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Khalid Amayreh - Israel’s Ambassador to the UK and his deception
By Khalid Amayreh • Jun 10th, 2008 at 13:47 • Category: Israel, Khalid Amayreh, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Our Authors, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism
Israeli ambassador to Britain Ron Prosor has once again claimed that the United Kingdom is becoming a “hotbed” of anti-Israeli propaganda.
In an opinion piece published in Tuesday’s Daily Telegraph, Prosor alleged out that Israel was facing an intensified campaign of delegitimization, demonization and double standards.
“Britain has become a hotbed for radical anti-Israeli views and a haven for disingenuous calls for a one-state solution,” he ranted.
Ignoring the criminal role Israeli universities and academic institutions are playing in consolidating the Israeli occupation and tormenting Palestinians, Prosor criticized efforts by the British University and College Union to sever links with Israeli universities.
Finally, Prosor castigated “disingenuous calls” for a one-state solution, which he called “a euphemism for the destruction of Israel.”
Liar
Well, does this man really think that the people of the UK, indeed the people of the world, are not aware of what Israel has been and is doing to the Palestinians? Shouldn’t he realize that Israeli criminality transcends reality and that the utter depravity of Israeli behavior has already gone beyond the pale of what is humanly acceptable?
Let us consider some of Israel’s criminal behavior in the academic field vis-à-vis her Palestinian victims.
Israel is barring thousands of Palestinian college students from furthering their university studies and higher education by preventing them from traveling abroad. Even students from the Gaza Strip are not allowed to attend college in the West Bank and vice versa.
Israel claims that the draconian measure is taken for “security reasons.” However, almost everyone realizes that the real reason for Israel’s silent war on Palestinian academia and education is to keep the Palestinian society in a perpetual state of inferiority vis-à-vis Israel.
Last week, when Israel barred several students from the Gaza Strip who had won Fulbright grants, from reaching their colleges in the US, one Israeli official argued, “why should we allow more Arab student on US campuses to attack Israel?”
But what is it that Israel is worried about in terms of allowing Palestinian students to travel abroad and have a brief respite from Israel’s “bastion of democracy and human rights”?!
Indeed, a state that has a clean record in terms of human rights, civil liberties and justice for all should have nothing to fear. However, it is amply clear that Israel is sinking from head to toe in its own filth and racism and is trying to conceal or blur by lying and more lying and still more lying, which is what people like Prosor are doing.
This is why the terrorist state dreads the prospects of people around the world knowing the truth about its manifestly criminal behavior against the Palestinian people.
Israel is also detaining hundreds of Palestinian students, lecturers, professors and academics in internment camps in southern Israel, such as the notorious Kitziot concentration camp in the Negev desert, mainly because of their non-violent opposition to the Israeli occupation. The vast bulk of these detainees are kept in jail, often in solitary confinement, without charge or trial.
A few years ago, Mustafa Shawar, a detainee at Kitziot, informed this writer that on several occasions he had appealed to the Jewish military “judge” at the Treblinka-like facility to tell him why he was being incarcerated so that he wouldn’t commit the same violation again once he is released.
Shawar, a senior lecturer at the University of Hebron, said the judge paid no attention to his just request.
“He told me that he wouldn’t grant me the privilege of knowing why I was in jail because, as he said, the Jews are the masters and non-Jews are the slaves and the chosen people are under no moral or legal obligation to explain to the inferiors why they are being mistreated.”
Today, Shawar is still languishing at Kitziot for the fourth successive year, not knowing why he is being tormented by a state that claims to be a light upon the nations and the only true democracy in the Middle East.
Shawar is not an exceptional case. He only epitomizes the fate of thousands of Palestinian detainees and hostages languishing in Israeli detention camps for harboring ideas and thoughts that the Ashkenazi establishment deems too dangerous.
And how about Azzam Salhab, Professor of Comparative Religion, also at Hebron University, who has been languishing in the same desert concentration camp for eight years on vague and amorphous charges such “constituting a danger to the safety and security of Israel and the Jewish people”?
Is this despicable conduct compatible with true democracy and the rule of law? Well, if the acquisition of physical power justifies oppression of the helpless and the weak, then why on earth should the world demonize Nazi Germany for doing what it did several decades ago?
