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Castro is right, so is Helen Thomas

06/21/10
06:57:43 am

By Khalid Amayreh in occupied Palestine

Zionist supremacists from Tel Aviv to Los Angeles are ganging up on two elderly targets these
days. The first is the 84-year-old Fidel Castro, a man who apparently made up his mind about
Zionism more than six decades ago. And the second is 89-year-old veteran American journalist
Helen Thomas.

Castro’s crime was a few passing remarks he uttered recently, saying that the Swastika has
become Israel’s real flag.

“It would seem that the Fuehrer’s (Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s) Swastika is today Israel’s
banner.” The ex-Cuban leader added that “the hatred felt by the state of Israel against the
Palestinians is such that they wouldn’t hesitate to send the one and a half million men,
women and children of that country to the crematoria where millions of Jews of all ages
were exterminated by the Nazis.”

As to Thomas’s, she has been vilified and demonized for saying that all Ashkenazi Jews who had
immigrated to Palestine from their native East European states, such a Poland, should go back to
their native homelands.

Castro and Thomas didn’t cry blaspheme. Their remarks, though courageous, are factually true.

When speaking of the Swastika becoming Israel’s banner, Fidel Castro was only voicing what
millions of people around the world are saying and whispering. In the final analysis, when Israel
thinks, behaves and acts like Nazi Germany, Israel can be and should be compared with Nazi
Germany.

For so many years, Israel and her immoral supporters and spin doctors have been utilizing the
holocaust to justify Israel’s own slow-motion holocaust against the Palestinian people and other
peoples in the Middle East.

Now, given her manifestly nefarious behavior, one can safely state that Israel is indulging in
actions and behaviors that qualify her for the Nazi epithet. To be sure, this is not a new
discovery. In a certain sense, one can claim that Israel has always been a Nazi state in one way or
the other..

In the final analysis, the extirpation and partial annihilation of an entire people from their
ancestral homeland is a Nazi act par excellence. Even Jews recognize this fact.

Hence, Israel and its hypocritical supporters can’t have it both ways, namely behave and act like
as the Nazis behaved and acted, and at the same time continue to enjoy the fruits of the holocaust

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industry.

In the final analysis, European Jewry didn’t perish in order to leave propaganda ammunition for
later-day Zionists to cover up genocidal crimes against another Semitic people, the Palestinians.

Castro’s courageous remarks have actually been echoed by many Jewish leaders both in Israel
and abroad.

For example, Sir Gerald Kaufman, the veteran British Labor MP, remarked a few years ago that
“Israel was born out of Jewish terrorism.”

Kaufman compared the actions of Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip with the Nazis who forced his
family to flee to Poland.

Kaufman, who was brought up as an Orthodox Jew and Zionist, argued eloquently that Israeli
crimes made the Star of David look like the Nazi Swastika.

“My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her hometown. A German soldier shot
her dead in the bed.

“My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian
grandmothers in Gaza.”

And, one might add, nor did they perish in order to provide a cover for Israeli soldiers massacring
innocent aid activists in international waters in order to starve and savage 1.7 million men,
women, and children in Gaza.

And now the Helen Thomas’s story. Responding to a passing question, the elderly veteran White
House correspondent said that the ultimate solution for the Palestinian question should see
European Jewry return home, to Poland, even to America.

Well, what is wrong with this most logical observation? For sure, some Jews have the right to live
in Palestine, as equal and dignified citizens, but not as masters of violence and land thieves.

However, Jews, or more correctly descendants of converts to Judaism originating in the Khazar
region, have no automatic right to claim Palestine as their patrimony especially if that dubious
right is exercised at the Palestinian people’s expense.

Even religiously and theologically, there is no religious text in the Old Testament stating that the
Almighty promised Jews a homeland in Palestine. There is a promise to the Israelites but not to
Jews. Needless to say, the Israelites and Jews are not the same people since there are more
Israelites, or descendants of Jacob or Israel, who are non-Jews than there are Jews.

Indeed, there is ample evidence that hundreds of thousands of modern-day Palestinians are
descendants of the ancient Israelites? So, is it logical to say that Khazari converts have more right
to Palestine than these Arabic-speaking Muslims and Christians who have been living in the land
from time immemorial, certainly centuries before an Austrian Jewish Journalist envisioned a
“Jewish” homeland in the land of the Palestinians.

Of course, Zionist leaders, who are actually pathological liars with little or no rectitude , can
continue to repeat the stale historical lie, that “this is our eternal homeland.”

But the truth is that Palestine has never been the exclusive homeland of Jews. And the wheel of

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history doesn’t stop rolling.

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Khalid Amayreh is a journalist living in Palestine. He obtained his MA in journalism from the
University of Southern Illinois in 1983. Since the 1990s, Mr. Amayreh has been working and
writing for several news outlets among which is Aljazeera.net, Al-Ahram Weekly, Islamic
Republic News Agency (IRNA), and Middle East International. He can be reached through
politics.indepth@iolteam.com.

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