Apartheid, Humanitarians and Israel: A photo album

 

Last month, the Labour Party of the UK announced that Israel is an "Apartheid state" (here). This is no surprise because England's Labour Party supports human rights (here).

It's true: there is a direct connection between supporting human rights, being a Humanitarian and demonizing Israel. Labour understands this connection if you don't.

Labour understands what it means to oppose racism and oppression. After all, that's what Humanitarianism is all about, right?

Ask the United Nations. The United Nations is the Temple of Humanitarianism. It dedicates itself to saving lives, fighting racism and alleviating suffering. That's exactly what Labour wants. It probably sings the Humanitarianism anthem, whatever that is. 

Apparently, Humanitarians believe that, to save all from racism and oppression, Israel must be demonized, at the very least. 

The UN sits at the top of the Humanitarian pyramid. It leads the way to a utopia called, 'world peace'. It works in its own way to save the world--and it has determined (through resolution after resolution) that Israel is perhaps the major road block for anyone seeking to save us. 

We know this is how the UN feels about Israel because the UN has condemned Israel for supposed rights violations more than any other country in the world--more than China, North Korea, Iran and Saudi Arabia combined. 

Think about Israel from a Humanitarian point of view. What can the world do with such a supposed "rights" violator? The answer is simple. The world must fight to stamp out this
Great Satan of rights violations. It's the only way to peace.

That's why Labour calls Israel Apartheid. It's why there is an Apartheid Week all across the West, set up annually to demonize the world's only Jewish state under the name of Humanitarianism. Hating Israel is the world's most popular armchair sport.

The Humanitarian's complaint seems to be this: you Jews are G-d's chosen? How can Jews be G-d's Chosen when the one state Jews create is so racist and so oppressive with its Apartheid ways?

Based upon its use, it appears that "Apartheid" must be the dirtiest word in the world. You know that's true because so many Humanitarians use it to demonize Israel so often. 

Humanitarianism and anti-Israelism are connected, to use a phrase, at the hip. One doesn't move without the other. They both obsess over "Israel-is-Apartheid!"

Here's a question: have you ever seen a picture of Israel's Apartheid? For example, have you ever seen in Israel a picture of a road sign that says, in essence, "Road splits ahead: Jewish drivers stay to the right; Non-Jewish drivers stay to the left"?

No, you have never seen such a picture about Israel. Yes, those signs could be "Apartheid", depending upon the context of that sign. But they do not exist in Israel. 

As you will see in a moment, they do exist in the Arab world. 

Suggestion: before you think about calling Israel an "Apartheid state", perhaps it would be wise first to look at a picture album I have collected. I call it my "Israel-is-Apartheid" album. It illustrates what Israel thinks about "Apartheid" as a state policy (I originally published some of these pictures  here, in February, 2016, and others here, in October, 2014).    

But before you look at the album, consider some random thoughts about Apartheid. Most important, do you actually know what Apartheid looks like? 

Apartheid is a state-mandated public policy that is designed to keep a specific population trapped. With state-issued Apartheid rules, a state can make it nearly impossible for that targeted population to contribute to or participate in [its] society. 

The targeted population is excluded. It is locked out. It is trapped.

Put another way, Apartheid means institutionalized discrimination. Apartheid requires that an identified population is, by law, sealed off from adequate medical care, professional careers, the right to vote, the right to serve in important positions and the right to receive a decent education.

It means few if any from that targeted population can pursue careers in a country's mainstream  economic life. It often means none can become lawyers. It means no army service in a country's mainstream military. It means separate classes in separate-but-inferior schools, it means separated into very unequal hospitals. It means separate seating on buses and trains. 

According to those who call Israel 'Apartheid', the excluded class in Israel is the Arab. The Jew-hate industry (the Humanitarians among us) claim Arabs under Israeli law are crushed. They are excluded. They are humiliated. They are locked out of good jobs. They are forbidden from holding significant public offices. Arabs, Israel's enemies say, suffer terribly in Israel as second-class, disenfranchised citizens.

In an Apartheid state, individuals in the excluded class have no way to become judges in mainstream courts. They have no way to become Professors in mainstream universities. They have no way to serve as national diplomats. They have no way to become famous researchers or heads of major mainstream hospitals. they are all trapped in poverty and ignorance with no way out or up. 

