Who Invented Palestinian Nationalism and Why? | Explained
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Soviet anti-Zionism is an anti-Zionist and pro-Arab doctrine promulgated in the Soviet Union during the Cold War. While the Soviet Union initially pursued a pro-Zionist policy after World War II due to its perception that the Jewish state would be socialist and pro-Soviet, its outlook on the Arab–Israeli conflict changed as Israel began to develop a close relationship with the United States and aligned itself with the Western Bloc.
Anti-Israel Soviet propaganda intensified after Israel's sweeping victory in the 1967 Arab–Israeli War, and it was officially sponsored by the agitation and propaganda media of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union as well as by the KGB. Among other charges, it alleged that Zionism was a form of racism. The Soviets framed their anti-Zionist propaganda in the guise of a study of modern Zionism, dubbed Zionology.[1] The Soviet anti-Israel policy included the regulated denial of permission for Jews in the Soviet Union to emigrate, primarily to Israel, but also to any other country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_anti-Zionism
The answer is that the “Palestinian” construct is no accident. The idea of “Palestinians” was invented by Muslim Brotherhood’s Yasir Arafat and Soviet operatives in 1964. They created the Palestinian Liberation Organization, whose draft charter demanded annihilation of Jews and the obliteration of Israel, a religious jihad. The Soviet KGB convinced Arafat to leave that wording out and replace it with descriptions of an oppressed population seeking liberation, a struggle for human rights, a quest for self determination. The latter language would be better accepted, and even embraced, by the West. And so, the psychological manipulation of the Western mind, and even Israelis, began.
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/we-dont-have-to-accept-the-palestinian-lie/
Anti-Israel Soviet propaganda intensified after Israel's sweeping victory in the 1967 Arab–Israeli War, and it was officially sponsored by the agitation and propaganda media of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union as well as by the KGB. Among other charges, it alleged that Zionism was a form of racism. The Soviets framed their anti-Zionist propaganda in the guise of a study of modern Zionism, dubbed Zionology.[1] The Soviet anti-Israel policy included the regulated denial of permission for Jews in the Soviet Union to emigrate, primarily to Israel, but also to any other country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_anti-Zionism
The answer is that the “Palestinian” construct is no accident. The idea of “Palestinians” was invented by Muslim Brotherhood’s Yasir Arafat and Soviet operatives in 1964. They created the Palestinian Liberation Organization, whose draft charter demanded annihilation of Jews and the obliteration of Israel, a religious jihad. The Soviet KGB convinced Arafat to leave that wording out and replace it with descriptions of an oppressed population seeking liberation, a struggle for human rights, a quest for self determination. The latter language would be better accepted, and even embraced, by the West. And so, the psychological manipulation of the Western mind, and even Israelis, began.
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/we-dont-have-to-accept-the-palestinian-lie/
It's hardly fair to give the name of "psychological manipulation" to the only reasonable thing under the circumstances.
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Hmmm.............. and now Putin is undermining The United States of America.
Note.............. the Palestinians were terrorists against the British along with the what were not yet the Israelis.
The Brits finally gave it all up. I DOUBT the USSR had any say in any of that, but prove it to us.
Note.............. the Palestinians were terrorists against the British along with the what were not yet the Israelis.
The Brits finally gave it all up. I DOUBT the USSR had any say in any of that, but prove it to us.
The evidence that simple autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza was never the PLO’s true goal is everywhere. In 1970, US Secretary of State William Rogers suggested that the West Bank and Gaza be given up by Israel in return for peace and recognition. This plan was accepted by Israel, Jordan, and Egypt. Only Yasser Arafat, leader of the PLO, rejected it, opting instead to attempt an overthrow of Jordan’s King Hussein.
The evidence runs deeper. Yassir Arafat, who was head of the PLO until 2004, was under the direct tutelage and control of the KGB. Ion Mihai Pacepa, KGB officer and onetime chief of Romanian Intelligence, was assigned to handling Arafat. Pacepa recorded several of his conversations with Arafat when they met in Romania at the palace of brutal dictators Nicolai and Elena Ceausescu. In these conversations, Arafat unequivocally states that his sole aim is to destroy Israel.
