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“Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war... We are very far from any moral hesitations when concerned with the national struggle. First and foremost, terror is for us a part of the political war appropriate for the circumstances of today...”
— Yitzhak Shamir
Israeli Prime Minister, Zionist terrorist
in an August 1943 article titled “Terror”, written for Hazit
the journal of Lehi, the terrorist organization he belonged to
Immortal Heroes Of Jenin
By Uri Avnery
The Guardian - London
Tuesday April 16, 2002
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,685169,00.html
In 1897, the day after the First Zionist Congress in Basel, Theodor Herzl, wrote in his diary: “In Basel I founded the State of the Jews.” This week, Ariel Sharon should note in his diary: “In Jenin I founded the State of the Palestinians.”
Of course, he did not mean to. His intention was to destroy the Palestinian nation, its institutions and leadership, once and for all, leaving only bits and pieces, human wreckage that could be disposed of anywhere.
In practice, something quite different happened. Faced with the onslaught of the biggest military machine in the region and the most modern arms in the world, submerged in a sea of suffering, surrounded by bodies, the Palestinian nation straightened its back as never before.
In the small refugee camp near Jenin, a group of Palestinian fighters from all the organisations gathered for a battle of defence that will be enshrined forever in the hearts of all Arabs. This is the Palestinian Massada, as an Israeli officer called it, alluding to the legendary stand of the remnants of the great Jewish rebellion against Rome in 71 AD.
When the international media cannot be kept out any more and the pictures of horror are published, two possible versions may emerge: Jenin as a story of massacre, a second Sabra and Shatila; and Jenin, the Palestinian Stalingrad, a story of immortal heroism. The second will surely prevail.
Nations are built on myths. I was raised on the myths of Massada and Tel-Chai. They formed the consciousness of the new Hebrew nation. (At Tel-Chai, in 1920, a group of Jewish defenders, led by the one-armed hero Josef Trumpeldor, were killed in an incident with anti-French Syrian fighters.) The myths of Jenin and Arafat’s compound in Ramallah will form the consciousness of the new Palestinian nation.
A primitive military robot, who sees everything in terms of fire power and body counts, will not understand this. But Napoleon, a military genius, said that in war, moral considerations account for three quarters, and the balance of force for the other quarter.
How does Sharon’s war look in this perspective? As for the actual forces, the balance is clear. A few dozen Israelis killed, many hundreds of Palestinians dead. No destruction in Israel, horrible destruction in the Palestinian towns.
The aim was, so it was claimed, to “destroy the terror infrastructure”. This definition is by itself nonsensical: the “terror infrastructure” exists in the souls of millions of Palestinians and tens of millions of Arabs, whose hearts are bursting with rage.
[Added note: They’re bursting with grief and pain too. And it’s not only Palestinians and Arabs, but hundreds of millions of people all over the world who have human hearts at all and who want to see Israeli war criminals brought to justice. The Israeli state terror infrastructure has its source in the evil, black hearts of Zionist Israelis, epitomized by monsters like Ariel Sharon — the Jewish Hitler.]
The more fighters and suicide bombers are killed, the more fighters and suicide bombers are ready to take their place. We saw the “laboratories of explosives” - sacks of material obtainable in Israeli shops. The Israeli army is proud of discovering tens of them. There will soon be hundreds.When dozens of wounded people lie in the streets and slowly bleed to death because the [Israeli] army shoots at every moving ambulance, it creates terrible hatred. When the army secretly buries hundreds of bodies of men, women and children, it creates terrible hatred. When tanks destroy houses, topple electricity poles, open water pipes, leave behind thousands of homeless people and cause children to drink from puddles, it causes terrible hatred.
A Palestinian child, who sees all this with his or her eyes, becomes the suicide bomber of tomorrow. Thus Sharon and his chief of staff, Shaul Mofaz, create the terrorist infrastructure.
In the meantime, they have created the foundations of the Palestinian nation and the Palestinian state. The people saw their fighters in Jenin and believe [know] that they are far greater heroes than the Israeli soldiers, protected inside their tanks. They saw their leader in the historic TV sequence, his face lit by a single candle in his dark, surrounded office, ready for death at any moment, and compare him with the hedonistic Israeli ministers, sitting in their offices far from the battlefront, surrounded by hordes of bodyguards. Thus national pride is engendered.
