ZGram - 8/22/2001 - "Orient House" - IX

[Ingrid Rimland]

Copyright (c) 2001 - Ingrid A. Rimland

 ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny

 August 23, 2001

 Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

An ardent ZGram reader and surfer of the Internet prefaced today's ZGram
provocatively.  He wrote:

"Can nihilist hedonism, however well-armed, ever be a match for the ready
to sacrifice my all ethos of the suicide-bombers, questing after the
martyrdom which brings eternal salvation?

"The Jews have locked horns with a foe who is their exact opposite: One who
is ready to die - and one whose wrath they raised to an unquenchable fever
pitch.

"The kamikaze cultus appears to be gaining ground in the Occupied
Territories. Soon, a new generation of suicide bombers will arise armed
with canisters of ricin nerve gas and vials of anthrax.

"Even as the decadence of the Holocaust Lobby falls far beyond all bounds
of normal decency. (Note the rats now publicly deserting the ADL ship.)"

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Dr. Azzam Tamimi,  Director of the London-based Institute of the Islamic
Political Thought, gives us additional insights into the voices
articulating what is going on in the beleaguered Middle East:

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 Vulnerable, exposed and disempowered, the Palestinians under Israeli
occupation pray that the Arabs, the Muslims and the rest of the world will
come to their aid, having recognized the seriousness of the situation in
Palestine.

 With superior military power and thorough intelligence infiltration into
Palestinian ranks, the Israelis have been liquidating what they claim to be
potential  "perpetrators of terror", =1D bulldozing houses, turning
Palestinian olive groves into restricted military zones and letting loose
herds of settlers who insist on proving to the world that they have very
little in common with humanity. =20

 Perhaps the most distressing thing for the Palestinians amid all the pain
and suffering is the Arab inaction and even lack of interest in what is
happening to their brethren in occupied Palestine, the bleeding heart of
the Arab homeland.    Previously, Palestine was the Arab cause and prior to
that it was the Islamic cause. Now, the Palestinians feel abandoned, though
their predicament is not exclusively of their own making.

 While Israel escalates both its language and action, the Arabs around
Palestine continue to hide their heads in the sand, and there is no
shortage of sand in the Arab land.    In spite of undeniable support and
sympathy for Palestine and the Palestinians on the part of the Arab masses,
they are well short of being able to persuade their governments to shift
from inaction to action.

 It is no secret that many of these governments are more interested in
negative action, one involving suppressing their public and combating any
effort aimed at helping the Palestinians.   What should the Palestinians do
in such circumstances? Materially speaking, they are no match against the
Israeli war machinery. While suffering suffocating measures by Israeli
occupation authorities, stringent controls are imposed on their movement,
trade and communication by their Arab brothers across the borders.

 Worst of all has been the role played by collaborating individuals and
agencies from amongst the Palestinians themselves with their oppressors,
the Israelis. Many of the assassinations carried out by Israeli secret
agents, the so-called Arabist units, might not have succeeded without the
collaboration of Palestinian traitors, not infrequently acting in their
capacity as PA officials or members of joint security teams.  It is
becoming increasingly evident that the days to come are likely to bear more
pain and more suffering for the Palestinians than all the days that have
passed since their predicament ensued with the creation of Israel more than
50 years ago. =20

 Notwithstanding, the Palestinians who live under occupation in Gaza and
the West Bank have no option but to remain steadfast in their land and to
resist the persistent Israeli attempts to drive them away. Such resistance
will not be pain-free. More than ever before the Israeli public is shifting
in the direction of uprooting the Palestinians from their homeland. Hence
the election of Sharon as Prime Minister of Israel, in spite of his war
crimes records and overt anti-Arab and anti-Muslim views. =20

 In response to my July article on Palestine, I received two messages from
Israelis who read my article with seeming disgust. What both respondents
agree on, and seem to have copied each other in expressing their opinions,
is denying the Palestinians the right to exist and despising Islam and the
Muslims.

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One of them wrote: =20

*   You fail to mention [that] Palestinians tell these suicide bombers that
when they kill Jews, they will go to heaven and be with 72 virgins. Can you
tell me [of] another religion so savage and evil? Then you say how Israel
robbed the Palestinians of [their] homeland. What homeland? There was never
in history any State called Palestine. The Palestinians never controlled or
governed any land before 1993.

The Palestinians are really unwanted Arabs from Egypt and Syria, who
immigrated to the land from 1831 to 1947. Palestine is a fake, invented
Roman name, which the Romans named after the Greek Philistines. The
Palestinians are totally unrelated to the Philistines.

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 *   Judea and Samaria and all of Jerusalem are liberated Israeli land.
Tell us when did it ever belong to Palestinians? Answer: never. It was
never Palestinian land to begin with, so your question is invalid. The
Palestinians never governed or controlled any land before 1993. To make it
simple, please tell me one Palestinian President before 1993. Keep
thinking.

