{"id":163017,"date":"2017-12-20T17:20:13","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T17:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=163017"},"modified":"2017-12-25T07:24:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-25T07:24:00","slug":"living-in-a-stolen-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=163017","title":{"rendered":"Living in a Stolen Land"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lasha Darkmoon — Darkmoon.me Dec 20, 2017<\/h1>\n

Whither Israel? Will it still be around in 10 years\u2019 time? Will the Palestinians ever receive justice and see the restoration of their lost lands?
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\"Israel<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Rima Najjar\u00a0is a Palestinian activist, researcher, and retired professor of English Literature who taught for many years at Al-Quds University in the occupied West Bank of Israel. Her paternal ancestors, who had lived for generations in the village of Lifta\u00a0 on the western outskirts of Jerusalem, were horrified to see the depopulation of their village in the 1948 Nakba, when the marauding Jews came marching in with their machetes and their wild eyes.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
How many of her family were wiped out, Rima Najjar does not say.<\/h5>\n
\u201cThe Jews ordered us to line up against the wall and started shooting. All were killed: my father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, uncles, aunts and some of their children. Halim Eid saw a man shoot a bullet into the neck of my [pregnant] sister. THEN HE CUT HER STOMACH OPEN WITH A BUTCHER\u2019S KNIFE<\/strong>.\u201d<\/h5>\n
This comes from Fahimi Zidan, a Palestinian child survivor of the infamous Deir Yassin massacre of 1948. (See here<\/a><\/strong>). Whether any of Rima Najjar\u2019s family were lined up against the wall in Lifta and shot is unknown. Nor is it known if any of the pregnant females in her family had their stomachs cut open with a butcher\u2019s knife by the invaders of Palestine.<\/h5>\n
If I mention this by way of introduction, it is to emphasize the fact that Rima Najjar is emotionally involved in the history of Israel, which will be exactly 70 years old in a few months\u2019 time. To be precise, on 14 May 2018. Rima has seen a lot happen in that time, during her tenure at Al-Quds University with its 5,500 students scattered over the West Bank, some in Ramallah and others in the Old City of Jerusalem.<\/h5>\n
It\u2019s a wonder she\u2019s still alive.<\/h5>\n
Let Rima speak for herself. She will bring you up to date with what is going on in Occupied Palestine, especially in Jerusalem where her university is located. She is anxious to tell us about the impact of Donald Trump\u2019s preposterous presumption in handing over Jerusalem to the Israelis as their \u201cEternal Capital\u201d.<\/h5>\n
Rima writes<\/strong><\/a><\/span>:<\/h5>\n
What\u2019s going on in Jerusalem is what has always been going on in Palestine since 1948 \u2014 the forced dispossession of Palestinian Arabs of their identity, land and heritage.<\/em><\/h5>\n
Because of\u00a0Donald Trump\u2019s declaration to move the US embassy to Jerusalem and the resultant\u00a0global outrage<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0regarding this decision, many people have become interested in understanding what is going on in Palestine and what the global ramifications might be.<\/h5>\n
They are finally becoming aware, after 69 years of\u00a0Nakba<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, 69 anniversaries of Human Rights Day and 69 years of\u00a0falsification<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>of history, that the Palestinian people, like all other peoples in the world, do in fact have the right to self-determination and return.<\/h5>\n
Israel is surrounded by the Palestinians (among them 5 million UNRWA Palestine refugees in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan) it drove out of Palestine to establish the\u00a0Apartheid\u00a0settler\u00a0colonial\u00a0Jewish state there. These people are mostly, but not exclusively, Muslim in religion. They are the indigenous people of Palestine, Arab in culture, the true owners of the land.<\/h5>\n
At the center of Zionist mythology, she tells us,\u00a0 is\u00a0illegally-annexed<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>Arab East Jerusalem. Trump\u2019s declaration flies in the face of international law and has been universally condemned except by the Israelis, the Jewish neoconservatives, and AIPAC-controlled politicians in Congress and the Senate. These have welcomed Trump\u2019s declaration,\u00a0 proclaiming with sanctimonious hypocrisy that this will now kickstart the non-existent \u201cpeace process\u201d.<\/h5>\n
