“When we, <strong>the</strong> followers of prophetic Judaism, returned to Palest<strong>in</strong>e...<strong>the</strong> majority of <strong>the</strong> Jewish people preferred tolearn from Hitler ra<strong>the</strong>r than from us.”—Mart<strong>in</strong> Buber, Jewish philosop<strong>her</strong> and author——————————————————————————————————————————————”Jewish villages were built <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> place of Arab villages. T<strong>her</strong>e is <strong>no</strong>t one s<strong>in</strong>gle place that did <strong>no</strong>t have a former Arabpopulation.”—Israeli General Moshe Dayan, 1969——————————————————————————————————————————————”Between ourselves it must be clear that <strong>the</strong>re is <strong>no</strong> room for both peoples toge<strong>the</strong>r <strong>in</strong> this country. We shall <strong>no</strong>tachieve our goal if <strong>the</strong> Arabs are <strong>in</strong> this small country. The only solution is Eretz Israel, or at least all <strong>the</strong> land westof Jordan River <strong>without</strong> Arabs. T<strong>her</strong>e is <strong>no</strong> room for compromise on this po<strong>in</strong>t ... T<strong>her</strong>e is <strong>no</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r way than totransfer <strong>the</strong> Arabs from <strong>her</strong>e to neighbor<strong>in</strong>g countries - all of <strong>the</strong>m. We must <strong>no</strong>t leave a s<strong>in</strong>gle village, <strong>no</strong>t a s<strong>in</strong>gletribe.”—Joseph Weitz, head of <strong>the</strong> Jewish Agency’s Colonization Department <strong>in</strong> 1940.——————————————————————————————————————————————“The present map of Palest<strong>in</strong>e was drawn by <strong>the</strong> British mandate. The Jewish people have a<strong>no</strong><strong>the</strong>r map which ouryouth and adults should strive to fulfill —From <strong>the</strong> Nile to <strong>the</strong> Euphrates.”—David Ben Gurion, Israel’s first Prime M<strong>in</strong>ister——————————————————————————————————————————————“We have to kill all <strong>the</strong> Palest<strong>in</strong>ians unless <strong>the</strong>y are resigned to live <strong>her</strong>e as slaves.”—Chairman Heilbrun of <strong>the</strong> Committee for <strong>the</strong> Re-election of General Shlomo Lahat, <strong>the</strong> mayor of Tel Aviv, October1983.——————————————————————————————————————————————“The Palest<strong>in</strong>ians should be crushed like grasshoppers, <strong>the</strong>ir heads smashed aga<strong>in</strong>st boulders and walls.”—Israeli Prime M<strong>in</strong>ister Yitzhak Shamir.——————————————————————————————————————————————“I took <strong>the</strong> Palest<strong>in</strong>ian girl captive. On <strong>the</strong> first night <strong>the</strong> soldiers pack-raped <strong>her</strong> and <strong>the</strong> next day I saw fit to remove<strong>her</strong> from <strong>the</strong> world. I had <strong>the</strong> soldiers dig a shallow grave, and <strong>the</strong>n I killed <strong>the</strong> 12 year-old girl with a burst from asub-mach<strong>in</strong>e gun.”—‘Moshe,’ a Second Lieutenant <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> Israeli army.83
84GRABBING A WOLF BY THE EARSGrabb<strong>in</strong>g a Wolf by <strong>the</strong> EarsThomas Jefferson, co-writer of <strong>the</strong> American Declaration of Independence and 3rd president of <strong>the</strong> UnitedStates once remarked that <strong>the</strong> <strong>in</strong>troduction of slavery <strong>in</strong>to a society was ak<strong>in</strong> to “grabb<strong>in</strong>g a wolf by <strong>the</strong>ears,” <strong>in</strong> that <strong>the</strong> person grabb<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> wolf must never let go for fear that if he did <strong>the</strong> wolf would devourhim. Jefferson should <strong>no</strong>t have limited his statement merely to <strong>the</strong> crime of enslavement, but ra<strong>the</strong>r,should have expanded <strong>the</strong> idea to <strong>in</strong>clude <strong>the</strong> crimes of oppression and systematic brutality of people aswell. After all, enslavement could be argued to be any system w<strong>her</strong>e<strong>in</strong> one person or a group of personsimposes <strong>the</strong>ir will upon o<strong>the</strong>rs, which <strong>in</strong> its most common form is recognized as government, and that<strong>the</strong>refore enslavement as a word by itself does <strong>no</strong>t suffice to expla<strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> hideousness of <strong>the</strong> situationimposed upon its victims. Ra<strong>the</strong>r, <strong>the</strong> stigma of enslavement, that th<strong>in</strong>g which makes it odious and whichhas earned it its rightful place <strong>in</strong> human understand<strong>in</strong>g as a crime which calls out to heaven for justice isto be found <strong>in</strong> its oppression of people and <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir subjugation to a life of violence and <strong>in</strong>dignation. Andhe was right; one dare <strong>no</strong>t let go, for if you do you are dead.In essence what Jefferson (a slave owner himself) was say<strong>in</strong>g is that human nature is such that peoplehave long memories and that <strong>the</strong>y are all imbued with <strong>the</strong> <strong>in</strong>st<strong>in</strong>ct to survive. T<strong>her</strong>efore, when someoneor a group of people are subjected to oppression for any extended period of time, <strong>the</strong>y will rememberwith perfect clarity <strong>the</strong> circumstances surround<strong>in</strong>g what was done to <strong>the</strong>m and by whom it was done.Human nature, also imbued with <strong>the</strong> need for justice, will at sometime come call<strong>in</strong>g for it, and given <strong>the</strong>level of violence with which <strong>the</strong> life of an oppressed <strong>in</strong>dividual was marked, it is safe to say that one canexpect <strong>the</strong> same to be meted out <strong>in</strong> return, or put <strong>in</strong> simpler terms, “an eye for an eye and a tooth for atooth.” History has born <strong>the</strong> obvious proof of this out <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> various slave revolts that have occurred from<strong>the</strong> time of Rome to <strong>the</strong> post-colonial age areas w<strong>her</strong>e<strong>in</strong> Europeans were responsible for subjugat<strong>in</strong>g<strong>in</strong>dige<strong>no</strong>us peoples to lives of oppression.If examples from <strong>the</strong> past do <strong>no</strong>t conv<strong>in</strong>ce <strong>the</strong> reader of <strong>the</strong> truth <strong>in</strong> Jefferson’s prediction, than <strong>the</strong> presentshould, <strong>in</strong> exam<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> relationships that exist between white Americans and those whose ancestorswere <strong>the</strong> victims of <strong>the</strong> k<strong>in</strong>d of oppression which he names. Beg<strong>in</strong>n<strong>in</strong>g with <strong>the</strong> Native Americans, itwould be difficult if <strong>no</strong>t impossible to f<strong>in</strong>d any sense of overall favorable sentiments by <strong>the</strong> majority of<strong>the</strong>m towards white Americans, and how could one expect o<strong>the</strong>rwise? They, <strong>the</strong> Native Americans, aretoday a group of people whose ancestors were forced out of <strong>the</strong>ir lands, starved, shot, and lied to atalmost every turn by a group of people <strong>in</strong>tent first upon enslav<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong>m and later on steal<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong>ir lands.To say that <strong>the</strong> white Americans of today do <strong>no</strong>t bear any responsibility for <strong>the</strong> suffer<strong>in</strong>g of those <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong>past holds obvious merit <strong>in</strong> its most basic sense, but at <strong>the</strong> same time, means <strong>no</strong>th<strong>in</strong>g to <strong>the</strong> averageNative American who today is born on a reservation <strong>in</strong> circumstances of poverty and want. If <strong>the</strong> aforementionedrelationship exemplifies <strong>the</strong> tendency of a formerly oppressed people to rely on long memoriesand <strong>the</strong> mistrust that <strong>the</strong>se long memories create, <strong>the</strong>n as well <strong>the</strong>re is <strong>no</strong> better proof of <strong>the</strong> accuracy<strong>in</strong> Jefferson’s predictions than <strong>in</strong> exam<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> situation that exists today with<strong>in</strong> those communities ofblack Americans who, just like <strong>the</strong>ir Native American counterparts, are born <strong>in</strong>to circumstances of povertyand violence and who <strong>in</strong>escapably direct <strong>the</strong>ir gaze towards <strong>the</strong> whites of <strong>the</strong> past who were and areresponsible for <strong>the</strong>ir present condition.All this discussion about oppression and long memories couldn’t take place at a better time than <strong>no</strong>w,given <strong>the</strong> items <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> news concern<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> events <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> Middle East and <strong>in</strong> particular Palest<strong>in</strong>e. Bush’s“Roadmap for Peace” and all <strong>the</strong> extoll<strong>in</strong>g of a “liberated” Iraq are events that are <strong>in</strong>extricably entw<strong>in</strong>edwith<strong>in</strong> Jefferson’s remarks, despite <strong>the</strong> fact that <strong>the</strong>y are tak<strong>in</strong>g place thousands of miles away and con-
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