Only he to whom the land doesn’t belong is capable of burning it

Recently Israel was ablaze. The government was quick to declare the fires ‘arson’ set by Palestinians to destroy the land ….

But the reality is ….

“Only he to whom the land doesn’t belong is capable of burning it”.

by Evelyn Hecht-Galinski VIA Desert Peace

English translation by Milena Rampoldi, , edited by William Hanna  

With regards to the recent fires in the “Jewish State” 

we can only agree with Naftali Bennett who tweeted: 

“Only he to whom the land doesn’t belong is capable 

of burning it”. He is the right-wing Minister of 

Education and the President of the Party “Jewish 

Home” and the “Settlers‘ King” who made of the 

racist settlers‘ party a powerful coalition partner 

within the Netanyahu regime. And it is him who 

dreams of  Eretz Israel, the Great Israel, from the 

Mediterranean to Jordan, and in addition wants to 

annex big parts of the illegally occupied West Bank.  

Who does the land belong to? Certainly not to the 

ethnic cleansing Jewish occupiers who have displaced 

the indigenous Palestinian people. As a consequence 

of the fires, Bennett and his right-wing colleague, 

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman called for an 

expansion of Jewish settlements on occupied land and 

promptly authorized the building of 500 new 

settlement units! Also in this instance, the coward 

members of the German Government have remained 

silent because for them the existence of “a Jewish state” 

takes an important priority over human rights and 

international law.

This raises the question of “why is the Jewish state 

burning?” The majority of the hundreds of millions of 

trees planted since the Nakba by the Jewish National 

Fund, are conifers and particularly pines. The trees 

were planted for the benefit of the Jewish European 

immigrant ethnic cleansers so as to enable them to 

feel at home in a land for which they had no love, but 

simply wanted to possess.

Since Biblical times, trees planted in Palestine were 

suited for the dry land – such as olive trees – which 

were vital for the livelihood of Palestinian farmers and 

their families. Other trees included carob, mulberry, 

and low oaks which were all ecologically suitable 

vegetation. Such trees were and are still being 

systematically destroyed by the Zionist intruders to 

deprive the Palestinians of their livelihood.

This raises a further question of whether the current 

and previous fires – such as the 2010 Mount Carmel 

forest fire – were natural or cases of deliberate arson. 

The use of European monoculture to transform the 

“Jewish State” into a “Small Switzerland” is, however, 

doomed to failure. From the beginning, the Zionist 

intruders spoke about “Arabs” condescendingly with 

the Palestinians and their land being referred to as 

 “uncultured” and “uncultivated” as compared to the 

blossoming “Jewish” landscapes which alone were 

worthy of praise.

Consequently the effectiveness of this hasbara 

(propaganda) has deceived the whole world into 

overlooking the ethnic cleansing of Palestine while 

accepting Israel’s “green-wash” disinformation 

including that relating to the drainage of important 

lakes and water sources of the indigenous Palestinian 

inhabitants. The scarcity of water for Palestinians has 

been further exacerbated by decades of unrestricted 

theft by Israel of Palestinian water that is then used to 

supply the illegal settlements. The extensive damage 

caused by such water theft in the illegally occupied 

West Bank and the barbarically blockaded Gaza Strip is 

indescribable! So far,  the endless decades-long ethnic 

cleansing of Palestine has been tolerated by the 

hypocritical international community in general, and by 

the West and Germany in particular.

From the beginning, Zionism’s aim has been to erase 

the memory of the Nakba by rewriting history in favour 

of Israel and Judaising the map of Palestine. Such 

blatant “Nakba denial” must be also criminalized in line 

“Holocaust denial.” It is not without reason that the 

powerful Israel lobby repeatedly endeavours to prevent 

exhibitions that present the truth about the “Nakba” 

and the brutal forced expulsions that preceded and 

followed the Israeli Declaration of Independence.

Since its foundation in 1948, with its Zionist exclusive 

right to the stolen land, the “Jewish State” has not only 

systematically violated human rights and international 

law, but also all accepted ecological standards. The 

destruction of Palestinian fields and olive groves; the 

systematic poisoning of fields of Palestinian farmers; 

and the ethnic cleansing by the “Jewish State,” Jewish 

settlers, the Jewish National Fund JNF/KKL under the 

guise of green-washing and international sponsorship 

that only served the colonialism of an Apartheid Jewish 

State. In this regard, Germany stands guilty of always 

donating more woods in the name of German Federal 

Regions or with the name of politicians (Mißfelder!) for 

the JNF and Israel. While Palestinians are displaced and 

their trees destroyed, German politicians spectacularly 

plant trees in the “Jewish State” like German Foreign 

Minister Steinmeier!

It is frightening that to this day the false Zionist sound 

bite of “a land without people, for a people without 

land” continues to justify land expropriations despite 

international human rights laws prohibiting such 

practices. A particularly bad example in this context is 

the so called “Canada Park” grassed for millions of 

Dollars by the Himnuta Organisation, a 99% subsidiary 

company of JNF/KKL on the ruins of Palestinian 

villages, with secret financial sources and expenses. (1)

For these “green-washers” the future US-President 

Donald Trump comes just at the right time, having 

already supported Israel’s right to have Jerusalem as 

its capital! Under the guise of environmental 

protection — at the expense of the Palestinian people, 

and by means of the land dispossession supported by 

German-Israeli projects in forestry and irrigation — 

this will in time become possible through continual 

illegal occupation and by dispossession of the land and 

water resources of a people “thirsty for justice”.

Without the displacement of Palestinians there would 

be no “Jewish State.” It was the infamous Josef Weitz, 

President of the Jewish National Fund, and one of the 

most fanatic advocates of “transferring” the 

Palestinians who in 1940 noted in his diary that  “the 

transfer does not just pursue the aim to reduce the 

Arab population, but it also serves for the second 

objective which is not unimportant and consists of 

emptying the land cultivated by Arabs to make it free 

for Jewish settlement. The only solution is to transfer 

the Arabs from here to the neighbouring countries. We 

have not to omit neither one village nor one tribe.” All 

this and much more is cited by Ilan Pappe in his 

commendable book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.

To this day, this “transfer” concept has been is the 

policy of both politicians in the “Jewish State” and of 

Jewish Saloon-Zionists in diaspora. That policy has 

included as its first priority the denial to Palestinian 

refugees their legitimate right of return to their 

homeland so as to conquer all of Palestine – in violation 

of international law – for a strictly “Jewish start.”

However, as long as the duplicitous Western 

“community of values” is complicit in this injustice, and 

as long as the blazing flames of the illegal occupation 

are not extinguished, the “Jewish State” will burn.

“Only he to whom the land doesn’t belong is capable 

of burning it” – what a truth!

From the River to the Sea Palestine will be free!

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