THOSE WHO HUNGER AND THIRST FOR JUSTICE 149century. Life for a Palest<strong>in</strong>ian liv<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> Occupied Territories has been that of a concentration campvictim, k<strong>no</strong>w<strong>in</strong>g that he or she lives under a sentence of death, and who must wait out <strong>the</strong> m<strong>in</strong>utes andhours of this nightmare until that fateful number comes up. Every wak<strong>in</strong>g moment, <strong>the</strong> Palest<strong>in</strong>ian asks<strong>the</strong> question “Is this my day, or is it <strong>the</strong> day for someone I love?” And <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> moments right before fall<strong>in</strong>gasleep, <strong>the</strong> question “Will this be <strong>the</strong> sleep that br<strong>in</strong>gs me to my eternal rest?”As far as <strong>the</strong> gangsters of <strong>the</strong> Zionist mafia are concerned, all of <strong>the</strong> bases have been covered, and thisevent can be said to have been <strong>the</strong> near-perfect crime. Not only have those who boldly assert that <strong>the</strong>y are<strong>the</strong> apple of God’s eye mass-murdered over 200,000 people as a tribute to Ca<strong>in</strong>, <strong>the</strong> first murderer and <strong>the</strong>found<strong>in</strong>g fa<strong>the</strong>r of <strong>the</strong>ir ideological experiment called <strong>the</strong> state of Israel, but <strong>in</strong> addition, <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>in</strong>terests ofho<strong>no</strong>r<strong>in</strong>g him and his <strong>in</strong>famous attempt to lie about his evil deed, <strong>the</strong>y have cloaked this blood sacrifice<strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> whorish garments of untruth and dis<strong>in</strong>formation. In <strong>the</strong> midst of this nightmare, Amir’s oppressorshave rubbed salt <strong>in</strong>to <strong>the</strong> gap<strong>in</strong>g wound k<strong>no</strong>wn as <strong>the</strong> Zionist Occupation by virtue of <strong>the</strong> fact that <strong>the</strong>yhave held <strong>in</strong> perfect totalitarian fashion all <strong>the</strong> mechanisms of dispens<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>formation <strong>in</strong>to <strong>the</strong> collective<strong>in</strong>tellect of <strong>the</strong> Western world. The situation produced by such a stranglehold has been one of <strong>the</strong> greatestcauses of <strong>the</strong> hopelessness that pervades <strong>the</strong> lives of those liv<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> Middle East today, and has bee<strong>no</strong>ne of <strong>the</strong> most important reasons for <strong>the</strong> cycle of violence that seems to be unbreakable. Such it has beenthat by <strong>the</strong> time Amir and o<strong>the</strong>rs like him are able to take <strong>the</strong> stand and argue <strong>the</strong>ir case before what <strong>the</strong>yhad hoped was a fair-m<strong>in</strong>ded world, <strong>the</strong> jury pool had already been thoroughly ta<strong>in</strong>ted and corrupted by<strong>the</strong> poison of <strong>the</strong> Zionist propaganda mach<strong>in</strong>e. In such a situation, all <strong>the</strong> arguments <strong>the</strong>y would makeover <strong>the</strong> course of <strong>the</strong> last half-century, arguments plead<strong>in</strong>g for justice and comprehension, might as wellhave been pure gibberish to <strong>the</strong> average Western Christian for all <strong>the</strong> seriousness that was afforded to<strong>the</strong>m. This scenario is rem<strong>in</strong>iscent of <strong>the</strong> <strong>no</strong>w <strong>in</strong>famous trials that took place <strong>in</strong> America, w<strong>her</strong>e <strong>the</strong>relatives of those Negroes who were <strong>the</strong> victims of lynch<strong>in</strong>gs, shoot<strong>in</strong>gs, or arsons could expect <strong>no</strong> justice<strong>in</strong> a corrupted legal system run by good old boys who would fix th<strong>in</strong>gs <strong>in</strong> favor of <strong>the</strong> thugs be<strong>in</strong>g tried.I must admit that <strong>in</strong>itially, I myself had a hard time believ<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> allegations made by my friend Amir,until an article came my way, written by a former American reporter named Christop<strong>her</strong> Hedges, whodescribed what he witnessed himself <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> Gaza camp w<strong>her</strong>e Amir lived.