The end may be closer than we
realize
To
America
Hamas weekly: 'Allah has
answered our prayers; the sword of vengeance has reached America and will strike
again and again'
Following the terror attacks on New York and Washington, the
Hamas Movement mouthpiece Al-Risala, published in Gaza, printed an open letter,
"To America," by Dr. 'Atallah Abu Al-Subh:
"I am certain that you [America]
will face the mirror of your history for a long time to come! Thus you will be
able to see exactly how much you have oppressed, how corrupt you are, how you
have sinned - how many entities you have destroyed; how many kingdoms you have
demolished! Do you remember what you did in Vietnam and Korea? Do you remember
how you turned Hiroshima and Nagasaki into piles of radioactive coals that hold
death, present and future, for the two destroyed cities? Not a person in these
cities remains who was not distorted by your fire; not an infant or youth
remains who was not torn to shreds; not a bird remains who was not drowned in a
sea of flame!!"
"America, Oh sword of oppression, arrogance and sin; do you
remember how you crushed the humanity of man? Do you remember how the blacks
lived under your wing? Can you describe to us how much humiliation, loathing,
and contempt you caused those poor creatures? Their only sin was to be born to
two black parents. Your 'white' son bound their necks with the fetters of
slavery, after hunting them in the jungles and on the coasts of Africa. They
were born free, but were transported to the slave markets that inundated your
virgin soil. And later, how terrible were the deeds you did to them?"
"Have
you asked yourself about your actions against your 'original' inhabitants, the
Indians, the Apaches? Your white feet crushed them, and then used their name,
Apache, for a helicopter bearing death, demolition, and destruction for anyone
with rights, who dared to whisper in his own ear that he has those rights? This
is loathsome and malignant behavior, because it made us hate the Apache Indians,
without realizing that they actually were victims like us."
"America, have
you ever asked yourself why you killed Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Martin
Luther King, and Malcolm X? What crime could possibly be worse than these
crimes, and why?"
"America, have you ever asked yourself how the children in
the Al-'Amariya [shelter in Iraq], or at Kana [in Lebanon], sinned? Why do you
pour this continuing oppression on the head of Baghdad, as you do on the head of
Jerusalem, on the head of Jenin, and on every head with two eyes that do not see
what you see and do not walk the path of justice that your sinning hands paved
for every idiotic eunuch [a reference to the rulers of Arab states] that you
crown His Eminence or His Royal Highness? America, have you ever asked yourself
why you manufacture cluster bombs, atomic bombs, hydrogen bombs, biological
weapons of mass destruction, and the F-16? Even if we accept the claim of 'be
prepared,' why do you give these weapons to any murderer, war criminal, and
enemy of humanity, like Karadzic, Shamir, and Sharon? Why?"
"America, have
you ever tasted the taste of horror, sorrow, and pain? This is the taste that
has been our lot for so long. This is the taste that has filled our stomachs,
torn our guts, and burned our skin. This is routine for us, and is carried out
by those you love, with a high degree of 'professionalism.' They destroy our
shacks. What happened tonight in Jenin is not very different than what happened
to you."
"Every time Dick Cheney and his girlfriend Condoleezza Rice...
admonish us, [and] gloat at our misfortune, they incite to more [violence
against us]!!
We stand in line and beg Allah to give you to drink from the
cup of humiliation - and behold, heaven has answered. You must think, America,
whether you are capable of silencing your extremism, your impudence, and your
arrogance!"
"America, what have we sinned? What have we done to you?"
"Do
you remember that we made it possible for you to lead us in the ways of peace!!
We agreed that you would host this peace! You wasted time, and neglected the
matter - which seems to us an absolute bias in favor of the Jews, when our only
crime was to agree to accept you as judge and as host!
Hosts do not behave
this way, Oh America, unless they are cowboys [a pun in Arabic]! If only it
stopped at this bias; but it has reached the point where you tightened the rope
around our entity and opened the gates of the Pentagon so that every Jew could
equip himself with a knife in order to slaughter us! Why?"
"America, you
planted in the hearts of all men and animals the seedling of hatred of you! You
never considered that the day would come when the saplings would grow and put
out your eyes, even if those eyes were placed at the top of the World Trade
Center, among the clouds. Those saplings grew and spread and struck at the liver
of the Pentagon, the biggest and most secure site on the planet. Don't you see
that the thorns have reached the eyes of your strong Secretary of Defense,
Donald Rumsfeld, who thought that he was too strong to be hurt by the thorns of
vengeance for what he did with his own hands? Perhaps you realize, after
Rumsfeld fled, that he is only an ordinary man, who cannot seize the land and is
not as tall as the mountains!!"
