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Thoughts on Fatah Convention and Thoughts on Palestine
Bethlehem is a buzz with security preparations for the Fatah conference on Tuesday. The local people I talked to either were indifferent or were worried about inability to reach school or work or do shopping during the days of the conference. The Fatah people I talked to are unsure of how this will go and what will happen. A big segment of the Fatah cadres who are real resistance fighters from abroad or underground will not be able to attend. It is suspicious that Israel is allowing so many others to enter and even facilitated a few to come from Gaza across the green lines to the consternation of Hamas which wanted Fatah to release its political prisoners from West Bank jails before allowing Fatah officials from Gaza to travel to Bethlehem. Fatah, the biggest and most well financed of the Palestinian factions, is certainly at a crossroads. In the time of Arafat, he managed by his sheer personality and charisma to keep the various political factions and trends together under one umbrella (even those supportive of violent resistance and those against it). When Arafat was president and Abu Mazen was prime minister, they did not get along. Farouk Kaddoumi recently dropped a bombshell by releasing a transcript he claimed showed Abu Mazen at a meeting in which Dahlan and Israeli leaders discussed assassinating Arafat. But rumers and stories of the past aside, the future is far harder to shape.
I have no way of predicting what will happen at the meeting Tuesday. I onoy wish peopel in power believe in the power of ordinary citizens and create more accountable and democratic forums. I had a fantasy that attendees would do what the first conventiuon of Palestinian women did in 1929: go the streets, challenge the occupation and demand self determination. Most of the people I talk to (of various political leansings) believe that this convention will instead likely validate the negotiations track taken during Oslo (many opposed these talks that are not based on human rights and International Law). In the unlikely event that this conference reinvigorates the resistance plank of Fatah, there are implicit and explicit Israeli threats which are taken seriously since Bethlehem and all its visitors are under Israeli brutal military occupation. If the convention tries to straddle the fences and to come up with an arrangement that attempts to satisfy everyone, then it will likely fail. But while Fatah is a core segment of our society, it is not all. And we must remember that Palestine is bigger than any of us. We Palestinians are in Lebanon, in the US, inside Palestine 1948, inside the West Bank, in Gaza, and everywhere. Palestine is in us regardless of political leanings (or even courage). Collectively, we are diverse, dynamic, and able to resurrect hope in the land where it is believed that Jesus was resurrected from the death. It is this larger Palestine that gives us hope.
The original Zionist blueprints are for control of the area between the Euphrates and the Nile. Here we are 130 years later and even the area between the Jordan and the Mediterranean is roughly at parity between Jewish Israelis and Palestinians. 30 years ago, Zionists had convinced most of the world that there was no such thing as Palestinians. Today most of the world and even Zionists themselves recognize that not only are there Palestinians but that indeed there is such a thing as Palestine. The Palestinian flag now flies around Palestine even inside the Green line. But no one denies that we are perhaps at the most dangerous turn since 1948 and history has not decided yet what will transpire. We can shape the future if we believe in ourselves and our people.
I am completing a book on history of civil resistance in Palestine. What is notable is that resistance has been sporadic with periodicity of 10-15 years between uprisings (beginning in 1891) . Further, the biggest challenges came not because of external factors but from within (especially our infighting and drive for dictatorial control). Similarly the biggest successes (and there have been many) were achieved from grass root movements when Palestinians joined hands and worked together (e.g. the beginning of the 1987 uprising). The net of our strengths and weaknesses has overall resulted in stalemate. This is miraculous considering that we were facing perhaps the best organized, best financed, and most ruthless colonization effort in the past three centuries.
We as Palestinians have unique advantages and disadvantages in our struggles for liberation. We must analyze these scientifically and act accordingly. For example we need to leverage the tremendous sympathy and solidarity of people around the world to produce power (e.g. through better managed campaigns of boycotts, divestments and sanctions). And as the geopolitical landscape shifts around us (e.g. due to the failure and shedding of militarism or the mistakes of Israel with Turkey), we do need to take advantage in strengthening our position? In my upcoming book I show by hundreds of examples that we were/are able to seize these opportunities in timely manner when we had/have a dynamic responsive society that can adapt without bureaucracy or dictatorship. For example, this happened when clan relations were shed in favor of political party affiliation or when younger generations took leadership on the ground during the 1987-1991 Intifada.
