The Hanukkah Massacre in GAZA:

The Sacrificial Lamb to the Israeli-American-Arab Interests

By Mohamed Khodr

ccun.org, December 30, 2008

 
“What thou hast done to thyself none else did,
Thou has caused pain to the spirit of the Prophet
Ignorant of the witchery of the Frank (the west),
Behold the mischief hidden in his sleeve!
By his diplomacy all nations prostrate,
Unity of the Arabs crushed to pieces,
As long as they are caught in his vicious trap,
The Arabs shall not enjoy a moment's peace."
--Muhammad Iqbal, famed Pakistani Poet, “The Glory of Iqbal”, by Shakyh Abdul-Hanan Ali Nadwi
 
“The Arabs are right when they paint America as a great Zionist conspiracy”  
            --Douglas Rushkoff, New York University and other Schools, “Wrestling with Zion”, Grove Press, 2003
            (Author of:  Nothing Sacred: The Truth About Judaism”, among many other books)
 
"No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices."
-- Edward R. Murrow, the famed CBS Journalist and Anchor
 
 
While the Christians celebrate the birth of the Prince of Peace, Bush the Christian offers one last massacre gift to Israel during Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights, where the only Jewish light seen over Gaza is Bush’s green light to dispose of Palestinian civilians and the lights of missiles and rockets fired from the latest American war planes courtesy of the ignorant but complicit American taxpayer. 
 
As of this writing 284 Palestinians have been murdered, over 700 injured (many in critical condition); most are innocent civilians living in the most densely populated area in the world—Gaza.   This is the highest one day total of dead and injured by Israel’s terrorism since its founding in 1948.    Given Israel’s total siege of Gaza for over 18 months preventing any food, water, medicines, and fuel to enter, the injured are taken to the only hospital in Gaza where the siege ensured that not enough medical supplies are available to save the dying infant, the pregnant mother, or the elderly grandparent.
 
Bush and Rice after receiving the highest awards and most expensive gifts, including over $350,000 of Jewelry for Condi Rice from Saudi Arabia, the Gulf nations, and Jordan, justify Israel’s slaughter with the usual mantra that Israel has the  right to “retaliate and defend itself”.  For eight years Bush and Rice have not only defended Israel’s massacres but actually provided military and financial support as it launched military strikes across its borders attacking the Occupied Territories, the 2006 indiscriminate bombing for 34 days of Lebanon including the dropping of 1.5 million cluster bombs three days before the ceasefire, to the bombing of the alleged Syrian nuclear facility.  
 
And what did the new and improved “hope and change” President elect Obama say regarding the genocide in Gaza: “NO COMMENT”.  
 
Israel’s slaughter has taught Obama a lesson even before he takes office—don’t mess with Israel or you’ll be burned.   He’s shackled by his strong support of Israel during his candidacy and by his Jewish occupied White House.  Obama will begin his term fearful of the Israeli lobby and devoid of any chutzpah to alter events in the MidEast, especially in reigning Israel’s wanton power to strike at will, even against Iran, having been castrated by a foreign lobby, much like the dog he seeks for his daughters.  
 
The American-Israeli-Arab alliance became the “axis of evil” to eliminate all Islamic resistance and political parties in the Middle East, all under the pretext of a “war on terror” and the establishment of democracy and liberty in the Middle East, something this evil alliance truly fears lest it leads to the overthrow of Arab tyrannical dictatorships, ends America’s cheap access to oil, and the unification of the entire Arab Muslim world against Israel’s military hegemony in the region.
 
"Oh Liberty, what crimes are committed in thy name."
--Madam Rolande -from the guillotine platform during the French Revolution
 
Gaza—Oh, Gaza---you bleed, you die, you’re buried in total obscurity from a world that has surrendered you to Israel to do as it wills.    Given that America, Israel, and the Arab governments have all declared you an “enemy entity” and all Gaza Palestinians as “enemy combatants” you’re total annihilation is justified in the eyes of this evil axis. 
 
While Israel is the actual murderer, Pro-American tyrannical Arab regimes are the enablers, the second green lighters if you will.    In public they issue the usual “condemnations”, “laying the blame and responsibility on Israel”, calling for an urgent Arab summit and demanding a halt to all military actions, calling upon the Security Council to meet knowing very well that both the United Nations and Arab League are American proxies, all the while in private they support Israel’s genocide against Hamas and Hezbollah despite the massacre of thousands of civilians.
 
