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Continuing a tradition dating back to 1948, the self-proclaimed "Jewish homeland" has violently depopulated and bulldozed yet another Arab village, Khan al-Ahmar. The Bedouin villagers had the misfortune to be living in a "strategic location." That is, it was situated until today between two Jewish-only "settlements" (colonies) in the West Bank (which is called "Judea and Samaria," by Jewish imperialist zealots, using the language of religious fanatic cism) and was thus in the way of the ongoing Israeli project of colonization of the land between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River, a project begun in 1948 and pursued relentlessly ever since. [1] Israeli soldiers assaulted the residents for refusing to leave, injuring 35, four of whom were hospitalized.
Israel's judiciary has ruled the existence of the village "illegal." (Under Israeli law, Arabs functionally have no rights, and in fact are unlawful squatters in "the land of the Jews.") As in every repressive state, including the U.S., Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and many others, much repression in Israel is carried out under color of law. Thus Arabs are never permitted to build houses. So their "illegal" homes are routinely bulldozed. In 2003 American humanitarian activist Rachel Corrie was murdered by the Israelis while protesting a home demolition, assassinated by a bulldozer river who undoubtedly was acting on instructions. Other foreign activists and Palestinians protesting home demolitions have been maimed and killed over the years.
Israeli general Moshe Dayan once boasted of how 450 Arab villages were wiped off the map during and after the 1948 creation of the state of Israel. We can take him as an authoritative source on that, as he was part of it.
At the same time that "law" is used as an instrument of repression, as in the case of depopulating "the land of Israel" of non-Jews, the laws of the repressive state are themselves transgressed with impunity by the government to carry out yet more repression. Only the oppressed and the average citizen is bound by law, not those in power, who use law as a weapon. [This is true all over the world. See for example the Trump-Sessions regime's current war on refugees fleeing violent U.S.-created Central American hellholes, a violation of refugee law, or U.S. government policies of torture and assassinations.]
The U.S. government has invariably backed Israel's crimes, with very few exceptions. The U.S. media has been a reliable arm of Israeli propaganda efforts over the years,
If you call this obviously racist state, which separates groups by law, and which wipes out Arab villages to make way for Jewish only towns, an apartheid state, which it is, Israel's propaganda chorus in "the West" smears you as "anti-Semitic." In the U.S., virtually the entire establishment media is part of this chorus. U.S. politicians and government officials sycophantically bray the Israeli propaganda line of the day. We just saw that again after Israeli snipers spent two months murdering and maiming thousands of protesters along their fortified border with Gaza, the world's largest prison camp, holding almost two million souls, half of them under the age of 18. Medics, journalists,
children, even a disabled man in a wheelchair (crippled as a result of earlier Israeli violence) were all shot dead by Israeli snipers "in self-defense," according to Israeli propaganda, propaganda amplified by U.S. media, politicians, and government. Hamas was officially blamed for Israel's massacre, by Trump regime apparatchiks like his hand-picked UN ambassador, the horrid GOP (Gang Of Plunderers) career politicial Nikki Haley, who has distinguished herself in that post by her hate-filled demagoguery aimed at Palestinians and at the UN and its various bodies. Not to be outdone in slavish devotion to Israel's "defense," leading Democratic Party politicians like U.S. Senator Charles "Wall Street's Valet" Schumer denounced Hamas and exonerated Israel for its mayhem.
The two political parties that form a cartel an monopolize political power in the U.S. try to outdo each other in hysterical fealty to Israel and endorsement of its every crime. We see that each time Israel launches one of its periodic wars on Gaza, which it calls "mowing the lawn," destroying the laboriously-created infrastructure of Gaza- the power plant, the waterworks, greenhouses, shops, factories, hospitals, apartment buildings. Now there is no potable water in Gaza, literally. This concentration camp for almost two million people will soon be the site of pandemics and mass die-offs. That seems to be Israel's mass murderous plan for the Palestinians, which will get the usual full-throated approval from U.S. politicians and a complicity U.S. media.
1] Or we could date the project of colonization to the birth of the Zionist movement itself around the beginning of the 20th century. 1948 is the year the UN, dominated by the U.S. and with Soviet concurrence, decided to give most of the land of Palestine to the minority Jewish population. The Jewish "settlers" then waged a terror campaign against defenseless Palestinian inhabitants, driving out hundreds of thousands illegally, and illegally barring their return as required under international law. The Palestinians' insistence on their right of return is painted as an unreasonable demand, when it is in fact their due under international law. At the same time, Israel, its Western backers, and the propagandists pretend that they are the lawful ones, and the Palestinians nothing but international terrorists.