We Palestinians can indeed shape our future with choices we make everyday even in the context of existing power structures (and those are changing). Neither reckless bravado and useless 1960s rhetoric nor supine begging for endless negotiations will help us at this critical junction. These are times that demand new ways of thinking. Accountability need not mean immediate punishment of those who harmed or profited from our cause but as a minimum unleashing new blood to take new initiatives unencumbered by old baggage. We would do well (at the Fatah Convention or outside) to begin by working with younger and newly empowered generations on such ideas as one state for all its people (the original PLO consensus) or at least the Civil Society Call to Action of 2005. It won't be easy but our history has not been easy. Martin Luther King, Jr. once wrote (and thsi is applicable to all of us including those who will attend teh convention Tuesday): "Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Expediency asks the question - is it politic? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? But conscience asks the question - is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right."
Those of you who would like to visit us in the Bethlehem are most welcome. Despite all, it is still the city of the prince of peace. And our change for peace begins with ourselves as individuals and communities.
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Show AllI'm not sure why Palestinians continue to engage in what they call "resistance." They've long since lost their war, and no longer have any support from anyone in the world except a small group of fanatical bigots, who even most of the Palestinians despise. The world has already rejected the calls for boycotts and sanctions on Israel because the people in the world think Israel is in the right, and has law on their side. The world is not going to change its mind and reject democracy and human rights and the rule of law in favor of extremism, bigotry and endless war. But if the Palestinians want to keep living in a fantasy world, that's their choice. It certainly won't make any difference in their situation. The first step to changing things is to openly acknowledge that they are the ones who began the war, that they are entirely responsible for it, that they have lost, and that they have no choice but to accept Israel's conditions for peace. Until that happens they will continue to suffer and make laughingstocks of themselves.
Mikep, the ultimate bigot and hypocrite speaks. The Palestinian may have lost battles, but Israel will ultimately lose the war. They are already losing the pR battle. No one is buying their anti-semitic BS or the holocaust sympathy anymore. The world is seeing those bastards for what they really are: lying, thieving, murdering, blackmailing, terroristic hypocrites. Now go back to your Sabbath and pray because that is all you have left.
Ray Berthiaume
The world - except the U.S., thanks to the censorship of the MSM - sees Israel as a violent, bigoted nation.
No, it doesn't Ray. Not at all, not in the least. That is just a projection created in the mind of a deluded, mentally ill fringe group. The fact that you're a bigot and anti-semite doesn't imply that all others are. These are very seriously disturbed people who can't accept the responsibility for the war they began, so they create a projection that it was the other side who did it, and even that other people actually agree with them. But the facts are indisputable. No country supports the call for sanctions and boycotts against Israel, but all support the blockade against Hamas. That's undeniable reality. If you can't acknowledge these proven facts then you need help. The only politicians that support Hamas are well known lunatics such as Galloway and Kucinich, laughingstocks in their own countries.
The world can easily see that Israelis have human rights, civil rights, gay rights, rights for women, the rule of law and democracy. And the world can easily see that the Palestinians don't have those things, and that Hamas is quite opposed to them. The world isn't fooled by anti-semitic ravings; it knows the facts.
But it doesn't really matter. No one is paying attention to any of the bigots, and Israel certainly isn't going anywhere. Until they come to their senses the Palestinians will continue to suffer, but that's their own choice. Nothing is going to change for them until they change themselves. The world has long since given up on them, and is more concerned with other pressing matters.
You seem to think that the world is the US and the UK.
It isn't.
Mikep - you're out in force today. Go and read the BBC headline today and see what other countries think - and be aware that the BBC is not exactly an anti-Zionist organization.
"Anti-semite" again - can't stop yourself, can you? Yes the Western Countries do kowtow to the US and help the blockade against Hamas but do I need to remind you that there are many other countries than those and in most Western European countries there is significant opposition to this.
Human rights? Israel? Please? You can claim military rights but not moral ones! What would you propose Palestinians do? What do you think "coming to their senses" means? Hamas respected a ceasefire with Israel for 6 months last year, which Israel did not? Then Israel killed several Hamas leaders. What do you want Palestinians to do? Abandon their homeland? Because that's what Israel wants.
"When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do about it will be to scurry around like drugged cockroaches in a bottle." Raphael Eitan, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defence Forces, New York Times, 14 April 1983.
They can do nothing that will please Israel except leave. Is that what "coming to their senses" means?
> Now go back to your Sabbath and pray because that is all you have left.
