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UNITE! Info #169en: "Israel", "rich" states' mad dog
[Posted: 12.04.02]
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01. WHY "ISRAEL" WAS CREATED, AND WHY IT'S STILL
SO IMPORTANT FOR ALL IMPERIALISTS TO SUPPORT
IT TO THE VERY LAST
The racist state of "Israel", which now occupies Palestine,
was created, in 1948, by a joint action of the governments of
all the "rich" states in the world, in order to function as a
military bastion of theirs, in the strategically important re-
gion of the Middle East, for the continued oppression and con-
tinued extreme exploitation of all the poorer countries.
The very "point" of that "state" from the begining on was for
it to constantly engage in aggression and terror, not only
against the vast majority of the original inhabitants of Pa-
lestine but against all other peoples in that region too. It
was intended to function as a killer instrument of the impe-
rialists', a particular scourge of theirs against the 200
million Arabic-speaking people who live in or close to the
Middle East, a mad dog to perpetrate aggressive war after ag-
gressive war.
This is what this very particular kind of state has done too,
earlier above all in 1948, 1956, 1967 and 1982. And this is
what it's once more doing today, in early/mid-2002. Against
the atrocities perpetrated by it now, people are protesting
everywhere.
The imperialists with all their propaganda resources are con-
tinuing to say what they have said in the last 50 years and
more, that "Israel" was created in order "to offer protec-
tion for" believers in the Jewish faith from that racist per-
secution which they have been subjected to since centuries
back and still are being subjected to in many countries, and
in particular from such genocide against them as was perpetra-
ted by the Nazis during World War II.
This is another of the big lies of the imperialists. The ru-
lers of the "rich" countries in reality never were against
racist persecution, nor against genocide. On the contrary,
both of these things are an integral part of the present so-
cial "order" in the world, that of capitalism "developed into"
imperialism.
As was reported publicly again recently, more than 11 million
children in the world die each year due to preventable causes
- lack of food or medicines. This genocide is continuing be-
cause the people in the "rich" states, which could be sources
of aid instead of sources of exploitation and mass murder and
which will become sources of aid once imperialism is over-
thrown in the whole world, are not the masters of "their own"
countries; the capitalists and their politicians are control-
ling them, with US imperialism as their big international
gendarme today.
As for the WW II mass killing in Hitler Germany, of some 5.4
million civilian Germans, Poles, Russians, Hungarians, Czechs
etc, mainly Jews but also people of many other groups, the
"Western" governments then fighting the fascist powers knew
about this going on from 1942 on but kept silent about it to
the people up to 1945 when the truth had to come out. And they
themselves resorted to barbarous methods in this basically
just anti-fascist war, also targeting and killing millions of
civilians with militarily ineffective "area bombing"; the
fascist war criminals themselves got off with only very light
"punishment".
Today there are mass killings directly perpetrated by the im-
perialists going on in many parts of the world. The war of ag-
gression against the DR Congo, instigated by them to "punish"
the Congolese people for their refusal to be exploited any
more and for having started to build up a really democratic
state, continues. It has so far killed over 3 million people.
The international mass media are pretending that this imperia-
list war, the biggest of them all today, "simply does not
exist".
With sneak "green" warfare, such as the international banning
of the vital anti-malaria pesticide DDT, the destruction of
the refrigeration industries in many poor countries by means
of bans against the CFCs ("ozone hole" terror hoax), the bans
against modern energy sources for these countries (anti-
nuclear-energy campaign, "global warming" terror hoax for cur-
tailing use of chemial fuels, campaigns also against hydro-
power plant construction), and further with the "HIV/AIDS"
terror hoax and mass murder campaign (on all this, see various
earlier Infos), the imperialists and their stooges are killing
many millions more of people each year.
And those same persons who are engaging in all this want peop-
le to believe that the reason why they created "Israel" and
still today most fanatically are supporting and defending that
state construction is, that they "want to protect the Jews
from persecution and genocide"? It's laughable - if such a
term can be used in this serious context. Racist persecution,
and genocide, that's not what US president Bush, British pre-
mier Blair or Swedish premier Göran Persson, to take just a
few examples, are against at all. On the contrary, it's the
very lifeblood of those forces in the world whom they repre-
sent. It's what these persons themselves are constantly busy
furthering, every day, every minute.
02. WHAT ARE THE BACKERS, FINANCIAL SUPPORTERS AND
ARMS SUPPLIERS OF "ISRAEL" DOING NOW?
