Call from a Jew to all Jews who are not hostage to the pro-Israel lobby (Dr. Zambon, English version)
Hi all,
here you go with the English version of a great call by Dr. Giuseppe Leone Zambon, an Italian Jew to all his fellows who are not manipulated by Zionists.
Thanks for reading and sharing.
We had already published the Italian and German version some time ago, along with our interview to Dr. Zambon.
Best Regards
Dr. phil. Milena Rampoldi – ProMosaik e.V.
THE
PRIVILEGE OF BEING A JEW
PRIVILEGE OF BEING A JEW
We
can tell the truth; we can condemn injustice, nationalism and racism – of the
old and the new breed – without running the risk of being branded anti-Semitic
in front of the grandchildren of the very people who, back then in Europe, had
known nothing and said nothing.
can tell the truth; we can condemn injustice, nationalism and racism – of the
old and the new breed – without running the risk of being branded anti-Semitic
in front of the grandchildren of the very people who, back then in Europe, had
known nothing and said nothing.
We
don’t want our grandchildren to ask us one day: “Where were you when the Israeli army
massacred the Palestinian people?”
don’t want our grandchildren to ask us one day: “Where were you when the Israeli army
massacred the Palestinian people?”
With
pain and rage we recognize that, after centuries in which we were the victims
of terrible oppression and persecution, the majority of the Israeli Jews are
now treating the Palestinian people according to the same all-too familiar
patterns of the very worst nationalism.
pain and rage we recognize that, after centuries in which we were the victims
of terrible oppression and persecution, the majority of the Israeli Jews are
now treating the Palestinian people according to the same all-too familiar
patterns of the very worst nationalism.
We
are especially horrified by the cynicism of those in Germany who justify their
solidarity with murderers à la Sharon through their alleged solidarity with the
victims of Nazi persecution.
are especially horrified by the cynicism of those in Germany who justify their
solidarity with murderers à la Sharon through their alleged solidarity with the
victims of Nazi persecution.
In
point of fact, the majority of these gentlemen are the legitimate successors to
a political class that – then as now – stands on the side of the powers that be
for opportunistic reasons.
point of fact, the majority of these gentlemen are the legitimate successors to
a political class that – then as now – stands on the side of the powers that be
for opportunistic reasons.
If
the solidarity with the Jews were genuine and not dictated by servility toward
the U.S., then gypsies, communists and all the other victims of Nazism would be
on the receiving end of the same solidarity but, as everyone knows, that simply
isn’t the case.
the solidarity with the Jews were genuine and not dictated by servility toward
the U.S., then gypsies, communists and all the other victims of Nazism would be
on the receiving end of the same solidarity but, as everyone knows, that simply
isn’t the case.
We
refuse to serve diligently as an alibi for the policies perpetrated by the
West.
refuse to serve diligently as an alibi for the policies perpetrated by the
West.
We
accuse those who are responsible for the drama that is currently unfolding in
Palestine:
accuse those who are responsible for the drama that is currently unfolding in
Palestine:
a) The European racists and
fascists. Only in light of the Nazis’ crimes is it possible to explain how
Zionism could become a mass movement. Thanks to the founding of the state of
Israel, the “good” Europeans were able to both free themselves of our
“troublesome” presence and create, support and arm a powerful western
bridgehead to defend their own economic and strategic interests, which they saw
as being threatened by a growing Arab nationalism.
fascists. Only in light of the Nazis’ crimes is it possible to explain how
Zionism could become a mass movement. Thanks to the founding of the state of
Israel, the “good” Europeans were able to both free themselves of our
“troublesome” presence and create, support and arm a powerful western
bridgehead to defend their own economic and strategic interests, which they saw
as being threatened by a growing Arab nationalism.
Overnight, the “evil” Jews became
the “good” Israelis, and there was a demand for “reparations” for
the victims of Nazi atrocities, at the Palestinians’ cost. Thus, a new additional injustice was linked to the injustices and
atrocities of the past.
the “good” Israelis, and there was a demand for “reparations” for
the victims of Nazi atrocities, at the Palestinians’ cost. Thus, a new additional injustice was linked to the injustices and
atrocities of the past.
Later, the Europeans were
“unfortunately” supplanted in their hegemonic role by the U.S.A.
