14th Intifada on the way and its global ramifications
Below I discuss briefly why I think Israel is intent on ethnic cleansing in
the occupied territories, the recent upheaval here and the killing of
children, who is Benyamin Mileikowsky (aka Netanyahu) behind the spate of
recent war crimes including murdering a 13 year old child (pictures below),
ask whether a 14th Intifada on the way and its global ramifications, and
progress in building something positive in Bethlehem.
There has been a significant escalation of violence in the apartheid
country in the past few days. If this is a new uprising it is expected as
we have one on average every 10 years (we had nearly 14 in the past 140
years of Zionist onslaught). When we analyze the straw that broke the
proverbial camel’s back for this particular wave of unrest, we see the
arson attack 31 July 2015 on the Dawabshe family (father, mother and child
murdered) and the calls for revenge. Since then some 30 Palestinians and 4
Israelis were killed.The past week saw further escalation that started with
storming Al-Aqsa mosque area with extremist settlers who call for
destroying the mosque to build a Jewish temple. A Jewish settler husband
and wife were killed by a cell from Hamas (probably acting without direct
orders from hierarchy). They were residents of an illegal Israeli colony
built on Palestinian land and the husband was a high level Israeli officer
(the wife also served in the Israeli military). Whether one supports such
actions or not, the action predictably unleashed a torrent of settler
revenge attacks supported by the Israeli military. Netanyahu came back from
his US tour after receiving a green light from Washington for ethnic
cleansing in Jerusalem and for killing Palestinians. He told his commanders
to shoot any Palestinian throwing stones and if they arrest such youth to
give them mandatory minimum sentences of 4 years. Settlers and soldiers in
turn got the green light to torch cars, shoot civilians, burn crops and
more. Tensions escalated and 650 Palestinian civilians were injured and
many killed. Here in Bethlehem a 13 year old child Abdelrahman Obeidallah
was gunned down when he was returning from school. Pictures showed he was
not participating in the demonstration. It is hard to justify shooting a
child in the chest who is not posing a threat. I cried as I paid a visit
and extended condolences to his father and other family members today. In
a videotaped incident in Jerusalem, there was clear execution of a young
man who was posing no threat. Israeli settlers chased a 19 year old Fadi
Alloon heading for his early morning prayers. He tried to get protection
even from Israeli police officers but settlers screamed at the police
telling them to shoot him and the police followed settler orders without
the victim posing any threat to anyone. Full evidence with translation by
Ronni Barkan from Hebrew of the Nazi like behavior is found here:
https://youtu.be/nj8gXqGh2V0 The murderers like in thousands of similar
incidents will remain free and even be praised for their actions. It is
clear now that there is an orchestrated campaign to destroy native presence
here to extend the geography and hegemony of the racist “Jewish state” and
western media have done little or no reporting on what is going on in here.
The few local reporters trying to cover events are targeted physically and
shot at regularly.
Father of 13 year old AbdelRahman, victim of Israeli terrorism on the spot
where he was murdered
Israeli military occupiers decided to close down the old city of Jerusalem
selectively to Palestinians while Israeli Jews were allowed in to rampage
and taunt and attack the native Jerusalemites (Christians and Muslims).
Such a military order shows once again that we are deeper into fascist
apartheid. Palestinians rightly wonder why the cell that firebombed the
Dawabsheh family is still free while those who killed the settler couple
were tracked down within 24 hours? Denying a city to the native people
while opening it up for colonizers is against International law. Murdering
at will, injuring hundreds, kidnapping citizens (600 in September alone)
and holding them for months and years without trial, torturing people,
demolishing homes. Many consider it a beginning of a new (14th) uprising
against the Zionist colonization of Palestine. The conditions of an
uprising are indeed there and I explained in detail in my book about its
trajectory (see http://qumsiyeh.org/
The “Arab and Islamic world” and the USA are increasing exposed as
collaborators with Netanyahu and company in the slaughter stretching from
Yemen to Syria passing through Palestine. Palestinians in the streets are
increasingly frustrated at their own leaders (whose terms have expired and
can’t seem to let go of their seats). Political paralysis New actors are
coming to fill the gap left after the mess created by imperialism here.
