the intent from the beginning was to focus on the reality of genocide as it is happening currently in the first decade of the twenty first century and as it can be traced back to the mandate period when the british authorities had control of a land area that was about to import  thousands and ultimately millions of jewish people  i had done research in the rhodes house archives at oxford university looking for materials that somehow would explain what the intent of the zionist group that poppy calls the red house group in the us to cleansing of palestine his book what their intent was when they were bringing over and working with the parent least on the surface the british government in palestine to facilitate the entrance of these people into the land area that britain was in control of and so i went to the rhodes house library with the intent of trying to focus on the months between the partition plan of nov nineteenth forty seven and the exit of the british mandate government on may fifteenth one nine hundred forty eight the result of that research approximately five hundred pages of evidence that list information on six areas of illegitimate activity on the part of the jewish resistance movement against the british forces they intentionally say that they will make it a british problem in mandate palestine if they do not act to fulfill the zionist solution and i conveyed you sections of the files here which amount to in one section a thread if you will to the the british forces and let me be just a small section of this so that you have some idea of what we're talking about we regard it second page number five that's our duty to caution you against any attempt to decide on of the jewish people we shall not accept the status of a minority in our land whether the minority is thirty three percent or forty nine percent we know what has happened to the assyrians in iraq and we are aware of the lot of the jewish minorities in the arab states today we shall not accept a symbolic independence in a dwarf like token state which will not give us the chance of developing all the resources of the country and creating here a safe asylum for all jews who are compelled or wish to come a half hearted compromise on the palestinian question can only lead to disaster it will not solve the jewish problem this final statement at the end the jews are a nation the land of israel belongs to the people of israel the jewish state will be established it is better that it should be established with your help for and for your benefit than against you the word genocide now getting back to the purpose of the book was to find out if the vigil intent which was promulgated here in forty two forty four forty six forty five forty five and forty six in fact is what was intended and what the british thought was supposed to be intended when they came to the authority vested in them by the league of nations and later by the united nations this report by the high commissioner harold mcmichael and it's listed as the most secret and is written in one nine hundred forty one sent to the secretary of state and in this piece he speaks about the consequences of what he is faced with in a country where in the mandate country that he's overseeing where the control of the majesty's government is being threatened and he makes reference to the balfour declaration but he makes reference to it in such a way that it is different in kind than what we ordinarily think of as the as the balfour declaration and let me read to you this piece from the avalon project at yale university which describes the balfour declaration and its intent quote an authorized statesm statements have been made to the effect that the purpose in view is to create a wholly jewish palestine his majesty's government regard any such expectation as impracticable and have no such aim in view nor have they at any time contemplated the disappearance or the subordination of the arabic population language or culture in palestine they would draw attention to the fact that the terms of the balfour declaration the furred to do not contemplate that palestine as a whole should be converted into a jewish national home but that such a home should be founded in palestine his majesty's government therefore now declare on  equivocally that it is not part of their policy that palestine should become a jewish state now this it seems to me is pretty clear and it means that the jewish mandate government has authority for both people to bring the jewish people in so that that homeland can be established but at the same time to make sure that the indigenous population is cared for and their culture and bodies protected this became an impossibility what they ended up doing obviously was to hand that dilemma over to the u n it produces in one nine hundred forty seven november the partition plan that gave fifty five percent of the mandate area to the jews and forty five percent to the palestinians now what then is genocide and what authority do you go to to find out what  this definition his study was of what happened to the jewish population in nazi germany what he found was that it was the way in which the nazis treated the jews had implications across the board for any population that might try to impact another either by occupation oppression or articles on what genocide is now if i read two things let me be two things to you here one is a description of that is put together by frank chalk and kurt beyond us and summarizing what lincoln's definition means under lincoln's definition genocide was the coordinated and planned annihilation of a national religious or racial group by a variety of actions aimed at undermining the foundations essential to the survival of the group as a group len can conceive of genocide as a composite of different acts of persecution or destruction his definition included attacks on political and social institutions culture language national feelings religion and the economic existence of the group even non lethal acts that undermine the liberty dignity and personal security of members of a group constituted genocide if they contributed to weakening the viability of the group under definition x of s no side a term coined by the french after the war to cover the destruction of a culture without the killing of its bearers also qualified as genocide that's the overall understanding synopsize when it was brought to two articles in the united nations to define genocide it takes on for article two genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy in whole or in part the national ethical racial religious group as such a killing members of the group be causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group c deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part d imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group eve forcibly transferring children of the group to another group and then article three of the following acts shall be punishable a genocide be conspiracy to direct and public incitement to commit genocide the attempt to commit genocide and be complicity in genocide now what that understanding does is to put into context a way of evaluating and assessing the conditions that exist in a situation similar to what we have in palestine when we began the map of palestine was roughly ninety four percent indigenous population and it's quite clear that the jewels at this point the early on  prior to the man paid with six percent of the land that they own and subsequently when you get with the immigration coming in now you're looking at roughly thirty percent so the population was obviously heavily indigenous arabic and palestinian they got to the the british mandate authority realized we can absorb the numbers that are coming in and maintain a relationship of the indigenous population versus the new and if you look at the maps that are in all that mean the jewish population have been concentrated in about two major cities what tell of even haifa and a smaller group in jerusalem and throughout the rest of mandate palestine that was a relatively a handful what they ended up doing when they brought these people in was to set up government working with the british called the jewish agency and the person responsible for asian dealing with economics and behalf of the jewish agency ostensibly as a cooperative government so that people coming in would have a home to live in or a building to live in and have a job available to them and have that in fact wanted to cooperate with the british as it turns out and this is what they found when so richard capping and his group went out and seized