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Lending a Helping Hand – The Electronic Intifada

by Daniel Mabsout
Thursday, August 9th, 2012

 

We Thank God we have lived to witness the Palestinian Electronic Intifada of Mr. ‘Ali Abu Ni’ma that is an intifada happening on the internet , which is not only much safer for all, especially for the Israeli belligerent on behalf of whom Abu Ni’ma speaks , but seems to be highly rewarding -at all levels- for Mr Abu Ni’ma and his like of the BDS movement .

 

Thank God that we have lived to witness Palestinians seeking heartily a solution for what they call the Israeli crisis and Mr. Abu Nima for this has mobilized his full intellectual faculties and capacities that are not to be taken lightly . The Least we can say about Mr Abu Nima is not that he seems more concerned with the Israeli problem than Israelis themselves, which we can – in a way- justify , but that he thinks that the Palestinians and the Palestinian cause and the world intelligentsia are in great need of his speculations over the Israeli matter, because he seems to have caught hold of a magical recipe that, finally and after so many sacrifices and suffering , will work the miracle so long expected. .

 

This magical recipe or formula if you want to be more specific found by Mr. Abu Nima is none other than the APARTHEID state by which is meant the previous racial policy applied in South Africa regarding the African Natives : policy of segregation , exploitation and violation . Apartheid then is the magic key that will open the door which we thought locked for ever. Mr. Abu Nima seemed to have made his diagnosis regarding the Palestinian issue and found at the same time the cure by which was treated the South African ailment .

 

There is no doubt that Mr Abu Nima does not speak here as a Palestinian – even if he is one . No Palestinian- in touch with the Palestinian cause and identifying with the Palestinian condition or familiar with the Palestinian plight- can ever come up with the idea of the Apartheid syndrome and the Apartheid cure according to the South African model. A UN official , a University professor or better a speculator over political matters can come up with such an idea , also a hired NGO, or an Israeli intellectual or official or a friend of Israel can come up with something similar , but definitely not a Palestinian.

 

Mr Abu Nima belongs at least to one of these categories , his starting point is that Israel is undergoing a serious crisis that Mr. Abu Nima himself is able to properly diagnose and do away with using the magical formula that worked so well in South Africa due to which Israelis and Palestinians could live happily ever after .

 

But while admitting of the crisis Israel is facing Mr. Abu Nima attributes this crisis to the world campaign launched internationally against Israel exposing it as a violent terrorist state and targeting its reputation and denouncing its violations , as if Israel – after what it did in Qana , Gaza or on the Mavi Marmara cared about its reputation or about others’ opinions .

 

Of course Mr Abu Nima- as expected – will not mention the real source of the Israeli worry which comes from the fact that it was defeated in two consecutive wars , at the hands of the same people and that it had to withdraw from Lebanon bearing unimaginable losses in addition to the fact that it is targeted by thousands of various missiles , that all of its territories are within reach from all sides , that its air and sea ports and arsenals and factories and nuclear plants and its major cities and head quarters are exposed and targeted by thousands of weapons ready to be launched from Lebanon and from elsewhere maybe.

 

This is from where the Israeli worry originates and that of the International Community as well and , in order to rule out this worry and this obstacle , the world establishment had started- by way of manipulations and direct interferences- the Arab spring process by initiating the Arab uprisings and triggering all kinds of social turmoil and unrest in various Arab countries that has caused –among other things -the invasion of Libya ,the unrest in Syria, the occupation of Bahrain ,the partition of Sudan and other events that will show up in due time .

 

No doubt Mr. Abu Nima of the Electronic Intifada has offered his own contribution along the same line in trying to help Israel and the allies of Israel out of this mess ,out of this real crisis . His contribution might be a modest or a poor one but it is nevertheless a contribution ; a small present for the defeated Zionist entity which Mr Abu Nima is willing to serve : A South African Model : one big state , a big Israel where all have the right to be whatever their religion or their origins ,where all have equal rights . It does not matter if to obtain this , the West Bank would have to be annexed and Jerusalem taken and maybe even Gaza , what difference does it make , if Israel says that it will grant each his own rights and will treat all equally ?

