Honest Anti-Zionist Also Questions Own Right To Exist

His very arrival in this world was fraught with violations of other people’s space, dignity, and possessions, and his continued existence has only made the situation even more complicated.

Beirut, March 29 – Unlike most of his peers, Hassan Dirani does not limit his accusations of illegitimacy to the Zionist Entity to the south; he applies the same critical eye to his own life on this mortal coil, and openly wonders whether he, or anyone for that matter, can justly claim the right to exist.

The 45-year-old car repair entrepreneur accepts the common perception in the Arab and Muslim worlds that the State of Israel is an illegitimate entity born of the usurpation of Palestinian land, and must be dismantled or destroyed if justice is to be served. He also maintains that stance with regard to himself, admitting that his very arrival in this world was fraught with violations of other people’s space, dignity, and possessions, and that his continued existence has only made the situation even more complicated.

“The Zionists stole Arab land and have no claim to it,” says Dirani. “By the same token, I have no right to exist, either, having foisted myself upon my mother’s uterus and demanded her very lifeblood for my own nourishment and growth, never having gained her consent to occupy that space.”

“At no point did I ever accept that I was essentially an interloper in my parents’ relationship and home, no matter how successful or happy my existence may have made them,” he continued, “much in the way the Zionist project does not suddenly become legitimate or admirable for having transformed a backwater province of the decaying Ottoman and British Empires into a linchpin of the global economy and a bastion of democracy and equality – it can never become legitimate.”

Like Israel, Dirani does not simply end his own existence, for a variety of reasons. “At a certain point pragmatism trumps ideology,” noted the father of four. “For all that I agree I have no right to exist and that I should be put to death, there are complex societal and economic factors that make ending my existence a less-than-ideal move, art least right now. Just like Israel – on balance it’s better right now to have someone to blame for the region’s problems and not have to actually fix or change anything, so the fight against Zionism is taking a back burner to other strategic issues.”

Dirani cites the question of Palestinian refugees, hundreds of thousands of whom inhabit camps in Lebanon, with millions more scattered across the Middle East. “If the Zionist entity disappeared tomorrow the Palestinian problem wouldn’t be automatically solved – a lot of cushy jobs depend on keeping the Palestinians stateless and dependent. It’s the same with me. I have employees who depend on me, my tax dollars are an important contribution to the State, and my community benefits from the various activities and causes I help support. If I ceased to exist tomorrow, that would cause a lot more problems than it would solve.”

At press time, Dirani was agitating for a boycott of humanity.

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