Jefferson Corner

For the last 40 years ever since the military take over by Israel of Jerusalem and the West Bank, and with substantial financial and political support from the Northern American Jewish community Israel has been on a robbery spree unprecedented in history, taking over Palestinian land and property left and right under all pretexes making sure there will be no Palestinian state in any final settlement, if any. And of course doing all of this in the name of G-d.
I am not so sure if there is a God, or G-d that gives any one the rights including Jews to take over another person property and land and making them refugees. In addition to the hundreds of thousands exiles and expelled back in 47/48, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have been stripped of their properties in order for Jews to take over the land, build on and ending on the auction block in Teaneck Synagogue in New Jersey of all places.
The Israel Settlement movement has nothing to do with God or religion and it has every thing to do with political and Jewish Zionism, which advocates and carries on the expropriation of Palestinian lands all in the name of G-d, through fraud, and of course the power of gun and generous funding from the US. One has to wonder what kind of G-d is that that will allow, permit and advocate open robbery and theft. For sure it must not be a Jewish G-d.
It is interesting to note that the majority of the 250,000 Jewish settlers living on stolen Palestinian lands hail from the US mostly from New York and New Jersey. There must be something about these two states that makes their Jewish citizens hate them so much that they take the steps and become thieves and robbers of course all in the name of G-d.
No where in history has any occupational force taken over the “native” lands like the Israeli Army, a criminal enterprise that is the key sponsor and supporter of an expanded policy of settlements in the West Bank and in East Jerusalem and of course we must not forget Hebron, where some 500 criminal Jews have taken over the city putting some 100,000 in constant curfew and of course making life hell for all Palestinians resident of the city of Hebron. I may add most if not all Hebron settlers are American Jews. It was an American Jew who broke into the Abrham Mosque and shot to death dozens of Muslim worshipers. To celebrate his crime, a shrine was built in his honor.
Rabbi Steve Pruzansky, the chief Rabbi of Congregation B’nai Yeshurun so sure of what he is doing and so confident of the right to trade in stolen property that he is holding the event in the inner sanctuary of the synagogue to make his point that he is doing G-d bidding of trading and selling stolen property for an on behalf of Amana Settlement Movement.
The Rabbi and Congregation B’nai Yeshurun is so engaged in the stolen Palestinian property that it is asking American Jews to buy the stolen property for some $125,000 an apartment and turning around and renting them to these criminal settlers. Of course non-Jews do not qualify to purchase G-d stolen property. Only those who believe that G-d gave the Jews the right to the land can apply.
Well, if that is the case and the good Rabbi is so sure of his legal case, then I as an American citizen with property in the West Bank town of El-Bireh invite the Rabbi and his congregation, in fact I invite all the Jews of the world to present a valid deed signed and sealed by G-d witnessed by Moses, even Mohamed or Jesus and meet me in US Federal Courts and if such a deed pass mustard in any US Federal Courts, then I will give up any rights to such property and will hand over all of the properties I have. I must note here that we as US citizens have a number of properties stolen by Israeli settlers, perhaps some of them Jews from NY and NJ. Too bad our government does not see any thing wrong with that.
Perhaps it is time for us Palestinian American, in fact all Diaspora Palestinians to take on all those thieves and take them to courts all over the world and make them pay for what they have done. Recover the property stolen,and corresponding compensation just like the Jews, and rightly so, did in Europe when they went after governments and individuals who stole Jewish property during the Holocaust. I always believed in the rights of Jews, including “Arab” Jews, those who left to Israel from the Arab countries to recover their properties and get compensation. It is only right, and the same is true for the Palestinians, they have the absolute right to recover their stolen property in Tel-Aviv, Haifa, Yaffa, Acre, Safad, and West Jerusalem and of course in all of the West Bank.
I have been advocating this course of action for over 30 years, however Arafat and his PLO were not interested in such actions but were interested in Oslo which accelerated the process of property theft. If Jews can recover their property any where in the world, I do not see any reason why the Palestinians could not do the same. I am sure G-d agrees with me. I could never think that the Jewish G-d could ever sanction such theft.

