tolong kawan2 yang biasa membikin re-interpretasi jihad, israel bikinin
interpretasi jihad yang lebih ok.. sekalian biar re-interpretasi2nya tidak
hanya muter2 pada skala internal aja, tapi go public dan internasional gitu
hehe..
dan biar garapan projectnya lebih jelas, saya postingkan sebuah artikel di
bawah ini, semoga bermanfaat..
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Israels Racist Jihad Against the Arab &
Muslim People
By Genevieve Cora Fraser
Al-Jazeerah, August 19, 2006
As the world has witnessed in Lebanon and Palestine, Hizbullah and Hamas have
a long way to go to rival the ferocity and utter ruthlessness of the Israeli
military. Their goals are in diametrical opposition. Despite propaganda and
resolutions to the contrary, Hizbullah and Hamas are resistance organizations,
freedom fighters, determined to defend and liberate their people. Israel's
military function is the alleged security of the Jewish state, but the
achievement of that goal is highly questionable. Its hidden agenda or role,
viewed historically, is the oppression and subjugation of the Arab-Muslim
people so that Western Powers can rape their land and rob it of its riches
chief of which is oil.
Though oil seeps had been seen in the Middle East for thousands of years, the
history of the modern oil industry dates back to the 19th century when oil
wells in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas, Poland and elsewhere provided cure-all
medicines, lubricants and illuminants. Oil increased in value toward the end on
the century as the external combustion engine (steam) was replaced by the
internal combustion engine. Soon science and industry joined to investigate its
properties for use in manufacturing, transportation, and the fledgling electric
industry.
The first underground pipeline in the United States was laid in 1865. By the
1870s, oil wars had begun in earnest between the American Rockefellers,
Europe's Rothschilds and others. Not long afterwards, the Rothschilds undercut
Rockefellers Standard Oil Company through their agent Marcus Samuel who
organized oil tankers, secured canal access, and built local storage capacity
throughout the Far East. By 1908, oil was struck in Persia and the
Anglo-Persian Oil Company was incorporated the following year.
Writing for National Geographic Magazine, December 1938, in an article
entitled, Change Comes to Bible Lands, Fredrick Simpick recalled, Irans
main fields lie southeast of the Zagros Mountains, with the main pipeline
running down the Karum Valley. When I first saw this then-fever-cursed Persian
coast in 1909, pioneer American well shooters from Texas, sweating in awful
heat, were dragging pipe-laden barges up the Karum River to these new fields.
By 1917, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company owned the majority interest.
Perhaps not so coincidentally, in 1917 British Foreign Minister Balfour
promised the Zionist Jews a homeland in Palestine. However, the Declaration
was not presented to a sovereign power. As historian Robert John explains, the
letter was sent to an international financier of the banking house of
Rothschild who had been made a peer of the realm. The letter was posted from
the Foreign Office, November 2nd, 1917.
Dear Lord Rothschild,
I have much pleasure in conveying to you on behalf of His Majesty's
Government the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist
aspirations, which has been submitted to and approved by the Cabinet:"
"His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of
a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to
facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that
nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of
existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine or the rights and political status
enjoyed by Jews in any other country."
"I should be grateful if you would bring this Declaration to the knowledge of
the Zionist Federation."
"Yours sincerely,
Arthur James Balfour
In the aftermath of WW I, the League of Nations entrusted Palestine and Iraq
to Britain, and Lebanon and Syria to France, as Class A Mandates, which meant
they were to gain self-rule. By 1928, the colonial Zionist effort in Palestine
began in earnest, but not without Arab opposition. Indeed, the creation in
Egypt of the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928 appears to have been in counterpoint to
the influx and attitudes of the Jewish colonial Zionist enterprise.
By 1934, the first oil pipeline connecting Iraq with Tripoli, Lebanon was
laid; by 1935, a second line to Haifa, Palestine was opened. Throughout the
1930s, oil exploration continued in the desert, and later offshore, in what is
now the United Arab Emirates (UAE). By 1938, oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia
which is when the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco) was founded.
The 1938 National Geographic contains photos of the 618-mile oil pipe line
laid from Iraq to the Mediterranean as well as photos from Haifa, Palestine.
One photo is captioned, Pumping up an oil cargo from Haifas flexible undersea
hose, another reads, Propellers churning, a ship tows out the Haifa end of
the Iraq pipe line to make a filling station for tankers. Palestine had
become a crucial port for the oil industry. It was also strategically placed,
an ideal spot to establish a Western-oriented country in the Middle East.
Though strategically Israel is a Western ally, its democracy is a façade, a
pretense. Tear back the mask and you find a country not of the people, for the
people, by the people, but governed by a matrix of Basic Laws meticulously
constructed to ensure a caste system overlaid by virulent racism. Despite the
best efforts of humanistic Israeli Jews (and Jews throughout the world) who
strongly believe in the shared dignity of all people, as a colonial Jewish
state, Israel is imploding from within, a nation of implants - of strangers, at
war with its indigenous citizens and itself as it demands ever-increasing
racial, ethnic and religious purity. Today, the synergy of this mixture spills
out into the streets and fires the virulence of its military aggressions.
