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Jews can be trouble, but so are weapons, so are horses, so are women. A
horse obediently carries a skillful rider to battle, but will kick and bite an
inept one. The sword is a mortal danger to an enemy in hands of a fighter,
but its feeble bearer will regret unsheathing it. The woman is a helpmate to
man she loves and respects, but she will destroy a lesser man who could not
make her love and respect him. Likewise, Jews could be useful, if one
knows their strong and weak points, their agenda.
Dear
I'm happy to meet with you via the internet to present you to the Arab reader
in the Arab world and in Europe...
First of all, I am on your side, on the side of the people. Secondly, I am your
neighbour. I live in an Arab town, in Jaffa, next to an Arab high school, my
neighbours are Palestinian Arabs, I eat your yellow hummus with greenish
olive oil and drink your milky arak. On Sundays I go to an Arab Palestinian
Orthodox Church and take communion together with you. My elder boys,
now grown up, studied in the church school together with Arab children, and
my little Anton plays with your children at the seashore.
I write a lot about Palestine, because I live here, and I am familiar with it,
and because I believe it is a very important place. But I also write about
other places in the world and in time, because Palestine is not an island far
away in the sea. We are interconnected, and our future depends on our
actions today. I travel a lot, from Malaysia to California, and I write about
what I see, encouraging friends and enraging foes.
2 - We Arabs know the Jews - for thousands of years - and we see them as
every reason of absolute evil in this world and they were the causes of the
collapse of some Islamic countries of old, do you agree with me on this?
If we accept this view uncritically, we'd think that Jews are the only source
of danger and will be taken in by a non-Jewish cheat. That is why one
should always look at the bottom line first.
Nowadays there are so many non-Jews, pureblood Arabs, who have betrayed
their brethren and joined with imperialism and with Israel. Jews would not
be able to cause so much suffering to the people of Gaza without the support
of the Egyptian regime. In France, Fadela Amara crossed the lines
completely: she is for Israel, and for her, the Nazi persecutions of Jews are
more important than the suffering of non-Jews, even of her own Algerian
people. Alas, many Palestinians have also joined with the enemy of their
people, and they work for the CIA, Mossad, and Shabak. So the key
question, the bottom line is -- submission to or rebellion against the Empire.
An Arab who supports Israel and the US is as bad as the worst Jew.
After all these corrections, we have to admit that Jewry is not a neutral or
just religious body. A great part of organized world Jewry is committed to
support of imperialism. This part is closely connected with the US Jews and
with Israel. They keep with a certain Jewish tradition of supporting the
strong against the weak, supporting the Empire and imperialism against the
people. In the North Africa of the 19th century, their predecessors betrayed
their neighbours and supported France, the colonial power. In British Iraq,
they supported the Brits.
But this is not the only possible line. In Iran, the Jews are obedient and loyal
to the Islamic state, they support Ahmadinejad, they support Palestine, they
are good neighbours to Iranian Muslims. In Russia, there are Jews loyal to
Russia. They respect power. Ahmadinejad does not pussy-foot around them,
Putin and Medvedev do what is good for Russia without thinking twice of
the Jewish lobby, and they have obedience of their Jews.
Jews can be trouble, but so are weapons, so are horses, so are women. A
horse obediently carries a skillful rider to battle, but will kick and bite an
inept one. The sword is a mortal danger to an enemy in hands of a fighter,
but its feeble bearer will regret unsheathing it. The woman is a helpmate to
man she loves and respects, but she will destroy a lesser man who could not
make her love and respect him. Likewise, Jews could be useful, if one
knows their strong and weak points, their agenda.
Yes, it is important to learn, but one should be aware that such learning can
be a weapon of indoctrination, too. Jews are quite skilled in this game. For
instance, Christian scholars were interested to learn from Jews about the
Bible. The Jews taught them to such an extent that the scholars lapsed in
their faith. Eventually they lapsed in their learning, too, for they accepted
doctored-by-Jews doctrines for real thing. That is why the Prophet called us
to be cautious in relation to Jews and learning.
