.) It is a known historical fact that Arab (Muslims) always called Jews and Christians the "People of the Book." After the Zionists invasion to Palestine, almost all Arabs (including many Orthodox Jews) dubbed Zionists as the aggressors, rapists, ...etc. Zionists were/are/will be the Death, not its sons. But the "son of death" has no idiomatic or stereotypic meaning in Arabic, other than in profanity, and death is not among the words used in that area.

No Palestine or Palestinians

"Can this [Jewish] rich existence be compared with the Palestinian nation? Who is that nation? What is it? Where and when was it born? What is its identity? What are its distinctive features- physical and mental? And except for the feats of its marauding gangs, what has it ever been known for?" (P. 119.) During the wars with Israel, the "so-called Palestinians Arabs hardly lifted a finger." and "All what they ever did was to roam the countryside, banding together in murderous gangs... Their whole prowess was in murdering old men and children, like the brave 'guerrillas' who are now throwing bombs in supermarkets, cafeterias and bus stations." "What kind of nation is this that deserts whole cities- Lydda, Ramle, Jaffa- and simply runs away?" (P. 115.)

Professor & scholar Eldad suggests that the word "Israelite" has a "territorial connotation." (p. 96.) although he declined later the concept of the existence of the "Israeli Nation." He does not state what that means. But in the next two pages, he discusses the "promised land" for the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. We know nothing about such promised land to Abraham except that in Genesis 15-18 which says: "18 In that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:" What else did God promise Abraham?

Professor & scholar Eldad makes another false statement when he says that the ancient Israelites absorbed outside influences without being submerged by them. (p. 99.) He also reveals that the Canaanite language has not been preserved. So what? The Canaanite-Phoenician language affected all other languages including Greek, Arabic, and Hebrew (check a dictionary for the definition of A, for example, and the dictionary will tell you it is derived from the Greek Alpha, a borrowing from the Phoenician.) When it comes to Jews, not only did the Canaanite affected them with language, but also with beliefs. "Baal and Ashtoreth" are the Canaanite Lords. As you are aware scholar Eldad, in Hebrew, Baal means "Lord." Yes, your Joshua annihilated them on paper, but the books took their "Baal" and eternalized him in you.

Jordan Is A River Not A State/Nation

"By analogy, the mother of the so-called Hashimite Kingdom of Jordan was an abandoned, ownerless land, without any people or heritage. Its father was an Imperialism that happened to cast its seed about at random, almost by an act of artificial insemination. It might be worth while pondering upon that fact, after it has failed to produce a nation or anything else of whatsoever since its bastard birth. And in it its present anarchical condition all that is left of its vestige of a half-Bedouin half-British-made king and a welter of Syrian, Iraqi, and Pakistani troops with dozens of terrorist organizations, fishing in its murkiness for their multifarious and nefarious purposes." (P. 129.)

Zionists Are Different: The Holiest

The professor does not hesitate to express his opinion of assimilation of Jews in their cultures. He states in a single paragraph: "Assimilation is ugly. It is an affectation and therefore false. Above all, it is an act of desertion" (p. 57.) No reason was given (I assume that if each religion refuses to assimilate in one country, then the world MUST be divided between Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Jews, ...etc.) What followed in the very first sentence is that "Zionism is beautiful. No liberation movement have ever been more so." The Arrogance of Eldad shows when he states: "Countless false gods and utopias have failed. Zionism has outlived them all and remained triumphant, spiritual, not the paltry, philanthropic variety, .... etc." (p. 58.)

Exalting Zionists As Prophets.

Eldad is explicit in calling Joseph a "proto-Marx because he [Joseph] solved Egypt's economic problems-" (p. 36.) He continues his misrepresentation of Judaism when he compares Herzel to Moses. Here is what he says; "It is not surprising, therefore, that he [Herzel] felt like a modern Moses..." (p. 28.) And then he compares Herzel and put him in the rank of Moses!! Then Eldad immediately starts to compare Herzel with the Messiah. Here is his exact words from page 28:

"At the very least these [Orthodox] Jews expected a messiah who was himself an observant Jew, and they conceived the new state a long theocratic lines. This Herzel failed to give them. His was a new language they did not know or understand. Hence, the two sources, the positive and the negative, initially failed to coalesce." top

Jewish Nation & Jewish Only

Borders of Israel

"Zionism means a Jewish state within the historical boundaries of Eretz Israel, on both sides of the Jordan." (p. 64.)

