In this essay I shall discuss the Israel-Palestine conflict, its history and current
events. With regards to history, I shall talk about how this issue was created and
how this issue has been seen by Zionists in the past. I shall also discuss what were
the general perception and motives of these European Zionists, who wanted a
Jewish homeland in Palestine. I shall also discuss the terms Zionism and Judaism.
Lastly, I will mention what the International legal authorities and community has
to say about the issue of Israel-Palestine.
Shortly, the purpose of this essay is to prove that Israel is based on a racist
extremist ideology and its very existence is a threat to not only the native
Palestinians, but also to any ‘inferior non-white’ race in the world. Along with that
Israel is also an imminent threat to the global world.
At the beginning of this month (i.e., May 2021) the Israeli govt. forcedly evicted
13 Palestinians families from their homes in Sheikh Jarra, East Jerusalem. Israeli
soldiers stormed inside the Al-Aqsa mosque and the houses of native Palestinians.
Israel solider have been firing ‘steel’ bullets covered with rubber on unarmed
innocent Palestinians mostly including kids and women (50% of population of
Gaza is kids).
This occupation of lands by Israelis which has been going on for many decades has
been recognized by all international legal authorities and organizations like the
UN, Security Council, Amnesty International and even Israel’s top legal authorities
as “illegal” and “violating the international laws and human rights”.
HISTORY OF RACISM AND ADVOCATION OF GENOCIDE BY
ZIONISTS & ISRAELI GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
The genocide of Palestinians which has been going on for over a hundred years
now, since the European colonial Zionists, aided by the British, took over the
lands from the native Palestinians.
But why is it so that Israel govt. has been committing such horrific crimes, as we
are seeing right now at the moment?
The answer for that is as such: The very idea of a Jewish state, put forward by the
father of Zionism Theodor Herzl in 1897, is deeply embedded in racism.
Many famous European Zionist thinkers, even the 1 st President of Israel have said
some very nasty, racist and genocidal statements. Here are few:
The first President of Israel, David Ben Gurion said,
“If we want Hebrew redemption 100%, we must have a 100% Hebrew
settlement, 100% Hebrew farm, and 100% Hebrew port.”
With regards to African Jews he said,
“Even the immigrant of North Africa, who looks like a savage, who has
never rad a book in his life, not even a religious one, and doesn’t even
know how to say his prayers, either wittingly or unwittingly has
behind him a spiritual heritage of thousands of years.”
Ben Gurion also believed that European Jews should get paid more than Oriental
or Arab Jews, as the Europeans were supposedly more intelligent race. This idea is
central to the Zionist ideology of ‘Avodah Ivrit’, which promotes exclusive Jewish
labour in Jewish businesses. These ideas have been useful for the establishment
of a Jewish state.
VLADMIR JABOTINSKY was a famous Russian Zionist thinker who published an
essay called, “The Iron Wall” in 1923. He believed that Israel should literally be
built on the guise of an Iron Wall. He made parallels to European conquest of
North America and the genocide of the native population. He said that the
Zionists should do the same to Palestinians without expectation of ever reaching
peace or some sort of an agreement.
“There can be no voluntary agreement between ourselves and the
Palestine Arabs. Not now, nor in the prospective future. “
He also said,
“Colonization can only have one aim, and Palestine Arabs cannot
accept this aim. It lies in the very nature of things, and in this
particular regard, nature cannot be changed.”
With regards to Palestinians he said,
“Culturally they [Arabs] are five hundred years behind us, they have
neither our endurance nor our determination;”
He also believed that the goal of Zionism should be achieved by treachery and
lies,
“We may tell them whatever we like about our innocence of our aims,
watering them down and sweetening them with honeyed words to
make them palatable, but they know what we want as well as we
know what they do not want.”
He also said,
“There can be no voluntary agreement between ourselves and the
Palestine Arabs. Not now, nor in the prospective future. I say this
with such conviction, not because I want to hurt the moderate
Zionists. I do not believe that they will be hurt. Except for those who
were born blind, they realized long ago that it is utterly impossible to
obtain the voluntary consent of the Palestine Arabs for converting
"Palestine" from an Arab country into a country with a Jewish
majority.”
JOBTINSKY idea of Iron Wall is actually manifested in Israel.
AHAD HA’AM another famous and prominent Zionist thinker. In 1891, he wrote
“The Truth from Palestine” in which he said,
“[The Jewish settlers] treat the Arabs with hostility and cruelty,
trespass unjustly, beat them shamelessly for no sufficient reason, and
even take pride in doing so.”
Nothing has changed since the time of Ahad. Palestinian children, women and old
people are being shot dead in broad daylight. Their houses are being bombed.
They are being detained and humiliated in front of the world.
JUDAISM & ZIONISM
We have to make an important distinction here. Zionism is not Judaism. Zionism
actually goes against the foundation values of Judaism. In Judaism, it is said that
Jews cannot have a state or homeland for themselves until the second coming of
the Messiah. Zionism, on the other hand advocates for a Jewish state. But not just
Jewish state. Only a state for ‘white European Jews’.
Zionists, throughout history have been racists against black and brown Jews as
well.
So, Zionism has nothing to do with Judaism. This is why it is extremely important
to know that when one criticizes Israel, he is not criticizing Jews or Judaism. But
rather, he is criticizing the racist and supremacist Zionist political movement and
ideology upon which the state of Israel was established.
Zionism is embedded in Israel’s very existence. Theodor Herzl is mentioned by
name in Israel Declaration of Independence in 1948. Therefore, criticizing Israel
is criticizing the racist and political movement which has and still is, committing
genocide against poor Muslims and Christian population in Palestine.
Theodor Herzl himself claimed,
“The Anti-Semite will become our most loyal friends. The Anti-Semite
nations will become our allies.”
It was on the basis of this racist extremist ideology that Israel has committed
genocide of Palestinians time and time again. It is still happening now, as we
speak. Thousands of Arabs have been killed by Israel Defense Force (IDF) and
Israel’s government.
Genocidal statements have been made even today by Israeli officials;
“There are no innocent people in Gaza to justify the killing.”
- Avigdor Lieberman. Former Israeli Defense Minister
"If a child or anyone else gets close to the fence his punishment is death.”
General Zvika Vogel, former head of Southern Command.
DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PALESTINIANS TODAY
There are many (up to 50) discriminatory laws in Israel which are discriminatory
against Palestinians living in Israel. Also when it comes to revoking the residency
of native Palestinians. For instance, if you are a Palestinian in East Jerusalem, then
you are subject to 3 legal criteria that can revoke your residency.
1) Palestinian should not live more than 7 years abroad, and must not receive
permanent residency from another country. (1967)
2) Palestinians need to prove that their center of life is in Jerusalem. (1995)
3) Palestinian should not breach allegiance to Israel. (2006)
These inherent discriminatory and racist laws exist to make sure that
Palestinians are finally thrown out of their homes and the entire area of what
used to be called Palestine becomes a Jewish state of Israel.
Israel already has revoked the residency of 14,500 Palestinians from their homes
since 1967. Along with that hundreds and thousands of Palestinians have been
displaced and 5.6 million are registered as refugees in The United Nations Relief
and Works Agency (UNRWA), who are stripped of their basic rights to return to
their ancestral homeland.
Once we understand the ideology upon which Israel’s very existence is based.
Things starts to make sense. Zionism as an ideology is racist and advocates for the
ethnic cleansing of not only Muslims per se, but even Christian Arabs, Jewish
Arabs, Jewish Africans, basically any ethnicity or race or a community of any
religion. The only worthy community that has the honor and dignity to live in the
holy land are the “white European Jews”.
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
The verdict of International legal authorities is quite surprising. It is one of those
rare cases when every single international legal authority, for instance, the UN,
Security Council, International Criminal Court, the Human Rights Watch, Amnesty
International and even Israel’s top legal authorities have unanimously agreed that
Israel occupation of the East Jerusalem is illegal and violates the human rights.
Israel has also been proven guilty of committing war crimes.
There is no debate here. No dispute, whatsoever. None. Therefore, I don’t feel
the need to explain it any further, since there is no conflict of opinion. However, I
would mention the UN resolution which was passed against Israel, condemning its
war crimes and annexation of lands.
