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Israel must renounce its state terrorism, recognize Palestinian rights
to exist freely and independently in their own state, must abide by all
previous political agreements it struck with the Palestinian Authority
(PA), must adopt all UN resolutions, and must obey all international
laws.
The
state of Israel was established by Zionist terror organizations such as
Irgun (or Etzel), Hagana, and Stern, who used to plant bombs in crowded
Palestinian markets, cafes, shops, and buses. What was called Israeli
military intelligence then had carried out a bombing campaign in Egypt
in 1954, and had hijacked a Syrian civilian airliner in the same year in
order to obtain hostages to trade for captured Zionist spies.
Even
before the establishment of the Zionist Israeli state, all of its
leaders up to the present had committed savage massacres and war crimes
against innocent unarmed Palestinian civilians; starting with the
massacre of Dir Yasin, Kufr Qasim, Tantura, Sabra and Shatila, Quana,
Jenin, and up to the present genocidal financial and economical siege
and blockade of the whole Palestinian people. The Geneva Convention
defines genocide, among others, as “acts committed with intent to
destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious
group, including deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of
life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in
part”.
Israeli prime ministers are the most notorious terrorists. The first
Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion had established the Israeli
state on the total destruction and obliteration of at least 500
Palestinian towns and villages. Menachem Begin, commanded the
terrorist organization Irgun, praised the massacre of Dir Yasin calling
it a “miracle”. Begin’s Irgun had committed many terrorist attacks
against Palestinian and British civilians, that led Ben Gurion to refer
to the Irgun as “Jewish Nazis” and compared Begin to Hitler. Yitzhak
Shamir masterminded the murder of hundreds of Palestinian and British
civilians, and was responsible for the bombing of King David Hotel in
Jerusalem. His Lehi terrorist gang was responsible for the assassination
of the British minister in the Middle East, Lord Moyne, in Cairo in
November 1944, and the assassination of UN mediator Count Folke
Bernadotte in September 1948.
Yitzhak Rabin carried the massacres in Palestinian towns of Lud and
Ramleh and ordered his soldiers to break the bones of Palestinian
youngsters’ bones during the Intifada. Ehud Barak orchestrated the
assassination of three Palestinian leaders in Lebanon in 1970. Ariel
Sharon, hailed by Israelis as “king of Israel”, was the most notorious
butcher of them all. His whole career was filled with massacres of
Palestinian, Egyptian, and Lebanese civilians. All the Israeli Prime
Ministers had committed racial and religious cleansing on a very large
scale and this cleansing is still going on until today.
After the establishment of the Israeli state on the usurped Palestinian
land all the Zionist terror organizations had united together in one
organization to become the Israeli army. This Israeli army became a
terrorist organization for hire. This was clear when Israel joined
Britain and France in their war against Egypt in 1956 after Egyptian
President Naser had nationalized the Suez Canal. Among the payments
Israel received was Dimona nuclear reactor built by France, and heavy
water for nuclear material from Britain.
Terrorism is embodied in the Israeli army, who had invaded all the
neighboring Arab states; Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. The army
committed many massacres and war crimes murdering unarmed innocent
civilians, demolishing civilian homes, razing agricultural lands, and
indiscriminately bombing and destroying whole Arab cities.
Within Palestine itself the Israeli soldiers routinely shoot Palestinian
civilians at point blank. Israeli soldiers deliberately target
Palestinian children. During the Intifada Israeli snipers had murdered
many Palestinian children by shooting them in the head and in upper
torso. Israeli soldiers had systematically targeted medical ambulances
killing the sick, the wounded and even doctors. They routinely raid
Palestinian hospitals and kidnap wounded Palestinians from the operating
tables. Israeli checkpoints had prevented the sick and pregnant women
from traveling to hospitals in the main cities. At least 20 newborn
infants had died at the checkpoints during birth during the last three
years. Israeli air raids bomb Palestinian neighborhoods murdering
civilians the majority of them children. The latest air raid Tuesday
6/20 had claimed three children and seven wounded.