“It is still. And <strong>the</strong>n, out of <strong>the</strong> dry furnace air, a disembodied voice crackles over a loudspeaker.“Come on, dogs,” <strong>the</strong> voice booms <strong>in</strong> Arabic. “W<strong>her</strong>e are all <strong>the</strong> dogs of Khan Younis? Come! Come!”I stand up. I walk outside <strong>the</strong> hut. The <strong>in</strong>vective cont<strong>in</strong>ues to spew: “Sons of bitches! Sons of whores!”The boys dart <strong>in</strong> small packs up <strong>the</strong> slop<strong>in</strong>g dunes to <strong>the</strong> electric fence that separates <strong>the</strong> camp from <strong>the</strong> Jewishsettlement. They lob rocks toward two armored jeeps parked on top of <strong>the</strong> dune and mounted with loudspeakers.Three ambulances l<strong>in</strong>e <strong>the</strong> road below <strong>the</strong> dunes <strong>in</strong> anticipation of what is to come.A percussion grenade explodes. The boys, most <strong>no</strong> more than ten or eleven years old, scatter, runn<strong>in</strong>g clumsilyacross <strong>the</strong> heavy sand. They descend out of sight beh<strong>in</strong>d a sandbank <strong>in</strong> front of me. T<strong>her</strong>e are <strong>no</strong> sounds of gunfire.The soldiers shoot with silencers. The bullets from <strong>the</strong> M-16 rifles tumble end over end through <strong>the</strong> children’s slightbodies. Later, <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> hospital, I will see <strong>the</strong> destruction: <strong>the</strong> stomachs ripped out, <strong>the</strong> gap<strong>in</strong>g holes <strong>in</strong> limbs and torsos.Yesterday at this spot <strong>the</strong> Israelis shot eight young men, six of whom were under <strong>the</strong> age of eighteen. One wastwelve. This after<strong>no</strong>on <strong>the</strong>y kill an eleven-year-old boy, Ali Murad, and seriously wound four more, three of whomare under eighteen.
150THOSE WHO HUNGER AND THIRST FOR JUSTICEChildren have been shot <strong>in</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r conflicts I have covered, but I have never before watched soldiers entice children likemice <strong>in</strong>to a trap and murder <strong>the</strong>m for sport.”And so has <strong>the</strong> music played on and on, for nearly a century, repeat<strong>in</strong>g itself over and over aga<strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong>lives of those who k<strong>no</strong>w <strong>the</strong>y are <strong>the</strong> hunted. This is <strong>the</strong> diary of a Palest<strong>in</strong>ian who was sentenced todeath <strong>the</strong> moment <strong>in</strong> which he or she was born, and <strong>the</strong> story of a people who hunger and thirst forjustice.This process of root<strong>in</strong>g out <strong>the</strong> truth concern<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> Palest<strong>in</strong>ian/Israeli situation has been a journey througha hall of mirrors to say <strong>the</strong> least, an unsettl<strong>in</strong>g, de-stabiliz<strong>in</strong>g event that leaves <strong>the</strong> <strong>in</strong>dividual dizzy andfull of nausea after it takes place. When one comes to grasp <strong>the</strong> fact that a malignancy as brutal andcareless <strong>in</strong> its will<strong>in</strong>gness to <strong>in</strong>flict <strong>in</strong>justice and violence upon a<strong>no</strong><strong>the</strong>r group of people on <strong>the</strong> basis ofrace is <strong>no</strong>t only runn<strong>in</strong>g around loose, but <strong>in</strong>deed shares a lascivious, illicit love affair with <strong>the</strong> world’smost powerful nation, well, after such a realization <strong>the</strong>re is little room left for hope. Even less reason forhope is <strong>the</strong>re when consider<strong>in</strong>g that virtually my entire nation of almost 300 million people have come toworship this <strong>beast</strong>, and that I used to be one just like <strong>the</strong>m.Never<strong>the</strong>less, I have embarked upon <strong>the</strong> seem<strong>in</strong>gly futile gesture of attempt<strong>in</strong>g to wake o<strong>the</strong>rs under thisenchantment by pass<strong>in</strong>g on this gift that Amir has given to me. In try<strong>in</strong>g to conv<strong>in</strong>ce my