By Ali Abunimah (Electronic Intifada via Info-Palestine )
crimes perpetrated by Israel in Gaza, From 11:30 27 December 2008, will remain forever etched in history and memory. Tel al-Hawa, Hayy al-Zeitoun, Khuzaa and other Israeli massacres will be added to the long list of disaster Deir Yasin, Qibya, Kufr Qasim, Sabra and Shatila, Qana and Jenin.
Once again, Israel has shown he has the power and lack of moral scruples necessary to commit atrocities against a refugee population that has miserable caging and starving.
The dehumanization and demonization of Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims has reached the point where Israel can in good conscience bomb their homes, places of worship, their schools, their universities, their factories, fishing vessels and their police stations - in short, everything that is necessary for civilized life and organized - all in the name of war against terrorism.
And yet, paradoxically, that which can not survive this attempted genocide is Israel as a Zionist, not Palestine or the Palestinian people.
Israel has not carried its "war" against the rockets - they play the same role in his argument that weapons of mass destruction that do not exist the U.S. has used as a pretext to invade and occupy Iraq.
The real purpose of Israel was to restore its ability to "deterrence" irreparably undermined after its defeat in Lebanon in 2006 (translation: the ability to submit to blows entire populations of massacres and terror) and to destroy any Palestinian resistance to Israeli-Jewish control over all of historic Palestine from the Jordan to the Mediterranean.
By eliminating or permanently weakening Hamas and other resistance factions, Israel hoped to pave the way for the signing of a contract for "peace" with the contributor Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, who would manage the Palestinians on Israel's behalf until they can be forced out once and for all.
Dictatorships "moderate" supported by the U.S. and absolute monarchies led by Egypt and Saudi Arabia supported the Israeli plan, hoping to prove to their people and the futility of any resistance - whether against Israel or against their own regimes in bankruptcy.
To win, Israel was to break the Palestinian resistance. He failed. Quite the contrary, it has galvanized and unified the Palestinians as never before. All factions came together and fought heroically for 23 days. According to sources knowledgeable and trustworthy, Israel has done little to damage the military capability modest but determined resistance. Israel has, however, what he excels: he massacred civilians in the hope that people would turn against those who fought against the occupier.
Israel has not only unified the resistance factions in Gaza ; His brutality has had the effect of rallying Palestinians and all Arabs.
It is often said that the Arab regimes arouse anger against Israel to forget their own failures to the public. In fact, Israel, the United States and Arab regimes that are enslaved have tried everything - especially the demonization of Iran and the creation of sectarian tensions between Sunni and Shia Muslims - to divert attention from Palestine.
All this has failed since millions of people marched in the region to support the Palestinian resistance, as plans Arabs who hope to profit from the Gaza massacre, they were unmasked as partners of Israeli atrocities. In popular esteem, Hamas and other Palestinian resistance factions have joined Hezbollah as a bulwark against Western and Israeli colonialism.
Israel no longer has any chance of being accepted in the region as a Zionist state, if it ever had.
They are very wrong, those noting the disaster destruction of Gaza, one hundred to one ratio for the number of Palestinian casualties, thousands of injuries by sadistic weapons - would conclude that the Palestinians will never defeat Israel and resist.
It is true that in terms of killing and destroying Israel's ability is without equal. But Israel's problem is not, as we repeat his propaganda, the destruction of terrorism using explosives powerful enough. His problem is the legitimacy, or rather the lack of legitimacy profound and irreversible. Israel simply can not clear a path to legitimacy Loved bombing.
Israel was founded as an "Jewish State" by the ethnic cleansing of non-Jewish Arab majority in Palestine. He only stayed alive only thanks to Western support and the continued resort to violence to prevent the surviving indigenous population to practice their political rights in the country or to return to his forced exile.
Yet today, fifty percent of the population living under Israeli rule in historic Palestine (Israel, West Bank and Gaza Strip) are non-Jewish Palestinians. And their numbers are growing rapidly. Like the nationalists in Northern Ireland or the non-white South Africa, Palestinians will not recognize never the "right" of a colonial society to maintain at their expense ethnocracy by violence, repression and racism.
For years, the target of the alleged peace process has been to normalize Israel as "Jewish state" and get the blessing of the Palestinians for their own dispossession and submission. When that effort failed, Israel has tried to "disengage" from Gaza - essentially a ruse to convince the world that the million and a half Palestinians who were locked up should no longer be part of the population. They were, according to the definition of Israel, a "hostile entity".
