The State of Revenge
Rashid Shahin
The aggression launched on the Gaza Strip almost a week ago reveals that the political solutions have failed despite the fact that they reached the highest level, because the aggressor "Israel", has no intention of ending the conflict exept by the full surrender of the Palestinians and not before imposing full domination over the Palestinian land.
It is more than two decades since the Oslo Accords were signed between the PLO and Israel; the Accords stipulate a permanent settlement to be reached within five years. Since then, Israel has been ducking and evading its obligations.
Commitments were always made by the weaker part of the equation "the Palestinians", whose wishes were and still are, to get rid of the occupation.
During that era, Israel headed to the right; extreme rightists dominated the political scene. Their atrocities were not only against Palestinians, but also against Israeli society: the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin was an example.
Fanatical politicians succeeded in dragging Israel to their point of view, Israel became 'a hostage' for people like Avigdor Lieberman and Naftali Bennett and others, and Israeli intransigence reached a high degree of control over everything, until the State itself became party to the crime, and raised the bar for revenge and vengeance.
The mentality which governs the Israeli leaders is the mentality of revenge, a mentality of a colonialist oppressor, who seeks only the surrender of the victim, and will not understand or accept any kind of resistance, regardless of how legal or even how weak this resistance is.
A few weeks ago, three illegal teen settlers disappeared; Israel said they were kidnapped, no one claimed responsibility for the act, Israel didn't give a single evidence that the teens were kidnapped by any Palestinian faction. Despite that, Israel launched a campaign throughout the West bank; hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were victims of that campaign and calls for revenge came first from Benjamin Netanyahu, followed by the rest of his government members.
Among the measures taken against the Palestinians in the occupied territories, was the closure of Hebron area, where almost one million people are living, several hundred Palestinians were arrested, and previously freed prisoners were rearrested, by invasions of towns, villages, camps and cities of the West Bank, including the banning of the movement of all Palestinians.
After the teens bodies were discovered by some Israeli volunteers, calls for revenge came louder from the same leaders of the State of Israel, such calls for revenge reveal how this State is a State of crime, led by a group of fanatics, who pay no attention to international law or human values, a State which has nothing to do with democratic values or human rights.
The Israeli media, backed with biased international media, focused on the three teens' disappearance, ignoring the reality that during the campaign, ten Palestinians were killed, dozens injured, and hundreds were arrested.
It could be understandable when individuals retaliate or act in the midst of a culture of hatred, but when a State bears the slogan of revenge, this is not more than an invitation to mass killings, making the State of Israel the centre of the crime.
The campaign of hatred and revenge launched by Netanyahu and his government, led to the burning alive of a Palestinian teen in Jerusalem "Mohammad Abu Khdair" and the torturing of his cousin.
This campaign did not stop at just killing the child, but now extends to the killing of an entire people in one of the most densely populated spots on earth, while the whole world is watching, and doing nothing to stop the massacre.
As for the teens on both sides, the size of international hypocrisy was very clear, despite the condemnations we heard about what happened to the Palestinian kid.
With regard to the aggression on Gaza, it is obvious that things are completely different, especially when we hear condemnations, only against Palestinians, whom according to international law, have the right to defend themselves and to resist the occupiers.
If Israel seeks peace as it claims, the "road to peace" is clear, give the Palestinians their rights, stop the aggression against the Palestinians, and end the occupation, it is as simple as that
Rashid Shahin
Writer and Journalist
based in Bethlehem
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Mahmoud Darwish: "We have on this earth what makes life worth living: on this earth,the Lady of earth.
Mother of all beginnings, mother of all ends. She was called Palestine. Her name later became Palestine.
My Lady, because you are my lady, I deserve life."
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