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Opinion: Zionist agenda amounts to Palestinian genocide
By Conor Kelly, Gavel Media Staff, on December 3, 2012 4:35 PMQuick! Think of some of the things your tax money funds. You thought schools, public transportation and social security, didn’t you? What you may not have realized is that American taxpayer money also funds ethnic cleansing in the Middle East.
Sure, the dynamics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are complex, but one thing is clear: between the human rights violations, the apartheid and the expansionism, Israel’s leadership is morally bankrupt. Of course, as the “police force” of the world, our great nation has taken action in one of the ways it knows best: throwing wads of money at the problem.
The United States gives several billions of dollars a year to the IDF so they can buy laser-guided missiles for “self-defense” (that is, “protection” from the dozens of heavily-armed infants they kill each month). Perhaps the most unsettling thing about Israel is its proclivity to racism, and, following that to its logical conclusion, aforementioned ethnic cleansing. Israel’s recent aggression in the Gaza Strip is proof.
Allow me to provide the following disclaimer: in no way should anti-Zionism be equated with anti-Semitism. Distaste for the nation of Israel does not necessarily imply distaste for Jews or Judaism. In the same way American civil rights activists placed great faith in the idealism that their country embodied despite their dissent, it is possible and important to question Israel while respecting its heritage, even as an American Jew or Israeli citizen.
If most Jews took the time to research the history of the conflict in a historical context, they would find that their religious principles even oppose the current actions of the Knesset. The Jewish people have an emphasized responsibility when it comes to the peace-making process. Their sentiments can make or break international politics—especially those living in the United States; it’s crucial that they make their voice rise above the insidious Zionist lobbies that bribe our politicians on an annual basis.
What many fail to realize is that before the Balfour Declaration was drafted, South America, Uganda and even Alaska were proposed as possible sites for a future Jewish state. The reluctance to settle anywhere else but Palestine came down to two words: Eretz Yisrael, Hebrew for “Land of Israel” in its religious context; the holy right. While the persecution of the Jewish people certainly warrants protection, it’s clear that this conflict was ignited by the far-right Jewish community, who insisted on building a home on top of another’s with no regard to human rights.
Israel has no business in Palestine, at least not in this millennium. The bottom line is that those spearheading the Zionist agenda wanted a Jewish state filled with Jews. If there are more Palestinians than the “chosen race” in Israel, what sort of Jewish state would it be? In fact, Menachem Ussishkin, a notable Zionist, claimed in 1938 before the Executive Committee of the Jewish Agency that, “There is no hope that this new Jewish state will survive to say nothing of developing, if the Arabs are as numerous as they are today.”
He was right: the birthrate for Palestinians was then and is now greater than the birthrate and immigration rate of Israeli Jews combined. It was at this point the Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist organization who later became a branch of the IDF, was formed to do what terrorist groups tend to do—terrorize—in this case, the Palestinian families living in Israel. This, compounded with the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, accounts for the countless displaced Palestinians either living in squalor in the occupied territories or in Arab refugee camps.
In this context, the motivation for the recent aggression in the Gaza Strip becomes clear. Israeli leaders patiently await rocket launches from Palestinian territories, hoping for new justification to carry out what they have always wanted—the removal of the Palestinian people from “their” land.
Provocative incitements by Israeli religious and political authorities are a testament to this mentality. Gilad Sharon, the son of the former prime minister Ariel Sharon, wrote in his blog: “[We need to] flatten all of Gaza.” Deputy Prime Minister Eli Yishai added that “we must blow Gaza back to the Middle Ages, destroying all the infrastructure including roads and water.”
Recent developments in the UN have granted the Palestinian people state recognition and with it an end to active hostilities in the region (a preemptive move by the Israelis to garner international support in the required vote to admit Palestine as a non-member observer state). Israeli leadership has responded to this development poorly to say the least: more predatory housing construction for, you guessed it, the Holy Land’s finest chosen ones: Israeli Jews.
Israel has shown its true colors: the Western world is slowly waking up to find Palestinian bodies strewn left and right and just one person with blood on their hands: their child, Israel. Plans for new Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory have Western leaders worried—Britain has summoned the Israeli ambassador to voice concerns over the move. International political leaders remain apprehensive; this is a turning point on which the future of Israel and her insidious motives hinge precariously.
Opinions articles represent the views of the author only and do not reflect the views of Boston College or Gavel Media as a whole.
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“The hyperbole renders it very difficult to take seriously, and the implication that Israel is akin to Nazi Germany in the second paragraph is offensive.”
Truth is rarely agreeable.
marvelous article!!!!!
marvelous article!!
marvelous article!
I’m glad that this article is designated as an opinion, for this is an incredibly biased and non-factual report of the situation in Israel. America sends Israel approximately $3 billion annually to support Israel’s gigantic defense budget of $15 billion. 75% of the $3 billion given must be spent in the United States, thus providing Americans with more jobs.
Most recently, American funding has helped support the development of Israel’s protection system, Iron Dome, which is most easily easily related to the common American as Israel’s Star Wars defense system. Iron Dome has been deployed to protect Israel’s citizens from terrorists’ rockets, missiles, mortars, etc. Iron Dome works by constantly scanning the skies of Israel for threats, and when it finds one, calculates necessity of a missile to be fired to intercept said threat, and if necessary fires a defensive missile.
Israel is in no way making attempts at creating a 100% Jewish nation, being the nation with the fastest growing Christian population in the Middle East. There are approximately 1.5 million Israeli Arabs who are in fact citizens who enjoy the same rights as all others in Israel. Unfortunately, there is some discrimination to be found against Arabs in Israel, but this is no different from discrimination here in the United States against immigrants, Hispanics, African-Americans, etc.
I hope that this clears some of the issues addressed in the article and opens up a realization of the distortion of and lack of factual information to back up these claims.
I disagree with John.
The whole problem with “moderate-pro Palestinians” is their horrible fear of actually offending anyone.
It’s like being “mildy pro-human rights”. It’s just absurd to say “I’m in favour of human rights, except when there is a risk that someone will be offended”.
The fact is that if the world wants to support human rights in Palestine, people will be offended.
When we point out the facts of war crimes, ethnic cleansing and apartheid in Palestine, of course people will be offended. And they will use their offense as a tool to silence their critics.
Truth is offensive to the oppressive. John would like us to be polite and silent: ignore ethnic cleansing in the West Bank and the Negev. Ignore Apartheid in the West Bank.
Fear of offending the powerful simply serves the interests of the powerful. Such silence only allows the suffering of the powerless to continue.
Excellent and very moderate article by Conor Kelly. The dimensions of the ongoing Palestinian Genocide are horrendous: 2 million Palestinians killed violently (0.1 million) or from violently-imposed deprivation since 1936; over 7 million Palestinian refugees; 6 million Palestinians forbidden to even step foot in their own country; 2.5 million Occupied Palestinian highly abusively confined to West Bank Bantustans under military rule; 1.7 million Occupied Palestinians (half children and of whom 10% are stunted from the Israeli blockade) highly abusively confined to what the Catholic Church has described as the Gaza Concentration Camp; 90% of the land of Palestine ethnically cleansed; about 75% of Christan Palestinians have fled Israeli Occupation; of 12 million Palestinians, only 6.7% – the adults of 1.6 million Palestinian Israelis – are permitted to vote for the government ruling all of Palestine under the democracy-by-genocide Apartheid Israel (Google “Palestinian Genocide”). 1 million Americans die preventably each year, substantially because this century alone successive Zionist-beholden Administrations rather than keeping Americans alive at home have committed scores of billions of dollars to the genocidal, war criminal Israeli military and committed to a $5 trillion accrual cost of the Zionist-backed War on Muslims that has killed 9 million Muslims (Google “1 million Americans die” and “Muslim Holocaust Muslim Genocide”).
I agree with John.
I tend to lean moderately pro-Palestinian, but I have to say that this article does no service for the cause of Palestinian statehood. The hyperbole renders it very difficult to take seriously, and the implication that Israel is akin to Nazi Germany in the second paragraph is offensive. If you want to make people think about the issue, acknowledge the legitimacy of each side’s position, and speak about it in a reasonable manner. In adopting extremist rhetoric, you only perpetuate the conflict.