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Chabad at the hubs of power around the world

Posted on August 7, 2010 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian

With President Ronald Reagan


With  Bush
Australia
– Prime Minister John W. Howard
Austria
– President Thomas Klestil
Azerbaijan
– President Heydar Alyev
Bulgaria – Prime Minister Simeon II
Canada
– Prime Minister Jean Chrétien
Fiji – President Ratu Josefa
France – President Jacques Chirac
France – Prime Minister Jean Pierre Raffarin
Germany –
Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder
Germany
– President Horst Kohler
Guatemala – President Alfonso Portillo
Kazakhstan – President Nursultan
Nazarbayev
Lithuania –
President Rolandas Paksas
Mexico
– President Vicente Fox
Russia – President Vladimir Putin
Turkey – Defence Minister Vecdi
Gunul
Ukraine
– Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych
Ukraine – President
Viktor Yushenko
United
States of America – President George W. Bush

USA presidents

President Gerald Ford (1974-1977)
President
Jimmy Carter (1977-1981)

President
Ronald Reagan (1981-1989)

President
George W. Bush
(2001-Two Stolen Elections &
Counting …)

 

US Senators &
Congressmen

Congressman Tom Davis Jr. heads
a
Lubavitch Ceremony …
Congressman Eric Cantor celebrates
with representatives
of Lubavitch.
Congressman Adam Schiff
publicly
declare his support for the Lubavitch Movement.
Senator Al Gore (Former Vice
President) sits with
representatives of the Jewish Supremacist
Movement, Lubavitch.
Senator Joseph Lieberman accepts an
Award from
the Washington-Based Organisation, “Friends of Lubavitch”
…
Senator Bob Dole visits followers of
the
extremist Orthodox Lubavitch Movement.
Senator Ted Kennedy and
representatives
of this Jewish Supremacist group!
Senator Rudy Boschowitz at yet
another Lubavitch Award
Ceremony (Note: the picture in the background
is of the racist “Rebbe” )

US Governors
& Mayors

Jeb Bush (Governor of Florida, and
Brother of George W. Bush)
meets with representatives of the Zionist
Lubavitch Movement.

Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger,
receives a
Jewish Menorah on the steps of the State Capitol,
again, from
representatives of the Lubavitch Movement.

Governor Blagojevich with Members of Lubavitch
Former
Mayor of New York, Rudi Giulliani gives a speech at a Lubavitcher
“Award”
Ceremony (The “Rebbe” i.e. Rabbi Schneerson:
Former Leader of the
extremist Lubavitch Movement, in the painting behind him).

Governor of New York, George Pataki, at the same
Lubavitcher “Award”
ceremony. Inset: Hillary Rodham Clinton (Wife of
Bill Clinton) was also in attendance

Former
Mayor of New York, Ed Koch meeting with the Rebbe himself.
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Racism and supremacy
Biblical Scholar and Jewish author, Moshe Greenberg, wrote, in his book, “A Problematic Heritage – The Attitudes Toward the Gentile in the Jewish Tradition: An Israeli Perspective”: “What emerged for me, from the study of the first chapters [of Sefer Hatanya, the central works of the Chabad ultra-Orthodox organization] … was the discovery that the main stream of Jewish thought is permeated by genetic spiritual superiority of Jews over gentiles disconcertingly reminiscent of racist notions of our time.
Living in Israel for the past twenty years … I have come to realize the vitality of Jewish racist notions, and I am more than ever convinced that the hold Judaism will have on this and future generations will be gravely impaired unless these notions are neutralized …”
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Pearls of “wisdom”:
“We have to recognize that Jewish blood, and the blood of a goy, are not the same thing.”
– Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg, New York Times, June 6, 1989

“Even the best of the non-jews should all be killed.”

Rabbi Simon ben Yohai,
Talmud, Minor Tractates. Soferim 15, Rule 10.
“The difference between a Jewish
soul and souls of non-Jews – all of them in all different levels – is
greater and deeper than the difference between a human soul and the
souls of cattle.“
Rabbi Kook
“The Elder”, from the Book, “Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel“
“One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail.”
Rabbi Yaacov Perrin, NY Daily News, Feb.
28, 1994, p.6
“The difference between a Jewish and a non-Jewish person stems from the common expression: ‘Let us differentiate.‘ Thus, we do not have a case of profound change in which a person is merely on a superior level…..Rather, we have a case of ‘let us differentiate’ between totally different species.….This is what needs to be said about the body: the body of a Jewish person is of a totally different quality from the body of [members] of all nations of the world … A non-Jew’s entire reality is only vanity. The entire creation [of a non-Jew] exists only for the sake of the Jews.”

Rabbi Menachem Scheerson, quoted by Brownfeld in
the Washington Report of Middle East Affairs, March 2000, p. 105-106

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Now, with all the above, you might like to conciser and take very seriously the shocking news that:

Israel Becoming Less Secular
80% of the Israeli public describe themselves as traditional [Orthodox] Jews (47%) or hareidi-religious/ religious-Zionist
(33%), while only 20% consider themselves secular Jews!http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/124345“An Israel Democratic Institute (IDI)
demographic survey finds religious growth and secular decline – but most
significant is that the proportion of religious in the public is
highest among the youth.

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Breaking Taboos

Posted on July 10, 2010 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian


“Jewish blood is not the same as the blood of a (Gentile) goy.” Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg
“One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail” Rabbi Yaacov Perrin

Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg

Any observer following current publications can notice the exponential multiplication of articles, videos, blogs, websites, and dubious “studies” which boast of the allegedly exceptional and superior Jewish IQ.

This proliferation is arguably linked to the fact that the massive over-representation of Jewish zionists in sensitive position in politics, media, and banking, is no longer taboo, and can not be denied any more.

Thus the Judeo-Zionist Perception Management gurus have designed this new communication trick: not to deny it any more, but to brag about it by offering an inane explanation for their “exceptional achievements”, namely a “superior genetic Jewish
intelligence”!

The come-back of such 19th Century supremacist pseudo-science is a farcical nonsense, especially in light of the fact that firstly there is no scientific ground to assert that one human race would have superior intelligence, and secondly and foremost, Judaism is a religion, and not a race.

It is important to notice that “scientists” in Nazi Germany have produced similar “scientific studies” and arguments to “prove” that blacks and Jews have inferior IQ to the Aryan German Race.

Such line of research and investigations have absolutely no weight amongst the respectable academic community, because of the intrinsic nature of such studies, that can be politically manipulated to justify crimes such as slavery, racism, colonization and holocausts.

“intelligence testing became a new source for comparisons between races. Poorly designed studies appeared to justify the claim that “Negroes,” as well as Eastern Europeans and Jews, were physically and mentally inferior to whites from Northern Europe.”

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

The race inferiority card was used against Blacks during slavery, then
against Jews in Nazi Germany, and now it is against Arabs and Muslims.

Those of us who reject the supremacist doctrine of “intellectual superiority”
and “exceptional suffering” of the Jews and their claim to be “Chosen by God”, are labeled “anti-Semites” by the Judeo-Zionists, such as Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and their hatred inciting ilk.

According to ADL’s own website, their criterion for defining someone as an
Anti-Semite racist, is when someone rejects the claim that the Jewish
people are “Chosen by God”!

The ADL racism is so blatant, that they feel compelled to refer to African-Americans as “Anti-Semites”: quote: “Furthermore, they have supported theories espoused by other anti-Semites: Jews are not the “chosen people” described in the Bible”.

http://www.adl.org/poisoning_web/black_bigots.asp

These dangerous positions have first been consolidated by decades of legal
harassment by the ADL, and then propagated ad nauseam into the main stream news flow, hence are quite easily accepted now by the population.

The concept of a peaceful, safe and harmonious society is incompatible
with these ideologies and claims, hence it is essential to challenge and radically reject such dangerous fascist regression.

Examples of articles, blogs and “studies” which spreads the myth of the distinctiveness and superiority of Jewish IQ:

·
As for freedom of speech

The New Ten Commandments:

1) Thou shall believe that “they” are the “Chosen”

2) If you see their numbers extremely overrepresented in high positions of power and control thou shall not mention, except if it was to praise their “superior” IQ

3) If you become aware that they are “running the show” in the media thou shall
only glorify “their talents”

4) If you come to notice their grip in the world of finance thou shall be in awe of their “outstanding aptitude”

5) If you detect their attempted steering of social progress or revolutionary movements, thou shall only explain it with their “admirable righteousness, evolved integrity and exceptional morality”

6) Thou shall not compare their unique suffering with any other

7) Thou shall revere the holocaust –faithfully, as narrated by their gurus, with all thy heart

8) Thou shall have no doubt in your heart of the number 6 million

9) Thou shall not criticize “Israel” the “light unto nations”, and thou shall honour it’s
eternal right to exist as a “Jewish state”

10) Thou shall sacrifice as many “goyim” humans as possible (especially those who dare to say NO) on the altar of their conquest, greed, arrogance, and supremacy.

I for one, fully reject the concept of “Chosen-ness” , fully reject the concept of “superior Jewish intelligence”, and I fully reject the concept of “superior Jewish morality”, i.e. that Jews have always been at the “helm of social progress”.

Will that make me a racist anti-Semite?

Who is the RACIST?

If believing that: Jews and non-Jews are equal in intellect, morality, spirituality and in their responsibility for their own actions; if believing that is a crime, then I am the
first to be called a criminal.

If believing that the statement: “Jews are unique and special beings, with unique Divine souls” is a racist, chauvinistic and supremacist statement; then I plead guilty of racism.

If believing that “ALL mankind, Jews and non-Jews alike, are equal in humanity and in their accountability before the law”, is anti-Semitic, then call me anti-Semite.

If believing that no man is superior to another in intellect by the virtue of race or religion, is considered supremacy, in this Orwellian world, then call me supremacist.

If we choose not to actively expose and challenge such bizarre myths, and instead opt to turn a blind eye to such outlandish racism embedded in the doctrine of some orthodox Judaic sects, if we don’t break the taboo about the ugly ideology that
motivates and animates the Zionist’s fascism, then undoubtedly we would be sharing the guilt of complicity, active alliance and passive complacency, by our sheer silence.

We, the people concerned must make an unambiguous stance: the choice has to be made between supporting humanity, justice and equality or supporting racism, dominance and supremacy.

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“I have a Dream…”

Posted on June 27, 2010 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian

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I dream of liberation of Palestine.