In his notorious interview in May 2004 with the Jerusalem Post , Arnon Soffer, one of the architects of the 2005 disengagement, said that this initiative "is not a guarantee of peace" but it guarantees a Zionist Jewish state with an overwhelming majority of Jews. Soffer predicted that in the future "when only 2.5 million people living in Gaza closed, it will be a human catastrophe. These people will become worse animals than they are today with the help of an insane fundamentalist Islam. The pressure border will be awful. "
He said unequivocally that Israel would have to do to maintain this status quo " if we want to stay alive, we will kill and kill and kill. Every day, each day ". Soffer hoped the Palestinians would eventually give up and leave Gaza forever.
Through their resistance, firmness and sacrifice, Palestinians in Gaza have failed in this policy and reaffirmed that they are an inseparable part of Palestine, its people, its history and its future.
Israel is not the first colonial entity to be in this situation. When FW de Klerk, the last president of South Africa from apartheid, came to power in 1989 his generals have calculated that with the overwhelming military power at their disposal, they could keep the regime in power for ten years at least . However, it would have been at the cost of hundreds of thousands of victims and South Africa would have been even more isolated. Faced with this prospect, De Klerk made the decision to begin planning the dismantling of apartheid.
What will be the choice of Israel? In the absence any political and moral legitimacy, the only arguments which are still shelling and bombs. Left to itself, Israel will certainly continue to try, and it has for sixty years, to massacre the Palestinians until they submit. Israel has succeeded in that, by comparison, the leaders of South African apartheid have air wise, measured, and humans.
This is not because the white supremacist government of South Africa had more scruples than the Zionist regime has not pushed the escalation of violence in Israeli cruelty and audacity. Because he has acknowledged he could not resist a global movement against single anti-apartheid solidarity with internal resistance.
Repeatedly, Israel has failed to use its "military deterrent" to force the Palestinians and other Arabs to accept the Zionist supremacy as inevitable and permanent. Now, cracks appear in the other pillar of Israeli power: the support and complicity of the West. We must do everything we can to make him fall.
Israel began the massacre with the full support of his "friends" West. Then there was something incredible. Despite official statements of support, despite media censorship, despite the clever Hasbara (propaganda) Israel, there was a massive mobilization unprecedented public in Europe and even North America has expressed its outrage and disgust.
Gaza is likely to be considered when Israeli propaganda has lost its ability to mystify, to silence and intimidate, as it has for so long . It is even risky to deploy used the Nazi Holocaust for a long time by the Zionists to reduce Israel to silence critics saw comparisons unimaginable that one now hears constantly. Jewish and Palestinian academics have compared the Israeli actions in Gaza to Nazi massacre of the Warsaw ghetto. A Vatican cardinal spoke of Gaza as a huge "concentration camp". The British Member of Parliament Gerald Kaufman, once an ardent Zionist, told the Commons: "My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to his house Staszow (Poland). A German soldier shot him shot in the head. " Kaufman continued, "my grandmother is not provide an alibi for dead Israeli soldiers who kill grandmothers Palestinian in Gaza. "He denounced the justification for the Israeli military spokesman as worthy of a" Nazi ".
There was not Only this type of statements, but also the huge demonstrations, nonviolent direct action and the unprecedented support for boycott, divestment and sanctions from the major unions in Italy, Canada and New Zealand. A group of Councillors all party in Birmingham - the second largest European city government - urged the British government to implement these sanctions. Salma Yaqub RESPECT party said "one of the factors that helped end the brutal regime of apartheid in South Africa has been international pressure for a boycott, economic, sports and culture. It is time for Israel to begin undergo a similar pressure from world opinion "
Because its true nature and brutal colonial project failed was unmasked in Gaza, Israel is extremely vulnerable to this kind of campaign. It hardly noticed the carnage in Gaza during Israel took another very important step to formalize apartheid. The Election Committee of the Knesset has decided to ban Arab parties to participate in future elections . Zionism, an ideology of racial supremacy, extremism and hatred, is a project in agonizing defeat that does not find new recruits. If pressure is exerted sufficient and fast enough, it is likely that the Israelis also find their own de Klerk, ready to negotiate a way out. Each new massacre makes the project more difficult, but it is not utopian dream of a Palestine deionized, decolonised reinstated and giving equal rights to all those who live there, regardless of their religion or ethnicity and allowing the return of refugees.
This dream is achievable in our time. But it is far from inevitable. We can be certain that Western and Arab governments continue to support the apartheid Israeli and Palestinian cooperation under the guise of "peace process" unless this process is decisively challenged. The killings will continue until the Israeli nightmare of peace with Israel - that is to say, apartheid and continuation of ethnic cleansing.
mobilization last three weeks showed a different world is possible and within our reach if we support the movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions. Even if they do will ever see, this is the monument erected to the memory of all victims of Israel.
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