Reflections On The Israel-Hezbullah
Prisoner Swap Deal
Posted By Khalid Amayreh
July 17, 2008
The latest prisoner swap deal between
Israel and
Hezbullah is a healthy indicator that at least some
Arabs are beginning to understand the depraved Zionist
mentality, and act accordingly. Such mentality is based on
arrogance, insolence, and religious and ethnic superiority.
Israel, a country whose collective mindset views non-Jews as
virtual animals or at least lesser human beings, had to face a
new enemy, an enemy that will not be scared by overwhelming
brutality, but one that will meet Israel’s state terror with
toughness, resilience, valor and defiance.
This is a new reality that Israelis, especially Israeli
leaders, have yet to come to terms with, especially
psychologically.
This explains the deep frustration that is apparent in the
tone of Israeli leaders reacting to the latest swap deal,
especially the fact that Israel has been forced to release the
Lebanese guerilla Samir Kuntar.
Israel, utterly ignoring her own countless murderous sins,
has come to view Kuntar as the prototype of the ultimate
terrorist as if the tens of thousands of Jewish murderers and
terrorists who have enormous amount of innocent blood on their
hands were the Lord’s angels of love and mercy.
Indeed, if Israel were a normal state, and its people a
normal people, it would have adopted an honest and just
approach toward its neighbors, an approach that would not
discriminate between “blood and blood” and “life and life.”
Undoubtedly, such an approach would have saved thousands of
lives, Jewish and Arab, and spared the region and its peoples
decades of pain and suffering.
But then Zionism would be losing its face, mind and heart,
and would morph into something entirely different.
Unfortunately, it is probably futile to preach morality to
Zionism, a manifestly demonic movement which experience shows
is not capable of behaving morally and humanely.
Well, let us examine some of the statements and remarks
Zionist leaders have been making with regard to the latest swap
deal with Hezbullah.
Shimon Peres, the hero of the Qana massacre of 1996, who
is now Israel’s President, has been quoted as saying that “We
don’t want murderers to go free, but we have a moral obligation
to bring home soldiers whom we sent to defend their country.”
Peres also reportedly said that “my heart is torn over the
decision to pardon Kuntar,” adding that his decision to that
effect “in no way constituted forgiveness.”
Certainly, no one , Arab or otherwise, is particularly
infatuated with what Kuntar did in 1979, although the Israeli
army then was at least partially responsible for the killing by
the Lebanese guerilla of three Israelis, including a
paramilitary policeman, a man and his daughter.
The three lives, like numerous other victims, Arab and
Jewish, would have been spared had the insolent Israeli
military establishment behaved wisely.
After all, Kuntar, and his friends who were killed in that
rescue operation, didn’t come to Israel to kill and shed blood
but to force Israel to release Arab prisoners.
Non the less, one is prompted to ask difficult questions,
questions that most Israelis don’t like to hear let alone
answer, but when confronted with, they either seek to evade or
prevaricate and quibble in their answers.
Who has killed more innocent people, Shimon Peres or Samir
Kuntar? Who has more blood, including children blood, on his
hands, Shimon Peres or Samir Kuntar? Who has inflicted more
terror, suffering and death upon innocent people, Shimon Peres
or Samir Kuntar?
If honesty is to be
the ultimate arbiter among men, then one can’t escape
the inescapable conclusion that it is mass murderers like
Peres,
Ariel Sharon and other Israeli leaders, dead or living,
who really need forgiveness for their horrible crimes against
humanity.
In fact, Israelis should be reminded on this occasion that a
Presidential post, a business suit with neck tie, and the
ability to speak eloquent sound-bites in several languages and
have audience with statesmen and VIPs from around the world,
don’t really transform a criminal into a true human being.
A criminal is a criminal especially if he refuses to come to
terms with his crimes and if he refuses to apologize to his
victims. Needless to say, Peres has done neither.
But then criminals are not concerned about their sins.
One elderly Israeli woman interviewed by the Ha’aretz
newspaper lashed out at Hezbullah for having refused until the
very last moment to tell if the two Israeli prisoners were dead
or alive.
“It’s the saddest day for Israel. They kept us waiting until
the last second to learn the fate of our sons,” the woman was
quoted as saying.
I certainly sympathize with the woman at the personal level.
However, I would want to ask the Jewish lady why she thought
that Jewish lives were worth more than non-Jewish lives?
I also would like to ask her what she would tell the
mothers, families and relatives of thousands of Arab prisoners
who have been languishing in Israel’s dark, underground dungeons
since 1967?
We are talking about POWs and MIAs and other ordinary people
whose families have no way of knowing if their beloved ones are
dead or a live? Aren’t these “forgotten prisoners” human beings,
too? Are they children of a lesser God?
Unfortunately, most Israelis, thoroughly self-absorbed and
self-centered, don’t like to be asked such questions lest their
superiority complexes and collective psychosis be exposed.
Finally, the latest prisoner swap shows that Israel only
understands the language of cold realpolitik which is
by definition immoral and coercive.
For Palestinians, who
have more than 10,000 of their beloved ones languishing in
Israeli concentration camps, the message is very clear: If you
want to get Israel to release your beloved ones, take Israeli
hostages and swap them for the Palestinian captives.
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