Faced with the outrages and the massive protests against them
by the people in many countries, the imperialists have been
forced to undertake some "cosmetic" actions. "Germany, long
Israel's most steadfast supporter in Europe, has suspended
arms sales to the Jewish state to protest its military action
in the West Bank, officials [in Berlin] said today", it was
reported by the Washington Post last Tuesday, 09.04. On the
same day, the foreign-policy representative of the European
Union (EU), Solana, delivered a speech to the EU Parliament in
which he, according to the text of that speech published in
advance, "would propose" a concerted EU action in the same
vein, but in which he in reality failed even to mention such
a thing - due to pressure from what direction, one can easily
imagine.
The US imperialists on their part officially have "called on"
the zionist aggressors to withdraw their troops, something
which Sharon, certain of his main masters' actual continued
support anyway, has shrugged off. And they are sending their
foreign minister Powell for some more "talks". Of any inter-
vention of theirs, perhaps, against this aggression with its
continuing massive killing of civilians, destruction of houses
etc, there - of course - is no talk at all, nor of any inten-
tion of the US imperialists' to cease to provide that mad dog
of the entire imperialist bourgeoisie with all the financing
- quite officially, more than $3 billion each year, from the
USA alone - and all the arms it "needs".
03. THE ONLY POSSIBLE SOLUTION TO THE CONFLICT
"ISRAEL" VS PALESTINE AND OTHER MIDDLE
EAST COUNTRIES - A DEMOCRATIC STATE IN ALL
OF PALESTINE
The racist and inherently wildly aggressive state of "Israel"
must cease to exist as such. It must be replaced by a democra-
tic state in all of Palestine, one that represents the inte-
rests of all those people living there - whether Arabic-spea-
king or Hebrew-speaking, whether Moslems, Jews, Christians or
atheists (etc) - who will not engage in armed aggression and
oppression against others.
A solution similar, thus, to the one that was finally brought
forth in the 1990s, after a long struggle by the people, for
formerly officially racist South Africa. Apharteid South Afri-
ca was replaced by non-apartheid South Africa. This of course
did not mean that all the problems for the people there were
solved. But the change from a state which had racism as one
part of its very constitution to one that no longer has this
was an important advance.
The same goes for the transformation of the former "South Rho-
desia", long ruled by the racist Smith clique, into the majo-
rity-ruled Zimbawbe of today - one of the states, for in-
stance, which does *not* condone the ongoing imperialist ag-
gression and the crimes against humanity directed against the
Congolese people but on the contrary is *helping with military
means to defend* the DR Congo against those crimes, which it
is the duty of *all* United Nations member states to do, ac-
cording to those UN principles which all those member states,
including the "rich" ones, have underwritten.
"Israel" today remains the only state in the world whose very
principles, whose very laws, are openly racist. - With the
possible exception of certain states in southern USA, that is,
where reportedly, certain laws of a racist character still re-
main, though they have little importance in practice today.
"Israel" is a state whose very principles are openly expansio-
nist too.
On these two things, which the mass media of the "rich" states
are never informing the people about, some details under point
04 below.
A democratic state in all of Palestine, that is - or rather,
was - also the goal of the Palestine Liberation Organization
(PLO), according to its programme. Unfortunately, the PLO in
the 1980s and even more in the 1990s in practice abandoned
that programme, the only just and realistic one.
Today there are instead, "replacing" the PLO as effectively
acting forces, some Islamic fundamentalist organizations
which, firstly, are striving for a so-called "Islamic state"
in Palestine, along lines already infamous elsewhere, which
obviously would not be any good solution at all, and secondly,
massively and directly targeting also civilians in their pur-
ported liberation struggle, something which an actual people's
liberation organization precisely must avoid, and thereby pre-
cisely offering the zionists some pretexts for *their* actions
of atrocity.
It's no coincidence of course that the US and other "Western"
imperialists since long precisely have furthered such ideolo-
gical currents as "Islamic fundamentalism", in order to trans-
form just struggles by the peoples into such in which none of
the sides really merits support.
What must be advocated by friends of the Palestinian people
and supporters of their liberation struggle is a return to
the original programme and original methods of struggle of
the PLO.
04. THE PARTICULAR CHARACTER OF THE
STATE OF "ISRAEL"
"Israel", first of all, is a *racist* state.
Why this is so was explained, for instance, in a pamphlet
published in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1979 by the PLO Office
there, "PLO klargör sin politik" ("The PLO explains its poli-
cies"). I'm quoting, in translation, from its pages 21-24:
'*Israel's embassy maintains:*
"Israel is the only democracy in the entire Middle
East. It is that state which you want to annihilate.
Therefore, your talk of your 'democratic Palestine' is
unreliable. Under all circumstances, one knows what
one has got, but not what one will get."