During the inhumane strangling siege of Gaza, Egypt closed its borders to either provide supplies to the starving Palestinian children or allow the sick and injured Palestinians to enter Egypt for treatment, meanwhile providing gas to Israel.   Not one single Arab government came to the humanitarian rescue of the beleaguered Palestinians, in effect supporting the Israeli-American determination to eliminate Hamas at any cost.
 
Two days prior to this slaughter Tzipi Livni, Israel’s Foreign Minister and Kadima Party candidate for Prime Minister, visited Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Israel’s closest Arab ally, to announce that Israel will launch an offensive to eliminate Hamas.   Did Mubarak give his Arab green light to this slaughter?   Secondly, Mahmoud Abbas, “President” of the West Bank, visited Bush in the Oval office.   Did Abbas, the Israeli American darling, give his approval for this slaughter?
 
As customary in Israeli elections candidates compete as to who is the greater genocider of Palestinians, who will continue the mass construction of illegal settlements, sabotage any international peace efforts, and lay the groundwork for the eventual expulsion of Palestinians from their occupied land.    Given that Benjamin Netanyahu, Likud’s right wing extremist candidate, promises the greater genocide of Palestinians, Livni, his opponent, must project a stronger determination to be the Palestinian Terminator.
 
Among Livni’s candidate proposals is to expel Israeli Arab citizens from their homes (again) and settle them in the future Palestinian “state”; in effect proposing another ethnic cleansing.  (Haaretz 12/11/08)
 
In the middle is Ehud Barak, the Labor Party Defense Minister, who endured intense political criticism for his “soft” approach to Gaza’s rockets, thus this Hanukkah massacre to bolster his political position.  He states that this will be a long and painful military onslaught until Hamas is in effect eliminated from Palestine.  To further increase his popularity he promises a massive ground invasion.
 
This is the same Barak who stated the following when he was Prime Minister during the Second Intafada:
 
"If we thought that instead of 200 Palestinian fatalities, 2,000 dead would put an end to the fighting at a stroke, we would use much more force...."
-- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, quoted in Associated Press, November 16, 2000
 
Although Barak, a military hero, did recognize the legitimacy of the Palestinian resistance by saying:

"I would have joined a terrorist organization."
-- Ehud Barak's response to Gideon Levy, a columnist for the Haaretz newspaper, when Barak was asked what he would have done if he had been born a Palestinian.
 
But what about the Arab League of Despots, Tyrants, and Corrupt Traitors of Islam and Arabs?
 
As usual, the Arab League has called for an immediate summit of Arab leaders to discuss the genocide in Gaza.  So far less than half of the leaders have agreed to attend although they may send low level representatives.    Arab leaders are more competent in fighting each other than fighting foreign domination or deadly occupations.    Where have the trillions of oil dollars gone?  Where have the hundreds of billions of dollars of purchased American weapons gone---gathering dust in the Arabian Desert?    Such weapons are meant as symbolic deterrents against each other and Iran but are meaningless in any war given that the Arab military forces are just as illiterate, incompetent, lazy and corrupt as their leaders.
 
But let’s assume that there is an Arab Summit to pacify the Arab street.   Here’s what will happen.  
 
Several leaders won’t attend because of their hurt feelings from words spoken by other leaders, because America says so, and because they want to save face due to the consistent abject failure of Arabs to do anything meaningful internally or externally.     There are 57 Muslim nations and 50 Muslim Ambassadors in Washington D.C. with only one Israeli Ambassador.   Can you guess who has the real power in D.C?  Who’s on television defending the genocide, who’s writing op-eds in the major papers, who’s on radio, who’s launching the most aggressive public relations campaign to justify the genocide?  Obviously it’s not the 50 Muslim Ambassadors who are totally absent from the American political, social, and media scene.    They are true reflections of their leaders in their total incompetence.  But wait, you can find them in D.C. at strip clubs, exclusive night clubs, parading with beautiful women, and….well, you get the picture.   They are on an “Alcoholic Jihad” while the majority of American Muslims and American Muslim organizations are laying low with their cowardly heads buried in their comfort niches content with launching a “Jihad by Email” in the usual hallmark of reactive actions.     Like their brethren natives back home, American Muslims despite their wealth and high education are AWOL, disconnected from the suffering of Muslims around the world fearful of losing their jobs, of being harassed, or worst, ending up on a “list”.
 
