Michael Palumbo in his book The Palestinian Catastrophe (1987):

‘No widely circulated non-Zionist account of 1948 has appeared in English. In the United States no major company would dare to publish an honest history of the expulsion of the Palestinians since such a book would quickly be forced out of circulation by the powerful Zionist lobby. There is in fact a double standard in both Britain and America since books which deal with Arab ‘terrorism’ are usually published without protest but someone who writes a book about Zionist atrocities against Palestinians is accused of being ‘anti-Semitic’.. What concerns Zionist propagandists most is not what Israelis think about 1948 but what the British and even more importantly what the American public is told about the exodus of the Palestinians.. It is of course unthinkable that Hollywood could ever produce an honest film about 1948. An accurate account of the Palestinian exodus is not permitted even in a documentary on American TV.. The Zionist version of 1948 is constantly being portrayed in English-language books, magazines and newspaper articles as well as in movies and TV programmes that are seen by tens of millions of people..’

What did happen in 1948?

A few quotes from Dr Alfred Lilienthal's book The Zionist Connection:

"The Jewish population of Palestine [what is now Israel and the occupied territories, the West Bank and Gaza] at the time of the Balfour Declaration in 1917 was a mere 7 percent of the 700 000 inhabitants. The rest were Muslim and Christian Arabs…

At the time of the (US-dominated UN) partition vote in 1947 there were only 650 000 Jews in Palestine while there were 1,3 million indigenous Palestinian Arabs, either Christian or Muslim. Under the partition plan, 56 % of Palestine was given for a Zionist state to people who constituted 33 % of the population and owned about 6 % [six percent] of the land… These UN figures have never been in dispute… The 1947 demographic make-up of Palestine, two-thirds Arab and but one-third Jewish, necessitated an abnormal sovereignty and an abnormal nationalism.."

The turning point of the Jewish programme to gain a firm foothold in Palestine is widely recognized to be the unprovoked and savage Jewish attack on the small Arab village of Deir Yassin, just outside Jerusalem. Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre have described the episode in their book O! Jerusalem and so have others such as Dr Lilienthal, Arthur Koestler, and, more recently, Ron David in his book Arabs & Israel for Beginners. On April 9, 1948, Jewish forces led by the Irgun and the Stern Gang under the command of Menahem Begin (later to serve two terms as Israel’s Premier) massacred 254 women, children and old men, in an orgy of rape, butchery and destruction, throwing their bodies down a well. To commentators at the time, it was reminiscent of the Old Testament code of Deuteronomy (chapter 7) which enjoined the Israelites, when they entered the promised land and encountered the local peoples, ‘to utterly destroy them, not to make treaties with them or show mercy to them or intermarry with them’. According to eyewitnesses and an immediate investigation by the International Red Cross, thirty-five of the murdered women were pregnant, some of them with their bellies slit open. Fifteen houses were dynamited. The Hungarian-Jewish writer Arthur Koestler in his book Promise and Fulfillment, says of the sudden panicky flight of a very large portion of the Arab population of Palestine into the neighbouring countries, that Deir Yassin was ‘the psychologically decisive factor in this spectacular Arab exodus’. He says, ‘the Arab population was seized with panic, and fled from villages and towns with the pitiful cry: "Deir Yassin".

Dr Alfred Lilienthal courageously published his devastating book The Zionist Connection back in 1978, outlining the terrible record of really major Israeli human rights violations and ascribing the problem to Zionist media and political control in the US, devoting a number of chapters to demonstrating how far-reaching this is.

What does he say? Here are a few brief excerpts from his long and detailed analysis.

‘One-sided reportage on terrorism, in which cause is never related to effect, was assured because the most effective component of the Jewish connection is probably that of media control. It is well known that American public opinion molders have long been largely influenced by a handful of powerful newspapers, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the St Louis Post-Dispatch – owned respectively by the Sulzbergers, Eugene Meyer and now his daughter Katherine Graham (half-Jewish, who also owns Newsweek), and the Pulitzers, a Hungarian Jewish family. The New York Post was until recently in the capable hands of Dorothy Schiff, the granddaughter of banker Jacob Schiff.

‘Walter Annenberg, who served as Nixon’s ambassador to Britain, owned the Philadelphia Enquirer, The Morning Telegraph, Seventeen, and TV Guide as well as several television stations. Samuel Newhouse, of Jewish background, owns some forty-nine newspapers, including the influential Newsday on Long Island, four television stations, a number of radio stations and a cluster of vital magazines, including Vogue, Glamour, Mademoiselle and House and Garden.