Trump\u2019s mischievous declaration, designed to curry favor with his Jewish backers and enrage the Palestinians, has also been greeted with bleated cries of ecstasy from the 70 million Christian Zionists who infest America and are Judaics in all but name.<\/h5>\n
The world has rejected Trump\u2019s declaration as evil and stupid. Only the Jews and their lackeys and sycophantic camp followers have smacked their lips with approval at the President\u2019s latest antics. This is because they know this is \u201cgood for the Jews\u201d. The happiest bunny of them all is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been struggling manfully all week to conceal his gloats under a cascade of sunny smiles.<\/h5>\n

\"Netanyahu<\/a><\/p>\n

Hamid Dabashi\u00a0writes<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0in Al-Jazeera:<\/h5>\n
If you want to understand the psychopathology at the root of the Zionist psychosis, you must go to the heart of their delusion, like an analyst placing a mentally sick person on a couch \u2013 and today there is no better place to see that psychotic colonial fixation at work than in an article, titled,\u00a0Of Course Jerusalem Is Israel\u2019s Capital<\/em>, published (where else?) in the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0just hours before Donald Trump\u2019s announcement that in his august moronic opinion, \u201cJerusalem is the capital of Israel.\u201d\u00a0Jerusalem has never been and will never be the capital of a racist apartheid European colonial garrison state that calls itself \u201cIsrael\u201d.\u00a0Never.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
\u2014\u00a0 \u00a7\u00a0 \u2014<\/h5>\n
Rima Najjar goes on to argue that\u00a0Trump was\u00a0influenced<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0in his decision to hand Israel their best Hanukkah gift in 70 years by elite American Jews like\u00a0Sheldon Adelson, Jared Kushner, Jason Greenblatt\u00a0and US envoy to Israel\u00a0David Friedman. He was also swayed by the right-wing Christian Zionists, the 70 million happy clappers longing for the Rapture, Armageddon, and the End Days. The way they\u2019re going, the End Days will be zapping them any minute now, before they know what\u2019s hit them.<\/h5>\n
Rima Najjar concludes<\/a><\/strong><\/span>:<\/h5>\n
Through the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS<\/strong><\/a><\/span>) Movement and other strategies for resistance, the Palestinian Authority must find a way to get rid of the racist \u201ctwo state solution\u201d concept, renounce the Oslo Accords, and come up with a democratic alternative, one that does not deny the humanity of Palestinian Arabs nor value the well-being of colonizing Jews (euphemistically called \u201csettlers\u201d or \u201cimmigrants\u201d) over that of the indigenous people of historic Palestine.<\/h5>\n
So what\u2019s going on?<\/h5>\n
This is the latest idea certain diehard Trump supporters are now doing their best to promote on various fringe websites: that Putin and Trump are allegedly working hard behind the scenes in \u201csecret collusion\u201d to foil the plans of the \u201cevil Zionists\u201d and make sure the Palestinians get a \u201cfair deal\u201d,\u00a0i.e.,<\/em>\u00a0a 2-state solution they will be happy to accept. There is absolutely no evidence for this cock-eyed conspiracy theory, but that doesn\u2019t deter its kooky promoters.<\/h5>\n
An added ingredient to this fantastical conspiracy theory of secret Putin-Trump collusion in curtailing Jewish power and giving Israel a bloody nose, is this: while Trump goes ahead and declares Jerusalem the eternal capital of Israel, his co-conspirator, Vlad Putin, intends to step in soon and declare\u00a0East Jerusalem<\/em>\u00a0the capital of Palestine. This is all part of a pre-arranged plot, so we are told, to force Israel to the negotiating table and agree to an equitable two-state solution. Israel will be pushed into accepting West Jerusalem as its capital, renouncing all claims to East Jerusalem. The Arabs will then have East Jerusalem as the capital of their new fledgling state of Palestine. (See\u00a0MAP<\/a><\/strong><\/span>)<\/h5>\n
