Palestine: Israeli Killing Fields

By Dr. Elias Akleh

19 March, 2007
Countercurrents.org


Zionism is a newer name for an ancient racist, expansionist, and 
imperialist political movement, whose aim was, and still is, the 
establishment of a strong ?Jewish-only? empire (Greater Israel) in the 
Middle East, which was considered the heart of the ancient world, and 
the center of all trade. 

To accomplish this goal ancient Israelite self-proclaimed ?prophets? 
had introduced false religious beliefs and interpretations of 
scriptures into Judaism to nationalize the religion, and to misguide 
the Jews into believing in a prejudiced racist and war-loving god, who 
favors one group of people over all the rest of his creations, and ?as 
a real estate agent- promised the Jews a piece of land, and promised to 
protect and to lead their armies to cleanse this promised land (from 
Nile to Euphrates) from all the heathens (Goyim) through genocide in 
return he asks them to build him a pathetic temple when he has the 
whole universe as his house. These false religious beliefs sanctioned 
theft, murder, torture and exploitation of other people, whom this 
prejudiced god had allegedly created to be only servants to the Jews. 

Unfortunately many Jews ? the believers in Judaism from all nations 
and not just the descendents of Abraham- fell victims to these false 
religious beliefs, and thus had volunteered themselves and their 
children, out of religious conviction and duty, to be drafted into 
armies to inflict mayhem and terror on all other nations in an attempt 
to actualize this false religious goal. The creation of the state of 
Israel in 1948 in the heart of the Arab World, and the destructive 
ruthless genocidal wars against Palestinians and Arabs, consuming the 
souls of innocent people as well as their own souls, are continuation 
of their terror campaign towards that goal (Greater Israel). 

In ancient times, the Old Testament tells us that ?god of Israelites? 
had instructed their prophet Samuel to anoint Saul as the first king of 
Israel, and to order him to fulfill god?s wish of annihilating all 
Philistinian tribes in the Promised Land. Samuel instructed Saul to: 
?Now go and attack Amalikites (a Philistinian tribe) and utterly 
destroy all that they have and do not spare them. But kill both man and 
woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.? 
(Samuel 15: 1-33). There go Moses? divine Ten Commandments ?You shall 
not kill? and ?You shall not covet your neighbor?s possessions? out of 
the window. Saul perpetrated the genocide but spared the king ?Agag? 
and the best of the livestock. Samuel, the so-called god?s prophet, 
hacked king ?Agag? into pieces, and informed Saul that god is angry 
with him since he did not complete the genocide as he was instructed. 

Since then genocide of non-Jews (Goyims) had been sanctified as a 
divine duty. Ancient Palestine was turned into killing fields for the 
Israelites, who raided all Philistinian tribes burning and leveling 
their cities, slaughtering every living soul without exception, and 
killing all their animals. The Old Testament is full of descriptions of 
these Israeli massacres. The Greater Israel dream was harshly shattered 
by the Persian and Roman armies, who defeated the Israelites, 
imprisoned them as slaves, sent them into Diaspora, and forbade them 
from returning to the Palestine. 

For almost two thousand years the majority of the Jews forgot about 
the ancient Greater Israel dream, and concentrated on integrating 
themselves into the countries they were living in. During the crusaders 
campaigns (1095-1291) European Christians, while on their way to 
Palestine driven by false religious duty to cleanse the Holy Land from 
?heathens? by the sword, started attacking the Jewish communities 
because they had crucified Jesus. The Jews found refuge only in the 
Arabic and Islamic countries. When European Christians liberated Spain 
from Islamic rule, they forced Spanish Jews to convert to Christianity 
or face death. Many converted out of fear for their lives, some of whom 
started rediscovering their Jewish roots just recently, previous 
American Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is just one example. 
Others left Spain, and along with many European Jews, who were 
persecuted by Christian Europeans, found refuge only in the Arab and 
Islamic countries in North Africa and in the Middle East, where they 
were welcomed, lived peacefully, and flourished. Later on these Jews 
adopted Zionism and immigrated to the newly established state of 
Israel. 

During the nineteenth century, and after the discovery of oil in the 
Middle East, there was a fear that the Ottoman Empire ?the Sick Man? 
would regain its power. The decision was made by the ?World Power 
Elite? to topple down the Ottoman Sultan, to divide the empire into 
smaller weaker states ruled by complicit dictators, and to create the 
warring state of Israel in the heart of the Arab World to pacify Arab 
nationalism and to divert their attention away from the policies of 
their corrupt dictators. 

