Reversing American society’s deadly contributions to the destruction of the Palestinian people is more than a moral imperative; it is the main means to guarantee the survival of the Palestinian community.
the short letter
Dear President Barack Obama,
You took office with a call “for a new beginning in relations between the Muslim world and the West based on common interests and mutual understanding and respect.” We assumed that your statement and dedication to social justice would guide your administration’s policies to stop Israel’s oppression of the Palestinian people and find an equitable solution to the Middle East crisis.
During his eight years in the executive office, the destruction of the Palestinian people continued unabated. In September 2016, less than two months before national elections and just several months before leaving office, he signed a $38 billion military aid package over the next 10 years for the Israeli oppressor.
Can you explain why your efforts did not match your rhetoric, why you allowed Israel to drive the Palestinians to despair, and why you capped your term with a generous gift to the oppressive Israeli war machine? Your response will help shape a strategy that defeats Israel’s oppressive tactics and counteracts the ineffectiveness of established leaders in preventing the calamities Palestinians suffer daily from the occupation.
The Long LetterDear President Barack Obama,
Foreign forces have supported the destruction of the Palestinian people. These foreign forces include American individuals, American groups, American society, and the American government. This concentration of external forces has never contributed to the disappearance of a community. Reversing American society’s deadly contributions to the destruction of the Palestinian people is more than a moral imperative; it is the main means to guarantee the survival of the Palestinian community. A brief foray into the road machine of history highlights the role that the US government and institutions played, and continue to play, in the destruction of the Palestinians.
Role of the US government in the destruction of the Palestinians
The destruction of the Palestinian community began with the United States agreeing with the 1920 San Remo conference’s acceptance of the 1917 Balfour Agreement, which stated that the signatories were “in favor of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Palestinian people.” Jewish”. Why did the United States favor this arrangement when relatively few Jews worldwide were interested in leaving their current homes for the British Mandate and it was not a desirable area for Europeans and Americans to live? Why didn’t the US government recommend a homeland for the Assyrians, who suffered mass murder and deportation by Ottoman forces during World War I in southeastern Anatolia and Azerbaijan? Direct descendants of a powerful civilization, the Assyrians, who lived in the area for millennia and were continually persecuted, would have welcomed a home of their own. The same question applies to the Armenians, who have probably endured more oppression in the last 2,000 years than any other ethnic group. Those who carved up the Middle East could easily have found a safe abode for these ancient and continually persecuted peoples.
The United States could have made amends for its mistake in accepting the San Remo agreement by not casting its vote in favor of UN Resolution 181, the partition of Palestine. A Safe Haven, Harry S, Truman and the Founding of Israel, by Allis Radosh and Ronald Radosh, explains President Truman’s arguments for passing UN Resolution 181. If these arguments are true, then President Truman displayed ignorance and acquired the blame for committing one of the worst injustices in history.
He was hoping that a simple announcement that the United States intended to vote in favor would suffice. When it became apparent that he would not, he moved quickly and gave permission and encouraged direct pressure to be applied to secure his passage. Partition, which had been sanctioned by the United Nations, was apparently the only answer for the Jews still in the refugee camps. American public opinion supported him, as did his close advisers in the White House. He felt the pressure to act both politically and morally. And he realized that if the partition went down, there would be one person to blame for it; Harry S. Truman.
President Truman was motivated by noble conviction; displaced Jews who had survived the Holocaust of World War II needed and deserved an immediate home. Why didn’t President Truman consider that most, if not all, of the 150,000 displaced Jews wanted to go to the United States and not Palestine and allow that more desired alternative?
Did it make sense to transfer concentration camp survivors who mistrusted war to an unstable, insecure and violent environment? Although Truman could not fully appreciate the situation, the placing of weapons in the hands of many of these displaced people strengthened the Zionist army and aided in the eventual displacement of 900,000 Palestinians. The European displacement camps were temporary shelters for those who would soon find permanent homes and citizenship in countries around the world; UNWRA refugee camps became permanent homes for magnitudes more displaced Palestinians, still languishing in camps with stateless identification.
Historical documents describe the pressure that US government officials applied to various nations, and how this pressure managed to change the votes from “against” to “for” partition: 1948 by Benny Morris, Palestine and the great powers by Michael J. Cohen, A Safe Haven, Harry S, Truman and the Founding of Israel by Allis Radosh and Ronald Radosh cover the topic. A brief summary of some of the observations in these books shows the active involvement of the Truman administration in securing the ratification of UN Resolution 181.
Population statistics in the UNSCOP Report: September 3, 1947: Chapter 4: A Comment on Partition, show around 500,000 Jews and 1.1 million Arabs in the partitioned area. (The international zone of Jerusalem is not included). The indigenous Arab population had almost all of its population born in the British Mandate.