The Eldad has no reluctance to reveal explicitly what he thinks of the real borders of Israel are. He states:

"We might by now have had a state extending "from the Euphrates to the River of Egypt,"" Notice the quote in the quote. He though thinks that the River of Egypt that is mentioned in Genesis 15:18 is "now the Suez Canal." (p. 105.) A joke? Not indeed.

The Land of Israel

Supremacy and Arrogance

A reader my stumble in many of Eldad's sentences he makes in reference to Jews as superior. You may think that the (an) in the following sentence is a misprint: Eldad says: "he [Moses] spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren." (p. 41.) This (an) before (Hebrew) is indeed not a misprint but rather an affirmation of what inside the soul of Eldad. Professor & scholar Eldad does not want to concede to the (English) rules of grammar when it came to the (Ivri) race; the meaning of a (Hebrew = race) in the Hebrew language. So scholar Eldad wants but to enforce his perception on the readers; even for those who do not know what is going on.

In reference to the end of the British mandate, scholar Eldad comments:
 

"We have managed to oust the British-we, the Jewish and not the Arab underground. And we have defeated the Arabs, and if they continue to fight, we will beat them again." (p. 82.)

When the book was authored in 1971, the October (1973) war was not foretold to have scholar Eldad omit one of the most arrogant statement that the world ever knew. The impossibility of defeating the Zionist army is expressed in the writing of the scholar when he states:
 

"This is the driving force behind the Israeli Army, which cannot be equaled..." an army that defeated in the 6 day war "forces far superior in number and in arms."

Demeaning Other Religions

"Jesus himself maybe a mere figment of the imagination, the man who never was; but the Jew, Judas Iscariot, bore false tales against him, sold him, betrayed him...." (p. 32.)

In relation to the holiness of Palestine to Christians; scholar Eldad continues his insults to Christianity when he states:
 

"This is only reasonable, considering that this religion [Christianity] had its birth in this country [Palestine] and that all of its fundamental myths are based on certain events, above all events associated with the life and death of its founder that are presumed to have taken place here. This, however, this has nothing to do with any national or political affiliation with this country." (p. 103.)

A Call of Peace to Arabs

"We are willing to settle in peace, to purchase land -as we did- from those happened to be holding them, to reclaim waste lands and deserts. You compelled us to use force. Nor did we drive you out. You ran away at the instigation of your leaders, through your own folly, and through your own lack of real roots in this land which is not your home. Had the Arab leaders, your own brothers, allowed you to settle in their countries, your true home, the problem of your refugees would have been settled long ago. We did not let our Jewish brethren vegetate in refugee camps." (p. 117.) top

The Mathematical Formula for Justice

"Where then is that social justice that calls for fair distribution of the world's wealth? Just try to make the calculations- 11 million sq.km. [square kilometers] for 100 million Arabs as against 90,000 sq.km. for 12 million potential Jewish citizens of the Jewish state. To simplify the calculation let us round off our own figures;- not 11,000,000, and let us round off our own figures to our detriment; 10,000,000 Jews over 100,000 sq.km. You still arrive at a ratio of 10 persons per sq.km for the Arabs and 100 persons per sq.km. for the Jews. In this cold calculation, history and sentiment, suffering and loyalty to the country have no part. It is an ultra-rationalist account, based strictly on the principles of equality and justice. Do the Arabs need a state? Or extra territories?In face of this simple calculation, can all those righteous upholders of justice and equality still dare to look us in the face?" (p. 124-25.)

".. let them glance at this map of the Arab Empire and its tremendous wealth and the puny map of poor Israel- even in its present expanded boundaries. Will they still dare to look us straight in the eye and say that we are wrong and they, the Arabs, are right? Will they still dare to deny that if there is a national liberation movement in the world today which is truly fighting for a just cause, it is Zionism, the liberation movement of the Jewish nation?" (p. 126.)

"No justice can be greater than ours, no undertaking more pure and holy."(ibid.)