Criticism of Israel is not necessarily anti-semitism, but this comment is a sad reminder that the two do sometimes go hand-in-hand.
these are just hasbara tricks to control the thread; let them drown in their own cesspool...
Horrified, the Israelis have already won the war. Their enemies have been defeated and the Israelis have possession of their land. They've defended that land against all comers for 3000 years now. If you really think that the Palestinians are ever going to win, go ahead and wait. You'll be waiting a very, very long time.
You can rant and rage and engage in all of the anti-semitic ravings you want, but you don't change the reality of the situation, or the fact of Israel's victories and existence. All you're doing is embarrassing yourselves. But go ahead, it's no skin off of my nose.
So is that why they are still fighting and murdering? What have they won? Peace? Which planet are you on?
For 3000 years? You definitely have read the revised version of history. They were kicked out by the Romans and left with their tails between their legs. It took them to blackmail, bribe and back-stab the British to steal a land that never belonged to them. You don't come back after 3000 year and claim that the land belonged to you. I would like to see the original deeds.
Israel has only won battles. They are losing the war. Even they themselves know it.
"They've defended that land against all comers for 3000 years now." Oh come on now? Where did you get that idea from? Oh I know - you do read but only the Old Testament. Right? Go and read some real history. The Jews controlled Greater Israel for only a very short period. And the "Canaanites" were there before them! And even this is questionable. Now please put down your bible for 10 minutes and read this:
http://mondediplo.com/2008/09/07israel
You're still doing it. As you know "anti-semitic" means many things but it does not mean "Anti-zionist". There are many Jews who oppose the Zionist cause. Do not conflate ethnic/religious causes with political ones or it might come back to bite you. As to being an embarrassment ....
Sorry I was a bit slow to realize this Mikep, but I think you need to consult your book of Zionist propaganda - which I'm sure you possess - before the thought police come knocking on your door. I think it will tell you that the Jews were evicted from Israel in AD70 - the Diaspora. That's not universally accepted, but it is part of the rationale of the Zionist Program. So they did not "defend against all comers" for at least 2000 of those 3000 years. Now there are other versions of the history that rely more on archaeology than religious texts but even they would say that Jews have not controlled Israel for that period of time if not a lot longer.
Incidentally when do you believe the world began?
Sure thing, mikeup. Play the "anti-Semitic" card... again... and again... and again...
Since the Palestinians are Semitic people
the most actively anti-Semitic entity is ISRAEL.
Here's how it works elsewhere:
If you hate Jews but like Israel, you are not labelled anti-Semitic.
If you want dignity and human rights for ALL people, which includes both Jews and Palestinians, THEN YOU ARE PUBLICLY DEMONIZED AS ANTI-SEMITIC AND YOUR CAREER IS DESTROYED.
Zionism is a moral monstrosity.
hey horrified here is a quote from some religious jews, showing your remark about the sabbath was right on:... "Just as the Satan came to the Jews at the end of the forty days of Moses’ absence and “mixed up the world,” showing them a vision of Moses dead and convincing them to worship a golden calf, so too the Satan in our century has turned over the entire world in order to bring us the Zionist state. His goal is to convince the Jews that their original hopes ofDivine redemption are dead and now they must throw their lot with the state..."
these israelbots like mikep will twist and turn anything to put themselves in a position of control, like twisting my post on projection....they are; a. desperate:, and b. rotten.: - the bloated zionist rats squeeze out of their holes, baring their broken and bloody teeth...
"support from anyone in the world except a small group of fanatical bigots...
... reject democracy and human rights and the rule of law in favor of extremism, bigotry and endless war. But if the "Palestinians" want to keep living in a fantasy world,..."
in psychology, this is known as projection. the subject, unable to bear the subconscious guilt of what he/she is doing, projects it out on another... this usually also creates a wish to destroy the other projected upon, so as to end the feeling of guilt...
Mikep - you're at it again! Please go and read - you're just provoking us to provide more and more evidence that you're talking rubbish and do the Zionist cause no service. What war are you talking about? Do you mean the ongoing work of the Zionists to remove the Palestinians. Just answer this: suppose someone came to your neck of the woods and threatened to evict you, your family and your neighbours - do you resist? What alternative do you have? Do you meekly walk away? Please answer these questions and then we'll start to take you seriously. In the meantime I'll go on quoting some of your favourite people.
"We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated his
question, What is to be done with the Palestinian population?' Ben-Gurion
waved his hand in a gesture which said 'Drive them out!'" Yitzhak Rabin,
leaked censored version of Rabin memoirs, published in the New York Times, 23
October 1979.
