The Nakba is our Holocaust

By Khalid Amayreh • May 16th, 2008

“This morning we saw pictures of the Warsaw ghetto at Yad
Vashem and this evening we are going to the Ramallah
ghetto.”
(German Bishop Gregor Maria Franz Hanke during a visit to
Ramallah in March 2007)

Basking in their usual insolence and self-absorbedness,
Israeli leaders have been visibly irate over the
highlighted commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the
Palestinian Nakba, the destruction and ethnic cleansing of
the Palestinian community in 1948.

Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni has been quoted as saying that
there can be no Palestinian state unless and until the
victims learn to forget the word Nakba.

“The Palestinians will celebrate their statehood when they
erase the word Nakba from their lexicon,” said Livni, whose
father, Eitan, who died in 1991, played an active part in
effecting the genocidal campaign of murder and terror that
culminated in the establishment of Israel.

Last year, Livni had the temerity to say that the creation
of a Palestinian state on parts of the West Bank would have
to address Israel’s Arab citizens.

For those unacquainted with Zionist phraseology, the
venomous remarks were an obvious allusion to diabolic
Zionist designs to ultimately expel more than 1.5 million
Israeli Arab citizens whose presence in Palestine predated
the establishment of Israel by hundreds if not thousands of
years.

Similarly, an Israeli diplomat at the UN reportedly
complained on Thursday (15 May) that the mere use and
circulation of the word Nakba carried a whiff of
anti-Semitism, and that the word itself ought to be banned.

The obscene raving came after UN Secretary-General Ban Ki
Moon telephoned Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud
Abbas and expressed empathy with the Palestinian people in
honor of the Nakba anniversary.

You see the brutal ugliness of the Zionist mentality. They
want even to ban the use of words that remind humanity of
the greatest theft and act of rape in history, carried out
by a people who claim to adhere to the Torah, the Holy
Scripture that taught humanity, among other things, “thou
shall not steal.”

Obviously, Livni, who is now celebrating 60 years of theft
and ethnic cleansing, wants her victims, the Palestinians,
to forget the Nakba and relate to their own extirpation and
deportation from their native homeland, as a rosy event.

The evil-minded lady wants us to hail the massacres, the
terror, the ethnic cleansing and all the Nazi acts that led
to our own destruction, dispossession and dispersion. In
short, she wants us to adopt the Zionist narrative and
effectively become bona fide or kosher Zionists in order to
be accepted as “true peace partners.”

But that obviously cannot happen and never will. Indeed,
asking Palestinians to forget the Nakba is as outrageous as
asking Jews to forget the holocaust. The Nakba, after all,
was more or less the Palestinian holocaust. And it still
is.

How else can the native people of Palestine be expected to
relate to the violent seizure of their homeland by brutal
East European Zionists, eager to avenge the holocaust?

How else can any Palestinian, indeed, any honest human
being, relate to the genocidal destruction of Palestine
under the pretext that “Jews have got to live somewhere.”

As far as I know, true Judaism categorically forbids all
forms of theft. But Zionism, which often pays lip service
to Judaism and the Torah, has stolen an entire country from
its indigenous inhabitants.

And the process of stealing and ethnic cleansing is
continuing unabated.

It is true that Zionism has not yet used gas chambers to
liquidate its victims. But Israel is murdering Palestinians
in large numbers each and every day. Does a day pass
nowadays without a Palestinian child, man or woman being
murdered by these thugs and child-killers who call
themselves the “Israeli Defense Forces?”

Just look at how Israel, which the liar of the White House
George Bush was audacious enough to call “a light upon the
nations,” is reducing Palestinian towns and villages to
real concentration camps, very much like Nazis did at the
Ghetto Warsaw.

As diabolical as it was, the holocaust lasted only for a
few years. Yes, it was a few years of utter hell. We don’t
deny this fact despite cynical Zionist efforts to utilize
Jewish suffering to inflict comparable suffering on the
peoples of the Middle East.

But the Palestinian Nakba, although lesser in scope and
slower in motion, is still ongoing sixty years later.

Palestinians are still being killed, maimed, tormented,
humiliated and deported. Palestinian homes are still being
demolished; Palestinian farms and orchards are still being
bulldozed and decimated; Palestinians are still being
blockaded and starved in ways reminiscent of the holocaust.
And above all, Palestinian land is still being stolen and
raped by Zionism.

Today in every junior high school in America, students read
Anne Frank, while in every high school Elie Wiesel’s
‘Night’ is requisite reading. This is the man who says
brazenly that he readily identifies with Israeli crimes and
that he couldn’t bring himself to say bad things about
Israel.

The victims of the first Kristallnacht enjoy the world’s
approbation and sympathy, while at the same time having
succeeded in demonizing an entire people, for whom
Kristallnacht still remains a night without end.

Israel, as Spanish Philosopher Santiago Alba-Rico wrote two
years ago, may not be the most unjust and criminal State in
History, but it is the one that has been at it for a longer
period of time and with greater impunity.

And Palestinians may not be the most oppressed people in
the history of mankind. But they are undeniably the most
uninterruptedly tormented people in modern history.

As a people, Palestinians have more or less survived in
spite of history. But their very survival shouldn’t be
viewed as irreversible given the specter of genocide and
obliteration that is still hovering over their heads every
morning and every evening.

Let us not fool ourselves. The nearly daily statements and
remarks and warnings that we keep hearing from Israeli
rabbis, politicians and generals are a vivid reminder of
similar anti-Jewish statements made seven decades ago in
Germany by Nazi figures.

In fact, the Holocaust didn’t start with Auschwitz-Birkenau
in 1943 or even with Kristallnacht in 1938. It began much
earlier with a venomously racist discourse that is very
much similar to the present Israeli approach toward the
Palestinians.

Israel, which has been trying to convince the world,
particularly the West, that it must be perpetually
dominant, hegemonic and imperial in order to survive, is
slowly but surely trying to obliterate the Palestinian
people in the name of the holocaust and in the name of
“Never Again.”

Today, in the name of “Never Again,” Israel is transforming
Palestinian towns and villages into concentration camps,
where the lives of millions of hopeless and helpless
citizens are at the mercy of the moods and whims of Israeli
occupation soldiers and officers, very much like the lives
of many Jews were once at the mercy of the moods and whims
of the Gestapo, SS and the Wehrmacht.

Today, the Palestinians are a people without human rights
and dignity, without civil rights, without a known fate,
and virtually without a future because Zionist Jews have
decided to fulfill Jewish nationalism in way similar to the
manner in which German supremacists wanted to exercise
their nationalism nearly seven decades ago.

And as Jews, Russians and other Europeans paid a dear price
for the Nazi folly, Palestinians and other peoples of the
Middle East have paid and continue to pay a dear price for
Zionist madness and fascism.

But just as the Germans eventually paid even a dearer price
for their own madness, Zionist Jews will undoubtedly will
pay a colossal price sooner or later for their wanton
criminality and arrogance. This is if they continue to
allow themselves to be duped by the big lie called Zionism.

Eventually, the dynamics and forces that caused the
downfall of Nazism and Stalinism will also bring about the
downfall of Zionism. It may take some time, but it will
happen.

(end)

Canada’s Ignorant Prime Minister

By Khalid Amayreh • May 13th, 2008

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper recently made
outrageously ignorant comments on the plight of the
Palestinian people.

He claimed that criticism of and opposition to the Israeli
policies of ethnic cleansing and apartheid against the
Palestinian people amounted to “anti-Semitism.”

“Unfortunately, Israel at 60 remains a country under threat
- threatened by those groups and regimes who deny to this
day its right to exist,” Harper said in a Toronto
celebration marking the inauspicious anniversary of
Israel’s birth.

“And why? Look beyond the thinly veiled rationalizations;
because they hate Israel, just as they hate the Jewish
people.”

Obviously, Harper was trying to curry favor with Jews by
appearing more Israeli and more Zionist than many Israelis
themselves are.

But in truth, he is harming Jews, because it is not a sign
of true friendship to encourage one’s friends to walk along
the path of evil as Israel has manifestly been doing for
decades.

In fact, Israel and Jews in general need sincere friends
who should tell them that the pornographic oppression being
meted out to the Palestinians is wrong and ought to stop
immediately.

Today, Israel is intoxicated by its arrogance of power and
the predominance of her supporters in North America,
especially in the US. And as is the case with drunken
people whose true friends don’t let them drive, lest they
kill themselves and cause harm to others, Israel’s friends
should likewise advise her to get sober and abandon her
criminal discourse.

Harper’s equation of opposition to Israel’s policies its
actions with anti-Semitism and “hatred of Jews” would be as
outrageous as claiming that opposition to the Third Reich
and its crimes and genocidal designs emanated from
intrinsic hostility to the German people and the ‘Aryan’
race.

