Israel And The Threat To Middle East Peace
By Salim Nazzal
17 January, 2010
Countercurrents.org
Bluntly speaking, this is the fact the world and Jews in particular need to think seriously of. The rejection of the peoples of the region, Palestinians, Arabs, Persians, and Turks to the Zionist state carries a strong message that the region is fed up with the Zionist Jewish occupation and the Zionist Jewish brutality. Since 1948, the date the zionist state was enforced into the region, the only news peoples hear is: Israel murders, Israel massacres, Israel expels native palestinians and replace them with overseas Jews, Israel arrests, Israel occupies, Israel develops atomic weapons, Israel develops biological weapons.
Jews arrived from the whole world introduced the macabre culture by bringing to Palestine the torture and terror experiences they learnt from their original countries and applied it on innocent Palestinians.
It is doubtful to find one single state in modern history that made so many threats to so many states and so many people expect in the case of Israel. One day Israel threats Egypt, the other day Jordan, or Syria, or Lebanon, or Iran, or Iraq or Libya, or Algeria until the extent that Sharon declared once that Israel strategical interests reached Pakistan. Off course we should not forget that we talk about a state which presents itself as poor and harmless and an army which murdered thousands of Palestinian babies yet consider itself the most human army in history!!!
In the eyes of the vast majority of Arabs and Muslims Israel has become synonym to death, brutality, wars and destruction to the extent that the term Zionist Jew in the Middle East has become a synonym to murder, brutality and ruthlessness. Jews surely does not like to hear this because they are encapsulated in the self made myths and do not want to open their eyes to see the crimes committed by Jews and in the name of Judaism against the innocent Palestinians and Arabs over 7 decades.
Who is responsible about the ugly image of Jews? Who is responsible about the negative sentiments towards Jews throughout the region, the answer is obvious, it is Zionist Jews themselves. The excuses about anti Semitism are just justification to avoid looking at the Palestinian baby blood on their hands. Zionist Jews do not seem to understand the power of the collective memory among Palestinians regarding their genocides in Deir Yasin; Sabra and Shatila, Ginen, or Gaza , which are just not past history. These horrific massacres became part of the collective memory of Palestinians and Arabs and will be likely the fuel of the new generation which will seek to revenge their murdered families.
This, pose question to Jews in Palestine and the world, for how long they will continue to be the war criminals in the region? And are Jews aware of the storage of hatred and the sentiments of revenge which they planted in the hearts and mind of Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims due to the philosophy of terror which Israel conducted in past decades? And do they really hope that they would ever continue to live in a region that due to their terror hating them and wishing them the worse has become the average sentiments of the peoples of the region?
All this happen while the world watching the Israeli brutality and do nothing about it, and when the Israeli crimes reaches genocidal level the reaction is usually uttered in the lightest expressions. This is the prime reason which explains the anti west sentiments in the Arab and Muslim world. All the analysis which over look this reason comes often from Zionist researchers such as Bernard Lewis and the alike who fantasizing about the so called essence of Islam hostile to the west. This fairy tale analysis aims to put the Muslim world against the west something which Israel work for desperately since its very existence.
Hard facts demonstrate that this propaganda encapsulated in scientism research cannot stand against basic history facts. The Arab and the Islamic sentiments towards the United States in the pre 1948 is a good example. There has never been one single episode of hostility towards the United States. Quite the opposite, America was considered a progressive country preaching liberal and anti colonial ideas. The king crane commission sent by the USA government in 1919 stood against the Zionist anticipation to dispossess the native population of Palestine. And if Israel says it is the only friend to America the reality is, as an American priest puts it, before its establishment America has no enemies in the Middle East.
But when the USA chooses to support the Zionist occupiers by all means, finacialy, militarily, diplomatically, Palestinians and Arabs saw that their life destroyed by the US support. The hatred towards the US is the normal reaction which became the average culture radical movements benefited from.
The impact of this on the region has become devasting, instead of devoting the resources and efforts towards development, the spirit of militarization and the culture of violence in its secular and left wing forms as in the seventies, or in the religious forms as in later periods has been on marsh.
I have argued in many lectures, articles and interviews that Israel is the major reason for the emergence of political Islam in its radical form, and, without justifying any form of blind violence, radical Islamism is basically a reaction to the violence brought to the region by the Zionist state. Therefore drying the source of Islamic radicalism in the middle must begin side by side with drying up the Zionist occupation, both factors are strongly interrelated.
Today the Zionist state is filling Palestine with more over sees Jews or semi Jews or Jewish (lost tribes!) on the expense of the land of the native Palestinians. This situation has become unbearable and it will lead sooner or later into a wide explosion .The question is how long do they think the policy of making Palestine a prison to its folk would last? How long do they think Palestinians accept to live slaves under the rule of David Star viewed by Palestinians as equal to the Nazi Swastika?
More dangerously, Zionists are filling Palestine with atomic and biological and chemical weapons. Israel is less than one percent in terms of world population yet owns 20 percent of the atomic capacity in the whole world. And the most comic tragic that the besieged Gaza, which Israel deprived it from the minimum requirements of life, produced primitive arms to defend themselves against the advanced American high tech arms given and used by Israel, was threatened to be nuked by a major Israeli leader which was not reacted upon in the countries which provided Israel with this destructive arms.