My dream is not blurred by illusions or hindered by hardships. A cornerstone for a Liberation movement is clarity of vision, to keep our objectives in focus.

It is perhaps the disproportional difference of power which makes our aims and vision look like foolish dreams to those who think of themselves as being “realists”.

It is unrealistic to fight against a tyrannical occupation force with deference and only meek means of persuasion and appeasement, because it never stops the crimes, never pushes back the tyrant. Instead, it confirms the tyrant’s authority, which in return will trigger him to pursue unchanged his ruthless methods of conquest and enslavement.

It is realistic and can not be ignored that only creative and surprising means of pushing out occupying tyrants, be it radical, will defeat a tyrant equipped with overwhelming military powers and determined to annihilate the conquered. The uncompromised principle is the key to liberation.

An unrestrained vision toward clearly defined objectives can not be intimidated or suffocated by “facts on the ground”, as these “facts” are the artificial fruits of a temporary force, and not the timeless result of natural unconstrained evolution. To omit this evidence would negate the possibility of peaceful change and evolution. Strictly no human achievement would have ever been possible throughout history, without aiming toward what seems impossible.

In any negotiations (let alone with one’s oppressors) raising up the ceiling of demands is a prerequisite to achieve the nearest possible level of your objectives, hopes and expectations.

Palestinians do not demand anything else than the implementation of their inalienable, historical and human rights. Palestinians have not fallen to discouragement, not lowered their honest expectations, and it is our duty to continue to plant hope, to nurture imagination and to foster optimism.

“Imagination is more important than knowledge” according to Albert Einstein; if that is true in the field of “hard” sciences like mathematics and physics, as I believe it is, it is even more true in the field of humanity and social sciences.

Through imagination, we leap beyond the boundaries of the known, the permitted and the understood to embrace the entire universe and further afar, where questions bounce back and forth and answers run forever.

People who managed to open their eyes to the truth about what happened to Palestine are generally astounded by the steadfastness and persistence of Palestinians;

How come they never give up!

What is it that keeps them going!

Why are they able to survive against all odds!

How are they able to stand up to such oppression with such little means!

How can they endure such losses with faces still smiling!

Where do they get their strength from!

The answer to all these questions lies in one word; Free-spirit

A spirit that has its worldly roots intertwined with the soil of its land while its branches extend to heaven

A spirit aware of its potential and weaknesses; is only answerable to its creator

A spirit that thrives and blossoms through the wisdom of its ancestors and prophets

A spirit that cherishes its two wings of freedom: Faith and Hope

If small numbers, lack of means, limited abilities, and restricted resources were to be considered as limits, instead of mere obstacles, no prophet or visionary would’ve left a mark in our human history.

To confine ourselves only to “what we can do here and now”, nullifies any forward strategy, and brings upon a future similar to the unacceptable present occupation and oppression, though it might be dressed differently. This is not an option.

If Palestinians were to comply and abide by the rules of the game as defined by the colonial “super-powers” the sheer word “Palestine” would have disappeared by now. There would be no mention of us anywhere, and yet we achieved already so much. We have more than ever the strength to resist, to dream and to force our way to expose and defeat the criminal Zionist project. If you ponder as to what has kept the Palestinian’s plight for Justice and Liberation alive, the answer is our inflexible determination.

May be in that sense Palestinians ought to become an example, an inspiration for a global movement of Resistance against the New World Order.

The human spirit is magnificent when allowed to fly, and the extent of achievements can be astounding when we set our imagination free.

From this perspective I view the world, as a Palestinian, a Muslim, and a human being, and it is from this starting point that my own thoughts and words emerge.

When I write, I never do so as politician, never as a leader, never as a negotiator, never as chairwoman, and certainly never ever as an army general.

When I write, I do so as a mother whose main concern is to take part in preparing the grounds for a better future for her children, grand children and other children of the world, a world where justice is the foundation, peace is the cement and compassion the warmth that adds comfort to this sustainable building.

I write as a child, who believes she can find an answer for every question, imagine a story behind every picture, hear music in the passing of breeze, see wonders in the most ordinary, a child who sees miracles in every common incident.

I write as a visionary whose worldly limitations does not hinder her from looking forward and rejoicing in what she sees way beyond the horizon, and if possible bring that horizon nearer.

I write as a poet in the hope that the melodies of my songs would help to keep going those who march for justice, freedom and humanity.

I write as an artist who paints images not of a world that she sees but rather of a world that she loves, yearns for and endeavours to see.

I write as a sky-gazer, who can still see stars despite the light-pollution.

I write as an idealist flying toward an idyllic world.

I write as a dreamer, who will never stop dreaming, until my dreams become reality.


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About dreams.
From the womb of agony
Dreams are born
Sweet and pure
…
We nourish
and groom
And watch
them grow
…
After living in us
Long enough
They come alive
Before we know it
We start living in them
Living…them
***
Dreams and realities
.
“There is only a fine line
That divides dreams and reality”
They say
…
In my world
There is no line
My dreams and my reality
Are one and the same
Smoothly…
Blending in
…
As colours unite
New hues are born
From blue and yellow
Gentle green emerges
As red embraces blue
Vivid violet comes to life
My universe is a rainbow
Of many… many colours
No lines
No divisions
My dreams
and my reality merge
As if smudged
By an artist brush
I… like a feather
Drift in between
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Palestinians versus the Samson option blackmail

Posted on June 23, 2010 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian

Palestinians
versus the Samson option blackmail

  •       In his article Alan
    Hart concludes that after the inevitable failure of the two-state
    solution there is “only two possible end-game scenario

  •         Zionist-awakening scenario: “In
    one Israeli Jews come to their senses and accept that their best and
    actually only hope for a future with security and peace is the One State
    solution – a single, democratic state in which all of its citizens,
    Jews and Arabs, would have equal civil and political rights.”
  •          Armageddon
    scenario    : “In the other foreseeable end-game scenario….. The
    anti-Israel outrage of citizens of all faiths and none around the world
    would be such that the governments of the major powers, including the
    one in Washington D.C., would be obliged to punish the Zionist state
    with boycott, sanctions and divestment    ” In which case the zionists
    threaten the world to take it down with them if they go down.
In other words Mr.
Hart is telling us that the Palestinians and the world have no option
but to gently and tactfully deal with zionists, otherwise any pressure
on “israel” even through boycott and sanctions will cause the world
demise. Therefore, in his opinion, all what the Palestinians and the
world can do is to “un-brainwash” the zionists, to keep trying to
“educate” them and work at healing their psychologically messed-up
minds, their collective “insanity” or else… it’s Armageddon!!
This is clear cut blackmail to the world.

Alan
Hart conveniently omits the third scenario; namely, the Palestinian
scenario

The Palestinians who have miraculously survived and
endured a century of oppression and ethnic-cleansing without losing
their hope or their humanity

The
Palestinians who have perplexed the world with their courage,
steadfastness and sacrifices

The Palestinians who love their
trees as much as they love their own sons and daughters

The
Palestinians who love their land more than they love their own selves

The
Palestinians whose determination and bravery against all odds have
inspired the world

The
Palestinians with David’s stones who confronted ruthless Goliath and
conquered his delusions of hegemony, expansion and conquest

The
Palestinians whose legendary heroism has astounded humanity; from the
buzzing streets of Texas to the remote quiet villages in Japan

The Palestinian scenario is the option
that refuses neither to bow down to oppression nor to surrender to
blackmail

The Palestinian option is the Hizbullah and Salaheddin
option

A few thousands
dedicated resistance fighters of Hizbullah managed to defeat and kick
out from Lebanon the fourth most powerful army in the world after 22
years of occupation

Salaheddin, the Muslim Kurd, with his
dedicated and courageous army have liberated al-Quds (Jerusalem) after
200 years of Crusaders’ occupation and colonization and kicked the gory
invaders out.

Already, by electing Hamas, Palestinians have made
their choice, their scenario of the “end-game” is neither Armageddon nor
the waiting game of appeasement, conciliation and un-brainwashing of
their tormentors

The
Palestinians have chosen the Hizbullah and Salaheddin scenario;
RESISTANCE until EVERY inch of Palestine is liberated and EVERY refugee
is back home

Palestinians, after a century of intimate
knowledge of their oppressors, have reached their threshold of patience.
They are not prepared to wait any longer for the illusionary awakening
of the “humanity” of their oppressors, nor are they prepared to accept
thieves and murderers as guests in their homeland

They understand more than anyone else that
the magical awakening of a dead-conscience is not possible, nor is it
rational to keep waiting for thieves to give up their illegitimate
privileges and give back the stolen lands and property to its rightful
owners, the Palestinians.

The menace of Samson’s scenario
blackmail does not intimidate Palestinians nor does it suppress their
aspiration of the full liberation of their homeland for which they have
sacrificed the dearest, the most loved and the most precious.

Zionist are not, as claimed by Alan hart,
some innocent, intelligent, humane people who have been simply
brainwashed to be where they are and to do what they are doing!

They,
by the sheer fact of taking part in colonizing a STOLEN land are
partners in crime

Whether religious or secular, zionists have
proven to themselves and to the world that they are a bunch of greedy,
arrogant, unethical, robbers and murderers:

    • Religious
      zionists believe that Palestine belongs to them because God gave them
      the land!
  • Hard core secular zionists believe that they have
    captured this land, created facts on the grounds, and whatever they
    have acquired by conquest becomes an inalienable right!
  • So-called “moderate” secular zionists are
    satisfied with the achievement of zionism’s goal of creating a homeland
    for the Jews in Palestine. Thus they ready themselves to simply abandon
    and discard the word “zionism”, and claiming that all they want now is
    peace, so they claim. The opportunistic discarding of the word “zionism”
    is nothing else than meaningless empty rhetoric, since it does not
    imply in any way or manner the restoration of Palestinians’ inalienable
    rights, the restitution of their land and property, and the compensation
    for their losses. Hence the claims of seeking “peace” by self professed
    “moderates” anti-zionists, ex-zionists, crypto-zionists, or moderate
    secular zionists, are vacuous and have zero value.
What matters to us is the fact that they
have created facts on the ground, engaging with them in “dialogues”,
“confidence building”, “peace processes” or asking politely with a
million please on top will not liberate the land they occupy nor will it
restore justice according to elementary standards of international law.

