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<h1 class="reader-title">Israel’s inherent sense of racial
superiority will backfire one day</h1>
<div class="credits reader-credits">By Mohammad Balawi - July
18, 2019<br>
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<article id="ltrFullPageDiv"> Hamas did a rare thing this
week; it issued a press release contradicting one of its
top officials, Fathi Hammad, who called for the killing of
Jews everywhere in the world. Hammad had to backtrack on
his comments and issue a press release of his own in which
he stressed his commitment to the official position of the
movement, which is to limit its efforts to resisting
Israel’s occupation of the land of Palestine. “Our
struggle is not with Jews elsewhere or with Judaism as a
religion,” insisted the Islamic Resistance Movement.
“Hamas has condemned and continues to condemn any attacks
against Jews and their places of worship worldwide.”
<p>
Hammad, who is known for his fiery rhetoric, was
commenting on an Israeli army sniper’s killing of
Mahmoud Al-Adham. The 28-year-old border guard was shot
while he was trying to prevent some Palestinian
protesters from getting too close to the nominal border
fence erected by the Israeli authorities. Egyptian
mediators have been shuttling between Israel and Gaza to
de-escalate tension between the two sides for months
now. The killing was a major blow to these efforts.</p>
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The Israeli army does not want military escalation with
the Palestinians in Gaza while war with Iran is still a
possibility. A spokesperson said that the shooting of
Al-Adham was a mistake, and the army will open an
investigation. Although no investigation has been
initiated, many Israeli commentators criticized the
military and viewed its statement as a kind of apology
to what they call a “terrorist” organisation. The
reasoning was clearly this: why should any Israeli
apologize for killing a Palestinian? He was, after all,
merely an “Arab”.</p>
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Of course, Israel has been killing Palestinians inside
occupied Palestine and further afield for decades.
Palestinian resistance movements, especially Hamas and
Islamic Jihad, are committed not to any retaliation
outside historic Palestine, but Hammad’s comments were
picked up as if such retaliation has already happened.
Israeli crimes against humanity and war crimes,
including the imposition of collective punishment on the
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip for 13 years, were
overlooked.</p>
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On the same day that Israeli media was lambasting Hammad
and, indeed, all Palestinians, the Zionist state’s
Channel 13 broadcast a documentary showing how the
Israeli secret service, Mossad, assassinated the
Secretary General of Islamic Jihad, Dr Fathi Shaqaqi, in
Malta in 1995. The operation involved killing a man with
neither charges nor a trial; abusing the sovereignty of
an independent state; undermining domestic security;
misleading local authorities; and forging official
documents and passports. This criminal act was carried
out, according to the documentary, in front of a
new-born baby and its mother. But who cares; he was just
another “Arab”.</p>
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Coinciding with the broadcast, Israel’s occupation army
shot a 10-year-old Palestinian boy in the head while he
was taking part in anti-settlement protests in Kafr
Qaddum in the West Bank. All settlements are illegal
under international law. Abdul Rahman Yasser Shteiwi was
rushed to Rafidia Hospital in Nablus. According to the
Palestinian Ministry of Health, the boy is fighting for
his life, with more than 100 bullet fragments in his
head. “The child was not even involved in the
demonstration,” explained a local source, “and was shot
as protesters were pulling back.”</p>
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Another boy, 7-year-old Tariq Zebania, was riding his
bicycle this week near his village, Tarqumia to the west
of Hebron, when he was knocked down by a hit-and-run
driver, an Israeli settler who headed for the Adhoura
settlement after hitting the boy. Local people reported
the incident to the occupation army; young Tariq was
taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead. No
attempt was made to apprehend the settler, witnesses
reported.</p>
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Two days ago, Nassar Taqatqa, 31, was found dead in
solitary confinement in an Israeli prison. He had been
arrested by Israeli occupation forces on 19 June at his
family home in the village of Beit Fajjar south of the
occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem. According to the
Palestinian Prisoners’ Center for Studies, “[Taqatqa]
was initially taken to the notorious Jalameh
interrogation center, where detainees have previously
reported being subjected to physical and psychological
abuse at the hands of Israeli officers. Two weeks later,
he was transferred to the Nitzan Prison in Al-Ramleh and
placed in solitary confinement.”</p>
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From long experience, Palestinians know that Israelis do
not regard as worthy the life of anyone other than white
Jews. Any investigations by Israel into the above
incidents, if they ever take place at all, as well as
court action, will lead to nothing whatsoever happening
to obtain justice for the victims of Israeli violence.
That is the norm when the accused is a white, Jewish
Israeli and the victim is Palestinian. The killing of an
Ethiopian-Israeli young man, Solomon Tekah, at the hands
of an Israeli police officer, lends weight to this
belief. He was an Israeli Jew, not an “Arab”, but was
still killed and his killer has been released. The
shooting itself was justified and covered-up by the
state, merely because the victim was not regarded as
quite Jewish enough. He was, after all, black.</p>
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Israeli propaganda has succeeded in misguiding people
for a long time, but it is impossible to mislead people
forever. There is a basic fact in all of this, which is
that any racist mentality that prevails in a state based
on colonialism with inherent racism, does not place any
importance on human life unless it is the “right” kind.
This inherent sense of racial superiority will, sooner
or later, backfire, and Israel will suffer the bitter
fruits of its own deeds.</p>
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<em>- Dr Mohammad Makram Balawi is a Palestinian writer
and academic based in Istanbul. He is the president of
Asia Middle East Forum. His article was published in
MEMO.<br>
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