Russia entered the fray in Syria. Russia entered Syria at the request of
the Syrian government while the US did not have such permission nor a
decision by the UN Security Council. But more importantly, Russian jets did
more damage to ISIS in the first 48 hours that US “coalition” did in one
year. Russia says it will talk to the “moderate rebels” that the US claims
to exist if they can be found. Problem is all non-government held territory
is in the hands of Nusra, ISIS or others (many of them equipped by USA and
its coalition). US security establishment already admitted that most of
the weapons they sent to supposed moderate people (mercenaries?) switched
to be held by the extremist rebels. Perhaps the US was interested in what
Henry Kissinger described as policy is “to get them to kill each other”.
Perhaps Russia will upset this and finally succeed in ending 5 years of
stalemate in Syria. The pivot remains here. Leaders of the Zionist forces
ordered soldiers to shoot children, to torture prisoners, and to demolish
homes and repeat the ethnic cleansing done in 1948. Since he is in the
headline for staring down the UN and meeting with world leaders to bully
and threaten them, it is worth looking who is Netanyahu.
Benyamin Mileikowsky (aka Netanyahu) was born to Benzion Mileikowsky (later
changed names to Netanyahu), a Polish settler who came to Palestine and to
the USA (dual citizenship acquired). His American father became secretary
to terrorist leader Vladimir Yevgenyevich Zhabotinsky (aka Zeev Jabotinsky)
founder of “revisionist” Zionism and supported groups like Irgun terrorist
organization during the mandate in Palestine. His son continues to idolize
these early Jewish terrorists. Both Benjamin and his brother served in
units of the Israeli forces responsible for assassinations on foreign lands
(in violations of international law) and committed war crimes. He is known
both among Israelis and globally as a consummate liar who refused to accept
the Oslo accords (even though they were partial to Israel) and has gotten
rich off of his political activities. Here is a video of him thinking the
camera was off explaining his true contributions during his first stint as
Israeli prime minister in the 1990s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
see also this report
This is after all the same terrorist who gave a speech to dozens of Likud
Party members in Eilat in which he admitted this is his strategy. According
to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz (15 July 2001): “…giving his audience a
bit of advice on how to deal with foreign interviewers (Netanyahu said):
‘Always, irrespective of whether you’re right or not, you must always
present your side as right.’ In 2011 at the G20 summit, the French
president, Nicolas Sarkozy, described Netanyahu as a liar in a private
exchange with US President Barack Obama (it was inadvertently broadcast to
journalists). “I cannot stand him. He’s a liar,” Sarkozy told Obama. US
President Obama responded by saying: “You’re fed up with him? I have to
deal with him every day.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
But Obama was exagerrating: he does not have to deal with Nothingyahu every
day. We do and we are sick and tired of it and that is why Abbas’s efforts
to stem an uprising will fail.
Sadly civilians suffer for US/Israeli policies of destabilization and
mayhem. My view is that Palestine will remain an Achilles heel of western
hypocrisy, and the key to conflict generation in Western Asia. Our freedom
will be a key to regional and global stability. Perhaps that is why
demonstrations were in over 50 cities and towns in occupied Palestine
(including Jaffa, Haifa, Nazareth etc) and dozens of cities around the
world. The world is waking up. We pray that politicians do not be the last
to wake-up.
Besides engaging in popular resistance, we continue to build for the
future. We have several new volunteers at our Palestine Museum of Natural
History and Institute of Biodiversity and Sustainability at Bethlehem
University (see http://palestinenature.org). We just had our first rains of
the season. Olive picking will commence shortly. We have visitors daily. We
plan and execute projects that help people stay on their land and do
productive work. We have students learning and growing in their skills. We
learn new things every day. Life goes on even in the midst of decades of
Zionist genocidal actions. We teach life. Join us, visit us.
Missing the target, forgetting the point, forgetting the profession by Dr
Paola Manduca
Stay human
Mazin Qumsiyeh
Professor, Bethlehem University
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