| Israel:
A racist state for Jews-only! |
By: John Lynch
It
started a couple of thousand years ago when some Jewish people decided that God regards only them as his
chosen race. Jews became god's special race while all other races
were deemed inferior because they would never win his divine favour.
the basic principles of that religion, Judaism is exclusively for
the Jews.
It is next to impossible
for a non-Jew to be admitted into the Judaic religion. It is as
difficult for non-Jews to become a member of Judaism as it is for
them to become a Jew. In other words, Judaism is a Jews-only religion.
For millennia this sense of divine specialness, exclusiveness, chosenness
has percolated throughout Jewish culture.
Putting aside the religious
aspect of this belief, what the message boils down to is that only
Jews matter, only Jews are important, all other races are inferior.
The modern manifestation
of the Jewish tradition of specialness was the violent creation
of a Jews-only state in Palestine. To Jews, God has given the land
of Israel to the Jews and the presence of non-Jews on this sacred
Judaic soil is sacrilegious.
Despite the fact that
there are many Palestinians with Israeli citizenship, the Zionist
state is a Jews-only state because only Jews have full rights. Palestinian
Israelis have the right to vote in Zionist elections, contest for
seats in the Knesset, and even become members of the Jewish parliament
but they do not have the same legal rights as Jews - which surely
indicates the relative insignificance of democracy to Jews.
"The tours (of Palestinian
and Bedouin areas inside Israel) proved to be a dramatic illustration
of the discrimination and racism inherent in a system designed specifically
to maintain a Jewish majority - a system based on the superiority
of Jews over anyone else. Palestinians, including Bedouin, living
inside Israel are citizens of the state. They can vote in Israeli
elections; Bedouin, although not other Palestinians, serve in the
Israeli military. As a matter of law and of the institutional arrangements
inherent in Israel's status as a Jewish-majority state, however,
Palestinians and Bedouin, because they are non-Jews, do not receive
anything like equal rights or services from the state. Not only
do they face the kind of de facto discrimination that blacks have
faced in the U.S. - their schools are inadequate, their municipal
services are inadequate, they face job discrimination, their towns
often sit next to toxic waste dumps and other environmentally hazardous
sites - but because Israel is explicitly a Jewish state, Palestinians
are unable by law to enjoy the benefits of the state provided to
Jews or in any way to live in the state as Jews do." (Kathleen
& Bill Christison '"Finally It Broke My Heart": Random
Impressions from Palestine'.
Palestinian Israelis
are second class citizens - and if many Jews had a choice about
the matter they would deport these indigenous 'aliens' if they could
get away with it.
Paradoxically, in order
to win the sympathies of people in the western world, Jews try to
hide the second class citizenship of Israeli Palestinians from the
outside world as much as they try to hide their goal of a Jews-only
state. Whilst pretending to western audiences that the Zionist state
is a Western, secular, multicultural society like all other Western
states, Zionists are doing their utmost to remove all palestinians
from their own country. The more they try to make conditions for
the Palestinians unlivable, the more that Zionists cover up such
ethnic cleansing with the deception that the Zionist state is just
like any other Western state. There are Jews in the Western world
who pretend to be anti-Zionist in order to surreptitiously put forward
arguments in favour of the Zionist state in Palestine. They do this
by suggesting that in the Zionist state the Palestinians are treated
just the same as Jews. Such Jews invariably expose their pro-Zionist
stance when they claim that Jews and palestinians are equal.
The Jews-only nature
of the Zionist state is manifest from Zionists' attempts to completely
eradicate all signs of Palestinian life and culture in Palestine.
The Zionist military terrorizes Palestinian civilians and those
it does not kill are driven from their homes and villages and, sometimes,
even out of the country. The Zionists demolish the villages to make
sure that the Palestinians can never return. They then wipe out
all traces of Palestinians' existance in the land - much as the
Nazis tried to obliterate the existence of Jews in what Hannah ardent
called 'the holes of oblivion'. The Zionists then build Jews-only
settlements in their place, "Moshe Dayan, former Defense Minister,
stated in a famous speech before students at the Israeli Institute
of Technology in Haifa in 1969: "Jewish villages were built
in the place of Arab villages.
You do not even know
the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because
geography books no longer exist. Not only do the books not exist,
the Arab villages are not there either. Nahial arose in the place
of Mahlul; Kibbutz Gvat in the place of Jibta; Kibbutz Sarid in
the place of Huneifis; and Kefar Yehushua in the place of Tal al-Shuman.
There is not a single place built in this country that did not have
a former Arab population." (Ha'aretz, April 4, 1969, quoted
in Davis, 21). (Noel Ignatiev 'Toward a Single State Solution: Zionism,
Anti-Semitism and the People of Palestine' counterpunch.
