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Israeli
Racism and the Wall
Dr. Musil Shihadeh
E-mail: [email protected]
Some Palestinian leaders called it �The apartheid
wall�, while others termed it the �Wall of Separation� giving the wrong
impression that our vehement opposition to the wall, stems from separating the
Israeli from the Palestinian people. It is a fact though, that the partition
of the two people has been the core of the Zionist ideology since the
establishment of
Israel
, in order to keep
Israel
an exclusively
Jewish State. The uprooting and eviction of over 800,000 Palestinians in the
1947-1948 war, which led to the tragic creation of the refugees problem was
nothing but a calculated practice that conforms totally to the racial Zionist
objectives in
Palestine
. How can a Jewish
state be created in a country whose majority are Arabs, ask the Zionists, to
rationalize the eviction of the indigenous Palestinians and justifying the
biggest land grab of the 20th century. Hence the separation of the
two peoples has been continuously the racial
Israel
practice since its
creation for the last fifty-five years. Palestinians realize this fact while
most countries of the world recognize it. Then what is all the fuss about?
During the premiership of Ehud Barak, both Mr. Sharon and Netenyaho
designed a new �peace� plan that represented the extreme Likud agenda that
all new peace plans should conform to it, in any future peace negotiations
with the Arabs. If we examine the wall�s geography, we should not be
surprised to realize that the wall falls very close to the previously
envisioned plan. From
Israel
�s perspective the
wall then represents the final Israeli borders with the Palestinians, and not
a wall for security, as
Israel
wrongly claim. It
should sound ludicrous that
Israel
spends hundreds of
millions of dollars on a wall that it might have to remove in future peace
negotiations with the Arabs. It should sound insane to expect the Palestinians
to accept a wall that snakes deep into the
West Bank
swallowing half of the minute remaining land
in the process, making their hopes to become and independent state an
impossible dream.
Before the UN Partition Plan (Res. 181) in November 1947, The
Palestinians used to own more than 93% of the
land
of
Palestine
while the Zionists
could not claim to own more than 6%. With the wall as the �final� borders
of
Israel
, the formula of land
ownership is reversed totally to give the Zionists more than 90% while the
Palestinians have to acquiesce to less than 10% to accommodate the squeezing
of over 7 million Palestinians in such miniature area. To add insult to
injury, the wall severs the body of the
West Bank
into dissected ghettoes that would separate
families from each other�s in the same street, children are separated from
their schools and farmers from their own lands. Such hideous scene could only
be remembered in animal stables in the Wild West. The repulsive racism
involved here is that the wall does not only discriminate against the
Palestinians human rights, but it also separates the communities of the same
people apart of each others, isolated by threatening Israeli check-points.
Fulfilling the Palestinians national aspirations under these oppressive
conditions becomes a farce. Palestinians would not object to al wall as big as
the China Great Wall as long it conforms to international legality and the UN
resolutions.
Negotiating with
Israel
under this miserable
status-quo borders on treason, not because it devastates and destroys the
national aspiration of the Palestinians who suffered so much, but because it
also violates flagrantly all human, moral and legal values of the
international community. Since
Israel
have consistently
proven time after time its violation of international legality and UN
Resolutions and unveiled its ugly face by building this wall, the Palestinians
leadership should desist from any further negotiations or even contacts with
Israel
. Palestinians from
all factions should unite under once military organization and continue its
armed struggle until all Palestinian rights are accomplished.
Musil
Shihadeh
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