25 February 2016By Khalid Amayreh
"Germany needs to respond to terror like Israel does,'' the head of Germany's
internal intelligence service (BfV), Hans-Georg Maassen, reportedly said this
week. With all due respect, the German official is wrong for the following
reasons.
Israel, itself a gigantic crime against humanity by any moral standard
imaginable, can never be considered part of the solution for the terror
epidemic now hitting many countries. The naked facts on the ground lead to the
ultimate and inevitable conclusion that Israel is one of the major root causes
of terror and violence in our world today.
In 1948, Jewish-Zionist gangs coming from Eastern Europe ganged up on the
peaceable people of Palestine, arrogating their homeland, slaughtering their
children, destroying their homes, bulldozing their villages and dispersing the
bulk of Palestinians all over the world. This gigantic crime against humanity
occurred thanks to concrete military and political support by the West. The
Palestinian people, a largely pastoral people lacking the advantage of
powerful international connections, have been crying out for justice ever
since, but to no avail.
In 1967, Israel completed the occupation of the Palestinian homeland, claiming
that some Jews had been living in the country several thousand years ago.
Israel has had nearly 50 years to accommodate the Palestinians like Germany
accommodates the millions of refugees arriving in Germany, fleeing death and
persecution in countries like Syria and Iraq…and also Palestine.! But Israel
chose the racist way, viewing the Palestinians as sub-humans with utterly no
rights, even no humanity.
Again, the Palestinians tried every possible avenue to free themselves from
the diabolical clutches of Jewish oppression but to no avail. And when they
resorted to armed struggle, because every other door was slammed against their
faces, they were called "terrorists and criminals."! Her Maassen, what are we
supposed to do to liberate our country and free our people from this evil,
called Zionism, which is based on the same elements that gave Nazism its evil
essence? Nazism was based on criminal racism (the master race), Zionism is
based on criminal racism as well, namely the concept of the Chosen people.
This is not an abstract idea which we can dismiss as a form of philosophical
illusionism. It is rather practiced every hour and every day on the hills of
the West Bank as Palestinians are assaulted, humiliated and even killed (even
burned alive) because they are not members of "the holy tribe" and don't
worship the specific deity of that tribe. It is this sick ideology that
prompted the late mentor of Shas Rabbi Ovadia Yosef to declare that non-Jews,
people like me and you, were donkeys or like donkeys, whom the Almighty
created in a human shape in deference to Jews in order to serve Jews.
Needless to say, this poisonous racism was by no means an unrepresentative
feature of the religious Zionist mindset.
The opposite is actually true.
Herr Maassen: I want to remind you of the feelings permeating throughout
Germany following the Versailles Treaty following the First World War.
Though Germany was widely perceived as the aggressor, many Germans felt German
honor was deeply injured by the draconian sanctions and punishments imposed by
the victorious powers. We all know the rest of the story. Herr Maassen:
Israel, ever since the first day of its establishment, has committed every
conceivable crime against our people.
I myself lost three uncles to Zionist barbarianism even before I was born. In
fact, terror has always been and continues to be the official or unofficial
modus operandi of Israel's policies. This is why you can't understand the
Palestinian question in the absence of this context.
The Palestinian grievances are too real and too legitimate to be swept under
the carpet. I say this because Israel continues to be the main producer and
manufacturer of terror in our region and in the world at large. Remember, Herr
Maassen, those to whom evil is done, do evil in return. Maybe doing evil, even
in return is not the ideal behavior, but it is often inevitable. Wishing you
good luck in fighting and defeating terror.
Khalid
Amayreh is a current affairs commentator living in Dura in the southern West
Bank.
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