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Democratisation in the Middle East - the debate

 
 
Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Fri 25 Nov, 2005 01:24 am
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Secret EU report launches scathing attack on Israel

By Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem
Published: 25 November 2005

European governments should consider direct intervention in an attempt to curb the systematic measures being undertaken by Israel to increase its control and population in the historically - and legally - Arab eastern sector of Jerusalem, a highly sensitive EU report concludes.

The confidential report, prepared by top diplomats representing the 25 EU governments in the city, warns that the chances of a two-state solution are being eroded by Israel's "deliberate policy" - in breach of international of law - of "completing the annexation of East Jerusalem".

European Foreign Ministers this week vetoed planned publication of the report - which also warns that rapid expansion of Jewish settlements in and around East Jerusalem, along with use of the separation barrier to isolate East Jerusalem from the West Bank, "risk radicalising the hitherto relatively quiescent Palestinian population of East Jerusalem".

The report provides the most detailed and remorselessly critical account yet produced by a Western international body of Israel's policy in East Jerusalem, which has been occupied since its seizure in the 1967 Six Day War. It points out that Jerusalem "is already one of the trickiest issues" on the road to a final peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians. It adds that, as a result of the measures, "prospects for a two state solution with East Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine are receding".

Among the recommendations in the report, drafted in October during the British EU presidency which ends next month, the EU is urged to consider a series of steps including direct support for projects that help Palestinians to conduct legal battles against house demolitions, which it points out tripled in the city during 2004, and the persistent refusal to grant building permits to all but a small minority of Palestinians. The report also suggests holding meetings with the Palestinian leadership in East Jerusalem, presumably to demonstrate that - contrary to the Israeli government's goal of Jerusalem as its "undivided capital" - it sees East Jerusalem as the future capital of a Palestinian state.

The EU foreign ministers' meeting was widely reported in Israel to have decided against publication of the report in its present form because of the risk to its relationship with the Jewish state especially when for the first time Israel has given its blessing to the EU having a key security role in the region by monitoring the Rafah crossing point from Gaza into Egypt. The EU will be represented at senior level at a ceremonial opening of the crossing by the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas today.

The 11-page report, leaked to The Independent, says the E1 project for a major expansion of Ma'ale Adumim, the largest Israeli West Bank settlement, to join it to Jerusalem "threatens to complete the encircling of the city by Jewish settlements, dividing the West Bank into two separate geographical areas." It says that, while the present 30,000 residents of the settlement at present occupy only 15 per cent of the planned area, the total plan envisages an area of 53 square miles - "larger than Tel Aviv" - extending through the West Bank between Jerusalem and Jericho.
While the plans will divide the West Bank from itself and from East Jerusalem, the report says "the economic prospects of the West Bank [which has a GDP per year per head of $1,000] are highly dependent on access to East Jerusalem [GDP of $3,500]. It adds: "From an economic perspective, the viability of a Palestinian state depends to a great extent on the preservation of organic links between East Jerusalem, Ramallah and Bethlehem".

The document says when the separation barrier is completed, Israel will "control all access to and from East Jerusalem, cutting off its Palestinian satellite cities of Bethlehem and Ramallah, and the rest of the West Bank beyond. This will have serious economic, social and humanitarian consequences for the Palestinians. By vigorously applying policies on residency and ID status, Israel will be able finally to complete the isolation of East Jerusalem - the political commercial and infrastructural centre of Palestinian life."

It adds: "Israel's activities in Jerusalem are in violation of both its Roadmap obligations and international law. We and others in the international community have made our concerns clear on numerous occasions with varying effect. Palestinians are, without exception, deeply alarmed about East Jerusalem. They fear that Israel will 'get away with it' under cover of disengagement [from Gaza]." The document says smaller Jewish settlements inside Palestinian areas are sometimes installed by would-be settlers "preying on Palestinians suffering financial hardship or simply [occupying] properties by force".

Besides suggesting that a formal call by the EU and the US-led international quarter on Israel to stop prejudicing final status negotiations by its actions in East Jerusalem would be "timely", one proposal is for the EU to consider "excluding East Jerusalem from certain EU/Israel joint co-operation activities." While the document does not say so, this could realistically mean halting European funding for road, rail and projects which contribute to the process of annexation.

The reports says the purpose of keeping West Bank ID holders out of East Jerusalem and East Jerusalem ID holders out of the West Bank "is almost certainly demographic , to reduce the Palestinian population of Jerusalem while exerting efforts to boost the number of Israelis living in the city - East and West."

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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Fri 25 Nov, 2005 02:01 am
... and from the Guardian:

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Secret British document accuses Israel

FO paper says international laws are being violated and peace jeopardised


Chris McGreal in Jerusalem
Friday November 25, 2005
The Guardian


A confidential Foreign Office document accuses Israel of rushing to annex the Arab area of Jerusalem, using illegal Jewish settlement construction and the vast West Bank barrier, in a move to prevent it becoming a Palestinian capital.
In an unusually frank insight into British assessments of Israeli intentions, the document says that Ariel Sharon's government is jeopardising the prospect of a peace agreement by trying to put the future of Arab East Jerusalem beyond negotiation and risks driving Palestinians living in the city into radical groups. The document, obtained by the Guardian, was presented to an EU council of ministers meeting chaired by the foreign secretary, Jack Straw, on Monday with recommendations to counter the Israeli policy, including recognition of Palestinian political activities in East Jerusalem.

But the council put the issue on hold until next month under pressure from Italy, according to sources, which Israel considers its most reliable EU ally.

Israel has described a recommendation for moving EU meetings with the Palestinian Authority from Ramallah to East Jerusalem in recognition of the Arab claim as "negative occurrence". It claims the eastern part of Jerusalem it occupied in the 1967 war is part of its "indivisible capital". Almost all governments maintain embassies in Tel Aviv because they do not recognise the Israeli claim.

The document, drawn up by the British consulate in East Jerusalem as part of the UK's presidency of the EU, says Israeli policies are designed to prevent Jerusalem from becoming a Palestinian capital, particularly settlement expansion in and around the city. It says Mr Sharon's plan to link Jerusalem with the large Ma'ale Adumim settlement in the West Bank by building thousands of new homes "threatens to complete the encircling of the city by Jewish settlements, dividing the West Bank into two separate geographical areas".

It adds: "Israeli activities in Jerusalem are in violation of both its Roadmap (peace plan) obligations and international law."

The Foreign Office also concludes that the vast concrete barrier, which Israel asserts is a security measure, is being used to expropriate Arab land in and around the city. "This de facto annexation of Palestinian land will be irreversible without very large-scale forced evacuations of settlers and the re-routing of the barrier."

The document says stringent Israeli controls on the movement of Palestinians in and out of the city are an attempt to restrict Arab population growth. "When the barrier is completed, Israel will control all access to East Jerusalem, cutting off its Palestinian satellite cities of Bethlehem and Ramallah, and the West Bank beyond. This will have serious ... consequences for the Palestinians," it says.

"Israel's main motivation is almost certainly demographic ... the Jerusalem master plan has an explicit goal to keep the proportion of Palestinian Jerusalemites at no more than 30% of the total." All of this, the document says, greatly reduces the prospects of a two-state solution because a core demand of the Palestinians is for sovereignty over the east of the city.

"Palestinians are deeply alarmed about East Jerusalem," the document says. "They fear that Israel will 'get away with it', under the cover of disengagement. Israeli measures also risk radicalising the hitherto relatively quiescent Palestinian population of East Jerusalem."

The Israeli foreign ministry spokesman, Mark Regev, said: "Israel believes that Jerusalem should remain the united capital of Israel. At the same time Israel has committed itself that Jerusalem is one of those final status issues."
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nimh
 
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Reply Mon 17 Jul, 2006 06:34 pm
Lash wrote:
<chillbumps again>

<I've been having extraordinary chillbumps this year>

Hariri!!!

Yes, the Lebanese democratic revolution... I'm thinking about it again now, and at what cost and courage it came.

And how little of it is likely to survive, now that other countries are again using Lebanon as stomping grounds for their wars.

What's Hariri say about it?

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MP Saad Hariri, son of the slain PM Rafik Hariri, urged the international community on Saturday to stop Israel's "aggression" on Lebanon and for fellow Arab states to take a strong stand.

"We ask the whole world that this Israeli aggression and siege be stopped," the leader of the parliamentary majority told reporters on arrival in Kuwait as part of a regional tour to drum up support for his country.

"A clear Arab position must be issued on this aggression," he said of the emergency meeting of Arab foreign ministers that was opening in Cairo on Saturday to discuss the situation.

"Israel must understand that Lebanon is not a terrorist state but a country that is struggling (for its rights). I call on the Lebanese people to remain united and maintain national unity," he said.

"I am making this tour to halt the Israeli aggression on Lebanon. This aggression is inhuman and is hitting Lebanon with unprecedented brutality," said Hariri.

Hariri held talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Thursday, a day after Israel launched its offensive on Lebanon following Hezbollah's capture of two of its soldiers in a cross-border raid

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nimh
 
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Reply Mon 17 Jul, 2006 06:46 pm
Nicaragua isnt a direct neighbour of the US, but it'll do.

In the 80s, the US government did not itself attack Nicaragua. Unlike in Grenada, its army did not itself launch any assault. However, it did allow Contras, ragtag bands of former collaborators of Somoza's brutal dictatorship, gangsters, and genuine concerned oppositionals, to operate relatively freely within the US. To prepare attacks on Nicaraguan soil from there. In fact, it went even further and trained, armed and funded them.

The Contras used this US launching pad to stage attacks on Nicaragua, during which they rained rockets on Nicaraguan border areas, and caught - and killed - far more than two Nicaraguan soldiers.

Would the Nicaraguan government have been justified, if it had had the power, to bomb the US in retaliation, to bomb New York, DC, infrastructure across the US?

What a world we live in.
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Lash
 
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Reply Mon 17 Jul, 2006 08:15 pm
Lash wrote:
One thing we should note:

It is quite difficult to hold accountable a shadowy terrorist organization that hides under cloak of darkness.

