Try Not To Cry

A Blind Man 


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All_I_Can_Stands has left a new comment on your post "The Road From Palestine":

Hi, I will readily admit that I support Israel and from my perspective Palestine is the aggressor and Israel for the most part defending itself. I will admit that there may have been times Israel was more heavy handed than warranted on the individual level. I will also state ,though, that Israel has often shown remarkable restraint when during a cease-fire, multiple suicide bomb attacks they could retaliate, yet choose not to.

I am willing to give your side a good listen, but only if you can prove yourself to be credible. This blog seems to imply that Israel is 100% guilty and Palestine is 100% innocent. Is it your intent to make such a claim that Palestine is 100% innocent here? If so, you have no credibility. If you will state that suicide bombing is always wrong and at least that Palestine has been in the wrong some of the time, then you will have earned some credibility with me.


Answer:

If you had bothered to read my section on Suicide Bombers, you would have known my views on this situation and their is many just like me; who happen to be Palestinian too. I have the understanding you really do not know what is going on in this region.

Also, every time Palestinians have tried to go through with a peace plan, it is not the Palestinians that halt the plan but a complete refusal by Israel.

As for proving my creditability, the truth seems to be staring you in the face and like so many like you, who can not see the wall for the wallpaper. You are one example, why this blog page was created.

As for who is guilty and who is not, The Zionist now known as the Israeli’s stole a whole country. If you agree with Israel then you also agree with War, Murder (genocide), Apartied, Theft, World Domination and Nazism.

Maybe, when the day comes and I really pray it doesn’t when you can smell the stench of war. The smoke and people of every language dying before your eyes, begging God for help. With blood running like a river in the streets before you, then I hope you think back to why you couldn’t see the truth.

And to further answer any other question bobbing in you head, I believe in World Peace the way God intended us to live. Apparently, you do not and for this I am sad for you.


The following comment to the above post of all_I_can_stands is from the Global Intifada:

So you want to give “our side” “a good listen, but only if you can prove yourself to be credible…?”

Lets start by telling you that the “Israel is 100% guilty and Palestine is 100% innocent” angle in this blog is your perception and yours alone. Also, the suicide bombs are wrong and are condemned by all people of good intent – BUT – they pale into utter insignificance beside the systematic and ongoing war crimes that have been, and continue to be perpetrated against an entire defenceless civilian-refugee population in the Occupied [not “Disputed”] territories of Palestine at least since 1967.

In a sentence -- STOP the OCCUPATION and the WAR CRIMES and the S-bombs will END… its that simple -- OK??

I’d also like to remind you that only one generation ago, another defenceless civilian-refugee population were victims of similar war crimes – crimes for which so-called sophisticated and civilised Europeans were strung up and strangled on the gallows at Nuremburg for…
So, it follows that if a humiliated, demonised, tortured and dehumanised European Jew inside the Auschwitz-Birkenau hell hole with absolutely nothing left to live for, could strap a belt bomb around his waste and take out 10-20 of his Nazi SS tormentors, or their German civilian administrators, then human nature being what it is, I’ve no doubt he/she would do so. Dont you agree…?
Occupied Palestine is NOT Birkenau – but its in no way disrespectfull to Europe’s Jewish tragedy to make this comparative analogy when its clear to the entire world – if not to Western governments – that the West Bank is equally one huge collective living hell-hole – an immense caged-in gulag or ghetto, teaming with humiliated, demonised, tortured and dehumanised men, women and children – and it’s been made this way by the failure of the UN and the international community to ENFORCE international law, the 4th Geneva Convention, the Nuremburg Principles, and numerous UN resolutions to the extent that clearly, it is one law for Israel and another law for everyone else… comprende….?

So, the lesson for you to learn here is to respect others as you would wish yourself to be so respected and they will return your respect with added interest... this is also ‘human nature’, is it not….?

To further illustrate the unseen, unreported contours of this conflict, I refer you to JEWISH writer Gabriel Ash-- born Romania, reared in Israel – writing shortly after the 2002 IDF attack against the West Bank civilian population and, in particular, the Jenin refugee camp…
Let him explain better than I ever could what Israel is all about and what it should do to stop “the suicide bombs” -- that clearly concern you – whilst Israeli occupation and Israeli war crimes clearly don’t….

