All Causes of Terrorism Must Be Eliminated
Ibrahim Ebeid.
The attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon is a crime against humanity that we strongly repudiate and condemn. We do not consider it a war against the United States but a crime against innocent civilians perpetrated by a group, or individuals who are not yet clearly identified. This horrible attack was described as a war against the United States and against what it stands for; however, it would be wiser to search for the causes behind it while looking for the perpetrators in order to bring them to the court of law and justice.
The Zionists and their sympathizers exploited the tragedy and used the media in an attempt to mobilize the injured emotions of the American people against the Arabs and Muslims and especially against Iraq and the Palestinians. The US politicians jumped on the bandwagon intensifying the call for revenge and for war against certain states and countries.
This exploitation of the people’s emotions and unwise calls for war led to exposing Arab and Muslim Americans to the danger of being harassed or attacked. Hate crimes were committed against Muslims and Arabs and their Mosques and Churches in the United States, Australia, London, and elsewhere in the Western Countries were attacked and few were burned. A campaign of terror by thugs was launched against Arabs, Muslims, and dark-skinned people, even the Indian Sikhs, were not spared. Arab students were forced to abandon their studies and return home. Pilots refused to take off while Arabs and dark-skinned people were aboard unless they were evicted.
A remedy is needed to eradicate all forms of terrorism whether groups, individuals, or governments conduct it. To eradicate terrorism the causes must be eliminated. The US Administration must recognize that such a tragedy that took place on September 11 might have resulted from the US unjust economic, military and foreign policy. These unfair policies caused millions to die and millions to starve. These policies must be revised and conducted in a manner that is fair and just for the whole World.
Blind retaliation and unwarranted violence, as proposed by US leaders, will lead the World to a continuous brutal war, and violence will become perpetual, uncontrollable, and will consume millions of lives.
The West must realize that the expulsion of the Palestinians from their homeland and their replacement by Jews is an unprecedented crime and will remain a stain on the forehead of the West forever. Six million Palestinians are deprived of returning home to their houses, their villages, their towns, and their cities. The ones who remain in the “West Bank” and in Gaza are under siege. They are surrounded by Zionist military settlements. More lands are being confiscated; more homes and farms are being destroyed. The cities in the West Bank and in Gaza are being attacked and bombarded and the Zionist forces are assassinating leaders of the Palestinian resistance with the blessing of the United States and with US weaponry.
The World must recognize that the Zionist entity was created by terror, entire villages and towns were eliminated and thousands of Palestinians were brutally massacred by the leaders of the entity. The perpetrators of these crimes became America’s strategic allies and the Palestinians who were the victims became “terrorists” Everything was reversed by the West, the victims are called terrorists and the terrorists are called victims and freedom lovers, Palestine became “Israel” and the Palestinians became refugees.
The West, especially the United States, must realize that Zionism poses danger to the World, to humanity, and to the stability and advancement of mankind. It is a racist movement that must be condemned and labeled as such, not to be defended by the United States and the European West as it happened at the World Conference in Durban. The United States must free itself from Zionist control and America must be free in representing its people and its interests, not the interests of Zionism.
The continuous terrorizing war against Iraq waged by the US and Britain is another example of Western terrorism against peaceful people. The genocidal sanctions enforced on Iraq by the United States and Britain already claimed more than a million and a half civilians, mostly children under the age of five. These sanctions are terrorizing and causing savage agony to the entire population of Iraq.
Most of the World had suffered and still suffering from the awful practices of Washington and its allies. No state in the world is allowed to control its own destiny and has control over its economy. The policy of “If you are not with me then you are against me,” announced by President Bush is dictatorial and a threat to other nations and states that are not under Washington’s control. It is a threat to peace.
While we are writing these lines the drums of war are beating vigorously and the US mobilizing its forces for an Armageddon that might engulf the whole World and eliminate mankind instead of causes of terror.
We hope that sanity and reason replace the calls for war, revenge and blind retaliation. The United States must revise its policies and amend them for the good and not the bitterness of mankind. An International Conference must be held to find solutions to all the problems that cause people to suffer and wisely remedy and eliminate these causes that might drive people to commit terror.
