Post by Moses on Mar 26, 2005 0:09:32 GMT -5
Israel: A Jews-only state- Part I
3/24/2005 9:05:00 PM GMT
Judaism is a Jews-only religion
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 whilst all other races were deemed inferior because they would never win his divine favour. Unlike all other religions, which allow anyone to become a member who professes 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'
(rest at link)
3/24/2005 9:05:00 PM GMT
Judaism is a Jews-only religion
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 whilst all other races were deemed inferior because they would never win his divine favour. Unlike all other religions, which allow anyone to become a member who professes 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'
(rest at link)