tv Documentary Israels Mother 2 PRESSTV July 23, 2024 8:03am-8:31am IRST
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gate the israeli regime's global war against solidarity with the illegally occupied people of palestine. it's 77 years now sinus terrorists infamously bombed the king david hotel in jerusalem, killing over 90 people, including many civilians. but that was by no means an isolated incident. israel was actually born out of terrorism that was perpetrated by zis extremists who mainly originated from eastern europe and had no familiar links to palestine and their terrorism. wasn't just confined to palestine either, as we'll explain in this edition of palestine declassified, starting with this report by latifa abu chakra, explaining the extent and indiscriminate nature of the zianist terror campaign. the bombing of the king david hotel on the 22nd of july 1946 was defining moment in the use of terror to create designer settler colony in palestine. it finalized the anglo-zionist divorce as john ferris, the historian and british intelligence agency. gchh put it, prior to
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this, the zionist hagara militia and its intelligence division had served as an auxiliary to the british police and army. they officially cooperated in the suppression of terrorism by ergan and the sturng gang led of by future prime ministers, manachen begen, and yet sham. britain refused to allow arriving prospective colonists to settle in palestine, and at the end of june 1946, the army and police launched operation agatha, arresting most of the jewish. agency and some of hagena's strike force. david ben gorian had authorized secret cooperation between hagana and the terror gangs ergen and sternang. on july 22nd, ergen terrorists bombed the british headquarters at the king david hotel in jerusalem, killing more than 90 people, including gchq and other intelligence personnel. the attacks then spread to other british targets. ergin bombed the british embassy in rome on the 31st of october 1946. the building had to be
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demolished and entirely rebuilt. on 7th of march 1947, robert misrahi, a french zionist student, a protege of french philosopher jean- paul satre, was smuggled into britain and bombed to the colonial club near st. martin's lane in central london. the bomb blew out the building's doors and windows and seriously injured several soldiers. in april, 1947, two stone gang terrorists attempted to of blow up the colonial office in whitehall in the center of london. they planted bomb containing 24 sticks of explosives at dover house, headquarters of the colonial office, but it failed to go off. two months later in june 1947, a sternang cell operating in italy posted 21 letter bombs to senior british politicians, and cabinet members including prime minister clement attle, foreign secretary ernest bevin, and chancellor of the ex-checker, stafford, cryps, as well as winston churchill. most of the letter bombs were intercepted, but some reached their
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intended recipient and failed to go off. the conservative party's anthony eden carried letter bomb disguised in a book around with him for a whole day until he was warned of the plot. the stone gang recruited british jews to their terror cells by approaching the right-wing zionist youth movement better and the hebrew legion group. the leader of the cell, yakov huruti, who died in 2022, describes in his memoirs how he recruited a number of jewish sympathizers in britain to his cell. received funds from an unidentified wealthy jewish individual in north london who was a fanatical revisionist with bust of japotinski in his front hall. according to stern gang sources, some of the members of his cell went to have successful careers in britain. none of these accomplices were ever charged with any offense. in their last operation, the stern gang sent book bombs to two leading soldiers. one was diffused, the other in a holodout. of shakespeare's plays
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was opened by the intended victim's brother rex faren who died from his injuries. one stearn gang member later claimed they had invented the book bomb. as always, we're joined by our resident expert david miller. david's an academic and a former professor at bristol university, and he's now a non-resident senior research fellow at the center of islam and global affairs at istanbul zayam university. he's also co-director of the lobby in watch dog spinwatch and is a leading british scholarly critic of israel. our guest today is richard medhurst who joins us via skype. richard is an independent investigative journalist who's rooted in anti-imperialism. his youtube channel has built up a large following and his work has been featured on numerous platforms including the black agenda report, al-meya dean, press tv, the canary and various other international news outlets. his journalism mainly focuses on us international politics, international relations at the middle east, and it includes reporting on the... and nuclear talks, and richard was