No good for Israel will come out of this adventure, as no good came out of any of Sharon’s previous adventures. The concept was stupid, the implementation cruel, the results will be disastrous. It will not bring peace and security, solve no problem, but it will isolate Israel and endanger the Jews throughout the world.
In the end, only one thing will be remembered: our giant military machine assaulted the small Palestinian people, and the small Palestinian people and its leader held on. In the eyes of the Palestinians, and not only theirs, it will look like a tremendous victory, the victory of a modern David against Goliath.
Uri Avnery is co-founder of Israel’s Gush Shalom (Peace Coalition). Born in Germany, he emigrated to Palestine in 1933 and joined the Irgun underground movement [Irgun was a Zionist terrorist organization]. In 1948, he was a member of an Israeli commando unit and was wounded on the Egyptian front.
As a journalist and political activist, he has long been a campaigner for Palestinian rights and in 1982 crossed the frontline to meet Arafat at the height of the siege of Beirut. A supporter of the Oslo peace agreement, he is now a columnist for the Israeli newspaper Ma’ariv, where this article first appeared.
This article is also at Rense.com
http://www.rense.com/general24/imm.htm
Final note from this site: Even though he was once a terrorist himself as a member of Irgun, Uri Avnery has obviously become a human being since then, and a hero too. It takes uncommon courage to speak the truth and stand up for human decency in a demented, racist nation like Israel.
Related pages
Jenin massacre:
Massacre at Jenin: “I now know the smell of death...”
The Israelis are Guilty of Mass Murder in Jenin
Eyewitness Jenin: Evidence of a Massacre
Human Rights Watch report excerpts
“Sanity was buried alive...” at Jenin
Israeli state terrorism:
An American Heroine, Murdered by Israelis
The Israeli Connection To 9-11
American/Israeli Terrorism of the Palestinian People
A description of the sadistic nature and scope of Israeli state terrorism, with related sites for more information.
Israel’s State Terrorism
by Dr. Lev Grinberg
Albert Einstein Condemns Israeli Nazis
Zionism is Jewish Naziism: A Photo Essay on Israeli State Terrorism
Ariel Sharon: The Jewish Hitler
Return of the Terrorist: The Crimes of Ariel Sharon
Bibliography:
Racist Zionism: Israeli Apartheid
Western State Terrorism
Alexander George, editor; essays by Noam Chomsky, Edward S. Herman, Gerry O’Sullivan and othersThe infamous quote by Yitzhak Shamir, at the top of this page, is given in Western State Terrorism, chapter 2: International Terrorism: Image and Reality, by Noam Chomsky, section 6, and note 36. See chapter sections 4 through 8 for heavily-censored (in America) information on the historical realities of Israeli state terrorism.
Related sites
Photos from Jenin
http://www.ummah.com/inewsletter/massacres/palestine/jenin.htmHorrifying photos from the Jenin refugee camp, taken after the massacre by Israeli Nazis. There are sickening photos of mutilated, burned and dismembered bodies — and yet the most repulsive photo of all is the one of Colin Powell and Ariel Sharon while they’re alive (or are they?). It was taken during or shortly after the Jenin massacre as both of the old war criminals were enjoying themselves. Powell is leering evilly as he stands like a marionette on a string behind a stupidly gaping Sharon, whose squinting left eye is turned to the left while his open right eye stares directly at the viewer. A couple of freaky, filthy old murderers if there ever were. And if you pay taxes to the U.S. government, you’re paying these satanic freaks and their minions to literally butcher children.
Gush Shalom - Israeli Peace Bloc
http://www.gush-shalom.org/english/index.html“Gush Shalom...means ‘The Peace Bloc’. ... The primary aim of Gush Shalom is to influence Israeli public opinion and lead it towards peace and conciliation with the Palestinian people...”
Palestine Media Watch
http://www.pmwatch.org/pmw/index.asp“The purpose of Palestine Media Watch is to fight anti-Palestinian bias in the US media and to call for giving Palestinian views greater room for expression.
