The Importance of Darfur to the Jewish Community
Joachim Martillo - thorsprovoni@ aol.com
Statement given at the Massachusetts State House 3/29/2007 where all
the major Jewish lobbies combined forces to press for "divestment" from Sudan.
The great rabbi philosopher of the Middle Ages, Moses Maimonides came up
with a general principal that can help to explain the Jewish Community
Relations Committee and their friendsâ approach to Darfur. It begins:
Ani maamin beemunah shlemah -- I believe with complete faith --
shehakadosh borukh hu matzui umashgiah -- that the holy one blessed be he is
the creator and ruler of the world.
Today we can add a new conclusion.
Ani maamin beemunah shlemah shegizanim menassim likhzov et beit
hamhokakim hazeh.
I believe with complete faith that racists are trying to deceive this
legislature.
How can we explain the JCRCâs approach to Darfur? Here are the basics
of the issue.
In Darfur practically everyone is a black African Muslim. The
population is divided between nomads and settled farmers. Since at least 1987
when there was a crop failure in Darfur, the Sudan Liberation Army organized
the settled farmers to attempt to overthrow the Central Sudanese government.
The other rebel group is the Justice and Equality Movement, which is allied
with Hassan al-Turabi. The ruler of Sudan is Omar al-Bashir. His allies are
generally called Arabs as a political statement even if they are black
Africans as is the case in Darfur. He has been cooperating with the US in the
War on Terror.
Darfur is the site of a very messy civil war. It is somewhat similar to
the disaster that the US has caused in Iraq except that America is less
directly involved, and the US has caused far more death and displacement of
population in Iraq in four years than has occurred in Darfur in 20 years. But
the JCRC wants to close the gap and show the world that America can kill just
as many Africans as we can kill Middle Easterners. More.
The JCRC and all the major Israel advocacy groups supported an economic
boycott of Iraq that spanned over a decade, which prohibited Iraqis from
importing chlorine to purify their drinking water, as a result of which over
two million people died, the vast majority of whom were children under the age
of five. It is very important that despite the tricky wording of the âSave
Darfurâ position, a vote for divestment is a vote for genocide; and it will
be a genocide that we caused.
Right now we are seeing in Darfur a phase that looks something like
Sherman's March through Georgia during the Civil War. Was the Union
undertaking genocide of white southerners? No.
Should the UK have undertaken an economic boycott of the Union? No.
Groups of Americans feign to care about Darfur, but America is the
mainstay of the State of Israel, which is founded by Eastern Europeans, who
committed a pre-planned genocide of the native population of Palestine with
the justification that there is a linguistic relationship between the word Jew
and the word Judea. These people had no historical roots in Palestine.
By the same logic after the potato famines the Irish who are mostly
Roman Catholic would have had the right to steal Rome and genocide the native
population because the word "Roman" in "Roman Catholic" is a derivative of the
word "Rome."
Despite the fact that American values of equality of citizenship and
property rights are not being held dear in Israel, the JCRC intimidated the
local governments of Massachussetts that they better not try to stop the
genocide against the Palestinian people. Then, as a distraction from the crimes
the JCRC and friends support and pay for with our money, they invented this
Darfur strategy to isolate and deliberately increase the starvation of the
African population.
So what motivates the Jewish Community Relations Council and other
groups within the organized Jewish community to make such an effort on Darfur?
Are they concerned about the lives and human rights of Muslim Africans?
The Jewish Community Relations Council works hand in hand with racist
extremist Israel advocates at The David Project in an attempt to deprive local
Muslim Americans of their fundamental constitutional rights as American
citizens to assemble and to worship freely at the new Mosque that is being
built at Roxbury crossing. This conspiracy to "sanction" the mosque is a
deliberate and decisive measure to hurt the economy in the black area of
Boston. The organized Jewish community is saying, "Blacks don't have the right
to political respect. We will not allow Muslims or Africans to participate in
the economy. Not in America, and not in Africa.â
If this legislature really is sincere in caring about the lives and
rights of Muslims and black people in general, it should be undertaking an
investigation of criminal racist conspiracy that The David Project has
organized against their fellow Muslim American citizens, and it should support
divestment from the State of Israel, not Sudan. As proof of how little the
JCRC cares about Africans, it should be loudly noted that they have spent all
their effort to politicize the discussion of events in Sudan in a way that
benefits only themselves, and have not sent any money to feed a single hungry
Darfurian child, nor have any doctors from Brookline gone to Sudan to
volunteer.
Darfur divestment is a complete red herring that a segment of the Jewish
community has cooked up to distract from the ongoing crimes against humanity
of the State of Israel using our public funds. Israel advocacy organizations
care more about the State of Israel than they do either about the USA or
about the people of Darfur. If this legislature obeys the JCRC and friends,
they will be fulfilling the worse anti-Semitic stereotypes that exist today.
The majority of American Jews and Americans in general are against US
involvement in ANY more foreign wars. So I conclude,
Ani maamin beemunah shlemah shegizanim menassim likhzov et beit
hamhokakim hazeh.
I believe with complete faith that racists are trying to deceive this
legislature
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