Keep these restrictions in mind when you thumb through this "Israel Apartheid album". This album will show you exactly how Israel really treats its Arabs.

Page down to view the photo album: 

The shocking truth about Apartheid in the Middle East is that it is not an Israeli problem. It's an Arab problem. 

Wherever possible, Arabs discriminate against Jews. They create laws to lock out or harm Jews. But worse than that (for the world's 'Humanitarians' who so hate Jews they will ignore humanitarian outrages against Arabs in order to demonize Jews), wherever possible, it is Arabs--not Jews--who use racist laws to discriminate against 'Palestinians'. In some Arab countries 'Palestinians' are treated the way South Africa once treated blacks: Palestinians cannot vote, cannot get quality jobs, cannot live in proper housing, cannot get equal medical care and cannot enter the economy's main stream.

The picture album above highlights what apartheid looks like in Arab countries which, unlike Israel, offer no similar opportunities to match what Israel offers to Palestinians. Nevertheless, Humanitarians everywhere today determine that the fictitious and slanderous accusation of "Apartheid" in Israel must be opposed. Israel itself must be opposed because of these supposed humanitarian sins. The supposed Israeli Apartheid must end, Israel's enemies say. 

But what about the real Apartheid against Arabs in Muslim countries? That is ok? It can continue uncondemned?

Yes, it can continue. It can be ignored.

To understand the nature of Humanitarian Israel-hate, answer two questions: (1) name two other nations you have seen universally demonized by Humanitarians as "Apartheid"; and (2) name another democracy you have seen so universally condemned by the UN as "Apartheid".

You cannot. 

The face of today's Humanitarianism is a face of lies, slander, Jew-hate and hypocrisy.

Humanitarians deliberately ignore the real  Apartheid in the Middle East--committed by Arabs against Arabs. They have time only for hating and demonizing Israel. But while Humanitarians seek to harm the Jewish state, they do nothing to solve real racist policies--in Arab countries, in Iran, China, North Korea and in more than a dozen African and Muslim countries.

For all their fancy talk about freedom, human rights and alleviating suffering, Humanitarians simply do not care to see real justice in this world. They work instead to slander G-d's Chosen. They obsess over this slander. They can't heap  enough of it onto Israel. The result is, Humanitarians leave hundreds of millions of oppressed, poor people to suffer from the effects of dictatorship and religious oppression.

  

Today's Humanitarianism isn't about love, peace or  justice. Instead, it seem mostly to be about a kind of hate one can only call, Jew-hate.

 In Israel, Palestinian Arabs have more rights and opportunities than found in any Arab country. In Israel, Palestinians find the only democracy in the Middle East. In Israel, Palestinians live with freedoms found nowhere in the Arab world. For this, Israel is demonized?

When is Apartheid week for Lebanon? When is the Apartheid Week for Jordan? Will you hypocritical, lying Humanitarians ever start to speak out against the real Apartheid?

In Israel, pro-Palestinian Leftists join with the Muslim Brotherhood. What could go wrong?

In August, 2021, an Arab Member of Knesset (MK) representing the Israeli (Leftist) political party, Meretz, seemed to threaten Israel's new Bennett-led coalition. She suggested that her Party (Meretz), along with the Arab Party, Ra'am, have the power together to stop Israel from taking military action (here) against Israel's (Islamic) enemies. She further suggested that this is what the coalition agreement was all about--giving to Meretz and Ra'am the power to limit Israel's response to military threat here.

Back in August, that might have seemed to have been just one MK's assumption. But it was fact--because a Ra'am MK had already said as much (here). 

Is this what Israelis had voted for in the March, 2021 election?  Did Israelis really want to be held hostage by a far-Left Party (Meretz) joining with an Arab-Islamist (and Muslim Brotherhood) Party (Ra'am)? Are Israelis happy that their country might not be able to defend itself in case of a hostile attack?

We know what Israelis wanted in that March election. They wanted a strong Israel willing to protect itself. That's why the election result was overwhelmingly Right-leaning--it is Israel's Right which most assertively promotes Israel's defending itself. 

Israelis are tired of fighting wars Israel never wins because it always stops fighting before the job is done. A majority of Israelis voted for Right-wing and Center-right politicians, all of whom claimed to stand for a strong Israel. 

