[News] The 'final' downfall of Israel was predicted by Einstein

Fri Jun 4 12:29:59 EDT 2021

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  The 'final' downfall of Israel was predicted by Einstein

Yvonne Ridley - June 4, 2021
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It doesn't take a genius to see that the failing Zionist project called 
Israel is coming apart at the seams. It was a genius, though, who 
predicted the demise of the fledgling state when he was asked to help 
raise funds for its terrorist cells.

Ten years before the state declared its "independence" in 1948 on land 
stolen from the people of Palestine, Albert Einstein described the 
proposed creation of Israel as something which conflicted with "the 
essential nature of Judaism." Having fled Hitler's Germany and 
eventually becoming a US citizen, Einstein needed no lessons in what 
fascism looked like.

One of the greatest physicists in history, and supported by some other 
high profile Jewish intellectuals, Einstein spotted the flaws and fault 
lines in 1946 when he addressed the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry 
on the Palestinian issue. He couldn't understand why Israel was needed. 
"I believe it is bad," he said.

Two years later, in 1948, he and a number of Jewish academics sent a 
letter to the /New York Times/ 
<https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium-1948-n-y-times-letter-by-einstein-slams-begin-1.5340057> 
to protest against a visit to America by Menachem Begin. In the 
well-documented letter, they denounced Begin's Herut (Freedom) party, 
likening it to "a political party closely akin in its organisation, 
methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist 
parties."

Herut was a right-wing nationalist party which went on to become the 
Likud led by Benjamin Netanyahu. As the leader of the Zionist Irgun 
terrorist group, a breakaway from the larger Jewish paramilitary 
organisation, the Haganah, Begin was wanted for terrorist activities 
against the British Mandate authorities. Even when he became prime 
minister of Israel (1997-1983) he never dared to visit Britain, where he 
was still on the most wanted list.

*READ: The pro-Israel lobby fears that support could self-destruct over 
the bombing of Gaza 
<https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210519-the-pro-israel-lobby-fears-that-support-could-self-destruct-over-the-bombing-of-gaza/>*

It was the violence in the run up to the birth of Israel that 
particularly revulsed Einstein, and no doubt this was foremost in his 
mind when he turned down the offer to become Israel's president. This 
offer was put to him in 1952 by the state's founding Prime Minister, 
David Ben-Gurion. Polite as his rejection was, Einstein believed the 
role would conflict with his conscience as a pacifist, that and the fact 
that he would have to move to the Middle East from his home in 
Princeton, New Jersey where he had settled as a German refugee.

While researching Einstein's views I came across another of his letters, 
less well known but probably far more revealing than any other he had 
penned on the subject of Palestine. As brief as it was — just 50 words — 
it included his warning about the "final catastrophe" facing Palestine 
in the hands of Zionist terror groups.

This particular letter was written less than 24 hours after news 
filtered through 
<https://www.muslimobserver.com/einstein-letter-condemning-massacres-by-early-terrorist-israeli-organization/> 
about the Deir Yassin massacre 
<https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20140124-deir-yassin-remembered/> in 
West Jerusalem in April 1948. Around 120 terrorists from Begin's Irgun 
and the Stern Gang (headed by another terrorist who went on to become 
prime minister of Israel, Yitzhak Shamir), entered the Palestinian 
village and slaughtered between 100 and 250 men, women and children. 
Some died from gunshots, others from hand grenades thrown into their 
homes. Others living in the peaceful village were killed after being 
taken on a grotesque parade through West Jerusalem. There were also 
reports of rape, torture and mutilation.

A month later the British ended their Mandate rule in Palestine and 
Israel came into being. The legitimacy claimed by its founders was the 
November 1947 UN Partition Resolution which proposed that Palestine be 
divided into two states, one Jewish and one Arab, with Jerusalem 
administered independently of either side.

A journalist picks up a book on Albert Einstein during a press 
conference displaying newly-revealed letters and photos from the Albert 
Einstein archive, at the Hebrew University July 10, 2006 in Jerusalem. 
[David Silverman/Getty Images]

Einstein's typed letter 
<https://lettersofnote.com/2010/03/04/when-a-real-and-final-catastrophe-should-befall-us/> 
was addressed to Shepard Rifkin, the Executive Director of American 
Friends of the Fighters for the Freedom of Israel, based in New York. 
This group was originally launched to promote the anti-British ideas of 
the Stern Gang, and raise money in America to buy weapons to drive the 
British out of Palestine. Rifkin was appointed its executive director, 
although he later referred to himself as "the fall guy". He had been 
told by Benjamin Gepner, a commander visiting the US, to approach 
Einstein for his help. Rifkin duly obliged, but in the wake of the Deir 
Yassin massacre he received a blistering response from the physicist, 
crafted in just 50 words:

Dear Sir,

When a real and final catastrophe should befall us in Palestine the 
first responsible for it would be the British and the second responsible 
for it the Terrorist organizations build [sic] up from our own ranks. I 
am not willing to see anybody associated with those misled and criminal 
people.

Sincerely yours,

Albert Einstein.

The letter was authenticated and sold at auction 
<https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/important-books-manuscripts-n09885/lot.244.html?fbclid=IwAR04t9su6fDuzCsrVkDux1S5KYpUe7zv3OC_ADWn-Sm9jw_l2tHn5zNr0q8> 
when it resurfaced and has since been described as one of the most 
damning anti-Zionist documents attributed to the genius.

It couldn't be more different in tone and content from the letter he 
wrote to the/Manchester Guardian/ 
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/feb/16/israel.india> in 1929, 
when he lauded the "young pioneers, men and women of magnificent 
intellectual and moral calibre, breaking stones and building roads under 
the blazing rays of the Palestinian sun" and "the flourishing 
agricultural settlements shooting up from the long-deserted soil… the 
development of water power… [and] industry… and, above all, the growth 
of an educational system… What observer… can fail to be seized by the 
magic of such amazing achievement and of such almost superhuman devotion?"

Einstein based his views on when he had visited Palestine for 12 days in 
1923 giving lectures at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. It turned 
out to be his one and only visit to the holy land.

As a lifelong pacifist he endeared himself to global peace movements 
when he wrote the "Manifesto to the Europeans" to ask for peace in 
Europe by means of the political union of all states across the 
continent. Little wonder that he never visited the state of Israel, 
formed as it was from the barrel of a gun, dynamite and the blood of the 
Palestinians.

There have been many "Deir Yassins" since Nobel Laureate Einstein 
condemned outright what he saw as Jewish terrorism. Today, with Gaza 
still smouldering from Benjamin Netanyahu's latest brutal military 
offensive against the largely unarmed civilian population, the future of 
the Zionist state has never looked more precarious.

*Samira Mohyeddin: Remember her name 
<https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210530-samira-mohyeddin-remember-her-name/>*

We are told that all political careers end in failure, and Netanyahu's 
is just one example. We are also told that societal collapse is 
inevitable with the continual downfall of governments and the increase 
of violence often brought about by war and catastrophes.

Israel has held four General Elections in just over two years, which 
have been unable to produce a stable government. Netanyahu's way to 
maintain his grip on power is to demonstrate that he is the strongman 
that the country needs to "defend" itself from Palestinian "terrorists".

Moreover, it is under his watch that the Jewish Nation State Law was 
passed, legislation which contradicts the claim that Israel is a liberal 
democracy.

No wonder, then, that increasing numbers of Jews around the world — in 
whose name Israel claims to exist and act — are, as Einstein was, 
revulsed by the "Nazi and Fascist" political philosophy of Herut which 
seems to have been reincarnated under Likud and parties which are even 
further to the right of the political spectrum. Indeed, decent people of 
all faiths and none are appalled that right-wing extremism appears to be 
on the verge of engulfing mainstream Israel society as a whole.

The most famous Jewish scientist in history knew from its bloody 
conception that an Israel created and run by right-wing, gun-wielding 
zealots was not viable. It shouldn't have taken a genius to tell us 
that, but it did.

The views expressed in this article belong to the author and do not 
necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Middle East Monitor.

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