A Reply To The Israeli Ambassador

By Hameed Abdul Karim –June 5, 2015 

Hameed Abdul Karim

When the Israeli ambassador to Sri Lanka Daniel Carmon said that Israel was built from scratch we can assume he was being selective in his choice of history (Daily Mirror Saturday May 23, 2015). A lot of nations have been built from scratch. Take Singapore, for example. Lee Kuan Yew built his nation from nothing to what it is today without any foreign aid or handouts. Israel has been lucky in that quarter having received millions of dollars in aid and outright grants from the U.S since its creation. Today, U.S grants to Israel stands at US $ 3.5 billion every year, not to mention some handouts from European countries. Israel is what it is today, thanks to the largesse of the U.S at the expense of its own people – 40 million American citizens are classified as poor. That figure is eight times more than the entire Jewish population in Israel. Israeli poverty figures are virtually non-existent, thanks to Christian charity, though the cost of living there is becoming a bit of a bother. Adding to Israel’s good fortune was the wealth the Jews stole from the fleeing Palestinians who had to leave everything they owned or run the risk of being killed.

Deir Yassin, a Christian village was the first to suffer severely at the hand of the Zionist terror horror. The village was sacked after dozens of unarmed villagers were lined up against the walls of their humble abodes and shot dead in cold blood. This as well as other massacres is well recorded and no Israeli revisionist, like the ambassador, can ever take this away from the minds of the Palestinians and millions the world over, though Israelis may be brainwashed by their revisionists to believe the ‘chosen people’ could commit no such horrible atrocity.

Revisionists

Today, however, even the Israeli revisionists are being challenged by Israelis themselves. Mr. Carmon belittles Jewish intellectuals like Norman Finklestein and Noam Chomsky when he casually dismisses their claims of Israeli apartheid with just a few remarks like ‘Chomsky’s reactions would be different if he were subjected to fierce terrorism endangering his well being’. And yet there are nearly five million Palestinian refugees living in neigbouring countries and elsewhere after the Israelis expelled them from their homes in 1947 in what the Palestinians call the Nakba. Somehow we are supposed to believe the ambassador when he says the Israelis are the ‘cowboys’ we used to see in Western movies and the Palestinians are the ‘Injuns’.

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