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also one of the few independent journalists to cover the julian nassange extradition hearing at the old bailey in london, welcome to the show. david, in report she mentioned: the killing of british intelligence operatives at the king david hotel, didn't she? but what about the civilians that were killed there? so of the 91 people who were killed uh 70 of them worked for the british uh either uh as intelligence operatives or or palestinians who worked for the british administration, but 41 of those who were killed so the largest category were actually palestinian arabs, so there was a significant impact there, of course also uh 17% palestinan jews were killed in in the attack as well, so you see the the way in which that the that process operated, they this is a urgen splitting off from the idea of holding back, working together with the hagana and indeed with with the sterng gang uh and starting to directly attack the british administration, which they hadn't really done
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before, well richard, i mean you've been covering the history of the zinus milicias for a while now, haven't you, i mean, help us to put the bomins of the king david hotel into context if you could. hi, chris and david, thanks for having me on the show, so uh, after you had this wave of mass emigration, you know, spurred on by the creation of the scientist movement of of european jews to palestine, you had succession of militias uh, which eventually became what, what is today, the israeli um, the israeli army, right, so called the israeli defense forces, uh, so this started with the bargor, bargora um, militia and... then it developed into uh hashomir and then it became hagana and you had a split uh with um you know more uh extremist although guess all of these militias are already quite extremists but so-called more extremist leahi and gangs right so um lahi is also known as
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the sturen gang now the the ones that carried out the bombing at the king david hotel which you just talked about uh killing you know 90 plus people most of them work for for for the british government um, this was created and spurred on by hagana and also by irgun. now uh, you have disputed claims afterwards that, hagana called off the operation at the last minute, i mean it doesn't really change anything, all of these groups are rooted in the same kind of ideology, which is ethnic cleansing of palestinians at the expense of the arab population, and this includes as as we were just saying, even palestinian jews. palestinian christians, palestinian muslims, all for the the settlement of european jews. every single israeli prime minister to this day, was either themselves born in eastern europe or their parents came from eastern europe or their grandparents, right? so i
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find this incredible that they think that they have the legitimacy to carry out such attack, because in their minds they're trying to liberate um, they're trying to liberate. palestine yeah or or what was back then the the mandate yeah so that they can take it over because it's their homeland, but the thing is, as i said, they're all ukrainian, they're they're russian, they're polish, they come from bellarus, they don't really have any legitimacy to these claims, um, and if we talk about the king david hotel, they israelies claimed that they issued advanced warnings, that there were multiple warnings and even tried to blame this on on our government on the british government, saying that we ignored the calls, yeah uh, this doesn't change the fact that they plant. bombs inside milk tins in the basement and they killed 90 people, that's a fact, this is a terrorist attack and in 2006 they unveiled the plaque sight the bombing commemorating this you know and and uh the um the british embassy protested about the wording of this
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saying that it's outrageous that you know they try to blame this to this day in the 21st century they try to blame it on the british government, i mean i find this outrageous, i think i think we can we can all agree that man itself uh was an occupation, it it was wrong to be in palestine, it was wrong to to uh carve up the middle east, um, the mand had no legit, but neither do the zinanis groups that blew it up, and we should not forget that's been the nature of of of western imperialism since time in memorial regrettably, but let me just move to david if i can, i mean i'm not sure many people remember or even aware of the very significant terror zionist terror networks that were active in the uk, 1947, 1948, i mean how did you find out about that? well, i came about, i came across it because of some reports about files which had been released in the public records office in in london, and these are mi5 files from the period from 46, 47, 48, and when you look through the files, i had to apply for some of them under