 The Palestinians want a capital that they never had in a country that
never existed. The Palestinians are really unwanted Arabs from Egypt and
Syria, who immigrated to the land from 1831 to 1947. Palestine is a fake,
invented Roman name, which the Romans named after the Greek Philistines.
The Philistines are totally unrelated to the current-day Palestinians.
Israel existed 1,500 years before Muhammad was born. Besides Saudi Arabia
and Egypt, the entire Middle East and North Africa was stolen from the
native peoples by Muhammad in the 7th century. Anyone that resisted
Muhammad had their heads cut off. Look at Islamic countries and look at
shariah laws. It's a brutal, violent and intolerant religion. There is a
primary historical fact that must be established now. There has never been,
I repeat NEVER been, a civilization, entity or a nation referred to as
Palestine. There was never a Palestinian tribe, and there was never a
Palestinian country in the land of Israel to begin with! =1D

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I do not subscribe to the opinion that all Jews think in the way those two
do. But I have no doubt in my mind that what is expressed in the messages
of these two readers is a reflection of the racist and fascist Zionist
ideology. Zionism was founded on myths created by greedy and desperate
individuals. Today, it is defended and supported by a majority of Jews and
a minority of Christians who accept these myths as facts.

 Zionists cherish the idea, which no respectable historian would entertain,
that since the destruction of the Second Temple at around 70 AD, Palestine
remained mysteriously unpopulated waiting for them to come back and claim
it as a divine right for being God's chosen people. It is an idea that
cannot be debated around a respectable discussion table. You simply cannot
reach a middle ground on an idea, a lie, that is illogical, unfair and
merely aimed at justifying the unjustifiable and legitimizing the
illegitimate.

 By virtue of the exposure of Zionist beliefs, especially since Sharon took
over, it is only now that some of those who once thought they could talk
sense into the minds of Zionists in the hope of reaching some middle ground
with them have begun to realize the gravity of their ill-judgment. =20

 The Palestinians need to brace themselves for the worst, which is yet to
come. For Israel is no ordinary occupying power and its colonialism of
Palestine is no conventional imperialist project, though it shares many of
the features of European colonial enterprises. Past colonial projects ended
with the occupiers withdrawing to their motherlands, be it Britain, France,
Italy, Holland, Portugal or Spain. In the case of Palestine, Israelis are
not comfortable withdrawing - not even from an inch of the land they
occupy. For in spite of Arab weakness, the Israelis can never feel secure
if limited to a strip of land along the Mediterranean coast. They are
haunted by the prospect of being flushed out completely. Where would they
withdraw?

 Some of them may know by now that they have no future except as a Jewish
community living in the region as some Jewish communities lived there
before for more than 13 centuries. But this clearly means an end to Zionism
and an end to Israel.

As the Israelis feel more threatened and vulnerable, they act less orderly,
less predictably and much more desperately. But why should the Israelis be
made more vulnerable if this is likely to backfire on the Palestinians?

 This is the enigma of the vicious cycle initiated by the Israelis. Their
policies, their ambitions and their lack of confidence, which is most
probably the outcome of a mixture of inherent guilt and insecurity, are
expressed eventually in one way: oppressive action against the
Palestinians, the victims of their occupation. This is the nature of
tyranny. =20

 Politicians in the Arab region, in Europe and in the United States have
constantly warned against the danger of war engulfing the region as a
result of the inability on the part of both Palestinians and Israelis to
resolve their dispute. But war has actually started. What else may one
describe what the Israelis are doing?

 It is a war, but one that is between a military superpower and a
beleaguered civilian population.    The Palestinians have no option but to
take on the Israelis and meet their challenge. It is true they have every
right to be dismayed by Arab and Muslim lack of response to Israel's
atrocities. However, no one will ever rise to help them, and coming
generations will not forgive them, if they do not prove to be willing to
make the utmost of sacrifice for a cause that, in spite of a shortage of
support today, is a sublime and most honourable one.

 Nothing justifies giving up the struggle in anticipation of an Arab or
Muslim renaissance of some sort.    The Palestinians are not short of means
and methods that will deter the Israelis and awaken them from their
intoxication. If the message Israelis send to Palestinian young men is that
they are destined to lose their youth and have their lives taken away from
them by Israeli snipers or Israeli Arabist units or Israeli apache
helicopters, the response will be one of defiance rather than capitulation.


 Israeli politicians and strategists are clearly mistaken if they think
that the Palestinians are afraid of war or that they would prefer a
humiliating life to an honourable death.  =20

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Thought for the Day:

"Let that be a reality check for the Israelis."

(Ernst Z=FCndel)