Terrorism by
Israel
And They Call Us Terrorists ...
© Amir Meshkin
Today, Arabs and Muslims are often associated with terrorism. Sharon often
states that talks will not resume until Arafat controls his army of terrorists.
Now that it is quiet obvious that Sharon does not even want peace, the question
remains. What exactly is terrorism? Terrorism is violence, especially bombing,
kidnapping, and assassination, carried out for political reasons as defined by
most dictionaries. Terrorism is however used only by a weaker people against a
stronger while the stronger people simply use their military. The problem with
this is the weaker and usually oppressed people are labeled the terrorists
while the stronger people often get away with mass murder.
Every Palestinian killed today was killed by terrorists. They may not have
crude home-made bombs and mortars, but this detail makes their actions far more
cruel. Power corrupts and Israel's use of excessive force against a weaker
people fits in well with the definition of terrorism. Israel was not always the
stronger people however. Before Israel got what it wanted, Zionists practically
invented terrorism.
Terror was a policy first adopted by Zionists. The first airplane hijacking
was committed by Israel in 1954 when a civilian Syrian airliner was hijacked
shortly after the plane took off. Zionists invented the car bomb, and Zionists
were the first to assassinate United Nations personnel as well as attack their
own allies, such as the attack on the USS Liberty in 1967. Today no one seems
to remember the Zionist truck-bomb which blew up Jerusalems King David hotel
killing around 200 in 1946. Not many even know that on October 14, 1953, an
elite unit under command of current Prime Minister Ariel Sharon attacked the
village of Qibya in Jordan. Army officials stated that intelligence stated the
village was evacuated, but the UN found bullet holes in the debris. The bullet
holes were made from Sharon and his men shooting at the houses to make sure the
inhabitants stayed inside while the time bombs went off. Around 66 houses were
blown up killing over a hundred civilians, mainly women and children. Zionist
terrorism in the 1930s and 1940s has been forgotten because it is obvious that
the winners write the history books. There are however many instances of
Zionist terrorism that would be impossible to fit in one measly article.
Terrorism was the only policy of the Zionists, which were determined to
scare all Arabs from what they believe was their land. Cafes and restaurant
were favorite targets of Zionist along with poor residential neighborhoods.
More than 500 civilians were killed in the years of 1937 and 1938 alone. On
April 16, 1939, Zionist terrorists randomly shot two Arab civilians near Betah
Takfe settlements setting up many similar instances where innocent civilians
were randomly shot week after week. A study showed that the 6 months before the
birth of Israel, over 1,000 Arabs were killed and almost a million scared or
evicted from their homes. This is not only terrorism but mass terrorism,
designed to force Muslims to migrate elsewhere.
These operations became more cruel when Zionist realized that a Jewish
state was a possibility. The problem for the Zionist was however the security
of the Jews. The world however can obviously see that the Zionist did not want
to mix with Arabs. How could Gods chosen people mingle with inferior race
anyhow? Around the second half of December 1947, Zionist attacked civilians in
villages within the Haifa sub-district and soon they moved to villages in the
sub-district of Safad and Tabaraya. Over 170 men, women and children civilians
were killed in these attacks. Although many Arabs were scared away at this
point, this did not stop Zionist from attacking residents of Al-Tireh, Saasa,
Kfar Husseiniya, Sarafand, Kalounya, Beyt Sourik, Aylaboun, Al-Shajara and
Nasser Al-Dine killing 250 civilians. Israel however shocked the world when
they slaughtered a few hundred civilians in the village of Deir Yassin, on the
19th of April. Even after the establishment of the Jewish state, Zionist still
did not believe Israel to be pure.
In the summer of 1953, Israel attacked the camp of Bureig in Gaza, and then
the village of Kubeiya killing 60 and wounding 90 Arab civilians. Every week
seemed to bring another massacre at the hands of Zionists. The more famous of
these were the massacres at the village of Nahalin and the coast of Tabaraya
lake killing around 20. In the 1956 war, Israel showed its love of human beings
by bombing villages in Gaza killing hundreds of civilians. The 1956 massacres
of Kfar Kassem and Khan Younus saw the deaths off 450 civilians which were
mainly workers and farmers. In 1966 and 1967, raids on Al-Nakib and Al-Sumu saw
the deaths of 50 civilians. Palestinians were not the only targets of Zionist
however.
Zionist terrorism spread across the borders whenever Israel felt like they
needed to retaliate against Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt. In September of
1967, around 200 Egyptian civilians were killed in Al-Suise, the port of Tawfik
and Al-Ismailiya. Around 100 were killed in raids on sub-districts of Arbad and
Al-Salat. Israel stated that these villages contained Palestinian fighters and
followed with more attacks the following year.
Around 130 civilians were killed in the summer of 1968 in Al-Suise and
Al-Ismailiya, and 1969 saw the deaths of 60 civilian in attacks on Al-Hama and
Meysaloon, in Syria and Bour Said, in Egypt. An attack of a factory in Abi
Zubel saw the deaths of 70 civilians in 1970, and 50 school children were
killed when Israel attacked Baher Al-Bakar school in Egypt.
Palestinians have never attacked an Israeli school yet they still call
Palestinians terrorists. The massacres in Lebanon alone should bring massive
condemnation of Israel from the world but generally has not. Seems like the
holocaust is Israel's excuse for repeating the evil.
When Israel invaded and occupied the southern part of Lebanon in 1982, it
was clear they truly wanted to add to their nation of hatred. There were
reports of civilians rounded up in Mosques and murdered as well as daily rocket
attacks, shelling, air raids, naval bombings, mines, car bombs, home
demolitions, assassination and napalm attacks. The targets of these atrocities
were hospitals, mosques, gatherings, market places, lone houses and schools.
Ports were also closed devastating the economy and not allowing medical
supplies and other aid to reach needy civilians. Israeli settlers reportedly
also poisoned water supplies while Israel disrupted electricity and stole water
from Lebanese rivers. To view just some of the atrocities performed by Israel
against Lebanon, go to www.qana.org. There are far too many to list here, and
the website mentioned only brushes on the mentioned massacres. In conclusion
tens of thousands of Lebanese were killed, wounded, and missing. Many of these
were men, women, children, the elderly, journalists and even religious figures.
Some of the more discreet weapons of terrorism were cluster and vacuum bombs,
shrapnel, phosphoric and napalm, and (I still cannot believe this) booby
trapped dolls. If these actions by Sharon, which masterminded the invasion and
occupation, were not ethnic cleansing and very cruel, then you may need to
check weather or not you were born with a heart.
Israel has always been a sneaky type of country. They want to kill as many
Arabs as they can, but will dodge the blame whenever possible. UN reports
stated that in 1982, Maronite Christians supervised and helped by Israeli
soldiers killed around 3000 civilians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.
Israel was also known to squash cars full of civilians with tanks and bombing
houses. In 1973, Israel also shot down a Libyan civil aircraft over Sinai
killing all 106 civilian passengers aboard. Israel also has an obsession of
killing Muslims while they practice their faith as shown in one of the more
famous cases in 1994 where 50 Arab Muslims were killed in the Ibrahimi Mosque
in Al-Khalil. Israel has even committed these types of war crimes against its
own allies in the past.
During the 1967 war, Israel attacked the USS liberty killing 35 soldiers.
Israel stated they saw no flag and mistook the ship for an Egyptian ship. The
shiny American ship not only looked nothing like the Egyptian ship but flew a
large American flag overhead. Israel then made up a phony and flawed testimony
about the incident but the US did not buy it. The two notable terrorist actions
against the British however were the assassination of Lord Mowin in Cairo and
the attempted assassination of Sir Harold McMichel in Jerusalem. Zionist
terrorists assassinated or attempted to assassinate many high ranking employees
of large companies, officers and judges.
Zionists were also known to do some very cruel things such as hanging
opponents on tree trunks and electrical poles, crucifications, and blowing up
the bodies of kidnapped victims by sticking dynamite inside the victim. If you
still do not believe that Zionism is just as cruel, if not more cruel, than
nazism, then read the next paragraph on what some Zionists did to their own
people.
Not only were their reports of key Zionists meeting with Hitler, but there
were also many terrorist acts against European Jews which Zionists believed
were sinners and not pure. The Jewish ship Patria was blown up in November of
1940 of the coast of Palestine. The ship was carrying 1,900 illegal Jewish
immigrants into Palestine, 240 of which drowned. In 1942, Zionist gangs blew up
the Stromanear the shore of Turkey which was carrying 770 illegal Jews, all of
which drowned. Even today, some modern Zionists show their same hatred and
cruelty.
The father of a girl who was almost blown up recently by a Hamas militant
stated an opinion which many Jews take to heart. David Glam, stated recently
that he does not hate Arabs generally. But when they act this way and hurt
people," he adds, referring to suicide bombings, "it makes me hate
them. He later states that if he had an atomic bomb, he would use it on the
Arabs. Many would not be surprised if another war in the middle east ended with
Israel unleashing its nuclear arsenal.
This is not propaganda but simple facts. Israel committed many of these
atrocities and many more, some personally performed by Sharon himself. To kill
civilians for political reason is terrorism. The assassination of activists is
terrorism. The shooting of kids when all they do is throw stones is terrorism.
The two sides may have switched but Israel's cruel past can be seen in its
cruel treatment of Arabs by its military.
Israel does not want peace, it wants all the Arabs to leave the land they
believe is theirs. Hundreds of kids have been killed by Israel and they call us
terrorists. Villages have been destroyed with dynamite while the inhabitants
were asleep inside, and they call us terrorists. Thousands of houses have been
bulldozed over the years, and they call us terrorists.
Helicopters, naval warships, and tanks pound on civilians in villages daily
and they call us terrorists. How come no one ever calls some of Israel's
unbelievable and vile acts terrorism? Why are we called terrorists because of a
few bad apples when Israel's army commits terrorism against us on a daily
basis. All they seem to do is kill but if we throw a stone, God forbid, we are
suddenly labeled as the terrorists.
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Source: by
courtesy © 2001 Amir Meshkin