in Occupied E. Jerusalem
“And the governor said, Why, what evil that
man (Jesus) has done?
But they cried out more vociferously,
shouting, let him die, let him die.
And when Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing,
but that rather a tumult was being made, he took water,
and washed his hands before the multitude, saying,
I am innocent of the blood of this
just person; see ye to it. Then all the people answered, saying:
His blood be on us, and on our children…”Matthew 27 (23-26).
As always in an election year, American presidential contenders
are displaying some distinguishable differences on a whole range
of political, social and economic issues affecting American voters.
However, there is one single issue that solidly unifies all aspirants
to the White House, and it doesn’t matter if you are republican or
democrat, black or white, liberal or conservative, religious or
unreligious. Everyone must go with the flow because those who
don’t will lose and be vilified by the multitudinous tongues of evil
men whose pagan god is Israel and religion is Zionism.
This issue is, of course, Israel and its enduring
Nazi-like oppression of the Palestinian people.
In America, as some American intellectuals have come
to realize, Israel is not only innocent until proven guilty,
as the rest of humanity is treated. Israel is actually innocent,
super-innocent, even if proven guilty a thousand times, as
undoubtedly it has been. This benevolent innocence is not a
variable; it is an absolute, immutable constant, irrespective of
how many thousands of innocent Palestinian and Lebanese
civilians Israel murders, how many houses Israel destroys,
and how many nefarious crimes Israel commits.
Israel is after all God’s nation and the apple of the Lord’s eye,
and as such is incapable of being guilty or even mistaken as
the late American evangelical leader Jerry Falwell claimed.
Now is the election season, or, more correctly, the season of
political prostitution and moral whoredom, in the United States.
In this marketplace of wanton hucksterism, Israel is the ultimate
holy cow, the sacrosanct mantra whose invocation justifies the
unjustifiable, even the unthinkable.
Maybe many Americans will wonder why a Palestinian living
12000 kilometers away would speak so harshly of their
marvelous quadrennial carnival of democracy. Well, in a
certain sense I don’t blame them. They are a people whose
fanatically ignorant president invaded, occupied and
destroyed two sovereign nations, and killed or caused the
death of over a million innocent people because
“God told him to do it.”
They are a people whose country has been bankrolling and arming
to the teeth a manifestly evil state that has been murdering,
tormenting and oppressing a nearly helpless people, the Palestinians,
on no account other than the fact that the victims are not members
of “the holy tribe.”
It is a country whose top leader had the moral audacity to call
Israel’s certified war criminal, Ariel Sharon, may he lodge in hell
for eternity, a man of peace. It is a country that is trying to spread
democracy overseas by starving and tormenting a people for
electing the wrong political party. It is a country that has made
words such as “Abu Ghraib”, “renditions” and “Guantanamo “
household names.
In America, they call it political correctness, since voicing a
nonconformist view regarding Israel, however innocuous and
reasonable, would amount to a definite political suicide.
It is political suicide to call for peace and justice in Palestine,
since “justice” for the Palestinians would always be construed to mean
“another holocaust” for Jews. It is political suicide to invoke UN
resolutions 242 and 338, as the basis of a prospective peace settlement
between Israel and the Palestinians. It is political suicide to call on
Israel to stop targeting Palestinian civilians…because then you are
raising questions about Israel’s morality especially its
“most moral army.”
It is political suicide to even invoke the very humanity of the
Palestinians because Israel’s enemies, or more correctly victims,
can’t be really human, at least humans whose humanity is equal
or comparable to the humanity of the chosen race!!
In this conspicuously intimidating atmosphere, even a passing
allusion to international law and human rights, as guiding
considerations for the resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli
conflict, would be sufficient to bring about the political
decapitation of any presidential hopeful who dares to even
slightly differ with the powerful Zionist cult now enslaving
American politics, media and public discourse.
In Jesus’ time, at least the pagan Roman governor of Jerusalem,
Pilate, possessed the moral decency to claim innocence of the
“blood of this just man.” However, in today’s America, it is very
difficult to find a politician with Pilate’s moral caliber, as most,
if not all, American politicians, especially presidential contenders,
are finding themselves sitting in a house of ill repute, having shed
whatever moral conscience they might have had.
Take Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas who is
seeking the Republican Party nomination for President as an example.
This man who claims to be “Christian” and adhering to the ideals and
teachings of Jesus Christ has castigated Sen. Barack Obama, one of the
two remaining Democratic candidates for the presidency, for merely
suggesting a quiet dialogue between the Muslim world and
the United States.
“We are deeply troubled by Senator Obama’s desire to hold a summit
in the Muslim world, with all the heads of state…many of whom have yet
to renounce terrorism or refrain from anti-Semitic incitement,” ranted
Huckabee recently, emitting his hatred and vindictiveness toward the
Muslim world’s 1.5 billion human beings.
Seeking to procure Jewish support, the former Arkansas governor
sounded even more Zionist than Ehud Olmert and Shimon Peres:
“No one seeking the presidency in either party is more steadfastly
committed to Israel’s security, survival as a ‘Jewish state’, and ability
to defend herself than I am. As President, I will ensure that Israel
always has the state-of-the-art weaponry and technology she needs.
And in addition, I will dramatically
increase American defense spending
….Together we must prevent nuclear proliferation
and defeat Islamofascism.”
Huckabee is not a “black sheep” amongst a host of enlightened and
less demagogic contenders. They all, more or less, possess the
same fanaticism, hatefulness, neurotic stupidity and blind
ignorance that make them think that only by demonizing and
crucifying five million Palestinians will they have a real chance
to be the White House’s next master.
Even Obama, who is being accused by an insidiously racist media
of being a crypto-Muslim, as if being Muslim were a great sin, has
found it essential to pander to the evil cult controlling the
American government and media. Yes, his refusal to call the
spade a spade with regard to Israeli war crimes, including the
dropping of 2-3 million cluster bomblets on Lebanon in the
summer of 2006 and the slow-motion genocide now underway
against the 1.5 million inhabitants of Gaza, only underscores the
unethical nature of a democracy that is stripped of a moral ceiling.
There is no doubt that wanton rallying of American presidential
contenders behind Israeli racism and criminality is a clarion proof
of the moral decay of our time.
This undoubtedly will put humanity on a sure course toward moral
extinction. This is unless we, as moral beings, re-examine our ways
and rediscover anew the ideals justice and morality.
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