There should be critical learning, so the Egyptians would not only know
what is going on in Israel but that they would also understand these
developments through a modicum of learned commentary. I would not
advise open direct unhindered import of culture and propaganda - this is
more risky that direct import of drugs.
4 - Did you visit any Arab state, for example Egypt? It is the largest Arab
country in the Arab world and has a long history of war and peace with
Israel.
Yes, I visited Egypt quite a few times, I was also invited some five or six
years ago by the American University in Cairo, but not since then, though I'd
love to come and to listen to you.
5 - Israel Shamir, the soldier, took part in a war in '73 under the command of
Ariel Sharon, the butcher. Now, after 36 years, do you regret your
participation in that war?
6 - Arab Jews are still oppressed in Israeli society, as well as some Russian
Jews. Do you feel racism toward Sephardim?
The Oriental Jews in Israel did suffer a lot - they were de-culturalised,
despised and oppressed. Alas, they found comfort in insisting on their
superiority over Arabs and Russians. Though by no means all of them, a
huge majority of Oriental Jews is strongly Zionist, strongly Jewish, and
preaches hatred towards Arabs. I would like to see a bloc of Russians,
Oriental Jews and Palestinians as these three communities together form
majority of voters and all of them are oppressed. But in such a bloc, the
native Palestinian Arabs should assume a leading role. The Palestinians
should make friends with the Oriental Jews and separately with Russians - as
these two communities have a strong mutual dislike. The Palestinians are not
ready for it yet. Instead, they try to improve their ties with the more
privileged communities of Israel, with the "Jewish Left". It is probably more
pleasant but leads nowhere.
9 - I'm sorry to say, but most of Israel's writers are unknown in the Arab
street. Is this weakness of Arab media or what?
10 - You wrote a lot about Israeli society; what can undo Israel from inside?
11 - No war, no peace between Israel and the Arabs. Will the international
conventions or the establishment of an independent Palestinian state usher
peace?
Peace is neither good nor bad per se. We want victory for equality, victory
for the native people of Palestine, victory for the Land, victory for Spirit.
Our foes also want victory for their elitism, for the Jewish People, for their
right to destroy the land and expurgate its Spirit. Peace will come after
victory, theirs or ours, peace of Brotherhood in case of our victory, and
peace of Iron Heel in case of theirs.
12 - Some moderate Jews were exposed to attacks by the Zionists. Did you
suffer as well?
14 - Do you agree with the views of late Dr. Abdul Wahab Al Missiri?
It is sad that he left us; a great man whose views were very positive - he said
(and I agree) that "the Arab-Israeli conflict could be settled in a peaceful
manner if the Zionist state were to shed its identity as a functional state and
became a state for all its citizens, integrating into the Middle Eastern cultural
formation." He urged Palestinians to draw lessons from the South African
experience, and so do I.
15 - What would you say to the readers of the late Palestinian poet
Mahmoud Darwish?
I greatly admire Darwish; he was the soul of Palestine, together with Edward
Said. His departure is a great loss, but his poems will last forever.
16 - "The Little Monkey", that's the name that the Israelis used to call
Ahmadinejad in Israel, what is the purpose of such attack against him?
I doubt it will happen; but I have no hope for it, au contraire, I rather feel
apprehension. A few bits of land surrounded by the Jewish state may become
a string of reservations, an archipelago of labour camps, but not a real state.
I do not wish this sort of "independence" on the Palestinians.
As for "refusing the partition", who asked them? Palestinians and Arabs are,
and were, much weaker than Jewry. Whatever Palestinians would have said,
the Jews would have found a reason to object. If they would have recognised
Israel, they'd have said: recognise it as a Jewish state etc.
At the end If I wanted to translate one of your books from French to Arabic
Any books you want that the Arab reader read specifically except
http://www.amazon.com/Galilee-Flowers-Israel-
Shamir/dp/1419613510%20/_blank
Galilee Flowers?
Yes, that is Le Pin et Olivier, which is my favourite book anyway! You can
order it from Mme Poumier, my friend and translator in Paris, at
maria.poumier@vanadoo.fr
adam@israelshamir.net
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