Electoral farce in the Zionist snake pit will bring no change

Firoz Osman

Two racist and anti-Muslim politicians plaguing the world: 

Donald Trump and his Zionist boss Benjamin Netanyahu

Israel enters a prolonged and complex process of horse-trading (aka coalition building) following the latest election on September 17.

The two leading coalition parties—Bibi Netanyahu’s Likud and Benny Gantz’s Blue and White—failed to gain, yet again, an outright majority in the snake pit of Israeli politics.

The incumbent Netanyahu, in a devious and frantic attempt to rally supporters, resorted to fear mongering warning on Facebook “The Arabs want to annihilate us all – women, children and men” and “The right-wing government is in danger. Arab voters are heading to the polling stations in droves.”

An election loss could leave Netanyahu at risk of prosecution without the shield of parliamentary immunity following the attorney general’s announcement to charge him with fraud and bribery.

Netanyahu even used the tried and tested method to boost his re-election by bombing three countries. The unprecedented attacks on Syria, Lebanon and Iraq on alleged Iranian military bases were meant to boost his macho image.

He further promised voters to annex the Jordan Valley and immediately impose Israeli sovereignty over it.

This should come as no surprise given the fact that Israel has illegally occupied the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem since 1967 with impunity, and without consequences.

Netanyahu helped pass the nation-state bill thereby enshrining into law the exclusivist Jewish nature of the state of Israel.

He brazenly stated, “Israel is not a state of all its citizens. According to the nation-state law we passed, Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people — and not anyone else.”

Not to be outdone, Netanyahu’s rival, Benny Gantz, former Israeli army chief, bragged about how much killing and destruction he had wrought on Gaza in a series of campaign videos posted on You Tube and social media.

One of the videos showed drone footage of a devastated neighborhood in Gaza in August 2014, following Israel’s 51-day assault on the besieged Strip. The video’s title includes the words “Parts of Gaza were returned to the stone ages.”

Other politicians’ campaign rhetoric emulated the extreme right-wing racists exclaiming that a right-wing government was needed to neutralize the Arabs from their desire to “annihilate” the Jews of Israel.

Kahanists, led by the rabid racist Otzma Yehudit, politicians Ayelet Shaked and Naftali Bennet have a long record of denigrating and dehumanizing Palestinians.

Before the Gaza invasion in 2014, Shaked called the Palestinians “little snakes” and on her Facebook page advocated murdering their mothers.

Bennet boasted that he has “killed many Arabs in [his] lifetime, and there’s no problem with that.”

There has been a marked shift further to the right in Israeli politics where increased settlements, forced evictions of Palestinians, home demolitions, home takeovers by settlers, administrative detention, torture, killing civilians and collective punishment is no longer regarded “tough enough”.

Israel’s collaboration with other right-wing racists, fascists and despots such as American president Donald Trump, India’s Narendra Modi, Egypt’s Abdul Fattah al Sisi and the sheikhdoms of Saudi prince Mohamed bin Salman and Emirates Mohamed bin Zayed, spawned a chaotic world order sowing destruction, mayhem and murder.

Netanyahu was triumphant when white supremacist Trump moved the US embassy to Occupied Jerusalem and recognised Tel Aviv’s sovereignty over the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights, captured by Israel in June 1967 and annexed in 1981.

Both actions are considered in direct contravention of international law.

In Modi’s embrace of Netanyahu we see the marriage of two evil ideologies, Hindutva and Zionism.

Modi is the leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) an offshoot of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh ( RSS), a right-wing, Hindu nationalist, paramilitary outfit that is widely regarded as the parent organisation of the ruling party of India.

The RSS greatly admires Adolf Hitler. Its literature is full of praise for Germany’s Nazi leader.

Zionism is a Jewish supremacist ideology and the Zionist movement underpins the colonial, apartheid state. It is this rogue state that India has embraced.

