Israel State Racism

Retrieved from my MSN Group

Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says, "everyone has the right to return to his country" and Article 17 says, "no one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property."

The state of Israel prohibts [see par. B-6] at least four million Palestinians from returning to their country (i.e. the land within the 1948 borders of Israel where they lived in 1948 or, in the case of children born to stateless parents living in refugee camps, where their parents or grandparents lived in 1948) and it has and does arbitrarily deprive them of their property (land, homes, bank accounts, bank safes, shares in corporations, etc.)

Health and human rights are always connected, as the former Director of Harvard's Center for Health and Human Rights, Jonathan Mann, so forcefully argued in connection with AIDS. In the case of health care for Palestinians, Physicians for Human Rights reports: "Since the beginning of the Palestinian intifada in December 1987, Israeli soldiers and security personnel have used excessive force, including beatings, indiscriminate shootings, and inappropriate use of toxic gas, against the nearly two million [in 1991] Palestinians who live in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

They have also curtailed access to health care by restircting themovement of health personal, closing pharmacies and clinics, blocking ambulances, obstructing access to medical care for critically-ill patients, and forcibly entering medical facilities."

>> Why does Israel do this? The answer is that it must.

This is why.

Any state -- be it a Muslim, Christian, Mormon, Black or White state – which, like Israel, defines itself as the state of a particular religion, race, or ethnic group must, logically and inevitably, discriminate against people within its borders who are not of the favored race, religion or ethnicity and deny them their full human rights.

Israel has declared itself to be a Jewish state and a democratic state.

What does it mean to be a Jewish state?

It means, according to the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, Israel's declaration of independence, signed May 14, 1948, that the sovereign authority in Israel is the Jewish people and only the Jewish people: "This right is the natural right of the Jewish people to be masters of their own fate, like all other nations, in their own sovereign state." Thus Jews have rights in Israel that non-Jews do not -- such as the right to move to Israel and receive automatic citizenship. Section 7A(1) of the Basic Law of Israel explicitly prevents Israeli citizens -- Arab or Jewish -- from using the "democratic" system of Israeli elections to challenge the inferior status of Arabs under the law; it restricts who can run for political office with this language: "A candidates' list shall not participate in elections to the Knesset if among its goals or deeds, either expressly or impliedly, are one of the following:

(1) The negation of the existence of the State of Israel as the State of the Jewish People." In a 1989 Israeli Supreme Court ruling (reported in the 1991 Israel Law Review, Vol. 25, p. 219, published by the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Justice S. Levine, speaking for the majority, ruled that this law meant that a political party could not run candidates if it intended to achieve the cancellation of one of the fundamental tenets of the State – namely "the existence of a Jewish majority, the granting of preference to Jews in matters of immigration, and the existence of close and reciprocal relations between the State and the Jews of the Diaspora."

Notice the insistence on a "Jewish majority." In 1947 the Jewish population within what would become the 1948 borders of Israel was slightly less than the non-Jewish population, based on UN estimates (apparently biased downward) giving a total population of about one million. In 1948-9 Israeli political and military leaders carried out ethnic cleansing to achieve the Jewish majority which a Jewish state purporting to be democratic must have; they drove 750,000 of the 900,000 (approximately) Palestinians out of the 1948 borders of Israel and seized their property; to this day Israel will not let them return or give them back their property. The pro-Zionist Israeli historian, Benny Morris, in a famous interview with Ha’aretz newspaper, discusses how David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, deliberately "transferred" the Arab population out of Israel's new borders:

PM: "Of course. Ben-Gurion was a transferist. He understood that there could be no Jewish state with a large and hostile Arab minority in its midst. There would be no such state. It would not be able to exist."
Ha'aretz: "I don't hear you condemning him."
PM: "Ben-Gurion was right. If he had not done what he did, a state would not have come into being. That has to be clear. It is impossible to evade it. Without the uprooting of the Palestinians, a Jewish state would not have arisen here."

This uprooting of the Palestinians is a crime against humanity under international law.
Today about one million Israeli citizens are non-Jews, 250,000 of whom are classified as "present-absentees" (under the Absentees Property Law of 1950) in consequence of which they are denied -- forever -- all of their property rights which were valid until the creation of the Jewish state in 1948. A Jew cannot be classified as a "present-absentee" in the Jewish state of Israel.

Israel deflects attention from these fundamental violations of human rights by pointing out that it does not implement "petty Apartheid": non-Jewish Israeli citizens can use the same parks and busses and drinking fountains as Jewish citizens. Israel also makes the specious argument that, "The French have France and the Germans have Germany, so why shouldn’t the Jews have a Jewish state?" Pro-Israel advocates do not acknowledge the simple fact that when somebody becomes a citizen of Germany they are legally a German, but when somebody becomes a citizen of Israel they are not legally a Jew, and it makes all difference in the world. Nor do they acknowledge that for million people who would otherwise be citizens of Israel are denied such citizenship purely because they are non-Jews and because of Israeli ethnic cleansing.

***********************************************************

Three decades ago,
the United Nation General Assembly
has declared that :
"Zionism is (a form of) racism"


10 Years later , George (Papa) Bush
managed to have this resolution revoked
and made as invalid.
Which tells us a lot how the UN does function
and what-for it was ever created....


Never mind my opinion on the UN
I cannot beat George Bush
nor beat his son......


But what if ,
three or four good-International-lawyers
get their minds together and file a case
at the International Criminal Court , in The Hague
to declare ( to rule) that :
Zionism is a criminal-Organisati on
(or a Criminal-Ideology)



This case is easy , logic and much evident :
Since the birth of Zionism until today ,
it has done nothing legal , nothing human,
nothing righteous and nothing to promote any peace.

Its intentions were ,from the start, wrong
and its deeds are ,continually worse !!

Six wars in 60 years and the disappearance of Palestine
and the undeniable misery for 7 million Palestinians. .
One million hostages, three million occupied
and 4 million exiles souls.


If we succeed , it will then be unlawful to become
a member of such criminal-organisati on ,
like it is the case in many other existing organised-crimes. .


Raja Chemayel
sixth of September 2008