Back to the Arab League:
 
If they meet, here’s their patented Arab bellicose communiqué: 
“We condemn Israel’s aggression, demand the world interferes and stop all military actions, call for the full support of the legitimate rights of the Palestinians based on U.N. Resolutions 242, 338 and a lifting of the siege of Gaza, encourage Obama to adopt the Arab Peace Plan and his direct involvement to resolve the conflict (obviously not their responsibility), demand Israel allow humanitarian aid to reach Gaza, and indirectly criticize Hamas for this Israeli massacre.” 
 
The final part of the Communiqué will read (my interpretation):  
“If Israel persists again on killing another thousand Palestinians, the Arab League will call for another Summit to discuss that genocide too.”
 
Israel was founded by terrorism with support of the British and American “democracies”.  It lives by terrorism, and God willing will end by terrorism.    A nation that massacres its neighbors and mankind by the sword shall perish by the sword, that according to the Old Testament (Exodus 21:14) and the New Testament (Matthew 26:52).
 
“Israeli-Zionist society is predicated on a concept of religious/national exclusivity, resting on the distinction between “Jew” and “Non-Jew” that is institutionalized into all the formal state structures and on a concept of democracy as no more than rule by the majority without any protection of the right of minorities.  Israel’s approach to conflict resolution is based on the premise that “might makes right”, coupled with a complete disregard for internationally recognized standards of state behavior and, as noted, a particularly cavalier disregard for the principles and resolutions of the United Nations….Indeed---the Machiavellian power machinations of persons, such as Henry Kissinger---who gave Israel carte blanche in the Middle East to assure its effectiveness as a “surrogate power” for American interests---or the craven subservience and political expediency of those members of Congress who have wanted the money and votes domestic pro-Israeli forces could deliver…the common denominator amongst all the American peace efforts is their abysmal failure.”

---Cheryl A. Rubenburg, Associate Professor of International Relations, Florida International University in “Anti-Zionism: Analytical Reflections”, p. 195
 
My dear Palestinians, you are alone in this world forsaken even by your own incompetent disunited power hungry leaders whose allegiance is not to you but to foreign interests.   They are ignorant and disillusioned in their belief that there is an actual governmental institution that each seeks to dominate.    Abu Abbas has thrown his lot with the Israeli-American-Arab alliance that seeks to eliminate the freely elected Hamas in Gaza.  While Hamas has shown its total political failure unable to comprehend that “irrational exuberance”, and enthusiasm served with foolish bellicosity is no match for Israel’s 3M domination of the western world’s foreign policy:  Money—Media—Military Power.   

Although Hamas is a legitimate resistance movement its policies and methods of resistance are utterly stupid and counterproductive.   The time, place, and circumstances that allowed other national resistance movements to succeed is totally lacking in Palestine:  unity of purpose and collaboration---easy access to financial aid and military weapons from foreign powers---well trained militias and competent charismatic political and military leaders---successful short and long term strategic plans---and most importantly, a savvy knowledge on media manipulation and public relations.    These elements are what made the Zionist terrorist groups successful in their theft of Palestine and the ethnic cleansing of its people.   Neither Fatah, Hamas, or any other Palestinian party or group is blessed with these elements.   It’s incredulous that there are multiple Palestinian parties disunited in purpose and often are fighting each other than their occupier.  
 
Hamas, created with Israel’s aid and blessings, has failed its people in providing them with their most basic needs or providing the political and public relation leaders able to articulate and communicate the legitimacy of their cause to the outside world.   Hamas, when will you learn that the world lives and dies by the “image” of events?   Israel can kill and within seconds have articulate spokespersons on television justifying their actions, yet you’re unable to develop any relations with any worldwide media to present your case.  In this, you’re joined by the entire Arab Muslim world.
 
Stop the madness of the useless rockets that recently killed two Palestinian girls.   They do nothing but provide Israel the excuse and the support of the international community to massacre the innocent.    The entire world including Mahmoud Abbas and the Arab Muslim world join America, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations (the four stooges of the Road Map) in blaming you for Israel’s slaughter even if Israel attacks Gaza preemptively.   Fight with intellectual vigor, with intelligence, with a media savvy campaign, develop articulate English speaking spokespersons, utilize the internet, but stop the counterproductive bellicosity and stupid rockets.   In today’s world “image” wins western hearts and minds, especially of Americans.  You’re facing the most powerful “evil empires” in the world, America and Israel, and you can’t win.
 
I beg you, for the sake of the four year old Palestinian girl shot through the head by an Israeli sniper, bury her in peace and bury your rockets and pompous words and begin a resistance of non-violence.   You’ll pay a heavy price but all independence struggles demand huge sacrifices.       
 
