By Badrya Darwish
As usual, Mr Netanyahu did not bring anything new - it's true that I waited to hear his speech, only for him to reiterate what he has been saying for the past few years. What surprised me was not Netanyahu's attitude and his thoughts. We know Netanyahu is an extremist Zionist. We were not expecting anything from him. It was the way the US Congress received him. It was like a theatre. The minute he walked in, they all stood up and kept clapping for five minutes. I have never seen such applause even for an American president - Obama or anyone else. The US Congress even exceeded the applause game of the Syrian parliament when Bashar Al-Assad gave a speech there last month. I had criticized it and mocked it then. I apologize.
Then they gave Netanyahu the chance to speak. When he got on the podium, there was another round of applause. For a moment I thought he was addressing the Knesset, and not the US Congress. Then I told myself, be patient. Listen to the man. The minute he uttered a word, the Congress stood up for more applause. I was confused - did this man liberate America? Is he coming back home as a war hero? This standing ovation was repeated every time the homecoming hero opened his mouth.
So at the end of the day, there were only a few things that Netanyahu could mention. He wants Abbas to say the six holy words - "I will accept a Jewish state". If the whole world approves this theory, this means they did not occupy Palestine. There will be no Palestine anymore. This also means they will kick out the more than a million Israeli Arabs (those who did not leave when Israel was created in 1948). Plus, every Jew in the world, whether Filipino, Indian, Chinese, Brazilian, Moroccan etc etc, can cl
aim Palestine as their homeland, ironically, except the Palestinians themselves. This will be the worst apartheid crime in history if the world approves Netanyahu's demands.
Leave alone that he did not agree on the return of refugees - nearly five million of them scattered all over the world. In some Arab countries, they are not naturalized and only carry a travel document that is not accepted in most embassies. So they are stuck in refugee camps like animals in a zoo.
By the way, he also insists Jerusalem is the capital of his apartheid Jewish state. What about the other two major religious sites - the Aqsa Mosque of the Muslims and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre of the Christians? If every country is formed on the basis of religion, imagine how many more communities would start claiming a state of their own - for instance Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Zoroastrians, etc. Imagine if all Muslims in the world start claiming Saudi Arabia as their country? And this is the case
with all other religions.
Sorry Mr Netanyahu. Your great theory doesn't pass in modern history. Maybe three or four thousand years back, you could have built countries based on religions.
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