ZIONIST ‘DEVIL’ FORCES COMMIT GENOCIDE AGAINST POORLY DEFENDED GAZANS
ZIONIST ‘DEVIL’ FORCES COMMIT GENOCIDE AGAINST POORLY DEFENDED PALESTINIANS
by Syarif Hidayat*
What we are witnessing in Gaza, Palestine right now is the Zionist forces are committing extreme aggression and genocide against poorly defended Palestinians in Gaza. The Zionist war machines can go anywhere in Gaza without facing equal or substantial armed defenders.
The Zionists war planes can also fly anywhere in the Gaza airspace freely hunting for Palestinian freedom fighters without being afraid of being hit by anti-aircraft guns because Palestinians have no radars and nor air defense system. They also don’t have tanks, armored vehicles and the other modern weaponry to counter the Israeli military might.
“What [Palestinians] are [saying] is that how can the world accept the Israelis targeting civilians including old men, women, children and babies in an area which is completely shut off? There are no shelters, no early warning systems, no sirens. The population is basically completely naked to the enormously strong Israeli military machine.”
The Zionists are Devils Forces
THE ZIONISTS ARE THE REAL TERRORISTS AND THE DEVILS FORCES!:The Zionists are terrorizing and torturing Palestinians as well as committing Genocide against the Palestinians, creating Palestinian Holocaust, stealing their lands and properties as well as destroying their homes on daily basis with the US full support (financially, economically, politically and militarily) to the tune of three to five billion dollars a year, while at the same time, they continue to complain to the world especially the Washington regime and the US-led western regimes — their captive markets for their propaganda stuffs — that the Palestinians are terrorists!
A Deadly and Murderous Society
THE ZIONIST ENTITY IS A DEADLY AND MURDEROUS SOCIETY!: “Though it is certain that there is no ethnic or racial continuum between the Biblical Israelites and the Khazarians who lead the Jewish state and its army, the similarities between the murderous enthusiasm described in Deuteronomy and the current string of Israeli lethal actions cannot be denied. Israel is a murderous society not because of any biological or racial lineage with its imaginary ‘forefathers’. Israel is deadly because it is driven by a fanatical tribal Jewish ideology and fueled by a psychotic merciless Biblical poisonous enthusiasm.” – Gilad Atzmon, an Anti-Zionist Israeli activist.
The aggressive nature of the Zionist entity
Samir Hamdi in his article titled “An understanding of the aggressive nature of the Zionist entity” published in Middle East Monitor (MEM) Friday, 18 July 2014, wrote The crimes committed by Israel against the Palestinian people and the most recent terrorist attacks currently targeting the Gaza Strip are not surprising, but were actually consistent with Israel’s nature and in line with the intellect and vision it issues.
The behaviour of Israel is the result of a series of ideological distortions, revivalist opinions, and colonial interests that have been combined together in one pot and then re-synthesised in a manner that allows for the creation of a political distortion that spearheads the imperialist project in the Arab region. What are the theoretical foundations on which Israel is established? How can its intellectual and political form be described, and what are the conditions that surrounded its establishment and helped it continue in a land that continuously rejects it?
Political Zionism (separate from religious Zionist, which believes that the return to the Promised Land is not an act determined by mankind, but that they will return when and how the Lord decides) is a result of what was known in Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries as the Jewish problem. This was the purge of the European bourgeois who exploited the Jewish people by means of historical accumulation (the image of an unethical exploiter), using them to form a functional group in order to serve the imperialist expansion project. (See the definition of functional group as defined by Dr Abdel Wahab El-Messiri in The encyclopaedia of Jews, Judaism and Zionism).
Marx also wrote about this trend in his book On the Jewish Question, in which he said Judaism continues to exist not in spite of history, but owing to history, and the bourgeois society constantly begot Judaism from the depths of themselves. He also said that this problem has no other source than the forms of contradiction that dominate the capitalist society, or bourgeois, and that, for example, what is known as anti-Semitism is only one type of oppression experienced by these communities.
Due to the fact that the bourgeoisie cannot solve the Jewish question in a fair manner, and “because the essence of Judaism was realised in the bourgeois society, and the bourgeois society cannot convince the Jews of the fictitious nature of their religious essence, which is nothing but the ideal concept that is a practical necessity” the capitalist governments and their imperialist extensions, utilised these outcast religious groups, at the time, to serve their interests.