"America, why did you evacuate the biggest
building in the world, and I refer to the Sears Tower, as we, the weak, do every
night in order to protect ourselves from your laser-eyed missiles? Are you as
frightened as we are, Oh America? Do the giants fear and flee, as the oppressed
do, Oh America?"
"America, it transpires that that you are weaker than the
weak, and that you are as wretched as any refugee that you forced to flee with
his children, his wife, and the clothes on his back from a village that was once
on the coast of Palestine. America, where are your eyes that see ants on rocks �
I refer to the CIA? Did you not see what the soul of the one who struck at you
whispered - although you always claimed to be able to see what others could not?
It becomes apparent that a blind eye sees only through the eyes of traitors and
spies; yet men of honor have caps of invisibility and when they don them, they
dress you in garments of horror and humiliation."
"America, where is your
second eye, the Mossad? You always gave us the illusion that it was alert enough
to see what a man sees before he falls asleep. How did the 'perpetrator' take
this eye?"
"Have you asked yourself who the real perpetrator is? Allow me to
answer you: Yes, it is you, America!... You closed on yourself the door of
injustice, so that none could pass through it but your destroyers. Afterwards,
you decided to light the fire of destiny behind the door, until the fire
consumed you, Oh America! I told you once that the mosquito sucks the blood of
the lion. Have you realized that I was right? If not, look at your eye and see
what happened to you in three spheres: the economic sphere (the World Trade
Center building); the power sphere
(the Pentagon); and the political sphere (the White House). Could you have
imagined that what happened could have happened?"
"Is it conceivable that you
would think twice and choose not to attack the pharmaceuticals plant in Khartoum
again, or Libya? Or will the appetite for vengeance take you over and blind you
to the truth, and will you pour out your wrath on the Al-'Amariya [shelter in
Iraq] or on Beit Hanoun [in Gaza]?
With what remains of your eyes, will you
see the truth and retreat? I advise you, Oh America, to see the truth, and not
to act thoughtlessly. You need to reexamine."
"What use was your navy to you?
What use were your intercontinental missiles and your nuclear power plants? What
use was the fact that you had almost completely conquered space with satellites
and AWCS planes. What use was NATO, and the world leadership that you hold in
your hands?"
"Or did all these become paralyzed when the sword of vengeance
reached the neck of your honor and shamed you? There is no doubt that this is a
deed unprecedented in ancient and modern history. You cannot but realize that
the perpetrator will strike again and again if you continue with your
corruption..."(1)
A similar approach was adopted by Al-Risala editor Dr.Ghazi
Hamad's weekly column, in which he wrote: "I will not discuss the issue from the
emotional point of view, but on the basis of the rule that determines that "the
punishment fits the crime."
"The United States, which, since the turn of the
last century, has believed that it is the strongest, used that strength and
power not to actualize justice and equality for the oppressed, but to besiege
the[se] peoples, murder them, and spill their blood. It did not follow any law,
unless the law was passed to strengthen its hegemony and its power. The US,
which supports the Zionist entity, supplying it with all types of lethal
weapons, such as the Apache, napalm bombs, and the F-16, that have taken the
lives of thousands of Palestinians; the US, which encouraged the Iranian Shah to
massacre his people; the US, which stood by the blood-letter Haile Sellassie,
the despot Idi Amin, and dozens of dictators and tyrants in South America, in
Africa, and in Southeast Asia; the US, which sowed death at Hiroshima, anguish
in Vietnam, bitterness in Iraq, famine and siege in the Sudan and in Libya -
what did this US, with the ugly face, expect the repressed and the oppressed
peoples to do?"
"How much hatred has it stockpiled, and how many enemies has
it gained? How many tortured people have burned American flags at every
opportunity to express their rage? The US, with its think tanks and mighty
research institutes, should have been ashamed of its hostility towards the
nations and the peoples. Were the eradication of its Marines in Lebanon, the
destruction of its military headquarters at Khobar in Saudi Arabia, the
destruction of the USS Cole in Yemen, the bombing of its embassies in Zambia
[sic] and in Kenya, and the attacks on its soldiers in the Gulf and in Japan not
sufficient? The US should have learned the lessons of history; but,
unfortunately, the US listens only to itself - and behold, today it hears itself
all too well..."
"Today, the US has tasted the bitter harvest it sowed in the
hearts of millions. Today, we ask: After this, will the US [continue to] think
that it is above the law? Will it continue to act with repression and tyranny,
or will it reexamine what it has done, and what it will
do?"(2)
Endnotes:
(1) Al-Risala, September 13, 2001.
(2) Al-Risala,
September 13, 2001.
Bob Simons
For I know the plans I have for you," declares the
LORD,
"plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give
you hope
and a future. Jer. 29:11
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