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On The Middle East Conflict

He thinks that Zionists gained the approval of the [Muslims] by the Weizmann-Faisel Agreement where "the Saudia has already given full consent to Zionism." (p. 110.) He adds that "Even Egypt decided to the establishment of the Jewish state in Eretz Israel, she did so to prevent either Iraq or Syria from gaining a foothold here [Palestine]" (p. 111.) As far as Syria is concerned, scholar Eldad makes an interesting exposition: Syria since the Romans was always acting to de-Judaizing the "south", "Consequently Syria, in her imperialist struggle for a predominance in the Islamic world, could not countenance the establishment of a separate state in Eretz Israel, especially not a Jewish state." (p. 110.)

Professor Eldad belittles the Palestinian resistance against Zionists and the British. He describes the reason of the resistance as a result of "the instigation of Syrian nationalists," (p. 111,) and that "Marauding gangs were organized, consisting partly of fanatics and partly of professional highway robbers." (p. 112.)

The "Intelligentle" Solution

1. Belligerence. But scholar Eldad reminds the Arabs that "We have won three major rounds and with each expanded our territories." (p. 151.) [Book authored in 1971.] "We will win the next round too...The boundaries once again will be extended to areas like Gilead [on the east bank of the Jordan]" (p. 151-52,) ... and for the Arabs, "The loss will no doubt be greater that they have been up till now," (p. 152.) Scholar Eldad believes that the Soviets will not intervene and the threat "is merely another blackmail attempt.... [and] As far as the Russians who are already here, Israel can beat them also." (p. 152.)

2. Reconciliation to the existence of the Zionist state. The following is a one paragraph quotation that best describes the Zionist authority's opinion:
 

"They have the alternative of reconciling themselves to the existence of the State of Israel, as a fact, however just or unjust. They can accept their fate which should not be too difficult for Moslems brought up on the deterministic, fatalistic creed "kullu min Allah." Everything comes from God. Allah has proved that he wants this country to come back into the hands of the sons of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Neither Allah nor Mohammad ever promised this land to the sons of Ismael. They have enough of their own. And if submission to the divine will and the commandments of the Koran fails to enforce this acceptance, the facts of the Jewish mass settlement, of Jewish industry, of the Israeli Army should have the necessary persuasive power. They all clearly spell out one thing: This is the Land of Israel." (p. 153.)

"For this reason, we can but openly say to the national-minded Arabs: we fully respect your desire to live in an Arab state. But not here. This is Eretz Israel and will remain so forever. This is not the sole country you have. Any one who wants to live under Arab rule deserves our fullest respect and even more: our active help to emigrate and build up his life in such a state, outside Palestine, the Land of Israel." (p. 155.)

Another alternative that scholar Eldad presents is of more interest. He calls it a "intelligentle" solution (p. 159.) His plan (p. 158-59) is to exchange the 1¼ Palestinians in Palestine with the 3 million Jews in Russia. And since this number of 1¼ is not equal to 3 million, he suggests that the Israelis will "provide another million" to Russia. So, Palestinians, the scholar says, have "to pick one of the numerous Arab states in order to live a full Arabic life there. Any further attempt.... is only likely to culminate in their own mental and physical suffering." (p. 161.)

Providing Islamic Opinion

Eldad states that "Islam ... never dreamt of establishing any separate national-political entity there." (p. 102). Of course not; because Islam always fought / will fight nationalism and separate entities. Did Muslim ever had a "separate national-political entity" in any part of the Arabian peninsula after the first four Caliphs? When other Muslim Caliphs settled in Damascus or Baghdad, did that make Mecca or Jerusalem of less holiness to Muslims?

Professor & scholar Eldad quoted a historian saying "There is no such thing as Palestine, absolutely not," (P 102.) In that regard, he tries to make an intelligentle connection between the Philistines, a non Semitic race that invaded the Palestine around the same time the Hebrews did and the present Palestinians. If Palestine was named after them by the Roman; the present Palestinians have nothing to do with them. In deed, all of the Canaanites, the Israelites, and the Philistines were assimilated after the Roman conquer Palestine and remained under their sovereignty till the coming of Islam in the 7th century.

