Celebrating Israel's 60th Birthday in the 60th year of the Nakba
Zahir
Ebrahim
May
15, 2008
(Footnote
updating the record of festivities in Israel added May 20, 2008)
©
Project
HumanbeingsfirstTM.
Permission granted to use freely as per copyright notice.
On
the festive and felicitous occasion of the 60th anniversary of
Israel's existence which is being celebrated with much fanfare from
Tel Aviv to Washington D.C., President George W. Bush along with his
notable wife landed at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport on May 14, 2008,
to the warm greetings of Shimon Perez:
“Welcome
to the new Israel: Three thousand years old, and going on sixty”
President
Bush effusively replied:
“Our
two nations both faced great challenges when they were founded. And
our two nations have both relied on the same principles to help us
succeed. We built strong democracies to protect the freedoms given to
us by an Almighty God”
Project
HumanbeingsfirstTM would like to offer its humble
contribution to the love-fest celebrations on Israel's 60th
birthday by elaborating upon these “same principles to
help us succeed”, beginning with the few chosen words
of the late Israeli scholar Baruch Kimmerling, professor of sociology
at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, from his 2002 essay “My
Holiday, Their Tragedy”:
As
a Jew, an atheist and a Zionist, I have two memorial days in my
country, Israel. One for the Holocaust and one for soldiers who fell
in wars. I also have one day of celebration, the anniversary of the
day Israel declared its statehood. ...
It
is horrifying to realize that,despite the fact that the essence of
the Holocaust was the genocide of the Jewish people, we tend to
forget, induce oversight of, and even hide the fact that gypsies, the
physically and mentally disabled, communists, priests, and Germans
who opposed the Nazi regime were killed in extermination camps
alongside Jews. The transformation of the Holocaust into a solely
Jewish tragedy, as opposed to a universal event, only weakens its
significance and its legitimacy, tarnishing us and the memory of the
victims. Likewise, its unnecessary overuse by Jews in Israel and the
rest of the world, particularly political bodies, has made the
Holocaust banal. Above all, a provocative and dangerous approach has
bought a place in our hearts: that Jews, as the victims of the
Holocaust, are permitted to treat goyim however they want. Forceful
and condescending, "anti-gentile-ism" is identical to
criminal anti-Semitism. ...
The
Jewish - Arab conflict, and the Jewish - Palestinian conflict in
particular, has had many victims and caused great suffering. I admit
that I am closer to the victims from my own people, for personal
reasons and because of my familiarity and personal experience with
many of them or members of their families. What can I do? A person
is closer to his own friends, tribe, and people. ...
Independence
Day is a holiday for me, but also an opportunity for intense
self-introspection. A person needs a state and land, and this is my
land, my homeland, despite the fact that I was not born here.
It
is surely useful for those given to such deep introspection on this
joyous celebratory occasion, to also reflect Kimmerling's expression
“Independence Day is a holiday for me” – a
profound sentiment that must be shared by all Israelis and their
exponents – back to these remorseless 1943 words of Yitzhak
Shamir, the equally profound affect of which, among other
atrocities upon its indigenous peoples, deliberately harvested the
cataclysm of the holocaust
and European anti-semitism
for the construction of 'Eretz Yisrael' in Palestine:
“Neither
Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror
as a means of war, ... We are very far from any moral hesitations
when concerned with the national struggle”.
Lest
those living in the void of modernity and 'United We Stand' with the
inexplicable 'WAR
on TERROR' –
which has of course been quite deliberately divorced from its
imperial contexts – think that such terror doctrines being “far
from any moral hesitations” were only an unfortunate
aberration due to the tumultuous founding of 'Der
Judenstaadt' in
the aftermath of the holocaust in the otherwise vastly moral and
lofty traditions of Zionism, it is also pertinent to recall these
equally remorseless 1939 confessional words of Israel's
first statesman uttered before the word 'holocaust' even existed:
“[In
Internal discussions post 1936-1939 revolt of the Palestinian Arabs,
David Ben-Gurion noted] let us not ignore the truth among ourselves
... politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves ...
