Israeli leaders and spokespersons have voiced surprise at the “violent” Palestinian reactions to the latest Israeli crimes especially since the genocidal aggression on the Gaza Strip in summer.
The racist and supremacist Zionists think that Palestinians should remain quiet and refrain from showing any modicum of resistance to Israeli aggression.
The Israeli discourse goes like this: “They (the Palestinians) must die a quiet death; they must walk meekly and serenely into the Jewish slaughterhouse or will otherwise be annihilated with White Phosphorus or bombed to smithereens by American-supplied F-15 and F-16 fighter jets. Remember Gaza!!!!”
Some Israeli leaders even go as far as thinking that Palestinians ought to thank Israel for leaving them alive.
A few days ago an Israeli official said on TV that Palestinians were being treated well in comparison to other Arabs in the region. The Zionist official was probably alluding to Syria and Iraq where an internecine sectarian war has killed tens of thousands of people.
But the matter in Palestine goes far beyond the daily killing. Israel has been occupying Palestine for decades killing and tormenting its people destroying their homes and transforming their daily life into an enduring hell.
And now the Jewish state is deliberately treading on the ultimate sensitive nerve namely the Aqsa Mosque.
This is undoubtedly the ultimate provocation for the Muslim world. The Israelis know it we know it and the world knows it. Claiming or thinking otherwise is an expression of willful ignorance and criminal audacity. We all know that no other issue under the sun has the potential of mobilizing Muslims against Israel.
No Palestinian or Muslim probably save a few fanatics is eager to see a nihilistic religious war occur between Muslims and Jews. But the Israeli government is backing with its full weight messianic and millenarian Jewish fanatics walking in this apocalyptic but futile path the path of tumultuous religious conflict.
Israel first allowed fanatical Jews “just to visit” and then allowed them to hold provocative Talmudic rituals at the exclusively-Islamic shrine. Then the same government sent its crack soldiers and police forces into the mosque to repress peaceful Muslim worshipers and break their bones.
The Israeli government watched the extremist leaders of Gush Emunim incite Jews to “take the Temple Mount from Pagans’ hands in order to rebuild the temple.”
What Temple?
Israeli archaeologists have not left a stone unturned since 1967 but utterly failed to find any trace that might have belonged to the Temple of Solomon. According to prominent American archaeologist and Biblical archaeology expert George W. Buchanan they have only found an image of a Roman soldier on a horse a brick with the mark of the 10th Roman legion on it and an image of Mars the Roman God of war. They also found an inscription carved on a brick honoring Titus Vespasian and Sliva for their leadership in the war of AD 66-72.
It is really lamentable that the Israeli government is refusing to publicly release these scientific facts to Jews and the Israeli public. This adamant refusal is nothing short of a crime.
Israel is well aware of the genocidal mythological beliefs of religious Zionist millenarians who want to spark off a genocidal war in the Middle East in order to expedite the appearance of the redeemer or Jewish Messiah. But successive Israeli governments utterly failed to rein in these criminal fanatics. Far from doing this the government actually gave these religious maniacs everything they needed to promote their nefarious ideology. Some observers believe it is only a matter of time before these Talmudic-minded fanatics take over the Likud party and with it the Israeli government.
Indeed for these fanatics such ideas as democracy and human rights are western rubbish. Their way as Daniela Weis a settler leader in the northern West Bank is the way of Joshua the way of the ancient Israelites who murdered every man woman or child.!! and left no breathing thing!!
Surrender or revolt
Today the Israeli government is giving the Palestinians two choices: surrender or revolt.
But the Palestinians are an honorable and implacable people who won’t surrender. They would rather die rather than lose their freedom honor and dignity. The Palestinians are mostly a tolerant people who would mix co-live and even inter-marry with others. The word racism doesn’t exist in the Palestinians’ lexicon.
However we Palestinians teach our kids that death is preferable to humiliation and dishonor. We are not the only people who value freedom honor and dignity. In America young kids learn Henry Patrick’s iconic slogan “give me liberty or give me death.”
This should explain the audacity of some Palestinians who recently carried out desperate acts against the Israeli occupation such as running over some Jewish settlers knowing beforehand they would meet their death. But let us be honest. The criminal Nazi-like Israeli policy is responsible for forcing these Palestinians to reach this level of desperation.
The Palestinians cannot take it anymore and Israel cannot claim innocence.
The Palestinian Authority (PA) which thanks to Israeli intransigence has been reduced to a mere vanquished supplicant has been negotiating with Israel in good faith for over 20 years. But the sheer outcome of these protracted negotiations has been a net Zero.
Why has this been the case? Well because Israel doesn’t want to give up the spoils of the 1967 war namely ending the occupation.
Instead successive Israeli governments embarked on an intensive campaign of settlement-building throughout the West Bank especially East Jerusalem so much so that there is no room left now for the establishment of a viable and territorially contiguous Palestinian state worthy of the name.
The U.S. has been trying probably dishonestly to broker a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians. However the U.S. government is decidedly dominated by influential American Jewish pressure groups that impose Israel’s will on the man in the White House irrespective of his party affiliation.
This Zionist connection effectively made the U.S. at Israel’s beck and call transforming the most powerful country on earth from being a potential “part of the solution” into a real “part of the problem” if not the problem itself.
I am not trying to instigate Americans against American Jewry. Indeed if the American people accept enslavement by a small segment of other Americans that is their choice.
However the American people and their government must not expect Muslims anywhere to succumb to Jewish supremacists who grew up thinking that non-Jews are quasi-human -beings or even animals.
Now it is probably too late to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli strife for two reasons: First the intensive expansion of Jewish settlements and second the inability of the U.S. and international community to pressure Israel.
This is expected to produce forces and reactions that would keep the Middle East in a state of tension instability and turmoil for many many years to come.
Khalid Amayreh is a veteran Palestinian journalist and political commentator living in occupied Palestine