“unfortunately” supplanted in their hegemonic role by the U.S.A.
b) The Israeli neocolonialists, who shamefully try to
conceal their criminal collusion with the American “golden calf ” and their
supposedly new European “friends” behind the fig leaf of the sacred divine
promise to entrust the people of Israel with the land between the “Nile and
Euphrates rivers”. It is due to these promises that they arrogate to themselves
the right to deny the independence of the Palestinian state – a state that
would shrink to 22% of the area of the historic Palestine. They threaten to
drive out every last Palestinian, thus completing the job of shameless ethnic
cleansing that started 50 years ago. We are merely seeing a repetition in the
worst possible taste of the unfortunately well known slogan “God with us”!
conceal their criminal collusion with the American “golden calf ” and their
supposedly new European “friends” behind the fig leaf of the sacred divine
promise to entrust the people of Israel with the land between the “Nile and
Euphrates rivers”. It is due to these promises that they arrogate to themselves
the right to deny the independence of the Palestinian state – a state that
would shrink to 22% of the area of the historic Palestine. They threaten to
drive out every last Palestinian, thus completing the job of shameless ethnic
cleansing that started 50 years ago. We are merely seeing a repetition in the
worst possible taste of the unfortunately well known slogan “God with us”!
From Bible
The Prophet Micah
warns:
warns:
Micah 2, 1-5
Woe to those who devise
iniquity And work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice
it, Because it is in the power of their hand. They covet fields, and seize
them; And houses, and take them away: And they oppress a man and his house,
Even a man and his heritage.
Therefore thus says Yahweh:
“Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, From which you
will not remove your necks, Neither will you walk haughtily; For it is an evil
time. In that day they will take up a parable against you, And lament with a
doleful lamentation, saying, ‘We are utterly ruined! My people’s possession is
divided up. Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to
traitors!'” Therefore you will have no one who divides the land by lot in
the assembly of Yahweh.
Micah 3,
9-12
Please listen to this, you heads of the house of
Jacob, And rulers of the house of Israel, Who abhor justice, And pervert all
equity. They build up Zion with blood, And Jerusalem with iniquity. Her leaders
judge for bribes, And her priests teach for a price, And her prophets of it
tell fortunes for money: Yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, Isn’t Yahweh in the
midst of us? No disaster will come on us. Therefore Zion for your sake will be
plowed like a field, And Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, And the
mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.
Jacob, And rulers of the house of Israel, Who abhor justice, And pervert all
equity. They build up Zion with blood, And Jerusalem with iniquity. Her leaders
judge for bribes, And her priests teach for a price, And her prophets of it
tell fortunes for money: Yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, Isn’t Yahweh in the
midst of us? No disaster will come on us. Therefore Zion for your sake will be
plowed like a field, And Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, And the
mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.
Would anyone have the courage to call Micah an
anti-Semite?
anti-Semite?
We believe that we know and
understand the motivation of people who, in the course of history from Samson
up to the heroes of the Warsaw ghetto, have sacrificed their own lives in order
to claim their right to a life worth living.
understand the motivation of people who, in the course of history from Samson
up to the heroes of the Warsaw ghetto, have sacrificed their own lives in order
to claim their right to a life worth living.
Exactly because we have ourselves experienced
discrimination, persecution and extermination in the past, while we are
presently in a position to condemn the so-called suicide attacks by Palestinians against unarmed civilians, we can also understand their motivation: the
same rage, the same desperation, the same lack of prospects that our people felt back when our present “friends” had forced
us into ghettos and put us into camps.
discrimination, persecution and extermination in the past, while we are
presently in a position to condemn the so-called suicide attacks by Palestinians against unarmed civilians, we can also understand their motivation: the
same rage, the same desperation, the same lack of prospects that our people felt back when our present “friends” had forced
us into ghettos and put us into camps.
On the other hand, we condemn most
decisively the other murderer
decisively the other murderer
– those who – in order to impose
their order – put down the uprising of the Warsaw ghetto with flame throwers;
their order – put down the uprising of the Warsaw ghetto with flame throwers;
– those who dropped tons of napalm
on the huts of Vietnamese peasants in the liberated areas – with a simple push
of a button from their cockpit seats.
on the huts of Vietnamese peasants in the liberated areas – with a simple push
of a button from their cockpit seats.
It is not qualitatively different
when the Israeli military today bombs the Jenin and Gaza camps from the land,
sea and air.
when the Israeli military today bombs the Jenin and Gaza camps from the land,
sea and air.
