The plight of the Palestinians is a powerful narrative. Because it is written in blood. And still is. But it never gets the attention it deserves.
Perhaps they are not as good in telling their story as the late Edward Said, a Palestinian refugee himself, was. Bleeding hearts alone aren't enough.
The spilt blood must find a keen nib to let the cry be heard. Said's pen had such a nib. Even so, the Zionists around the world stifled his words by countering it with lies.
Their strategy of drowning out the truth hasn't changed a bit. It was in full display on Wednesday when United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi led a delegation of seven Democrats to Israel.
Perhaps Sanjeev Bery, the executive director of US-based human rights group Freedom Forward, captured the purpose of the US lawmakers' visit best when he put it thus to news portal Middle East Eye (MEE): "to change the headlines".
He is right. Pelosi's trip to Tel Aviv comes a few weeks after Amnesty International's report accused the Zionist regime of committing the international crime of apartheid.
Israel's first option was to stop the publication of the London-based human rights group's report. Having failed there, the Zionists marshalled the US and some European nations to deny the truth of Amnesty's allegations.
If this wasn't enough, the Zionists recruited Pelosi and her band of truth-deniers to whitewash the war crimes of the inhumane regime of 73 years. Speaking in the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, she told of America's "ironclad" support for Israel.
Perhaps an allusion to the Iron Dome missile system, funded by the US. In Pelosi, foul becomes fair and fair foul.
Put differently, Pelosi's impunity-inducing words mean this: Israel, though you kill as many Palestinians as you wish and steal as much land as you want, the US will never abandon you.
Pelosi and the lawmakers who travelled to Tel Aviv know that the Zionists' war crimes aren't just 73 years old. They are as old as the first few UK- and US-sponsored Zionists landed on Palestinian soil.
Yes, it is older than Israel, the nation built on stolen Palestinian land. Yet, the shameless whitewashing continues.
Zionist money sure does purchase some ironclad whitewashing. Perhaps Pelosi and her band need a jolt by juxtaposition.
Jewish Voice for Peace Action's words shared with MEE do just that: "While Speaker Pelosi promises the leaders of Israel's apartheid regime billions of US taxpayer dollars, Israeli forces in Jerusalem are violently attacking Palestinians and trying to drive them from their homes to 'Judaize' the city."
Many innocent, unarmed Palestinians have been killed like this for defending their land.
America must be told whitewashing is a war crime. It is called complicity.
Pelosi and her fellow whitewashers will do well to read the words of the Rome Statute, which the US helped draft.
Israel and its partners in crime may have been successful in keeping the International Criminal Court and other international legal institutions at bay thus far, but this doesn't mean they have not committed any war crimes.
The ICC and United Nations will be the first two to show proof of Israel's alleged crimes. The US is in the habit of telling the world that America is another word for human rights.
If this be so, we ask in the borrowed words of an activist: "Why this horrifying betrayal of human rights?"
