Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews, Vol. 1: The False Messiah [Paperback]

Alan Hart (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 2009

The False Messiah is the first volume in the series, ZIONISM: THE REAL ENEMY OF THE JEWS, an epic journey through the propaganda lies and documented truth of history by a seasoned reporter who interviewed and was in the good graces of the major players on all sides. Alan Hart has given an honest expression of the needs, motives and dilemmas faced by all parties. He offers many unique insights into the formative events in this region and the evolution of relations within and between the Israeli, Arab, US, UK and European leadership. This is the first book to put the struggle for Palestine into its global context--to show how all the pieces of a complicated jig-saw puzzle fit together. It's also the first ever account of events to address the motives, needs, and dilemmas faced by all sides: diaspora Jews' real fear of Holocaust II; the Palestinian right to justice and self-determination; the legitimate anger of the Arab masses at American support for Zionism right or wrong; and the inevitable corruption and repression of the regimes of the existing Arab Order who, fearing harsher Israeli assaults, have tried to contain them.

"Hart s readable account of history, his obviously erudite analysis and his ability in bringing the factual conflict to life on the page ensures the reader's interest is unwavering throughout. His passion and empathy with both sides is apparent. For the Jews, the unspeakable fear of another Holocaust due to Zionist manipulation and tyranny; and for the Arabs and Muslims, the anger and humiliation they are feeling every day that Palestine is being torn apart." -- Samira Quraishy, researcher, Islamic Human Rights Commission

"Hart's book is a good act, a brave act for someone from British state media. He says he has to live with himself, and it is obvious this book comes from a place of integrity. Volume One: The False Messiah augurs well for the rest of the series." -- KIM PETERSEN, Dissident Voice

"These two volumes are a vital exposition of Zionist history and its interface with diplomacy and the Israel-Arab conflict, up until the assassination of President Kennedy. Alan Hart promises another volume, perhaps two, and one looks forward to their publication.... an essential understanding of what happened in the struggle for Israel-Palestine and of the role of Zionism in this sad story." -- REUEL AMDUR, The Canadian Charger, January 27, 2010

Editorial Reviews

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"In this extraordinary book, Alan Hart has succeeded in elucidating for us the immediate and long term dangers involved in the unconditional Western support for Zionism and its oppressive policies against the Palestinians. The author provides us with a chilling exposure of how this embrace developed and continues to endanger the Jewish existence and fuels the anti-Semitism that refuses to disappear. Motivated by a genuine concern for peace in Israel and Palestine and beyond in the world at large, Alan Hart has written not only a strong indictment of Zionism, based on both research and personal experience, but also provided us with a charter for a better future..."
Ilan Pappe, Israel's leading revisionist historian and author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

"In this extraordinary book, Alan Hart has succeeded in elucidating for us the immediate and long term dangers involved in the unconditional Western support for Zionism and its oppressive policies against the Palestinians. The author provides us with a chilling exposure of how this embrace developed and continues to endanger the Jewish existence and fuels the anti-Semitism that refuses to disappear. Motivated by a genuine concern for peace in Israel and Palestine and beyond in the world at large, Alan Hart has written not only a strong indictment of Zionism, based on both research and personal experience, but also provided us with a charter for a better future."
Clare Short, MP-UK and International Development Secretary in Tony Blairs government until her resignation over Iraq

"I hope that all who are concerned about the troubles of the Middle East will read this book. It is immensely readable and a magnificent piece of work which reflects Alan Hart's close relationship with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. We are in terrible trouble in the Middle East. The book explains how we got here and how we could move forward. The tragedy is hurting Palestinians, Israelis and the rest of the world. All who wish to engage in finding a way forward will be helped by reading this book."
Mark Bruzonsky
MiddleEast.org, founder
World Jewish Congress, first Washington Representative

"As a principled and historical review it is excellent, of great importance I think in terms of content, and the series when finished may even be considered heroic in effort and scope."
Samira Quraishy, researcher, Islamic Human Rights Commission

Review

"I hope that all who are concerned about the troubles of the Middle East will read this book. It is immensely readable and a magnificent piece of work which reflects Alan Hart's close relationship with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. We are in terrible trouble in the Middle East. The book explains how we got here and how we could move forward. The tragedy is hurting Palestinians, Israelis and the rest of the world. All who wish to engage in finding a way forward will be helped by reading this book."

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Product Details

• Paperback: 338 pages
• Publisher: Clarity Press (April 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0932863647
• ISBN-13: 978-0932863645
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #695,183 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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63 of 72 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Review: Zionism, the Real Enemy of the Jews, Vol One, by Alan Hart August 19, 2009

By William H. Bell, Jr.

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An informed, enlightening, candid and sometimes disturbing expose' of Zionism. A must read for anyone and everyone who wants to be truly informed on the origin and ongoing Arab-Iraeli conflict versus the babble of the media. Clear delineations between religious Judaism and political Zionism that should provoke healthy debate and clarity for intelligent discussion. After reading this book, no one need ever be intimidated by the false accusation of being labeled anti-Semitic for opposing Zionism. Perhaps future revisions could focus on more inclusive definitions of religious or spiritual Zionism.

