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June 27, 2008 | 2:00 pm

Ha’aretz calls Israel an ‘apartheid state’

Posted by Brad A. Greenberg

Last fall, the liberal Israeli daily Ha’aretz likened the situation in the occupied territories to political apartheid. But roll out the red carpet for Jimmy Carter, but today Ha’aretz took the indictment several steps further in an editorial from Publisher Amos Schocken about the Citizenship Law:

In effect, the law prevents young Israeli citizens from marrying the spouse of their choice and living with this spouse in Israel, if the spouse is a Palestinian from Judea and Samaria.

It is obvious that this has barely any effect on the right of young Israeli Jews to live in their country with the spouse of their choice, because there are hardly any marriages between Israeli Jews and Palestinians from Judea and Samaria. On the other hand, these Palestinians constitute Israeli Arabs’ natural pool for choosing a spouse. For this reason, the law severely discriminates when comparing the rights of young Israeli Jewish citizens and young Israeli Arab citizens.

When the law was first passed in 2003, supposedly as a temporary one-year measure, it was accompanied by security reasoning - the risk of implanting terrorists in Israel via marriage. The reasoning was faulty even at that time: Every Palestinian who wishes to enter Israel must be addressed individually. It is the Shin Bet security service’s task to do this and thus carry out its mission - protecting the security of Israel’s citizens such that the country remains democratic, with equal rights for all. However, as the years go by, it becomes clear that the security argument and the term “temporary measure” are merely a deception aimed at “koshering” discriminatory legislation for demographic reasons.

The claim that there are indications of an apartheid state in Israel is widely heard in the Western world. The word apartheid is catchy and understood in many parts of the world, which makes it useful to send a message that we resent and which we claim has no connection with reality in Israel. However, we do not have to identify the characteristics of South African apartheid in the civil rights discrimination in Israel in order to call Israel an apartheid state. The amendment to the Citizenship Law is exactly the kind of practice that leads to the use of such a term, and it is best that we not try to evade the truth: Its existence in the law books turns Israel into an apartheid state.

Read the rest of Schocken’s editorial here.

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Brad, as the ‘blogmeister’ or whatever your title is in choosing the topic matter, the questions at the bottom of this post are for you too.

Amos Schocken is a doofus. To paraphrase, “we do not need to replicate exactly the characteristics of the classic doofus in order to call Schocken a doofus. The editorial is exactly such a characteristic, and it is best that we not try to evade the truth: Its existence in our paper turns Schocken into a doofus.”

I will put my finger right on the problem with his reasoning. The first is his statement, “Palestinians from Judea and Samaria… constitute Israeli Arabs’ natural pool for choosing a spouse.” Look to Ha’aretz’ own article ‘Israel’s Arab minority has declared war on the Jewish state’ at http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/798478.html for your answer. Or to spell it out, the definition of Israel as a realization of the Zionist goal of reconstitutiong the political homeland and sovereignty for the Jewish people in their ancient land is incompatable with open borders and civil rights to enemies and competitors.

Quite rightly, the right wing has consistently stated that it is unreasonable to expect Arabs to pledge alliegance to the Jewish State, and indeed Israeli Arabs are exempted officially and unofficially from most participation and taxation from the state. But that also means they are not full and equal citizens with regard to responsibilities aside from privileges. The left wing agrees except that its solution is to discard the ‘Jewish’ aspect of Zionism. But debating normalization with enemy entities and populations is not the core issue here. It is the fundamental identity of Israel as a Jewish State.

Schocken has to get off the pot. In a choice between:
1) a progressive Israel/Palestine that concedes its name, flag, language, and Jewish identity in the interests of non-Jewish approval and acceptance,
2) or a Jewish Israel at the expense of the purest progressive humanist ideals

which does he choose? We know it is number 1), but let him not try to brush the issue inder the rug.

The next choice to be made it this. In a choice between:
1) An Israel that concedes everything Jewish as above and recieves fifteen minutes of non-Jewish approval at the expense of being overrun, its women raped and its villages burned and its children slaughtered
2) or an Israel that holds to the values and goals of the past thtrty three centuries, and is more cautious and safe at the expense of greater stress and effort

He will never get past the denial in his thinking.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 6/30/08 at 4:35 pm

The Jewish and Israeli Blog Network Begins Gratuitous Attack


The following message is delivered to Sosbee from:
http://www.israelforum.com/blog_article.php?aid=1528913

“... here’s another class-A freakazoid, with a strange paranoid rant about the CIA and the State Department and the FBI ... geral sosbee’s Blog: COLLAPSE OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA…Twilight Zone theme.”

