Guilty like hell

Guilty like Hell!

By David Verveer

In the last week, the Palestinians in Gaza started to kill each other, without any assistance from Israel. And they are professional killers, they throw people of roof tops, kill them, in the street, irrelevantly if they are young children, women or elderly people. The killing goes without any planning, some according family connections to somebody, some because they happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time, and of course many who tried to defend their posts in the Palestinian Government, police and administration.

The Gaza region is a small strip near the Mediterranean Sea, with Israel bordering on two sides, Egypt on one side and the sea on the fourth’s side. It had until a few days back a peculiar Government shared by El Fatah and the extreme Hamas. The government was never recognized by the World powers, as the Hamas is a terrorist organization.

In the Gaza strip live more than 11/2 million people, with more than half living in terrible conditions in the refugee camps, mostly around Gaza city. They are refugees since 1948, and kept in these terrible conditions, as pressure group against the Israelis. Two years ago, under international pressure, Israel removed the flourishing Israeli Gaza’ settlements without fight (risking nearly a civil war in Israel). Instead of taking over the settlements with the export orientated green gardens, and green houses, as was suggested by some philanthropic agencies, the Palestinians refused their offer for help, causing several thousand laborers to lose their only livelihood, working in the settlements, letting the villages going to waste.

But besides the Hamas and El Fatah there are also the Islamic extremists, who for the fun dispatch daily rockets on the neighboring Israeli town of Sderoth.

Without any doubt, the World opinion has long lost it objective interest in what happens in this troubled corner of the world, and without any hesitance blames Israel for all the problems, illustrated clearly when I wrote an article on the growth of Radical Islamic terrorism in Western Europe, a intelligent writer wrote, that in his opinion, it all was caused by the Zionist aggression of 1948. What is the connection with the Radical Islamic terrorism is absolutely unclear, but admit, the European reader of news flashes on the happenings in Gaza, is to lazy to read the entire article, reading the word Palestinian, he already formed the opinion, that those terrible Jews in Israel, again did something bad to those poor and innocent people, the Palestinians.

It took around 2.000 years to get the Catholic Church finally to admit that the Jews did not kill Jesus, and we expect that in another 1.000 years until they will admit that Jesus was a Jew himself, but the same goes for Israel and the Arabs; first of all, most Arabs and Jews are from the same tribe, according the DNA tests, the only difference between them is the religion. The local people partly fled to the Diaspora, while others were forcefully converted to the Islam. We, the Israeli do not hate Arabs, and want them to live in comfort aside the Jewish nation, and the Israeli iron fist is the only possible method to prevent the Radical terrorists to take over, as is demonstrated so clearly in the turmoil of Gaza.

A funny fact is, that the World (except perhaps some Americans) connect the Iraq war and Iran problems also with Israel, and think that everybody unhappy with the West, does that because the existence of the Jews and their treatment of the Arabs. The history repeats itself, weren’t the Jews blamed for the plagues in the middle Ages?

I don’t know what is going to happen in Gaza, and if we will get involved eventually, as something has to burst and shatter, just as in Lebanon, with the Syrian killings and Palestinian uprising in the refugee camps (also from 1948). Israel absorbed from that period 5 million Jews, turned them in to full blood citizens and provide them with work, home and livelihood, 11/2 million Palestinians (using the pessimistic and propaganda numbers), were never accepted in the Arab lands, never got any civil rights, as this would reduce the threat to the Jewish state.

In Western Europe, with minorities of Islamic people, loses control and suffer from terrorism, riots etc., and try to deal with the problem by issuing racist type of laws. But still, look who is boycotted by the British Academy, of course, Israel, for their treatment of poor Palestine. Every day when I awake, I say my prayer; “thank God” you made me a Jew, guilty like hell.