" We live in a thunderously failed reality. ... A state lacking justice cannot
survive. ... Even if the Arabs lower their heads and swallow their shame and
anger for ever, it won't work. A structure built on human callousness will
inevitably collapse in on itself. Note this moment well: Zionism's
superstructure is already collapsing like a cheap Jerusalem wedding hall."
(Avraham Burg - former leader of the Knesset, 15 September 2003)
As to winning or losing. Israel sooner or later will have to decide whether it wants a one-state or a two-state solution. And if it wants the latter it will have to make very significant concessions. If it wants the former it can forget "the Jewish State":
"Between the Jordan and the Mediterranean there is no longer a clear Jewish
majority. And so, fellow citizens, it is not possible to keep the whole thing
without paying a price. We cannot keep a Palestinian majority under an Israeli
boot and at the same time think ourselves the only democracy in the Middle
East. There cannot be democracy without equal rights for all who live here,
Arab as well as Jew. We cannot keep the territories and preserve a Jewish
majority in the world's only Jewish state" (Avraham Burg, 15 September 2003)
"Do you want democracy? No problem. Either abandon the greater land of Israel,
to the last settlement and outpost, or give full citizenship and voting rights
to everyone, including Arabs. The result, of course, will be that those who
did not want a Palestinian state alongside us will have one in our midst, via
the ballot box. The prime minister should present the choices forthrightly:
Jewish racism or democracy. Settlements, or hope for both peoples." (Avraham
Burg, 15 September 2003)
Those who oppose the existance of the Jewish State of Israeli have been defeated.
massacred,-see comment below....
speaking of defeat--crazy horse and sitting bull opposed u.s. manifest destiny and were each murdered by soldiers and their people defeated by starvation and slaughter...the state of "israel" is in good company....
What drugs have you been on? Israel is still and will always be living in fear. Not because people want to exterminate them but because they have back-stabbed , lied, cheated, defrauded, everyone they have a dealing with, including the US of A. They will never live in peace. That is their curse.
> They will never live in peace. That is their curse.
No, Horrified, this is not their curse, it's your obsession. Sadly, it is still also the obsession of many palestinians.
Mahmed the dumbass mossad does not read history....how sad...
Horrified is right. The history of Jews appears to be one of constant expulsion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jew
Throughout Jewish history, Jews have repeatedly been directly or indirectly expelled from both their original homeland, and the areas in which they have resided. This experience as both immigrants and emigrants (see: Jewish refugees) have shaped Jewish identity and religious practice in many ways, and are thus a major element of Jewish history.[102] An incomplete list of such migrations includes:
The patriarch Abraham was a migrant to the land of Canaan from Ur of the Chaldees.[103]
The Children of Israel experienced the Exodus (meaning "departure" or "exit" in Greek) from ancient Egypt, as recorded in the Book of Exodus.[104]
The Kingdom of Israel was sent into permanent exile and scattered all over the world (or at least to unknown locations) by Assyria.[105]
The Kingdom of Judah was exiled by Babylonia,[106] then returned to Judea by Cyrus the Great of the Persian Achaemenid Empire,[107] and then many were exiled again by the Roman Empire.[108]
The 2,000 year dispersion of the Jewish diaspora beginning under the Roman Empire, as Jews were spread throughout the Roman world and, driven from land to land, and settled wherever they could live freely enough to practice their religion. Over the course of the diaspora the center of Jewish life moved from Babylonia[109] to the Iberian Peninsula[110] to Poland[111] to the United States[112] and, as a result of Zionism, to Israel.[113]
Many expulsions during the Middle Ages and Enlightenment in Europe, including: 1290, 16,000 Jews were expelled from England, see the (Statute of Jewry); in 1396, 100,000 from France; in 1421 thousands were expelled from Austria. Many of these Jews settled in Eastern Europe, especially Poland.[114]
Following the Spanish Inquisition in 1492, the Spanish population of around 200,000 Sephardic Jews were expelled by the Spanish crown and Catholic church, followed by expulsions in 1493 in Sicily (37,000 Jews) and Portugal in 1496. The expelled Jews fled mainly to the Ottoman Empire, the Netherlands, and North Africa, others migrating to Southern Europe and the Middle East.[115]
During the 19th century, France's policies of equal citizenship regardless of religion led to the immigration of Jews (especially from Eastern and Central Europe).[116]
The arrival of millions of Jews in the New World, including immigration of over two million Eastern European Jews to the United States from 1880–1925, see History of the Jews in the United States and History of the Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union.[117]
The Pogroms in Eastern Europe,[118] the rise of modern Anti-Semitism,[119] the Holocaust,[120] and the rise of Arab nationalism[121] all served to fuel the movements and migrations of huge segments of Jewry from land to land and continent to continent, until they arrived back in large numbers at their original historical homeland in Israel.[113]
The Islamic Revolution of Iran forced many Iranian Jews to flee Iran. Most found refuge in the US (particularly Los Angeles, CA) and Israel. Smaller communities of Persian Jews exist in Canada and Western Europe.[122]
When the Soviet Union died, many of the Jews in the affected territory (who had been refuseniks) were suddenly allowed to leave. This produced a wave of migration to Israel in the early 1990s.[61] UNQUOTE.
