By Dr. Elias Akleh

In his foreign policy speech, Sunday 6/14 at the religiously extremist Bar Ilan University, the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu did not only put the cart of peace in front of the horse, but he also loaded that cart with tons of heavy rocks. The Palestinian senior negotiator, Saeb Erekat, explained “The peace process has been moving at a turtle speed; tonight Netanyahu had flipped this turtle on its back”.

Netanyahu started his speech paying lip service to peace, and claiming that all the Israelis want is peace because they are peaceful people starting with their ancient prophets who had a vision of peace. Apparently Netanyahu has not studied his religion very well, otherwise he would have discovered that all the ancient Jewish prophets, including Moses himself, were warmongers and soldiers for a militaristic god, who ordered them to slaughter every living non-Jewish soul. When Israelis talk about peace they are actually talking about war. Their ancient, as well as modern, history is a clear evidence of this fact.

Netanyahu mentioned “three tremendous challenges: The Iranian threat, the financial crisis, and the promotion of peace”. Diverting attention from terrorist nuclear Israel he claimed that “the greatest danger to the Middle East and to all of humanity is the encounter between extremist Islam and nuclear weapons” represented in Muslim Iran not in Talmudic Israel. He vowed to work with American and European leaders to form “an international front against Iran”. He would do that by inciting the clash between civilizations; Christianity vs Islam while Talmudists are maliciously watching.

As for economy Netanyahu called upon the leaders of the Arab countries, especially oil rich states, “.. the initiatives that I see in the Persian Gulf, which amaze the entire world”, to join with the Israelis “to promote economic peace”. He shamelessly called upon “the talented entrepreneurs of the Arab world to come and invest here (in Israel) … to give the (Israeli) economy a jump-start”. He tried to lure these Arab entrepreneurs by enumerating the industrial talents of Israelis. He put a condition, though, on such cooperation; “If you only agree to work together”; in other words, according to the Israeli rules and under their leadership.

As for promoting peace Netanyahu asked the rhetorical question: “…why is peace still so far from us… why has the conflict been going on for over 60 years?” and he answered himself with his distorted simple truth: “The simple truth is that the root of the conflict has been – and remains – the refusal (of Arabs) to recognize the right of the Jewish People to its own state in its historical homeland”. The real simple truth Netanyahu is trying to distort is that Palestinians refuse to be enslaved and subjugated by the Zionist occupation of their land, and resist the Zionist colonizing ambition of building greater Israel from Nile to Euphrates in order to rule the world from Jewish Jerusalem as the capital. Israel’s occupation of Palestine and the denial of Palestinian legitimate rights are the real cause of the conflict.

Turning the historical facts upside down, distorting the real historical “cause and effect” of the conflict and ignoring the Zionist terror attacks against Palestinian civilians in their market places since the 1920’s Netanyahu repeated the Israeli propaganda that the Arabs had instigated the conflict by attacking the Jews since then until the present. He ignored the fact that Israel’s seven wars against the Arabs had always been initiated by successive Israeli governments.

Netanyahu claimed that Israelis had listened to “great many people”, who advised them that withdrawal is the key to peace with Palestinians. So Israel tried withdrawal by agreement, withdrawal without agreement, partial withdrawal and full withdrawal, yet peace was not achieved. These so-called withdrawals, he talked about, were in fact defeats suffered by Israelis, who recognized that withdrawal from these occupied areas was cheaper and less painful than their continued occupation.

Ignoring all the peace negotiations, peace agreements, peace plans, and the Arab peace initiative, Netanyahu had the audacity to “appeal to the leaders of the Arab countries and say: Let us meet. Let us talk about peace. Let us make peace”, and asked them to receive him in their capitals or to come to Jerusalem. He claimed that “the more we (Israelis) get to a peace agreement with them (Palestinians), the more they are distancing themselves from peace. They raise new demands”. Netanyahu has flipped the coin, here. It is an undeniable fact that the Israelis, themselves, are distancing themselves from peace and are constantly raising new demands. Netanyahu’s speech is a clear example of sabotaging peace agreements and raising new demands.

Arabs had been talking peace since 1948 but the Israelis had never listened. There are no real peace partners in Israel. They have rejected all peace initiatives even the one that would have guaranteed them full recognition, protection, and economical relationships.

Netanyahu wanted to annul all previous negotiations and agreements and start fresh from point zero. “Let us begin peace negotiations immediately without prior conditions” he called upon the Arabs. Yet prior and impossible to accept conditions was his speech all about.

“The fundamental condition for ending the conflict is the public, binding and sincere Palestinian recognition of Israel as the national homeland of the Jewish People” He warned. He claimed that there is 3,500 years connection between the Jewish People and the Land of Judea and Samaria (West Bank of Palestine); the land of Jewish forefathers. This lie is refuted by remembering the fact that Abraham, the father of the three religions, had come from Ur on the Iraqi/Iranian borders, and that the original inhabitants of Palestine were the Cana’anites, who are the forefathers of the present-day Palestinians. Read ancient history and the Old Testament Mr. Netanyahu! He is alleging here that Palestinians are foreigners in, and possibly occupiers of, Palestine.