Israelis also rejected any form of Leftism and anti-Israelism. But that is exactly what Israel ended up with--a government where Leftists and an anti-Jewish Israel Arab Party have inordinate power--the ability to collapse the government at any time they please. 

The inference here is that two political Parties, rejected by a majority of voters, have acquired the power to act as kingmakers. Both Meretz and Ra'am hamstring Israel's government. In theory, Israel's government can only do what Meretz and Ra'am allow. 

Israel's election system should never have allowed this to happen. But Israel's election system is broken (here, here)--and this is what a broken election system will do to a country--hamstring its government.

Recently, Israelis have learned what it means to be "hamstrung" by Meretz and Ra'am. First, the Leftist (and pro-Palestinian) Meretz said it will never support Jewish construction anywhere in the Jordan River Valley. This assertion is devastating to Israel's political Right because it ends one of Israel Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's prime campaign promises--sovereignty in, and more Jewish homes for--the Jordan River Valley. 

The second glimpse at Israel's new status as "hamstrung" came when Ra'am's political leader, Mansour Abbas, gave a speech in Arabic which, when translated, revealed that, like any other Muslim Brotherhood member in good standing, he, too, believes in jihad against Israel. The only difference between his idea of jihad and Hamas' idea of jihad (Hamas is also a Muslim Brotherhood member) is that Hamas' jihad is military. Ra'am's jihad is civil (here).

In case you did not know, jihad against Israel is a symbol of the Muslim Brotherhood's "unshakeable ideological commitment" to destroy Israel (ibid). Jihad is jihad: it does not matter if it is military or civil, despite any attempt to soft-pedal civil jihad.

The concept of Jihad against Israel has only one goal--the complete Muslimization of Israel. It does not matter if that jihad is civil or military. 

Few in Israel seem to understand Ra'am has connections to Hamas (here). They should know about those connections--and they should care about those connections because Hamas is part of the Muslim Brotherhood, and for the Muslim Brotherhood, the goal is to wipe Israel-as-a-Jewish-state off the map. Jihad is its path to that goal. Period. 

Ra'am and Hamas share that end result. Put another way, in terms of its ultimate goal, Ra'am is no different from Hamas.

Both Hamas and Ra'am share the Brotherhood's ideological commitment to destroy Israel. Each simply chooses a different path to that 'victory'. 

Indeed, perhaps the presence of such a purely anti-Israel ideology embedded so deeply in Israel's government--inside the nation's ruling coalition--is why Iran's proxy Hezbollah has already declared (here), "Israel is afraid to attack in Lebanon due to the internal consequences war has for them" [emphasis mine]. 

Is this true? Will Israel limit its military response to an attack because it will fear what Meretz and Ra'am will do? Could be.

How will that work out for Israel? More important, how will that work out for Israel's citizens targeted by incoming missiles? Care to guess?

Stay tuned. The Muslim Brotherhood-Leftist axis operating in Israel's government hasn't yet fully flexed its political muscle to stymie and hamstring either Israel's military options--or Israel's Jewish control over the land. But you can bet that the Muslim Brotherhood, along with its co-conspirators in Ra'am and Meretz, have nothing but trouble in store for Israel. 

Yes, neither Party has the power to destroy Israel outright. But together, they will surely attempt to stab Israel in the back. That, they have the power to do.

How formal are Israelis?

(Last update: November 2, 2021) 

I have just discovered a thought-provoking comment on the internet about Israelis. I share this comment with you because most of my American friends do not often have good things to say about Israelis. This comment appears to suggest a different view of Israeli behavior. Perhaps you will find it insightful.

It seems that Americans visiting here are too often offended by Israelis. It's possible that this internet comment could help some to re-think the negative reactions they have had to Israelis. 

The comment itself comes from a question posted on a website called, Quora. Personally, I would not call this particular site "high class". In fact, if you were to tell me this site is decidedly not "high class"--or, alternatively, not particularly trustworthy--I would agree. Nevertheless, this individual comment may be different. It might suggest that 'offensive' Israeli behavior might be explainable as something other than, 'offensive'. Maybe.  

I present this comment to you for your consideration. The comment appeared as a response to a reader question. The question was, "Are Israelis formal?" 

This was the response:  

"How formal are Israelis?

Let me put it this way . . .

As an American, many, many years ago, and new to Israel, I had lodged a complaint against an employer for something . . . can’t remember what . . . but when I arrived at the Labor Court wearing a suit and tie, ( in respect for the court ) the judge ignored me completely. Never asked me a question, and only addressed the employer’s attorney. It was as if I didn’t exist.

Hmmmmm . . . . ?

I looked around the court at the other plaintiffs, with whom the judge did speak . . . and it dawned on me !

After that, any time I had to go to court, I dressed in old jeans and t-shirt, didn’t shave and generally chewed gum.

Never had a problem after that . . . . and won every decision.

Formal ? Not on your life ! :-)"

My comments about this 'article' are brief:

First, this comment is not the definitive description of how Israelis behave. Many Israelis are polite and friendly. But there does seem to be a lot of Israelis appearing to behave like Arsim. Arsim--a derogatory word said to derive from an Arab word meaning, "pimp"--seem to be everywhere in Israel. They are almost never liked by Americans.

In general, Israeli arsim can be characterized as "uncouth+". Depending on whom you ask, Arsim can be defined as: they are inconsiderate; they do not care for even the most basic of social niceties; they litter everywhere; more so than other Israelis, they refuse to stand in line; they are sloppy; they often wear the most inappropriate clothes; they enjoy cursing other drivers on the road; they are known for inappropriate social aggressiveness; they are said to hate anyone not like them, particularly foreigners; they are insolent; they appear to act as if they have an IQ of 10. They generally do not show up to court wearing a suit and tie. 

Israel's social culture has evolved. While Israel has never been particularly 'formal', recent life here seems to have been heavily influenced by arsim. I do not know why. But I can say this: there are times when Israelis appears to become ruder and cruder by the month.

The US is no different. Since my birth, almost 79 years ago, I spent the better part of my life in the US watching social niceties deteriorate. Crudeness has set in. Rudeness has set in. Some form of Israel's arsisim seems now to be part of American behavior.

Perhaps one moral lesson of this internet comment is, American-born-and-raised Israelis should not walk into an Israeli court dressed like an American. It might not make a good impression. 

An Israeli judge might ignore them. These Americans would look strange—and be treated accordingly.

But there is another, larger moral lesson here. It is the moral lesson that suggests that, as we draw closer to our Final Redemption, our children will become increasingly insolent. Well, from what I see almost daily, we must now be very, very close to that Redemption.

What do you think?

Is this what the US now calls "diplomacy" with Israel?

 (Last update: October 29, 2021)

On October 21, 2021, Israel Defense Minister Benny Gantz announced that Israel was declaring six Palestinian NGO's (Non-Government Organizations) as 'terrorist" (here). Within hours, the US was reported to "slam" Israel over this announcement (here). The US, apparently, was angered because Israel had not given the US any 'advance' intelligence information to explain this move (ibid). Shortly after that accusation by the US, Israel denied the accusation (here), and declared it had already given the US that information  (ibid). 

The US was not amused by this pushback. It refused to budge from its accusation. It responded to Israel by 'doubling-down': it accused Israel again of not disclosing anything to the US in advance of this matter (ibid),

All of this transpired this past weekend, beginning Friday, October 21st. But now, a new week, the US digs its teeth yet again into Israel.  A US State Department spokesman has now insisted that Israel did not provide the US with advance notice that these six Palestinian NGO's were to be classified by Israel as "terrorist" (here).

Notice what this tempest-in-a-teapot is all about. First, it is not about the US catching Israel in a lie. In fact, the US does not even allege that Israel was exaggerating its claim of 'terrorist' against the six Palestinian organizations. Neither does the US assert that six NGO's have been unfairly defamed. 

The US merely accuses Israel of a kind of 'bad faith'--a failure to give advance notice. Surely, this is an odd accusation. I cannot remember the US having used such an allegation against any other ally. 

The accusation itself is strange. It makes the US sound as if it is simply whining, "you never told us!" This is important?

Such an accusation begs the question, is Israel supposed to tell the US in advance about every Defense Ministry decision it makes to secure Israel's safety? More important, does Israel, alone among US allies, have some kind of unique obligation to give to the US advance notice of such a move?

The US does not say. It refuses to address the question.

It appear clear that the Biden Administration uses here a vicious double standard it does not apply to others. That is to say, the The Biden Administration seems to expect from its Jewish ally what it never expects from other allies: detailed explanations about Israel's internal national security issues. 