The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to
come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away
from them their country, while we are still outside. [Their revolt]
is an active resistance by the Palestinians to what they regard as a
usurpation of their homeland by the Jews. Behind the terrorism [i.e.
the Palestinian Arab revolt] is a movement, which though primitive is
not devoid of idealism and self-sacrifice.”
And
lest one may think that this self-righteous 'ubermensch' attitude of
'god's chosen peoples' feeling entitled to forcibly occupy another's
lands even while blatantly recognizing that “the country
is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and
settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their
country” only existed pre-founding of 'the
Jewish State' in Palestine, and that the modern democratic
Zionist state of Israel represents the moral inheritance of Moses,
the lofty Ten Commandments, and what is good in Judaism, rather than
the inherently racist
apartheid pariah state that it still is today no different from
its original conception, it is further instructive to recall the
systematic daily killing and oppression of the Palestinian peoples on
their own lands at the hands of the 'Israeli Defense Forces' in these
chauvinist 1983 words of the distinguished cockroach
peddler and Chief of Staff of the IDF, Raphael
Eitan:
“We
declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle on even one
centimetre of Eretz Israel... Force is all they do or ever will
understand. We shall use the ultimate force until the Palestinians
come crawling to us on all fours.”
and
“When
we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do about it
will be to scurry around like drugged cockroaches in a bottle.”
Not
to stop there, the glorious state of Israel in its pursuit of the
systematic terror doctrine for incremental conquest of 'Eretz
Yisrael' that is openly
and un-apologetically admitted to by generations of its Zionist
leaders to be “far from any moral hesitations when
concerned with the national struggle”, continually
threatens what admittedly still remains a largely futile “active
resistance ... which though primitive is not devoid of idealism and
self-sacrifice” by its beleaguered
indigenous peoples, with an even “bigger
holocaust” sixty years into their Nakba, as
unabashedly expressed earlier this year by Israel's current Deputy
Defense Minister, former Maj. General of the IDF, Matan
Vilnai:
“The
more Qassam (rocket) fire intensifies and the rockets reach a longer
range, they (the Palestinians) will bring upon themselves a bigger
holocaust because we will use all our might to defend
ourselves”.
The
tortuous reality behind “all our might to defend
ourselves” is the first imperial principle upon which
many an empire has been constructed. As already
succinctly expressed by Project
Humanbeingsfirst in its Modernity
Simplified exposition, and explained further in its humble letter
to the American peoples, it is the quintessential First Principle
of Conquest:
“If
we don't have real enemies then we have to create or imagine some and
yell 'we are being attacked'” in order to a) justify one's
hegemonic barbarianism upon others; and b) motivate an unwilling
plebeian peoples into sacrificing for the conquests of the ruling
elite.
Israel
is fortunate to have real enemies so they have to spend less time
convincing the world that “we are being attacked”,
compared to their sponsors who have had to diligently construct the
elaborate dialectics of “Clash of Civilizations”
and “Bin
Laden” and “Al-Qaeeda”
in order to fully exploit the opportunity of going from “Balance
of Terror to Unilateral Terror” for the same purpose.
President
George W. Bush of course, on his arrival in Tel Aviv to celebrate
Israel's sixtieth birthday, was surely only referring to these very
challenges and common recipe for success when he said: “Our
two nations both faced great challenges when they were founded. And
our two nations have both relied on the same principles to help us
succeed.”
It
was indeed also wondering about what these “same
principles to help us succeed”
in fact were that a
young American peace activist from Olympia Washington, Rachel Corrie,
had once gone to Palestine to uncover for herself – as she
wrote in her last desperate emails to her mother in America from
Rafah, Palestine, in 2003:
“Just
want to write to my Mom and tell her that I'm witnessing this
chronic, insidious genocide and I'm really scared, and questioning my
fundamental belief in the goodness of human nature. This has to stop.
I think it is a good idea for us all to drop everything and devote
our lives to making this stop. I don't think it's an extremist thing
to do anymore. I still really want to dance around to Pat Benatar and
have boyfriends and make comics for my coworkers. But I also want
this to stop. Disbelief and horror is what I feel. Disappointed. I am
disappointed that this is the base reality of our world and
that we, in fact, participate in it.”
