in Occupied E. Jerusalem
German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived in Israel Sunday
on a three-day visit during which she is expected to reassert
Germany’s “solidarity” and “special relations” with the Zionist state.
In her weekly video message broadcast last week, Merkel
said she planned to stress Germany’s deep commitment to
“defending” Israel when she addresses the Israeli Knesset
or parliament on Tuesday.
Well, I am not quite sure that Israel, which possesses more
than 300 nuclear bombs and warheads, along with their
delivery systems, and also tightly controls the politics and
policies of its guardian-ally, the United States, needs a foreign
power to defend her against any real or imagined aggressor.
Hence, Merkel’s statement should only be construed as another
cheap expression of Germany’s humiliating subservience to Zionism.
Besides, one really can’t understand why Merkel has chosen
this time to show solidarity with Israel. Is Israel being attacked
by a foreign power? Are foreign predators occupying Israeli
land and building goy settlements on Israeli territories? Are
hostile politicians and military commanders threatening Jews
with a “greater holocaust”? Are Palestinian lawmakers warning
Jewish lawmakers that “Soon, we will kick you out of this land.”
Or, indeed, Is a hostile state blockading millions of Jews and
denying them access to food, water and medicine?
Earlier this month, the Israeli army, using state-of-the-art of
the American technology of death, swooped on the thoroughly
starved and hermetically blockaded Gaza civilians, killing and
maiming hundreds, including two dozen toddlers, babies and minors.
Interestingly, the pornographic bloodshed left no impact on
Merkel’s heart, let alone her mind. Do Germans still have the
same mentality, the same collective mindset, that their Nazi
forefathers had seven decade ago? I am asking this question
because it is amply clear that this whoring approach Germany
is displaying vis-à-vis Israel stems not from a real moral feeling
of guilt over the holocaust, but rather from a clearly immoral
policy that Germany ought to appease Zionism to the saturation
point and even beyond, regardless of any moral and human considerations.
This explains Germany’s clarion silence toward Israeli crimes
and genocidal terror against a people who are being killed and
hounded and surrounded by the “Israeli Defense Forces”
each day and every day very much as European Jewry were
being killed and hounded and surrounded by the Wehrmacht
and SS in Central and Eastern Europe during the Second World War.
True, Germany occasionally gives the Palestinian Authority,
which is forced to act and behave as the infamous Judenrate did,
a few million Marks, or partially or fully finance some small-size
projects in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
However, this meager assistance is not given in the spirit of
genuine concern for the plight of the Palestinian people. It is
rather extended for the purpose of creating a false impression
of balance between Germany’s subservience to Zionism on the
one hand, and its shocking callousness and indifference to
institutionalized Israeli policies of settlement expansion and
ethnic cleansing in the occupied territories, on the other.
The latest German proposal for holding a “security conference”
in Berlin in June is another expression of this wanton hypocrisy.
According to German officials, the conference, to which Israeli
and PA officials have already been invited, is aimed at
strengthening the Palestinian Police Forces.
Well, strengthening the police forces against whom,
and for what purpose?
Does the German leadership really think that the real
problem facing the Palestinian people under the Nazi-like
Israeli occupation lie in the weakness of their police forces?
Germany, and the rest of Europe, and for that matter, the
rest of the world, ought to understand that the Palestinian
people, the Palestinian leadership as well as the Palestinian
police forces and security agencies, are all languishing under
an evil military occupation which makes terms like Palestinian
authority, Palestinian President, officials, and police forces
utterly meaningless.
Indeed, how can one really relate candidly to “Palestinian
police forces” when according to Israeli-PA security arrangements
all Palestinian policemen and security cadres must immediately
enter their “coops” the moment an Israeli soldier appears
anywhere on the horizon?
Besides, the Palestinian people don’t really need a big police force
whose main function would be to persecute, torment and even
torture their own people on Israel’s behalf as evident from the
death-under-torture of a 43-year-old father of eight children in a
Ramallah dungeon recently.
The Palestinians need someone to help them repulse the
Nazi-like Israeli onslaught against them? They need a moral
and powerful voice that would tell Israel to stop the ongoing
theft of Palestinian land for Jewish-only settlement expansion.
We need someone to tell Israel that it is wrong to turn Gaza,
with its 1.5 million tormented human beings, into the
Auschwitz of our time.
Can Merkel tell Israeli leaders that Gazans are human beings too?
Can she tell Olmert and Barak that settlement aggrandizement in
occupied Arab East Jerusalem is scandalously inconsistent with
all Israeli pretensions about peace with the Palestinians?
Can she tell Barak that the continued existence of more than 600
Nazi-like roadblocks in the heart of the West Bank, despite all
American and European calls to remove them, is an affront to
civility and human decency?
seriousness about peace in Palestine, not another display
of hypocrisy in Berlin.
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