By Khalid Amayreh in occupied Palestine
June 21st, 2010 6:57 AM
Zionist supremacists from Tel Aviv to Los Angeles are ganging up on two elderly targets these days. The first is the 84-year-old Fidel Castro, a man who apparently made up his mind about Zionism more than six decades ago. And the second is 89-year-old veteran American journalist Helen Thomas.
- “It would seem that the Fuehrer’s (Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s) Swastika is today Israel’s banner.” The ex-Cuban leader added that “the hatred felt by the state of Israel against the Palestinians is such that they wouldn’t hesitate to send the one and a half million men, women and children of that country to the crematoria where millions of Jews of all ages were exterminated by the Nazis.”
“My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza.”
And, one might add, nor did they perish in order to provide a cover for Israeli soldiers massacring innocent aid activists in international waters in order to starve and savage 1.7 million men, women, and children in Gaza.
And now the Helen Thomas’s story. Responding to a passing question, the elderly veteran White House correspondent said that the ultimate solution for the Palestinian question should see European Jewry return home, to Poland, even to America.
Well, what is wrong with this most logical observation? For sure, some Jews have the right to live in Palestine, as equal and dignified citizens, but not as masters of violence and land thieves.
However, Jews, or more correctly descendants of converts to Judaism originating in the Khazar region, have no automatic right to claim Palestine as their patrimony especially if that dubious right is exercised at the Palestinian people’s expense.
Even religiously and theologically, there is no religious text in the Old Testament stating that the Almighty promised Jews a homeland in Palestine. There is a promise to the Israelites but not to Jews. Needless to say, the Israelites and Jews are not the same people since there are more Israelites, or descendants of Jacob or Israel, who are non-Jews than there are Jews.
Indeed, there is ample evidence that hundreds of thousands of modern-day Palestinians are descendants of the ancient Israelites? So, is it logical to say that Khazari converts have more right to Palestine than these Arabic-speaking Muslims and Christians who have been living in the land from time immemorial, certainly centuries before an Austrian Jewish Journalist envisioned a “Jewish” homeland in the land of the Palestinians.
Of course, Zionist leaders, who are actually pathological liars with little or no rectitude , can continue to repeat the stale historical lie, that “this is our eternal homeland.”
But the truth is that Palestine has never been the exclusive homeland of Jews. And the wheel of history doesn’t stop rolling.
Since the 1990s, Mr. Amayreh has been working and writing for several news outlets among which is Aljazeera.net, Al-Ahram Weekly, Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), and Middle East International.
He can be reached through politics.indepth@iolteam.com.
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