Well, doesn’t Harper realize that there are thousands of
honest and conscientious Jews who reject Zionism and its
virulent brat, Israel?

Harper is actually more than just ignorant. He seems
virulently dishonest as well.

Otherwise, who in his or her right mind would dismiss the
ghastly Israeli crimes against the peoples of the Middle
East as “thinly veiled rationalizations?”

In 1948, Israel acted and behaved like Nazi Germany when it
destroyed more than 460 Palestinian towns and villages and
expelled more than 700,000 Palestinian Muslims and
Christians to the four winds on no grounds other than the
fact that the victims were not Jews. Is that a thinly
veiled rationalization?

Israel, this hateful thiefdom, massacred them, destroyed
their homes, confiscated their farms and property, stole
their valuables before claiming that the refugees left
their homes voluntarily.

Moreover, Zionist terrorists, acting on instructions from
the Zionist leadership, poisoned water wells in the
depopulated villages in order to prevent the refugees from
returning. And those who did try to return, even to
retrieve some of their movable property, like my three
uncles tried to do, were summarily executed in the fields.

Perhaps Mr. Harper should have spoken with some of the
refugees, or their descendants, some of whom live in
Canada, before he made his ignorant remarks.

Harper should understand, if he is really willing to listen
and is interested in knowing the truth, that the strife in
Palestine is not about religion or about anti-Semitism.
After all, both the Israelites and the Palestinians are
Semitic people.

The conflict in Palestine is about theft, dispossession,
colonialism, occupation, racism, ethnic cleansing,
oppression and persecution.

It is about killing people because they don’t belong to the
right tribe, it is about demolishing homes because the
proprietors don’t belong to the “right race,” it is about
murder, rape and oppression carried out for the purpose of
cleansing the land of the natives, the inferiors, the
goyim, the U”-ntermensch, the children of the lesser
God….the aboriginals!!

It is about the arrogation of Palestine by racist Zionism
through organized mass murder and mass terror, and the
displacement and deportation of the indigenous Palestinian
inhabitants; it is about the attempted physical
annihilation of an entire people, the people of Palestine.

Are these acts, Mr. Prime Minister, compatible with the
moral ideals that you in Canada claim to uphold?

And you claim that Israel is under threat? Shouldn’t you
have calculated your words before uttering them?

How could a state that possesses more than 300 nuclear
weapons and has one of the most powerful armies in the
world, and in addition to that, tightly controls the
politics and policies of the only superpower in the world,
be under threat?

Are you fornicating with words, Mr. Harper?

The truth of the matter is that Israel continues to
threaten, bully and attack its subjects and neighbors and
their citizens.

In the West Bank, Israel has effectively morphed
Palestinian population centers into modern-day detention
camps, thanks to this gigantic wall of shame built on
stolen land, coupled with hundreds of hateful roadblocks
manned by Gestapo-like trigger-happy Israeli soldiers who
draw satisfaction from tormenting and humiliating their
helpless Palestinian victims.

And in Gaza, the country which considers itself a “light
upon the nations” is effectively carrying out a slow-motion
genocide against 1.5 million thoroughly starved Gazans
whose only crime is their refusal to elect as their leaders
Israel’s quislings and collaborators.

It is really sad and lamentable that while Israel is
indulging in these shameful acts against a people that is
as helpless as European Jewry was under Nazism, morally
desensitized western leaders, obviously including yourself,
Mr. Prime Minister, are cheerleading these crimes against
humanity, committed callously by the children,
grandchildren and great grandchildren of the holocaust.

Canada, a country that used to pride itself on its
commitment to the rule of international law and regard for
human rights and dignity, should stop this blind fanatical
and unrestricted support for Israel and instead adopt a
balanced approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Canada should tell Israel that killing Palestinian
civilians in Gaza, knowingly and deliberately, is wrong;
that starving and tormenting and killing innocent people in
order to weaken Hamas is wrong; that withholding
critically-needed fuel and electricity supplies, let alone
food and other consumer products, amounts to a crime
against humanity.

Unfortunately, instead of doing what is morally right,
Canada is cheering Israel’s criminality and evil behavior,
very much like the Führer of the White House who called
Israel’s certified war criminals “men of peace,” ignoring
the fact that they have tons of innocent blood on their
evil hands.

Well, birds of a feather flock together. (end)

Ce terrorisme qui a engendré Israël

par Khalid Amayreh, 8 mai 2008

(traduit de l’anglais par Marcel Charbonnier)

« Nous avons commis des exactions dignes des nazis »

Aharon Zisling, premier ministre israélien de l’Agriculture

« Aucun doute n’est possible : de nombreuses atrocités de
nature sexuelle ont été perpétrées par les agresseurs
juifs. Beaucoup de jeunes filles arabes ont été violées,
puis égorgées. Des femmes âgée ont été, par ailleurs,
molestées. »

Le Général Richard Catling, vice-inspecteur de l’armée
britannique, après avoir interrogé plusieurs survivantes
(in The Palestinian Catastrophe, par Michael Palumbo,
1987).

Tandis que le maléfique Etat d’Israël célèbre ses soixante
ans de nettoyage ethnique et d’atrocités contre les
indigènes palestiniens, beaucoup de gens, dans le monde
entier, en particulier dans les jeunes générations, ne
seront pas totalement informés de la manière dont Israël a
vu le jour. De même, les jeunes générations sionistes, qui
ne cessent de qualifier leurs victimes palestiniennes de «
terroristes » devraient avoir une idée plus claire du passé
manifestement criminel d’Israël, que les livres de classe
sionistes glorifient et chantent les louanges sans
vergogne.

Avant l’Etat « juif », trois organisations terroristes
juives oeuvraient en Palestine, essentiellement contre les
civils palestiniens et contre des responsables ciblés du
mandat britannique. Ces trois mouvements terroristes
étaient les suivants : la Haganah, le Zvei Leumi (ou
Irgoun), et le Gang Stern. La Haganah (mot hébreu
signifiant « la défense ») disposait d’une armée de terre
de 160 000 hommes bien formés et bien armés, et d’une unité
appelée Palmach, comptant plus de 6000 terroristes.
L’Irgoun incluait au minimum 5 000 terroristes, tandis que
le Gang Stern comportant de 200 à 300 terroristes
impitoyables.

Ce qui suit est simplement une liste de quelques-uns des
exemples de terrorisme sioniste avant la création de l’Etat
sioniste, en 1948 : cette liste ne comporte pas les
massacres de grande ampleur comme Deir Yassin, Dawaymeh,
Tantura et bien d’autres encore.

1937-1939

Durant cette période, les terroristes sionistes
effectuèrent une série d’attentats terroristes contre des
autobus palestiniens, causant la mort de 24 personnes et 25
blessés.

1939

La Haganah a fait sauter le pipeline acheminant le pétrole
irakien près de Haifa (Palestine). Moshe Dayan était un des
participants à cette opération. La même technique fut
utilisée, en 1947, au minimum à quatre reprises.

1940

Le 6 novembre 1940, des terroristes sionistes, du Gang
Stern, assassinèrent le ministre plénipotentiaire
britannique en résidence au Moyen-Orient, Lord Moyne, au
Cauire.

1940

Le 25 novembre, des terroristes juifs firent sauter le
navire britannique S.S. Patria dans le port de Haifa, tuant
268 immigrants illégaux juifs. L’explosion, fomentée par
l’organisation terroriste Haganah, visait initialement à
empêcher ce navire de mettre les voiles. Toutefois, il
semble que les terroristes aient méjugé de la quantité
d’explosifs nécessaires pour mettre le bâtiment hors d’état
de naviguer. D’autres sources ont indiqué qu’il ne
s’agissait absolument pas d’une erreur de calcul, mais d’un
massacre de masse de juifs délibéré, par des juifs, visant
à attirer la sympathie et d’influencer la politique
d’immigration britannique en Palestine.

1946

Des terroristes sionistes font sauter l’Hôtel King David à
Jérusalem, qui abritait l’administration civile du
gouvernement de la Palestine, tuant et blessant plus de
deux-cent personnes. Le gang Irgoun revendiqua la
responsabilité de ce crime, mais des preuves ultérieures
indiquèrent que tant la Haganah que l’Agence juive étaient
impliquées dans cet horrible attentat.

1946

Le 1er octobre, l’ambassade britannique à Rome est
gravement endommagée par un attentat à la bombe, que
l’Irgoun revendique..

1947

En juin 1947, un colis piégé adressé au ministère
britannique de la Guerre explose dans un centre de tri
postal de Londres, blessant deux personnes. Il fut attribué
à l’Irgoun ou au Gang Stern (Sunday Times, 24 septembre
1972, p. 8).

