Book Draft in Progress Genesis and Prospect of the Palestine-Israel Conflict: From the Jewish Question in Europe to the Jewish State in Palestine and the Jewish Lobby in America Dr. Mohamed Elmey Elyassini U.S. Fulbright Scholar 2011-2012 Associate Professor of Geography Department of Earth & Environmental Systems Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana, USA Email: [email protected] URL: https://www.indstate.edu/cas/faculty/melyassini 1 Book Draft in Progress To all dead, living, and unborn victims of Zionism and the State of Israel 2 Book Draft in Progress Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface The Jewish Question in Europe 1. Introduction to the Jewish Question 2. The Non-Jewish Origin of Zionism 3. The Non-Herzlian Genesis of Herzlian Zionism The Jewish State in Palestine 4. The Non-Semitic Origins of Contemporary Jews 5. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Jewish Settlers since 1948 6. The Non-Zionist Future of Palestine The Jewish Lobby in America 7. What is the Jewish Lobby in the United States? 8. Branches of the Jewish Lobby in the United States 9. The Jewish Lobby at Work 10. Why Does America Support Israeli Jews who do not believe in Jesus against Palestinian Muslims and Christians who do believe in Jesus? Endnotes Chronology of Key Dates Maps Bibliography Index 3 Book Draft in Progress Acknowledgements While the acknowledgements section of a book praises the efforts of those who contributed to the work, it sometimes ought to denounce the efforts of those who tried to undermine the work. The central argument of this book was outlined in six conference presentations to the annual meetings of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) between 2002 and 2008. However, from the outset there were overt and covert attempts by pro-Israel individuals and groups to undermine and obstruct the progress of this research. In an article published in the 2002 AAG Newsletter 37 (5) and entitled “The Middle East Comes to Los Angeles,” AAG Executive Director Ronald F. Abler revealed to the readers that the Israeli Geographical Society and the Jewish Simon Wiesenthal Center and their Zionist political associates in the United States had unsuccessfully lobbied to remove the first conference presentation (a summary of the research project entitled “Zionism Is Back To Square One: From the Jewish Question in Europe to the Israeli Problem in the Arab World”) from the AAG program in Los Angeles in 2002. Because of pro-Israeli pressure, AAG Executive Director Ronald F. Abler called me when I was about to leave Terre Haute for Los Angeles. He wanted me to give him permission to have my presentation videotaped. I did not give him permission and I told him that he should not submit to such outrageous pressure. At the same time, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean, and Aaron Breitbart, senior researcher of the Jewish Wiesenthal Center, sent a written petition to AAG President Janice J. Monk and strongly urged her to have the AAG ban what they called the “bashing of Israel.” These pro-Israel individuals and groups had also managed to have the content of the first conference presentation editorialized and distorted in The Jerusalem Post (20 March 2002), on The Simon Wiesenthal Center website (20 March 2002), and in The Los Angeles Times (21 March 2002). Moreover, The Los Angeles Times refused to publish a short op-ed reply to its distorted story about the AAG paper presentation. I can cite one of many examples that typify Israeli arrogance in terms of denying simple verifiable facts related to the Palestine-Israel conflict. At the April 2018 Annual Meeting of the AAG in New Orleans, Louisiana, I presented a paper abstract entitled "Geopolitics and Culture: From British-Sponsored Zionism to American-Sponsored Jihadism." During the question-and- answer session attended by a number of Israeli professors, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Professor Emeritus Amiram Gonen ignored and disregarded the British Balfour Declaration of 1917 and claimed without shame that the British have nothing to do with Zionism. The first paper (entitled “The Non-Jewish Origin of Zionism”) of this research was published in The Arab World Geographer in 2002, translated to Arabic by Dr. Masad Arbid and published in Majallat Kanaan in 2003, and republished in English in the International Journal of the Humanities in 2005. The second paper (entitled “Geopolitical Genesis and Prospect of Zionism”) was withdrawn from press in August 2003 by the American editor of Political Geography, Professor John O’Loughlin of the University of Colorado, after it had been peer- reviewed by three anonymous reviewers, accepted by the journal’s British editor, Professor David Slater of Loughborough University, copyedited by Elsevier Publishers, and posted on the website of Science Direct for about two months as an article in