In its May and June 2009 issue, the American Jewish magazine "Moment" published an interview with Zionist Rabbi "Manis Friedman" about the best way for the Jews in occupied Palestine to deal with their Arab neighbors. Friedman's answer was explicit: “I do not believe in Western morals, meaning that you should not kill civilians or children, not destroy holy places, not fight on religious occasions, not bomb cemeteries, not shoot before others shoot you... The only way to fight a moral war is the Jewish way. Destroy their holy places, and kill their men, women, children, and livestock.”
Friedman explained that as the only and real deterrent to getting rid of the Palestinians' persistence and their continuous resistance, and that these are the values of the Bible that will make the Israelis "
With this severe openness, "Friedman" presented his belief in the optimal treatment of the Palestinians who disturb Hana al-Firdaus Israeli, according to him, and in this he does not follow a personal point of view and does not speak out of his ideas. Clearly revealing to us the Jewish position on Palestine and its people, and the theoretical basis for all acts of genocide and terrorism practiced by Zionism while in occupied Palestine.
For this, we need to go back a little, to see the roots of this genocidal discourse and that criminal tendency that legitimizes the Zionist acts of murder, extermination, displacement and ethnic cleansing in the name of God.
What are these roots?
How did Zionism build its discourse on it?
And what is the purpose of this building?
Remember the Amalekites!
In his book "The Holy Crime", Dr. "Issam Sakhnini", a former professor of history at the University of "Petra" in Jordan, stated that the Zionist genocidal discourse used the Torah and its travels to legitimize its crimes and practices in Palestine.
Despite the stark contrast between Zionism as a secular movement and the Torah as a religious text, the former exploited Jewish law to realize its colonial ambitions in Palestine.
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The book "The Holy Crime" by Dr. "Issam Sakhnin"
"Sakhnini" believes that the Zionist act of genocide took biblical symbols and legends - or biblical legends - as "a reference for it, from which it is inspired by what the ancestors did to apply it to the current reality",[3] and this is confirmed by the statement of the professor at Haifa University "Beit Halhami"[4]; He believes that Israel treats its Bible as a historical reference whose historical events must be repeated.
According to this narration, Abraham - or God’s prophet Abraham - was the first to be entrusted by “Jehovah” (the Biblical God) with the land of historic Palestine, and he singled out this covenant from his descendants Isaac, and then Jacob - or Israel - so that this land after him would be owned by the Children of Israel with a divine right sacred.
Looking at the biblical text, as a historical reference for the Zionist movement, we will find that the Book of Deuteronomy clearly explains the war strategy to be followed when entering countries, as it says: “When you approach a city in order to fight it, summon it for peace, for if your answer is to peace and it is opened to you, then all the people in it will be It is yours to be subjected to slavery, and to be enslaved to you, and if it does not make peace with you, but makes war with you, then besiege it. And if the Lord your God delivers it into your hand, then strike all its males with the edge of the sword. But the women, children, beasts, and all that is in the city, all its spoil, you shall spoil for yourself, and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies which the Lord has given you." .
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Proceeding from this biblical rooting, Dr. Rashad al-Shami, a veteran researcher in Hebrew affairs, believes that these biblical laws “are the ones that Israeli leaders receive as a source of inspiration, and as a sacred law for the resumption of the Israeli resurrection in Palestine, on the basis that every crime becomes legitimate and legal for the sake of Fulfillment of the promise of the Lord.
[6] With further reflection on this biblical rooting, we will find in the Book of Joshua that when “Joshua” stormed the land of Canaan - historical Palestine - with his army of the Children of Israel, they did not remain a vibrant race in all the cities they stormed.
After they took Jericho, "they utterly destroyed everything in the city, man and woman, young and old, even cows, sheep, and donkeys, with the edge of the sword...and burned the city with all that was in it."
[7] And the prohibition here means annihilation, and so they did with “Ai”, which the text tells that “Joshua” burned it “and made it an everlasting heap of desolation.”