The
Israeli Jews too find themselves inextricably entrapped in this
devilishly crafted Zionist “base reality of our world”,
as expressed by the late Israeli renegade scholar,
Tanya Reinhart, professor of linguistics at the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, in her 2002 book “How
to end the war of 1948”:
“The
state of Israel founded in 1948 following a war which the Israelis
call the War of Independence, and the Palestinians call the Nakba -
the catastrophe. A haunted, persecuted people sought to find a
shelter and a state for itself, and did so at a horrible price to
another people. During the war of 1948, more than half of the
Palestinian population at the time - 1,380,000 people - were driven
off their homeland by the Israeli army. Though Israel officially
claimed that a majority of refugees fled and were not expelled, it
still refused to allow them to return, as a UN resolution demanded
shortly after 1948 war. Thus, the Israeli land was obtained through
ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Palestinian inhabitants. This is
not a process unfamiliar in history. Israel's actions remain
incomparable to the massive ethnic cleansing of Native Americans by
the settlers and government of the United states. Had Israel stopped
there, in 1948, I could probably live with it. As an Israeli, I
grew up believing that this primal sin our state was founded on may
be forgiven one day, because the founder's generation was driven
by the faith that this was the only way to save the Jewish people
from the danger of another holocaust.”
What
an astutely engineered modernity of the 'hectoring hegemons' –
“the [grotesque] base reality of our world”
– whose Orwellian cover is very effectively used
for brain-washing the Israeli denizens by goading them into making
their 'Alia' into Zionistan from their Diaspora around the world, and
automatically handing them Israeli citizenship upon landing in order
to offset the demographic imbalance. And subsequently, it is used for
indoctrinating them into staying and keeping their allegiance to the
Jewish State by smothering their inner
sense of morality with “this primal
sin our state was founded on may be forgiven one day”.
The same Orwellian cover is also very effectively deployed for
brain-washing and/or manipulating their leading Western exponents
into institutionally supporting the Zionist enterprise by wielding
pivotal influence over its many institutions from the Pentagon to the
Congress to the World Bank to the media and Hollywood; authoring its
many hegemonic policies in its various Jewish think-tanks, like the
AEI and JINSA; controlling almost all its politicians across all
political parties with influential lobby groups, like the AIPAC; to
also controlling many of the Western European world leaders,
presidents and prime ministers, from Sarkozy
to Merkel, who today bow
and scrape at the heels of Zion, to enable constructing a “Zion
that will light up all the world”.
This
“base reality” is especially practiced with
the skilled artfulness of an Edward
Bernays' public relationing project
upon the “populist democracy” in the most powerful
and sole-superpower sugar-daddy of the Zionist pariah state, the
United States of America, which herself descends into a fascist
police state today to carry-on with her own devilishly crafted
“imperial
mobilization” plans in order to “birth-pang
[the] New Middle East” for its convoluted
clients-masters interests as the hired-hands
du jour.
So
as President George Bush suggests, “our
two nations have both relied on the same principles to help us
succeed”,
what is indeed in common in the principle modus
operandi between Israel incrementally and systematically expanding
its conquest of 'Eretz Yisrael' by “waging wars by way of
deception” in the name of fighting the terrorism of the
recalcitrant Palestinians who refuse to obey the 1948 goyem's law
propounded by Ben-Gurion, that “the old will die and the
young will forget”, and the “imperial
mobilization” for “full
spectrum dominance” by the world's sole
superpower in the name of fighting a synthetic 'World
War IV' against a “Bin-Laden” clan sitting barefoot
and cross-legged in the caves of the Hindu-Kush
armed to the teeth with laptops, cell phones, airplane flying
manuals, box cutter knives, and Pakistani 'loose
nukes'?
