Transcribing the Past

  Stop the Barbarism! Once again the flames of war have sparked into life in the Palestine/Israel region. This time Hamas took the inciative to start the atrocities. They did not act alone in this attack, militants from the PFLP also took part in the armed assaults. The pictures are unbearable: civilians murdered in the streets, and in their homes, the taken of hostages etc. Although the Israeli government conducts a system of political Apartheid, which has even been acknowledged by Tamir Prado, the ex-director of Israel's Intelligence service. But that does not justify the conscious murder civilians. That is as condemnable as the murder of Palestinian civilans by the Israeli army! Without a doubt the response of the Israeli government will be just as terrible as it is blind. Already buildings in Gaza are being bombed and electricity has been cut throughout the whole territory.  We can only express our deepest fears and concern for the civilian inhabitants, Palestinian and Isr...

  Anarchist Tactic for Palestine Written on the 25 th of March 1939, by Albert Meltzer The Arab revolution is centred on Palestine. The re-awakening of the Arab nation and the consequent nationalist revolution has brought the masses of Palestine in conflict with British Imperialism. Every movement against British Imperialism must be welcomed as the rulers of this country rule (or, synonymously, misrule) the larger part of the world’s colonial peoples. The opposition of revolutionaries to British Imperialism and its allies must be taken for granted. The clashing of two nationalisms (Jewish and Arab in this case) has inevitably given rise to controversy abroad. In the Houses of Parliament sympathy is naturally pro-Zionist; as one MP is reputed to have said, when asked why he supported the Jews in Palestine against the Arabs: “In my constituency I have thousands of Jewish voters, I haven’t a single Arab”. The Labour Party, free from responsibility in the Government of a bloody ...

    In December 1948 Menachen Begin a Zionist politician infamous for his extreme nationalism -even amongst fellow Zionists- began a tour of the United States, hoping to generate publicity and raise funds and support while his party campaign in the elections of that year. Appalled at the visit and the warm welcome he was receiving a group of 28 Jewish intellectuals including Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt published a joint open letter to the New York Times denouncing Begin, his party, his policies and the general campaigns of atrocity and intimidation in Jewish communities and the Palestinian Arab population carried out by Menachen's followers and fellow far right Zionist paramilitaries. The letter can be found on Archive.org but the OCR scans are full of errors which make reading difficult, though the scans are clearer. I think its an interesting document so transcribed it correcting errors. New Palestine Party Visit of Menachen Begin and Aims of Po...