Nahida Izzat – You want a solution?!! Here it is
By Nahida Izzat • Aug 15th, 2008 at 23:04 • Category: Analysis, Culture and Heritage, Features, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Uprooted Palestinians' Testimonies, Zionism
To the zionist thieves:
If the zionist occupiers truly want peace… peace is nigh
Glamorous writings, pretence of humanity, lengthy debates, polished sentences, and cloak oneself with fake peace lyrics, cannot conceal the SIMPLE REALITY:
The ONLY way to PEACE is through JUSTICE
All they have to do is to GIVE BACK ALL stolen land and property
Palestine should be reunited with her beloved people
Villages should be allowed to rejoice with embracing their treasured farmers who’ve been forced out
You want to have peace, zionist occupiers?
You will get it if and when you:
Return all stolen land and property
Allow all dispossessed refugees to return home
Stop your people from stealing our land
Stop your people from constructing an apartheid wall
Stop your people from building settlements on stolen land
Stop your people from demolishing our homes
Stop your people from dissecting our land with checkpoints
Stop your people from bombing us
Stop your people from shooting our children
Stop your people from imprisoning our youth and elected leaders
Stop your people from having different laws for different people
Stop your people from suffocating our freedom
Stop your people from turning our towns into concentration camps
Stop your people from causing us more suffering (which never ceased for almost a century)
And Pleeeeeeeeease, stop reiterating this blather that both parties are guilty!!!
We were living peacefully in OUR HOMELAND which the Zionist decided to STEAL and COLONIZE
Under all human and divine laws; we have the right to DEFEND ourselves from those who wanted to STEAL, OCCUPY and COLONIZE our land
YOU and YOUR PEOPLE have NO right to ATTACK us and CLAIM our HOMELAND just because you are Jewish and that God gave you our land!
Reconciliation comes AFTER you and your people RETURN what was STOLEN from us, namely our PALESTINE
GOT that, zionist occupiers?
Read it several times until it sinks in
I reiterate, what is needed is for the THEIF to give up what he has stolen BEFORE any reconciliation begins
You CANNOT steal the land AND keep it then plead innocence, ask for forgiveness and reconciliation WHILE the real owners are starving, in ghettos, languishing in refugee camps; exiled and dispossessed
You and your people MUST GIVE BACK what you have stolen and GIVE UP your privileges that you have bestowed upon yourselves because of your Jewishness, namely the so called “right of return” (Aliyah) to each and every Jew, from each and every race, country and corner of the globe
Your people HAVE STOLEN OUR PALESTINE
A whole country
Your people have ethnically cleansed my people
Your people deny me and my people the right of return to our homes and orchards
My own personal land was confiscated and they built the colony of ramot alon on it!!
Yet, you still have the guts to come pleading innocence, pretending to want peace but offer us scraps of our STOLEN PALESTINE !!!
You stole the land and want us to accept that as a “forever-reality”, and accept YOU as partners of a peaceful future without giving us our rights and land back??
Furthermore, you dare to equate our legitimate self defence, resistance, and struggle for justice and freedom with your crimes of theft, ethnic cleansing and AGGRESSION!!
Our struggle against the occupation is not -as you try to present it- tit for tat hysteria and love of violence; it’s a struggle to gain back what was stolen from us, to gain back our freedom, and our rights
NO … NO… zionist thieves and occupiers
This sick kind of immorality is nauseating
If you truly want peace… you ought to GIVE BACK ALL stolen land and property before asking us to have peace with you
STEALING our Palestine is the biggest robbery in history:
If some homeless steals a house that belongs to someone else, this is theft, and it will always be, no matter how many people or judges vote for it to make it OK, no matter how many petitions or court orders are obtained by the thief in the name of his suffering or poverty.
Theft is theft.
Stolen property that was acquired by force against the wish of the rightful owner could never become lawful, moral or authentic right of the thief.
The stolen home can never become rightly owned by the thief even if he calls it “home”
Palestine was STOLEN unethically and immorally by the Zionists.