What is disturbing about this US whining is that it was done at all. This accusation came from the US State Department--the US's Diplomatic 'center'. After Israel responded to the US that it had in fact provided the US with a detailed report, in advance, on its decision to name these Organizations as terrorist, the US State Department did not respond diplomatically by saying, "we have no comment on this Israeli denial right now because we are looking into the matter, to see if we were in error'. 

That would have been a proper 'diplomatic' response. That would what been what  Israel should have received from the US. But that is not what Israel got. Instead, it got a doubling-down of the original accusation--as if Israel was some kind of international social outlaw that needed--and deserved--both constant oversight and constant rebuke.

Is this how the US now defines its "diplomacy" with Israel? It will now play bully?

 If Israel has evidence that these six organizations are terrorist, it should stand firm: just as the US repeated its complaint to Israel, Israel should repeat its original decision--we will treat these organizations as terrorist-linked. 

If Israel does decide to yield to this bullying, it will send a very bad (for Israel) signal to the world. Nothing good will happen for Israel if, suddenly, the world sees it can be so easily bullied. 

Israel must stand firm on this issue. 

Does Israel collude with the US and the Palestinian Authority?

 

Yet again, we in Israel read about a US attempt to butt into Israel’s business (here).  This time, October, 2021, the meddling is about a US demand that Israel grant permission to the US so that the US can open a formal Consulate, not for Israel, but for 'Palestine'--in Jewish Jerusalem. That is, the US position is that Israel should allow the US to service a diplomatic presence inside sovereign Israel to service a not-yet existing State that is currently dedicated to the destruction of Israel.

If Palestinians want a Consulate, their chief administrative city is Ramallah, not Jerusalem. Ramallah is where most Palestinian Authority (PA) official business is done. Yes, we know that a Consulate does not have to be in a state’s central administrative city. But in a city not even part of that not-yet ‘state’? That’s unheard of.

A US consulate for the PA belongs in a city controlled by the PA. Jerusalem is not in PA territory. It is in Israeli territory. Jerusalem is not located on Palestinian real estate. Jerusalem sits on Israeli real estate. Jerusalem is not controlled by Palestinian authorities. It is controlled by Jewish authorities.

Why should the US put a US Consulate for the PA inside Israel?

The PA covets Jerusalem. If that’s the case, the PA must win Jerusalem in war—or through a surrender-without-war by Israel. Neither looks likely to happen anytime soon—unless, that is, the US butts in and makes what amounts to anti-Israel demands on Israel that will help the PA win-by-Jewish-surrender.

The PA is persistent. It has been claiming that Jerusalem—and all of Israel—is not Jewish, but is instead Islamic Palestinian territory. The PA has been making this claim since before the 1992/3 Oslo Accords.  

The PA wants Jerusalem for its US Consulate (not Ramallah, or any other place actually controlled by the PA) because the PA doesn’t want a Consulate on land it controls. It wants the Consulate on land Israel controls.

The PA has a plan. That plan is very simple--and very clear: the PA wants a complete conquest of Israel. It wants such a complete conquest so as to be able to rename the Jewish Israel as an Islamic-only 'Palestine'; and in the short term, it will certainly attempt to put its own facts-on-the-ground in Jerusalem.

The PA has been working on taking over Jerusalem for some time. Already, it has gotten the UN to change the name of the Temple Mount from its Jewish name to a Muslim name. It has gotten the UN also to delete all connection between the Jewish Temple Mount and its Jewish roots. Taken literally, the PA could now claim that, because the Temple Mount is exclusively a Muslim-only site, Jews should be banned from that site.

The PA cries aloud over the supposed sins of a Jewish 'Judaization' of their city Jerusalem. But at the same time, the PA works day-and-night to Islamicize virtually every nook and cranny of Jerusalem. It accuses Israel what they themselves attempt to do—take over Jerusalem inch-by-inch.

The PA would love to see a US Consulate for the PA in Jewish Jerusalem. It could legitimize the PA claim of ownership over Jerusalem. 

The US wants this Consulate. Therefore, it declares it will form a joint "team" with Israel to explore the idea of opening a US Consulate for ‘Palestine’ in Jewish Jerusalem.

This is maddening. I can think of no other sovereign state that has to put up with such nonsense. What’s even more maddening is that Israel should be pressured to discuss the possibility that it must accede to this demand. But here we are, discussing that very possibility.

