We will never forget the massacre

The Israelis stopped their massacres in Gaza not due to the UN resolution or at the advice of their friends, but because they didn't want to spoil the inauguration party of the new US president Barack Obama. Continuing their holocaust of the Palestinians would have taken some global media space that would have been needed to cover the party in Washington. That does not mean the Israelis will stop killing Palestinians, as they've been doing it for decades with the consent of the whole free world. Let Obama enjoy his party, and "Ehud Barak the Murderer" enjoy his ratings in the run up to the Israeli election, but what the whole world allowed to happen in Gaza won't go that easy.

We will never forget those millions of ordinary people who took part in large demonstrations throughout the world, not only in support of oppressed Palestinians but against the barbaric acts of a terrorist state. Many journalists, writers and celebrities who stood publicly against the massacres were actually trying to preserve some of the basic human values which politicians and leaders of the so-called free-world were destroying. We will never forget the position of many sincere Jews who oppose Zionism and how they demonstrated against the deeds of those murderous leaders of Israel. We will never forget bold moves by some countries against Israel, even if they did that as part of their policy towards US hegemony.

As for those here in our region, we did not forget what they did since the British brought them from central and eastern Europe to Palestine under colonial mandate, a century ago. From the Polish Simon Peresky (now Shimon Peres) to the last fanatic terrorist coming from Russia, North America or Australia to settle on Palestinian land, they all were for the holocaust in Gaza. Their massacres along the century are alive in our memory, even though their mentors in Europe and America protected them and legalised their occupation.

We will never forget the stand of our regimes in Arab and Muslim worlds, as they humiliated us more by insisting on talking peace with those blood-thirsty terrorists while their latest massacre was in the making. We will never forget the stand of part of our so-called 'intelligentsia' who were more Catholic than the Pope in their pro-American and pro-Israeli views.

All this will never be forgiven, and we're going to teach our children the true contemporary history of the region; not the way the American-manipulated official education system is doing. We will teach them how Europe flushed those Zionists into our region, trained and armed them to massacre us, to get rid of a so-called Jewish problem. That Western racism, a century ago, is now directed at Arabs and Muslims, and whatever the Western leaders say about human rights and democracy is just blunt hypocrisy and arrogance.

We will never forgive the world's encouragement and protection of the murderers and their blame of the victims - merely because they are Arabs and Muslims, and whatever said other than that is difficult to swallow. Forget about 9/11 and all those other false pretexts, the many in the West always sees our spilled blood as a cheap commodity (like oil) needed to fuel its dominance. Acting as donors after supporting the massacre will not make us forgive, as this money are to "clean" the scene of the Israeli crime - it is not different from the billions the occupiers get every year from America and Europe as aid and donations. Whatever you say or do now will not deceive us to forget or forgive.

Enjoy your power for now, but history taught us that nations rise and fall and we will teach this to our next generations in our own way. You might control the so-called international system, write its laws and orders - and violate it to protect your war crimes - but this is not going to be forever. You might be able to impose your ill will, find partners in treaties and accords, but all this can be changed once things change.

France occupied Algeria for more than a century and half, to the extent that the French considered it as the southern part of their country. Finally, it was liberated and returned to the Algerians at a price of more than a million martyrs killed by the French occupation.

The day will come for occupation to end, and those who created, supported and protected it will pay the price in due time.

Dr Ahmad Mustafa is a London-based Arab writer.