With the recent events in the Middle East with Israel, many people have their eyes on the people of Palestine. But first I have to say that this is not an anti-Semitic or anti-Jewish claim, it is anti-Zionism and anti-apartheid. I would like to start off with a series of rhetorical questions for you, the reader:
- If a bill went through Congress with 170 members for and six against, but it still didn’t pass, how do you expect the people of America to react?
- Would there be protests? Would Americans take to the streets and tear down the government? Would your people overthrow the government officials who had made the decision to not pass it despite the major support?
- Would you be outraged, if the voting power of those who weren’t even present to vote outweighed the power of those against said bill by 150 percent?
- What do you define as conflict of interest?
- If a king had to choose to veto or pass a law on whether or not a king should run the government, do you believe that’s a conflict of interest?
- If Adolf Hitler was the deciding factor on a bill about Jewish people having rights, is that a conflict of interest?
- What do you define as bias?
- Would a slave owner be biased to slaves?
- Would a king be biased to a peasant? Would an Israelite be biased to a Palestinian?
- Should those biased be allowed to be on a jury?
- I would like you to think about these questions as we progress through this article.
Do you believe in Democracy? If you do, then you understand that the people should own the government they are under. Therefore, if a bipartisan situation is impossible, then the popular vote should be the top pick, correct? That is how democracy should work. When democracy fails due to a dictatorship-like government taking over where the popular vote doesn’t matter, the people of the popular vote feel as though their voices and their vote doesn’t matter. Do we remember how the United States was formed? People in the colonies, then an exploited, unrecognized territory like modern Palestine, felt as if they had no voice or vote in their government. They were treated as less than human beings. When the people of the popular vote are oppressed, they feel as though the only option they have left is a non-peaceful revolt. But, present an opportunity. This is the time when peace can be achieved without violence, when peace can be achieved through the popular vote of the people. When horrific wars are not the only way to be seen in a time that makes your vote disregarded. Despite the conflict of interest in the recent vote allowing two countries, Israel and the United States, directly involved in the genocide to have a voice. The good side has not always won, and if we don’t take action now, another example of the good side losing will be written into the history books.
I would like to now move on to the words of Adolf Hitler “The National Socialist State does not recognize… law of the jungle.” Keep those words in mind. This is in reference to the Jewish population and how they ran their economy, lifestyle, and general existence. Now let’s move to this quote posted to X (formerly Twitter) by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “This is a struggle… between humanity and the law of the jungle.” Now, spot the difference.
Let’s move to another quote by Adolf Hitler: “The reason why the… world was so pure, light and serene.” In this quote he was referring to a time before Jewish people existed and had power in then NAZI Germany. Now let’s move to a quote by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “This is a struggle between the children of light and the children of darkness.” Do these words remind you of anything, maybe a previously mentioned quote by a famous apartheid leader of a genocidal country? To clarify, he also said “We are the people of light, they are the people of darkness.” No one should compare another group of people to themselves by saying they are the children of darkness. Think of your family, loved ones, friends, would you call them the “people of darkness” just because they are of a different nationality? If so, you are nationalist. Fun unrelated fact: Hitler was a nationalist.
Now, let’s compare to other well known genocides:
America, 1844, the confederates called Africans (Rac)coons (Cutting off the ‘rac’ and making it silent) and monkeys; Germany, 1944, the Nazis called the Jews rats; Rwanda 1994, the Hutu called the Tutsi cockroaches; Israel (Now occupied Palestine), 2024, the IDF calls the Palestinians cockroaches, seems a common theme in genocide is calling your target a lower life form to dehumanize them. Now, remember those same relatives, friends, and loved ones? Think, would I call them cockroaches, raccoons, monkeys, or rats because they are not of the same nationality as me? If you said yes, you’re a nationalist. And in case you missed the “completely unrelated” fun fact earlier as mentioned in the quote said by himself and by me, Hitler, as previously mentioned, was also a nationalist.
Israel is the proprietor of various war crimes, let’s go into detail. On the 15th of October 2023, World Health Organization data showed there had been 48 reported attacks on healthcare facilities in the Gaza Strip, resulting in damage to approximately 24 hospitals. Do you know what an incendiary is? What about incendiary weapons, do you know what they are? Do you know what white phosphorus is? Do you know what it does to the human skin on contact? I have the answers to all of these questions and more, follow along.
An incendiary is something designed to cause fires. An incendiary weapon is something designed to attack mass targets and, obviously, burn them. They were banned by the Geneva convention of 1949 after their use in WWII due to their gruesome nature on both sides for the person firing the weapon and the person who is a victim of it. White phosphorus is an incendiary, banned by Geneva 49. White phosphorus burns the skin all the way through until it has melted all of the flesh off its victim. It ignites on contact with oxygen. Israel has used white phosphorus in bombings, often in fact. The worst part? The selected victims are usually hospitals, children… in children’s hospitals. And they double down because the hospitals, let alone the children, weren’t horrific enough for the Zionist pigs releasing phosphorus bombs on hospitals. The children are often the youngest first served, therefore they’re bombing newborns and children under the age of five. Can you imagine how many toddlers, newborns even, have been hit with white phosphorus? How many mothers are grieving after just managing to go into labor for god-knows-how-long? I can, 11,000. 11,000 is the number of young children who have succumbed to death in the Gaza Strip alone. They’re not even including the West Bank and Rafah. Could you handle the burn of a hot pan or stove for more than five seconds? I couldn’t even do three. White phosphorus burns all the way through like cartoon acid so it is a slow, slow, slow, fate.
Despite the lack of reporting on the West Bank and Rafah “safe zone,” due to the fact that most reporters are shot on sight, I have the statistics for you. Before you read these statistics, remember that all of these numbers and percentages represent real people, families, victims, innocents, children, those who don’t deserve death, these statistics are people. Of the two million four hundred thirty two thousand five hundred thirty four (2,432,534) kids in the entirety of the multitude of camps, plots of land, and territories that make up Palestine, one million three hundred sixty four thousand five hundred forty eight (1,364,548) live in the West Bank, one million sixty seven thousand nine hundred eighty six (1,067,986) live in the Gaza Strip. Children make up roughly 43% of Palestine, 41% in the West Bank and 47% in Gaza Strip. On average every ten minutes a person dies in Palestine, the accurate statistic is every ten minutes 1.7361 people die in Palestine. That’s two hundred and fifty people a day. That statistic includes the fact that almost half of their population is children. Eighty-five percent of the West Bank is Muslim and Israel was literally created after World War II to give Jewish people a safe place to live. They also use the Jewish Star of David in their flag. This isn’t a Hamas-Israel problem, this is an ethnic religious problem. How can a people go through such a tragedy as world war and genocide and not learn from their mistakes? As they say, “hurt people hurt people,” and these people weren’t just hurt, they were violated in World War II. So it makes sense that they manage to exceed the amount of cruelty created by Adolf Hitler.
For those who know history we understand that the Apartheid state of Israel, ran by P.M. Netanyahu (B.) and Prez. Herzog (I.), is a threat to the world population and their control of their own government. Not just the Palestinians, or the Lebanese, or the Jordanians, or the Iranians, or the Egyptians. This isn’t genocide of the Palestinians this is a genocide of the Muslim way of life, this is a genocide of the Arabic way of life, this is a genocide of the Persian way of life, this is a genocide of the non-Jewish way of life. It is important to recognize that this is not an attack on the Jewish people, or even the people of Israel, this is an attack on the Apartheid state of Israel and its nationalist beliefs. This is genocide of more than just people; its a purge of land, its an ethnic-religious cleansing, it is a genocide of the way of life of the people, our people, your people, the people of your city, town, region, area, country, religion, family, neighbors, it is genocide at its fullest. Who’s next after the Palestinians? Will it be localized? Will “Hamas” move to Lebanon? Jordan? What about Egypt, or Iran? Or Japan, Yemen, Oman, Saudi-Arabia, what about all Muslims? All Arabs? What will happen when “Hamas” turns into simply any Persian person? Every man, woman, child, elderly person, no matter the age, gender, or place they’re from? What will you do when you know you chose to be on the side of Israel, the apartheid state, over the safety of your people?
Today I call upon all Arabic, Asian, and Muslim populated people, Christian people, any person that is friends or family with a non-Jewish person, anyone not willing to submit to the United States backed Israel Apartheid state or to any apartheid state. I also call upon those who are. What happens when your people don’t want to give up their land or die? What happens to all of the people who don’t fit their perfect model for a human? We all remember the section of our history books where it talks about Adolf Hitler’s “perfect person” correct? Blond hair, blue eyes, no disability of any form, German, white skin, Christian/Catholic, and last yet most important of all, willing to submit to his rule. What about all the people of your country who aren’t in Netanyahu and Herzog’s “Perfect person plan,” and both bluntly and simply don’t want to be? What about all of the non-Jewish, non-white, non English/Hebrew speaking people? Will they become “Hamas” members too? How will you think of yourself and sleep at night when the children, newborns, your people are bombed with white phosphorus because they are “terrorist Hamas members?”
What if it were you? Amnesty International’s evidence lab team of white phosphorus experts verified press released photos of white phosphorus bombs and artillery shells exploding over Dahaira, a Lebanese border village. One of the victims, Ali Saffiedine, said “we were not able to even able to see our own hands due to the heavy white smoke that covered the town all night long and lasted till this morning” imagine sitting where you are now and hearing an explosion just to be covered in sparks and a heavy white powder that burns your skin. When you inhale white phosphorus it is a sensation unlike any other, the nasal membranes and bronchial tubes are the most sensitive and valuable parts of the body used for breathing. Breathing in white phosphorus feels as though you’re being burned alive from the inside out, because that is literally exactly what is occurring. It causes you to cough and gag and gasp for air only worsening the effect. Those who come in inhalant contact with the chemical tend to unfortunately pass slowly, painfully, and surely. Would you wish that upon your hometown? On your people? On your wife, husband, kids? Would you ever forgive the people who did that to your daughters and sons? Your mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, grandmothers and grandfathers? Or would you convict the fascist nationalist Nazi who did such a thing with War Crimes unlike any other? Prime minister Netanyahu made that order to drop those phosphorus bombs.
Do you know what a “leaflet” is? Dropping leaflets is a terroristic form of propaganda and psychological warfare, especially when used against civilian populations, and it was used in some of the most massive historical genocides ever. Leaflets or leafleting is when you drop pamphlets of propaganda on a civilian or military population. Leafleting has severe psychological effects, let’s look further into that. Leafleting is a scary experience if you think you’re about to be bombed, but instead? Red pamphlets including false information. Lets closely examine some of the genocides it has been used in. In the Vietnam war the United States dropped leaflets. The Library of Congress says this “Propaganda leaflets dropped on North Vietnam by U.S. planes. At top, leaflet shows a skull and the words, in Vietnamese: this is one of more than 2,000 Northern soldiers who died at Plei Me in November, 1965. Below, the leaflet says: these are some of your comrades-in-arms who are enjoying good treatment in the South.” Imagine seeing a dead friend, family member, or comrade on a red pamphlet with a skull above it. Over 5 billion leaflets were dropped in 7 years across Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. That’s an average of 652315.72 a day for all seven years across all three countries. No one was safe. And both the axis and allies of world war two used leafleting against civilians. Leafleting is a common theme in genocides. And the apartheid Israel’s favorite tactic to use. To the point that they dropped leaflets as recently as last month. These pamphlets are even more violent than the ones seen in the Vietnam war and world war two. The message inscribed in Arabic directly translates to this:
This is a direct threat of genocide to the people of Iran, now divided Syria, Palestine, and Jordan. It is a blatant psy-ops tactic. If you can’t see the problem, then you are the problem. Ignorance is bliss and you have to do your research.
After the fall of the Assad regime with the now Russian refugee Bashar Al-Assad leaving Syria the people are too busy celebrating and trying to restart the government to fight back. Now they’re colonizing parts of the Golan Heights, bombing Syrian airports, and bombing civilian housing. People are dying, where is your empathy? The oppressed people of Syria are only receiving more violence as a result of Israel’s apartheid hatred. Yet Israel claims that other countries don’t like them just because of their beliefs and that they simply exist? This is dehumanization to make all other middle eastern countries seem like amoral violent savages. Think about it from an unbiased perspective, imagine if the United States had a civil war lasting fourteen years and Mexico started to take land, bomb airports, and commit mass killing while we celebrated the end of our long fight. Then when we fight back, or even when we don’t, they claim we just hate them because they exist and have their own religious beliefs.
I would like to begin to finish off this speech with two quotes by a famous American civil rights leader and activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” and “A time comes when silence is betrayal.” Now will you stay silent and betray your people, and the people of the world? Or will you take a stand against apartheid and oppression and advocate for the recognition of a Palestinian state? Will you stand up to Israel and the United States corrupt ambassador as a people and choose to advocate for the conviction of President Herzog and Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel of serious war crimes like the fascist, nationalist, apartheid they truly are? Just remember, a time comes when silence becomes betrayal and your life will begin to end due to the fact that you’re incapable of speaking out for the importance of a Palestinian state recognition in the United Nations organization and conference.
The Palestinian people now feel the need to scream at the top of their lungs on their land to know life is still even possible on the soil beneath their feet. I pray for the day that the millions of the children of The West Bank, The Gaza Strip, and Rafah “Safe Zone” wake up to the sound of birds not bombs. I dream of the day they will not have to know how much their people had suffered for them to have their homes and the sound of Pigeons, not phosphorus as the sun rises. I beg whatever deity may stand in the creation of these cruel, despicable, wicked, and unspeakable acts, for a day to come that the true people of the promised land will wake to sounds of feathers, not fuel. I weep for the day to come that the mothers of Palestine will worry more of their child being bullied than bombed. I pray that one day the Muslims of the Middle East will be able to safely seek a Synagogue to pray for the peace of others in their time of need such as many people do for them while they stand in the face of oppression. The same way you do for your neighbors, pray for the people of Palestine, pray for their way of life, pray for their mothers, for their children, that they will awake to a sunrise not created falsely by an explosive, to rise to holes they punched in their walls out of anger from a bad test grade, not holes of warheads and destructive phosphorus. The true people of the promised land hurt, grieve, bleed, and die, while we watch behind a screen of safety that is the United States sheer power.
If you would never rob a child of their childhood experience, why would you let someone else rob millions of children from their whole entire lives? Of a real sunrise, of the bad and the good test grades, of the high school dances, of the ability to wake up to the sounds of birds, not bombs? Everyone in the world deserves to wake up to birds, not bombs. I must remind you that the situation is more than dire. More than 175,000 deaths have been reported since the start of the genocide and millions wounded or displaced. Hunger and starvation is such a massive problem that food is largely unavailable. When it is, it’s often sold out of trucks by corrupt companies at high prices. Unfortunately, the companies often don’t purchase the food they sell with their own money. It comes from donations. Then they slip the Israel or Egyptian government a small percent or cut of the profits for their safe passage through the border. Intentional starvation is a war crime as per listed by the International Criminal Court, and if this isn’t intentional starvation to you then you have no idea what the word “intention” means.
I thank advocates for the people of Palestine for their continued strength and courage in such dark times they have been in for the last 77 years, and all who fight for their rights to life included. You are braver than any Israeli government official ever has been in their brightest moment on your weakest day.
Sources:
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/white-phosphorus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa%27s_genocide_case_against_Israel
https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/10/12/israel-white-phosphorus-used-gaza-lebanon
https://www.loc.gov/item/94512331/
https://libapps.salisbury.edu/nabb-online/exhibits/show/propaganda/leaflet-propaganda
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-drops-leaflets-threatening-gazans-leave-or-die
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