Khalid Amayreh – Castro is right, so is Helen Thomas

By Khalid Amayreh in occupied Palestine

June 21st, 2010 6:57 AM

Zionist supremacists from Tel Aviv to Los Angeles are ganging up on two elderly targets these days. The first is the 84-year-old Fidel Castro, a man who apparently made up his mind about Zionism more than six decades ago. And the second is 89-year-old veteran American journalist Helen Thomas.

Castro’s crime was a few passing remarks he uttered recently, saying that the Swastika has become Israel’s real flag.

“It would seem that the Fuehrer’s (Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s) Swastika is today Israel’s banner.” The ex-Cuban leader added that “the hatred felt by the state of Israel against the Palestinians is such that they wouldn’t hesitate to send the one and a half million men, women and children of that country to the crematoria where millions of Jews of all ages were exterminated by the Nazis.”

As to Thomas’s, she has been vilified and demonized for saying that all Ashkenazi Jews who had immigrated to Palestine from their native East European states, such a Poland, should go back to their native homelands.

Castro and Thomas didn’t cry blaspheme. Their remarks, though courageous, are factually true.

When speaking of the Swastika becoming Israel’s banner, Fidel Castro was only voicing what millio

ns of people around the world are saying and whispering. In the final analysis, when Israel thinks, behaves and acts like Nazi Germany, Israel can be and should be compared with Nazi Germany.

For so many years, Israel and her immoral supporters and spin doctors have been utilizing the holocaust to justify Israel’s own slow-motion holocaust against the Palestinian people and other peoples in the Middle East.

Now, given her manifestly nefarious behavior, one can safely state that Israel is indulging in actions and behaviors that qualify her for the Nazi epithet. To be sure, this is not a new discovery. In a certain sense, one can claim that Israel has always been a Nazi state in one way or the other..

In the final analysis, the extirpation and partial annihilation of an entire people from their ancestral homeland is a Nazi act par excellence. Even Jews recognize this fact.

Hence, Israel and its hypocritical supporters can’t have it both ways, namely behave and act like as the Nazis behaved and acted, and at the same time continue to enjoy the fruits of the holocaust industry.

In the final analysis, European Jewry didn’t perish in order to leave propaganda ammunition for later-day Zionists to cover up genocidal crimes against another Semitic people, the Palestinians.

Castro’s courageous remarks have actually been echoed by many Jewish leaders both in Israel and abroad.

For example, Sir Gerald Kaufman, the veteran British Labor MP, remarked a few years ago that “Israel was born out of Jewish terrorism.”

Kaufman compared the actions of Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip with the Nazis who forced his family to flee to Poland.

Kaufman, who was brought up as an Orthodox Jew and Zionist, argued eloquently that Israeli crimes made the Star of David look like the Nazi Swastika.

“My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her hometown. A German soldier shot her dead in the bed.

“My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza.”

And, one might add, nor did they perish in order to provide a cover for Israeli soldiers massacring innocent aid activists in international waters in order to starve and savage 1.7 million men, women, and children in Gaza.

And now the Helen Thomas’s story. Responding to a passing question, the elderly veteran White House correspondent said that the ultimate solution for the Palestinian question should see European Jewry return home, to Poland, even to America.

Well, what is wrong with this most logical observation? For sure, some Jews have the right to live in Palestine, as equal and dignified citizens, but not as masters of violence and land thieves.

However, Jews, or more correctly descendants of converts to Judaism originating in the Khazar region, have no automatic right to claim Palestine as their patrimony especially if that dubious right is exercised at the Palestinian people’s expense.

Even religiously and theologically, there is no religious text in the Old Testament stating that the Almighty promised Jews a homeland in Palestine. There is a promise to the Israelites but not to Jews. Needless to say, the Israelites and Jews are not the same people since there are more Israelites, or descendants of Jacob or Israel, who are non-Jews than there are Jews.

Indeed, there is ample evidence that hundreds of thousands of modern-day Palestinians are descendants of the ancient Israelites? So, is it logical to say that Khazari converts have more right to Palestine than these Arabic-speaking Muslims and Christians who have been living in the land from time immemorial, certainly centuries before an Austrian Jewish Journalist envisioned a “Jewish” homeland in the land of the Palestinians.
Of course, Zionist leaders, who are actually pathological liars with little or no rectitude , can continue to repeat the stale historical lie, that “this is our eternal homeland.”

But the truth is that Palestine has never been the exclusive homeland of Jews. And the wheel of history doesn’t stop rolling.

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Khalid Amayreh is a journalist living in Palestine. He obtained his MA in journalism from the University of Southern Illinois in 1983.

Since the 1990s, Mr. Amayreh has been working and writing for several news outlets among which is Aljazeera.net, Al-Ahram Weekly, Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), and Middle East International.

He can be reached through politics.indepth@iolteam.com.

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Barack Obama in his goodwill message on the Zionist entity’s sixtytwo years existence said: “Minutes after David Ben Gurion declared Israel’s “independence” (independence from whom? Until 1948, no country by the name “Israel” had existed for the last 2,500 years), realizing the dream of a state of Jewish people in their historical homeland, the United States became the first country to recognize Israel”. By saying that, Obama showed his ignorance of world and American history. Someone should have told him that President Truman’s Secretary of State, George C. Marshall was dead against the recognition of the new UN-awarded Jewish state in Palestine. It was Truman’s political adviser Clark Clifford along with the leaders of Jewish groups who convinced Truman to stand firm to the partition of a Muslim-majority Palestine by the United Nations in order to win Jewish votes which were important to Presiden Harry Truman in the coming election. Truman before signing the official letter of recognition – crossed the Zionists’ chosen name for their colony from “Jewish State of Israel” to the “State of Israel”. It was that revised name which Ben Curion used on May 14, 1948: “The name of our state shall be Israel”.
“The archeological records don’t prove the existence a Jewish kingdoms (which could not have existed as according to professor Sand ‘Jewish people were invented over a century ago’) in Palestine. The Assyrians conquered Jerusalemin 722. The Babylonians took it in 597 and ruled it until they were themselves conquered in 539 BCE by the Achaemenids of ancient Iran, who ruled Jerusalem until Alexander the Great took the Levant in the 330s BCE. Alexander’s descendants, the Ptolemies ruledJerusalem until 198 when Alexander’s other descendants, the Seleucids, took the city. With the Maccabean Revolt in 168 BCE, the Jewish Hasmonean kingdom did rule Jerusalem until 37 BCE, though Antigonus II Mattathias, the last Hasmonean, only took overJerusalem with the help of the Parthian dynasty in 40 BCE. Herod ruled 37 BCE until the Romans conquered what they called Palestine in 6 CE (CE= ‘Common Era’ or what Christians call AD). The Romans and then the Eastern Roman Empire of Byzantium ruledJerusalem from 6 CE until 614 CE when the Iranian Sasanian Empire Conquered it, ruling until 629 CE when the Byzantines took it back. The Muslims conquered Jerusalem in 638 and ruled it until 1099 when the Crusaders conquered it. The Crusaders killed or expelled Jews and Muslims from the city. The Muslims under Saladin took it back in 1187 CE and allowed Jews to return, and Muslims ruled it until the end of World War I, or altogether for about 1192 years,” Professor Juan Cole (University of Michigan), March 23, 2010.