In theory, Israel has already said, ‘no’, to the US demand. But is that correct? Did Israel really say no, or did Israel say something else, leaving the door open to US-Israel discussions?

The US faces a problem: if it wants a new Consulate, both the US and the sovereign State where that consulate will open must approve the move. That is, before the US can open a Palestinian Consulate in the State of Israel, the US needs Israel’s approval, not PA approval.

If I am correct about that, think what this means. The US has to negotiate with Israel—not the PA—to open this Consulate for the PA. This US need to negotiate with Israel proves that Israel’s sovereignty over Jerusalem is real. The recognized need for the US to get Israel’s approval in this case tells you something too many wish to forget: Jerusalem belongs to Jews, not Palestinians--and the US understands this!

According to rumor, Israel appears to be thinking about giving its approval to allow a US bureaucracy that will exist to help a foreign, hostile state-to-be (Palestine), to operate inside Israeli territory. Why would Israel do that? Giving to the PA what it demands here compromises Israel’s sovereign rights in Jerusalem, for it acknowledges implicitly that the PA has land rights in Israel. Why would any State do this for an enemy who offers no concessions but makes every demand?

At the moment, Israel Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is silent about the matter. Does Israel actually prepare to collude with both a potentially incompetent US Administration and a rabid, implacable enemy to give that enemy an official foothold inside Israeli territory? It might be. 

Given PA lust for every inch of Jerusalem, where do you think such a decision by Israel could lead? 

Stay tuned. This nonsense may be just beginning.

Why there is no two-state solution

The original idea of a two-state solution for the Arab-Israel conflict was to create "two states for two peoples". Specifically, there would be Israel for Jews, and a new "Palestine" for Arabs. Today, more than a quarter-century later, only one of these two-state exists--Israel. "Palestine" has been stillborn.

Why?

One reason--perhaps the main reason--could be an impediment few are willing to recognize or discuss or debate. That impediment has a name, one which has never been spoken. That impediment is called, the "eliminationist narrative".

An eliminationist narrative is a "story (or vision)" whose purpose is to help eliminate some person or group. The strategy of such a narrative is simple. First, the narrative demonizes the object to be eliminated. Next, it delegitimizes that object. Then, it calls for the object's elimination--or, more precisely, for its destruction or cancellation or removal.

An eliminationist narrative weaponizes rumors and lies. That's the best way, it seems, to make an eliminationist narrative reality.   

In the US, former US President Donald Trump was the object of an "elimination narrative". So was the 'Tea Party' of the early 2000s (here).

With both Trump and the Tea Party, the chosen eliminationist strategy had its intended effect. Both lost their position on America's political stage. Both were effectively "cancelled". The eliminationist narrative used against them worked.

Israel is also a target of an eliminationist narrative. It, too, is targeted for elimination.

You can see how the Palestinian eliminationist strategy works against Israel by following how the "Palestinian narrative" is implemented by both Palestinian Authority (PA) officials and by the Authority's 'friends' across the world.  

These individuals (and entities) energize the Palestinian narrative through anti-Israel speeches, public pronouncements and diplomatic strategies aimed against Israel. Each works to forward the ultimate goal of the Palestinian eliminationist narrative. 

To begin with, Palestinians work to eliminate Jews from Israel and from Israel's holy sites. They do this by proclaiming, for example, that the Temple Mount is Muslim only. They proclaim that Jews have no rights to the Temple Mount. They declare that the Temple Mount is for Muslims only. They pursue diplomatic strategies that have made the Temple Mount officially an Islamic site exclusively. The Jewish connection to the Temple Mount is severed. 

Palestinians call for riots to defend the Temple Mount against Jews. They call for all-out war against Jews and/or Israel to "defend' the Temple Mount--against Jewish 'defilement'.

These actions against Jews, the Temple Mount and the Jewish Jerusalem are only the tip of a very deep anti-Israel iceberg. The rest of that iceberg focuses exclusively on Israel's very existence.

The Palestinian Narrative is supposed to be the embodiment of what Palestinians call their Palestinian "national struggle". But this Palestinian "national struggle" is not a struggle for something (like statehood). It is the "struggle" against something (namely, Israel).

The "Palestinian Cause" is not a struggle to create a free and independent State. Yes--according to many pro-Palestinians--the "Cause" was supposed to have been about a 'national Palestinian liberation' in order to establish a State (here). But now, many believe that that goal had actually been  abandoned years ago (ibid).