When Marx wrote about the Jewish question, he was not thinking of Jews in their religious capacity, but as a functional individual; a human that is completely one with their function and has lost their humanity, dealing with others, as tools (a source of profit, a source of pleasure) thus disregarding their humanity. With this in mind, we can understand the establishment of Israel in the following image:
First, this state is a human surplus sent by Europe to Palestine. Europe supported this surplus, armed them, and gave it the necessary military and political cover to carry out its forceful settlement function in service of the large imperialist project.
Second, Palestine was chosen due to its significant strategic location and due to the geopolitical role the state emerging from there can play in harming the Arab Liberation Movement, as well as the mobilisation capabilities that Palestine can provide (due to its symbolism and significance) in recruiting the target groups (Jewish groups).
Thirdly, due to Western support, specifically American support, the Jewish state plays a role in serving the colonial project militarily and strategically, acting as a tool that can be used outside the international legal system to serve the interests of the West, in a manner that eliminates any political or moral embarrassment for the latter.
Based on these grounds, we can understand the nature of this state and characterize it as follows:
-The state established on Palestinian land is not a homogeneous society with a clear identity that is governed by a normal system. Instead, it is a settlement bloc with an undetermined nature, and this perhaps explains its insistence on Palestinian recognition of what it calls a “Jewish state”.
-The ill-defined nature of the Zionist state explains why its political system is devoid of a constitution until now and has no clear geographical borders.
-The different human groups that make up the Zionist state co-exist on the basis of common interests and by taking advantage of the generous support coming from the United States and Europe. This is reflected in the state’s alleged links to the Jewish Agency for Israel and the World Zionist Organisation, something we do not find in any other normal state in the world.
-We cannot describe the political system of the Zionist state as a democracy, although it claims to be so, because the co-existence amongst the different groups inhabiting the state is a result of a game of common interests and benefiting from the services provided by international sponsors. Therefore, perhaps we can say this is similar to the coexistence of mafia gangs, which divide the influential areas in the scope of one state.
-The violating settlement nature of the Zionist state makes it, in principle, non-negotiable and will not give anything up by negotiation because it was established on the principle of slaughtering and displacing the indigenous people and then brining groups of settlers to settle instead of the indigenous people.
-The Zionist state is a form of political distortion that affects colonised communities as a result of conflicting interests of the colonisers and their desire to continue their influence (like the apartheid regime in South Africa, or the case of the Pied-Noirs (Black feet) in Algeria before its independence).
-The Zionist state is living in a state of permanent panic reflected by the constant militarisation of its society and its quick resort to violence against Palestinians first, and then against anyone sympathising with them (the killing of Rachel Corrie and the attack on the Freedom Flotilla, for example), as well as its refusal to abide by international laws and humanitarian principles, because it is originally the product of inhumane and illegal conflicts.
According to the aforementioned information, we can confirm that the Zionist state is aware that its survival is dependent on its functionality, and that its continuation is linked to playing the role of a rogue against all laws and principles, because, ultimately, it cannot act like a natural political system. This explains why the more the people of the world become aware of its colonial nature (by means of the work of civil society organisations, human rights bodies, and national political parties), the more it feels its time is coming to an end and the closer its liquidation and abandonment is.
At that point, its fate will be the same as the colonial racist settlement groups that had come before; there are only two possibilities, either they merge into the majority indigenous population (the whites in South Africa) or go back to their original homelands (the settlers of Algeria). In the end, Zionism remains a historical phenomenon subject to the laws of social mobility, which means its demise will come sooner or later. (Translated from Al-Araby Al-Jadid, 18 July, 2014)
The idea-Israel is defending from unprovoked attacks is absurd
Seumas Milne in his article titled “Gaza: this shameful injustice will only end if the cost of it rises” published in The Guardian, Wednesday 16 July 2014, wrote The idea that Israel is defending itself from unprovoked attacks is absurd. Occupied people have the right to resist.
For the third time in five years, the world’s fourth largest military power has launched a full-scale armed onslaught on one of its most deprived and overcrowded territories. Since Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip began, just over a week ago, more than 200 Palestinians have been killed. Nearly 80% of the dead are civilians, over 20% of them children.
Around 1,400 have been wounded and 1,255 Palestinian homes destroyed. So far, Palestinian fire has killed one Israeli on the other side of the barrier that makes blockaded Gaza the world’s largest open-air prison. But instead of demanding a halt to Israel’s campaign of collective punishment against what is still illegally occupied territory, the western powers have blamed the victims for fighting back. If it weren’t for Hamas’s rockets fired out of Gaza’s giant holding pen, they insist, all of this bloodletting would end.
