Before the “Salvation of Zion”, the “Geulat Zion”, there is the “Salvation of Palestine” from illegal Zionist Occupation!
By Evelyn Hecht-Galinski, Sicht
vom Hochblauen, 5 April 2017, English translation by Milena Rampoldi,
ProMosaik.
vom Hochblauen, 5 April 2017, English translation by Milena Rampoldi,
ProMosaik.
In times of Islam hatred and of a philosemite Anti-Semitism,
the beloved “Matzo Balls,” a wonderful Jewish traditional dish, gets stuck in
my throat. How can you celebrate a festival if you look at the occupation, the
continuous land grabbing and oppression in Palestine by the descendants of
Jewish refugees from Egypt? Who can you say “Next year in Jerusalem” at the end
of the supplications?
the beloved “Matzo Balls,” a wonderful Jewish traditional dish, gets stuck in
my throat. How can you celebrate a festival if you look at the occupation, the
continuous land grabbing and oppression in Palestine by the descendants of
Jewish refugees from Egypt? Who can you say “Next year in Jerusalem” at the end
of the supplications?
What does this mean? In which Jerusalem? In the
Jerusalem under continuous Jewish occupation and Judaisation? No, I cannot and
do not want to accept this! Without any doubt, it is important to transmit
traditions, but a tradition denying the occupation, land grabbing, and
humiliation at the expense of an occupied people, is a crime.
Jerusalem under continuous Jewish occupation and Judaisation? No, I cannot and
do not want to accept this! Without any doubt, it is important to transmit
traditions, but a tradition denying the occupation, land grabbing, and
humiliation at the expense of an occupied people, is a crime.
This well-known supplication about Jerusalem is
the beginning of a religious, Zionist “tradition.” And from the beginning,
already before the Holocaust, without taking the losses into consideration,
this Zionist tradition pursued the goal to conquer a “Jewish State” for a “people
without land, and a land without people”. This Zionist idea of Herzl will be
celebrated in autumn with Netanyahu being invited to Basle. Yes, exactly to
Basle! I am asking myself how this “Occupiers’ King Bibi” can be invited to
Basle. Has he emigrated to Switzerland? Imagine the scenario of “Erdogan being
invited to Germany.” How much greater would the agitation be than about the Turkish
election campaign appearances?
the beginning of a religious, Zionist “tradition.” And from the beginning,
already before the Holocaust, without taking the losses into consideration,
this Zionist tradition pursued the goal to conquer a “Jewish State” for a “people
without land, and a land without people”. This Zionist idea of Herzl will be
celebrated in autumn with Netanyahu being invited to Basle. Yes, exactly to
Basle! I am asking myself how this “Occupiers’ King Bibi” can be invited to
Basle. Has he emigrated to Switzerland? Imagine the scenario of “Erdogan being
invited to Germany.” How much greater would the agitation be than about the Turkish
election campaign appearances?
Next Monday evening, Jewish citizens all over
the world will sit on one table to celebrate the first Seder Evening of the
Pessach festival, by commemorating the exodus of the Jews from Egypt. And at
this moment, hundred thousands of illegally occupied Palestinians, trapped in
their reservations, will involuntarily think about their exodus. Four years ago
I wrote a comment about the Pessach festival in Palestine.
the world will sit on one table to celebrate the first Seder Evening of the
Pessach festival, by commemorating the exodus of the Jews from Egypt. And at
this moment, hundred thousands of illegally occupied Palestinians, trapped in
their reservations, will involuntarily think about their exodus. Four years ago
I wrote a comment about the Pessach festival in Palestine.
In 2013 I wrote “we were refugees in Egypt”; and
at that time, Netanyahu praised the “success” of the almost concluded barrier
construction to Egypt, by roaring: “There is no other Western country which was
able to stop the mass immigration of illegal migrants. And we have ensured that
no ‘infiltrant’ can reach the Israeli cities.” Infiltrant!
at that time, Netanyahu praised the “success” of the almost concluded barrier
construction to Egypt, by roaring: “There is no other Western country which was
able to stop the mass immigration of illegal migrants. And we have ensured that
no ‘infiltrant’ can reach the Israeli cities.” Infiltrant!