Another example of Jewish
specialness or uniqueness is that the Jews-only state in Palestine
is the only country in the world which refuses to define its own
borders. It refuses to do this because it supports Zionist expansionism
and doesn't want to curb its colonialist ambitions with specific
boundaries, "Israel is unique in that it doesn't have defined
or recognized borders ... Israel has always been a country with
creeping borders - it has an insatiable urge to expand, and thus
further dispossess the native population. On May 14, 1948, the day
he proclaimed the new state without specifying its borders, Ben
Gurion wrote in his diary: "Take the American Declaration of
Independence for instance. It contains no mention of the territorial
limits" A few years later, Ben-Gurion wrote: "To maintain
the status quo will not do. We have to set up a dynamic state bent
upon expansion" The current construction of the land-grab wall
is merely the latest manifestation of these expansionist proclivities."
(Paul de Rooij 'Straw Men and Wild Fires'.
"In 1948, the Jewish
colony became a state but with ever expanding borders. Israel launched
six major wars against the Palestinian people and the neighboring
Arab states. These were launched in 1948, 1956, 1967, 1978, 1982,
and 2002. In all these wars, Israel expanded its borders. In 1948,
it annexed the Galilee, Auja area, and the Jerusalem corridor, which
were Palestinian territories according to the 1947 UN Partition
Resolution 181. In 1956, Israel collaborated with the imperialist
European powers of Britain and France in invading Egypt and the
Palestinian territory of Gaza Strip. Only a firm stand from President
Eisenhower forced the Zionist Israelis to withdraw from Gaza Strip
and Sinai. In 1967, Israel invaded and occupied the Arab territories
of Sinai, Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights. In 1978,
Israel invaded and occupied South Lebanon. Then, it invaded Lebanon,
including its capital, Beirut, in 1982. When it withdrew, few months
later, it expanded its occupation of South Lebanon. In addition
to these wars, Israel launched major air raids on Syria, Lebanon,
Jordan, Iraq, Egypt, Yemen, and Tunisia." (Hassan A. El-Najjar
'Zionism: The Highest Stage of Imperialism'
Palestinians' political
rights in the Jews-only state are also infringed since they are
not allowed to form political parties which advocate a multi-cultural
state in which the Palestinians and Jews share power, "Unlike
many countries, including the United States, the Israeli state does
not belong, even in principle, to those who reside within its borders,
but is defined as the state of the Jewish people, wherever they
may be. That peculiar definition is one reason why the state has
to this day failed to produce a written constitution, define its
borders, or even declare the existence of an Israeli nationality.
Moreover, in this "outpost of democracy," no party that
opposes the existence of the Jewish state is permitted to take part
in elections. It is as if the United States were to declare itself
a Christian state, define "Christian" not by religious
belief but by descent, and then pass a "gag law" prohibiting
public discussion of the issue." (Noel Ignatiev 'Toward a Single
State Solution: Zionism, Anti-Semitism and the People of Palestine'
counterpunch.
The Jews-only state also
implements Jews-only employment policies, "Israel plans to
terminate employment opportunities for Palestinians by 2008.
Chief of Staff Lt. Gen.
Moshe Ya'alon said Israel no longer maintains a policy of encouraging
Palestinian employment. Ya'alon said the government has been phasing
out the number of jobs available to Palestinians from the West Bank
and Gaza Strip in Israel. By 2008, Israel would institute a complete
ban on the employment of Palestinians, Middle East Newsline reported.
The government can ban Palestinians from entering Israel and requires
entry and work permits. "The goal is to stop Palestinians from
working in Israel by 2008," Ya'alon told the Low-Intensity
Conflict warfare counter-terrorism [LIC-2005] conference on Tuesday.
Ya'alon said Israel has been encouraging Western and other donor
nations to help the Palestinian Authority create jobs in an effort
to end its dependence on the Jewish state. He said the new policy
no longer regards a peace agreement with the PA as resulting in
security." (Israel to ban hiring of Palestinians' WORLD TRIBUNE.COM
March 10, 2005).
Another Jews-only policy
implemented by the Jews-only state in Palestine concerns land ownership.
"The state owns 94 percent of Israel's land and holds it in
trust specifically for the Jewish people, meaning that Palestinians
cannot buy land - even land they once owned before Israel was created
and they were dispossessed. They usually cannot even rent state
land." (Kathleen & Bill Christison '"Finally It Broke
My Heart": Random Impressions from Palestine'
Palestinian Israelis
who have the right to vote and sit in the Knesset do not have the
right to buy land because the Jews-only God has given Palestinian
land exclusively to Jews. The Jews-only state even deprives Palestinian
Israelis of the land they own, "Israel has nationalized some
93 per cent of the country's lands, by appropriating land without
compensation from the four million Palestinian refugees who live
in exile and by confiscating the lands of the one million Palestinians
who live as citizens. This 93 per cent of Israel is out of bounds
to Palestinians like Ali." (Jonathan Cook, The Electronic Intifada,
'Apartheid targets Palestinian home-owners inside Israel'
The way that Jews steal
land from the Palestinian- Israelis who own land is through the
Jews-only planning system. The following incident is about a Palestinian-
Israeli called Ali living in a Palestinian village called sakhin who is
trying to build an extension to his house on his own land, "But
even so, couldn't Ali at least find a legal way to build a house
inside a Palestinian community or inside Sakhin? The problem again
is the law. In 1965, the government passed the Planning and Building
Law, which defined all the places in which Israeli citizens, Jews
and Palestinians, could live. Every community's room for expansion
was circumscribed on a map of the country in the form of a blue
line marked around it. Anywhere inside the blue line could be developed,
anywhere outside the blue line could not. In the case of Jewish
communities, the blue lines were drawn generously to allow for future
expansion.
