Obscene Anomaly
By Khalid Amayreh
2 February, 2008
The Israeli embassy in Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania, came under
attack by anonymous gunmen this week. The attack, in which no people were
killed, showed that the Mauritanian people don't like the presence of Israelis
and Zionists on their national soil.
Terrorism, of course, should be condemned in the strongest terms. However, the
presence of an Israeli diplomatic mission in the heart of Nouakchott is a
brazen provocation to the sensibilities and feelings of Mauritanian citizens
After all, like the rest of mankind, Mauritanians watch on a daily basis what
Israel is doing in Gaza and the West Bank, namely the genocidal campaign of
ethnic cleansing the Zionist military-political establishment has been
effecting against helpless Palestinians.
In fact, the presence of Israeli embassies, consulates, charge d'affaires ,
"trade offices" in Arab and Muslim capitals should be viewed as a monumental
disgrace for concerned states and their governments and rulers. This is very
much like maintaining normal relations with Nazi Germany while the Third Reich
was busy classifying people into Ubermensch and Untermensch and exterminating
numerous multitudes of people in order to fulfill German nationalism.just as
Israel has been, more or less, doing to the Palestinians since its misbegotten
birth sixty years ago.
Again, no one should seek to justify or encourage any acts of terror. But the
presence of the representatives of a Nazi-like regime, that flies in the face
of human rights and international law, in Arab and Muslim capitals is a crime
that is even worse, I would say much worse, than the crime of terror.
Needless to say, the presence of Israeli embassies and "diplomats" in Arab and
Muslim capitals implies legitimization of ethnic cleansing, genocide,
occupation, colonialism and the systematic dispossession and attempted
obliteration of the Palestinian people.
In fact, Israeli embassies throughout the world perform several functions, all
of them evil and immoral. The premier function of any given Israeli embassy is
to justify, defend, extenuate and explain the criminal acts carried out,
nearly on a daily basis, against helpless men, women and children, who simply
want to be free and refuse to be annihilated quietly.
These criminal acts include the deliberate murder of innocent civilians,
destruction of their homes, bulldozing of their farms and decimation of their
ability to live a normal life. In other words, Israeli ambassadors and consuls
and charge d'affaires effectively act as public relations officer for the
Israeli occupation army, a Jewish Wehrmacht by every standard of morality.
Their lies are incalculable as they are obscene. They claim that the harsh
blockade on the Gaza Strip's 1.5 million inhabitants, now in effect for the
eighth consecutive month, is not meant to harm civilians and is only in
response to "rockets" fired by Palestinian freedom fighters onto Israeli
settlements.
Of course, these lies are pornographic just as Israeli atrocities are also
pornographic because anyone with even rudimentary knowledge of the situation
in Palestine-Israel knows quite well that the "rockets" are only a pretext, and
that the real motive behind the slow-motion genocide in Gaza is to simply kill
as many Palestinians as the world public opinion allows, under existing
circumstances, and possibly destroy the democratically elected Hamas
government in order to enable America's Palestinian lackeys in Ramallah to
sell out the Palestinian cause and inalienable rights unopposed.
Israeli embassies and diplomatic missions have the habit of giving a rosy
picture of the "democratic" Israeli society and how Jews and non-Jews are
treated equally.
I don't know if the Mauritanian ambassador in Israel conveys to his government
back in Nouakchott the "real" reality, not the virtual reality, created by
Zionist propaganda.
>From example, does he inform his government that Israeli cabinet ministers,
>Knesset members, and even rabbis routinely call for the ethnic cleansing of
>non-Jews, who are actually Israeli citizens?
Does His Excellency inform his government that the Israeli occupation army
often murders 50 or 70 or even a hundred Palestinians, mostly innocent
civilians, for every Israeli settler killed by Palestinians?
Does His Excellency inform his superiors that some rabbis, even high-ranking
ones, constantly call for the "relocation" and deportation of Palestinians
from their ancestral homeland to Arabian deserts.from Sinai, to Saudi Arabia to
even the sub-Sahara desert in North Africa?
Does he inform his government that an important Israeli rabbi by the name of
David Batsri routinely teaches in his synagogue that Arabs are actually
donkeys, not human beings, and that the Almighty created them in a human shape
only in order to work and serve the Jews?
If Arab ambassadors in Israel don't communicate Israeli crimes and racism to
their respective governments, then what are they doing in Tel Aviv? Frequenting
casinos and nightclubs? Socializing with Mossad and Shin Beth agents? Or
probably conspiring against their own countries and their own peoples, probably
in return for some money?
And if they do relay reality to their capitals as they indeed should, then why
don't these respective Arab governments keep silent about these crimes? Are
they and their Israeli colleagues members in the same Mason lodge?
When a number of Arab states decided to normalize relations with Israel,
especially following the hapless Oslo Agreement, mainly to obtain a certificate
of good conduct from the US, Israel's guardian-ally, the rulers of these states
argued then that relations with Israel would serve the Palestinian cause and
encourage the Jewish state to walk in the path of peace and come to terms
with Palestinian rights.
However, nearly 15 years after the conclusion of the Oslo Accords, it is
crystal clear that normalization between certain Arab states and Israel has
emboldened the latter as its criminality and ferocity have reached
unprecedented level.
Paradoxically, normalization with Israel, which the stupid Arab regimes had
hoped would be a political asset, has turned out to be a disastrous liability
for the Palestinians and their enduring struggle for freedom, and an asset
for Israel which has been able to endear itself to Arab regimes and at the
same time keep murdering the Palestinians in the hundreds and in the thousands.
Today, Israel has more or less normal if not cordial relations with Egypt,
Jordan, Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, Oman, Mauritania, Tunisia and Morocco. There is
also a lot of flirting going between Israel and a number of other Arab and
Muslim states such as Pakistan and Indonesia and to a lesser extent Algeria and
Yemen.
This is happening while the slaughter of Palestinians by the Israeli
machine of death continues unabated and the construction of Jewish colonies in
occupied Arab land goes on unhindered. Israel is even effectively destroying
the Al-Aqsa Mosque.step by step and stone by stone.
In conclusion, normalization between Israel and Arab and Muslim states,
especially before ending Israel's Nazi-like occupation and colonization of the
Palestinian homeland, is an obscene anomaly that must come to an end sooner
rather than later.
Until then, all these embassies and representative offices will remain despised
by the masses whether in Egypt, Jordan or Mauritania. And rightly so.
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