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Ayoon Wa Azan (“We Accepted the Burden, but the Burden Did not Accept Us”) (01-04-12)
Published in AL HAYAT on 01 - 04 - 2012


Al-Hayat
Israel and its gang, comprised of the Lobby and the American Likudniks, did not have anything to say about Land Day and the Global March to Jerusalem, which took place in conjunction with the first event two days ago, except to claim that it is an attempt to delegitimize Israel, and that the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, or the pastor of the church where Barack Obama prayed in Chicago, had supported the event.
However, Israel is illegitimate to begin with. Indeed, legitimacy cannot be conferred by the United States and Europe, but only by the Palestinians, the only legal owners of the land. They alone can give Israel legitimacy if they accept its presence over 78 percent of their country.
Palestine is the land from the River to the Sea. There are no traces what so ever of any Jewish kingdoms or alleged prophets in our countries (even though there is a 200 million-year old fossil of a Dinosaur's tooth found there). Personally, I accept a Palestinian state on 22 percent of the county of the Palestinians, with Jerusalem as its capital, because I do not want anyone to die. Yet it seems that ‘We have accepted the burden, but the burden did not accept us', as a Palestinian saying goes.
All over the world, recognition of Palestine and its people surpasses many times over that of Israel. On 23/9/2011, I was present at the UN General Assembly when President Mahmoud Abbas gave his speech, and was followed by the war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu. The session was recorded by the cameras of the world media, and it shows that 80 percent of the representatives of the world's 193 UN Member States applauded the Palestinian President, standing, cheering, crying and almost pouncing on him outside the hall, so much so that we were almost subjected to a stampede as if we were in a football match. Then the same cameras show that Netanyahu received the applause of his delegation alone, and did not even stand outside to greet people like all other speakers, because he knew that he would not have found there even one percent of the people who rose in support of the Palestinians. Instead, he rushed away like a convict only to be greeted by a few individuals wearing the Jewish hat at the escalator.
Israel is a state represented by a war criminal who took part in the bombing of civilian airplanes at Beirut airport in 1968, and a brothel bouncer from Moldova, Avigdor Lieberman, whose original job was to punch drunken men and throw them out of a pub.
Then there is the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and I had not known that he supported the Global March to Jerusalem, until I read it in a report published by the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center.
The above is a very appropriate name for the center, because Meir Amit was an Israeli soldier, i.e. a murderer, and was the head of Mossad, i.e. a terrorist who chased people in Occupied Palestine and around the world. For this reason, the Center focuses on intelligence and terrorism, with Amit, who has the center carrying his name, having practiced both against the Palestinians and the peoples of the entire region.
The Palestinians do not need an American pastor to support them, but thank him nonetheless for his humanitarian compassion. There is another world renowned man of cloth who supports them, who is the Reverend Desmond Tutu, the Archbishop of South Africa who suffered racial segregation firsthand, or apartheid, in his country, and lived long enough to see it being defeated and to see the native people rule their country. Tutu believes that racial segregation has spread to a neo-Nazi country established atop the land of Palestine, because Christian Europe had massacred the Jews in the known Nazi Holocaust, and atoned for its crime by helping them rob Palestine from its people.
Land Day commemorates the incidents of 1976, when the Israeli government seized thousands of acres of land belonging to Palestinians in Hebron. This prompted the Palestinians to rise up to defend their lands, and the occupation authorities (it is all occupation, be it in the West Bank, Gaza or historical Palestine) responded with tanks and bullets.
Meanwhile, the Global March to Jerusalem is a symbolic event held in conjunction with Land Day, with its aim being to show the world's support for Palestinian rights in their country. The event will not restore Palestine, and did not even cross the borders where tanks are deployed by a neo-Nazi army that kills and destroys every day without the excuse of Land Day or any marches. Last Friday, the Israelis locked down the West Bank and its people, while limited clashes erupted with the occupation forces.
All what I saw on the day of the Global March was that it resembled in its popular base the broad base I saw on that day of the UN General Assembly, when the whole world enunciated its support for the Palestinians. Consider UN Member States such as the Arab countries, South Africa, India, and China, Indonesia and then some Western countries and the United States. If we add the population of these countries, we would find once again an absolute global majority that supports the Palestinians and their rights.
All of Israel is occupation, until the independent Palestinian state is established alongside Israel.


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