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the freedom of information legislation to have them actually fully released to the public, sure, which they now are, when you look through them, you see there was a very extensive network of uh of uh sterng gang people in the uk. i mean when when history books have written about it, they've talked about few of the attacks, the attack on the colonial office or the the book bombing of major faran's brother who is the the... wrong wrong wasn't intended victim, but actually when you look at the files, the i5 files, there were people all over the country, there were there was a there was a sterng gang cell in glasgow, one in liverpool, and and you so i read about this all in the mf5 fil and it's an extraordinary story which has never been properly told, there is some accounts of it, but there is was huge operation uh, including as i said the killing of this guy faran who who the this is where they alleged that they invented the boot boring, they they hold out shakes. just plays sure, put bob inside, and you one one of the images that comes up at the back here is a fragment from the book,
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where the where the brother of the intended victim opened it and and was killed, yes, absolutely. well, i mean, richard, i mean, is it the case that in the immediate post war period, the main enemy identified by british intelligence was the zionist teragrangs rather than the soviet block? yes, it certainly was one of the main enemies identified because uh... "i mean they were blowing up our embassies, they were blowing up the secretariat in in palestine, and uh uh, you know, they they they were determined to kill arabs, palestinian arabs in palestine, but also british soldiers everywhere, not just in palestine, so this this extends far beyond their supposed claim of liberating uh palestine to make it israel for for their own zinus goals. this goes uh far and beyond uh, as david just pointed out, they were active inside the uk, they're they're blowing up our embassy in rome." um and uh if you look at the mi5 documents or some of these documents that have been
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declassified, you can see um how every single jewish european jewish immigrant who is emigrating to palestine uh was under surveillance was under scrutiny um the the wipe so this is under scrutiny by special branch by mi5 by the home office and uh the the so-called white paper of 1939 which limited the number of of european that could emigrate to palestine uh to 7500 was not lifted at the end of world war ii, which is again another tell um that the british government was indeed very concerned by these zionist terrorist groups, there were concerns that they were planning assassination attempts inside palestine, inside the uk um that they were planning sabotage operations, and in effect you did have these so-called sleeper cells, and it's funny because nowadays uh you know when people hear the term sleeper cell they identify it with something being uh uh something to do with uh
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al-qaeda for example right, this is a term that you often here pop up in in our media, but actually one of the original groups in addition to the book bomb to to to create this concept of a sleeper cell, it's in is indeed the israeli zionist paramilitaries right, and they use this uh in egypt, they use these groups in iraq, and you know many people were not allowed many... members of these groups were not allowed even enter the united kingdom begin who is the head of the irogone was not allowed to enter the uk because he was a terrorist leader and the british government identified him as such well well richard we'll come back to the discussion in a moment after this report that that actually traces the history of zionist terrorism. by far, the main victims of the zionist terror gangs have been palestinians. killings and massacres go back. considerable distance to the 1930s, a cursory look at the victims in this list indicates the utter
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disregard for civilian life of the zianist terror gangs. this real record of terror is determinedly suppressed by the zinanis today. instead, they attempt to show that they are the eternal victim of the oldest hatred, and thus even to insist that they are compensated for their crimes. israely propaganda about the expulsion of arab jews news from the arab countries in the late 1940s and early 1950s has become a torrent. in 2020, israel's un ambassador gillad erdan informed the un secretary general that he intends to submit a draft resolution requiring the international body to hold annual commemoration for the hundreds of thousands of jews exiled from arab countries due to the creation of the state of israel, but this is a... lie. in reality, the zionist regime did all it could to cajoll, persuade, intimidate and force
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jews out of surrounding countries. in yemen, israeli attempts to airlift yemeny jews to israel were foiled by the league of arab states. the zionist emissary asked permission to propose that yemeni authorities expel them, but yemeni authorities did not. in iraq, the government was maligned by israeli fabrications that it was persecuting jews, then bombings began, including the masuda shemtof synagogue in baghdad, killing four jews. masad was involved in several of the bombings as avishlim has recently confirmed. at the time iraqi authorities accused, tried and executed two zinanis operatives. in egypt in 1954, israel recruited egyptian jews to a terrorist cell that committed a rash of false flag bombings. egyptian intelligence uncovered the plot and tried the accused in open court, when israel joined the british
