Today, Arabs and Muslims are often associated with terrorism. Sharon often states that talks will not resume until Arafat controls his army of “terrorists”. Now that it is quiet obvious that Sharon does not even want peace, the question remains. What exactly is terrorism? Terrorism is violence, especially bombing, kidnapping, and assassination, carried out for political reasons as defined by most dictionaries. Terrorism is however used only by a weaker people against a stronger while the stronger people simply use their military. The problem with this is the weaker and usually oppressed people are labeled the terrorists while the stronger people often get away with mass murder.

Every Palestinian killed today was killed by terrorists. They may not have crude home-made bombs and mortars, but this detail makes their actions far more cruel. Power corrupts and Israel's use of excessive force against a weaker people fits in well with the definition of terrorism. Israel was not always the stronger people however. Before Israel got what it wanted, Zionists practically invented terrorism.

Terror was a policy first adopted by Zionists. The first airplane hijacking was committed by Israel in 1954 when a civilian Syrian airliner was hijacked shortly after the plane took off. Zionists invented the car bomb, and Zionists were the first to assassinate United Nations personnel as well as attack their own allies, such as the attack on the USS Liberty in 1967. Today no one seems to remember the Zionist truck-bomb which blew up Jerusalem’s King David hotel killing around 200 in 1946. Not many even know that on October 14, 1953, an elite unit under command of current Prime Minister Ariel Sharon attacked the village of Qibya in Jordan. Army officials stated that intelligence stated the village was evacuated, but the UN found bullet holes in the debris. The bullet holes were made from Sharon and his men shooting at the houses to make sure the inhabitants stayed inside while the time bombs went off. Around 66 houses were blown up killing over a hundred civilians, mainly women and children. Zionist terrorism in the 1930s and 1940s has been forgotten because it is obvious that the winners write the history books. There are however many instances of Zionist terrorism that would be impossible to fit in one measly article.

Terrorism was the only policy of the Zionists, which were determined to scare all Arabs from what they believe was their land. Cafes and restaurant were favorite targets of Zionist along with poor residential neighborhoods. More than 500 civilians were killed in the years of 1937 and 1938 alone. On April 16, 1939, Zionist terrorists randomly shot two Arab civilians near Betah Takfe settlements setting up many similar instances where innocent civilians were randomly shot week after week. A study showed that the 6 months before the birth of Israel, over 1,000 Arabs were killed and almost a million scared or evicted from their homes. This is not only terrorism but mass terrorism, designed to force Muslims to migrate elsewhere.

These operations became more cruel when Zionist realized that a Jewish state was a possibility. The problem for the Zionist was however the “security” of the Jews. The world however can obviously see that the Zionist did not want to mix with Arabs. How could God’s “chosen people” mingle with inferior race anyhow? Around the second half of December 1947, Zionist attacked civilians in villages within the Haifa sub-district and soon they moved to villages in the sub-district of Safad and Tabaraya. Over 170 men, women and children civilians were killed in these attacks. Although many Arabs were scared away at this point, this did not stop Zionist from attacking residents of Al-Tireh, Saasa, Kfar Husseiniya, Sarafand, Kalounya, Beyt Sourik, Aylaboun, Al-Shajara and Nasser Al-Dine killing 250 civilians. Israel however shocked the world when they slaughtered a few hundred civilians in the village of Deir Yassin, on the 19th of April. Even after the establishment of the Jewish state, Zionist still did not believe Israel to be “pure”.

In the summer of 1953, Israel attacked the camp of Bureig in Gaza, and then the village of Kubeiya killing 60 and wounding 90 Arab civilians. Every week seemed to bring another massacre at the hands of Zionists. The more famous of these were the massacres at the village of Nahalin and the coast of Tabaraya lake killing around 20. In the 1956 war, Israel showed its love of human beings by bombing villages in Gaza killing hundreds of civilians. The 1956 massacres of Kfar Kassem and Khan Younus saw the deaths off 450 civilians which were mainly workers and farmers. In 1966 and 1967, raids on Al-Nakib and Al-Sumu saw the deaths of 50 civilians. Palestinians were not the only targets of Zionist however.

Zionist terrorism spread across the borders whenever Israel felt like they needed to retaliate against Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt. In September of 1967, around 200 Egyptian civilians were killed in Al-Suise, the port of Tawfik and Al-Ismailiya. Around 100 were killed in raids on sub-districts of Arbad and Al-Salat. Israel stated that these villages contained Palestinian fighters and followed with more attacks the following year.

Around 130 civilians were killed in the summer of 1968 in Al-Suise and Al-Ismailiya, and 1969 saw the deaths of 60 civilian in attacks on Al-Hama and Meysaloon, in Syria and Bour Said, in Egypt. An attack of a factory in Abi Zubel saw the deaths of 70 civilians in 1970, and 50 school children were killed when Israel attacked Baher Al-Bakar school in Egypt.

