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While I hold the Israeli as dumb, (that why he was selling gloves). he could have concluded the conversations with,

"You are right habibi, Arabs call it Nablus, and Jews call it by its old biblical name of Shkhem. We mean the same place". That would have concluded the conversation.

The facts are. the name "Sh-khem" (as with the name Jerusalem, vs. Al Quds ) is mentioned 100's time in the old testament. Not once in Quran.

Also, just from the tone of the conversation, it is easy to detect that Nablusi was looking for excuses to fight. So he takes a mice and tries to turn it into an elephant.

A non credible post.

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Zionism is an Incurable Disease of the Mind

By Zaid Nabulsi

January 21, 2009 ArabComment
I lost my gloves one day in a coffee shop in Geneva, and I tell you, it’s difficult to ride without them when it’s really cold. So as I was
paying for a new pair with a credit card, the salesman, whom I knew was from Israel, tried to start some small talk by asking me what my family name means. I told him that it relates to the city of Nablus where my family is originally from.

Suddenly, the most bewildered look was plastered on his face. “Where is Nablus?” he asked, “I’ve never heard of it.” Then, after realizing that I knew he was bullshitting me, he pretended to remember, “Ah, Shkheim you mean?”With my insistence not to learn these ugly names that the deranged Zionists have dug up from oblivion to erase our identity, that name certainly didn’t ring a bell. But now it was my turn. Although I knew where he was from, I asked “And you’re… from?” As he smiled while reminding me, I replicated the same look on his face moments ago. “Israel? Where is that?” Then after a brief pause, “Ah, the land of Canaan you mean. Palestine”.

You see if you want to get biblical on me, there is no such thing as Israel either, and I made that clear to this smartass. Here we were all of a sudden; my family descended from a place called Shkheim, and this guy a Palestinian. God does work in mysterious ways, but I still thanked Him for His small mercies that at least my name was not Zaid
Shkheimy. “Have a nice day”, I told my Israeli friend. It was in fact a very cold, but still magnificently sunny day to hit the roads. The
gloves warmed up my grip on the bike, but my heart was still frozen. I just cannot stand thieves who steal your gloves, or any other kind of thieves.

It was then that it finally occurred to me. Zionism is a sickness, for it takes much more than just a twisted ideology to make people think like that. It requires a profound leap of immorality of a higher order to instill this mentality in your followers. Zionism is not merely a political movement, but in its essence represents a deeply disturbed
view of the world, which is a reflection of a terrible disease of the mind.

Indeed, to deny the existence of a vibrant community such as the Palestinian society in the early twentieth century and describe
Palestine as “a land without a people for a people without a land” is a disease of the mind.

>>To assert property claims over real estate after the lapse of more than 2000 years with the same certainty of title as if one resided there yesterday is a disease of the mind.

>>To describe the colonial immigration to Palestine of a European people
with no proven historical link to the ancient Israelites – and whose great, great recorded ancestors have never set foot there – as some
kind of a “return” to that land is indicative of a perverted
misunderstanding and misapplication of the verb to “return” and can
only be a result of a disease of the mind.

>>To blame the Palestinians for being unreasonable in rejecting a
partition plan in 1947 which gave the Jews, who only owned 7 percent of
the land, an astonishing half of Palestine, is a disease of the mind.

>>To demand of the Arabs at the time to peacefully succumb to such
partition, where 86 percent of the land designated for the proposed
Jewish state was Palestinian-inhabited and owned land, is a disease of
the mind.

>>To eventually grab 78 percent of Palestine through war and to force the
flight of the population through deliberate massacres and then call it
a war of independence is a disease of the mind.

>>To deny the orchestrated massacres and eradications of hundreds of
Palestinian villages in 1948 and then denounce the Israeli historians
who later exposed this truth as self-hating Jews is a disease of the
mind.

>>To claim that having escaped the horrors of Auschwitz-Birkenau,
Treblinka, and Dachau is a justification for the murder, expulsion, and
occupation of another guiltless people is a disease of the mind.