Zionism, then, was created to revive the ?Greater Israel? dream. 
Zionism used anti-Semitism and the Holocaust to instill fear into the 
Jewish communities in an attempt to drive them to immigrate to 
Palestine in order to ?reclaim? god?s Promised Land, and to establish a 
safe Jewish-only state (Israel). History shows that Zionists were 
actually the worst enemies of the Jews and had perpetrated genocidal 
crimes against them. During early 1940?s there were plans to save 
European Jewry from the war by evacuating them to either USA or to 
British colonies. In 1941 and 1942 Germany offered hundreds of 
thousands of European Jews transit to Spain on the condition to be 
transported to USA or to British colonies, but not to Palestine, in 
1942 British Parliament had a plan to evacuate 500 thousand Jews from 
Europe to British colonies, and in 1943 Romania offered 70 thousand 
Jewish refugees of the Transdniestria to leave at the cost of $50 each. 
Zionist leaders had rejected all these rescue operations and abandoned 
European Jewry to face their holocaust. (jewsagainstzionism.com)

Zionist leaders, such as Yitzhak Greenbaum, Chairman of Rescue 
Committee of Jewish Agency, and Stephen Wise, President of American 
Jewish Congress and leader of American Zionists, had rejected every 
effort to save European Jewry from the war, and refused to spend one 
cent on such rescue operations unless the Jews are transferred to 
Palestine. The attitude of Zionist leaders was represented by Greenbaum?
s infamous statement: ?One cow in Palestine is worth more than all the 
Jews in Europe?.
Instead of saving the Jews Zionists aimed to inflame anti-Semitic 
feelings to intensify Jewish persecution in the hope to encourage 
Jewish immigration to Palestine. Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism, 
wrote in his diary (part I, pp. 16): ?It is essential that the 
suffering of Jews become worse ? this will assist in realization of our 
plans? I shall induce anti-Semites to liquidate Jewish wealth? The anti-
Semites will assist us thereby in that they will strengthen the 
persecution and oppression of Jews. The anti-Semites shall be our best 
friends.? Zionists had paid money to thugs and sometimes to Jewish 
religious zealots to attack Jewish communities, especially those in the 
Arab countries, to vandalize their cemeteries, throw molotov bombs 
against synagogues, and write hate graffiti on their walls, in order to 
pressure them to immigrate to Palestine. Israelis are the biggest anti-
Semites since they persecute Palestinians, who are also Semitic 
nation. 

Zionists propaganda portraying the Zionist state of Israel as the 
safest haven for Jews is the greatest hoax perpetrated against Jews, 
who were living peacefully in Arabic and Islamic countries before the 
establishment of Israel. In fact Israeli Jews have been facing the 
greatest physical danger while living in the Zionist Israeli state 
since they met the Arabic welcoming favors with the savage robbery of 
Palestine and the theft of important Islamic religious mosques. Since 
the establishment of Zionist Israel in 1948 its Jewish citizens have 
been living in a state of perpetual wars, and their every new 
generation had been turned into war criminals through conscription into 
the Israeli terrorist army. 


Zionist leaders had offered to collaborate with strong Nazi Germany at 
the beginning of the war by offering the services of Zionist terrorist 
militias to strengthen German power in the Middle East, for the purpose 
of receiving jurisdiction over Palestine. David Yisrael, in his book 
?The Palestinian Problem in German Politics 1889-1945? (Israel: 1947); 
pp. 315-317, reports that the radical Zionist group ?Fighters for the 
Freedom of Israel?, better known as the terrorist ?Stern? gang, which 
later on became the Israeli army, had offered to cooperate with the 
Nazis in order to maintain and strengthen German power in the Middle 
East for the hope of receiving jurisdiction over Palestine to establish 
the Israeli state.

Edwin Black, in his book ?The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story 
of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine?, also talks 
about Zionist collaboration with the Nazi. On August 7th, 1933, Black 
reports, Zionist leaders concluded a secret and controversial agreement 
with the German Third Reich to transfer 60 thousand Jews and $100 
million to Jewish Palestine. 

The Arab/Israeli conflict serves the interest of the industrial 
military complexes in the US, UK and to a certain degree in France. 
They have sold weapons to both sides. To preserve Israel in order to 
ensure profiting perpetual wars they provided Israel with WMD and 
supported Israeli government politically and financially. Successive 
American administrations have become the major supporters of Israeli 
policies until recently, thanks to the influential power of AIPAC 
(Israeli lobby), the Israeli interests had become American?s primary 
interests. Both Republican and Democratic parties support Israel?s 
actions and policies unconditionally. Criticizing Israel is considered 
a political suicide as previous President Jimmy Carter put it. 