“No country on earth would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders,” Barack Obama declared, echoed by a mostly pliant media. Perhaps it’s scarcely surprising that states which have themselves invaded and occupied a string of Arab and Muslim countries in the past decade should take the side of another occupier they fund and arm to the hilt. But the idea that Israel is responding to a hail of rockets out of a clear blue sky takes “narrative framing” beyond the realm of fantasy. In fact, after the deal that ended Israel’s last assault on Gaza in 2012, rocketing from Gaza fell to its lowest level for 12 years.
The latest violence is supposed to have been triggered by the kidnapping and killing of three Israeli teenagers in the occupied West Bank in June, for which Hamas denied responsibility. But its origin clearly lies in the collapse of US-sponsored negotiations for a final settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the spring. That was followed by the formation of a “national reconciliation” government by the Fatah and Hamas movements, whose division has been a mainstay of Israeli and US policy. Israeli incursions and killings were then stepped up, including attacks on Palestinian civilians by armed West Bank settlers. In May, two Palestinian teenagers were shot dead by the Israeli army with barely a flicker of interest outside the country.
It’s now clear the Israeli government knew from the start that its own kidnapped teenagers had been killed within hours. But the news was suppressed while a #BringBackOurBoys campaign was drummed up and a sweeping crackdown launched against Hamas throughout the West Bank.
Over 500 activists were arrested and more than half a dozen killed – along with a Palestinian teenager burned to death by settlers. Binyamin Netanyahu’s aim was evidently to signal that whatever deal Hamas had signed with Mahmoud Abbas would never be accepted by Israel.
Gaza had nothing to do with the kidnapping, but Israeli attacks were also launched on the strip and Hamas activists killed. It was those killings and the West Bank campaign that led to Hamas resuming its rocket attacks – and in turn to Israel’s devastating bombardment. Hamas is now blamed for refusing to accept a ceasefire plan cooked up by Netanyahu and his ally, the Egyptian President Sisi, who overthrew Hamas’s sister organisation the Muslim Brotherhood last year and has since tightened the eight-year siege of Gaza.
But having already suffered so much, many Gazans believe no further truce should be agreed without the lifting of the illegal blockade which has reduced the strip to hunger and beggary and effectively imprisoned its population. As the independent Palestinian MP Mustafa Barghouti puts it, the Egyptian proposal was a “game” Israel will now use to escalate the war. Some sense of what can now be expected was given by the Israeli reserve major general Oren Shachor, who explained: “If we kill their families, that will frighten them.”
The idea that Israel is defending itself against unprovoked attacks from outside its borders is an absurdity. Despite Israel’s withdrawal of settlements and bases in 2005, Gaza remains occupied both in reality and international law, its border, coastal waters, resources, airspace and power supply controlled by Israel.
So the Palestinians of Gaza are an occupied people, like those in the West Bank, who have the right to resist, by force if they choose – though not deliberately to target civilians. But Israel does not have a right of self-defence over territories it illegally occupies – it has an obligation to withdraw. That occupation, underpinned by the US and its allies, is now entering its 48th year. Most of the 1.8 million Palestinians enduring continuous bombardment in Gaza are themselves refugees or their descendants, who were driven out or fled from cities such as Jaffa 66 years ago when Israel was established.
It can’t seriously be argued that Israel’s refusal to withdraw from the rump of the territory on which the United Nations voted to establish a Palestinian state in 1947 is because of rocket fire. It was after all during the period of quiescence over the past year that the Israeli government rejected the US plan for even a figleaf of a two-state solution – and stepped up illegal colonisation. As Netanyahu made clear this week, there cannot be “any agreement in which we relinquish security control” of the West Bank.
So we’re left with a one-state solution, operated on ethnically segregated apartheid-style lines, in which a large section of the population has no say in who rules over them, indefinitely. But it’s folly to imagine that this shameful injustice will continue without an escalating cost for those who enforce it. Palestinian resistance is often criticised as futile given the grotesque power imbalance between the two sides. But Hamas, which attracts support more for its defiance than its Islamism, has been strengthened by the events of the past week, as it has shown it can hit back across Israel – while Abbas, dependent on an imploded “peace process”, has been weakened still further.
The conflict’s eruptions are certainly coming thicker and faster. Despite heroic Israeli efforts to fix the narrative, global opinion has never been more sympathetic to the Palestinian cause. But the brutal reality is that there will be no end to Israel’s occupation until Palestinians and their supporters are able to raise its price to the occupier, in one way or another – and change the balance of power on the ground. (T/E01/IR)
Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)
*Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA).
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Bibliotheque:
1.http://www.theguardian.com/
2.https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/
