It should be
apparent that the problem in Palestine is not just simply a problem of
checkpoints, human rights abuses, the wall, home demolitions, the architecture
of occupation or even the siege of Gaza; the core of the problem is the illegal
theft, colonization and occupation of a whole country.
These are only
symptoms of the Jewish nationalism expressed in the cancerous ideology called
Zionism. It is an ideology that has been organized into the World Zionist
Organization with branches in all the countries of Europe, in the United States
and in dozens of other countries ranging from Australia to Mexico to South
Africa. The organization held its 35th Zionist Congress in 2006 in Jerusalem
with some 2,000 delegates and observers from all over the world. Five
hundred-ten delegates participated in its proceedings, including 145 delegates
from the United States.
Christian Zionist
support, however, unlike the international World Zionist Organization, is
principally centered in the United States. In concert with the American Israeli
Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), and the
Conference of the Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (52
organizations) they constitute an enormously well-funded confluence with the
Bush/Cheney neocon cabal-led United States government's drive for hegemony over
the oil and gas reserves of the Middle East and the Caspian Sea for the United
States based international oil, gas and finance conglomerates.
This organized
international Jewish Zionist support centered in the World Zionist Organization
is critical to the Israeli government that has been on a 60-year messianic
mission to acquire the whole of Palestine and parts of Egypt, Jordan, Syria,
and Lebanon, which they describe as "Eretz Israel".
According to the
Zionists, "Eretz Lsrael" is described in that book of short stories
that has become known as the bible, in Genesis 15:18-21, Ezekiel 47:13-20 and
similarly in Numbers 34:1-15, descriptions which have been adopted by the
Israeli government.
According to Prime
Minister Ehud Ohmert of Israel, in his address before a joint meeting of a
genuflecting United States Congress in a May 24, 2006, sddress to Congress,
"For thousands of years, we Jews have been nourished and sustained by a
yearning for our historic land. I, like many others, was raised with a deep
conviction that the day would never come when we would have to relinquish parts
of the land of our forefathers. I believed, and to this day still believe in
our people's eternal and historic right to this entire land."
What is not often
mentioned is the fact that this biblically defined land that the modern day
Jews claim as their "entire land" was acquired, according to the
short story accounts of their claimed ancestors, by the genocidal slaughter of
the peoples of seven other nations that occupied the land that these modern
Jews now claim by "historic right."
The description of
this completed genocidal slaughter is the only known written admission of
genocide by any of the perpetrators of genocide in recorded history. Even the
Nazi-led German government and the European colonialist-led United States
government never deigned to produce a written admission of the genocides that
they engaged in. The following are some of the descriptions of this genocide by
the ancestors claimed by Olmert and the whole of the government of Israel.
"In
Deuteronomy 7:1-36, ".the Lord thy God shall have destroyed many nations
before thee, the Hethite, and the Gergezite, and the Amorrite, and the
Chanaanite, and the Pherezite, and Hevite, and the Jebusite, seven nations much
more numerous than thou art,.thou shalt utterly destroy them. Thou shalt make
no league with them, nor show mercy to them: and shall slay them until they are
utterly destroyed . . . and thou shalt destroy their names under heaven: no man
shall be able to resist thee, until thou destroy them."
In I Samuel 15:3,
"Now therefore go, and smite Amalec, and utterly destroy all that he hath;
spare him not, nor covet any thing that is his; but slay both man and woman,
child and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass."
In Numbers 31:1-35,
".the Lord spoke to Moses saying: Revenge first the children of Israel on
the Madianites . . . when they fought against the Madianites and had overcome
them, they slew all the men. Therefore kill all that are of the male sex, even
of the children: and put to death the women that have carnally known men. But
the girls, and all the women that are virgins save for yourselves . . . and the
spoils which the army had taken, was . . . thirty two thousand persons of the
female sex that had not known men."
In Numbers
33:50-52, ".the Lord said to Moses: Command the children of Israel. When
you shall have passed over to Jordan, entering into the land of Chanaan,
Destroy all the inhabitants of that land: beat down their pillars and break in
pieces their statues, and waste all their high places."
In I Samuel 27:8-9,
"And David and his men went up, and pillaged Gessuri, and Gerzi, and the
Amalecites; for these were of old the inhabitants of the countries . . . David
wasted all the land, and left neither man nor woman live."
In Isaiah 13:15-18,
"Every one that shall be found shall be slain; and every one that shall
come to their aid, shall fall by the sword. Their infants shall be dashed in
pieces before their eyes: their houses shall be pillaged, and their wives
ravaged . . . with their arrows they shall kill the children, and shall have no
pity upon the sucklings of the womb, and their eye shall not spare their
sons."
So the lands that
are claimed as "ancestral land" were acquired, according to the
writings of Olmert's ancestors, by a genocide that is unprecedented in human
history -- unprecedented as regards the scope of the completed annihilation of
seven tribal nations and unprecedented as it regards the written admission that
they committed the genocide.
With this
understanding of the use of the term "Eretz Israel" as used by the
Israeli government, it should be apparent that the problems in Palestine goes
beyond the immediacy of one or the other of some action of the Israeli
government.
For 60 years the
Israeli government has invaded Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine
beyond the 1947 internationally recognized border to recreate the biblically
described Eretz Israel originally acquired by the genocidal annihilation of
seven tribal nations. This messianic impulse of Jewish nationalists, this
messianic program that seeks to expand the territory provided for the creation
of the State of Israel by a world's compassion for the Nazi-led German
government's assault on the Jewish people of Europe has transformed the Israeli
State into the mirror of the ancestors that they claim as their own -- a nation
with a messianic impulse for genocide.
There are two
aspects for the rationale for this messianic impulse. On the one hand, the
Israeli occupation, absorption and devastating occupation of Palestine beyond
the internationally recognized 1947-1967 borders is met by a resistance by the
people of Palestine -- a resistance that is every bit as justified as the
Italian Partisan resistance to the Nazi occupied Fascist Italy, every bit as
justified as the French resistance to the Nazi occupation of France, every bit
as justified as Geronimo's leadership of the indigenous resistance to
annihilation in what has become the United States, every bit as justified as
the Chicasaw resistance to the United States Indian Removal Law that resulted
in the "trail of tears". The Israeli government then uses this
resistance as the rationale for the continued occupation and absorption of
Palestine and the continued assault on the Palestinian people.
Any notion that
the struggle of the Palestinian resistance is the equivalent of the Israeli
government's massive assault on Palestine beyond the 1947 borders or that the
subsequent continuing assault is to be treated "even-handedly" is
sheer, unadulterated, vicious sophistry. The behemoth tank demolitions, supersonic
jet plane bombings, black hawk helicopter strafing of the people,
infrastructure, and property in occupied Palestine is nothing less than a
description of the naked aggression of Israel's all-Jewish armed forces.
On the other hand,
the Israeli government uses the "peace ploy" to counter the justified
resistance of the Palestinian people to the continued occupation and absorption
of Palestine and the assaults on its people. In this instance, the "peace
ploy" as outlined by the Israeli government requires that the Palestinians
cease the resistance to the Israeli occupation and absorption of Palestine and
the assault on the people of Palestine in order for the Jewish Israelis to
cease the occupation and absorption.
Anytime that there
is a call for a "negotiated peace" or "a peace broker" or
the "peace process," it is a part of the peace ploy that the Israeli
government has used for the past 60 years, and a signal that it will be used
again, in their strategic objective to absorb the whole of Palestine and parts
of Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon.
Every move that
they make, every peace ploy that they engender, every bomb that they drop,
every farm that they destroy, every targeted assassination that they make,
every Palestinian child that is starved, every Mosque, every school, every
Palestinian government building or home that they demolish, every action that
they take in Palestine and in the Middle East, every political, ideological,
philosophical, religious statement that they make is driven by the messianic, genocidal
impulse to recreate Eretz Israel.
The government of
Israel has no intention of doing anything but continuing the ongoing assault on
Palestine and its people until it has absorbed the whole of Palestine. Part of
its modus operandi is the peace ploy that is designed to never arrive at the
creation of a viable Palestinian state.
That is what they
are about and that is the source of their genocidal impulse.
Aside from the
Israeli activity, we are confronted in the United States with an extremely well
organized, well funded Zionist-led, Christian Zionist supported significant
segment of the Jewish community that has been at the forefront in support of
the Bush/Cheney neocon cabal-led United States government's invasion and
occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq, and its threatened invasion of Iran and its
clandestine operations in Pakistan.
Jewish Zionists and
their Christian Zionist supporters are certainly collaborators in the
Bush/Cheney neocon cabal-led United States government's invasion and occupations
to secure hegemony over the oil and gas reserves of the Middle East and the
Caspian Sea for the United States' oil and financial conglomerates, as it
intensifies the political organization of the state apparatus of the United
States to suppress the resistance and opposition that the cost and tragedy
imposed on the people of the United States engenders.
Express statements
of support for these operations have been made by the Zionist-led
Anti-Defamation League (ADL), by the Zionist dominated American Israeli Public
Affairs Committee (AIPAC), by the Zionist dominated Conference of the
President's of Major Jewish Organizations. The participation of this
significant, well-funded element of the Jewish community in the production of
the world-dominating scheme detailed in the Project for A New American Century
is notorious. This well organized support is distinct from the opposition to
these operations by the majority of people of the United States.
