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Arab Viewpoint on Zionist Mayhem
by Joachim Martillo (ThorsProvoni@aol.com)
I attended Ghada Karmi's talk at BC on Monday. Because I arrived late, I am unable to provide a full report.
When I entered, she was pointing out that her book Married to Another Man, Israel's Dilemma in Palestine, provides the Arab and Palestinian view of Zionism and of the harm it has done to Palestinians and the Arab world.
Dr. Karmi's point is important. For various reasons, it is much easier to hear why someone like Joel Kovel opposes Zionism from a Jewish or progressive point of view. (See Joel Kovel announcement below and Dissident Veteran for Peace: Against Zionist Censorship, Zionist attack on Pluto Press, and Kovel Pulls No Punches.) As far as I know, no one has formulated the general case for opposing Zionism because of the harm it does to the whole world although Stephen Walt, John Mearsheimer, and James Petras have addressed problems that the Israel Lobby or the Zionist Power Configuration has caused for the USA. (See The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy as well as The Power of Israel in the United States.)
Dr. Karmi told us that she often has the feeling that Palestine has become a theater where Europeans and Americans have been acting out their own drama. If Palestinians are lucky, they might be allowed to watch. Most of the time they are simply trampled in the course of the performance.
Dr. Karmi emphasized that the issue in the conflict over Palestine is simple. Zionists implemented a program for European Jews to take over Palestine even though Palestine was already inhabited (i.e., married to another man).
Even Zionist attempts at "negotiation" were founded on a racist arrogance that Palestinian leaders could only negotiate details about Jewish emigration to Palestine.
Dr. Karmi added that Israel advocates especially in the USA are working constantly to make sure that Americans hear nothing but the Zionist narrative in order to guarantee that the American public totally discounts Arab and Palestinian opinion.
During the discussion, one of the audience brought up H. RES. 185, which resolves among other things that
(A) use the voice, vote, and influence of the United States to ensure that any resolutions relating to the issue of Middle East refugees, and which include a reference to the required resolution of the Palestinian refugee issue, must also include a similarly explicit reference to the resolution of the issue of Jewish, Christian, and other refugees from Arab countries ...
Dr. Karmi responded that it is just another subterfuge to obscure and complicate a simple conflict and that Palestinian sympathizers in the USA have to fight it.
I discuss this resolution in some detail at the end of USHMM: National Thought Control.
[Note that on Apr 1, the "bill passed in the House of Representatives by voice vote. A record of each representative's position was not kept." See H. Res. 185: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives ... for more information. S. Res. 85: A resolution expressing the sense of the... is the Senate version and has just been introduced.]
Dr. Karmi advocates one-state as the only solution.
Father Helmick saw too much resistance in the mentality of Israelis and argued that only a two-state solution with open borders could be achieved. [Father Helmick has long been involved in Arab-Israel peace-making as well as in resolving the Boston Roxbury Mosque Conflict (see Subjugating American Muslims to Israel),]
Dr. Karmi replied that it would only be worthwhile as a stage leading to one state.
Jonathan Cook asked about trials and justice.
Dr. Karmi responded that some sort of truth and reconciliation system similar to the South African process would have to be instituted.
I have to admit some dubiousness about the idea.
Zionism has been an aggressive genocidal criminal program from the start and Zionists have waged an extremely dirty demographic war for over a century against the native population. Under such circumstances no Palestinian actions can be treated as criminal while all activities on behalf of Zionism constitute conspiracy to commit or perpetration of crimes against humanity. In addition, many (maybe most) Zionist criminals reside outside of Palestine. The example of Third Reich Press Chief Otto Dietrich at Nuremberg suggests that a large part of Hollywood should be sentenced to at least seven years imprisonment for incitement to genocide of Arabs, Muslims and Palestinians as well as related crimes against humanity. (See The Jewish Enemy, Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust, by Jeffrey Herf.)