The state has also been
adding new Jewish communities to its list ever since 1965. In Palestinian
communities, by contrast, the blue lines were drawn tightly around
the houses that already existed in 1965, leaving no room for expansion.
(In fact, Israel refused to draw blue lines around dozens of Palestinian
communities that had existed before the creation of Israel, thereby
"uncrating" them. Today some 100,000 Palestinians live
in these "unrecognized villages". In law all the homes
in unrecognized villages are considered illegal and subject to demolition).
Since 1965, no new Palestinian communities have been approved."
(Jonathan Cook, The Electronic Intifada, 'Apartheid targets Palestinian
home-owners inside Israel'
Some Zionists have become
politically embarrassed about such racism. But what they are embarrassed
about is not the racism but the perception of racism by the rest
of the world. So Jews are currently seeking ways to camouflage this
racism to win the approval of the anti-racist values of the Western
world, "the Jewish National Fund" maintains and implements
Israel's discriminatory land policies. Two weeks ago, Israel's attorney
general determined that all land managed by the Israel Lands Administration,
including land owned by the Jewish National Fund, must be marketed
without discrimination or limits including to non-Jews. According
to the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz, "The state prosecutor's
office believes it will not be able to defend before the High Court
the policy of allocating Jewish National Fund land to Jews only."
Days later, news agencies
reported, " The Jewish National Fund and the Finance Ministry
are discussing ways to separate the JNF from the state, to allow
it to continue selling land to Jews only."" ('QUIT! premieres
latest line of "Estee Slaughter" products on Valentine's
Day'.
The Jews-only anxieties
about the anti-racist views of Westerners might be misplaced given
that the Western world's support to the Zionist state to such an
extent that many Western governments are now as racist as the Jews-only
state.
The Jews-only state also
insists that whilst Christians are allowed to visit holy Christian
sites in Palestine, it is not willing to allow them to immigrate
and become Israeli citizens - especially, of course, if they are
Palestinian Christians. Any Jew around the world is legally entitled
to immigrate to Palestine and become an Israeli citizen but not Christians because this is a Jews-only state. Of course, all states
around the world have the right to control immigration but the Jews-only
state allows immigration only from Jews not any other religion.
In other words, the Jews-only state promotes a racist, Jews-only,
immigration policy. The Jews-only state in Palestine tries to purify its Jewish essence
through the construction of Jews-only roads.
"Israel has established
a 300-mile road network throughout the West Bank connecting the
settlements. These are high-security roads-three football fields
wide with their surrounding security perimeters - and they are accessible
only to Israelis. They separate Palestinian population areas from
each other and from their agricultural land; in fact, before the
current warfare, they segmented the areas of semi-autonomous Palestinian
control into 227 separate, non-contiguous patches of land."
(Kathleen Christison 'Before There Was Terrorism')
The concept of Jews-only
roads should not be entirely surprising since Jews have also created
jJews-only settlements, villages, towns, and cities, "They
(palestinians) are not permitted, by law, to move into Jewish cities
or the Jewish neighborhoods of mixed cities. (Kathleen & Bill
Christison '"Finally It Broke My Heart": Random Impressions
from Palestine'
"small luxury Jewish
communities known in Hebrew as "mitzpim". These mitzpim,
which have extensive lands on which their inhabitants can build,
are required by law to vet anyone who wishes to live inside them.
Again by law, non-Jews are not entitled to apply to join these communities."
(Jonathan Cook, The Electronic Intifada, 'Apartheid targets Palestinian
home-owners inside Israel' )
So, although Palestinian-Israelis
are technically allowed to travel on these roads in practice this
is not possible because the roads link one Jews-only settlement/town/city
to another.
There are also Jews-only
cemeteries alongside the Jews-only roads running between Jews-only
settlements/towns/cities, in the Jews-only state. Jews loathe the
idea of being laid to rest in the company of non-Jews - as if even
in death non-Jews might contaminate or poison their Jewish essence.
