“. . . the Zionist dream is based on the slaughter of—repeated slaughter of innocents on a scale that we’re watching these days on television, that is really a profound, profound crisis—and should be a profound crisis—in the thinking of all of us who were committed to the establishment of the state and to its success.” H Siegman
Here’s this must-watch Siegman interview which includes the quotes below:
Henry Siegman was executive director of the American Jewish Congress – long described as one of the nation’s “big three” Jewish organizations – for 16 years. Siegman – an ordained orthodox rabbi – was also the head of the Synagogue Council of America, and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Born in Germany three years before the Nazis came to power, Siegman’s family had to move from place to place to avoid Nazi persecution. His father was a leader of the European Zionist movement that pushed for the creation of a Jewish state.
Last week, Siegman spoke about Israeli war crimes … at the very creation of the state of Israel:
Israel had, pre-state—in its pre-state stage, several terrorist groups that did exactly what Hamas does today. I don’t mean they sent rockets, but they killed innocent people. And they did that in an even more targeted way than these rockets do. Benny Morris published a book that is considered the Bible on that particular period … in the book Righteous Victims, in which he said—I recall, when I read it, I was shocked—in which he—particularly in his most recently updated book, which was based on some new information that the Israel’s Defense—the IDF finally had to open up and publish, that Israeli generals received direct instructions from Ben-Gurion during the War of Independence to kill civilians, or line them up against the wall and shoot them, in order to help to encourage the exodus, that in fact resulted, of 700,000 Palestinians, who were driven out of their—left their homes, and their towns and villages were destroyed.