Hamas and Fateh: Hatred Manufacturing
He held my head in his hand and said smiling: “Are you ready to sell your head?”, and knowing the trick and who he was, I said “No, never!!” But he added: “We need people like you who speak and write English well. We have bought columns and even pages in newspapers in the Arab countries; Jordan, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco… and even in israel.”
That was one of my best friends whom I invited for Iftar at the beginning of this Ramadan. He works as a manager of a PA owned website that promotes the PA propaganda. They are launching a wide campaign to beautify the PA image to the Arab, israeli and even West audience !! “So, what are you doing now?” I asked just to know and probably to use in my writing. “We have just launched an English and Hebrew Website and need writers and editors.” he explained. “So, what am I supposed to write?” I asked again knowing that I would never get into that game. “everything against Hamas, even use spices, and exaggerate,whatever you like!” and knowing that I would never be able to write “whatever I like” at their site, I said: “No, my head is so precious, besides, I cant live without a head!”
In a hopeless and helpless attempt to attract the (ever heading right) zionist audience, some of the top PA personages are waging a campaign in the main zionist newspapers. Who would like to please his eyes with the faces of such personages in the zionist media, can see some of them at this link. This happens at the time the PA are waging a police campaign against its opponents in the West Bank (who oppose going unconditionally to direct talks with the zionists), and a fierce campaign against their “enemies” in Gaza…. polite to attract the zionists, but fierce with their own people !!
In the zionist jail, when I was barely 20 years old, there was a top leader of our party with us, some 50+ by then (was deported to France, later) . He was so much adored by all the prisoners as an intellectual who had a strong charisma. In a way I adored him as we all used to listen attentively to what he was saying. Usually, we used to sit tens around him and listen as if listening to a reverent saint breaching about Jesus !! One day, We were sitting by him as he talked of the Muslim Brothers, ie Hamas (and it took the Palestinian parties a long time to recognize Hamas as a legitimate party or movement other than what they were described to be the Paletinian branch of the global Muslim Brothers)… he talked a lot, but what I didnt like is when he said: “These people are bastards (Safileen, in Arabic) …. they are savages.” I was shocked to hear the word bastards because I never used it to describe anyone, then I told him shyly: “It is not good to curse others and use bad words… you can criticize them and their actions logically, but not to curse.” “because they are bastards, and I described them of what they deserve.” He repeated again. I didnt reply but that trigged an alarm sign in my little head.
Later, I decided to study the literary (narrative) of the other factions through borrowing their pamphlets in the jail, or at least what they allowed me to borrow and read. I was reading silly writings, foolish arguments and a history of much of fights between the Palestinian factions since the beginning of our catastrophe, our plight. Every party is trying to justify his narrative, to denounce the others, as if it is the only right party and all the others are sinners and evil doers !!
Two years ago, I started to see and say repeatedly that the “national reconciliation” is unattainable dream and the gap is deepened. Both of the parties, since the fight in Gaza (and even before that, ages ago, when the Islamists were a minority) are waging an endless and fierce campaign against each others. Fateh is composed of “corrupt immoral mafia” people (for Hamas) and Hamas, in turn, is a bunch of terrorists who live in the dark ages (dzalamyyoun, in plain arabic). This continuous fight is spoken and fed with and in every single medium; TV, Radio, songs, conferences, sessions, pamphlets, handouts, Youtube, Facebook and all what can you imagine of forums. The gap is not only so deep, but fierce and brutal. Every party is trying to attract the simple people (as if people are foolish) by his own narrative of hatred…. and here I am bargained to sell my head and fight within this circle of hatred… facts are irrelevant, you can use spices, lies and exaggerate or even invent what has never happen in order to beautify your ugly and bloody face.
national unity or annihilation
National Unity will never happen within the current discourse, within and by the current tools, within and by the current “mediators” of Arabs and non-Arabs. National unity can only be achieved by the defeat of one of the two projects: The American-Feudal-Arab project of Fateh (the PA) which serves (or at least coexist with) the zionist project of the “chosen people” to occupy the whole of Palestine and segregate the Palestinians in concentration camps… or the Islamic “revolutionary” or “Terrorist” resistance of Hamas of the Utopian society of Allah!!
There is no intermediate or middle solution that can gather the two “fierce enemies”. Both parties are sunk deep each in his own discourse of hatred, that generates more hatred. Shall I sell my head? No, never… my head is more precious and cleaner than their discourse of HATRED !!
Sami, the bedouin.
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Sami,
How is Israel supposed to reconcile with the Palestinians to what ever outcome if even the Palestinians can’t reconcile with themselves. Imagine we are in the 1920′s or 30′s and the early Zionists have to decide on whether to push forward towards partition or one national entity. In the geopolitical sense, partition will isolate the Jews from the Arabs. And in one national entity, the Jews will have to survive in the context of the inter-Arab political dynamics which you are describing. The Arab political spectrum is so fragmented that nothing can move forward. Between the factions there is wholehearted lies, bullying and violence. And lets not forget the dictators that exist in the neighboring countries such as Syria, Jordan, and Egypt.
Zionist Jews sought security and the opportunity to thrive in a community that accepts them. In Israel, the political spectrum can easily express itself and debate ideas without or little threat of violence. In the the West Bank and Gaza, opposition Palestinian faction members and journalists are jailed or killed by the controlling authority.
The Middle East was never as bad to the Jews as Europe, but it was never as good either. Even if Israel never existed, do you really think Palestine would be free of the the inter-Arab political conflict that you are describing in this post? Syria, Jordan, and Egypt are just the same. The only difference is that one faction won and it created a dictatorship.
What the difference between the philosophy of a dictator and this statement:
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Michael,
The core of the problem in the whole Middle East is the zionists. They are the source of instability specially in Palestine and Lebanon. We were about to have our democratically elected government but the zionists and the West spoiled everything, as they did in Algeria by supporting the dictatorship and the corrupt leaders.
I dont believe there would ever be a national unity under occupation. I never believed that there would be any kind of peace with the zionist… and as long as the zionist are spoiling the atmosphere here, there would never be nor national unity nor stability.
There are two clear projects: The American-zionist one (with its tools and agents), and the national one…. once the zionist go out to where they come from… soon we will have our national unity, but never before defeating the zionist project !!
the matter is not a jew and a muslim Michael… there are Palestinian jewish community who live in Nablus city now, and they are not killed or slaughtered, they are just Palestinians like me if not better…. there have been hundreds of thousands jews in Iraq living peacefully before the zionists came to kill them and force them out of Iraq to feed the zionist entity as Naeim Giladi (the Arab Iraqi jew) explains in his book. Millions of jews, were, and some are still integral part of the Middle East spectrum and they were not persecuted until their zionist fellows poisoned the Atmosphere here. Iran, the “rogue” country, is the home of some 25-35 thousands jews now… they are Iranians, they refuse to come to feed the zionist entity and said to the zionist (who were ready to pay and back them coming) that our Iranian Nationality is not for sale … The core of the conflict here is of the Khazar ashkinazi jews who came to colonize Palestine and kick the native Palestinians out !! The Palestinian and Arab jews are our brothers as they are part of our people, but never the colonizers who came from Europe and must go back to their home !!
Unless Palestine is free, and it will be, there will not be a national unity nor peace !!
Sami,
Giladi’s story has not been supported by any historian. Can you please site other sources other than Giladi. For every Giladi, there are hundred’s of thousands of Mizrachi Jews who disagree with him like my grandparents and my mother from Tunisia.
Can you please explain to me how the West is responsible for the dictator in Algeria? I don’t know much about Algerian history.
If you look at the history of the Arab dictators in the region, you’ll see that many of them came from dynasties that started before Israel was even created, or when they gained power, it was by knocking out the previous dictator and had nothing to do with Israel.
Can you please tell me more about the Jewish community in Nablus?
How can any Jew or Arab be an integral part of the Middle East spectrum if every single Arab country is a dictatorship (with the exception of Lebanon, but how many Jews are in Lebanon anyway)?
You keep citing the number of Jews in Iran today. But there used to be hundreds of thousands of Jews in Iran several decades ago? The Persian Jewish community is 2,500 years old. There are 5 times more Persian Jews in Israel than there in Iran. If they had it so great in Iran, why most of them leave?
Now to the main issue, you said that there can be no Palestinian national unity unless Hamas or Fatah is defeated. How is that any different than any other Arab national unity currently in existence, or in more direct words, how is that any different than a dictatorship?
Lastly, shouldn’t the fact that European Jews have studied texts and prayed from prayer books written in Hebrew and Aramaic point to the fact that they are Semitic in origin. Israelis speak Hebrew for goodness sake. Also, one of the most famous texts in the world, the Hebrew Bible, should point to you and everyone that the Jews, even Ashkenazi Jews, because who other than they study kept these texts, the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud, and the prayerbooks, alive.
Giladi says:
I believe in Giladi because he was within the zionist circle at that time and knew what your mother didnt know, unless you would consider your mother a recommended historian !!
I dont care about the Bible or how it is written, but I will never accept a colonizer to come and kick me out of my land, whatever he was even if he was a devoted Muslim (you can worship your god with your language away from my homeland)…. the zionist entity is built on an old myth and it uses the very same dam Nazi techniques to suppress the Palestinians.
the zionists and the Arab “mediators” are feeding the national split to reinforces and stringthin their agents, but not the democratically elected government !!
The Samaritans jews are Palestinians and they live amongst us as they own the oldest version of your forged old testament … they are jsut part of us but not like the colonizer Europeans, Russian, Polish, German or even the Ethiopian jews. Though, I am fully aware that Wikipedia is edited by the zionists but I will give you a Wikipedia link to the Samertan Palestinian jews here.
If you are brainwashed by the zionist-owned American media, you cant project it on me… I am here on the ground and see the facts of your zionist fellows, and I stand against the devil even if it was the zionist-supported dictatorship of ours….. since ovr 100 years and the zionists are the source of the devil here. full stop.
Sami,
Here’s an article from 1995 about Uri Milstein and his student Yigal Amir:
I have a link to an article in Hebrew but I’ll translate one sentence:
I was pointing to the Bible just to show your homeland is not only for Arab speakers but to Hebrew speakers as well. It is the homeland of Jews and Arabs. The Bible might be filled with myths and legends, but it wasn’t written in Europe and in a European language. The Hebrew Bible, and the Talmud (or at least part of it) were written in the same place you call your homeland.
So the Palestinians have made peace with a few hundred Samaritan Jews. Good for them.
Now back to the main point I was trying to make, how can anyone move forward politically with you or anyone when you so easily support totalitarianism. You said:
Perhaps the Zionists sought to establish their own independent state separate from its neighboring Arab countries because the Palestinians were so politically undeveloped. You are a microcosm of the self-defeating Palestinian national movement. You are so easily willing to burn your neighbors (Hamas or Fatah) so one can take charge to defeat the Zionists. If you want Jews to abandon Zionism, you have to be able to offer something other than what you currently hold – a direct route to a dictatorship.
The zionists, even after over 60 years, and specially after the first Intifada (When the Palestinians woke up from their long sleep) are frightened inside and will never feel peace in our homeland… They are got paranoid when they hear someone speaking arabic in the street, they are deeply anxious simply because the Palestinians are fighting for their freedom and will never let a zionst feel safe while kicking us, the natives, out and take our homes (look at what is happening in Jerusalem now of house demolishing, even those houses that were built before your “israel: was established)… When are they going to feel peace? Never !!
We are not Indian Americans to be annihilated Mr. Michael.. and the zionists are a bunch of a few millions who are not going to affect the Islamic tsunami !! They can build their racist culture away from us, in Europe or the hell wherever they want.
One of my friends told me that he is the first to support peace, and when I asked him why, he said that “israel” is nothing compared to our vast and extensive culture and population, peace means death for zionism… we are going to eat them either way by peace or war !!
Sami,
Why don’t you join Hamas already?
because I am already to the right of Hamas when it comes to the zionists !!
I don’t know what is more “right” of believing in and reacting to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion?
Who revealed the The Protocols of the Elders of Zion? I think it was my dad, or probably Ben-Laden, not the Russians nor the West Media !! At the time the West was talking of these protocols, We were hosting our brother jews, at the Times the Nizis were killing the jews, some jews were ministers in the Arab countries… go and fetch another dirty pool to swim in Mr. Michael !!
Sami,
I was referring to the Hamas charter. The Hamas charter cites The Protocols. Czarist Russia wrote it, and the Nazis used it in their propaganda. All of these regimes are considered far-right.
I would like to discuss the main issue I brought with your post. I understand that you blame the current Palestinian national disunity on the Zionists. But I don’t understand why you take a stand that wishes to eliminate one of the Palestinian elements (Fatah and Hamas) and you don’t even care which one even though you hate both.
In your posts, you write that Jews deserve the freedom and rights as any free Arab but you also take a stand that is further right than Hamas which relies on old European antisemitism for their ideology. You position isn’t coherent. It is full of contradictions.
Israel tried to damage Hamas’ power in Gaza during the 2009 winter and killed over 1400 Palestinians in the process. But what’s the difference between what Israel did and what Hamas and Fatah did to each other over the last few years. They killed hundreds of their own people. Over the last decade, Israel, Hamas, and Fatah were all willing to use violence to achieve political goals, mainly to reduce the other’s power and exert control. You seem to be willing to do the same to achieve you goal. This madness is as old as civilization.
What I am challenging you is to seek a system where political goals aren’t achieved through violence. The reason the Zionists won in the 1930′s and 40′s is because there was very little dialouge between Jews and Arabs that sought a system where political goals weren’t achieved through violence – a democracy. The violence and intimidation between the two groups won out. I don’t know of any Palestinian figure that sought democracy in the decades before 1948 and after. At least the Zionists achieved it among themselves and Israeli Arabs – as imperfect it as it may be, it’s a better situation than the Palestinian political context.
I won’t comment on politics, as I’m rather clueless on all the intricacies involved.
But it’s good to be able to read such differing viewpoints. Mideastyouth is providing a healthy platform for debating, venting, presenting information on the human condition based on various perspectives , as well as a means for people to have the opportunity of getting to understand each other and presenting their viewpoints.
Sami, I’m so happy your didn’t sell your head! That would have been like selling your soul! We can never sell our convictions or beliefs and retain our character or integrity!
Thanks Hope,
I too really enjoy MEY as it gives me the space to vent… diversity of viewpoints is healthy and I cam learn a lot from the “enemies” … one shouldn’t block his mind, specially for the rationale debates !!
thanks again