Biography

Not to be outdone, the Palestinian territories now also have two governments; one claims to represent the Kingdom of God in Gaza, and the other represents the earthly kingdom in the West Bank, almost mirroring the government of Israel in Jerusalem and that of AIPAC in Washington, D.C. Of course the comparison ends there, because while Israel has strong leverage in the international relations equation, the Palestinians have practically none, other than the Christian holy sites, which do not offer anymore the same leverage they used to have in the past. Without intravenous economic support from outside the occupied territories, the Palestinians cannot even survive on their own, especially since the valve handle of the oxygen they breathe is in the hand of Israel.

Before the 1993 secret Oslo Peace negotiations came to be publicly known, a sudden flood of media reporting surfaced about Palestinian policemen and security personnel being trained in Egypt and Jordan. One would think that following decades of occupation, dispossession and violence, the Palestinian population would be offered hope for a better future rather than more police. Instead of training doctors, nurses, teachers, farmers, agronomists, water specialists, and offering them the prospect of job opportunities, the first thing the Palestinians were offered by their leaders under pressure from Israel and the United States in cahoots with Egypt and Jordan after all these years was an orgy of more police and spies, as if they were inveterate criminals! Today, and as of 2012 yet another multilateral military and police force is imposed on the Palestinians in the West Bank to train - and keep watch on - Palestinian police and intelligence. The latter are trained on the most modern means of controlling the Palestinian population, thus playing the same role as Jewish Kapos in Nazi concentration camps! Then we are surprised when people revolt, and individuals launch attacks that we will label as 'acts of terrorism'. Have we learned anything?

Since 1916 the Palestinian people were subjugated by British forces, police, and intelligence, then the Egyptian and Jordanian heavy-handed emergency rule, followed by the Israeli suffocation in Gaza and the West Bank respectively. Finally, they had to contend with the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, each in its own territory, both of which have demonstrated to the population what they have learned from the above-mentioned minders. That, beside the array of oppressive and arbitrary measures to which the Palestinian refugees were subjected to in camps scattered in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, the West Bank and Gaza, either from the security agencies of  host countries or as a result of infighting among the various Palestinian groups vying to control those wretched people. Actually, all affairs pertaining to the Palestinian refugees in most Arab countries since 1948 have been conducted and managed by the various intelligence services of the host countries! Finally, there were the unimaginable complications the Palestinian refugees have had to endure, and still do; not to be allowed to travel to some exotic country overseas, but simply to visit family and relatives, or to seek medical attention in other neighbouring Arab countries for instance.

Now, after all that mayhem, what do they get? Two vast gulags in Gaza and the West Bank, with Kapos from among them as the Nazis used to do in concentration camps, and of course the Israeli border police, the Israel Defense Forces and the various intelligence services, as well as the local agents they manage to recruit. They are used as live targets for Israeli soldiers to practice their firing skills, and as a test ground for innovative weapons of devastation and mass killing produced by Israel and by other countries that do not dare test them on live targets on their own soil.

All that because the Palestinians continue to resist and refuse to abandon their homeland so that Israel can take over their land, which has been from day one the sole purpose for all this. NOTHING ELSE!