But it's unlikely they will be expelled again for their inexcusable behavior in Gaza, since they reportedly hold over 200 nuclear weapons. That, and the fact that AIPAC has such a stranglehold on the throat of the US congress. I have this bad feeling that something dirty is going on down at Wall Street where AIPAC is somehow involved with some "Hanky Paulison Panky" since Bush, Paulison and Bernache, all Zionists sympathizers won't let us audit the TARP funds. The Federal Reserve bank is loaded with dual Israeli citizens....
This whole thing stinks to high heaven.
The above are all just my opinions only, and I could be wrong.
TJ
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent." - Thomas Jefferson
No it is not their curse. It is their obsession.
Israel is nothing more than an immoral and illegal invasion by a group of people, and I applaud those resisting the genocidal occupation.
Oregoncharles
Mazin Qumsiyeh,
Thank you for all the work you have done and are doing to illuminate the history of Israel and Palestine. Thank you for your work with the "Wheels of Justice" tours (taking time out from your work at Harvard University) during which you so eloquently and compassionately spoke to us of Palestine's proud history, your struggle for independence and equality in your own land, the cruel system that makes life so unhealthy and difficult for Palestinian people.
The US mainstream media will not tell these truths but the recent Gaza massacre was so utterly horrific, some people got themselves up to date and sprang into action (including myself). I support the boycott movement and am doing what I can to educate others about it. The movement is growing and is beginning to have some effect.
Remember how long it took S. Africans to finally dismantle their Apartheid system? We must work as hard so that Palestinians have their rights and their stolen land returned to them. We don't want to wait another 60 years, people are suffering today. The time is always now. In many ways, the Israeli Apartheid system is structurally worse than was S. Africa's but I won't go into that here.
Israel is in violation of over 65 UN Resolutions. Palestine is in violation of none. Israel is a brutal oppressor of Palestinians and anyone willing to learn the history will come to the same conclusions, unless of course they believe it's ok to brutalize and entire people, steal their land, their water, their livelihoods.
My hope, like yours, is that power emerges from the people and doesn't get co-opted, as it so often does, by power brokers seeking to benefit themselves at the expense of others.
You gotta give "Israel," credit. They stole an entire country. Disappear it is their goal; until one day the word Palestine is unkown.
But two lines on the graph will merge. The horrors, misery and death inflicted on the proud Palestinian people is creating a Rage at the same time as weapons of mass destruction become more potent, smaller and available.
Like a criminal being caught. It will only take once. And the scales of karma may be righted in a blinding flash.
I would not be able to sleep if I motivated people to kill me en masse over time. Dangerous. A National Suicide Dream gonna come true. Sad, pathetic, sick and freaking needless. A needless horror.
The POW's could be freed and Peace found overnight, ALL the violence averted....
here is a quote from some religious jews that i posted below... using religious metaphor, it leaves nothing to be said:
"We are living in the time of the “keitz hayamim” – the false end of the exile presented by the angel of death, the Satan.. Just as the Satan came to the Jews at the end of the forty days of Moses’ absence and “mixed up the world,” showing them a vision of Moses dead and convincing them to worship a golden calf, so too the Satan in our century has turned over the entire world in order to bring us the Zionist state. His goal is to convince the Jews that their original hopes of Divine redemption are dead and now they must throw their lot with the state."
Thank you, Mazin Qumsiyeh,for your insight and inspiration. Since the bloody massacre in Gaza I have been reading up on the history and politics of the region. Rosemary Sayigh's 'The Palestinians' describes the strength and love for their land of Palestinian peasants ( just like watching the weekly videos of the demonstations against the Apartheid wall in Bil'in does). Justice for Palestine will come.
