Shimon Peres, who passed away
Wednesday aged 93 after suffering a stroke on 13 September,
epitomised the disparity between Israel’s image in the West and
the reality of its bloody, colonial policies in Palestine and
the wider region.
Peres was born in modern day
Belarus in 1923, and his family moved to Palestine in the 1930s.
As a young man, Peres joined the Haganah, the militia primarily
responsible for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian villages in
1947-49, during the Nakba.
Shimon Peres (1923-2016)
Best known in the West for role in Oslo
Accords
Family moved to Palestine in the 1930s
Fought with the Haganah during the Nakba
Described as the architect of Israel’s
clandestine nuclear programme
Saw Palestinian citizens as a ‘demographic
threat’
Played key role in early days of West Bank
settlements
Responsible for Qana massacre in Lebanon in
1996
Defended Gaza blockade and recent Israeli
offensives
Despite the violent displacement of the Palestinians being a
matter of historical record, Peres has always insisted that
Zionist forces “upheld the
purity of arms” during the establishment of the State of
Israel. Indeed, he even claimed that before Israel existed, “there
was nothing here”.
Over seven decades, Peres served
as prime minister (twice) and president, though he never
actually won a national election outright. He was a member of 12
cabinets and had stints as defence, foreign and finance
minister.
He is perhaps best known in the
West for his role in the negotiations that led to the 1993 Oslo
Accords which won him, along with Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser
Arafat, the Nobel Peace Prize.
Yet for Palestinians and their
neighbours in the Middle East, Peres’ track record is very
different from his reputation in the West as a tireless “dove”.
The following is by no means a comprehensive summary of Peres’
record in the service of colonialism and apartheid.
Nuclear weapons
Between 1953 and 1965, Peres
served first as director general of Israel’s defence ministry
and then as deputy defence minister. On account of his
responsibilities at the time, Peres has been described as “an
architect of Israel’s nuclear weapons programme” which, to this
day, “remains outside the scrutiny of the International Atomic
Energy Agency (IAEA).”
In 1975, as secret minutes have
since
revealed, Peres met with South African Defence Minister PW
Botha and “offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid
regime.” In 1986, Peres
authorised the Mossad operation that saw nuclear
whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu kidnapped in Rome.
Targeting Palestinian citizens
Peres had a key role in the
military regime imposed on Palestinian citizens until 1966,
under which authorities carried out mass land theft and
displacement.
One such tool was
Article 125 which allowed Palestinian land to be declared a
closed military zone. Its owners denied access, the land would
then be confiscated as “uncultivated”. Peres praised Article 125
as a means to “directly continue the struggle for Jewish
settlement and Jewish immigration.”
Another one of Peres’
responsibilities in his capacity as director general of the
defence ministry was to “Judaise”
the Galilee; that is to say, to pursue policies aimed at
reducing the region’s proportion of Palestinian citizens
compared to Jewish ones.
In 2005, as Vice Premier in the
cabinet of Ariel Sharon, Peres
renewed his attack on Palestinian citizens with plans to
encourage Jewish Israelis to move to the Galilee. His
“development” plan covered 104 communities – 100 of them Jewish.
In
secret conversations with US officials that same year, Peres
claimed Israel had “lost one million dunams [1,000 square
kilometres] of Negev land to the Bedouin”, adding that the
“development” of the Negev and Galilee could “relieve what [he]
termed a demographic threat.”
Supporting illegal settlements in the
West Bank
While Israel’s settlement project
in the West Bank has come to be associated primarily with Likud
and other right-wing nationalist parties, it was in fact Labor
which kick-started the colonisation of the newly-conquered
Palestinian territory – and Peres was an enthusiastic
participant.
During Peres’ tenure as defence
minister, from 1974 to 1977, the Rabin government established a
number of key West Bank settlements, including
Ofra, large sections of which were built on confiscated
privately-owned Palestinian land.
Having played a key role in the
early days of the settlement enterprise, in more recent years,
Peres has
intervened to undermine any sort of measures, no matter how
modest, at sanctioning the illegal colonies – always, of course,
in the name of protecting “peace negotiations”.
