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This memoir recounts the personal and collective experiences of my Palestinian family from Yasur, a village in the Gaza province, tracing their displacement and survival following the Nakba (catastrophe) of 1948. Through vivid recollections, the narrative captures the peaceful life my parents once led as farmers before Zionist militias (later the Israeli Defense Forces, IDF) violently uprooted them from their homeland. Their forced exile marked the beginning of a life shaped by hardship, resilience, and an enduring longing for justice. As the fifth child in a family of six, I offer glimpses into my early years as the son of Palestinian refugees, relying on memory to preserve the voices and struggles of those who lived through one of history’s greatest injustices. This memoir is not merely a personal account; it is a testament to the broader Palestinian experience and a call for the restoration of rights, dignity, and justice for the people of Palestine.

Since Israel’s establishment in 1948, American support has been the core of its survival and settler-colonial expansion. American aid to Israel cannot be fully understood without accounting for domestic political pressures. The rise of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) institutionalized unconditional support for Israel as a bipartisan norm. Politicians seeking election or reelection find it almost obligatory to affirm their commitment to Israel, regardless of its government’s actions. This domestic political calculus intertwines with broader strategic goals. Israel is portrayed as an essential partner in safeguarding US interests in the Middle East, including oil routes and containing regional adversaries. Yet, in practice, Israel’s actions – such as the expansion of settlements and periodic wars in Gaza – often complicate American diplomacy, especially with Arab and Muslim-majority countries. This article examines the scope, structure, and political meaning of American aid to Israel, highlighting its unprecedented size, preferential treatment, and wide-ranging forms. It documents the evolution of US assistance from humanitarian and economic support to a comprehensive system of military, financial, diplomatic, and cultural backing that overwhelmingly benefits Israeli Jewish citizens. Special attention is given to the exceptional emergency appropriations and arms transfers that continued unabated even after international legal bodies, including the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and International Criminal Court (ICC), found evidence of Israeli war crimes and genocide in Gaza.

This article examines Zionist claims to colonize Palestine and the role of Great Britain and prominent European Zionist Jews in the effort to establish Israel. Theodore Herzl, his lieutenants, and supporters personify Hannah Arendt’s phrase “the banality of evil” while acting and appearing as respectable statesmen, scientists, journalists, and businesspeople who advocated for freedom, liberation, and combating antisemitism. They deliberately collaborated with known antisemites and worked to dismantle ancient Jewish communities, relentlessly removing Jews out of their countries of origin, colonizing Palestine for the creation of a Jewish state, ethnically cleansing the indigenous people of Palestine, fabricating history, erasing Palestine and its long history, demeaning and oppressing the Palestinian people, and suppressing and appropriating Palestinian culture.

Nazi Germany and the Jewish Agency for Palestine, the future government of Israel and the official representative of the Zionist Organization (ZO), entered a contractual transactional relationship from 1933 to 1939. In 1952 the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the State of Israel, on behalf of all Jews, signed an agreement that paved the way for Germany’s unconditional support for Israel. No suggestion is being made here that Nazi Germany and the FRG are the same; the FRG assumed responsibilities for the crimes of the Holocaust. However, both contractual transactional relationships between both countries from 1933 to the present have initiated policies and programs that contributed significantly to the deterioration of German Jewish living conditions in Germany, the transfer of thousands of German Jewish citizens and their assets out of Germany to colonize Palestine, the establishment of Israel in historic Palestine, the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people, the allocation of a significant portion of German reparation money for the benefit of Israel instead of the victims of the Holocaust, the strengthening of the Israeli economy and industrial base, and providing Israel with German military technology and equipment to wage wars in the region. In this article, I will examine and analyze the special, often secret, relationship between Germany and the Zionist mechanization to colonize Palestine, the establishment of Israel in 1948, and the arming of the state with modern weapon platforms that can carry and deliver nuclear weapons. This secret relationship is in clear violation of German law, made possible by creating a universal guilt feeling among Germans for the crime of the Holocaust, and associated with a deliberate lack of public debate and accountability.

Nazi Germany and the Jewish Agency for Palestine, the future government of Israel and the official representative of the Zionist Organization (ZO), entered a contractual transactional relationship from 1933 to 1939. In 1952 the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the State of Israel, on behalf of all Jews, signed an agreement that paved the way for Germany's unconditional support for Israel. No suggestion is being made here that Nazi Germany and the FRG are the same; the FRG assumed responsibilities for the crimes of the Holocaust.

Over the past five centuries the Western powers have originated and advocated norms of international law to guide international relations. In the case of Palestine these norms were breached by the very powers that developed them. The occupation of Palestine by alien stock, the uprooting of the natives, and the establishment of Israel on its ruins were direct results of Western manipulation and in flagrant violation of the norms of international law accepted by states. The establishment of Israel in 1948 was achieved by force and was not based on legal grounds. Israel's treatment of the native Palestinians was based on the principles of Zionism, a colonial and racially exclusivist movement. Israel's policies in Occupied Palestine pay no attention to the calls of international communities and to the provisions of international conventions and agreements. As a result, the region and the entire world is threatened with the break out of a large-scale war. To defuse the tension, Israel should be made accountable for her actions and the international community should exercise its authority to put an end to the illegalities that were created in Palestine by Western political manipulation.

The massive military buildup by the United States in the gulf is in keeping with its long-term strategy, the aim of which is economic and political dominance of the Arab world through the control of its valuable oil resources and wealth.

The massive military buildup by the United States in the gulf is in keeping with its long-term strategy, the aim of which is economic and poPolitical dominance of the Arab world through the control of its valuable oil resources and wealth.

Even if the P.L.O. were reduced to ruins and the genocide process that culminated in the recent Israeli aggression against the Palestinian-Lebanese people resulted in the annihilation of tens of thousands, the remaining Palestinians would continue their struggle, stronger than ever before, to restore their natural rights.