When Zionists violently, unethically, and with the use of genocide, war crimes and ethnic cleansing acquired our Palestine, the land already belonging to someone else.
It was already owned by its native people
When Palestine was divided, Palestinians (the true owners of the land) were never asked!! Their objection was dismissed! And their wishes were ignored!
So, if the Zionists start calling our stolen homes and land theirs, it will NOT become theirs; simply because it was acquired forcefully, unethically, immorally, and even illegally.
The UN, Europeans, and the world community did not own Palestine, Palestinians did
A third party cannot give away to someone something which belongs to someone else! Even with the vote of the whole of humanity
What is immoral IS immoral
Palestine which was owned by the Palestinians was given away by Europeans to compensate for their crimes against the Jews
Neither the Europeans nor the world community have the right to do so
Palestine was UNETHICALLY acquired by the Zionists through a process of severe injustice: land grab, racist laws, ethnic cleansing, ruthless murder, and genocide
A whole lot of people who came from all over the world attacked us and STOLE our homeland, dispossessed us, oppressed us, and still do so: all in the name of a mythical claim that goes back thousands of years in history
This is by far the biggest robbery human history has ever known!
No amount of polishing or glossing over could change this ugly fact
If your people could acknowledge this grave injustice, and could feel our grievances and pain, and if your people could say: “we love this land and we would like to live in Palestine in peace as humans with equal rights, and responsibilities regardless of our religion or culture and without being superior lawmakers or oppressive thieves” and if they could say that they are prepared to give back what they’ve stolen; then we would welcome them as our brothers and sisters, we would be able to forgive them, and we would have no problem in sharing with them everything we have.
But if your people still insist in dismissing us as human beings, keep oppressing us, stealing more and more of our land, and keep enjoying the privileges that they claimed exclusively for themselves on our expense and continue to build their nation on the ruins of ours; while refusing to give us back what is rightfully ours, and then claim victim-hood, and plea that it’s not practical to go back in time and give the stolen lands and properties back, then the process of reconciliation cannot even begin!
Your people claimed Palestine by going back some 3 thousand years in time, and we are asked not to go back 60 years?!!!
At this point in time, we have NOTHING to offer, zionist thieves, we have lost everything, if anyone would be able to change this grave, vile, despicable, mad and evil situation, it’s your people.
You ought to be working on convincing your people to give back the stolen land of Palestine, and to work for the right of Palestinian refugees to return home
The way forward comes through acknowledging the crimes you’ve committed AND correcting them
The ONLY way to PEACE is through JUSTICE
Got that, zionist occupiers?
I repeat:
If you truly want peace… you ought to GIVE BACK ALL stolen land and property
When that happens, our land could easily absorb good Jewish people who wish to live in peace with us, in Palestine
But no zio-nazi superiority is tolerable:
Free yourselves from the master race mentality
Free yourselves from the arrogance of your might and power
Free yourselves from your paranoid delusions that God gave you this land
What is most urgently needed -to achieve lasting and real peace- is to STOP ALL the zionist incessant ugly racism, supremacy, aggression and assault, to put a halt to your crimes, and to take a serious look in the mirror as a whole “population” and see what monsters have you have become!
You need to address within your immoral and utterly sick society the obscene injustices you’ve inflected upon us
You need to deal with the hideous, corrupt, aggressive, militarized and wicked society you they have become
Before worrying about hate and distrust, you ought to be worrying about the crimes of your people and the injustices they have committed -and still committing- and how to facilitate for justice to run its course, and how to restore back the rights of millions that you have violated.
That requires an inner reflection of you as a whole people, it requires an honest and sincere look within yourselves, serious questioning of the “history” that you were taught, a bursting of the bubble that you are living in, it requires that you stop all your acts of aggression, theft of land, humiliation, murder, and destruction of our community, and above all, it requires that you step down from the high ground that you placed yourselves on, and be prepared to GIVE UP ALL the privileges that you have bestowed upon yourselves by the “virtue” of your Jewishness!