The Qana massacre
As prime minister in 1996, Peres
ordered and oversaw “Operation
Grapes of Wrath” when Israeli armed forces killed some 154
civilians in Lebanon and injured another 351. The operation,
widely believed to have been a
pre-election show of strength, saw Lebanese civilians
intentionally targeted.
According to the official Israeli
Air Force
website (in Hebrew, not English), the operation involved
“massive bombing of the Shia villages in South Lebanon in order
to cause a flow of civilians north, toward Beirut, thus applying
pressure on Syria and Lebanon to restrain Hezbollah.”
The campaign’s most notorious
incident was the Qana massacre, when Israel shelled a United
Nations compound and killed 106 sheltering civilians. A UN
report
stated that, contrary to Israeli denials, it was “unlikely”
that the shelling “was the result of technical and/or procedural
errors.”
Later, Israeli gunners told
Israeli television that they had
no regrets over the massacre, as the dead were “just a bunch
of Arabs”. As for Peres, his conscience was also clean:
“Everything was done according to clear logic and in a
responsible way,” he said. “I am at peace.”
Gaza – defending blockade and brutality
Peres came into his own as one of
Israel’s most important global ambassadors in the last ten
years, as the Gaza Strip was subjected to a devastating blockade
and three major offensives. Despite global outrage at such
policies, Peres has consistently backed collective punishment
and military brutality.
In January 2009, for example,
despite calls by “Israeli human rights organisations…for
‘Operation Cast Lead’ to be halted”, Peres
described “national solidarity behind the military
operation” as “Israel’s finest hour.” According to Peres, the
aim of the assault “was to provide a strong blow to the people
of Gaza so that they would lose their appetite for shooting at
Israel.”
During “Operation Pillar of
Defence” in November 2012, Peres “took on the job of helping the
Israeli public relations effort, communicating the Israeli
narrative to world leaders,” in the words of
Ynetnews. On the eve of Israel’s offensive, “Peres
warned Hamas that if it wants normal life for the people of
Gaza, then it must stop firing rockets into Israel.”
In 2014, during an unprecedented
bombardment of Gaza, Peres stepped up once again to whitewash
war crimes. After Israeli forces killed four small children
playing on a beach, Peres knew who to
blame – the Palestinians: “It was an area that we warned
would be bombed,” he said. “And unfortunately they didn’t take
out the children.”
The choking blockade, condemned
internationally as a form of prohibited collective punishment,
has also been defended by Peres – precisely on the grounds that
it is a form of collective punishment. As Peres
put it in 2014: “If Gaza ceases fire, there will be no need
for a blockade.”
Peres’ support for collective
punishment also extended to Iran. Commenting in 2012 on reports
that six million Iranians suffering from cancer were unable to
get treatment due to sanctions, Peres
said: “If they want to return to a normal life, let them
become normal.”
Unapologetic to the end
Peres was always clear about the
goal of a peace deal with the Palestinians. As he
said in 2014: “The first priority is preserving Israel as a
Jewish state. That is our central goal, that is what we are
fighting for.” Last year he
reiterated these sentiments in an interview with AP, saying:
“Israel should implement the two-state solution for her own
sake,” so as not to “lose our [Jewish] majority.”
This, recall, was what shaped
Labor’s support for the Oslo Accords. Rabin,
speaking to the Knesset not long before his assassination in
1995, was clear that what Israel sought from the Oslo Accords
was a Palestinian “entity” that would be “less than a state”.
Jerusalem would be Israel’s undivided capital, key settlements
would be annexed and Israel would remain in the Jordan Valley.
A few years ago, Peres described
the Palestinians as “self-victimising.”
He went on: “They victimise themselves. They are a victim of
their own mistakes unnecessarily.” Such cruel condescension was
characteristic of a man for whom “peace” always meant colonial
pacification.
Addendum by Radio Islam:
Shimon Peres with elements
from Israel's criminal army
It has to be remembered that Shimon Peres was Israel's Minister of
Defence.
