Palestine’s anti-Semitic apartheid
IN 1944, in the Ravensbruck concentration camp for men, I had access to a top Nazi newspaper, the Volkischer Beobachter (VB). Reading it as a Jew was an education.
If I had not grown up as part of a large family whom I got to know individually as kind, decent people, that Nazi paper would have turned me into an anti-Semite. Essa’s vituperations are an exercise in déjà vu.
I worked for years in Israel with Jews of every shade and from all over the world. I also lived in South Africa during the apartheid years and so have a basis for comparison. I have kept in touch with friends and relations in Israel and was there several times, the latest being 2016.
Now I don’t care who is brought in to provide evidence; to state that there is apartheid in Israel of the SA variety and that it is worse than it was in SA is a lie. It is not different from the hatred and lies that I found in the VB and probably also from prejudiced people.
There is apartheid in the Middle East. No Jew is allowed to settle in Saudi Arabia or be given citizenship in many Muslim states.
In Palestine Mahmoud Abbas, leader of the Palestinian Authority which has sprouted Fatah, an acknowledged terrorist organisation with a vast amount of Israeli blood on its hands, has declared “I will never allow a single Israeli to live among us on Palestinian land,” and “The Palestinian Authority says that any Arab selling land to a Jew should be put to death!”
Apartheid, Essa? Look no further.
Essa begins his diatribe with drawing our attention to the various types that proclaim that there is apartheid in Israel. I know only too well that there were plenty of Germans that assisted Hitler’s genocide against men, women and children. When the haters proclaim apartheid in Israel then is that a reflection on the Israelis or on their own twisted minds?
Next Essa has the audacity to write of the “Holocaust industry.” He is writing of the deliberate murder of six million human beings, including one and a half million children.
Essa, try and think before you use such images, they are very painful, unless that is your intention. You will say that so is apartheid in Israel. I know that the Holocaust was a reality and that the apartheid you describe in Israel is not.
Strange that you should then go on to mention Dennis Goldberg, he was a customer of mine. As far as I know he volunteered to go and fight for Israel when it was attacked by its local Palestinians and neighbouring Arab armies. Essa has Goldberg describing major military attacks.
Perhaps he is thinking of the totally unprovoked 1948 attacks against nascent Israel by Palestinians and Arab armies in which 6 000 Israelis died and 30 000 were wounded.
It cost Israel between one and two percent of its total Jewish population, equivalent to SA suffering 500 000 casualties on the battlefield.
Palestinians refer to that war as the Naqba, the disaster. They never mention the Israeli losses, only their own.
Essa writes of returning justice and dignity to the Palestinian people.
Let me suggest that while their clergy continues to justify and call for the murder of civilians, let alone children, and until their authorities stop venerating mass murderers and terrorists, no thinking person in the world will regard them with anything but disgust and contempt. Don Krausz Killarney