Thy Name Is Hypocrisy!

“Psssst…Abbas. Look serious! The sheeple are watching!”

Friends, the photograph above, to me, represents the epitome of hypocrisy. The two figures shown graphically illustrate what is wrong in the Middle East and what is wrong with our world. Why so, you ask?

Let’s take the figure on the right. He represents a Superpower that supposedly symbolizes democracy, but one that has, for decades, been arming and supporting a tiny Middle Eastern country which has used brutal military force to occupy land belonging to another people. These other people, called Palestinians, soon after WW2 finished, awoke one day to find that distant powers had given their land to a group of people called Jews who were relevant to the region over two thousand years ago.

Not content with being given the land, the Jews, aided by their friendly superpower, set up a powerful army which terrorized the inhabitants in their portion and began to systematically steal the land surrounding their portion. They built settlements, concrete walls, demolished Palestinians buildings and farms, built checkpoints, engaged in massacres and collective punishment, imprisoned Palestinians without trial, stole Palestinian taxes, starved them, kept them in poverty, etc.

The Superpower, not content with vetoing all U.N. Resolutions which criticized the Jewish Nation, has, while pretending to support a Palestinian State, engaged in a duplicitous, deliberate policy of thwarting any possibility of the Palestinians gaining their own land thereby allowing the Jewish State to consolidate its hold on land which isn’t theirs and further displace and diminish those Palestinians within its own borders. For decades, negotiations have been continuing with not a single result. While it participated in this charade of being an honest broker, the Superpower has also engaged in various imperial invasions and occupations of its own around the world.

Thus, a country of people were robbed of their land and their birthright without compensation. Many were forced to flee and have spent their whole lives in impoverished refugee camps all around the Middle East.

But the Palestinians did not take the stealing of their land without resistance. Many years ago a man called Arafat and his political arm called Fatah led groups of Palestinian Freedom fighters. They fought against the Israeli occupation but without an army they had little effect against the armed forces of the Jewish Nation.

After Arafat died, eventually an election was held and a new group called Hamas emerged because the Palestinians were against the corruption endemic in the Fatah party and its lack of progress in negotiations. It was then that the figure on the left of the photograph emerged as a power broker, one who refused to accept the election loss.

Abbas, who is clearly a traitor and collaborator, and the corrupt Fatah Party have got into bed with both the Jewish State and pro-Jewish elements belonging to the Superpower. Thus the Palestinians were divided into two competing groups, one in Gaza and one in the West Bank. Divide and conquer has never seen a truer example.

So, this Reuter’s photograph for me represents the epitome of hypocrisy: it suggests hope for the Palestinians when no hope exists. They are a people who are the victims of blind ignorance and mindless superstition.

It demonstrates how politicians have many faces, many forks in their tongues, how ceremonial meetings are held and the media helps to distort the truth. It shows that we, the people, are fed an endless diet of stale bread and circuses while the Masters of the Universe selfishly decide our fate and the fate of others.

The image above, if the truth is known, is a strong indictment of our world: of its hypocrisy, its duplicity, its unfairness, its shallowness, its immorality and its profound injustice!

The innocent Palestinians deserve better.