The Jewish State at 60 - Palestinian Suffering at 60

This week marks the 60th anniversary of the usurping of the land of Palestine, and the New York Times op-ed columnist William Kristol has something to say about it. In his article you will conveniently find the following: A scathing attack at the Islamic Republics’ President, the implied well-known comparison between the Western “lenience” towards to Iran and Chamberlain’s appeasement of Hitler’s Nazi Reich, and a tribute to some of the most depraved and murderous terrorists in modern history.

To me, the only discordant voice is that which emanates from William Kristol and his likes. These producers of white noise are but ignominious individuals that disgrace the very tenants of humanity.

Lets begin by defining a well known term, terrorist. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a terrorist refers to an individual “who attempts to further his views by a system of coercive intimidation.” This description more often than not is attributed to people of dark complexion, stubby beards, loud voices, and hairy noses. Additionally, constant genuflectors, mosque visitors, scholars, students, parents, children, and people with the name “Akhmed” should be added to the mix. Sadly, that term is often used to unjustly deprecate innocent humans, when it should be used to label those who procure it!

Kristol, is an insurgent that has decided to rebel against the standards of morality by promoting the likes of Ze’ev Jabotinsky, a prominent Russian terrorist. Jabotinsky, a founder and leader of the militant Zionist group, Irgun, is responsible for a countless number of terrorist attacks against the indigenous Arab population of Palestine. Moreover, Irgun has not solely claimed the lives of Arabs, but also the lives of innocent British civilians. Ze’ev is quoted in Howard Sachar’s A History of the State of Israel as saying “every Jew had the right to enter Palestine; only active retaliation would deter the Arabs and the British; only Jewish armed force would ensure the Jewish state."

This policy of “active retaliation” is the legacy of brutality that is necessary for Israel’s existence and that which is executed by so-called men of peace like Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert. It is this inhumane and reckless policy that cost the lives of 1,191 Lebanese civilians in Lebanon’s 2006 war, and the injury of about 4,409 others, according to UN estimates. Let us not forget the death of about 44 Israeli’s and the wounding of 1,489 reported by Israeli sources, yet another consequence of the belligerent attitudes of Israeli warmongering leaders, and their ill planned, ill calculated and illicitly motivated wars on the neighboring populations.

It’s about time to discuss a pragmatic solution to the ailments of the region, and William Kristol’s caustic writing and immoral support for known terrorists, along with the United States lavish support of Israel are not satiating anyone’s desire for a lasting, durable peace. Kristol is clearly not intone with the wave of new Israeli historians; those who recognize the grim reality of the past, and that wish to remedy its faults.

The miraculous redemption of the Jewish people is a myth fabricated by a Zionist political movement that attained and sustains power at the expense of very valuable blood and the lives of innocence, both Arabic and Jewish. It is justified by Europe’s and the West’s apparent need to atone for its past sins, and indeed, it has been a heavy cost that humanity has to bear.