1947

En décembre de cette même année, six Palestiniens sont tués
et 30 blessés, des bombes ayant été lancées depuis des
camions juifs contre des maisons arabes à Haïfa ; 12
Palestiniens furent tués et un Palestinien fut blessé, lors
d’une attaque sioniste armée contre un village arabe
côtier, près de Haïfa.

1947

Le 13 décembre, des terroristes sionistes, sans doute
membres de l’Irgoun Zvei Leumi, assassinent 18 civils
palestiniens et en blessent 60 autres à Jérusalem, Jaffa et
Lod. A Jérusalem, des bombes sont lancées contre un marché
arabe, près de la Porte de Damas ; à Jaffa, des bombes sont
lancées à l’intérieur d’un café arabe, tandis que, dans un
village arabe proche de Lod, 12 Arabes sont assassinés lors
d’une attaque au mortier et à l’arme automatique.

1947

Le 9 décembre, les terroristes de la Haganah attaquent un
village arabe près de Safad, faisant exploser deux maisons,
dans les décombres desquelles on releva les corps de dix
Arabes, dont cinq enfants. La Haganah a reconnu sa
responsabilité dans cette attaque.

1947

Le 29 décembre, deux policiers britanniques et 11
Palestiniens sont tués, et 32 autres, blessés, près de la
Porte de Damas, à Jérusalem, les terroristes de l’Irgoun
ayant lancé une bombe depuis un taxi.

1948

Le 1er janvier, des terroristes de la Haganah attaquent un
village sur les pentes du Mont Carmel, tuant 17 civils
palestiniens, et en en blessant 37 autres.

1948

Le 4 janvier, des terroristes de la Haganah portant des
uniformes de l’armée britannique pénètrent au centre de
Jaffa et font sauter le Sérail, qui était utilisé comme
quartier général du Comité National Arabe, tuant plus de
quarante personnes et faisant quatre-vingt-dix-huit
blessés.

1948

Le 5 janvier, l’Hôtel Sémiramis de Jérusalem (dont le
propriétaire était un Arabe) explose, entraînant la mort de
20 civils, dont le Vicomte De Tapia, Consul d’Espagne. La
Haganah reconnaît sa responsabilité dans cette atrocité.

1948

Le 7, 17 civils arabes sont tués par l’explosion d’une
bombe à la Porte de Jaffa, à Jérusalem, dont trois tandis
qu’ils essayaient de s’échapper. D’autres victimes, dont un
officier britannique, près d’Hébron, ont été signalées,
dans différentes régions de la Palestine.

1948

Le 16 janvier, des terroristes juifs font sauter trois
immeubles arabes, tuant huit enfants, dont les âges
s’échelonnent de 18 mois à 12 ans.

13.12.1947 – 10.02.1948

Sept attentats à la bombe perpétrés par les terroristes
juifs se produisent, les cibles étant des civils arabes
innocents, dans des cafés et sur des marchés, tuant 138
personnes et en blessant 271. Durant cette période ont lieu
9 attaques contre des autobus arabes. De plus, des
terroristes juifs attaquent des trains de voyageurs, au
moins à quatre reprises, tuant 93 personnes et en blessant
161.

1948

15 février ; les terroristes de la Haganah attaquent un
village arabe près de Safad, et font exploser plusieurs
maisons, tuant 11 civils, dont quatre enfants.

1948

3 mars. L’immeuble Salam, à Haifa (c’est un immeuble
d’habitation de sept étages, avec des commerces au
rez-de-chaussée), appartenant à un Arabe, est gravement
endommagé par des terroristes juifs qui l’ont percuté avec
un camion de l’armée, chargé de 400 kilos d’explosifs,
tuant 11 civils arabes et 3 Américains. Le Gang Stern
revendique l’attentat.

1948

22 mars. Des terroristes juifs du Gang Stern font exploser
un immeuble de la rue d’Irak, à Haïfa, tuant 17 personnes
et faisant une centaine de blessés. Quatre membres du Gang
Stern avaient garé deux camions bourrés d’explosifs devant
l’entrée.

1948

31 mars. Des terroristes juifs minent le train express Le
Caire-Haïfa, tuant quarante personnes et en blessant
soixante.

1948

16 avril. Des terroristes juifs attaquent un ancien camp de
l’armée britannique à Tel Litvinsky, tuant 90 Palestiniens.

1948

19 avril. Quatorze civils palestiniens sont tués, à
Tibériade, dans une maison que font sauter à l’explosif des
terroristes sionistes.

1948

11 mai. Une lettre piégée adressée à Evelyn Baker, ancien
commandant en chef en Palestine, est découverte juste à
temps par son épouse.

25.04.1948 – 13.05.1948

A la suite d’attaques armées, les terroristes de l’Irgoun
et de la Haganah procèdent à un pillage systématique de
Jaffa. Ils pillent et emportent tout ce qu’ils peuvent,
détruisant tout ce qu’ils ne peuvent déménager.

1948

17 septembre. Le comte Folke Bernadotte, médiateur des
Nations-Unies en Palestine, est assassiné par des membres
du groupe Stern dans le secteur de Jérusalem contrôlé par
les sionistes. L’aide de camp de Bernadotte, le colonel
Sérot, est également assassiné par les terroristes juifs.

1948

En novembre, les villages arabes chrétiens d’Igrit et Birim
sont attaqués et détruits, beaucoup de civils sans défense
étant tués et blessés, dont des femmes et des enfants. Tous
les habitants arabes chrétiens sont chassés de chez eux
manu militari. L’Etat d’Israël persiste à refuser de les
autoriser à retourner dans leurs villages, en dépit de
plusieurs jugements de la cour suprême allant dans ce sens.

1948-1949

Les pires actes de terreur juive se sont produit lorsque
des terroristes juifs, appelés aujourd’hui Forces
Israéliennes de Défense, déracinèrent entre 700 et 800 000
Palestiniens de leur patrie ancestrale, la Palestine.
Depuis lors, les réfugiés se sont vu dénier leur droit à
retourner chez eux. Après cette expulsion de la population,
l’armée des terroristes sionistes rasa au sol des centaines
de villes, villages et hameaux arabes, dont ils
éradiquèrent jusqu’aux fondations. Enfin, des villages
israéliens, des kibboutz et des villes furent construits
sur leurs gravats, après nivellement au bulldozer.

The Terror that begot Israel

08/05/2008 - By Khalid Amayreh

“We committed Nazi acts.” Aharon Zisling, Israel’s first
Agriculture Minister

“There is no doubt that many sexual atrocities were
committed by the attacking Jews. Many young (Arab) girls
were raped and later slaughtered. Old women were also
molested.” General Richard Catling, British Army Assistant
Inspector after interrogating several female survivors (The
Palestinian Catastrophe, Michael Palumbo, 1987)

As the evil state of Israel is celebrating sixty years of
ethnic cleansing and atrocities against the native
Palestinians, many people around the world, especially
young generations, will not be fully aware of the manner in
which Israel came into existence. Similarly, the younger
Zionist generations who don’t stop calling their
Palestinian victims “terrorists” should have a clearer idea
about Israel’s manifestly criminal past which Zionist
school textbooks shamelessly glamorize and glorify

Prior to “Jewish” statehood, three main Jewish terror
organizations operated in Palestine, primarily against
Palestinian civilians and British mandate targets. The
three were: The Haganah, the Zvei Leumi or Irgun and the
Stern Gang. The Haganah (Defence) had a field army of up to
160,000 well-trained and well-armed men and a unit called
the Palmach, with more than 6,000 terrorists. The Irgun
included as many as 5,000 terrorists, while the Stern Gang
included 200-300 dangerous terrorists.

The following are merely some examples of Zionist terrorism
prior to the creation of the Zionist state in 1948: The
list doesn’t include the bigger massacres such as Dir
Yasin, Dawaymeh, Tantura and others.

1937-1939

During this period, Zionist terrorists carried out a series
of terror attacks against Palestinian buses resulting in
the death of 24 persons and the wounding of 25 others.

1939

Haganah blew up the Iraqi oil pipeline near
Haifa/Palestine. Moshe Dayan was one of the participants in
this act. The technique was used in 1947 at least four
times.

1940

On 6 November, 1940 , Zionist terrorists of the Stern Gang
assassinated the British Minister resident in the Middle
East , Lord Moyne, in Cairo .

1940

On 25 November, S.S. Patria was blown up by Jewish
terrorists in Haifa harbour, killing 268 illegal Jewish
immigrants. The explosion, carried out by the Haganah
terrorist group, was only meant to prevent the ship from
sailing. However, it seemed that the terrorists had
miscalculated the amount of explosives needed to disable
the vessel. Other sources reported that this was no
miscalculation and was a deliberate mass murder of Jews by
Jews aimed at drawing sympathy and influencing British
immigration policy to Palestine .

1946

Zionist terrorists blew up the King David Hotel in
Jerusalem, which housed the civilian administration of the
government of Palestine, killing and injuring more than 200
persons. The Irgun gang claimed responsibility for this
criminal act, but subsequent evidence indicated that both
the Haganah and the Jewish Agency were involved.

1946

On 1 October, the British Embassy in Rome was badly damaged
by a bomb explosion for which Irgun claimed responsibility.

1947

In June 1947, a postal bomb addressed to the British war
office exploded in the post office sorting room in London,
injuring 2 persons. It was attributed to Irgun or Stern
Gangs (The Sunday Times, Sept. 24, 1972), p. 8.

1947

In December 1947, six Palestinians were killed and 30
wounded when bombs were thrown from Jewish trucks at Arab
houses in Haifa; 12 Palestinians were killed and another
injured in an attack by armed Zionists at an Arab coastal
village near Haifa.

1947

On 13 December 1947 , Zionist terrorists believed to be
members of Irgun Zevi Leumi murdered 18 Palestinian
civilians and wounded 60 others in Jerusalem , Jaffa and
Lud areas. In Jerusalem , bombs were thrown in an Arab
market-place near the Damascus Gate; in Jaffa bombs were
thrown into an Arab café; and in the Arab village near Lud,
12 Arabs were killed in an attack with mortars and
automatic weapons.

1947

On 9 December, Haganah terrorists attacked an Arab village
near Safad, blowing up two houses, in the ruins of which
were found the bodies of 10 Arabs, including 5 children.
Haganah admitted responsibility for the attack.

1947

On 29 December, two British constables and 11 Palestinians
were killed and 32 others were injured at the Damascus Gate
in Jerusalem when Irgun terrorists threw a bomb from a
taxi.

1948

On 1 January, Haganah terrorists attacked a village on the
slope of Mount Carmel , killing 17 Palestinian civilians
and wounding 33 others.

1948

On 4 January, Haganah terrorists wearing British Army
uniforms penetrated into the centre of Jaffa and blew up
the Sarai, which was used as headquarters of the Arab
National Committee, killing more than 40 persons and
wounding 98 others.

1948

On 5 January, the Arab-owned Semiramis Hotel in Jerusalem
was blown up, killing 20 civilians, among them Viscount De
Tapia, the Spanish Consul. Haganah admitted responsibility
for this outrage.

1948

On 7 January , seventeen Arab civilians were killed by a
bomb at the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem , 3 of them while
trying to escape. Further casualties, including the murder
of a British officer near Hebron, were reported from
different parts of the country. 1948

On 16 January, Jewish terrorists blew up three Arab
buildings, killing 8 children between the age of 18 months
and 12 years.

December 13, 1947- February 10, 1948

Seven bombing attacks by Jewish terrorists took place and
the targets were innocent Arab civilians in cafés and
markets, killing 138 and wounding 271 others. During this
period, there were 9 attacks on Arab buses. Moreover,
Jewish terrorists attacked passenger trains on at least
four occasions, killing 93 persons and wounding 161 others.

1948

On 15 February , Haganah terrorists attacked an Arab
village near Safad and blew up several houses, killing 11
civilians, including four children.

1948

On 3 March, heavy damage was done to the Arab-owned Salam
building in Haifa (a seven-story block of flats and shops)
by Jewish terrorists who drove an army truck to the
building and escaped before detonation of 400 pounds of
explosives, killing 11 Arab civilians and 3 Americans. The
Stern Gang claimed responsibility.

1948

On 22 March, Jewish terrorists from the Stern Gang blew up
a housing block in Iraq Street in Haifa , killing 17 and
injuring 100 others. Four members of the Stern Gang drove
two truckloads of explosives into the street and abandoned
the vehicles before the explosives went off.

1948

On 31 March, Jewish terrorists mined the Cairo-Haifa
Express, killing 40 people and wounding 60 others.

1948

On 16 April, Jewish terrorists attacked the former British
army camp at Tel Litvvinsky, killing 90 Palestinians.

1948

On 19 April, fourteen Palestinian civilians were killed in
a house in Tiberias, which was blown up by Zionist
terrorists.

1948

On 11 May, a letter bomb addressed to Evelyn Baker, former
commanding officer in Palestine , was detected in the nick
of time by his wife.

April 25, 1948- May 13, 1948

Wholesale looting of Jaffa was carried out following armed
attacks by Irgun and Haganah terrorists. They plundered and
carried away everything they could, destroying what they
could not take with them.

1948

On 17 September, Count Folke Berndadotte, UN Mediator in
Palestine was assassinated by members of the Stern Gang in
the Zionist-controlled sector of Jerusalem . Bernadotte’s
aide Col. Serot was also killed and murdered by Jewish
terrorists.

1948

In November, the Christian Arab villages of Igrit and Birim
were attacked and destroyed, killing and injuring many
unarmed civilians, including women and children. All the
Christian Arab inhabitants were forcibly expelled from
their homes. The State of Israel still refuses to allow
them to return to their villages despite several court
orders.

1948-1949

The greatest acts of Jewish terror took place when Jewish
terrorists, now called Israeli Defence Forces (IDF),
uprooted 700,000-800,000 Palestinians from their ancestral
homeland in Palestine . Since then the refugees have
consistently been denied the right to return home. After
the expulsion, the Zionist terrorist army razed to the
ground hundreds of Arab towns, villages and hamlets and
obliterated their remains. Eventually, Israeli villages,
Kibbutzim and towns were built on the remaining rubble.

Signs of rapprochement

Leaders within Fatah are waking up to the dangers of the
present course charted by Abbas, writes Khaled Amayreh in
the West Bank

With the US and Israel telling Palestinian Authority (PA) President
Mahmoud Abbas that keeping away from Hamas is a sine qua non for the
continuation of the “peace process,” many in Fatah are now realising
that Israel and its US guardian-ally are only utilising Palestinian
national disunity to further weaken the Palestinian negotiating
position.

Observers in the occupied Palestinian territories cite a number of
recent signs indicating that a certain thaw in the Hamas-Fatah
showdown is taking place.

Last week, a debate took place between Fakhri Hammad, head of the
Hamas-affiliated Gaza-based Al-Aqsa satellite television, and Basem
Abu Sumayya, head of the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Radio and
Television Corporation. The encounter, the first since Hamas ousted
Fatah forces from Gaza last year, occurred during a three-day
conference on the role of Palestinian media in bolstering tension
between Fatah and Hamas.

Scores of journalists and media operatives meeting in the West Bank
town of Jericho linked up via video- conference with their colleagues
in Gaza to discuss the “dismal state of affairs facing the
Palestinian media”. Abu Sumayya and Hammad were questioned on the
role of their respective TV stations, especially with regard to
vilification and incitement by each side against the other.

Hammad vowed to put an end to all forms of incitement against Fatah
and the PA, provided reciprocity from the Fatah side. For his part,
Abu Sumayya said he was “willing and ready to open the doors of our
radio and television to the representatives of Hamas”. He added, “we
are cutting back on some of the vilifying epithets we use in
reference to Hamas.”

Many participants hoped the encounter, which was more polite than
cordial, would help bring some sanity into the generally convulsive
discourse championed by both Hamas and Fatah with regard to each
other. The Jericho-Gaza conference, sponsored by the Ramallah- based
independent AMIN Media Network, urged both the Fatah government in
the West Bank and the Hamas government in Gaza to refrain from
incitement and allow “all Palestinian media” to operate freely.

The conference also called for the formation of two committees made
up of professional journalists, one in the West Bank and the other in
Gaza, which would meet with political leaders at the highest level to
urge them to guarantee press freedoms, release detained journalists
and refrain from detaining media operatives for voicing
non-conformist views.

Other recommendations included an immediate cessation of epithets
such as calling the Gaza government “coup-mongers” or “Hamas’s
gangs”, and calling the PA regime in Ramallah “American stooges”.

A few days earlier, Hamas authorities in Gaza allowed one of the
leading Palestinian newspapers, Al-Ayyam, to resume publication and
distribution in the Strip. The paper was banned several months ago
following the publication of articles and reports that Hamas
officials deemed far beyond the pale of what is acceptable.

Hamas officials in Gaza told Al-Ahram Weekly that they hoped that
Ramallah would reciprocate by allowing Al- Aqsa TV correspondents to
operate unhindered, as well as allowing the redistribution of the
Hamas-affiliated daily newspaper, Falastin, and the weekly Al-Risala
in the West Bank.