Professor Eldad does his best to ridicule the importance of Jerusalem, the first Muslim Qiblah and the Mosque of Aqsa, the third holiest mosque, by stating that the Muslim holy sites are of "much smaller significance" and "flimsier" to Islam than the Christian sites to Christians. (p. 103.) Then scholar Eldad culminated his discussion by asking the traditional Zionist question: "Islam was born in Arabian peninsula. Why then was it necessary to have Mohammad ascend to heaven precisely from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the site of the Jewish Temple?" (p. 103.)

We certainly can answer scholar Eldad by asking a question of why did Our Master Prophet Moses, peace be on him, come to Palestine from Egypt? Nevertheless, this is not our real answer. Our answer to Eldad and others is that Quran has expressed the reason for that. Simple: Jerusalem is blessed to God and He elected to have Mohammad ascending from Jerusalem. As far as "precisely" from the Temple Mount, our reply is the following:
 

1. Arabs, with their brown eyes, are the only race that could be the true descendent of the Semite Abraham, their grandfather, as opposed to blue-eyed Russian and Khazar Jews who thought that claiming Judaism entitles them to own the legacies of Our Master Abraham, peace be on him. How many Semitic gene did Herzel had in his DNA as opposed to any brown eyed Palestinian? And how can we be sure that Herzel who did not observe the Shabbat was a true Jew? And where is it in the Torah that God promised any thing to any Jew who does not observe the Shabbat?

2. What Jerusalem is Eldad speaking about? The Talmud states that there were two cities called Jerusalem. This is what the Talmud says about the matter:
 

Talmud - Mas. Arachin 32b
"There were two [different cities called] Kadesh? Thus also were there two [cities called] Jerusalem.4"

So while Muslims have materialistic evidence of their holy places, Jews not only do lack the evidence, but also have holy books that give conflicting records about where Jerusalem is. Of course, we are not going to question scholar Eldad of the origin of the Kadesh & 2 Kadesh and Kedesh & 2 Kedesh, and what they all mean (Arabic = KUDS) with intended falsification of the vowel (e) in Kadesh. This falsification is revealed after a thorough review of several translations of the Old Testament and the Tanach and running with the original Hebrew word with the root of (Koph, Daleth, Shin). This is not the right place for the subject.

Eldad continues his insult to Islam when he claims that many non-Arab Palestinians converted to Islam under the slogan (Arabic and English per him) ""Din Muhammad bissef" - The Religion of Muhammad - by the sword."" It appears that scholar Eldad is influenced by Deuteronomy 20:12-13 as he can not find any thing in the Quran, Sunna, or the Muslim history that Muslims compel others to convert. In any way, we agree that if not all, most of the Palestinians are not indeed classical Arabs (as from Arabia). So who are they? Of Israelites, Canaanites ...etc. origin? If so, do not they have the right of sovereignty over the land where the ancestors lived in?

Zionist Liberation Groups

1. Zionism means a Jewish state within the historical boundaries of the Eretz Israel, on both sides of the Jordan.

Zionistic Hypocrisy

Eldad also does not hesitate to imply the empty slogan that Palestine was (a land with no people). Here is what he says regarding the justification of transferring Jews to Palestine "... especially if that country was not totally uninhibited either ..." (p. 62.) While we would like to thank scholar Eldad for acknowledging that Palestine was a country; we consider his statement of Palestine as (was not totally uninhabited) as a sign of arrogance (i.e. professor Eldad is demeaning the original people when he implies that -- not totally then mostly uninhibited country!!!

The demagogic presentation method of the Zionist establishment is best illustrated in an example given by Eldad. In pages 84-86, he presents in a dramatic way the discovery of some original letters which he says were sent by the last commander of Judea Simon Bar Kohkba AD 132-136 to his commanders in theaters fighting the Romans. He puts it like this: The discovery was accomplished on the hands of an "archaeologist General Yigal Yadin" ... sometimes in 1953 ... somewhere in "the Judean desert" ... "hidden" in "clay pots" ... "preserved for unknown reason". The letters finally "fell in to the right hands, delivered from an army to an army, from commander to commander." An interesting "highly symbolic" analysis of scholar Eldad as if Commander Kohkba spent 4 years of his life writing letters to his commanders (to-be?) in theaters and saved them in pots somewhere in the Judean desert!!