It also requires restoring our rights back including the right of return of all refugees, AND the compensation to ALL those who suffered from your Frankenstein creation of the racist Zionist entity.
Then and only then peace is possible
If you make a start by:
0) Stop all forms of your terror
1) Stop the outrageous laws of Aliyah which allows any Jew to colonize Palestine for his/her Jewishness
2) Correct the wrongs you have committed by giving us our homes and land back
3) Address the racism in your monster creation, and restore our rights as human beings back, the right to live peacefully and move freely with dignity without humiliation and oppression, and with our humanity respected as your equals not your inferiors
4) Give all our refugees the right to return to their villages and towns
Then and only then; we can say: “we will forgive you”.
We will NOT say as your people do; “never forget, never forgive”
We will forgive you.
But wasting time by coming in here or creating myriad chat rooms in fake pretence of searching for peace, in an attempt to beautify a supremely ugly face of theft and occupation, and to conceal hideous crimes of ethnic cleansing and genocide, without being ready to STOP your CRIMES or GIVE UP what YOU have STOLEN is FUTILE
In simple words:
GIVE JUSTICE & GET PEACE
Now which part of that sentence you don’t understand, zionist thieves?
Nothing left to say!
Nahida Izzat is a Jerusalem born - Palestinian refugee living in exile for over 40 years. She was forced to leave her homeland, Palestine, at the age of seven during the six-day war. Nahida is mathematician by profession, a mother of 3 children by career, an artist by hobby, and a returned-refugee to a free Palestine by optimism, hopes and anticipation.
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What about peace through non-violence has that ever occurd to you?
This is one one the best papers I've read for years.
As Mary Rizzo so rightly writes, The ONLY way to PEACE is through JUSTICE. I would add that the only way to justice (what is justice?) is through RESPECT of the absolute DIGNITY of all human beings.
Jewish immigrants in Palestine can expect a decent welcome from the legitimate owners of the land, who are of course the Palestinians. They have absolutely no right to claim its ownership, no matter what they pretend one religious book or another might say. It's up to them to find a way to be accepted by the Palestinians, not the other way round.
And as Palestinians, like most Arabs, are basically hospitable and friendly people, that should'nt be too difficult, if they give it an honest try. There are indeed a heap of acceptable ways in which a decent arrangement can be achieved, if only Zionists forget about their usual double language and little tricks.
If they can't find one, they've still got a solution, which is to get out.
In the meantime, Palestinians have every right to resist the theft of their homeland, peacefully or not.
And we westerners ought to be deeply ashamed to take side, not with the victims, but with the invaders.
To superbad – Can you name some occupied community which got their land back with non-violence?
This piece of advice was given to the leaders of World Zionist Federation by no other than Mahtama Gandhi – advising the European Jewry not to leave their homelands – but carry out large non-violent protest rallies against Nazi-regime. But instead of listening to Gandhi – the Zionist Jew thugs carried out a wave of terrorism in British mandated Palestine – and occupied 88% of its land by shear of military force.
Shaukat, I've ready some of your posts in the past. I know better then to try and get into a debate with racist like yourself no good can come of it.
Zionism, an International Evil
In the 20th and 21st centuries Zionism was and still is embodied mainly by the state of Israel. Its other embodiments are the Israel Lobby in America and its Congress and the countless Zionist organizations and individuals, as well as the Zionist machine and Israel supporters in Europe and other places.
Lots of wars and crimes have been committed because of Israel. They wouldn't have happened if the West hadn't created Israel and supported her for 60 years. Just imagine the world without Israel and its supporters.
1-Without Israel, there wouldn't have been the destruction and bloodshed resulting from the Israeli-Arab wars in 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982, the Invasion of Iraq in 2003, and 2006 war in Lebanon.
2-Without Israel, the crimes and atrocities of Al Qaeda in America, Iraq and Afghanistan wouldn't have been committed.
3-Without Israel, there wouldn't have been "terrorist" organizations and ruthless suicide bombing and killing.