Pacepa and the KGB were delighted. They consulted General Giap, a close associate of Ho Chi Minh, who was involved with the North Vietnamese propaganda effort during the Vietnam War. Giap recommended to Arafat that he “stop talking about annihilating Israel and instead turn your [Arafat’s] terror war into a struggle for human rights.” It had worked in Vietnam, he claimed, because transforming the conflict from one of ideologies (Socialism vs. Capitalism) to one of an “indigenous” people’s struggle for liberty had turned the tide of popular support in the West against the war.
Similar advice was provided to Arafat by Muhammed Yazid, minister of information in two Algerian wartime governments. He wrote “wipe out the argument that Israel is a small state whose existence is threatened by the Arab States, or the reduction of the Palestinian problem to a question of refugees; instead present the Palestinian struggle as one for liberation like the others. Wipe out the impression that in the struggle between the Palestinians and Zionists, the Zionist is the underdog. Now it is the Arab who is oppressed and victimized in his existence because he is not only facing the Zionists but also world imperialism.”
https://stanfordreview.org/deception-palestinian-nationalism/
The evidence runs deeper. Yassir Arafat, who was head of the PLO until 2004, was under the direct tutelage and control of the KGB. Ion Mihai Pacepa, KGB officer and onetime chief of Romanian Intelligence, was assigned to handling Arafat. Pacepa recorded several of his conversations with Arafat when they met in Romania at the palace of brutal dictators Nicolai and Elena Ceausescu. In these conversations, Arafat unequivocally states that his sole aim is to destroy Israel.
Pacepa and the KGB were delighted. They consulted General Giap, a close associate of Ho Chi Minh, who was involved with the North Vietnamese propaganda effort during the Vietnam War. Giap recommended to Arafat that he “stop talking about annihilating Israel and instead turn your [Arafat’s] terror war into a struggle for human rights.” It had worked in Vietnam, he claimed, because transforming the conflict from one of ideologies (Socialism vs. Capitalism) to one of an “indigenous” people’s struggle for liberty had turned the tide of popular support in the West against the war.
Similar advice was provided to Arafat by Muhammed Yazid, minister of information in two Algerian wartime governments. He wrote “wipe out the argument that Israel is a small state whose existence is threatened by the Arab States, or the reduction of the Palestinian problem to a question of refugees; instead present the Palestinian struggle as one for liberation like the others. Wipe out the impression that in the struggle between the Palestinians and Zionists, the Zionist is the underdog. Now it is the Arab who is oppressed and victimized in his existence because he is not only facing the Zionists but also world imperialism.”
https://stanfordreview.org/deception-palestinian-nationalism/
None of that matters at all.
The emergence of Palestinian nationalism
Before 1948, the term "Palestinian" was often used to refer to Jews, not the local Arab population. These Arabs had a distinct culture and identity, but they didn't necessarily identify as "Palestinians," but rather as Southern Syrians or from their local city like Jaffa. As Arab nationalism swept through the region in the early 20th century, some local Arabs began to embrace the idea of an independent, self-determining Arab state, particularly in response to the British declaration of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine in the Balfour Declaration. By the 1960s, the dream of a pan-Arab state had given way to the goal of replacing the Jewish state of Israel with an Arab state of Palestine. This shift aligned perfectly with the Soviets' agenda of driving a wedge between Israel and the West.The KGB's cultivation of Palestinian leadership
The Soviets sent hundreds of KGB agents into the Arab world, searching for charismatic leaders they could groom to advance their agenda in the Middle East. They found their man in Yasser Arafat, an engineer who had been fighting against Israel since his teens. The Soviets helped the Arab activists create the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and even provided the blueprint for its charter, which advocated for Israel's destruction through armed struggle.After the Six-Day War in 1967, when Israel captured territory from its Arab neighbors, the Soviets were furious. They stepped up their support for the PLO, with the KGB appointing a Romanian handler, Ion Mihai Pacepa, to provide Arafat with monthly $200,000 checks and introduce him to the Romanian dictator, Nicolae Ceaușescu, who taught him successful propaganda strategies.
https://www.israelhayom.com/2024/07/04/how-did-palestinian-nationalism-come-about/
The origins of Palestinian nationalism were nothing like that at all.
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Exactly. Arafat!
Secret KGB documents reveal just how deeply involved the Soviet Union was in the spilling of Israeli blood. The Russian spy agency provided Palestinian terror organizations with funds, training and arms, running agents like ‘Krotov’ – aka Mahmoud Abbas, ‘Aref’ – or Yasser Arafat, and ‘Nationalist,’ who was behind several plane hijackings long before 9/11.
The Soviet navy’s reconnaissance ship Kursograf was speeding through the waves on a moonless night in March 1970, making its way to the rendezvous point. Two weeks earlier, Marshal Dmitry Ustinov, at the time a senior defense official and later the Minister of Defense of the USSR, ordered the ship to leave its patrol assignment in the Pacific Ocean and quickly make its way to the military port of Vladivostok to collect several crates of cargo and one passenger. Then, the ship was to sail to the Gulf of Aden in Yemen and await further instructions.
The covert operation was codenamed “Vostok” (east in Russian). The ship’s crew was ordered not to ask any questions, not to open the cargo crates, and most definitely not to try to talk to the mysterious man who came on board. His name was Sergey Grankin and he was a major in Department V, a top secret unit of the KGB which is responsible for contact with “liberation organizations” across the world.Grankin, then 35 years old, was working on behalf, and under the close supervision, of the Soviet intelligence services’ omnipotent boss—KGB chairman Yuri Andropov.
https://middleeasttransparent.com/t...palestinians-in-the-service-of-mother-russia/
That has nothing to do with the origin of Palestinian nationalism, regarding which, see post #11.
The origins of Palestinian nationalism were nothing like that at all.
Zionism and the “big lie”: How Soviet antisemitism shaped contemporary anti-Zionism
Zionism was once celebrated by the left as an organic movement of national return and a model for national liberation and decolonisation movements throughout the world. Israel’s victory in its War of Independence and refusal to succumb to far mightier foes was positively awe-inspiring to adherents of political movements predicated on toppling structures of power. As chronicled by Philip Mendes in his study of Zionism and the political left, “all international communist parties supported partition and the creation of a Jewish State.” The US Communist Party called Israel “an organic part of the world struggle for peace and democracy,” while the French Communists viewed the Jewish fighters as the comrades of resistance fighters throughout the world.
But as Israel charted its own course, emerged from its wars economically and militarily superior to the Arabs, and became more ambitious and assertive in how it conducted its security affairs, the support of the Soviet Union and of the international left entered a sharp decline, followed by a complete reversal.
As the Cold War set in, Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, assured the US Ambassador that Israel was “western in its orientation, its people are democratic, and realise that only through the co-operation and support of the US can they become strong and remain free.” Israel’s “western orientation” became abundantly clear to the Soviet Union when it joined Britain and France in the Suez Campaign in 1956 to liberate a key maritime route linking Asia to Europe amidst threats to nationalise the canal by Egypt’s President Gamal Abdel Nasser, a key Soviet ally.
The campaign, seen by Moscow as a direct threat to its strategic power in the Middle East, sent the Soviets into a state of foaming apoplexy, resulting in threats to deploy nuclear weapons against the British and French and to annihilate Israel entirely.
The Soviet Union had already cut diplomatic relations with Israel in February 1953, only weeks before the death of Stalin and after a period of rapid escalation of state antisemitism, culminating in the notorious “Doctors’ Plot,” in which Jewish doctors in the Soviet Union were accused of plotting to poison Party officials. Soon the state media was saturated with anti-Zionist propaganda, depicting bloated, hook-nosed Jewish bankers and all-consuming serpents embossed with the Star of David.
Anti-Zionism had become virtually indistinguishable from antisemitism. As the British political theorist Alan Johnson writes:
In time, these depictions would reach not only the Soviet reader but through Soviet satellites in Europe, South America and the Middle East, and through communist parties and publications throughout the world. These ideas would hence nestle in far-left circles in the West, including political parties, human rights organisations, militant trade unions and, of course, campuses.