In few Arab and Muslim cities protestors are expressing their anger against America and Israel.   I say to them and to all Muslims, first clean your house of the tyrants, hold on to God’s covenant, and patiently develop your economic and military strength and you will ultimately succeed in liberating your lives, lands, and resources from America’s imperialism that uses its military as an instrument to satisfy the selfish unlimited consumption of its people.
 
“Indeed, Allah will never change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves.”
(Quran 13:11)
 
The massacre of the Palestinians continues unabated with blood, tears, and screams going unseen and unheard by a callous world.   The Arab leaders have done their part—most have issued “press releases” to urge a return to the cease fire that Israel broke and indirectly blame Hamas for forcing Israel’s hand, the hand that has never stopped killing and expelling Palestinians since 1948.   No Arab leader has publicly appeared to condemn this atrocity.
 
Israel’s brilliant media strategy is to prevent western journalists from entering Gaza to document the dead and charred bodies lining the streets while allowing free access to the Arab media to further inflame the Arab Muslim world against American policies and interests, perhaps leading to terrorism against Americans and their institution, thereby justifying Israel’s “war of terror upon the innocent”.   You see America, these Arabs and Muslims are hate filled terrorists indoctrinated by Islam’s teaching of killing Jews and Christians.  
 
The dead Palestinians are martyrs who will enter Paradise, but it is us, the living, who will continue to endure hell on earth at the hands of the Israeli-American-Arab axis of evil with their smart bombs and stupid policies. 
 
“As for those who take the deniers of the truth for their allies in preference to the believers - do they hope to be honored by them when, behold, all honor belongs to God alone?  (Quran 4:139)
 
Our constant hope is that in the end Divine Justice will prevail against the murderous oppressors.
 
Long live Palestine and its yearning for freedom and independence from the “axis of evil”.
 
 
References:
 
http://guardian.150m.com/palestine/resources.htm (A list of Online Books on Israel and Palestine: some links are lost, excellent bibliography for in depth reading)
 
http://www.christusrex.org/www2/koestler/index.html (Arthur Koestler’s book online: The 13th Tribe; how European Jews arose from the Kingdom of Khazaria and not from the original Israelites)
 
http://palestinethinktank.com/ (Excellent Analytical Site on the Israeli Palestine conflict)
 
http://palestineremembered.com/ (Comprehensive/Excellent Informative Site on all issues of Israel’s Terrorism/Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine)
 
http://ifamericansknew.org/  (Great site by an American Journalist on the Israeli Palestinian conflict)
 
http://thirdworldtraveler.com/ (Superb Site of Archived Articles/Books on the most critical issues of today)
 
http://usa.mediamonitors.net/ (Site of wide ranging articles on the MidEast, U.S. foreign policy, Muslim world)
 
http://www.aljazeerah.info/ (Critical Political Articles and Islamic teachings)
 
http://axisoflogic.com/ (Good Analytical Articles on worldwide issues)
 
 http://antiwar.com/ (Best site on Antiwar Articles)
 
 http://counterpunch.org/  (Excellent Site/Newsletter with well known authors)

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/27/7322

http://www.palestine-encyclopedia.com/EPP/SubjectIndexM.htm   (Most Comprehensive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Problem by Issa Nakhleh)

http://etalmud.com/index.php?paged=2 (Good Review of the Talmud)

http://www.chomsky.info/articles/199112--02.htm   (Noam Chomsky: International Terrorism: Image and Reality
In Alexander George (ed.), Western State Terrorism, Routledge, December, 1991)

http://www.noahide.com/yeshu.htm   (The Blasphemous belief of Hasidic Jews regarding Jesus/Mary)
*According to former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir of Likud, terrorism can be justified in the service of (Zionist but not Palestinian) national struggle: « Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to deny the morality of terror used as a means of war.... We are very far from any moral hesitations when concerned with national struggle. First and foremost, terror is part of the political war appropriate for the circumstances of today”
-- Hazit (Aug.1943, Journal of Lehi, the terrorist organization Shamir led before Israel’s independence
 
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."

--David Ben Gurion, quoted on pp 91-2 of Chomsky's “Fateful Triangle”, which appears in Simha Flapan's "Zionism and the Palestinians pp 141-2 citing a 1938 speech.
 
"Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial."

-- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, 25 March, 2001 quoted in BBC News Online
 
 

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