4-Without Israel, there wouldn't have been millions of Palestinian refugees all over the world and tens of miserable camps, as well 11000 thousand Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
5-Without Israel, there wouldn't have been separation apartheid walls, countless check points in Palestine, daily humiliation of Palestinians and expropriation of their land, and the heart-breaking sights of demolishing their homes and cutting down their trees by alien occupiers.
6-Without Israel, thousands of billion dollars wouldn't have been spent on wars, weapons, armies and security. They could have been spent on education, development, health care, and feeding millions of starving human beings.
7-Without Israel, there will be peace in the Middle East and in many other parts of our miserable globe.
The creation and constant blind support of Israel cannot be counted as an achievement at all. It is illogical, fallacious, unjust, and inhumane.
Mustafa
Hard Talk
Zionists occupiers… Heed my call
Like most people, I do believe in dialogue and civilized coexistence, like most people I long to live in dignity and freedom in my homeland, like most people I yearn for peace and justice for every human, like most people I like to foster loving and trusting relationships with all decent individuals; however, our problem with the Zionist occupiers is not about hate and distrust as they like to believe, it’s not about security as they constantly declare, nor is it about dialogue or lack of it thereof!
Our problem with them is not confined to the many aspects of their occupation, human right abuses, checkpoints, walls, collective punishment and assassinations.
The origin of our problem is as profound as a the roots of a fig tree, buried deep and covered up with piles of dishonesty and deceit, yet its fruits has the pungent taste of supremacy, arrogance, racism, dehumanization, theft, and war crimes, and no amount of fig tree leaves could conceal or beautify.
So, to unearth the core of the problem and spell the truth-out loud and clear, I am going to direct my words towards the Zionists of all shades and affiliations.
Furthermore, I am going to be to honest and blunt here; as the catastrophic situation that they have created does not stomach glossing over any longer
zionist occupiers:
I must warn you; that what I am going to say is not going to be very pleasant, it will taste as bitter as the chilling years of your occupation, as cold as the barren roots of our uprooted olive trees, and as sour as the dry lips of dying babies at your military checkpoints.
My words will be parched, choking and hard to swallow; it will be as rigid and impervious as the cement of your apartheid wall
My words will smell of tear gas and burning flesh of infants while cuddled in their mothers’ arms after an air raid
My words will be burning hot like a bullet penetrating the head of a little boy as he picked a stone to throw at his oppressor
My words will be sizzling with blazing fire like the one ton bomb dropped from afar at a neighbourhood of sleeping women and children
My words will be gushing causing excruciating pain and discomfort because it stems from the depth of my wounded, distressed and agonised soul that was tormented by your people for the entirety of my existence.
So zionist occupiers heed my words;
Our problem with you is not a “conflict” between two warring parties, who are similarly wrong and equally guilty as you shamelessly often describe… NO… NO… NO
The problem is one of aggression, oppression, colonization, theft, and occupation on your side, and one of being oppressed, exploited, and occupied on our side.
It’s one is of a crime of theft of a whole country and the ethnic cleansing of a whole nation by your people on the one hand and a displaced and dominated population on the other
It’s one of a CRIMINAL THIEF and a DISPOSSESSED VICTIM
To equate the two is nothing but an act of deception and a manifestation of moral bankruptcy.
A whole lot of your people came from ALL over the world, stole our homeland, dispossessed and expelled us, took over our homes and farms, destroyed our villages and history, occupied our country, oppressed those who stayed behind, killed and maimed who dared to demand their rights or attempted to assert their humanity, demonized and subjugated us to a racist, bigoted and ruthless set of laws that don’t apply to yourselves; then you come with chilling cold-heartedness and assert that both parties are equally guilty!!
Which planet are you living on?
By what principles do you abide?
What ethics do you follow?
Have you ever questioned the morality of your actions as multinationals who gave themselves the liberty to come to our homeland -which I am denied the right to live in- take it over by violence and bloodshed, then settle there on the ruins of the villages you’ve annihilated, dwelling in the homes of some dispossessed Palestinians, for no other justifications than the dominance of your Jewishness and the fact that we are not Jews?
