When four Israelis were recently killed by two Palestinian assailants inside a synagogue in Jerusalem Israeli officials and spokespersons seized on the hasbara opportunity to malign the Palestinians and discredit their enduring struggle for freedom and statehood.
Ranting and raving like mad dogs Zionist leaders easily ignored the context in which the synagogue incident took place.
They overlooked the cardinal fact that Palestinian resistance to Israel’s Nazi-like repression is an inevitable outcome of Israel’s indisputably criminal policy toward the tormented Palestinians.
This is not going to be hard to fathom if one decides to be honest.
Listening to some remarks by Netanyahu and his colleagues one would get the impression that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict began with the tragic incident three or four days ago and that the attack itself came out of the blue as the proverbial slate had been thoroughly clean ever before.
But the attack didn’t come out of the blue and the conflict actually started many decades ago with the usurpation of Palestine by Zionist Jews and the expulsion of its native Muslim and Christian inhabitants from their ancestral homeland.
The Palestinians didn’t invade Jewish localities in Russia Poland and Eastern Europe. It was the Khazari Jews with active support and backing from the West who invaded Palestine massacred its people destroyed their homes and then dispersed them to the four winds. All of this occurred on the account that some Jews lived in Palestine more than 4000 years ago!!!!
The world must not forget the bloody history of Israel and in case it did the Palestinians won’t.
Therefore it is necessary to exercise some modicum of honesty in order not to be misled or bamboozled by Zionist mendacity.
The latest incident in West Jerusalem a minor incident in comparison to Israel’s unrelenting atrocities against our people came on the heels of a genocidal onslaught by the Jewish state on the Gaza Strip in summer 2014.
Israel effectively destroyed Gaza murdering and maiming untold numbers of civilians. Gaza more or less became the Dresden of Palestine. And the whole world looked on rather passively as if the killing-field and the shockingly pornographic destruction of life and property were occurring on a distant galaxy.
The Palestinian attackers in West Jerusalem synagogue killed four or five Jews. But this can never be compared with the dropping from high altitude of one-ton bombs on apartment buildings packed with terrified men women and children whose only “crime” is the fact that they didn’t belong to the “holy tribe.”
Yes the death of four Israeli Jews in a synagogue may be viewed as an unacceptable form of violence or terror. But is the intentional and systematic extermination of an entire people an expression of altruism and self-abnegation on Israel’s part?
Israel stole our country massacred our people and destroyed our homes and is now calling us terrorists. In fact Israel is fornicating with language as well as truth. Israel started this conflict it has only herself to blame.
The PLO did recognize Israel more than two decades ago. However instead of reciprocating this recognition by recognizing a Palestinian state along the 1967-borders Israel embarked on an intensive drive of settlement-building which has now made the establishment of a viable Palestinian state worthy of the name a distant if not an impossible prospect.
At the same time Israel is refusing to grant the estimated 5.5 million Palestinians west of the River Jordan equal rights as citizens of a unitary democratic state lest Israel lose its Jewish identity.
So what are the Palestinians supposed to do under these circumstances?
Israel even without saying so openly wants us to leave for good under the pressure of Jewish racism and repression.
But we won’t leave. We either continue to live here as free men and women or die here. But if we have to die as is often the case we will take some Israelis with us.
We are victims of Jewish terror
Israel is morally unfit to accuse its victims of terror. Israel invented terror in the Middle East. I challenge every honest person under the sun to mention a single Israeli leader who doesn’t or didn’t have innocent blood on his hands. Ben Gurion? Golda Meir? Menachem Begin? Ariel Sharon? Shimon Peres? Let us be honest. Israel was borne and baptized in terror and murder.
Moreover Israel is responsible first and foremost for pushing young Palestinians to embark on such desperate violence. Israeli oppression of Palestinians which transcends reality simply makes Palestinian violence inevitable.
To be sure Palestinians are not eager to kill and get killed. But Israel which has been maintaining a draconian repressive military regime against the Palestinian people since 1967 is effectively offering our people either of two choices: Either dying quietly at the Israeli slaughter house or killing and getting killed in Israeli towns streets and synagogues.
The Palestinians won’t surrender in the face of the Israeli repression machine. We would rather die a violent death than surrender. Israel USA and Arab regimes must understand this fact the sooner the better.
Khalid Amayreh is a veteran journalist and political commentator living in occupied Palestine
