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MOU to kill more Palestinians
By Dr. Akram Habeeb
Assistant Professor in American Lit based in Gaza
As an Americanist and a Palestinian intellectual who is not affiliated to any political party in Palestine, I feel that I have to stand up and speak out. I have to speak about the faulty policy which feeds the spirit of hatred and resentment.
Almost every man, woman and child in the world knows that the American policy in the Middle East during the two terms of Bush's Administration is distinguished by being biased and double standard. Very few, however, are easily deceived by the glittering rhetoric made by some American politicians, particularly, the most articulate outgoing Secretary of States Dr. Condoleezza Rice!
Dr. Rice was very smart when she declared at the outset of the most brutal Israeli war on Gaza that it was the Palestinian side which is held responsible for violating the six-month truce. She was even smarter when she concluded her career by signing a MOU, which is completely in favor of the Israelis. It is a MOU which further tightens the siege on Gaza and allows Israel to posses more American WMD to kill more Palestinians.
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The most disturbing statement about the situation in Gaza was made by Dr. Rice was when she declared that it was the Palestinian side who violated the truce and subsequently is responsible for what is happening in Gaza. Such a statement is easy to be made by Ms. Condi whose accomplishments in America's foreign policy were spectacular!
She promised that by 2008 the presidents vision of two states would be concretized. It seems though that she succeeded in having two Palestinian cantons, one in Gaza, and the other in the West Bank ! So we can easily say that Ms. Rice succeeded in fulfilling her President's vicious vision of having two viable Palestinian states.
Perhaps Dr. Rice was the most frequent visitor to the Middle East when compared with her predecessors. The normal expectation has been that Ms. Rice would have a deeper understanding of the Middle East crisis in general, and the Palestinian side in particular.
As Palestinians living in Gaza, we expected Ms. Rice to have done some research about the demography of Gaza. We also expected here to have done some investigations about the psyche of the true victims living in Gaza. We are not sure if Dr. Rice knows that more than seventy percent of the Palestinians living in Gaza are Palestinian refugees who had been kicked out of their towns and villages in Palestine .
We are not certain if Dr. Rice knows that most of the Israelis who replaced the displaced Palestinians had come from far off land, from diverse countries to establish a state on the land of other people. It seems that Ms. Rice is very happy to see the Palestinians suffer under siege; she wants them to sing for peace in a big cage called Gaza, and if they protest by sending home made or ineffective Chinese rockets, she will hold them responsible for the mess!
The most recent MOU signed by Dr. Rice and Ms. Livni, one of the most notorious Israeli war criminals, stipulates that the American government helps in preventing weapons smuggling into Gaza. According to Ms. Rice, the signing of this MOU is only a step in the process towards a permanent seize fire.
Of course she speaks about a process which gives the Israeli more time for human cleansing in Gaza; she wants to give the Israeli army more time to kill more Palestinian children and women. However, unfortunately this MOU does not stipulate that the American government stops sending weapons of mass destruction to Israel. The MOU does not speak about the most sophisticated weapons, the American government is giving for free to Israel to kill Palestinian children and women in Gaza. The MOU does not talk about any practical procedure to ban Israel from using DIM and White Phosphorus bombs that kill Palestinian children by burning their little and tender bodies.
The MOU has ignored the fact that the Palestinian living in Gaza are occupied ; they are not terrorist as promulgated by the colonial rhetoric; they are freedom fighters who want their legitimate rights, they are people who want to live in dignity like all the peoples of the world.
The MOU has never included anything related to lifting the siege imposed in Gaza by opening crossings for humanitarian purposes. The Palestinians in Gaza do not bank much on the American government but rather on the good American people, the good people who do not want to see the tax they pay used in building the Israeli arsenal of mass destruction which is used to threaten the Arab people, in general, and the Palestinian people in particular.
Indeed Bush's administration has left the soon coming Obama's administration with a heavy legacy; a legacy of anger and resentment against the biased American government which does not represent the American voice which calls for freedom, independence and dignity.
It is a heavy burden Obama's administration should waive. We hope, though that Obama's administration follows a different policy , a policy which is based on objectivity and transparency . We hope that Ms. Clinton, Condi's successor would be the one who would improve the image of America in the Middle East and the Islamic world.
We are sure that Ms. Clinton would be more objective and realistic when she deals with the Palestinian Issue. We hope that the Administration would follow policy which balances between the nationalistic aspirations of the Palestinians and the divine dream of the Jews, those who totally disagree with the massacres committed by the Israeli army against the innocent Palestinian in Gaza.
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The World acted via Sanctions and Boycotts against US-, UK-, White Australia- and Apartheid Israel-backed Nazi-style Apartheid South Africa for denying equal rights to African, Indian and other non-European South Africans. Yet this Nazi-style regime policed its concentration camps - Bantustans and Non-White areas - with POLICE and its worst atrocity was the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre in which 69 Africans were shot by police.
In contrast, Apartheid Israel (described as \"worse than Apartheid\" by Jewish South African government Minister and hero in the fight against Apartheid, Ronnie Kasrils) obscenely and war criminally polices the Occupied Palestinian Territory (what outstanding Jewish American scholar Professor Noam Chomsky at 63-Nobel-Laureate MIT calls a \"huge Prison\") using navy, army and airforce.
Half the inmates of the Gaza Concentration Camp ( a population imprisoned for over 40 years without charge or trial and on the basis purely of their RACE) are children, three quarters are women and children.
Anyone who KNOWINGLY ignores, denies, excuses, minimizes, obfuscates, supports, advocates or is otherwise complicit in the gross abuse of women and children - or indeed of ANYONE - has crossed the line between decent humanity and Nazi-style barbarism.
So far over 1,300 Gaza inmates have been killed by the Israelis - by naval shelling, tank shelling, airforce high explosive bombs and phosphorus - as a reprisal for Gaza rockets that killed ZERO (0) Israelis in the year preceding this latest Apartheid Israel atrocity.
This Apartheid Israeli reprisals death ratio of 1,300 plus/0 equals INFINITY - as compared to the reprisals death ratio of 10 ordered by Nazi leader Adolph Hitler and executed by the Nazis in the Ardeatine Massacre, Rome, Italy in 1944 (335 Italians expected for 33 Nazi Germans killed in ambush the day before) (see: Palestinian-Israeli Death Ratios. Nazi-style Israeli Gaza War Crimes .
Outstanding American academic lawyer and President of the US National Lawyers Guild, Professor Marjorie Cohn, has unequivocally found that these latest Israeli atrocities constitute war crimes (see: Israel’s Collective Punishment of Gaza).
The World needs to act by comprehensive Sanctions and Boycotts against US-, UK- and White Australia-backed Apartheid Israel (and its US, UK and White Australian backers) just as it SUCCESSFULLY did against US-, UK-, White Australia- and Apartheid Israel-backed Apartheid South Africa.
The UN General Assembly must act by insisting on the C4A (CAAAA) protocol observed by the Nazi Germans in 1945 - Cessation of the killing and occupation, Acknowledgment of the crimes, Apology for the crimes, Amends for the crimes and Assertion \"never again to anyone\".
More specifically, the UN General Assembly must insist (subject to Sanctions) that Apartheid Israel (a) withdraws behind the UN-recognized 1967 border, (b) dismantles race-based legislation, (c) allows return of Indigenous Palestinian refugees, (d) dismantles its alleged 200 nuclear bombs under International inspection, and (e) provides Reparations to the millions of victims of its Nazi-style, racist, genocidal program.
We are all Palestinian.
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