As Israel shamir has pointed out, "Their separate burial is
necessary to guarantee their bodily resurrection when the Messiah
comes. A Jewish body defiled by gentile proximity won't be resurrected,
according to the Jews. Even irreligious Jews follow this separation
rule without giving it a second thought." If non-Jews are accidentally
buried amongst Jews this puts all the Jews at resurrectional risk
so they have to be dug up and transferred to a non-Jewish cemetery,
"This squeamish attitude is particularly unpleasant: whenever
the Jews discover that a person of doubtful Jewishness is buried
among their lot they remove the body and dump it elsewhere. It happened
to an Israeli citizen Teresa Angelowitz. She was buried in the Jewish
cemetery; later on the religious authorities discovered that she
was a wife of a Jew, but not a Jew. They exhumed her body at the
dark of the night and re-buried on the dumping ground. It happened
to many Russian soldiers who died defending the Jewish character
of Israel and were refused the burial."
Many Jews in the Jews-only
state were horrified by the tsunami which hit South-East Asia in
December 2004. They were horrified by the idea that jewish victims
might end up being buried with the tens of thousands of goy victims,
"While the whole world had sent aid to the tsunami-hit South
East Asia, Israel forwarded a team entrusted with a unique task.
Not many Israeli tourists were swept away by the giant waves - official
death toll stands at three, with some twenty missing; not many comparing
with the hundred thousand Indonesians or even with three thousand
Swedes. Still the Israeli teams were very active on the ground.
The highly trained experts led by Rabbi Meshi Zahav did not go to
save trapped survivors or alleviate suffering of millions; their
job was to save dead Jews from fate worse than death - that is to
be buried with the goyim in the same grave.
The Haaretz daily reported:
"The Israeli rescue teams in Thailand split up Thursday: one
team worked on identifying bodies in Krabi, while another worked
on the same task in Phuket. The Israeli crews - from the police
and Zaka (a non-profit group that specializes in identifying victims
of disasters) - are trying to locate dead Israelis before they are
buried". They pressed upon the Thai government to postpone
the mass entombment, though it was necessary to prevent the spread
of epidemics; and Bangkok gave in. Every dead Jewish body should
be taken to Israel, or at least buried separately from impure non-Jews.
Witty Gilad Atzmon remarked: "the 'altruistic' Jews are in
a state of panic, as we all know, dead Jews are precious, they deserve
a special burial. The fact that 5-10 Jews might be lost forever
among some other 125.000 gentiles is pretty horrifying, I am sure
you can see it."" (Israel Shamir 'Tsunami in Gaza' January
2nd 2005).
In the Jews-only state,
with its jews-only cemeteries, jews-only land, and jews-only roads
running between jews-only settlements/towns/cities, it is absolutely
imperative that, in death, every part of a jew's body is buried
in a jews-only cemetery, "A week after the Likud referendum,
two terrible blows were delivered. An armored vehicle carrying a
large quantity of explosives entered Gaza city in order to blow
up buildings, and was hit by a roadside bomb planted by Palestinian
fighters. It exploded, tearing the six soldiers to pieces. The day
after, the very same thing happened on the "Philadelphi Axis":
an armored personnel carrier full of explosives, which was sent
there to blow up tunnels under the border, was hit by a Palestinian
rocket and blew up with its five crew members. The power of each of the two explosions was such that body parts
were scattered over hundreds of meters. The whole country saw on
TV how Israeli soldiers crawled on all fours, filtering the sand
with their bare hands in order to gather the body parts of their
comrades. The media competed in the orchestration of a necrophile
hysteria, with endless talk about "body parts" interlaced
with scenes of funerals. (Uri Avnery 'Busharon: The Countdown' May
15th, 2004). There is no intention here of mocking Zionists' death
rituals. All cultures have their own rituals concerning the burial
of the dead and each must be given the same respect. However, the
respect that I afforded this ritual unexpectedly blew up in my face
a few months later when I read an article in which the commentator
made an aside that Zionist state refuses to return what is left
of the bodies of human bombers to their families. "When Michael Matza, the Inquirer's Jerusalem correspondent,
wrote a story headlined "Palestinians' Remains Fuel a Bitterness,"
which detailed Israel's practice of not releasing the bodies of
human bombers, it provoked a hue and cry from readers who felt the
piece was too sympathetic to families of the bombers. It didn't
matter that Matza had written numerous pieces sympathetic to Israeli
victims of "suicide" attacks. He was denounced as anti-Semitic
and labeled a "self-hating Jew," a favorite epithet for
Jewish journalists." (Barbara Matusow 'Caught in the Crossfire'
American Journalism Review June/July 2004 issue). The Zionists show
their utter contempt for palestinians by doing the exact opposite
of what is demanded of them by their own death rituals. This is
part of Zionists' cultural terrorism against the Palestinians.
There is a lot of 'Jews-only'
racism in the Jews-only state. There are, of course, racists in
every society and there are even some in Western governments, but
these days if Western politicians were to make a racist statement
in public they would immediately be attacked by their countries'
Zionist lobby and, if they didn't resign, they would be sacked forthwith.
