"...when the Arabs will love their children..."
Golda Meir stands out as one of the more blatantly racist of Israel's
leaders over the years (a contest in which she has stiff competition
to this day). One of her more famous quotes was that "Peace will come
when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us".
Because you see, clearly anyone who fights for their very survival
after and while being ethnically cleansed simply has misplaced blind
rage towards some innocent other and doesn't truly love their
children. No really, it's true, why don't you believe me? I mean look
at all those Bosnians, making all their lame excuses about being upset
over being ethnically cleansed, starved, raped, gunned down in mass
graves. Everyone knows the *real* problem was that they just hated
Serbs and didn't love their children. And the blacks in South Africa,
they could have brought peace so much easier if they would have just
given in to their benevolent, loving Apartheid overlords. But
noooooooo, they just clearly hated Afrikaners more than they loved
their own children.
Which is why the following is so perplexing...a letter...from a
Palestinian father to his children in 1938...expressing what appears
to genuine, heartfelt love for his children. Almost 20 years *before*
Golda Meir showed the world that Arabs had not yet learned to love
their children like the rest of us! How can this be?! An Arab, loving
his children??? "Impossible!" the Israeli government informs us, "they
FORCE us to shoot their unarmed children and destroy their houses over
their heads and torture their fathers and rip up the olive groves that
feed their families and steal the water that is supposed to nourish
their babies. Clearly THEY don't love their children when they force
US to do these things to them." (Really, it's true, Israeli soldiers
never shoot innocent civilians of their own free will and choice,
there is always an invisible Palestinian who sneaks up behind Israeli
soldiers, pulls his finger down to the trigger and as the Israeli
soldier screams "no, no, don't make me shoot that terrorist baby" the
invisible Palestinian forces the Israeli soldier to pull the trigger
against his will. It's true, ask any Israeli soldier, they will all
tell you between their tears how pained and anguished they are by it
and how they need billions of dollars in annual American aid to pay
for psychological treatment and ammunition resupply.)
I don't understand, it is so perplexing, can someone please explain
this apparently loving letter from an Arab (gasp!) father to his
children me? It must be a forgery right? It can't possibly be the
Golda Meir was promoting racist ideas that Arabs are sub-humans who
don't love their children like everyone else...can it?
[Click image to see in detail: May 1938 letter by Fuad Saba, member of
the Arab Higher Committee in Palestine, to his children from
British-imposed exile in the Seychelles.]
[Fuad Saba pictured with other members of the Arab Higher Committee,
he is standing top right. Background: by the late 1930s the Arab
population of Palestine had seen the writing on the wall that the
Zionist movement was determined to colonize and steal their country
and had not come to live in peace as neighbors as the native Jewish
population of the Holy Land had done for millenia before the
overwhelmingly-European Zionists arrived. The British occupiers were
ineptly maneuvering back and forth trying to please one side then the
other and in the process bungling everything but ultimately allowing
Zionist plans to march forward and disposses the native inhabitants of
their homeland. An Arab uprising broke out which the British brutally
crushed, flattening entire neighborhoods, arresting anyone even
suspected of any political activity whatsoever, and exiling many
Palestinian leaders. Fuad Saba, as a member of the Arab Higher
Committee whose goal was independence and putting a stop to foreign
plans to colonize his country, was exiled to the Seychelles from where
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