Then Israeli propagandists invented a story as to why hundreds of thousands of Palestinians all up and fled their homes simultaneously. The legend they invented was that a Muslim Imam broadcast an order to the Palestinians to leave, to make way for invading Arab armies. The Palestinians, being obedient sheep, all heeded this fictive radio message. Western media stooges of Israel dutifully repeated this mythological tale for years. Years later, researchers examined recordings of radio broadcasts from that time and found that no such broadcast existed. Of course, Western media has never retracted the disinformation they repeated for years, issued no corrections to "the record." That is typical Western media behavior. [In what seems odd for privately owned, allegedly independent media. Western media often functions just like state-controlled media in places like China and Russia. Witness the frenetic war propaganda in "the" media leading up to the U.S.-UK invasion of Iraq in 2003. There were even purges of media personalities who didn't jump on the pro-war bandwagon, such as of Phil Donahue and others at MSNBC.]
The Holocaust is frequently invoked as justification for the dispossession, immiseration of, and violence against Palestinians. But the Germans are the culprits in the Holocaust. So if justice demanded a homeland for Jews- Jews unsatisfied with their current homelands all over the world, that is- then the State of Israel should have been carved out of Bavaria, heartland of the Nazi movement.
As for the rationalization that Jews- and here we must pause to note the ironic fact that both Zionists and Nazis agree that all Jews belong to a single entity, "the Jewish people," and their bonds to and loyalty to this group supersedes any and all other ties, a super-conspiratorial idea that is clearly false, and indeed, while there are Jews of numerous stripes, including atheists, "the Jewish people" as an entity is as fictive as "the white race," for example. Both things, and other such "races" and "peoples" exist only as delusions in the minds of various chauvinists- but as for the rationalization that "Jews," ALL Jews, need a "homeland" to which to retreat at some future moment of peril when no other place on earth is safe for Jews, this is such an absurdity that it cannot bear the most cursory analysis- which is why the propagandists who promulgate it make sure that such cursory analysis never occurs. Because how could Israel survive if the entire world wanted to kill Jews? Israel is powerful because of Western and ESPECIALLY U.S. backing! If the U.S. wasn't a safe haven for Jews- and today Jews are prominent, powerful, and rich far beyond their numbers in the U.S.- Israel would not be a refuge but a concentration camp for Jews.
But propaganda is successful because the propagandists can monopolize the media systems that target the populations they wish to indoctrinate and brainwash. That is certainly the case in the U.S., where the establishment media is almost uniformly, and relentlessly, Zionist.
Continuing a tradition dating back to 1948, the self-proclaimed "Jewish homeland" has violently depopulated and bulldozed yet another Arab village, Khan al-Ahmar. The Bedouin villagers had the misfortune to be living in a "strategic location." That is, it was situated until today between two Jewish-only "settlements" (colonies) in the West Bank (which is called "Judea and Samaria," by Jewish imperialist zealots, using the language of religious fanatic cism) and was thus in the way of the ongoing Israeli project of colonization of the land between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River, a project begun in 1948 and pursued relentlessly ever since. [1] Israeli soldiers assaulted the residents for refusing to leave, injuring 35, four of whom were hospitalized.
Israel's judiciary has ruled the existence of the village "illegal." (Under Israeli law, Arabs functionally have no rights, and in fact are unlawful squatters in "the land of the Jews.") As in every repressive state, including the U.S., Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and many others, much repression in Israel is carried out under color of law. Thus Arabs are never permitted to build houses. So their "illegal" homes are routinely bulldozed. In 2003 American humanitarian activist Rachel Corrie was murdered by the Israelis while protesting a home demolition, assassinated by a bulldozer river who undoubtedly was acting on instructions. Other foreign activists and Palestinians protesting home demolitions have been maimed and killed over the years.
Israeli general Moshe Dayan once boasted of how 450 Arab villages were wiped off the map during and after the 1948 creation of the state of Israel. We can take him as an authoritative source on that, as he was part of it.
At the same time that "law" is used as an instrument of repression, as in the case of depopulating "the land of Israel" of non-Jews, the laws of the repressive state are themselves transgressed with impunity by the government to carry out yet more repression. Only the oppressed and the average citizen is bound by law, not those in power, who use law as a weapon. [This is true all over the world. See for example the Trump-Sessions regime's current war on refugees fleeing violent U.S.-created Central American hellholes, a violation of refugee law, or U.S. government policies of torture and assassinations.]
