By Mehdi
Majid Abdallah
April 23, 2015
In
his column on the liberal website Elaph.com, Kurdish-Iraqi writer Mehdi Majid
'Abdallah called on the Palestinians and the Arabs in general to renounce the
terrorism of Hamas and to extend a friendly hand to Israel. He wrote that,
since its founding, Israel has been facing terrorism labeled as
"resistance," and that today it is defending itself against Hamas,
which is firing rockets on its civilian population. He added that Hamas, rather
than Israel, was responsible for the death of innocent Palestinians, whereas
Israel extended medical treatment to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.
"Ever
since its founding in the late 1940s, the young state of Israel has been facing
constant terror labeled as 'resistance.' I do not mean to say that all
Palestinians are terrorists, for some of them love life and prefer the culture
of peace and to live in peace and security alongside Israel. I do not know if
Hamas, when it fires its rockets randomly into Israeli cities, thinks of the
fact that they will hit women and children who have done nothing wrong other
than choose to live in the land that was stolen from them thousands of years
ago and has now been restored to them. [Today] they wish to build this land,
but Palestinian terrorism constantly sabotages their livelihood, their
development [efforts] and their prosperity. Whether we like it or not, the land
on which the Palestinians live belongs to the Jews, and there is historic and
religious evidence of this, both Islamic and non-Islamic. I shall not present
it here, but the reader is welcome to search the Internet and find plenty of
proof for what I say.
"Today
the Palestinians have begun to understand that Hamas is a serious liability and
a terrorist movement. That is why we saw no significant Palestinian opposition
to the international and Arab decisions to designate Hamas a terror
organization. The glamour of so-called 'resistance' faded after the deeds of
its leaders and perpetrators were exposed, and [now] they no longer convince
any intelligent person.
"Hamas
leader Isma'il Haniya is always calling to boycott Israel, eliminate it and
destroy it, and is always urging the Palestinians not to maintain any ties with
it, in any domain. He has even sent thousands of young Palestinians to die [for
this cause]. But when his sister, his daughter and some other members of his
family fell ill, one after the other, we immediately saw him send them to the
best hospitals in Tel Aviv, where they received treatment before being sent
back to Gaza unharmed. Why [were they sent back unharmed]? If Israel was
[really] a murderer of Palestinian women and children, as the Arab media
falsely maintains, it would have regarded Haniya's relatives as choice prey. If
Israel [really] wanted to exterminate the Palestinians, as the Arabs and
Muslims falsely maintain, why didn't it have Haniya's sister and daughter
killed or raped?
"Instead
of [taking] the funds that are given to the Palestinian people and investing
them in the poor and the needy, Hamas and other Gazan movements rush [to invest
them in] the building of secret tunnels and passages for purposes of terror...
"According
to a UN report, in 2008 Israel, which the Palestinians claim murders innocent
children, took in 144,838 Palestinians for purposes of medical treatment. In
2009 this figure grew by 20%, reaching 172, 863, in 2010 it reached 175,151, in
2011 it grew by 13%, reaching 197,713, and in 2012 it reached 210,469. I wonder
if any Arab country would do the same for Israelis?
"The
Palestinian women and children who are killed in the Israeli army's defensive
war against Hamas are not killed deliberately. They are collateral damage, for
any war has innocent victims. Israel knows this well, as evidenced by the fact
that, after every defensive military operation, it apologizes for the [death
of] innocent victims and compensates their families morally and financially.
Were it not for the reckless actions of Hamas, which constantly fires rockets
into extensive parts of Israel [where] peaceful [people live], there would have
been no innocent victims, because Israel's actions are directed against the
terrorists.
"It
is time that the Arabs, Muslims and Palestinians, who are deceived and drugged
by false and baseless slogans, wake up and extend a friendly hand to Israel, so
that peace and security can prevail and everyone can live in peace. Every
decent Palestine should oppose Hamas and its terrorism against Israel. If the
Palestinians want to avoid being harmed by Israeli fire, they should prevent
Hamas from using their homes, mosques and schools [as bases from which] to
launch its terrorist rockets at Israel."
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