By: Gulamhusein A.Abba
Note:There is a lot of confusion about this subject and questions have been raised about where I stand. I hope this clarifies not only my position but also helps clarify the larger issues.
Am I anti-Semitic?
Certainly not. There are among
Jews, as among people of other faiths, millions of good, kind, loving, sympathetic,
generous and helpful people. If anything, I have great sympathy and compassion for
the Jews who have suffered so much. And I notice the similarity between the way
they recite their Torah and the Muslims their Quran, their burial rites and
those of Muslims, the dietary laws in both faiths. There are so many other
similarities. For Muslims, Jews are people of the Book
Am I anti-Zionists?
Yes I am anti-Zionists, whether
Jews or Christians, for one reason and one reason alone. Before I proceed
further, please understand that not all Jews are Zionists and not all Zionists
are Jews. A sizable section of Zionists are Christian Evangelicals, perhaps
more influential in the US than Jewish Zionists. I am anti-Zionists not
anti-Semitic. There is a big difference.
Why am I anti-Zionist?
Because their sole reason
for existence, their sole aim and goal is to reclaim the Biblical Israel of old
and replace not only the British Mandatory Palestine but all of Palestine with "Eretz Yisraeel", including Judea and Samaria. This inherently involves taking, by
force, Palestinian land from Palestinians who have lived there for centuries
and replacing the Arab Palestinians (Muslims and Christians) with Jews brought
in from foreign countries. There is no justification for this and it is clearly
against International Law.
Furthermore, this goal is in
the process of being achieved through unimaginable cruelty and violation of
Human Rights, property rights and International law.
All peace and justice
loving people, all those who believe in and respect International law cannot be
other than anti-Zionists.
Am I against Jews having a
homeland, a nation of their own?
Certainly not. Indeed I have
for long felt that the Jews should have a homeland of their own where they can
feel safe, in control of their own destiny and practice freely, openly and publicly
their faith and rites and customs. After all, the Hindus have Hindustan (India,
nominally secular but with a commanding Hindu majority increasingly clamoring
for renaming India as Hindutwada), Buddhists have Burma (Myanmar) and Muslims
have several well-known homelands. But it would have been preferable for the
Jews to have stuck to their original plea of “A land without a people for a
people without a land”.
Am I against the Jews
having a homeland in Palestine?
I think it would be preferable
for the Jews themselves to have a homeland in a region more friendly and accepting
towards them and that has more in common with them than the Mideast. As for
having it in Palestine, no one would have any objection provided it was done
with the consent and goodwill of the Palestinians. Though the Palestinians
initially objected to the Jews establishing a homeland in any part of Palestine
(a perfectly legitimate objection under International law), currently the
Palestinians, those in control of the West Bank (PA) as also those in control
of Gaza (Hamas), have agreed to the Jews having their homeland in 88% of the
land the Palestinians had (far more than the 55% envisaged in the UN Partition
Plan). Instead of accepting this most generous offer Israel is refusing to end
its illegal, brutal and continuing occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, is
demanding more land from the 22% of the land the Palestinians have agreed to
accept and are putting more conditions for the Palestinians to accept before
they end their illegal occupation and recognize a sovereign, independent state
of Palestine in the meager 22% of the land the Palestinians had.
It is this that those
wanting peace with justice and those who believe in the rule of law and International
law object to and are critical of.
In conclusion.
I honestly believe just as
Muslims all over the world condemn and oppose ISIS and its cruel and barbaric acts,
the time has come for the Jews to condemn,
oppose and publicly denounce Israel’s continuing illegal occupation of the West
bank and Gaza and its cruelty and injustice towards the Palestinians.
The righteous Jews owe
this to themselves.
Israel, as it exists today,
is disgracing the Judaic faith and Jews in general and is a clear and serious
danger to the Jews all over the world.
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