Much as these
pitiful panderers to the power of the United States might suppose that they are
in control of their destiny, it behooves them to consider the fate of Pinochet,
Noriega, Marcos, Batista, Saddam Hussein, the Shah of Iran, the Taliban and now
Musharraf when the rubber hits the road of the interests of United States
international conglomerates.
In the meantime, we
will watch these Jewish Zionists engaged in the fantasy of their messianic
nightmare that will proceed with the unabated slaughter of the Palestinians.
And, in case we
have any doubt, the Palestinians currently attempting to escape the Israeli
government's messianic, genocidal impulse join the millions of Palestinians
that have already been driven out of their homeland to live in the squalor of
the refugee camps.
For those that have
succumbed to the corporate media's hype and have engaged in rejoicing for the
Palestinian "breakout" from Gaza, the following statements of Chief
Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger in Israel should begin the process of getting them
to take their heads out of the clouds. The statements are certainly significant
enough in Israel to be placed in its major "liberal" newspaper with
international Internet distribution. Obviously what occurred at the wall
between Palestine's Gaza and Egypt was a forced exodus of Palestinians through
a devised break in the separation wall built by the Israeli government.
If there is any one
that believes that the Israeli armed forces, which shoot Palestinian teenagers
throwing rocks at tanks or shoot Palestinians getting water at the public water
taps after an Israeli imposed curfew, were taken by surprise when the wall that
they built was knocked down by a behemoth bulldozer, I'd like to have the
opportunity to sell them the Brooklyn Bridge.
The only
difference between this forced exodus and the others that occurred in 1947-48,
in 1967, in Jerusalem, and all over Palestine to build the armed Jewish
settlements, is that this exodus was forced by a total siege of food, medicine,
water and electricity in combination with terrifying raids and incursions into
Gaza by the Israeli military toting United States supplied weapons, planes and
helicopters. In those other, earlier forced exodus of millions that are now
living in the squalor of refugee camps, the forced exodus was produced by the
terror created in a slaughter of innocents by the all Jewish terror groups that
became Israeli forces and the scorched earth policy applied by them to
Palestinian towns.
The blessed rabbi's
plan, according to Haaretz,
would be "to take all the poor people from Gaza to move them to a
wonderful new modern country with trains buses cars, like in Arizona -- we are
now in a generation where you can take a desert and build a city. This will be
a solution for the poor people -- they will have a nice country, and we shall
have our country and we shall live in peace."
But that is not the
whole of it. On the other side of the world in the Wall Street Journal's
editorial page, Bret
Stephans writes, "The Egyptian-Israeli treaty may ultimately have to
be revised to take account of the changing facts on the ground. Israel, too,
will have to rethink some basic strategic assumptions. Supporters of Ariel
Sharon's 'disengagement' plan -- present company included -- can take a measure
of satisfaction in noting that Gaza is increasingly becoming an Arab problem
rather than an Israeli one. But in addition to the physical challenge of having
to defend against incessant (if so far rarely deadly) rocket attacks from Gaza,
and reinforce its long desert border with Egypt, Israel must also now consider
the possibility that the current regime in Egypt may not long survive the death
of its soon-to-be octogenarian president."
So it should be
obvious in considering the matter, that there is nothing that can be discussed
with regard to the Israeli government's assault on the people of Palestine
without the understanding that it is their strategic objective, already in
process for 60 years, to acquire the whole of Palestine and parts of Egypt,
Jordan, Syria and Lebanon devoid of their historical inhabitants.
It bears repeating,
every move that they make, every peace ploy that they engender, every bomb that
they drop, every farm that they destroy, every targeted assassination that they
make, every Palestinian child that is starved, every mosque, every school,
every Palestinian government building or home that they demolish, every olive
grove that they flatten, every action that they take in Palestine and in the
Middle East, and that their counterparts in the United States take, is driven
by the messianic, genocidal impulse to recreate Eretz Israel.
It is a pattern of
expulsion that has been repeated consistently for the past 60 years not only in
Palestine but also in portions of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt with the
Jewish Israelis claiming the land and resources of the areas of the expelled
population.
In order to put an
end to this genocidal messianic impulse of the Israeli government, we must
insist, demand, support, and encourage that the international community use the
force of economic boycott and economic sanctions to have the Zionist-led
Israeli government withdraw from the occupation of Palestine beyond the 1947
internationally recognized borders and to have them cease the blockade of
Palestine's water, electricity, sewer, air space, sea coast, and borders.
That is a plan that
is in keeping with international law, the Geneva Convention, and the Convention
on Human Rights.
In the meantime, the people of Palestine have the right
under international law to resist the occupation by any means necessary or
available.