Israel
Falling Apart And Lashing Out: Zionism Watchover
22 February 2010By Mazin Qumsiyeh
Settlers
come to Ush Ghrab in Beit Sahour every week and the
army lies to the mayor of Beit Sahour by claiming that
their presence deters the settlers. The reverse is
true and settlers of course get army permission and
protection which emboldens them. On Feb 5th, when the
army was bulldozing in the area and had a military
order for closing the area for military purposes
preventing us from getting close, the settlers were
inside and having a lecture (and bragged about it on
their website). At the end of the video from Al-Masara
confrontation Friday, I had a short section with
settler graffiti at the wall in Ush Ghrab (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzeaRzx8kDA)
. Many who watched the video asked me what it says.
Here it goes: "To our dear soldiers, Welcome back to
Shdema!" "When the IDF wants - he is the Best!" "To
the IDF, Welcome to Jewish Shdema" + star of david,
"To the IDF with love, from the Committee for Shdema".
It is time for putting up stiffer resistance to the
occupier presence (soldiers and settlers). Bethlehem
area showed the success of strong popular resistance
in the 1980s (e.g. with the tax revolt) and we see its
success in places like Bil'in today. Join us Sunday
Morning (10:30) in Ush Ghrab in Beit Sahour.
[Good read] How Settlers Prevented The Construction of
a Palestinian Hospital by Hagit Ofran " Once again,
even Americans cannot stand up to a small group of
settlers, who show - more often than not - that they
have the last word on what takes place in the West
Bank. This time, a small group of settlers insisted,
and succeeded, to squash a plan for building a
hospital for Palestinian children at "Oush Grab" ("the
Crow's Nest") east of Bethlehem" http://www.huffingtonpost.com
/hagit-ofran/how-settlers-prevented-th_b_467705 .html
Under pressure from settlers, IDF rebuilding West Bank
watchtower
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1147472.html
(on the scandal of the Israeli abuse of British
passports) The tide has changed by Gilad Atzmon
http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/the-tide-has-changed-gilad-atzmon.html
This scandal is even incensing traditional Israeli
apologists. One Zionist who regularly writes in
Haaretz wrote: "Determined to take our fate into its
own hands. Israel, at its highest level, has decided
that the job of delegitimizing the Jewish state must
not be left to foreigners and amateurs. Showing itself
desperate to be a pariah state, Israel will now get it
done on its own. What the far-left from Britain to
Berkeley has been been unable to bring off - a sense
among Israel's allies that Israel has become a
heartless, morally heedless aggressor state worthy of
sanction and shunning - the far-right in Israel's own
government, and in particular, its Foreign Ministry,
seems determined to inculcate to the full. It wasn't
enough to threaten our relations with the United
Kingdom, Ireland, France, Austria and the whole of the
European Union, as well as the emirates and other
moderate Muslim states, by apparently violating the
basic conventions of all civilized states in the Dubai
murder. .."
What this gentleman fails to see is that this was the
predictable outcome of the enterprise in the same way
that Apartheid in South Africa had a predictable
outcome. Unfortunately, those lessons in history tell
us that the meanness will get worse as the regime
feels cornered and will not face the reality of its
own racism but starts to lash-out at anything and
everything. That is the last stage of dismantlement of
racism.
Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD Popular Committee to Defend Ush
Ghrab (PCDUG) A Bedouin in Cyberspace, a villager at
home http://www.qumsiyeh.org
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