‘Other newspapers, not Jewish-owned, have top editors, directors and advertising chiefs who are Jewish. In 1978 the Washington Star’s owner was [non-Jewish] but the views of the executive editor Sidney Epstein and associate editor Edwin Yoder were clearly reflected in its editorials and articles during the critical Middle east developments. All the leading magazines, ranging from Commentary, Esquire, Ladies Home Journal, New York Review of Books, New Yorker and US News and World Report have Jews in key positions as publishers, editors, or managing editors. These people at very least have the veto power over what appears in their publications. No one is about to criticize Jews – or even take Israel to task - for fear of being out of line with the boss, who is likely to fire him or her…’

‘An added tower of strength to the Jewish connection has been the Jewish location: 76 percent of American Jewry is concentrated in sixteen cities of six states – New York, California, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio and Florida – with 181 electoral votes. It takes only 270 electoral votes to elect the President of the US. Our Chief Executive is chosen by a plurality of the Electoral College votes, not of the popular vote..

‘This explains why the politicians have been mesmerized by fear of the "Jewish vote" and by those who claim they can deliver the "swing vote" in a hotly contested state.. Hence the happy alliance dating back to World War I between the supine American politicians and the Zionists, who have controlled the Congress in its near 100 percent pro-Israel stance..

‘It was none other than Joseph Alsop, long one of the most ardent, frenetic supporters of Israel, who wrote: "With the possible exception of Senator Edward Kennedy, no liberal Democrat gets less than 50 percent of his campaign financing from the Jewish community. In certain cases, the percentage reaches much higher."

[The Monica Lewinsky saga was wonderfully symbolic. Bill Clinton had already shown his gratitude to the Israel lobby for political support by appointing Madeleine Albright as Secretary of State, William Cohen as Secretary of Defence and Robert Rubin as Secretary of the Treasury. Dennis Ross, also a Zionist, was Clinton’s chief negotiator in the Middle East. So it was not surprising that the Clinton ‘package’ carefully included no provision for the return of millions of Palestinian refugees to Israel, in spite of the automatic ‘right’ of any Jew, born in Johannesburg, Birmingham or Cincinnati, to migrate to Israel and receive full citizenship benefits. The Clinton omission helped to prolong the desperate Palestinian intifada which aroused increasing anger in the Islamic world, which in turn led inexorably to the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.. Typically, the US reaction caused more innocent civilian deaths in Afghanistan than were caused by the attack on the World Trade Center. [Professor Marc Herold of the University of New Hampshire has produced the most comprehensive tabulation of civilian deaths in the war on Afghanistan from October 2001 to the present: A Dossier on Civilian Victims of United States' Aerial Bombing of Afghanistan: A Comprehensive Accounting ( http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mwherold) with further details and accompanying articles at: http://www.cursor.org/stories/archivistan.htm ]

If the FBI were really interested in who was responsible for inciting attacks on the US, it would look FIRST at the pro-Zionist politicians who support the terrible injustices of US policy in the Middle East..

Much has happened in the more than twenty years since Alfred Lilienthal wrote about the situation. More recently many swops and changes have taken place in media control, but not in the essential tribal nature of the power bloc described above. The big three in television broadcasting used to be ABC, CBS and NBC. Each was controlled by a Jew since its inception: ABC by Leonard Goldenson; NBC by the Sarnoffs, David and Robert; and CBS by William Paley and then by Laurence Tisch.

The largest media conglomerate today is AOL Time Warner. The Time Warner half of this combination has until recently been run by Gerald Levin, and it is not surprising that the editor-in chief of Time is Norman Pearlstine (have a look yourself) and the managing editor is Walter Isaacson. Levin bought CNN from Ted Turner. HBO, the country’s largest pay-TV cable network, is a subsidiary of Time Warner.

The second-largest media conglomerate is Walt Disney. Its chairman and CEO is Michael Eisner, a Jewish ‘control freak’. Joseph E Roth, a Jew, heads Walt Disney Studios. Disney owns Miramax Films, headed by the Weinstein brothers. Eisner also acquired control of ABC TV network.

Number three media conglomerate is Viacom headed by Sumner Redstone (born Murray Rothstein) who owns 76% of the shares. Viacom is the world’s largest provider of cable programming and it produces and distributes TV programmes for the three largest TV networks. Viacom owns some of the largest book publishers in the US.

Dream Works, formed by Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg, produces movies, animated films, TV programmes and recorded music. While Spielberg has contributed his share to the promotion of the Holocaust message, it is unnecessary to say that he has yet to produce a movie depicting the suffering of the Palestinians over the decades of occupation of their land by a brutal Israeli power, supported by American taxpayer money and military equipment.

‘Jewish media control determines the foreign policy of the US and permits Jewish interests rather than American interests to decide questions of war and peace. Without Jewish media control, there would have been no Gulf War, for example. There would have been no continued beating of the drums for another war against Iraq.’ There would have been no attack on September 11..