Israeli Genocide Against Palestinians in Print

 

Israeli Genocide Against Palestinians

This is the first book in the trilogy of  Gaza books

A Few Excerpts from this Book

“While the world was waiting and watching for a settlement of the Central European crisis, Gazans were dying from starvation and from wounds inflicted by Israeli bombs. Much of the world had ignored the suffering there in the same way nations did during the 1930s and 1940s when the United States and its allies were indifferent to the Nazi slaughter of millions of Jews in Europe.”

Chapter One

Netanyahu Genocide in Gaza, Rafah

This book chronicles the chronology of atrocities committed by Netanyahu, captured in snippets from news, media, articles and analysis.

Ancient history records Israel as a mythical state torn out of the pages of Biblical Exodus. In modern history it is carved out of Palestine by Imperial British, gifted to Israelis when they evacuated Palestine Year 1948, ending their hold of Divide and Rule.

This first book in the trilogy of Israeli Genocide Against Palestinians captures the hopeless, helpless pain of the Palestinians who have suffered decades of deaths, displacement, degradation by Israeli overwhelming aggression. What started this war in the first place by Hamas is to circle backs to the Nakba in historic perspective of several years, mirroring final eruption of volcanic magnitude which swept over Gaza with the speed of lightning. To make sense of why and what happened is unfolded in each chapter with historic perspective with cause and effect of violence endured and violence perpetrated throughout the years. Taking the time to absorb the searing effect of this culmination of tragedy and to render it voice is urgent plea to the world to stop the cyclical onslaught of genocides, ethnic cleansing. Aim of this book is to stop the pendulum of mass slaughter, war on kids, women, physicians, journalists. Such barbarity which our so-called civilized world has not seen since Jewish Holocaust should not be allowed in Century Twenty-One. Each word on each shuddering page of this book is witness to horrors of famine, hunger, thirst, disease, of deprivation of displaced Palestinians. Destruction of homes, schools, churches, mosques, hospitals, maternity wards, add to the trauma of Draconian death traps as GHF sites, killing thousands of kids, men, women, elderly in hope of getting a bag of flour or to fill their plastic containers with water. Violence of masked Jewish settlers in West Bank, forcing Palestinians to flee. The new release of film Collapse is perfect match to the essence of this book with the words of Imre Kertersz, writer and Holocaust survivor himself. “Yet we regarded all this with indifference.”

“Thou art creeping through life—a pygmy soul, carrying a dead body to its grave.” Marcus Aurelius

Chapter Two

Nakba Revisited

Nakba for sure for the Palestinians after seventy-six years of Israeli Russian Jewish settlers, occupation, oppression, violence. Netanyahu genocide, call it for what it is worth, turning nation of Gaza into cripples for the living dead inside the graveyard under rubble. Siege, starvation, bombings, cries of babies, women, families, burnt alive in camps.

Well, enough of mutilations, atrocities, ongoing slaughter, which has nothing to do with US, yet it has everything to do with US, with election interference by Netanyahu terrorist.

Anyone ready for ceasefire, or two-state-solution for permanent peace in the Middle East?

Netanyahu in stark defiance to US continued his spree of genocide, brutalities, destruction in wake of humanitarian crisis that he created with landfill of famine, disease, intolerable of sufferings. Israel had broken the Humanitarian Law a thousand times over and Israeli atrocities continued as the impotent world gazed on without even a grain of compassion that the blood of innocent Palestinians and agonized cries of mothers with crippled babies might earn a two-state-solution, separate Israel and Palestine states for peace in the Middle East. Palestine, in fact was the homeland of Palestinians, usurped by Israelis and Jewish settlers from Russia.

“Israel alone has the right to attack, to defend itself,” is that it, what’s wrong with that picture?

Israel’s unprovoked strike on Consulate in Damascus, Syria, killing seven, including Tehran’s senior general, provoked Iran to retaliate.

Is Netanyahu intent on carving a streak of retaliations? One must be blind to reject that Israel keeps committing genocide, reek of denials can’t conceal the stench of 33, 000 + civilians dead, more than half of those kids and women. Recently West Bank biggest rampage was completely ignored by Israel allies. Also, Israel killing Palestinians while they tried to return to Gaza, turning back under the fire of missiles.