In addition to tormenting and torturing Palestinian academics, Israel is also barring dozens of Palestinian journalists from traveling abroad, ostensibly in order to prevent them from exposing Israeli crimes more directly to the outside world.
Last week, I was barred by the Israeli occupation authorities from traveling to Berlin to participate in a media conference, although I’ve never been arrested or accused of any wrongdoing apart from work as a journalist.
So, how does Prosor suggest people in the UK and the rest of Europe and the world should relate to these gross violations of human rights by Israel?
Should the people of the UK march in the streets of London, Manchester and Liverpool in order to glorify Israel for isolating and starving Palestinians civilians in Gaza and shooting Palestinian school children in the West Bank? Should the people of the UK praise Israel for encouraging the Gestapo-like Jewish settlers to poison Palestinian waters, beat Palestinian shepherds near Tuwwani, and take over Palestinian homes, farms and orchards in the West Bank? Should they take to the streets in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to thank Israel for ganging up on and ransacking orphanages and boarding schools in downtown Hebron and throwing thousands of orphaned children literally onto the streets?
Even the Nazis refrained from targeting orphanages. So how is the world, including the people of the UK, supposed to view crack Jewish soldiers who are raiding and terrorizing sleeping children and stealing their food and clothes under the false rubric of fighting “terror”?
Surely, a state that indulges in such acts is a Nazi state par excellence that deserves the harshest condemnation. Indeed, it would be utterly immoral not to condemn this manifestly criminal behavior in the strongest terms.
Finally, in his article, Prosor protested calls for the one-state solution, whereby Jews and Arabs live equally in a unitary civil state in all of mandatory Palestine extending from the Mediterranean Sea to the River Jordan.
He called the idea a euphemism for the destruction of Israel, but utterly ignored the fact that it was Israel, not the Palestinians, who decapitated the two-state solution by building hundreds of Jewish-only colonies in the heart of the West Bank, especially in Arab East Jerusalem.
So what are the Palestinians supposed to do, having seen Jewish colonies mushrooming in every valley and on every hill of their ancestral country and homeland?
Are they supposed to commit collective national suicide by accepting to live in depressing scattered enclaves surrounded by Jewish-only settlements, Jewish-only bypass roads, apartheid walls and Nazi-like barbed fences, enforced by watchtowers manned by trigger-happy Jewish soldiers indoctrinated in Jewish supremacy?
And a last word to the brave men and women in the UK and across Europe who have chosen to expose Israeli mendacity. Keep up the good work. Don’t let the emissaries of lies, such as Prosor, get away with their malicious disinformation. Confront them with the naked facts, which are readily available. Don’t let them deceive and mislead the public. Give them a hard time.
For sure, as the world defeated Aryan Nazism 65 years ago, the world can and must defeat Zionism, which represents the Nazism of our time.
My love, respect and admiration to all of you.
By Khalid Amayreh • Jun 7th, 2008 at 13:07
Once again, Israel is pushing the Middle East to the brink of war, with predictably disastrous consequences. In recent days, Israeli leaders markedly escalated their war of words against Iran. A leading Israeli cabinet minister was quoted on Friday, 6 June as saying, “attacking Iran will be unavoidable.”
Similarly, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, just back from a meeting with George W. Bush in Washington, sounded almost euphoric when he spoke of an “American-Israeli consensus on the need to stop Iran’s nuclear program by whatever means necessary.”
Needless to say, an Israeli or American-Israeli attack on Iran would be a blatant and unprovoked aggression on a sovereign nation. It would also plunge the world into an unpredictable phase of violence and turbulence, with deep and far-reaching ramifications.
Iran, although hostile to Israel because of the latter’s Nazi-like occupation of Palestine and oppression of the Palestinian people, has never attacked Israel.
True, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad often makes stupid and irresponsible rhetorical remarks about wiping Israel off the map, thus giving the Zionist regime ample hasbara ammunition to incite and blackmail the West into boycotting and isolating the Iranian republic. However, Ahmadinejad himself and other Iranian officials have made it abundantly clear that Iran is not against Jews or Judaism, but rather against Zionism, an inherently racist and manifestly criminal ideology based on mass murder and ethnic cleansing.
This seems a plausible explanation because if Ahmadinejad were truly hostile to Jews or Judaism, let alone if he harbored genocidal designs against the Jewish people, as the Zionist propaganda machine keeps telling us, he would start with tens of thousands of Iranian Jewish citizens who enjoy religious and civil freedoms and are represented in the Iranian parliament.
Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister said “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” This is exactly the maxim being adopted by Zionist leaders who are spreading lies, disinformation and half-truths about Iran in order to get the madman in Washington D.C. and his gang of neocons and war criminals to attack another Muslim country on Israel’s behalf.
Unlike most Arab states in the region, Iran is a dignified country that respects itself and values its independence. It adamantly refuses to be at America’s beck and call and rejects the western rationale that the Nazi holocaust against Jews during WWII justifies the dispossession and destruction of the Palestinian people at the hands of Zionist Jews.
Iran, despite all the disinformation to the contrary, is not really against peace between Israel and the Palestinian people. However, Iran, mainly because of moral considerations, can’t accept the perpetuation of Palestinian suffering and dispossession through the creation of a deformed and truncated Palestinian “state” on less than 20% of the Palestinian homeland while allowing the apartheid Israeli regime to keep the rest of the spoils of theft. In other words, Iran says that ethnic cleansing must never be allowed to triumph.
Well, isn’t that compatible with the views of most men and women of honesty and conscience all over the globe?
Nonetheless, the main Israeli motive behind its hostility to Iran stems from Israeli worries that a technologically advanced and militarily strong Iran might pose a credible challenge to Israel’s strategic supremacy in the region.
Israel is believed to possess hundreds of nuclear warheads, ready with delivery systems, in addition to a huge arsenal of state-of-the-art of American weapons of death. Israel also tightly controls American politics, policies, political parties and media, especially the so-called agenda-setters.
Indeed, one exaggerates very little by saying that the United States of America is subservient to Israel and that American politicians, including members of Congress and the Senate as well as presidential candidates are more answerable to the Jewish lobby, especially AIPAC, than they are to their own American constituents.
The recent speech by the Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama during AIPAC’s convention last week is very telling. It proves once again that the international Zionist cartel, of which AIPAC constitutes the American chapter, tightly controls the American political discourse and that any American politician who dares speak his or her mind about Israel’s slow-motion genocide of Palestinians or more recently about America’s relations with the Muslim world, will be committing political suicide.
So, how can an essentially third world country like Iran possibly pose a real threat to nuclear Israel that is backed by the only superpower in the world, its guardian-ally, the United States?
Besides, Iran has a natural right to harness nuclear technology, even for military purposes. Indeed, if Israel had the right to possess and stockpile hundreds of nuclear warheads, that are being trained at Muslim cities such as Cairo, Istanbul, Tehran and Damascus and probably Mecca and Medina as well, why on earth would Muslim states such as Iran, Egypt and Saudi Arabia not have such a right?
After all, are Jewish nuclear bombs kosher? Are they altruistic? Are they innocuous?
I am not and will never be a fan of nuclear weapons or any other weapons of mass destruction. And I think the invention of these ugly tools of mass extinction represented the lowest point in human morality if only because these weapons are capable of annihilating the human race.
Having said that, however, I believe that a situation where certain states are allowed to possess the nuclear technology (and nuclear weapons) while others are not, is inherently unjust and unacceptable.
This situation allows criminal states like Israel to coerce and bully other states and other peoples and even blackmail the entire world. It allows Israel to bomb Tunis, Baghdad, Syria and threaten to bomb the Egyptian Aswan Dam and then tell the helpless victims “hit me back if you dare.”
Hence, Israel must bring itself to understand that this situation where Israel keeps bullying hundreds of millions of Muslims by brandishing her nuclear bombs in their faces and telling them “hit me back if you dare” is intolerable and unacceptable, to say the least.
Muslims around the world are watching helplessly the despicable treatment Israel is meting out to the Palestinians. And in their hearts and minds they realize that if they don’t acquire military strength, or at least enough of it to deter Israel’s genocidal whims, their turn will eventually come because Israel’s ambitions go far beyond Gaza and the West Bank.
Don’t tell me I am exaggerating. A state that dropped 3 million cluster bomblets on Lebanon two years ago is capable of carrying out the unthinkable, especially in light of the fact that the main capitals of Europe and North America are more or less Israeli-occupied territories.
This is a message that not only Iran ought to understand and internalize. Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and even Turkey must also get busy.
In a jungle where strength respects strength, one has to be a tiger, a fox or a venomous cunning snake in order to survive. (end)
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