Efforts to encourage good will and foster a positive atmosphere are
likely to continue as both Hamas and Fatah realise that the party
that appears to be hindering national unity will lose respect in the
eyes of the Palestinian masses. A recent opinion poll showed that a
growing number of Palestinians are shunning both Fatah and Hamas due
to their enduring schism. Khalil Shekaki, who conducted the poll,
says the trend is likely to endure if meaningful steps are not taken
to end the crisis.

Apart from the public mood, there are certain political calculations
prompting both sides to reconsider their entrenched positions. Many
influential people within Fatah are becoming convinced that any
prospective peace deal with Israel would be far below Palestinian
expectations — let alone aspirations — absent rapprochement between
Fatah and Hamas.

Firas Yaghi is the former executive director of the Palestinian
Elections Committee. He argues that a genuine peace process with
Israel hinges on internal Palestinian harmony. “Without national
unity, we can’t reach peace with Israel, and our people will not be
able to attain their goals, and we will eventually be overwhelmed by
national melancholy,” he said.

However, it is unlikely that US President Bush and Israeli Prime
Minister Olmert — the latter eager to display toughness in talks
with the Palestinians in order to divert attention from his latest
corruption scandal that may signal an early end to his political
career — will tolerate the restoration of Palestinian national
unity. The reason is clear. Solid rapprochement between Fatah and
Hamas would strengthen the Palestinian negotiation position and make
it harder for Israel and the US to blackmail and bully Abbas, a man
of weaker calibre compared to late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

With Hamas sitting next to the Fatah driver, or even in the back
seat, many Palestinians believe that Palestinian negotiators would be
in a better position to wrest from Israel most if not all of their
demanded rights covered by UN resolutions 242 and 338. This includes
the total Israeli withdrawal from the territories occupied in 1967,
including all of East Jerusalem, as well as a just settlement for
Palestinian refugees pursuant UN Resolution 194.

Abbas, at least ostensibly, doesn’t object to these “constants”.
However, his commitment to them appears significantly less than that
of Hamas and even the vast bulk of Fatah leaders, especially at the
grassroots and intermediate levels. Hence, US-Israeli insistence on
keeping the Hamas- Fatah rift intact, at least as long as it takes to
get Abbas to accept a final peace settlement in line with Israeli-US
preferences, namely a deformed and truncated entity, without East
Jerusalem, without territorial contiguity, and certainly without
honouring the right of return of refugees.

Israel and the US, rightly or wrongly, believe that the Hamas factor,
despite all efforts to neutralise it, is preventing Abbas from
accepting such a settlement. This is likely what Israeli President
Shimon Peres meant when he claimed this week that, “had it not been
for Hamas, the Palestinians would have had an independent state a
long time ago.”

Most Palestinians scoff at such remarks given the fact that Israeli
settlement expansion, which is continuing unabated despite peace
talks and constant European protest, has been and continues to be the
central factor impeding the creation of a viable Palestinian state.

Now, with peace talks going nowhere despite dubious leaks suggesting
progress, some Fatah leaders who follow the so-called “Arafat line”
are warning that Fatah stands to lose both the battle of peace with
Israel and its standing with the Palestinian public. Hence, the
willingness of many Fatah leaders to seek rapprochement with Hamas
before it is too late.

One of the main expressions of current anxieties among Fatah leaders
is their shunning of Abbas in favour of Marwan Barghouti, the
imprisoned Fatah leader who reportedly favours speedy reconciliation
with Hamas. This trend, reliable Fatah sources argue, is likely to
grow, especially if current talks with Israel prove fruitless as
expected.

Israel celebrating evil

Comment by Khalid Amayreh

8 May, 2008

Normal nations, like normal people, don’t celebrate their days of
infamy. In fact, they struggle to forget them. Some countries with
troubled past try hard to deal with their shameful legacies, often by
openly acknowledging their sins and apologizing to their victims and
to their victims’ descendants.

However, in Israel, which encapsulates evil and racism, ethnic
cleansing is celebrated with utmost pride as a consummate national
achievement and a glorious success story. “This is our manifest
destiny,” many Zionists would ostentatiously argue, with glee and
deep satisfaction apparent in the tone of their voices.

Sixty years ago today, one of the greatest thefts in history took
place in Palestine: when armed Zionist gangs launched a massive
campaign of murder and terror against the native Palestinians.

The marauding vandals of Zionism murdered thousands of innocent
people, destroyed thousands of homes, bulldozed hundreds of villages,
and expelled the bulk of the Palestinian people from their ancestral
motherland.

This campaign of genocidal ethnic cleansing, as Israeli historian and
political analyst Ilan Pappe argued in his recent book “The Ethnic
Cleansing of Palestine,” was not an unintended consequence or
fortuitous occurrence, or even a “miracle,” as Israel’s first
president, Chairman Weizmann, proclaimed; it was actually the result
of long and meticulous planning.

Now, sixty years later, the victims, these suffering and
long-tormented Palestinian refugees, are still waiting to be
repatriated and compensated for their seemingly unending nightmare.

Predictably, Zionism called the barbarian drive of ethnic cleansing
“war of independence” and “national fulfillment”.

Zionism, a Godless and manifestly racist ideology to which many Jews
have converted rather blindly, viewed the dispossession of the
Palestinian community as a proper response to Nazism and the
holocaust.

For their part, Europe in particular and the West in general saw the
creation of Israel in Palestine as a long-awaited opportunity to
dispose of the remaining European Jewry and also to atone for
centuries of anti-Semitism, culminating in the holocaust.

As to the fate of the Palestinians, whose homeland was stolen from
them in order to create a state for the victims of European racism,
it was of none of anyone’s concern.

Bertrand Russell illustrated this inhumanity in a message he sent to
the International Conference of Parliamentarians in Cairo, in
February 1970.

“The tragedy of the people of Palestine,” he wrote, “is that their
country was given by a foreign power to another people for the
creation of a new state. The result was that many hundreds of
thousands of innocent people were made permanently homeless. With
every new conflict their number increased.”

Russell then asked: “How much longer is the world willing to endure
this spectacle of wanton cruelty? It is abundantly clear that the
refugees have every right to the homeland from which they were
driven, and the denial of this right is at the heart of the
continuing conflict. No people anywhere in the world would accept
being expelled en masse from their country. How can anyone require
the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else
would tolerate?”

Today, Israel is celebrating sixty years of ethnic cleansing, home
demolitions, land seizure, racism, murder and terror which continue
to haunt those courageous Palestinians who are still clinging to
their homeland despite the high price they pay, mostly in their own
blood and the blood of their innocent children.

True, Palestinian resilience and tenacity have almost transcended
reality in the face of the sheer evilness of Zionism.

But Israeli criminality continued to assume Nazi proportions as is
evident from the ongoing genocidal blockade of the Gaza Strip, where
1.5 million Palestinians are constantly bombed, starved and murdered
for electing a government that both Israel and the Bush
administration didn’t like.

And in the West Bank, Israeli has effectively transformed Palestinian
cities, towns and villages into virtual detention camps as
Gestapo-like Israeli soldiers are having an open season on helpless
and unprotected Palestinians commuting to their homes, schools,
colleges and workplaces.

I don’t really know if it is possible to count on an awakening of
Zionist conscience. But, do Zionists have a conscience? How can
“conscience” and “Zionism” be used in the same phrase?

Well, in order to have conscience, one has to believe in the
difference between right and wrong, a characteristic that is
conspicuously nonexistent in the collective Zionist mindset.

I really wonder how these self-absorbed Zionists could look at
themselves in the mirror, knowing that they are living in stolen
homes, built on stolen land whose lawful owners were banished and
condemned to live a miserable life in squalid refugee camps for sixty
years and continuing?

Ask any person with a minimal sense of honesty what he would call
these depraved squatters and he or she wouldn’t hesitate to tell you
that they are “thieves and criminals.”

Yes, undoubtedly, many of these same people had lost homes and
businesses and other property in Poland, Germany, and Eastern Europe
and also in some Arab countries. But do they have the right to kill
or displace the innocent Palestinians and take over their homes,
farms, orchards, to steal their homeland and banish them to the four
winds?

This obscene injustice can’t be accepted, neither by the laws of man
nor the laws of heaven. And wrongs must be corrected and injustices
must be rectified, or there will be no peace.

There is no doubt that the creation of Israel was an act of rape of
the highest order. It continues to be an act of rape and will always
be as such till the end of time.

True, Israel is today an imposing reality that no one can deny. And
it does enjoy certain political legitimacy in the eyes of many
people.

But as a child of rape and a brat of oppression, Israel has no iota
of moral legitimacy since it was founded at the expense of another
people, the Palestinian people. (end)

Shimon Peres, le vieux menteur

Khalid Amayreh

ISM FRANCE

Shimon Peres possède-t-il les gènes d’un menteur pathologique ? La
question peut sembler facétieuse à certains, mais l’apparente
incapacité de Peres à distinguer le vrai du faux rend la question
tout à fait pertinente. A 84 ans, Peres continue de nous fourguer son
colis quotidien de mensonges, dont certains sont obscènes.

