Martxelo Article written by Diaz and published in Rebelion.org
Interview with Agustín Velloso, author of "Palestine. Texts Zionist"
"Zionism is racist and defend economic interests'
Professor at the UNED in Madrid, Agustín Velloso has traveled frequently to Palestine to meet their educational system. Fruit of his experience, has written numerous articles now been published in a book edited by Bajo Cero, with extremely clear title in regard to their position. Agustin Velloso
Iruñea attended by the international organization invited to present his book Hamlet and give a lecture. His stance on the situation in Palestine is clear: a Zionist state, Israel, constantly violates the rights of a people, the Palestinians, with the help of U.S. and EU.
The situation in Palestine is the result of a racist and exclusionary ideology, Zionism.
This is a conflict that is nearly a hundred years of history. What we are experiencing now is the result of a hundred years of Zionism, a racist and exclusionary ideology, which also supports strong economic interests. Are a tool of U.S. imperialism. Israel lives subsidized because without U.S. money could not survive and, in turn, performs the functions that could make a U.S. aircraft carrier.
The Holocaust Museum is built on a village near Jerusalem which they were expelled all its inhabitants. And now the museum receives awards for harmony in Europe. It is very significant.
Recently, we have witnessed how Israel has been the guest at the Book Fair of Turin and Paris.
Paradoxically, many of the criticisms of Israel can be found in Israel itself than in the U.S., where it is impossible to find any, or in Europe. The journalist Gideon Levy, who is the referent of "Haaretz", warns of 'friends' that Israel has, saying there needs enemies with that kind of "friends." Sarkozy was referring to the recent visit of Merkel or Gordon Brown, who are contributing and strengthening the disaster that exists in Palestine.
The case of Israel is the epitome of hypocrisy from organizations like the UN, which is incapable to make decisions as to claim the return of refugees in 1948 or requiring the end of the occupation of Gaza and the West Bank in 1967 are applied.
The term hypocrisy is really an understatement. The two conditions that brought the UN to Israel was a member of this organization were to comply with the partition plan of 1947-which stated that 55% of the land for them and 45% for the Palestinians, which is unfair - but was left with 65%, which then has expanded with the theft until you get to 80% today. Along with this, he demanded the return of refugees in 1948. None of this has been accomplished. Contrasts with the invasion of Iraq from Kuwait, where the next day U.S. troops were bombing Baghdad.
However, in 1948 the Israelis expelled 750,000 Palestinians, currently five million have become refugees, and 60 years later not one refugee can return home. Not that hypocrisy is worse.
But Israel is allowed to act freely in order to subjugate the Palestinian people, bordering the scandal in the case of Gaza.
International law is clear: the occupying power is responsible for what happens in the occupied territory. But in this case, are also very smart. Have withdrawn from Gaza, in theory. Before they were in the heart of Gaza and now have retreated. But continue to control airspace and the sea. The fishermen can not go fishing. The six points out of Gaza are controlled by Israel. The trick to say the withdrawal will not absolve them of their responsibility, because international law defines occupation as the control of a territory.
The best part is that not even meet the minimum civilian population that have guaranteed their basic rights, but they have locked up. It is unique in world history in which an occupied population is being brutally punished.
is similar to what happens with UNIFIL in Lebanon, another tall tale. How can you put a UN force in the territory of a country attacked [Lebanon] instead of the aggressor [Israel]. Gaza
The result is that people die every day of the blockade. If you have peritonitis and do not let you cross the border, you die at the border. There are about 50 people have died this way. And it can touch anyone.
are using the basic needs of the population as a weapon of war.
Indeed, it is. Zionist policy is like any other colonizer, but with the difference that the other settlers appropriated land to be a while. They do not, want the land without people. But as the Palestinians have the unfortunate habit of staying alive and want to live on their land, the option taken is to make life impossible. Police act like you want to evict a squat and cut water and electricity.
When they pulled the fence in Rafah, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians out of Gaza to Egypt. It was a moment to say 'look how the people fleeing from Islam and the imams. " But again everyone. Yes, again with cigarettes, gasoline, bread, water and medicines. It is clear that they want to live on their land.
Death to a child of a heart murmur because they have closed the border is not news to open the newspapers. Or they have started 12,000 olive trees. We are not aware of what implied by these 12,000 olive trees, but it is the livelihood of 1,000 families. And each such a family is composed of six or eight children. For the Zionists have started to 1,000,000 trees in Palestine. Booting these olive trees is not news. But if they take a few olive trees here, they close the fr0ntera there, cut off the water, medicines and children fail to study can not see that is totally premeditated.
