Thanks Benny Morris!
By Adib S. Kawar
Montreal Muslim News, Jan 16, 2004
The so-called leftist criticizes Ben-Gurion for not going ahead with his massacres and expulsion of all Palestinian Arabs from their homes and land
Benny Morris, the so-called leftist, has unmasked himself, his Zionist left and Zionism in general in a recent interview published in the Israeli daily Ha'aretz (see url below).
Thanks Benny Morris... in your unmasking of the so-called leftist Zionism, you have placed it in its right place - in the same category of the extreme Zionist standard... Both two faces of the same coin... extremist, racist, imperialist and have no place for morals and human values.
Thanks Benny Morris... Your interview, we hope, will open the eyes of those Arabs calling for negotiations, end of the conflict and a peaceful solution with the Zionist enemy including its extreme right to its extreme left.
Morris, the "leftist" racist, justifies, in the Ha'aretz interview, the racist imperialist massacres throughout history... Starting with the so-called Crusaders campaigns, which were the spearhead for western imperialism in the Arab lands and what falls beyond... up to the massacres by the Europeans "whites" in the Americas, Asia, Africa and Australia. Morris justifies the extermination of what he called the "Barbarian" peoples outside Europe to give space for the "white European civilizations" in the rest of the world. Morris said: In answer to the question "And morally speaking, you have no problem with that deed (massacring the Palestinians)," he replied. "That is correct. Even the great American democracy could not have been created without the annihilation of the Indians, there are cases in which the overall, final good justifies harsh and cruel acts that are committed in the course of history." Morris adds in relation to the Algerian war of independence, which, according to him should not be compared with the so-called Zionist "war of independence," stated: "I am trying to be realistic. I know it doesn't always sound politically correct, but correctness poisons history in any case, it impedes our ability to see the truth. And I identify with Albert Camus... He was considered left-winger and a person of high morals, but when he referred to the Algerian problem he placed his mother ahead of morality. Preserving my people is more important than universal moral concepts." Thus he supports the morality of European colonialism of the rest of the world. Taking such conviction in consideration, there is noting strange in "his people's" committing war crimes including, annihilation, massacres and expulsion of Palestinian Arabs, as was done in America, and what the French tried to do in Algeria, and the Italians in Libya, but the French and the Italians apologized for their savage and criminal deeds. But Morris is sorry for the incomplete extermination of Palestinian Arabs in 1948, and he looks for the opportunity to complete what was not finished earlier, because he wants to establish a "democratic!!!" homeland for "his people" in other people's land... The same as what was done in America, to establish a "great democracy" in Palestine, and what he wanted to have been done in Africa and Asia by annihilating what he calls the "barbarian peoples" outside Europe.
Morris overlooked what he called "the Barbarian Arab people" as one of the most inveterate Semitic people who did not persecute the Jews, on the contrary, they treated them as equal Arab citizens. Morris, who calls himself a historian, should be aware of this fact.
Morris forgets that Zionism, which he adopted, is nothing but a racist European invention that was created to get rid of their compatriots, the Jews (a sort of religious cleansing). To achieve this aim in a "civilized manner" they worked on creating "a national home for the Jews" in the heart of the Arab land. This so-called Jewish state will be like the old European "Crusaders" states of the early second millennium, a new spearhead for the modern European imperialism.
When Morris try's to prove that the Palestinian Arab Higher Committee gave orders to evacuate the Palestinian infants, women and the elderly from the villages threatened with Zionist invasion and massacres, he try's to forget that the Zionist leadership actually evacuated the same category of their population from Zionist colonies that were threatened Arab resistance and not massacres. While he was naming and giving an account of the massacres the Zionists committed, he criticized Ben-Gurion for not proceeding with his campaign of massacres and expulsion (transfer) of Palestinian Arabs till the end, in order to create a Palestine free of its Palestinians, to become 100% Jewish. He conceded that the number of massacres, acts of rape and killing the raped Palestinian girls that he already discovered is nothing but the tip of the iceberg of the number of such acts. This falsifies the Zionist lie that Palestinian Arabs voluntarily deserted their homes and land, and by order of their Palestinian and Arab leaders, (except for those issued by the high commander of the Arab armies who is known to have conspired with the Zionists, and the British commander of his legion/army).
