Ramallah April 1, 2007.– “The newly appointed Palestinian leader Sasi Nasoos announced that he secured the agreement of all Palestinian factions on a new unity platform to replace the Palestinian Thawabet (constants) and previous unity agreements and supplant International law. The new unity platform to revive the peace process calls for world normalization with Israel on all fronts (especially economic) and accepts Israel’s long-standing demand that Palestinians give up the right of return to their homes and lands, accept Israel as a Jewish state (accept the laws that discriminate against their remnants inside Israel), and accept the concept of the statelet that is to be named Palustan on parts of the West Bank.
Palestinians will also accept Israel’s annexation and sovereignty on the Western and Eastern Water aquifers (where the settlements lie in the Jordan Valley and the Western parts of the West Bank) and areas around Jerusalem (all the Jewish colonies there). Palestinians have also accepted Israel’s sovereignty on the subterranean earth of Arab areas of East Jerusalem (especially under the Mosques of Al-Aksa, Omar etc), control over the air space of the West Bank, the electromagnetic spectrum, the natural resources, and the borders of the newly liberated Palustan. All resistance is to cease, all Palestinians to have no weapons, and all mention of Israel’s military arsenal (especially its nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons) is to cease as that would be considered incitement.
More detail at
http://www.aprilfoolsday.org/
So far this spoof would sound outlandish but the agreement part of it is what was actually on offer at Camp David!. Still far more people need to get involved to ensure this scenario does not happen. Far more people need to get educated about the racism that is inherent in the political Zionist ideality and that now is so pervasive in Israeli society and in its supporters in America. Here is just a brief exchange of emails with one such American Jewish Zionist (and no, this exchange is not an April Fool’s joke!):
Sheldon writes:
FW: MDA enters Ramallah to save Palestinian baby For the first time since the intifada, an Israeli ambulance enters Palestinian territories in order to evacuate critically injured baby. Lilach Shoval Can you imagine your barbarian friends doing anything to help an Israeli
Sheldon
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Mazin writes:
Can you imagine a more racist comment than yours (which I will include in my upcoming book)? Perhaps you can imagine it only if I do this: Here are two stories of situations:
Palestinian drowns trying to save Israeli teenagers
http://traubman.igc.org/messages/489.htm
Palestinian donor saves Israeli lives
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1371651.stm
Nothing unusual here. It would bne unusual if I sent you one of those links and wrote what you wrote: “Can you imagine your barbarian friends doing anything to help a Palestinian”
RACISM and Bigotry! We should say never again and mean it.
Mazin
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Sheldon Writes:
Obviously living in the influence of Israel, or what you call occupied east Jerusalem, he learned new values. Those are the kind of people that should live and govern.
Sheldon
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Ronnie Kasrils, minister for intelligence in the South African government (and who is Jewish) once wrote “The Palestinian minority in Israel has for decades been denied basic equality in health, education, housing and land possession, solely because it is not Jewish. The fact that this minority is allowed to vote hardly redresses the rampant injustice in all other basic human rights. They are excluded from the very definition of the ‘Jewish state’, and have virtually no influence on the laws, or political, social and economic policies. Hence, their similarity to the black South Africans [under apartheid].” (The Guardian, 25 May 2005)
And these are the lucky ones. The Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza basically live in a new kind of large concentration camps.
Barbara Tuchman wrote in The March of Folly:
“Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists in assessing a situation in terms of preconceived fixed notions while ignoring or rejecting any contrary signs. It is acting according to wish while not allowing oneself to be deflected by the facts. It is epitomized in a historian’s statement about Phillip II of Spain, the surpassing wooden-head of all sovereigns: No experience of the failure of his policy could shake his belief in its essential excellence”
Can there be any better description of the actions of Sheldon, Bush, Olmert, and virtually the entire political establishment in Israel and America who support Israeli apartheid?
But that again is the diagnosis which we should spend less time on. Preventive medicine and when afflicted, prognosis and therapy is what we need. That requires rethinking our own actions and responsibilities. How much are we willing to get uncomfortable/change our routine in life? Or will most of us remain passive consumers (of products and of propaganda).
Perhaps this (I do not know who is the author) might help:
The most destructive habit……………………..Worry
The greatest Joy………………………………Giving
The greatest loss……………………………..Loss of self-respect
The most satisfying work……………………….Helping others
The ugliest personality trait…………………..Selfishness
The most endangered species…………………….Dedicated leaders
Our greatest natural resource…………………..Our youth
The greatest “shot in the arm”………………….Encouragement
The greatest problem to overcome………………..Fear
The most effective sleeping pill………………..Peace of mind
The most crippling failure disease………………Excuses
The most powerful force in life…………………Love
The most dangerous pariah………………………A gossiper
The world’s most incredible computer…………….The brain
The worst thing to be without…………………..Hope
The deadliest weapon…………………………..The tongue
The two most power-filled words…………………”I Can”
The greatest asset…………………………….Faith
The most worthless emotion……………………..Self-pity
The most beautiful attire………………………SMILE!
The most prized possession……………………..Integrity
The most powerful channel of communication……….Prayer/contemplation
The most contagious spirit……………………..Enthusiasm
Mazin Qumsiyeh
http://justicewheels.org
http://endtheoccupation.org
http://pac-national.org
http://qumsiyeh.org
The Palestinian American Congress is a non-sectarian group and it is a national grass roots organization that defends and represents the interests of Palestinian Americans. (see http://www.pac-national.org/ ).