 

What a sound solution and what a priceless reward for the usurping state that killed and is still killing but which will not survive another war or recover from a war as experts say ! Thanks to Mr. Abu Nima, the tripping life of the usurping entity has been thus prolonged and its territories expanded and its rule completed ,not that Israel would abide by Mr. Abu Nima’s formula of the famous Apartheid in which so many Palestinian and pro Palestinian activists seem actually involved , sanctioning, boycotting and divesting and posing as Palestinians’ defenders.

 

Israel knows its choices and its identity and knows its reality , and Mr Abu Nima knows what Israel knows , it is just required -for the time being -that the attention be diverted from the immanent existential threat Israel is utterly facing ; it is required that this attention be shifted from the reality of Israel’s vulnerability and defeat to the possibility of its survival and continuity, and for this , many Palestinians- like Mr.Abu Nima – are willing to lend a helping hand .

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13 Responses to Lending a Helping Hand – The Electronic Intifada

  1. Ariadna Theokopoulos

    August 9, 2012 at 6:47 pm

    I have not read Abunimah’s book but the summaries I have read indicate to me that you underappreciate his genius, Daniel.
    Abunimah has come up with a way to package complete annexation and wrap a kuffiah around its neck.
    See, Palestine is like Belgium, he says: both Palestinians and jews have been there for ever. I guess he is right: some speak Walloon, I mean Arabic, some Flemish, I mean Hebrew and some, more recently returned form their 3,000-year absence speak German, I mean Russian.
    He proposes annexation with the purpose of creating something like a federation or perhaps a binational state with two governments, well two under the authority of one of them of course.
    What you utterly fail to appreciate but the Israelis should be moved by is his sensitivity to Jewish concerns, desires and aspirations where it counts the most:
    Abunimah insists that the ‘Law of Return’ allowing jews from around the world to come home to the “federation” must be maintained …
    This is a beautiful gesture on his part in recognition, he says, of the jewish fears of the “demographic imbalances” created by the “unequal birth rates.”
    Annexation is the name of the game and Abunimah plays it as if he is competing in the finals for whatever prize B’Nai Brith gives to useful Shabbath Goyim.

  2. Daniel Mabsout

    August 9, 2012 at 7:30 pm

    this was a comment on an article by Abunima that appeared on the Electronic Intifada .

    http://electronicintifada.net/content/israelis-embrace-one-state-solution-unexpected-direction/8936

    The problem when compromising with Israel is that one is conpromising with an uncompromising unsocial cancerous entity that does not believe in relation but in exclusion
    The conception of israel was a sin against man and God

    • Ariadna Theokopoulos

      August 9, 2012 at 7:42 pm

      My comment was on his book, One State, whose cover appears in the illustration at the top of your article. Same ideas, more ‘developed’ in his book in which he laughably uses Belgium as an example.
      Thinking of a comment made by Alex on another thread, I’d say Abunimah is not one who lost his compass but sold it.

  3. who_me

    August 9, 2012 at 8:13 pm

    jp looks upon compromise by “the other” as a weakness to exploit. jp never actually really compromises, they slow down their rapacious impulses when this is advantageous to their goals. it may look like they are compromising, and that is the intention, but compromise to them is way to attain control by another means.

    israel has already shown that any compromises made with this fascist, bigoted state are totally one sided affairs advantageous to israel.

  4. Ariadna Theokopoulos

    August 10, 2012 at 6:38 am

    I will state again that I have not read A’s book.
    If I can borrow it from a library (so as to avoid buying it) I will, and I will do a proper review.
    My comments are based on the summary of his ideas I was able to read in the glowingly positive reviews of and comments on it on the web, like on amazon.com where it is sold. It is reasonable to assume that positive reviews are less likely to distort the book’s message than any negative critique.
    Furthermore the ideas are described without contradiction in all the reviews I have read so it si fair to assume that they are indeed the ideas espoused by A..