70 of 81 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Insightful and objectively written July 20, 2008

By Roundtable Knight

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Alan Hart is friend to Jews and Palestinians. He was a personal friend of both Golda Meir and Yasser Arafat. His insight into the recent history of modern Israel and past and current conflicts in the Middle East is outstanding. It is a must read for all who are genuinely seeking a broad understanding of the most important events facing our world today.

188 of 225 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars The Truth Is Often Uncomfortable November 15, 2007

By Many Worlds

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The premise of this book is obvious from the title and the author presents a wealth of factual evidence to back it up. Zionism is an ideology based on the claim that "God" gave land in the Middle East to the Jewish people several thousand years ago. The concept is clearly ridiculous given that the vast majority of Jewish people today have no relationship to the Jews of antiquity other than a religious belief that many adopted relatively recently. This fact alone makes a mockery of the idea that a portion of land in the Middle East belongs to the Jews of today. It also makes a mockery of the idea that to criticize Zionism is anti-semitic - hatred of Jewish people.

The Zionist movement is and always has been owned by a small group of individuals who used the manipulative power of religion to further their own selfish agenda.

The January 16th 2007 edition of Boston Globe ran an editorial by the editorial page director, H.D.S. Greenway. It was a typical apparently left-of-center piece on a possible attack on Iran, with Greenway urging everyone to "step back and take a deep breath". Towards the end of the piece however, Greenway makes a comment in which he momentarily strikes at the heart of the matter only to then gloss it over with a line taken directly from the Zionist book of truisms.

"Every Israeli prime minister has had to fear in one remote corner of the brain that the effect of Zionism might be to gather all the Jews in one place for destruction. This fear has been brought front and center by Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's criminally irresponsible call for the destruction of the Jewish state."

The only truth in this statement is found in the words "the effect of Zionism [has been] to gather all the Jews in one place for destruction...." The idea, as implied by Greenway, that this was a mistake on the part of the Zionists who created and continue to control the Zionist state is laughable, mainly because it was patently obvious from the very outset that to create a state for Jews in 1948 by stealing land belonging to another people and to proceed to oppress, and periodically murder, the indigenous population over the following 58 years was the best way to ensure a perpetual threat to the Jews of Israel.

Furthermore, in his book Ben-Gurion's Scandals: How the Haganah and the Mossad Eliminated Jews Naeim Giladi states:

"From the start they (Zionist leaders) knew that in order to establish a Jewish state they had to expel the indigenous Palestinian population to the neighboring Islamic states and import Jews from these same states. Vladimir Jabotinsky, Netanyahu's ideological progenitor, frankly admitted that such a transfer of populations could only be brought about by force.

David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, told a Zionist Conference in 1937 that any proposed Jewish state would have to "transfer Arab populations out of the area, if possible of their own free will, if not by coercion." After 750,000 Palestinians were uprooted and their lands confiscated in 1948-49, Ben-Gurion had to look to the Islamic countries for Jews who could fill the resultant cheap labor market. "Emissaries" were smuggled into these countries to "convince" Jews to leave either by trickery or fear.

In the case of Iraq, both methods were used: uneducated Jews were told of a Messianic Israel in which the blind see, the lame walk, and onions grow as big as melons; educated Jews had bombs thrown at them."

To this we must add the Fact of Zionist collaboration with the Nazis during WWII. In Lenni Brenner's book,51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration With the Nazis we read:

"The infamous SS-Hptscharf, Adolf Eichmann, had visited Palestine in October, 1937 as the guest of the Zionists. He also met in Egypt with Feivel Polkes, a Zionist operative whom Eichmann described as a "leading Haganah functionary." The chain-smoking Polkes was also on the Nazis' payroll "as an informer."[...]

After the Holocaust began in 1942, Eichmann dealt regularly with Dr. Rudolf Kastner, a Hungarian Jew, whom he considered a "fanatical Zionist." At issue was the bargaining over the eventual fate of Hungary's Jews, who were slated for liquidation in the Nazi-run death camps. Eichmann said this about Kastner, the Zionist representative:

"I believe that [he] would have sacrificed a thousand or a hundred thousand of his blood to achieve his political goal. He was not interested in old Jews or those who had become assimilated into Hungarian society. 'You can have the others,' he would say, 'but let me have this group here.' And because Kastner rendered us a great service by helping keep the deportation camps peaceful. I would let his groups escape."

After the Nuremberg Anti-Jewish Race Laws were enacted in Sept., 1935 only two flags that were permitted to be displayed in all of Nazi Germany. One was Hitler's favorite, the Swastika. The other was the blue and white banner of Zionism. The Zionists were also allowed to publish their own newspaper. The reasons for this Reich-sponsored favoritism was, according to the author:

"The Zionists and the Nazis had a common interest, making German Jews emigrate to Palestine." However, according to Greenway, the Bush government and the Zionists in Israel, the root cause of any possible threat to the future of the Jews of Israel is the 'bogeyman du jour', President Adhmadinejad. Evidence for this 'fact' is provided by the oft-repeated yet entirely false claim that the Iranian president has "called for the destruction of the Jewish state."