Ynetnews.com recently ran a series of articles on Sephardic Jews banned from
living in or even entering Ashkenazi (Caucasian) Jewish neighborhoods. One Ynet
headline news summary reported, Reception committee at ultra-Orthodox town
decides to ban additional families of Middle Eastern descent from entering some
of its streets, buildings in order to maintain community's high spiritual
level
Another Ynetnews article featured the following heading, Orthodox riot;
unhappy with neighbors / Efrat Weiss. Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox block road in
town of Beit Shemesh, hurl stones at police officers in protest of new
residents who are 'not religious enough'; five protestors arrested
Recently, a study presented during a Van Leer Jerusalem Institute conference
asserted that Ashkenazim consider their culture superior to that of the
Sephardim which has resulted in the establishment of a new Ashkenaz movement in
Israel. Additional studies on the matter indicate that people of Ashkenaz
origin tend to refer to themselves as 'Ashkenazim,' while Sephardim usually
define themselves as 'Israelis,' according to Prof. Yehuda Shenhav of the Van
Leer Institute.
In an article on Arab Jews a.k.a. the Mizrahim (the eastern ones), Adam
Hanieh states, The official ideology of Israel, Zionism, has always portrayed
itself as a liberation movement for all Jews. But although Zionism claims to
offer a home for all Jews, that home has never been offered equally.
The question of Arab Jews strikes at the heart of the Zionist contradiction
-- an attempt to build an anti-Arab, exclusively Jewish state on Arab lands.
From the early days of the Zionist project, large numbers of Jews from
neighboring Arab countries were brought to Palestine. Ostensibly they were
returning home, but in reality they came as cheap labour for their European
counterparts (Ashkenazi Jews), Hanieh claims.
The racism inherent in the Israeli caste system has resulted in inferior
education and job opportunities, poverty and tension within Jewish society.
According to Hanieh, Today Mizrahim constitute around 50% of the Israeli
population. Palestinian Arabs make up another 20%, so the total non-European
population is about 70%. This rises to 90% with the inclusion of Palestinians
from the occupied territories, making clear the colonial nature of Israel.
Adding to the tension are the attitudes held by Jewish adherents of the
Talmud and its reviling of the Goy, the non-Jew. Of all the groups Israelis
should feel gratitude toward the Christian Zionist supporters of Israel should
top the list. But that is not always the case. Ultra-Orthodox Jews attack
Christian tourists in Jerusalem, ran the June 28th headline in an article by
Jonathan Lis, a correspondent for Haaretz. Apparently, 100 residents of the
ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea She'arim in Jerusalem became enraged at the
sight of 50 pro-Israel Christian tourists in their neighborhood. Their offence?
They arrived wearing orange T-shirts with the words Love your neighbor as
yourself printed across them."
In Professor Israel Shahaks book, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, The
Weight of Three Thousand Years, he questions the Utopian vision and reality of
the Jewish state. He points out that the creation of the modern state system
freed more enlightened Jews to break from the confines of their ghettos and
fully participate as citizens in the countries in which they lived. He holds
that Zionism was a reaction to that freedom and offered a chance for rabbis to
reassert their control over the Jewish community.
In Chapter 5, "The Laws Against Non-Jews", Shahak explains that the Halakhah,
the legal system of classical Judaism - as practiced by virtually all Jews
from the 9th century to the end of the l8th and as maintained to this very day
in the form of Orthodox Judaism - is based primarily on the Babylonian Talmud.
However, problems arose among Christians and Muslims offended by the text
that resulted in anti-Semitic reactions. A few of the most offensive passages
were bodily removed from all editions printed in Europe after the mid-16th
century. In all other passages, the expressions 'Gentile', 'non-Jew',
'stranger' (goy, eino yehudi, , nokhri) - which appear in all early manuscripts
and printings as well as in all editions published in Islamic countries - were
replaced by terms such as 'idolator', 'heathen' or even 'Canaanite' or
'Samaritan', terms which could be explained away but which a Jewish reader
could recognize as euphemisms for the old expressions.
During certain periods the Tsarist Russian censorship became stricter and,
seeing the above mentioned euphemisms for what they were, forbade them too.
Thereupon the rabbinical authorities substituted the terms 'Arab' or 'Muslim'
(in Hebrew, Yishma'eli - which means both) or occasionally 'Egyptian',
correctly calculating that the Tsarist authorities would not object to this
kind of abuse. However, once securely ensconced in Israel, the rabbis
reestablished the most offending passages.
It is from the Russian translation, where the word Goy was substituted with
the word Arab, from which many of the most extreme elements within the Jewish
community derive justification for merciless attacks upon the Palestinians
such as those experienced in Hebron by the illegal settlers. During the last
election, the Russian, Avigdor Liberman, the head of The National Unit, came
in third behind Olmert and Peretz. He advocates the total ethnic cleansing of
Arab Israeli citizens from Israel.
