Battle
for Palestine
March 9,
2002
The main road of the Palestinian Highlands from Nablus to
Jerusalem runs through Wadi Haramiyeh, a narrow defile in the
Samaria Mountains. From time to time, its olive-grown walls recede
and leave space for a village, tiny En Sinya, a neat and charming
cluster of spacious homes, or splendid Sinjil, named after Raymond
de Saint-Gilles, the Count of Toulouse, its liege lord and Crusader.
This is the
heartland of Palestine, where every stone keeps memories of old
battles and skirmishes. I love this area: in Sinjil, I was taken for
a foreign-born son of local folks who immigrated to America in the
1940s. In En Sinya, an old peasant told me of his friend Moshe
Sharet, a Palestinian Jew and an Israeli minister of state, who was
brought up in the village, years before the Zionist segregation. I
drank water from the small spring of En al-Haramiyeh, guarded by a
ruined Ottoman Khan, near yet another ruin, King Baldwin’s Tower,
that stands watch over the southern entrance of the defile. Its
relief makes it a likely place for brigands’ ambush, and indeed
‘Wadi Haramiyeh’ means just that, the Valley of Brigands.
On March 3,
a Palestinian Rob Roy armed with an old, WWII – vintage carbine,
succeeded to lay low the whole troop of heavily armed Jews. One
after another, he shot the soldiers, and their officers, and escaped
unharmed. In one stroke, he erased the overblown myth of Israeli
military valiance. Never again will the supporters of Israel sneer
at Arab courage, never again they will tell stories of shoes dropped
in Sinai and the Six Day War. He repeated the feat of Karameh and
returned the honour to Palestinians.
He also
provided a healthy alternative to the morbid attraction of suicide
bombers, and not too soon. For a long time I wanted to persuade my
Palestinian brothers and sisters to desist from this madness, but I
loathed to be seen as an ideological tool of Zionism. I understand
the motives of the shaheeds (martyrs), I salute their courage, but I
deeply regret their deeds. They are counterproductive, inefficient,
and blind. I am certain[i] that some suicide cells are thoroughly
infiltrated by Israeli counter-intelligence: too often their living
bombs explode in the wrong places, at the wrong time, against the
wrong targets. Their deeds are used by Israeli propaganda machine to
its full value. Their death is a terrible loss for the mankind. They
sacrifice themselves as the son of Abraham brought himself to be
sacrificed, when merciful God replaced his sacrifice with a
ram.
The marksman
offered a different route to glory, one that does not lead through
the Valley of Death. The full story of the Battle at Haramiyeh Pass
should be sung by bards, and taught by guerrilla fighters over the
world. One against ten, the Lone Ranger hit the most hated symbol of
Jewish rule in Palestine, a checkpoint, where bored, overfed,
sadistic Israeli soldiers daily humiliated, beat and often murdered
local people.
Just a day
before the battle, the soldiers committed probably the most
revolting and cowardly act of cruelty. A Palestinian woman on her
way to give birth came to the checkpoint, accompanied by her
husband. The soldiers let her through and then opened fire. Her
husband was killed; the pregnant woman was wounded and gave birth in
the hospital. The soldiers were not reprimanded, but the Army
‘expressed regrets’ to the survivors.
Israeli
Army’s main concern is to keep the local population vulnerable and
unable to defend itself. The IDF soldiers got used to kill unarmed
civilians. Their preferred victims are children; the weapon of
choice is a long range high velocity sharp-shooter rifle. Their idea
of entertainment was witnessed by an expert on ‘the dark side of the
[Israel Defence] Force’, the former chief of New York Times Middle
East bureau, Chris Hedges: they pour abuse at children of the
refugee camp and shoot and maim them as they approach the deadly
trap[ii].
Still, the
shooting of the pregnant woman was a deed as fateful as the Biblical
slaughter of the Levite’s concubine. The Lord God of Palestine
noticed the plight of His sons. The evil deeds of Zionist soldiers
had to be punished. The curse promised by the Lord to the
misbehaving children of Israel (Deut. 28) fell on their heads.
Whatever will be discovered by the military commission of enquiry,
this is the most likely explanation of the event. He Who gave
victory to the young shepherd David against Goliath, granted victory
to the lone warrior in Wadi Haramiyeh.
The surprise
attack on the checkpoint dealt a deadly blow to the psychotic
Israeli superiority complex. Cowards and sadists are unable to cope
with defeat, they respond by homicidal rage. That is why the Army
began an all-out assault on Palestinian towns and villages. As I
write, soldiers shoot at ambulances that try to remove wounded. The
US jets with Israeli pilots bomb a school for the blind in Gaza.
