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Sad
Week In Review: Free The Oppressed Palestinians
7 November 2009 By
Mazin Qumsiyeh
One of these
days, I would like to write a book to document the
1001 ways that Zionists use to take over land and
distract attention at the same time. In history we had
false flag operations like the Lavon Affair (Israeli
agents attacking Western Interests to blame it on Arab
nationalists) and countless other incidents of
creating mayhem to ensure distraction. More recently
as more ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem goes on, the
Lebanese government reveals collaboration between
Israeli intelligence in South Lebanon nurtured and
worked with extremist groups to fire Katyusha's at
Israel to keep the Northern front humming and give a
bad name to Hezbollah.
Israel pirates a ship in International waters it
claims were destined for Hezbollah. Israeli agents
infiltrate demonstrations wearing masks and insult
Christians. Israel recruits agents among sick
Palestinians in Gaza desperate to leave to get
treatment and use trickery to capture Palestinian men
in compromising position and use the pictures to
blackmail them into collaboration. But mostly now, it
is enough to keep scaring the Israeli public to stay
on board with eth elites making billions off of
impoverishing the average person (Israel builds
massive security industries while more than 1/3rd of
its population lives below the poverty line).
As Gideon Levy put it in Haaretz yesterday: "Every few
weeks you have to sow fear, every few months you need
to make threats, and once every year or two you have
to have another little war. Blind cooperation between
the defense establishment and the media holds the
promise of another round of fighting. In that way,
it's possible to escape some of the blame from the
Goldstone report and wallow in the conditions we love
best: being the victim, feeling threatened and uniting
in the face of the great external danger allegedly in
the offing"[1]
Though he did not explain why the victimhood card is
used: because without it, this whole project of
bringing Jews from around the world to settle on
stolen Palestinian land collapses. It would collapse
because the truth would come out. The truth that
Zionism not only victimized the Palestinians (70% of
us are refugees or displaced people) but also Jews [2]
The US State Department declared this week that
"Israel dismally fails the requirements of a tolerant
pluralistic society "[3]. Yet the US gives Israel the
largest share of foreign aid, billions/year even as
this is contrary to US law to support human rights
violators.
The Israel-first lobby in Washington ensures the US
arm-twists smaller nations to vote against
International law. Yet, even Israel's endless
distractions and the US power and might seem unable to
stem the bad news for the racist apartheid regime.
The UN General assembly voted overwhelmingly to
support the Goldstone report 114 votes in favor, 18
opposed and 44 abstentions..
Those of you in different countries should check how
your country voted and write to thank them if voting
yes or to ask for explanation for those spineless ones
who voted no or abstain. History will not be kind to
sweeping war crimes under the rug. Goldstone had
written to congress to correct the distortions,
outright lies, and inaccuracies that were in the
resolution that was drafted for them by AIPAC trained
congressional aids in fascist congressmen offices
(Like Ross-Lehtinen) but the Goldstone letter was
ignored.
Even the Gladstone report that they were condemning
was not incorporated into the congressional record
(otherwise future historians might see how stupid
Congress is or maybe how stupid Congress thinks the
public is).
So the AIPAC resolution condemning the Goldstone
report (and thus supporting war crimes) passed by 9:1.
36 brave congressmen stand out and should be thanked
for showing some backbone. (Action link [4])
Here in Palestine, we commemorated with sadness the
November 2, 1917 horrific Balfour Decalration in which
Britain promised Palestine to the European Zionist
movement in order to secure help in getting the US to
join WWI.
In other news, a US army officer who as a psychiatrist
treated patients suffering after return from illegal
wars on Iraq and Afghanistan (and was scheduled to be
shipped there) went berserk and shot 13 of his
comrades and injured 31.
The Zionists in the media are having a field day with
this. No one even mentioned on the religious
persuasion or family background of the many hundreds
of other Americans who engaged in similar kinds of
mass-killing. In this case had he been Jewish
American, Mexican American or anything else his
background or religious beliefs would never have been
mentioned. I found it rather disgusting that outfits
like the Associated Press engage in such smear
campaigns.
All major Muslim American organizations issued
statements condemning the attack. This is indeed a sad
event; killing should be condemned by ALL but is also
sad that some are allowed to exploit such events for
political purposes.
In yet other news, Mahmoud Abbas declared that he will
not run for the upcoming elections. In essence he is
telling the US an Israel: you did not want to have a
two state solution based on the road map to peace that
you yourself drafted (and that calls for full freeze
on settlement activity including "natural growth" and
including occupied Jerusalem).
He is saying to them further that "if you do not want
that, then my line of negotiations with you has indeed
reached a dead end (he has actually been engaged in
informal and formal negotiations for nearly three
decades). And let Fatah come up with a different
line." Now we could of course see a Fatah candidate
who is more compliant with Israeli demands or we could
see a more sober and realistic approach.
My recommendation to Fatah is to give up on the
"authority" and on the illusionary "two states" and
begin the (yet hard) process of educating friends and
foes about the value of a democratic secular state in
all of historic Palestine.
As I argued in my last book, that will bring a durable
peace instead of the charade of the current "peace
process" (I know the peace process industry will not
be happy with us finally beginning to choke off their
main source of income and power).
On more uplifting news, on the anniversary of the
Berlin wall collapse, Palestinians breached the
apartheid wall knocking down one of its concrete
segments (video here [5]). And residents of Aida
refugee camp got to see the rest of Palestine. Rich
Wiles wrote: "Um Qassim was born over 70 years ago in
the village of Al Kabu. Her early childhood was spent
amongst the clean air and fresh water of this
Palestinian village. In 1948 everything changed for Um
Qassim as it did for all Palestinians, and today she
is one of the 4,500 residents of Aida Camp…I don’t
want to leave. I want to stay here forever. It’s so,
so, beautiful, and it’s still ours…”[6] And a final
action, please sign the petition Sign the petition to
Norway's University of Trondheim to Boycott Israel
(sign at link below [7].
A luta continua--the struggle goes on.
Notes
[1] http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1126077.html
[2] see Lenni Brenner's article "The Zionist Operation
Was A Success, The Jewish Patients Died" http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/10/the-zionist-operation-was-a-success-the-jewish-patients-died/
[3] http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1126286.html
[4] http://www.adc.org/index.php?id=3517 and see how
your congressperson voted and write to them all
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll838.xml
[5] see Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xh4ouc8Lac
[6] more at http://hullpsc.blogspot.com/
[77] http://www.petitiononline.com/boycott9/petition.html
Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD
A Bedouin in Cyberspace, a villager at home
http://qumsiyeh.org
http://www.pcr.ps
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