“Gone from each flame, each sacred shrine

 Are those who made this realm divine” Virgil

Chapter Three

 Israel savagery

“But there, where spreads the infinite sky

 For the soul to take her flight in

 Reigns the stainless white radiance

 There is no day, nor night

 Nor form, nor color

 And never, never a word” Tagore

To quote snippets from The New York Times, UN report of abuse in Israeli detention, savagery behind the scenes, which are worthy of awakening empathy, if not opening a window of global conscience.  “Palestinian detainees were made to sit on their knees for hours with their hands tied, while blindfolded, deprived of food and water. Being urinated on, badly beaten with metal bars, forced into cages and attacked by dogs. Detainees were also made to lie on thin mattresses on top of rubble for hours without food, water or access to toilet, with their legs and hands bound with plastic ties. One woman was threatened by Israeli officers that her whole family would be killed in an airstrike if she didn’t provide more information. One man was forced to sit on an electrical probe that burned his anus. Some Gazans were beaten on their genitals, aggressively searched and sexually groped. One woman was forced to strip in front of male officers. Some of UNRWA staff members were beaten, stripped, humiliated and abused while being detained by Israeli authorities. During interrogations, they were pressured to say that UNRWA had affiliations with Hamas and that its staff members took part in the Oct. 7 attack.”

Can US “Iron-clad commitment” to Israel stop in wake of Netanyahu’s defiance and his continual spree of genocide in Gaza, Rafah? Call it by name, what it is. It is moral duty of US not to enable Netanyahu with military aid to kill more Palestinians. Instead, morally grand it is, to send aid to the victims of Palestine to avert famine, to heal the wounded, to restore water, electricity to areas destroyed by Israeli bombings, to build homes. To provide shelter, medicine, basic human needs for sheer survival. Anything less than that is unethical, cowardliness, heartlessness on part of whole world, neglecting to protect the dignity of life.

Terrorism can’t be stopped by terrorists. Retaliations generate engines of retaliations. Netanyahu has succeeded in making Palestinians a generation of cripples and it is up to the world to redeem itself by honoring two-state-solution, independent Israel and Palestine, to truncate insanity of Netanyahu.

Still time for intelligent, compassionate Israelis to save the lives of their loved ones held hostage by Hamas. To elect a sane leader who cares for Israelis, listens to God of Israel, commanding peace, not slaughter.

Chapter Four

Netanyahu’s Renewal of Brutalities

A Little History

Palestine name first referred by ancient Greeks was an area in the Middle East between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. It was absorbed by the Ottoman Empire Year 1517 until the World War. At the end of the war Turks were defeated by the British forces who began ruling the homeland of the Palestinians from 1920 to 1948, the land called Palestine. Since Palestinians helped the British to defeat the Turks, a League of Nations Mandate was drawn out under McMahan Agreement that British would return their homeland to the rightful owners, Palestinians. Though British later denied that they ever made such a promise under any Agreement. By British the same area of land was also promised to the Jews as the Jews claimed under the Belfour Declaration. In Year 1920 many Jews migrated to that area and lived in the much-populated area of the Arabs, both Jews and Arabs living together in friendly relationships. In Year 1929 the relations between the Jews and the Arabs soured due to the focal point of discontent concerning Jerusalem which resulted in violence. Yet, many more Jews kept migrating to Palestine between years 1931 to 1940. Due to the rise of violence and increasing number of Jews in Palestine outnumbering Palestinians, British put a quota on number of Jews who could enter Palestine in any one year. During the WW11, many Jews fought for allies against Nazi Germany and gained much military prowess. When the war ended in Year 1945, they used their skills in acts of terrorism. In the aftermath of Holocaust, the British gave Jews the hope that they would be given more rights in Palestine. Of course, at the expense of the Arabs in Palestine, the British knew beforehand. As the terror acts of the Jews increased, destroying even the British Military Headquarters in Palestine the British decided they would eventually leave. In Year 1947 United Nations accepted that idea-promise of the British to partition Palestine into Israel for Jews and Palestine for Arabs. May 14, 1948 the British withdrew from the Palestine and the Palestinians began their own counter-terror attacks lasting from May 1948 to January 1949, not recognizing Israel as part of the Palestine. To Palestinian Arabs the area the Jews call Israel, will always be Palestine. To Jews it is Israel. Thus began the conflict when the British policy of Divide and Rule ended in departure from Palestine, and it continues to this day. Much like the partition of India and Pakistan 1947 as described in the book, Holocaust of the East. The same Divide and Rule policy, leaving behind a thorn of Kashmir which belongs only to Kashmiris, neither to India, nor to Pakistan. History has been written and rewritten many times over in several books by different authors. Facts contradicted by facts, discrepancies passed as factual. As for the claim “Palestinians siding with Nazi Germany during WW11” many scholars write otherwise and challenge this claim. Arguing that Fascism was discussed by the Arabs alongside other political ideologies. And the Arab Palestinians themselves were deprecated by Hitler as racially inferior to Germans. However, the radical Jewish groups employed terrorism against the British forces in Palestine, accusing them of betraying their Zionist cause. At the end of WW11 1945 United States took up Zionist Cause.

