Palestine:
Israeli Killing Fields
By Dr. Elias Akleh
19 March, 2007
Countercurrents.org
Zionism is a newer name for an
ancient racist, expansionist, and imperialist political movement, whose
aim was, and still is, the establishment of a strong “Jewish-only”
empire (Greater Israel) in the Middle East, which was considered the
heart of the ancient world, and the center of all trade.
To accomplish this goal ancient
Israelite self-proclaimed “prophets” had introduced false
religious beliefs and interpretations of scriptures into Judaism to
nationalize the religion, and to misguide the Jews into believing in
a prejudiced racist and war-loving god, who favors one group of people
over all the rest of his creations, and –as a real estate agent-
promised the Jews a piece of land, and promised to protect and to lead
their armies to cleanse this promised land (from Nile to Euphrates)
from all the heathens (Goyim) through genocide in return he asks them
to build him a pathetic temple when he has the whole universe as his
house. These false religious beliefs sanctioned theft, murder, torture
and exploitation of other people, whom this prejudiced god had allegedly
created to be only servants to the Jews.
Unfortunately many Jews –
the believers in Judaism from all nations and not just the descendents
of Abraham- fell victims to these false religious beliefs, and thus
had volunteered themselves and their children, out of religious conviction
and duty, to be drafted into armies to inflict mayhem and terror on
all other nations in an attempt to actualize this false religious goal.
The creation of the state of Israel in 1948 in the heart of the Arab
World, and the destructive ruthless genocidal wars against Palestinians
and Arabs, consuming the souls of innocent people as well as their own
souls, are continuation of their terror campaign towards that goal (Greater
Israel).
In ancient times, the Old
Testament tells us that “god of Israelites” had instructed
their prophet Samuel to anoint Saul as the first king of Israel, and
to order him to fulfill god’s wish of annihilating all Philistinian
tribes in the Promised Land. Samuel instructed Saul to: “Now go
and attack Amalikites (a Philistinian tribe) and utterly destroy all
that they have and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant
and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.” (Samuel 15:
1-33). There go Moses’ divine Ten Commandments “You shall
not kill” and “You shall not covet your neighbor’s
possessions” out of the window. Saul perpetrated the genocide
but spared the king “Agag” and the best of the livestock.
Samuel, the so-called god’s prophet, hacked king “Agag”
into pieces, and informed Saul that god is angry with him since he did
not complete the genocide as he was instructed.
Since then genocide of non-Jews
(Goyims) had been sanctified as a divine duty. Ancient Palestine was
turned into killing fields for the Israelites, who raided all Philistinian
tribes burning and leveling their cities, slaughtering every living
soul without exception, and killing all their animals. The Old Testament
is full of descriptions of these Israeli massacres. The Greater Israel
dream was harshly shattered by the Persian and Roman armies, who defeated
the Israelites, imprisoned them as slaves, sent them into Diaspora,
and forbade them from returning to the Palestine.
For almost two thousand years
the majority of the Jews forgot about the ancient Greater Israel dream,
and concentrated on integrating themselves into the countries they were
living in. During the crusaders campaigns (1095-1291) European Christians,
while on their way to Palestine driven by false religious duty to cleanse
the Holy Land from “heathens” by the sword, started attacking
the Jewish communities because they had crucified Jesus. The Jews found
refuge only in the Arabic and Islamic countries. When European Christians
liberated Spain from Islamic rule, they forced Spanish Jews to convert
to Christianity or face death. Many converted out of fear for their
lives, some of whom started rediscovering their Jewish roots just recently,
previous American Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is just one
example. Others left Spain, and along with many European Jews, who were
persecuted by Christian Europeans, found refuge only in the Arab and
Islamic countries in North Africa and in the Middle East, where they
were welcomed, lived peacefully, and flourished. Later on these Jews
adopted Zionism and immigrated to the newly established state of Israel.
During the nineteenth century,
and after the discovery of oil in the Middle East, there was a fear
that the Ottoman Empire “the Sick Man” would regain its
power. The decision was made by the “World Power Elite”
to topple down the Ottoman Sultan, to divide the empire into smaller
weaker states ruled by complicit dictators, and to create the warring
state of Israel in the heart of the Arab World to pacify Arab nationalism
and to divert their attention away from the policies of their corrupt
dictators.
