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<h1><small>A License to Kill: “Israel Right to Defend Itself”</small></h1>
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<p><span style="font-size:14px"><b><small><small><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.turkeyagenda.com/a-license-to-kill-israel-right-to-defend-itself-933.html">http://www.turkeyagenda.com/a-license-to-kill-israel-right-to-defend-itself-933.html</a><br>
July 23, 2014<br>
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<p><span style="font-size:14px">Western politicians’ repeated
canard that “Israel has the right to defend itself” against
the Occupied Palestinian population has to be understood as
an open license to maim and kill anyone in range. Voices
from across the political spectrum repeat this utterance,
which I am sure is handed down to them from Israeli public
relations outfits intended to shore-up support at a moment
of crisis.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14px">From President Obama and French
President Francois Hollande to U.K. Prime Minister David
Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and Canadian Prime
Minister Stephen Harper all have stated in one way or
another, that Israel has “the right to defend itself”
against terrorism and rockets being fired at cities. Not one
could accept rockets raining down upon their cities and
homes, yet this has been the Palestinian feeling and for the
past 67 years. The above countries and successive leaders
have been complicit in arming Israel making it possible for
its military to bomb Palestinians cities and towns with
ease.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14px">However, we must ask the
question as to why it is that Western leadership sees fit to
support a powerful Israel, the Occupying power, against the
Occupied Palestinians? Also, how is it possible in the face
of a massive and well-documented dehumanization colonial
project 67 years in the making that Western leaders and
governments continue repeating the same canard of
self-defense? Are they ignorant or ill informed about
Palestine?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14px">Let’s be clear and direct for
once on this issue. Israel is a child of Western
colonization and a maliciously celebrated “atonement”
project for classical Christian anti-Semitism and WWII
crimes. Also, Israel emerged in the middle of contestation
for the spoils of the Ottoman territories in pre and post
WWI. A racist British political leadership that wanted to
solve the “Jewish Question” once and for all offered
Palestine to the Zionist and with it managed to transplant a
settler colonial project in Palestine.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14px">Western attitudes and relations
with Israel are rooted in the above epistemic foundations
that regulate the one-sided commitment to a colonial settler
state. Lurking also in the background is a Western world
that has deep-seated anti-Muslim sentiments that are
reflected historically in words and deeds. The Crusades have
a considerable hold on Western imaginary when it comes to
thinking about Islam and Muslims, which impacts how
Palestine is framed.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14px">Furthermore, we must account for
Christian religious ethos that is connected to Palestine,
which get manipulated into supporting a settler colonial
project clothed in divine purpose. For the Christian
religious right, support for Israel serves as the needed
stepping stone for the Second Coming of Jesus and the
Palestinians are dispensable “sub-humans” to be pushed aside
for a greater history to emerge. Palestinians are not
included in this narrative and have to accept Zionism and
the Christian Right’s “manifest destiny” for greater things
are at stake than the few Palestinians currently living on
the land.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14px">The current war is an Israeli
war fought with American and European manufactured and
freely provided weapons. Also, this war is an American,
European, Arab and Muslim world war fought in the corridors
of power that continue to facilitate an Israeli siege on 1.8
million Palestinians. Nay, the Western, Arab and Muslim
world leaders are not only watching, they are knee deep in
assisting the Occupier over the Occupied. International law
and Fourth Geneva Convention do not apply to the darker
complexion section of the human family.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14px">“A land for a people for a
people without a land” is not a mere slogan, but a
commitment of actualization by means of death, destruction
and genocide against the indigenous Palestinian population.
The Western powers that signed on the Zionist project
starting at the end of WWI, were not ignorant of what they
committed themselves to, a colonization program supported by
the power of the British. At the end of WWI around 75% of
the world population was living the colonial project
nightmare; thus Palestine was incorporated into this
existing Western epistemic global structure.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14px">Israel, for Western powers,
represents a success story connected to a biblical
re-enactment of arrival at the “Holy Land” and re-building
the “Kingdom of God” that will usher-in a new peaceful and
hopeful period. While secularity at present is argued to be
foundational in the West; nevertheless religious ethos
continue to have a strong hold when thinking and acting in
relations to Israel.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14px">The constant and unconditional
support for Israel by Western leaders is not accidental nor
unplanned for it reflects long standing political and
economic interests (oil plays a major role) in the region as
well as a distorted religious rationalization intended to
cement public support. “Israel’s right to defend itself” is
paradigmatic of colonial discourses where maximum power is
deployed against a resisting indigenous population refusing
to step aside and acquiesce to wholesale dispossession.
