No state, including our own USA, has any God-given “right to exist.” The Almighty deals in humanity, not in man-made politics and real estate law. God did not give Israel the right to exist, and no more did he create Israel than he did South Korea or North Dakota. God is real-estate neutral, and the Bible does not say otherwise. This is exactly the opposite of the beliefs of what may be the most important voting block in the world who accept to a man that God has gifted the land of the Philistines to today’s Israel.

 

Scofield dispensationalists, who sometimes answer to “Christian-Zionists,” not to mention Israeli Zionists, would argue that the book of Genesis, Chapter 12, is an account of Gods real estate gift to the present day State of Israel. They say God gave the Palestinians land to Israel about 2950 years before the state of Israel and the state of Palestine existed. The Bible is Israel’s land title to Gaza and the West Bank, they say. This belief is the root cause of the conflict in the Mideast today. If anyone wants to question this they must first deny that the Scofield dispensationalist were the swing vote in electing George W. Bush, which makes them the godfathers and soccer-godmothers of the War on Terrorism.

 

Is God in the real estate business?

Clearly to those who take the words in the Bible seriously, God seems to have promised Abram (later Abraham) that he would be the father of big tribe that would eventually bring a blessing upon the whole world. Christians world-wide have always believed this refers to the advent of Jesus Christ, the adopted son of Joseph the Carpenter whose genealogy is given twice in the New Testament and linked to this same Abram. George Frederic Handel wrote about these verses in his rousing Messiah, which many Christian Zionists shout to the rafters at this time every year. But Zionists, including those who call themselves “Christians” claim God was talking about Mediterranean beach front property he was reserving for the present day Israelis.

 

Israel is not without a birth certificate, it was furnished to its then leaders in 1947 by the United Nations, its real godfather.  The Partition Plan is real document signed by real people.  But for Israel, it has a fatal flaw. The partition plan requires Israel to act as a legal nation state. Israel has never done this so its present leaders have abandoned is true legal lineage and invented a Bible yarn to support its occupation of other folks lands. Because it acts illegally every day Israel makes enemies of its neighbors, including Iraq, Iran and Syria, and even Sudan.

 

I do not profess to know exactly what the new president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, meant when he stated that Israel should be “wiped off the face of the map” at a World without Zionism conference. His boldness in the face of atomic threat has challenged the world to take a hard look at Israel in the light of a world in the throes of turmoil, conflict, and the financial devaluation which accompany those conditions.

 

Ahmadinejad may well dream of bombing Israel into ashes. He may believe it is deserved. He is not the only one; there are Israelis who don’t believe in an Israeli state. Israel openly discusses bombing Iran, and our leaders talk about bombing other countries all the time, and we have actually done it many times. Israel has recently acquired (from the USA) an arsenal of depleted uranium bunker buster bombs that become radioactive upon detonation for the stated purpose of destroying specific, non-military targets in Iran. In 1978 Israel bombed Iraq’s nuclear project without proving to anyone that Iraq had anything other than peaceful intentions.

 

Who is a threat to whom?

When we examine Israel’s history over the entire 57 years of its existence, the only honest and legally correct response to the Iranians remark is Yes, Israel should cease to exist as a state, and its name should be expunged from the map. This is not to say the Jewish people who now occupy the land do not have a right to exist. Traditionalist Americans believe that God has given to all men the sacred right to life, as was clearly stated in the US Declaration of Independence. But no state in existence today was ever granted a charter by God, and Jesus words confirm this in that there is not a verse or line in the New Testament that would ever allow any man or nation of men to take the life of another mans child.

 

Israel and its Christian Zionist supporters claim otherwise, but they have no reasonable land claim to justify killing and stealing from the descendants of the Philistines. Their title is a flimsy paper granted by the United Nations in 1947. Because of this paper, which Israel’s aggressive leaders would like to forget, Israel has a special responsibility to observe decency and law. It is an artificial state whose real estate was taken from thousands of existing owners under the auspices of a third party decree granted to the world Zionist leaders on November 29, 1947, by the United Nations.

 

Before that decree, Israel did not exist and did not even have a name. Its decree was voted on and approved by a majority of states, not by a majority of the people in any country involved. The world’s leaders, under intense pressure from the US and the Soviet Union, voted to divide (“partition”) the land then called Palestine by the British, giving specific parts of the land to Israel, and a state supposedly to be called “Palestine.” We prefer to call the people by their ancient historical name, the Philistines since the promise to them was not honored by the United Nations.

 

The majority of states acquiesced. Israel’s future leaders joyously celebrated. The world Zionists who were to become Israel’s government agreed to the Partition Plan” and sought diplomatic recognition. The Arabs who lived there got no vote. Arab nations objected or abstained from the UN vote in protest. Thus, the future “Israel” was carved out of the ancient land of the Philistines without the approval of a single Philistine.

 

We think it is time to stop pretending there is a Palestine; Israelis swear there is not. And we think its time to stop pretending Israel is a real state. This is equally untrue.