Just Get Out!
by Gabriel Ash
Published Thursday, April 25, 2002

…Echoing popular sentiment, Israel's President Moshe Katsav whines: "with all due respect and esteem for people of conscience and the bleeding-heart liberals of the world, I don't understand why they've clamped their mouths shut for a year and a half while the cruelest of unprecedented terrorist acts were committed against Israelis citizens everywhere."
President Katsav, are all the inhabitants of Jenin terrorists? Are most? Is God's own standard, of requiring only ten righteous men to save a city, too lax for you? What part of "collective punishment is a war crime" don't you understand?
The fact that the eruption of violence during the last eighteen months baffles you so much makes me wonder, President Katsav. Do you understand the idea of liberty? Have you ever read the universal declaration of human rights?
Do you understand that "universal" means "applies to everybody equally"?
Does the declination of possessive pronouns confuse you? Surely you are at ease with "mine" and "ours." But do you also understand the concepts behind "yours," "his," "hers," and "theirs"? When I look at the map of the land grab for your illegal settlements, I have serious doubts.
Are you troubled why "people of conscience" do not condemn terrorism? Even to make such an accusation you must be living in an alternate universe. But I will answer your whining twice nevertheless.

The long answer, President Katsav, "with all due respect and esteem," is that the suicide bombers did not land in Israel from outer space. The explosive belts might as well carry a label that reads "made in the Greater Eretz Israel."

The suicide bombs are the mutant flowers of Israel's brutalizing occupation, springing from the seeds of the 54-year-long dehumanization of Palestinians. They are the ghosts of your brutality coming back to haunt you, the mementos of your war against memory.

The massive and deliberate destruction of Palestinian civil records in the West Bank in the last weeks is but the most recent chapter in a war against Palestinian memory that began in 1948, with the annihilation of 400 Palestinian villages. But you seem to learn nothing from history, indeed from your own history: ghosts always return, each time more violently.

For those ready to die, their spiritless hatred towards you is what remains after you have bulldozed their past and their future. Whether you like it or not, they are your bastard offspring. Everything they know about hate, you taught them. Everything they forgot about humanity, you made them forget. Give them a hug now, as they have proven themselves worthy of their parents – you.

The short answer, President Katsav, is really short:
JUST GET OUT!

Call the army home. Call the occupation off. And get out of the Occupied Territories.
JUST GET OUT!

Don't mumble about how "difficult" or "complex" the situation is. It isn't. You are the oppressor. You are the occupier. You park your tanks on plundered land. You fill your swimming pools with stolen water. You kill and destroy in order to inherit. So don't bullshit about "the situation."
JUST GET OUT!

Stop abusing people. Stop abusing language. Stop spinning your own moral cocoon. Stop turning your country and your people into a metaphor of evil.
JUST GET OUT!

Don't wait for Bush. Don't wait for Arafat. Don't wait to negotiate with the mythical Palestinian leader who will finally accept your dominion. There is nothing to negotiate about.
JUST GET OUT!

Take your rabid Jewish fundamentalists from Kiriat Arba and Beit El with you. Load them on buses and pump the gas pedal until the hills of the West Bank vanish in the rear mirror.
JUST GET OUT!

Gather your thugs from the borderless "border police," give them scholarships and send them to school again. Let them discover there is more to life than beating people to a pulp.
JUST GET OUT!

Take your checkpoints, with all their petty humiliations and deadly snipers, with you.
JUST GET OUT!

Send the Shin-Bet packing. After 35 years, the world had enough of your clever jailers and torturers. Take them with you and JUST GET OUT!

Let your hideous bulldozers loose on the illegal settlements of Ma'ale Edomim, Har Homa and Gilo. There is plenty of demolition work for them there. Let them continue until the mountain line bears no more memory of your rape. Then JUST GET OUT!

Don't apologize. Don't justify. Don't explain. There is nothing left to explain. Honestly.
JUST GET OUT!

Don't even worry about the thousands of olive trees, symbols of peace, you uprooted. Someone will plant them again.
JUST GET OUT!

Gabriel Ash 2002
FULL TEXT IN CONTEXT AT >>> http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0425-04.htm