United Nations Security Council Resolution [497] states:
“1. Condemns Israel's continued occupation of the Palestinian and
other Arab territories, including Jerusalem, in violation of the Charter
of the United Nations, the principles of international law and the
relevant resolutions of the United Nations, and demands the
immediate, unconditional and total withdrawal of Israel from all these
occupied territories;”
“6. Deplores Israel's failure to comply with Security Council resolutions
476 (1980) of 30 June 1980 and 478 (1980) of 20 August 1980 and
General Assembly A/RES/35/207 of 16 December 1980, determines
that Israel's decision to annex Jerusalem and to declare it as its
"capital", as well as the measures to alter its physical character,
demographic composition, institutional structure and status, are null
and void and demands that they be rescinded immediately, and calls
upon all Member States, specialized agencies and all other
international organizations to abide by the present resolution and all
other relevant resolutions, including General Assembly resolution
36/120 E;”
7. Condemns Israel's aggression and practices against the Palestinian
people in the occupied Palestinian territories and outside these
territories, particularly in the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon,
including the expropriation and annexation of territory, the
establishment of settlements, assassination attempts and other
terrorist, aggressive and repressive measures, which are in violation
of the Charter and the principles of international law and the
pertinent international conventions;”
“9. Strongly condemns the Israeli aggression against Lebanon and the
continuous bombardment and destruction of its cities and villages[...]”
“11. Deplores Israeli violations of the air space of various Arab
countries and demands their immediate cessation;”
HYPOCRISY OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL
If Israel wants the world to recognize it as a legitimate state because of 1948 UN
resolution, then Israel should also recognize that the same UN and countless
other international organizations have accused Israel of genocide, war crimes,
bombing civilian places, hospitals and schools.
No wonder the Israeli govt. hasn’t allowed any transparent international
investigation.
Israel has also been involved in invasion and operation against neighboring Arab
countries every single time. The illegal state of Israel has accused Iran to be a
global threat for testing nuclear weapons. The hypocrisy is that according to
international reports Israel itself has 80-400 nuclear weapons.
When the former Deputy foreign minister of Israel Daniel Ayalon was asked by
Mehdi Hasan on his show “Head to Head” about the nuclear weapons that Israel
has.
Daniel’s reply, “Yeah so what? So, what if Israel has nuclear weapons?
KILLING OF JOURNALISTS & PARAMEDICS BY ISRAELI SNIPERS
Not only are the Palestinian kids and women branded as terrorists and then killed
but even paramedic and journalists are being killed.
Raza al Najjar, a 21 years old paramedic was shot in the chest, while wearing a
white uniform by an IDF soldier.
Yasir Murtaja, a 30 years old Palestinian journalist was shot in the stomach by an
Israeli sniper.
Muhammad Ibrahim, a 14 years old shot in the head by an IDF soldier.
There are countless other innocent people who were being shot and killed by the
IDF soldiers. Many are counting as we speak.
[Below is the reference list of every single claim made in this article]
REFERENCES
Interview of former Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon- Al Jazeera: Head to
Head with Mehdi Hassan. [29 minutes 25 sec – 33 min 08 sec]
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfw2AVqcne0 ]
Resolution against Israel to put its nuclear facilities under IAEA.
See: United Nations Security Council Resolution [487]
United Nations Security Council Resolution [497] 1981: Condemning Israel war
crimes and calling Israel to rescind its actions.
[ https://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/B64C09EBE485BA88852560D900598A86]
Vladimir Jabotinsky, “The Iron Wall” (1923)
[ https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/quot-the-iron-wall-quot ]
Israel Minister of Education Naftali Bennet denying the genocide in Gaza
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Png17wB_omA ]
Ahad Ha’am “Truth from Palestine” quote,
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAjPAtCV3ys&t=466s ] [5 min 52 sec]
Murder of Yasser al Murtaja, a Palestinian journalist by IDF sniper,
[ https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/4/7/yaser-murtaja-and-his-dreams-of-
travelling ]
Rouzan al Najjar, female nurse murdered by IDF soldiers
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ_Vs75V7AM ]
A list of other children, journalists, paramedics killed by Israeli soldiers
[ https://www.btselem.org/statistics/fatalities/after-cast-lead/by-date-of-
event/westbank/palestinians-killed-by-israeli-security-forces ]
Israeli soldiers deliberately targeting children
[ https://nation.com.pk/18-May-2021/palestinian-children-defenseless-in-face-of-
israeli-attacks ]
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