Chapter Five

UN Demands to Halt Arms Sales to Israel

Hamas Past Perception of Israel

Hamas viewed Israelis as invaders and considered suicide bombings and rocket attacks as tools of retaliations. In June 2008 Hamas entered into agreement of six-month truce with the Israel, but after the truce rocket attacks were resumed. Israel launched a fierce attack in December 2008 and after destroying the infrastructure in Hamas territory of Gaza Strip, declared a unilateral ceasefire in January 2009. Year 2010 brought a fresh confrontation between the Israel and the Palestine when Israeli Defense Forces intercepted a flotilla of humanitarian aid vessels bound for Gaza Strip. The seizure of one ship led to a violent confrontation, resulting in the death of nine passengers. This incidence was condemned by Hamas as a massacre, appealing to the international activists to end the blockade of Israel since Year 2007 along the Gaza Strip.

“Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life

 The evening beam that smiles the clouds away” Lord Byron

Chapter Six

Arabs Silence, Gaza Graveyard

“A twofold existence

 I am where thou art

 Hark, hear in the distance

 The beat of my heart” Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Arabs and Americans

The six-day Arab Israeli war made King Faisal change his opinion as America being the friend of Saudi Arabia, for they kept supporting Israel even after the war with armaments, justifying their military assistance in terms of Egypt and Syria receiving arms from Soviet Union.  Faisal was not impressed, saying that more US aid Israel received, the more radical grew the feelings of Arabs around her, the recent example of such a consequence the emergence of Palestinians.  After the death of Nasser in Year 1970 when Anwar Sadat took control of Egypt, Faisal befriended him, proposing if he would withdraw from the Russians if America forced Israel into some sort of withdrawal.  To which Anwar Sadat agreed and as a goodwill gesture expelled sixteen thousand Russian advisors from Egypt.  America didn’t respond to this kind gesture and kept supplying Israel with tanks and jet fighters.  A year later Faisal sent a message to Washington that unless America took genuine steps to secure justice for Palestinian Arabs and to bring about the restoration to Muslims of Jerusalem’s holy places, the friendship with America would be truncated.  An ultimatum followed: 

America’s complete support of Zionism against the Arabs makes it extremely difficult for us to continue to supply US petroleum needs and even to maintain friendly relations with America.

King Faisal’s oil embargo made the life of every American slower, darker and chillier.  The lights in Time Square were switched off and gas stations started rationing sales.  Within two weeks of oil embargo European community met to call on Israel to end the territorial occupation.  Already it had been a month since Anwar Sadat had stormed across the Suez Canal and he had lost as much ground as he had gained.  Syria had also sustained a hopeless defeat.  Henry Kissinger had flown to Riyadh to negotiate with King Faisal, but had returned home with oil embargo still intact.  In February of Year 1974 King Faisal convened a conference in Pakistan for Islamic brethren to pledge the oath of unity and in March he lifted the oil embargo.  Another summit was held the same year by UN General Assembly, inviting the PLO to participate in its debates on Palestine.  Islamic pressure from other countries barred Israel from full membership of UNESCO and cut off all aid from UNESCO.  In Year 1975 United Nations condemned Zionism as a form of racial discrimination.

Chapter Seven

Netanyahu’s Bombardment on Beirut

“Hear us, Oh Liberty

 Bring mercy, Oh Daughter of Athens

 Rescue us, Oh Sister of Rome

 Advise us, Oh Companion of Moses

Help us, Oh Beloved of Muhammad

 Teach us, Oh Bride of Jesus

 Strengthen our hearts so we may live

Or harden our enemies so we may perish

 And live in peace eternally”       Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran was born in the shadows of the holy cedars of Lebanon but spent the mature years of his life within the shadows of the sky-scrapers of New York. Gibran has been described as the Mystic, the Philosopher, the Religious, the Heretic, the Serene, the Rebellious and the Ageless.

