{"id":45353,"date":"2014-08-04T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=45353"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:30:46","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:30:46","slug":"five-things-each-of-us-human-jews-and-non-jews-can-do-for-gazanspalestinians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/08\/five-things-each-of-us-human-jews-and-non-jews-can-do-for-gazanspalestinians\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Things Each of Us Human, Jews and Non-Jews, Can Do for Gazans\/Palestinians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us are outraged. \u00a0Some express their rage against the blatant, but well-organized and well-planned genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza &#8211; and beyond by Israel, a country founded as a safe place for the Jews around the world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/stop-doing-what-Hitler-gaza-israel-palestine.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-45354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/stop-doing-what-Hitler-gaza-israel-palestine.jpg\" alt=\"stop doing what Hitler gaza israel palestine\" width=\"557\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/stop-doing-what-Hitler-gaza-israel-palestine.jpg 690w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/stop-doing-what-Hitler-gaza-israel-palestine-300x292.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seventy years ago, the world, especially the imperial Western powers including UK, France, USA, went along with Hitler, having detected what was up Hitler&#8217;s sleeves. \u00a0Anti-Jew racism among the ruling classes of these countries &#8211; where Jews, women, &#8220;niggers&#8221; and dogs were not welcome in universities or refused services in these God-fearing Christian nations.<\/p>\n<p>Now in 2014, the West &#8211; and we citizens around the world &#8211; knows what Zionists led by Netanyahu have up their sleeves: namely large scale extermination &#8211; not necessarily until the last Palestinian is dead &#8211; of Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>Several years ago I heard first hand &#8211; straight from the mouth of an Israeli leader &#8211; that Netanyahu was hell-bent on rejecting the 2-state solution for the Palestinians and the Jews (minus the Palestinians&#8217; &#8216;right of return&#8217; and any element of fairness, compensation or justice). For this school of thought, rejection of 2-state solution spells the end of Israel &#8211; as they know it &#8211; because the Palestinian population growth is expected to outpace that of the Jews in Israel. \u00a0Demographically, Israel with its racist\/apartheid version of &#8216;democracy&#8217; &#8211; democracy for the Jews, not for the Palestinians really will be overwhelming Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu has different ideas. \u00a0He is making Gaza utterly un-inhabitable, through death and destruction. \u00a0 The country with one of the most sophisticated war machines claims to be threatened by Hamas&#8217; firecracker-like rockets.<\/p>\n<p>There is no war in Gaza; only a series of chronic, strategically timed genocidal acts &#8211; yes, that means GENOCIDE &#8211; by this racist, Fascist state.<\/p>\n<p>As the genocide unfolds the American politicians from both Democratic and Republican parties in Congress, as well as the Obama Administration &#8216;fall over each other&#8217; to show their solidarity with Israel by providing $250 million military aid package to the new Nazi regime in that Jewish state.<\/p>\n<p>Israel fully knows it can count on the support of 3 permanent members &#8211; USA, UK and France &#8211; against any measures that may be tabled to bring an end to the immediate destruction of Gaza and a lasting peace to the entire Palestine.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations has failed the Palestinians &#8211; just like it has failed the Tibetans, the Burmese, the Rohingya, the Kashmirese, the Rwandans, the Cambodians, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>EU will fund projects to pick up the pieces after Israel bombed Gaza back to Stone Age, again.<\/p>\n<p>But as citizens of the world and fellow humans of Palestinians we must &#8211; we absolutely must, if you think you are humans &#8211; do something to bring an end to this most outrageous, immoral and unconscionable crimes against humanity &#8211; whatever the legal name of the crimes Israel is committing in Gaza and Palestine.<\/p>\n<p>I will personally not have anything to do with any Zionist, who whitewashes, justifies, or actively supports Israel and its Nazi conduct towards Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>I urge you to show your solidarity by engaging daily in people-to-people boycott of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Here are five things you can do &#8211; and this list is only suggestive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1) if you work in the service sector, refuse any and all services to Israeli tourists;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> 2) avoid all forms of human contact with Israelis \u00a0who do not show any compassion for the wretched of Palestine;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> 3) refuse any professional collaboration with Israelis who whitewash or justify Israel&#8217;s Jewish apartheid and genocide in Gaza;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> 4) refuse saying Hello to any Israeli as a gesture of your disapproval of Israel&#8217;s Jewish apartheid which enjoys the overwhelming support from \u00a0Israeli &#8211; and many in the Jewish diaspora; and<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> 5) realize that genocidal and fascist behaviors do not end as a result of dialogue and moral persuasion and hence refuse to dialogue with Zionists. \u00a0Genocides typically end when genocidal regimes collapse, implode, overstretched or get defeated by greater military power. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>__________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Dr. Maung Zarni<\/em><em>, Associate Fellow, the University of Malaya, <em>is a <\/em>member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment,<\/em><em>founder and director of the Free Burma Coalition (1995-2004), and a visiting fellow (2011-13) at the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit, Department of International Development, London School of Economics. His forthcoming book on Burma will be published by Yale University Press.<\/em> <em>He was educated in the US where he lived and worked for 17 years. Visit his website <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.maungzarni.com\" >www.maungzarni.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.maungzarni.net\/2014\/07\/five-things-each-of-us-human-jews-and.html\" >Go to Original \u2013 maungzarni.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will personally not have anything to do with any Zionist, who whitewashes, justifies, or actively supports Israel and its Nazi conduct towards Gaza. I urge you to show your solidarity by engaging daily in people-to-people boycott of Israel. 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