Palestinians Made to Pay For Nazi Crimes

One of the greatest injustices in the crimes against the Palestinians is the Western self-righteousness in supporting Israel. Western nations have asked the Palestinians to pay for their crimes against Jews. Palestinian blood needs to be spilled so that the blood on Western hands can be washed and the West does all of this in the name of 'moral obligations' in supporting Israel. Why do many in the West - especially in the United States which was indifferent to the Holocaust - speak about an 'obligation' to support Israel? It is obligation, they argue, to support the Jewish state today because of silence in the Holocaust yesterday. But they are not obliging themselves to pay for their crimes, but simply seeking to force the Palestinians to pray for their crimes. They want to be generous, but it is conspicious to be generous with one else's land.

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Noam Chomsky summarized it best in that the Palestinians are being made to pay for 'the sins of Europe and America'.:

The Jews of Europe suffered a disaster on a scale and of a character unknown in human history, following upon centuries of persecution and terror. Their growing national movement turned back to a homeland that hand not been abandoned in memory of tradition. The author of the Balfour Declaration expressed widely-held sentiments in the industrial West went he wrote, in 1919, that 'Zionism, be it right or wrong, good or bad, is rooted in age-long tradition, in present needs, in future hopes, of far profound import than the desires and prejudices of 700,00 Arabs who now inhabit that ancient land' . . . Somehow the Palestinian peasants mired in their prejudice, were never able to appreciate their moral responsibility to expiate the sins of Christian Europe. Whatever one may think of the conflicting claims of national and human rights in the former Palestine, it is difficult not to be appalled when Western politicians and intellectuals explain their backing for Israel's policies in terms of 'moral obligation', as if the sins of the Nazis and their predecessors, or of the Americans who closed the doors to refugees from Hitler's horrors, require the sacrifice of the Palestinians - on moral grounds. How easy it is to meet one's moral obligations by sacrificing someone else's life.

The Palestinians have been refused to be used as a tool of Western conscience cleansing through their own ethnic cleansing. And the West will fail in its effort to make the Palestinians do so. Palestinian resistance will not cease until Palestine if free.