Maybe We Have Lost Our Innocence. But I Will Never Give up the Dream.

The Photograph is of a Jerusalem Masjid and a Church sharing the same 

gardens and landscape ... Taken from the Archives of the US embassy, Jerusalem.

Maybe We Have Lost Our Innocence.

But I Will Never Give up the Dream.

Around mid-December 2010, a meeting was organized by the Geneva Initiative and brought together Israeli and Palestinian legislators with Israeli peace activists in Ramallah, Occupied Palestine. Prominent members present included Hanan Ashrawi who was making headlines as a prominent member of the PLO during the Arafat Era according to Julian Walsh of the BBC World Service. 

In the introduction to the interview, Julian Wash said that when the Madrid peace conference convened in October 1991, Ashrawi, a professor of English literature from Ramallah, was appointed member of the Palestinian negotiating team. 


She represented the new, enlightened face of the PLO: Palestinian patriot, peace-seeker, intellectual, woman and Christian all in one. The talks with the Israeli delegation were limping along and getting nowhere when the astounding news of the completion of the Oslo peace accords arrived unexpectedly in September 1993. 

Ashrawi said that when the first reports came in, she asked one of her colleagues: "Are you sure there's nothing about a settlement freeze? She said she could not disguise her anger at her colleagues from Tunis. She explained in the interview that the Palestinian representatives at the Oslo talks were living in exile and not sufficiently aware of what living under occupation and the theft of lands really meant.

She told BBC’s Julian Walsh that from the beginning, when they met with James Baker, they asked him to stop all settlements. He said the only way to stop them would be to start negotiations. And that has been the repeated mantra; … Negotiations will stop settlements. The only thing they got was settlement expansion, loss of land, and loss of credibility in the occupied territories; they saw there was a process for its own sake, without substance or application to reality … They were naïve, and they didn’t know it!

Asked about the role of the committee, she said that, among other things, the committee works against false arrests and torture, illegal dismissals from the police force and failure to heed court rulings. The BBC said that In January 1996, Ashrawi was elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council as an independent candidate from the Jerusalem district. No candidate received more votes than she did, Julian Wash explained in the one full hour program.

  

For three years, she was the Palestinian minister of higher education and research. She founded the Palestinian Institute for the Study of Democracy, which deals with leadership, women's rights, information and policy.

  

She said that In 2006, she became a member of the committee supervising the negotiations with the Israelis. Last year, she ran as an independent candidate for a seat on the 18-member PLO Executive Committee. She became the first woman member of this senior body. 

Julian Walsh asked her Almost 20 years have passed since she first took part in negotiations with Israelis. “Do you believe you will ever get to meet with them when they are no longer representing occupiers and occupied?

She said: "I believe the Israelis never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. When matters come close, something happens and they back down. They think they are not really occupiers because of the wall, which is both physical and metaphorical - they are spared the ugliness of the occupation."

Julian Walsh asked her what she wanted to leave the audience with, she said: “When I was asked in the '90s whether we would see a PA state before the end of the century, I said of course - that's what I promised my daughters - we owe it to our children. And now here we are, and it's heartbreaking. But we can't give up. Maybe we have lost our innocence. But I will never give up the dream.

NOT A ROSY PICTURE FOR ZIONISM

Not a Rosy Prospect For Zionism

                                                                                                                                                                            Thomas Jefferson

Sign of the time! … In 1950, Coca-Cola was more than just an American icon … It was a Standard and a symbol for American prosperity and the enviable popularity of the  burgeoning American Middle Class … It was a Time Of Nostalgia for anything American, but it was also a symbol for an unimaginative assumption of eternal power, domination and bliss on Earth.

While unchecked wealth and popularity may bring along the worst in human traits; absolute power corrupts absolutely, goes the mantra. And that's exactly what has  inflicted America; power corruption manifesting in blatant imperialism, with an insatiable appetite for domination, exploitation and hegemony.

Power became a liability. It became a corrupting power. America the powerful became power-intoxicated America. The sublime ideals from which the American social and political fabric had been weaved; Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness became an abstract afterthought. American power machinery became a machinery for criminal wars, global subversion and camouflaged imperial greed. 
           Harry Truman
America inherited, or probably usurped the ugly dress of imperialism from old imperial-Mama Great Britain. Albeit, it has sometimes taken a disguised and subtle fashionable understatement, but more often than not, it was the fashion of  good old naked aggression and gun-boat diplomacy, unabashed and as blatant as a hot, humid and stifling equatorial summer day.

Imperialism found in Zionism the perfect unwed conjugal partner that spared America the international image problems inherent in naked ambitions in areas of great interests,  particularly in the Middle East, where her vital lines of oil supplies must be controlled and secured at all cost and by all means necessary. America possessed the power, had the need and exercised the will. Zionism, was servile, greedy and desperately willing to serve with depraved scruples. 

It is this role that world Zionism in the body of its bastard daughter Israel has auspiciously found itself assuming;  history’s most insidious symbiotic alliance. it is where the host was actually a  parasite feeding on the secretion of the guest organism, and the guest took full advantage of the hosts' need for its toxic secretions.

                                                                                                                                                                                  Theodore Herzl

Zionism could never have dreamt up a better political and economic opportunity to assume the subservient role with connivance. And imperialism could never have dreamt up a better opportunity for world hegemony camouflaged behind an otherwise despicably morally-corrupt and historically despised race for its utter disregard for common decency.