Sosbee responds:
Now be it known that those on the so-called *“The Jewish and Israeli Blog Network”
who often decry verbal assaults on their members, begin a bizarre, unwarranted and pre-emptive verbal attack on Geral Sosbee. This low minded, mean spirited and ill advised move by “The Jewish and Israeli Blog Network ” is hereby documented as representative of that segment of their closed and decadent community which seeks to intimidate, discredit, or disparage any author who does not first pay homage to their phoney leaders and pretentious cause. Thus, as events unfold that tend to confirm the unholy alliance between the dual axis of evil- the United States of America and “?Isreal”- let the above words of the coward on the ‘The Jewish and Israeli Blog Network’ be the symbol of their flawed character and hopeless depravity.

geral sosbee
(956)371-5210
_______________________________________________________________________________
* The above verbal assault begins after several visits to my reports by Israelis as reflected by the following site meter entry:

GERAL W. SOSBEE vs. fbi
By Location > Visit Detail
Country :  Israel
Time of Visit   Jul 8 2008 10:31:02 am
Visit Entry Page   http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/mystory.html

Further, the “The Jewish and Israeli” verbal assaults are fraudulently conceived (and presented) and politicaly motivated, as my reports are not unlike the journals and diaries of victims of the Nazi death camps which the world still has fresh in mind. Specifically, I document cruel non-consensual human experimentation, torturous assaults, and attempts at murder on my person. Few seem interested in my reports; similarly over the last half century (or so) the world has come to learn that few people reached out to help those in the German death and torture camps spread across Europe; many ignored the atrocities; some even pretended that the torture programs and mass murder did not exist; a few even mocked or discredited those who attempted to bring the fascist murderers and torturers into public focus. Today, the very group that calls itself “The Jewish and Israeli” is a contradiction of its own history by engaging in Gestapo tactics against modern day experimentees and torture victims. As “The Jewish and Israeli Network” reveal in their pathetic verbal assaults on this author, all are reminded that the Israelis (& The Jewish and Israeli Network)seek to dominate and rule the Middle East by violent and murderous methods; in this way Jewish law and standards are thereby forged into many parts of the world by over zealous and militant Israelis who often brag (in their documentaries) about their abilities to identify, track down, torture and murder their perceived enemies/adversaries globally. The USA is seen by the Israelis as fertile ground for the indoctrination of this populace in the area of Jewish law and standards. Anyone who is perceived as a viable critic of the lunatic and homicidal fringe (such as those in “The Jewish and Israeli network”) is subject to verbal or possibly murderous assault. For more on the identities of Israelis engaged in crimes against Humanity and torture episodes do a little research; see my article at this site dated and entitled as follows:
” WHO ARE THE DOCTORS ENGAGING IN ATROCITIES AROUND THE GLOBE ? “
18 Mar 2008 @ 18:45
Also note that the intelligence services of the Israelis and the Americans now work together so closely that the interests of one are inevitably shared by the other; the net result is that the two nations( the uSA and ‘?Isreal’) are in lockstep toward achieving the common goal of world inhumane domination. However, the Israeli intelligence service is light years ahead of fbi/cia and are in fact masters of the universe with regard to techniques used to subjugate their targets.
The Israeli terrorists are funded and supplied by the United States of America.

********************************************************************************
The following Indymedia groups (under the control of the fbi/cia and Israeli Intelligence) regularly reject, hide, or prevent coverage of my articles, including the above report; note the fraudulent characterization of my report as
**“anti-semitic” , an expression used frequently to shield the
terrorists of Israel (and their supporters)
from responsibility for their own
racial prejudice aganist non-jews:
1)
http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/143696/index.php
Hidden with code “Other”
(anti-semitic)
News :: Anti-War/Peace
“The Jewish and Israeli Blog Network Begins Gratuitous Attack”
2)
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/07/10/18515076.php
.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
U.S. | Anti-War
HIDDEN
“The Jewish and Israeli Blog Network Begins Gratuitous Attack
by geral ( gsosbee [at] gmail.com ) Thursday Jul 10th, 2008 12:11 PM”.
————
**Anyone who defends against unfounded Israeli or Jewish assaults (both violent and verbal) is conveniently labeled by their corrupt supporters as ‘anti-semitic’. The real prejudice lies in the warped minds of those who encourage such summary slander in order to obscure the true racial prejudice of Israelis and Jews against all who refuse to accept their murderous agenda globally.

Comment by geral on 7/13/08 at 2:50 pm

Try to be tolerant of them, geral. Just because you have enemies doesn’t mean you are not paranoid.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 7/13/08 at 6:17 pm

http://kenlydell.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/mindhat.gif

Comment by Ben Plonie on 7/13/08 at 6:31 pm

Yes, tolerance has its place, but not to those being tortured and not toward those like you who poke at the victims while they reach out for an end to the crimes that I and others report. Your cryptic suggestion of ‘paranoid’ reflects your personal fraudulent
and cowardly disposition.

Comment by geral on 7/29/08 at 1:52 pm

The term ‘paranoid’ versus ‘realistic’ have everything to do with truth and context. What you call crimes are no more than a (far too mild) response to intolerable provocation.

If Palestine is a Jewish place and not a non-Jewish one, then all of your postings unergo a radical reversal. The crime is then at the hands of the invading and occupying Arabs in the ancient original aboriginal eternal sacred exclusive inheritance of the Jewish nation.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 7/30/08 at 1:14 am

Ben you lie:“The term ‘paranoid’ versus ‘realistic’ have everything to do with truth and context. What you call crimes are no more than a (far too mild) response to intolerable provocation.”
My reports (such as the one shown above) were attacked by fools whom you support in your personal and gratuitous attack on me; you also launch into a different subject from the one I address and therefore you intentionally and deceitfully mislead the reader.

Comment by geral sosbee on 8/06/08 at 4:10 pm

What do you mean by ‘support’? I have never heard of either you or your fellow fools before seeing your post here.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 8/06/08 at 10:43 pm

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