[Marxism] growing anti Arab racism in "democratic" Israel

[Dbachmozart@xxxxxxx]

By Khalid Amayreh in Occupied East  Jerusalem

_http://www.palestine-info.co.uk_ (http://www.palestine-info.co.uk)  
The Association for Civil Rights in Israel said in  its annual report, 
released this week, that âracism was so rife in Israel that  it was damaging 
civil 
liberties and human rights.â 
âIsraeli society is reaching new heights of racism  that damages freedom of 
expression and privacy,â said author Sami Michael,  president of the 
association. 
According to the Hebrew press, the reportâs key point  includes a 26-percent 
rise in the number of racist incidents against Arabs and  twice as many Jews 
reporting a feeling of hate toward Arabs. 
âWe are a society under supervision under a  democratic regime whose 
institutions  are being undermined and which  confers a different status to 
residents 
in the center of the country and in the  periphery,â the Israeli newspaper 
Haâ
aretz (9 December)  quoted Michael as  saying. 
Some of the most shocking but expected findings of  the report include the 
following: As many as 55% of Israeli Jews support the  idea that the state 
should âencourageâ the Arab citizens of Israel to emigrate;  up to 78 % of 
Jewish 
respondents oppose the inclusion of Arab political parties  in the government. 
And according to a Haifa University Study, also cited by  Haâaretz, 74 % of 
Jewish youths in Israel think that Arabs are unclean. 
Of course, anti-Arab racism,  Islamophobia,  anti-goyism and other forms  of 
xenophobia have always been rife in Israel  . However, these morbid phenomena 
have of late assumed nearly Nazi proportions  as the Israeli Jewish society 
continues to drift menacingly toward jingoism and  fascism. 
A few months ago, an Israeli Jewish man invited an  Arab tax driver from East 
Jerusalem to his home north of Tel Aviv for a cup of  coffee. And when the 
Arab cabbie sat down to drink his coffee, the Jewish man  and his brother 
brought in a big knife and murdered the innocent man in cold  blood. 
Upon interrogation,   the murderer, a  French immigrant, told the police that 
âWhen I killed him, I felt I was killing  an animal, not a human being.â 
This was by no means an isolated incident. Today,  hundreds of thousands of  
Israeli youngsters receive  inherently  racist education and indoctrination, 
whether in their schools or in their  synagogues or through the media. 
A few days ago, an Israeli talk-show host told this  writer during an 
interviewâ "Arabs are animalsâ and that âyou should go back to  your 
donkey room.â 
More to the point, it is imperative to remember that  this racist 
indoctrination is by no means confined to the rabbles and the  uneducated 
class. In 
truth, the entire Israeli society is based on racism.   Racism is Israelâs 
modus 
operandi, and human and social equality is markedly  incompatible with being 
Zionist. 
In Israel, we have rabbis who teach their yeshiva  (religious school) 
students that non-Jews are non-humans. Three years ago, a  Knesset member by 
the name 
of Aryeh Eldad protested that âthe army was treating  human beings as if they 
were Arabs.â 
Similarly, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert  remarked in the summer of 2006 
that âJewish lives are always worth more.â 
Recently, a few days before the ill-fated Annapolis  conference in Maryland 
on 26 November, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni  proposed that Israelâs 
Arab citizens could be forced out of their ancestral  homeland into a 
prospective Palestinian state.  
Livni, whose venomous views  are likely to  reflect the prevailing discourse 
in   Israel ,  seems to harbor  the same malice and ill-will toward Israelâs  
Arab citizens  very much  like  Nazi Germanyâs did toward its  untermench. 
But unlike Hitler and his cohorts, who were brashly  honest about what to do 
with Nazi Germanyâs untermench (a German word meaning an  inferior class of 
people),  Livni  is prevaricating about what  she  really wants. 
Some Israeli political leaders are franker and more  honest about their 
respective mindsets than others. For example, Strategic  Affairs Minister 
Avigdor 
Lieberman openly calls for the transfer of Arabs from  Israel.  (transfer is 
nothing short of a euphemism for genocide, at least a  partial genocide). 
Similarly, Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu has  been proposing ways and 
means to check the comparatively high birth rates among  Israelâs non-Jewish 
citizens while boosting birth rates among Jews. And then  there are the gurus 
of messianic Zionism, the Gush Emunim people, who openly  call for âa Jewish 
solutionâ and are still relating to non-Jews in Israel in  terms of âwater 
carriersâ and âwood hewers.â   
Do people in Europe and North America understand what  is being implied by a 
Jewish solution? A few years ago, I pressed a Gush Emunim  (block of the 
faithful)  Zionist rabbi to explain his concept of  the  Jewish solution. The 
rabbi 
uttered three words: enslavement, expulsion or  annihilation.  
It is absolutely wrong to think that these  Nazi-minded people represent a 
small minority in Israel. In fact, I can dare say  that they represent the 
majority trend among Israeli Jews. 
Today in Israel, if any politician wants to get  elected or increase his 
popularity, he or she will have to demonstrate in ample  manner his hatred of 
and 
sullen hostility toward the Palestinians and Islam. 
Indeed, as nefarious anti-Semitism was the ultimate  certificate of good 
conduct that guaranteed passage through the Nazi hierarchy,  hostility to 
Islam, 
Arabs and Palestinians is now the surest way to seize the  hearts and minds of 
Jews in Israel. 
Finally, it is equally misleading to think that  racism in Israel is a 
passing phenomenon.  
Last year, I asked a veteran Israeli journalist what  would become of Israel 
and the world if and when the fanatics of Gush Emunim  reached power in 
Israel, either through the ballot box or by way of a coup of  some kind? 
The man told me the following: âFor the time being,  our nuclear arsenal is 
in safe hands, but who knows what could happen ten years  from now?â 
I am invoking these ominous prospects because Gush  Emunim and other 
messianic Zionist Jews are guided by a nearly genocidal  doomsday  ideology 
which 
teaches that the Jewish messiah or redeemer wonât  appear until and unless 
there 
is violence and bloodshed on a uniquely   large scale. 
Hence, it is conceivable that these religious  fanatics, in cooperation with 
their secular fascist colleagues, would use Israel  âs nuclear weapons to 
trigger the return of the Mashiah. Now is this the  authentic Judaism that 
Moses 
taught? 
Again these people are not a small minority in  Israel. According to Israeli 
sources, more than 50% of high-ranking officers in  the Israeli army hail from 
the âreligious Zionist community.â 
These are the same people who murder Palestinian  civilians, including 
children, on a daily basis without the slightest feeling of  guilt. These are 
the 
same people that bomb Palestinian homes, where women and  children are asleep, 
from high altitudes without a whiff of compunction. 
And, Yes these are the same people who wouldnât  hesitate to embark on the 
unthinkable to effect and expedite their sick whims  which can be summarized in 
one sound-bite:  âhashmadaâ or  annihilation.



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