We therefore consider it our duty to condemn
the current Israeli policies as inhuman, and ultimately also as anti-Semitic,
and not only because the Arabs are also Semites, as is well-known, but also:
the current Israeli policies as inhuman, and ultimately also as anti-Semitic,
and not only because the Arabs are also Semites, as is well-known, but also:
a) Because the Zionist,
anti-Arab policies openly and drastically conflict with the tradition of a
people and the principles of a religion which – over many centuries – has
provided unceasing evidence of love and respect for every human being, and thus
are destroying the essence of Judaism.
anti-Arab policies openly and drastically conflict with the tradition of a
people and the principles of a religion which – over many centuries – has
provided unceasing evidence of love and respect for every human being, and thus
are destroying the essence of Judaism.
b) Because Israel, in
persisting in its repressive policies, is betraying our history and violating
the memory of the Shoah which taught us to
condemn any and all violence against the weak and to cherish the nobility of
those few who understood us and tried to help and rescue us. Never in a million
years could we have imagined that, within a single generation, our people would
manage to bring such a repressive state into being. We have now lost our
innocence; we have changed from victims into victimizers. We no longer have the
right to invoke the Holocaust without opening ourselves up to an accusation of
opportunism.
persisting in its repressive policies, is betraying our history and violating
the memory of the Shoah which taught us to
condemn any and all violence against the weak and to cherish the nobility of
those few who understood us and tried to help and rescue us. Never in a million
years could we have imagined that, within a single generation, our people would
manage to bring such a repressive state into being. We have now lost our
innocence; we have changed from victims into victimizers. We no longer have the
right to invoke the Holocaust without opening ourselves up to an accusation of
opportunism.
c) Even the Israeli
people’s right to exist is jeopardized in the long run, and not by a degraded
and martyred Palestinian people, but by its own policies.
people’s right to exist is jeopardized in the long run, and not by a degraded
and martyred Palestinian people, but by its own policies.
The Arabs aren’t the only victims
of these policies. All over the world when imperialism chooses not to intervene
on behalf of a corrupt clique, some murderous generals or an unscrupulous gang
of racists, it sends its auxiliary forces such as Israel, which do the dirty
work eagerly and efficiently: “aid” is delivered, weapons are sold, police are trained, they work with
the secret services, such as the agents of the former racist South Africa, the
Congo of Mobutu or the worst Caribbean dictatorships.
of these policies. All over the world when imperialism chooses not to intervene
on behalf of a corrupt clique, some murderous generals or an unscrupulous gang
of racists, it sends its auxiliary forces such as Israel, which do the dirty
work eagerly and efficiently: “aid” is delivered, weapons are sold, police are trained, they work with
the secret services, such as the agents of the former racist South Africa, the
Congo of Mobutu or the worst Caribbean dictatorships.
Why should anyone help Israel in the future if the economic, political
and military protection of the U.S., the new “master of the world”, were to be
cut off at some point in the future, now that Israel has persistently and
consistently sowed so much hatred and spilled so much blood all over the world?
and military protection of the U.S., the new “master of the world”, were to be
cut off at some point in the future, now that Israel has persistently and
consistently sowed so much hatred and spilled so much blood all over the world?
But there is a light in the darkness: the very few Israelis who have
remained upright: Felicia Langer, Uri Avneri and many others, such as the 500
reservists of the Israeli armed forces who, despite
threats and reprisals courageously proclaimed: “We shall not continue to
fight beyond the 1967 borders in order to dominate, expel, starve and humiliate
an entire people”.
remained upright: Felicia Langer, Uri Avneri and many others, such as the 500
reservists of the Israeli armed forces who, despite
threats and reprisals courageously proclaimed: “We shall not continue to
fight beyond the 1967 borders in order to dominate, expel, starve and humiliate
an entire people”.
They are unfortunately only a minority, but they are gaining in strength
today, which gives us all hope that a peaceful coexistence between peoples,
religions and all people will be possible in Israel/Palestine one day.
today, which gives us all hope that a peaceful coexistence between peoples,
religions and all people will be possible in Israel/Palestine one day.
Call from
Giuseppe Zambon, Publisher, Leipzigerstr. 24, 60487 Frankfurt
Giuseppe Zambon, Publisher, Leipzigerstr. 24, 60487 Frankfurt