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french invasion of egypt in 1956, the egyptian government detained about a thous jews and egypt's small jewish community began to leave in droves. in morocco, zinis struck an agreement with the french governor to remove the moroccan jews who had to face horrific conditions in israeli ships. some of the 100 thousand jews who left, according to jewish agency emmercy, had to be virtually taken aboard the ships by force. in 1975, the governments of morocco, yemen, libya, sudan, iraq, and egypt issued public and open invitations for arab jews to return home, they did not listen. in reality, the zionis entity cannot allow the continued existence the palestinian people, and they will do everything they can to encourage new settlers and to force out or kill as many of the remaining palestinians as possible. david,
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the the zionist terror attacks in in palestine stretch right back to the... the 1930s didn't they? mean, why do they seem to target palestinian civilians? do you think and not and not british military uh occupation forces? well, because their real uh enemy wasn't the british, wasn't the occupation forces of the british as it would be said, the real enemy then and now was the palestinians, so from 1937 onwards there are massive bombings in public squares and markets with with you, with four or five dead. 10, dead, 15, 20, 30, 40 people, civilians dying in seemingly kind of random bombing attacks, there's no military targets, there was no military arab force to be confronted, these were attacked directly on civilians in order to terrorize the palestinian people, it was only later when they when they turned against the british and from 46 onwards with the king david hotel,
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that they started to to actively target the british in any meaningful way, of course there have been previous previous incidents and of course... the the the sturng gang and the ergn had been targeting to some extent the british, but by far the their major targets were innocent palestinian civilians and that that's because they wanted to force the palestinians out and they wanted to provoke them and make them make them fearful to to get rid of the palestinians, which of course is the whole point of sionism, indeed, indeed, indeed. well, i mean, richard, i wonder whether you could tell us about the attack on the uss liberty, yes of course, so i mean uh, this is one. the most um agregious and and flagrant violations of international law um and uh one of the most significant attacks on a us ship since world war ii uh so you know this happened on 8th of june 1967 this was during the sixth day war um the israelis used mirage jets so these are french
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planes to attack the uss liberty which was in the position in the mediterranean sea they killed 34. crew members uh, these are naval officers, there was an nsa um contractor, a civilian nsa employee, uh, you had two members of the united states marine core who were on board, um, so people of various branches of the us government and and and armed forces on board, um, 171 crew members wounded, i mean this is two-thirds of the crew that we're talking about here, two-thirds uh, and the ship was uh practically totaled uh, completely damaged, you know, this ship was actually... um a spyship, so they like to call it auxiliary technical research ship right, agtr, but it was really a spyship that was repurposed for use by the national security agency, the nsa, and it was there to carry out intelligence missions. now the israelis, as usual, just like with the king david hotel bombing, they like to claim that, oh we we, we gave you advance warning, so how did this happen, did
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they call up the americans and say we're going to bomb your ship? no, they said that they will sync, this is the israelis, they said they will sync all unidentified ships in the mediterranean sea, well number one, this was not an unidentified ship, yes it was spy ship, but it was clearly marked as a united states ship, there's no question about that, top of that, it was an international waters, so israel has absolutely no claim or business going in international waters and sinking a ship, a us ship, a tanzanian ship, a british ship or anything else, um, top of that, the israelis lied again, this is just like with the king hotel bombing, they said that they had told the americans in advance that uh they should inform israel of of the exact positions of their of their ships, this is a lie, the... united states contacted the us ambassador in tel aviv and asked him is this true have the israelis uh did the israelis ever ask you uh uh for for our ships
