Zionism: Theology of Murder – Israel at 70

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By

Sami Jamil Jadallah

Israel is not a Jewish State, it is a Zionist State and Zionism is Theology of Murder and has nothing to do with Judaism or with G-d.

As Israel’s celebrate its 70^th anniversary with the U.S. planning to move its embassy to Jerusalem in fulfillment of President Trump’s promise to AIPAC in return for funding his campaign, the Palestinian also celebrate in a different way; 70 years of “exile”.

No need to state here what went wrong and how far back in ’47-48, but to speak of where Israel and where the Palestinians are. Perhaps a balance sheet should tell us the story.

More than 4 million Palestinians who trace their birthplace and home to Palestine (present day Israel) are now in permanent exile. More than one million Palestinians have been jailed by Israel since 1948. More than 550 villages have been completely wiped out, destroyed to make room for Israeli/Jewish towns, cities and Kibbutz. Many places of worship and cemeteries (with the Jewish Museum of Tolerance sitting on top of a destroyed Muslim cemetery) were desecrated, either destroyed or turned into bars and nightclubs.

However, all of this pales to what happened since 1993 when Arafat and the PLO signed and executed the Oslo Accords granting Israel full unconditional recognition with Israel recognizing the PLO as the sole legal representatives of Israeli Occupation with the Palestinian people.

Since Oslo and in exchange for unconditional loyal service to the Occupation even funding it, Israel rewarded the Palestinians with the following:

• Completing an Apartheid Wall of 708 km with the Apartheid Wall eating the Occupied West Bank at 85% of the length cutting deep in the West Bank 18 km deep.

• More than 500,000 Palestinians became guests of the Israeli jails at one time or another, some spending years without charge or simply on the basis of administrative detention.

• More than 550 “security checkpoints” where millions of Palestinians must pass through to get to work or go from one village to another, daily humiliation treated worse than cattle in the Chicago Stock Yard.

• According to the UN Office of Humanitarian Affairs more than 1,094 houses were destroyed (2016), mostly based on accusations of lacking a building permit. An Israeli Jew does not need a permit to steal land and take over and put a caravan on top of it and reclaim it, while a Palestinian must wait 10 years to get a permit to build an additional room to his house.

• Israel set the record for the Palestinians it killed and murdered, since 2000 more than 7,065 Palestinians were murdered compared to 1,101 Israeli killed.

• The numbers of Israeli Settlements also increased dramatically causing Minister Lieberman to brag that building settlements are at its highest since 1992, with more than 380,000 settlers occupying prime land stolen outright.

• More than 80,000 Palestinians were ethnically cleansed from Jerusalem with more to come.

• Israeli Defense Forces continue to have a free hand in every single inch of the West Bank with total coordinated support by the Palestinian Security Forces.

• Israel, while it withdrew its settlers and army, locked down Gaza with total isolation, sieges and blockades similar to that of Berlin 1948-49 and the Nazi siege of the Warsaw Ghetto, with Gaza under siege for over 10 years and over 2 million in virtual prisons.

• Since Oslo, Israeli waged three deadly relentless attacks on Gaza killing over 10,000, wounding 20,000 and destroying over 35,000 homes.

While the PLO continues to manage the Israeli Occupation and pays for it, it still refuses to allow people to make their own decision and rise up in a civil unarmed relentless revolution demanding nothing less than equal citizenship and rights in every part of Palestine including present day Israel, with Jerusalem, a united and open capital of Israelis and Palestinians.

Time for the #OneStateMovement.

Sami Jamil Jadallah

Sami Jamil Jadallah is a US citizen, an immigrant from Palestine with over 35 years of international legal and business experience in the US, Middle East, Europe and North Africa. He is a Veteran of the US Army and holds a BA degree in political science and economics, a master degree in public and environmental affairs and doctor of jurisprudence from Indiana University.

Active in international and local affairs, Sami is a co-drafter of the Preamble for the Constitution of the One State for All of its People in Palestine and is active in veteran’s affairs in support of their re-integration in American society. He lectures and writes on a variety of topics including terrorism, social, economic and political issues related to the US and the Middle East.

Sami believes that education is the only way to transform the Middle East into a peaceful productive region and calls on all foreign troops to get out of the Middle East, leaving the people to shape their own destiny. Sami is in semi-retirement but fully engaged in voluntary work and engaged in the peace movement in the Middle East.