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Israel’s Hottest TV Show: Survivor “The Palestinian Outback”
by Mohamed Khodr
Israeli’s are enjoying their daily "SURVIVOR" reality show that places
Palestinians in separate Bantustan arenas surrounded by powerful IDF soldiers
and rabid Jewish Settlers with the goal of seeing how many Palestinians will
be killed and how many will survive. Each soldier and settler is given $200
for shooting a Palestinian under the age of 15 (so far 75) with a bonus of
$100 if the shot pierces the heart, eye, or brain. They get $500 for a
Palestinian adult, male or female and $5000 for a "liquidation" assassination
of a Palestinian terrorist/activist as defined by the secret police. Many of
the soldiers have been able to retire comfortably so far and the settlers
have been rewarded by Sharon with $500 Million for settlement expansion,
sorry I mean "natural growth". For the past seven months this is all the
"out"rage in Israel. Israel Television is thinking of syndicating the show to
Lebanon and the Golan Heights. They don’t have to expand it to Jordan since
King Abdullah is already implementing the show against his own people.
No nation so enjoys the humiliation of the United States as does our "closest
ally and friend" Israel, the land of God’s "chosen people", a people absolved
from sin, guilt, responsibility, shame, a conscience, feelings, memory, and
any moral fortitude, a land of obsessive "ME’s" above all humanity. Whether
its America’s humiliation in the United Nations with all its irresponsible
vetoes, whether its America’s eviction from the Human Rights Commission given
its hypocritical condemnation of third world human rights abuses while
protecting and supporting Israel’s human rights abuses, whether its Israel’s
easy access to our billions of tax dollars, our latest military hardware and
software, whether its the embarrassing sale of our latest technology and
missiles to China as evidenced by the missile aboard the Chinese plane that
attacked our spy plane, whether its Israel’s support of dictatorships around
the world that harbor animosity to America, or whether its support of South
Africa’s Apartheid, but most profoundly it humiliates our government and
people when it deliberately attacks an American intelligence ship, the USS
Liberty, in 1967 killing 34 Americans and wounding 171 or when it jails
without evidence or trial dozens of American citizens. Israelis inwardly
rejoice when Americans are killed by terrorist attacks (never mind that the
only reason Americans are killed in the Middle East is because of Israel’s
belligerence against innocent Arab civilians with American weapons and
vetoes) because that gives Israel a public relations bonanza for it and its
American friendly media to point out the Arab/Islamic animosity to the shared
friendship and western values between Israel and America and thus the
strategic importance of Israel as the only "democratic" ally America has in
the region, never mind that America’s national interest in the Middle East is
oil and that it has extensive military bases and alliances with Turkey,
Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, and the Gulf states. The only reason
Americans died in Beirut in two bombings was because Israel pushed Reagan to
send in the marines to provide protection for Israel while it decimated the
Lebanese and Palestinian populations and give support to the establishment of
a Christian government in Lebanon friendly to Israel. Someday Americans will
awaken from their Holocaust and media induced slumber to realize just how
damaging our blind and irresponsible support of Israel has been to our
economy, military, industrial espionage, the corruption of our politicians
especially Congress through votes and bribery, the biased control of our
media, and most damaging is Israel’s desecration of our world standing,
leadership, morality, sense of justice, religious values, and even our very
own humanity. To the world Israel is not only our Achilles Heel but our
corrupting cancer that is metastasizing to all our institutions and to every
facet of our society.
We can no longer claim our world mantel for independence, freedom, liberty,
justice and good American values. America fought its bloodiest war to abolish
slavery only to be enslaved by the former Hebrew slaves of Egypt. Shame on
all of us Americans for allowing a small opportunistic nation thousands of
miles away to manipulate our government, our media, our movies, financial
institutions, our world standing, and even our future. We shall forever be
known as Israel’s big sidekick.
