Arbeit macht frei: - Fredrick Töben

ichest and most powerful racial-cultural concentration in the world. They
dominated the mass media. The existence, let alone the rights, of the Arab
majority, the two-thirds, in Palestine were completely ignored and as far as
possible concealed. Driven from their homes, still unsettled thirty years
later, they produced a harvest of hate , which keeps the Middle East a
supreme danger, one which might well trigger off the third, which would
be the last, World War.
At the time Israel was being imposed on Palestine, 1945-8, opposition to
the Zionists, whatever justice or realism might suggest, was reduced to
extreme feebleness because of what the Nazis had done to the Jews. This
situation persisted for years. To oppose Zionist imperialism was easy, and
too often, misrepresented as anti-Semitic and favouring Nazism. This was
when the number of six million Jews in the Nazi holocaust took shape, a
figure now being questioned. Whatever the true figure might be,
propaganda, exaggerations and confusions compounded the Palestine
problem almost beyond remedy. The mental reactions and revulsions
produced by the Nazis were such in America, Britain and other allied
countries, and throughout most of the world, that the Palestine Arabs had
no hope of getting a hearing at the UN in 1946-48.
Created in this way Israel has been bedevilled by two great failures – first,
the failure to make amends to the displaced Arabs, and, second, the
failure of the US and USSR to guarantee specific frontiers. Instead of
defusing a dangerous situation these two countries worsened it by pouring
in arms year after year. At every American election candidates, with an eye
on the Jewish vote, promise more arms and more aid to Israel. … To draw
attention to facts obvious to those who know the place is to run into a wall
of impenetrable subjectivity and to arouse the old cat-call of being anti-
Semitic. I have myself been subjected to much of this.
Travelling Back, pp. 166-7, 1981, ISBN: 0-333-33721-2.
For a number of years I visited Sir Walter regularly for morning tea. We
had a number of things in common, for example, a farming background
and having spent time in Nigeria, and I also used his wisdom as a guiding
light for my work at the Adelaide Institute, which Sir Walter generously
supported time-wise and financially, something few knew at the time, for
obvious reasons. It could not become common knowledge that one of
Australia’s pillars of the South Australian community actually invited me into
his home. Sir Walter, of course, is not the only titled Australian who has
welcomed me into his home.
It is this element of absolute discretion that has enabled me to reach into the
highest levels of world politics from where I receive the impulse to continue
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