Palestinians have never attacked an Israeli school yet they still call Palestinians terrorists. The massacres in Lebanon alone should bring massive condemnation of Israel from the world but generally has not. Seems like the holocaust is Israel's excuse for repeating the evil.

When Israel invaded and occupied the southern part of Lebanon in 1982, it was clear they truly wanted to add to their nation of hatred. There were reports of civilians rounded up in Mosques and murdered as well as daily rocket attacks, shelling, air raids, naval bombings, mines, car bombs, home demolitions, assassination and napalm attacks. The targets of these atrocities were hospitals, mosques, gatherings, market places, lone houses and schools. Ports were also closed devastating the economy and not allowing medical supplies and other aid to reach needy civilians. Israeli settlers reportedly also poisoned water supplies while Israel disrupted electricity and stole water from Lebanese rivers. To view just some of the atrocities performed by Israel against Lebanon, go to www.qana.org. There are far too many to list here, and the website mentioned only brushes on the mentioned massacres. In conclusion tens of thousands of Lebanese were killed, wounded, and missing. Many of these were men, women, children, the elderly, journalists and even religious figures. Some of the more discreet weapons of terrorism were cluster and vacuum bombs, shrapnel, phosphoric and napalm, and (I still cannot believe this) booby trapped dolls. If these actions by Sharon, which masterminded the invasion and occupation, were not ethnic cleansing and very cruel, then you may need to check weather or not you were born with a heart.

Israel has always been a sneaky type of country. They want to kill as many Arabs as they can, but will dodge the blame whenever possible. UN reports stated that in 1982, Maronite Christians supervised and helped by Israeli soldiers killed around 3000 civilians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. Israel was also known to squash cars full of civilians with tanks and bombing houses. In 1973, Israel also shot down a Libyan civil aircraft over Sinai killing all 106 civilian passengers aboard. Israel also has an obsession of killing Muslims while they practice their faith as shown in one of the more famous cases in 1994 where 50 Arab Muslims were killed in the Ibrahimi Mosque in Al-Khalil. Israel has even committed these types of war crimes against its own allies in the past.

During the 1967 war, Israel attacked the USS liberty killing 35 soldiers. Israel stated they saw no flag and mistook the ship for an Egyptian ship. The shiny American ship not only looked nothing like the Egyptian ship but flew a large American flag overhead. Israel then made up a phony and flawed testimony about the incident but the US did not buy it. The two notable terrorist actions against the British however were the assassination of Lord Mowin in Cairo and the attempted assassination of Sir Harold McMichel in Jerusalem. Zionist terrorists assassinated or attempted to assassinate many high ranking employees of large companies, officers and judges.

Zionists were also known to do some very cruel things such as hanging opponents on tree trunks and electrical poles, crucifications, and blowing up the bodies of kidnapped victims by sticking dynamite inside the victim. If you still do not believe that Zionism is just as cruel, if not more cruel, than nazism, then read the next paragraph on what some Zionists did to their own people.

Not only were their reports of key Zionists meeting with Hitler, but there were also many terrorist acts against European Jews which Zionists believed were sinners and not “pure”. The Jewish ship “Patria” was blown up in November of 1940 of the coast of Palestine. The ship was carrying 1,900 illegal Jewish immigrants into Palestine, 240 of which drowned. In 1942, Zionist gangs blew up the “Stroma”near the shore of Turkey which was carrying 770 illegal Jews, all of which drowned. Even today, some modern Zionists show their same hatred and cruelty.

The father of a girl who was almost blown up recently by a Hamas militant stated an opinion which many Jews take to heart. David Glam, stated recently that he does “not hate Arabs generally. But when they act this way and hurt people," he adds, referring to suicide bombings, "it makes me hate them.” He later states that if he had an atomic bomb, he would use it on the Arabs. Many would not be surprised if another war in the middle east ended with Israel unleashing its nuclear arsenal.

This is not propaganda but simple facts. Israel committed many of these atrocities and many more, some personally performed by Sharon himself. To kill civilians for political reason is terrorism. The assassination of activists is terrorism. The shooting of kids when all they do is throw stones is terrorism. The two sides may have switched but Israel's cruel past can be seen in its cruel treatment of Arabs by its military.

Israel does not want peace, it wants all the Arabs to leave the land they believe is theirs. Hundreds of kids have been killed by Israel and they call us terrorists. Villages have been destroyed with dynamite while the inhabitants were asleep inside, and they call us terrorists. Thousands of houses have been bulldozed over the years, and they call us terrorists.

Helicopters, naval warships, and tanks pound on civilians in villages daily and they call us terrorists. How come no one ever calls some of Israel's unbelievable and vile acts terrorism? Why are we called terrorists because of a few bad apples when Israel's army commits terrorism against us on a daily basis. All they seem to do is kill but if we throw a stone, God forbid, we are suddenly labeled as the terrorists.