License to kill is Netanyahu’s privilege to expand his war into Lebanon, its holy cedars ravished by ongoing decades of conflicts which Khalil Gibran watched from America, unable to help his people perishing and suffering. This nascent Century Twenty-One war evokes the painful memories of Lebanese people vulnerable to foreign attacks. Netanyahu’s genocide knows no borders or boundaries since it has unlimited supply of armaments from US unconditional support for Israel. Gaza of course is Bibi’s prime target. His relentless bombings kills mostly kids and women. Attacks on homes, schools, hospitals show horrific deaths of innocent Gazans who have nothing to do with Hamas and Israel War. Kamal Adwan Hospital repeatedly raided by IDF gangs, as atrocities continue with impotent world watching aghast. UN headquarters too hit by Bibi bomber who is under warrants of arrest by International Criminal Court. Israeli protesters stage daily rallies, demanding their government reach a deal to free hostages. Yet Netanyahu stalls any potential truce, lies to his people and to the world, using playbook of blame game, riddled with fabricated allegation.

Chapter Eight

Gazans Scavenging For Food

“My God

 Let all my senses spread out

 And touch this world

 At thy feet” Tagore

Circle back to seventh century when Arabia was prosperous with bustling towns where traders from different parts of the world came to trade their goods. Prophet Muhammad was one of them when he accompanied his uncle Abu Talib on caravan trading trips to Palestine. Later he was employed by his future-wife-to-be, Khadija, a business woman and went on trading trips to Aleppo, Baalbek, Antioch, Palmyra, Beirut and Damascus. Holy cedars of Lebanon, admired by Khalil Gibran, might have imprints of those memories.

Chapter Nine

Israel Corrupt Fascist Messianic State

A poet, mystic and a philosopher from Lebanon had harsh words for his own people too nineteenth century when he witnessed their fear, hypocrisy, decadence.

“What do you seek, my Countrymen?

 Do you desire that I build for

 You, gorgeous palaces, decorated

  With words of empty meaning, or

 Do you command me to destroy what

 The liars and tyrants have built?

 Shall I uproot with my fingers

 What the hypocrites and the wicked

 Have implanted? Speak your insane

 Wish!” Khalil Gibran

Ethnic cleansing for sure as Bibi brute not satisfied with killing Palestinians by bombing, further sends his militarized gangs at GHF sites to slaughter famished Gazans begging for a bag of flour, or shooting kids at water sites who are trying to fill their plastic containers to quench the thirsts of their sick or elderly families. As to the expansion of war into Lebanon, Netanyahu there too has breached ceasefire hundred times over as in Gaza. Gaza has not only become a graveyard of Gazans but morgue of Bibi’s lies minting falsehood that he is attacking in retaliation or targeting Hamas. But tons of rubble under which are interned charred bodies of thousands of kids, women, elderly tell their own stories of horrendous genocide. Displaced families in flimsy tents surrounded by garbage is not Gaza’s tragedy alone, but it is world tragedy. Trump’s “All Hell to Pay” speaks volumes of betrayal.

Chapter Ten

Perfidious Assault of Israeli Forces on Hospital

“To that city I have so well supplied. Every man there is a crook. There they make yeses and noes, and do it for money.” Dante’s Inferno Canto XXI: 40

Moral abyss created by Netanyahu in Israel doesn’t represent majority of compassionate Israelis who are suffering under the tyranny of one man alone who for his own selfish political survival is not willing for truce, endangering lives of all hostages. Netanyahu has succeeded in making Israel a terrorist state, blind and deaf to the appeals of grieving families of hostages who want their loved ones home, safe and healthy. Killing Palestinian doctors and healthcare workers in hospitals is not going to secure the release of hostages but a sane agreement to truce with sincere intention of ending the prolonged war, bloodshed and occupation. Already charged with fraud, bribery and breach of trust, Netanyahu is trying to evade his trial in court and the prospect of dreaded elections. His recent attack on Syria is another example of his terrorism, extremism, aggression to flaunt his unchecked powers disrupting the peace in Middle East.

Chapter Eleven

Netanyahu’s Aggression on Syrian Territories

“The Friar said: I heard once in Bologna. Of the Devil’s many vices, among which. That he was a liar and father of lies.” Dante’s Inferno Canto XXIII: 142

Meeting of likeminded hypocrites and autocrats like Trump and Netanyahu is no surprise to the world, both praising each other, both war hawks. Netanyahu doesn’t care for hostages, only for his own self-preservation. To Trump, lives of anyone at home, abroad or specifically in Middle East are insignificant as he stays intoxicated by his self-aggrandizement. Syria is just another pawn on the Chess Board for both Trump and Netanyahu who stay intent on expanding warfare wherever their caprice leads them. Netanyahu is all about new settlements in Golan Heights or West Bank or wherever he can expand his aggression. Meanwhile, Bibi’s bombings continue, his recent massacre in Gaza, killing entire families, their heads severed, children’s bodies dismembered. This recent strike is the fourth of Israeli attacks on Gaza schools. “To whom do I complain, Oh, Lord, of my pain and sorrow,” One Gazan woman laments in grief.

