When the victim mourns the killer…

Israel held the funeral of Shimon Peres last week; he was its ninth president and the last of its so-called founding fathers. His burial took place in the presence of 90 international delegations, including Arab delegations from occupied Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco, the UAE and Oman. He was buried in the cemetery reserved for “the nation’s greatest” on Mount Herzl, named after the man who chaired the first Zionist conference in Basel, Switzerland, in 1897.

Peres met his inevitable end with indelible scars carved by a long history of massacres committed by the war criminal against helpless civilians and those struggling in Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt and other areas in the Arab east and Maghreb. He is now in the just and fair hands of God after living 93 years and carrying out some of the most dangerous missions and tasks for this rogue state, the establishment of which was itself a brazen violation of all that is right.

Despite all the sins Peres committed for the sake of this racist state — which some consider to be “great services” — he was also referred to as “Mr Failure” due to the many lapses and mistakes he made which overshadow his achievements, which were, without a doubt, milestones in the history of Israel.

A spectacle that almost overshadowed the funeral itself was the attendance of President Mahmoud Abbas and some of our fellow citizens who were part of the “Palestinian” delegation. This reflected great shame, humiliation and disgrace.

A rare and unconventional image was that of Abbas crying and heartbroken as he embraced Peres’s widow and expressed what a “momentous loss” his death is. This is a level so low that words fail me.

To illustrate the enormity of how disastrous the “Palestinian Authority president’s” actions are, I will recount only some of the blood-soaked history of Peres’s crimes. He was born in 1923 in what is now Belarus and his family moved to British Mandate Palestine in 1934. He began his studies in the Ben Shemen settlement and became head of the youth labour party in 1941. In the same year, he joined and became an active member of the Haganah, the forerunner of the Israel Defence Forces.

In 1959, Shimon Peres was elected as a member of the Knesset, and went on to become defence minister, immigration minister, information minister, prime minister and, finally, president of Israel.

Peres came up with the “Atoms for Peace” programme and is considered to be the force behind Israel’s acquisition of nuclear weapons due to his tireless and continuous contact with France, America, Britain and Germany. These efforts began in the mid-1950s and Israel acquired its first nuclear bomb in 1962. Today, it is estimated to own 200-300 weapons of mass destruction.

Peres was also among those who participated in the preparation of the disgraceful Oslo Accords, with regards to which he said, “We turned the Palestinian cause from a nation claiming they had rights to the land of Israel and seeks to establish a state on this land to an autonomy for people living under our sovereignty.” This man was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, along with his partners Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, after agreeing to the Oslo Accords in 1993.

Peres is primarily responsible for the Grapes of Wrath invasion of Lebanon in 1996 during which Israeli warplanes attacked a UN shelter in the village of Qana in the south. More than 100 people were killed and wounded in this attack, most of them children, women and the elderly. He also left his mark on the heinous massacre in the Yasmin neighbourhood in Nablus, the massacres during the Al-Aqsa Intifada in 2000, and those in Jenin after “Operation Defensive Shield” in 2002.

The “Palestinian president” stood behind the facts of this bloody history, along with many of the Palestinian people’s enemies and the enemies of human rights next to Peres’s body. “His Excellency” crossed every red line, stomped mockingly and degradingly on our national history, glorified by the blood of our martyrs, and desecrated the pure blood that Peres shed, which still remains warm and an icon of Palestine. The souls of these martyrs look over us, surprised by our situation and astonished by a president who prolonged his bowing to the killers of our steadfast people. Nowadays, when we curse every drop of milk fed to the men who made up the delegation at the funeral of war criminal Peres, they are also being cursed by the tears of the orphans and families of the martyrs mourn the loss of their loved ones and look forward to the dawn of glory that will inevitably come.

The Palestinian people and the resistance factions who voiced their rejection of this condemned and rejected act by Abbas will not forget or forgive anyone whose feet stood at that funeral and kissed the hands that are stained with the blood of the purest souls who followed the path of martyrdom for the speedy liberation of our homeland Palestine. This is what happens when the victim mourns the killer.

Translated from Felesteen, 2 October, 2016

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