The propaganda was highly compelling and steeped in long-established themes of Jewish bloodthirstiness, greed, corruption, manipulation and cunning. It would contend that the very existence of a Jewish homeland was not only a plot of imperialism, but a mortal danger to the peace of the world. It was what Hitler called the “big lie” — the use of dramatically overblown fiction to deceive the public. Hitler, the supreme propagandist, claimed that the bigger the lie the more believable it was: “It would never come into people’s heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously …”
The big lies about Zionism would soon find their way into the most influential forums in the world. When a sub-commission of the United Nations was tasked with drafting a convention on the “elimination of all forms of racial discrimination,” the proceedings naturally focused on apartheid, neo-Nazism and antisemitism. But the Soviets viewed the reference to antisemitism as a direct rebuke to their anti-Jewish measures, and served up an amendment that “was almost a joke,” even to the Soviet delegation itself.
The amendment inserted Zionism into the listed forms of racism. According to sources close to the deliberations, the Soviets understood “full well that the idea that Zionism is racism is an indefensible position,” yet they floated it anyway, in part to turn the US-led initiative into farce, and in part perhaps, to see how far a “big lie” could go.
Ultimately, the Convention was adopted with neither antisemitism nor Zionism referred to. The ploy had worked; the seed had been planted.
On 10 November 1975, the General Assembly of the United Nations passed resolution 3379 on the “elimination of all forms of racial discrimination,” which determined that “Zionism is a form of racism and discrimination.” The US Ambassador to the United Nations Patrick Moynihan called the resolution “a great evil” that had given “the abomination of antisemitism the appearance of international sanction.”
The proposition that the Jewish emancipation movement was actually a form of racism, now declared to be truth by the United Nations, could then be used to purge mainstream Jewish voices from liberal campaigns and civil society organisations.
In 1977, student unions across Britain debated motions along the lines of Resolution 3379. York, Salford, Warwick and Lancaster went further, passing motions to expel their Jewish societies “on the grounds that they are Zionist and therefore racist.” The concept of denying platforms to fascist and white supremacist speakers on university campuses was now being applied to stifle mainstream voices who expressed support for the state of Israel.
Moynihan foresaw this. An earlier UN resolution had, at the instigation of the Soviet Union, viewed “racism to be merely a form of Nazism.” It followed that if racism was merely a form of Nazism and Zionism is a form of racism, then Zionism is a form of Nazism.
https://www.abc.net.au/religion/zionism-and-the-big-lie/11519628
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I’d like to know why so many different countries and cultures have hated Jews for sooo many centuries all over the world.
They gotta be the most universally hated people on earth.
Why?
They gotta be the most universally hated people on earth.
Why?
only Christian European countries hated jews because of Christian Antisemitism. since the 4th centur the established catholic church blame jews for killing Jesus and other stuff
The Ottoman Empire took in Jews that were fleeing Christian anti-semitism from Europe and India tolerated Jews for centuries
The "Palestinian" people was invented in 1964 by Nasser, Arafat and the KGB. But already in the twenties and thirties, the first leader of Arabs living in the region of "Palestine", was a Nazi and a Jew hater.
Check the facts."We needed to instill a Nazi-style hatred for the Jews throughout the Islamic world, and to turn this weapon of the emotions into a terrorist bloodbath against Israel and its main supporter, the United States." — Yuri Andropov, Chairman of the Soviet KGB, later General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, as reported by General Ion Pacepa, former chief of Romania's intelligence services.
Check the facts."We needed to instill a Nazi-style hatred for the Jews throughout the Islamic world, and to turn this weapon of the emotions into a terrorist bloodbath against Israel and its main supporter, the United States." — Yuri Andropov, Chairman of the Soviet KGB, later General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, as reported by General Ion Pacepa, former chief of Romania's intelligence services.
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Saying that people don't deserve to exist under their cultural identity is always a good approach
The origins of Palestinian nationalism were nothing like that at all.
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“Originally formed in the early 20th century in opposition to Zionism.”
The idea of a Palestinian state was from the very beginning all about driving the Jews out of their homeland.
Soviet papers: Palestinian President was a KGB agent
Once-secret Soviet documents claim Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was once a KGB agent codenamed “Mole.”
The documents, obtained by CNN from the Mitrokhin Archive at Churchill College at the University of Cambridge, say that Abbas, who completed graduate work in Moscow in 1982, was a KGB agent while he was a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Damascus.
Palestinian leaders decried the report as a “smear campaign” targeted at Abbas.
https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/08/world/soviet-papers-palestinian-president-was-a-kgb-agent/index.html
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