Not so in the Jewish state. Jewish politicians can make openly racist
statements without anyone bothering to condemn them. "An Israeli
cabinet minister has called for the expulsion of some 1.3 million
Palestinian citizens of Israel who constitute nearly one fifth of
the state's population. Transportation Minister Avigdor Lieberman said during an interview
with the Israeli army radio (Gali Tzahal) on Sunday that the "Arabs
of Israel" should be expelled in case a Palestinian state was
established and Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and
Gaza Strip were dismantled. Lieberman, a former Moldovan immigrant,
who arrived in Israel in 1978, suggested that the existence of a
large non-Jewish minority in Israel threatened the "Jewish
identity" and "ethnic purity" of Israel. But his
explicitly racist remarks raised no ire in the Israeli political
establishment. Israeli officials, from Israeli Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon downward, refused to condemn the remarks, suggesting a sympathy
with Lieberman's ideas.
Lieberman's racism has
been well known for many years. A few years ago, he called for the
bombing of the Aswan Dam in Egypt, the Presidential palace in Damascus
and Iran's nuclear facilities. He also called for executing Arab
Knesset members Tibi and Mohamed Baraka by a firing squad for supporting
the Palestinians rights and calling for ending the Israeli occupation.
In 2002, he urged the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to carry
out "wholesale killings" of Palestinian civilians in order
to force them to flee to Jordan and other neighbouring Arab countries."
('Israeli Minister Wants Total Palestinian-Arab 'Cleansing''
"Recently, a law
was passed in one of the Israeli Knesset's many committees saying
that settlers who will be evacuated following a future retreat from
the Gaza Strip will be given compensation. There was a minimal majority
of one committee member for this law, which is an essential part
of Prime Minister's Ariel Sharon's plan of "Gaza Disengagement",
and in order for it to be passed the balance was tipped to the side
of the government from outside the coalition by Member of Knesset
Mohammad Barake. Barake, a MK from "Hadash" party (the
former communist party) is, as his name might indicate, an Israeli
Arab. Limor Livnat, the Israeli minister of education, who had also
voted in favor of the law, was one of the most noticeable politicians
in a group of right wing Knesset members and others who had each
expressed outrage that an Arab (who had, like any other Member of
the Knesset, been elected democratically) was the one to determine
the future of Israel in such an important question. Because of Livnat's high position in the government, there was a
mini uproar in the Israeli media about the fact that the minister
of education, the person who is in charge of what children will
be taught in schools, had said something so bluntly racist. In actuality,
no one was surprised. No one has any illusions that Ariel Sharon
and the rest of the ministers besides - maybe - politicians from
the Labor Party, think any differently from Livnat, in spite of
them remaining more or less silent about the subject. In any normal
"western" democracy such a thing would have become an
immediate scandal. I can only imagine that if Germany's education
minister would say something even remotely close to Livnat's statement
about a Jewish parliament member, the only question would be whether
that minister would find him or herself out of a job more quickly
than it would take the foreign minister of Israel to file an official
protest." (Uri Yaakobi 'Limor Livnat and the Palestinian "problem"'
Perhaps there ought to
be a Zionist lobby in the Zionist state to keep Zionist politicians
on the straight and narrow.
The Jews-only policy
does not, as yet, extend to stopping Jews from marrying non-Jews
- it just makes it impossible for them to live together. "A
new law passed by the Israeli parliament on 31 July 2003 bars family
unification for Israelis who are married to Palestinians from the
Occupied Territories. The Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law
explicitly discriminates against Palestinians from the West Bank
and Gaza Strip. It also implicitly discriminates against Palestinian
citizens of Israel, who constitute some 20% of the Israeli population,
and against Palestinian residents of Jerusalem, for it is they who
usually marry Palestinians from the Occupied Territories. As such,
the law formally institutionalizes a form of racial discrimination
based on ethnicity or nationality. The UN Committee on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination
has expressed concern about this new law and has called on Israel
to revoke it and reconsider its policy with a view to facilitating
family unification on a non-discriminatory basis. The UN Human Rights
Committee has likewise called on Israel to revoke the law and to
reconsider its policy with a view to facilitating family unification
of all citizens and permanent residents. Not being able to obtain
family unification for their Palestinian spouses leaves thousands
of Palestinian citizens of Israel and Jerusalem residents with two
options: having their spouse live with them illegally or moving
to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, where they would be living under
Israeli military occupation, in a situation of conflict and facing
daily incursions by the Israeli army, bombardments, house demolition,
curfews and hundreds of checkpoints, which make it extremely difficult
to move, work or carry out ordinary daily activities. In addition,
it is illegal for Israelis and Jerusalemites to enter the Occupied
Territories and those married to residents of the Occupied Territories
may only do so in special circumstances and subject to permits and
stringent restrictions."