In a territory like the West Bank [with an extension that is aproximadamete half of Navarre], there are over 500 checkpoints and controls. Daily life is impossible. You go with your tomatoes to sell to Jerusalem and what should be a twenty minute journey becomes a journey of three hours in the sun. No tomatoes hold back.
The purpose of all this policy is clear: to make life miserable for the Palestinians. It is clearly a racist policy based on domination and not just ideological but economic.
Israel defines itself as a Jewish state for Jews only. Everyone else has plenty. So you'd better any means to expel the Arabs: kill them, scare them, they take jobs, they steal the water ... Whatever.
If you live in Jerusalem and you marry a girl from Ramallah, will dictate that you must live in Ramallah. Prevent you from entering Jerusalem. Are only ten miles but are separated by a wall. What? That in a city where there were 200,000 Palestinians, there are now 150,000. There is a front-page news, but it is something that happens continuously.
This is an idea and himself said David Ben Gurion [the first president of the State of Israel]: "There you go fucking goat after goat, tree after tree, dunam [traditional measure which is equivalent to 1,000 square meters] of dunams. until they leave. " He said this in 1948 and still the same.
is clear that the Zionists have come a long way since they started in 1900 with a four-shocked migration. In 1948 he became an important part of Palestine, 1967 c on the other hand and still the same policy.
Another part of the plight of the Palestinians is their leadership, with a Palestinian Authority eaten away by corruption and more concerned to negotiate down in Annapolis to maintain their privileges than the welfare of his people.
The problem is that there have been 50,000 such as the Annapolis negotiations. It will end the world's cities to have negotiations on the Palestinians: Annapolis, Taba, Sharm el-Sheikh, White River, Camp David, Madrid, Oslo, ... Talks have been many, but history shows that no good for nothing. It is possible that negotiations and has 80,000 non-compliance or international law. Annapolis is a farce. It tries to maintain the illusion that there are negotiations. Also, do not touch the key issues, such as refugees.
As for the leadership, it happens that, as with other movements release, and sold there are traitors everywhere. The leadership is so bad that the Palestinians themselves decided to throw them and make Hamas. It is suspected that the leader of a nation trying to get his release pat him on the back Bush. I'd be a little worried.
The proof is that the Palestinian leadership have not accepted it or been killed, including Ahmed Yassin and Abdelaziz Rantisi [the two founders of Hamas], or are in jail as Ahmed Sa'adat [secretary general of the PFLP]. If you get a pat on the back Bush is that you are not a true leader of the Palestinian people.
But this is an old story. The grandfather of the present King of Jordan, Abdallah, was killed shot in al-Aqsa because it had allied with Ben Gurion to divide Jerusalem and Palestine was not theirs. In 1951 he became a member of Hamas at the time and shot him. Already in 1948 there were traitors, people who sold land
Daily Drama "You die a baby in a 'checkpoint' health by poor medical assistance is not news, but it is something that is happening in Palestine" land without people
"The Zionists have one goal: they want the land, but not Palestinians. Therefore, we make life impossible for them to go get '
negotiations "as the Annapolis talks have been many, but history shows that no good for nothing"
leadership "is suspected that the leader of a nation trying to get his release pat him on the back George Bush"
"Criticizing Israel is not anti-Semitic"
One of the main defenses of the Zionists when reporting what they are doing in Palestine is to try to discredit the authors of the criticism by calling them anti-Semitic, a label that does not correspond at all with reality.
know perfectly well that has nothing to do. It is a contraditio in termini. The Semites are Arabs and Jews. You can not be anti-Semitic if it supports the Arabs. It is one trick, but they work. Equate anti-Semitism and Zionism when two things different. Not that I say so, is the UN itself that defines Zionism as a form of racism. Therefore, it is quite reprehensible. It would have to be almost obligatory to defend the Palestinians when they see that we have a Zionist state that kills children in the crib and leaving people without food. The Zionist state is a state where 1.5 million people crowded into Gaza and have to suffer how they spend flying almost at the height of the roofs F-16 aircraft to make noise and go crazy. Psychiatric Studies say that 35% of the population of Gaza has problems of nervous character. It's a miracle that the conditions in which patients are not 85%. That is Zionism. As we will not be anti-Zionist! When
defend the existence of the State of Israel uses the argument that is a compensation for the Holocaust committed by the Nazis in World War II.
The Holocaust was a terrible crime, but the Palestinians were not responsible. If the Germans persecuted the Jews that would have to meet the Germans. Why not require that compensation for the Holocaust is a part of Berlin territory instead of staying with Palestine? In any case, the claims would have to be the victims and their descendientes0, not the state of Israel at that time did not exist.
MD
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