Zionism: A policy for establishing and developing a national homeland for Jews in Palestine.
It has become apparent from reading recent articles that Zionists will support Israel no matter how brutal their occupation is. These people support leaders such as Ariel Sharon who was once quoted as saying, “I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would make him suffer before killing him.” This is someone our president referred to as “a man of peace.”
It is no secret that the Zionist-controlled media is the main reason why the actual news in Palestine never gets reported. Through misuse of words and clever wording, most would feel that Israel is always “retaliating.” But I have seen misquotes come from the Zionists themselves such as Yoav Ben-Haim, who took a quote I said like, “There is a lot of ignorance in the country right now,” and turns it into “Humza says anyone who supports Israel is ignorant.” Jeff Pathman called Amir Abdel Malik, an Imam of a mosque in Oakland, someone with “terrorist ideologies” and refers his readers to an Israeli Web site to discredit the speaker.
Zionists take any measures to ensure cruel Nazism against the Palestinians in order to guarantee their state of Israel. So cruel that 75 percent of Palestinians live in poverty and over 11,000 homes have been demolished in 30 years. Thankfully, there are Jews such as a recent speaker Jeff Halper, and Troy Kursten, who wrote an article, who call for Israel to halt its Nazi regime against the Palestinian people.
Brian Eller, who handed out propaganda at last Thursday’s speech by Amir Abdel Malik, doesn’t seem to know anything more than being a puppe–t of the right wing. Even though he claims that people want to “destroy Israel,” he fails to mention what has been ongoing for the past 60 years, which is the destruction of Palestine, and the eradication of the Palestinian people from their own homeland. Don’t give the Palestinian people their human rights and their dignity, and you can expect strong resistance.
People don’t blow themselves up because they are living the American dream; instead they blow themselves up because they are desperate for what we as Americans cherish the most, which is freedom. Peace in Palestine will happen when the Zionists give back the land they stole, and not try to profit off land that was never theirs to begin with.
Humza Chowdhry
Architectural engineering senior