Elders of Zionism debate ethnic cleansing of Palestinians
By Khalid Amayreh
Zionist leaders from around the world are debating ways and means to effect further ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem as well as consolidating Jewish influence and domination in the western hemisphere, especially North American and Europe.
Participating in the three-day conference, organized by the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute (JPPPI), are leaders of major Jewish organizations in the United States and Canada as well academics, rabbis and Jewish business tycoons from around the world.
Speakers at the conference will include, among others, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, opposition head MK Binyamin Netanyahu, JPPPI Board Chairman and former US ambassador Dennis Ross, Jewish Agency Chairman Ze’ev Bielski, and Brandeis University President Jehuda Reinharz.
One paper to be discussed during the conference, entitled “The Jewish People in 2030,” suggests that the world is unlikely to see a significant increase in the number of Jews.
Furthermore, the paper states that “the Jewish people is facing a serious problem of high quality leadership, spiritual, political and professional with no clear trend of improvement.”
According to the Israeli media, participants, dubbed as the crème de le crème of the Jewish people, are discussing three main themes: growing western opposition to the Israeli occupation of Palestine, which many delegates viewed as expression of “anti-Semitism,” strengthening Israel’s Jewish identity, an implicit reference to Israeli efforts and plans to check Palestinian demographic growth, and assimilation of Jews in the West.
Speakers have castigated “voices critical of Israel” at the American arena, an apparent reference to a recent study by two prominent American academics which claimed that the American policy in the Middle East was largely determined by Israel and its powerful Jewish lobby and also to the recent publication of a book, carrying the same message, by former President Jimmy Carter.
