Soulless Zionists feel wrath of fires that lay bare Palestinian lands pillaged during the Nakba 

By Iqbal Jassat 

In his perceptive observation many may consider to be satire, Alon Mizrahi wrote that the fires raging in Israel “can be seen (if you have a soul and an imagination) as an act of resistance and rejection”, by “Palestinian communities who have been gone for decades but never abandoned, or forgotten, their homeland”. 

He explained that based on his personal experience, the groves and ‘forests’ consumed by fire, “don’t feel real”. 

Mizrahi wrote that having grown up next to one ‘forest’, and, without knowing anything about the history of Zionism, they always felt strange to him, but never magical, the way a true forest feels. 

“Like those who planted them, they emit a sense of shallowness and fragility”.

He accused “soulless Zionists” of having planted European pine trees throughout Palestine, meant to make the landscape look and feel like their Switzerland or Romanian homes (as opposed to their fake homes in Palestine). “These artificial alien forests had an even more sinister intention behind, or rather under them: Zionists methodically planted those trees over destroyed Palestinian communities that they razed to the ground, just like they’re doing now in Gaza”.

Mizrahi pointed out facts largely papered over by Zionist apologists or ignored by mainstream media. He wrote that many of Israel’s ‘nature parks’ are in fact a camouflage laid on top of the graveyards of Palestinian villages.  “And so, when innocent Israeli children go to celebrate Independence Day with their families in one of those parks, as many do, they are literally dancing over the graves of the people Israel massacred, ethnically cleansed, and dispossessed”.

Facts that conceal shameless atrocities committed by Zionists were laid bare by Mizrahi. 

Palestinian homes, gardens, schools, mosques, and churches, their children’s toys and even their olive trees, which Zionists uprooted in the tens of thousands, undoubtedly freaked out of their senses by the symbolism and authentic power of the Palestinian olive tree, he wrote.

Against the backdrop of the flames that gave the settler colony a fiery taste of the rogue regime’s scorched-earth campaign since reneging on the ceasefire, the reality of Gaza resembling a desert of death remains a painful reality. 

In a devastating critique of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Rasha Abou Jalal and Sharif Abdel Kouddous, we are reminded that Israel’s military continues multiple airstrikes and shelling across the besieged enclave on a daily basis, “pounding homes, displacement camps, cafes, hospitals, charity kitchens, so-called ‘humanitarian zones,’ and other civilian sites”.

Citing the relentless bombings and bloodbath, they highlight that three generations of the Al-Khour family were wiped out when Israel bombed their family home in the al-Sabra neighbourhood in central Gaza at dawn on April 26.

The elderly patriarch of the family, Talal al-Khour, his wives, daughters, sons, and grandchildren were all killed in the attack. A total of twenty-two people – including twelve children – perished, their bodies blown apart and buried under the rubble.

“The airstrike occurred at dawn while we were asleep. Suddenly, we woke up to a blast that felt like an earthquake. We rushed into the street and found that the five-story home of the Al-Khour family had turned into a pile of rubble,” Mohammad Al-Ajla, a 37-year-old neighbour who helped retrieve the bodies, told Drop Site News.

“As soon as the dust from the strike cleared, neighbors began trying to rescue members of the family. The recovery operation continued for eight straight hours. We saw bodies everywhere. There were children without heads.” 

The contrasts could not be clearer, though many who’ve ignored the smouldering bodies of babies and families in Gaza resulting from Israel’s deliberate bombings of tents and remains of buildings, and have been directly complicit in these awful crimes, will be shedding tears for settlers escaping from forest fires. 

*Iqbal Jassat is an Executive Member of the Media Review Network.