Pro-Palestinian or pro-Hamas? Kalim Rajab, Trustee Chairman, Helen Suzman Foundation
A 100% commonsense and accurate answer
People who were not appointed to revile the Jews, have raped a Jew’s legacy, and still earn their keep from her venerable name
Kalim Rajab wrote a column on the conduct of Israel’s military juggernaut in Gaza:
“Nothing is off-limits or worthy of being mourned — neither women nor children, nor the elderly or vulnerable, not doctors or journalists, nor humanitarian aid workers or peace activists, neither refugees in camps nor those in search of food, not those running toward aid vehicles nor those attempting to fish, not those in wheelchairs or those closing their ears just before another bomb is dropped on them. Not any six-year-olds dying alone in cars, buried under the rubble and allowed to rot.”
In the extract, is Rajab pro-Palestinian, or is he pro-Hamas?
The 100% commonsense and accurate answer, by steps
1. Picture a man distraught by the plight of Palestinians in Gaza, caught in the crosshairs of a callous, occupying army. He wants to beg Hamas and bellow at the group’s leaders:
2. ‘I support the nobility of your cause. But the human cost is too great. I can no longer take the daily horrors. Do whatever it takes to stop the slaughter and devastation. If it means laying down arms, do it. If it means making a cease fire deal, agree to one. And give back the hostages you took. Enough already. What makes such an appeal ‘pro-Palestinian’?
3. To be “pro” someone means putting that someone first. To burn for that someone’s agony to end. At the bedside of a child ravaged with tumours, the human instinct would be to beg matron to dial up the morphine dose.
4. Re-read the extract. How do Rajab’s gut-wrenching words compare? Do they burn for the end to the Palestinians’ agony? On the contrary. Rajab is too busy on something else. He is painstakingly cataloguing the agony. He lays it on thick, even showing a creative touch, and conveying a relish he cannot, for the life of him, control.
5. Rajab is like the bedside visitor who puts empathy for the dying child on hold while he enumerates the faults of the oncologist. What happened to the human instinct? He lets the Palestinians, in extremis, take a backseat while he compiles a catalogue of Israeli crimes. Pleading with Hamas to end the suffering can wait. As for the plight of women and children, they’ll have to put aside their agony while he, Rajab is cataloguing the crimes.
What – is this the behaviour of a man supposed to be pro-Palestinian? The sufferers serve his purpose. Their suffering acts as a lightning rod down which his strike travels to electrocute Israel. A plea to Hamas to lay down arms and return the hostages is notable by being absent. For all Rajab cares, Hamas may carry on rocketing Israel, and sheltering in tunnels beneath tenements, schools and hospitals.
Rajab’s words, or lack thereof, are the diametric opposite to what it means to be pro-Palestinian. They make him 100% pro-Hamas
What shock at the revelation can there be, when the family of Nelson Mandela is pro-Hamas, and proudly so? Before Rajab and his pirates on board the Good ship HSF captured Helen Suzman for their pro-Hamas agenda, Mandela’s grandson captured the great statesman and lugged him to the Hamas encampment. HSF’s truck with Iran’s terror proxy was bound to happen. “Copycat plotters and ingrates” I described them and their type. They are not afraid of fresh plots, nor above putting new words in the mouths of the dead.
The Oct. 7 atrocity (Rajab chose the word “horrible”) blew the paper light camouflage of the pro-Hamas at Rajab’s alma maters. At the University of Cape Town and at Oxford, the same breakdown of civilization erupted as at America’s Ivy League schools, the likes of which have not been seen since 1920s Germany.Pro-Hamas Gruppenführers long ago e captured not just academia. They command the NGO industry, the UN secretariat and agencies, international courts, women’s rights, “social justice” causes, mainstream media and, close to home, the ANC government.
Rajab therefore is just one Gruppenführer among a multitude. Markers to this effect litter his column in the DM.
Here is a taster.
“What we have witnessed over the last year has been a genocide, played out in real-time while we watch.
It has been an urbanicide
It has been a scholasticide.
It has been a cultural Armageddon.
It has been Death by Thirst. Death by Stalking Famine.
Done with an impunity which simultaneously declares itself virtuous.”
I shall explore these and other markers in Answer 2.
Right now though, in some way, Rajab’s case may cause shock. An Oppenheimer-elevated man abused the honour and privilege showered on him.
How representative are they – Rajab and his pirates on the Good Ship HSF? Are there not tens of millions of real ‘bread and butter’ South Africans looking at Oct 7 through a different lens?