This precondition aims to annul Palestinians’ rights to the land, to sabotage any peace negotiations, and to eventually legitimize illegitimate Zionist Jewish Israel. Initially the condition was to recognize Israel’s right to exist. Now they want Israel to be recognized as a Jewish state. Next step will be to recognize legitimacy of terrorist Zionist Jewish Israel. This recognition is the first step of ethnically cleansing all the non-Jews from occupied Palestine. The Zionist term of “Jewish Israel” has the hidden Israeli future intention and agenda of deporting the 1.5 million Palestinians living as Israeli citizens in the Zionist state.

The second precondition, or principle as Netanyahu named it, is demilitarization, which “..is crucial to the existence of Israel”. He stated that “Any area in Palestinian hands has to be demilitarized, with solid security measures. Without this condition, there is a real fear that there will be an armed Palestinian state which will become a terrorist base against Israel”. We have to notice here that he did not mention a Palestinian state but “area in Palestinian hands”, thus not recognizing the two-state solution. Such areas, according to Netanyahu, must not have control over its air or its borders, but should have a strong Palestinian government, whose job is to protect Israeli security by suppressing Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation, and brainwashing the mind of the new generations through programmed education to accept Zionist occupation and enslavement. What Netanyahu proposes here is isolated Palestinian ghettos with suppressive self-rule within heavily militarized Jewish Israel.

The third precondition was solving “the Palestinian refugee problem outside of the borders of the State of Israel”. Netanyahu considered the internationally recognized Palestinian right of return to their homeland as contradictory to the continued existence of Israel as a Jewish state. He considered the Palestinian refugee problem a humanitarian problem and called for international investment to solve it. “I believe that with good will and international investment we can solve this humanitarian problem once and for all”. Netanyahu denied the responsibility of the Israeli occupation in creating the Palestinian refugee problem. This is an occupation not a humanitarian problem. Netanyahu wants the international community to take care of this problem. It seems Israel is accustomed to, and feels has the right to, get the international community to pay for its own crimes.

Netanyahu resembled the Palestinian refugees’ problem to what he called “Jewish refugees from Arab countries, who were uprooted from their homes”. These so-called uprooted Jewish refugees from Arab countries had immigrated to Israel on their own accord despite the pleas of Arab governments not to leave. Many of these so-called Jewish refugees were lured and misguided by Zionist money and ideology, and others were coerced to leave Arab countries by Zionist terror attacks attributed to Arabs. Many Jews are still living in Arab and Islamic countries not willing to leave such as in Lebanon, in Iraq, in Syria, in Iran and practically in all the North African Arab countries.

The fourth precondition was the territorial issues that “… will be discussed in a permanent agreement”. Netanyahu tried here to appease Obama’s settlement freeze demand when he stated that “we have no intention to build new settlements”. Yet, at the same time, he needed to assure his pro-settlement governmental coalitional parties, such as the extremist Israel Beituna, that he would not freeze settlements. So he stated that “settlers are not enemies of peace. They are our brothers and sisters”. He supported “normal growth” to meet the people’s (Jewish) need to live normal lives; a growth on the expense of Palestinian land. Palestinians are denied such normal growth by denying them building permits.

The most controversial pre-condition was the issue of Jerusalem. Netanyahu stated that as part of the permanent arrangement “Israel needs defensible borders with Jerusalem remaining the united capital of Israel”. Jerusalem is one of the most holy places for Christian and Muslim Arabs, so holy that they ceded 78% of Palestine to Israel on the condition to keep east Jerusalem, at least, as a Palestinian capital. Jerusalem is the mother of all conflict.

Like the rest of all Zionist leaders before him, Netanyahu could not but exhibit the racist, extremist, condescending Zionist attitude of Jews as the light unto all nations when he declared that “the right to establish our sovereign state here, in the Land of Israel, arises from one simple fact: Eretz Israel is the birthplace of the Jewish People …where the People of Israel created the Book of Books, and gave it to the world”.

Palestine is not the birthplace (god’s promised land) of the Jews. Most of the Israeli Jews were not born in Palestine and those who did were the result of illegal occupation. The majority of the present-day Jews are the descendents of the Khazars and Westerners, who adopted Judaism. Judaism is a religion and not a nationality.

What “Book of Books” is Netanyahu talking about? Is he talking about the racist, hate-inciting, warmongering Talmud with teaching such as Jews as god’s chosen people while the rest of nations are merely animal souls incarnated in human bodies only to serve Jews? Such a book fades away next to the other religious books that teach human brotherhood, love and peace.

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By Dr. Elias Akleh