History
has taught us that the criminal privileged never give up their
privileges willingly, ever.

Secular or religious zionists will
never give up willingly any of their privileges acquired by
ongoing terrorism and genocide.

The
zionists have wasted a century of opportunities in Palestine, provoked
catastrophic wars in the Middle East, and caused economic havoc on the
planet.

Alas, the time of reckoning is rapidly approaching.

The
faint and anxious voices here and there, who have realized that the
zionist colonial project is doomed, try desperately to save what they
can of it by spreading the SOS calls, trying frantically to make the
zionists see sense. These attempts are as vain and as doomed as is the
zionist colonial project.

Six
million copies of Alan Hart’s books will not add an ounce of humanity to
those who lost it by wickedness, nor can it unbend the crooked
mentality that became twisted by decades of evil doing; bulldozing
millennial olive grooves, demolishing world heritage, assassinating
mothers, babies, and elderly, attempting to annihilate the protectors of
the Holy land and descendants of the Prophets, namely the Palestinians.
The balance of power is shifting, the
Muslim world will not stay asleep for much longer, the world only just
began to wake up to the truth.

People of the world are opening
their eyes to the alarming level of zionist infiltration in their own
affairs; governments manipulations, media control, financial corruption,
and it’s not going to be an pleasant discovery.

The decades of
deception are over and the karma of retribution has begun.

The
blowback is going to take them by surprise.

Chances of repentance
are over and time is out.

The world will soon have to decide;
either to succumb to unrelenting zionists blackmail of mass genocide and
world annihilation OR stand up like the brave Palestinians and STOP
this madness once and for all

Indubitably,
the world will regurgitate those who drive for its annihilation,
Samson-ists and Armageddon-ists.

The world will unite and rid
itself of this Frankenstein.
In the end,
zionists and their associates will not find many to shed tears for them,
nor will they find many open doors to welcome them.

The only open doors will be the doors of deportation.

Time, perhaps
another couple of thousand years, might help them to learn the lesson,
to be brought to their senses, back to humanity.

Then and only then, only when animated by peaceful
intentions, can they try to knock at Palestine’s doors again.

Not now, and not for a long time.

Nahida the exiled Palestinian

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UN recognition of Israel is fatally flawed

Posted on June 6, 2010 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian

Illegitimate… Illegitimate… Illegitimate

What legitimacy does Israel have? ——-> (NONE)

UN recognition of Israel is fatally flawed

 

http://www.redress.cc/palestine/cking20100606

By
Christopher
King

6 June 2010

Christopher King argues that beneath Israel’s litany of crimes
against the Palestinians, and most recently its murder of humanitarian
workers aboard the Gaza-bound international aid flotilla, lies the fact
of its own illegality.

The true nature of the so-called freedom-loving, democratic state of
Israel is now clear to the world following its military attack on Gaza,
its illegal blockade of Gaza with terrible suffering of its population
and now the murder of nine humanitarian activists in course of pirating
the Free Gaza Flotilla in international waters.

These horrifying events should focus minds within the international
community on the legitimacy of the Israeli regime. We should consider
what meaning for its present status its disregard for legality and human
rights since its inception might have.

The foundation of the entity Israel was supported by Europe and America
due to sympathy or guilt, as you might have it, for the suffering of
European Jews, the colonialist thinking of that time and familiarity
with the Jewish biblical narrative.

“…it is clear that once the Jews took up arms against the
Palestinians, dispossessed them and settled on their land, they acted
against the terms and intent of the Mandate, to say nothing of civil
law.”

The British government resisted unauthorized Jewish immigrants from
1944 to 1948 because they caused trouble with the Palestinians and no
administrator likes gratuitous trouble. When the Jews took up arms the
British were bound to take action against them. On the Jewish side,
there had been expressions of intent based on the Balfour Declaration
(1917) that gave Zionists reason to believe that their aspirations had
political support. This was so, although with critically important
provisos.

The preamble
to the League of Nations Mandate by which Britain administered
Palestine and which has the same essential wording as the Balfour
Declaration, reads:

Whereas the Principal Allied Powers have also agreed that the
Mandatory should be responsible for putting into effect the declaration
originally made on 2 November 1917, by the Government of His Britannic
Majesty, and adopted by the said Powers, in favour of the establishment
in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, it being
clearly understood that nothing should be done which might prejudice the
civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in
Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in
any other country [my italics].

Whatever was meant by the term “national home for the Jewish people”,
it is clear that once the Jews took up arms against the Palestinians,
dispossessed them and settled on their land, they acted against the
terms and intent of the Mandate, to say nothing of civil law. Britain
was placed in the position of breaching the Mandate if it condoned
Jewish actions.

“The Balfour Declaration and League of Nations Mandate in favour
of a ‘national home for the Jewish people’ are often cited as the legal
basis for the Jewish occupation of Palestine. It is obvious, however,
that this cannot be true. These instruments had no legal force.”

The Balfour Declaration and League of Nations Mandate in favour of a
“national home for the Jewish people” are often cited as the legal basis
for the Jewish occupation of Palestine. It is obvious, however, that
this cannot be true. These instruments had no legal force. Moreover,
dispossession of Palestinians from their land breached the most
important civil rights safeguarded by the Mandate, namely, the right to
possess their land and the right for them and their descendants to live
upon it.

Israel’s declaration of independence on 14 May 1948 when the
British
Mandate ended has no legal validity. Subsequently, Israel
was recognized
by other countries, following the United States. It was admitted to the
United Nations, the rebranded League of Nations, by Resolution 273 on
11 May 1949 which, again is cited by Jewish Palestinians as Israel’s
legitimization. Resolution 273 was a grave error. Israel not only had no
pre-existing historical foundation but it incorporated a fatal flaw.
That flaw was its failure to recognize the rights of the Palestinians.
The Balfour Declaration and the British Mandate had recognized
Palestinian rights and the 10 December 1948 United Nations Declaration
of Human Rights was a general acknowledgment that such rights existed
for all peoples.

The right to own property without arbitrary confiscation and to live
upon it in one’s own country did not, of course, come into existence
with the UN Declaration of Human Rights. These rights had always
explicity existed in European-based law, as well as in all developed
countries and many others, with the exception of the brief experiment
with socialism in some.

“Israel not only had no pre-existing historical foundation but
it incorporated a fatal flaw. That flaw was its failure to recognize the
rights of the Palestinians.”

The right to own property and live peacefully upon it already existed
in Palestine. In June 2005 Turkey transferred Ottoman land ownership
records for Palestine up to 1916 to the Palestinian Authority. From
1917
to 1948 land records were maintained by the British administration. It
should be mentioned that the Israeli authorities seized the land
records
held by the Palestinian Authority as reported
by the Scottish Trades Union Council on 22 April 2002:

Our Palestinian trade union colleagues are now confirming what has
been suggested by such news reports as have been able to get out of the
areas under Israeli assault.

“Ariel Sharon, with the complicity of the entire Israeli political
establishment, is moving to complete his lifetime’s ambition – the
creation of a state of Greater Israel on all of historic Palestine,
through the expulsion or killing of non-Jewish Palestinians, and the
destruction of all physical evidence of their history.

“That is why the Israeli gunmen have not only been massacring
Palestinians. They have also been demolishing centuries-old buildings,
and ripping up olive groves, some of which date back to Roman times.

“They have seized and removed the records and documentation of the
Palestinian Authority and of Palestinian civic organizations, including
all the membership records of the Palestinian trade unions.

“And most significantly, they have seized the Palestinian
records
of land ownership. What purpose can that have, other than in order to
destroy evidence of the Palestinians entitlement to their land?
[my
italics].

The 22 August report
from the American Libraries Association’s International
Responsibilities Task Force illustrates that Israel particularly targets
libraries that contain historical records relating to Palestinian
demographics (e.g. Health, Development, Information and Policy
Institute, Ramallah), commerce (e.g. Palestinian Insurance Company,
Ramallah) and government statistics (e.g. Bureau of Statistics,
Ramallah). Library papers and computers are vandalized and records that
could support Palestinian claims on their land are either entirely
removed or destroyed.

The fundamental issue in Palestine is land and the right to live upon
it. Israeli actions make clear their awareness that they have no
title
to the land. Israel is attempting to strengthen its possession by making
it difficult for Palestinians to establish their claims.

“… the United Nations’ acceptance of Israel’s status as a
legitimate state is inherently invalid. Legitimate means
according to law. In dispossessing the Palestinians Israel had broken
that people’s legally valid tie to the land on which they and their
ancestors had lived for centuries if not millennia…”

This then is the fatal flaw in the United Nations 1949 recognition of
Israel as a legitimate state within the international community. It
ignores the land and residence rights of the Palestinians that had been
made explicit in the Balfour Declaration, the British Mandate and the
United Nations’ own recognition in the period leading up to the expiry
of the British mandate that Palestinian rights must be protected.

By fatal flaw, I mean that the United Nations’ acceptance of
Israel’s status as a legitimate state is inherently invalid. Legitimate
means according to law. In dispossessing the Palestinians Israel had
broken that people’s legally valid tie to the land on which they and
their ancestors had lived for centuries if not millennia, which is the
very foundation of nationhood, national identity and indeed, livelihood.

As I have said elsewhere, legitimacy for Israel can only be granted by
the Palestinians and even they cannot legally give it while under the
duress of armed occupation and dispossession. Agreements with the
Palestinian Authority or even Hamas relating to land allocation and
citizenship are therefore worthless as they might be subject to valid
legal challenge at any time in the future.

The status of the Jews in Palestine in international law is therefore
that of a people having an ethnic identity, some religious identity but
without a Jewish country. Those who emigrated to Palestine possessed
national identities based on their birthplace and parents’ residence as
in the case of the Palestinians. By these internationally-recognized
critera, if they wish to live in Palestine, they are Jewish Palestinians
among Muslim, Christian and whichever other Palestinians have a claim
to the land.

There is no point in the Jews of Palestine or anyone else arguing
subtle and complex legal points in refutation of this. If this
proposition is not true, then any people in any country may be
dispossessed by a more powerful country and lose all claim to their
land. That cannot be the case. International law is founded on the
concept of national identity and the right to defend the nation on which
it is based. That is precisely what Hamas, the legitimate,
democratically-elected government of Palestine is doing.

“The status of the Jews in Palestine in international law is …
that of a people having an ethnic identity, some religious identity but
without a Jewish country.”

