Democratic Palestine : 16 (ص 34)
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- Democratic Palestine : 16 (ص 34)
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These once proud people were placed in
concentration camps renamed «reser-
vations» as if they were being housed in
hotels. In reality, native Americans were
forbidden to be citizens of their own
country!
A major step to destroy my culture
was the false depiction of the Indian cul-
ture, manner and custom as «ancient
and barbaric,» exactly as is being car-
ried out today in the occupied territories
by the Zionist oppressors of the native
Palestinian people. The Arab culture
and people have been falsely presented
as an archaic, incompetent, backward
and ignorant people. | say to you that it is
no longer the Palestinians who are in
danger, but the entire Arab world, the
Arab people, and their wonderful Arab
culture!
Why is this cultural genocide
happening?
One primary reason is that the Arab
leaders and governments collectively
did very little to support the Palestinian
people in their resistance to the Israeli
invaders. Like the American Indians, the
Arabs thought it would never happen to
them, but they were wrong! The Native
Americans allowed their tribes to be
assimilated and destroyed one by one
until all were culturally destroyed.
A second reason is that the Arab
nations are so busy waging war against
one another that they are accomplishing
the task of cultural genocide for the
Zionists! The singie most important
method of resisting cultural assassina-
tion and disintegration is by uniting those
remaining Arab people as one people,
one culture.
This cultural attack is happening
because the Zionists are the same Euro-
peans, the same colonialists, the same
ashkenazim who destroyed the real
American people and the real America.
Why are they so intent on cultural
destruction of native people wherever
they encounter them? The answer is
because they themselves are a culture-
less entity. They have no rich heritage,
and they have no historical references to
illustrate their noble contributions to
mankind. It is as if they cannot and will
not tolerate another culture rich in his-
tory, invention and discovery, to exist. |
was visiting the ancient village of El
Quneitra in the Golan Heights a few
months ago as a guest of the Syrian
people. As | stood in the midst of death
and destruction of a once beautiful vil-
lage, and as | surveyed the flattened
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houses and hospitals, it occurred to me
that the Zionists and their vaunted mili-
tary were stationed on the hilltops sur-
rounding the village. | could see them
observing us below, listening to our con-
versations and filming our activities. Yet,
| thought this scenario to be quite fitting,
as these cultural assassins must look
everyday upon the ruins and destruction
left in their inhuman attack on another
innocent Arab people and culture.
Inwardly | thought, «This is the Zionist/
Israeli contribution to mankind, this is
your cultural donation to the innocent
peoples of the world: death and destruc-
tion! These are the legacy left in the
wake of Zionism and oppression.
The threat of cultural genocide to
the Arab culture is occurring and will be
successful if the Arab people and their
leaders believe that negotiation and the
signing of «treaties» with the brokers of
war will somehow ensure the Arab cul-
ture. A current example of such troubled
thinking is the infamous Camp David
Accords which accomplished absolutely
nothing but the implacable resolve of the
Zionists to expand their aggression not
only against the Palestinians, but the
rest of the Arab world. The early col-
Onialists made over one thousand
treaties, pledges and promises to the
Native American Indians, and violated
all one thousand!
What is the answer to
Zionism’s cultural genocide?
1. Arab people must instill
Cultural heritage.
All the Arab nations and govern-
ments must accentuate in education of
their people the values of their past cul-
tural roots, as well as emphasizing the
accomplishments, developments and
contributions made to modern society by
their people. This includes physical ori-
gins such as archeological excavations
may corroborate, and the plethora of
architectural and intellectual develop-
ments. It is clear that the Zionists will
Oppose any and ail Arabic cultural
claims by denying such claims, or as in
the case of Palestine, seizing all control
for all archaeological excavations and
artifacts, thereby eliminating the oppor-
tunity for new generations of Palesti-
nians to gain a sense of pride and iden-
tity by relating to the many important dis-
coveries within their own homeland. |
have personally witnessed the theft of
culture by Israeli Zionists as they looted
the Rockefeller Museum of the West
Bank, transferred all the major finds of
the excavations at Banias, Fiq, Rafid,
Mount Hermon, Berak Ram and hun-
dreds of other sites, to Israel and its own
«MUSEUMS».
All Arab governments and family
leaders must teach the future genera-
tions to have pride in their past, and
hope in their future. The Arab people,
wherever they may live, must not allow
themselves to be assimilated into
another foreign culture, thus in reality
becoming eliminated as a cultural entity.
A sure and certain method of passing on
the Arab culture is to teach every Arab
child the Arab language!
2. Arab people must join
together to stand against
Zionism.
The single most fearful event or act
to the Zionists and their sympathizers is
the potential for Arab unity. They know
that if such unity is ever accomplished,
their reign of brutality and intimidation is
doomed. They have succeeded thus far
by encnuraging Arab peoples and
nations to fight one another, assuring
that each Arab country is sufficiently
weakened and incapable of defeating
the Zionist army. We too, the American
Indians, made war with one another
while, one by one, we were attacked and
destroyed by the common enemy. | must
say now that | am proud to see the
emergence of the Syrian people and
their great leader Hafez Assad, attempt-
ing to achieve this very unity. | implore
you to lay aside your personal grie-
vances, your cultural peculiarities, and
come together now in the common
bonds of fellowship, as members of the
Arab culture and the Arab world, focus-
ing your full attention and resources on
the common enemy of Zionism which is,
in the final analysis, the enemy of every
man and every nation that would live
free in dignity and self-determination.
3. Arab nations and people must
determine not to give up one
more meter or inch of Arab soil to
Zionist aggression.
You must determine to fight on, to
surrender not one more village, one
more cultural site or artifact, to Zionism
and its allies. In order to achieve this
unity and resistance, it may be neces-
sary to remove and replace current gov-
ernments and leaders who do not share
or care about the impending genocide of
the Arab culture.
Closing remarks
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