     Hakim | Thursday, December 14, 2000 - 08:40 am
By Mohamed Khodr
“You and Me Against the World” is the title of a wonderful romantic song by Gladys Knight and the Pips that I once enjoyed immensely. It’s a song of a love so strong that it can withstand all of the world’s pressures and disapproval.
However, America (my country ‘tis of thee) and Israel’s faux paux love affair have now ruined the song for me.
Tragically, hearing it now only conjures up images of hate, oppression, lies, weapons, hypocrisy, double standards, political intimidation, cowardice; the buying and selling of values, morals, and principles; a corrupt media, a naïve people being taken advantage of; and worst of all, the “ethnic cleansing” of a people from their land by an “ethnic race” that has been cleansed of all responsibility for its deliberate murder of both Christian and Muslim children in the Holy Land of Palestine.
The history of the “special” relationship between Israel and America has been extensively documented by many historians and scholars, including Israeli and American Jewish scholars. Unfortunately, for the west and particularly for us Americans, these books are deliberately kept out of our bookstores and libraries – for politically “kosher” reasons. It’s the same old story of the powerful American Jewish lobby ensuring that very little, if any, truth or criticism of Israel is ever publicized. Hell hath no fury like “Israel” scorned.
Given America’s downsized attention span and its lack of desire to be enlightened beyond what it’s easily spoon fed by our media, I’ll try to summarize how this detrimental binary relationship between Israel, a country of 4 million Jews, and America began, and how it defies the rest of the world’s sense of peace and justice.
You see, for centuries, Christian Europe had a problem. A problem prejudicially called “The Jewish Problem.” European Christians didn’t like the exclusivity of Jews, their lack of assimilation and withdrawal into their religious and social world, their strange language and customs, and of course, there’s that “Christ Killers” charge. So, over time, they persecuted and killed the Jews – their acts culminating in the horrors of the Holocaust.
Escaping Jews found peace, freedom, respect, and sanctuary in the (ready for this, America?) “Islamic” world. There, they prospered in all fields like never before – to the point that the famous Jewish physician/theologian/philosopher, Moses Maimonedes, served as the personal physician to Saladin.
Europe had only two ways to deal with its people “problems” – either kill undesirable elements or export them. Thus, Europeans formulated the idea of “Zionism” which was later adopted and developed by Theodore Herzl as a political ideology to export the Jews to Palestine.
Although the concept of Zionism was adopted by secular European Jews, the majority of the world’s Jewry, particularly Orthodox Jews, rejected Zionism on political and religious grounds.
After World I and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, England and France divided “their” Middle East into crude countries and borders. Palestine was taken by England to counter French influence. Under Jewish pressure and England’s desire to curry favor with American Jews in order to draw America into World War II, Lord Balfour, England’s Foreign Minister, wrote a letter of 68 words to a rich Jew, Lord Rothschild, in which he supported the establishment of “a” Jewish homeland in Palestine as long as all non-Jews were taken care of.
After WWII, America became the dominant western power. As well, the Holocaust had cemented, into the psyche of every westerner, the horrors of Jews being murdered. The world was motivated to “finally settle these Jews in Palestine.” Harry Truman, to curry favor with New York’s Jews in his election (a pattern that has been followed since then; most recently, by the newest Islamophobe, Hilary Clinton), pressured the U.N. to adopt a resolution approving the Balfour Declaration and a plan to partition Palestine into two separate states – one for the Jews and the other for the Palestinians.
To this day, the Jews are shocked at why the Palestinians didn’t simply agree to the idea of partition, “which could have settled the matter peacefully forever.” Here’s JEWISH logic for you: the Palestinians should have accepted that foreign powers thousands of miles away, because of two pieces of paper and their own domestic politics, gave the Jews (a very small population) the right to take 56% of their home (actually, the best part of the house) while they, the owners of the house (a larger population), were given the “right” to keep 44% of their home (and the worst part). Obviously, if the Palestinians had only accepted that agreement, we wouldn’t be fighting today. But no, they refused.