While bragging about Zionist and the great American democracies, in spite of the contradiction between democracy and terrorism including that of the Zionist state, Morris justified Zionist massacres. He said they are nothing in comparison with those committed throughout history. He repeats the claim that there is a divine promise that Palestine is the promised land, and if it happens that it is inhabited by another people, committing massacres and transfer by force against them is justified, but what is not justified was the incompletion of this act of terror in 1948. He also, although a "historian", try's to forget that Palestinian Arabs are the descendents of those who built Palestine and its capital, Jerusalem, thousands of years before the first Hebrew invader had a first look on Palestine. He says that those Palestinian Arabs who were not expelled from their land and homes are a fifth column, a time bomb and a spearhead, which threaten the Zionist entity from the inside, thus "the land of Israel" should be completely cleansed from the Palestinians. While he concedes that this is a war crime and ethnic cleansing, he justifies this atrocity in order to establish the Zionist entity.
He says that the Arabs have 22 states, thus the Jews should have the right for one state, if he is satisfied with only one, but he try's to forget that the division of the Arab land is nothing but an imperialist act to enable what he calls the European civilization to control the "barbaric world" in Asia and Africa. He also try's to forget that a people's land is not for hire, sale or granting and no citizen has the right to give away any single centimeter of it. We should bring to his kind attention that Jews are religious minorities in many countries around the world and not a nation so as to build a state for them.
Morris says: "The entire Palestinian national elite is seriously about the phased plan, (which eliminates Israel in phases). But he is sorry for not completing the elimination of the Palestinians by means of massacres and/or transfer in 1948, but he is still looking for the opportunity to complete their annihilation. On the other hand Palestinians want to have a unified democratic state where all of its citizens, Christians, Muslim and Jews where each of its citizens should have equal rights, and each person has one vote. Zionists, on the other hand, want all Palestine free of its Palestinians without compensating them, (which is only acceptable with the Right of Return).
He criticizes the Arabs for working to retrieve their land, while he criticizes Ben-Gurion, as we said above, for not committing full ethnic cleansing. Morris calls this Palestinian goal "cultural dementia" or "psychological sickness"... While Zionist massacres are civilized acts, which the Arabs should accept with thanks and willingly. In spite of this he criticizes what he calls the Arab hatred towards the Zionist entity!!! He answers his interviewer question: "I want to insist on my point: A large part of the responsibility for the hatred of the Palestinians rests with us. After all, you yourself showed us that the Palestinians experienced a historical catastrophe." He replied: "True. But when one has to deal with a serial killer, it's not so important to discover why he became a serial killer. What's important is to imprison the murderer or to execute him." Occupation is terror; resistance to occupation is justified.
He also replies in the same manner to another question: "To fence them in? To place them under closure?" Answer: "Something like a cage has to be built for them. I know that sounds terrible. It is really cruel. But there is no choice. There is a wild animal there that has to be locked up in one way or another."... "The barbarians who want to kill us"!!! Who is killing whom? He proceeds answering:
To fence them in? To place them under closure?
"To fence them in? To place them under closure?"
Answer: "Something like a cage has to be built for them. I know that sounds terrible. It is really cruel. But there is no choice. There is a wild animal there that has to be locked up in one way or another."
Do we have to comment on such racist speech from a foreign invader to our land? No, the answer is resistance to our annihilation.
And the interview proceeds:
"If Zionism is so dangerous for the Jews and if Zionism makes the Arabs so wretched, maybe it's a mistake?"
"No, Zionism was not a mistake. The desire to establish a Jewish state here was a legitimate one, a positive one. But given the character of Islam and given the character of the Arab nation, it was a mistake to think that it would be possible to establish a tranquil state here that lives in harmony with its surroundings."
"Which leaves us, nevertheless, with two possibilities: either a cruel, tragic Zionism, or the forgoing of Zionism."
"Yes. That's so. You have pared it down, but that's correct."
Morris said: "You don't see African terrorism in Europe." He meant as a result of the European colonization of Africa. But he again try's to forget that the European colonization of Africa came to an end, the Africans were not transferred and the ex-colonialists apologized for their bad deeds, which is contrary to what the Zionists did and are still doing, and they request that the "Barbarian Arabs" to appreciate their savageness towards them.
Yes, this is Zionism that Benny Morris has unmasked, the Zionism which repaid the British - without whom their Zionist entity would have never come to existence - with terrorism. |