Does that not smell of rotten racism, arrogance and supremacy to your clogged-up conscience?
The only crime that our people committed is that they existed on the land of their ancestors which you proclaimed as a God given-right to Jews only.
Your people have destroyed our culture, denied our existence as human beings, treated us for four generation with sheer cruelty, ruthlessness and contempt, and subjugated us to inconceivable savagery and humiliation, and denied us even the right to defend ourselves on our stolen Palestine under the pretext of “terrorism”
On top of all that your people have lied and lied, until they believed their own lies, you managed to brainwash yourselves with packs of cover-ups and masks of reality until truth became so blur and obscured, so much so that most of your people refuse even to acknowledge their own crimes of theft of a whole country and disposition of a whole nation
You stole the land of our ancestors and forefathers under the claim that some few thousands years back in history, some people who followed your religion have lived there, and apparently secured a contract with God affirming the eternal ownership of this land
How dare you give yourselves these abhorrent privileges of taking over someone’s home and homeland just because you belong to a particular faith?
What does an American Jew, a Russian Jew, an African Jew, a Japanese Jew, an Indian Jew or a German Jew has anything to do with the Land of Palestine?
If you think we are some kind of brainless retarded human beings who lack your “intelligence”, “emotions” and “morality” and who would just disregard what happened to them sixty years ago, and who would be happy to live as your inferiors in their own homeland; you better think again
We are sick and tired of witnessing your crimes for decades on end
We are sick and tired of your deception, false claims and the pretence of innocence and victim-hood
We are sick and tired of your orchestrated peace processes and leading-no-where road-maps
If you are truly searching for peace, then step down from the high ground that you placed yourselves on, and be prepared to GIVE UP ALL the privileges that you have bestowed upon yourselves by the “virtue” of your Jewishness!
Then and only then dialogue is possible
The basis of any dialogue is equity, justice, fair-play, freedom, and compatibility.
None of those is existing at the moment!
A restoration and establishment of those principles as pre-condition to any forthcoming dialogue is inevitable!
zionists thieves
You don’t have many choices really, it’s one of two:
1) you either carry on with your crimes: lying, killing, stealing, abusing and oppressing an entire people, isolating themselves further, and sinking deeply into the abyss of immorality; then frantically searching for peace and security, which you will never be able to find as oppressors, aggressors and occupiers.
2) Or you take a good look in the mirror and see what monsters you have become, and admit the crimes they committed against innocent people who had nothing to do with the anti-Semitic crimes of Europe, but they have been made to pay the price of those crimes.
If you go for the first choice, you should blame no one but yourselves for a bleak, desolate, dire, and awful future that awaits you, a future in which you can no longer afford to keep living in constant fear and endless wars, a future where it's only enough for you to lose ONE single war, and it will be over then.
We can afford to lose many wars; there are millions and millions of Arabs and Muslims that surround the criminal Zionist entity. And you can’t afford to lose any war, but when you do (it’s inevitable) you lose everything.
Now, if you open their heart and mind to the second option; which is acknowledging the wrongs you’ve committed against us, and recognizing that you’ve been unfair and unjust by stealing our country and denying us our natural human rights.
Then if you start by trying to address and correct those wrongs, and giving us our rights back, the right to live peacefully and move freely with dignity without humiliation and oppression, and with our humanity respected as your equals not your inferiors, and if you give all our refugees the right to return to their villages and towns; then and only then; we’ll be able to say to you: “we will forgive you”.
We will NOT say as some do; “never forget, never forgive”
We will forgive you.
but not before you right the wrongs you've committed
We have a culture that has hospitality and forgiveness at its heart.
you either make friends with your neighbours, and give them their due rights to get peace and security, or continue to create enemies by your incessant oppression until the inevitable falls upon you
The choice is yours
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Please visit a response to nahida:
Humans in Wolves clothing – how do you envision shared future which doesn't exclude anybody.
http://www.mepeace.org/forum/topic/show?id=661876%3ATopic%3A92375
I hope one day we will find the channel to change and create true trust and true future to all.