Canada's Ignorant Prime Minister
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* Subject: [montrealmuslimnews] "Canada's Ignorant Prime Minister," By Khalid Amayreh
* Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 23:06:12 -0300
Canada's Ignorant Prime Minister
By Khalid Amayreh May 13th, 2008
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper recently made outrageously
ignorant comments on the plight of the Palestinian people.
He claimed that criticism of and opposition to the Israeli policies of
ethnic cleansing and apartheid against the Palestinian people amounted
to "anti-Semitism."
"Unfortunately, Israel at 60 remains a country under threat -
threatened by those groups and regimes who deny to this day its right
to exist," Harper said in a Toronto celebration marking the
inauspicious anniversary of Israel's birth.
"And why? Look beyond the thinly veiled rationalizations; because they
hate Israel, just as they hate the Jewish people."
Obviously, Harper was trying to curry favor with Jews by appearing
more Israeli and more Zionist than many Israelis themselves are.
But in truth, he is harming Jews, because it is not a sign of true
friendship to encourage one's friends to walk along the path of evil
as Israel has manifestly been doing for decades.
In fact, Israel and Jews in general need sincere friends who should
tell them that the pornographic oppression being meted out to the
Palestinians is wrong and ought to stop immediately.
Today, Israel is intoxicated by its arrogance of power and the
predominance of her supporters in North America, especially in the US.
And as is the case with drunken people whose true friends don't let
them drive, lest they kill themselves and cause harm to others,
Israel's friends should likewise advise her to get sober and abandon
her criminal discourse.
Harper's equation of opposition to Israel's policies its actions with
anti-Semitism and "hatred of Jews" would be as outrageous as claiming
that opposition to the Third Reich and its crimes and genocidal
designs emanated from intrinsic hostility to the German people and the
'Aryan' race.
Well, doesn't Harper realize that there are thousands of honest and
conscientious Jews who reject Zionism and its virulent brat, Israel?
Harper is actually more than just ignorant. He seems virulently
dishonest as well.
Otherwise, who in his or her right mind would dismiss the ghastly
Israeli crimes against the peoples of the Middle East as "thinly
veiled rationalizations?"
In 1948, Israel acted and behaved like Nazi Germany when it destroyed
more than 460 Palestinian towns and villages and expelled more than
700,000 Palestinian Muslims and Christians to the four winds on no
grounds other than the fact that the victims were not Jews. Is that a
thinly veiled rationalization?
Israel, this hateful thiefdom, massacred them, destroyed their homes,
confiscated their farms and property, stole their valuables before
claiming that the refugees left their homes voluntarily.
Moreover, Zionist terrorists, acting on instructions from the Zionist
leadership, poisoned water wells in the depopulated villages in order
to prevent the refugees from returning. And those who did try to
return, even to retrieve some of their movable property, like my three
uncles tried to do, were summarily executed in the fields.
Perhaps Mr. Harper should have spoken with some of the refugees, or
their descendants, some of whom live in Canada, before he made his
ignorant remarks.
Harper should understand, if he is really willing to listen and is
interested in knowing the truth, that the strife in Palestine is not
about religion or about anti-Semitism. After all, both the Israelites
and the Palestinians are Semitic people.
The conflict in Palestine is about theft, dispossession, colonialism,
occupation, racism, ethnic cleansing, oppression and persecution.
It is about killing people because they don't belong to the right
tribe, it is about demolishing homes because the proprietors don't
belong to the "right race," it is about murder, rape and oppression
carried out for the purpose of cleansing the land of the natives, the
inferiors, the goyim, the Ǖntermensch, the children of the lesser
God .the aboriginals!!
It is about the arrogation of Palestine by racist Zionism through
organized mass murder and mass terror, and the displacement and
deportation of the indigenous Palestinian inhabitants; it is about the
attempted physical annihilation of an entire people, the people of
Palestine.
Are these acts, Mr. Prime Minister, compatible with the moral ideals
that you in Canada claim to uphold?
And you claim that Israel is under threat? Shouldn't you have
calculated your words before uttering them?
How could a state that possesses more than 300 nuclear weapons and has
one of the most powerful armies in the world, and in addition to that,
tightly controls the politics and policies of the only superpower in
the world, be under threat?
Are you fornicating with words, Mr. Harper?
The truth of the matter is that Israel continues to threaten, bully
and attack its subjects and neighbors and their citizens.
In the West Bank, Israel has effectively morphed Palestinian
population centers into modern-day detention camps, thanks to this
gigantic wall of shame built on stolen land, coupled with hundreds of
hateful roadblocks manned by Gestapo-like trigger-happy Israeli
soldiers who draw satisfaction from tormenting and humiliating their
helpless Palestinian victims.
And in Gaza, the country which considers itself a "light upon the
nations" is effectively carrying out a slow-motion genocide against
1.5 million thoroughly starved Gazans whose only crime is their
refusal to elect as their leaders Israel's quislings and
collaborators.
It is really sad and lamentable that while Israel is indulging in
these shameful acts against a people that is as helpless as European
Jewry was under Nazism, morally desensitized western leaders,
obviously including yourself, Mr. Prime Minister, are cheerleading
these crimes against humanity, committed callously by the children,
grandchildren and great grandchildren of the holocaust.
Canada, a country that used to pride itself on its commitment to the
rule of international law and regard for human rights and dignity,
should stop this blind fanatical and unrestricted support for Israel
and instead adopt a balanced approach to the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict.
Canada should tell Israel that killing Palestinian civilians in Gaza,
knowingly and deliberately, is wrong; that starving and tormenting and
killing innocent people in order to weaken Hamas is wrong; that
withholding critically-needed fuel and electricity supplies, let alone
food and other consumer products, amounts to a crime against humanity.
Unfortunately, instead of doing what is morally right, Canada is
cheering Israel's criminality and evil behavior, very much like the
Führer of the White House who called Israel's certified war criminals
"men of peace," ignoring the fact that they have tons of innocent
blood on their evil hands.
Well, birds of a feather flock together. (end)
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