CIA: Pre-State Israel Hid Weapons & Bombs in Schools and Churches to Massacre Arabs & Brits - Waqar Ahmed
CIA: Pre-State Israel Hid Weapons & Bombs in Schools and Churches to Massacre Arabs & Brits - Waqar Ahmed
For the past two years, Israel has relentlessly bombed U.N. schools and critical hospitals across the Gaza Strip. Scratch that. For the last seventy years, Israel has bombed schools, hospitals, mosques and public facilities claiming that Palestinians are immoral for hiding arms and fighters in such ...
For the past two years, Israel has relentlessly bombed U.N. schools and critical hospitals across the Gaza Strip. Scratch that. For the last seventy years, Israel has bombed schools, hospitals, mosques and public facilities claiming that Palestinians are immoral for hiding arms and fighters in such places.
“Israel’s claims and condemnations are justified. Even terror organisations should obey the basic rules of right and wrong” wrote an Israeli journalist for Haaretz in 2011.
But were Israel’s terror groups (or militias, as the West prefers to call them) bound to the same rules? A declassified CIA report from 1948 learns that Irgun, Lehi, and Haganah (which went on to form the Israeli government & IDF), hid their illegal arms and bombs in schools, synagogues, and hospitals.
Every accusation is a confession. So I began an investigation of my own, taking tips from declassified Mi5 and CIA documents to demonstrate how Zionist / Israeli terror groups used the same tactics they accuse Hamas of today.
It's keeps on being true. Every israeli accusation is a confession.
The colonial project has no right of existence and should be removed. One state, Palestine. Where all people can live freely together, like before the occupation.
Being of Lebanese descent, I continue to be torn between the fact that 5 Arab nations attacked the state upon its founding, and the subsequent developments in the inhumanity of the Zionists. I can understand Israeli desire to have a homeland. I can understand Palestinian desires to have a homeland. What i find impossible to understand is the steady progress of terrorist tactics on both sides What i am incredibly depressed by is the fact that the Israelis have become so incredibly inhumane I am losing hope in humanity itself
I can understand Israeli desire to have a homeland.
The "Israeli" desire to have a homeland is a desire to create an ethnostate by ethnic cleansing and occupation. It is a settler proposition like the settlers of the US that genocided the indigenous people there in order to steal land, which necessarily requires a dehumanization of the colonized, they must be made deserving of the violence that everyday settlers are asked to partake in. It is possible to analyze this and understand its basis, but never empathize with what is essentially just colonial ethnic supremacy.
Even simply wanting a "homeland" is a horrible thing when the premise of this is ethnic purity. Wanting a home, great. Wanting a place to be safe, sure. Wanting a "whites only" type of state? We must never empathize with this.
I can understand Palestinian desires to have a homeland.
Palestinians are a displaced indigenous people, driven out by violent occupiers in human memory. They do not simply "desire a homeland", they want their literal homes back. Before that, they want the occupation itself to cease. The occupation has never stopped seizing land and subjugating Palestinians.
What i find impossible to understand is the steady progress of terrorist tactics on both sides
Please do not "both sides" an ethnic cleansing occupying power that kills 10X as many people, likely 50X civilians with those who resist them. The use of the term "terrorist" in this context is racialized to the advantage of the oppressor. You are from Lebanon? If you sympathize with Palestinians, Zionists will call you a terrorist, bar you from jobs, and get away with it. The term is not used equally or fairly in the first place, but even those who try to do so end up flattening the reality, obscuring the true nature of what is happening: a systematic ethnic cleansing of an indigenous people by an ethnic supremacist occupying power and those who fight back against it.
Imagine if you simply called the US settlers who genocided indigenous people and the indigenous people who fought back "terrorists". Made them the same in that way. Do you truly think these are equal forces? Equally just? What of the outcomes? We must oppose and fight back against ethnic cleansing colonizers, not stand on the sidelines saying how the colonized are just as bad as the colonizers. Due to the power imbalance, this flattening is actually a favor to the colonizers, it helps to suppress open support the colonized.
What i am incredibly depressed by is the fact that the Israelis have become so incredibly inhumane
"Israelis" have always been this way. Their initial forays were ethnic supremacist. Zionists built a culture around ethnic supremacy that demanded (1) every Jewish person leave Europe for Palestine or otherwise they "deserved" every pogrom, (2) every Jewish person become extremely militant and violent against anyone getting in the way of the Zionist project. Their culture is to conflate Zionism and Judaism (they are not the same), which necessitates a dehumanization of the people they seek to displace (Palestinians) and a rejection and infantalization of all Jewish people who oppose Zionism.
The early Zionist terrorists like Ben Gurion (he was literally a death squad leader) were open about this. They explicitly stated the necessity of stealing land, of scaring off the local populations with violent cadres, of redefinjng Jewishness around the lines of occupation and in opposition to the inevitable reaction of a colonized people against their occupiers. The Nazis gladly helped with this prohect, as interests aligned: Zionists wanted as many Jewish peopke to move to Palestine as possible, taking on a settlet role, and Nazis premised much of their political actions on the removal of Jewish people by many means. Mass killing was one of many options they explored alongside projects like the Madagascar Plan (with echoes for transferring Palestinians to another state) and deportation to Palestine.
I am losing hope in humanity itself
Humanity is subject to the conditions in which they are raised. We are not confronting human nature, we are confronting systems of oppression that create, for example, settler colonial ethnic cleansing.
Thank you for spending so much time thinking about a throw away comment I made
Do you still believe that your insistence on being right about an issue that springs from a time long before you were born is going to somehow convince anyone to see things exactly as you demand?
If you cannot even engage in discussion with the hope that it might spur some small semblance of rationality, then perhaps you are contributing to the suffering of people who you may have no direct connection with whatsoever
I guess others dying and suffering to defend a hill that you have never stood on will continue to be fashionable
Good luck to us. We need it