Palestinian NGOs Struggle With Concept Of Not Inciting To Murder

“When I ask them to explain the concept of ‘not killing Israelis,’ they look at me like I’m the one who’s talking gibberish.”

Ramallah, November 2 – Civil society groups working for Palestinian independence acknowledged difficulty today in comprehending the insistence of donors and diplomats that those organizations’ activities not include the active pursuit of violence in which Israeli Jews will die.

Spokespeople for several NGOs that Israel listed last week as fronts for the terrorist group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, in addition to blanket condemnation of Israel for “silencing” or “suppressing” activity aimed at upholding human rights, disclosed that the organizations in question, in addition to similar ones operating throughout Palestinian society, get confused when Europeans or other foreign funding sources express unease at the organizations’ equation of dead Israelis to a freer Palestine.

“I mean, what else could be the path to liberation?” wondered Sufa Shubaki, whose group aims to empower women to emulate a Palestinian mother whose six sons all serve lengthy prison terms for attempts to kill Jews. “When I ask them to explain the concept of ‘not killing Israelis,’ they look at me like I’m the one who’s talking gibberish. Gentlemen, you introduced the idea; it’s on you to explain it. I can’t be expected to grasp something alien without some handle on what it’s all about.”

Other representatives sounded similar puzzlement. “We’ve been glorifying the redemption of our homeland through blood and fire for decades and decades,” mused Human Rights Watch advisory board member Shawan Jabarin, also a leader of the PFLP implicated in deadly terrorist attacks. “This isn’t something new that our donors and funding sources are just discovering. So they owe us an explanation: what is it about Palestinian independence that they hesitate to endorse? If they can’t get behind the liberation of Palestine through the extermination of every last Jew between the River and the Sea, then I don’t understand what they want.”

“It’s not as if Europeans have ever had a problem with dead Jews,” he added. “We’re just picking up where they left off. It would be the height of hypocrisy for them to claim they actually care now. Either they’re pretending, and we’re really on the same page, so stop the pretense, or they really are serious, in which case they’re just not making sense. Besides, a Palestinian national liberation movement that doesn’t aim to stab, burn, behead, trample, bludgeon, gas, strangle, shoot, explode, dismember, or otherwise dispose of Jews – what would that even look like? It’s a self-contradictory term, an ontological impossibility. You might as well make matza without non-Jewish children’s blood.”

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