{"id":2438,"date":"2004-10-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-10-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-06T00:00:00","slug":"The Lone Fighter and the Battle for Palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=2438","title":{"rendered":"The Lone Fighter and the Battle for Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Amos Harel \u2013 Haaretz October 5, 2004<\/b>
\nThe Israel Defense Forces and the Shin Bet security service on Tuesday said they had arrested a Palestinian man whom they believe had shot dead seven soldiers and three Israeli civilians in March 2002 in a sniping attack at an IDF roadblock north of the West Bank city of Ramallah, near the settlement of Ofra. <\/p>\n

Taer Kaed Hamad, 24, a Fatah activist, was arrested in the village of Silwad, north of Ramallah, where he lives. Another Palestinian man was also arrested.
\nhttp:\/\/www.haaretzdaily.com\/hasen\/spages\/485444.html<\/span><\/div>\n

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THE BATTLE FOR PALESTINE<\/b>
\nby Israel Shamir \u2013 March 2002<\/div>\n

The main road of the Palestinian Highlands from Nablus to Jerusalem runs through Wadi Haramiyeh, a narrow defile in the Samaria Mountains. From time to time, its olive-grown walls recede and leave space for a village, tiny En Sinya, a neat and charming cluster of spacious homes, or splendid Sinjil, named after Raymond de Saint-Gilles, the Count of Toulouse, its liege lord and Crusader. This is the heartland of Palestine, where every stone keeps memories of old battles and skirmishes. I love this area: in Sinjil I was taken for a foreign-born son of local folks who emigrated to America in the 1940s. In En Sinya an old peasant told me of \u2018his friend Moshe Sharet\u2019, a Palestinian Jew and an Israeli Minister of State who was brought up in the village, years before the Zionist segregation. I drank water from the small spring of En al-Haramiyeh, guarded by a ruined Ottoman Khan, near yet another ruin, King Baldwin\u2019s Tower, that stands watch over the southern entrance of the defile. Its relief makes it a likely place for brigands\u2019 ambush, and indeed \u2018Wadi Haramiyeh\u2019 means just that, the Valley of Brigands.<\/p>\n

On March 3, a Palestinian Rob Roy armed with an old, WWII \u2013 vintage carbine, succeeded to lay low the whole troop of heavily-armed Jews. One after another, he shot the soldiers and their officers, and escaped unharmed. In one stroke, he erased the overblown myth of Israeli military valiance. Never again will the supporters of Israel sneer at Arab courage, never again will they tell stories of shoes dropped in Sinai and the Six Day War. He repeated the feat of Karameh and returned the honour to the Palestinians.<\/p>\n

He also provided a healthy alternative to the morbid attraction of suicide bombers, and not too soon. For a long time I wanted to persuade my Palestinian brothers and sisters to desist from this madness, but I loathed to be seen as an ideological tool of Zionism. I understand the motives of the shaheeds (martyrs), I salute their courage, but I deeply regret their deeds. They are counterproductive, inefficient, and blind. I am certain [i] that some suicide cells are thoroughly infiltrated by Israeli counter-intelligence: too often their living bombs explode in the wrong places, at the wrong time, against the wrong targets. Their deeds are used by the Israeli propaganda machine to full advantage. Their death is a terrible loss to mankind. They sacrifice themselves as the son of Abraham brought himself to be sacrificed, but merciful God replaced his sacrifice with a ram.<\/p>\n

The marksman offered a different route to glory, one that does not lead through the Valley of Death. The full story of the Battle at Haramiyeh Pass should be sung by bards, and taught by guerrilla-fighters over the world. One against ten, the Lone Ranger hit the most hated symbol of Jewish rule in Palestine, a checkpoint, where bored, overfed, sadistic Israeli soldiers daily humiliated, beat and often murder the local people.<\/p>\n

Just a day before the battle, the soldiers committed probably the most revolting and cowardly act of cruelty. A Palestinian woman about to give birth came to the checkpoint, accompanied by her husband. The soldiers let her through and then opened fire. Her husband was killed; the pregnant woman was wounded and gave birth in the hospital. The soldiers were not reprimanded, but the Army \u2018expressed regrets\u2019 to the survivors.<\/p>\n

The Israeli Army\u2019s main concern is to keep the local population vulnerable and unable to defend itself. The IDF soldiers are used to killing unarmed civilians. Their preferred victims are children; their weapon of choice, a long-range high-velocity sharp-shooter rifle. Their idea of entertainment was witnessed by an expert on \u2018the dark side of the [Israel Defence] Force\u2019, the former chief of New York Times Middle East bureau, Chris Hedges: the soldiers pour abuse at the children of the refugee camp and shoot and maim them as they approach the deadly trap [ii].<\/p>\n

Still, the shooting of the pregnant woman was a deed as fateful as the Biblical slaughter of the Levite\u2019s concubine. The Lord God of Palestine noticed the plight of His sons. The evil deeds of Zionist soldiers had to be punished. The curse promised by the Lord to the misbehaving children of Israel (Deut. 28) fell on their heads. Whatever will be discovered by the military commission of enquiry, this is the most likely explanation of the event. He Who gave victory to the young shepherd David against Goliath, granted victory to the lone warrior in Wadi Haramiyeh.<\/p>\n

The surprise attack on the checkpoint dealt a deadly blow to the psychotic Israeli superiority complex. Cowards and sadists are unable to cope with defeat: they respond by homicidal rage. That is why the Army began an all-out assault on Palestinian towns and villages. As I write, soldiers shoot at ambulances that try to remove the wounded. The US jets with Israeli pilots bomb a school for the blind in Gaza. Crack troops of the Golani division accompanied by tanks storm the Tul Karem refugee camps. They plan to repeat the massacre of Sabra and Shatila, the previous feat of General Sharon. Their operational manual is a Waffen-SS commander\u2019s memoir about reducing the Warsaw ghetto. They are enticed by the extremely low casualties of the Wermacht in 1943, and hope to repeat their feat while crushing the Palestinians [iii].<\/p>\n

Sharon has surpassed Hitler: the German dictator carefully avoided giving the public orders to kill Jews, while the Jewish ruler unabashedly called for the killing of the Goyim on prime-time television. Many Germans were disgusted by the Nazis and \u2018crossed the lines\u2019, and served in the Allied armies against the Third Reich, while the Jews still hesitate to break the bond of false loyalty to their Third Malkuth. Israelis of conscience refuse to participate directly in the ethnic cleansing. It is a very good thing but it is not enough. We should follow the example of Ernst Thaelmann and Joe Slovo, cross the lines, and join the Palestinian fighters on the barricades of Gaza and Tul Karem. In the British daily, the Guardian [iv], Jonathan Freedland called the Israeli protesters, \u2018heroes\u2019. I reserve this title for the marksman from the Brigands\u2019 Defile.<\/p>\n

1. See my article Doubt and Certainty.
\n2. It was published in Harper\u2019s Magazine, October 2001, http:\/\/harpers.org\/online\/gaza_diary\/?pg=1
\n3. Haaretz 27.1.02
\n4. Guardian 6.3.02<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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