documents from the jewish agency  the military wing uganda and stern gangs all of which were a military force and when they seized these documents they found evidence that there was a clandestine government and what that means is that those same people that were operating and working with the british on immigration knew what the british people of the government was intending to do how many they would allow in they had no intentions of not allowing in if they could get them so there was an odds going on here as as the numbers increased in one nine hundred thirty nine the british promulgated a white paper and that white paper writes in its quoted here to the british government and said that there is stayed we are faced with a military force here that is superior not just the arabs but to any attempt to control it and not only that but we have a political situation where the sympathy for the jewish cause back home is incredibly great and therefore anything we try to do to corral the policies we should be implementing is not going to work now with what kind of numbers back in forty one forty two they were looking at twenty to eighty thousand and within forty five forty six were looking upwards of two hundred thousand these are trained experienced military none of that of course is  explained openly to the mandate forces now all through this evidence the violence that was being used against the british is what we call terrorists and that's what they called the what the british called the jews there the zionists they were terrorists they blew up bridges they bombed the king david hotel ninety one people killed it was a false flag operation they went in to the basement with canisters of apparently a milk filled with bomb materials and blew it up they kidnapped two british soldiers hung them booby trapped their bodies so when they were taken down those taking their bodies down were blown up as well this was violence of the kind that the  personnel at this point in time to deal with or the backing of what catlin calls the three legged stool you need the government behind you you need your military and you need the people and he was missing the government back home and so they were faced with a dilemma and they could not carry out the mandate and so they had to hand it over to the u n now the issue then is well when israel declared its independence it was on may fourteenth fascinating thing that on that week before may fourteen advertisement sapir to new york papers and elsewhere in the u s trying to convince the american people of the necessity of their president for all humanity and for peace in the mideast to accept recognize the state of israel which will be declared on the fourteen that day truman got a letter from the agency and a backup support from nations association telling him how significant this action had to be but it went further and said what you would be recognizing is a state that has accepted the united nations partition so that we have our homeland and we will abide by the law and be bring peace to the area and at the same time care for the people that are they are already a month and five days before that may fourteenth deadline they attacked the town  yassine and that town became the first of about twenty different massacres that are corroborated and identified by both  and benny morris in their histories of this period based on the sun light veil ability of heretofore secret documents coming out of the jewish agency and haga and saying in effect that this was necessary because you had to get rid of the arab people in order to maintain a jewish state morris simply said they should have gotten rid of all of them during that period and then it wouldn't be an issue but they left about twenty percent of the people in what israel became and israel was attacking not only dear you seen but a number of others were actually depopulated before the british left the mandate area and before they declared the independence so there's a hiding of the reality of what they call peace from the president and from the american people that kind of deception is at the root of how the zionist group worked the formation of the jewish state done through deceit that is to say it went to the un it went to the united states it went to the american people and it proclaimed one thing while it was in fact eradicating wiping off the map bulldozing down to nothing almost four hundred eighteen towns and villages leaving a couple of them still standing which are now inhabited obviously by jewish people that to me is breaking international law yet once it was recognized by the united states for some reason it automatically becomes legitimate well let's assume it was legitimate so now we come forward and you look at the conditions that prevail at the present time and we have just witnessed and here's proof of it right there in that book in thirty two chapters that they have committed crimes against humanity the governments of israel in conjunction with the governments of the united states what is the issue now when you look at this and realize that if you go to the maps through confiscation and through force purchase and through politics and legal status all of the land sensually with the exception of what amounts to twelve percent is now in the hands of the israeli government now that alone seems to suggest a real problem relative to wiping the people off the map if you like now it can you bolster that with other issues and if you were today to go to the government of israel and the government it has as policy that there will not be a palestinian state west of the jordan that's policy that's wiping it off before it even gets negotiated that it seems to me is much more stringent and active removal of the land that the people live on and had lived on for over eight hundred years but that's not alone what we're talking about we're also looking at did they have any intent whatsoever of negotiating and having a peace  plan to bring forward reality isn't one of the chapters in the book is that of jeff helper and for fifty five pages he itemizes step by step in fact by fact the problem with israel and the problem is they do not intend and they have not intended to come to a two state solution this is not in their plan now the situation has gotten worse over time including to today genocide is defined here the only way you can arrive at genocide other than to see the definition look at the facts that are present on the ground and everywhere else and realize if this were brought to an international court if it were brought through the united nations human rights council for judgment would genocide of apply let's take the goldstone report after the operation cast lead where israel invaded g and in doing so a goldstone report comes out which states crimes against humanity what it was asking for is that this be brought before the human rights council and the international courts the united states vetoes it as it has vetoed eighty other tryer security council resolutions related to asking that actions done by israel are in fact brought before the court system so that if there's validity in this definition of genocide we can see it it can be acted upon the united states has prevented that it does not allow israel to be brought up for any criticism whatsoever even though a hundred and seventy or more nations at a time will vote that resolution into place in other words we become the means by which no action and immunity for israel is maintained that it seems to me it becomes an issue if you want to find out why genocide is in this book this book is determined to show what genocide means and to show you with more than twenty world wide authors how that definition applies to the occupation of palestine whether it's chris hedges or or it's a francis boyle all these writers who are looking at actions taking place or looking at it and seeing their genocide now someone say well you can't use that word because it hasn't been proven well it hasn't been proven because israel controls the voice in america in its congress and its senate almost unanimously just plain schuman sense would suggest you that maybe there are differences of opinion on certain matters but not when it comes to israel and therefore we are complicit that's one of the acts of genocide to be complicit in this us is complicit in this and right now if you want to condemn the book or condemn the editor of the book or condemn all the writers in the book who have dealt with this concept of genocide then i would urge that we bring genocide before the courts and say is it or is it not and then judge the book