It is in Israel that the BJP/RSS have found a natural ally and a role model who put their grand vision to fruition, declaring India a nation of Hindus only and pose a challenge to its multi-faith constitutional commitment.

About one fifth of India's 1.27 billion people identify themselves as belonging to faiths other than Hinduism.

Under the de facto rule of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh and Mohammed bin Zayed in Abu Dhabi, the Saudi, Emirati and Israeli security, military and intelligence coordination aided General Abdel Fattah el Sisi to launch a military takeover in 2013 to oust Egypt’s first and only democratically elected leader, President Mohamed Morsi.

The trio has also destabilized, displaced, blockaded, maimed and massacred millions in Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Yemen, Qatar, Turkey and Sudan.

It is no secret that since its creation seven decades ago Israel has consistently cooperated with and armed despotic regimes around the world.

From supplying arms to rightwing repressive regimes in Latin America, engineering coups to cooperating with South Africa’s apartheid regime, Israel has a long gory record of consorting with criminals.

Iran is now the target of a relentless diplomatic, political and economic onslaught by the Israeli-Saudi-Emirati trio, backed and encouraged by the US.

But the trio’s failure to lure America into attacking Iran must be distressing. The corrupt, despotic and racist regional regimes watch in fear as their castles slowly seep into the desert sands while resistance movements Hizbullah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad grow stronger.

Netanyahu, tasked with responsibility to guard the thrones of the illegitimate Gulf sheikhdoms, must have been shocked by the drone attacks that set ablaze Saudi Aramco oil facilities.

If the Houthis from impoverished Yemen can carry out such daring acts, the future of Israel and ruling Arab elite is bleak indeed.

Palestinians are aware that all Zionist parties oppose the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people and the right of return, and oppose Palestinian self-determination.

The end of Netanyahu’s era will not bring about any significant change in Zionist policy that is rooted in colonialism, expansionism and racism.

Dr Firoz Osman is executive member of the Media Review Network, an advocacy group based in Gauteng. He is the co-author of Why Israel? The Anatomy of Zionist Apartheid-A South African Perspective.

 

Firoz Osman

Zionist Genocide of Palestinians Continues

Kevin Barrett

On July 12, 2019, a nine-year-old Palestinian boy, ‘Abd al-Rahman Shtaiwi, was sitting in front of a West Bank home in the village of Kafr Qaddum. Suddenly a Zionist-Israeli bullet ripped through his head, exploding into more than 70 fragments leaving him in a long-term coma.

A Palestinian demonstration was ongoing more than 200 meters away. Israeli soldiers in body armor and helmets responded to the “threat” of a handful of children harmlessly throwing stones from a distance of dozens of meters with a mixture of rubber bullets and live fire. Did they fire live rounds into the air, one of which, through bad luck, accidentally killed ‘Abd al-Rahman, who was not even participating in the demonstration? Or did an Israeli sniper murder the boy as a sick attempt to terrorize Palestinians in hopes of quelling the demonstrations?

It is a well-established fact that Israeli snipers deliberately murder Palestinian children with impunity as a matter of de facto national policy. A 2004 article in the British Medical Journal documented more than 600 cases of Palestinian children shot by Israeli snipers,

Two-thirds of the 621 children (two-thirds under 15 years) killed at checkpoints, in the street, on the way to school, in their homes, died from small arms fire, directed in over half of the cases to the head, neck and chest — the sniper’s wound. Clearly, soldiers are routinely authorised to shoot to kill children in situations of minimal or no threat.

Journalist Chris Hedges, in “Gaza Diary,” offers a graphic account of several such murders,

Yesterday at this spot the Israelis shot eight young men, six of whom were under the age of eighteen. One was twelve. This afternoon they kill an eleven-year-old boy, Ali Murad, and seriously wound four more, three of whom are under eighteen. Children have been shot in other conflicts I have covered…but I have never before watched soldiers entice children like mice into a trap and murder them for sport.