Israeli soldiers, snipers, and tower guards made it a game to shoot
Palestinian civilians especially children. They shoot at everything that
moves. This has become a normative behavior; we just need to look at the
number of Palestinian children who had been shot in the head and chest.
The incident of an Israeli commander emptying his machine gun in the
dead body of 13-year-old girl “Iman Alhems”, who was shot while on her
way to school, shows how much Palestinian children had been dehumanized
by the Israeli army. Many Palestinian children had been murdered while
in streets, in their own houses, playing in front of their homes, and
even in their class rooms.
Contrary to the Zionist propaganda, Israeli soldiers behave like savage
barbarians and common thieves. During their raids on, and while
bulldozing, Palestinian homes Israeli soldiers treat Palestinian
civilians, including children, with avenging savagery and extreme terror
to traumatize the new generation and to instill the feelings of helpless
and worthless in their heart. They savagely kick the people out of their
homes without giving a chance to collect their belongings. They start
smashing furniture, stealing electrical and electronic equipments, steal
any money and jewelry they find before demolishing the home while
Palestinian families watch with broken hearts. Armed Israeli soldiers
had broken into Palestinians banks and loaded all Palestinian money on
their military truck and drove away in bright daylight like common
thieves.
Even
Israeli civilians carry this terrorist spirit. Many Israeli colonies had
formed what they termed “underground” movements (terrorist
organizations) to allegedly protect the colonies from the “dangerous”
Palestinian farmers. Members of these “underground” terrorist
organizations had committed massacres against Palestinians. The most
famous happened on February 1994 when Barukh Goldstein from Kahane
terrorist organization gunned down 29 praying Muslims in the Ibrahim
Mosque in Hebron. Israelis of “Kiryat Arba” colony, built on confiscated
Palestinian land, had erected a memorial shrine for Goldstein calling
him “the saint”.
The
Israeli terrorist “Dennis Ruhan” bombed Al-Aqsa mosque in August 1969
and burnt part of it, while another terrorist “Allan Goodman” sneaked
into the same mosque with his machine gun in April 1982 and murdered two
praying Palestinians and wounded nine others. “David Bin Shimoul” fired
a missile at a Palestinian bus in October 1984 in Jerusalem killing one
civilian and wounding ten others. In May 1990 “’Ami Pauper” sprayed with
his machine gun Palestinian laborer waiting at a bus stop killing seven
and wounding eleven. “Naom Friedman” opened fire at market goers in
Hebron in February 1997 murdering two and wounding seven. Israeli armed
civilians routinely fire at Palestinians in Hebron, fire-bomb their
homes and shops, and harass children and students. “’Idan Zadeh” got on
a Palestinian bus in the Arab town of “Shefa-‘Amr” in August 2005 to
empty his machine gun murdering four Palestinians and wounding thirty.
This
hatred and terror is not restricted only in members of Israeli terror
organizations, the rest of the Israeli settlers are also participating
in a campaign of terror against the neighboring Palestinian villages.
Amnesty International had reported that Israeli security forces and
settlers are being allowed to perpetrate abuses (and crimes) against
Palestinians without any fear of being brought to justice. Under the
protection of Israeli soldiers settlers routinely attack Palestinian
farmers, rob or burn their crops and cut their trees. They poison their
livestock, shoot their animals, and demolish their farm shacks. They
dump their sewage water at Palestinian cities in a germ warfare to
spread diseases. They release wild animals such as wild bores and wolfs
in Palestinian farm land to terrorize farmers and to destroy their
crops. None of these criminal settlers was ever brought to justice,
while when a Palestinian is merely suspected of standing up against
these settlers to protect his life, the lives of his family members, and
his land he would be arrested and brought to Israeli courts to be
harshly and unjustly sentenced.