It is much easier to deal with elected officials. Not to say it always works--but I am hopeful. Many of those organizations feel emasculated, and act out in desperation. They have now achieved a bit of legitimate power, self-determination, self-actualization...and now commensurate responsibility follows closely.

It can be a good thing--though they may go about shaking their penii (newly made man bravado) for a while. They may find their masculinity slammed in a door if they don't reel it in within an appropriate time.

I really think this may be a good thing.


That was from a year ago after the elections.

I think someone just got Mr Johnson slammed in the door.

When the smoke clears, does Lebanon throw out Hezbollah? Who aligns with who--how do the cards fall? Yes. It's prognosticatin time.
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dyslexia
 
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Reply Mon 17 Jul, 2006 08:47 pm
The lebanon government being as fragile as it is (we gave them democracy and they went and elected some Hezbollah) because of several factors the main one being the Lebonese military could never allow themselves to appear aligned with Israel and the Hezbollah is the main, if not the only, source of human social services in the nation of Lebanon.
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dlowan
 
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Reply Mon 17 Jul, 2006 08:51 pm
And it was the one that mainly threw Israel out last time it invaded.


The Lebanese seemed to quite like it for that.

Go figure.
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Lash
 
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Reply Mon 17 Jul, 2006 09:06 pm
I hear ya, dys, but I thought with Hariri elected and Lebanese people taking the reins of their country, they may provide themselves with social services through government.

I remember how Hariri sounded. There was so much promise. I've read some interviews with civilians, who don't want Hezbollah running the country.

But, I don't know how the numbers are. And, I know it's scary to turn away from what you know as your life source. I just thought having control of the government may cause them to think forward.
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dlowan
 
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Reply Mon 17 Jul, 2006 09:09 pm
dyslexia wrote:
The lebanon government being as fragile as it is (we gave them democracy and they went and elected some Hezbollah) because of several factors the main one being the Lebonese military could never allow themselves to appear aligned with Israel and the Hezbollah is the main, if not the only, source of human social services in the nation of Lebanon.



Would the Lebanese military have the strength to do it anyway, Dys? Or would it end up like Iraq...sans foreign troops?
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Tue 18 Jul, 2006 12:55 am
http://i2.tinypic.com/20a43dw.jpg

(The Guardian, 18.07.2006, page 25)
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dlowan
 
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Reply Tue 18 Jul, 2006 01:56 am
Well, that ain't so silly......problem is they'd have to figure out how, and persuade Iran, as well, which may not be so easy right now....oh, and persuade Hezbollah as well.


That's a lot of persuadin'...
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dyslexia
 
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Reply Tue 18 Jul, 2006 06:25 am
dlowan wrote:
dyslexia wrote:
The lebanon government being as fragile as it is (we gave them democracy and they went and elected some Hezbollah) because of several factors the main one being the Lebonese military could never allow themselves to appear aligned with Israel and the Hezbollah is the main, if not the only, source of human social services in the nation of Lebanon.



Would the Lebanese military have the strength to do it anyway, Dys? Or would it end up like Iraq...sans foreign troops?

First of all the governemnt of Lebanon would like nothing better than to have Hezbollah disarm and disappear, the modern forces at work in the current govenment are pretty much dedicated to economic prosperity (mostly the large christian but also muslim population) The Lebanon military is far weaker both in numbers and in resolve to take on Hezbollah. Hezbollah is quite popular with the young/disenfranchised and muslim fanatic. What I see currently happening is that the continued shelling of Beirut's infrastructure is wreakin's havoc with the economic well being of Lebanon possibly to the degree of the current and democratically directed government could very easily just collapse.
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dlowan
 
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Reply Tue 18 Jul, 2006 03:32 pm
Sigh.
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nimh
 
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Reply Tue 18 Jul, 2006 05:14 pm
Lash wrote:
When the smoke clears, does Lebanon throw out Hezbollah?

First off, Hezbollah is not some cosmopolitan enclave of foreign fighters of the Al-Qaeda type, which can be "thrown out". Hezbollah is, however hateful, a serious domestic political force, which commands the loyalty of significant communities in the country. Its civilian wing got the vote of one in six Lebanese in the last elections - compare Perot's result in the US in '92. Where would you want all those people to be "thrown out" to?

These are Lebanese citizens, born and raised in Lebanon. "Throwing out", alas, is no option. Jailing them all isnt really either. That leaves pacification - turning them away from violence, towards some form, however dubious, of democratic participation instead. Only way to do that? See Northern Ireland and the IRA.

As for your question - well -

With its governing and economical infrastructuring being bombed - refugee flows triggered across the country - a defensive, sectarian rallying the troops against foreign bombers going on in Shi'ite circles - the central government generally fragmentating, as it does in the face of war - together with the precariously budding sense of Lebanese citizenship, after so many years of sectarian civil war - all of which playing into the hands of armed, local, sectarian forces - and the economy swiftly collapsing ...

With all of that, I think it's pretty much a sure fire bet that the Lebanese government will be less able to do any clamping down on Hezbollah than ever before, when the bombing stops.

I'm no fan of editorials, but as The Guardian editorial noted pointedly yesterday:

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The most plaintive event yesterday, in the midst civilians of all faiths being killed, was the Lebanese prime minister, Fouad Siniora, appearing on CNN to plead for his country's future. Lebanon's government bears the signs of collapsing into a failed state. To expect it to succesfully disarm Hizbullah's militants, while Israeli jets pound Tyre and Beirut as they did yesterday, inflicting collective punishment and undermining its fragile economy, is unrealistic.

"Unrealistic", indeed. Perhaps atypically, they went for understatement, here.

This is a lesson you would think Israel should already have learnt. Faced with a state that features both a weak central government and strongly positioned rogue terrorist actors, to demand from the central government that it acts against the terrorists and emphasising the demand by bombing that same government's fledgling infrastructure - the stuff that might actually have given it a semblance of a chance to actually do so - is not even logical.

Beating up the person you are demanding to stop being a Quisling and stand up against his bullying friend - it just doesnt make any sense.

In the Palestinians' case, this brilliant strategy has ended us up with a Hamas government - worst case scenario, basically. But, here we go again... and the fragile, recovering Lebanese democracy, economy and probably the precariously fraught interdenominational peace too, go down along with the remains of an Israeli/Palestine 'roadmap to peace'.

Word of the week: "proportional".
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Lash
 
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Reply Tue 18 Jul, 2006 05:42 pm
nimh wrote:
Lash wrote:
When the smoke clears, does Lebanon throw out Hezbollah?

First off, Hezbollah is not some cosmopolitan enclave of foreign fighters of the Al-Qaeda type, which can be "thrown out". Hezbollah is, however hateful, a serious domestic political force, which commands the loyalty of significant communities in the country. Its civilian wing got the vote of one in six Lebanese in the last elections - compare Perot's result in the US in '92. Where would you want all those people to be "thrown out" to?
I'd like them thrown out of the Lebanese government. I think reasonable members of the Lebanese government would like the same thing. And you?
These are Lebanese citizens, born and raised in Lebanon. "Throwing out", alas, is no option.
If they are voted in, they can be voted out. I think they have just given Lebanese voters a pretty good reason to do so. They have willfully gotten their country embroiled in an unnecessary war.

As for your question - well -

With its governing and economical infrastructuring being bombed - refugee flows triggered across the country - a defensive, sectarian rallying the troops against foreign bombers going on in Shi'ite circles - the central government generally fragmentating, as it does in the face of war - together with the precariously budding sense of Lebanese citizenship, after so many years of sectarian civil war - all of which playing into the hands of armed, local, sectarian forces - and the economy swiftly collapsing ...

With all of that, I think it's pretty much a sure fire bet that the Lebanese government will be less able to do any clamping down on Hezbollah than ever before, when the bombing stops.
Possibly. This is the way the world works, to me. The people choose who they choose. The government and the state are responsible for their actions. Lebanon may see and hear from the world that Hezbollah was a bad choice. They may rethink safety issues when terrorists, who they've elected are acting carelessly with their lives. They may be strengthened by the outpouring of goodwill from around the world, along with the reality that Hezbollah is leading them into very dangerous situations. There are growing pains in these births. It seems media types and others expect laboratory conditions for these fledging democracies. I keep recalling our history, France's, Europe's... What would be the result if Israel didn't respond forcefully?
I'm no fan of editorials, but as The Guardian editorial noted pointedly yesterday:

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The most plaintive event yesterday, in the midst civilians of all faiths being killed, was the Lebanese prime minister, Fouad Siniora, appearing on CNN to plead for his country's future. Lebanon's government bears the signs of collapsing into a failed state. To expect it to succesfully disarm Hizbullah's militants, while Israeli jets pound Tyre and Beirut as they did yesterday, inflicting collective punishment and undermining its fragile economy, is unrealistic.

"Unrealistic", indeed. Perhaps atypically, they went for understatement, here.

This is a lesson you would think Israel should already have learnt. Faced with a state that features both a weak central government and strongly positioned rogue terrorist actors, to demand from the central government that it acts against the terrorists and emphasising the demand by bombing that same government's fledgling infrastructure - the stuff that might actually have given it a semblance of a chance to actually do so - is not even logical.
Hezbollah has government offices, and has been awarded elected positions--and then carries out an attack against Israel's sovereignty. I think exepcting them Israel to roll over for it is what's unrealistic--and unreasonable.
Beating up the person you are demanding to stop being a Quisling and stand up against his bullying friend - it just doesnt make any sense.
I'm not sure what I would have done in Israel's place, but most of their detractors don't seem to account for the fact they're human and under attack. Wouldn't you respond?
In the Palestinians' case, this brilliant strategy has ended us up with a Hamas government - worst case scenario, basically. But, here we go again... and the fragile, recovering Lebanese democracy, economy and probably the precariously fraught interdenominational peace too, go down along with the remains of an Israeli/Palestine 'roadmap to peace'.

Word of the week: "proportional".

Take a look at the Middle East. Considering Israel's tiny size-- amid a vast land, inhabited with people who have sworn to eradicate them from existence-- I think proportional may be in the eyes of the safe.


I don't want anyone to think I'm pleased with carnage or death. I just think there are valid points on the other side of this issue.
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nimh
 
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Reply Wed 19 Jul, 2006 07:44 pm
nimh wrote:
Word of the week: "proportional".

In the news today..

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The asymmetry in the reported death tolls is marked and growing: some 230 Lebanese dead, most of them civilians, to 25 Israeli dead, 13 of them civilians.

In Gaza, one Israel soldier has died from his own army's fire, and 103 Palestinians have been killed, 70 percent of them militants.

The cold figures, combined with Israeli air attacks on civilian infrastructure like power plants, electricity transformers, airports, bridges, highways and government buildings, have led to accusations [..] that Israel is guilty of "disproportionate use of force" [..] and of "collective punishment" of the civilian populations.

Whoever next starts about the disproportionate media attention to Palestine/Lebanese victims compared to the coverage of Israeli suffering should remember those numbers, IMO.
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Lash
 
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Reply Wed 19 Jul, 2006 08:04 pm
I was wondering if you recall the specifics of the beginning of the 67 war, and how Israel won?

Have you thought about what it must be like to be Jewish in the ME? It's bad enough in Paris.

Can you imagine being a part of a race who was hunted and intentionally exterminated--being sat down in the middle of a hornets nest of people, who say aloud to anyone listening that they want you dead... and having your arch enemies elected to neighboring governments? Without even emotion or histrionics, but from a pure logical standpoint-- when that government attacks on your soil-- don't you respond as you did before--when it worked and saved you from annihilation?

Their defense is hellified and overwhelming. Because it keeps them alive. That's a tiny country. I find it hard to believe someone looking at it from their standpoint doesn't at least understand their actions. We may all hate bombing, but I don't know if anyone has really tried to empathize with Israel.
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InfraBlue
 
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Reply Wed 19 Jul, 2006 09:53 pm
One thing is empathy for the Ashkenazim, and the Goyim for that matter, who suffered vicious persecutions in Europe by ethnocentrists, another thing is taking this empathy and using it to rationalize the existence of a state that is itself ethnocentrically bigoted and discriminatory, artificially created, and imposed on a people who were guiltless of the persecutions perpetrated upon the Ashkenazim in Europe.
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cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Wed 19 Jul, 2006 10:08 pm
Infrablue, Good to hear others are aware of the bigotry of the Israeli state against the Palestinians. Palestinians do not have any rights - civil (voting), legal or keeping their homes/land. Jews are stealing it through fraud. Jews now own over 90 percent of Palestine/Israel. Jews defecate close to Palestinian homes to chase them out. It's really disgusting. How can any reasonable person support Israel as a state? The US has complicity in the crime.

That anybody has the right to defend themselves from terrorists is another issue.
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cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Wed 19 Jul, 2006 10:17 pm
Just type "Israel is not a democracy" in any search engine, and you find examples like the following:

Written in 1985 by Jack Bernstein


My Farewell to Israel, Thorn of the Middle East
Before Israel became a state in 1948, Jews worldwide were filled with Zionist propaganda that Israel would be a homeland for all Jews, a refuge for persecuted Jews, a democratic country and the fulfillment of biblical prophecy.

I am an Ashkenazi Jew who spent the first 25 years of my life in the United States, the country that has given ALL Jews freedom and the opportunity to prosper -- and prosper we Jews did, to the point that one portion of the Jews (the Zionists) have gained a position of political and economic dominance in the U.S.

To fully understand the story I am about to tell, it is important that you understand what Zionism really is. Zionist propaganda has led the American people to believe that Zionism and Judaism are one and the same and that they are religious in nature. This is a blatant lie.

Judaism is a religion; but Zionism is a political movement started mainly by East European (Ashkenazi) Jews who for centuries have been the main force behind communism/socialism. The ultimate goal of the Zionists is one ONE-WORLD GOVERNMENT UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE ZIONISTS AND THE ZIONIST-ORIENTED JEWISH INTERNATIONAL BANKERS.

Communism/socialism are merely tools to help them accomplish their goal.

I was a Victim of Zionist Propaganda
After the 1967 War, we Jews were filled with pride that 'our homeland' had become so powerful and successful. Then too, we had been filled with the false propaganda that Jews in America were being persecuted. So, between 1967 and 1970 approximately 50.000 American Jews fell for this Zionist propaganda and migrated to Israel. I was one of those suckers.

After being filled with all this false Zionist propaganda, I felt that I would have a better chance to succeed in the new Jewish state. There was an added enticement, the spirit and challenge of pioneering and of helping my fellow Jews.

Dual Citizenship
I had no emotional conflict with leaving the U.S. because I was still able to keep my U.S. citizenship and could return to the U.S. at any time. You see, Jews are allowed to be citizens of both Israel and some countries -- U.S. is one of those countries. The U.S. government allows a Jew to be a citizen of both U.S. and Israel.

German Americans cannot be citizens of both the U.S. and Germany. Italian Americans cannot be citizen of both U.S. and Italy. Egyptian-Americans cannot be citizens of both the U.S. and Egypt . . . BUT, a Jewish American can be a citizen of both Israel and the U.S. THIS IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THE POWER THE ZIONIST JEWS HAVE OVER THE U.S. GOVERNMENT.

I Arrive in the "Jewish Paradise"
Before leaving for Israel, a Jewish friend of mine had made arrangements for me to stay a few days with her sister, Fawzia Daboul and her spinster aunt. After arriving at Lod Airport just outside of Tel Aviv, I took a bus to the home of Miss Daboul and her aunt. When I saw Fawzia, it was love at first sight. I started calling her 'Ziva' her Hebrew name. Ziva is a Sephardic Jewess from Iraq who, like myself, had fallen for the Zionist propaganda and had migrated to Israel. She was employed as a hairdresser.

The Kibbutz
After visiting with Ziva and her her aunt for two days, I left to spend 6 months at Kibbutz 'Ein Hashofet' one of the well over 150 such communes then operating in Israel. Since then, many more have been started -- especially in the territory taken from the Palestinian Arabs. A kibbutz is a farming and sometimes industrial venture. It is important to explain that Israel's Kibbutz system is a Marxist idea brought to Israel by the Ashkenazi Jews who migrated to Israel mainly from Poland and Russia. These Jews are part of that bunch of Jews know as the BOLSHEVIKS. Before 1917, they were the force that laid the foundation for the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 in Russia and the start of Communism.

Again, I want to point out, even emphasize, that it is some of that same bunch of Ashkenazi, Communist/Socialist Jews who migrated to Israel, gained control of the Zionist Movement and have dominated the government of Israel since its beginning in 1948.

Now, back to the kibbutz -

Prior to 1967, most of the work on the Kibbutz was done by Jews. But, since the 1967 War, the work has been done by Arabs who are paid a very low wage, and by volunteers from overseas. Members of the Kibbutz (all Jews) share all things equally. They receive clothing, food and a small allowance. All profits from the venture go into the Kibbutz account for future use. EACH OF THESE KIBBUTZ ARE AFFILIATED WITH ONE OF ISRAEL'S MARXIST PARTIES ranging from SOCIALIST TO HARD-CORE COMMUNIST.

The Kibbutz I was in was not hardcore communist. Yet, I was happy to leave after 4 months -- two months earlier than originally planned. During the time I was working in the Kibbutz, I carried on courtship with Ziva. She was one of the reasons I left the Kibbutz after only 4 months -- we were to be married.

Our Marriage Created Problems
The marriage ceremony was held in the Sephardic Synagogue. The ceremony was simple but beautiful. Ziva and I were happy, but our marriage created serious problems. You see, Ziva is a Sephardic Jewess and I am an Ashkenazi Jew. For an Ashkenazi Jew to marry a Sephardic Jew is frowned upon in Israel by the ruling Ashkenazim. To understand why this is the case, you must realize the difference between the Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews.

The powerful Zionist propaganda machine has led the American people to believe that a Jew is a Jew -- one race of people and that they are "God's Chosen People". I will deal with the "God's Chosen People" LIE later. First, it is important for you to understand that Jews are NOT one race of people.

There are two distinct groups of Jews in the world and they come from two different areas of the world -- the Sephardic Jews from the Middle East and North Africa and the Ashkenazi Jews come from Eastern Europe. The Sephardic is the oldest group and it is they, if any, who are the Jews described in the Bible because they lived in the area described in the Bible. They are blood relatives to the Arabs -- the only difference between them is the religion.

The Ashkenazi Jews, who now compromise 90% of the Jews in the world, had a rather strange beginning. According to historians, many of them Jewish, the Ashkenazi Jews came into existence about 1200 years ago. It happened this way:

At the eastern edge of Europe, there lived a tribe of people know as the Khazars. About the year 740 A.D., the Khazar king and his court decided they should adopt a religion for their people. So, representatives of the three major religions, Christianity, Islam and Judaism, were invited to present their religious doctrines. The Khazars chose Judaism, but it wasn't for religious reasons. If the Khazars had chosen Islam, they would have angered the strong Christian world. If they had chosen Christianity, they would have angered the strong Islamic world. So, they played it safe -- they chose Judaism. It wasn't for religious reasons the Khazars chose Judaism; it was for political reasons.

Sometime during the 13th century, the Khazars were driven from their land and they migrated westward with most of them settling in Poland and Russia. These Khazars are now known as Ashkenazi Jews. Because these Khazar Ashkenazi Jews merely chose Judaism, they are not really Jews -- at least not blood Jews.

Throughout their history, these Polish and Russian Ashkenazi Jews practiced communism/socialism and worked to have their ideas implemented in these countries.

By the late 1800s significant numbers of these communist/socialist Jews were found in Germany, the Balkans and eventually all over Europe. Because of their interference in the social and governmental affairs of Russia, they became the target of persecution by the Czars. Because of this, migration of these communist/socialist oriented Jews began. Some went to Palestine; some to Central and South America; and a large number of them came to the U.S.

Political Zionism is Born
In 1897, the First Zionist Congress was held in Basle, Switzerland. At this Congress, it was decided to work toward the establishment of a Jewish state and a search for land on which to build this Jewish state began. Great Britain offered the Zionists land in Africa. This the Zionists rejected: they wanted Palestine!

At the time, Palestine was inhabited by a half a million Palestinian Arabs and a few Palestinian Jews who are blood related and who had lived together in peace for centuries. With Palestine as their choice for a homeland, European Ashkenazi Jews began migrating to Palestine. As I explained earlier, most were communist/socialist oriented with some of them being radical Bolshevik communists whose aim is world domination.

So when you think of Jews, especially as related to Israel, keep in mind that there is a great difference between Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews. They are not one united people. They are divided socially, politically and especially racially. Now, back to Ziva, a Sephardic Jewess and I an Ashkenazi Jew, and our lives in the so-called democratic country of Israel.

Sephardic Jews -- Second Class Citizens
For the first three years of our marriage, it was necessary for us to live with Ziva's aunt. This was because of the critical housing shortage in Israel and because of racism. Housing is allotted as follows:

Ashkenazi Jews who have lived in Israel for many years are given first choice.
Second in line are Ashkenazi Jews from Europe -- especially if they are married or marry an Israel-born Ashkenazi Jew.
The next favored are Ashkenazi Jews from the U.S. -- especially if they marry an Israeli-born Ashkenazi.
Sephardic Jews have the next choice of whatever housing is left.
At the bottom of the list are Moslems, Druze and Christians.
Opportunities for employment follow the same pattern: Ashkenazi Jews get the choicest jobs, Sephardic Jews next, and Moslem, Druze and Christians fill the menial jobs with a great many left unemployed. Even through I was an Ashkenazi Jew from the U.S., I was placed lower on the list for housing because I married a Sephardic Jewess.

Being denied housing was my second experience of the intense racism that exist in Israel. From the very beginning of my arrival in Israel, many slurs were yelled at me. We American Jews were merely being tolerated. Because Israel, to survive, must depend on gifts of American Jews and the sale of worthless Israeli Bonds in America, there is jealousy among the elite Israeli Ashkenazi Jews toward American Jews, even if the American Jews are also Ashkenazi. Many times I was told, "Go Home!" and, "We want your money, but not you."

However, there was a portion of the American Jews who were welcome and given favored treatment. They were the card-carrying communist Jews.

Of the 50.000 American Jews who, like myself, had migrated to Israel between 1967 and 1970 about 20% (10.000) of them were Marxist oriented with a great number of them actual card carrying communists. They were welcomed by the Israeli authorities and local Ashkenazi and were given favored treatment -- housing, jobs and social life. It must be noted besides coming from the U.S., a great number of communist Jews were migrating to Israel from Chile, Argentina and South Africa.

Of the 50.000 who had migrated to Israel during that time, 80% of us eventually returned to the U.S. The 20% who remained were those who were card-carrying communist or sympathetic to Marxism.

Three Faces of Israel
From what I have told you so far, you must have the idea that Israel is a Marxist (socialist/communist) country. This would be correct. But, Israel has three faces: Communism, Fascism and democracy. The Ashkenazi Jews who migrated to Israel from Russia brought with them the ideology of socialism/communism and have put into practice much of that ideology. The Ashkenazi Jews who migrated to Israel from Germany, while sympathetic to communism and support it, tend to favor the practices of Nazi-style fascism. During World War II, in Germany these elite Zionist Ashkenazi Jews worked closely with Hitler's Gestapo in persecuting the lower class German Jews and delivering them to concentration camps.

Now living in Israel, these elite Zionist Jews, who were well trained in Nazi-style fascism and favor it, have imposed many facets of fascism on Israel. To give the impression that Israel is a democracy, members of the Knesset (Israel Congress) are elected -- an odd type of election. This is where Israel's so-called democracy stops. It doesn't make any difference which party wins an election, the LIKKUD or LABOR, the elite Zionist Jews rule in a dictatorial manner -- giving favors to the elite clique and brutally suppressing any dissent.

In the Zionist/communist scheme of world domination, it is Israel's role to continually stir up trouble in the Middle East. Since wars are a big part of this scheme of aggression, it is only natural that from early childhood on, Israeli youth are trained mentally and physically for war. For instance: Israel has its equivalent of Hitler's youth group. It is the Gadna; and all high school and junior high students are required to participate -- boys and girls. Like Hitler's Youth group, the youth in Israel's Gadna are dressed in khaki uniforms. They take training and engage in para-military exercises.

Even at play, guns and thoughts of war are present. When on a picnic, instead of taking along baseball or soccer equipment, they take sub-machine guns and assault rifles and practice shooting and playing military games.

Once graduated from high school, all young boys are required to serve 3 years in the army (2 years for girls) or 4 years in the navy or air force (3 for girls). Ultra-orthodox religious Jews are exempt from military service.

Once out of the service, a number of the ex-service people join the Shin Bet, the equivalent of Hitler's Gestapo. Like the Gestapo, they engage in repressing anyone who acts or speaks out against the Marxist/Fascist government of Zionist dominated Israel.

Like in Nazi Germany, all people in Israel are required to carry identity booklets called "Teudat Zehut" in Hebrew.

One day I changed jackets and forgot to take out my ID booklet when I went down town in Tel Aviv. A police officer approached me and asked for my "Teudat Zehut". I told him I had left it in my other jacket. Because I didn't have my ID booklet with me, I was taken to the police station. At the police station, the desk sergeant informed me that for not having my ID booklet with me, I could be jailed for up to 16 days without even being taken before a judge. All that was necessary is for the Police Lieutenant to sign a "Remand Order".

I asked permission to make a telephone call to my wife and tell her to bring my ID booklet to the station.

The sergeant allowed me two hours to have my "Teudat Zehut" produced. I called my wife and she brought my "Teudat Zehut" -- arriving just minutes before the 2 hour deadline expired. If she had been late in arriving, I would have been jailed for 16 days for not having my ID booklet with me. This is just one indication that Israel is a 'Police State' and not a democracy.

Concerning Nazism/Fascism, please let me clear a point. Germans are an admirable people -- I dare say even great. But in Germany, the general population were victims of the Nazis who through cunning and brutality gained power. In Germany, the average Jews were victims of the Zionist elite who worked hand in hand with the Nazis. Many of those same Zionist Jews who, in Germany, had worked with the Nazis, came to Israel and joined hands with the Zionist/Communist Jews from Poland and Russia. It is the two faces of communism and Nazi-style fascism that rule Israel. Democracy is merely an illusion.

Regarding the tie between the elite Ashkenazi Jew and the Nazis, take a look at the word 'Ashkenazi' -- look again 'Ashke-NAZI'.

Interesting isn't it?

There is a great confusion regarding the relationship of fascism to communism. Fascism is national socialism. Communism is international socialism.

Israel's Economy
Economically, Israel is bankrupt. Of course, this could have been predicted because Israel's economic structure is based on socialism.

Whenever a government of a state and its citizens spend more money than the value of the goods produced, economic bankruptcy will result. If it were not for aid from America, Israel's economy would have collapsed long ago. Israel is a 'welfare state' in every sense of the word -- it is America's most favored welfare recipient.

While America's farmers, small businessmen and laborers are struggling to survive, the U.S. Government, dominated by Zionist Jews, are draining the pockets and purses of American taxpayers to support Israel's socialist economy and war machine.

Since the Israeli government knows, and the favored Zionists know, that the Zionist pressure in America will ensure that America will keep sending them massive amounts of money, Israel's government and its favored citizens spend money like drunken sailors. This practice leads to inflation and eventually to an economic collapse.

Comparing Israel to drunken sailors is unfair to sailors. Sailors spend their OWN money -- Israel spends money it gets from America. Because Israel is a welfare state depending mainly on American aid for survival, it is on a down-hill slide. In 1982, Israel's inflation rate was 130%.

In 1983, it was 200%, and this year (1984) it is expected to exceed 400%. That means a hamburger that cost $1.00 last January will have risen to $5.00 by the end of December. History shows that no nation mired in economic problems as Israel has become, has ever avoided an economic collapse. Only with a massive increase in American financial aid can an economic collapse be averted -- even then, this solution would only be temporary.

Regarding the destructive tendencies of socialism, there are circumstances that allow a country to successfully provide social programs to help its people. It is possible in a country that has sufficient financial resource and where its citizens are deeply religious and considerate their fellowmen.

NONE of this exists in Israel. Even in countries where conditions are ideal there lingers a danger. Since the government of the country provides for the needs of its citizens, most of these citizens have a tendency to lose incentive to work hard; and a country with a complacent citizenry is easily conquered.

Visitors to Israel
Tourism is one of Israel's main sources of income. The largest group of visitors are American Jews. But, there are also many American Christians who want to visit the holy shrines and to see the land of 'God's Chosen People'.

These Christians come away very impressed and filled with religious fervor.

While in Israel, Jews and Gentiles alike are carefully watched so that they do not stray and happen to see the sordid side of Israel -- the true Israel.

Like in Soviet Russia and other communist countries, visitors to Israel are taken on carefully planned guided tours. They are shown the religious sites, the universities, the lush orchards, the technical accomplishments, the arts, and to stir sympathy, they are taken to visit the Holocaust Museum. But, kept from the eyes of the tourists are the ghettos, the prisons where political prisoners, mostly Arabs and Sephardic Jews, are subjected to the most inhumane forms of torture. The tourists do not see the widespread crime activities and the corruption and cooperation between organized crime bosses and government and police officials.

The tourists do not learn of the true inner workings of Israel's Marxist/Fascist government; nor do they see Israel's Racism.

I met one American Tourist who couldn't help telling me about the wonderful religious feeling she had from being in Israel -- the Holy Land. I remarked to her, "Just try giving a Bible to a local Jew and you will see how much religion and religious freedom there is in Israel. If seen by the police, you will be arrested.

continued at: http://www.the7thfire.com/new_world_order/zionism/american_jew_in_racist_marxist_israel.htm
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