This
commemorative essay by Project Humanbeingsfirst, on the joyous and
happy occasion of Israel's 60th anniversary of its
forcible existence upon another's lands, dissects the above question
as a humble gift of humanity to the conscionable Israeli peoples and
their ardent exponents in the United States, Western and Eastern
Europe, Russia, and elsewhere. The afore-stated question due to its
mammoth import, begs restating again before
answering it:
What
is there in common between the Zionist quest for its “Lebensraum”
in the Middle East that is oft referred to by its Biblical name as
the 'Land of Canaan' which is thought to extend “from the
Nile to the Euphrates” all the way to the Caspian –
and the Zionist-neocon sponsored sole superpower's quest for “full
spectrum dominance” which primarily aims to “Birth-pang
the New Middle East” as
essential pawns moves in its on-going power-plays for the control of
Eurasia on 'the Grand Chessboard' en-route to world
domination in the New World Order
in which there is slated to be only “one centre of
authority, one centre of force, one centre of decision-making. It is
world in which there is one master, one sovereign”?
Apart
from the obvious fact that they both share common exponents with
tortuously common interests to pursue narrow misanthropic ideologies
of conquest as the quintessential 'ubermenschen' du jour, they both
also share what the first statesman-founder of 'Eretz Yisrael' had so
diabolically summed up as the quintessential Machiavellian method of
inducing “birth-pangs” in order to raise a new
more 'superior' phoenix from deliberate plebeian (or goyem)
ashes:
“what
is inconceivable in normal times is possible in revolutionary times”.
Thus
one can empirically observe this supremely criminal reality of “birth
pang[ing] the new middle East”,
as glibly noted by the erstwhile American Secretary of State
Condoleezza
Rice such that “whatever
we do we have to be certain that we're pushing forward to the new
Middle East not going back to the old one”;
and the “Global Zone of Percolating Violence”
as chalked out in a map by former American National Security Advisor
Zbigniew
Brzezinski to cleverly
suggest the very same “birth pangs”
in his own superior Straussian style; and the conquest of 'Eretz
Yisrael' as contemplated by its generations of Zionist strategic
thinkers, financiers, and political tacticians – all equitably
sharing in uber-Zionist David Ben-Gurion's demonic strategy of
requiring “revolutionary times”
to make possible what would be “inconceivable in
normal times”.
It
is most essential for ordinary peoples not imbued with the lofty
spirit of the “white mans burden”
to attempt to fully comprehend this profound intellectual concept of
the ruling elite that is so elegantly captured in this short pithy
sentence, because its import is often cataclysmic. If one remains
cognizant of this principle of conquest while evaluating Current
Affairs and contemporaneously unfolding history, one may never get
deceived by the various dog-and-pony shows constructed by the
intellectual minions and circus clowns of empire despite the relative
closeness in time – for the true architects and financiers of
any “revolutionary times”
are instantly brought into focus with this lens by simply searching
for key beneficiaries on different
time-scales and distilling
them upwards to zoom into the power-apex pyramid. The supreme
criminal bastards on the top, often with 'clean hands', are the
prime-movers.
Any
“imperial mobilization” today, in the
glorious Age of Democracy, must require a concomitant
“revolutionary times” as much as fish require
water – for without the pretexts of endless wars against
suitably demonized and ever threatening enemies, none of these
ubermenschen's conquests at the expense of
the 'lesser' dispensable peoples living in its paths, would ever be
possible.
In
the Western homelands among its “populist democracy”,
it remains true that “Deception is the state of the mind;
and the mind of the state”, and a veritable prerequisite
for “imperial mobilization” when its ordinary
peoples – the plebeians – are no longer imbued with the
uber spirit of 'la
mission civilisatrice'.
But
for the 'unworthy' victims of imperial mobilization, the bullets to
the head of their children and their bulldozed homes leave little
need for deception and 'the
endless trail of red herrings' that is continually spun to the
populist democracies to get them to accept the atrocities of conquest
in the name of “defend[ing] ourselves” against
terrorism.
So
when the enemy can naturally exist, as the Palestinians do, and whose
indigenous lands and possessions are being systematically usurped,
confiscated, and destroyed in the name of 'self-defense' by the
transplanted Zionists, that actually helps automatically create the
requisite “revolutionary times” needed to fully
construct 'Eretz Yisrael'.