Professor & scholar Eldad states: "We never destroyed any Arab state because there was never an Arab state here. But the question is whether to recognize the rights of the Palestinians: "rights they were never deprived of because they never had them." (p. 116.) He continues (p. 117) to say that Zionists are not colonialists, not like the French in Algeria or the Dutch in S. Africa .... "We came back home." So to scholar Eldad, the Japanese Jews that took over my father's land came back to "their homeland", and I am the alien!!

Eldad comments on the Palestinians and their ancestors by saying:
 

"Moses promised our forefathers a land flowing with milk and honey; but those who took this land from us and inhabited it in the interim managed to wring it dry through their neglect and despoliation." (p. 179).

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Civil Rights To Palestinians

Our question is related to the backbone of the civil right subject. Do the Palestinians have the suffrage right, the basic of any and all civil rights? Of course not. The comment comes appropriate here in conjunction with the Oslo agreements. Israel is trying to escape from the responsibility of providing the Palestinians with full citizenship right by autonomy without citizenship (statehood) right. Israel brought nothing to the Palestinians and Palestinians got nothing from Israel except executing the Civil Detention Law against Palestinians, the very same law that Hitler used to prosecute Jews.

Economically speaking, the increase of the living standards among Palestinians can never be explained by the help of the Israelis. The balance of payment (transfer part) of the territories have always been on the negative side in favor of Israel; meaning that Israel ALWAYS took from Palestinians more than it gave them since 1967. The Palestinians got this money through working all over the world and transferring that money to their families in Palestine, as well as the help of the Arab countries. The other source is the foreign transfer from international organization and countries as grants.

Distorting the Image of Orthodox Jews

"With the exception of a few 19th century rabbis who derived their Return to Zion philosophy from the innate Jewish source, most of the religious leadership remained aloof from or hostile to political Zionism." (p. 27.)

Eldad resorts to using the "Zionist Revolution" and "Jewish Revolution" interchangeably. Of course, it does not take too much of evidence to know that not all Zionists are Jews and not all Jews are Zionists.

In a derogatory way of the non-Zionist Orthodox Jews, scholar Eldad says that when the Israeli army took over the Western Wall in Jerusalem in 1967, "the tremor was felt no less by the modern, non-observant Jews of the USA and the USSR than by the orthodox resident of Meah She'arim with their phylacteries and prayer shawls." (p. 165.) [Hint: Most residents of Meah She'arim are the anti-Zionist, Orthodox group of Netueri Carta who bitterly stand against the Zionist state and call them sinners, atheists, ...etc. They maintained a pro PLO policy and were adamant in their request of a representation in the Palestinian National Council. Besides Meah She'arim, they have dozens of thousands of followers, mainly in Bani Brak, Palestine and Brooklyn, New York City.] And this does not apply only to Orthodox Jews.

Professor & scholar Eldad says that all Jews who live outside Israel are sinners. He says "When the land [Palestine] is no longer lying waste under foreign rule, living in diaspora is a cardinal sin." (p. 170.)

False Statements:

In less than a paragraph (p. 46;) scholar Eldad introduces and uses the deductive and inductive approach to affirm the objectivity of the Jewish revolution and that Jews will have no peace till they return to Palestine. Not only does he skew the concepts of deduction and induction, but, he misrepresented the Torah when he quotes: "(and among those nations ye shall find no rest)" to mean that Jews cannot have peace while outside Palestine. (p. 41.) Two points worth mentioning here concerning the quote of (Tanach - Deuteronomy 29:65.) One is discussing the fate (and solution) of the Israelites at a specific period of time as evident by the subsequent 4 verses; and 2. Since the book of Deuteronomy has a controversial origin from the viewpoints of non-Orthodox (and some Orthodox) Jews, scholar Eldad starts his 4 line, 2 paragraph sentence by stating "...in the Bible ... the law of God"; hence, conflicting his entire materialistic philosophy (?). But when ends justify means, the concept of God, religion, bibles become no more than tools.

Falsification of Terminology and Facts.

