Als de psychopathische regering van
Israël haar zin krijgt, zal Israël discriminatie tegen de Palestijnen legaliseren, ofwel apartheid tot officieel beleid maken.......* Daarmee geeft deze regering
onder leiding van Palestijnenslachter Netanyahu, toe een fascistische
regering te zijn en maakt het van Israël officieel een fascistische apartheidsstaat........
De hoogste tijd dat Nederland en alle
andere westerse landen die deze fascistische staat steunen, daar
eindelijk een eind aanmaken, alsof je godverdomme het nazi-Duitsland
van 1935 steunt in haar haat en vervolging tegen/van de joden......
Hoe is het mogelijk dat het Israëlische volk dat zo
is vervolgd, steeds meer de kenmerken overneemt van haar eerdere
massamoordenaars....???**
How Israel Makes Apartheid Against Palestinians “Legal”
July
17, 2018 at 12:31 pm
Written
by Middle
East Eye
‘Jewish nation state’ bill is only the latest attempt to legislate discrimination against Palestinians.
(MEE) This
week, if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gets his way, the
Israeli government will formally pass into law the “Jewish nation
state” bill. The precise final text remained unclear at the time of
writing, with compromises
and amendments still
being discussed among coalition partners.
With
the Knesset’s summer recess on the horizon, and Netanyahu seemingly
determined to pass the law ahead of the break, the initiative has
risen to the top of the news agenda in Israel, with high-profile
interventions from opponents and supporters.
Last
Tuesday, President Reuven Rivlin warned in
a public letter of what he believes are the dangers inherent in the
law – especially an article designed to protect and promote the
existence of Jewish-only communities.
Lobbying efforts
Meanwhile,
a number of Jewish American leaders have been strongly
urging Netanyahu
to reconsider, intensifying their lobbying efforts to prevent the
bill’s passage.
These
responses have, regrettably but predictably, been characterised by a
failure to understand or take sufficiently into account how Israel’s
status as a “Jewish state” has always been reflected in
legislation and practice, and, crucially, how this has impacted on
Palestinians since 1948.
Many
discriminatory laws are already
on the books,
and legal ways to create segregated communities in Israel already
exist. There is no
right to equality,
and Israel is not a
state of all its citizens.
The much-heralded Declaration of Independence is not a
constitutional law, and the Basic Law already privileges the
protection of a “Jewish state” over equality for non-Jewish
citizens.
As
a UN
special rapporteur put
it in 2012, Israeli authorities already pursue “a land development
model that excludes, discriminates against and displaces minorities.”
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has
similarly noted “the enactment of
a number of discriminatory laws on land issues which
disproportionately affect non-Jewish communities.”
Indeed,
the issue of Jewish-only communities, which has dominated recent
criticism over the proposed bill, is often debated without reference
to the fact that Israel already has hundreds of
such segregated communities, thanks to the role of “admission
committees.”
Traced back to the Nakba
A
decade ago, Human
Rights Watch reported
on how these committees “are made up of government and community
representatives as well as a senior official in the Jewish Agency or
the Zionist Organisation, and have notoriously been used to exclude
Arabs from living in rural Jewish communities.”
Such
decades-old institutionalised discrimination, which can be traced all
the way back to the Nakba, makes a mockery of the claim by the Israel
Democracy Institute’s Mordechai
Kremnitzer that
the new law would somehow constitute “the end of Israel as a Jewish
and democratic state.”
The
new law does, however, represent an innovation, both legally and
politically, as analysed by
legal rights centre Adalah in a new position paper published on
Sunday; enjoying the status of a Basic Law, the Jewish nation state
bill would anchor racist practices in the constitution.
Coverage
by Western media has, on the whole, reproduced the
lacuna of the bill’s Israeli critics. Yet, the omission of the
experience of Palestinian citizens in this “Jewish and democratic”
state is compounded by an analysis that fails to look deeper into why
this legislation is being proposed at all.
The
“Jewish nation state” bill is not the product of a right-wing
tussle between Likud and Jewish Home, or Netanyahu and Naftali
Bennett. Rather, tracing the origins of this proposed legislation
reveals that it is, in essence, pushback against the efforts by
Palestinian citizens over the last two decades to affirm their
national identity and demand a state of all its citizens.
Doubling down
Not
long after former Shin Bet head Avi Dichter began efforts to pass a
“Jewish nation state” bill in 2011, Israeli journalist Lahav
Harkov – now news editor of the Jerusalem Post – praised the
initiative by citing “campaigns to delegitimize Israel on the rise
both inside and outside the country.”
Thus,
the response from the Israeli political establishment to a mobilised
Palestinian citizenry demanding genuine equality has been to
double-down on discrimination, and to defiantly and ever-more
explicitly assert and legally protect the existence of a “Jewish
state.”
But
this is not without its advantages, as highlighted by the furore over
the new bill. For what the draft legislation threatens is not the
existence of a “democratic” Israel, but rather critics’ idea of
a “Jewish and democratic” state (or at least the plausibility of
maintaining this idea).
Through
its crudeness, the bill threatens Israel’s ability to continue
long-standing, institutionalised discrimination with no international
cost, a prospect flagged through the warnings of
Israel’s attorney general and Jewish American leader Rabbi
Rick Jacobs.
Demographic war
“The
true face of Zionism in Israel,” wrote Orly
Noy in
+972 magazine last week, is “an inherent, perpetual demographic war
against its Palestinian citizens. If Israel seeks to be Jewish and
democratic, it needs to actively ensure a Jewish majority.”
The
“Jewish nation state” bill, whatever its final fate, is part of
this historic and ongoing demographic war – one that is testimony
to the activism of Palestinian citizens and an effort to stifle it.
As
Israel consolidates the de facto single state between the river and
the sea, this won’t be the last attempt to see the apartheid
reality on the ground further reflected in legislation.
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* In feite is discriminatie van Palestijnen en daarmee apartheid al staand beleid in Israël, e.e.a. blijkt onder andere uit gerechtelijke uitspraken, waar Israëlische Palestijnenmoordenaars worden vrijgesproken en bijvoorbeeld een Palestijns meisje van 17 jaar, Ahed al-Tamimi, voor godbetert het slaan van een zwaar bewapende Israëlische militair werd veroordeeld tot een fikse gevangenisstraf.......
** Het overnemen van misdadig gedrag door mensen die hier eerder het slachtoffer van waren, is een bekend psychologisch fenomeen....... Al moet daar onmiddellijk aan worden toegevoegd dat zionisme niets anders is dan een vorm van fascisme.