“Palestine Media Watch is a grass-roots media watch group established on October 5, 2000 to help fight US media bias against Palestinians via direct action: writing letters and making phone calls. Our strength is in the commitment of our dedicated members — our gadflies — who day after day, through their informed letters to newspapers, work for a more balanced, more humane, and more informed portrayal of the Middle East conflict.”
Palestine Chronicle
News and Commentary from Palestine, the Middle East, and Beyond...
http://palestinechronicle.com/“Palestine Chronicle is an independent internet magazine, dedicated to addressing issues and offering perspectives rarely seen in mainstream western media. These issues include the plight and welfare of Palestinian refugees, as well as other displaced and oppressed people around the world.”
The Electronic Intifada
http://electronicintifada.net/new.html“A resource for countering myth, distortion and spin from the Israeli media war machine.”
“The Electronic Intifada project...aims to focus on just one aspect of the struggle, the war in the media for a representation of the Palestinian point of view.”
This site also provides a running total the Palestinian men, women and children who have been murdered and injured by the Israeli “Defense” Forces.
Boycott Israel Campaign
http://www.inminds.co.uk/boycott-israel.html“People of good conscience have chosen to boycott israeli products and companies supporting the zionist entity. ... We have carried out extensive research to identify the guilty companies. All our findings are provided here.”
SUSTAIN:
Stop US Tax-funded Aid to Israel Now
http://www.sustaincampaign.org/“SUSTAIN is a non-hierarchical, grassroots organization committed to supporting and sustaining the Palestinian movement for justice, human rights and self-determination.
“The United States government supports Israeli violations of Palestinian national and human rights militarily, economically, and ideologically. The most tangible form of this support is the massive tax-funded aid that goes to Israel. We are committed to building a campaign against US military and economic aid to Israel so that US tax-dollars do not support the abuse of human rights.”
Indict Ariel Sharon
Justice for the Victims of Sabra & Shatila
http://indictsharon.net/“IndictSharon.net is the website of the International Campaign for Justice for the Victims of Sabra & Shatila, offering news on the case lodged in Belgium against Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and other Israelis and Lebanese responsible for the massacre, killing, rape and disappearance of civilians that took place in Beirut between 16 and 18 September 1982 in the camps of Sabra and Shatila and the surrounding area.”
MER - Mid East Realities
http://www.middleeast.org/“MER’s purpose is to distill and present the most incisive and honest, the most insightful and independent, information and analysis about what is really going on in today’s Middle East as well as in Washington about the Middle East.”
Colorado Campaign for Middle East Peace
http://www.ccmep.org/Media-censored information and photos documenting the efforts of private American citizens to protect the Palestinian people and protest Israeli state terrorism — within Israel itself.
Palestine Daily
daily news and current events
http://www.palestinedaily.com/A great deal of news and information, with related links and sections on Afghanistan and Pakistan as well as Palestine and the Middle East in general.
Resources about Palestine
http://www.freespeech.org/fsitv/html/topics_Palestine.shtml“A collection of talks, interviews and other materials to help broaden your knowledge of the Palestine issue.” Includes video and audio interviews with Palestinian people and peace workers.
The Other Apartheid:
Commission of Inquiry to Investigate U.S.-Backed Israeli War Crimes In Palestine
http://www.internationalanswer.org/news/update/071802commission.html“Day after day, as Israeli ‘Defense’ Forces continue to kill, attack and humiliate the Palestinian people in a brutal occupation, the U.S. Government lays the blame for the conflict and responsibility for peace on the Palestinians. It arrogantly insists on ‘reform’ of all Palestinian institutions, the overturn of the Palestinian leadership and an end to all Palestinian resistance to occupation. The powerful combination of U.S. policy’s vast diplomatic support, arming and funding of Israel and the corporate media’s wildly distorted portrayal of the occupation creates mass confusion about the situation for people in the U.S.
