ZGram - 8/14/2001 - "Orient House" - Part I

[Ingrid Rimland]

Copyright (c) 2001 - Ingrid A. Rimland

ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny

August 14, 2001

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

Less than a week ago, a Palestinian suicide bomber walked into an Israeli
pizzeria and blew himself up, leaving the hall strewn with more than a
hundred dead and wounded, almost all of them young Israeli children.

What follows is a horror story in 10 parts.  It is one of the most
difficult ZGram series I have ever compiled.

I am on several e-mail lists that cover the intifada.  I get hundreds of
letters a day just on that topic alone.  Most of the information I use in
this ZGram series has apparently been sent to me from the offices of one
George N. Rishmawi, Projects' Coordinator of the Palestinian Centre for
Rapprochement  Between People, Star Street No. 64  P.O.Box 24, Beit Sahour
-  Palestine.

These e-mails include several articles by Robert Fisk writing for the
British daily, the Independent.  Fisk is, in my opinion, one of the most
gifted, courageous and honest English-language journalists covering the
Israeli-Palestinian tragedy, and the world owes him a lot to understand and
be informed of the non-Israel side to this tragedy.  We don't get any of
that information from traditional lapdog media beholden to the Zionists.

I start this ZGram series called "Orient House" with an Open Letter to the
Israelis by Khalid Amayreh, a Palestinian:

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 To begin with, I 'd like to state in unequivocal terms that I genuinely
sympathize with the victims of the human-bomb attack on the Pizza
restaurant in West Jerusalem on 9 August.

 At the personal level, the pain and tears of the  families and friends of
the victims  are no less genuine than the pain and  tears of hundreds of
Palestinian families who have fallen victim to the bloody showdown since it
broke out ten months ago.

 Humans are humans; they react similarly when calamity  strikes. A bereaved
Jewish mother's  pain is no less and no more real than that of a bereaved
Palestinian mother's pain.

 Our dear neighbors:  I fully agree with you  that the bombing was
horrible, shocking, and extremely ugly, but it was also inevitable and
inescapable, thanks to your government's and army's equally horrible,
shocking and extremely ugly actions against our people, including children.

 These actions, needless to say, made the mayhem inevitable and inescapable.

 Let us be honest about this, the human-bomb attack on the King George
Street , was gruesome and even barbaric in a textual sense, (you can
justifiably use all the nasty labels in all the lexicons to describe the
tragedy), but it  was  also of your making.

 When your army so impetuously, so callously, and so brazenly  created  a
calamity (or two)  in every Palestinian household, a boomerang effect was
inevitable, and  only  imbeciles (and you are not reputed, God forbid, for
stupidity)  would have calculated  that the  tormented Palestinians would
turn the other cheek. They wouldn't and they won't.

 You, the people of Israel, have narrowed our horizons, so much that you
have made us feel that only two "choices" are awaiting us, either to die as
suicidal bombers or be slaughtered as sheep.

 Therefore, I can dare say that blood of the "personally-innocent victims"
of the bombing is primarily  on the hands of Sharon,  Benalizer, Peres and
other members of your  diabolic  government of assassins and war criminals.

 Open your  eyes! A government that sends its murderers, whether humans or
machines,  to murder people, without charge, without trial, without arrest,
without questioning, without nothing,  is not a  "government," but a gang,
for it is the mafia gangs  that liquidate opponents through assassinations.

 And, honestly,  how,  do you think,  the Palestinians should have reacted
to your unabated rampage of murder and terror, especially after you used
the F-16s and the Apaches against a defenseless and essentially unarmed
people?

 Shame on you for tormenting and terrorizing and seeking to enslave  a
small nation,  already decimated by decades of demonizing military
occupation, an occupation   which all the languages of the world can't
communicate its evils.

 Your behavior in the last ten months have been an affront to civilization
and an insult to many of the lofty principles that you falsely claim to be
part of your  value system.

 Your brutality, savagery, criminality,  impetuousness,  hypocrisy,
mendacity and insolence defy linguistic description.

 You, as Harry Truman once said, are like all underdogs, when  you get on
the top, you become as merciless and brutal to your new victims as your
former oppressors were to you when you were underneath.

  Our dear neighbors,  Why  wasn't there any uproar in Israel when your
criminal soldiers murdered Muhammed Durra before the eyes of the world?
And, now, we have hundreds of Muhammed Durras!

 You even didn't have the moral courage to say sorry. When will you ever
say "sorry?" Perhaps when Kosher pigs fly!

 Your eyes didn't  blink at the daily funerals in the streets of Gaza and
the West Bank,  your  hearts didn't  ache, nor did your minds experience
any compunctions, because the poor kids belonged to the wrong tribe, they
were children of a lesser God. Or, as your former Prime Minister, Barak,
said "their dead are mere numbers, ours are stories."  Numbers and
stories!..And snakes,  ants, cockroaches,  and what have you!

  Our dear neighbors: you are condemned, first and foremost,  for electing
a war criminal to be your prime minister, whose hands are drenched in the
blood of the innocent. Could it be that you elected him on that account?

 Your are also condemned for your gleeful support for the killing, maiming,
and wounding of tens of thousands of Palestinians whose only "crime" is
their desire to be free from your slavery. (Is desiring freedom from
slavery so a great crime  in your thinking that the desirees ought to be
put to death?).

 And all these homes that you destroyed and the people you made homeless -
and all the  trees and habitats you obliterated with your satanic
bulldozers! Don't  you know that your holy book, the Torah,  contains clear
injunctions against  destroying trees even in time of war..?

 You once  prided yourself, rightly or falsely,  on having turned the
desert into a verdant bloom, now, after the shame you have done,  you can
boast of having turned the previously-blooming Palestinian orchards,
vineyards and fields into a desert.

 Maybe, just maybe, you will start to have some "hishbon  nefesh"  or soul
searching, maybe you  start to view your neighbors as  full human beings
created by the same God, maybe, just maybe, you begin to  respect the life
and property of the non-Jew as you do  those of Jews.

 Maybe, just maybe, your start to understand that occupation is wrong,
apartheid is wrong, oppression is wrong, and, yes, Zionism is wrong.

 I won't give  you the benefit of the doubt, I would be [an] idiot if I
did. But remember this, the ball is  in your  court, and until you  begin
to view us as humans, with equal  human and legal rights,  I'm absolutely
sure that much more young blood, on our side (and yours)  will still be
spilled.  What else can moral blindness lead to?

To sign Al-Awda's petition to terminate US aid to Israel go to:

http://al-awda.org/terminate_aid_petition.htm

Do it TODAY!

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