Israeli citizens are raised, since childhood, in a culture of hatred
against every thing Palestinian. Israeli government had adopted a
campaign of hatred against Muslims and Arabs. This campaign starts in
their elementary schools fostering racism, arrogance and hatred. The
Israeli literature is full with demeaning descriptions of Arabs as
robbers, traitors, and sex-craving animals. Zionist Israeli religious
leaders routinely describe Palestinians as insects and cockroaches to be
crushed under the foot. This hatred is manifested in the aggression of
settlers and soldiers, who proudly show off their hatred with “born to
kill” bandanas on their helmets. Polls had shown that the majority of
Israelis and of Zionist Jews around the world are in favor of expulsion
of the Palestinians from Palestine to “cleanse” their own promised land
from heathens (Muslims and Christians alike).
Israeli state terror tactics against Palestinians constitute a
premeditative genocide. Since 1948 Zionists had robbed more than half of
Palestine and established their own god’s promised state of Israel, and
in their 1967 aggression war they occupied the rest of Palestine.
Zionist Israelis are the aggressors and the occupiers, who had, and
still are, terrorizing defenseless armless Palestinian civilian
communities. Palestinians have been living under the brutal terrorizing
Israeli occupation for the last 58 years; the longest military
occupation in history.
Israel is driven by a terrorist, racist, and fake fundamental religious
ideology of “god’s chosen people in god’s Promised Land”. Even before
establishing the state of Israel all Israeli leaders, without exception,
had been calling for the preservation of the pure Jewish blood in a
Jewish only state, a twin ideology of the Nazi’s pure superior Arian
blood.
Although the PLO had recognized the State of Israel in 1992 Oslo Peace
Accord and was content to establish Palestinian state on only 22% of
historical Palestine, Israel had never recognized Palestinians as a
people, but as a minority represented by the PA. Israel had never
recognized Palestinians’ rights to live as a free nation in their own
independent state, nor recognized the right of expelled Palestinian
refugees to return to their own land as mandated by UN Resolution 194.
Israel had violated tens of UN resolutions and had broken many
international laws.
Israel is not really interested in any peaceful agreement with its
neighboring Arabs. Contrary to the Israeli claims peace and security are
not Israel’s goals. Its only goal is Zionist expansion and conquest of
the Arab World to build its “Greatest Israel” from Nile to Euphrates.
This is apparent in Israel’s rejection of all peaceful solutions offered
by UN resolutions, Palestinian agreements, Arab peaceful initiatives,
and many Western intermediary proposals. In contrast Israel had never
offered any peace initiative but unilateral redeployments, threatening
promises, and more colonial expansions.
Israel’s state terrorism has the advantage of being condoned by US & EU
governments and ignored and distorted by all mainstream media, while
Palestinian self-defense, resistance to Israel’s illegal occupation, and
any retaliation to Israeli terror attacks are exaggerated and condemned
as “terrorism”. All Israeli crimes, including assassinations, targeting
children, razing farm land, robbing Palestinian land to build their own
colonies, house demolitions, and indiscriminate air bombing of civilian
communities with American made F16 and bombs are described as
self-defense and war against terror, while Palestinians are portrayed as
cold blooded suicide bomber, baby killers, ruthless terrorists. With all
its military might Israel is portrayed as the victims of the rudimentary
Palestinian rockets that, so far, had killed nobody. Palestinian
victims, the majority of which are children and women, are described as
armed terrorists who are determined to wipe Israelis off the face of
earth.
The
big myth about the Zionist Israeli state is that it is a democracy. The
truth of the matter is that Israel is a theocratic terroracracy driven
by dangerous apocalyptic religious beliefs of “god’s chosen people in
god’s promised land”. Its government is influenced by arrogant, racist,
and militaristic religious parties, who pose a real threat to
international peace and security. Israel is destabilizing the Middle
East by its policies of aggression on Arab neighbors and its “cleansing”
of indigenous Palestinians in an attempt to “preserve pure Jewishness of
Israel” much like the Nazi’s “super Arian blood”. Countries, which
support Israel financially, militarily, politically and economically,
are harboring international state terror and should be condemned
internationally.
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Dr. Elias Akleh is an Arab writer from a Palestinian descent, born in
the town of Beit-Jala and lives in the US.
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