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Khalid Amayreh - Zionists: We hate you because you are evil, not because
you are Jewish
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Posted: 01 Apr 2009 02:42 PM PDT
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massacres then and now./ I have been under fire of late from two
diametrically opposite quarters. First, the fanatical, self-worshipping
Zionists who think that non-Jewish suffering should never ever be
compared with Jewish suffering.
Needless to say, this psychotic attitude stems from deep-seated
convictions that a Jew is a special creature whose life is worth more
than the rest of humanity. Haven't we noticed, for example, how Israel
has made "Gilad Shalit", the Israeli soldier imprisoned by Hamas, a
household name all over the world, while next to nothing is mentioned
about the estimated 10,000 Palestinian political and resistance
prisoners languishing in Israeli dungeons and concentration camps?
And, second, some pro-Palestinian activists who believe that I should
avoid invoking the holocaust in my writings lest this help legitimize
the Zionist narrative and inadvertently justify Israeli crimes against
the Palestinian people.
To our pro-Palestinian activists, I, with all due respect, would like to
say the following. I sincerely believe that we would be walking in the
path of immorality if we denied or belittled other people's suffering.
Indeed, it is imperative that we retain our humanity and moral fabric in
the course of this legitimate struggle against the evil state. We must
never imitate or emulate their ways and tactics. This would be
self-defeating, self-destructive and immensely demoralizing.
Moreover, we must refrain from saying or doing things that would make
others portray us as inherent enemies of Jews, because we are not.
We also need to be constantly vigilant and cautious about what we say
and how we say it, lest we inadvertently besmirch the legitimacy of our
just cause.
Israel is so manifestly criminal and ugly that we don't need to deny
anyone's suffering to prove this plain fact.
In short, we don't have to shoot ourselves in the foot. It is wrong and
it hurts us a lot.
Obviously, the Zionists' "arguments" are motivated, as always, by
ill-will and a malicious desire to silence critics of Israeli
criminality whose phantasmagoric expressions we all witnessed recently
in the Gaza Strip.
The subject of contention this time has been an article I published a
few days ago, entitled "Shame on us
<http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/03/29/shame-on-us/>," in which I
strongly criticized efforts by some dubious "peace activists" to
bamboozle some innocent Palestinian children from some impoverished
localities into playing music before "holocaust survivors."
This is what happened last week when a dozen young musicians from the
Jenin Refugee Camp, in the northern West Bank, were taken
surreptitiously to Tel Aviv where they were made to play a serenade
before some elderly Zionists, some of whom veterans from the many
criminal wars Israel had waged on our people. And as I said in the
article, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine was not carried out by UFOs
but by the very people our children are now being asked to cheer up.
Understandably, the not-so-innocent event left many Palestinians
infuriated by the cheap exploitation of these kids for Israeli hasbara
purposes. As one who lost three uncles in one day to Zionist murderers
in 1954, I felt deeply wounded and humiliated by that event.
I am actually not against reconciliation between Palestinians and Jews.
I don't and never will view Jews as our inherent enemies. Some Jews are
actually among the most effective supporters of our national cause.
Those we salute for their honesty and morality.
However, it is obvious that true reconciliation in this part of the
world requires that the slate be made thoroughly clean. Usurped rights
must be returned to rightful owners, and wrongs must be rectified. This
I say to honest and conscientious Jews who are genuinely interested in
justice and peace.
But to the Zionists I would like to say that the following: the latest
point of contention is not about music or even peace. This is first and
foremost about human dignity of which the children of the holocaust and
their children and grand children and great grandchildren have been
trying to rob us.
And whether you like it or not, for us, at least, you represent the real
Wehrmacht, the real SS and real Gestapo. You are the Nazis of our time.
This is what we see from our vantage point. This is what much of the
world sees. This is what many honest and conscientious Jews see.
You stole our country, you murdered our people, you destroyed our homes,
and you expelled and dispersed the bulk of our people to the four
corners of the world. And after all of this, you have audacity to dupe
our children to sing and play music to you? This is simply beyond, far
beyond, Chutzpah.
Some of you habitually babble the word "hatred" whenever a Palestinian
asserts his people's humanity and dignity.
Well, you are really sick to the bone if you think Palestinians must
sacrifice their dignity in order to become a hate-free people according
to the Zionist lexicon. We will not pay tribute to the killers of our
children, we will not show respect to those who murder us.
Besides, who do you think you are anyway to lecture us on hatred? After
all, you represent and embody hatred in its ugliest form. The
extirpation of a people from its ancestral homeland from time immemorial
is a satanic act par excellence. The destruction and obliteration of
hundreds of Palestinian towns and villages to fulfill Jewish nationalism
is diabolical act of the highest order.
Your recent blitzkrieg in Gaza during which your Nazi-like army ganged
up on a helpless, unprotected civilian population, exterminating them
with bombs and missiles and incinerating their children with White
Phosphorus proved once again that you are no better than the hateful
Nazis you curse day and night for what they did to you sixty years ago.
Well, try to get yourselves out of this cocoon of self-denial. The
Palestinian people don't hate music nor do they teach their kids to hate
Jews or non-Jews, it is your evil and murderous actions that generate
hatred against you not only among Palestinians and Muslims but among
many other people around the world.
Just look at your ugly faces in the mirror.
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