These conspiracy theories have been canvassed on my own site in a rudimentary form, not by me personally of course but by various wacky commenters who happen to be both Trump and Putin supporters. More elaborate versions of the theory will be found on other fringe websites I prefer not to identify by name, because the owners of those sites are known to me personally and I don\u2019t want to antagonize them. I have enemies enough. Frequent references\u00a0 have been made on my own site, as my readers will testify, to Putin and Trump playing \u201c4D chess\u201d\u00a0 and of being active participants in \u201ckabuki theater\u201d. According to these internet pundits, nothing is as it seems. It\u2019s all a game, a magic shadow show, a pantomime of pretense. The more stupidly Trump behaves, the more fiendishly clever he is cracked up to be. The more outrageous his behavior, the more he is transmogrified into a paragon of all the virtues. You can\u2019t win with these guys.<\/h5>\n
Fascinating ideas, to be sure, but they don\u2019t stand up to critical analysis for the following six reasons:<\/h5>\n
(1)\u00a0 Trump\u2019s declaration is in clear violation of international law, and 14 out of 15 Security Council members have rejected it. East Jerusalem has already been illegally annexed, with large numbers of Palestinians having been illegally ejected. Trump\u2019s impudent \u201cdeclaration\u201d is now accelerating the further dispossession of the Palestinians in East Jerusalem, with their residency permits being revoked. Their properties are being confiscated so that Jews can move in and take over their possessions, including their furniture and family heirlooms. In other words, Trump has given his imprimatur to organized theft.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
(2)\u00a0 Palestinians I am in contact with all insist on an\u00a0<\/strong>undivided<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 Jerusalem as their capital and totally reject the idea of ceding West Jerusalem to the illegal occupiers of Palestine.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
(3) If there is to be a\u00a0one-state solution\u2014which many if not most Palestinians might settle for\u2014then both Jews and Arabs will have equal rights in West Jerusalem and East Jerusalem. There will be no need then to divide Jerusalem into two halves, one for the Jews and one for the Arabs.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
(4) East Jerusalem has been illegally occupied by Israeli \u201csettlers\u201d, as already stated, and Palestinians have been evicted from their homes in large numbers to make room for Israeli encroachers. \u201cWho the hell wants East Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine,\u201d an angry Palestinian once asked me, \u201cwhen it\u2019s full of f*****g Jews who refuse to get out? Would\u00a0<\/strong>you<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0like a capital in which the Jews have stolen all your best land and thrown you the scraps and leftovers?\u201d<\/strong><\/h5>\n
(5) The least the Palestinians will settle for, it seems, is a country in which Israel will be forced to go back to its pre-1967 borders, vacating all their illegal settlements in the West Bank and allowing the Palestinians to have a united Jerusalem\u2014<\/strong>both<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0east and west\u2014as their capital. This is the way it was, after all, before the predatory\u00a0 colonialists arrived.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
(6) Finally, there are those Palestinians, backed by large numbers of anti-Zionists in the West, who would like to see every single Jew in Israel driven out of Palestine and forced to return to their countries of origin in the West. The vast numbers of Palestinians in exile will then be encouraged to return to the Palestine from which their families were driven in 1948. As for the Americans and the Brits, it will be up to them to solve the Jewish Problem in the best way they can. Allowing 6.5 million Jewish colonialists to live on stolen land is\u00a0<\/strong>not<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0the answer.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
The Israelis refuse to accept any of this. They insist that every square inch of Jerusalem belongs to them\u2014both West\u00a0and<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0East Jerusalem. (See picture\u00a0here<\/a><\/strong><\/span>). Some of these colonialist land-grabbers go even further, insisting that the illegally occupied West Bank belongs to them in its entirety also, by biblical mandate, describing these \u201cdisputed territories\u201d as Judea and Samaria.<\/h5>\n
They will not rest until every single Arab is \u201cdriven into the sea\u201d.<\/h5>\n
Living in a stolen land can\u2019t be easy.<\/h5>\n

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