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Israel: apartheid state or only democracy of the Middle East?
Published: 08 September, 2009, 10:44
Edited: 02 June, 2010, 09:23
TAGS: Conflict, Middle East, Protest, Human rights
Israel’s borders are those of 1947, and because it is a bi-national state it needs the formation of a unitary state, like Belgium. This is the view of academic and human rights activist Professor Uri Davis.
Uri Davis is one of the few Jewish members of the Palestinian Fatah movement.
Davis recalls that “for 5 million Palestinian Arab refugees today that have the right to Israel citizenship while their citizenship rights have been nullified, there are 1.5 million people that have the right to vote. I suggest that as far as Israeli apartheid is concerned, there is an effective instrument falsely suggesting that the state of Israel is not an apartheid state, but the only democracy in the Middle East.”
“Until the ethnic cleansing, the 1947-1949 war, community in Israel was not as segregated as under the Israeli apartheid, and there were mixed marriages in every direction: Muslim-Jewish, Muslim-Christian, Christian-Muslim – whatever combination was not uncommon. There are quite a few members of Fatah movement, including Revolutionary Council and Central Committee, [who] were of Jewish origin.”
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Louis is just an apologist for the Zionist regime. Israeli apartheid is real, not a figment of some demented anti-semites imagination. As far as the "people of Israel", Louis is obviously talking about the Jews, as they are oblivious and uncaring of the injustices and repression committed in the Occupied Territories, and generally approve of the marginalisation and disenfranchisement of Israels arab citizens. Israel did not return Gaza - it simply abandoned its colonisation efforts. "Returning Gaza" does not mean retaining control of the enclaves borders with the outside world, denying access to its air-space, controlling its coastal waters, and prospecting/stealing its natural gas reserves. And as for rocket attacks, the Kassam home-made bottle-rockets were nothing but a sporadic occurence until the IDF started bombing Gaza in punitive raids on the slightest (usually contrived) pretense. Louis can't grasp that Kassam fire is mostly a retaliatory gesture in response to overwhelimng IDF firepower, and is just a show of defiance. If the IDF holds its fire and ceases provocation, the Kassams stop, as was clearly demonstrated in the 12-month ceasefire 2008-2009 (which Israel deliberately undermined with unprovoked attacks so as to create conditions to "justify" the long-planned Gaza assault). A side note - for all the Israeli crying about Kassams falling on Sderot, how often does Jewish media remind its readers that Sderot was built atop the bulldozed remians of Arab villages deliberately depopulated by Jewish forces in 1948? Sderot is built on stolen land, and its true owners (Arabs forced into Gaza) are actualling firing rockets on their own occupied territory. I guess the irony is too much for sensitive Jewish audiences so the truth is again supressed.
Now, as for being "attacked by forces many times its size" this is again another blatant Zionist lie that is accepted as gospel fact, yet is debunked by much historical evidence: 1947-49: Zionist Jews carry out their long-planned pogrom against the indigenous arabs, who are unprepared and unorganised. Majority of fighting occurs in the Arab areas of the partition as Zionists carry out ethnic cleansing. Arabs are either driven out by Jewish fighters or flee in fear, and other Arab nations finally start to help but its too little, too late. Jews close the border after the fighting and refuse to allow displaced people to return to their homes and property. AGGRESSOR - ISRAEL (pre-planned ethnic cleansing) 1956: Israel attacks Egypt in a secret agreement with France and Britain. Jews are to gain territory, Brits recover Suez. The US (whose polity at this stage is not dominated by jewsish influence & money) forces Britain to back-down, and Israel grudingly withdraws. AGGRESSOR - ISRAEL (conspiracy, naked land grab) 1967: Taking adavantage of high tensons (and in spite of no Egyptian mobilisation or immediate threat) Israel launches an aerial blitzkreig against Egypt and knocks out Arab air-power, then invades Sinai penisula and occupies up to Suez. Mutual defense pact is invoked and Syria and Jordan retailate, but are defeated and both loose territory (Golan and West Bank). Israeli propaganda convinces West that they acted pre-emptively to prevent and Arab attack, but historical documents from gov archives show the Arabs had no intention of initiating war, and that Jewish leaders saw an opportunity to strike and gain territory. AGGRESSOR - ISRAEL (opportunistic attack, land grab)
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