We Call Jews ‘Settlers’ Not Because We Think It Justifies Killing Them, But Because *You* Do
By Jibril Rajoub, Palestinian Official
Ramallah, February 7 – Each time one of our heroic fighters guns down, stabs, runs over, blows up, or otherwise harms Jews, our official and unofficial propaganda machines rush to characterize the targets as “settlers,” occupiers of a land not theirs, and therefore deserving of violent death. It matters not that in International Law, no such dispensation exists for targeting settlers, even those placed there by a belligerent occupier; we care little for the nuances of International Law, as our plentiful bombs, missiles, and bullets aiming for civilians, not to mention our vast enterprise recruiting and indoctrinating children to wield weapons, demonstrates. No, we employ that rhetoric because you, the enlightened progressive, need that veneer of legitimacy for your support of our antisemitic violence.
We Palestinians have little use of our own for the distinction between soldier and civilian; we vow revenge for our fallen fighters as if they were innocents shed in cold blood, and we glorify the children we place in harm’s way as noble warriors, which sometimes they in fact are, since we taught them to try to kill Jews. We also make no distinction between “soldier” or “civilian” Jews: they all must die, since they are part of the Zionist tumor that removed Jews from underneath the Islamic boot, the Jews’ rightful place. You, however, like to pretend you harbor no animosity for Jews, and therefore require a pretext for your advocacy of one of the least progressive causes on the planet. We are more than happy to provide it, in the form of the “settler” rhetoric; your hypocrisy is your business. We don’t care as long as your money and your excuses for our terrorism keep flowing.
You westerners can pretend there’s some use in sparing “noncombatants” – we non-westerners will stick with the tried and true approach of taking out our bloodlust, triumphalism, and zero-sum mentality on whoever is unfortunate enough to survive the battlefield. You can take your feigned concern for women and children – we know you’ve seldom made anything more than token effort to protect Jewish women and children, let alone male civilians, facing oppression, enslavement, torture, and gruesome death – and frame it nicely to display on your mantel, while we realists pursue our campaign to restore the status quo ante Zionism, when no Muslim, no matter how poor or powerless, was ever at the lowest societal rung because he always had the Jew upon whom to pour his violent disdain.
Inshallah.
From PreOccupied Territory, here.