Israel’s Justice Minister, Ayelet Shaked, calls Palestinian children “little snakes” who must be killed. She also advocates killing their mothers. Her wardrobe presumably includes the popular IDF T-shirt depicting a pregnant Palestinian woman with a target on her belly, featuring the slogan, “One shot two kills.”

Clearly the Zionists harbor genocidal intent. But are Zionists actually committing genocide, as that crime is defined in international law? The unequivocal answer is “yes.” In August 2013, international law professor Francis Boyle successfully argued before the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal, “The Palestinians have been the victims of genocide as defined by the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.” According to that Convention,

…genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group such as:

a. killing members of the group;

b. causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

c. deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part…

The modern Zionist movement, from its inception, has been dedicated to annihilating the Palestinian people through mass murder and threats thereof; the destruction of livelihood; the destruction of religious and cultural heritage; and the destruction of life-supporting infrastructure. As Professor Boyle argued before the Tribunal,

For over the past six and one-half decades, the Israeli government and its predecessors-­in­-law — the Zionist agencies, forces, and terrorist gangs — have ruthlessly implemented a systematic and comprehensive military, political, religious, economic, and cultural campaign with the intent to destroy in substantial part the national, ethnical, racial, and different religious group (Jews versus Muslims and Christians) constituting the Palestinian people.

The modern West has been taught to abhor genocide. It has even raised the Nazi genocide against European Jews to the status of a post-Christian secular religion! The crucifixion has been replaced by the gas chambers; Jesus (a) has been replaced by the Jewish people; the killers of Jesus have been replaced by the Nazis; and the miraculous resurrection has been replaced by the rise of the so-called state of Israel. The religion of Holocaustianity even features its own Holy Trinity: six million victims, gas chambers, and an official Hitler extermination order and bureaucratic plan for its implementation. Revisionist historians who question this Holy Trinity of Holocaustianity are deemed heretics and mercilessly persecuted by Zionist Torquemadas.

Yet even as the West drowns in a flood of Holocaustianity propaganda about a horrific but brief event that happened 75 years ago, the Zionists continue their century-old genocide of Palestinians. The genocide perpetrators get away with their crime by shamelessly posing as victims.

When the world watched thousands of Gazans take to the Israeli border last year in massive demonstrations, very few, including the march’s organizers, could have imagined that people would still be protesting one year later.

The cruelty of the Zionist genocide of Palestinians is deliberately hidden by Western mainstream media. If you follow corporate media you probably never heard of Nasir Majid Taqatqa, a 31-year-old Palestinian who was abducted by the Zionists on June 19, 2019 and tortured to death, his martyrdom occurring on July 16. According to the Palestinian Prisoner Society, Zionist torture of Palestinian prisoners is rampant, with at least 200 dying in custody since the Society began keeping records. Currently there are roughly 5,800 Palestinian prisoners held by the Zionists under atrocious conditions, of whom 700 suffer from chronic diseases without receiving adequate healthcare.

It isn’t just IDF snipers who murder Palestinian children. On July 15, 2019, one day before Nasir Majid Taqatqa’s death in prison, an Israeli squatter-driver ran over and killed seven-year-old Tariq Zebania while the boy was riding his bicycle near al-Khalil (Hebron). The Israeli police made no effort to identify, much less apprehend, the suspect. Such events are a regular occurrence in Colonized Palestine.

Since March 2018 the most active site for Zionist murders of Palestinian children has been the border of the Gaza open-air concentration camp, where the nonviolent Great March of Return demonstrations have faced murderous Zionist repression. Of the almost 300 unarmed protestors murdered by Zionist snipers, at least 41 were children (according to Jewish Voices for Peace).

