Image: Demonstration against Zionist Colonization British rule 1920
Yet still, Israel spins it’s lies to gather support for it’s craven massacres and yes I must say it, a final solution to the Zionist agenda to rid Israel of Palestinians. No it is not the same for there can never be a Nazi final solution. This one simply has been incarnated into another, showered with lies to justify racist hate, land greed and lunatic paranoia. Am I repeating myself? I will continue to repeat over and over again my disillusionment and contempt for the Zionist state of Israel.
by Lillian Rosengarten
We watch the brutal massacre of nearly 2000 Palestinians, (67 Israelis) squeezed into Gaza. “Operation Protective Edge,” this latest metaphor reminds me of a final solution. Merciless bombing once again yet more aggressive than Operation Cast Lead, a mere two weeks of incessant missiles, destruction and death in Dec 2008. Shameless acts of destruction have surely destroyed the illusion of Israel as a Democracy. Lies and propaganda are intended to mask the truth.
With the latest onslaught, Gaza is burning. No it is not the ovens of the crematoria but the ritualized killing of people have who are been targeted by the propaganda machine as inferior and unwanted, as terrorists, as dirty Arabs who use their children as human shields. No true religion could condone this. Only a false religion, one used to justify evil. We are the witness.
Recently in Germany thousands of people in numerous cities demonstrated against brutality of the Israeli government. We applaud tens of thousands of demonstrators who marched to Hyde Park in London and thousands of left wing Israelis over the weekend in support of peace talks marching in Tel Aviv. World response is shown below.
http://mondoweiss.net/2014/07/worldwide-protest-israeli.html
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One of the speakers at the London demonstration was captain of the Jewish Boat to Gaza in 2010, Glyn Secher. I never would have believed then as a passenger, what I know now despite the brutality I witnessed, kidnapped and towed to the Asdot prison as well as the murder of 9 human rights activists on the Mavi Marmara the previous May. I never would have believed the Zionist regime could instigate a manufactured reason to brutally exterminate their own Semitic brothers and sisters. I never would have believed that Gaza would burn following weeks of continuous bombings while using manufactured lies for justification. Nothing can justify systematic murder.
Yet still, Israel spins it’s lies to gather support for it’s craven massacres and yes I must say it, a final solution to the Zionist agenda to rid Israel of Palestinians. No it is not the same for there can never be a Nazi final solution. This one simply has been incarnated into another, showered with lies to justify racist hate, land greed and lunatic paranoia. Am I repeating myself? I will continue to repeat over and over again my disillusionment and contempt for the Zionist state of Israel.
Jews who know are ashamed. Those who do not know are complicit. In 2011, Israel’s propaganda and dispora minister,(minister of Hasbara) Yuli Edelstein, said the following.
“Arabs are a deplorable nation, every one of them.”(+072 Israeli magazine: Yossi Gurvitz)
I have so many ethical and moral questions that concern the US agenda since the lies were fabricated to allow the US to completely destroyed old beautiful cultures, where one could once live in relative harmony. We label “terrorists” everywhere yet refuse to acknowledge this is how the rest of the world describes the US and it’s Siamese twin Israel. We point a finger marked “terrorists” yet never acknowledge freedom fighters. Terrorists evoke fear, freedom fighters seek liberation from acts of terror (occupation and terrorization of a society under colonialist shackles .) We must include “useless war” fabricated by US imperialism that has invited the rise of terrorism. The cycle gains momentus as more terror is perpetrated on unwilling countries. Never believed in humanitarian reasons to bomb infrastructure and innocent inhabitants of cultures, fascinating gems of diversity destroyed by our love affair with military solutions and lust for power. We have manufactured terrorists by being terrorists. We speak humanitarian yet kill. We have destabilized an entire mid East.
Perhaps the reasons are about oil, money, greed, stupidity. We have destroyed Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya under the guise of terrorist dictators whom we have supported for decades. We have created ISIS in our support of “rebels” in Syria. What is the US thinking? What are we doing there? Who are the terrorists? But worst of all, in my view is the inability of the US and the EU to speak out against genocide in Gaza while we send our secretary of defense to broker a completely worthless peace. We point fingers in support of Israel at the “terrorists Hamas,” the legitimate party voted in by a Palestinian majority. We cannot broker peace if we do not recognize the struggle by Palestinian freedom fighters for their freedom from Israel’s domination and control. The US still threatens Iran, an ignorant position that isolates us even more as we remain aligned to the most despised country in the world. By what distorted belief system, by what corruption of money, proliferation of US bases in preparation for more killings, does the US with its European allies condone the Israeli agenda of “death to Palestinians.”
In light of the terrible crimes against Palestinians I wonder how liberals can name themselves liberal Zionists and not wonder how these two ideologies can exist together. Of utmost importance is a distinction that MUST be made between Zionism , a nationalist political movement that governs Israel and Judaism a religion. A nationalist political movement has nothing to do with religion, there is no moral army and there can be no democracy. This distinction is in need of critical clarification to prevent the absorption of Jewish culture and religion into a military nationalistic terrorist movement. Strong cries of anti-semite aimed towards dissenters against the Zionist agenda must be seen in light of the function such accusations serve. Zionists claim they speak for all Jews and those Jews who dissent are then reduced to “traitors” “anti-Semites”, anti-Israel, etc. This form of domestic terrorism has been successful in creating silence based on guilt of the “suffering Jew” who must have their own homeland.” Recipients of these lies hear what emotionally they need to hear is order to sustain the illusion of the once hoped for dreams of Israel, the longed for beacon of light.
Domestic terrorism incites words like Hamas/terrorists/rockets into Israel/ tunnels to kill our children. These lies are reinforced by the US and their European followers. There is a lack of critical thinking as mindless as the destruction of countries and their cultures by the US and their allies since 1968. (and before.) Zionist Israel relies on emotions that incorporate the power of the memory of the Nazi Holocaust to elicit a response in support of Israel in all it’s actions and to excuse what has been transformed from 1948 into a final solution for Palestinians. Why don’t Palestinians matter? Here is a terrorist state pretending to be a democracy the US refuses to criticize. Instead it becomes a collaborator in war crimes so enormous that are scantily reported in our media. For shame!
I despair and refuse to be silent.
Poem: Paul Celan: son of German Speaking Jews who were murdered by the Nazis
Stuttered-Over-Again World
Stuttered-over-again World,
where I shall have been
a Guest, a Name,
sweated down from the Wall,
that a Wound licks up.
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About the author
Lillian Rosengarten is a New York activist and poet, who was on the Jewish boat to Gaza that was stopped by the Israeli navy in Jan. 2010. Rosengarten was born in Germany; her family left after the Nazis came to power. She is the author “Ein bewegtes Leben Von Den Schatten Nazi- Deutschlands zum judischen Boot nach Gaza (translated into German , Zambon). She can be reached at truthpoem17@gmail.com
