[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [HumanRights] A Palestinian in Deutschland

Sun May 29 18:32:13 CDT 2011

All interesting observations.

I can't avoid noticing that the Germans not only developed the 
technology for
high speed automobile transit but they have also resisted the authoritarian
nanny state erosion with would force them to proceed at a snail's pace on
the Autobahn.  I can't help wondering why.

Perhaps it is because Germany is a "small sovereign state"
and can decide it's own destiny rather than
be beholden to the whims of its (distant) neighbors the way that folks
in Connecticut seek to control how Arizonans live?

"Let a country be small and it's people few" - Lao Zi

I heard a certain Buckley (the un-hip Wm., not Lord...) say that the 
Germans possess some
fundamental ethos which accounts for their tendency for development and 
prosperity.

I also heard a lady give a talk once in which she said that the 
fundamental reason
for the negative aggressive character of the German people is that they 
consume
blood sausages.

Actually it seems rather racist for Palestinians to act as they do
despite their being the sole proprietors of truth.

Delusions of Judenstaat seem to be common.
But one would as well try to resist Tolstoy.

Bring me my Chariot of fire...
I will not cease from Mental Fight,
Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand
Till we have built Jerusalem
Here on this empty gas can.

(apologies to Milton Berle)

On 2011-5-30 5:26, Morton K. Brussel wrote:
> A determined American-Palestinian. It's his American citizenship that 
> keeps him relatively safe in the West Bank. His theme is emotional, 
> constant and repetitive, but that is necessary.
>
> --mkb
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> *From: *"Mazin Qumsiyeh" <mazin at qumsiyeh.org <mailto:mazin at qumsiyeh.org>>
>> *Date: *May 29, 2011 6:50:46 AM CDT
>> *To: *Mort Brussel <brussel at illinois.edu <mailto:brussel at illinois.edu>>
>> *Cc: *Human Rights Newsletter <humanrights at lists.qumsiyeh.org 
>> <mailto:humanrights at lists.qumsiyeh.org>>
>> *Subject: **[HumanRights] A Palestinian in Deutschland*
>>
>> A Palestinian in Deutschland
>>
>>
>> <http://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2011/05/palestinian-in-deutchland.ht
>> ml>
>> http://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2011/05/palestinian-in-deutchland.htm
>> l
>>
>>
>>
>> At speeds that at one time reached 208 km/hour we drove the length of
>> historic Palestine in about three hours on the Autobahn between Fulda and
>> Munich.  Idyllic villages appeared occasionally between the endless green
>> and fertile fields. I was with three men who had idealism and youth and
>> energy. Six of us had slept last night on floors and couches in the 
>> student
>> service center of The University of Applied Sciences in Fulda after a 
>> talk
>> to some 50 students and faculty.  Then onto Munich, where I gave a 
>> talk to
>> some 100 people.  Tomorrow I go to Berlin, then Stockholm, then Rome. 
>> It is
>> strange to be in this land hearing the language that reminded me of my
>> graduate career (I studied German reading as part of my needed skills for
>> the research on mammals).  But it also reminded me that this is the 
>> language
>> of all early Zionist leaders. The vision of a Jewish state freed from its
>> original non-Jewish inhabitants was articulated so clearly in those early
>> writings and protocols of the World Zionist Congress. "Der Judenstaat" by
>> Theodor Herzl remains a classic.  Ironically, the fastest growing Jewish
>> population in the world today is right here in Germany.  I wondered why
>> among those prospering in Germany of all places cling to the lies of
>> Zionism. But Germany is a land of contradictions.
>>
>>
>>
>> It is not only a contradiction between the modern reality of today 
>> and the
>> horrors of WWII. Here is a modern democratic country where free 
>> speech and
>> historical examination is open but it is forbidden and punishable to 
>> examine
>> the historical record of the Jewish holocaust.  Here where the economy is
>> booming and the country beautiful but the government seems content to 
>> obey
>> whatever is dictated by the US State Department (itself obeying 
>> orders from
>> Tel Aviv).  Here where the lessons of violations of human rights are 
>> learnt
>> well but exceptions are made for the massive violations of human 
>> rights of
>> millions of Palestinians.   In my answer to a Zionist at Fulda, I stated
>> that he is engaged in Nakba denial and that this is just as bad as 
>> denial of
>> the Jewish holocaust (a crime in Germany).
>>
>>
>>
>> In the last few years, I gave talks to tens of thousands of people in
>> hundreds of cities around the world.  I had interactions with hundreds of
>> Zionists, many who have worked hard to prevent my appearance but who then
>> had to come and try to make their points.  Not one of those Zionists was
>> honest; their talking points being the same tired ones intended to 
>> deflect
>> attention from and not have to deal with facts of ethnic cleansing,
>> colonization and land theft. How do you justify the largest post WWII
>> refugee population and sleep at night?  The desperate attempts involve
