Poetry for Palestine

Morphing
Zionism

The imperceptible transformation of
zionists plans might be difficult to detect, yet for an attentive observer the
signs are too many to be ignored. Modest yet noticeable changes in their
presentation, speeches, discussions, arguments, writings, and activities in the
recent years, the new trend manifests itself in the mushrooming of “peace”
websites, “peace” organizations, “peace conferences”, “peace” radios, and
“interfaith” groups through which they are pretending to shed the gown of
zionism in a futile attempt to divert attention from its exposed ugly face,
making an ideological jump from political zionism, into the softer, more
presentable face of cultural and religious zionism, which for us, the
dispossessed, it means the FINAL PUSH into total control and seize of our land and
property by sneaky means of smooth talks of "peace", "love",
“culture”, "commonality", “harmony”, "humanity" and “Arab
hospitality”

The think-tanks of Zionism,
appreciative that the goal of zionists (i.e the creation of a Jewish state on the
STOLEN land of Palestine) has been achieved, sets its next steps to anchor,
protect and fossilize this foreign body of colonizers in the land of Palestine
and to secure their future.

The following excerpts and my subsequent comment gives
an insight as to why I think that the morphing Zionism is more detrimental to
right of Palestinians and the just cause of Palestine than militant Zionism. In
the former, all the consolidations of Zionist aims and dreams would be achieved
with the endorsement and support of the so called “anti-zionists”.

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Post-Zionism refers to the opinions of some Israeli, diaspora Jews and others, particularly in
academia, that Zionism has
fulfilled its ideological mission with the creation of modern State of Israel in 1948 and
that Zionist ideology should therefore be considered to be at an end. The term is also used by right-wing Jews to refer to the left wing of Israeli politics in light of the Oslo Accords.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Zionism

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"I am a human being, I am a Jew and I am an
Israeli. Zionism was an instrument to move me from the Jewish state of being
to the Israeli state of being. I think it was Ben-Gurion who said that the Zionist movement was the scaffolding to build the
home, and that after the state’s establishment it should be dismantled."

"Already at the First Zionist Congress, Herzl’s Zionism was victorious
over the Zionism of Ahad Ha’am. I think that the 21st century should be the
century of Ahad Ha’am. We have to leave Herzl behind and move to Ahad Ha’am."


Avraham Burg

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/868385.html

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Avraham Burg

"…..Chairman of the Jewish Agency and the World Zionist Organization…... As head of the Jewish Agency, he worked to
recover Jewish property lost during the Holocaust, and in the transfer of ca. half
a million predominantly Jewish citizens from the Commonwealth of
Independent States (the
former Soviet Union) to Israel.

"…….as speaker of the Knesset he served as
interim President of Israel for 20 days"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avraham_Burg

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Ahad Ha’am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahad_Ha%27am

Asher Zvi
Hirsch Ginsberg (18
August 1856 – 2 January 1927), primarily known by his Hebrew
name and pen name, Ahad Ha’am, (Hebrew: אחד העם‎, lit. one
of the people, Genesis 26:10), was a Hebrew essayist, and one of the foremost
pre-state Zionist thinkers. He is known as the founder of Cultural
Zionism. With his secular vision of a Jewish "spiritual center" in
Palestine he
confronted Theodor Herzl. Unlike Herzl, the founder of political Zionism, Ha’am strived for "a Jewish state and not
merely a state of Jews."^[1]

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"He believed that rather than aspiring
to establish a "National Home" or state immediately, Zionism must
aspire to bring Jews to Palestine gradually, making it a cultural center. At the same time, Zionism must inspire a
revival of Jewish national life abroad; that would help to bring about a Jewish majority in Palestine.
Then and only then will the Jewish people be strong enough to assume the mantle
of building a nation state"  

http://www.zionismontheweb.org/ehad_haam1.htm

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Those who support the permanent stay of Jewish
zionist in the land of Palestine (providing they abandon Zionism and may be
even concede Palestinians’ equal rights), do not realize that by doing so they
are finishing the job neatly for the zionists and putting the cherry on the
zionist-project pie; by giving them the approval and moral justification to
keep hold of land and property acquired by unethical and illegal means

The lawsuits on behalf of Jewish
people who lost property in Europe during WW2 
are ongoing, almost seventy years after, yet many of our supporters
cringe at the fact that we are entitled to the same, because the reinstatement
and total restoration of our rights would effectively mean a full
restitution  of land and property
from  the Jewish zionist colonizers
back  to the original and legitimate
Palestinian owners.

for
me as a Palestinian as it ought to be for anyone who cares for Justice and
Peace, the idea that there would be a "right" for some people to keep
land and property acquired by military conquest and ethnic cleansing of
genocidal proportion, is not only a regressive monstrosity, but it is also in
full contravention with a set of laws emerged precisely out of WW2, and in full
contradiction with any sense of moral principles. God is not a real estate
agent, nor is God a warlord, hence the "right" of Jewish colonizer is
simply non-existent, whether they utter the racist "Zionist" 
ideology, or the pseudo-religious "God-chosen" dogma, or whether
"Post-Zionists" collect the "benefits" of Ariel Sharon’s atrocities
 against the indigenous Palestinians and
environmental destruction of Palestine, the Holy Land.

 Anyone who does not virulently refute the base
of such "right" to keep stolen land and property, is facilitating and
justifying future wars of aggression and conquest, followed by colonial
settlements and genocide against peaceful indigenous population. 

This is nothing less than
celebrating barbarity, rewarding criminality and obliteration of the very
essence of human morality which mankind had worked hard to foster its evolvement
over millennia

When
those who incessantly declaim the words "Holocaust never again" justify
such lopsided views which lay the ground for future wars and genocide, the
contradiction becomes staggering!

Are people so naïve
that they don’t realize that doing so, invariably corresponds in fact to… a
full support -quasi unconditional, of the zionist thieves and
their ideological core which deems colonising Palestine as a
“Divine and historical right” for the Jewish people ?

What does the notion
of Justice, social responsibility, fair dealing mean if we are to equate
criminals with victims in terms of rights to ownership of
stolen property?

Advocating
"equal rights" between the criminal and victim, in which the criminal
escapes punishment for his crimes, gets compensated by keeping stolen property,
and gets rewarded by enjoying the fruits of his aggression in terms of total
participation in decision and law making in the land he abused, is an
assassination of the concept of justice, on which peaceful Civilization is
built and needs to prosper

Accepting the mere declaration of
abandoning Zionism and the announcement of equal rights for both without
holding those responsible into account, is utterly treacherous to Palestine and
the Palestinians.

Furthermore, I
reiterate; any future decision on the status of ILLEGAL COLONIZERS in Palestine
should be a PALESTINIAN DECISION; they, and ONLY they, can choose
whether to allow their tormentors to stay or not

Nahida the Exiled Palestinian

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