At Unz, several commenters

thought it was unfair for me to fault Einstein for siding with the Zionists in 1938, when their crimes came later, after Israel's founding in 1948. I answered:

Irgun operations in 1937-38:

1937, March– 2 Arabs killed on Bat Yam beach.
1937, November 14– 10 Arabs killed by Irgun units launching attacks around Jerusalem, (“Black Sunday”)
1938, April 12– 2 Arabs and 2 British policemen were killed by a bomb in a train in Haifa.
1938, April 17– 1 Arab was killed by a bomb detonated in a cafe in Haifa
1938, May 17– 1 Arab policeman was killed in an attack on a bus in the Jerusalem-Hebron road.
1938, May 24– 3 Arabs were shot and killed in Haifa.
1938, June 19– 18 Arabs killed (9 men, 6 women and 3 children), 24 injured by a bomb that was thrown into a crowded Arab market place in Haifa.
1938, June 23– 2 Arabs were killed near Tel Aviv.
1938, June 26– 7 Arabs were killed by a bomb in Jaffa.
1938, June 27– 1 Arab was killed in the yard of a hospital in Haifa.
1938, July 5– 7 Arabs were killed in several shooting attacks in Tel Aviv.
1938, July 5– 3 Arabs were killed by a bomb detonated in a bus in Jerusalem.
1938, July 5– 1 Arab was killed in another attack in Jerusalem.
1938, July 6– 18 Arabs and 5 Jews were killed by two simultaneous bombs in the Arab melon market in Haifa. More than 60 people were wounded. The toll over two days of riots and reprisals was 33 dead, 111 wounded.
1938, July 8– 4 Arabs were killed by a bomb in Jerusalem.
1938, July 16– 10 Arabs were killed by a bomb at a marketplace in Jerusalem.
1938, July 25– 43 Arabs were killed by a bomb at a marketplace in Haifa.
1938, August 26– 24 Arabs were killed by a bomb at a marketplace in Jaffa.



Kevin Barrett added:


The full story (most of it anyway) is told in State of Terror: How Terrorism Created Modern Israel by Thomas Suarez. From my review:

“Suarez’s meticulously researched volume shows that almost from the moment Zionists set foot in Palestine they began wantonly murdering and maiming people in service to their plan to empty the land of its inhabitants. Though the great majority of their victims have been Palestinians, the Zionists also slaughtered Europeans, Americans, non-Palestinian Arabs, and even their fellow Jews.”

https://crescent.icit-digital.org/articles/book-exposes-history-of-zionist-terrorism


AnonStater further elucidated:


The journals of Ahad Ha’am (a.k.a. Asher Zvi Hirsch Ginsberg) include some of the best evidence that zionists were intent on displacing Palestinians from the very beginning of Herzl’s project. From Wrestling With Zion (1898):

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ahad_Ha%27am

The Arabs, especially the urban elite, see and understand what we are doing and what we wish to do on the land, but they keep quiet and pretend not to notice anything. For now, they do not consider our actions as presenting a future danger to them. … But, if the time comes that our people’s life in Eretz Yisrael will develop to a point where we are taking their place, either slightly or significantly, the natives are not going to just step aside so easily. …

We must surely learn, from both our past and present history, how careful we must be not to provoke the anger of the native people by doing them wrong, how we should be cautious in our dealings with a foreign people among whom we returned to live, to handle these people with love and respect and, needless to say, with justice and good judgment. And what do our brothers do? Exactly the opposite! They were slaves in their Diasporas, and suddenly they find themselves with unlimited freedom, wild freedom that only a country like Turkey [the Ottoman Empire] can offer. This sudden change has planted despotic tendencies in their hearts, as always happens to former slaves [‘eved ki yimlokh – when a slave becomes king – Proverbs 30:22]. They deal with the Arabs with hostility and cruelty, trespass unjustly, beat them shamefully for no sufficient reason, and even boast about their actions. There is no one to stop the flood and put an end to this despicable and dangerous tendency.

Dispossession was the objective from the onset:

https://www.mepc.org/node/4861

Thus from the very beginning of Zionism’s dream of creating a Jewish state, there were two complementary and equally imperative objectives: gain land and replace the majority population, either by denying them their rights, out-populating them or displacing them by one method or another. Despite soothing promises by Herzl and other Zionists that Jews and Palestinians would live happily side by side, there was, indeed, no other way to create Zionism’s envisioned Jewish state in Palestine.

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