With Israel's war criminal leaders and
rogues
These men are responsible for countless massacres and human
rights abuses.
Shimon Peres (far right) with David
Ben-Gurion, Expulser-of-Arabs-in-Chief and founder of
"Israel", and Moshe Dayan, the architect behind
the 1967 "Six-Day War" aggression.
Butcher with butcher...Shimon Peres,
the man behind the massacre of Lebanese refugees at the
UN base in Qana, 1996
- with Ariel Sharon, the man behind the
massacre of Palestinian civilians in the refugee
camps of Sabra and Chatila, Beirut, 1982.
Peres with the henchmen of Apartheid South Africa
These are the men who were responsible for the the perverted
racist Apartheid system in
South Africa and the incarceration of
Nelson Mandela.
A racist alliance, left to right:
Eschel Rhoodie - South African Director of
Propaganda, Yitzhak Rabin - Israeli
Prime
Minister, Henrik van den Bergh - Director
of the South African Secret Service, and Shimon
Peres
- Israeli Defence Minister. Meeting at the Israeli
PM's residence, April 11, 1975.
As caption states Shimon Peres (left in
picture) with Apartheid South Africa's leader
Prime Minister
B. J. Vorster, and Israeli Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin.
It should be
noted that
Vorster's Boer movement
Ossewabrandwag is usually deemed "pro-Nazi", but the
Jews have completely surpressed common knowledge of
their own cooperation with these people...
(For more, read the article:
When Israel
invited a South African Nazi on a state visit)
Shimon Peres with Israel's racist rabbis,
instigators of hatreds
These men are the preachers
of hate, a hate that is transferred into real-life abuse and
oppression of Palestinians or whovever stands in the way of the
Jewish plans (Lebanese, Iraqis, Iranians, Germans...)
Israeli President Shimon Peres meets
with Rabbi Ovadia Yosef in
April 2012.
Shimon Peres with
racist Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef.
President Shimon Peres visiting Shas' spiritual leader Rabbi
Ovadia Yosef in 2012.
Rabbi Dov Yosef, center, seen with his
father Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, left, and
President Shimon Peres.
Former Israeli President Shimon Peres with the Sephardic Chief Rabbi
Yitzhak Yosef.
In 2018 Chief Rabbi Yitzhak
Yosef was quoted stating that Blacks are monkeys!
(See The Times Of Israel,
20 March 2018).
With politicians, journalists,
"intellectuals"
With Hillary Clinton.
With CNN's Christiane Amanpour.
Shimon Peres with
anti-Islamic writer Salman Rushdie, in
2008.
With rabid Zionist French Jew, writer, "intellectual",
Bernard-Henri
Lévy (BHL).
Shimon Peres withDalai
Lama, darling of the West.
Dalai Lama, the clown, humiliating himself even
further, at another occasion...
Shimon Peres with "liberal" and "pro-human rights" celebrities...
Celebrities with Israeli war criminal Shimon Peres - "The Butcher of Qana" -
the man behind the 1996 "Operation Grapes of Wrath" attack on
Lebanon.
Shimon Peres with arm around actress
Sharon Stone, together with former Soviet-Russian
leader Mickhail Gorbachev.
Shimon Peres withBarbara
Streisand after she sang two songs
during his 90th
birthday gala in Jerusalem, June 18, 2013.
Another pic of Peres and Streisand.
Shimon Peres with
Jewish actor Jerry Seinfeld, from the
Jewish TV-comedy show that bears his name, "Seinfeld".
Shimon Peres with Jewish
actor Jason Alexander, from the Jewish "Seinfeld" show
("George Costanza").
Shimon Peres meets
Robert De Niro and De Niros' son in Jerusalem, June
2013.
Robert De Niro
and
Shimon Peres,Jerusalem, June 2013.
Peres with Hollywood actor
Leonardo DiCaprio.
Shimon Peres with American Jewish comedian and
political commentator Bill Maher
(far right).
Shimon Peres withBono, of Irish rock band U2.
Peres and Bono embracing/kissing. It should be remembered that Bono is portrayed by
the medias as an ardent activist for "human rights"!