“The Commission of Inquiry is being titled ‘The Other Apartheid’ as a comparison to the apartheid policies faced by Palestinian people in the Occupied Territories and within the 1948 border of Israel, and to those faced in South Africa. This is clearly a policy that comes from the top levels of the Israeli government with the full support of the United States, just as the U.S. and Israel supported the now-overthrown apartheid regime in South Africa.
“Few people in the U.S. realize that the U.S.-backed Israeli occupation breaks dozens of international laws and human rights conventions. Even fewer know of the dispossession of the Palestinian people to make way for the state of Israel, or of the long history of Palestinian resistance.”
Israeli Aggression, Militarism, and Terror
http://www.zundelsite.org/english/israeli_terror/Excerpts from several books dealing with Israeli state terrorism:
- Our Man in Damascus
- A Nation On Trial
- Israel’s Sacred Terrorism
- What Price Israel?
- Every Prince a Spy
- The Fateful Triangle
- The Lobby
- The Zionist Connection
The Zionist Terror Network (online book)
http://www.ihr.org/books/ztn.html“This booklet documents the background and criminal activities of Jewish Zionist terrorist groups, and especially the Jewish Defense League. Particular emphasis is given here to terror — including murder — against ‘thought criminals’ who question the Holocaust story that six million Jews were systematically killed during the Second World War.
“Zionist terrorists openly proclaim an arrogant Jewish-supremacist ideology and acknowledge their readiness to use violence against those who disagree with them. With a well-documented record of bigotry and crime, they pose a serious danger to our society, and to men and women everywhere who treasure freedom.”
Return of the Terrorist:
The Crimes of Ariel Sharon
http://www.counterpunch.org/sharon.html“Sharon’s history offers a monochromatic record of moral corruption, with a documented record of war crimes going back to the early 1950s.”
“In 1953 he was given command of Unit 101, whose....purpose was that of instilling terror by the infliction of discriminate, murderous violence not only on able bodied fighters but on the young, the old, the helpless.”
PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE TO ISRAELI TERROR
http://www.iacenter.org/palestinian_resist.htmAn International Action Center page with links to a good collection of informative articles on the brutal tactics of Israeli state terrorism, Israeli use of Depleted Uranium weapons, the political realities of the Al Aqsa Intifada, a related article by Mumia Abu-Jamal, and reports from the October/November 2000 IAC Fact Finding Mission To Palestine.
Al-Aqsa Intifada
The Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network
http://www.pngo.net/intifada/intifada.htmIncludes reports such as:
Report on the Impact of Closures of Water Supply To Palestinian Villages and Towns
Difficulties and Problems facing the Agricultural Sector resulting from the Israeli Aggression
Request for Support: The Palestinian NGO Network expresses its high concern and outrage at the vigilante acts of the Israeli military forces
Request for Support 2: The Palestinian NGO’s and civil society organizations condemn with great anger Israel’s savage and brutal actions against the helpless unarmed civilians in Palestine
- Last moments of Mohammed Aldurah (video clip)
- Related Links
WSWS : News & Analysis : Israel and Palestine
http://www.wsws.org/sections/category/news/me-peace.shtmlThis is the index page for an extensive collection of news articles and high-quality analysis. The articles deal with both the brutal Israeli terrorism and oppression of the Palestinian people, and the internal condition of Jewish Israeli society itself.
JewsNotZionists.org
http://www.jewsnotzionists.org/“There are in fact many Jewish movements, groups and organizations whose ideology regarding Zionism and the so-called ‘State of Israel’ is that of the unadulterated Torah position that any form of Zionism is heresy and that the existence of the so-called ‘State of Israel’ is illegitimate.”
Neturei Karta - Jews United Against Zionism
http://www.netureikarta.org/“In addition to condemning the central heresy of Zionism, we also reject its policy of aggression against all peoples. Today this cruelty manifests itself primarily in the brutal treatment of the Palestinian people. We proclaim that this inhuman policy is in violation of the Torah.
“NKI seeks peace and reconciliation with all peoples and nations. This is especially needed in our relations towards the Islamic world where Zionism has for 53 years done so much to ruin Jewish - Muslim understanding.
“We welcome the assistance of all men of good will and stand ready to assist all whose agenda coincides with ours.”
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