Through their long history of persecution in Europe Israel learned valuable
lessons. The most valuable lessons came from the Crusades, Colonialism,
Nazism, Racism, and Apartheid. From the Crusades Israel learned how to
project and reinvigorate Islam as a "western" enemy thus creating the
oxymoron partnership of the "Judeo-Christian" traditions, never mind that for
two thousand years Christians have massacred Jews. Israel won through this
marketing the hearts and minds of Christian Evangelists who nevertheless
await the day Jews are either converted or killed prior to Christ’s Second
Coming. From Europe’s colonialism it learned how to sell itself as a colony
to the west in the Middle East using that colonial heartwarming motto "we
will help and civilize the barbaric Arabs". It even rehashed the colonial lie
that Palestine is a "land without a people for a people without a land",
never mind that Jews have been absent as a people from Palestine for 2,600
years and that Palestinians have occupied the land for over 5,000 years since
Canaan. From Nazism, Israel learned it can hate, take revenge, murder, expel
an entire population of Palestinians, torture, even commit ethnic cleansing
as long as it has the proper media propaganda, public relations, and
marketing of lies. It learned it can blame Palestinian children for being in
the wrong place and the wrong time while they were sleeping in their beds, it
can blame their parents for deliberately throwing their children in the line
of fire of a tank that coincidentally was shelling their neighborhoods, it
can blame the Palestinians for forcing the civilized IDF soldier or messianic
Dr. Baruch Goldstein to kill them in self defense (Goldstein, an American Jew
from Brooklyn killed 29 men and boys in the Abrahamic mosque in Hebron while
they were praying. At his eulogy Rabbi Ya’acov Perin said: "One million Arabs
are not worth a Jewish fingernail." (Cited in the New York Times,
02/28/1994). It learned to indoctrinate its children with hate for Arabs and
Gentiles who are less worthy of life than Jews who are the world’s new Aryan
race; most of all it learned that if you control the words and images the
world sees through military censorship, intimidation, and bribery especially
through the friendly American media you can get away with murder of even a
four month old girl. Moshe Sharett, Israel’s first Foreign Minister and later
a Prime Minister stated this principle when he said: "I have learned that the
State of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and
adventurism ("The Birth of Israel" Simha Flapan 1987). The lies and media
manipulation to hide and justify Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian
people has been a staple of Israeli politics since its founding. Even the
much admired American Golda Meir did her part when she said: "There is no
such thing as a Palestinian people…It is not as if we came and threw them out
and took their country. They didn’t exist." (Golda Meir to the Sunday Times,
June 15, 1969).
From the Afrikaners of South Africa Israel learned and adopted the system of
Apartheid racism. Like the black majority of South Africa, Palestinians were
enslaved as cheap labor for the arrogant Jews of Israel reduced to cleaning
their bathrooms, collecting their garbage, and building their illegal homes
on the very land the Palestinians own. Like the blacks, Palestinians were
issued Israeli identity cards and different color license plates that
determines their movement, work, education, residence, and whether and where
they can receive medical treatment. Like the blacks, Palestinians were herded
into concentration "refugee" camps known as Bantustans and surrounded by
opulent Settlements perched on high hills.
Like the blacks they were treated like dirt, beaten, killed, raped or
tortured at will with no judicial recourse and no human rights. Both the
blacks and Palestinians became the enslaved alien refugees in their own land.
Israel has learned its lessons well. As Prime Minister Sharon recently said
at a meeting with the Yesha Council of Settlements in reference to Israel’s
methods of dealing with what he calls Palestinian terror: "There are things
we will tell the public about, there are things we will deny and there are
things that will remain hidden forever. In wartime, you don't have to expose
everything to the world, to stand in public and reveal everything, in the
name of that hypocritical and lie-filled concept known as honesty."
Israel’s President Katsav confirmed Israel’s racist outlook toward the
Palestinians that is very reminiscent of Europe’s and America’s historical
racist and inferior outlook towards blacks and other non-whites when he
recently said: "The gap is not only in capabilities, but also moral and
cultural…it seems to me that a few hundred meters from here there are people
who not only do not identify with our continent or even planet Earth, rather
they seem to be from another galaxy? a completely different world…the gap
between them and us is immense." Palestinians are not only genetically
inferior to Jews but are aliens in their own land. Such comments are not
limited to political leaders. Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, head of the powerful Shas
party called the Palestinians "evil" and called for their annihilation from
the face of earth. Speaking during a religious homily, Rabbi Yosef said that
Israel should destroy the Palestinians mercilessly. "We must not have mercy
on them, they should get missiles and more missiles, they should be
annihilated, those cursed evil people….God will take deadly revenge against
the Arabs, will wipe out their seed, will annihilate them and defeat them and
eliminate them for the face of earth." A few months ago, Yosef described
Arabs and gentiles in general as "snakes," saying, "the Lord was regretting
having created them." Funny how our media wasn’t outraged at these
Anti-Semitic remarks as they were about Assad of Syria.