In july 2004, the Jews-only
state renewed the law to encourage Jews-only marriages, "Also
Sunday, the Israeli Cabinet extended for six months a rule forbidding
Palestinians who marry Israelis from living in Israel. Human rights
groups have criticized the law. Arabs make up about 20 percent of
the country's population, and many Israelis are concerned about
their growing numbers." (Ibrahim Barzak 'Palestinian Authority
Offices Burned Down' Guardian
Jews-only prerogatives
exist on the international level as much as they do on the domestic
level. The main Jews-only international law is that the Jews-only
state does not have to abide by United Nations'resolutions. There
are varying estimates as to how many UN resolutions are being flouted
by the Jews-only state. But worse than the refusal to live up to
these resolutions is the refusal of the Western world to insist
that the Jews-only state live up to its international obligations.
Throughout the 1990s the American and British governments made incessant
demands for Saddam Hussein to abide by UN resolutions but they never
once demanded that the Zionist state in Palestine do the same thing.
Both governments also
made incessant demands for Saddam Hussein to abolish his non-existent
weapons of mass destruction but never demanded the Zionist state
in Palestine gets rid of its very real weapons of mass destruction.
Even worse than the Western world's obliviousness to the Zionist
state's indifference to the UN resolutions is that the only countries
which the Western world insists must abide by the UN resolutions
are the enemies of the Jews-only state.
The people of the Jews-only
book refuse to live by man made laws; they will abide only by laws
handed down to them by their Jews-only god.
These are not the only
Jews-only international laws, "On December 13, 2004 the EU
General Affairs and External Relations Council approved the EU-Israel
Action Plan as part of the EU's New Neighborhood Policy - one step
below full membership in the EU.
According to the released
EU-Israel Action Plan: "The EU and Israel are now closer together
than ever before and, as near neighbours, will reinforce their political
and economic interdependence. Enlargement offers the opportunity
for the EU and Israel to develop an increasingly close relationship,
going beyond co-operation, to involve a significant measure of economic
integration and a deepening of political co-operation." Despite
European declarative positions affirming Israel's obligations in
international law, and dismissing Israel's rejection of them, and
despite Israel's shocking human rights record, the EU-Israel Action
Plan states that the "EU and Israel share the common values
of democracy, respect for human rights and the rule of law and basic
freedoms." Worse, the EU-Israel Action Plan might even lead to Israel deciding
on EU policies themselves. It stated "the possibility for Israel
to participate progressively in key aspects of EU policies and programmes."
It provides "an upgrade in the scope and intensity of political
co-operation." Concrete steps include that the "EU will
continue its efforts to ensure that the condemnation of anti-Semitism
will become a part of international norms through, inter alia, appropriate
UN resolutions." Considering Israel's policy to equate anti-Semitism with criticism
of Israeli state practices vis-a-vis Palestinian civilians, this
has meant that the EU will censure itself when it comes to address
Israeli violations of human rights. The EU-Israel Action Plan formalised
the facilitation of Israel's violations of human rights and international
humanitarian law by shielding Israel from legal and political accountability,
and by helping it escape the normal penalties or costs that would
result ordinarily from the violations." (Arjan El Fassed, The
Electronic Intifada, 'In bed with Israel: EU's close relationship
with Israel supports abuse' )
There are also what might
be called Jews-only fantasies. Perhaps the most well known is that
prior to the second world war, when Jews were thinking about moving
to Palestine, they were told nobody was living there, "Israel
Zangwill's 1901 assertion that "Palestine is a country without
a people; the Jews are a people without a country". It hopes
to create a land entirely empty of gentiles, an Arabia deserta in
which Jewish children can laugh and play throughout a wasteland
called peace." (Michael Neumann 'What is Antisemitism?'
Other Jews-only fantasies
are that when the Jews got to Palestine the Palestinians left of
their own accord whilst making the threat that the Jews should be
driven into the sea, "On 11 October 1961 Israeli Prime Minister
David Ben Gurion declared in the Israeli Knesset: 'The Arabs' exit
from Palestine...began immediately after the UN resolution, from
the areas earmarked for the Jewish state. And we have explicit documents
testifying that they left Palestine following instructions by the
Arab leaders, with the Mufti at their head, under the assumption
that the invasion of the Arab armies at the expiration of the Mandate
will destroy the Jewish state and push all the Jews into the sea,
dead or alive'. The phrase "push all the Jews into the sea,
dead or alive" has acquired a life of its own as it is invoked
by Zionist supporters on a daily basis in order to justify the aggressive
policies of Israel as well as its recalcitrance in continuing the
occupation of the Palestinians of the West Bank, Gaza, and East
Jerusalem. It is a highly emotive phrase invoking images of the Holocaust,
though adapted to a Mediterranean setting. Mr Ben Gurion gives no
attribution for this phrase, nor does he claim that it is a quote
from an Arab source. It is expressed here as if it is his personal
surmise as to the Arab army's intentions. The phrase has been variously
attributed by Zionist supporters to Yasser Arafat, Gamel Abdul Nasser,
or any other of Israel's enemies, but none whom I have challenged,
including U.S. Congressman Henry Waxman, who made the claim in a
letter to me, atributing the phrase to Nasser, have been able to
provide any documentation of support for their claim. The speech by Mr. Ben Gurion appears to be the origin of the phrase.