Peres embracing Madonna, the "Queen
of Pop".
Shimon Peres with
Madonna
and
British filmmaker Guy Richie.
Colombian singer
Shakira
prostitutes herself letting her be kissed by
Shimon
Peres, "The Butcher of Qana".Note that she is
half-Lebanese!
Peres with actress Eva Longoria.
With Jewish American singer and dancer Paula Abdul.
American-Israeli Hollywood actress Natalie Portman
speaks with Shimon Peres
in Jerusalem, 2015.
Shimon Pereswith
Israeli Hollywood actress Gal Gadot
("Wonder Woman").
With the Jewish media elite
Peres
with DreamWorks' Jews in
Hollywood, Katzenberg
et al.
The Jew Jeffrey Katzenberg of DreamWorks
Animation presents Shimon Peres with a gift,
the original art
work from the film The Prince of Egypt.
President of Israel Shimon Peres and director
Steven Spielberg.
2014: Former ADL
national director Abraham Foxman
presenting two of ADL's top awards to Shimon
Peres, the ninth president of the State of
Israel, and Eric Schmidt, former
executive chairman of Google.
ADL - the
Anti-Defamation League - is the Jews' prime
instrument for intellectual oppression and the
policing of thought, the crackdown on dissent.
The 2016 Shimon Peres funeral -
"The Gathering Of The Hypocrites"
A clear sign that things aren't right in this present world
is noted when a known murderer, an instigator of hate, an
architect of war and endless calamities - dies, and his funeral
is saluted by the purported champions of "Human Rights" and
"The Free World".
Pictures from the macabre event - the Shimon Peres funeral in
2016 - where the leaders of the Goyim - the non-Jews - line
up to show the Jews their submission. Prince Charles,
David Cameron, Tony Blair,
Bill Clinton...
(For more see: "Shimon Peres funeral: World leaders unite to mourn the former Israeli president", The Express, September 30, 2016).
UK's Boris Johnsonwith kippah at the
Shimon
Peres funeral.
Former US President Bill Clintonwith Jewish
skull cap, kippah, on
head holding back his (fake?) tears, at the coffin of the
Zionist leading figure, Peres.
US President Barack Obama, alsowith Jewish
skull cap, kippah, on
head, at the coffin of the
dead Zionist.
Larry King tweeting on the 2016 passing of Zionist war criminal
Shimon Peres,
"a remarkable man": "My thoughts are with his family &
Israel"
Jewish celeb musician and dancer Paula Abdul,
mourning the death of Peres, "deeply grieved".
Actress Sharon Stone mourns Shimon
Peres' death, with a broken heart EMOJI:
"Godspeed my friend."
And Madonna calls the dead Zionist war
monger a "remarkable Human Being".
A short reminder...
Shimon Peres' 1996 massacre at the UN
base in Qana, Southern Lebanon; a UN soldier with a
butchered baby.
Hey, if you wanna throw up seeing this pic, don't blame
us. Don't shoot the messenger!
This is Zionism -
applied Judaism, at work! Actually the Jewish religious
Psalm 137:9 states: "Blessed shall he be who takes
your little ones and dashes them against the rock!"
Trailer of a 33 min Journeyman documentary on
the Shimon Peres' 1996 "Grapes of Wrath"
attack on Lebanon and the Qana massacre.
"[...] the reality is that the Israeli Labour Party is
just as racist and violent towards the Palestinians and their
Arab neighbours as the Zionist right – if not more so
considering its actual historical record. [...] it was
in fact the “Zionist left” governments which spearheaded, led,
developed and championed Israel’s nuclear weapons [...] it was Israel’s supposed “man of peace,” the war
criminal Shimon Peres who ushered Israel’s “Samson option” into
reality. [...] Rabin and his “defence” minister Shimon
Peres – both still sometimes bizarrely hailed by politicians in
the West as “men of peace” – enthusiastically embraced
collaboration with the racist white minority South African
regime."
Shimon Peres: Israeli war criminal whose victims the West ignored
Revealed: how Israel offered to sell South Africa nuclear weapons