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Apart from the fabrication mentioned in the biblical text and his claim against the Prophet of God, “Joshua bin Nun,” these massacres,[9] according to this book and others, “Sakhnini” believes that the biblical character of “Joshua,” with the crimes of extermination and extermination attributed to it, appears to be the biblical character. The most prominent of the leaders of the Zionist project and the object of their first admiration, to the extent that the first Israeli Prime Minister "David Ben-Gurion" once stated that "there must be continuity from Joshua Ben-Nun to the IDF."
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That eradication doctrine, supported by religious myths, was not limited to political and military decisions only, but also extended through the decades of occupation to the core of the educational institution itself. George Tamarin, a professor of psychology at Tel Aviv University, conducted a survey of about a thousand students from high schools in Israel. , to monitor the impact of the acts of genocide attributed to "Joshua" in their thinking, and it was found that about 80% of the students agreed that what is attributed to "Joshua" in Jericho and a plot is true, while 38% of them believed that the Israeli army should repeat the same genocide in the Arab villages it enters. .
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In addition to the symbolism of the land of Canaan and historical Palestine, "Sakhnini" believes that there is another symbolism that is more common in Zionist genocidal thought, which is the myth of "Amalek", which is frequented by the Zionists and their pens, and provides a model for what should be dealt with the Palestinian Arabs.
However, what makes the story of “Amalek” a legend is the lack of any historical support in the biblical account, so that it sometimes contradicts the ratio of these Amalekites;
Once to the time of God’s prophet “Abraham”, and once to the time of his grandson “Esau bin Isaac”, who is the father of the so-called “Amalek” himself.
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The story mentions that the people of the Amalekites inhabited the Sinai Peninsula and part of the land of Canaan (today Palestine), so they increased the war of the prophets of the Children of Israel until “Jehovah” ordered the Prophet “Moses” to uproot them from the earth,[13] and to fight them generation after generation, and the order came after that. To the Prophet "Samuel" for the extermination of the Amalekites and their beasts and all that gave life to their country.
[14] The image of the "Amalek" to be exterminated has become a "classic model of a different other," [15] which is confirmed by Gerald Cromer, professor of criminology at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, who says that the "Amalek" have become a representation of the peak of evil in the world. Jewish traditions, and for this reason rabbis and other common people used the term "Amalek" to refer to peoples who threaten Jewish existence.
[16] Some Israelis have already described the enemies of the Zionist entity with this description, such as the Mufti of Jerusalem and former Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
, his Iraqi counterpart, Saddam Hussein, and even the late Palestinian president, Yasser Arafat.
Therefore, a Zionist organization was established under the name of "Killer Watch" to investigate the locations of the Palestinian resistance fighters and bring them to trial with the aim of exterminating them. The organization raised the slogan: "Remember the Amalekites."
Late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat
That narrative, which explains to us the Zionist vision of the different other - and the Palestinians in particular - always aims to make him suffer the fate of the “Amalek” by erasing them from under the sky, so that the Rabbi of “Bar Ilan” University, “Israel Hess” clearly declared that there should be no leniency or Mercy is with the "Amalek" of this age (the Palestinians), so they should be killed, even infants, and this is the same opinion declared by the Chairman of the Council of Settlements in the West Bank, "Benzi Lieberman," who considered the Palestinians "Amalek" to be destroyed.
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A land without a people for a people without a land
In his book "The Social Roots of the Nakba", Dr. and researcher Akram Hegazy highlights many Zionist propaganda that delegitimized its settlement project in Palestine. Among these false propaganda is what was promoted by the early Zionist leaders, "Theodor Herzl" and "Israel Zangwill" and others from The land of Palestine is a land without a people for a people without a land.
In this context, "Issam Sakhnini" says that if we wanted to intensify the Zionist project in one sentence, his claim would have been that he would return the scattered Jews in various parts of the earth to a land they owned and inherited from their ancestors. The historical Jew and his division in various countries, the land that the Book promised them and bequeathed to them, and the return, which is a heavenly will that must take place.
But this narrative would not have been complete unless that inherited land was devoid of human beings, and so the leaders of the Zionist project had to turn Palestine into a truly empty land in order for the alleged promise to be fulfilled.
