Ayoon wa Azan (He hit me and cried…)

The Israeli journalist Amira Hass launched a debate in Israel that has yet to calm down. She wrote an article in Haaretz, saying that stone-throwing meant the thrower was telling the occupation that he could no longer take what is being inflicted on him, as in, "I've had it." Hass is a princess, like the meaning of her first name in Arabic. She is a liberal, like her newspaper, who supports the rights of Palestinians. She lived in Gaza in the 1990s, when we all believed that peace was coming. There are many people in Israel like her, but the government is in the hands of terrorists. Facing off against peace advocates are people such as Avigdor Lieberman, a Moldovan emigrant to Palestine whose claim to fame is being a bully. He worked as a bouncer at a bar once. Lieberman recently asked Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon to change the rules of "engagement" followed by the Israeli Defense Force (the army of occupation and murder) and order soldiers to fire on stone-throwers because they are "terrorists." Lieberman is a terrorist in a racist Neo-Nazi government, all of whose members are terrorists. Israel is an invented state that was established on Palestinian territory after the Christian west killed six million Jews and left the Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims to pay the price of its crime. When Lieberman opens his mouth, he could as well be vomiting. I have before me an invitation from the Palestinian delegation in London to take part in the commemoration of the Deir Yassin massacre of 9 April 1948, which was preceded by massacres, and followed a few months afterward by the assassination of the peace envoy, Count Bernadotte. There were a few dozen other massacres in 1948 alone, followed by terror in the entire region, such as the Bahr al-Baqr School in Cairo in 1970, the Libyan civilian airliner above Sinai in 1973, and the terror against the Gaza Strip and South Lebanon, and assassinations around the world. Israel is full of crime, just as a person is full of sin, as the Torah says. Israel is the mother and father of terror and all of its prime ministers have committed crimes against Palestinians. Some of them have been professional, Nazi-level terrorists, beginning with David Ben Gurion, Menachem Begin, and Ishaq Shamir, who were graduates of terrorist organizations, such as the Irgun and Stern Gangs. Ariel Sharon came after them. What does the settler Lieberman want Palestinian children to do, throw roses at occupation soldiers? The settlers also said that Hass's article represented incitement against them, as if the children needed it. These extremists in the land of Palestine are not alone. A pro-Likud website on the other side of the world, in the United States, objected to Boston University's hosting a two-day conference on the Right of Return, organized by Students for Justice in Palestine. The Likudniks deny the Right of Return, and deny that the people with this right own the land; they expelled them from this land and their places were taken by Ashkenazis from the Caucasus, and Haredim who live a world they have made up, which never existed in history or geography. They talk about the prophets and kings, which are just superstitions. After the debate launched by the Hass article, I read comments by Israeli extremists, objecting to the "mistreatment" of Jews who were prevented from visiting the Temple Mount, meaning the Haram al-Sharif. There is no temple, and no mount, and no prophets built anything. There is a hill upon which the Aqsa mosque was built, with the Dome of the Rock. The history of Islamic building there is known, along with the relevant names and dates. The temple is a lie; the Israelis have been digging for a long time and have not come up with anything. In between America and Israel is a country called Great Britain. Jewish groups in North London were outraged because trains in the area featured posters with the map of Palestine and how the part where Palestinians live gradually shrunk. A Jewish journalist said that it "paints Jews as aggressors, as imperialists, as people that are stealing or taking land from others." Every government in Israel has been an aggressor and has been stealing or taking land from others, and any anti-Semitism in the world should be attributed to Israel's aggression, occupation, and killing of women and children. This is how the Jews of the world are responsible for the crimes of Israel's government. Everything else is just nonsense, like the superstitions of the Torah. The views expressed by the author do not necessarily represent or reflect the editorial policy of Arabstoday.