What about it in 2017? The “Jewish State” drove forward
in the ethnical cleansing and judaisation on such a massive scale that it is
just a matter of time before all Palestine will be “Muslim-free.” In the
meantime, there are other walls to Gaza and prisons for black refugees, and
there is US-president Trump planning a giant wall construction to keep out
Mexican refugees. And it was him who ordered a “Muslim travel ban,” which has
no equal. He falls seamlessly into the ranks of the Zionist racist wall and
separation politics against Muslims, refugees, and foreigners. This “Christian-Jewish”
alliance will put the fear of God into us!
in the ethnical cleansing and judaisation on such a massive scale that it is
just a matter of time before all Palestine will be “Muslim-free.” In the
meantime, there are other walls to Gaza and prisons for black refugees, and
there is US-president Trump planning a giant wall construction to keep out
Mexican refugees. And it was him who ordered a “Muslim travel ban,” which has
no equal. He falls seamlessly into the ranks of the Zionist racist wall and
separation politics against Muslims, refugees, and foreigners. This “Christian-Jewish”
alliance will put the fear of God into us!
The “Jewish State” upheld as model for the integration
of refugees, and whose security and oppression measures are considered
exemplary, surpasses anything you have seen before. In the end, the alleged “unique
democracy” in the Middle East signed the International Convention of Refugees, obliging
it to comply with international legal standards. However, where there is no
claimant against this manifest racism, there is no judge. All this is just a
paper waste, a ridiculous paper tiger for the Jewish Apartheid State, this
ethnocracy only for Jews!
of refugees, and whose security and oppression measures are considered
exemplary, surpasses anything you have seen before. In the end, the alleged “unique
democracy” in the Middle East signed the International Convention of Refugees, obliging
it to comply with international legal standards. However, where there is no
claimant against this manifest racism, there is no judge. All this is just a
paper waste, a ridiculous paper tiger for the Jewish Apartheid State, this
ethnocracy only for Jews!
These Western value hypocrites do not only
support this Jewish occupier and Apartheid State, but they even think about
imitating its internationally criticized actions. No, this israelization of
Germany must be stopped!
support this Jewish occupier and Apartheid State, but they even think about
imitating its internationally criticized actions. No, this israelization of
Germany must be stopped!
It is not enough that the Israel lobby prevents
us from our freedom of speech and opinion because we critically talk about Israel’s
unjust policies. The German authorities even deny the German constitution
because they kowtow to the dictates of the Israel lobby. The reason of state
for the safety of Israel is opposed to all democratic traditions. How can you
stand up for the safety of an Apartheid and occupier state and be guilty of
such a perversion of justice? How can this be, if we have a German Merkel
government coalition always speaking about values and human rights, showing
them to other governments, while spurning them.
us from our freedom of speech and opinion because we critically talk about Israel’s
unjust policies. The German authorities even deny the German constitution
because they kowtow to the dictates of the Israel lobby. The reason of state
for the safety of Israel is opposed to all democratic traditions. How can you
stand up for the safety of an Apartheid and occupier state and be guilty of
such a perversion of justice? How can this be, if we have a German Merkel
government coalition always speaking about values and human rights, showing
them to other governments, while spurning them.
If Chancellor Merkel and other politicians
continuously speak about the “Two State Solution” we have to ask ourselves: Do
you really believe in what you are saying, or has this well-worn phrase become
a battle cry, just showing the indifferent helplessness of a mistaken and
cowardly politics toward the “Jewish State” because of the “special”
relationship the Netanyahu regime brutally profits from to play the eternal
victim, surrounded by terror? How long will this game go on? What must happen
to change the minds of people? The Holocaust justifies all means to create an “unholy”
home for Jews at the expense of Palestinians, the native population. Zionism
knows only one final goal: a judaistic ethnocracy, just for Jews. Nobody cares
about the refugees convention or the nakba, the catastrophe of
Palestinians. In this Zionist world view, there is definitively no place for “native
people” or “infiltrants.”
continuously speak about the “Two State Solution” we have to ask ourselves: Do
you really believe in what you are saying, or has this well-worn phrase become
a battle cry, just showing the indifferent helplessness of a mistaken and
cowardly politics toward the “Jewish State” because of the “special”
relationship the Netanyahu regime brutally profits from to play the eternal
victim, surrounded by terror? How long will this game go on? What must happen
to change the minds of people? The Holocaust justifies all means to create an “unholy”
home for Jews at the expense of Palestinians, the native population. Zionism
knows only one final goal: a judaistic ethnocracy, just for Jews. Nobody cares
about the refugees convention or the nakba, the catastrophe of
Palestinians. In this Zionist world view, there is definitively no place for “native
people” or “infiltrants.”
This idea fatally fits in with the efforts of
the agitators of the Christian Democratic Party, from Jens Spahn to the “Burka
delegate” Julia Klöckner, to engage for an Islam Law which would not be
compatible with our constitution! Should we ask for another delegate in the
CDU, engaging for “homosexuals?”
the agitators of the Christian Democratic Party, from Jens Spahn to the “Burka
delegate” Julia Klöckner, to engage for an Islam Law which would not be
compatible with our constitution! Should we ask for another delegate in the
CDU, engaging for “homosexuals?”
Since 2013, in the country of the Holocaust
victims the arbitrariness against Palestinians and unwelcome refugees /“infiltrants”
has been so strengthened that all human rights violations and crimes against
international law are justified in the context of war against terror and in the
“anti-terror” alliance.
victims the arbitrariness against Palestinians and unwelcome refugees /“infiltrants”
has been so strengthened that all human rights violations and crimes against
international law are justified in the context of war against terror and in the
“anti-terror” alliance.
Some days ago, for the first time, more than two
decades after the negotiations of Oslo and their signature in 1993, the
Netanyahu regime announced the construction of a new settlement, and the
increased extension of existing ones. This Chutzpah dimension of a new, unlimited
indifference is possible knowing that the hypocrite Western community of values
will just critizise a bit, and then be silent for ever. And so the myth of the
helpless and threatened state will be maintained.
decades after the negotiations of Oslo and their signature in 1993, the
Netanyahu regime announced the construction of a new settlement, and the
increased extension of existing ones. This Chutzpah dimension of a new, unlimited
indifference is possible knowing that the hypocrite Western community of values
will just critizise a bit, and then be silent for ever. And so the myth of the
helpless and threatened state will be maintained.
After this announcement, Netanyahu confirmed his
“desire for peace” and affirmed that he will prevent the construction of “unauthorised”
settlements. In the meantime, in the illegally occupied West Bank, more than
two thousand new settlers‘ residential units were authorised, and ninety hectares
of Palestinian land were declared as “public” Israeli land. However, all this
was completely ignored, like the dispossession of Bedouins, the murder, and the
air strikes.
“desire for peace” and affirmed that he will prevent the construction of “unauthorised”
settlements. In the meantime, in the illegally occupied West Bank, more than
two thousand new settlers‘ residential units were authorised, and ninety hectares
of Palestinian land were declared as “public” Israeli land. However, all this
was completely ignored, like the dispossession of Bedouins, the murder, and the
air strikes.
The fact that all settlements are illegal, is
ignored thanks to the Hasbara propaganda and all the lies of the Israel lobby.