The U.S. government has invariably backed Israel's crimes, with very few exceptions. The U.S. media has been a reliable arm of Israeli propaganda efforts over the years,
If you call this obviously racist state, which separates groups by law, and which wipes out Arab villages to make way for Jewish only towns, an apartheid state, which it is, Israel's propaganda chorus in "the West" smears you as "anti-Semitic." In the U.S., virtually the entire establishment media is part of this chorus. U.S. politicians and government officials sycophantically bray the Israeli propaganda line of the day. We just saw that again after Israeli snipers spent two months murdering and maiming thousands of protesters along their fortified border with Gaza, the world's largest prison camp, holding almost two million souls, half of them under the age of 18. Medics, journalists,
children, even a disabled man in a wheelchair (crippled as a result of earlier Israeli violence) were all shot dead by Israeli snipers "in self-defense," according to Israeli propaganda, propaganda amplified by U.S. media, politicians, and government. Hamas was officially blamed for Israel's massacre, by Trump regime apparatchiks like his hand-picked UN ambassador, the horrid GOP (Gang Of Plunderers) career politicial Nikki Haley, who has distinguished herself in that post by her hate-filled demagoguery aimed at Palestinians and at the UN and its various bodies. Not to be outdone in slavish devotion to Israel's "defense," leading Democratic Party politicians like U.S. Senator Charles "Wall Street's Valet" Schumer denounced Hamas and exonerated Israel for its mayhem.
The two political parties that form a cartel an monopolize political power in the U.S. try to outdo each other in hysterical fealty to Israel and endorsement of its every crime. We see that each time Israel launches one of its periodic wars on Gaza, which it calls "mowing the lawn," destroying the laboriously-created infrastructure of Gaza- the power plant, the waterworks, greenhouses, shops, factories, hospitals, apartment buildings. Now there is no potable water in Gaza, literally. This concentration camp for almost two million people will soon be the site of pandemics and mass die-offs. That seems to be Israel's mass murderous plan for the Palestinians, which will get the usual full-throated approval from U.S. politicians and a complicity U.S. media.
1] Or we could date the project of colonization to the birth of the Zionist movement itself around the beginning of the 20th century. 1948 is the year the UN, dominated by the U.S. and with Soviet concurrence, decided to give most of the land of Palestine to the minority Jewish population. The Jewish "settlers" then waged a terror campaign against defenseless Palestinian inhabitants, driving out hundreds of thousands illegally, and illegally barring their return as required under international law. The Palestinians' insistence on their right of return is painted as an unreasonable demand, when it is in fact their due under international law. At the same time, Israel, its Western backers, and the propagandists pretend that they are the lawful ones, and the Palestinians nothing but international terrorists.
Then Israeli propagandists invented a story as to why hundreds of thousands of Palestinians all up and fled their homes simultaneously. The legend they invented was that a Muslim Imam broadcast an order to the Palestinians to leave, to make way for invading Arab armies. The Palestinians, being obedient sheep, all heeded this fictive radio message. Western media stooges of Israel dutifully repeated this mythological tale for years. Years later, researchers examined recordings of radio broadcasts from that time and found that no such broadcast existed. Of course, Western media has never retracted the disinformation they repeated for years, issued no corrections to "the record." That is typical Western media behavior. [In what seems odd for privately owned, allegedly independent media. Western media often functions just like state-controlled media in places like China and Russia. Witness the frenetic war propaganda in "the" media leading up to the U.S.-UK invasion of Iraq in 2003. There were even purges of media personalities who didn't jump on the pro-war bandwagon, such as of Phil Donahue and others at MSNBC.]
The Holocaust is frequently invoked as justification for the dispossession, immiseration of, and violence against Palestinians. But the Germans are the culprits in the Holocaust. So if justice demanded a homeland for Jews- Jews unsatisfied with their current homelands all over the world, that is- then the State of Israel should have been carved out of Bavaria, heartland of the Nazi movement.
As for the rationalization that Jews- and here we must pause to note the ironic fact that both Zionists and Nazis agree that all Jews belong to a single entity, "the Jewish people," and their bonds to and loyalty to this group supersedes any and all other ties, a super-conspiratorial idea that is clearly false, and indeed, while there are Jews of numerous stripes, including atheists, "the Jewish people" as an entity is as fictive as "the white race," for example. Both things, and other such "races" and "peoples" exist only as delusions in the minds of various chauvinists- but as for the rationalization that "Jews," ALL Jews, need a "homeland" to which to retreat at some future moment of peril when no other place on earth is safe for Jews, this is such an absurdity that it cannot bear the most cursory analysis- which is why the propagandists who promulgate it make sure that such cursory analysis never occurs. Because how could Israel survive if the entire world wanted to kill Jews? Israel is powerful because of Western and ESPECIALLY U.S. backing! If the U.S. wasn't a safe haven for Jews- and today Jews are prominent, powerful, and rich far beyond their numbers in the U.S.- Israel would not be a refuge but a concentration camp for Jews.
But propaganda is successful because the propagandists can monopolize the media systems that target the populations they wish to indoctrinate and brainwash. That is certainly the case in the U.S., where the establishment media is almost uniformly, and relentlessly, Zionist.
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