The Jews of Palestine cannot conceivably, therefore, invent a
country
and national identity on land confiscated by armed force from the
Palestinian people. It is not possible.

Destroying Palestinian records is crime of unspeakable viciousness
that
rivals the crimes that Jewish Palestinians carry out against the
persons of their Muslim compatriots. It does immense cultural damage

while giving no advantage to Jews. The lack of records might be easily
remedied for land redistribution purposes on the basis of the known
ethnic populations in 1947, when mass immigration commenced. A
democratically elected government for all Palestine, following the
return of refugees, could sort out the details.

I have never heard anyone suggest that the Jews of Palestine should be
ejected from that country. It appears, however, that they do not wish
to
live equitably among those Palestinians who have prior and better claim
to the land than they.

In that case, I would suggest
that they might
select an agreeable location of about 22,000 square kilometres in the
United States. They could emigrate, drive its American inhabitants out
and set up a Jewish homeland there. More land could be taken over
later
if desired. As the United States has unfailingly endorsed these
principles in the case of Palestine it will undoubtedly be in accord.
Alternatively, perhaps Muslim Palestinians might do the same. I cannot
see what possible objection the United States government might have.

Christopher
King is a retired consultant and lecturer
in management and marketing. He lives in London, UK.
.

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We are not alone

Posted on June 2, 2010 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian

We are not alone

 

We –Palestinians- are
not alone
Best of humanity… on our side
 Mighty truth… Gracious morality… on our
side
Justice, dignity, human values, radiant hope

 Are on our side

 

Soil, sand, and stones
Trees, poppies, lemon zest, and morning mist

Jerusalem sunshine and
Jenin’s moonlight

Haifa’s Carmel and
Jaffa’s shoreline
Are all on our side

 

We stand firm
As the stick of Moses
Splitting good and evil

Refusing to bow down

 

Our tragedy is a sieve
Filtering the wicked away

 

We all live and die…

Better die standing

Than to live crawling

 

Better to live with a wounded
body

and a soul…whole

Than to live and die
with a disfigured soul

Weighed down by oppression

Bent by corruption
Inflated by arrogance
Twisted by greed

Intoxicated by power

Better die standing

With a soul…whole

 

*****************

 

Love, salutation, and
gratitude

To all the great pure selfless
souls on board Flotilla

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Through the Fog of Deception

Posted on May 31, 2010 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian

Why I am not writing on Palestine
Think Tank anymore

PeaceMonger asked…

“…Nahida, what
happened to your article from last year on Palestine Think Tank? ”

=============================================

In April 2010, after
years of association, contribution and strong support for Palestine
Think Tank (PTT), I took the painful decision to stop contributing to it
anymore, and to ask that my articles be removed. I could no longer be
associated with it, for reasons I explained to Mary Rizzo, PTT’s editor.
To answer to PeaceMonger and to whomever may wonder why I vanished from
PTT, and also to shed a light on a pernicious problem inside PTT,
please let me share with you excerpts of my letter to PTT’s editor:

Start
quote: (links added)

"The clarity of vision and the
unconditional support for Palestine with its all shades of resistance
-that we were used to and were in love with- is what made me a fervent
reader of PTT and a passionate admirer of you and your work

Lately, however, something has changed; I have
been very disturbed by the new direction and new political orientation
that PTT is taking:

* Attacking the stronghold of Palestinian
resistance Hamas, tainting its integrity and participating in
spreading unfounded accusations and slanderous myths of corruption,
treason, terrorism and drug dealings. (even accusing it of illegitimacy,
and equating it with "israel").

* Smearing the Palestinian society at large,
at a moment when they need every drop of support, by focusing on some
criminal acts by certain Palestinians and tainting the whole society
because of such acts of criminality; it’s not a matter of denying the
crimes and wrong doings of few leaders and some members of the society,
it’s not a matter neither of silencing the necessary opposition against
corruption and self criticism, but rather, it’s the timing and the and
the failure to calculate the detrimental effect of over-emphasising such
issues, on the Palestinian cause. I view all this as fatal strategic
error

*
Demoralizing of individuals and groups who –more than anyone
else- have sacrificed their time, assets, effort and even lives in order
to stand by Palestine and to give the besieged in Gaza a message of
love and hope, that the world hasn’t forsaken them, as did Viva
Palestina’s convoy recently.

*
It has become obvious, that PTT has fallen under the influence of a
tiny clique who denies, misses or dismisses the fact that Arab (i.e.
also Palestinian) identity is deeply rooted and anchored in Islam as a
culture and way of life. Even Christian Arabs and other minorities
living in Arab countries, are more influenced by Islam’s customs and
social life, than by westernized Euro-centrism.

* This group
pretends to be representative of all Palestinians, they gave themselves
the right to speak on our behalf without the consent of all
Palestinians, which I and many other Palestinian contest and fiercely
object to.

* This ultra-westernized tiny circle now influencing
and steering PTT sees the USA, NATO and its allies as saviours of
Palestine, it sees and promotes racist ideas that Arabs, Muslims and
Palestinians are unqualified to sorting their own problems; their
societies are corrupt, backwards and dysfunctional.

*
Secularization and westernizing of Arab countries is a tool used by the
neo-colonial forces, the same who have engaged in ever more bloody wars
against Arab countries AND against Islam.

* I see that this
change of PTT feeds the zionists propaganda and serve it’s hasbara
machine, it offers them precious gifts that justifies their
self-promoting leadership as a necessity for peace, progress and
stability in the Middle-East

………… I can not afford to
be associated with the new direction that PTT has been taking, which is
extremely detrimental to the Palestinian cause.”

End quote.

One
of the people I allude to is Kawther Salam now co-editor of PTT, who
between a few good articles, often inserts massive deconstruction and
undermining of the Palestinian support, literally peddling zionist
manipulation, smear campaigns and hasbara.

With a "Palestinian"
like Kawther Salam –co-editor on PTT- who needs Hasbara:

Start
quotes:

“The Palestinian civil society is sick of the
so-called "Hamas
authority", the radical
Palestinian movement which distorts the face of Islam, and which has
turned the holy mission of the Palestinian struggle into a struggle for their own pockets and unknown foreign
agendas.”

“We,
all the Palestinians, are sick of both of you.."

“…..you
turned yourselves into the puppets
of Israel, USA, Khaled Mishal, and other foreign countries and
interests”

“also remind the President-in-dreams, Ismael Haniyeh, and his unknown gangs of paid thugs and donkeys,
that his so-called "presidency" over Gaza is illegal, and that he is guilty of the death and the
murders of hundreds of the innocent Palestinians in Gaza, just like the Israeli are guilty of murders, terrorism and
other crimes.
You are responsible for the death of hundreds of
sick Palestinians in the same way the Israeli criminals who imposed the
siege on Gaza and denied many patients the basic rights of medical
treatment.

Your illusory presidency is responsible for the
death of many poor people trying to bring in needed goods in the
tunnels under the earth of Gaza. Your illusory presidency is responsible
and guilty of torture of many prisoners detained illegally. Your
illusory presidency is responsible for the famine and the poverty in
Gaza just like the criminal Israeli regime.”

"Most of the Hamas militants, just like their Fatah
counterparts, are criminals
and extremists. Both
organizations are infiltrated
by the Israeli intelligence
system"

“Both
the Palestinian Authority and Hamas
regimes are illegal and
have no real legitimacy…”

“Both Fatah and Hamas
have lost any claims to legitimacy…… Both factions are infiltrated by jewish zionist interests…………….. they have
achieved nothing but to disgrace
themselves. They have no more
legitimacy than israel.”
Kawther Salam on May 20th, 2010
at 12:47:

***********************************************

In
contrast here are the views of Kawther Salam about the society of
zionist occupier and her “cute” soldiers from her own diary:

***********************************************
“My
Israeli friends helped me
always to survive, and "DINA LEE" is still responsible about all of my expenses.”
Kawther Salam,
monday, 1st.April,2002

“I remembered the Jewish family I lived with them in Tel-Aviv………
and
the small child I left him there, I should be with "Romi" instead to
be in the middle of the garbage.”
15th,April 2002

(btw; by “the middle of the garbage” she means the city of
AL-KHALIL/ HEBRON)

“The
soldiers asked me about my
political point of view, we talked together like human being, I respect all what they told me”
16th, April 2002

“During
the Intifadah, my people
made reverse 50 years against women”, Monday, 3rd June 2002

“I
called my Israeli friends
for a help, I don’t have money any more.” !st, July
2002

“I looked like the Israelis, like the human
being” !st, July 2002

“I don’t care if "Tall",
"Sharon" or "Arafat", will be the winner through
this "Election".

“I will not be sad, if it will be a
"Jewish State",
“…..then we can lead the all
Middle East!!….We can lead
all the Arab countries, lead the Middle East "Economic", We will be more
strong, more …and more!!” 2ed, July 2002

“my
Israeli friends, who give me security and confidence in
their homes……………. I am part
of their daily life.” 7Th. October 2001

“The evening brought
a pleasant surprise. Two gentle
soldiers who acted politely
and even said they were ashamed of their friends.” 9th.& 10th.
October 2001

“How could I teach the military commanders serving in Hebron, Colonel
DrorWineburg, Colonel Amon Cohen, and Lieutenant Hartzel to
overcome racism, discrimination, and
intolerance?………………………….. These officers are still victimized” Friday,
October 12, 2001

"The government corrupts the
soldiers today, and corrupts the Israeli civil society for the future,
just for political reasons”
"Lieutenant Hartzel is a good neighbour for my family in Haifa”
Friday,
October 12, 2001

“I got the news of murdering the
Israeli minister Rehavam Zeevi.


It
was a bad news like all other bad news I received about
murdering Palestinians.
Both of us, Palestinians and israelis, are
living a big "drama" of daily killing in a close, bloody reveange circle.”
Looking at this circle it
might be difficult to trace the
the first acts that cause revenge that caused
revange……………………. The resistane of "non violent" Intifada
is Legitimate. But killing of innocent Israeli should not be acceptable
in this struggle.”
Wednesday, 17th of October 2001

" I love my Israeli friends and
really enjoyed the time together. We
have the same dreams "just, peace and love"

“after
few days in Israel with my good
friends, the sea and the fun, i feel that I miss "MY SOLDIERS" who remainde me always my duity
to proclaim how bad is the occupation.” 20th of October 2001

“These
soldiers and this commander
are not responsible to be in the security duties.
They are children who do not know
better and so are forced to humiliate ………… I also feel victorious
and powerfull with my Israeli friends. Many friends.”
23rd
of October 2001

“most
Israeli citizens are good
people and they are victimized”
“Even the soldiers who harassed me,
I am always forgiving them because I don’t have any reason to hate other people.”
Wednesday, October 31, 2001

“I’m willing to have peace, life for everybody, in
this region, including my nice
soldiers who harassed me and caused psychological pain for
me…..These cute soldiers
should return back to their families and live their life” Thursday,
November 1, 2001

“the officer…………………
He came with other soldiers. He looked different than before. he smiled like a child. I tried
to turn my face to the other side. But the officer walked and approached
me.

He
came to say to me good-buy. He decided to make reconciliation with
me before I leave.
We talked together about nice things”

“We
were talking like friends. Other soldiers were serounding us very
quietly.”
It was amazing meeting. The same soldiers who used to
harasse me im my appartement and the streetcame to say to "L’hitrot"
(good-buy). There was a sade expression on their faces. Even on the
face of the officer who said to me the day before that he will be very
galde if I will leave Hebron.

I asked myself what happened. He was
sade and not happy. I decided to cut this love and hate, attractive
and rejecting meeting. I left them.”

“I understood that we
are human beings that need love instead of hate”
Friday, 2nd
November 2001.

“the officer.
He was listening to me carefully with respect…
I told him why I decided to arrive the
airport drunk. Because I’m not fond of alcohol and I never got drunk
before. The officer said, nothing was against me and he shook hands with me and apologized
with respect.” Monday,
March 04

“It was very clear that the soldiers were harassing me as a result of their
commanders instructions” 22nd March 2002

"Colonel Igal Sharon was a nice commander of the " IDF " soldiers in Hebron. He used to
deal with all of the human stories I was published in the
newspapers…….And while I cuased alot of criticizem noise for Colonel
Igal Sharon in the media, he was a nice Commander in Hebron"

"Colonel Barokh Najjar was very nice colonel
with me either, while I criticized him alot in the media and I caused
noise noise for him, But he was
respecting me"

"Why
nobody interesting to hear, talk or write about the nice stories
between the Palestinians and the Israelis under this terrible war??"

End
quotes

Just a few observations regarding Kawther
Salam’s diary and narrative:

-Her relentless attack on Hamas,
Fatah and the entire Palestinian society is cold-hearted, callous and
shocking, in contrast with her warm feelings, gentle praise and
admiration for her “victimized” “peace-loving” “israeli friends” and
“cute, child-like soldiers”

-She spells Nakba like zionist do:
Naqbah, no educated Arab would write it with Q, because it would cease
to mean what it means

–
She said she doesn’t know where her “refugee” parents came from
originally, which is rather bizarre for a Palestinian refugee!

-In her diary; she never mentioned Palestinian
friends, it’s always “israeli” friends or soldier friends

-She claims she was “forced” to leave Palestine, when
in fact she begged and worked hard and with the help of her “israeli
friends” until she was finally allowed to leave (according to her diary)

– Her pet animal is called "Zahav", a name no
Palestinian would choose by any stretch of imagination, it’s a Hebrew
name!

–
She also collaborated on three films for Israeli television stations

– There is even an infantile blog to promote her, laughable, but not
in a funny way, her "talents" are praised, she is promoted as a "gifted"
writer and an "inspiration" to all Palestinian women

–
Finally, I would like to share one of the "gifted" Kawther’s poems:

Quote: "I’m counting the sky stars,
hopefully to see him!! Talking to the birds flying, hopefully to meet
him!! Asking the sea waves, the zephyr hopefully to talk to him!!
Irrigating all flowers, hopefully to smell him!!

Day and night are
equal!!

The hour hand pass slowly!!

I’m waiting and
waiting…

They killed my hope…

They killed my dreams…

They killed my feeling…

They killed humanity…

They
killed and killed…

But tomorrow is coming…

Tomorrow
should coming!!

Tomorrow I’ll dance and sing…

I’ll smile
and laugh…

Drink and drunk…

Kiss and hug…

Fly
and love…

Tomorrow I’ll meet him!!

I’ll get my
Freedom!!

Freedom to live…

Freedom to love…

Freedom
to talk…

Freedom to travel…

Freedom to have an ID.

Freedom, and freedom and freedom…

I’m dreaming daily…

Dreaming and dreaming…

But I woke up…!" End Quote

In
conclusion, whatever is the motivation of those who infiltrated PTT,
whether simply hatred and contempt to their people and culture, or utter
foolishness, or something far more sinister like for example perception
management, the result is the same: their articles and comments contain
poison, a poison extremely detrimental to the Palestinian cause at this
moment in time, precisely when public opinion just begins to see
Palestine and Palestinians in a more favourable light.

I can
not be associated with such smear campaigns waged against the entire
Palestinian society, leadership, people and culture.

.

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A Strategy of Liberation requires emancipation

Posted on May 23, 2010 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian

The case for “Palestinian voice”
A critique through the eyes of an exiled Palestinian
After almost one century of Zionist terrorism in Palestine, the world is gradually waking up to this racist and destructive ideology.
Contributing to the heroic Palestinian Resistance, this growing awareness will incidentally precipitate the abolition of the Zionist ideology and its hideous manifestation, just like slavery were abolished.
The Palestinian Resistance and its allies represent an exemplary model of diversity and cooperation across borders, race, age, economic circumstances, religion or nationality.
In essence, the Palestinian Resistance is a model of inclusion, the radical contrary of the exclusivist Zionist ideology.
Contrary to the gory Zionist project, our true and sincere aspirations are long lasting Peace, Justice and Freedom. For us, this will restore of the true foundations of Palestinian society.
After almost a century of unrepentant Zionist terrorism in Palestine, all doubts have vanished: The only real road to Peace is a full and unconditional Liberation of Palestine, liberation from this supremacist ideology and liberation from the perpetrators. That will inevitably mean a return to the original, peaceful society Palestine was before the Zionist invasion.
To be called again “The Holy Land”, Palestine must be reunified with its people, the Palestinians.
Only Palestinians can heal the disfigured landscape and Holy City of Jerusalem, for the benefit of humanity. Only Palestinians will open its doors to all those who come in Peace, as they had in the past, contrary to the present day Zionist occupiers and their apocalyptic weaponry and dishonesty, their bulldozers uprooting millennial olive groves, destroying biblical World Heritages, evicting entire families from their ancestral houses and neighbourhoods, bringing harm and destabilization all across the Middle-East and to the world.
To aim towards the Liberation of Palestine, it is vital to establish a clear, firm and visionary strategy, one that is not sabotaged by diversions, deflections, dilutions, obfuscation or control by anyone with slightly different objectives than the Palestinians themselves.
As a person who holds this Liberation dear to my heart, and as someone who was involved for many years- with various shades and colours of activism in support of the Palestinian struggle, I can testify personally of the significant change in people’s awareness and level of support to this just cause; thanks to the endurance and perseverance of Palestinians and the passionate hard work of our supporters across the globe.
In order to plan a successful strategy, the global solidarity movement needs to:
· Define clearly its aims in a way that does not contradict or lower the aims and objectives of Palestinians themselves
· Identify the parameters of struggle -that keeps the movement’s aims unambiguously resolute and persistent- as well as keeping the core issues on focus
· Select the methods and tactics that are most likely to function in their locality while supporting Palestinians on the ground –under occupation- to select and implement their own
This requires a system of communication for consultation, synchronization, and support of the Palestinian people and their representatives, at home and in the Diaspora.
So far, the international solidarity movement (in the wider sense) has been wonderful. It has to a certain extent provided some of these requirements.

However, despite its sincerity and ceaseless efforts to mobilize and generate support, it fails to notice a “small detail”; namely the lack of representation of Palestinians at the decisive level of its action, both in strategy planning and implementation. Consequently, the real aspirations of the Palestinians risk to remain vague and not easily defined. Hence it falls a little short in representing, conveying and carrying forward all of Palestinian aims of Justice, Freedom and legitimate Self Determination.

To fill these positions by Palestinians can be a challenge for various reasons, but it causes a huge gap in authentic representation. In addition, the solidarity movement being made up of so many quite diverse groups, the task of acquiring consent for cohesive objectives of all parties becomes almost an impossibility.

Nevertheless, to rise up to the task of defeating one of the most brutal regimes and militarized societies in history, a profound understanding and comprehensive vision of the Palestinian aspirations is needed, including the capacity of swift coordination and cooperation within the whole spectrum of Palestinians, i.e. their political diversity and geographical dispersal.
Furthermore, one cannot fail to notice that there is a level of subtle steering and goal-planning of the movement by some groups, especially anti-zionist Jewish solidarity groups, some of which (knowingly or not) share with the zionists FINAL AIMS of conquest and colonization more than they realize or dare to admit, and more than what they actually share with the Palestinians
Let me explain;
Many of our Jewish supporters, individuals and groups (including leading intellectuals) vigorously oppose Zionism, and condemn “Israel’s” crimes and brutality. At various degrees, they also play a significant role in documenting and exposing “Israel’s” crimes, and are unambiguously critical of the Zionist apartheid discrimination policies towards Palestinians. Yet their vision of a solution always keeps at heart the interests of their co-religionists, co-culturalists (Jewish zionists, occupiers of Palestine), as they seek to secure a good future for the perpetrators hand-in-hand with that of their victims:

§ .. Some persist in supporting the obsolete two-state solution, irrespective the fact that this would subjugate Palestinians to the crushing “iron fist” of the occupier’s military, and force them to accept the annexation of 80% of their land !

§ . Others oppose boycott campaigns under the pretence that this tactic is ineffective and it would harm Palestinians, irrespective of the almost unanimous call by most Palestinian political affiliations in support of a Boycott and Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)

§ S. Some categorically oppose the inalienable Right of Return of Palestinians on the grounds that it is allegedly unpractical, hence unrealistic, that the “Israelis will never agree to it”, as it would cause political suicide of the Jewish state. On such grounds Algeria, all other colonial entities, would have never liberated themselves!

