From my inbox. Abeg, read and make up your mind on the facts of the matter, paying attention to facts and truth.

It is possible to achieve peace in the middle east if all the parties are sincere.

The killing of any innocent person is wrong regardless of who is doing the killing, on this I still stand.

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What is a Jewish state? - by Khalid Amayreh

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." 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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