With the unconditional support of the American administration (the 
global bully and greatest Satan as viewed by the Islamic World) Israeli 
government had received an open hunting license to, one more time, turn 
Palestinian territories into killing fields using cruel terrorist 
methods that surpassed those of the Nazis?.

Worse than Nazism, that was built on the racist social ideology of 
German supremacy (the superman), Zionism is built on a racist divine 
ideology of god?s chosen people in god?s promised land. Whereas it is 
acceptable to debate social ideologies, debating or questioning divine 
ideologies is considered sacrilege. 

Worse than Nazism, for Zionism to establish the pure Jewish-only 
Greater Israel it was necessary to get rid of all other ethnic groups. 
This led to genocidal, ethnic cleansing and complete evacuation of 
Palestinians from their home land. Massacres and complete demolition of 
total Palestinian towns to terrorize Palestinians into ?voluntary? 
immigrations became the adopted policies of Zionist Israel. Massacres 
such as Deir Yassin, Kufr Qassem, Qibya, Qana, Sabra & Shatila, Jenin, 
Rafah, and Beit Hanoun are just few among the hundreds of Israeli 
massacres against Palestinian civilians. Walid Khalidi, a Palestinian 
professor, in his book ?All that Remains: The Palestinian Villages 
Occupied & Depopulated by Israel in 1948? details 400 Palestinian 
villages that were totally destroyed by Israeli army. Sharon Shai, an 
Israeli history professor at Tel Aviv University, revealed that the 
records of the Association of Archeological Survey Department, housed 
in Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem, show that this Archeological 
Department had approved the razing of about one hundred Palestinian 
villages within 1948 Israel after their inhabitants were forcefully 
evacuated. After 1967 war the Department turned its attention to razing 
Palestinian villages in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Golan Heights. 
Now-a-days we have 40 Palestinian towns in the Naqab desert that are 
unrecognized by Israel and do not receive any civil services although 
their inhabitants pay taxes. These towns are considered illegal by 
Israeli government, who has plans to demolish them all. Last Friday 
March 9th. military bulldozers, under the protection of the Israeli 
troops, had demolished the whole town of At-Taweel one home after the 
other as a first step in demolishing the rest of the 40 towns. 

Worse than the Nazis Israeli terrorist troops conduct daily raids, 
mostly after midnights, on Palestinian cities and towns using tanks and 
armored military carriers. They raid civilian homes, destroy furniture, 
loot jewelry and money, terrorize family members, kidnap young men, and 
finally demolish the home. Demolishing Palestinian civilian homes has 
become a favorite pass time for the Israeli troops. During the last 
five years and up to the first of this March the Israeli terrorist 
forces had demolished 645 public buildings and 72,437 civilian homes 
belonging to 29,314 extended Palestinian families as reported by 
Palestinian Health Ministry. During the last week of February 2007 
alone the Israeli army had conducted 43 raids throughout the 
Palestinian cities in the West Bank. Major Palestinian cities such as 
Bethlehem, Ramallah, Nablus, Tulkarem, Qalqellya, and Hebron just to 
name few have been raided by Israeli tanks since the beginning of this 
March. City infrastructures were destroyed, government institutions 
were ransacked and burnt, media institutions were raided and their 
equipments destroyed and confiscated, schools and hospitals were raided 
and damaged, civilian homes were targeted by tanks, innocent civilians 
including women and children were gunned down by snipers, and many men 
? civilians, police and members of Palestinian Parliament- were 
kidnapped. Fifty five men including six children from Nablus, twenty 
five from Bethlehem, and about sixty from Hebron were kidnapped in one 
night.

In Gaza Strip Israeli snipers routinely target Palestinian children 
playing in the streets. Artillery shells rain unexpectedly on 
Palestinian neighborhoods. American made Israeli military fighter 
planes bomb the houses of resistance leaders, alleged missile 
manufacturing and storage shops, and civilian vehicles inflicting what 
the Israeli government calls ?regrettable collateral damage?.

Israeli government routinely confiscates Palestinian land to build 
colonies on them and calls them Israeli neighborhoods. This week Al-
Birah Palestinian residents were informed by Israeli military that 
hundreds of acres of their land east of the city will be confiscated to 
build new Israeli colony. Military bulldozers routinely raze farm lands 
in Gaza Strip and West Bank destroying crops and carrying fertile soil 
and palm and olive trees to Israel.

Israel is building an imprisonment wall (730 km long and 8 meters high 
with an average 50 meters buffer zone) that annexes 47% of the West 
Bank, totally encircling and imprisoning major Palestinian communities 
turning them into concentration camps and isolating 361 thousand 
Palestinians, devastating Palestinian economy, and evacuating 35 
thousand Palestinians from their homes.

