Israeli Terror : جنایات اسرائیل
راه حل نهائی مسئله فلسطین : The “Final Solution” to the
Palestine Question
نوشته ای از: جیمز پتراس
Global Research, November 28, 2012
Url of this article:http://www.globalresearch.ca/israeli-terror-the-final-solution-to-the-palestine-question/5313258
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پیشگفتار
همیشه گفته (در این نشریه مجازی و دیگر نوشته هایم) و باز تکرار میکنم: هر چند بعنوان آنارشیست با مواضع مترقیانه پتراس , مارکسیستی میلیتانت,در مسائل آمریکای لاتین - که حیطه عمده تحقیقاتی و مبارزاتی او (و خود من) میباشد - خوانائی نداشته و ندارم, چرا که او کما فی السابق و بغلط به "سازماندهی جنبش توده ای" از بالا و برهبری "حزبی کمونیست "بعنوان نیازی مبرم برای "پیروزی انقلاب سوسیالیستی " و بدست گرفتن قدرت دولتی طبقه کارگر "(بخوان دیکتاتوری پرولتاریا) به شیوه ای عاجل مینگرد, اما در مورد مسئله فلسطین و اسرائیل مواضع او را بغایت از مواضع مدعیانه "آنارشیستی" چون نوام چامسکی و دیگر هم پیمانان صهیونیست چپگرائی چون نورمن فینگلشتاین و اوری آونری(که در این مقاله جیمز پتراس از آنها بدرستی نقل قول میکند) درستر ارزیابی میکنم !! پتراس بر خلاف چامسکی, که در ضمن با بیشرمی هر چه تمامتر موجودیت لابی صهیونیستها را در آمریکا مردود میشمارد(!!) -و در کتابی به افشای نظرات چپ صهیونیستی او آنرا دقیقا با فاکت و فیگور افشا نموده و در معرض دید همگان قرار داده, با خوش خیالی غیر واقع بینانه و پوچ چامسکی مبنی بر تشکیل کشور فلسطین در مناطق اشغال شده ساحل غربی رود اردن و نوار غزه بدرستی خط کشی کامل دارد و به نظر درست ادوارد سعید فقید مبنی بر همزیستی مسالمت آمیز دو ملت در یک کشور گرایش نشان داده است . موضعی که ,طبعا, با برنامه های سیستماتیک و فوق ارتجاعی اسرائیل ,مبنی بر بیرون راندن تمامی فلسطینیان از کشورشان بطور قطع و بعنوان راه حل نهائی ,هیچ همسوئی ندارد. مقاله زیر را بدقت بخوانید و انزجار خویش را از جنایات نئو فاشیستی صهیونیستهای اسرائیلی هر چه بیشتر از پیش ابراز داشته و همدردیتان را با مبارزات بحق خلق ستمدیده فلسطین بهر وسیله ای که میتوانید نشان دهید.
مرگ بر صهیونیسم جهانی و کشور آپارتاید اسرائیل
زنده باد همبستگی فی مابین دو ملت فلسطین و اسرائیل و تشکیل ( موقت) فدراسیون دو ملت
زنده باد آنارشی و نابودی نهائی تمامی مرزهای فی مابین کشورهای جهان
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Introduction
For the past forty-five
years the state of Israel has been dispossessing millions of Palestinians
living in the Occupied Territories, confiscating their lands, destroying homes,
bulldozing orchards and setting-up ‘Jews-only’ colonial settlements serviced by
highways, electrical systems and water works for the exclusive use of the
settlers and occupying soldiers. The process of Israeli territorial expansion
throughout the West Bank and East Jerusalem has greatly accelerated in recent
years, converting Palestinian-held territory into non-viable isolated enclaves –
like South Africa’s Bantustans – surrounded by the Israeli soldiers who protect
violent settler-vigilantes as they assault and harass Palestinian farmers at
work in their fields, beat Arab children on their way to school , pelt
Palestinian housewives as they hang their laundry and then invade and defecate
in Palestinian mosques and churches.
The Rage and Rape of Gaza and
its Apologists
Israel ’s strategic
goal is to impose ‘Greater Israel’ on the region: to take over all of historical Palestine , expell the entire non-Jewish
population and subsidize ‘Jews-only’ settlements (for settler-immigrants,
often from the US and former USSR ). While bulldozers and tanks have
dispossessed Palestinians in the West Bank for decades, the launching of
thousands of missiles and bombs have become the ‘weapons of choice’ for
uprooting and eliminating the Palestinians in Gaza . In just eight days, Israel
’s latest blitzkrieg resulted in the killing of 168 Palestinians (42 children
and 100 civilians), the wounding of 1,235, the destruction of over 1,350
buildings and the further traumatizing of over 1.7 million children, women and
men fenced in the world’s largest concentration camp. According to the Israeli
Defense Minister, the Jewish State dropped “a thousand times more bombs onto
Gaza ” than the Palestinians fired back into Israel .