Chapter Twelve

Renewal of Bombings at Kamal Adwan Hospital

“Is it an honor for a man to kill his brother man? If you deem it an honor, let it be an act of worship, and erect a temple to Cain who slew his brother Abel.” Khalil Gibran

Terrorist IDF gangs accusing Hamas of terrorist activities as they themselves storm hospitals based on fabricated allegations. Katz blatantly barking that Israel will occupy Gaza Strip, while kids and patients in the hospital are being terrorized by relentless bombing, igniting fire, destroying water tanks. Talks on truce essentially fruitless as Netanyahu is emboldened by US solid support, supplying bombs and armaments. Death has become a daily ritual in Gaza, holy crusade of Netanyahu against Palestinians. Families of hostages keep demanding that Netanyahu accept the peace deal, so all hostages are released. Gaza is transformed into an open graveyard of wounded, bloodied bodies of Gazans, mounds of rubble their death shrouds. Netanyahu stands accused of genocide, ethnic cleansing by Amnesty Report. Deliberately destroying and damaging water and sanitation infrastructure, depriving Gazans of access to safe water for drinking and sanitation. “As a Jew I cannot endure Gaza catastrophe,” wrote Lily Greenberg

Chapter Thirteen

Ceasefire Talks And Pope Francis

“You are my brother, but why are you quarreling with me? Why do you invade my country and try to subjugate me for the sake of pleasing those who are seeking glory and authenticity?” Khalil Gibran

Wheel of ceasefire talks still churning with three-phase plan, but to manifest the agreement still a distant dream. Pope Francis condemned Israeli strikes, saying, “Children bombed. This is cruelty. This is no war. I want to say this because it touches the heart. What is happening in Gaza has characteristics of a genocide.” IDF attacks on homes, schools killing more Gazans and children. Israeli forces demolishing residential buildings while continuing their barrage of shelling on refugee camps. Jenin a target of IDF again, killing a member of Palestinian security. Displaced Gazan families threatened afresh with cold, hunger, deprivation at the approach of Winter. “It is permissible and even recommended to starve an enemy to death,” Jewish Giora Eland

Chapter Fourteen

Gazans Babies Frozen to Death in Cold

“The soul of man does violence to itself when it becomes an abscess and as it were, a tumor in the universe. The soul does violence to itself when it turns away from any man, or moves against him with the intention of harming him, as do the souls of the angry.” Marcus Aurelius

Criminal war co-conspiring with seasonal winter cold, no provisions for the displaced Gazans in their flimsy tents, dying of cold, hunger and disease. This is war on children, Human rights advocates warned, since mostly malnourished children are exposed to death, without blankets, without basic necessities of hygiene and sanitation. With hospitals being bombed and collapse of medical facilities, babies suffer the most, newborns dying of hypothermia. More Palestinian journalists dying with death toll rising to one hundred and thirty-three, adding to the desperate struggle for survival for Gazans, truncating their medium of voice, identity, resilience. Besieged hospitals, injured patients being beaten by IDF gangs a new normal in this war of Netanyahu’s criminality. Even makeshift tents of displaced Gazans flooded with heavy rainfall don’t elicit compassion in the hearts of Jewish extremists, increasing their heavy shelling, torching homes, flattening buildings into piles of rubble.

Chapter Fifteen

Ceasefire Deal Rollercoaster

“Can lovers meet and exchange kisses on battlefield still acrid with bomb fumes? Will the poet compose his songs under stars veiled in gun smoke? Will the musician strum his lute in a night whose silence was ravished by terror?” Khalil Gibran

After fifteen months of bloodshed, with more than 46, 537 Palestinians dead, half of those women and children, thousands injured, crippled, displaced, ceasefire deal had begun to take shape. The number of dead could be doubled when bodies could be recovered from under the rubble, Gaza turned into a graveyard.

 Setting the date of President-elect Trump inauguration as landmark for potential ceasefire deal, international mediators intensified efforts for a viable truce. President Biden stressed optimism that their truce will result in total withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza, release of hostages, prisoner exchange, opening of borders, flow of humanitarian aid and rebuilding of Gaza. Blinken said: some countries are willing to contribute troops, but if it is agreed that Gaza and the West Bank are unified under a reformed PA as a part of pathway to an independent Palestinian State. Israeli strikes continue despite acceptance of ceasefire deal  between both parties.

Part Two in the trilogy of Israeli Genocide Against Palestinians is available for publication.