Photo from Politics in the Zeros
Today in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, columnist Avraham Tal was lamenting the fact that some Palestinians and Israelis are trying to transform Israel into "a state of all its citizens."
According to him, too many of the wrong kind of human are being born or getting married in Israel. He's worried about the presence of those "foreigners" - no, not Jewish immigrants from Ethiopia or Russia - but the indigenous Palestinians.
Even though last week Israel's High Court "institutionalized racial discrimination" by upholding an anti-Palestinian marriage law, Tal is worried that someday in the near future, Israel's judges won't be racist. A horrible state of affairs, indeed.
In order to combat this clamoring for equality, Tal has an ingenious suggestion (and no, it's not killing the Arabs, that's for Avigdor Lieberman) - it's another racist Basic Law!
In order to avert the danger, the issue must be inoculated against High Court interference. The best way would be the legislation of a Basic Law that states that the existence of the national home for the Jewish people in the land of Israel and the preservation of the Jewish majority in it are a basic principle, according to which every future legal or administrative process will be examined.
Hmm...Basic Laws...a national home...preservation of an ethnic majority...does that sound familiar?
Back in 1935, some crazies passed the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor:
Firm in the knowledge that the purity of German blood is the basis for the survival of the German people and inspired by the unshakeable determination to safeguard the future of the German nation, the Reichstag has unanimously resolved upon the following law, which is promulgated herewith:
Section 1: Marriages between Jews and citizens of German or some related blood are forbidden. Such marriages contracted despite the law are invalid, even if they take place abroad in order to avoid the law.
Two months later, Jews were stripped of their citizenship and removed from public office.
As Dorothy from Israeli organization New Profile, who brought this to my attention, wrote, "What ensued from these laws we all know. This should remind us that when demography is the guiding criterion of a state, there are no limits to what a country might do to maintain its ethnographic/religious/racial majority."
And before someone decides to be original and call me anti-Semitic: no, I am not saying Israel is the same as Nazi Germany. I'm just pointing out eerily similar tendencies. I'm aware there are many who support, defend, and attempt to justify Israel's actions. Of course, good Germans did that in 1935, too.
It's a slippery slope. Beware the writing on the wall:
All of the above is graffiti from Jewish colonists in the West Bank, photographed by Christian Peacemaker Teams.
Take a minuite or two to think about what the fate would be of an Israeli, or any non-Muslim, if they married a Muslim Palestinian woman and went to live in the Palestinian territories.
Posted by: Koppers | May 29, 2006 at 04:37 AM
And what would happen? They would be greeted warmly into the household?
Posted by: scott | May 29, 2006 at 05:47 AM
They'd face certain death - and you know it.
Posted by: | May 29, 2006 at 06:05 AM
"certain death", what do you know? What evidence do you have?
We do know that the Israeli supreme court has prohibited marriages between Israeli Arabs and Palestinians.
Posted by: bernarda | May 29, 2006 at 12:55 PM
As usual going off on hypothetical tangents is a distraction. These pictures proves that Israelis are racist bastards.
Posted by: Anti-LGF | June 01, 2006 at 01:18 AM
The photos are faked--as usual. The Israeli soldier is holding a toy rifle and the uniform is not regulation but a mishmash of surplus items. The graffiti as not written by settlers. Only the CPT and their Arab allies would create such lies of Jews advocating gassing anyone. Haj Amin al-Hussein adovated gassing as Hitler's ally in World War Two. Stop the endless lying. As for the toilets, those big mean Israelis jsut don't want Arabs to be able to pee, right? The toilets were built on land that did not belong to them. The Arabs build on land that isn't theris then claim its theirs.
Posted by: Truth | June 02, 2006 at 02:18 AM
Truth sounds like another one of those darned "Lee Kaplan Fans."
Cute e-mail address by the way.
Posted by: Yaman | June 02, 2006 at 05:50 AM
Indeed. Strangely similar to that of another of Lee Kaplan's emails: thehussar@netzero.com.
Which begs the question, given how busy he is writing fiction, where does he find the time to be "a horseman of the Hungarian light cavalry organized during the 15th century"?
Posted by: scott | June 02, 2006 at 02:26 PM
How do you know they're fakes? Living in la-la land are we. I wonder why zionists volunteered to work for Hitler...I've seen plenty of these pictures...so you fucking israeli shills and zionist shit stains can deny it all you want, but it wont change reality.
Posted by: Anti-LGF | June 02, 2006 at 02:52 PM
Guys,
Where is the fake picture of the Israeli soldier? Not anymore on the website? Maybe too obvious it was fake.
Yaman, Scott, and Anti-LGF. when you can not argue anymore (to Truth) you react so predictably and miserably:
1. Attack the messenger when you can not attack the message: Yaman (June 02, 2006 at 02:50 AM)
2. Insults: Anti-LGF (June 02, 2006 at 11:52 AM).
Quick questions: Are you spending some time disserting about the real and ongoing genocide in Sudan (pictures from there are 20x more explicit and clear cut)? What about civil war in Tchad? Why this selective indignation? Sure, Israel is an easy target. There are more journalist and self-indulgent activists there than in Africa as a whole. Africa is too scary. They really kill people. Not by accident once every 10 years (Rachel Corrie). It is easier. Grow up guys, and stop reading Mein Kampf. Get a job and a brain. Then you can talk about politics.