So, the Jews took advantage of their greater military strength and took even more land, another 22% of the house. Now, the Palestinians are living on only 22% of their original land.
Of course, the world becomes angered by this injustice – after they’ve just given the Jews a land they never had. So the U.N. starts protesting and passing resolution after resolution saying, “You can’t do that.” But, you see, Jews have an “ace” in the Security Council.
It’s Uncle Sam-uel. The American Jews make sure that no President, no Congressman, no media, no Hollywood, no publishing company – in short, no words – ever leak to the American people about the truth of how the Zionist Jews have massacred poor Palestinians, wiping 500 villages from the map, destroying every mosque and church (yes, church, there are Palestinian Christians), and expelling 800,000 Palestinians from their homes, on foot, into refugee camps in the West Bank, Gaza, and neighboring Arab countries.
Instead, let’s make romantic movies about the Jews… let’s publish Exodus… let’s begin the Greatest Story Never Told campaign to ensure that Israel is forever perceived as right and good, and that Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims are perceived as bad.
You see, we Americans like things simple and direct. Just tell me what to believe.
From then on, the power of the American Jews has grown and grown, and they have become bolder in their lies.
And wait… they were still greedy for the rest of the house. In 1967, they launched a preemptive war against the Palestinians (and Arabs) so that they now occupy the entire house – 100% of the Palestinian’s homeland. That ended any sense of freedom, justice, peace, dignity, right to seek a livelihood and an education, and freedom of movement – any sense of a home for the Palestinians.
All of Palestine was now under Israel’s military control and occupation. The historical, geographic, and demographic hijacking, erasure and eradication of Palestine was complete.
No other historical precedent exists in which a people’s home has been physically eradicated, and totally transformed into the home of an invading race. A total transformation accomplished with remarkable blitzkrieg under the sponsorship and support of “my country; land of liberty; of thee I sing.”
The United Nations Security Council drew a “line in the sand” when it adopted U.N. Resolutions 242 and 338 demanding that Israel withdraw its occupation from the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem. Of course, this is Israel – not Iraq. U.N. resolutions are meaningless, even when they are introduced by the U.S.
Hence, dear America, you’ve become the “sucker” for anything Jewish and Israeli. What began for America as an emotionally sympathetic adoption of Israel after the Holocaust has now become our being victims of an overwhelmingly intimidating force that doesn’t permit our government, media, nor our citizens the opportunity to think about or question U.S. policy toward Israel.
No one dares call Israel bad for killing babies with weapons paid for by our tax dollars. Yes, our tax dollars. Every Israeli has received over $22,000 from every American citizen since 1949 – to the tune of $150 billion. Couldn’t you use that money for your kid’s college tuition?
In fact, we’re sending a very rich country – richer than most European countries and richer than most U.S. states – about one third of all our aid to the world. That’s like me sending Bill Gates a welfare check every month.
But do you think our cowardly Congress will ever stop this aid? Not in your life – if they know what’s good for them. Anyone who has dared question the aid sent to Israel only drives rich Jewish organizations to work to defeat them in the next election – like Senators Fulbright and Percy. A lesson not lost on any of our politicians.
What this means is that 5 million American Jews - less than two percent of our population – actually dictate and formulate our foreign policy to protect Israel at every turn.
Forget the bunk that this is ANTI-SEMITISM (I am a Semite). This is AMERICAN PATRIOTISM. This is standing up for the American values of freedom, self-determination, justice and human rights for all people; in this case, the Palestinian people.
While Israel, for the last ten weeks, has been killing Palestinian children daily, launching air and sea attacks on Palestinian homes at night, destroying farm land and uprooting olive trees, starving Palestinian civilians with closures, and even firing on ambulances (all of this is documented by every international human rights organizations and by the United Nations), our media and our shameful politicians, from Clinton to Albright to Congress, is portraying Israel as being “besieged” by stones, with its very survival in question.
That’s also the usual BUNK. Israel has the world’s fourth largest army and owns nuclear weapons – all of which they either received or stole from us as well as sell to our enemies.
Israeli LOGIC: we are the victims because their stones hurt our feelings – yet we’ve killed over 300 of them and wounded 13,000, while only 25 of us are dead.
Please, somebody, help them with a massive Prozac shower.
It never fails that, whenever the United Nations General Assembly which includes almost all of the world’s nations, takes up the Palestinian issue, the entire world votes to condemn Israel while the only two countries voting against its resolutions are – you guessed – AMERICA and ISRAEL.
According to Israeli logic, the entire world is ANTI-SEMITIC and hates Israel. I wonder why. And why, by extension, the entire world hates America?
Does that explain why the world is up in arms against us – killing our military and diplomatic personnel, committing terrorist acts against Americans, burning our flag, wanting to boycott our products, even wanting to go to war against us? All because we’re DUMB enough and cowardly enough to succumb to America’s powerful Jewish lobby?
Is this our country or what? American Jews enjoy unparalleled success here in every field. You can’t turn on a TV news program without seeing an American Jewish “expert” speaking on Islam – or on any other subject. Are there no Muslims in this country, no Catholics, no Protestants, no African Americans, no Native Americans, and no Cubans, etc., qualified to speak on topics that impact them?
Our own Senate has 11 Jewish Senators without a single Black, Hispanic, or Muslim Senator. Maybe that’s why the world considers our Congress a rubber stamp body for Israel’s Knesset (parliament). Our newspapers should be renamed from the New York Times and Washington Post to the Tel Aviv Times and Post.
To be fair, there are many American, European and Israeli Jews who understand the paradox of a country that was founded following the Holocaust, and Judaism that has become a military killing machine of Palestinians civilians. Unfortunately, they are like you and me – intimidated or relegated to the sidelines and unable to reach our media or politicians.
Israel does NOT represent ALL Jews – nor does it represent Judaism. It’s simply an extension of European imperialism and expansionism that sells itself as a “strategic friend and ally” to the west, and that is serving as the west’s “colony” in a hostile world – first against Communism and, now, against the greater evil, “Islamic Fundamentalism.”
Whether we like it or not, my fellow Americans, Israel’s song of “YOU AND ME AGAINST THE WORLD” lacks political, economic, or military sense. Israel is a liability, in the Middle East, to us and to the Islamic world. It truly is America’s “Achilles Heel.”
It makes no sense that our loyalty should be with one nation consisting of four million people in lieu of our relationships with 60 Islamic nations that consist of 1.3 billion people in total. We are sending Israel money while all those countries are giving us money through purchasing our products. Europe, Russia, China, and Japan support the Palestinians and enjoy good business with the Islamic world while we won’t even ask Israel why it bombed and killed our sailors on the USS Liberty in 1967. Our Congress funds the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. while denying funds to our WWII Veteran’s Memorial. That is outrageous.
Our loyalty to Israel is detrimental to our values, economy, sense of justice and national interest. Clinton and his Jewish foreign policy team want to send $480 million in military emergency aid to Israel so that they can replenish the bullets and rockets that they have used to tear through Palestinian flesh.
We may be drawn into or end up paying for a war that we don’t want or need because of Israel’s military aggressions – and its unmatched influence on our government and institutions. Our sons and daughters are already dying in the Middle East because of Israel. Many more will die if we don’t act firmly with Israel, and end this conflict by demanding the enactment of U.N. Resolution 242, based on peace for Israel and justice for the Palestinians, that America introduced in 1967 and that Israel has thumbed its nose at since.
If we don’t, America won’t have peace and security. Our children will continue to die and our economy will suffer.
Don’t just sit there, my friend. Tell Congress what Rabin said in the White House in 1993: “ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.”
For me, I’m mad as hell and I can’t take this anymore. Can you? |
