Public enemy state no 1

Hvorfor er der ingen som reagerer over for Sudan, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Congo, Tibet og andre store folkemord.
Hvor kommer det fra, det med den konstante kritik af Israel og messen af de samme påstande, Israel er en apartheid stat. Israel er støttet af USA på grund af den jødiske lobby. Zionismen er en racistisk ideologi, der søger at fordrive palæstinenserne?
Hvorfor har de palæstinensiske flygtninge en "International solidaritetsdag" og ikke de 450000 jøder som blev fordrevet fra de arabiske lande efter krigen 1947-48? Hvorfor har de millioner fordrevne under Pakistan/Indien på samme tidspunkt ikke samme status? Hvorfor taler man ikke om de millioner der døde under oprettelsen af Bangladesh, eller flygtninge fra den konflikt?
Hvordan kan det være, at zionismen blev branded af FN generalforsamlings resolution 3379 som racistisk, imperialistisk og en trussel mod verdensfreden, hvorimod at palæstinenserne næsten aldrig er blevet fordømt, hverken for selvmordsbombere eller antisemitisme, eller få andre lande og parter på lignende måde. Her er noget af ordlyden i resolutionen:

Adopted at the Conference of Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Non-Aligned Countries held at Lima from 25 to 30 August 1975, which most severely condemned zionism as a threat to world peace and security and called upon all countries to oppose this racist and imperalist ideology, Determines that Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination.

Og her er det perspektiverende svar på resolutionen af Israels FN ambassadør, Chaim Herzog:

"I can point with pride to the Arab ministers who have served in my government; to the Arab deputy speaker of my Parliament; to Arab officers and men serving of their own volition in our border and police defense forces, frequently commanding Jewish troops; to the hundreds of thousands of Arabs from all over the Middle East crowding the cities of Israel every year; to the thousands of Arabs from all over the Middle East coming for medical treatment to Israel; to the peaceful coexistence which has developed; to the fact that Arabic is an official language in Israel on a par with Hebrew; to the fact that it is as natural for an Arab to serve in public office in Israel as it is incongruous to think of a Jew serving in any public office in an Arab country, indeed being admitted to many of them. Is that racism? It is not! That... is Zionism."

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"another manifestation of the bitter anti-Semitic, anti-Jewish hatred which animates Arab society. Who would have believed that in this year, 1975, the malicious falsehoods of the 'Elders of Zion' would be distributed officially by Arab governments? Who would have believed that we would today contemplate an Arab society which teaches the vilest anti-Jewish hate in the kindergartens?... We are being attacked by a society which is motivated by the most extreme form of racism known in the world today... expressed so succinctly in the words of the leader of the PLO, Yassir Arafat, in his opening address at a symposium in Tripoli, Libya: "There will be no presence in the region other than the Arab presence..."

Herzog endte hans tale med at rive papiret over, men der gik 16 år før FN trak resolutionen tilbage.

Hvordan kan det være, at over hver tiende af FN generalforsamlings resolutioner mellem 1967 og 1992 var rettet mod Israel?
Hvorfor har Israel siden 2. intifada startede i 2000, og op til Libanon krigen i 2006 været subjekt for 249 resolutioner, hvor Sudan siden 2003 kun har været det for 14?

Eller med Anne Bayefskys ord ved en FN konference om antisemitism i 2003:

There has never been a single resolution about the decades-long repression of the civil and political rights of 1.3 billion people in China, or the more than a million female migrant workers in Saudi Arabia being kept as virtual slaves, or the virulent racism which has brought 600,000 people to the brink of starvation in Zimbabwe. Every year, UN bodies are required to produce at least 25 reports on alleged human rights violations by Israel, but not one on an Iranian criminal justice system which mandates punishments like crucifixion, stoning, and cross-amputation. This is not legitimate critique of states with equal or worse human rights records. It is demonization of the Jewish state.

I FNs menneskerettighedsråd, blev det første år (2006) 7 ud af 7 resolutioner rettet mod Israel. I 2007, hvor Israel ikke var direkte i konflikt, blev det til 8 resolutioner mod Israel. Tilgengæld blev der brugt krudt på at umuliggøre kritik af religion og et forsøg på at kategorisere stening for hor og ægteskab med mindreårige (9 årige) som menneskeretsbrud, blev saboteret.

Eller i Peggy Hicks fra Human Rights Watchs ord:

July 26, 2007 testimony to the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee:

In its first year, the Human Rights Council has failed to take action regarding countries facing human rights crises such as Burma, Colombia, Somalia, Turkmenistan, and Zimbabwe, ended the mandates of human rights experts on Belarus and Cuba, and rolled back its consideration of the deteriorating situations in Iran and Uzbekistan. At the same time, it focused disproportionately on Israel’s human rights record and worse still, did so in a manner doomed to be ineffective because it failed to look comprehensively at the situation, including the responsibilities and roles of Palestinian authorities and armed groups.

Hvorfor blev terrorisme mod Israel først fordømt efter 1993?

Dog ikke uden at Palæstinenserne alligvel fik godkendt, at de kan kæmpe med alle for hånden til rådighed midler:

2002 UNCHR resolution E/CN.4/2002/L.16 states:

Recalling particularly General Assembly resolution 37/43 of 3 December 1982 reaffirming the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples against foreign occupation by all available means, including armed struggle, (...) 1. Affirms the legitimate right of the Palestinian people to resist the Israeli occupation by all available means in order to free its land and be able to exercise its right of self-determination and that, by so doing, the Palestinian people is fulfilling its mission, one of the goals and purposes of the United Nations

Så hvor kommer det fra, hvad har skabt denne bias?
Anti Zionisme kampen og palæstinenser sagen er vævet tæt sammen med kommunismen og socialismen. Det findes der nok en god grund til. Lige som fredsbevægelser og miljøforkæmpere blev brugt som en front i kampen mod vesten af KGB, er det samme tilfældet for Israel/Palæstina konflikten.