Some pro-Palestinian advocates now assume that the "Palestinian Cause" is specifically about the struggle against Israel (here). The goal of this struggle is simple: to erase Israel, and to replace Israel with an Arab-Muslim state. 

The "Palestinian Cause" is now an eliminationist 'narrative'. It "struggles", yes. But only to eliminate the Jewish State--and all things Jewish about the Middle East.

We know this "eliminationist" approach to Israel is true because we have repeatedly seen maps of the to-be-created-Palestinian state. Those maps all present the same vision. 

You see, the map of the new, wannabee 'Palestine' exactly matches the map of the existing State of Israel. This means that the wannabee 'Palestine' wants to replace Israel on the map.

This is no accident. Don't take my word for it. Do a google search (as of October 14, 2021): first, search for "the official map of the state of Israel". Look at the map of Israel. 

Then, second, do another search for "the official map of the state of Palestine". Look at the map of "Palestine". 

Compare the two maps. They are identical. Exactly the same. The meaning of this similarity is, the new Arab-Muslim Palestine will, when created, erase Israel from the map of the Middle East--and from the map of the world.

The Palestinian eliminationist narrative is an "eliminationist roadblock". No desire for "two states" for Jew and Arab can ever get over or around this roadblock. It is permanent.

If you want a real two-state solution in the Middle East, you must first deal with this roadblock. But no one cares to do that. it's too complicated. It seems insurmountable. 

This is the reason there is no two-state solution: the Palestinian narrative does not speak about peace with Israel--or about living side-by-side with Israel. Instead, it speaks repeatedly and exclusively about replacing Israel. 

That is why there is no two-state solution.

A history lesson too many choose to ignore

Note: Please excuse the syntax, punctuation and organization problems in the second half of the essay. I have an unsolvable problem with the blog program)

Six individual news stories recently appeared on my computer screen--at the same time of day, on the same date and on the same online news site. More important, these six stories may not appear to be related--but they are.  

These six stories, while very different, nevertheless suggest a chilling reality about Israel. The six stories are, in no real order, about: (1) former Israel Prime Minister Golda Meir; (2) an Israeli official located in what Jews call Judea-Samaria (and what gentiles and others call 'the West Bank’); (3) an Israeli NGO (Non-Government Organization); (4) the World War Two era Auschwitz death camp; (5) a statement about the Arab-Israel conflict; and (6) another story about Iran’s pursuit of a nuclear bomb.

If you are wise, you’ll take note of these stories. They remind us that we cannot ignore history, particularly an ugly history. If we ignore that ugliness, we will surely be doomed to repeat it.

A look at recent modern history tells us a grim lesson. The world ignores Jew-hate. The world seems indeed ready to repeat an old, murderous story. History has taught us nothing.

The six news stories above appeared during the morning hours of October 7, 2021. They all appeared on the online news site called, arutzsheva.  These stories were all new to the day’s news cycle. Nevertheless, the stories remind us of a modern 80+-year record of Jew-hate, a record that continues to this day.

The Holocaust was a period of history that ran from app 1939-April 1945, when World War Two engulfed the world. It was a period when Nazi Germany created a “Final Solution” for the “problem” of Europe’s Jews.

That Solution was simple. It would completely remove Jews from Europe once-and-for-all-time. Nazi Germany’s war and industrial machinery would work together to murder millions of Jews.

The problem of what to do with the hated Jews of Europe would finally be “solved”. Therefore, beginning in 1942, the already-existing Auschwitz concentration camp became the largest of the Nazi’s extermination camps (here). By the time World War Two ended in 1945, perhaps 1.1 million Jews had been murdered there (ibid). 1.1 million. In just one death camp alone.

Altogether, some 6 million Jews were murdered by Nazis and their friends in the Holocaust. This Holocaust is what too many choose to ignore.

The hate that made the Holocaust possible is back. Actually, it never went away.

That same Auschwitz of World War two was again in the news 76 years later--on October 7, 2021. Auschwitz was back in  the news because Jew-hate still exists. 

That hate has now reared its ugly head again inside Auschwitz itself, in the form of anti-Semitic slogans—and Holocaust denial epithets--painted on nine barracks in one of Auschwitz’s camps (here). Jews in Europe termed this statement, “an outrageous attack on the symbol of one of the great tragedies in human history” (ibid).

