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 schoolkids.
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?
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Wednesday 28 November 2012
Israeli Terror: The “Final Solution” to the Palestine Question
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