Although the state's criminal laws make no distinction between Jew and
Gentile, such distinction is certainly made by Orthodox rabbis, who in guiding
their flock follow the Halakhah. Of special importance is the advice they give
to religious soldiers, Shahak states.
Since even the minimal interdiction against murdering a Gentile outright
applies only to 'Gentiles with whom we [the Jews] are not at war', various
rabbinical commentators in the past drew the logical conclusion that in wartime
all Gentiles belonging to a hostile population may, or even should be killed.
Since 1973 this doctrine is being publicly propagated for the guidance of
religious Israeli soldiers. The first such official exhortation was included in
a booklet published by the Central Region Command of the Israeli Army, whose
area includes the West Bank. In this booklet the Command's Chief Chaplain
writes:
When our forces come across civilians during a war or in hot pursuit or in a
raid, so long as there is no certainty that those civilians are incapable of
harming our forces, then according to the Halakhah they may and even should be
killed... Under no circumstances should an Arab be trusted, even if he makes an
impression of being civilized ... In war, when our forces storm the enemy, they
are allowed and even enjoined by the Halakhah to kill even good civilians, that
is, civilians who are ostensibly good.
According to Shahak, An even greater evil influence arises from special laws
against the ancient Canaanites and other nations who lived in Palestine before
its conquest by Joshua, as well as against the Amalekites. All those nations
must be utterly exterminated, and the Talmud and talmudic literature reiterate
the genocidal biblical exhortations with even greater vehemence. Influential
rabbis, who have a considerable following among Israeli army officers, identify
the Palestinians (or even all Arabs) with those ancient nations, so that
commands like 'thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth' acquire a topical
meaning.
Following the Palestinian election in January, if the Israeli leadership had
been willing to consider reconciliation, it might have signaled the beginning
of a true two state solution. After all, Hamas maintained a truce with Israel
for 1 ½ years despite Israels non-stop attacks by land, sea and the air. Hamas
also let it be known that they would be willing to extend the truce for 50 or
100 additional years. Instead of using this as an opening, Israel accused
Palestine of being an Axis of Evil and declared war on the Palestinian
Authority, and thus on the Palestinian population.
The charade, of course, was aided and abetted by President Bush and the US
Congress through sponsorship of anti-Palestinian legislation that is basically
a policy of genocide regarding the so-called Palestinian terrorists which as
we have learned involves every Palestinian Arab man, woman and child. The
excuse was that the Palestinians voted for terrorism when they democratically
elected Hamas. For far too long, imprisonment behind the racist Apartheid Wall,
curfews and blockades have served to create starvation and marginal health
care, most funding has been stopped, and infrastructure bombed and bulldozed
into oblivion. Hundreds of Palestinians have died and thousands injured since
Hamas was elected in January, and most of the elected leadership has been
jailed.
And in Lebanon, with over 1300 civilians known to be killed, 10s of thousands
wounded, and over a million who fled for their lives, Israel's debilitating air
strikes against privately owned factories throughout Lebanon dealt a
devastating blow to an economy paralyzed by weeks of hits on residential areas
and crucial infrastructure, according to the Daily Star of Beirut. The
production facilities of the largest dairy farm were destroyed as well as a
pharmaceutical plant, and the fishing industry may be obliterated for decades
due to the catastrophic oil spill from Israel's targeted bombing. How long it
will take to restore the country is anyone's guess. Israel also bombed
apartment buildings, schools, churches, hospitals, orphanages and gas stations
- anything and everything in its gun sights - including Lebanese military
barracks and outposts, Red Cross convoys and civilians attempting to escape the
onslaught.
The past president of the Lebanese Association of Industrialists, Jacques
Sarraf remarked, "Israel is the enemy and they are doing everything they can to
destroy the country, economically, socially, politically."
The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour also criticized the
thousands of dead and dying and injured in Lebanon and criticized Israeli
shelling which was targeting killing innocent civilians. "International law
demands accountability," she said in Geneva. "The scale of the killings in the
region, and their predictability, could engage the personal criminal
responsibility of those involved, particularly those in a position of command
and control." It could, and should, but will it?
Even King Abdullah, who is close to the Bush administration, issued a
statement: "If the option of peace fails as a result of Israeli arrogance, then
the only option remaining will be war, and God alone knows what the region
would witness in a conflict that would spare no one. Given Israeli aggression
and the financial, military and legislative support from the United States,
King Abdullah may be correct. If the current truce does not last, the only
option might be open warfare throughout the Middle East.
In her brief stay in Beirut, before being whisked away to the international
conference in Rome, US Secretary of State Rice stayed long enough to deliver
Israels conditions for a ceasefire. It was hard to tell if she was speaking on
behalf of the United States or as an emissary of Israel. Or, is there a
difference? In Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon, and Afghanistan and with plans to take
on Syria and Iran, it appears that Israel and the USA are pursuing a scorched
earth policy towards Arabs and Islam just as Hitler once pursued the Jews.
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