Therefore Jews need to look at the mirror to see their dreadful face because they must know that none in the Middle East buys Jewish fairy tales about anti Semitism. Anti Semitism is a Jewish problem existed outside the Middle East. The Middle East does not have to adapt itself to Jewish Stone Age and modern myths and Jewish calendars. The reality is that the peoples of the Middle East judge Jews as they knew them through 60 years, and the history of the Zionist state is a history of continuous crimes.
But unfortunately apart from the very few brave and honest Jews devoted to the cause of just peace such as Gilad Atzmon and Ian Pape the vast majority is supporting the Zionist policy of crimes.
The west which oppressed European Jews expressed its guilt by all forms to the extent that it went beyond the limits by supporting Zionists to wipe out Palestine from the map, while it does not seem that the feeling of guilt exists in the Jewish culture despite the horror committed by Zionist Jews which raise strong concern about the question of morality in Judaism?
Therefore we need to return things to the origin, there is no Palestinian problem. There has never been a Palestinian problem, but there is a Jewish problem existed in Europe long time ago. The literature of the 19th century such as the writings of Bruno Bauer, (the Jewish question) And Karl Marx, (on the Jewish question) are only examples of the many writings about the Jewish problem. And when they invaded Palestine the problem continues a Jewish problem but this time in the Middle East.
Using the term Palestinian problem or even Palestinian question is a mistake that contrasts the basic facts of history. It is a problem in Palestine caused by over see Jews and not a Palestinian problem. To put it in the language of medicine a Jew with damaged heart killed a Palestinian to steal his healthy heart, then the media began to use the term the Palestinian condition. The tragic in this analogy is that it matches the reality as revealed by the Swedish media about the Zionist murdering Palestinians to steal their organs, which makes it a perfect concord between symbolism and reality.
Therefore the whole world must take part in solving the Jewish problem and Palestinians has paid enough of this problem and it is not their responsibility to solve the European Jewish problem in their home.
Based on earlier presentation there is no hope in peace in the region. There is no single example in history which shows that brutal ideology make peace. Peace is made by peace believers and peace lovers. The two pillars of peace are justice and fairness and both are absent in the Zionist culture. The Zionist culture is constructed on the norm of violence, and on the belief that Zionist Jews have power enough to challenge the whole world. And the appeasing policy of the USA and Europe makes Zionist Jews believe that.
In 1905 Najeeb Azure, A Palestinian historian from Jerusalem, anticipated the 20 century will witness a conflict between the Arab national movement and Zionism which was planning these times to invade Palestine. In 1982, after the invasion of Lebanon and the scattering of the PLO forces all over the Arab world, I wrote that a new generation of Palestinians will continue the resistance regardless of all the wounds. In 1987, only 5 years after that, the first intifada has begun and the Palestinian stone thrower generation emerged to convey a strong message that Israel cannot murder the spirit of freedom among Palestinians which will be revived with each new generation.
The question is, is there any possibility towards peace in the Middle East?
In my view there are three models towards achieving peace in the region.
The first model is to follow the alliance model towards Nazism, which removed by force the Swastika symbol of death. This naturally cannot happen because the most powerful western states support Israel.
The second model is the South African cultural change which took place among the ruling minority which was convinced that there is no future to the apartheid in the country. This happens through the combination of the native struggle and the change of heart in the white community. While Jews in Palestine and worldwide are unable to see the culture of death Zionist Jews owes, is exposing them to the hate of generations of the victimized native Palestinians who’s their biggest dream is to get rid from occupation. Therefore this model is difficult to occur in Palestine because there is no indication of a possible change in the Zionist Jewish culture of power; in fact Zionist Jews are becoming more fanatical and more aggressive.
The third possibility is to form an alliance of the most powerful states in the world to oblige Israel by force to abide the UN resolutions, which includes the establishment of a viable Palestinian state and the return of the expelled Palestinians to their homes. But the facts on the ground do not support the possibility of forming such an alliance.
And while Palestinians are pushed by Zionist to the furthest level of domination and cruelty Israel must expect to face a new generation of Palestinians who lost every hope of living in dignity in their country. They lost the hope that the UN and the so called international community could provide them peace and justice which they deserve after long suffering. The spirit of revenge among this generation is indescribable.
This generation has seen their families murdered and expelled and humiliated in front of their eyes. This generation has seen the hypocrisy and the coward positions of the great powers and its inability to enforce one single UN resolution. This generation has seen decades of ridiculous negotiation which did not move one single Israeli check point. By being pushed to this level of brutality it is not difficult to conclude that this generation will not hesitate to apply the theory of destroying the temple on all. This is the platform of the cultural atmosphere of next wars in the Middle East. Drawing on the fact that the past decade witnessed two wars with the state of Israel, it is not difficult to anticipate that the 21 century will be the century of horrific, decisive and devasting wars with the Zionist state.
Dr. Salim Nazzal is a Palestinian-Norwegian historian in the Middle East, who has written extensively on social and political issues in the region.
