It is astonishing how such a small RACIST remark could affect all sectors of the Israeli society, especially its affect on the Israeli Army where most Israelis policy makers graduate. It is also astonishing how often Israelis, Zionists, and many Jews repeat such a RACIST remark without comprehending its RACIST and DANGEROUS outcomes. If the statement was slightly changed, but instead of saying Arabs let us use Israelis or Jews instead, the statement would become:
"Israelis or Jews understand ONLY the language of force."
If any person dares to publish such RACIST statement, he or she will be automatically Black Listed (which is the Zionist version of McCarthyism) and tagged with being an anti-Semi This double standard is a way of life among many Israelis and Zionists, and it is TIME for Israelis, Zionists, and Jews to look in the mirror and see their condoned racism towards others. No question of the fact that Jews were the victims of viscous racism thought out history, however, Zionist and Israeli RACISM is never a subject of discussion in many Jewish communities, and for justice sake such healthy debate must start as soon as possible.
The hard truth, which is often feared in Israel, that ALL PEOPLE (regardless of their color or religious backgrounds) understand the language of force, which was often the case through out history. It is true that Arabs, like many others in the past, submitted to the language of force. On the other hand, many other people submitted to the Arab force as well, for example the Crusades, Persian, Byzantium, and Mongols to name a few. Similarly, the French, Russian, Greek, Polish Jews during the famous Warsaw uprising or Intifada, ... etc. submitted to the Nazi might during WW II. In other words, FORCE does not and will not DISCRIMINATE between an Arab nor a Jew PERIOD.
For a moment, let us assume that this RACIST statement is TRUE, and you are in charge of the Israeli Occupation Force (I.O.F.), do you believe that:
Israel should reinvade, rap, and pillage Lebanon AGAIN just to prove a point to all Arabs?
Ahad Ha'Am, the leading Eastern European Jewish essayist, wrote after his three months visit to Palestine in 1891:
" ....[the Zionists pioneers believed that] the only language the Arabs understand is that of FORCE ..... [They] behave towards the Arabs with hostility and cruelty, trespass unjustly upon their boundaries, beat them shamefully without reason and even brag about it, and nobody stands to check this contemptible and dangerous tendency." (Expulsion Of The Palestinians, p.7)
Moshe Dayan, one of the early founders of the Haganah and the Israeli Defense Force, wrote in 1955:
"The only method that PROVED EFFECTIVE, not justified or moral but effective, when Arabs plant mines on our side [in retaliation]. If we try to search for the [particular] Arab [who planted mines], it has no value. But if we HARASS the nearby village . . . then the population there comes out against the [infiltrators] . . . and the Egyptian Government and the Transjordan Government are [driven] to prevent such incidents because their prestige is [assailed], as the Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war . . . THE METHOD OF COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT SO FAR HAS PROVED EFFECTIVE." (Righteous Victims, p. 275-276)
Israel's leaders drew the wrong lessons from the War of Attrition with Egypt in 1969. Mordachai Gur, who became chief of staff in 1974, wrote in the IDF monthly (July-1987 edition):
"There is not doubt that our victory in the War of Attrition was very important, but did only one conclusion follow from it---to sit and do nothing? That we are strong and if the Arabs want peace, they have to come to us on their knees and accept out terms? . . . This was the great political and strategic mistake---the reliance on force as the almost exclusive factor in the formulation of policy." (Iron Wall, p. 297)
Racism BREEDS racism, and terror BREEDS terror.
Israel should cancel the peace treaties it has signed with both Egypt and Jordan? After all Egyptians and Jordanians are also Arabs too!
To demonstrated to the reader how this BELLIGERENT ATTITUDE toward the Arab population was deeply rooted among the early Zionists, let us contemplate the following Zionists quotes:
It is unfortunate that many Israelis and Zionists often justify their TERROR and RACISM, which is sadly generating Arab terror and racism in response. It is even MORE tragic that an increasing number among Palestinians and Arabs started to believe that "Israelis and Zionists understand the language of force too." Civilized people, regardless of their backgrounds, MUST deplore such racist remarks regardless who says it. And until Israelis and Zionists learn that they SHOULD NOT use the gun to communicate with their Arabs neighbors, Palestinians version of Zionism will be on the rise. It is very sad, but often true:
