Gaza

 

 

 Carlos Latuff 2008

Ben Heine

Sabbah

 

I am Palestinian

My family’s story

Many years ago racist invaders occupied my family’s country, my people were subject to brutality, dispossession, torture and killing - several hundred thousand of my people died out of a population of the order of a million. Our homes and lands were taken so that, even if permitted to return, refugees would have nothing to return to. Several years ago the European Union approved our dispossession.

My family was Palestinian, you say?

No. In 1944 the German Nazis invaded Hungary, 0.2 million out of 0.7 million Jewish Hungarians were killed and many of the survivors fled immediately after 1945 or during the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. In 2004 Hungary entered the EU with the EU approval of the permanent dispossession of Jewish Hungarian victims of Nazism and thence Communism. Our lands and homes have been simply given to others. Indeed a relative reported visiting one such property in the heart of Budapest – it was converted into 4 apartments decorated with paintings and photographs of our family members for the amusement of total strangers.

Comparison of the Palestinian Genocide and the Jewish Holocaust in Hungary is appropriate. The Jewish Holocaust occurring in Hungary in 1944 -1945 killed 0.2 million out of a total Jewish Hungarian population of 0.7 million (see: Gilbert, M. (1969), Jewish History Atlas (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London).

Gilbert, M. (1982), Atlas of the Holocaust (Michael Joseph, London). The survivors who fled as refugees remain permanently dispossessed with EU, UK and US approval.

The Palestinian Genocide involved invasion, occupation, disempowerment, dispossession, violence, ethnic cleansing and (within the Holy Land) post-1967 excess deaths totalling 0.3 million out of an average 1967-2008 Occupied Palestinian territory population of 1.8 million. The survivors who fled as refugees remain permanently dispossessed with EU, US, UK and US-lackey Australian approval.

Whereas the Jewish Holocaust involved rapid, anti-Jewish anti-Semitic , race-based extermination for Nazi and Nazi collaborator benefit and gratification, the Palestinian Genocide has involved slow, anti-Arab anti-Semitic ethnic cleansing for Zionist lebensraum .

The fundamental message from the Holocaust AND from the Palestinian Genocide is zero tolerance for racism. You can understand why – apart from being an anti-racist humanitarian – it is impossible for me to be actively or passively complicit in any racist agenda and why I am obligated to oppose the horrendous treatment of the Palestinian People by Zionist-run Apartheid Israel.

 The story of Zionism & Apartheid Israel

I am an anti-racist, humanitarian, agnostic, Humanist scientist whose family has suffered racist genocide, dispossession and exile. In my view the Zionist colonization of Palestine should never have happened but it has. The State of Israel is recognized by the UN and 5 million Jewish Israelis (all “existential Zionists” but unfortunately still ruled in an Apartheid State by Zionists) Must make peace - with equity, justice and reconciliation - with 5.5 million Subject Indigenous Palestinians in the Holy Land and millions more forbidden by Racist Zionists from returning to their stolen homeland. With mandatory non-racism such Peace with equity, justice and reconciliation is possible now.

The fundamental message of the Holocaust is zero tolerance for racism - and I am obliged as a decent human being (and one whose family was decimated by the racist Nazis) to oppose Racist Zionists.

The complete article by Gideon Polya can be read here

*all illustration are the works of Carlo Latuff. http://latuff2.deviantart.com/