When Joseph Massad spoke at BC on April 3 (see announcement below, Feb. 11, Harvard: Joseph Massad, Zionism, Penisism, and Joseph Massad), he predicted that most Jews would simply leave when a single state was achieved because they would be unwilling to live on terms of equality and mutual respect with the native population.
In re: Controlling Discourse
Zionists have been working on this project for decades.
Even though Baksheesh Diplomacy, Secret Negotiations between American Jewish Leaders and Arab Officials on the Eve of World War II, by Rafael Medoff shows all the arrogance that Dr. Karmi discussed in her talk, it provides a lot of interesting data.
On p. 87, Medoff writes:
Three days later [June 14, 1937], [Izzat] Tannous [a member of the Arab Higher Committee -- the chief Palestinian political body] called [Dr. Albert] Amateau [a colleague of Maurice Karpf, a leading non-Zionist member of the American wing of the Jewish Agency for Palestine] to inform him that he would be sailing back to London in two weeks at the request of Haj Amin el Husseini, better known as the mufti of Jerusalem, the most prominent leader of the Palestinian Arab community. In the meantime, Tannous offered vaguely to "do what he could" to hold off Arab disturbances in Palestine pending further negotiations with the Jews. Tannous also had a favor to ask. It seemed that an official at the New York City-owned radio station WNYC had broadcast one of Tannous's lectures, prompting Jewish protests and an investigation by the municpal Board of Aldermen. Tannous feared the investigation might cost the man his job; could Amateau arrange for some prominent Jews to intervene on the man's behalf? Felix Warburg [NY German American Jewish community leader and philanthropist] immediately wrote the requested letter. "I thought it would be a good thing to make a record here which the Arabs no doubt will see, letting them know that everybody is not of the same mind," he explained to [Maurice] Hexter [Warburg's right hand on Palestine matters].
In Re: HR185, SR85
The David Project and other extremist Israel Advocacy groups have been plotting this campaign at least as far back as the 2002-2003 academic year when the DP sent
to speak at Harvard College and other Boston-area educational institutions.
The organization was fine-tuning its message as it produced the film The Forgotten Refugees. In the lead up to the introduction of this resolution, Civil Rights Commissioner Abigail Thernstrom worked hard to give the David Project credibility in Washington.
The David Project, whose founding president Charles Jacobs, is probably involved in a criminal conspiracy to prevent Muslim American citizens from exercising their Constitutional and civil rights (see http://tinyurl.com/28n4x7, http://tinyurl.com/2dxcyg), testified at the US Commission on Civil Rights and recently shared the podium at the ZOA with Kenneth Marcus [United States Commission of Civil Rights Staff Director] if I am not mistaken. If Jacobs is really interested in strengthening civil rights, he should stop trying to undermine them.
Kovel: Creating a Single Democratic State
Thu, 01/17/2008 - 09:22 — organizer
Professor Joel Kovel discusses his book, "Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine." 7pm Tue January 22 Coolidge Corner Theater, Brookline. This event is hosted by Bostonians for a Single, Democratic State.
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Is Brookline Ready to Rethink Israel-Palestine? (Joel Kovel Comes to Town)
Dr. Joseph Massad at Boston College this week
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We are pleased to announce an upcoming event at Boston College organized by some of our volunteer interns…
[note: this is not a UME event]
Dr. Joseph Massad on "Semitism and the Palestinians"
When? Thursday, April 3rd at 4:30pm
Where? Gasson Hall, Rm. 305, Boston College, Chestnut Hill Campus
Joseph Massad, Associate Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History at Columbia University, will speak on "Semitism and the Palestinians". He is the author of Colonial Effects: The Making of National Identity in Jordan, The Persistence of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinians, and, most recently, Desiring Arabs. Dr. Massad's PhD dissertation was awarded the Middle East Studies Association Malcolm Kerr Dissertation Award in 1998. He has done work on Palestinian, Israeli, and Jordanian nationalism.
This event is being sponsored by: Arab Students Association, Muslim Students Association, Sociology Dept, Fine Arts Dept, Global Justice Project, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Students Association, MEIS Minor