Western leaders have been committed to this project from its
inception for it provided a fertile ground for a divide and
conquer strategy with all the needed rationale to continue
intervention in the Arab and Muslim world.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14px">“Israel’s right to defend
itself” is meant to give the green light for an old fashion
Western slaughter against the darker “inferior” races
inhabiting the southern hemisphere. Numbers are not
important, severity not an issue and targeting civilians for
punishment is the only way to bring the “plantation slaves”
to their knees and accept the fait accompli. Who are
Palestinians to object and refuse what the “civilized north”
determined for the redemption of the Holy Land?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14px">The Arab and Muslim world in the
most recent past have been the sites of a new and extreme
re-colonization and Zionization project that is still
unfolding in front of our own eyes. From the Atlantic shores
of Morocco passing through Libya and Egypt to Iraq and
Afghanistan we are witness to a re-colonization project that
is made possible by structured violence in all spheres. The
invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the current
wars in the region are part of constructive chaos intended
to deplete people’s resistance reservoirs and for them to
accept a new world where they are mere commodities to be
bought and sold by the highest bidder.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14px">In this context, Palestinian
resistance stands in the way and prevents the completion of
the re-colonization project and precisely because of this we
find an international effort directed at crushing them
literally in their own homes in Gaza. Palestinians are a
“throwback” to bygone years of dignity, freedom and
resistance to colonization. In the view of Western leaders
and the appointed Arab hands, the Palestinians ingratitude
to Zionism success, as a Western implanted project, must be
countered by extreme violence, “the only language they
understand.” Palestinians must be crushed for having the
audacity to resist. In the same way, the rebelling slave was
violently disciplined so as to bring him/her into a mental
acceptance of the master’s superiority; Western leaders give
Israel the free hand to finish the job and crush the
resisting Palestinians once and for all.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14px">Palestinians, as a “sub-human
group,” are not accorded the right to resist their occupier,
the Western world implant on their land. Recognition of this
right implies that the Western leadership and its foreign
implant in the region are a historical mistake that must be
corrected. More critically, recognition of Palestinian
resistance carries with it an independent agency for the
indigenous occupied people causing in the process a total
demolition of the “racial classification” that is
foundational to colonization and Zionism alike.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14px">“Israel’s right to defend
itself” is intended to maintain a “racial classification”
and accord differing categorization to the use of violence
in the conflict. Western leaders are identifying with Israel
and it is constituted as part of “us,” while Palestinians
are an irrational and barbaric “other” engaged in “futile”
resistance and violence. Added to this racial demarcation is
an important fact: Western leaders have provided Israel with
all the sophisticated modern weapons to be efficient in
killing the Palestinians. Furthermore, Western leaders
provide the “legal” protection in the halls of power and
influence to make it possible for the slow and deliberate
genocide to go unpunished.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14px">International law, in the hands
of Western leaders, has become an instrument of control,
domination and legal thievery. As Israel builds settlements
creating facts on the ground, Western leaders forge
international law that becomes “legal norms and facts”
constricting the bodies and movements of indigenous,
occupied and colonized people across the world.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14px">When Western diplomats arrive at
the seen the best strategy is to head directly to the exits,
for their role is to extract from the indigenous population
political, economic, social and security concessions that
were untenable by violence due to strong resistance. The
concern they show is for the Occupier’s wellbeing, his
property and person with a laser focused at negotiating a
more favorable status quo after clear defeats on the ground.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14px">Palestinians, as a group,
possibly are among the few in the world that can list
Western Foreign Ministers and US Secretary of State names
for the past 100 years and each and every UN General
Secretary since the organizations inception: they had the
misfortune to meet all of them as they worked hard to help
Israel complete and legalize its dispossession of the
Palestinians. As diplomats shuttle into the region to
“forge” a ceasefire, their agenda is focused on helping
Israel “defend itself” by means of a new agreement intended
to create “legal facts” on the ground and weaken the
Palestinian resistance. The next few days are critical and
we will see if the Palestinians are able to withstand the
international team of sharks that is ready to attack them
from within the confines of the global legal colonial
structure. </span></p>
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