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Memory killing represents one of the most dangerous forms of genocide practiced by Israel against the Palestinians, who carry their history as a past weapon against the occupier.

For more than 7 decades, Israel did not stop at killing, starving, and displacing the owners of the land, but it also seized their museums, cemeteries, and everything that linked them to their roots and late ancestors.

The Israeli settlement in Palestine does not represent a historical precedent. It was preceded by the Americans, Australians and Canadians who exterminated entire races and established new states over their graves and remains.

Biological warfare

In the Americas, genocide continued for about 4 centuries, during which 95% of the indigenous population, equivalent to 100 million Red Indians, were killed.

According to the "Blind Spot" program prepared by "Al Jazeera Net", the Americans did not rely only on bullets and starvation to exterminate the Native Americans, but they also used blankets contaminated with the smallpox germ and withheld from them the vaccine, becoming the first biological war in history against a people who refuse to give up their land and roots.

1960s scoop

Between the end of the 1950s and the beginning of the 1980s, Canadians adopted what was known as the “Scoop of the 1960s” law, which “periodically scooped up indigenous children just as chicken chicks are scooped from incubators.”

During this stage, Canadians mercilessly ripped thousands of infants from their mothers’ breasts, then distributed them through newspaper and television advertisements to white families living in distant places.

The goal of this law was to sever the connection between these infants and their families and to tear apart the bonds of the original owners of the land as a prelude to erasing their history, and they did this systematically and without the slightest sense of shame or remorse of conscience.

This crime produced a new generation bearing the features of the owners of the land, but they knew nothing about them, their language, culture, or heritage. Canada did not apologize for this act until the end of the 1990s.

Despite the apology that does not erase the crime, the Canadian government only paid humiliating compensation that ranged between 25 and 50 thousand dollars to the kidnapped people, who lost their families and their history forever, which is equivalent to one year’s salary for a low-income person.

Even the International Criminal Court, which was established in 2002 as an international organization outside the framework of the United Nations, devoted itself to talking about legal debates and procedural mechanisms in order to differentiate between genocide, massacre, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and assault crimes.

However, both the United States and Israel withdrew their signature on the court’s charter so that they are not obligated to implement its rulings, if they are issued.

Therefore, the most dangerous confrontation seems to be the one in which Israel tries to erase history while the Palestinians continue to cling to it, so the question remains: Will the owners of the land in the diaspora become extinct, or will their vast culture, long history, and roaring Islamic environment all triumph over mass murder?

Source: Al Jazeera