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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">The 'final' downfall of Israel
was predicted by Einstein</h1>
<div class="gmail-credits gmail-reader-credits">Yvonne Ridley
- June 4, 2021</div>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Two years later, in 1948, he and a number of Jewish
academics sent a <a
href="https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium-1948-n-y-times-letter-by-einstein-slams-begin-1.5340057"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">letter to the
<em>New York Times</em></a> 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."</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>READ: <a
href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210519-the-pro-israel-lobby-fears-that-support-could-self-destruct-over-the-bombing-of-gaza/"
moz-do-not-send="true">The pro-Israel lobby fears
that support could self-destruct over the bombing
of Gaza</a></strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>This particular letter was written less than 24 hours
after <a
href="https://www.muslimobserver.com/einstein-letter-condemning-massacres-by-early-terrorist-israeli-organization/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">news filtered
through</a> about the <a
href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20140124-deir-yassin-remembered/"
moz-do-not-send="true">Deir Yassin massacre</a> 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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<p class="gmail-wp-caption-text">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]</p>
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<p>Einstein's <a
href="https://lettersofnote.com/2010/03/04/when-a-real-and-final-catastrophe-should-befall-us/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">typed letter</a>
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:</p>
<p>Dear Sir,</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Sincerely yours,</p>
<p>Albert Einstein.</p>
<p>The letter was <a
href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/important-books-manuscripts-n09885/lot.244.html?fbclid=IwAR04t9su6fDuzCsrVkDux1S5KYpUe7zv3OC_ADWn-Sm9jw_l2tHn5zNr0q8"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">authenticated
and sold at auction</a> when it resurfaced and has
since been described as one of the most damning
anti-Zionist documents attributed to the genius.</p>
<p>It couldn't be more different in tone and content
from <a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/feb/16/israel.india"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">the letter he
wrote to the<em> Manchester Guardian</em></a> 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?"</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong><a
href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210530-samira-mohyeddin-remember-her-name/"
moz-do-not-send="true">Samira Mohyeddin: Remember
her name</a></strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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".</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The views expressed in this article belong to the
author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial
policy of Middle East Monitor.</p>
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