Unrelated? for another thread but here too, "Richard Wolffe," an ahole forming public opinion criminally, in the Fawning Corporate Media wrote, The Bible and the Middle East, I believe it was.....wanna bet that is ugly distortionism, pro-war, and ANTI-CHRISTIAN?????? I'm SICK of seeing Arabs & Christianity attacked by Hollywood et al.
But as always, Hi-jacked by Zioinism are not just Palestine & US Foreign Policy, but the third victim is Judaism itself. When one of my sons needed help he found it with a bitchin Jewish Family that fed and loved him and took him in. Typical this too,
It pierces me to the heart.
The victims are so many, disparate and all so needless,
My Lord, Help
Shelter From The Storm
For these children
Judaism needs to go the way of all religions. Religions always are used to divide us - and more than ever, we need to be united. So I say good riddance to them all, however "bitchin" they may be.
What a sad, sad column.
Not even the slightest sign of self criticism, not a single thought that maybe the palestinian leadership shares some blame for the miserable situation.
Successful liberation movements had on their mind some agendas other than hate, conflict, and violence. Yet Mr. Qumsieyh's thinking is still framed around conflict, violence, and nothing else. What are his goals for palestinian society, apart from resistance and struggle?
Indeed, as Mr. Qumsiyeh acknowledges, most Israelis now accept the existence of a palestinian national identity, as well as the legitimacy of a palestinian state. Yet in his mind Israel remains nothing more than an abstract "zionist entity" (reminiscent of some rabid Israeli-hating commentators on this site), as if the thoughts, concerns and goals of seven and a half million Israelis are all the same - and as if the people of Palestine and the people of Israel will not need to co-exist in any realistic resolution of the conflict.
If the palestinian choices made in recent history were so successful, may I ask - what did the palestinians actually gain from the second intifada - apart from more suffering and devastation? and a confirmation of the worst scenarios and warnings brought up by opponents of the Oslo process within Israel?
Since Mr. Qumsiyeh has found it appropriate to quote Martin Luther King, I'd like to remind him of two other of his quotes:
- The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. ... Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
- Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence, when it helps us to see the enemy's point of view, to hear his questions, to know his assessment of ourselves. For from his view we may indeed see the basic weaknesses of our own condition, and if we are mature, we may learn and grow and profit from the wisdom of the brothers who are called the opposition.
You are an absolute racist, bigoted, buffoon....Israel is nothing but a racist, thieving, back-stabbing rogue, theocracy. No amount of BS from the likes of you is going to change that.
Israel is nothing more than an immoral and illegal invasion, and I applaud those resisting the genocidal occupation.
The entire world would be better off if there was no Zionism.
this arrogant garbage seeks as the murdering occupier, to council the suffering occupied. it is so reasonable, even quoting m.l.k., who was assassinated by the very u.s. gov't which supports the zionist state..--anyways here is a personal letter shared by the great uri averny:
"Therefore I, a 95-year-old Sabra (native-born Israeli Jew), who has plowed its fields, planted trees, built a house, and fathered sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons, and also shed his blood in the battle for the founding of the state of Israel,
"Declare herewith that I renounce my belief in the Zionism which has failed, that I shall not be loyal to the Jewish fascist state and its mad visions, that I shall not sing anymore its nationalist anthem, that I shall stand at attention only on the days of mourning for those fallen on both sides in the wars, and that I look with a broken heart at an Israel that is committing suicide and at the three generations of offspring that I have bred and raised in it."..."And thus, for 42 years, Israel turned what should have been Palestine into a giant detention camp, and is holding a whole people captive under an oppressive and cruel regime, with the sole aim of taking away their country, come what may!!!"The IDF eagerly suppresses their efforts at rebellion, with the active assistance of the settlement thugs, by the brutal means of a sophisticated Apartheid and a choking blockade, inhuman harassment of the sick and of women in labor, the destruction of their economy, and the theft of their best land and water."Over all this there is waving the black flag of the frightening contempt for the life and blood of the Palestinians. Israel will never be forgiven for the terrible toll of blood spilt, and especially the blood of children, in hair-raising quantities."...
Great post, guernica,
The ancient Pharos of Egypt were not even as cruel as the Israelis. How did that go? "Let my people go".
TJ
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent." - Thomas Jefferson