01 May 2011By Khalid Amayreh
Michael Weiss is a typical
Zionist propagandist who wants the entire world to
swallow Israeli lies and disinformation in their
entirety.
I read with utter contempt the
article by Israeli apologist Michael Weiss in which he
asked, "Why is Amnesty hosting a Hamas-friendly
publisher of racists?".
It deserves a response, not because Weiss and other
propagandists for the Zionist state of Israel are
right; as far as I and millions like me are concerned,
they aren't, and never will be. They inhabit a murky "hasbara"
world, a fact which is being acknowledged and
condemned not only by Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims
but also by millions of conscientious people around
the globe, including many Jews. Increasingly, the
creation of the state of Israel is being seen for what
it was and remains; the rape of a land and people to
create a racist entity devoid of any moral legitimacy.
Weiss named me in his article, so I think I have the
right to respond, lest readers fall victim to further
Zionist mendacity and malicious distortion of the
facts.
From its inception,
Zionism and its followers viewed
Palestine as "a land without a people for a people
without a land". This denial of my people's very
existence didn't arise out of ignorance. It was an
expression of virulent and violent racism, originating
among those European barbarians who exterminated
untold millions of indigenous Native Americans and
called the genocide "Manifest Destiny".
The
Zionists knew full well that
Palestine was populated by hundreds of thousands of
Christians and Muslims. In 1897, two Austrian rabbis
visiting Palestine to assess the feasibility of making
it a Jewish state, sent a pithy telegram summing up
the situation: "The bride is beautiful but she is
married to another man." That "other man" was, of
course, none other than the Palestinians,
long-established as a distinct political entity.
Michael Weiss is a typical
Zionist propagandist who wants the entire world to
swallow Israeli lies and disinformation in their
entirety. For people like him, it has to be "Israel,
right or wrong"; the truth must be cast aside if it
interferes with Israeli colonialism. Even Israel's
criminality must be excused due to its "exceptionalism"
in Zionism's perverted world view.
The truth of the matter, which is being discovered by
millions around the world, mainly thanks to the new
social media and the internet, is simple: far from
being the innocent victim of a hostile Arab world,
Israel is a state whose very existence is based, and
depends, on ethnic cleansing, land theft and lies.
In fact, it is reasonable to claim that Israel itself
is a
crime against humanity. How else
can we describe a state imposed on the land of another
people, the Palestinians, and which proceeded to drive
the people from their homes in order to accommodate
Zionist Jewish immigrants from around the world?
As a Palestinian who has been living under the
oppressive yoke of
Israeli military occupation for
44 years; who has seen three innocent uncles and
several other relatives, in addition to tens of
thousands of my people, killed to satisfy Zionist
racism, I have no problem comparing Israel with the
worst criminals in history, including Hitler's Nazis.
It is true that Israel has not introduced
gas chambers
into Palestinian towns and villages (although
relatively innocuous tear gas is often used in
confined spaces, against the manufacturers'
recommendations, with often lethal results). However,
gas chambers
were never the only extermination method used by the
Nazis. Israel has been killing and tormenting
Palestinians in a variety of ways that, for sheer
brutality and evil, don't differ in substance from
Nazi Germany's murderous behaviour.
Moreover, it is important to remember that the Nazi
Holocaust didn't begin with Auschwitz and
Bergen-Belsen; it was the end result of years of
brutality; the "Final
Solution" that began with an
idea, then a book and then with state-sanctioned
discrimination and terrorism of a distinct group of
people. The sort of things, in fact, that are rampant
in Israel 's collective thinking and actions these
days as Jewish society in the Zionist state continues
to drift menacingly towards religious and jingoistic
fascism. Israel is a democracy, we are told; let us
not forget that Hitler came to power via the ballot
box.
The minute a Zionist Jew sets
foot on Palestinian soil in order to live on land
stolen from its rightful owners; or live in a house
seized at gunpoint from its native Palestinian
occupants, this Zionist Jew loses his sense of
morality.
Zionism is supposed to be about "building a national
homeland for the Jews". However, for the millions of
its victims, Zionism is about dispossession; it is
about the uprooting, expulsion and dispersion of the
bulk of the
Palestinian people from their
ancestral homeland through organized terror and
violence. Israel's state ideology has always been
clear about one thing: the Palestinians have to leave
their land, willingly or by force. There is ample
evidence to support this statement, including
documents written by and for Zionism's pioneers and
Israel's founders.
In 1948, the Zionists ethnically cleansed more than
90% of Palestinians in historic Palestine. Today's
Zionism ideologues are planning to "complete the
task" with the "transfer" of millions of Palestinians
across the River Jordan in order to maintain Israel's
Jewish identity and have more "Lebensraum" for "God's
chosen people".
This is not fantasy on my part, or on theirs. A
conference in Ramleh on 26 April heard several leading
rabbis calling for the "cleansing the land of the
Arabs."
"Today there is a lot of land in Saudi Arabia and in
Libya , too. There is a lot of land in other
places," said Dov Lior, the extreme right-wing rabbi
of Kiryat Arba, an illegal settlement built near
Hebron. Such rabbis are not marginal figures in
Israeli Jewish society; they have thousands of
fanatical - and fully armed - followers at their beck
and call.
Hence, it would be unethical and dishonest to deny let
alone defend this racism, fascism and territorial
expansionism (the search for lebensraum) by a state
that calls itself "Jewish" while committing every sin
possible.
Michael Weiss tries to discredit pro-Palestinian
activism by throwing the "Hamas" card onto the table.
The
Islamic Resistance Movement may
not be perfect and one may not agree with everything
it says or does. However, Hamas was elected by the
Palestinian people in elections that were declared to
be free and fair by the international community,
including Israel and its guardian ally, the United
States .
However, Hamas has been demonised because it insists
on Palestinians being given their rights as defined by
the United Nations; for this the movement is listed as
a terrorist organization due in no small measure to
intensive lobbying by well-funded and generous Zionist
groups in Western capitals.
Israel, of course, was founded on the terrorism of the
Stern Gang, Irgun and even the Haganah (the forerunner
of the Israel Defence Forces). Its declaration of
independence is stained by the blood of Palestinian
civilians butchered by the nascent state's armed
militias. So it knows a thing or two about terrorism.
To this day, for every innocent person killed by Hamas,
Israel kills at least a hundred innocent people.
In 2006, Israel dropped 2-3 million cluster bomblets
over
southern Lebanon, enough to kill
and maim between 2-3 million children; or half a
holocaust worth of innocent people. And in 2008-2009,
Israel carried out a blitzkrieg against Gaza, using
state-of-the-art American-funded and built weaponry
and munitions, including white phosphorus bombs,
against an essentially helpless and unprotected
people. Thousands of civilians were killed and maimed.
Despite this, some Zionists still have the temerity to
invoke Hamas as the bogey in the region.
In any reasoned analysis, Zionists are the last people
who are fit to lecture the Palestinians on the evils
of terrorism: Israel was born in terror; Israel is the
embodiment of terror; Israel represents ultimate
terror. The Israelis have destroyed our homes, stole
our land, massacred our people and expelled us from
our birthright. For arrogant Zionists to call us
terrorists is, to quote
Professor Norman Finkelstein,
"beyond chutzpah".
The world is changing, and
Michael Weiss and his hasbara chums should wise up;
Zionism tomorrow will be as unacceptable as other
forms of racism are today. The writing is on the wall,
and the irony is that the Zionists know this to be
true; they are fighting a losing battle. And Palestine
will be free. (end)
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