Cette semaine, le “héros” du massacre de Qana a dit à des
correspondants étrangers basés en Israël que “le Hamas barrait la
route vers un Etat palestinien.”

Bon, c’est bien sûr un mensonge patent, pour employer un euphémisme,
parce que toute personne honnête sous le soleil, juive ou goyim, sait
très bien que le principal obstacle à la réalisation de la paix au
Moyen Orient est la colonisation intensive de la terre palestinienne
et l’expansion sans fin des colonies juives sur des territoires
occupés qui appartiennent à un autre peuple.

Alors, comment accepter l’argument selon lequel le Hamas serait
responsable de la construction en Cisjordanie de centaines de
colonies juives, habitées par des centaines de milliers de “colons” à
la mentalité fasciste qui voient les non Juifs comme des animaux à
forme humaine qui devraient être asservis par la “race des maîtres”
comme porteurs d’eau ou bûcherons ?

C’est sûr que le Hamas n’est pas une organisation d’anges. Cependant,
blâmer le mouvement islamique pour la liquidation de la solution à
deux états n’est rien d’autre qu’un mensonge pornographique.

Depuis son tout début, le Hamas a confié les “négociations de paix” à
l’OLP, et a dit en maintes occasions qu’il vivrait dans un Etat
palestinien couvrant la Cisjordanie, la Bande de Gaza et Jérusalem
Est.

De plus, le mouvement, dont beaucoup des dirigeants ont été
brutalement assassinés par Israël, a maintes fois exprimé sa volonté
de parvenir à un cessez le feu avec l’armée israélienne d’occupation
basé sur la parité et la réciprocité.

Donc ce fut Israël, et non le Hamas, qui a rejeté la paix, d’abord en
volant, à la pointe du fusil, la terre palestinienne à ses
propriétaires légitimes, puis en poursuivant une attaque génocidaire
contre l’existence même du peuple palestinien. Nul besoin de préciser
que le massacre continu a certains similitudes, à faire dresser les
cheveux sur la tête, avec le massacre nazi contre les Juifs européens
pendant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale.

Peres n’est pas stupide, il connaît le pouvoir des mots et la magie
des petites phrases. Cependant, il ne dit pas souvent ce qu’il pense,
ni ne pense ce qu’il dit, dans le but d’échapper à un monde qui
redoute d’affronter les mensonges sionistes.

La conception de Peres d’un “Etat palestinien” est incompatible avec
les aspirations légitimes du peuple palestinien, comme elle est
incompatible avec la loi internationale et les droits de l’homme.

“M. Paix”, comme il est quelquefois surnommé de façon trompeuse,
voudrait que les Palestiniens “s’installent” dans une entité
déformée, tronquée et territorialement discontinue sur des “morceaux”
de la Cisjordanie, sans Jérusalem Est et certainement sans le
rapatriement des millions de réfugiés palestiniens déracinés de leurs
maisons, de leurs villes et de leurs villages il y a soixante ans,
dans une tragédie de déportation et d’exil qui continue aujourd’hui.

Le Hamas, comme 99% des Palestiniens, rejette avec force une telle
liquidation scandaleuse des droits palestiniens inaliénables. Même
Mahmoud Abbas, le Président du régime fantoche pro-américain de
Ramallah, qu’Israël considère comme un “partenaire de paix modéré et
acceptable”, refuse ouvertement une telle capitulation humiliante au
sionisme.

Exemple classique du dirigeant sioniste consommé, Peres peut penser
que mentir au monde et contrarier l’infortuné régime de l’Autorité
Palestinienne dans la capitulation à la réalité sioniste sera une
bonne chose pour les Juifs et pour la paix.

Il a absolument tort. Les Palestiniens sont peut-être actuellement en
état de faiblesse, comparés à Israël, un Etat puissant qui tire
beaucoup de sa supériorité militaire, économique et technologique de
sa domination serrée des hommes et des politiques américains.
Cependant, cette situation anormale ne se perpétuera pas à jamais.
L’Allemagne nazie (Israël est sans aucun doute la version actualisée
du Troisième Reich, en dépit de toute ses clameurs et sa hasbara du
contraire) n’a pas duré longtemps. Ni le Stalinisme diabolique, qui
avait beaucoup en commun avec le sionisme, à certains égards. Un fait
bien connu des historiens.

Tenter de contraindre les Palestiniens à se soumettre au sionisme,
que ce soit par la force brute, comme le fait Israël, ou par des
incitations économiques comme Peres essaie de le faire, ou les deux,
ne ferait que garder les braises de l’injustice couvant sous la
surface.

Alors, ce que Peres et ce genre de personnes voient comme
“l’ingéniosité juive” s’avèrera finalement n’être que l’expression
d’une arrogance à courte vue et d’une stature d’homme d’état
médiocre.

En plus de proférer ses petites phrases habituelles qui font la joie
des journalistes mais qui sont mensongères sur les Palestiniens et
leur calvaire interminable, Peres passe du temps ces jours ci à
essayer de convaincre le monde que l’Iran est l’Allemagne nazie n°2
et son Président Ahmadinejad est Adolphe Hitler.

Comment quiconque ayant un iota d’honnêteté et de droiture peut-il
comparer l’Allemagne nazie, qui a détruit l’Europe et causé la mort
de dizaines de millions de personnes, avec l’Iran, un pays du tiers
monde dont le seul “crime” est son refus de se soumettre à
l’hégémonie américano-sioniste ?

En outre, il est évident que Peres, qui a joué un rôle clé dans
l’introduction des armes nucléaires au Moyen Orient via la connexion
française il y a plusieurs décennies, est hautement incompétent pour
sermonner le monde sur une prétendue menace nucléaire iranienne.

Il est certain qu’Israël, qui possède un arsenal énorme de centaines
de bombes et têtes nucléaires dirigées vers Téhéran, Le Caire, Damas
et Beyrouth (et peut-être aussi Berlin), n’a aucun droit à inciter
l’Occident contre la République Islamique. En dernière analyse,
l’Iran a le droit inaliénable de développer la technologie nucléaire
et même les armes nucléaires pour dissuader les chiens enragés du
sionisme, à Tel Aviv et à Washington, D.C.

Les armes nucléaires, comme toutes les armes de destruction de masse,
sont affreuses et maléfiques. Cependant, l’Amérique et Israël sont
d’abord et surtout à blâmer pour avoir transformer notre monde en une
jungle où, pour survivre, il faut être un renard, un tigre ou un
serpent venimeux.

Israël clame qu’il n’a jamais menacé de décimer aucun pays ni peuple
et que ses stocks nucléaires n’ont que des “fins pacifiques”.

Mais Israël décime le peuple palestinien depuis soixante ans et
certains de ses dirigeants, à la mentalité hitlérienne, menace déjà
d’infliger un holocauste à leurs victimes.

Il est certain que si les Palestiniens avaient été forts, Israël
n’aurait pas détruit leurs villes, démoli leurs maisons, rasé au
bulldozer leurs fermes avant de les expulser aux quatre coins de la
planète.

En conclusion, il ne faut pas compter sur Peres et les autres
dirigeants sionistes pour dire la vérité, car le sionisme et la
vérité sont intrinsèquement incompatibles.

Pendant la période où il fut Premier Ministre, en 1996, après
l’assassinat d’Yitzhak Rabin, Peres a supervisé le massacre de Qana,
au sud du Liban, lorsque la Wehrmacht israélienne a délibérément
assassiné plus d’une centaine de civils libanais, dont de nombreux
enfants, qui s’étaient réfugiés dans les quartiers généraux des
Casques Bleus de l’ONU, dans le village de Qana.

Pour ceux qui auraient oublié, ou ne le sauraient pas, ni Peres ni
Israël n’ont jamais eu le courage moral de présenter leurs “excuses”.

Ils n’ont à l’évidence pas l’envergure morale pour le faire. Et leurs
crimes sont trop colossaux et trop nombreux pour être expiés.

Shimon Peres: The lying old man

Khalid Amayreh - May 7, 2008

Does Shimon Peres carry the genes of a pathological liar?

The question may sound facetious to many, but Peres’s apparent
inability to distinguish between truth and falsehood makes the
question quite valid.

At 84, Peres continues to dish out a daily staple of lies, including
obscene lies.

This week, the “hero” of the Qana-1 massacre, told foreign
correspondents based in Israel that “Hamas was standing in the way of
Palestinian statehood.”