Zionism, then, was created
to revive the “Greater Israel” dream. Zionism used anti-Semitism
and the Holocaust to instill fear into the Jewish communities in an
attempt to drive them to immigrate to Palestine in order to “reclaim”
god’s Promised Land, and to establish a safe Jewish-only state
(Israel). History shows that Zionists were actually the worst enemies
of the Jews and had perpetrated genocidal crimes against them. During
early 1940’s there were plans to save European Jewry from the
war by evacuating them to either USA or to British colonies. In 1941
and 1942 Germany offered hundreds of thousands of European Jews transit
to Spain on the condition to be transported to USA or to British colonies,
but not to Palestine, in 1942 British Parliament had a plan to evacuate
500 thousand Jews from Europe to British colonies, and in 1943 Romania
offered 70 thousand Jewish refugees of the Transdniestria to leave at
the cost of $50 each. Zionist leaders had rejected all these rescue
operations and abandoned European Jewry to face their holocaust. (jewsagainstzionism.com)
Zionist leaders, such as
Yitzhak Greenbaum, Chairman of Rescue Committee of Jewish Agency, and
Stephen Wise, President of American Jewish Congress and leader of American
Zionists, had rejected every effort to save European Jewry from the
war, and refused to spend one cent on such rescue operations unless
the Jews are transferred to Palestine. The attitude of Zionist leaders
was represented by Greenbaum’s infamous statement: “One
cow in Palestine is worth more than all the Jews in Europe”.
Instead of saving the Jews Zionists aimed to inflame anti-Semitic feelings
to intensify Jewish persecution in the hope to encourage Jewish immigration
to Palestine. Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism, wrote in his diary
(part I, pp. 16): “It is essential that the suffering of Jews
become worse … this will assist in realization of our plans…
I shall induce anti-Semites to liquidate Jewish wealth… The anti-Semites
will assist us thereby in that they will strengthen the persecution
and oppression of Jews. The anti-Semites shall be our best friends.”
Zionists had paid money to thugs and sometimes to Jewish religious zealots
to attack Jewish communities, especially those in the Arab countries,
to vandalize their cemeteries, throw molotov bombs against synagogues,
and write hate graffiti on their walls, in order to pressure them to
immigrate to Palestine. Israelis are the biggest anti-Semites since
they persecute Palestinians, who are also Semitic nation.
Zionists propaganda portraying
the Zionist state of Israel as the safest haven for Jews is the greatest
hoax perpetrated against Jews, who were living peacefully in Arabic
and Islamic countries before the establishment of Israel. In fact Israeli
Jews have been facing the greatest physical danger while living in the
Zionist Israeli state since they met the Arabic welcoming favors with
the savage robbery of Palestine and the theft of important Islamic religious
mosques. Since the establishment of Zionist Israel in 1948 its Jewish
citizens have been living in a state of perpetual wars, and their every
new generation had been turned into war criminals through conscription
into the Israeli terrorist army.
Zionist leaders had offered to collaborate with strong Nazi Germany
at the beginning of the war by offering the services of Zionist terrorist
militias to strengthen German power in the Middle East, for the purpose
of receiving jurisdiction over Palestine. David Yisrael, in his book
“The Palestinian Problem in German Politics 1889-1945” (Israel:
1947); pp. 315-317, reports that the radical Zionist group “Fighters
for the Freedom of Israel”, better known as the terrorist “Stern”
gang, which later on became the Israeli army, had offered to cooperate
with the Nazis in order to maintain and strengthen German power in the
Middle East for the hope of receiving jurisdiction over Palestine to
establish the Israeli state.
Edwin Black, in his book
“The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between
the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine”, also talks about Zionist
collaboration with the Nazi. On August 7th, 1933, Black reports, Zionist
leaders concluded a secret and controversial agreement with the German
Third Reich to transfer 60 thousand Jews and $100 million to Jewish
Palestine.
The Arab/Israeli conflict
serves the interest of the industrial military complexes in the US,
UK and to a certain degree in France. They have sold weapons to both
sides. To preserve Israel in order to ensure profiting perpetual wars
they provided Israel with WMD and supported Israeli government politically
and financially. Successive American administrations have become the
major supporters of Israeli policies until recently, thanks to the influential
power of AIPAC (Israeli lobby), the Israeli interests had become American’s
primary interests. Both Republican and Democratic parties support Israel’s
actions and policies unconditionally. Criticizing Israel is considered
a political suicide as previous President Jimmy Carter put it.