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These days there is so much talk about Iran and its nuclear program, with Secretary Rice traveling the globe to drum up support for UN sanctions against Iran. Of course so far, the Iranians insists the technology and use is for peaceful means, i.e., nuclear energy, while the US and its allies not knowing what it is going on insist the technology has military use. Caught in the Middle is the Gulf Arab countries worried both about Iran’s expanding military capabilities and worried about the safety of Iran’s nuclear program.
Meanwhile in Tel-Aviv, Washington, Berlin, Paris and London, no one talks of Israel’s 150 plus nuclear weapons and no one of course date to talk about Israel’s intentions giving the fact it did not sign the international treaty for the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, Iran did and one has to say in defense of Iran it did and does allows intentional inspectors to visit its nuclear facilities. Of course we have to remember it was the US during the late Shah that gave Iran its first nuclear facilities, so why the fuss now?
The problem with Iran is it system of government which allows clergy men, the likes of Khameini to be the supreme ruler and the ultimate decision makers, thus depriving the democratic and electoral process out of true essence which is the people’s representation. I never understood nor could I accept the idea that Muslim clerics rule and have a say so in the people affairs, let alone accept Iran’s model of “Wilyat Al-Faqih” which translate to the supremacy of the clergy class. Of course the late Khomaini wanting to make sure that his class is never marginalized like in the days of the Shah, introduced the idea of Wilyat Al-Faqih to make sure that control of Iran is always with the clergy and never by the people’s representative. I am very leery and worried about the course of civilization when crazy Muslim, Jewish, Christian or Hindu clergy takes charge; the world is in real trouble.
Iran’s nuclear program is scaring the Arab gulf countries and for good reasons. In addition to having a neighbor with possible nuclear weapons next door, without any kind of system of checks and balances within the governing system and with the decision making process shifting from one center of power to another. In addition we always reminded of the failures in Chernynoble and in Three Miles Island and we know what a failure can mean to so many people within and outside the borders. Nuclear technology is nothing to miss around with and failures will mean death for a long time to come. One only need to look at Kazakhstan, where the Soviet conducted most of their nuclear experiment, half of the country, literary dead, and will be dead for millions of years.
Personally I am against the Arabs wasting their time and money on nuclear weapons, since I do not believe that nuclear weapons will solve any problem or provide any protection, and all the nuclear weapons in Israel, China, Russia, USA, France, UK, N.Korea, Pakistan and India are nothing but a waste of time, and any country that will use nuclear weapons will be doomed, even if it dooms others. Israel, a real source of danger for the world, is the only country with so much physiological damage and screwed up minds that may use nuclear weapons. But then will it use it against the Palestinians in Ramallah or in Gaza, giving the fact that Israeli technology so far is not far development to make a distinction between Arabs and Jews. But then who knows may be the Israelis with the help of the Americans will develop a weapon system that can kill only Arabs even if these Arabs are standing among bunch of Jews. Who knows every thing is possible.
The best thing for the Arabs, and especially the Gulf Arabs to do is try to form some kind of cooperation with Iran and jointly developed and invest in nuclear technology for peaceful means, making sure that Iran’s nuclear program is not for military use and by joining Iran in the development of its program insuring the safety and upping the technology given the fact that the Arab gulf countries have the financial and political connections to secure the best nuclear technology any where in the world.
The problem with Iran’s nuclear program is the fact that it did not sign a peace treaty with Israel and if and when it does, all of the problems the US, France, Germany, and England have with Iran will go away in an instant. It is not the issue of safety of the Arabs and the oil sources that is troubling America, it is the potential danger to Israel that such a technology may have. If the Islamic Republic of Iran establishes diplomatic relations with Israel the entire affairs will simply disappear from the radar screen and no one in the White House or in Berlin will talk about the crazy and unstable Mullahs of Iran.
Again, back to the Arab countries, I think the Arab atom bomb is a stupid idea and an irresponsible idea and is a waste of time, money, and efforts, when the Arab countries can put the cost of such investment in human development where it counts and not in weapons, they will never be allowed to have let alone use. The Arab world does not need more weapons, they need to put the costs of such weapons and invest it in infrastructures and in their own people. There are no needs to keep the West weapon factories going, while their own people are having a tough time finding a decent job. Let us see what Israel will do with all of its 150 nuclear bombs. Perhaps it will use them as it did the more than one million cluster bombs dropped on civilian targets in Lebanon.

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