§ . Others go as far as supporting BDS, the Right of Return of refugees and a one state solution, but they fail to go all the way toward Justice, since they request from Palestinians acceptance of their form of government, their judicial organization, their decision to accept the final stay of the formerly “Israeli” population! This tramples most elementary rights of ownership that can not be obliterated by violent conquest, right of Self-Determination that can not be obliterated by assassinations, Sovereign rights that can not be obliterated by mere “facts on the ground” perpetrated by violent invaders. The times of “wiping indigenous populations off the map” are over. The time has come for Palestinian indigenous people to reign and decide over their own land, and Palestinian state affairs are the sole decision of the Palestinians themselves, and not of the occupiers.

Disturbingly, our Jewish supporters promote the unwarranted contention that final status of liberated Palestine should be decided jointly with the invaders, irrespective the fact that these invaders have absolutely no rights whatsoever, neither to the land (robbed by force) nor to the policy/ law making, moreover in light of their abysmal record of genocidal activities against Palestinians.

Establishing an independent judicial system will enable Palestinian to prosecute criminals, restore property rights to the rightful owners, and eventually decide upon compensations.
Depriving the victims of their inherent rights to freedom and justice by forcing upon them the permanent presence of the occupier on their stolen lands, imposing “equal rights” in favour of the occupiers, giving them free hand to shape the future status of Palestine, unequivocally equates to give high reward for crimes. And this thrice:
First: by giving the occupier the privilege to stay in the land they robbed by force (making a mockery of any rule of law, as did the contrived Law of “return” and the “absentee” laws), again all under the pretext of “facts on the ground, we are here, nothing can be done about it”

Second: by the sheer fact that the occupier is empowered, even militarily, and his assaulted victims are disempowered, giving the occupier “equal rights” to plan and shape the state of Palestine, unequivocally sets up the Palestinians to be on the shorter end again, de facto limited to only minor input, to the sole profit of the Zionist occupier.

Third: under the most absurd pretence that restitution “would create another injustice”, some are hoodwinked to believe that the Zionist occupiers should be granted the privilege to “keep the loot”, lands, property, rights, everything!

A few examples of “supportive” Jewish anti-zionist groups and excerpts of some aims as quoted from their own websites:
1) Jews for Justice for Palestinians (UK)
  • Peace in the Middle East will only come about with mutual recognition and respect and must be seen as just by both sides.
  • A lasting peace must be seen as just by both sides.
  • We support the right of Israelis to live in freedom and security within Israel’s 1967 borders.
  • To secure a lasting settlement to the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis so they can live in peace and security, thrive side by side, and co-operate together, Jews today are obligated to pursue justice on behalf of both peoples.

2) JUST PEACE LEICESTER (UK)

  • We believe that a peace settlement taking equal account of the needs and human rights of Palestinians and Israelis, Arabs and Jews and all other
3) Scottish Jews for a Just Peace (UK)
  • SJJP is a diverse group of Jews committed to peace, social justice, and human rights in the Middle East. We support the right of both Palestinians and Israelis to self-determination and to live without fear of violence or oppression.
  • support for the right of Israelis to live in freedom and security within Israel’s 1967 borders.
4) British Shalom-Salaam Trust (UK)
  • Supports projects both within Israel’s 1967 borders (the ‘Green Line’) and the Occupied Territories. We work closely with Palestinians and Israeli Jews committed to a just resolution of the conflict in Israel/Palestine based on equality and mutual respect.
5) European Jews for a Just Peace (a federation of Jewish groups in ten European countries), whose principles include:
  • recognition of Israel’s 1967 ‘green line’ borders
  • the recognition of the right of both states to have Jerusalem as their capital
6) Jewish voice for peace (USA)
Mission Statement includes:
  • JVP seeks an end to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem; security and self-determination for Israelis and Palestinians
  • We support the aspirations of Israelis and Palestinians for security and self-determination.
  • Israelis and Palestinians have the right to security, sovereignty, and self-determination within political entities of their own choosing.
7) Independent Jewish Voices (Canada)
  • Palestinians and Israelis alike have the right to peaceful and secure lives.


8) Independent Australian Jewish voices (Australia)

  • We are committed to ensuring a just peace that recognizes the legitimate national aspirations of both Israelis and Palestinians with a solution that protects the human rights of all.

9) J Street

  • the organization seeks provide a political home for pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans who believe that a “two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is essential to Israel’s survival as the national home of the Jewish people and as a vibrant democracy.”
  • J Street supports Israel and its desire for security as the Jewish homeland, as well as the right of the Palestinians to a sovereign state of their own
  • J Street would support […] a two-state solution under which the Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem would fall under Israeli sovereignty and the Arab neighborhoods would be under Palestinian sovereignty.
  • J Street believes that reaching a sustainable two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is both a fundamental American interest and essential to the survival and security of Israel as a democracy and home for the Jewish people
Another example from a supportive intellectual:
Professor John J. Mearsheimer : “it is essential that the Palestinians make clear that they do not intend to seek revenge against the Israeli Jews for their past crimes, but instead are deeply committed to creating a bi-national democracy in which Jews and Palestinians can live together peacefully”
“Palestinians should definitely not employ violence to defeat apartheid”

As demonstrated, the majority of Jewish anti-Zionist groups display worrying attitudes and behaviour, as demonstrated clearly by their aims and objectives, by their lead-taking, imposing their agenda on the solidarity movement as well as on Palestinians, and promoting the permanent colonization of Palestine by Zionist Ashkenazi invaders, though using soft and humane tactics

The pushiness and doggedness of such influential cluster of these groups and intellectuals, have managed skilfully to direct the vibrant and dedicated solidarity movement and caused the subtle steering of its direction, away –as far as I am concerned – from attaining the true aims and full aspirations of the Palestinians, victims of almost one century of ruthless, sadistic occupation.
Bottom line is: Almost all the so called “anti-zionist” Jewish groups who “support” the Palestinians, have exactly the same aims and objectives as their zionist “enemy” ; i.e. enabling, supporting, and securing the Jewish-zionist project and their permanent illegal, and immoral colonization of Palestine, be it as it may under a different name and altered regime.
This troubling conclusion urges to scrutinize how these facts have been translated as strategy on the ground:
It appears that the strategy is manifested in three main aspects: diversion, steering and holding back:
  •  Diversion:
Fighting Anti-Semitism has been strategically inserted at the CORE of the Palestinian struggle, and made to be an essential part of it:

By highlighting and placing the “Jewish concerns”, “Jewish problems”, “Jewish interests”, “Jewish peace groups and activists”, “Jewish suffering”, “Jewish hopes” and “anti-Jewish racism” at the heart of the debate, rather than the fundamentals of “Palestinian oppression”, “Palestinian concerns”, “Palestinian problems”, “Palestinian interests”, “Palestinian resistance”, “Palestinian dreams”, “Palestinian hopes” and “anti-Muslim racism”.

Another focus is the promoting of “Israeli” peace camp way beyond their real size, importance and effect, giving them a prime value and prominent platforms to advance their agenda which in almost all groups fall very short from fulfilling the minimum requirement of justice

As they celebrate these groups -who are in fact an integral part of the colonial zionist project, inadvertently, they would be beautifying and glossing over the face of an army of conquest and presenting an illusive fake image of the occupation -who consist of both extremist as well as less extremists, or the so called “peace groups”.

Furthermore; some activists happily attach and emphasize the word “Jewish” or “Jews” to any good organizations, honourable ideologies and positive actions: “Jews for peace”, “Jews for justice”, “Jews against zionism”, “Jewish voices for peace”, “Jews are at the helm of social justice and intellectual progress”…etc ,while at the same time they get incensed if the word “Jews” or “Jewish” is used factually to describe some negative actions, immoral /supremacist ideologies or corrupt organizations.

Moreover, under the pretext of fighting anti-Semitism, they engage in downplaying, suppressing, ignoring or dismissing information that exposes the role of “Israel” lobby, or the problematic and extremely serious aspects of racism, supremacy, financial corruption, media control, political manipulation and intimidation within the Jewish-zionist community, or worse, they might even go as far as accusing with anti-Semitism, those who raise eye brows or dare to question such pervasive ideologies, infiltration and control.

As such, they would be neglecting the alarming outcome of such silent or vocal dismissal, which might be inescapably viewed as passive complaisancy if not active complicity.

Another observation, is that some anti-Zionists supporters would be more than willing to debate with, hold civil discussions and dialogue with zionists of all shades (soft and extreme), with the pretext of hoping to enlighten them and win them to our camp, YET, they are fanatical objectors of engaging other Jewish supporters, they boycott, isolate and even label with anti-Semitism those supporters who go all the way in their support of Palestine; because they advocate the right of Palestinians and Palestinians alone to lead the struggle and shape their future, they dare to blow the whistle on and bring to light the racism and supremacy that exist within some branches of Judaism, and they dare to underline, criticise and disapprove the colossal influence of the Jewish-zionists in the Western political sphere

In the meantime, and as a consequence to this diversion and muddle, and instead of purely focusing on the Palestinian struggle, the solidarity movement finds itself spellbound, orbiting the trajectory predicament of (is it anti-Semitic? does it hurt the sensitivity of “Jewish people”?)
As a consequence:
“Comparing Palestinian suffering to the suffering of Jewish people becomes a taboo, as it would upset “their sensitivity” and hurt their feelings”.
“Palestinians need to understand their fears”.
“Palestinians ought to give them time to comprehend that the theft of another country is wrong as they are traumatized by the holocaust”.
“Palestinians must appreciate the magnitude of their pain and as such must break it very gently and very s…l…o…w…l…y to the zionist oppressors that they are actually engaged in holocausting and ethnically cleansing them!
The insistence on the implant of “anti-Semitism” and the “holocaust” at the heart of the Palestinian struggle, and the false contention that organized anti-Semitic activities is alive and kicking is of course a grotesque deception, an absurdity when you contemplate the level of prosperity and influence many Jewish groups and lobbies have achieved all over the Western world since the end of WW2.
This insertion serves many purposes:

Firstly: to protect and perpetuate the concept of “Jews are eternal victims”, which in turn belittles the unrelenting ongoing suffering of the Palestinians compared to the “unique”, “millennia-old” Jewish suffering.

Secondly: to hoodwink the naïve “progressives” to focus on the sparse “anti-Jewish prejudice”, and by doing so detracting them from focusing on the alarmingly widespread anti-Arab, anti-Muslim hatred.

Thirdly: to legitimize the very core of the Zionist ideology; by validating their dogma of “Jewish nationalism” and endorsing the idea of the necessity for a Jewish “homeland” (be as it may, at the cost of another nation).