Israel is destroying Christian and Islamic religious sites and is 
trying to claim many of as Jewish. Many Islamic mosques and Christian 
churches had been destroyed and converted to whore houses, nightclubs, 
restaurants, and even to animal barns. Israel is destroying an 
important ancient Islamic cemetery (Ma?man Allah) in Jerusalem in order 
to build so-called museum of tolerance in its place (what an irony). 
Israeli archeologists have been digging under the Islamic Al-Aqsa 
mosque since 1967 hoping to uncover their alleged temple, but so far 
they succeeded only in uncovering more Islamic structures and are 
trying to hide them. Yofal Baruch, a prominent Israeli archeologist, 
revealed that Israeli government is destroying and burying all the 
Islamic archeological sites they had uncovered around Al-Aqsa mosque.

Israel had kidnapped more than 10 thousand Palestinian men, women and 
children and thrown them into dark dungeons and desert make-shift tent 
prisons. Newborn babies were born to Palestinian mothers in prison. 
Prisoners are routinely tortured using unimaginable cruel methods. Many 
of these methods were exported to American prisons in Iraq such as Abu-
Ghraib. It has been revealed that Palestinian prisoners are being used 
as experimental subjects for new dangerous pharmaceutical drugs. Amy 
Liftat, the pharmaceutical head in the Israeli Health Ministry, had 
revealed in the Knesset that there is an annual 15% increase in the 
amounts of ?legal permits? granted to conduct more drug experiments on 
Palestinian prisoners. 

Besides the terror of the Israeli Army Palestinian communities are 
also faced with Israeli colonizers? terror. These colonizers have been 
given free hand to inflict all types of terror they can think of 
against Palestinian farmers and villagers. This terror included armed 
night raids and burning of farm houses, poisoning Palestinian animals, 
burning and damaging Palestinian crops and uprooting trees (especially 
ancient olive trees), releasing waste water into Palestinian area as a 
form of germ warfare, terrorizing Palestinian children on their way to 
schools, and many times shooting and killing Palestinian civilians. All 
these terror tactics are perpetrated under the watchful eyes and 
protection of the Israeli troops, who would shoot, beat to death, and 
imprison any Palestinian, who dares to defend himself and his property, 
accusing them of terrorizing settlers. 

The Israeli terror against the Palestinian people is numerous and 
requires volumes to enumerate.

These Israeli killing fields are sanctioned and legalized by the 
American unconditional support to Israel. The American administration 
and Congress had been hijacked by the American Zionist Israeli lobby 
(AIPAC), who had convinced the Americans that Israeli religious racist 
interests and American interests are the same when in fact they are 
definitely not. I heard one American co-worker concludes ?there is 
something so similar between Israel and Al-Qaeda terrorists, which is 
their certainty that God is on their side?

How is it that the American administration, the self-claimed patron of 
freedom and democracy, cut down on the vital services to its own tax-
paying people, such as proper education, health care especially to its 
own veterans, helping victims of natural disasters such as Katrina 
victims, take care of the homeless and poor, and take care of, at 
least, the American environment, in order to provide terrorist Israel 
with financial, military, and political support, and thus antagonizing 
at least half of the world population. 

Have I known better, I, as a Palestinian, would have asked the self-
proclaimed righteous president Bush to help free the ten thousand 
Palestinian prisoners (men, women and children), who had been kidnapped 
by the Israeli army in the middle of the night from their own homes, 
the same way he helped Israel attack Lebanon last summer in an attempt 
to free two captured Israeli troops, who were sent as sacrificing lambs 
into the Lebanese territories to be captured by Hezbollah so that 
Israelis could use them as an excuse to wage a war they had planned for 
few months in advanced as Israeli Prime Minister Olmert had revealed 
recently. The Bush administration had supplied Israel with laser guided 
bombs to demolish Lebanese infrastructures, and cluster bombs to litter 
Lebanese fields. Later Bush coerced the UN to send international troops 
into Southern Lebanon to allegedly protect Israel from Hezbollah. I am 
sure Bush?s administration would not offer the same help to free 
Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisons, not at least sending UN 
troops to protect Palestinians from Israeli terror.

How is it that killing civilians by a terrorist group is a grave 
crime, while the annihilation of a whole nation by (Israeli) government 
is considered a self-defense? Israel is an occupying force, and thus is 
violating international laws and many times its own laws. Israel had 
opposed several UN resolutions, violated human rights, and thus has 
been condemned numerous times by the international community. Yet with 
the protection of the American administration the Israelis keep on 
killing Palestinians.

When will the hunting season in the Israeli killing fields (Palestine) 
end?

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