>>To legislate that any resident of Poland, Hungary, New York, Brazil,
Australia, Iceland, or even Planet Mars, who happens to be blessed with
a Jewish mother (yet cannot point to Palestine on the map) has a
superior right to “return” and settle in Palestine to someone who has
been expelled from his very own land, confined to a squalid refugee
camp, and still holds the keys to his house, is a disease of the mind.

>>To blame God for the theft and occupation of someone else’s land by
claiming that it was He who had pledged this land exclusively to the
Jews, and to seriously promote the myth of a land promised by the
Almighty to His favorite children as an excuse for this crime, is a
disease of the mind.

>>To milk the pockets of the world for the atrocities of the Nazis, while
stubbornly refusing a simple admission of guilt, let alone compensation
or repatriation, for the catastrophe that befell the Palestinian people
is a disease of the mind.

>>To keep reminding and blackmailing the world of the plight of the Jews
under Hitler 70 years ago, while at the same time inflicting on the
Palestinians today the same fate of the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto, is a
disease of the mind.

>>To impose a collective guilt overshadowing Western civilization for the
Holocaust and then to criminalize all legitimate historical debate of
the nature and extent of that horrific event is a disease of the mind.

>>To virtually incarcerate the Palestinian people inside degrading cages,
destroying their livelihoods, confiscating their lands, stealing their
water and uprooting their trees, and then to condemn their legitimate
resistance as terrorism is a disease of the mind.

>>To believe you have the right to chase the Palestinians into an Arab
capital city in 1982 and to indiscriminately bombard its civilians for
a relentless three months, murdering thousands of innocent people is a
disease of the mind.

>>To encircle the civilian camps of Sabra and Chatila after evacuating
the fighters and to unleash on them trained dogs (while providing them
with night-illuminating flares for efficiency) and then deny
culpability for the carnage is a disease of the mind.

>>To publicly declare a policy of breaking the bones of Palestinian
stone-throwers to prevent them from lifting stones again and to enact
this policy is a disease of the mind.

>>To have the sadistic streak of exacting vengeance on the innocent
families of suicide bombers by punishing them with the dynamiting of
their home is a disease of the mind.

>>To describe the offer of giving the Palestinians 80 percent of 22
percent of 100 percent of what is originally their own land as a
“generous” offer is a disease of the mind.

>>To believe that you have the right to continue to humiliate the
Palestinians at gun point by making them queue for hours to move
between their villages, forcing mothers to give birth at check-points
is a disease of the mind.

>>To flatten the camp of Jenin on its inhabitants and deny any wrongdoing
is a delusional condition which is symptomatic of a serious disease of
the mind.

>>To build a huge separation wall under the pretext of security, which
disconnects farmers from their farms and children from their schools,
while stealing even more territory as the wall freely zigzags and
encroaches on Palestinian land is a disease of the mind.

>>To leave behind, in the last 10 days of a losing war in Lebanon, more
than one million cluster bombs which have no purpose except to murder
and maim unsuspecting civilians is a product of an evil disease of the
mind.

>>To believe that the entire world is out to get you and to denounce any
critic of the racist policies of the State of Israel as an anti-Semite,
the latest victim being none other than peace-making Jimmy Carter, is
an acute stage of mass paranoia, which is a disease of the mind.

>>To possess, in the midst of a non-nuclear Arab world, more than 200
nuclear warheads capable of incinerating the whole planet in addition
to having the most advanced arsenal of weaponry in the world while
continuing to play the role of a victim is a disease of the mind.

>>Yes, and for that salesman in peaceful Geneva to be so insecure as to
refuse to acknowledge the name of the largest West Bank city under his
country’s brutal military occupation is, sadly, nothing but an
infectious disease of the mind.

That’s all what it is, ladies and gentlemen: Zionism is an incurable disease of the mind.

Take care, and if you ride, do it safely.

Zaid Nabulsi is a lawyer. He spent many years working for the United
Nations in Geneva. He has a passion for (glorious) Harley Davidson
bikes.

This article was originally published in Jordan’s Living Well magazine

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