The phrase, thus, has a Jewish origin and not an Arab origin. Mr
Ben Gurion is the originator of the phrase, in all likelihood. (As
regards the idea of Arab leaders telling Palestinians to leave).
Mr. Ben Gurion's first claim that the Arab exodus from Palestine
was provoked by directives from the leaders of the surrounding Arab
states has been shown by overwhelming historical research to be
false." (William Martin 'Who is Pushing Whom into the Sea?'
It has to be wondered, how much further this trend will go in the
future? In America, the zionists have created a political taboo
against criticisms of the Zionist state.
"Although criticism
of specific Israeli policies is permissible in the United States,
it is more or less forbidden to express fundamental criticism of
the Zionist state, of America's basic policy of support for Israel,
or of the Jewish-Zionist grip on the U.S. media or America's political
and academic life. (Remarkably, this is in contrast to the situation
in Israel itself, where Jews and even Arab citizens of the Zionist
state have much greater freedom than Americans publicly to criticize
Zionism and Israeli policies.) Prominent persons who dare to violate
this prohibition are immediately castigated as "anti-Semitic"
(that is, anti-Jewish), and pay a heavy price in damage to their
reputations or careers. Politicians who publicly speak out against America's support for
Zionism risk almost certain political ruin. Among the political
or governmental figures whose careers were destroyed because they
violated the powerful taboo have been U.S. Senators William Fulbright,
Adlai Stevenson III, and Charles Percy, Congressmen Paul McCloskey
and Paul Findley, and Deputy Secretary of State George Ball."
(Abdullah Mohamed Sindi 'How the Jewish-Zionist Grip on American
Film and Television Promotes Bias Against Arabs and Muslims' Institute
for Historical Review
However, this taboo is
not enough for the Zionists.
They want to pass legislation
which equates criticism of the Zionist state in Palestine with anti-semitism
and outlaws anti-semitism - thereby making criticism of the Zionist
state in palestine illegal. There is no other people around the
world who insist that their government should be protected against
all criticisms. What such Zionist legislation in America will do
is to create the only state in the world which is beyond criticism
even though it is the most racist society on Earth.
In America, the Zionist
domination of the media is so great that it is almost on the verge
of becoming a 'Jews-only' industry. In American politics, the Zionists
are taking over more and more departments of state.
"The neoconservatives
are the greatest threat America has ever faced, and they control
the Office of the President, the Office of the Vice President, the
Department of State, the Department of Defense, and the police-state
apparatus known as "Homeland Security." (Paul Craig Roberts
'Outfoxed by bin Laden'.
The chances of a Muslim
or an Arab person getting a job in an American administration are
virtually zero. If current trends continue then we are headed for
a 'Jews-only' American state where the only non-Jews permitted will
be Shabbat goys who support everything done by Ariel Sharon.
It might be argued that
the above criticisms of the Jews-only state, with its Jews-only
laws, Jews-only rights, Jews-only cemeteries, Jews-only property
ownership, Jews-only roads running between Jews-only settlements/towns/cities,
Jews-only immigration, Jews-only employment, Jews-only marriages,
Jews-only religion, Jews-only international laws, Jews-only taboos,
openly racist Jewish politicians, etc. might have some merit but
this is ruined by the use of the word Jew which suggests such criticisms
are at the very least anti-Semitic if not racist. Kathleen and bill
Christison avoid any charge of anti-Semitism or racism by talking
about "Israeli-only settlements, Israeli-only roads" (Kathleen
and Bill Christison 'On Israel/Palestine An Exchange with Bennie
Morris'.
But, as has been suggested
above, this is not technically correct. Although Palestinian- Israelis
are theoretically allowed to travel on these roads, in practice
this is not possible because the roads link one Jews-only settlement/town/city
to another. It is much more accurate to say that they are Jews-only
roads running between Jews-only settlements.
But surely, it might
be argued, the use of the phrase "Jews-only" is wrong
since it condemns all Jewish people around the world for what is
being done in their name by the Zionist state in Palestine.
Aren't these "Jews-only"
criticisms blatantly wrong because they have got nothing to do with
Jews around the world? With some notable exceptions on what is regarded
as the political extremes, no mainstream Jewish organization anywhere
around the world has demanded that the Zionist state abides by UN
resolutions, or that it gives up its weapons of mass destruction
in the same way as these organizations demanded such things of Saddam.
No criticisms have been made of the Zionist state's Jews-only immigration
or Jews-only settlements or Jews-only marriages or Jews-only property.
