Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Arthur R. Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century
ture of Zionism and Israel. It is now widely assumed that Zionism was born at the
end of World War II, when large numbers of European Jews, having decided that
they could no longer live in Europe, invaded a previously all-Arab Palestine and
drove the Arab inhabitants out. In fact, Zionism, the movement for the establishment
of a Jewish state in Palestine, has a history that starts in the late nineteenth
century. By 1917, Zionism was such a potent political force that Britain, locked in
bloody struggle with Imperial Germany, made the “Balfour Declaration,” effectively
promising Palestine to the Jews, in return for Jewish support in the war.
Since Britain also had certain agreements with the Arabs, Palestine became the
“too often promised land.”
Zionist organizations promoted the movement of Jews to Palestine after World
War I, and during the Thirties, as the population figures above suggest, Palestine
had become perhaps the biggest headache of British foreign policy, which faced
the impossible task of reconciling the Jewish and Arab claims to Palestine. It was
during the late Thirties that Zionism found itself actively cooperating with the Gestapo,
which met regularly with Zionist representatives and even helped in the
provision of farms and facilities to set up training centers in Germany and Austria
for Jewish emigrants. The Zionists and the Gestapo had the same objective of getting
Jews out of Europe. 417
The consequence of World War II did not create Zionism as an effective political
movement; they merely gave Zionism the world political victory it needed
for the final stage of the takeover of Palestine. All world power had fallen to the
U.S. and the Soviet Union, both of which were most friendly to the Zionist cause
at the time. Under the circumstances, the Arab position was hopeless, because it
depended on the firmness and political independence of a Britain that was almost
prostrate politically and economically.
Migration to the USA
While it is possible to get a presumably fair idea of the extent of Jewish immigration
into Palestine, one encounters what amounts to a stone wall in attempting
to determine this for the U.S. We have seen that the policy of classifying immigrants
as “Hebrews” was dropped in the same month of 1943 that the U.S. government
went into the business of processing DPs on a large scale through the
creation of UNRRA. Immediately after the war, there was naturally much Jewish
pressure for the admission of great numbers of Jewish immigrants, and in December
1945, President Truman announced that there would be an acceleration in the
immigration process in order to allow a higher rate of admission. While Truman
regretted that the unused quotas from the war years were not cumulative and
could not be applied to future admissions, he pledged that all outstanding immi-
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Kimche & Kimche, 15-19. Editor’s note: cf. Francis R. Nicosia, The Third Reich and the Palestine
Question.