The
Palestinians' natural act of self-defense, which though “primitive”
and altogether futile against an overwhelmingly superior foe that is
fully backed, militarily, financially, intellectually, and
politically, by the world's sole superpower whose own policy
instruments are also at the mercy of the same Zionists who use the
more palatable euphemism of “neo-conservatives” for
domestic consumption, the seeding of “revolutionary times”
is a fait accompli not only in Palestine, but also in the United
States! Thus it was no empty boast of Ariel Sharon to Shimon
Perez in October 2001, in the aftermath of
911:
“Every
time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do
that . . . I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about
American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control
America, and the Americans know it.”
Wonderful
stuff from the point of view of the Zionist leaders, despite some
empty chairs on Shabbath in Tel Aviv – no differently from how
some civilians were surely lost by the Anglo-Saxon 'White Man' to the
scalp-hunting 'terrorist' Red Indians while settling their indigenous
continent at the expense of remorselessly exterminating up to 10
million of them.
But
what happens when the enemy does not naturally exist? It is
fabricated into existence as a bootstrap, and greatly facilitated
into becoming an 'enemy' to fight against in order to create the
requisite “revolutionary times”. That is the
entire underlying empirical underpinnings behind America's 'war on
terror' since its 'new Pearl Harbor'. For without the '911' and the
“sudden threat or challenge to the public's sense of well
being”, as Zbigniew
Brzezinski had astutely observed:
“It
is also a fact that America is too democratic at home to be
autocratic abroad. This limits the use of America's power, especially
its capacity for military intimidation. Never before has a populist
democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power
is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of
a sudden threat or challenge to the public's sense of domestic
well-being. The economic self-denial (that is defense spending), and
the human sacrifice (casualties even among professional soldiers)
required in the effort are uncongenial to democratic instincts.
Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization.”
In
either situation, whether the enemy is real or fabricated, since
“revolutionary times” are what is being
deliberately synthesized, the populist democracies must be diligently
kept misinformed, uninformed, and continually disinformed by playing
up the threat of the real or fabricated enemy (as the case may be),
and suitably demonizing the “evil doers” while
eulogizing their handful of 'worthy' victims, so that the populist
democracies might acquiesce to the enemies' extermination with
extreme prejudice.
The
New York Times April 20, 2008 exposé
of the Pentagon seeding retired military generals into America's
television newsrooms to sell its unpopular
wars to the public is merely the disingenuous tip of the ice-berg.
All popular television news media and all mainstream presses not only
in the United States but also in Western Europe, are now dominated by
exponents of Israel who simultaneously
bleep the “War on Terrorism” mantra to keep moving
both overlapping “imperial mobilization” agendas
forward.
The
extreme projection of barbaric imperial power with overwhelming
“shock and awe” upon civilian populations and
anemically armed foes who are unable to realistically challenge the
world's armed to the teeth colossus, then unsurprisingly constructs
the controlled chaos, the random terror bombings, the F-16
retaliations and counter suicide strikes, the check-points and
starvation, sanctions and deprivation, and eventual shattering of
tabula rasa of the innocent with concomitant lust for revenge, and
hence the cycle of more self-sustaining natural enemies – the
“revolutionary times” – and thusly, new
settlements in the Land of Canaan as well as new military bases in
Asia go up along with a healthy rise in defense spending for the
acquisition of new death toys-N-things!
This
self-sustaining non-linear system of “revolutionary times”,
once deftly primed into motion with elaborate doctrinal state-craft,
then continually enables new countries to be set-up for
“revolutionary times”. We have already publicly
witnessed “Operation Infinite Justice” and “Operation
Iraqi Freedom”. Operations Irani
Freedom, Pakistani Freedom, Lebanon Freedom, Syria Freedom, et. al.,
perhaps with ever changing covert names, are already past the setup
phases, and mainly only awaiting some catastrophic
catalyzing events to further embroil most of ASIA
in Perpetual and Total War!
Thus
empire-building is effectively enabled contrary to all the
“democratic instincts” and can proceed at full
pace in the exercise of its unfettered “capacity for
military intimidation”, easily dragging the otherwise
vociferously recalcitrant and peaceable peoples into the wake of its
turbulent vortex 'United We Stand' due to the raw shock-effect of the
“revolutionary times”.
