Encouraging ethnic cleansing in Congress

20 Saturday Feb 2016

Posted by Nicolas Sawaya in American Politics, Palestine, Zionism

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Palestinian refugees flee Galilee in the fall of 1948 (Fred Csasznik)

How many of us know that as recently as Nov 2014, a US Congressman in the House introduced legislation that calls on Israel to formally annex all the Palestinian Occupied Territories (West Bank / Gaza / East Jerusalem) and encourages the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from these territories?

The bill was introduced by Steve Stockman (Texas, 36th district) and was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, where it (thankfully) died. Stockman isn’t in Congress anymore, but the fact that this shit even gets introduced by these people is mind-bending. The best part of this bill is that it was pitched as a service for Palestinians to “increase their standards of living” and is dubbed “The Right of Return Act”. To where you might ask? Jordan. You really can’t make this stuff up.

H.R. 5734 (113th): Right of Return Act

Excerpt: […]

“The Congress of the United States shall take the following course of action:

(1) The Secretary of State shall call for the State of Israel to increase the standard of living of those living in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza by extending its sovereignty over those territories, and for the Palestinian Arab residents currently residing in those areas to be granted citizenship in the countries that controlled those territories from 1949 to 1967 and have a right of return to those countries.

(2) As long as part of the unity government of the Palestinian Authority refuses to allow the right of return to the countries that controlled Judea, Samaria, and Gaza from 1949 to 1967, no funds appropriated by Congress under any Act may be obligated or expended to provide any United States assistance, loan guarantee, or debt relief to the Palestinian Authority.

(3) The Secretary of State of the United States shall take such action as will ensure that refugees are allowed to be properly allowed to return into their host countries in accordance with the regulations set forth by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR).

(4) All United States assistance, loan guarantee, and debt relief that currently goes to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) shall instead be used to assist those who exercise their right of return to the countries who controlled Judea, Samaria, and Gaza from 1949 to 1967”

Zionism’s collaboration with Nazism

26 Monday Oct 2015

Posted by Nicolas Sawaya in Palestine, Zionism

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In light of the Haj Amin Al Husseini kerfuffle, it’s interesting to look back at those times and understand who else was collaborating with Hitler. This may not be news to some, but it might surprise others to know that certain elements of the Jewish Zionist leadership were positively dealing with Hitler, or busy cutting deals with Hitler, or straight up collaborating (or trying to collaborate) with Hitler.

There was the visit by SS officer Leopold von Mildestein to Palestine hosted by the Zionist Federation that resulted in a tour of Palestine to showcase Zionist accomplishments. Von Mildestein was so happy with his visit that the German daily Der Angriff issued a special medal to commemorate the occasion in 1934: a Nazi swastika on one side and the Star of David on the other side. See here.

There was the famous transfer agreement (or Havaara) between the Nazis and the Zionists that allowed German Jews to emigrate to Palestine indirectly with their wealth by depositing the latter into a special account that would be used to buy German goods, which would then be exported to Palestine and sold there, with the sales money transferred back to the newly immigrated Jews in Palestine. Needless to say, world Jewry was totally opposed to this as it violated the world wide boycott of German goods asked for by them.

Another egregious example of collaboration was the surreal offer made by leaders of LEHI (the Stern gang or NMO) to the Nazis in 1941-42 to fight on their side of the war (keep in mind that future prime minister of Israel, Yitzhak Shamir belonged to this organization):

“The NMO, which is well-acquainted with the goodwill of the German Reich government and its authorities towards Zionist activity inside Germany and towards Zionist emigration plans, is of the opinion that:

Common interests could exist between the establishment of a new order in Europe in conformity with the German concept, and the true national aspirations of the Jewish people as they are embodied by the NMO.

Cooperation between the new Germany and a renewed folkish-national Hebraium would be possible and,

The establishment of the historic Jewish state on a national and totalitarian basis, bound by a treaty with the German Reich, would be in the interest of a maintained and strengthened future German position of power in the Near East.”

There are many other examples one can cite, but this is a representative sample of Zionist hypocrisy.

An Ode to Zionism

13 Sunday Jul 2014

Posted by Nicolas Sawaya in Palestine, Poetry, Zionism

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Palestinian refugees flee Galilee in the fall of 1948 (Fred Csasznik)

You create a movement grounded in ethnic supremacism.

You conspire with imperialist powers to take that which is already taken.

You implement exclusionist and racist policies of land and labour.

You terrorize. You kill. You ethnically cleanse.

You prevent those whose land and homes you took from taking them back.

You dispossess. You refugize. You occupy.

You occupy and you burn down the olive trees. You demolish homes. You restrict movement. You torture. You blockade. You collectively punish.

You undignify. Oh how you relish taking away men and women’s dignity.

You pauperize and you ghettoize. You bantustanize. Apartheid? What’s that?

You meet rocks with bullets and courage with cowardice. Cowardice from the sea, the air, the land. You rain bombs on civilians and you dare trumpet your morality. You call us terrorists. You? Victims.

You want to live in Peace. But without Justice, there can be no Peace. And so we resist. And we resist. And we resist. And we will continue resisting until Humanity’s collective soul sees you for what you truly are. Labels you as the oppressor that you are. Perhaps then, you may be forced to right the historical wrongs that you have committed. Perhaps then, we can talk about real Peace. But until then, we refuse to stay silent. We refuse to disappear. We refuse to accept your conditions and we refuse to be subjugated to your suffocating will. And so we resist, each one of us in our own little way.