For this reason, “Theodor Herzl” wrote in his memoirs in 1895 the first plan to empty the land, which was based on two strategies: the first is to acquire the lands of the rich by paying huge sums that cannot be refused, and the second is to encourage the poor to migrate to neighboring countries for better job opportunities with higher wages, on the That they be prevented from working in Palestine with restrictions imposed on them completely.
"Theodor Herzl"
In addition to Herzl's project, another Zionist leader's project came, "Arthur Rubin",[18] who announced in 1914 a new strategy of buying lands in Homs and Aleppo and selling them at cheap prices to the Palestinians after they were tempted or forced to emigrate, and this is the same idea that he proposed Felix Warburg, Chairman of the Administrative Committee of the Jewish Agency, wrote to Sir John Chancellor, the British High Commissioner in Palestine, in November 1930, proposing to him deport the Arabs of Palestine to Transjordan and help the Zionists buy better and more attractive Jordanian land for the Palestinian peasants .
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Regardless of the outcome of the three projects that failed miserably in emptying Palestine of its people, what is striking is that the idea of Palestinian displacement was the first goal of the Zionist settlement project. The Plans Loved by the Amalekites' Enemies: Forced Deportation and Extermination.
We find this strategy clearly evident in Ben-Gurion’s statement in 1937: “I support forced deportation and do not see anything immoral in it,”[20] and we find it a concrete reality in the events of the Nakba, which was the typical representation of all the terms of the extermination of the Palestinians and their disappearance from existence.
extermination
In the midst of the scholarly debate on the Nakba, we see differing opinions on whether or not the Nakba deserves to be called a "genocide."
While Sari Hanafi, a professor at the American University of Beirut, considered that the best description of the Nakba is the “annihilation of the place”;
As it made voluntary migration a mandatory reality,[21] Martin Shaw, a British specialist in genocide studies, believes that the Nakba is actually a genocide.
[22] “Sakhnini” justifies this by saying that the earth is life, or at least it is necessary for life;
Therefore, the conflict over land is often a struggle for life, and this does not mean that all members of the target group have lost their lives in the literal sense, but it does mean that killing part of them, with the psychological horror of the killing process, displacement and displacement among the rest, is sufficient for We consider it a complete genocide.
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Sabra and Shatila massacre
Looking at what the Nakba brought about - which is based on a purely Jewish faith - we will find that it used two types of mass destruction that produced the act of extermination: the first is the destruction of the place, and we notice it clearly in the study of the researcher "Walid Al-Khalidi" about the villages that were destroyed in the Nakba;
418 villages were horribly destroyed, a huge number that represents almost half of the number of Palestinian villages.
The same research team found that 292 villages were completely destroyed, making them and the soil the same, while 90 other villages faced widespread destruction, leaving only a few of their homes, while eight villages survived most of their homes from destruction, and seven other villages were settled by the Zionists.
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As for the second type of genocide, it was represented in one of the most heinous war crimes in history, namely the mass massacres committed by the Zionist “Haganah” gangs against defenseless Palestinians. “Aryeh Yitzhaki,” the Israeli military historian, stated that the Jewish forces committed in only one year between In 1948 and 1949, about ten major massacres claimed more than 50 lives each, in addition to 100 smaller massacres.
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Arab historical writings have been filled with detailed mention of these massacres, which is too long to mention, but what many Arab sources have agreed upon is that the statistics far exceed what Yitzhaki mentioned. For example, in the Palestinian Encyclopedia, the Deir Yassin massacre alone, which occurred in April In April 1948, it claimed the lives of 250 Palestinians, most of them elderly, women and children, in "prohibiting" a true and contemporary Jew of the town, including it.
The same thing was repeated in dozens, if not hundreds, of Palestinian villages, which was confirmed by "Yitzhaki" when he mentioned that most Palestinian villages were subjected to some form of massacres, so that another Israeli historian such as "Uri Milstein" confirms that every battle of the year 1948 was ending. with a massacre.