The
911 was one such democracy-mobilizing “revolutionary times”.
And
one might well wonder what kind of empire-building this is in which
the United States treasury is going bankrupt amidst soaring profits
of its military-industrial complex partners while simultaneously
descending its populist republic into a draconian police state, and
in the process, also acquiring for itself the ignoble curse as the
global predatory pariah state which needs to be countered by the
'lesser' nations uniting together in “Full
Spectrum Alliances” as done throughout the pages of history
against other predators? The in-depth examination of this question
which is the essence of the New World Order
is done elsewhere (for instance, see “The
Re-Gathering Storm” and “A
Strategy of Tension in Pakistan Part2: The forces that drive them”;
the analysis by Richard
Cook lends some additional insights into how some Westerners who
are opposed to the New World Order view it). The focus on this
felicitous day however is forensically understanding the modus
operandi that is common to all “imperial mobilizations”.
Therefore,
as those given to even a modicum of reflection can almost trivially
predict for the fate of the poor 'enemy' during these “revolutionary
times”, we empirically witness a systematic effort to both
malign
Islam as the elegantly fabricated doctrinal enemy that enables an
entire lifetime of “World War IV”
to be fought against using the wonderful mantra of “Clash
of Civilizations”, and an alive Palestinian struggling in
the self-defense of his home and property as the already existential,
stone throwing, suicide bombing terrorist to defend poor Israel
against.
Indeed,
Daniel
Pipes does great work on both counts when he delectably asserts
almost a century later “[It is] Not a Clash of
Civilizations, It's a Clash between the Civilized World and
Barbarians”, in unremarkable plagiarism of similar
projection by the founder
of 'Der Judenstaadt' himself as he eloquently sold the concept of
creating Zionistan in Palestine to the imperialists of his
time suggesting to them that “We can be the vanguard of
culture against barbarianism”.
Lest
the well-fed peoples in the “populist democracy”
ever begin to ask their politicians at election time why military and
economic aid is being freely doled out to an armed to the teeth
occupying power in the Middle East that is destroying indigenous
civilian infrastructures, homes, orchards, farms, water wells,
shooting children in the eyes and head, confiscating the indigenous
lands and water supplies, and building their own European settlements
in place of destroyed indigenous properties, constructing giant 14-18
feet tall concrete walls to close-in the indigenous peoples into what
in any other place and under any other jack-boots would aptly be
described as giant open-air prison camps, concentration camps, and
bantustans – it is only the barbarians being contained!
Indeed,
lest the most fair minded among the “populist democracy”
with an eye for perspective, begin to rationally ponder what crimes
had the Palestinian peoples committed upon the Jews that their
indigenous continuously inhabited lands were gratuitously granted to
the European Zionist aspirants by the European imperialist powers in
compensation, or why was there an occupier in what little was left to
the Palestinians in the first place – it is only the barbarians
being tamed by the “vanguard of culture”.
And
before some begin asking the first commonsensical question that even
arises in the mind of an average Kindergartner when he or she
innocently learns of the troubles in Palestine, that why the
anachronistic and racist apartheid state in the modernity of today
could not be dismantled like South Africa and transformed into one
fair democratic state for all its indigenous peoples, Jews,
Christians, and Muslims alike?
And
before the next logical followup question comes to their mind, that
if a Jews–only homeland had to be forcibly allocated for 'god's
chosen ubermenschen', why could it not be done in Europe (or America)
or Russia from where the majority of the Zionist transplants into
Palestine hailed?
For
after all, it was Germany
that did the Holocaust! And it was the American
bankers and corporations that financed Hitler! And it was the
Christian Europe that persecuted the Jews throughout their 2000 year
history of Diaspora. Shouldn't the Christian folks duly bear the
burden of restitution to the Jews? And if the Jews demand their
compensation, and an innocent third party – the Palestinian
people – is apportioned to pay it, who will pay the restitution
to the Palestinians when their day finally comes too?
Before
all these questions ever arise in any “populist democracy”,
perhaps it is best that these “barbarians” are
eradicated or resettled elsewhere as the
“final solution”
to the question of Palestine! Ex post facto, let the entire
world proudly know the true grotesque “base reality”
– for that ain't gonna get the land back to any remaining 'Red
Indians'!
