Posted on 03/28/2008 10:53:21 AM PDT by Winged Hussar
The essential fact which is preventing resolution of the conflict is this: If Israel is defined as a “Jewish state”, Israel cannot be a democracy. Israel claims to be a democracy, but it is not, because in a democracy there cannot be discrimination on the basis of race, religion or national origin. The original framers of Zionist ideology at the end of the 19th century did not understand or value democracy, and the whole Zionist project has been undemocratic from the very beginning. As a “Jewish state”, Israel discriminates against non-Jews, that is, against the original Palestinian inhabitants of the country. Israel is conceived as “the national expression of the will of the Jewish people”. As long as this is true, non-Jews can have no political power. Arab “citizens” of Israel are such in name only, for they have no real political power. There is the unavoidable consequence. Therefore, there can be no justice for Palestinians until Israel is transformed from a “Jewish state” into a multicultural democracy where citizenship is independent of religion, race or national origin. In other words, the Israel-Palestine conflict should be treated, not as a war between two countries that can be settled by drawing an agreed-upon border (the two-state solution) but rather as a civil rights struggle within one country, Israel. We should take South Africa as our model of a successful resolution of such a conflict, and Nelson Mandela as our model of a leader who could make such a resolution possible.
Only with U.S. help can an ODS movement succeed. The United States should begin by announcing opposition to Israeli apartheid. It should join a world-wide boycott of Israel similar to the one that helped end South African apartheid.
(Excerpt) Read more at my.barackobama.com ...
One Democratic State in Israel/Palestine: a New Peace Initiative by Tony Wicher, has been online since April 2007. Mr. Wicher is a regular and prolific contributor to my.barackobama.com, and it is therefore impossible for Barack Hussein Obama to argue that some fly-by-night Republican or Clinton operative posted this to damage his campaign.
This is entirely consistent with the fact that Obama is reluctant to distance himself from individuals like Louis Farrakhan and Jeremiah "*&#&$&! America" Wright, and organizations like the New Black Panther Party and Hamas, until a breaking scandal shoves his face in the unsavory material and thereby forces him to perform at least a ritual cleansing.
God BLESS America: McCain '08!
Wow, bless that little ol’ Jeremiah Wright’s heart—Ubama really DID take his lessons on anti-semitism to heart!!! [sobs with joy]
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