Fourthly It justifies the final takeover of some/entire lands of Palestine as an obligation to compensate, protect, and secure the future of Jewish people. Under the ploy: “Their eternal suffering needs to stop and they undeniably deserve to get their own land and self determination”
Influenced by the agenda of supportive Jewish anti zionist groups, the aims of the solidarity movement and the perimeters of argument for Palestine ends up confined and defined primarily by the “unique” case of racism “Anti-Semitism”, and its omnipresence materialization, the holocaust. That evidently, pushes the Palestinian cause to the periphery.
Supportive organizations of Palestine find themselves obliged to express disdain of anti-Semitism, before even asserting its support of Palestine.
In other words, before being eligible as a supporter for Palestine one must vigorously, repeatedly and at every juncture proclaim his/her innocence from the dreaded charge of anti-Semitism, one must also convey his/her innermost grief and sincere apologies for the “unique” crime of the holocaust, furthermore, one must express sympathy with the victims of the holocaust by wishing them “peace, security and prosperity” on the land they’ve stolen! Then one must confirm his support for equal rights for “both” peoples (criminal and victim, oppressed and oppressor alike)
As such, supportive organizations find themselves cornered into accepting the fallacy and the bizarre depravity that a foreign invader has as much right to the land he subjugated by force and robbed by deceit, as the rightful owner!
Ø Never mind that Palestinians have nothing to do with neither European anti-Semitism nor the holocaust
Ø Never mind that since the end of WW2, there is no real anti-Semitism except amongst those racist fringe groups who are naturally inclined to hate any “other” and everything that is different
Ø Never mind that in most countries of the Western world, Jewish-zionist organizations (secular and religious) have accumulated an inordinate level of power and influence, a reality inconsistent with the claims of “thriving” anti-Semitism.
Ø Never mind that the holocaust is stopped and publicly shunned since over sixty five years ago, yet the incessant, chronic holocaust of Palestinians is ongoing
Ø Never mind that at present, the most vehement form of racism in the West (fomented and inflamed by hasbara zionists) is anti-Muslim hatred and racism
Ø Never mind that the permanent highlighting and celebrating the marginal “Jewish israeli peace camp”, only reinforces the zionist agenda of concealment of truth about their bloodthirsty entity, and gives the false impression of a “balanced”, “democratic” and “civilized” society whose only problem is its corrupt government, and if a change of “israeli” establishment occurs the Palestinian problem would be instantaneously solved.
Ø Never mind that these peace groups (international or “Israeli”) are not representative neither of the international Jewish community nor the zionist Jewish community in occupied Palestine
Ø Never mind that these peace-groups are a tiny minority labelled, ostracised and despised by the pro-zionist Jewish majority, whether in occupied Palestine or outside
Ø Never mind that ALL Zionists share the same aim as anti-zionist groups with regard to this issue of highlighting anti-Semitism. Zionists put enormous amount of resources and energies to the same cause; namely vociferously keeping the issue of anti-Semitism and the holocaust “religion” alive, inserted at the core of the Palestinian struggle, as a charade of “fighting” anti-Semitism when in fact all it does is to distract and divert from the REAL ONGOING holocaust against Palestinians.
  •  Holding back:
Our anti-zionist Jewish supporters opt to impose their views on forms of resistance, limiting the choice of tactics of Palestinians by suggesting that the only path that Palestinians should take in order to achieve their aims is to abandon all form of armed resistance, and confine only to non-violent resistance.
Ø Never mind that Palestine is a nation sitting at the edge of annihilation, virtually abandoned by the international community
Ø Never mind the inconceivable impact of continuous oppression on the psychological health of any human being subjected to such abominable circumstances
Ø Never mind the timeline, of almost one century of being the object of zionist aggression, bloodshed, torture and utter disrespect for life
Ø Never mind the basic human right given to every human being to defend ones’ self when attacked
Ø Never mind the international law which granted an oppressed group or nation to seek its liberation by all means necessary; including armed resistance
Ø Never mind that real historical examples -ancient and contemporary- had shown us time and again that occupied nations have used armed resistance successfully and effectively in order to free themselves from invaders
Ø Never mind that by restricting the resistance with the non-violent tactics they serve perfectly the zionist occupier and create a buffer zone of safety, security and breathing space for him which helps him to continue his aggression without worry, and to persist creating of facts on the grounds without hindrance.
  •  Steering:
The end of the struggle and the future solution -as defined by our anti-zionist Jewish supporters- must be either “two states” with 1967 borders, or “one SECULAR state, for TWO peoples”:
With the pretext that “no one can change the facts on the ground”, “they are there now and nothing can be done about it”, “this kind of colonization happened before and some natives have lost their homelands to invaders”, “migration of populations is a normal human thing”, “Jewish people have the right to a homeland and self determination”, “we cannot solve an injustice by creating another injustice”
Ø Never mind that one of these people is an invading impostor “nation”
Ø Never mind that the fraud “nation” had ethnically-cleansed the indigenous nation and caused it an inconceivable amount of suffering and horror for over a century
Ø Never mind that this imposer “nation” gathered itself from all corners of the planet and illegally implanted itself replacing the authentic nation
Ø Never mind that this impostor “nation” claims the ownership of the land on falsified mythical ground
Ø Never mind that a fake “nation” have no right to exercise its “self-determination” at the expense of another authentic nation
Ø Never mind that other previous historic colonisations happened centuries ago and we have no time-machine to go and fix them, yet what is happening in Palestine is happening NOW before our eyes, it can be stopped and reversed
Ø Never mind that “never again” is used very conveniently and becomes obsolete when it comes to Palestinians
Ø Never mind if the majority of the authentic inhabitants of the land –namely the Palestinians- might actually aspire to have their own choice of future government, and might like to exercise their freedom to choose their representatives whom might not be to the liking of their anti-zionist supporters, but may rather be genuine and natural representation of their authentic culture and civilization of the ME
Ø Never mind that the goals of the anti-zionist here, yet again, coincides and fits perfectly with the goals of zionist; namely, ensuring and securing the PERMANENT stay of the invaders in the land of Palestine
Let me be clear:
  • The road to Palestine does not pass either through Nazi-Germany or through Auschwitz for that matter.
  • Fighting the zionist occupiers of our land does not begin with fighting anti-Semitism


  • Palestinians do not have to “convert” to the holocaust “religion” in order to gain “salvation” and liberation


  • No decent human-being would demand to live on STOLEN land and still claims to have some humanity


  • No decent human-being could claim that the perpetrator should have the same rights as the victim
  • Palestinians are under no obligation to hold back their march for freedom, to curtail their aims or to smother their rights for the sake of accommodating and not offending their Jewish supporters
  • Palestinians are always grateful and appreciative of the hard work and dedication of all their supporters whomever they are, however, Palestinians have NO obligation to adopt the aims and objectives of the anti-zionist Jewish supporters instead of their own


  • Dismissing the Palestinian voice as radical, reactionary, intolerant, or unreasonable, and requiring the Jewish-anti-zionist validation to have legitimacy to speak for Palestine, contradicts basic concepts of human rights and does not do justice to Palestinians.



  • Palestinians have the ultimate right to choose their strategy and tactics of resistance that they deem most suitable for achieving their freedom, reinstatement of rights, and aspirations


  • Those tactics should not be manufactured or imposed upon them, leading in effect to more protection of the occupier and sheltering him from pain and from facing the consequences of his actions.


  • Palestinians have the ultimate right to choose their vision for their future, of FREE Palestine including the type of government, the writing of constitution, the construction and implementation of their legal and juristic system, which stems from and corresponds to their ethics and reflects and protects their culture.


  • Palestinians have the ultimate right to make the final decision on who is allowed to stay in liberated Palestine and who is not, using the legal procedure of their own choice.


  • The future of the Palestinian struggle and the aim of liberation of Palestine should not be designed to shield the occupier from paying the full price of his crimes; including the punishment of all those who participated in transgression, and the deportation of the illegitimate Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants who colonized Palestine forcefully and were engaged in acts of aggression against Palestinians including serving in the IOF


  • All refugee and their descendents have the unconditional right to come back home, they, the rightful indigenous owners are also entitled to the reinstatement of ALL confiscated (stolen) land and property, compensation for all their losses over the many years of exile and they are also entitled to Palestinian citizenship wherever they are.


  • The aims and dreams of most Palestinians are not confined to the change of zionist regime or the vacuous declaration of abandonment of zionism by the Jewish-zionist occupiers, but rather to the FULL Liberation of Palestine and the restoration of all their rights


  • It is the privilege of Palestinian to decide who should stay in their homeland and who’s not.
  • After a century of terror, theft and crimes, had the Zionist shown any signs of remorse, respect or willingness to be decent guests, had they embraced with open arms the hospitable people of Palestine rather than destroying them with fire-arms; they might have had a chance to be accepted and forgiven. Not any more, as far as I am concerned. They have lost that opportunity
For all the above, I repeat; the strategy of liberation requires emancipation
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About anti Semitism

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian

This letter was my response to a Jewish friend (supporter of
Palestine), who got upset upon hearing severe criticism, disdain and
sarcasm against “Israel” and “Israelis”

He felt that people as they criticise “Israel” should not forget
the “humanity” of “Israelis”, he also felt that this was a typical
behaviour of anti Semitism which caused him to feel angry and frightened

About
anti Semitism

Talking about
anti-Semitism, and the accusation of anti-Semitism, is to many people a
very sensitive issue, nevertheless, I feel the need to highlight some
points:

As a Palestinian
and as a Muslim, with first hand experience of racism, whether here in
UK or in occupied Palestine, I do understand what it means to be
subjugated to it; thus, I deeply empathise with those who suffer from
the menace of racism and discrimination, those who are abused verbally,
physically, emotionally, or otherwise for no other reason than the fact
that they are “different”

And I also do
understand the awful feeling and dreadful sensation of being subjugated
to subtle racist looks or remarks, only felt by you and not the people
around you

However, I do see a
huge difference between a racist remark directed at a person or a group
for their beliefs, race, or whatever that which makes them different,
and between a snarl, a sneer or sarcasm against an occupying criminal
entity called “Israel” and its people, for their CRIMES