President
George W. Bush don't sound so dyslexic C student from Yale no more –
indeed he sounds rather perceptive in his candid observation: “Our
two nations both faced great challenges when they were founded. And
our two nations have both relied on the same principles to help us
succeed. We built strong democracies to protect the freedoms given to
us by an Almighty God”.
Asking
any child in sixth grade, when he or she first learns of the genocide
of the native Americans, whether she might do anything to prevent it
if that was happening today, what do you think might her answer be?
What if these sixth graders were told about this ongoing genocide in
Palestine, and instead of tours of the Holocaust museum in Washington
D.C., they were taken on tours through the unholy land of oppression?
And instead of reading the Diary of Anne Frank in eighth grade, they
were assigned to read Rachel Corrie's letters to her mother from
Palestine, or asked to compare the two in class discussions?
Asking
of such uncomfortable questions by the mainstream upon being exposed
to the grotesque “base reality of our world”
that is institutionally camouflaged by
clever Orwellian spins like “We built
strong democracies to protect the freedoms given to us by an Almighty
God”, can only put a monkey-wrench in the
imperial scheme of things, especially if it creates popular mass
protests and shut-down strikes as in the case of the Vietnam War!
And
thus, ensuring that such questions are never raised by the plebeian
masses in the Western Hemisphere, Israel's 60th birthday
will likely be celebrated with much gusto in many of its Western
Capitals today, with President Bush already enjoying the love–fest
in Tel Aviv.
Happy
60th Birthday from Project Humanbeingsfirst on behalf of
the lowly 'barbarians'!
[Footnote
May 20, 2008] It is known to be customary to celebrate
independence day with much mirth, joyous merry-making, firecrackers,
and bonfires. The “New
Israel” which excitedly welcomed the fervent
Evangelical Christian American President, George W. Bush Jr., and his
fair lady, to its holy lands for three days of love-fest and
merriment, the moment their guests departed, lit the brightest
bonfires to continue on with its “Three
thousand years old, and going on sixty” traditional
celebrations, as reported today by the Tel Aviv based Hebrew language
Daily, Maariv, the second largest in Israel. “Orthodox
Jews set fire to hundreds of copies of the New Testament in the
latest act of violence against Christian missionaries in the Holy
Land. The books were dumped into a pile and set afire in a lot near a
synagogue. The Israeli Maariv daily reported Tuesday that hundreds of
Jewish religious school students took part in the book-burning.
Israeli authorities and Orthodox Jews frown on missionary activity
aimed at Jews”, observed DAWN,
MSNBC, IHT,
all headlining it “Orthodox Jewish youths burn New
Testaments in Israel” and narrating from the Associated
Press supplied rendition of events. There were no BBC
television news cameras on hand to record the bonfires as there
usually are when some DVDs featuring
scantily clad women are put to the torch by “islamofascists”.
Too bad the First Family of the United States of America, Der
Judenstaadt's primal benefactors, did not stay a few extra days to
witness the full spectrum love-fest that perhaps awaits
the rest of Christendom as 'god's chosen
peoples' are grown into the “Zion that will light up all the
world”! How can the lowly, deftly cultivated
“islamofascist”
pirates ever hope to hold a candle up to this naturally occurring
light of Judeofascism?
Perhaps the greatest “Western Scholar of Islam”
and the “Middle East” in the United States of
America, Daniel
Pipes, Bernard
Lewis, David
Horowitz, et. al., can explain it to the Christian President of
the United States whose most sacred Holy Book, and that of approx. 2
Billion other Christians, was just
desecrated by the most fervent Jews in Zionistan!
The
author, an ordinary researcher and writer on contemporary
geopolitics, a minor justice activist, grew up in Pakistan, studied
EECS at MIT, engineered for a while in high-tech Silicon Valley
(patents here),
and retired early to pursue other responsible interests. His maiden
2003 book was rejected by six publishers and can be read on the web
at http://PrisonersoftheCave.org.
He may be reached at http://Humanbeingsfirst.org.
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