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Dar Al Hayat (Lebanon)
June 18, 2012 Monday
International Edition
Ayoon wa Azan: [eyes & ears]
Go Back to Where You Came From
by Jihad el-Khazen
My topic today is a serious one, but I will begin with an old
anecdote, to lure the reader in. One day, Juha was sitting on the
doorstep of his home, watching people go past him in the street, and
was bored. He thought of amusing himself, so he told people that at
the edge of town a rich person's wedding and a huge banquet were
taking place, open to all. The people began to repeat what Juha said
and hurried toward the supposed wedding. Juha saw them running before
him, and said to himself, maybe there really is a wedding at the edge
of town, and ran along with them, having believed his lie. The
criminal gang called the government of Israel is Juha today, as it
believes its lies and deceives itself, along with the rest of the
world.
Israel has been silent about the unrest in Syria for 15 months; it
occupies the Golan, and not a single bullet has been fired there for
30 years. The war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu believes that the end of
the Syrian regime has drawn near; he issued a statement showing
sympathy with the people of Homs, asking for international
intervention to save them.
In Israel's prisons, there are around 10,000 Palestinians, including
women and minors, most of them there without trial. Israel confiscates
their lands on the West Bank, to build settlements and imposes a
blockade on Gaza, turning it into a large, Nazi-style concentration
camp. Then, Netanyahu remembers the people of Homs.
All of the Arab revolutions have installed regimes that hate Israel
and oppose it more than their predecessors. If there is regime change
in Syria, the new rulers will be openly hostile to Israel and
Netanyahu will learn about what people in Homs think of the occupation
of the Golan, and the Zionist entity.
I barely had time to wake up from the lie of Netanyahu's sympathy for
the people of Homs before I read that members of the Knesset had
dedicated a session to studying the idea of commemorating the Armenian
Genocide, from the days of the Ottoman Empire.
The massacre is nearly a century old, and from the establishment of
Israel on the ruins of Palestine in 1948 until the end of the 20th
century, or about 50 years, Israel was in an alliance with the Turkish
military, which ran things in the country from behind a decrepit
democratic façade.
Then, the Islamists came to power in Turkey, led by Recep Tayyip
Erdogan, and the Turkish authorities distanced themselves from Israel;
they condemned Israel's crimes against the Palestinians, and one of
Israel's reactions was to kill, in international waters, participants
in a freedom flotilla that had left for Gaza.
Israel is a state of crimes and an occupation; it does not have the
right to exist on Palestinian territory in the first place, to then
see its fascist government suddenly remember the Armenian massacres.
Which brings us to how Palestinian Armenians and everyone else
emigrated after Israel's occupation, because they also could not stand
the Israelis. My history and geography teacher in high school was a
Palestinian-Armenian, as were two of my classmates at the American
University of Beirut; Palestine's ambassador to Britain is Professor
Manuel Hassasian.
I would say that Palestinian Armenians hate Israel as much as the
people of Homs do.
>From one lie to another: members of the United States Senate, who have
been bought by the lobby with dollars, want to know the number of
Palestinian refugees who benefit from UNRWA assistance, in a
resolution named after Senator Mark Kirk, who proposed it.
Every white person in the US is a refugee, or a descendant of
refugees, and the Palestinians who were displaced in 1948 after the
Deir Yassin and Qibya and other massacres numbered 750,000 people.
They now number five million people, and the elderly among them can
take Senator Kirk by the hand and show him their families' homes,
fields and lands, which are now occupied by the Israelis.
A final lie: the American Likudnik magazine Commentary recently
published an article entitled "Dividing Jerusalem is Physically
Impossible," with the "proof" being that an American walked in its
streets and saw the intertwining of housing and populations. Fine,
there is a solution. I say to the Israelis, "Go back to where you came
from."
http://alhayat.com/Details/411797
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
June 18, 2012 Monday
International Edition
Ayoon wa Azan: [eyes & ears]
Go Back to Where You Came From
by Jihad el-Khazen
My topic today is a serious one, but I will begin with an old
anecdote, to lure the reader in. One day, Juha was sitting on the
doorstep of his home, watching people go past him in the street, and
was bored. He thought of amusing himself, so he told people that at
the edge of town a rich person's wedding and a huge banquet were
taking place, open to all. The people began to repeat what Juha said
and hurried toward the supposed wedding. Juha saw them running before
him, and said to himself, maybe there really is a wedding at the edge
of town, and ran along with them, having believed his lie. The
criminal gang called the government of Israel is Juha today, as it
believes its lies and deceives itself, along with the rest of the
world.
Israel has been silent about the unrest in Syria for 15 months; it
occupies the Golan, and not a single bullet has been fired there for
30 years. The war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu believes that the end of
the Syrian regime has drawn near; he issued a statement showing
sympathy with the people of Homs, asking for international
intervention to save them.
In Israel's prisons, there are around 10,000 Palestinians, including
women and minors, most of them there without trial. Israel confiscates
their lands on the West Bank, to build settlements and imposes a
blockade on Gaza, turning it into a large, Nazi-style concentration
camp. Then, Netanyahu remembers the people of Homs.
All of the Arab revolutions have installed regimes that hate Israel
and oppose it more than their predecessors. If there is regime change
in Syria, the new rulers will be openly hostile to Israel and
Netanyahu will learn about what people in Homs think of the occupation
of the Golan, and the Zionist entity.
I barely had time to wake up from the lie of Netanyahu's sympathy for
the people of Homs before I read that members of the Knesset had
dedicated a session to studying the idea of commemorating the Armenian
Genocide, from the days of the Ottoman Empire.
The massacre is nearly a century old, and from the establishment of
Israel on the ruins of Palestine in 1948 until the end of the 20th
century, or about 50 years, Israel was in an alliance with the Turkish
military, which ran things in the country from behind a decrepit
democratic façade.
Then, the Islamists came to power in Turkey, led by Recep Tayyip
Erdogan, and the Turkish authorities distanced themselves from Israel;
they condemned Israel's crimes against the Palestinians, and one of
Israel's reactions was to kill, in international waters, participants
in a freedom flotilla that had left for Gaza.
Israel is a state of crimes and an occupation; it does not have the
right to exist on Palestinian territory in the first place, to then
see its fascist government suddenly remember the Armenian massacres.
Which brings us to how Palestinian Armenians and everyone else
emigrated after Israel's occupation, because they also could not stand
the Israelis. My history and geography teacher in high school was a
Palestinian-Armenian, as were two of my classmates at the American
University of Beirut; Palestine's ambassador to Britain is Professor
Manuel Hassasian.
I would say that Palestinian Armenians hate Israel as much as the
people of Homs do.
>From one lie to another: members of the United States Senate, who have
been bought by the lobby with dollars, want to know the number of
Palestinian refugees who benefit from UNRWA assistance, in a
resolution named after Senator Mark Kirk, who proposed it.
Every white person in the US is a refugee, or a descendant of
refugees, and the Palestinians who were displaced in 1948 after the
Deir Yassin and Qibya and other massacres numbered 750,000 people.
They now number five million people, and the elderly among them can
take Senator Kirk by the hand and show him their families' homes,
fields and lands, which are now occupied by the Israelis.
A final lie: the American Likudnik magazine Commentary recently
published an article entitled "Dividing Jerusalem is Physically
Impossible," with the "proof" being that an American walked in its
streets and saw the intertwining of housing and populations. Fine,
there is a solution. I say to the Israelis, "Go back to where you came
from."
http://alhayat.com/Details/411797
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress