The campaign of terror that Israel is waging against the Palestinians in Gaza and against the Lebanese is frighteningly similar to the terror that was used to create the Israeli state in 1948.The Palestinians called the creation of Israel the Nakbha- the catastrophe.

The Zionists who created Israel used terror against individual villages or areas to create a wider climate of fear or panic.On the 9th April 1948 a Zionist militia led by Menachim Begin -who went on to become Prime Minister of Israel -entered the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin .Villagers were given 15 minutes to leave their homes and then more than 200 Palestinians were murdered.

Within the next few months Zionist militias drove out 750000 Palestinians.

Dropping leaflets on Lebanese towns warning them of the consequences of associating with Hezbollah is reminiscent of the propoganda used
alongside the direct violence to instill fear in the Palestinians during the Nakbha.

Israel was founded on the expulsion of Palestinians.There will be no peace in the Middle East until there is justice for Palestinians and the other victims of Israel's terror.

from Socialist Worker
22 nd July 2006