>> regurgitating easily dispelled myths.  In all cases, they try to use and
>> abuse Jewish history in Europe to garner sympathy.  But even this 
>> lost its
>> effectiveness as a fig-leaf to cover for war crimes and crimes against
>> humanity directed at a people who had nothing to do with what happened in
>> Europe. Even here in Germany and despite a guilt complex, facts seem to
>> trump the Zionist perfidy.  It is not even possible anymore to hide the
>> Nazi-Zionist collaboration of the 1930s and early 1940s let alone to hide
>> what they did to 12 million Palestinian natives.  It is not possible 
>> to hide
>> the fact that Zionists and Jew-haters share the same goal of 
>> attributing to
>> Jews what Zionists and their racist apartheid state is doing.  Hence
>> Zionists insist on using Jewish symbols on their racist state.
>>
>>
>>
>> People around the world are now aware of how damaging Zionism is and was
>> (including to Jews around the world). How do you justify the fact that a
>> beautiful ancient land was raped and pillaged and cleansed of its 
>> natives to
>> be transformed to that last apartheid system on earth? Most know that
>> Zionism is to Judaism what Crusaderism was to Christianity and 
>> BinLadenism
>> to Islam. What Zionists promised fellow Jews was safety and security 
>> but not
>> morality or justice.  But even in this simple promise they lied. 
>>  Because,
>> as an ex-Zionist once remarked: a Jew in Tel Aviv today is certainly less
>> safe than a Jew in Berlin or anywhere else in the world.  So while 
>> Zionists
>> try to justify themselves to non-Jews based on myths about the history of
>> Palestine, they try to convince fellow-Jews by using the primal human
>> emotion of fear (in this case of the goyim/gentiles).  But even that
>> emotional tribalism is long outdated.  More and more Jews are seeing that
>> safety and prosperity do not arise from oppressing others or from 
>> replacing
>> the small ghettos in Europe with the large ghetto called the "Jewish 
>> state".
>> Germans had learned the lesson that repression and oppression of 
>> others does
>> not work long term. Other people have learned this lesson.  Zionists will
>> invariably have to internalize this lesson just like many 
>> anti-Zionist Jews
>> have internalized it.  Only then will these Jews rise "out of the ashes"
>> (the title of a great book by Jewish Theologian Marc Ellis.)
>>
>>
>>
>> In the meantime, our tasks as Palestinians and all people of 
>> conscience is
>> to assess our own roles and expand them to tell truth to power and to 
>> engage
>> in resistance to tyranny for example by using boycotts, divestments, and
>> sanctions. That is what the many people I talked to in Fulda, in 
>> Munich, and
>> those I will talk to in the next few days in Berlin, Stockholm, and 
>> Rome are
>> doing.  As the global intifada unfolds, we collectively shed apathy and
>> reclaim our humanity.
>>
>>
>>
>> I got interviewed over 8 times in the past week about supposed political
>> developments (speeches and plans to go to the UN).  Questions about what
>> Obama, Netanyahu, and Palestinian "leaders" had to say.  My answers 
>> are that
>> what these folks say is very predictable and why would we want to 
>> waste time
>> dealing with it.  Netanyahu is a colonialist racist and can only say what
>> all colonialist racists have to say.  Obama is a politician beholden 
>> to the
>> lobby and can only try to cajole the lobby as he tries desperately to 
>> hide
>> the reality of US hypocrisy and war mongering.  And many prominent
>> Palestinians have given up on the liberation struggle a long time ago and
>> replaced it with the struggle to hold on to their seats.  None of them
>> really take into account people power.    See the article by Ali Abunimah
>> "What happened to Palestinian "reconciliation"?" and especially the three
>> links within them that show how some key leaders of the Palestinian
>> authority (Fatah) had engaged in what would be considered treasonous
>> behavior in other circumstances
>>
>>
>> <http://electronicintifada.net/blog/ali-abunimah/what-happened-palestinian-r
>> econciliation>
>> http://electronicintifada.net/blog/ali-abunimah/what-happened-palestinian-re
>> conciliation
>>
>>
>>
>> Reviews of my book on Popular Resistance in Palestine:
>>
>> By Theresa Wolfwood
>> <http://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=16885>
>> http://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=16885
>>
>> By Asa Winstanley
>> <http://electronicintifada.net/content/book-review-popular-resistance-popula
>> r-history/9936>
>> http://electronicintifada.net/content/book-review-popular-resistance-popular
>> -history/9936
>>
>>
>>
>> Open letter to the people of Palestine from South African theologian Dr.
>> Farid Esack
>>
>> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1skU_nVaMl8>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1skU_nVaMl8
>>
>>
>>
>> Join us in Palestine July 8-16 <http://palestinejn.org/>
>> http://palestinejn.org
>>
>>
>>
>> Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD
>>
>> <http://qumsiyeh.org/> http://qumsiyeh.org
>>
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