ROOTS OF ISRAEL AND EUROPEAN ANTI-SEMITISM PART FOUR/4 -END

ROOTS OF ISRAEL–PART FOUR–END-  DIDIER BERTIN- 30 MARCH 2010

X - DIFFICULT BIRTH OF ISRAEL

1-BEHAVIOR OF GREAT BRITAIN AFTER WW2

Abdullah, a native of Mecca was crowned King of Jordan in May 1946. In fact that despite Great Britain no longer fully controlled officially Jordan since 1945; it retained control of the Jordan through the Anglo-Jordanian treaty ending in 1956. This treaty allowed Britain to keep military bases, and have control of the Jordanian army called "Arab Legion" in ensuring the “de facto” command. Great Britain had created the Jordanian army in 1923, which was until 1956, under command of the British Lieutenant-General Sir John Bagot Glubb (1897-1986) nicknamed "Glubb Pasha". It must be noted that when the British troops were leaving Israel in May 1948 British Lieutenant-General Sir John Bagot Glubb was preparing at the same time invasion of Israel with his Jordanian legion.

Sir John Bagot Glubb and the new King Abdullah retained benefits of their attack since they kept an additional part of Palestine:  "West Bank" and East side of Jerusalem.
After the armistice on 3d April 1949, King Abdullah integrated officially the new acquired territories in his Kingdom which was named “Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.”

CURRENT DISTRIBUTION OF THE TERRITORY UNDER MANDATE

The revelation of the Holocaust made outrageous the maintenance of British policy of deportation and persecution of Jewish survivors trying to reach to Palestine. Among these scandals has figured the episode of the ship Exodus in July 1947 whose passengers were deported to Germany by British.

On November 29, 1947, the UN has accepted the partition of Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state with 33 positive votes against 13 negative votes and 11 abstentions.
After this vote Great Britain continued to cause trouble in the region until the official end of its mandate 6 months later:

• Through its influence on the Arab Legion of Jordan
• by continuing to restrict Jewish immigration
• by refusing to surrender his powers to a UN Commission
• by refusing to open a Jewish port
• by refusing to end the link between the Palestinian Pound and the British pound
The independence of the state was proclaimed on May 14, 1948, on the eve of the expiry of the British Mandate but Great Britain waited until January 29, 1949 to recognize Israel.
In the days following the independence of Israel, the army of Jordan under the command of Sir Glubb joined those of Egypt, Syria and Iraq in an attempt to invade Israel, which had only 650 000 inhabitants.

Twenty six years after its beginning, the Mandate ended in war, disorders, obliging many Palestinians to leave the country and went to refugees Camps in which many of them are there until today. Great Britain concentrated on its own interests and was unable and not willing in 26 years to organize a decent partition.

2-POSITION OF OTHER COUNTRIES AFTER WW2

The need of the Holocaust to bring a solution proved that it was difficult for European states to overcome their deep-rooted prejudices. As a matter of fact, it appears that the Holocaust was known during the war but was not priority concern as it was reported in 1944, by Jan Karsky, an intelligence officer of the Polish Government who met Roosevelt.

USSR had changed during a brief period and saw Israel as an opponent of British, able to relay its ideas in Middle East and voted de Jure in favour of Israel independence.

It must be noted that during the war of independence, Czechoslovakia, Italy and France supplied many weapons to Israel "while the United States had imposed an embargo."

USSR changed quickly its position under the pretext that the influence of American Jews and through them of the US Government will not permit Israel to be a pro-Soviet component.
The reversal of communist countries has shown a tightening not only against Israel but against Jews. As a matter of fact,  in Czechoslovakia, fourteen people were arrested in November 1951, including Rudolf Slansky, former Secretary General of the Communist Party and Vladimir Clements, former Foreign Affairs Minister, and were accused to have given too many positions in the communist Party and Government to people called "bourgeois nationalists and Zionists." Out of the 14 people, 11 were Jews. In fact, Rudolf Slansky participated in the liquidation of the Zionist organizations in Czechoslovakia after 1949 and was the only leader to have objected to the delivery of arms to Israel during the 1948 war. Rudolf Slansky and Vladimir Clementis were executed in 1952.

XI - CONCLUSION: The Responsibilities of Europe

The independence of Israel came from the resilient two millennium of European anti-Semitism. In 1920, the League of Nations was obliged to consider the reality of this fact and felt obliged to accept the need to create a Jewish national home and this well before the Holocaust.

The mandate given by the League of Nations to Great Britain to achieve this mission was utilized by the latter to only serve its own interests. Britain has spent most of the time to redraw the map of the Middle East according to its wishes in line with its traditional view as colonization as an intense economic exploitation. Until the last moment, Britain rejected the Holocaust survivors to the sea, as it already did with Pogrom survivors with Balfour’s Aliens Act of 1905.

The target of the Mandate was to prevent events as Holocaust, which might have been avoided if would have been completed in less than 18 years.

Paradoxically it was necessary to suffer the Holocaust to achieve thus imperfectly the mandate in haste, disorders and war resulting in numerous Palestinian refugees whose status remains unresolved.

The UN decision in 1947 enabled many nations to acquire a good conscience despite the alerts during WW2 on the ongoing process of the Holocaust had not generated much response.
The situation after the war has devoted the Great Victory of the European anti-Semitism since 63% of European Jews were exterminated.

Today European anti-Semitism still remains despite it has no more material target because the European Jewish population has become negligible. This might explain why anti-Semitic acts concern often cemeteries.

As a matter of fact, the world's Jewish population lives mainly in the United States and Israel. Twelve percent of world Jewry only remains in Europe against almost sixty percent in 1939. The European Jewish population represents only one sixth of what it was in 1939.
We may hope that Europe, which has now overcome the issues of national prerogatives generating conflicts for the benefit of Union, has acquired sufficiently strong and resilient Ethics.

The Charter of Fundamental Rights is a good start subject to a strict respect of it. Europe must give way to tolerance after its excess; it must declare outlaw all political parties based on xenophobia; those parties are today bursting everywhere among European members.

DISTRIBUTION OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE IN THE WORLD
Approximate rounded figures