Jew-hate is alive-and-well in Auschwitz--again. It is a cancer that has never disappeared. 

The second story looked at another October day--October 6, 1973, when the Yom Kippur war broke out in Israel. Golda Meir was Israel Prime Minister at the time. Because October 6, 2021 was the 48^th anniversary of that war, dozens of documents from Israel’s state archive were released to the public (here). They reveal that Mrs. Meir was “depressed” by  pessimistic reports from the battlefield.  She is reported to have sent a message to US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger “begging him to send planes and tanks” to Israel” (ibid). 

Later that same day (October 6^th), archive documents further suggest she also “seemed pessimistic regarding the likelihood of obtaining financial and military assistance from abroad. ‘We have very little help from other countries … In general, people don’t like Jews, and especially not weak Jews. They’ve thrown us to the dogs’ (ibid).

Ask yourself, would any country today wish to throw Israel to the dogs? If you believe the answer is, no, you live in a fool’s Paradise.  

The third news story was about an Israeli leader who is probably little known outside Israel. He is Yossi Dagan, the Jewish leader of the Samaria Regional Council in what most outside Israel call, “the West Bank”. He was angry. He revealed that he had written a scathing letter to the UN Special coordinator for the Middle East (Tor Wennesland) (here).

It seems that in an August, 2021 speech to the UN Security Council, Wennesland had falsely accused Jews of Israel for having attacked “a Palestinian Arab when it turned out that the Palestinian was actually the one who had thrown stones at Jewish residents near the community of Homesh in Samaria” (ibid). Angrily, Dagan had demanded an apology. So far, there has been no apology (ibid).

At the UN, Jew hate lives on. That hate has never ended. The horrors of World War Two has had little impact on the UN's attitudes towards Jews. 

The fourth news story was about the anti-Israel NGO, B’Tselem. This NGO receives money from Europe specifically, it is charged, to find ways to delegitimize and to demonize Israel. B’Tselem is an anti-Israel Israeli organization. It supports Palestinian Jew-hate.

This B’Tselem story revealed that B’Tselem had accused Israeli Jews of setting fire to a building which in fact had been set ablaze by Palestinian Arabs (here). A video confirms that B’Tselem had lied about Jews,

That Jews anywhere would work so openly with Jewish enemies is disgusting. But it happens. It  happened in the

Holocaust. It happens today

he fifth story was a news video that had appeared originally

 on the pro-Israel site, MEMRI. It is a short video of a Palestinian who is (here) a member of the anti-Israel Palestinian Fatah Party. This Palestinian states that the Arab-Israel conflict was actually about the Palestinian struggle to remove the Jewish Israel “in its entirety” from all land between the [Jordan] River and the [Mediterranean] Sea (ibid).

If you look at a map of Jewish Israel, you will see that Israel currently sits on land that is between the “River and the Sea”. Therefore, whenever someone says –or more commonly, chants--‘From the River to the sea, Palestine will be free”, they refer to the complete removal—and erasure—of Israel from that tract of land; it is the chant of Arab conquest.

Jew-hate is alive. Many are eager to see Israel disappear. They incite Jew-hate to accomplish that goal. They sing for Israel to be erased. They would gladly cheer for another “Final Solution”.

For them, Hitler was a failure. He simply did not do a good enough job on the Jews.

The last of these six news stories was about Iran (here). Iran spends more time talking about erasing Israel from the world map than anyone else. Iran obsesses over destroying the world’s only Jewish state.

No one confronts Iran about this murderous obsession. Instead, nations court Iran—the same way England’s Neville Chamberlain courted Adolph Hitler—to appease.

What was true during the Holocaust is still true today. Preachers and academicians once again call to harm Jews.

 What was true during the 6-Day war is still true today: if Israel were seriously attacked, few nations would provide Israel with military assistance

Israel is alone. The reality of the Holocaust was that, beginning 80+ years ago, there was a widespread bloodlust to see Jews killed. Now, these six news stories—appearing at the same time on the same date in 2021—clearly remind us that that bloodlust may be as strong as ever

If the world chooses to ignore how yesterday’s Jew-hate revives, the world will be doomed to repeat the consequences of that hate. Only this time, the world won’t get off so easily.