*The PLO Office replies:*
This is correct. One knows what one has got, but not
what one will get. We therefore very easily can make
up our minds to fight for a better future, with the
goal of establishing a democratic Palestine.
To us, you see, it appears as a sheer mockery to talk
of Israel as a "democratic state". Israel to us is
the very opposite, namely, a racist state.
South Africa [then, in 1979, still under racist rule,
with the "apartheid" system in force - RM] has a par-
liament and political parties and a freedom of the
press which is much wider than that Israeli freedom
of the press which is limited by military censorship.
But probably, nobody would hit on the idea of talking
of South Africa as "the only democracy in Africa" be-
cause of this.
Israel *is* a racist state. This is not just an arbi-
trary vilification; to us, what this means is some-
thing very concrete. For the following reasons, Is-
rael is a racist state:
1) Israel defines itself as a *Jewish* state. Thereby
of course, all non-Jews are being relegated to the
role of second-class citizens.
2) Israel defines itself as the homeland of all Jews
in the world. This means, concretely, that any Ameri-
can, African, Chinese, Russian or Swede whosoever has
a right to "return to Israel", that is, to move to our
home country Palestine and immediately receive citi-
zenship in the state of Israel and full civil rights.
One-and-a-half million Palestinians in exile lack this
possibility of returning to their homeland (really
*returning*, without quotation marks around the word),
for one very simple and clearly racist reason:
*Because they are not Jews.*
3) In Israel there is a comprehensive emergency legis-
lation which is practically only being used against
non-Jewish citizens of the state. This is the British
military legislation from that time when Palestine was
a British colony. The zionists combated this legisla-
tion intensively before the state of Israel became a
fact, and one leading zionist, Yacov Shimshon Shapira,
compared these laws to the Nazi Jew legislation.
But when the state of Israel was created, these laws
*were kept*. And Yacov Shimshon Shapira got to be mi-
nister of justice in the new state and himself applied
those laws which he had compared to the Nazi Jew legi-
slation - *now however only against Arabs*.
These laws comprise hundreds of paragraphs, and they
are being applied every day, every minute still at
present in Israel. They give the military authorities
the right to order a curfew against an Arab, to im-
pound his land, to put him in prison without a trial,
to decide that some areas are too Arab and that the
Arab population must therfore be "thinned out", that
Arab publications are to be reviewed beforehand by
military censors, that certain areas in the country
can be declared "Arab-free", so that Arabs are not
allowed to live there, that Arab organizations and as-
sociations can be dissolved, that Arab election wor-
kers can be put into "administrative arrest" before an
election, and so forth, in a listing which, as men-
tioned, comprises hundreds of similar regulations.
These laws are being applied on a very large scale.
Our lack of legal rights is a fact not only in the oc-
cupied territories from 1967 - where the discrimina-
tion is too well-known even to need discussion - but
in the state of Israel itself and concerning its Arab
citizens.
4) More than a million Palestinians live in Gaza and
on the West Jordan Bank. On the one hand, they of
course lack citizenship since they live in occupied
areas. On the other hand, the Israeli government, as
is known, has declared that for religious reasons
(God has promised these areas to the Israelis) and for
historical reasons (these areas were Israeli 2000
years ago), Israel is to keep these areas.
What, then, is to be done with millions among our
people who live in these areas? Well, some form of
"autonomous areas". This means a certain "local self-
government", supervised by the Israeli military.
Such a system there already is somewhere else in the
world. In South Africa, this is being called "separate
development", and the areas in question are being cal-
led "Bantustan areas".
For these for reasons, Israel is a racist state. And
systematic racism is something completely incompatible
with any concept of democracy.
Therefore, Israel is no more a democracy than is South
Africa [the South Africa of 1979 - RM]. The white in-
habitants of South Africa have approximately the same
rights as the Jewish inhabitants of Israel.
Therefore, Israel ceases to exist when these condi-
tions under points 1-4 have been combated and defeated
and, to use again the most emotional word of the pro-
paganda, annihilated.
When the racism thus has been annihilated, we will
have liberated Palestine, and then we shall build our
state with equal rights for all inhabitants, irrespec-
tive of whether they have this or that religious or
ethnic background in their family.'
For confirmation of what was said in the above, in particular
about non-Jews always having been *second-class* citizens of
the "state" of "Israel", from its creation on, a sermon (found
on the Net) on 26.10.2001 by a "reform zionist" rabbi in the
USA, Barry H. Block, can be quoted. It was entitled "Why Zio-
nism Is Not Racist" (but showed of course the opposite):
'In 1947, the U.N. voted, by two thirds majority, to
create two states, a Jewish State and an Arab State,
side by side in Palestine. ...'