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positions and the us ambassador uh in tel aviv said that no this is not true so actually they had only done this and and and made this request after the incident of the uh us uss liberty being attacked which which again shows you that you you know israel uh has israel leaves no quarter for not either the united states or the united kingdom, i mean israel is not our friend, zionism is not our friend, and we should not tolerate these kinds of things and it's shocking that the united states gives 3.8 billion dollars every single year despite this attack, and i know these israel pay compensation. richard, let me let me just turn to to to to david now, i mean i want to say briefly, we have the kind of love affair codeen operations on it to force jews out of egypt involved lots of flag terror attacks. etc. mean i wonder what you know mosaid hopes to gain from that, but i just wanted to ask you as well about the iraq operation which that involved number of bombings against jewish targets. mean that remains hugely controversial in israel even
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to this day doesn't it? but but it's pretty clear that that they did actually happen. oh yes, mean in both the cases of the of egypt and in fact iraq there were mosad bombings right? yes, it's disputed whether one of the bombings in iraq was done by masad or not, but it's certainly the case. has has been confirmed that the other ones were and in in the case of egypt i mean what happened was that they they bombed american and british targets so so that they could drive a wedge between nasa the the egyptian president and the west as well as boming of course uh jewish targets so they are actually killing jews in order to try and force jews out of uh of egypt and into uh israel of course the purpose of this is to make sure that they have enough settlers to displace the palestinians no. "you the idea now is all jews who were weaponized in order that they these poor jews were forced out of the middle east, on the contrary, these were these were could settle and become colonists in occupied
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palestine in order that the palestinians could be forced there, sure indeed. well, well, richard, i mean briefly, i mean, do you think that israel will be able to survive in the long-term given all the pressures it now faces as a result of its decades long terror campaigns? if i could just add a note about about what you know the lavon affair and and these uh synagog. bomings, i mean, i, i think this is absolutely disgusting that israel, the musad targeted a synagogue, which is holy place, um, and attacking jews uh on purpose to get them to resettle in in israel, i mean, this is um, you know, a really evil scheme uh, that that is rather unprecedented, um, whether the israelis will be forced out, i mean, i think international opinion is slowly shifting, it's not shifted anywhere near enough, but it is slowly starting to shift, i know some people like to point to... uh these recent reports that were released by amnesty international and other ngos that that finally admit israel is apartide state. israel is not an apartite state, it is not a state at all, it's a european colony. is it a
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partide? it's certainly a partide, but it's much more than that, you know, it it it possesses all the equalities with a conventional, classical european colony, uh, apartide is one of them, racism, ethnic cleansing or other qualities, uh, plundering, you know, israel for example occupies the golen heights in syria, uh, 'there's a water there which you know one-third of israelis use to drink from every day, depriving syrians of that water, there's gas and oil there as well, so you know, i think it is, i think it's only matter of time before people finally wake up and and in the united states, especially where israel receives a lot of its funding, it's important that people understand what they're funding, no indeed, no absolutely richard, i mean as far as you partide is concerned, i mean we know and i've spoken to many anc veterans and people like archbishop desmon tuto said'. that the form of a partide uh that's perpetrated by the zionist entity is far worse than anything they ever experienced, but look, i'm afraid the clocks beaten us again today, so that's
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it for today's show, so let me thank our guest richard medhurst and of course our residence expert professor david miller. look, if you like our content, please share the rumble link to today's program on your social media platforms to help us increase our audience, and you can also catch up with our back catalogue now on rumble as well, and remember you can follow the show on facebook. twitter and telegram. palestiny classified, we'll be back though next week with more investigations and analysis. so until then, this is chris williamson saying. bye for now. pretty sure the finance bill wasn't proposed by. it was proposed by the imf, i don't want him as my president, i even regret why i voted him, i want to tell this... we gave you
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the headlines israely attacks continue to claim more civilian lives across gaza with the death doll exceeding 39,00. israel occupation forces stormed the occupied west bank city of tukara, killing at least five palestinians and the palestine olympic committee calls for a ban on israel's participation in the sumper olympics in paris.
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