In other words, virtually
all Jews around the world support the Jews-only nature of the Zionist
state in Palestine and the Zionist state's flouting of international
law.
Kathleen Christison paints
an accurate picture of the nature of the Jewish support for the
Zionist state. She starts off by talking about the views of the
Jewish historian Benny Morris. "This was a day or two after
this paragon of dispassionate Israeli scholarship had expostulated
in an interview published in Ha'aretz on the benefits (if you're
Jewish) of ethnic cleansing, the critical miscalculation of David
Ben-Gurion in not having completed the total ethnic cleansing of
Palestine from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River in 1948 when
he had a chance, and the barbarity of Arab and Muslim culture. "The Arab world as it is today is barbarian," Morris declared.
Islamic and Arab culture is "a world in which human life doesn't
have the same value as it does in the West," in which freedom
and democracy are alien, in which there are "no moral inhibitions."
He was speaking in sweeping terms, of entire cultures, of the mass
of individuals in the Arab and the Muslim worlds, not merely of
governments that are oppressive or undemocratic. Palestinians in
particular, Morris believes, are barbaric, "a very sick society,"
and should be treated "the way we treat individuals who are
serial killers. . . . Something like a cage has to be built for
them." (Kathleen Christison 'American Jewish sensitivities
to criticism of Israel'.
Morris's comments are
blatantly anti-Palestinian and racist, and yet he regards himself
as still being a leftist. If leftist Jews can hold such views then
just imagine the views of those on the right of the political spectrum.
Christison concludes, "Benny Morris - who still considers himself
a leftist, still favors establishment of a Palestinian state in
part of Palestine, still exposes Israeli atrocities against the
Palestinians in his examination of early Israeli history - is one
of those people Meir Keohane was describing, and he speaks for large
numbers of his fellow Israelis and his fellow Jews throughout the
world. Morris's blunt soul-bearing has lifted the last barrier of
propriety to the open expression of raw Arab hatred. One longs for
some gigantic outcry of opposition or disgust over this confession
of deep bigotry, but there has been none. Except for a few letters to the editor of Ha'aretz from American
Jews, the interview has aroused little attention in the Jewish-American
community: no denunciation, no shock, little or no discussion on
any but the most progressive Jewish e-mail lists. You have to assume
that, however awkward Morris's blunt language may be, he is speaking
for a large segment of American Jews who say they oppose the occupation,
say they hate Sharon, say they hate Israel's oppression of the Palestinians,
but who do nothing about any of these things and who in the end
would not grieve, either for the Palestinians or for the Jewish
soul, if Israel wiped the Palestinians off the map." (Kathleen
Christison 'American Jewish sensitivities to criticism of Israel'.
Michael Neumann reaches similar conclusions to Christison but from
a philosophical standpoint, "Do we want to say it is antisemitic
to accuse, not just the Israelis, but Jews generally of complicity
in these crimes against humanity? Again, maybe not, because there
is a quite reasonable case for such assertions. Compare them, for
example, to the claim that Germans generally were complicit in such
crimes. This never meant that every last German, man, woman, idiot
and child, were guilty. It meant that most Germans were.
Their guilt, of course,
did not consist in shoving naked prisoners into gas chambers. It
consisted in support for the people who planned such acts, or -
as many overwrought, moralistic Jewish texts will tell you - for
denying the horror unfolding around them, for failing to speak out
and resist, for passive consent. Note that the extreme danger of
any kind of active resistance is not supposed to be an excuse here.
Well, virtually no Jew is in any kind of danger from speaking out.
And speaking out is the only sort of resistance required. If many
Jews spoke out, it would have an enormous effect.
But the overwhelming
majority of Jews do not, and in the vast majority of cases, this
is because they support Israel. Now perhaps the whole notion of
collective responsibility should be discarded; perhaps some clever
person will convince us that we have to do this. But at present,
the case for Jewish complicity seems much stronger than the case
for German complicity. So if it is not racist, and reasonable, to
say that the Germans were complicit in crimes against humanity,
then it is not racist, and reasonable, to say the same of the Jews.
And should the notion
of collective responsibility be discarded, it would still be reasonable
to say that many, perhaps most adult Jewish individuals support
a state that commits war crimes, because that's just true. So if
saying these things is antisemitic, than it can be reasonable to
be anti-Semitic. In short, the real scandal today is not anti-Semitism
but the importance it is given. Israel has committed war crimes.
It has implicated Jews generally in these crimes, and Jews generally
have hastened to implicate themselves.
This has provoked hatred
against Jews. Why not? Some of this hatred is racist, some isn't,
but who cares? Why should we pay any attention to this issue at
all?" (Michael Neumann 'What is Anti-Semitism?'
The jews-only policies
outlined above are the manifestations of the perennial Jewish belief
in their chosenness, their superiority over all other races on Earth.
As Hannah ardent once argued, "If you do not dissent then you
consent.
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