The current Israeli
offensive began with the gruesome assassination of a prominent Hamas leader, Ahmed Jabari, and
immediately escalated into an assault
on the entire Palestinian population of Gaza . Secure in the knowledge
that the Palestinians had no capacity to retaliate with similar weaponry, the
Israeli High Command ordered the systematic destruction of civilian life,
workplaces and densely populated neighborhoods. Over 75% of the casualties have
been non-combatants; almost half are children, women and elders.
The Israeli propaganda
machine and its ‘Fifth Column’ in the US fabricated and repeated the
Big Lie: that the Jewish state
was ‘defending itself ’... Right... with only six (mostly military)
deaths and 280 wounded (the majority non-threatening) versus the nearly 200
Palestinians, mostly civilians, slaughtered. The US Zionist power configuration
(ZPC), embedded in the policy centers of the US Executive, the Congress and both
political parties, parroted this line. All the major US TV networks and print
media reproduced verbatim Israeli Foreign Office press handouts about Israel ’s
‘defensive’ ... genocide ... while entire Palestinian families were
being buried under the rubble of their bombed apartments.
Death and destruction,
planned and executed with the unanimous support of all the major Israeli
political parties and leaders, enthralled the mass of its Jewish citizens:
Indeed, over 80% of Israeli Jews supported the terror blitz against Gaza . As
the Russian media outlet (RT) reported: “A new wave of hatred towards
Palestinians is sweeping through Israel from public figures to the man (person)
in the street”. The Israeli Interior Minister declared that
“Gaza should be bombed into the Middle Ages”. Israeli
demonstrators in Tel Aviv shouted; “they (the Palestinians) don’t deserve to
live, they must die”, “may your children die” and “now we must
go back there (to Gaza) and kick out all Arabs”. The prominent Israeli
Rabbi Yaakov Yosef, the son of a former chief rabbi, made a speech in the Cave
of the Patriarchs in occupied Hebron where he blessed the Israeli soldiers and
urged them “to slaughter their enemy”.
Even more to the point,
Israel Katz , Israel ’s Transport Minister, demanded “Gaza be
bombed so hard the population will have to flee into Egypt (the Sinai
desert)”. Avi Dichter, the Minister of Home Front Defense, incited the
Israeli military to “re-format” Gaza – that is to erase its population with
bombs.
Almost half of Israeli
Jews considered Netanyahu’s terror bombing of Gaza insufficient:
According to the independent Israeli Maagar Mohot poll, half of Israelis opposed the cease fire and demanded
the bloody assault against the Palestinian population of Gaza continue. The same
poll reported that almost a third of Israeli Jews though their government should
have sent ground forces into Gaza , an invasion which would have led to tens of
thousands of Palestinian casualties and total destruction of their vital
infrastructural life-lines. Netanyahu and his allies in power now confront a
new, totalitarian mass opposition that openly embraces a genocidal ‘Final
Solution’ to the Palestinian problem.
Genocide at the Service of
Greater Israel
The parallels between
the pronouncements and actions of Nazi Germany and Zionist Israel are
overwhelming. The bloodlust in Israel goes far beyond psychopathic raving of a
few deranged rabbis and marginal politicians: it extends from the top Cabinet
members to the average citizen.
In Israel, almost an
entire people – over 80% of Jews – support, with varying degrees of intensity,
the terror bombing and slaughter of the people of Gaza. Setting aside the
profound sociopathic disorders of the raging and racist multitude in Israel ,
what is politically more significant are the totalitarian rants of leading Israeli
public figures, published as editorials, in such newspapers as the
respectable Jerusalem Post: “We need to flatten all of
Gaza . There should be no electricity in Gaza , no gasoline or moving vehicles,
nothing,” writes Gilad Sharon and the statements of prominent Knesset
members, like Michael Ben-Ari , “There are no innocents in Gaza ... mow them
(all) down”. These outbursts reveal Israel ’s strategic goal: Genocide at the service of Greater
Israel – the bloody purge of 5
million Palestinians, the creation of a 100 percent ‘pure’ Jewish
State. Overseas (mostly US) Zionist-Jewish media moguls, Ivy League
university academics, billionaires, US Congress people and government officials
finance, underwrite, propagandize for and promote with single-minded
perseverance the defense of
Israel’s most heinous war crimes, its violations of international law and its
ongoing crimes against humanity.