Jewish arrival figures for the years 1919 to 1945 give a clue as to how many Jews were born in the British Mandate. The Jewish Virtual Library at https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-immigration-to-palestine-1919-1941 (few arrivals between 1941 and 1945) adds that statistic to 379,734, of which around 250,000 arrived during the pre -immediate. World War II period. Sources estimate that some 30,000 returned to their homelands. Subtracting the remaining arrivals (380,000 – 30,000 = 350,000) from the total population (500,000) gives a rough estimate of about 150,000 Jews born in the British Mandate before 1945.
Because nearly all Palestinians were born in the area at the time of UN Resolution 181, indigenous Palestinians outnumbered first-generation Jews by about 7:1. A divided Palestine gave a minor ethnic group of the total population, who only invested two or three decades of time and energy in the area, more than 60% of the total land and divided the native population, who had worked and farmed the Earth. for centuries, in two lands. This non-binding UN Resolution came on the heels of World War II, when supporters of a revived Wilsonian democracy, under the former leadership of United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, pledged to dismantle colonialism and allow native peoples express their self-determination.
The agreement with the San Remo conference and the partition plan initiated the American involvement in the destruction of the Palestinians.
Without adequate weapons, it is difficult to oppress and destroy a large population. The United States supplies the weapons to Israel. With no skin in the game, token aid to the Palestinians to ease their daily pain, and hypocritical words of sympathy for their plight, the US government provides quiet acceptance and strong support for the destruction of the Palestinians.
Role of US institutions in the destruction of the Palestinians
It is disconcerting that a foreign government assists an oppressive government in the destruction of an indigenous community; it is shocking to observe institutions that actively support the oppressor.
The Christian New Right, a variety of evangelical organizations that preach the word of God and carry out the work of the devil, is the most prominent institution that helps Israel carry out its oppression. The mission statement of Christians United for Israel (CUFI) is; “To provide a national association through which every pro-Israel church, parachurch organization, ministry, or individual in America can speak and act with one voice in support of Israel on matters related to biblical issues.”
These traitors of Jesus Christ sermons are available 24/7 to make life miserable for Palestinians. Volunteers bring Israeli immigrants clothing and items needed for new homes on stolen property, serve in non-combat roles at an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) base, allowing Israel soldiers more time to subdue Palestinians and harvest grapes in the Shilo vineyards. settlement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, giving settlers more opportunities to harass the Palestinian grape harvest.
Gary M. Burge, professor of New Testament and dean of the faculty at Calvin Theological Seminary, estimates that the evangelical community’s contributions to Israel range between $175 million and $200 million annually. Where does much of this money go? Here is a report.
American Christian Funding Flows to Jewish Settlers, June 12, 2009, heard on PBS All Things Considered, by Sheera Frenkel
Sondra Oster Baras, director of the Israel branch of the Christian Friends of Israeli Communities, estimates that more than half of the Jewish settlements in the West Bank receive direct or indirect funding from Christian communities. Baras says donors can choose from several programs, including one called “adopt-a-settler,” in which the money goes toward settlers’ daily needs: helping build new schools, health facilities and synagogues. “Our main donors are organizations, ministries or churches. They’ve raised that money themselves in small amounts ($5, $20 from a line of people) and put it together, so it’s very grassroots.”
A host of organizations, disguised as representatives of American Jewry, serve the nation of Israel. These organizations are an insult to all Jews and to all humanity. Their efforts provoke physical and moral reactions against the Jews, which they use to play the victims and as a justification for the existence of Israel, a safe haven for the Jews from a hostile world that they themselves have created.
Why do American citizens and their organizations send their children to Israel, allow indoctrination by a foreign government, manipulate the truth about oppressive Israel, convince other Americans that Israel is a benign nation trying to defend itself, reshape Americans in the image of Israel and skew elections? processes to favor Israel? What other nation has that kind of dedicated activity in the United States?
The answer is simple: Israel needs an army of supporters in other nations to serve its cause and influence every man, woman, and child to make apartheid, oppressive, militaristic, nationalist Israel a benevolent country. The existence of these dozens, or perhaps hundreds, of voluntary organizations that collaborate with the oppression of Israel, validates the accusation of crimes against the Palestinians; if there were no crimes, there would be no reason for these organizations to exist and bend the truth of the situation. Their existence, manipulations, lies, deception and attacks on innocent people indicate a cover-up and make them part of that cover-up.
This deception follows from the statements of Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch, the chief rabbi of the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in Manhattan. His devised Amplify Israel initiative “aims to ‘bring new life to the principles to which we have been committed for decades, with a series of programs aimed at bolstering support for Israel and aligning Zionism with liberal ideology. In clearer words, “influencing every man, woman, and child to make apartheid, oppressive, militaristic, nationalist Israel a benevolent country.”
Who is Rabbi Hirsch? Ammiel Hirsch went to high school in Israel, served as a tank commander in the IDF, and was previously director of the Association of Reform Zionists of America, the Israeli arm of the North American Reform movement. In response to a letter, in which 93 rabbinical students and singers strongly criticized Israeli actions in the hostilities between Israel and Hamas, Rabbi Hirsch wrote:
For the record, the Reform movement is a Zionist movement. Each of the branches of our movement, the synagogue arm (Union for Reform Judaism), the rabbinical union (Central Conference of American Rabbis), and our seminary (HUC-JIR), each organization separately and together, are Zionists and are ideologically compromised. and theologically to Israel.
Was Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch, after receiving training in Israel, finally sent to the United States to guide the Reform movement and define it in the image of Israel?
The physical existence of millions of Palestinians is weakened by using the word “genocide” as a characterization of Israel’s policies; Palestinians have not been physically killed en masse. Why mention it when oppression, apartheid and the destruction of the community are enough to expose the crimes and rally supporters to the just Palestinian cause? The diabolical way in which genocide is being accomplished demands mention.
Israel, knowing that it cannot physically eliminate the Palestinians, has adopted a covert and sinister method of genocide: attacking the psyche of the Palestinians so that they lose the will to live. By posing constant dangers to Palestinian existence, constant impediments to their daily lives, constant confiscations of their land and resources, constant reminders that they are dominated, Israel creates anxiety, fear, despair and hopelessness that lower the spirit, the immune system and the capacity of the Palestinians. to function, the ability to think properly, and the ability to reproduce. Broken bones lead to broken parents, broken supervision, broken homes, and end up in broken communities. Those Palestinians who can still lift their heads will want to leave. The indomitable Palestinians have not allowed this to happen.
Israel’s greatest crime is the denial of ontological security, the latter being a stable state of mind derived from a sense of continuity of events in one’s life. The harsh Israeli crackdown terrorizes communities, isolates people, produces anxiety, disqualifies breadwinners, and hinders satisfactory parent-child relationships by humiliating parents and subjecting them to brutal and senseless beatings. Add the deliberate denial of agriculture, water rights and fishing rights, the deliberate ruin of prized olive and orange groves, interference in the acquisition of livelihoods and employment, and the absence of ontological security accelerates the deterioration of the Palestinian community. Without laws or leaders to protect them, Palestinians are victims of genocide.
As of April 2022, 138 of the 193 members of the United Nations recognize the State of Palestine. Almost all countries in South America, Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe have granted recognition, while the major nations of North America and Western Europe, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Italy, the liberal democracies who seek social justice. and following the US doctrine of a “new world order”: denying the ontological security of the Palestinians by failing to recognize the State of Palestine.
These nations lead NATO, whose main guide is the United States. As mentioned above, NATO declared that it intervened in the 2011 Libyan Civil War as a duty of the Responsibility to Protect, an international norm that seeks to ensure that the international community never again fails to stop genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. All of these nouns apply to Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians. Well, what are you waiting for? US-led NATO Do your thing and do your duty with the Responsibility to Protect. The need to defend the Libyans was conjecture; need to defend the Palestinians is a verifiable fact
This kind of American hypocrisy has turned societies against democracy and has fostered extreme right-wing positions that are inspired by Israel’s nationalism, militarism and racism. By supporting Israel, the United States fuels the divisions and polarization that are slowly tearing it apart. For much of the world, the United States has lost its high moral standing, has lost prestige, and is sinking into neglect.
Israel will never change its oppressive policies; those firmly dedicated to the Palestinian cause—Iran, Hezbollah, Syria, and some Arab nations—do not have the military or political power to change the situation; and those sympathetic to the Palestinians will not challenge the combined powers of Israel and its benefactor, the United States. Palestinian salvation depends on the United States reversing its policies in the Middle East. That’s the problem. The salvation of the United States as the dominant world power depends on the United States ensuring the salvation of the Palestinians.
Experts confuse support for Israel with support for this Israel. The United States, for military and geopolitical reasons, can support Israel, as it does with Colombia, but there is no reason to support and assist this Israel in the destruction of the Palestinians. The Washington establishment and foreign policy makers have miscalculated the trade-offs between supporting this Israel in its denial of Palestinian rights and ontological security and satisfying the Palestinian cause.
Aside from the moral lift, which should suffice when considering US complicity in the predicted genocide, by reversing policies that aid the repression of Palestinians, the US will reap a multitude of benefits and allow Washington to regain its leading role in the global world. community:
For money and votes, American politicians sell their commitment to the American people, follow the dictates of a foreign nation, and engage Americans in the destruction of innocent people. TREASON!!
Hopefully, more people will rise to the challenge, marshal the resources, form organizations, confront the oppressors, shout much louder, push much harder, and succeed in changing American attitudes that have been a major contributor to the deliberate destruction of the Palestinian community by part of Israel.
