Ayoon Wa Azan (They Have No Ancient Presence There Or Kingdoms)

In recent news, Heinrich Bauer, a former Nazi soldier, is now on trial in Aachen for the murder of three Dutch resistance fighters in 1944, to which he confessed at the time.

Bauer is now eighty-eight; even if he is to be sentenced to life imprisonment, this would practically mean that he will only serve a few years in prison. Also, the Germans are going to try John Demjanjuk in Munich next month, who is accused of being involved in murdering Jews at the Nazi concentration camps.

As such, Germany, Europe and the United States are trying suspects in crimes that were committed more than sixty years ago, while they are leaving the neo-Nazis in the Israeli army and government to escape from punishment, when their victims’ blood has not yet dried.

Demjanjuk is 89 years old, and like Bauer and all wanted Nazis, he cannot be considered to be in his full mental capacities, nor can the witnesses testifying against them truly remember the details because they were only children at the time. It should be mentioned here that the Israeli Supreme Court had cleared Demjanjuk for insufficient evidence, after which he returned to the United States; however, the German government insisted on his extradition to Germany to stand trial.

The trial of the elderly will not exonerate Germany and Europe from their two crimes of murdering Jews then sending them to Palestine. The Germans in particular paid reparations to the Holocaust survivors to enable them to displace the Palestinians, murder them and steal their lands.

Today, the West is committing the third crime of letting the Israeli criminals escape punishment, when the officials in the successive Israeli governments and known occupation army leaders are now wanted for trial as war criminals all across Europe, to the extent that they no longer dare travel abroad. However, when one of these wanted criminals travels and then is summoned to court, the government of the country he travelled to then protects him, and smuggles him back to Israeli as part of a political decision that has nothing to do with the law or justice.

For the sake of comparison, there are many Jewish groups that defend the rights of the Palestinians, and that seek to live in peace with them, while there are many high-calibre humanitarian organizations that condemn Israel. What is more, several Christian churches themselves boycott Israel and accuse it of racism, and that it is enforcing apartheid or that it is a state of racial segregation like South Africa, formerly.

I was reading the news story about Bauer and Demjanjuk, when I was overwhelmed with a sense of anger mixed with desperation against the justice of human beings and divine justice itself. This happened after I came across an interview published in the Guardian with Adrian Agassi, an Israeli military judge. He had immigrated to Palestine from Britain following the occupation of Palestine, and now oversees the confiscation of Palestinian homes and their demolition in order to build housing units for Israeli settlers in Jerusalem and the occupied territories. In the interview, Agassi said that Israel has a biblical claim to territory beyond its borders, that Israel is "given to us by the Bible, not by some United Nations", and that settling Jews on lands that made up ancient Israel stands above all other biblical commandments and that they, even as immigrants, have a right to live on it when those born there do not.

Who said that the land belonged to the Jews in the first place? It would be in line with such reasoning if I claimed, for instance, that I owned the National Ahli Bank then take it over because I said so.

Historical facts tell us that some Jewish tribes may have passed through Palestine, and perhaps settled there very briefly. Since I am a student of history, I will convey here that I heard from my American professor at Georgetown University, whose name I will disclose along with more details only after I go to Washington and take his permission as he is still alive, although he is retired and is currently an honorary professor.

He surprised me in the beginning of my Middle Eastern history course when he told the students in an auditorium that can take up to one hundred students that the Jews claim that they are God’s chosen people, and that God promised them this land, while the Palestinians say that they have been living in this land for generations upon generations of ancestors and great ancestors, and that they still have their land ownership documents from the Ottoman era. He then paused a little and said that the Jewish claim has no basis in history, as they have no ancient presence there or kingdoms, and that it is the Palestinians who have the rightful claim. The professor then paused again and told us that we now know his opinion, and if there are any among us who do not like this opinion, then they have one week to decide whether they want to transfer to a different class. I told this story to my friend Dr. Hisham Sharabi; however, he passed away and I do not like to quote the departed. I also told it to Professor Michael Hudson, and learned that the professor in the class mentioned above usually gives this same statement at the beginning of his course each year.

The terrorist Menachem Begin told President Anwar Sadat in his speech following the signing of the Camp David Accords: “We, i.e. the Jews, helped you build the pyramids”. I say instead that the prophets who were mentioned in the Quran were different than the false prophets mentioned the Torah, and that I challenge Dr. Zahi Hawass, the Secretary-General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, to find me a single shred of evidence that proves that the biblical Jews were ever present in Egypt.