Posted by: Moi | June 02, 2006 at 04:37 PM
My bad regarding the picture. It is still online. But it should clearly be withdrawn. It seems that this blog (that I discovered today) is a great mouthpiece of the Arabo-Palestinian propaganda and terrorism therefore. It takes everything coming from the Palestinanian side for face value. Indeed it is easy to see the world as black and white, like in Walt Disney's movies. For its author (a student in his academic ivory tower, far from the Middle East world pretends to talk about), the Palestinians and their supporters should be trusted at face value. He only applies critical judgement to information to Israel (i.e, Israel given reason vs. real reason) and not to the Palestinians, who should always be trusted. Maybe the author should spend more time in class and learn that in any given conflict, information is distorted by BOTH parties, not only, one. What a naive author. Or maybe this biais is volontary because the author has an agenda? My advice: do not put your blog as a credential on your resume the day you will graduate. Last, it should not be called AngryWhiteKid, but rather, StupidWhiteKid (wink to Michael Moore, of course). Stupid white author.
Posted by: Moi | June 02, 2006 at 05:02 PM
are there any progressive, thoughtful and secular groups operating over there (and i don't mean marxists/socialists/morons)? i mean, i know there are, but religious zealots hold all the power. seriously, aside from a handful of punks and artists, there's little but a cult of death that exists there. and both palestinians and israelis are to blame.
Posted by: slexx | June 04, 2006 at 09:02 PM
Let's all just sit back and remember that the Jew essentially ARE palestinians, with extremely minor genetic distance between them. If the Palestinians somehow get a claim to the land, by rights the Israelis do to.
Posted by: Robert Nanders | June 05, 2006 at 03:07 AM
AngryWhiteKid, I think you're onto something.
Posted by: AJ | June 05, 2006 at 12:24 PM
There is a long detailed article in the Guardian about the apartheid aspects of Israel and its laws.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1703244,00.html
Be sure to read both parts. The similarities are more than coincidental.
"Israelis have always been horrified at the idea of parallels between their country, a democracy risen from the ashes of genocide, and the racist system that ruled the old South Africa. Yet even within Israel itself, accusations persist that the web of controls affecting every aspect of Palestinian life bears a disturbing resemblance to apartheid."
Posted by: bernarda | June 06, 2006 at 06:09 AM
slexx, you can't honestly argue that besides punks and artists all that exists is a cult of death.
there are just ordinary people trying to live their daily lives under occupation and an internationally orchestrated starvation campaign.
there are loads of good secular organizations in both israel and palestine. and when was the last time that punks did anything useful...ever?
Posted by: scott | June 06, 2006 at 07:08 PM
Angrywhitekid,
ok.
Did you notice that the graffiti is written in ENGLISH!!!!
ENGLISH!!!!
If the Jewish settlers wanted to intimidate the Arabs the graffiti would be written in Arabic.
It is clearly black propaganda intended for a western audience.
Posted by: douglass | June 09, 2006 at 03:21 PM
And your point?
My guess is the Jewish settlers - many fresh from the States - don't speak Arabic. Many probably don't speak Hebrew, either. Yet it's not like these messages are difficult to understand or translate, and many Palestinians speak English anyway.
Posted by: scott | June 09, 2006 at 05:15 PM
Douglass, how many of you israelis and settler shitheads are literate in arabic? I guess Palestinians should spray graffiti in hebrew huh? Duh motherfucker!
Posted by: Anti-LGF | June 10, 2006 at 11:51 PM
Anti-lgf,
What seems off to me is the English used in all of the graffiti (as well as a lack of Hebrew and or Russian).
Also, you are writing as if members of the JDL would openly paint their organization as fascist, extremist and genocidal.
Although I never suggested that most Israelis understood Arabic, you have a good point there.
Do you have any pictures of Anti-Arab graffiti written in Russian or in Hebrew?
Also,
The JDL is known for a lot of things, but stupidity isn't one of them.
The tell tale
[-jdl] seems suspect.
Posted by: douglass | June 11, 2006 at 07:21 PM
Are you a member of the JDL Douglass? IMHO stupidity is at the top of their list. They're nothing more then a pack of jewish terrorists. I was so happy when Irv Rubin and his boytoy got whacked in prison....music to my ears.
Posted by: Anti-LGF | June 12, 2006 at 07:45 PM
Anti-Lgf,
You seethe with hatred for the JDL. (did they attack you?)
I know that the JDL does good work making white people look good in the States by attacking Neo-Nazis in a most vigilant and clever fashion. (my hunch is that such neonazi groups are false flag operations from people who want to accelerate the demise of EuroAmerican culture, but I have no evidence, it's just a hunch)
My point is: sure, you have these pictures saying mean things about the Arabs, but do you have any evidence implicating Jews as the authors?
Or does the [-jdl] quench your thirst for proof?
Posted by: douglass | June 13, 2006 at 10:05 PM