During the entire
period of the recent Israeli blitzkrieg, Israel ’s Fifth column, the
Presidents of the 52 Major American Jewish Organizations, the New York Times and the rest
of the major US press rose to the dirty task of giving unconditional support for
Israel ’s war crimes. Vocal support from the US White House and by extension the
leaders of the European Union echoed Netanyahu’s lies. In order to grasp the
media white wash of these ongoing crimes against humanity one could compare the
US press reports on Israel’s bombing of Gaza to those which would have appeared
in the leading fascist newspapers at the time of Hitler’s ‘defensive’
attacks on Poland and Belgium and the bombing blitz of civilians in
London.
The true purpose of
Israel ’s terror bombing raids and assassinations in Gaza and the cutting up of
the West Bank is to make these
territories uninhabitable for the Palestinians. The daily humiliation and
destruction of the basic conditions for normal life are designed to force young,
educated, ambitious Palestinians to abandon their land, homes and families for
less grotesquely barbaric sites, where they might achieve a normal civilized
existence, free from foul-mouthed Jewish settlers, unending military incursions,
Israeli soldiers pistol-whipping their fathers or breaking the legs and arms of
stone-throwing Arab school kids.
The Logic of Public
Flogging
This obscene
Israeli-Jewish behavior is intentionally open and flagrant:
Flaunting Jewish military superiority over the defenseless Arab is vital part of
the psychological war reinforcing the idea of Arab inferiority and of Palestinians as aliens in their own
country. Israel ’s underlying slogan “Arab Raus!” (Arabs Get
Out!) echoes the Nazi screed, “Juden Rauss” (Jews Get Out!). The
message is clear: “If you are not a Jew then you do not exist! Your
very alien presence is an abomination in the eyes of the Zionist God.
So if you won’t leave politely we will hasten your departure with a few
thousand bombs, missiles and a rain of white phosphorous.” That is the
deeper meaning of Israel ’s rape of Gaza .
The Impact of Israel ’s Genocide
on US Society
Leading journalists in
the politically most influential US newspapers, academics from the most
prestigious universities and ‘experts’ from the leading research
institutes have systematically defended each and every Israeli war-crime, including the
rape of Gaza, the demolition of Palestinian civil society and the cruel blockade
of 1.7 million Palestinians in the biggest ‘open air concentration’ camp in the
world.
As usual, the
Uber-Zionist Harvard law professor, Alan Dershowitz and his acolytes provide a
legal gloss on the savage bombing of essential public services and private
communication and media centers. Not to be outdone by the loudmouths in Harvard
Square , Yale and Princeton professors, with tribal loyalties to the Jewish
state, describe the Israeli killing machine as a righteous citizen army
defending its eternally victimized people. “Experts” at the Brookings
Institute, Hudson Institute and dozens of other ‘research’ (read
propaganda) centers provide ‘scientific’ explanations regarding Israel
’s unique right to dispossess millions of Palestinians. The experts’
justifications of Israeli war crimes permeate the mass media, penetrate the
homes of millions of Americans and fill the heads of elected officials.
Meanwhile they ‘convince’ and/or browbeat thousands of non-tribal school
teachers and educators into complicity or silence, thus perverting and hollowing
out what residual humane and democratic values remain embedded in the citizenry.
It is precisely the much-vaunted ‘high achievements’ of so many
Israel-Firsters that has led to their rise to the most influential
positions in US society and state and
makes their support of terror bombings, ethnic cleansing and genocide so deeply
destructive to the US political culture. In spite of this, some of the
same expert-academic apologists for Israel’s terror against the Arab civilians
are the most vociferous defenders of human rights everywhere else in the world –
including the US (piously
condemning US war crimes whenever and wherever they are not explicitly aligned
with the interest of the Jewish State). These ‘experts’ have perverted the
concept of universal human rights in the minds of the US public.
As the US mass audience
and political class watches the smoke, debris and wreckage of Gaza – and even
catch glimpses of a child’s dismembered small body – they are told by the tribal
loyalists that this destruction is morally justified, that the target is really
“Hamas” – even over the piercing cries of Palestinian mothers for their
slaughtered children. US citizens are told that Israel ’s aggressive aerial
bombing and mass shelling from warships off-shore is really a
“defensive” maneuver against a “terrorist” regime – one which
just happens to lack a single
airplane, warship, tank or missile capable of hitting a single major Israeli
military or civilian installation.
The Zionist Academic –Journalist
Propaganda Complex
The Israeli academic-journalist propaganda
complex in the US has pushed the entire US political narrative even further to
the fascist right. It has
perverted our political vocabulary, equating mass slaughter with national
defense; equating the ‘anxiety’ of Israeli Jewish civilians with the homeless,
jobless and traumatized widows and children emerging from their devastated
densely-populated urban neighborhoods.
The tribal scholars and
mass media pundits excel in transforming executioners into victims and victims
into executioners. The Liberal-Zionists, peace-time critics of Israel, remove
their peace buttons and pick up scripts defending ‘just wars’, as soon
as Israel starts bombing another Arab population or adversary. For the liberal
(human-rights-spouting) Zionists, bombing civilians is always illegal – except
when it is Israel launching the missiles. Propaganda zealots for Israel saturate
the media attacking any human rights activist critical of Israel with charges of
“anti-Semitism”. They smear, threaten and blackmail each and every
dissenting voice daring to oppose their narrative.
The entire mass media
and the most prestigious universities censor any mention of Israeli crimes
against humanity. As bombs rained on Gaza not one single Congressional voice
denounced the odious American President Obama when he defended Israel’s
eight-day “Guernica”
against a defenseless population. Unlike the citizens in Nazi Germany, we, in
the US and Western Europe , cannot claim that we did not know about Israeli war
crimes as they were happening. On the other hand, how can the mass of
semi-literate TV viewers in the US really ‘know’ what is going on when
Israel-Firsters have so thoroughly ‘framed the context’ – claiming it’s
all defensive, that only Hamas “terrorists” are targeted ...despite the
images of children being frantically pulled from the wreckage of their homes.
However, the educated classes in the US
do know about Israel ’s tradition and practice of mass civilian bombings;
they do remember Lebanon 2006 as well as Gaza 2008-2009 (and countless Israeli
massacres in the late 20th century). At the same time, they also
“remember” the vicious reprisals and vitriolic attacks the Zionist ideological
attack-dogs launched against the critics. Having ‘learned their lessons’ from
the Zionist ‘thought-cops’ they conveniently remember ... to forget and walk
away... from the whole ‘Middle East mess’. Worse still,
they sanctimoniously blame the
Palestinians for their efforts to retaliate in the face of Israel ’s
blatant murders of their most prestigious leaders as well as their stubborn
refusal to surrender.
There are a few
Left-Zionists who actually praise the ‘resilience’ of the Palestinians and their
refusal to surrender to the dictates of Israel and its occupying army. They note
how the Gazans ‘celebrate’ their ‘victory’ amidst the rubble after having
secured a very tenuous cease
fire. Any reasonable observer could reply to this sentimental nonsense: Is
survival in an open air concentration camp for another day, the daily prospect
of Israeli drone flights overhead and a brutal land and sea blockade any
“victory”? There is no cause for celebration: Transforming
Israeli war crimes into Palestinian virtues is a cheap liberal Zionist sideshow.
An eight-day Israeli assault, which had successfully destroyed every major and
minor public office responsible for providing the people of Gaza with essential
services, and the savaging of the water and sewage system, power and electrical
grids and media offices (not to mention perishable food and medicine) is nothing
to celebrate. In fact the underlying strategic goal of the Jewish state – to
make the remains of historical Palestine uninhabitable (a modern ‘howling
wilderness’) for its people – has been advanced by leaps and bounds. Surviving
another day in order to bury loved ones and scrounging among the burnt ruins of
a home for a birth certificate or photograph is hardly the noble “Hamas victory” proclaimed by
Norman Finkelstein and Uri Avneri.
Why NATO – Washington Support
Israel ’s Genocidal War
Unlike in the past,
where some international organizations and European states raised tepid
objections to Israel ’s military assaults against Palestine or Lebanon , this
time around nothing took place. The White House immediately embraced Israel ’s
terror bombing as did the governments of Western Europe . Meanwhile, Turkey ,
the Gulf States , the Arab League and the pan-Islamic organizations did nothing
concrete, offering no arms, no boycotts, no oil embargos – only shallow symbolic
gestures.