Fra en artikel af Ion Mihai Pacepa, den mest højststående ex-Sovjet efterretningsofficer som nogensinde er hoppet af til vesten:

Today’s international terrorism was conceived at the Lubyanka, the headquarters of the KGB, in the aftermath of the1967 Six-Day War in the Middle East.

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The terrorist war per se came into action at the end of 1968, when the KGB transformed airplane hijacking — that weapon of choice for September 11, 2001 — into an instrument of terror. In 1969 alone there were 82 hijackings of planes worldwide, carried out by the KGB-financed PLO. In 1971, when I was visiting Sakharovsky at his Lubyanka office, he called my attention to a sea of red flags pinned onto a world map hanging on the wall. Each flag represented a captured plane. “Airplane hijacking is my own invention,” he claimed.

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In 1972, the Kremlin decided to turn the whole Islamic world against Israel and the U.S. As KGB chairman Yury Andropov told me, a billion adversaries could inflict far greater damage on America than could a few millions. We needed to instill a Nazi-style hatred for the Jews throughout the Islamic world, and to turn this weapon of the emotions into a terrorist bloodbath against Israel and its main supporter, the United States. No one within the American/Zionist sphere of influence should any longer feel safe.

According to Andropov, the Islamic world was a waiting petri dish in which we could nurture a virulent strain of America-hatred, grown from the bacterium of Marxist-Leninist thought. Islamic anti-Semitism ran deep. The Muslims had a taste for nationalism, jingoism, and victimology. Their illiterate, oppressed mobs could be whipped up to a fever pitch.

Terrorism and violence against Israel and her master, American Zionism, would flow naturally from the Muslims’ religious fervor, Andropov sermonized. We had only to keep repeating our themes — that the United States and Israel were “fascist, imperial-Zionist countries” bankrolled by rich Jews. Islam was obsessed with preventing the infidels’ occupation of its territory, and it would be highly receptive to our characterization of the U.S. Congress as a rapacious Zionist body aiming to turn the world into a Jewish fiefdom.

The codename of this operation was “SIG” (Sionistskiye Gosudarstva, or “Zionist Governments”), and was within my Romanian service’s “sphere of influence,” for it embraced Libya, Lebanon, and Syria. SIG was a large party/state operation. We created joint ventures to build hospitals, houses, and roads in these countries, and there we sent thousands of doctors, engineers, technicians, professors, and even dance instructors. All had the task of portraying the United States as an arrogant and haughty Jewish fiefdom financed by Jewish money and run by Jewish politicians, whose aim was to subordinate the entire Islamic world.

In the mid 1970s, the KGB ordered my service, the DIE — along with other East European sister services — to scour the country for trusted party activists belonging to various Islamic ethnic groups, train them in disinformation and terrorist operations, and infiltrate them into the countries of our “sphere of influence.” Their task was to export a rabid, demented hatred for American Zionism by manipulating the ancestral abhorrence for Jews felt by the people in that part of the world. Before I left Romania for good, in 1978, my DIE had dispatched around 500 such undercover agents to Islamic countries. According to a rough estimate received from Moscow, by 1978 the whole Soviet-bloc intelligence community had sent some 4,000 such agents of influence into the Islamic world.

In the mid-1970s we also started showering the Islamic world with an Arabic translation of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a tsarist Russian forgery that had been used by Hitler as the foundation for his anti-Semitic philosophy. We also disseminated a KGB-fabricated “documentary” paper in Arabic alleging that Israel and its main supporter, the United States, were Zionist countries dedicated to converting the Islamic world into a Jewish colony.

We in the Soviet bloc tried to conquer minds, because we knew we could not win any military battles. It is hard to say what exactly are the lasting effects of operation SIG. But the cumulative effect of disseminating hundreds of thousands of Protocols in the Islamic world and portraying Israel and the United States as Islam’s deadly enemies was surely not constructive.

Sovjet og KGB er for længst væk. Muren faldt for snart 20 år siden. Men effekten af den propaganda som blev sat i værk den gang eksisterer stadig. Drømmen om kommunismen er måske nok bristet, men selv de som ikke tror på kommunismen mere, tror stadig heller ikke på vesten. Muren er faldet, men hadet til vesten og hvad vesten står for er ikke. Derfor fortsætter de samme mennesker i det samme spor og utallige mennesker, som hverken er kommunister eller drevet af had til vestlig kultur, lader sig bluffe af den propaganda, lader følelserne rive dem med, de følelser uden fornuft som altid bliver så skruppelløst udnyttet.

Så Israel bliver bashet, hver gang de bruger upræcise våben, eller for kraftige våben. Israel forventes ødsle penge på dyre og præcise bomber for at spare civile liv. De forventes at udsætte deres soldater for overdreven fare ved at undgå at bruge tanks og fly. De forventes at leve i beskyttelsesrum, at acceptere raketter dag ud og dag ind, at miste værdier og leve med permanent angst, noget som ikke engang palæstinenserne gør.
Men det værste er. At selv hvis Israel virkelig kun brugte mindre våben og dræbte få civile, mistede soldater i et omfang som de gjorde i Jenin. Så ville verden stadig fordømme Israel, for det er, hvad verden er vænnet til for længe siden.