Camp or Conspiracy?
By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
25/01/08
"ICH" -- -- What monsters could possibly be responsible
for summary killings and deportations of peoples merely for
their identity? The horrendous memory of what man is
capable of in his darkest hour is a reminder of the fragile
thread of humanity easily broken if not protected from
greed. Once torn, we assume the aspects of hell; our
culpability in Gaza for our awareness makes us
accomplices. Our guilt is undeniable. Palestinians look
for ways to escape from the camps; we cannot escape our
conscience, if indeed, we have one.
A fleeting woman
is hosed down, her dignity washed away with the scarce water
that she should be offered to quench her thirst with, as she
attempts to escape into neighboring Egypt; she is escaping
hunger, disease and death brought on by Hitler’s victims,
victims who are re-reliving their past by creating a
concentration camp they can peer into - a window into their
tragic history. Perhaps they need to punish Palestinians
for their Arab identity as a reminder to themselves that
they themselves were humiliated for being Jewish.
Exorcising their hatred, and with the backing of all the
powers in the world, not only are they abusing helpless
people who seem to be abandoned even by God, but Israel’s
actions are offending humanity. Is Israel truly
compensating for its past pain; is this reminder of its
humiliation helping this nation stay strong?
Our leaders in
America tell us that we support Israel because of our shared
values. Does the United States support concentration camps,
deportation, and genocide? Are we all children of Adolf
Hitler, his genes an inescapable legacy?
The unfolding
events in camp Gaza are the results of decisions made long
before some of us were born.
In a letter
dated April 5, 1945, President Roosevelt sent a letter to
Ibn Saud in which he pledged that he would never do anything
which may prove to be hostile to the Arabs. A week later he
died. Truman saw no need to follow in his predecessor’s
footsteps. Falling for Ben Gurion’s bait which had failed
to catch Roosevelt, Truman won the hearts of the American
Zionist by endorsing The Biltmore Programme, the objective
of which was domination of the whole Palestine- eventually.
He bluntly explained to his American diplomats from Arab
countries: “I do not have hundreds of thousands of Arabs
among my constituents”. And he did all this in the name
of the most cherished values of his civilization.; chasing
out Arabs from their homes to send Jews to Palestine so that
they would not have to come to America en masse.
Today, Mr. Bush
continues those ‘cherished values’ – he arms Israel to
continue the deportation of Palestinians so that Israelis
can have the rest of their land – to complete the Biltmore
Programme. He gets the Jewish vote, and the Evangelical,
and the special lobby – but who votes for the dying
Palestinian, who will stand up for humanity and cry out:
“where is your decency?”
