Why on earth would anyone believe we are going to achieve a durable, honourable peace? Please read my article below, make up your mind, share and make a comment.
Jafar M. Ramini
Salam Wa Laisa Estislam
Peace Not Capitulation
Salam Wa Laisa Estislam
Peace Not Capitulation
KINGDOM OF EVIL
Jafar M Ramini
To understand the mindset of any person you have got to delve into their background and upbringing. Who or what made Benjamin Netanyahu the man he is today?
This week marks the 45th anniversary of the 6-day war, which resulted in Israel occupying the entire landmass of Palestine, the Golan Heights in Syria and a large chunk of Sinai.
Since then, a peace treaty has been signed between the Government of Egypt and Israel which resulted in the return of the Sinai; another peace treaty was signed with the Government of Jordan which effectively removed two of the front line Arab countries from the equation. The Golan Heights have been dormant and if the current situation in Syria deteriorates any further none of us should be surprised if Israel announces the annexation of the Golan Heights permanently. Meanwhile, the brutal, military occupation in the West Bank grows uglier, harsher and more entrenched and the strangulation of Gaza gets tighter by the day.
Is there any hope for a satisfactory, honourable conclusion to the so-called peace process between the Palestinians and the Israelis? The answer, I am sad to say, is a definite ‘no’.
Why? Because the man at the helm in Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu will never, ever entertain such a thought.
When Netanyahu recently joined forces with the Kadima Party to form a coalition government he was hailed as the new King of Israel. Many who aspire for peaceful coexistence between the Israelis and Palestinians, within and without Israel, thought that this new-found strength and status might give him the power he needed to free himself from the clutches of the ultra right wing religious parties and the settlers’ movement which have been the most obstinate obstacles to peace. It would seem not. Mr. Netanyahu’s new-found, unchallenged power has propelled him even further to the right and made him even more intransigent, arrogant and unapproachable. His beliefs and upbringing which helped form his hard Zionist mind and heart stem from these biblical texts.
“On that day the Lord made a covenant to Abraham saying “To your descendents I give this land from the river of Egypt to the great river Euphrates”. Genesis 15: 18.
“God spoke unto us, saying, Go to the hill country and all the places nigh thereunto..In the Arabah, the hill country and in the Lowland..in the south and by the sea shore the land of the Canaanites and Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates. Go in therefore and possess the land, which the Lord swore unto your fathers. To Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and to them and their seed after them.” Deuteronomy 1:6 – 8.
“Every place whereon your foot shall tread shall be yours. From the wilderness and Lebanon to the river Euphrates, even unto the hinder sea shall be yours.” Deuteronomy 14:24.
“From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the greater river Euphrates and all the land of the Hittites and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your border.” Joshua 1: 4.
You only have to look at Benjamin Netanyahu’s late father, a hardened Zionist racist, to see where his personality came from.
Shortly before his death Professor Benzion Netanyahu gave this interview which his son, Benjamin, tried to suppress.
Now you see that a child, who was spawned in racism, hatred and paranoia, cannot be anything but what Netanyahu is today. And this is the man we, the Palestinians, are supposed to forge a lasting peace with.
The company that he keeps and who have enormous influence on his policies and behaviour are not any better. Listen to what Ilan Tsion, the head of an Israeli group called ‘Fence For Life’ has to say.
“The separation fence must be closed and sealed. The Egyptian fence must be closed and sealed. The separation wall with Lebanon must be closed and sealed. We must build a fence on the Jordanian border immediately, no one gets in or out! Jews who live in Judea and Samaria [West Bank] may come in and out - Arabs may not come in and out.”
Mr. Tsion made this statement moments after he forcefully objected to Israel being called an “apartheid” state.
An Israeli lawyer and activist, who boasted about his efforts to prevent the reunfication of Palestinian families,Tsion spoke at a conference in Ramle, on 15th April where he also called the presence of Africans a mortal threat to the lives of every single Jewish man, woman and child.
Yehuda Etzion, Gush Emunim activist who was jailed for five years in 1980 for plotting to blow up Al-Aqsa Mosque has since said he would do it again. “Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount is the wrong building in the wrong place”, he said. This liberal and enlightened gentleman was one of the group of like-minded Zionist settlers who marched into Jerusalem on May 20th this year for, the Jerusalem Reunification Day.
As for Mr. Netanyahu he rewarded those ultra right-wing Zionist settlers by announcing that 4000 new housing units in Tulkarim-Qalqilya are in the pipeline.
While the settlers shouted ‘death to the Arabs’ and ‘Al Aqsa must be blown up’, Mr. Netanyahu pledged that he will never accept any peace deal agreement that divided Jerusalem. He added that, ‘Israel without Jerusalem is like a body without a heart.
The final nail in the coffin of a shared Jerusalem is the announcement of 2610 housing units and 1,110 hotel rooms in Givat Hamatos in the southern fringes of Jerusalem.
David Seidemann, an Israeli attorney who monitors urban developments said, "There is only so much territorial abuse this tortured land can take before we kill the political option of saving the two-state solution”.
From the above, surely we can see that these guys are not bashful. On the contrary they are very passionate about what they aim to do. The building of Eretz Israel, preferably without any non-Jews in it.
How they can get away with all of this? They can because the international community is burdened with guilt and the Zionist Christians of America give the biblical premise their full-blooded, blind-folded zeonophobic support.
If I may I shall take this opportunity to remind those Zionist Christians what the late J.F. Kennedy had to say:
“One day, after I am long gone you will remember me and say we should have stopped the nuclear programme of Israel, abolished the Federal Reserve and kicked all secret societies, occultists, usurpers and Zionists out of our wonderful country to keep it that way. But it is never too late. Just remember that.”
If only.
Can you pls provide me a link (evidence)where it confirms that JF kennedy said that!
ReplyDeleteIn the thought provoking book, They Dare to Speak Out read on page 114 that's where you shall find it. JFK was opposed to the Israel Lobby and tried to warn the world of Israel's power and grip on America and the world
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