Crack troops of the Golani division accompanied by tanks storm the
Tul Karem refugee camps. They plan to repeat the massacre of Sabra
and Shatila, the previous feat of General Sharon. As a manual, they
use the Waffen-SS commander’s memoir of reducing the Warsaw ghetto.
They are enticed by the extremely low casualties of the Wermacht in
1943, and hope to repeat their feat while crushing the
Palestinians[iii].
Sharon
surpassed Hitler: the German dictator carefully avoided giving the
public orders to kill Jews, the Jewish ruler unabashedly called to
kill the Goyiim on the TV in prime time. While many Germans were
disgusted by the Nazis and crossed the lines, and served in the
Allied armies against the Third Reich, the Jews still hesitate to
break the bond of false loyalty to their Third Malkuth. Israelis of
conscience refuse to participate directly in the ethnic cleansing.
It is a very good thing but it is not enough. We should follow the
example of Ernst Thaelmann and Joe Slovo, cross the lines, and join
the Palestinian fighters on the barricades of Gaza and Tul Karem. In
the British newspaper, the Guardian[iv], Jonathan Freedland called
the Israeli protesters, ‘heroes’. I reserve this title for the
marksman from the Brigands’ Defile.
FREDDY COMES
BACK
Sometime ago I described the war in Palestine as a ‘creeping
genocide’. Now this process speeds up. I doubt it could be
different, as the Jewish paradigm naturally causes genocide and
transfer of population. Whenever this paradigm comes into play,
genocide and transfer follows. The predominantly Jewish governments
of post-war Poland and Czechoslovakia carried out genocidal
transfers of ethnic German groups in 1945. The heavily Jewish
government of revolutionary Hungary in 1919 massacred its opponents
on a huge scale. This paradigm does not need ethnic Jews: Nazi
Germany applied its racist ideas against Jews by using the Judaic
paradigm of racial purity and superiority.
There is a
difference: since 1945, Germans have atoned for committed
atrocities. Their remorse broke their will. But there is little
remorse among the Jews for the transfers and massacres. John Sack,
an American Jewish writer, described Jewish participation in the
post-1945 atrocities in his book An Eye for an Eye. This publication
could have become a beginning of a catharsis, of a deep regret and
remorse. Instead, the book was banned and Sack became a non-person.
There was the strange behaviour of Benny Morris, the Israeli ‘New
Historian’, who bewildered many friends. How is it that the man who
so accurately described the Palestinian Holocaust of 1948,
al-Nakbah, became a spokesman against the Palestinian cause? There
was no reason to wonder: killing and transferring the Gentiles is
not a cause to regret according to the Jewish paradigm of
superiority.
It is not
strange that this archaic paradigm became so prominent in the Jewish
state. A few days ago, Israeli TV carried out a lively discussion on
advantages of transfer. Not everybody supported the notion, but the
transfer supporters were not ostracised. They sat and called for
mass murder and expulsion with smug smiles, citing the previous
transfers as a proof of their legitimacy. The most frightening piece
of today’s news was the news as broadcasted by Israel and slavishly
repeated by CNN and Jewish-owned media elsewhere. The leading item
referred to death of an Israeli sergeant, followed by a casual
mentioning of fifty killed Palestinians.
How can it
be? Israelis are not too bad, nor are other Jews. Even Sharon looks
like a huggable teddy bear, said General Zinni. How are these
basically nice folk able to commit horrible crimes and still remain
rather nice? This paradox is rooted in an artificial chasm between a
Jew and a non-Jew in the Jewish mind. In the chain of ‘Jew – Gentile
– animal’ the difference between the first two items is much bigger
than the difference between the second and third, postulated Taniya,
a compendium of traditional Jewish teaching. This notion sits in the
subconscious levels of many Jews, good and bad alike.
While the
evil Jews of Sharon’s kin slaughter Gentiles without the slightest
remorse, many good Jews object to Sharon’s actions as they would
object to the cruel treatment of animals. Actually, on the walls of
Tel Aviv houses there are more posters protesting inhuman feeding of
geese than deploring the mass murder of Goyiim.
The Talmud
preaches compassion to animals, as we learn from the following
fable. A sheep on the way to the butcher tried to find a refuge with
the Rabbi Judah the Prince, but he said that it is normal for a
sheep to be slaughtered. As he had no mercy for the sheep, God
withdrew his mercy from him, and the holy Rabbi suffered for many
years of kidney disease. Years later he prevented the killing of
wasps, and this sign of compassion made God to reverse His judgment.
But there is a profound lack of compassion towards non-Jews. They
are frequently compared to animals, but while there is a duty to
save an endangered animal, there is no obligation to save a Gentile.
This paradox of compassion to animals and lack of feeling towards
Gentiles causes many abnormalities in the Jewish outlook.
Despite good
feeling towards animals, people do not hesitate to sell them,
slaughter them, separate them and move them whenever it is deemed
necessary. We do not consider it a sin or an objectionable
behaviour. Lady Macbeth lost her sleep because of the shed blood,
but a person with a traditional Jewish outlook would not feel bad at
all. He would remain his cheerful self, after killing Palestinian
peasants in Kafr Kassem in 1956, or Egyptian POWs in 1967, or
indeed, Russian and Hungarian gentry in 1920, Germans and Poles in
1945, Iraqis and Afghanis in 2002.
Such a
person would not leave an impression of homicidal mania, because he
would consider himself a perfectly sound man. I have met many
professional killers and torturers in Israel, and none of them have
experienced pangs of conscience. An old judge of the High Court,
Moshe Landoi, permitted ‘moderate’ torture of detained Goyiim, but
their cries did not disturb his sleep. He is still honoured by his
colleagues and the media. In an interview, a Shabak official Ehud
Yatom boasted he smashed a Palestinian prisoner’s head with a
stone[v]. He could not comprehend why somebody would find it
objectionable, and as a matter of fact, when his carreer suffered a
minor setback, he was supported by many MPs and by Israeli
public.
This deep
conviction in one’s own righteousness makes us Jews so unusual. It
also makes the job of good Jews more difficult. We do not cause
enough annoyance. Jewish Nazis are quite tolerant towards Jewish
liberals: the parties have a strained but comfortable relationship
of a hunter and vegetarian, not a hunter and a hunted one. Rare
Jewish radicals found on the al-Awdah and suchlike groups break the
complacent mould when they reject the very idea of a Jewish state
and of the eternal People of Israel.
The peculiar
feeling towards a non-Jew is manifested in the Jewish endogamy, the
tradition of marriage within the creed. In Talmud, marriage to a
Gentile equals bestiality. Even in 20th century, the Jewish writer
Sholom Aleichem describes his good Jew, Tevie the Milkman (the
Fiddler on the Roof), doing full mourning rites for his daughter who
had been married a Gentile. Just last year, Mortimer Zuckerman, the
owner of many American newspapers, divorced his Gentile wife in
order to be elevated to the top of the US Jewish community. Jews,
who married outside the creed usually break with the organised
Jewry, part with racism and join the human race.
Children of
mixed marriages are often misled as to their status vis-à-vis the
Jewish community. Whatever they are being told by their well-meaning
parents, they are often considered as impure bastards and unfit for
important positions in the community. The community will use them,
abuse them and discard them. This pattern is seen in Israel, where
the children of mixed marriages serve in the army but are buried
outside the fence if they die for the Jewish state. It would be
better for them, while having a moderate interest in their origin,
to throw their lot with the folks that will accept them
fully.
The present
rise of the Jewish paradigm is not the first one. It is similar to
Freddy of the Elm Street Horror movie: whenever this concept
materializes, it causes genocide. The Biblical story of Joshua’s
total genocide served as a model for genocidal Hasmoneans; the mass
murders of Bar Kochba led to the slaughter of gentiles in Yemen and
Palestine, Cyprus and Alexandria. They were exceeded by the large
scale genocide practiced by the Jewish rulers of Khazaria. The
genocide of Palestinians will not be forgotten and it will cause the
genocide of Jews. That is why I believe the bloodthirsty spectre of
a Jewish state should be laid to rest.
We can offer
a differing paradigm, that of equality. After all, the real chasm is
not between the Arab and the Jew; it is between ZioNazis and the
rest of us. The present Israeli leaders committed horrible war
crimes and lost the last vestige of their legitimacy. There is an
urgent need to establish a new legitimate leadership for the whole
of Palestine, following the example of South African ANC, a
leadership comprising all religious and ethnic communities of
Palestine, a leadership that will call the citizens to take arms
against the bloody dictator
Sharon.
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[i] See my article
Doubt and Certainty
[ii] It was published in Harpers
Magazine, October 2001, http://www.harpers.org/online/gaza_diary/?pg=1
[iii]
Haaretz 27.1.02
[iv] Guardian 6.3.02
[v] Shin Bet
Murders JOHN DANISZEWSKI, Confession of a Killing in Cold Blood
Chills
Israel; Mideast: The embattled Shin Bet security
service faces new criticism as agent describes 1984 deaths of
prisoners.; Home Edition., Los Angeles Times, 07-27-1996, pp A-1.
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