A large proportion of Israeli citizens share these racist feelings. Recently
a Jewish settler who deliberately killed a Palestinian by a car confessed his
guilt in court saying: "I killed the Palestinian because he is animal and
felt no guilt or compunctions for his death." Israeli courts normally give
light court sentences for crimes involving Jews killing Arabs but give
extremely tough sentences if the victim is Jewish.
All of us are complicit in the prolonging of this tragic conflict through our
silence and detached support of Israel. No other country will be allowed for
seven months to besiege an entire population, strangle and suffocate it, and
bomb it daily and get away with it. No daily massacre by any other nation
would entail the silent acquiescence of our media and our government’s
intimidation into a wishy washy daily benign briefings of broad generalities.
But any Jewish claim to Nazi loot, any Jewish criticism is slammed as
Anti-Semitic, any Jewish demand for Congressional money to replenish the
American bullets lodged in Palestinian hearts and brains, any Jewish
sensitivity or hurt feelings, anything Jewish is kosherly loved and supported
by our pandering Congress more so than any issue concerning the American
people; damn Americans or anyone else as long as "poor besieged democratic
Israel living and surviving in a sea of Arab hatred’ is taken care of FIRST.
Israel is the "victim" because it is the only country in the area with
200-300 nuclear bombs that they built by stealing our secrets, it is the only
country in the area occupying Arab land and killing Palestinians, it is the
only country by force that diverts Arab water for Settlers to water their
lawns while Palestinians get a bucket of water a week, it is the only country
that America, the European Union, and the United Nations must kowtow to. The
only solution for all of us Americans is to convert to Judaism, then perhaps
our President and Congress will give us some of the $150 Billion they gave
Israel for our schools, water systems, environment, roads, and maybe
prescription drugs for our elderly and health care for the millions of
uninsured children. Don’t hold your breath. Our Congress will pander to Jews
here and Israel to the last American body and dollar. LONG LIVE ISRAEL.
There are many courageous conscientious Jews in Israel and America who are
morally upstanding and who do care for justice and are ashamed and disgusted
by Israel’s policies, but like you and me they are relegated aside by our
media and government as well as ostracized as "self hating" Jews by their
brethren. They need to hear that we support them, we must criticize our media
for their decades long support of Israel as well as let our government know
of our feelings that we want a permanent and just peace in the Holy Land or
we’ll throw them out. America shouldn’t tolerate these cowards. All of us
feel we’re alone in our thoughts and opinions about Israel, we’re not,
millions of Americans feel the same way but each one of us is waiting for the
other to take the first step. Remember that we’re criticizing Israel’s
inhumane policies as well as its influence on our country. We’re not
criticizing Judaism at all, only Zionism, so don’t fall for the trap that
we’re being Anti-Semites, after all Arabs are the true Semites and Semitism
refers to languages not an ethnic race. Have courage and speak to your
church, synagogue, and mosque and you’ll find companions and warriors for
peace and justice. Join together and write and call your media and
government. The only hope for Israel and Palestinians to stop shooting and
negotiate a peace is with us. Tell Bush to get off his oil slick butt and
bring the parties to Washington and don’t let them out until they accept UN
Resolution 242, giving Palestinians 22% of their original land with Arab East
Jerusalem as their capital. Americans have always fought and demanded freedom
for themselves and others. Let’s not stop now because it’s Israel and Jews.
Even Israel needs a kick in the pants for its own good.
God Will Bless America If It Stands up for Peace and Justice and breaks the
Zionist Israeli Shackles around our necks, throats, vetoes, wallets, and
government..
Mr. Mohamed Khodr is an American Muslim physician and a native from the
Middle East. He has worked in Academic Medicine and Public health with
national and international health experience. He is a freelance writer who
often writes columns on the Palest
