What if I told you that I am acquainted with a person of a certain nationality that is automatically and thoroughly searched at a particular airport, said airport being in the same country mentioned in the cover of the very passport he carries? What is I told you as well this country calls itself tolerant? What if I told you that this happens only because of the name on his passport, and his native language? And… what if I told you that this country, on a yearly basis, indiscriminately kills thousands of people fitting my acquaintance’s profile? Anybody can already assume, arriving at this country’s airport, that they are entering a nation which preaches one thing and does another. A nation based on discrimination, injustice and violence. Sadly, this place exists, and it is called Israel.
This was not always so. Israel has a long history and tradition, with a few splatterings of war and violence here and there. It can be agreed that they generally have no differences with other countries’ trajectories. What sets them apart, started almost half a century ago, and has yet to finish: the end of tolerance and the beginning of violence against their neighbors, the Palestinians. At this point, compared with other nations that carry a history of thousands of years such as them, they have stepped back into an underdeveloped mindset, strewn with ignorance and malice. Such a society could possibly not be self-sufficient economically: only look at the state the US is in after waging war, for a much shorter time, against Afghanistan and Iraq. So what keeps Israel going? The forceful influx of money from Germany, and the voluntary donations from the US. While the Palestinian nation receives world-wide moral support for their cause, Israel is a financially supported terrorist state. In today’s world, sadly money is stronger than morals.
Basically, they are an undercover based-on-donations economy. Germany, to this day, has given to Israel more than 70 billion dollars in reparations for the Third Reich. Then, they must turn their backs and pretend they are not seeing how their money is reinvested in a holocaust against the Palestinians. Of course that, after what they did to Israel, they have no right to say anything. Oh, wait. They DID NOT do anything to Israel. To my knowledge, being a Jew and being an Israeli are two completely different things. Being one, does not necessarily make you the other. And, most Jewish victims of the holocaust, to my knowledge, where of German, Polish, Austrian, Czech and other European nationalities: NOT Israeli. Of course that everybody forgets about the “other” victims, such as homosexuals, catholics, or even the roma (gypsy) population. Perhaps, their lives just don’t matter as much. Otherwise, why isn’t Germany paying reparations to the Vatican for all the catholics they also exterminated? Or the gay rights organizations? Or the roma? Opportunistic Israel just could not pass up the chance to cash in the situation, by taking advantage of money that could have been used to provide survivors of the holocaust with more income, or maybe even provide “reparation” to all the other victims. That would just involve them attempting to be fair and do good, and would just drive them away from their path to repeating a holocaust against the Palestinians. Does anybody remember how it started in the Third Reich? Small, almost unnoticeable. Israel is already at a medium-sized indiscriminate extermination. You want torture? How about creating ghettos and camps for the Palestinians to live under their watchful eye, and cutting off the water, gas or other basic public services when Palestinians “misbehave?” You want suffering? How about digging out your family’s remains after a bomb destroyed your home? This sounds faintly familiar to what we all learned in history class. The questions is: Who will stop this?
Definitely not the US. According to the 2008 US budget “Israel, long since the US’ top recipient of foreign aid, will receive USD 2.4 billion. Since 1979 and the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty, Israel has annually received up to USD 3 billion in aid. As part of with an initiative by then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the civilian aid has been steadily decreased over the course of the past 10 years, going from USD 1.2 million to being completely canceled this year. At the same time military aid to Israel has increased from USD 1.8 billion to USD 2.4 billion.” The blame for the availability of bombs, weapons and soldiers ready to threaten Palestinian lives can easily be pinpointed to the US, and their attempts to take diplomatic steps to stop the situation have been amazingly fruitless. The US is doing nothing more than playing the role of “mediator” to reflect a certain image in the international realm, caring little about a solution. Their main goal is to protect their image, and to keep the only “friend” they have in the Middle East, as a stepping stone for them to wage war against their chosen victims. Otherwise, they would simply cut off the aid and, although Israel might not be very happy with them, they would have no more mediums to wage this unfair war.
Unfair? Well, yes. Still, one cannot pretend that both parties are not at fault in their own ways. Yet, in the case of two children, when you find them fighting, what do you say? You tell the bigger one to stop picking on the little one, because 1) It’s not fair, they’re smaller and less capable of fighting at the big one’s level 2) The big one should stop it first, even if the little one started, and set an example. With the obvious recent display of Israel’s military capabilities, and the aforementioned “free money” they receive, it is obvious to see who the big one is.
As a retort to this and the matter of all the civilian lives sacrificed in the conflict, I was recently told that “There are no rules when in war”. Since when is this so? Actually, in the 7th century it was the Muslim army which decided to set rules for law, involving fairness and the protection of civilian lives. Nowadays we have humanitarian and international law dictating the proceedings for war. But, since the Israel-Palestine situation is a “conflict” and not an all-out “war”, apparently there are no rules to abide by.
Now, let us see the other side of the matter concerning the last (but most likely not “the last”) Israeli attack. According to Israel, the last campaign in Gaza (that mysteriously ended days before the US presidential inauguration. Suspicious? I daresay) was started to make the Palestinians stop launching rockets and other such weaponry into Israel, and to restore Israel’s “image” in the world after their failed campaign with the Lebanon incident and other international power struggles. Since when is it a solution to kill thousands of civilians, and yes, children and women at that? Through their actions they prove they are not more than a third-world country in serious need of development, exhibiting tremendous ignorance, in particular in the social, educational and international relations spheres.
Israel has become a self-righteous, oppressive and violent nation, with a superiority complex and forgetting their own original values and morals in an aim to demonstrate their power, and by doing so, repeating a holocaust against the Palestinians. A flashback of the Third Reich? Certainly.
Have we all learned nothing from history? Why is it repeating itself? If Germany is repaying Israel only because they are the cradle of Judaism, believers having been the main target during the WWII holocaust, and if Judaism is a religion that encourages kindness and forgiveness and Israel is supposed to be the very reflection of it: Why we cannot find a solution? And, if Israel can make peace with Germany, why not with the Palestinian nation?
Maybe the Palestinians should learn from the Germans, and pay the harlot’s fees.