fellow Christianswho k<strong>no</strong>w or care to k<strong>no</strong>w little concern<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> situation <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> Middle East, I will use <strong>the</strong> arguments thatmy friend has used successfully with me. Unfortunately, it rarely does any good, <strong>the</strong>y simply stand <strong>the</strong>reas I used to do, haughty <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir composure, a slight smirk on <strong>the</strong>ir faces as I flesh out a picture of what lifeis like for a Palest<strong>in</strong>ian. I can<strong>no</strong>t entirely blame <strong>the</strong>m, s<strong>in</strong>ce I k<strong>no</strong>w that <strong>the</strong>y k<strong>no</strong>w <strong>no</strong>t what <strong>the</strong>y do, andthat <strong>the</strong>ir position on <strong>the</strong> matter is <strong>no</strong>t a product of <strong>the</strong>ir own do<strong>in</strong>g. Their position on <strong>the</strong> matter ismerely one part of a program that has been surreptitiously <strong>in</strong>stalled and meticulously ma<strong>in</strong>ta<strong>in</strong>ed on<strong>the</strong>ir psychological hard drives by very competent and ruthless hackers. For <strong>the</strong>se <strong>in</strong>dividuals whoshamelessly consider <strong>the</strong>mselves as be<strong>in</strong>g enlightened by virtue of <strong>the</strong>ir Christian faith, <strong>the</strong>re was <strong>no</strong><strong>in</strong>dependent <strong>in</strong>quiry <strong>no</strong>r any genu<strong>in</strong>e desire to k<strong>no</strong>w <strong>the</strong> truth that resulted <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir present position on<strong>the</strong> matter, far from it. For <strong>the</strong> last 50 years, <strong>the</strong>y have been kept deliberately stupid by means of an<strong>in</strong>formational <strong>in</strong>frastructure that has defecated out Zionist propaganda on a daily basis. They and <strong>the</strong>irop<strong>in</strong>ion on <strong>the</strong> matter are part of a package deal that comes with <strong>the</strong> privilege of be<strong>in</strong>g an Americantoday.Be<strong>in</strong>g an American today, and hav<strong>in</strong>g membership <strong>in</strong> this very elite and esteemed club requires certai<strong>no</strong>bligations from its members, one of which is to forfeit one’s freedom of thought and freedom of conscience<strong>in</strong> return for <strong>the</strong> badge of complacency and moral stupidity. Wear<strong>in</strong>g this badge of disho<strong>no</strong>r means thatall must swear fealty to <strong>the</strong> ethos of <strong>the</strong> club, an ethos that is by <strong>no</strong> means fair or egalitarian <strong>in</strong> its application.This ethos, this pledge of loyalty can be summed up simply <strong>in</strong> its costly purchase: It is <strong>the</strong> price of <strong>the</strong>soul, and all its most necessary components: Pity, compassion, justice, wisdom, mercy, et al. And once<strong>the</strong>se have been forked over to <strong>the</strong> bondsman, <strong>the</strong>ir ownership is transferred to those who put it to <strong>the</strong>irown use and for <strong>the</strong>ir own <strong>in</strong>terests, <strong>in</strong>dividuals who have <strong>no</strong> right <strong>in</strong> justice to possess <strong>the</strong>m <strong>in</strong> anymanner, and who are, simply, <strong>the</strong> Zionists of <strong>the</strong> Apostle John’s Apocalyptic vision who “call <strong>the</strong>mselvesJews, but are <strong>in</strong>stead a synagogue of Satan”.Unbek<strong>no</strong>wnst to <strong>the</strong> world, and <strong>in</strong> particular to <strong>the</strong> Christian West, this war <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> Holy Land has become<strong>the</strong> last battle for <strong>the</strong> soul of humanity. It has become <strong>the</strong> contest between <strong>the</strong> forces of good and evil,manifest<strong>in</strong>g itself <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> struggle between <strong>the</strong> qualities that raise our natures to that of humans or reduce<strong>the</strong>m to that of <strong>beast</strong>s. Be<strong>in</strong>g such a momentous event <strong>in</strong> which matters of <strong>the</strong> utmost importance are at
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