The Chosen People of Satan

by Dr. Abdul-Sattar Kassem

The Zionist attacks against the Palestinian people are intensifying: people are besieged in Gaza, they are made to fight for their daily bread in Nablus, and they are squeezed into every corner of a straitened existence everywhere. The Zionists impose an airtight siege so that no money, no food, no fuel, no medicine gets in; they shut down shops, blow up houses, uproot trees, burn crops, kill livestock and sheep, and assault every avenue of livelihood, punishing children, infants, the elderly, men, and women, torturing them and turning their lives into an unbearable hell. And the Americans, together with their fallen Arab-ruler agents, never hesitate to lend a hand and offer support and backing.

In this series of short articles, I set out to give the honorable Arab reader, and the zealous Muslim, a brief account of the character of these vile Zionists, so that each of us thinks a hundred times before assuming anything good of them. They claim that Muslims are savage, hate-filled people who love ignorance and darkness, and who make war on the people of light, democracy, and freedom. Here we shall see who is truly the dark, hateful, wretched, grasping, greedy, and loathsome one. There is no intention in these short articles to attack any particular religion — only the intention to clarify the traits of this enemy who has turned the life of the Palestinian people, and of many Arab peoples, into an unbroken symphony of pain and grief. We respect religions; these pens speak only against those who harm peoples and see themselves as masters over the nations.

It is the conviction of these hate-filled Zionists that they are God’s chosen people, that they alone are His people, and that He has no people but them. They repeat endlessly, in their religious books, the idea of the chosen people of God, without whom the Lord would lose His very divinity. Only they are of God’s creation; the other peoples have no lord and no god, and are merely animals in human form. In their own theorizing, God loves the Zionists alone, and His very existence is bound up with them. He is devoted to them, His efforts are directed toward them alone, and all the events of history revolve around them. Their lord says to them: “The Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: but because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers.” (Deuteronomy 7:6-7)

[…] “Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac. And the thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight because of his son. And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called. And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.” (Genesis 21:11-14) It is clear here that Abraham will be known historically only through the lineage of Isaac, not through the lineage of the bondwoman’s son. This is confirmed in another Torah verse, which says: “And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest… and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there…” (Genesis 22:1)

The Lord’s cruelty appears again in the story of Hagar’s flight from Sarah, on account of the torment and persecution she suffered: “And the angel of the Lord found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur. And he said, Hagar, Sarai’s maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai. And the angel of the Lord said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands. And the angel of the Lord said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude. And the angel of the Lord said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the Lord hath heard thy affliction. And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him.” (Genesis 16:7-12)

The Lord marshals His powers to protect the Children of Israel, saying: “And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows. And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.” (Exodus 3:6-9) Where did this lord come down to? The answer is as follows: “And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, he called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.” (Exodus 3:3-5)

The Lord affirms that His divinity is confined to the Children of Israel when He says: “And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant. Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments: and I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God.” (Exodus 6:4-7)

Because the Lord finds himself no god except through them, he humbles himself before the Children of Israel. For instance, he says: “And the Lord said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?” (Numbers 14:11) This makes sense, given that whoever wrote these lines has made the Lord subject to those who made a god of him. Were it not for the Children of Israel, the Lord would never have become divine, and he must bear their insults patiently if he wishes to remain a god.

Herein lies a lesson for the Palestinians and the Arabs who imagine that peace is possible with those who manufacture their own gods.

Source: Translated from the original Arabic, “شعب الشيطان المختار” by Dr. Abdul-Sattar Kassem.