[WCUSP] What is a Jewish state? by Khalid Amayreh
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From: Khalid Amayreh <_amayreh at p-ol.ama_ (mailto:amayreh at p-ol.com) >
Date: 17 nov. 2007 17:43
Subject: What is a Jewish state
What is a Jewish state?
>From Khalid Amayreh in Occupied West Jerusalem
17 November, 2007
Seeking to perpetuate institutionalized racism and systematic discrimination
against its non-Jewish citizens, the apartheid Israeli state has been
incessantly trying to blackmail the weak and vulnerable Palestinian Authority (PA)
into recognizing the Zionist state as "an exclusively Jewish state."
Some Israeli officials have used terms such as "a state of the Jews, for the
Jews, and by the Jews." Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has been quoted
as saying that Israel wouldn't recognize a prospective Palestinian state on
the West Bank unless the PA recognized Israel as "a state of the Jews."
Israeli leaders are reluctant to tell the world what they exactly mean by
"a state of the Jews," ostensibly to save themselves the embarrassment of the
implied racism inherent in the concept.
However, the implications in such a recognition are abundantly clear for
those who have even rudimentary knowledge of the Israeli mentality.
To make a long story short, "Jewish state" means that Israel has an inherent
right to discriminate against its non-Jewish citizens, especially the
sizeable Palestinian minority, and, if need be, expel them from the country in order
to preserve the "Jewishness" of Israel.
In other words, Israel simply wants to obtain from the Palestinian
leadership a recognition that it has a legal and moral right to carry out ethnic
cleansing of its Christian and Muslim citizens on the ground that Israel is and
must always remain a Jewish state.
Of course, Israel is deliberately evasive and vague about its manifestly
fascistic designs regarding its non-Jewish citizens. Israeli leaders and
apologists claim ad nauseam that Israel is a Jewish and democratic state. But this
is a defensive reflex at best and is as mendacious as claiming that apartheid
is compatible with democracy.
The truth, however, is that Israel can't be Talmudic and democratic at the
same time. Hence "Jewish" and "democratic" are an eternal oxymoron that should
never be used in the presence of an honest audience.
The reason for that is amply clear. Ask any Jew in Israel or abroad which
comes first "Jewish" or "democratic" and he or she wouldn't to tell you that
"Jewish" always overrides "democratic.t Which really shows that
"democratic" is no more than a cosmetic façade that is meant to blur or conceal the
brutal ugliness of the fascist nature of the "Jewish state."
Another important, even paramount, aspect of this issue is the Israeli
insistence on obtaining recognition as Jewish state in order to permanently bar
millions of Palestinian refugees deported from their homeland from time
immemorial from repatriation.
In other words, Israel wants to legalize and legitimize Ethnic cleansing by
getting the victims, or at least their supposed representatives, to bless the
greatest act of theft in the history of mankind.
Thus, recognition of Israel as a Jewish state would be tantamount to a double
national suicide of immense catastrophic proportions for the Palestinian
people.
First, it implies that Israel has the right to expel all or most of its
Arab citizens or at least check their demographic growth by all means necessary
to maintain Israel as a Jewish state.
And, second, it implies that Israel has the right to prevent Palestinian
refugees uprooted from their ancestral homeland from returning to their homes
and villages in what is now Israel. In other words, Israel wants to make sure
that ethnic cleansing will win at last.
In light, one is prompted to ask: Can there be a greater national suicide
for the Palestinian people?
In addition, there are a number of other practical implications which a
recognition of Israel as a Jewish state would entail. These include the
following:
1- That only "Jews" can be considered complete citizens of Israel, and
that if an incomplete citizen, e.g. a non-Jew, wanted to be "complete" he or
she would have to convert to Judaism. This is very much like the situation
many Jews in mediaeval Europe faced, forcing them to convert to
Christianity in order to enjoy equality and find acceptance in their contemporary
societies.
2- That the Israeli citizenship per se is ultimately inconsequential and
doesn't guarantee holders all rights and privileges, since Israel is defined
as "state of the Jews." Hence, in order to enjoy full and complete and
permanent citizenship, one has to be Jewish.
3- That whenever there is the slightest disharmony between the Jewish and
democratic aspects of Israel, the Jewish aspect will override and take
priority over the democratic aspect.
4- That Jews all over the world, including potential converts to Judaism,
are citizens of Israel and may well be allowed the right to vote in national
elections, especially if non-Jewish citizens, gain political influence in
Israeli politics.
More to the point, recognizing of Israel as a Jewish state also implies a
recognition of the moral legitimacy of Israel's criminal history,
particularly the genocidal ethnic cleansing of the bulk of the indigenous Palestinian
people from their ancestral homeland.
In other words, a recognition as such by the PA would also imply that the
Palestinians would effectively though compulsively embrace and accept the
Zionist narrative in its entirety.
This would mean that the victims of Zionist supremacy and racism would
have to transform themselves into a sort of Arab Zionists, very much like
Christian Zionists.
It is for these reasons that no dignified Palestinian under the sun will be
able to recognize Israel as a Jewish state since such a recognition would be
incompatible with basic morality and fundamental human decency.
Indeed, even if such a recognition were to be arrogated through blackmail
and coercion, it would be utterly rejected by the vast bulk of Palestinians,
and treated like a marriage under duress, which is no less than an act of
rape.
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