Against deeply embedded and historically entrenched mutually hostile ideologies, the two elements; Jew and gentile, became united in their eternal crusade and conspiratorial quest to satisfy insatiably rapacious streaks of wanton belligerence and inhuman greed. 

but the question is, if this was an unimaginative assumption for eternal power and bliss on Earth, what would happen in the event that all power equations were demolished either through natural population attrition or through dynamic demographic shift along racial divide. 
   

Harvard University School of Social Sciences published statistical data projecting that by 2050, Americans of European extraction will be a minority for the first time in American history.

This will change the balance of power forever. Americans of Hispanic extraction will be the majority at 31% of the population, whereas Americans of European extraction 29%, African extraction at 15% Asian extraction at 15% Middle Eastern extraction at 8% …. And Jews will decline to 2%.

Watching a Latin American powerhouse one after another recognizing Palestine and whole heartedly embracing the cause of, and placing their sympathies with, Palestinians, one may very easily imagine that the era past 2050 will not be a very happy time for the Sons of Zion.

RACHEL CORRIE, THE FORGOTTEN MARTYR OF PEACE

The Last Time We Saw Rachel

In the photo to the left, is Rachel lying unconscious as I rushed to her aid on Sunday, March 16 about 10:00 AM Rafah Time, in Gaza moments after the Zionist Jew Ran Her Over.

She was in Very Bright Red with highly reflective silver stripes that could not be missed for a mile, and was armed only with a Mega Phone. She was Very Clearly Visible to the Israeli Army Driver as he charged at her.

The IDF Zionist Jew driver had started his run at least 250 yards away from the North West of Rachel approaching her in a straight line. She was directly in his line of sight along with three other male members of her group who were standing, each near a spot to protect against demolition 300 yards to the East of where my group of three were standing guarding different sites.

The Zionist Jew Driver selected his target at which, Rachel had been kneeling to demonstrate that she would not budge.  The driver stopped momentarily at a distance of approximately 20 yards looking straight at Rachel kneeling, he leaned over looking her straight in the eyes to let her know he meant business, and then he charged at her. Rachel sprang up and began to shout at the driver in her megaphone. The driver slightly changed course pointing his bulldozer squarely towards her.

At this point, Rachel began jumping up and down raising both arms with the megaphone in her right, but the Zionist Jew Driver increased his speed continuing his charge towards her mounting a massive pile of dirt by the blade and pushing it perilously and ominously heaping and forward.

First, his blade was ground level. Once he was 5 yards away from her, Rachel had begun to panic because there was no escape and she realized she was in trouble. She climbed on top of the mound of dirt and tried to maintain her balance by holding onto the cross bar. But the IDF Zionist Jew driver raised the 4 ton blade to her level and thrust forward knocking her over.

Once she fell, he dropped the blade immediately under its full weight on top of her in a free fall manner, conceivably by a snapping action discharging all hydraulic pressure in an obvious maneuver to crush Rachel, who was at this point being completely overtaken and buried by the pile of dirt that was mounting on top of her as the blade was dropped down on her delicate and fragile frame. 

The Zionist Jew driver stopped, leaned forward again, and seeing that he had buried Rachel under his machine, reversed and made sure that the 4 ton blade passed flat down over her, further burring her deeper alive after crushing every bone in her body into pulp. 
                                                           

Two members of her team had beaten me to her as I rushed to her aid and frantically dug her up while the third member went to the Zionist Jew driver cursing him in English. 

The Jew driver did not even attempt to look at him and proceeded to carry out the demolition as if he had just killed an insect and not a peace-loving precious human being; (Zionist Jews have subhuman nature.)

Rachel could not open her eyes and was barely breathing with extreme difficulty, and was moaning in a horrific tremulously shaken voice mixed with her difficult breathing as I held her steady and carefully to keep her from moving. All she was able to murmur was, “My Back's Broken." ... Seconds later, she exhaled as if in euphoric relief and stopped talking.... As we waited for the ambulance, I looked at her, and she had this beautiful, faint but very distinct smile on her face...

A Palestinian Ambulance transported her to the hospital where all attempts to revive her failed. We all arrived minutes after the ambulance in the company of a Palestinian Friend in his car. She was pronounced dead by Dr. Hussam Awadley, the chief trauma surgeon. Female members of her group exploded in uncontrollable crying agony.

I looked at her again before Dr. Awadley covered her still body. She was still wearing the same faint smile ... She had been smiling at the time she was being softly cradled over, departing on her eternal journey in the graceful company of the angels of mercy! ... 

While reporters of Western and Israeli media clamored to get full coverage, crowding all of us and making a circus out of the event,  Dr. Awadley told me to make sure that her family would not have her body embalmed nor washed.  "She is a martyr and must be buried in her bloodied cloths that she is wearing now." He said. ... I told her parents upon their arrival to receive Rachel's body. When I explained to her mother the Islamic doctrine of martyrdom, she wept and acquiescently promised she would make absolutely sure she was, though I was certain that, in her state of shock, grief and anger, she could not make sense of everything she heard.

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After 7 years of her family’s struggle to bring justice against the Zionist Jew Driver while the Israeli government played every trick in the book to discredit Rachel and her International Solidarity Movement, of which, I myself was a member present in Gaza with our entire mission divided into several teams, the Israeli Driver just came out of court with a Not Guilty Verdict ... Not surprising knowing the criminal nature of the Israeli Zionists.

Palestinians know the death of one American receives more attention than the killing of hundreds of Muslims. 'It is a fact. 'That's the way things are in this world. I wish it wasn't. 

 Richard Purcell, Rachel Corrie's Group member in Rafah