    • Daniel Mabsout

      August 10, 2012 at 3:20 pm

      “I will state again that I have not read A’s book.
      If I can borrow it from a library (so as to avoid buying it) I will, and I will do a proper review.”

      i haven’t read the book and do not entend to read it . i don’t intend to read Amayreh’s book though i have written about him . Reading is something like hunger or taste . When you’re not hungry and you don’t have a taste for the food you don’t take it.

  5. etominusipi

    August 10, 2012 at 9:35 am

    i do not like to speak badly of people, but Mr A seems to suffer from the ‘public exhibitionist’ variant of egocentric/narcissistic personality disorder (ENPD) which makes its victims an extremely easy target for manipulation by the cynical.

    ENPD is usually accompanied by a well-developed fantasy life (see also Walter Mitty Syndrome) so that the said Mr A may well see himself as a heroic defender of the oppressed, and therefore he is likely to regard those who share some of his avowed goals, but take a different point of view on strategy or tactics, as deadly foes, to be disavowed, censored, excommunicated, or, in extreme cases, boiled in oil.

    ihdina-sirat al-mustaqim
    sirat al-ladhina an’amta ‘alai-him
    ghair il-Maghdubi ‘alai-him wa la-d-dallin

    as Zolly Krugsteiner (ex-head of Mossad ‘Paypal’ division) used to say:

    “with enemies like these, who needs friends?”

    • Daniel Mabsout

      August 10, 2012 at 3:25 pm

      Abunima is not a patient , he is an agent , why do we have to diagnose him ? When he is not seeking medical help , but it may help us to understand him .

  6. Ariadna Theokopoulos

    August 10, 2012 at 9:58 am

    You speak of Zolly? If you knew Zolly like I know Zolly! A heart of gold.
    He said to me once: “Ari,” (he calls me Ari) “never send money through PayPal under your own name. Pass the money to a friend who needs to ask another friend to ask a friend to send the money. Use a friend, what else are friends for? We don’t trace it back, not anything under $1 million, that far back.”
    Zolly doesn’t even know I sometimes post irreverent, naughty comments on Israel but I took his advice to heart. PayPal doesn’t know what color Ariadna’s money is.

    • etominusipi

      August 10, 2012 at 10:33 am

      well, as you probably know, Zolly is no dogmatist, and has a truly wicked sense of humour. you might not know that he is not 100% Ashkenazi – a greatgrandmother on his mother’s side was sephardic, a well-known Portuguese concert pianist in the 1920′s – perhaps this explains his passion for Ladino music (an enthusiasm which he keeps well-hidden from the bloodthirsty Khazzer clique who have hijacked the Knesset and the IDF – Zol’s words, not mine). i got to know him, curiously, through our mutual appreciation of single malt whiskies. we first met at a weekend tasting seminar in Glenbogle a few days before the Lockerbie disaster. terrific chap.

      • Ariadna Theokopoulos

        August 10, 2012 at 4:04 pm

        And after…. no?
        He could have used the soothing effect of the single malt elixir after Lockerbie, and a cigarette, I imagine.

  7. Ariadna Theokopoulos

    August 10, 2012 at 6:01 pm

    Here’s Abiunimah’s jewish mate:

    Yehouda Shenhav’s new book, “Beyond the Two State Solution: A Jewish Political Essay” …. wants to restore awareness of 1948, but not to try to reconstruct the world of 1948.
    He does not propose eliminating Israel. He does not propose uniting the people of Israel and Palestine into a single nation.
    He does propose allowing Palestinians to return to their homes in a manner least disturbing to Israelis already living in those villages or buildings, including with compensation paid to residents evicted by an agreement with returning refugees. He proposes a bilingual society, with a fragmented political federation. He expects this to be very difficult, while preferable to any other approach. ”

    “A manner least disturbing”… I guess that would be not at all

    • botafogo

      August 12, 2012 at 7:13 pm

      “Here’s Abiunimah’s jewish mate”

      excuse me but isn’t this fellow Abunimah also jewish?
      sure he is and his real name is Abe Nimmerman, actually he’s working for the ADL.
      and his “electronicintifada” is just a thinly disguised cover

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