With the unconditional support
of the American administration (the global bully and greatest Satan
as viewed by the Islamic World) Israeli government had received an open
hunting license to, one more time, turn Palestinian territories into
killing fields using cruel terrorist methods that surpassed those of
the Nazis’.
Worse than Nazism, that was
built on the racist social ideology of German supremacy (the superman),
Zionism is built on a racist divine ideology of god’s chosen people
in god’s promised land. Whereas it is acceptable to debate social
ideologies, debating or questioning divine ideologies is considered
sacrilege.
Worse than Nazism, for Zionism
to establish the pure Jewish-only Greater Israel it was necessary to
get rid of all other ethnic groups. This led to genocidal, ethnic cleansing
and complete evacuation of Palestinians from their home land. Massacres
and complete demolition of total Palestinian towns to terrorize Palestinians
into “voluntary” immigrations became the adopted policies
of Zionist Israel. Massacres such as Deir Yassin, Kufr Qassem, Qibya,
Qana, Sabra & Shatila, Jenin, Rafah, and Beit Hanoun are just few
among the hundreds of Israeli massacres against Palestinian civilians.
Walid Khalidi, a Palestinian professor, in his book “All that
Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied & Depopulated by Israel
in 1948” details 400 Palestinian villages that were totally destroyed
by Israeli army. Sharon Shai, an Israeli history professor at Tel Aviv
University, revealed that the records of the Association of Archeological
Survey Department, housed in Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem, show that
this Archeological Department had approved the razing of about one hundred
Palestinian villages within 1948 Israel after their inhabitants were
forcefully evacuated. After 1967 war the Department turned its attention
to razing Palestinian villages in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Golan
Heights. Now-a-days we have 40 Palestinian towns in the Naqab desert
that are unrecognized by Israel and do not receive any civil services
although their inhabitants pay taxes. These towns are considered illegal
by Israeli government, who has plans to demolish them all. Last Friday
March 9th. military bulldozers, under the protection of the Israeli
troops, had demolished the whole town of At-Taweel one home after the
other as a first step in demolishing the rest of the 40 towns.
Worse than the Nazis Israeli terrorist troops conduct daily raids, mostly
after midnights, on Palestinian cities and towns using tanks and armored
military carriers. They raid civilian homes, destroy furniture, loot
jewelry and money, terrorize family members, kidnap young men, and finally
demolish the home. Demolishing Palestinian civilian homes has become
a favorite pass time for the Israeli troops. During the last five years
and up to the first of this March the Israeli terrorist forces had demolished
645 public buildings and 72,437 civilian homes belonging to 29,314 extended
Palestinian families as reported by Palestinian Health Ministry. During
the last week of February 2007 alone the Israeli army had conducted
43 raids throughout the Palestinian cities in the West Bank. Major Palestinian
cities such as Bethlehem, Ramallah, Nablus, Tulkarem, Qalqellya, and
Hebron just to name few have been raided by Israeli tanks since the
beginning of this March. City infrastructures were destroyed, government
institutions were ransacked and burnt, media institutions were raided
and their equipments destroyed and confiscated, schools and hospitals
were raided and damaged, civilian homes were targeted by tanks, innocent
civilians including women and children were gunned down by snipers,
and many men – civilians, police and members of Palestinian Parliament-
were kidnapped. Fifty five men including six children from Nablus, twenty
five from Bethlehem, and about sixty from Hebron were kidnapped in one
night.
In Gaza Strip Israeli snipers
routinely target Palestinian children playing in the streets. Artillery
shells rain unexpectedly on Palestinian neighborhoods. American made
Israeli military fighter planes bomb the houses of resistance leaders,
alleged missile manufacturing and storage shops, and civilian vehicles
inflicting what the Israeli government calls “regrettable collateral
damage”.
Israeli government routinely
confiscates Palestinian land to build colonies on them and calls them
Israeli neighborhoods. This week Al-Birah Palestinian residents were
informed by Israeli military that hundreds of acres of their land east
of the city will be confiscated to build new Israeli colony. Military
bulldozers routinely raze farm lands in Gaza Strip and West Bank destroying
crops and carrying fertile soil and palm and olive trees to Israel.
Israel is building an imprisonment
wall (730 km long and 8 meters high with an average 50 meters buffer
zone) that annexes 47% of the West Bank, totally encircling and imprisoning
major Palestinian communities turning them into concentration camps
and isolating 361 thousand Palestinians, devastating Palestinian economy,
and evacuating 35 thousand Palestinians from their homes.
Israel is destroying Christian
and Islamic religious sites and is trying to claim many of as Jewish.
Many Islamic mosques and Christian churches had been destroyed and converted
to whore houses, nightclubs, restaurants, and even to animal barns.
Israel is destroying an important ancient Islamic cemetery (Ma’man
Allah) in Jerusalem in order to build so-called museum of tolerance
in its place (what an irony). Israeli archeologists have been digging
under the Islamic Al-Aqsa mosque since 1967 hoping to uncover their
alleged temple, but so far they succeeded only in uncovering more Islamic
structures and are trying to hide them. Yofal Baruch, a prominent Israeli
archeologist, revealed that Israeli government is destroying and burying
all the Islamic archeological sites they had uncovered around Al-Aqsa
mosque.
Israel had kidnapped more
than 10 thousand Palestinian men, women and children and thrown them
into dark dungeons and desert make-shift tent prisons. Newborn babies
were born to Palestinian mothers in prison. Prisoners are routinely
tortured using unimaginable cruel methods. Many of these methods were
exported to American prisons in Iraq such as Abu-Ghraib. It has been
revealed that Palestinian prisoners are being used as experimental subjects
for new dangerous pharmaceutical drugs. Amy Liftat, the pharmaceutical
head in the Israeli Health Ministry, had revealed in the Knesset that
there is an annual 15% increase in the amounts of “legal permits”
granted to conduct more drug experiments on Palestinian prisoners.
Besides the terror of the
Israeli Army Palestinian communities are also faced with Israeli colonizers’
terror. These colonizers have been given free hand to inflict all types
of terror they can think of against Palestinian farmers and villagers.
This terror included armed night raids and burning of farm houses, poisoning
Palestinian animals, burning and damaging Palestinian crops and uprooting
trees (especially ancient olive trees), releasing waste water into Palestinian
area as a form of germ warfare, terrorizing Palestinian children on
their way to schools, and many times shooting and killing Palestinian
civilians. All these terror tactics are perpetrated under the watchful
eyes and protection of the Israeli troops, who would shoot, beat to
death, and imprison any Palestinian, who dares to defend himself and
his property, accusing them of terrorizing settlers.
The Israeli terror against
the Palestinian people is numerous and requires volumes to enumerate.
These Israeli killing fields
are sanctioned and legalized by the American unconditional support to
Israel. The American administration and Congress had been hijacked by
the American Zionist Israeli lobby (AIPAC), who had convinced the Americans
that Israeli religious racist interests and American interests are the
same when in fact they are definitely not. I heard one American co-worker
concludes “there is something so similar between Israel and Al-Qaeda
terrorists, which is their certainty that God is on their side”
How is it that the American
administration, the self-claimed patron of freedom and democracy, cut
down on the vital services to its own tax-paying people, such as proper
education, health care especially to its own veterans, helping victims
of natural disasters such as Katrina victims, take care of the homeless
and poor, and take care of, at least, the American environment, in order
to provide terrorist Israel with financial, military, and political
support, and thus antagonizing at least half of the world population.
Have I known better, I, as
a Palestinian, would have asked the self-proclaimed righteous president
Bush to help free the ten thousand Palestinian prisoners (men, women
and children), who had been kidnapped by the Israeli army in the middle
of the night from their own homes, the same way he helped Israel attack
Lebanon last summer in an attempt to free two captured Israeli troops,
who were sent as sacrificing lambs into the Lebanese territories to
be captured by Hezbollah so that Israelis could use them as an excuse
to wage a war they had planned for few months in advanced as Israeli
Prime Minister Olmert had revealed recently. The Bush administration
had supplied Israel with laser guided bombs to demolish Lebanese infrastructures,
and cluster bombs to litter Lebanese fields. Later Bush coerced the
UN to send international troops into Southern Lebanon to allegedly protect
Israel from Hezbollah. I am sure Bush’s administration would not
offer the same help to free Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisons,
not at least sending UN troops to protect Palestinians from Israeli
terror.
How is it that killing civilians
by a terrorist group is a grave crime, while the annihilation of a whole
nation by (Israeli) government is considered a self-defense? Israel
is an occupying force, and thus is violating international laws and
many times its own laws. Israel had opposed several UN resolutions,
violated human rights, and thus has been condemned numerous times by
the international community. Yet with the protection of the American
administration the Israelis keep on killing Palestinians.
When will the hunting season
in the Israeli killing fields (Palestine) end?
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