One must not fail
to distinguish between the rage and fury caused by watching helplessly
for decades the grim unstoppable crimes go unpunished year after year,
and the racist blind hatred that might still exist among a tiny minority
who, by nature, would be hating anything and anyone who is different
anyway

Furthermore, this
occupying entity called “Israel” (a word that I myself detest to even
pronounce and generally avoid to use) is not a theoretical being, nor
does it operate in a vacuum; it’s neither an abstract concept nor a
conjectural void

It’s an entity run
by PEOPLE

PEOPLE who make
decisions,

PEOPLE who elect
politicians

PEOPLE who ALL
serve in a barbaric army

PEOPLE who foster
racist beliefs, attitudes and actions

PEOPLE who invaded
others’ land, dispossessed them, and forcibly occupied it

PEOPLE who imprison
children and shoot babies hearts

PEOPLE who
destroy world heritage
PEOPLE who steal water, land,
sea and sky

PEOPLE who kill
hope, life, beauty and smiles

PEOPLE who build
their colonies on the blood and ruins of another people

It is an entity of
PEOPLE, 94% of whom voted for the attack on Gaza

It is an entity of
PEOPLE, 71% of whom want U.S. to strike Iran

It is an entity of
PEOPLE who violated and assaulted ALL neighbouring countries

It is an entity of
PEOPLE who live on a STOLEN land for over six decades, with no
signs of shame, remorse, awakening of conscience, or willingness to
neither admit nor right the wrongs they’ve committed

Every normal person
with some compassion, would make a grimace of disgust and revulsion
when hearing about such an entity or such a people who
commit such despicable horrors

Now, I find it
difficult to be persuaded that such a reaction to such horrific crimes
-when hearing the name “Israel” or “Israeli”- is an act of racism
(anti-Semitism)

On another note; we
– Palestinians- do not have any responsibility whatsoever for the crime
of the holocaust, nor do we carry the burden of European racism against
Jewish people

Furthermore, I do
not see a difference between any kind of racism including racism
directed against Jewish people known as anti-Semitism. If we accept
racism against Jewish people as being different, then it implies that we
accept the racist absurdity of “Jewish exceptionalism”. Racism is
racism, many causes same consequences

Thus, I do not see
the suffering of Jewish people (horrible as it was) as a unique kind of
suffering which must be revered and viewed as essentially and
fundamentally different from other human suffering; the same way that I
do not see our suffering as Palestinians as unique or different from any
other

Questions come
pounding:

Why is it that we
–Palestinians- are constantly reminded of the horrors of the holocaust,
when we had nothing to do with it?

Why is it that we
Palestinians, are to suffer the same fate as the victims of the
holocaust by the hands of those who brag worldwide to act for “never
again”?

Why would the UN
want to enforce the study of the history of our oppressors and occupiers
-holocaust- upon our children who are languishing in refugee camps –who
themselves along with their parents, and grandparents were victims of ethnic
cleansing, planed and executed by those whom they are supposed to
feel sympathy with?

Why is it that we
are persistently bogged down by the fixation on anti-Semitism, while for
sixty years (a century rather), we are the ones who are
relentlessly suffering from a most vile evil racism (ethnic cleansing
gradually becoming a form of “final solution”) perpetrated by a whole
population of racist zionists?

(with all honesty, I
must tell you that some times I imagine it would’ve been easier and
less painful to us to be gassed and killed immediately rather than this
policy of excruciating slow death that we have been going through for
over a century)

How could the world
keep asking us to recognise the “humanity” of a settler, who comes with
his wife and children armed to his teeth, and at gun point evicts a
Palestinian family, throws their entire belongings out, and moves in?

What kind of
“humanity” is this?

And most
importantly, why is it that we are continuously been asked to feel
compassion towards our tormenters who relentlessly murder and humiliate
us, who attempt to annihilate us and our history and why, to what
purpose, are we asked to feel their “humanity”, while
their knife still piercing deep in our hearts?

Finally, I cannot
speak on behalf of all the Palestinians, but as for myself, I must
admit, the recent assault on Gaza was the last straw that broke the
camel’s back; before that, I used to think that there is hope, those
PEOPLE would wake up to their “humanity” one day, and regret the evil
that they’ve done, unfortunately, the more I see of them, the more I
realise that this hope and dream was an illusion

Over the past few
years, I have been reading and debating with many of those “soft”
zionists in the so called “peace camps”, all I found is an extremely
arrogant groups of people, who are incapable of recognising, admitting,
or willing to rectify the crimes they’ve done.

They are only
interested in “peace” to protect their interests and to further
secure their grip hold on the stolen land

Moreover, very
recently, and by sheer accident, I stumbled upon some honorific
information that reveals the severity of decay of morality and lack of
humanity amongst those RACIST zionists – whose ideological
bigotry and chauvinism surpasses all other- that left me in a
state of shock for days; crying, shaking, suffocating with palpitations
and suffering from severe panic attacks.

Undoubtedly, the
world community should leave it to the victims to decide how to deal
with those criminals in the future. Only the victims can investigate the
fragile alleys of forgiveness or punishment. The victims should have
the last say irrespective of what their judgment might be, they should
not be vilified, indicted or moralized with, for they have suffered more
than enough

The emergence of
forgiveness and reconciliation requires certain conditions:

1) Stopping the crime
2) Admitting of guilt
3) Asking for pardon
4) And rectifying the wrong
None of these conditions are
ever considered as an option amongst that mighty sick racist zionist
society

As for me, I have
no authority to talk in the name of all Palestinians, but I can state
with all honesty, I DO NOT wish the zionist murderers, those of whom
were directly or indirectly involved in massacres, theft of land,
subjugation and oppression, to remain in Palestine after its liberation
from the occupier. –except of course for the very few good people
amongst them, as no soul should carry the liability of another- I do not
wish the invader, occupier and criminal racists to stay in Palestine,
the land that they incessantly raped, destroyed and disfigured, nor do I
desire them to be my neighbours

They have shown no
respect, no appreciation, and no love to this land or to her people

They do not deserve
to live there

But these are only
my own feelings, and I know that the decision is not mine.

More
on anti Semitism

There are some more
points that I would like to draw attention to:

1) “Israel” calls
itself a Jewish state, and claims to be acting for all Jewish
people, by Jewish people. It is still enjoying the moral and financial
support of the majority of Jewish communities world wide. The absence of
a huge uproar of denunciation and disassociation by the majority
of world Jewry, makes it hard for people not to blame zionist Jews who
live outside occupied Palestine for their guilt of complicity, active
alliance or passive complacency by either silence or aiding and
sustaining the criminals

2) “Israel” still
enjoys the protection of the “Security Council” with its US vetoes on
any UN resolution sanctioning “Israel’s” endless list of ongoing crimes
and infractions of international law, and the "Israeli" criminals still
roam with impunity, free from prosecution by any jurisdiction . This
intolerable situation inevitably foments further rage and fury against
the double standard and special treatment granted to the “Jewish” state

3) The excessive
use of the term “anti Semitism”:

a) by zionist Jews,
accusing all non zionist

b) by soft zionists
Jews, accusing anti zionists Jews

c) by anti zionists
Jews, accusing fellow anti zionists Jews and also non Jews of
anti-Semitism as soon as they dare to examine Judaism with critical eye,
criticising some aspects of it, some beliefs, attitudes or behaviours
All this has participated in
creating a sense of repression of freedom of expression, and undoubtedly
also a sense of being subjected to what feels like intimidation and
thought control

It has also diluted
the meaning of the word Anti-Semitism, making it practically devoid of
any signification. It is now used ad nauseam, ad absurdum, reduced to a
simple rhetorical trick, slapped in the face of anything and anyone, as
soon as there is the slightest inspection of facts. The word has lost
its effectiveness to expose a form of racism, I am afraid. The more we
hear it used inappropriately, the more indifference its further future
usage will raise. Worse, it may even -God forbid- contribute to a form
of blow-back …the story of the boy who cried wolf is only too familiar

So, a sincere
advice from a heart that cares, to all my Jewish friends who are really
interested in preventing the re-emergence of real “anti Semitism”, and
to those “Israelis” with some humanity left; I would say:

1) Instead of
wasting time searching for the "humanity" within "Israeli" criminals,
focus your energy on fighting and revealing “Israeli” crimes and exposing
its inhumanity

2) Disassociate
your selves completely from such an entity and proclaim this
annulment loud and clear

3) Let go of the
idea that anti Semitism is a “special” case of racism; treat all racism
with the same degree of unambiguous condemnation

4) Try to look at
the situation from the standpoint of non Jewish people, who will not
accept or understand the insistence on the uniqueness of the
Jewish suffering, whereas the world has seen since the end of WW2 the
massacres of millions and millions of non Jews. The world is now
inflamed by hatred against Muslims, not against Jews.

5) With love in my
heart, with sincere and pure feelings, I would appeal to you to look
inwards and search for reasons, as to why you feel that the world
should accept racism against you as somehow worse or different, and as
to why you feel that your suffering is unique and unlike others’ ,
because this is not how the world sees it. All suffering has the same
value to those who go through it, and all racism has the same
consequences and must be ostracized with the same ferociousness

6) Those of us who
are involved in the support of Palestinian cause are inevitably going to
be accused of anti Semitism, that does not make us in any shape or form
anti-Semites, for we know very
well that we are not; hence, false labels, and bogus allegations should
not frighten or deter us, distract us or hinder our determination of
doing what we think is right

7) And finally,
please, do not freak out when people point out to certain aspects of
Judaism and the Jewish culture that they might not like or find
incompatible with humanity, equality, or fairness, after all assessment
and criticism have always been accepted by other religions,
belief-systems and cultures, and this is what freedom of thought and
freedom of speech are all about, people have the right to look at
different ideologies, scrutinize them, criticise them and sieve out what
appears to be hindering the human moral development, as long as all
this is done in a non offensive manner, without slander or abuse, but
rather in a respectful, academic, genuine and good-intentional search
for truth

PS:

I know that what I have said
might appear too strong, unfamiliar, or painful to hear, but I can only
speak of what’s in my heart, as I believe that only through openness and
honesty that trust can be built

We have a saying in Arabic;
“sadeequka man sadaqak, wassaddaqak”

صديقك
من صدَقك و صدّقك
“Your true friend is that
who is honest with you and who believes you”

Arabic word for honesty: sidq

And for friend: sadeeq

Both friend and honesty
share the same root: sa-da-qa= told the truth

My love as
always
nahida

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