The minor problem with this 'fact' is that it is a lie. What Ahmadinejad actually said was that the "Zionist entity" (meaning the small group of Zionist leaders) should be "wiped from the pages of history", and given the clear and present danger that these psychopaths pose to not only the Jewish people but the entire planet, who but the most ignorant could disagree with him. Read more ›

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Old Subject New Slant August 29, 2010

By John H. Gibbert

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Think you understand the Arab/Israeli thing? Read this and you will learn...perhaps more than you wished you knew.

46 of 55 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars When completed, this 2-vol. set will be the definitive history September 3, 2009

By Pen name

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The most striking thing about Alan Hart's book to me, and what sets it apart, is his extraordinary access to the personalities and his on-scene perspective on events that he writes of. As British tv's ace journalist there two generations ago, he knew and was known to the leading figures of Zionism-- people like Golda Meir, Moshe Dayan, Shimon Peres, Levi Eschol, Menachem Begin etc (not sure of them all, but this is representative). And he witnessed what was going on, day after day, as a major correspondent.

Because Hart's book begins by recounting a few personal experiences with the great political figures of Israel, as I began reading it I thought to my self 'uh-oh , I hope this isn't going to be a memoir and parade of name-dropping.' My concerns were quickly dispelled. As it turns out, his selection of stories bears perfectly on his topic. What he actually presents is a close and deep journalistic reflection on Zionism during its formative decades. Again, this comes from an on-scene journalist's perspective rather than that of a remote academic, so the effect is exceptional. Also, he is not himself Jewish or an Israeli, as the writers of so many good Zionist histories are (e.g. Shahak, Lilienthal, Morris, Pappe). Anyway, after Hart gets a few stunning anecdotes into play to set the stage, he gets into telling his story as a fact-filled, methodical and very readable historical narrative.

I must admit that I did not read carefully, however,as the book is quite voluminous and I frankly have read so many books on 20th century Zionism that it is hard to keep my interest and close attention throughout. This does not at all reflect on Hart's style, which is engaging and powerful.... I merely picked this book up in the first place because it came so highly recommended to my by someone whose opinion I value. So, from the standpoint of giving a fresh or exhaustive competent analysis, I admit I am perhaps not as good a reviewer as I would like to be.

What does stand out in my mind, however, as new or surprising material, are a couple of things. One is Hart's chapter about the disposition of Europe's Jews in the 1930s and 1940s, following Hitler's ascendancy and the sudden predicament Jews faced after the Nuremberg laws. The evidence and narrative that Hart brings to bear comes out COMPLETELY contrary to what we have all been told-- in what I now regard as a one-sided weepy victimhood saga that doesn't quite stand up. And I must say that the evidence Hart presents does not at all reflect favorably on the conduct of Zionists and its global partisans who were already shepherding Israel during that time.

Hart's information also dovetails with the revisionist counter-narratives which are telling us that we have all actually suffered a massive campaign of disinformation for decades, regarding the founding of Israel. One of many titles that comes to mind is Roger Garaudy's 'Founding Myths of Modern Israel.' As Hart brings out his (to me) new facts, tactfully and judiciously, it really makes one a bit angry once again, to realize how deceived we all have been. Anger is only natural and morally right.

Another chapter I particularly prized was one devoted to telling of the sometimes heroic patriotism of men like James Forrestal, the first U.S. Secretary of Defense, who suicided under difficult and questionable circumstances as he was standing up to the powerful poliical forces against him. He and a number of other American leaders in the mid-1940s, including Roosevelt and the majority of the U.S. state department, self-sacrificially sought to protect the rights of the Palestinians and Arab states, and broader American interests in the Mideast. God help them, they did not support Israel. Alas, all were steamrolled by the well-oiled juggernaut of Zionism.

My sole complaint as it were, is that the book seemed too long and detailed, especially as this is a 2-vol. work. I think I understand the necessity of completeness when the chronicle in question is of such gravity and immediate importance. I think perhaps Hart realizes the urgency of issuing a bold and comprehensive tome, marshallng all his facts and giving due weight. I am not really complaining about the length, but rather, expressing a sense of frustration that the data he gives may be easily missed or will not be brought into full prominence as it should be.

Perhaps after vol. 2 comes out, a third will also emerge down the road as single-volume 'highlights' edition that hits a mass audience over the head with information that we desperately need to know. In any case, I certainly look forward to vol. 2 and whatever else Mr Hart ever writes. Read more ›

29 of 36 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Courageous truth May 28, 2010

By Heinz H. Bartesch

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Alan Hart does an excellent job in explaining what should be obvious to anyone taking an objective view on the terror that Zionism has caused not just the Jews, but the entire world. This subject is of course taboo and won't even be approached by traditional media sources, yet it's a common mainstream topic on the internet. Of course, it's also the primary reason that the powers that be are trying to sensor the internet!

Hart does what needs to be done, go back into history to demonstrate how Zionism has shaped the western world's view of international relations and politics by using the shield and sword of antisemitism. Without going into detail (which he could have and should have)Hart explains how propaganda has turned into Zionist mythology and none more so than the Holocaust story.