Posted on 03/19/2015 12:37:52 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
(Image: a Jewish settler in Hebron throws wine on a Palestinian woman)
The election of Benjamin Netanyahu to his fourth term as prime minister of Israel has solidified what many have already known about the state of Israel: it is a racist, colonial state that cannot be considered a democracy in any shape or form.
Netanyahu’s opponent, Zionist Union leader Isaac Herzog had looked set to win the hard fought election, but Bibi’s desperate last minute plea to the hard right appeared to have tipped the balance. “The right’s regime is in danger,” Netanyahu had told potential voters on Facebook. “The Arabs are moving in droves to the polling stations.”
Nothing like some good old fashioned race baiting to get people to the polls. At least Netanyahu was being honest about his political motivations.
To deny that modern day Israel is a racist, anti democratic state is to deny objective reality. While Israeli Arabs are allowed to vote in national elections, the four million Palestinians living in the territories controlled by Israel are not. Netanyahu stated explicitly that under his watch there would be no Palestinian state, so it stands to reason that he aims to continue Israel’s occupation and remove any possibility that the Palestinians can determine their own future in any meaningful way. For Gazans, the Israeli elections are particularly obnoxious given Israel controls its borders, airspace, territorial waters, population registry and taxation system. As Israeli journalist Gideon Levy wrote days before the election:
The real hole in the ozone of Israeli democracy is the ongoing lives of over four million people living under a brutal, violent rule, all the while having not even the slightest amount of participation or involvement. There is no other country in the world in which millions of its subjects are denied the right to vote – while that country is labeled a democracy, and not just any democracy, but the only (!) democracy in the region.
The predicament of the Palestinian people is eerily similar to black South Africans during Apartheid. Like black South Africans, Palestinians are not allowed to move freely on their own land. Like black South Africans, Palestinians must carry ‘passbooks’ to identify themselves to their military occupiers. Like black South Africans, Palestinians are subjected to the cantonization and theft of their ancestral homeland. Like black South Africans, Palestinians cannot vote for the people controlling their lives, and like black South Africans, Palestinians are discriminated against purely on the basis of their ethnicity.
There is no positive spin on Netanyahu’s reelection. Life will continue to be unfathomably difficult for the millions of Palestinians living in a virtual prison with mass unemployment, poverty and lack of access to basic human need. Netanyahu will continue his policy of overt colonization, building Jewish settlements on Palestinian land while thumbing his nose at the international community’s attempts to stop him. He will continue to slaughter Palestinians when they dare to fight for their freedom, and he will continue to fan the flames of war with Israel’s neighbors to make himself relevant as a war time leader. Of course none of this is good for Israel – the further it isolates itself from America and the rest of the world, the more fragile its existence becomes. Sadly, this what Israel has become. As Phil Weiss wrote just after this week’s election:
This is Israel. Everything you have been told about the “Jewish democracy” by the Israel supporters: it is wrong. It may be Jewish, but it is no democracy, this is a white settler society where a fearful privileged group of Jews holds on to its power in ever-expanding colonies by reelecting a strong leader, now in his tenth year as premier, who will use threats and violence against the Palestinians. This place is what Ali Abunimah and Max Blumenthal told us it was years ago. Blumenthal’s video Feeling the Hate in Jerusalem [link here] was censored just about everywhere he put it up six years ago. MJ Rosenberg, a liberal Zionist, said that Blumenthal had caricatured the Israeli public by quoting a few yokels.
Well today those yokels have spoken, and they are Israel.
So let us stop with the pretenses and stop referring to Israel as a democracy. Netanyahu and his zealots in office run a modern day apartheid of which all Israelis should be ashamed.
Name one Palestinian state where the residents are treated that well.
Please keep the employees of the Daily Banter well away from machinery.
And while we’re at it, let’s burn all of their college “Degrees” in underwater basket weaving, LBGT (or whatever), etc. (After all, we all know that none have ever encountered a college - or high school - course that presented even a small challenge.)
Such idiocy should really be quarantined.
” The Daily POS” is more accurate.
I’ve said ever since SA went down that Israel would be targeted as the next apartheid and that their struggle was going to be to not allow the savages to get to the point of a large enough minority to overtake through assimilation.
And here we are.
And SA is doing real well.
The good news is that Israel will not give in to world PC as easily.
That says it all.
The Daily Banter = cat box liner
Arabs have attacked Israel, literally from day one. They continue terror attacks on a routine basis. They have VOWED the destruction of Israel, a point, that is apparently non-negotiable. Despite of all this they are given rights and freedoms in Israel that no Jew could even dream of in Islamic countries. Apartheid. Jeez Louise!
The difference between Israsel and SA is that Israelis are not going to allow their nation to be taken from them...
The communistic African National Congress is working on making South Africa more “apartheid” than at any other time in that country’s history.
And how many Jews are in the “Palestinian” governing body again? Guess you can’t be “apartheid” when you’re Judenrein; some technicality.
...anti democratic state...
Democracy is mobocracy.
Democracy is three wolves and two sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Democracy is three rapists and two women voting on how to spend the afternoon.
Cohen is a dhimmi originally from Salon. He’s way overdue for revealing to the public his Arabic name.
“To deny that modern day Israel is a racist, anti democratic state is to deny objective reality.”
Reality?
South Africa is such a charming place now.
From Wikipedia (on rape statistics):
(South Africa) has some of the highest incidences of child and baby rape in the world with more than 67,000 cases of rape and sexual assaults against children reported in 2000, with welfare groups believing that unreported incidents could be up to 10 times higher.[200] In 2001, a 9-month-old was raped and likely lost consciousness as the pain was too much to bear.[201] Another 9-month-old baby was raped by six men, aged between 24 and 66, after the infant had been left unattended by her teenage mother. A 4-year-old girl died after being raped by her father. A 14-month-old girl was raped by her two uncles. In February 2002, an 8-month-old infant was reportedly gang raped by four men. One has been charged. The infant has required extensive reconstructive surgery. The 8-month-old infant’s injuries were so extensive, increased attention on prosecution has occurred.[202] A significant contributing factor for the escalation in child abuse is the widespread myth in HIV-ravaged South Africa that having sex with a virgin will cure a man of AIDS.[203][204] According to official figures, circa 11% of South Africans are infected with the virus.[205] Edith Kriel, a social worker who helps child victims in the Eastern Cape, said: “Child abusers are often relatives of their victims – even their fathers and providers.”[203]
It’s Official: Israel is Now Apartheid South AfricaI saw apartheid as a method of protecting a civilized nation etched out of a continent of savages. It was an oasis of civilization - for a time.
Eventually it was reclaimed by the jungle.
Or maybe he's a Fourth Reicher who wants to "cleanse" the world of an "impure race"...
Just another 3rd world shiitehole when the adults are murdered and forced out.
(Image: a Muslim boy in Hebron throws battery acid on an Orthodox Jewish woman)
Or maybe he’s a Sonderkommando, hoping to cash in on the bodies of dead Jews.
Like his buddy Soros.
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