Well, this is, of course, a blatant lie, to say the least, because
every honest person under the sun, Jew or gentile, knows well that
the main obstacle impeding the realization of peace in the Middle
East has been the intensive colonization of Palestinian land and
unending expansion of Jewish settlements on occupied territories that
belong to another people.

So how can we possibly buy the argument that Hamas is responsible for
the building on the West Bank of hundreds of Jewish settlements,
inhabited by hundreds of thousands of fascist-minded “settlers” who
view non-Jews as animals in the shape of humans who should be
enslaved by the “master race” as water carriers and wood hewers?

To be sure, Hamas is not an organization of angels. However, blaming
the Islamic movement for the liquidation of the two-state solution is
noting short of a pornographic lie.

Indeed, from its very inception, Hamas entrusted “peace negotiations”
to the PLO, and said on numerous occasions that it would live with a
Palestinian state covering the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East
Jerusalem.

Moreover, the movement, many of whose leaders have been brutally
murdered by Israel, repeatedly voiced a willingness to reach a
ceasefire with the Israeli occupation army on condition of parity and
reciprocity.

Hence, it was Israel - not Hamas - that rejected peace, first by
stealing Palestinian land from rightful proprietors at gunpoint and
then, by pursuing a genocidal assault against the Palestinian
people’s very existence. Needless to say, this ongoing onslaught has
certain hair-raising commonalities with the Nazi onslaught against
European Jewry during the Second World War.

Peres is not stupid, he knows the power of words and the magic of
sound-bites. However, he often doesn’t say what he means, nor does he
mean what he says, all for the purpose of eluding a world that dreads
confronting Zionist lies.

Peres’s conception of “Palestinian state” is incompatible with the
legitimate aspirations of the Palestinian people, as well as being
incompatible with international law and human rights.

“Mr. Peace,” as he is occasionally deceptively dubbed, would like the
Palestinians to “settle for” a deformed, truncated and territorially
discontinuous entity on “parts” of the West Bank, without East
Jerusalem and certainly without the repatriation of millions of
Palestinian refugees who were uprooted from their homes and towns and
villages around this time sixty years ago, in a drama of deportation
and exile that continues to this date.

Hamas, like 99% of Palestinians, does reject such a scandalous
sell-out of inalienable Palestinian rights. Indeed, even Mahmoud
Abbas, the Chairman of the American puppet regime in Ramallah, whom
Israel views as “moderate” and an “acceptable peace partner” openly
rejects such a humiliating surrender to Zionism.

A classical example of the consummate Zionist leader, Peres may think
that deceiving the world and frustrating the hapless Palestinian
Authority regime into capitulating to the Zionist reality will be
good for the Jews and for peace.

He is absolutely wrong. Palestinians may be in a state of weakness at
the present as opposed to Israel, a powerful state that draws much of
its military, economic and technological superiority from its tight
domination of American politics and policies. However, this anomalous
situation can’t be perpetuated forever. Nazi Germany (Israel is
undoubtedly an updated version of the Third Reich despite all the
fanfare and hasbara to the contrary) didn’t last forever. Nor did
diabolical Stalinism, which had much in common with Zionism in
certain respects. A fact that is well known to historians.

Coercing the Palestinians to surrender to Zionism, either through
brute force as Israel has been doing, or economic inducements as
Peres is trying to do, or both, would only keep the embers of
injustice smoldering thinly beneath the surface.

So, what Peres and his ilk view as “Jewish ingenuity” will eventually
be proven an expression of visionless arrogance and poor
statesmanship.

In addition to uttering his usual quotable but mendacious sound-bites
about the Palestinians and their enduring plight, Peres is spending
time these days trying to convince the world that Iran is Nazi
Germany number-2 and its President Ahmadinejad is Adolph Hitler.

Well, how could any person with an iota of honesty and rectitude
compare Nazi Germany, which destroyed Europe and caused the death of
tens of millions of people, with Iran, a third world country whose
only “crime” is its refusal to be subservient to the American-Zionist
hegemony?

Besides, it is amply clear that Peres, who played a key role in
introducing nuclear weapons to the Middle East via the French
connection several decades ago, is utterly unqualified to lecture the
world about an alleged Iranian nuclear threat.

To be sure, Israel, which possesses a huge arsenal of hundreds of
nuclear bombs and warheads that are trained toward Teheran, Cairo,
Damascus and Beirut (and perhaps Berlin as well), has no right to
incite the west against the Islamic Republic. In the final analysis,
Iran has an inalienable right to develop nuclear technology and even
nuclear weapons to deter the mad dogs of Zionism, both in Tel Aviv
and in Washington, D.C.

Nuclear weapons, like all weapons of mass destruction, are ugly and
evil. However, America and Israel are first and foremost to blame for
transforming our world into a jungle where one must be a fox, or a
tiger or a venomous cunning snake in order to survive.

Israel claims that it has never threatened to decimate any country or
any people and that its nuclear stockpile is for “peaceful purposes.”

But Israel has been decimating the Palestinian people for sixty years
and some of its leaders who have a Hitlerian mentality are already
threatening to inflict a holocaust on their victims.

For sure, had the Palestinians been strong, Israel would not have
destroyed their towns, demolished their homes, bulldozed their farms
before expelling them to the four corners of the globe.

In conclusion, Peres and other Zionist leaders can’t be trusted to
tell the truth since Zionism and truth are inherently incompatible.

During his stint as Prime Minister in 1996, flowing the assassination
of Yitzhak Rabin, Peres oversaw the Qana-1 massacre in Southern
Lebanon when the Israeli Wehrmacht knowingly and deliberately
murdered more than a hundred Lebanese civilians, including numerous
children who had sought refuge at the UN peace-keeping forces’
headquarters at the village of Qana.

For those who have forgotten or don’t know, neither Peres nor Israel
has had the moral courage to say “sorry.”

Obviously they both lack the moral caliber to do so. And their crimes
are too colossal and too numerous to be atoned for.

Abbas’s moment of truth

News Analysis by Khalid Amayreh in Occupied East Jerusalem

4 May, 2008

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas feels quite
depressed these days, having been unceremoniously told by President
Bush that the US administration won’t pressure Israel to halt Jewish
settlement expansion nor commit itself to a total Israeli withdrawal
from the Palestinian territories occupied in 1967.

Some of Abbas’s aides have described his recent visit to Washington
as the “straw that broke the camel’s back.” Abbas himself described
the visit as “a clear failure.”

One Palestinian commentator from Ramallah labeled the visit “ a
gigantic and monumental fiasco,” arguing that it amounted to a
virtual breakdown of Abbas’s entire strategy of counting on the Bush
administration to create a viable and contiguous Palestinian state,
with East Jerusalem as its capital.

According to sources in Amman, Abbas informed Bush that he wouldn’t
run for a second term as Chairman of the PA.

One source quoted an aide to Abbas as saying that the chairman
concluded his meeting with Bush by telling him “you can look for
another donkey to preside over the Palestinian Authority.”

The PA chairman reportedly asked Bush to declare his support for the
creation of a Palestinian state on the entirety of the West Bank,
Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem and also to pressure Israel to put an
end to Jewish settlement expansion in the occupied territories,
especially East Jerusalem.

Abbas, according to aides, was stunned when Bush told him that he
couldn’t meet Palestinian demands since that would violate the letter
of guarantees he gave former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on
14 April, 2004. Bush further argued that any departure from the
infamous letter would lead to the downfall of the Israeli Prime
Minister Ehud Olmert’s government.

“President Abbas felt as if he was talking to the wall,” one
Palestinian official was quoted as saying. “Both Bush and (US
Secretary of State Condoleezza) Rice refused to discuss details
related to the current peace talks with Israel. We are very
depressed.”

Rice arrived in Israel-Palestine Saturday evening, 3 May, apparently
to save “the peace process” from an imminent danger of collapse.

Rice told the Israeli media that the purpose of her visit was to
press Defense Minister Ehud Barak to remove some of the roadblocks
the Israeli occupation army maintains throughout the West Bank in
order to punish, torment and control the estimated 2.5 million
Palestinians living in the West Bank.

The US has asked Israel for the umpteenth time to remove the
roadblocks in order to ease up Palestinian daily life and boost
Abbas’s popularity in the eyes of his people.

For its part, Israel made numerous promises to remove the barriers,
but to no avail. Last month the Israeli government said it was
removing some of the key roadblocks in the West Bank in order to
facilitate the flow of goods and services throughout the West Bank.

However, Palestinians, peace activists and human rights organizations
operating in the occupied territories have accused the Israeli army
of practicing deception and of creating fictitious barriers in the
morning and removing them in the evening in order to give Washington
a false impression that Israel was honoring the pledges it had made
to Rice.