[After which, in 1948, the zionists immediately
launched a war of aggression and engaged in massacres
of Palestinians, in order to expand their territory
also much beyond that - unjustly - "accorded" them by
the UN, and to force Palestinans to flee. - RM]
'Twenty-eight years later, though, the same body, the
General Assembly of the United Nations, took a very
different stance. In 1975, ... that organization [in
which the internationally-oppressed countries had now
gained some more influence - RM] declared Israel to be
"the racist regime in occupied Palestine," and labeled
Zionism as "a form of racialism and racial discrimina-
tion".
The truth be told, the resolution equating Zionism
with racism had very little impact [hoped Mr Block and
some others, at least - RM]. In the 1990s, after Is-
raeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and P.L.O. Chairman
Yasser Arafat signed their understanding on the White
House lawn, the U.N. resolution on Zionism and racism
was repealed.
...
Then, last year, the peace came to an end. Now, we
hear the renewed charge that Zionism is racism.
...
Zionism is not racism, for the Jewish people is not a
race. ...
[The last statement here is true, of course - with the
addition that the believers in the Jewish faith are
not "a people" either, any more than the believers in
the Christian, the Moselm respectively the Buddhist
faith would be one. But the first statement precisely
is false, because of the facts listed above, one of
which rabbi Block himself confirms:]
To preserve the unique Jewish character of Israel and
to secure the survival of our people, Israel must
maintain a solid Jewish majority. On the other hand,
all citizens of Israel have the right to vote, be they
Arab or Jew, Muslim or Christian or Druze. By defini-
tion, Israeli Arabs are full citizens of Israel. At
the same time, we must acknowledge that they are *se-
cond class citizens* [emphasis by me - RM]. Arab and
Druze Israelis are not part of the group by whom and
for whom the nation exists. ...'
Confirming the fact that "Israel" is a racist state is the
one that this "state" *has no consitution*.
It's "governed" instead by a "suitable" conglomerate of laws;
the official website of "Israel" says on this i.a.:
'Even though it was stated in the Proclamation of In-
dependence...that the Constituent Assembly...would
draft a constitution for Israel, this was not done due
to differences of opinion with the religious parties.
In place of a constitution, it was decided to legi-
slate a series of basic laws, which in the future
would together form the constitution. ...'
And:
'Upon attaining independence (1948), Israel passed the
Law and Administration Ordinance, stipulating that
*laws prevailing in the country prior to statehood*
would *remain in force* insofar as they did not con-
tradict the principles embodied in the Declaration of
the Establishment of the State of Israel or would not
conflict with laws to be enacted by the Knesset. Thus
the legal system includes *remnants of Ottoman law*
(in force until 1917), *British Mandate laws*, which
incorporate a large body of English common law, ele-
ments of Jewish religious law and some aspects of
other systems. ...' [Emphasis by me - RM]
Conforming what the above-quoted 1979 PLO pamphlet said on
the racist-type "principle" of "Israel" as a purported "home"
of all Jews in the world (with pressure exerted on many of
them, of course, to "return" to Palestine to function as op-
pressors of others and cannon-fodder for expansionist wars),
the official "Israeli" website also says:
'*Acquisition of Israeli Nationality*
...
Citizenship may be acquired by:
*Birth
*The Law of Return
*Residence
*Naturalization',
and on the very particular "Law of Return":
'The Law of Return (1950) grants every Jew, wherever
he may be, the right to come to Israel as an oleh (a
Jew immigrating to Israel) and become an Israeli citi-
zen.
For the purposes of this Law, "Jew" means a person who
was born of a Jewish mother, or has converted to Juda-
ism and is not a member of another religion.
Israeli citizenship becomes effective on the day of
arrival in the country or of receipt of an oleh's cer-
tificate, whichever is later.'
Saying that a person "born of a Jewish mother" "by definition"
"is a Jew", that of course is a flagrantly *racist* principle,
making the religion of a person "follow a line of generatio-
nal descent".
And the not only racist but also inherently expansionist cha-
racter of that state, "Israel", shows up in two facts which
should be noted too and which the mass media are never men-
tioning:
That "state" never even has defined "its" borders.
And its very flag symbolizes aggression and expansion, the
intention, from the very beginning on, of that "state" to
conquer as much of foreign territory as it only could, since
the two blue lines in that flag are intended to represent, as
"border lines", the river Nile(!) in Egypt respectively, the
Tigris/Eufrat rivers(!) in Iraq.
These "targets" of course were never achieved by it, and never
will be. But a state of such a mad-dog character, which shows
up once more in this, is something unacceptable in modern ci-
vilization. It must be smashed, and replaced by a democratic
state in all of Palestine.
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