Octopus Game Part I – Hidden History of Palestine

The Octopus Game Episode I

Press TV

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Video Link: https://www.presstv.ir/doc/Detail/2024/12/24/739649/Octopus-Game-US-military-Ukraine-Israel-American-foreign-policy-documentary-PressTV

This intriguing 10-part series purports to “delve into the contrasting dynamics of U.S. military aid provided to Ukraine and Israel, highlighting the political divisions and influences shaping American foreign policy decisions.”

Only one episode addresses US military aid to Ukraine, but the background provided on the history of Palestine and the formation of the Palestinian resistance is invaluable. The last three episodes provide a day-by-day chronology of the current Israel-Palestine war up to January 30, 2024.

The first episode traces the birth of the Zionist movement from the formation of the First Zionist Congress in Basel Switzerland, called by European Jews seeking to establish a permanent Jewish homeland. Although the Congress voted to set up a fund to purchase land in Palestine, Zionist terrorist gangs would seize the vast majority (94%) of Palestinian land by force.

In 1899, Theodore Herzl formed the Jewish Colonial Trust (the first Zionist bank) in London to help finance Jewish emigration to Palestine. In 1901 the Jewish National Fund formed, which raised about a billion dollars over 40+ years to purchase Arab property to resettle European Jews. The Rothschilds also donated 15 million francs to buy land in Palestine. Eventually approximately 6% of Palestine was purchased and the rest seized by force.

Following the defeat of the Ottoman empire in 1918, Britain and France divided the lands they controlled in the Middle East between them. In 1920, the League of Nations awarded Britain control of the states of Palestine and Transjordan. By then the Federation of Israeli Scouts (which became the Zionist terrorist group Haganah in 1920) had been operating for a year. Immediately after assuming control in Palestine, the British facilitated wave after wave of illegal European Jewish immigration into the country.

Starting in 1934, the Italian fascist dictator Mussolini became the strongest sponsor of Zionist terrorism in Palestine, opening a training camp in Italy for Zionist terrorists the same year.

In 1934 the first major Palestinian resistance movement formed when Palestinian leaders learned Haganah was smuggling weapons into the country. This resulted in a two year armed rebellion against British rule (1936-38), triggered by routine Arab eviction by Jewish terrorists from their farmland.

In 1947 the UN ascertained that Jews constituted on 1/4 of the population of Palestine. A year later when Israel declared independence, they comprised 1/3 of the population, with most residing in Palestine three years or less. Nonetheless, the UN granted 62% of Palestine to the Zionists (a little more than half of what they asked for).

Owing to escalating terrorist attacks against Palestinian residents, six Arab countries (Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia) declared war on Israel after President Harry Truman recognized the terrorist Zionist regime (one day after Israel declared independence on May 14 1948) as the legitimate government of Palestine and began supplying them military aid. A year later the Arab coalition surrendered. The three main terrorist groups (Haganah, Irgun and Lehi) united following independence to form the Israel Defense Force, which was larger than the armies of all six Arab countries combined.