05-23-11
No conflict can ever be resolved without an honest, thorough examination of the history behind it. In the case of Israel and Palestine, there are a lot of people who clearly aren't interested in such an effort. Most notably, the government of Israel and their wholly owned pawns on Pennsylvania Avenue and Capitol Hill. These people don't want you to know the full history because it reveals their stated desire for peace as a total fraud.
The subservient corporate media has done a wonderful job of making sure most Americans don't know the whole truth. How many understand, for instance, the difference between religious and political Zionism? How many know that Palestinians are Semites too? How many are aware of the Balfour Declaration of 1917, a key document in this conflict? How many know that the UN never actually approved the partition plan for Palestine, or that there was much concern about whether they even had the legal standing to do so? Why do we never hear that there were plenty of Jews who warned against the idea of dividing Palestine before it happened, because they knew it would lead to the conflict that has in fact been raging for over 60 years now, and in the eyes of many, would shed a negative light on their faith? Anybody who refuses to deal with the truth in its entirety has something to hide.
The pretenders in the American and Israeli governments and their media lackeys don't want you to question why Hamas would want to shoot rockets at Israel. They just want you to automatically see the democratically elected government of Gaza as evil terrorists. They want you to buy into the lie that trying to understand Hamas' motivation is a waste of time that lends them undeserved credibility. It's a truly lame effort to derail the truth that doesn't support the Israeli government's perpetual victimhood myth.
If some other country illegally invaded yours, leveled your neighborhood, killed a bunch of your friends and loved ones and started building their own houses where yours used to stand, it would make you angry. You might run, to save your own life and that of your family, and who could blame you? Likewise, who could blame you if you decided to stay and fight back? And who in their right mind would ever expect you to recognize that the invaders had a right to exist on land they stole from you?
Of course, if you chose to stay and defend your sovereignty, the invaders and their sycophant media propagandists would label you an insurgent, a militant, or even a terrorist, when all you're really doing is trying to defend your home and your right to self-determination. This is precisely what has been happening in Palestine since before political Zionists unilaterally declared statehood for Israel in 1948.
In a speech last week, Barack Obama said "The Palestinians must answer difficult questions about their unity agreement. Hamas is and has been an organization that has resorted to terrorism, that has refused to recognize Israel's right to exist. It is not a partner for a realistic peace process. The Palestinians must explain how they can credibly engage in serious peace negotiations."
Of course, he does not similarly challenge Israel, where deception reigns, with the world's seventh largest military, hundreds of nuclear weapons they refuse to declare and a long record of crimes against the Palestinian people. This is because you're supposed to view them as "the good guys." The current supposed rift between Obama and Netanyahu regarding the 1967 borders is just more of the same old political theater, designed to maintain the same old left/right charade, while the ethnic cleansing of Palestine continues unabated. Plans for more than 1500 new Israeli homes in occupied Palestinian territory were unveiled last week.
The government of Israel is not and never has been interested in peace with Palestine, because it doesn't serve their colonial land grabbing agenda, which of course continues to this day. If Palestinians aren't pissed off and fighting back, there's no pretext to justify the continued theft of their land. Terrorism in Palestine started with political Zionists, well before creation of the Israeli state. Zionists who sought to sow the seeds of conflict that would enable them to steal the vast majority of Palestine for themselves. They have hijacked and defiled the Jewish faith, using it as cover for their six decade campaign of slow motion genocide of the Palestinian people, and their criminal fraud will continue until the majority of the world wakes up and gets wise to it.
Finally, as I have always said, I don't for one minute expect anybody to take my word for anything. I expect people to accept their responsibility as citizens, do the honest homework, and learn the whole truth for themselves, because without that truth, real peace is impossible.
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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan Pappe
Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews - Alan Hart
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