More than 30,000 Palestinians, including thousands of children, have been injured by Zionist forces during the Great March of Return. Many of those 30,000 injured were intentionally maimed and will remain crippled for life. Amnesty Internationalhas denounced the Zionists’ “deliberate efforts to kill and maim,” describing countless victims, among them “23-year-old football player Muhammad Khalil ‘Ubayd, who was shot in both knees as he filmed himself with his back toward the border fence at a protest east of al-Breij Camp on 30 March. The video, published on social media, shows the moment he was shot. In the footage, he appears to be standing in an isolated area, far from the fence, and not seeming to pose any threat to the lives of Israeli soldiers. He is currently in need of a knee replacement operation to be able to walk again.”

After the Zionists cripple them, Palestinians return to the demonstrations in wheelchairs — and the Zionists shoot them dead. That’s what happened to Ibrahim Abu Thurayya, a double amputee (from a Zionist airstrike) who was shot dead in his wheelchair for the crime of peacefully protesting Trump’s delusional claim that Jerusalem al-Quds belongs to the Zionist entity.

Palestinians, even after what may be the worst century of oppression that any people on earth has ever suffered, will continue to resist Zionist genocide. But when will the Muslim Ummah, consisting of almost two billion people — more than enough to consign Zionism to the proverbial rubbish bin of history — finally rise up in their defense?

 

Kevin Barrett

Zionist Settler Runs Over And Kills Palestinian Child in West Bank

Crescent International

If Palestinian children are not shot and killed by heavily armed Israeli soldiers, they are attacked and even run over by arrogant Zionist settlers.

This is what happened to 7-year-old Tareq Zabania on July 15 evening when he was run over.

He was riding his bike near the illegal Zionist settlement of Adora (near al-Khalil, aka Hebron), when he was run over by a Zionist settler.

According to Palestinian Information Center, the Zionist settler fled the scene.

The badly injured child was taken to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The Zionists have total disdain for Palestinian life. Even children are not spared as the latest murder of 7-year-old Zabania shows.

Hit-and-run incidents against Palestinians are quite common, with most of them going uninvestigated by the Zionist occupation authorities.

This is not surprising since Zionist officials frequently refer to Palestinians in the most demeaning and racist terms.

Prominent Zionist rabbis have called them cockroaches and used other racist expressions.

Such racist cant would evoke immediate global condemnation except in the West’s favorite ghetto (aka Zionist Israel).

While Palestinians throughout the West Bank lead a precarious existence, it is especially traumatic for them in and around al-Khalil (Hebron) as well as Gaza. The latter has been described as an outdoor prison.

The reason for heightened Zionist racism near Hebron is that a political party—Otzma Yehudit—with roots in the racist Kach party is based there.

Its leaders are Michael Ben-Ari and Baruch Marzel.

Marzel is one of the West Bank’s most violently racist Israeli settlers.

He lives in the illegal Tel Rumeida settlement, in occupied Hebron, and has been involved in the foundation of many such Jews-only colonies, violently expelling Palestinians and colonizing Palestinian land.

It needs recalling that it was in al Khalil Mosque on February 25, 1994 that Baruch Goldstein murdered 29 Muslim worshippers during early morning prayers in the month of Ramadan.

The Zionists have erected a shrine on Goldstein’s grave. He was also an illegal settler from Brooklyn, NY.

In the first three months of this year, Israel detained 1,600 Palestinians, including 230 children and 40 women, according to a report released by the Palestine Liberation Organization.

The youngest child is 6 years old.

Of these Palestinians, 500 were placed in administrative detention, which allows detainees to be held indefinitely without charge or trial.

The report also issued figures on child detentions in 2018, showing that Israel detained some 3,255 Palestinian children between the ages of 12 and 17 over the course of the year.

According to the Jerusalem Post, some 70 per cent of these children “were threatened with violence, including rape, castration, home demolition, imprisonment for life and denial of food”.

“More than 75% of child prisoners reported being blindfolded,” the Israeli daily added.

#Israel arrests up to 700 Palestinian children each year in which 97% of them had no parent or lawyer present during interrogation.

While extremely tragic, Zabania’s murder at the hands of a Zionist settler is not surprising.