Palestine – misery without end yet resistance without waver
When the history of the 20th and 21st centuries is written by future historians they will remark on the astonishing steadfastness of the Palestinian people in the face of the relentless brutality and oppression they are suffering at the hands of the Israeli army.
Last Sunday I saw Emad Burnad’s profoundly moving film “Five Broken Cameras” documenting his local community’s struggle against Israeli occupation, the theft of their land by Israeli settlers working hand-in-glove with the Israeli state and the viciousness of Israeli army responses to any sign of Palestinian resistance.
Historians will ponder how it was that the Israeli regime could get away with such blatant racism and crimes against humanity for so long. They will contrast South African apartheid which was established in 1948 based on oppression of black South Africans with Israeli apartheid which was similarly established in 1948 based on oppression of Palestinians.
South African apartheid lasted till 1994 whereas Israeli apartheid continues more than two decades later. It will not last – it is already on borrowed time, supported only by a strong but steadily waning US empire and a host of quisling Arab regimes which are hated by their people.
Where does New Zealand fit into all this?
Just as we punched above our weight in support of the struggle against South African apartheid we can do the same for the struggle against Israeli apartheid.
It means giving strong support to the boycott of Israel spearheaded by the BDS (Boycott
Divestment and Sanctions) movement.
It means opposing vile New Zealand government policies which favour Israel over Palestinians.
It means rejecting the cynical calls from the likes of Foreign Minister Murray McCully and the US for direct negotiations between the Palestinian Authority (which has no mandate) and Israel’s apartheid regime.
It means insisting the way forward is to demand that Israel abide by UN Security Council resolutions and international law.
It means calling a spade a spade and a racist a racist.
It means standing with the Palestinian oppressed against the Israeli oppressor.
Help support the struggle:
I’ve never understood how the zionists can look at those maps that are so telling and say that they, the zionists, are on the right side of history!
We must point that the NZ Superfund complicity with its investment in companies that profit from the occupation and the destruction of Palestind are an absolute crime against the Palestinians made possible by New Zealanders tax dollars.
The rule of the Khazarian Mafia in Israel is about to end and the sun is about to rise on the Nation and People of Palestine:
http://operationdisclosure.blogspot.co.nz/2016/03/benjamin-fulford-report-march-8-2016.html
Any day now U.S. Inc will be finished and the sun will rise on the Republic of the United States of America under the interim guiding hand of General Joseph Dunsford, before the run up to new LEGAL Presidential elections:
http://www.stage2omega.com/notes-from-sheldan-nidle-march-1-2016/?utm_source=Stage2Omega+Daily+Digest+Newsletter&utm_campaign=109175e59f-Stage2Omega_Nightly_Digest_Newsletter1_11_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65449d26fb-109175e59f-219621113
Ah yes the ascendancy of the proud people of Palestine and their Hamas overlords. Soon the full glory of their stewardship will be revealed in their treatment of women and LBGTI etc folk.
I am sure you will thrive under an Islamic ideology Helena.
Ah, yes. No mention of the recent stabbings, I see. No mention of the six day war, the Yom Kippur wars…the list is endless.
Israel is a country that has military force and doesn’t muck around with threats. You provoke, you get attacked. If only more countries were like that.
Once again, as on Leslie Bravery’s thread, we’re getting the Hasbara Brigade turning up to push the long-discredited official Israeli narrative of modern Middle Eastern History:
Reality:
Six Day (June 1967) War = initiated by Israel (it had been trying to provoke war for more than 4 years with a view to expanding its territory into the West Bank, Golan Heights and the Egyptian Sinai). Israel launched its offensive at the precise moment that Egypt was entering a very promising peace initiative brokered by Washington.(A close look at the record of diplomacy over the immediate weeks running up to Israel’s June 1967 attack shows that Israeli leaders had refused each and every one of the initiatives and offers made by the US and the UN, while Egypt had accepted not just some but all of them).
Yom Kippur (Oct 1973) War = Israel had spent years ignoring Egypt’s more than reasonable demands for its occupied territory back. The consensus throughout the World (see UN General Assembly votes and memoirs by both US and UN leaders) was that Egypt had the right under international law to recover its sovereign territory, stolen by Israel in 67. Hence, it was the most publicly-broadcast build-up to War in modern history. For two whole years, Egypt had issued warning after warning, hoping that Israeli leaders would see sense, end their settlement building in the Sinai and return to their pre-1967 borders. The year before, UN Sec-Gen U Thant had formally warned Israel that if they didn’t comply with International Law and withdraw in exchange for the Peace Treaty that Egypt had agreed to enter into then they were seriously risking war. As always, the Israelis scoffed, long-sceptical as they were of the Arabs’ ability in warfare.
So much for your misnomer for a pseudonym “TVOR”. If more countries were like Israel, this planet would be plunged into a perpetual war and endless bloodletting.
What you are calling for is more violence. So much for being a “Voice of Reason” – more like the Baying of Madness.
Voice of Reason/Rational Voice (can’t you Zionist stooges be more creative in your pseudonyms??), I totally condemn your support for an aggressive imperialist state like Israel. Supporting a regime that represses it’s neighbours is nothing to be proud of.
I understand your type, Might Is Right, and devil take the vulnerable victims of zionism. Thankfully, people like you are a sad pathetic minority.
“Israel is a country that has military force and doesn’t muck around with threats. You provoke, you get attacked. If only more countries were like that. ”
Spoken like a true warmonger/neo-nazi.
“Voice of Reason”? “Rational voice”?
More like local spokespeople for zionist imperialism.
I find your support for zionist thuggery obscene. There will not be peace in the middle east until the people of Palestine have justice and security. Until then, Israel will be in a constant state of war, aided and abetted by the likes of “Voice of Reason” and “Rational Voice.”
Well, like you said, “You provoke, you get attacked.”
So why are you ‘surprised’ when provoked Palestinians do exactly that?
‘Stabbings, stone throwing, suicide bombings, rocket attacks’ – day follows nights of harrassment, power and fuel cuts, humiliations at the check points and delays for people needing to get medical assistance, dead and damaged kids.
The ‘right of return’ is opening the doors to many people who may adhere to the Jewish faith at some level of intensity but are certainly NOT ‘semitic’. (Just when are we going to get rid of this nineteenth century drivel about ‘races’?) And some of them are imbued with a righteousness that is not helpful for creating functional peace and goodwill. Does anyone check?
I saw the film also and it was awful to see that the young Israeli soldiers were so heavily armed against people, including children, who were passively resisting and completely unarmed. The intimidation by the soldiers, especially going into Palestinian homes and taking away the children was also distressing to watch.
IThe whole film showed such brutality from the Israelis, from the building of huge fences and walls, and the ripping up of the olive trees from the lands that had been in Palestinian families for many generations to the very sad unnecessary deaths of some very warm and peaceable Palestinians.