 

The United Nations “Partition Plan” found in Andrew Hurley’s “One Nation under Israel,” which the Zionists gratefully accepted, specifically states:

 

“It is recognized that partition has been strongly opposed by Arabs, but it is felt that the opposition would be lessened by a solution that definitively fixes the extent of territory to be allocated to the Jews with its implicit limitation on immigration. The fact that the solution carries the sanction of the United Nations involves a finality which should allay Arab fears of further expansion of the Jewish state.”

 

Because Israel agreed to the Partition Plan it was committed to obeying the territorial restrictions contained therein. But from almost its first day, the artificial state of Israel failed to live up to its charter, invading the borders of the Philistines and committing acts of terrorism against Arabs within their own territory. It has violated dozens of United Nations orders and censures for its inhuman acts against its neighbors. For years Israel was censured as a terrorist state by vote of the General Assembly of United Nations. The USA forced removal of the censure shortly before the first attack on Iraq in 1991.

 

Since Israel accepted the Partition Plan as a condition of its existence and then failed to abide by it, the Plan should be voided like any other defaulted contract. The UN should have convened and reconsidered the issue of Israel’s statehood. The details are available in Andrew Hurley’s One Nation under Israel.* Hurley once told this writer of his intensive search to find the original signed copy of the Partition Plan, a copy of which he finally found on microfiche in a college library, but the original had already been vandalized and expunged from history. Hurley believed it was a document that was too embarrassing to Israel not to be destroyed.

 

There is a second even more logical reason Israel should respect the right of the Philistine Arabs to their land. It is obscenely hypocritical for them to do otherwise. The Zionist plea in 1947 was that Jews needed a homeland because Jewish property had been stolen in Germany and Poland, and Jews had been persecuted unto death. Zionist leaders told the world that this unique persecution was ample cause for the rest of the world to grant a unique dispensation of mercy toward Jews for a homeland. Because some Jews suffered unjustly during World War II, other Jews supposedly deserved special treatment in recompense. Imagine these same people erecting walls and fences around their neighbors!

 

Balderdash, say the Philistines! They naturally wonder why they should have to give up their ancestral lands as restitution for events in which they played no role whatsoever. This question has never been answered. Israel’s history should dictate that Jews should not want to be known as the world’s most racist state.

 

The third reason Israel should respect the Arabs rights is one of legal rights. Prior to Jewish immigration, the Arabs had a land deed system for at least 2000 years, not too different from our own. Arab persons owned the property, some by deeded title and some by eminent domain, as in the case of the Bedouins who occupied land that was, and still is, worthless to anyone but nomads. The story of turning a wasteland into a blooming desert is about 95 percent false, as anyone who travels in Israel from north to south will readily see. Most of Israel is still desert and wasteland. The new inhabitants have plundered the underground water supply to create a showcase farm strip to the point where the Jordan River and the Dead Sea are both slowly disappearing. Only the immigrants from Europe who call themselves Israelis and who say they are returning to a place they have never been could kill the Dead Sea.

 

For these three very good reasons, Israel should be “off the map” not by bombes but by sanctions. So why is it an act of war when the Iranian President says so? His remarks have been discussed as justification to incinerate Iran by those who have the means to do so, Israel and the USA. Whatever happened to “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me?”

 

Conclusion: This writer and a growing list of others,* some of whom are Israeli citizens; say the United Nations Partition Agreement was morally wrong and politically illegal. Its time for the United Nations to reverse this 57 year-old error and declare Israel an illegal state.

 

Andrew Hurley, a respected friend and talented researcher, presented a plan for peace involving a two-state solution. While we agree with every stitch of Hurley’s evidence, we think too much blood has flowed over the dam to continue to support his hope for a two nation solution. Israel has already committed national suicide. It has proved by its acts that even if there were two states Israel would still find ways to suppress the Palestinians.

 

Israel’s brand of segregation is based on racism that exceeds anything seen in the civilized world in the 20th Century. As a result, it is the center of the war involving Islam. There has been little peace since the day in 1947 when Israel was created. Its time for a one-nation solution. Yes, let’s wipe Israel from the map, and let its people who have inhabited its borders start over as best they can to make peace with their neighbors and build a nation. We must demand one state based on mandatory constitutional principles, under which, unlike Iraq, there is a fair division of powers with elections based on population.

 

Is it possible for the militarist Israel to change? Yes it is possible if the USA cuts off all military aid to Israel and to its enemies as well. Then it will find an excuse for peace with its neighbors, including Iran and Syria. Let’s give the people of Israel the motivation for peace for a change.

 

*Holocaust II: Saving Israel from Suicide, by Andrew Hurley, (now available as One Nation under Israel explains the special relationship of Israel to the rest of the world. The Partitioning Agreement is found in part on Page 40. (https://whtt.org/eshop.php?id=28)

 

*World Without Israel, Jerusalem Post, November 15, 2005, (https://whtt.org/index.php?news=2&id=588)