One of the most important fact that scholar Eldad falsifies is concerning the assassination of Haim Arlozoroff in 1933. Arlozoroff, a socialist Jew, was killed and according to scholar Eldad, Arabs were the killers(p. 65.) While there was no conclusive evidence as who killed Arlozoroff, it should be noted that Arabs were the most to be concerned for his life. Arlozoroff did not support the idea of "Great Israel", Israel on both the East and West Bank of the Jordan per the first Article of the "Triple Platform" of Jabotinsky. (p. 64.) Arlozoroff was against the terror of the Irgun and the Fighter for the Freedom of Israel (FFI). He was thus assassinated. Indeed, all the fingers were pointing to the FFI, that of scholar Eldad, the smallest terrorist Zionist group among all the terrorist Zionist groups. A letter was found in 1948 signed by Arlozoroff to Haim Weizmann stating Arlozoroff objection to extending the military occupation of the East Bank of the Jordan and proposing a peaceful treatment of the local Arab Palestinians. Professor & scholar Eldad negates his own conclusion in the second paragraph when he questions:

"Arlozoroff's proposal remained a complete secret between him and Weizmann (unless, of course, the British got to know about it) and suddenly he was killed -by whom?"

From the very beginning of his book, scholar Eldad hit the most distorted definition that Zionists were successful to accomplish; bestowing the definition of a nation on themselves. In his first sentence, scholar Eldad talks of Jews as [people] and by the end of the same paragraph, he mad them a [nation]. Professor Eldad has the courage to even describe Jews as a group with a unique genetic character (i.e. "the Jew - his long, bent nose,"(p. 10.)

Culture: Referring to Jews Eldad states: "Their obstinate adherence to their own culture...." (p. 15.) It is certain that scholar Eldad knows the definition of culture. If he did not, a dictionary can help. Webster's (3rd ed.) defines culture as "the ideas, customs, skills, arts, etc. of a people or group, that are transferred, communicated, or passed along, as in or to succeeding generations."
Several questions need to be asked here.

• Do the Jews of Ethiopia, Yemen, Russia, France, US have the same ideas? (i.e. Do they all believe in the Talmud?) Which Talmud do the Ethiopian Jews believe in? The talk is about the Black Falasha Jews because they simply do not have a Talmud, and thus cannot perform many official services in the Zionist state such as marriages and funerals in their [God's given land.]
• How about "customs"? Skills? Arts? The hope was that scholar Eldad does not mean that a Falasha Jews have the same customs and skills like those Jews of France, Yemen, USSR, USA, Iraq, ...etc.!

Eldad simply declines that Muslims are involved in the struggle to liberate Palestine by saying: "Religious wars have gone somewhat out of fashion. They no longer fit in the modern day of age." (p. 104.) He tries to answer the question of what about Jews? In what name they took Palestine by stating: "Zionism never invoked the religious motive but was based on the national rights and needs of the Jewish people." (ibid.) Conclusion: Zionists think that the African Falasha Jews, Russian Jews, European Jews, Arab Jews ... are all a "nationality" but the same thing does not apply to Muslims or Palestinian Muslims!!

General Impression.

In other aspects, scholar Eldad not only makes the readers live the past; when the Pharaohs were chasing Jews, but also explicitly states that "We are re-living the days of Joseph, Moses, Joshua and David, all at once" (p. 56.) He describes the present Egyptians as the "pseudo pharaohs of today."  That is, probably, why the book is excellent motivation for people with wide and wild imaginations, like Goldstein and Knesset Member Rahbaam Zeevi.

Throughout his book, scholar Eldad grieves the loss of 6 million people, every time he has a reason or not.  What is amazing though is that scholar Eldad is moaning them not because they were human beings who were exposed to brutal fascistic treatment; similar to the same one that our scholar advocates. Eldad bemoans them for a different reason. This is just a sample of how he expresses his sorrow: "how many millions could have been saved and would be living here now in a great Davidic commonwealth, is another chapter." (p. 88.) Yes indeed, Zionists feel sorry for the holocaust because their dream of the "Great Israel", the "Davidic Commonwealth" is now less realistic. There simply is less human power to take Jordan as Sharon threatened in 1983. Palestinians will always remember the Civil Detention Law and its victims; from Germany to Palestine.