Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials have blamed “anti-Israeli incitement” by Palestinians and their supporters for the killing of two Israeli tourists in Brussels this week.
Israeli and Zionist media described the incident as “anti-Semitic.” However as of this time there is no solid evidence linking the attack to Palestinians or Muslims.
To begin with we condemn attacks on innocent Jews in the strongest terms. We also voice our principled rejection of anti-Semitism Islamophobia and all other forms of racism.
Having made this issue abundantly clear I believe we must not lump anti-Semitism (hating Jews for being Jews) with legitimate criticisms of Israel a manifestly criminal bellicose state that practices apartheid and indulges in abominable acts of ethnic cleansing and persecution against the Palestinian people.
We know and every honest human being under the sun ought to know that Israeli criminality which often assumes pornographic proportions does produce certain regrettable but inevitable impacts on people around the world.
Intellectually-honest and morally-sound people irrespective of their cultural or religious backgrounds don’t love watching heavily armed crack soldiers train their rifles at and shoot young children and boys. Yet this is what the Israeli occupation soldiers have been doing to the Palestinians since time immemorial.
Just last week Israeli soldiers shot and killed two young Palestinian boys in the northern West Bank. One Israeli human rights organization described the killings as “totally unjustified.” Eye-witnesses termed the incident “a cold-blooded murder.” The incident is one of thousands of similar “incidents” in which Israeli troops murdered innocent Palestinians for the purpose of casting fear and terror in the hearts of our people.
As usual Israeli officials including Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon sought to evade responsibility resorting to lying and concocting narratives about the incident that have absolutely nothing to do with truth.
I am not suggesting that the murder of two young Palestinians by trigger-happy Israeli soldiers justified the killing of the two Israeli tourists in Brussels.
However I do believe that Israel which murders our people knowingly and deliberately almost on a daily basis has no moral high ground to stand on or boast about.
Israeli crimes which assume numerous forms all of them ugly and nefarious constitute an eternal indictment of the Jewish state and its political and security officials.
We Palestinians don’t hate Israel because Israel is Jewish. We rather hate Israel because Israel happens to be our oppressor and grave-digger and I am not speaking metaphorically.
Indeed honest conscientious Jews who reject oppression are our natural allies against this criminal entity called Israel.
In the final analysis Israel’s evil practices against the Palestinian people whose homeland has been stolen by a powerful Zionist movement supported by immoral western powers are responsible at least in part for attacks on Israelis and Jews around the world.
Hence the regrettable but inevitable conclusion that such attacks as the one that took place in Brussels a few days ago would continue.
It is not true at all that “Palestinian incitement” is the reason for the occurrence of such incidents. The Palestinians are tormented so much by Israel’s enduring occupation of their homeland that Israel stands morally naked before the entire world. The Palestinians are only voicing their endless pain and agony. Is Israel trying to rob us of our natural right to communicate our suffering to the world?
Even erstwhile friends of Israel in Europe and North America have come to reach the conclusion namely that Israel is indulging in crimes against humanity against its Palestinian subjects.
Netanyahu and other Zionist leaders ought to realize that the increasing exposition of Israeli criminality is not attributed to “hazbara flaws” on Israel’s and her supporters’ part.
But we are living in the age of the internet unlike the 1960s and 1970s when Jewish-dominated or Jewish-influenced media around the world succeeded by and large in changing the black into white and the big lie into a “truth” glorified by millions of misinformed westerners.
Once again Israel is morally unfit to complain about the murder of Jews anywhere in the world if only because its Nazi-like army and security forces indulge in acts that are far more diabolical.
A final word. Some Israeli officials and spokespersons are prompted to cite the murderous killings by Bashar al-Assad’s regime of Syrian civilians in order to extenuate the gravity of Israeli crimes.
But this is a sinister red herring because the crimes of the fascist regime in Damascus against its own people in no way justify Israeli crimes against the Palestinians.
Israeli and Zionist media described the incident as “anti-Semitic.” However as of this time there is no solid evidence linking the attack to Palestinians or Muslims.
To begin with we condemn attacks on innocent Jews in the strongest terms. We also voice our principled rejection of anti-Semitism Islamophobia and all other forms of racism.
Having made this issue abundantly clear I believe we must not lump anti-Semitism (hating Jews for being Jews) with legitimate criticisms of Israel a manifestly criminal bellicose state that practices apartheid and indulges in abominable acts of ethnic cleansing and persecution against the Palestinian people.
We know and every honest human being under the sun ought to know that Israeli criminality which often assumes pornographic proportions does produce certain regrettable but inevitable impacts on people around the world.
Intellectually-honest and morally-sound people irrespective of their cultural or religious backgrounds don’t love watching heavily armed crack soldiers train their rifles at and shoot young children and boys. Yet this is what the Israeli occupation soldiers have been doing to the Palestinians since time immemorial.
Just last week Israeli soldiers shot and killed two young Palestinian boys in the northern West Bank. One Israeli human rights organization described the killings as “totally unjustified.” Eye-witnesses termed the incident “a cold-blooded murder.” The incident is one of thousands of similar “incidents” in which Israeli troops murdered innocent Palestinians for the purpose of casting fear and terror in the hearts of our people.
As usual Israeli officials including Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon sought to evade responsibility resorting to lying and concocting narratives about the incident that have absolutely nothing to do with truth.
I am not suggesting that the murder of two young Palestinians by trigger-happy Israeli soldiers justified the killing of the two Israeli tourists in Brussels.
However I do believe that Israel which murders our people knowingly and deliberately almost on a daily basis has no moral high ground to stand on or boast about.
Israeli crimes which assume numerous forms all of them ugly and nefarious constitute an eternal indictment of the Jewish state and its political and security officials.
We Palestinians don’t hate Israel because Israel is Jewish. We rather hate Israel because Israel happens to be our oppressor and grave-digger and I am not speaking metaphorically.
Indeed honest conscientious Jews who reject oppression are our natural allies against this criminal entity called Israel.
In the final analysis Israel’s evil practices against the Palestinian people whose homeland has been stolen by a powerful Zionist movement supported by immoral western powers are responsible at least in part for attacks on Israelis and Jews around the world.
Hence the regrettable but inevitable conclusion that such attacks as the one that took place in Brussels a few days ago would continue.
It is not true at all that “Palestinian incitement” is the reason for the occurrence of such incidents. The Palestinians are tormented so much by Israel’s enduring occupation of their homeland that Israel stands morally naked before the entire world. The Palestinians are only voicing their endless pain and agony. Is Israel trying to rob us of our natural right to communicate our suffering to the world?
Even erstwhile friends of Israel in Europe and North America have come to reach the conclusion namely that Israel is indulging in crimes against humanity against its Palestinian subjects.
Netanyahu and other Zionist leaders ought to realize that the increasing exposition of Israeli criminality is not attributed to “hazbara flaws” on Israel’s and her supporters’ part.
But we are living in the age of the internet unlike the 1960s and 1970s when Jewish-dominated or Jewish-influenced media around the world succeeded by and large in changing the black into white and the big lie into a “truth” glorified by millions of misinformed westerners.
Once again Israel is morally unfit to complain about the murder of Jews anywhere in the world if only because its Nazi-like army and security forces indulge in acts that are far more diabolical.
A final word. Some Israeli officials and spokespersons are prompted to cite the murderous killings by Bashar al-Assad’s regime of Syrian civilians in order to extenuate the gravity of Israeli crimes.
But this is a sinister red herring because the crimes of the fascist regime in Damascus against its own people in no way justify Israeli crimes against the Palestinians.
Khalid Amayreh is a veteran Palestinian journalist and political commentator living in occupied Palestine