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Many and many massacres that occurred after the people of the village raised the white banners and declared their surrender, including what happened after the villagers provided food and water to the Zionist gangs to prevent their evil.
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Deir Yassin massacre
As a result of all this, the first Arab-Zionist war alone resulted in the displacement of about 750,000 Palestinians who were uprooted from their land so that their land would be left without a people and given to a people who had no land.
"Sakhnini" states that the matter did not stop there. Rather, Israeli settlements were built along the border armistice line between the Zionists and the deported Palestinians, and the Israeli authority ordered the completion of the extermination of anyone who crossed the border to the land that had just been emptied, in what was known at the time as the decision to prevent return, which he announced General Yigal Alon, a decision that resulted in the killing of about 2,700 to 5,000 people, most of them civilians, between 1949 and 1956.
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The Nakba ended with the complete integration of all dimensions of the genocide, the destruction of the place and the looting of half of the Palestinian villages in one go, with human massacres that claimed the lives of about 13,000 Palestinians, the dismantling of the existing social fabric, erasing the name of Palestine from the maps, ending any possibility of establishing a Palestinian political entity, and deporting the country’s residents criminally prevent them from returning;
And then the Nakba laid the biggest and most horrific chapter in the narrative of the "Amalek" to be annihilated by God's chosen people.
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margins
Many sources are from the book "The Holy Crime" by Issam Sakhnin.
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Sources
1- Manis Friedman, “How should Jews treat their Arab Neighbors?”
Moment (May-June) 2009.
2- Muhammad Emara Taqi Al-Din, Religious Movements Rejecting Zionism inside Israel.
3- Issam Sakhnin, The Holy Crime: Genocide from the Ideology of the Hebrew Book to the Zionist Project.
4- Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, Original Sins: Reactions on the History of Zionism and Israel.
5- Deuteronomy, chapter 20, verses [10-16].
6- Rashad Al-Shami, the Jewish-Israeli character and aggressive spirit.
7- The Book of Joshua, chapter 6, verses [21-24].
8- The Book of Joshua, chapter 8, verses [25-28].
9- Munqith bin Mahmoud al-Saqqar, is the Old Testament the word of God?
10- Issam Sakhnin, The Holy Crime: Genocide from the Ideology of the Hebrew Book to the Zionist Project.
11- David Wetherell, “The Use and Misuse of Religious Language: Zionism and the (i) Palestinians”, Holy Land Studies, vol.
4, no.
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12- Genesis, chapter 36, verses [12-16].
13- Deuteronomy, chapter 25, verses [17-19].
14- The first book of Samuel, chapter 15, verses 1-3.
15- Issam Sakhnin, The Holy Crime: Genocide from the Ideology of the Hebrew Book to the Zionist Project.
16- Gerald Cromer, “Amalek as Other, Other as Amalek: Interpreting a Violent Biblical.”
17- Issam Sakhnin, The Holy Crime: Genocide from the Ideology of the Hebrew Book to the Zionist Project.
18- As Mentioned in: Chaim Simons, A Historical Survey of Proposals to Transfer Arabs from Palestine.
19- Same source.
20- Issam Sakhnin, The Holy Crime: Genocide from the Ideology of the Hebrew Book to the Zionist Project.
21- Same source.
22- Martin Shaw, “Palestine in International Historical: Perspective on Genocide”, Holy Land Studies.
23- Issam Sakhnin, The Holy Crime: Genocide from the Ideology of the Hebrew Book to the Zionist Project.
24- Walid Al-Khalidi, lest we forget: the villages of Palestine destroyed by Israel in 1948 and the names of their martyrs.
25- Quoted in: Nur Masalha, The Bible and Zionism: Invented Traditions, Archeology and Post- Colonialism in Palestine-lsrael.
26- Masalha, The Bible and Zionism: Invented Traditions, Archeology and Post-Colonialism in Palestine-Israel.
27- Issam Sakhnin, The Holy Crime: Genocide from the Ideology of the Hebrew Book to the Zionist Project.
28- Morris, Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict.