The First Prime Minister of Israeli Apartheid

[Jason]

As the world celebrates Nelson Mandela’s 100th birthday, Israel plans to demolish yet another Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank. Last week a law enshrining the status of Palestinians in Israel as second-class citizens was enacted. Today, more than ever, it is impossible to deny that apartheid is alive and well on both sides of the green line, as the pre-1967 armistice border is known.


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First expelled from their homes in the Negev, inside Israel, by the Israeli army in the 1950s, Khan al-Ahmar’s residents are today facing another expulsion, as the Benjamin Netanyahu government seeks to expand nearby Israeli settlements, which are illegal under international law. Set east of Jerusalem in an area known as E1, Khan al-Ahmar is one of 46 Palestinian communities the UN considers at “high risk of forcible transfer”.

Forcing a people under occupation from their homes, demolishing their children’s school and pushing them off the land they make a living from is not only a war crime, but also serves a clear political agenda: expelling the area’s Palestinian residents would pave the way for Israeli annexation of their land, earmarked for Jewish-only settlements. This would essentially split the West Bank in half and prevent the possibility of establishing a contiguous Palestinian state.

Yet it is abundantly clear that these shameful discriminatory practices do not stop at the green line. Netanyahu’s nation-state law – the latest example of a deluge of discriminatory legislation – is perhaps the final nail in democracy’s coffin, cementing in law a racist doctrine of “separate and unequal”. In Israel, the law states, Hebrew is the sole official language, the Jewish people have the exclusive right to national self-determination, and the “state views the development of Jewish settlement as a national value, and will act to encourage and promote its establishment and consolidation”. This law, which fails to mention the words “democracy” or “equality” even once, constitutionally codifies Jewish supremacy and tells Palestinians like me: you’re not welcome here.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... -state-law

[pErvinalia]

No no, Arabs are totally welcome in Israel and they are treated the same as Jews. SD told me so.