press. A revised version of the paper was entitled “Geopolitical Genesis of Herzlian Zionism,” peer-reviewed again, and accepted in October 2004 for publication in Political Geography only to be withdrawn again 4 Book Draft in Progress from the publication queue in December 2004 by John O’Loughlin who “justified” his decision to the author in these words: “I took the unusual step of intervening twice because I am determined to uphold the journal’s reputation and I acted to prevent the publication of a paper that draws upon such ‘sources’ [Roger Garaudy’s The Founding Myths of Modern Israel and Michael Bradley’s Chosen People from the Caucasus: Jewish Origins, Delusions, Deceptions and Historical Role in the Slave Trade, Genocide and Cultural Colonization], as scurrilous and vile as some of those you have chosen to use.” John O’Loughlin went further and considered it to be "offensive," "strange," "egregious," "selective," “incomplete,” and/or "irrelevant" to discuss in the paper significant and relevant topics such as (1) Joseph Stalin's reply to the Balfour Declaration of 1917 by the establishment in 1928 of the current Russian Autonomous Jewish Region of Birobidzhan near the border between China and Russia, (2) the East European and Hebrew names of Israeli presidents and prime ministers, (3) the Khazar origins of contemporary Ashkanazi Jews, (4) the unexplained suicide of the family members of Theodor Herzl (the alleged founder of Zionism), (5) the reference to espionage charges against Prussian-Jewish Moses Hess in Prussia in 1849 and against French- Jewish Alfred Dreyfus in France in 1894, (6) the British strategy to have European and Russian Jews fill in the blank for the non-existing native Protestants in the Holy Land, (7) the use of the phrase "the Jewish question" in the paper as well as in the writings of Karl Marx, (8) the role of British agent Reverend William Hechler in the Zionization of Eastern European and Russian Jews, (9) the symbols embodied in the current Israeli flag and how they were unrelated to the original flag proposed by Theodor Herzl (a white flag symbolizing a pure new life and seven golden stars representing the seven hours of the working-day), and (10) the discussion of why Western powers backed and continue to back their own Jewish citizens to dispossess and displace the Muslim and Christian natives of the Holy Land, etc… John O’Loughlin, an enthusiast aficionado pro-Israel Irish immigrant in the United States, a 2004-2005 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, and author of “Editorial Essays: Israel at 50,” Political Geography 18(2), 1999, stressed that the paper’s references to Bradley and Garaudy "undermine the credibility of the whole exercise." In his letter to the Board of Political Geography (dated 20 December 2004) about the editorial procedures he used to justify withdrawing the accepted paper "Geopolitical Genesis of Herzlian Zionism", John O’Loughlin explained his devotion to the matter in these words: "[On the eve of the April 2005 meeting of the Board of Political Geography] John O'Loughlin is going through this large stack of approximately 40 submissions - reading all papers, all referee reports, examining all revisions, and looking at the communications between David Slater and the authors.” That is an average of reading and reviewing more than 10 papers and their related reports per month. Obviously, John O’Loughlin was not working on his own and was not motivated by the “journal’s reputation” as he claimed when he “took the unusual step of intervening twice” to prevent the publication of a paper that was peer-reviewed and accepted for publication. He simply wanted to maintain the journal’s reputation as a pro-Israel journal that publishes pro-Israel editorial essays like the ones John O’Loughlin himself published in 1999. Professor David Slater, the British Editor of Political Geography, wrote (January 10, 2005) to Professor O'Loughlin: “The paper has a long history and I oversaw a period of review that lasted up to 2 years. The paper was revised on a number of occasions and was finally approved by 2 referees and a third referee was neutral in their assessment but had no objection to publication. After this process you have unilaterally taken an arbitrary decision which is unacceptable... I 5 Book Draft in Progress trust you will see sense and reverse your decision and proceed with the publication ... To do otherwise would be to break the contract the journal has with an author of a submitted paper which has been accepted for publication." Professor Slater wrote (January 11, 2005) also to the Editorial Board Members of Political Geography: “This is a serious matter. I have written to John O'Loughlin as you can see below but I wanted to clarify my own position here. The Ould- Mey paper (which discusses the Geopolitical Genesis of Herzlian Zionism) has been surrounded by controversy since 2002.