Let me tell you a story
In 1983 I was bashed into a wall by the same boy who, together with a bunch of his friends had been beating, harassing and teasing me for three years. I was eight, it started when I was four. The result was that my skull broke. I still have the scar. As I said in an earlier post, the teacher didn't do anything. She sent me home, walking, blood streaming down my face, crying my eyes out, hurt, with a broken skull and a concussion.
The thing about this bullying is that the teachers felt they didn't have a mandate to do something, so they knew but ignored it. Then my classmates, even the ones that weren't guilty to bullying me, pretended they knew nothing. And the boys who weren't the leaders, but the followers later told me they only did it because the leaders put 'm up to it.
Doesn't that sound familiar? Ich habe es nicht gewusst, Befehl ist Befehl, and all that. Similarly, in 1947, the Jewish population of Palestine was a small fraction of the total population, and they wanted a Jewish homeland. So the 97% of the land had to be de-arabised. Plan Dalet actually mentions the tactics for this, intimidation, surrounding villages from three sides, and shooting into villages, summary executions. This was used in 1947, 1948 and 1949 by the Hagana to drive Palestinians off their land.
Thousands of these men were summarily shot, the women, children and old people were sent marching, women were raped. The definition of a man was anyone between 10 and 50 years old. The way they were shot was by a hooded man and intelligence officers that picked out the people to be shot and just executed them by bullit.
Ben Gurion's diary contained a daily chapter called "Rape Cases". This contained reports from the Hagana, the Seventh brigade and some other units where they had raped women during the "evacuation" of these 530+ Palestinian villages. The worst case known to me was a 12 year old Palestinian girl who's father and brother got shot, mother got injured and was then kidnapped. She was taken to an encampment where she was gang raped for 23 days on end by most of the unit, and turned into their sex slave. Finally she was taken out of the camp and shot by one of the soldiers.
This was not the norm, usually it was just daughters and sisters getting raped in front of the villagers. There also have been reported cases of bayonetting of pregnant women. So after the women were raped, the men were killed summarily, the villagers were sent walking home. Blood streaming down their faces, traumatized and crying. Then their houses and villages would be blown up, erased from the world.
The UN was an onlooker in this. As were the British. They didn't lift a finger to do a damn thing at all for these people while the Zionist forces under Itzhak Rabin, Ben Gurion, Yigal Allon and other people that now have streets and squares and airports named after them were on their thieving and killing spree. The soldiers were just following the orders as outlined in Plan Dalet. The leaders claimed to be responding to an existential threat, and the UN, British and Americans saw things but did nothing.
Now this might sound like what I went through except 1000 times worse. But given the rage and pain I still feel about the above, I can surely begin to guess what the average Palestinian might feel towards his overlords. At the moment the Israelis are pretending none of the above happened. They forged history so as to make their slate look clean. They never apologized to the Palestinians.
Actually, the building of the Apartheids wall in the West bank is said to be done for the purpose of security, but in reality it connects all Jewish settlements, partitions the land so that Palestinians are herded into small townships without freedom of movement or the freedom to pursue a job anywhere. It also cuts them off from 30% of the land of the West Bank but more importantly it put 90% of all good Water supplies on the Jewish side.
So the landgrabbing and thievery are still continuing. Furthermore, the Palestinians are de facto under Israeli military rule. Per year more than 500 houses Palestinians build here and there are bulldozed, often in the middle of the night, with the inhabitants still in them.
Then they are looted. This has been going on since 1948, when Jaffa was plundered by the Zionist troops. There was even correspondence between local Hagana commanders and the High Command about how troops were out of control and taking stuff the army didn't need. In that manner, an estimated Million Dunams of land, all furniture, jewelry and all money any Palestinian had in any financial institution were seized.
Now if the dude who broke my skull would find me, come to me, admit to my face what he'd done to me and then apologize, I would have a much easier time living with it. As things stand, I would sooner stab him if I met him. And I didn't go through anything major.
The Israeli's are systematically sidestepping their own history, and in doing so are adding insult to injury for the Palestinians. You tell me how you are not contributing to the problem, please. Did you ever apologize to any Palestinian for their conditions? Did you ever apologize to any Palestinian for being a racist dick? Did you ever vote for someone else than old white Polish, Baltic or Ukrainian Jews?
Because the country has been run by a network of old army buddies and Zionist families from Eastern Europe since day one, and continues to be run by that network today. Just look at who has been in charge. Look at a list of Israeli presidents and Prime Ministers, then compare that to various war records and IDF records, and then tell me how Israel can be considered a democracy.
Hell, the Hagana commanders, Stern gang people and Irgun even said this about Mizrahi Jews in 1948. The Mizrahi units even had "Soldiers of lesser quality" than the Ashkenazi ones. Israel is essentially a violent Apartheid project since day one, as can be proven by IDF and State Archive research.
Do something against that, and you're not a part of the problem anymore.
