A
Renegade, Lawless And Murderous State: De-legitimization
Of The Zionist State
17 January 2011By Khalid Amayreh
Israeli leaders, including Prime
Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, have been complaining
about the increasing "de-legitimization" of the
Zionist state across the world. Netanyahu, who is a
skilled media operator, said that
Israel "needs to de-legitimize
the de-legitimizers".
However, a fleeting glance at recent Israeli actions
shows that Israel is a nefarious, lawless and
murderous entity whose representatives commit murder
and terrorism knowingly and deliberately against
innocent people. In doing so, it is they who
"de-legitimize" the state of Israel.
Murder, even when "mistaken", is Israel's modus
operandi when dealing with its real or imaginary foes,
whoever and wherever they happen to be. Some of the
murder victims are apolitical figures, innocent people
whose killing has no possible justification other than
the "need" to make the other party suffer
psychologically.
On 9 January, trigger-happy Israeli soldiers manning a
military watchtower near the northern
Gaza Strip shot and killed
65-year-old Sha'aban al-Garmoot, a poor farmer, as he
was working on his own land, which happens to be
within the "security zone" declared unilaterally by
the Israelis inside
Gaza. Sounding totally apathetic
about the loss of a non-Jewish life, an Israeli
military spokesperson said he had no knowledge of the
shooting. Israeli spokespersons, men and women alike,
are generally dismissive when talking about non-Jewish
lives so this person is not unusual. This may have to
do with the racist indoctrination of Israelis that
non-Jews are sub-human; indeed, at least one rabbi has
called Arabs animals.
Relatives of the victim and eyewitnesses dismiss
Israeli claims that the murder of the elderly farmer
was a mistake. "A mistake is something done once,
perhaps twice or even three times," said Ahmed al-Qarmoot,
a relative of the latest victim. "However, here we are
talking about almost daily shootings of innocent
people at the hands of Israeli soldiers; when
‘mistakes' happen on a daily basis, it means they are
official policy."
Israeli soldiers occasionally indulge in so-called
"sport shooting" whereby they "knock down" Palestinian
farmers with their bullets. Numerous Palestinians have
been murdered by soldiers in this way.
Following last week's murder of another man in his
sixties in Hebron, the wife and relatives of Omar
Qawasmi described the shooting as "cold-blooded
murder".
"It was like a movie," said Muhammad Qawasmi. "They
crashed the door open and fired a hail of bullets,
killing him while he was asleep in his bed." This
close relative of the victim was at a loss about how
to describe the people responsible. "Shall I call them
barbarians, savages,
Nazis? Did they learn all of this
evil from the Nazis? Are Zionist Jews the Nazis of our
time?" he asked.
As on previous occasions, the real nature of this
murder was covered-up by the Israeli military. It was,
said a spokesman, "a case of mistaken identity". So
that's all right then; if the "right man" had been in
that bed, he would have been killed in a hail of
bullets. Each successive murder, sorry, "mistake",
requires a fresh lie to cover it up and offer a
justification.
Jawaher Abu Rahma died after Israeli soldiers shot
tear gas at a peaceful rally protesting against the
Israeli annexation wall near Bil'in in the
central West Bank.
Her brother Bassem was also killed during a similar
peaceful protest on April 17th, 2010. Again, the
Israeli occupation army was desperate to invent
another lie to distance itself from the killing. An
Israeli military spokesman said that the lethal gas
fired towards the 35-year-woman may not have been
"completely responsible" for her death. There was no
sense of remorse in his statement, just
hair-splitting, prevarication and verbal gymnastics in
order to exonerate the killers.
If the ever-increasing list of Israel's crimes doesn't
qualify the
Zionist entity as a rogue,
murderous state, what would? Must an evil state create
gas chambers
and
concentration camps before it is
regarded as truly evil? How about raining down
white phosphorus
on civilian neighbourhoods? Or dropping 1-ton bombs on
civilian homes to exterminate entire families as a
deterrent? Or dropping two to three million cluster
bomblets which will kill and maim as many children as
possible?
I am not claiming that every member of the Israeli
armed forces is evil, but there is no doubt that the
Israel Defence Force,
which calls itself the most moral army in the world,
is a criminal organisation which has committed
war crimes and
crimes against humanity.
So-called "Purity
of Arms" is a sick joke.
Conscientious Jews in whose name the
IDF acts have to come to terms
with this reality. In the final analysis, you can't
expect to be respected while you are infatuated with
child-killers and murderous hoodlums.
Israeli criminality is not, of course, confined to the
Palestinian theatre of operations. Israel's Mossad spy
agency murders people as a matter of routine,
including, it is alleged, nuclear scientists,
intellectuals and others who are critical of Israel's
policies and therefore regarded as enemies. It is
almost certain that Mossad was behind the
assassination of a number of Iranian nuclear
scientists recently. What sort of morality condones
Israel's murder of scientists who never committed any
crime against Israel or Jews? The same question
applies to the murder of writers, poets and academics
whom the princes of darkness in Israel have had
silenced because they dared to call a spade a spade.
With such criminal leaders and policies, Israel will
continue to be a destabilizing factor affecting not
only the
Middle East but also the rest of
the world. Israel's state terror will continue to
affect the lives of millions of people around the
globe. It is, therefore, the moral and political duty
of those in power across the world to rein in Israel
before matters get really out of hand and the cancer
of Zionist terror spreads even further than it already
has.
Khalid Amayreh is a journalist living
in Palestine. He obtained his MA in journalism from
the University of Southern Illinois in 1983. Since the
1990s, Mr. Amayreh has been working and writing for
several news outlets among which is Aljazeera.net, Al-Ahram
Weekly, Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), and
Middle East International. This articles and several
writings of Mr. Amayreh available at The Palestinian
Information Center via
https://english.palinfo.com
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