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The birth of the country of Israel-wth is a history the current right-wing government of Israe-wth is desperate to re-write the history of, teaching a false history in the country reportedly and pushing the altered history to the world. Let's review a couple things.
Albert Einstein had a role close to the issue. He was a Jew who had fled Nazi Germany, and so prominent a Jewish leader he was asked to be the first president of the new state of Israel-wth; he refused.
At the time, there was a right-wing party of Jewish people who wanted to create Israel-wth, called Harud. Harud later became the Likud party, Israel-wth's leading right-wing party, Netanyahu's party, which has ruled for decades and led the country to prevent peace and a Palestinian state and other terrible policies.
So what did Einstein think of the right-wing group, Harud, that later became Likud? In 1948, the leader of them, Menachem Begin - the same guy from the Camp David agreement, then a terrorist wanted for arrest by Britain - visited the US, and a group of prominent Jews including Einstein signed a letter of protest against the group.
In the letter, they denounced the party as “a political party closely akin in its organisation, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties.”
The full letter:
Einstein actually opposed the creation of the state, seeing it as conflicting with Judaism, while he supported the unlimited right of Jews to move to the region.
Indeed, as the 2021 article below notes, many Jewish people like Einstein oppose the right-wing faction that has taken over Israel-wth: "No wonder, then, that increasing numbers of Jews around the world — in whose name Israel claims to exist and act — are, as Einstein was, revulsed by the “Nazi and Fascist” political philosophy of Herut which seems to have been reincarnated under Likud and parties which are even further to the right of the political spectrum. Indeed, decent people of all faiths and none are appalled that right-wing extremism appears to be on the verge of engulfing mainstream Israel society as a whole."
www.middleeastmonitor.com
For more about that founding of Israel-wth, which Einstein's letter criticized some of the terrorism by Harud, watch the video below with interviews of veterans of the "Nakba", describing how they massacred Palestinians, machine gunning groups of prisoners, chasing with flame throwers, raping. You can ignore the clips being hosted by 'Jimmy Dore' to just listen to the veterans.
Albert Einstein had a role close to the issue. He was a Jew who had fled Nazi Germany, and so prominent a Jewish leader he was asked to be the first president of the new state of Israel-wth; he refused.
At the time, there was a right-wing party of Jewish people who wanted to create Israel-wth, called Harud. Harud later became the Likud party, Israel-wth's leading right-wing party, Netanyahu's party, which has ruled for decades and led the country to prevent peace and a Palestinian state and other terrible policies.
So what did Einstein think of the right-wing group, Harud, that later became Likud? In 1948, the leader of them, Menachem Begin - the same guy from the Camp David agreement, then a terrorist wanted for arrest by Britain - visited the US, and a group of prominent Jews including Einstein signed a letter of protest against the group.
In the letter, they denounced the party as “a political party closely akin in its organisation, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties.”
The full letter:
Letter to the New York Times
www.marxists.org
Einstein actually opposed the creation of the state, seeing it as conflicting with Judaism, while he supported the unlimited right of Jews to move to the region.
Indeed, as the 2021 article below notes, many Jewish people like Einstein oppose the right-wing faction that has taken over Israel-wth: "No wonder, then, that increasing numbers of Jews around the world — in whose name Israel claims to exist and act — are, as Einstein was, revulsed by the “Nazi and Fascist” political philosophy of Herut which seems to have been reincarnated under Likud and parties which are even further to the right of the political spectrum. Indeed, decent people of all faiths and none are appalled that right-wing extremism appears to be on the verge of engulfing mainstream Israel society as a whole."
The ‘final’ downfall of Israel was predicted by Einstein
It doesn’t take a genius to see that the failing Zionist project called Israel is coming apart at the seams. It was a genius, though, who predicted the demise of the fledgling state when he was ask…
www.middleeastmonitor.com
For more about that founding of Israel-wth, which Einstein's letter criticized some of the terrorism by Harud, watch the video below with interviews of veterans of the "Nakba", describing how they massacred Palestinians, machine gunning groups of prisoners, chasing with flame throwers, raping. You can ignore the clips being hosted by 'Jimmy Dore' to just listen to the veterans.