Even US-President Obama had passed a UN resolution without the usual veto confirming
according to international right that all settlements are illegal. After all the
“pro-Israel” gifts, it was like an farewell present. As expected, his successor
Trump opposed to this definition. His deputy Mike Pence has announced that
Trump is already working on the future relocation of the US ambassador Friedman
from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem to officially work from there.
ignored thanks to the Hasbara propaganda and all the lies of the Israel lobby.
Even US-President Obama had passed a UN resolution without the usual veto confirming
according to international right that all settlements are illegal. After all the
“pro-Israel” gifts, it was like an farewell present. As expected, his successor
Trump opposed to this definition. His deputy Mike Pence has announced that
Trump is already working on the future relocation of the US ambassador Friedman
from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem to officially work from there.
And it goes into the same direction, that the UN
report written by the two experts Richard Falk and Virginia Tilley which
clearly proves why Israel is an Apartheid State and a regime deliberately backing
the division (hafrada) of Palestinian groups. With these intrigues, the
Zionist regime always gains the advantage of unlimited power.
report written by the two experts Richard Falk and Virginia Tilley which
clearly proves why Israel is an Apartheid State and a regime deliberately backing
the division (hafrada) of Palestinian groups. With these intrigues, the
Zionist regime always gains the advantage of unlimited power.
It is an abject and shameful tragedy that
ironically the new UN general secretary and former leader of the Portuguese
socialists, Antonio Guterres, folded to the massive pressure of the Israel
lobby and was forced to take distance from the report and also insisted on the
cancellation of the report from the list of documents of the UN commission.
This blackmailing caused the withdrawal of the UN secretary member, the
executive secretary, and former Jordan minister Rima Khalaf, a brave woman
refusing this arbitrariness. When Guterres hypocritically opposes to the
settlement construction, he has to ask himself, if he is not co-responsible,
and he should think about resigning!
ironically the new UN general secretary and former leader of the Portuguese
socialists, Antonio Guterres, folded to the massive pressure of the Israel
lobby and was forced to take distance from the report and also insisted on the
cancellation of the report from the list of documents of the UN commission.
This blackmailing caused the withdrawal of the UN secretary member, the
executive secretary, and former Jordan minister Rima Khalaf, a brave woman
refusing this arbitrariness. When Guterres hypocritically opposes to the
settlement construction, he has to ask himself, if he is not co-responsible,
and he should think about resigning!
For this reason, my past desire is more actual
than ever before for the coming Pessach celebration. It does not suffice to do
Holocaust politics, to polemicize with the Torah in the hand, to pray the
Haggadah, and at the same time to continue to occupy Palestine, to grab land,
to dispossess people, and to deny own wars and crimes. The Apartheid Wall must
fall. And the illegal occupation must be ended immediately. I call for all
diaspora Jews to face the truth and to stop this injustice, instead of blindly supporting
the “Jewish State” which just feels strengthened and confirmed to go on with
this terrible politics.
than ever before for the coming Pessach celebration. It does not suffice to do
Holocaust politics, to polemicize with the Torah in the hand, to pray the
Haggadah, and at the same time to continue to occupy Palestine, to grab land,
to dispossess people, and to deny own wars and crimes. The Apartheid Wall must
fall. And the illegal occupation must be ended immediately. I call for all
diaspora Jews to face the truth and to stop this injustice, instead of blindly supporting
the “Jewish State” which just feels strengthened and confirmed to go on with
this terrible politics.
My after-dinner speech for the future Seder
evening will be: “Next year, in a free, democratic State of Palestine”, since
before the “salvation of Zion,” the “Geulat Zion,” there is the “salvation of
Palestine” from the illegal Zionist occupation! Since only this is the real “Geulat
Zion,” the “salvation of Zion” for a Free Palestine.
evening will be: “Next year, in a free, democratic State of Palestine”, since
before the “salvation of Zion,” the “Geulat Zion,” there is the “salvation of
Palestine” from the illegal Zionist occupation! Since only this is the real “Geulat
Zion,” the “salvation of Zion” for a Free Palestine.