This protracted, lingering procrastination, along with the absence of
any substantive progress in Israeli-Palestinian talks, especially
over the so-called core issues, such as Jerusalem, the refugees and
the settlements, is obviously exasperating the Palestinian
leadership, desperate and eager to “clutch an achievement” which it
would use to convince the increasingly desperate and skeptical
Palestinian masses that Abbas’s way, not Hamas’s, was the right and
only way to wrest Palestinian rights from Israel’s parsimonious
hands.

Now, however, the manifestly deleterious effect of Abbas’s policy of
over-trusting and over-relying on the Bush Administration, are
becoming obvious.

Abbas is now realizing, belatedly if not too late, that Bush has
never been truly serious about pushing for a dignified and
even-handed resolution of the Palestinian plight.

I am saying “belatedly or too late” because Abbas nearly wrecked his
relations with his own people, especially since the Gaza events of
last year, all for the purpose of appeasing Bush and Rice and
receiving from them a certificate of good conduct.

He thought, out of naivety, ignorance, and weakness of character,
that the neocons in Washington would award him for his subservience
and obsequiousness by pressuring Israel to end the occupation and
halt unrelenting theft of Palestinian land.

However, Abbas’s most scandalous blunder has been his uneducated
conviction that the big liar of Washington, the man who invaded,
occupied and destroyed two sovereign Muslim countries based on lies,
would behave honestly and straightly with the Palestinians.

Now it would be very hard for Abbas to salvage his legacy by trying
to undo or at least rectify some of the blunders he and his regime
committed against the Palestinian masses and their enduring just
cause, all in order to please Washington.

As Chairman of the PA, Abbas and his hangers-on abducted, detained,
tortured and even killed political opponents in order to demonstrate
Palestinian commitment to peace to the malicious duo of the US and
Israel. This happened at a time when Israel continued to murder
Palestinians in droves and grab more Palestinian land for Jewish
settlement expansion.

Abbas also readily accepted, even welcomed, naked American
interference in Palestinian internal affairs to the point of allowing
Washington to conspire in coordination with certain Palestinian
security officials to corrode and overthrow the democratically
elected government led by the Hamas movement.

More to the point, Abbas went as far as tacitly collaborating with
Israel and the US in maintaining the Nazi-like blockade of 1.5
million Gazans, all in order to weaken Hamas.

I don’t really know if Abbas has the moral courage and intellectual
honesty to say to Washington “enough is enough.”

If he does, he should do it now, because tomorrow might be too late.

(end)

What’s Next, Abbas?

Spurned in Washington, can President Abbas defer any longer the
imperative of re-establishing Palestinian national unity, asks Khaled
Amayreh in Ramallah

The obvious failure of Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud
Abbas’s latest visit to Washington has been reverberating through
Palestinian society, with many intellectuals and pundits advising
Abbas to “quit” or at least stop acting at the US administration’s
beck and call. Some critics have even called for dismantling the PA
and abandoning the two-state solution strategy in favour of the
one-state solution of a democratic state for all its citizens.

Abbas, in a frank and daring admission, told reporters following his
meeting with President Bush at the White House last week that he
failed to obtain a commitment from the US administration to pressure
Israel into halting its wave of Jewish-only settlement building in
East Jerusalem and the West Bank. The intensive settlement expansion
drive brazenly defies US-led peace efforts, including the
Quartet-backed roadmap and last year’s Annapolis conference.

For their part, the Israelis deny that they are reneging on
commitments or pledges. Israeli leaders argue that they are only
meeting housing needs related to “natural growth” within existing
settlements. They also cite a private “understanding” contained in a
letter sent by President Bush to former prime minister Ariel Sharon
whereby Israel was given a green light to continue expanding
settlements irrespective of peace talks with the Palestinians.

The Bush administration has been reticent to acknowledge this
supposed “understanding”. However, its enduring refusal to rebuke
Israel for its continued colonisation of Palestinian land underscores
the extent of US-Israeli connivance against Palestinian interests and
exposes the duplicity of US political calculations with regard to the
Israeli-Palestinian issue.

Palestinian sources close to PA-Israeli talks last week reported that
Israeli negotiators on many occasions confronted their Palestinian
counterparts with a series of written “pledges” and “letters” from
the Bush administration assuring Israel that major Jewish
settlements, at least, would be annexed into Israel in the context of
a final-status deal with the Palestinians. Hence, according to
Israeli negotiators, there was no justification for “vociferous”
Palestinian protest every time Israel decided to build additional
settler units in the West Bank.

Reportedly, Abbas was also especially upset by President Bush’s
refusal to pledge that any contemplated Palestinian “state” would be
created on 100 per cent of the Palestinian territories occupied by
Israel in 1967. The implications of Bush’s refusal are as clear as
they are painful for the Palestinian leadership; namely that the
Palestinians should stop dreaming of a full and total Israeli
withdrawal from the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

According to sources within Abbas’s immediate circle, the PA leader
has come to feel “betrayed” and “deceived” by the Bush
administration. “We thought there was only one game in town, and that
was the roadmap,” one PA official told Al-Ahram Weekly on condition
of anonymity. “But it turned out that the Bush administration had
been giving Israel all sorts of assurances and pledges behind our
back, which violate and nullify the essence of the roadmap.”

Asked what he thought the PA would do next, the frustrated official
said: “I would lie to you if I told you I knew the answer.”

The Weekly asked senior Fatah official Hatem Abdul-Qader for his view
as to what the PA should do in light of US refusals to pressure
Israel to halt settlement expansion in the West Bank. “I think it is
time for all of us, including President Abbas, to realise that it is
probably too late for the creation of a Palestinian state,” he said.
“All peace talks with Israel seem to have been a gigantic fiasco — a
total failure and big lie.”

Like many PA and Fatah officials, Abdul- Qader believes that Abbas is
facing a real dilemma in having to choose between appeasing the US by
compromising the Palestinian cause, or rebuilding Palestinian
national unity with Hamas, which would upset Israel and the US and
which might lead to the reinstitution of US-led sanctions on the PA.
“It is clear that talks with Israel have reached a dead end. It is
also clear that Israel is using the national rift between Fatah and
Hamas to impose its conditions on us,” Abdul-Qader said.

“All the promises and pledges the Bush administration has made to us
have evaporated,” Abdul-Qader continues. “The US is only indulging in
an open-ended process of deception for the purpose of giving Israel
the time it needs to build more settlements and make the task of
creating a viable Palestinian state unrealistic and unachievable.”

Asked what he would advise Abbas to do in light of receding prospects
of reaching a breakthrough before the end of 2008, Abdul-Qader said
he would advise the PA president to “pay attention to our internal
situation and stop bidding on fruitless talks with Israel. Abbas
should be courageous enough to tell the Americans that he won’t
sacrifice paramount Palestinian national interests for the sake of
American and Israeli interests.”

Abdul-Qader adds that in order for Abbas to be able to say “No” to
the US and Israel, Hamas “will have to make the first step by
accepting the Yemeni initiative”. Fatah could facilitate this by
refraining from “making impossible preconditions for national
reconciliation”.

Earlier this week, Hamas officials in the Gaza Strip called on Abbas
to “draw the correct conclusion” from the “rebuff” he received in
Washington. “We call on President Mahmoud Abbas to stop seeking water
from the American mirage. We urge him to immediately embark on
tangible steps to re-establish national unity. It is only with
national unity that we can restore our rights and safeguard the vital
interests of our people.”

Abbas has not said what he will do next apart from continuing in
talks with Israel. Hani Al-Masri, a prominent political analyst in
Ramallah, told the Weekly that Abbas’s dilemma “stems mainly from the
fact that he lacks a plan-B.” Abbas “trusted the Americans too much
and for too long. He should have explored alternatives to this futile
process.”

“He should extend his hand to Hamas and re- establish Palestinian
national unity, irrespective of American and Israeli reactions. He
should stop this futile process under whose rubric Israel is
liquidating the Palestinian cause,” Al-Masri added.

Al-Masri acknowledges that if Abbas were to cut from the so-called
“peace process”, the US and Israel would employ all kinds of
sanctions, including starving the Palestinian population, to get him
back in line. “But in the long run, [the US] will accept the fait
accompli. After all, if we stand united, the whole world, including
the Americans, will respect us. The ball is in our court, and no one
else’s.”

Caption: A NEW ISRAELI OUTRAGE: The battered bodies of four
Palestinian children killed by Israeli fire lay at a morgue in Beit
Lahia, Gaza. The four children, aged one to five, and their mother
were killed during Israeli military operations

C a p t i o n 2: A NEW ISRAELI OUTRAGE: The battered bodies of four
Palestinian children killed by Israeli fire lay at a morgue in Beit
Lahia, Gaza. The four children, aged one to five, and their mother
were killed during Israeli military operations

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