Netanyahu timed his
assault to take advantage of the western imperial offensive against independent
countries and leaders who had historically supported the Palestinian liberation
struggle for decades. Since NATO states had invaded and bombed the sovereign
nation of Libya back into the Stone Age, Netanyahu’s Cabinet Ministers must have
reasoned, “Why can’t we send the Gazans back to the Middle Ages with our
bombs”? When NATO and the Gulf States now arm, finance and support a
prolonged terrorist-led assault against the secular regime, people and
infrastructure of Syria , Netanyahu reasons, “Why don’t we do the same to
the Palestinians”?
With the EU, Washington
and the Gulf States engaged in covert and overt wars against all of Palestine’s
staunchest allies (Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Iran and the Sudan) and
against the people’s movements in Yemen, Bahrain and Pakistan, Netanyahu’s plan
to ethnically purge Palestine has advanced with total impunity – indeed with
overt Western approval and without concern for any international ‘humanitarian’
sanctions or even protest.
Netanyahu’s murderous
war on Gaza , with full US complicity, has unmasked the collaborationist-nature
of Egypt ’s Islamist President Morsi. Morsi, together with US Secretary of State
Hilary Clinton, secured a cease fire only after Netanyahu had accomplished his
immediate goal of destroying the public institutions of civil society and
undermining the vital public functions of the Hamas government.
Against the protests of
the blood-thirsty Israeli public, who wanted their bombers and army to ‘finish
the job’, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu negotiated and signed an agreement
overseen by Morsi on a cease fire where Israel will pay no indemnity to the devastated civilians
of Gaza while confirming the Mubarak-era Israeli– Egyptian treaty and starvation
blockade of Gaza. Right after the ‘cease-fire’, President Morsi assumed
dictatorial powers over the Egyptian state. With the shameful terms of the cease
fire and Morsi’s assumption of dictatorial powers the ‘Arab Spring’ has
come to a tragic end.
Conclusion
The people of the
Middle East , especially the Palestinians, are in their worst position ever.
Palestinians have lost the political, financial and military support of the
independent, secular regimes of Libya , Syria and Iraq . And Iran , the
principle source of arms for the Palestinians, faces a US Naval armada off its
coast. Israel is accelerating its naked land grabs in the West Bank . The PLO
continues to be Israel ’s frontline ‘cop on the block’ – jailing resistance
fighters and dissidents by the hundreds. Israel ’s Fifth Column in the US
ensures unconditional support for Israel ’s ethnic cleansing of its non-Jewish
population. Above all, as the terror bombing of Gaza reveals, Israel, as a state and as a people, is free to bomb and
destroy Gaza in order to force a mass exodus of the Palestinians so that they
may establish a ‘pure’ and unadulterated Jewish state on historical
Palestine.
Epilogue
Less than 24 hours
after the so-called “cease fire” Israeli soldiers murdered an unarmed
Palestinian protestor and wounded dozens with live ammunition on the Gazan side
of the border. Israel storm troopers raided West Bank homes and arrested 55
Palestinians accused of supporting Hamas. Scores more Palestinians in the Beit
Lahia area of the West Bank were summarily arrested and jailed as suspected
Hamas members. Jewish vigilante settlers near occupied Hebron uprooted 400 olive
trees belonging to Palestinian farmers from the village of Hawara . As the
missile murderers take their break, the bull dozers rev up their engines: Israel
’s leaders pursue their strategic objective of a “pure” Jewish state with their
inexorable and destructive juggernaut. The ‘cease fire’ merely changed the methods and the terrain of dispossession for the time being.
Israel’s assault on Gaza has totally demolished its vibrant
recovery and growth since the previous war of destruction. In 2011 the economy
of Gaza grew by 20%; after the recent Israeli attack who would dare consider
Gaza as a place to live and invest?
"It was year-in-year-out American
diplomacy and billions in American loans and/or outright grants voted for
annually by Americans' representatives in Congress that were sustaining the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It was American-made bombers, paid for, at least
in part, by American TAXPAYERS, that were pulverizing Beirut apartment houses
and burying their occupants under the rubble. Rightly or wrongly, willingly or
not, every American citizen, simply by his or her citizenship, was and is
involved in the Conflict" ~Fr. John W. Mulhall, CSP, in his book
"America and the founding of Israel, an Investigation of the Morality of
America's Role, 1995, Deshon Press
"I think the unpleasant and
unavoidable comparison is with South Africa during the apartheid period and i
must say, having visited South Africa, that they were much better off than the
Palestinians living in the refugee camps."
~Richard Falk, UN Human Rights Fact Finding Commission
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