US-Funded Ethnic Cleansing Under Apartheid Zionist Regime

JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE; Is it Apartheid? ; Moshe Machover; 10 November 2004
Apartheid was a device for keeping the exploited natives - the majority of the population - as part of the same economy, and therefore essentially also of the same society, as the settler exploiters; but without actually admitting it, and without giving the former rights of citizenship. Officially, the natives were citizens of fake states, the Bantustans. But the last thing the architects of the apartheid state wanted was a real departure of the black Africans, whose labor power was vital for its economy.
Zionism never intended to create a Palestinostan for the Palestinian Arabs. From the very start, it planned to get rid of them, to create a purely Jewish "Land of Israel". This premeditated policy - referred to in Zionist literature as 'transfer' - was largely implemented in the 1948 war. The Palestinian Arab minority whom - for lack of time or opportunity -- the nascent Israeli state failed to expel from its territory did not seem to represent a major "demographic threat". To be sure, their lands were for the most part expropriated and given over to Jewish settlements, they were severely discriminated and for many years kept under military rule. But, crucially, they were not denied rudimentary citizenship rights. They are Israeli citizens, who can vote for the Knesset.
Zionists of all major parties - Labor and Likud alike - ardently wished to 'transfer' as many Palestinians as possible. The only difference was about what was considered possible. The more pragmatic or cautious among them thought that the 'world' (which for Israel meant primarily US politicians and opinion-manufacturers) would not allow a massive ethnic cleansing. On the other hand, it was becoming clear, especially during the first Intifada, that Israel could not afford to control the Palestinian population directly.
These more pragmatic Zionists looked for a Palestinian leadership to do the job for them: to control and repress the Palestinians, thus guaranteeing the security of Israel. This was the essence of the Oslo Accord, which Peres managed to sell to Rabin and, no less important, to Yasser Arafat.[3]
The next prime minister, Ariel 'Bulldozer' Sharon, true to his legendary brutality and blood lust, has pursued yet another tactic: smashing the Palestinian Authority's resources and at the same time deliberately provoking Palestinian suicide bombings, so as to expose Arafat's inability to serve as Israel's security guard, and thus prove his uselessness and irrelevance from a Zionist viewpoint.
What Sharon & Co are planning is not really an apartheid regime. They are not interested in keeping the Palestinians permanently in place, as a subjugated population. They are planning to ethnically cleanse as many Palestinians as possible. Of course, this requires what in Zionist parlance is referred to as she'at kosher, an opportune moment. A general upheaval in the Middle East may present a suitable opportunity. If necessary, it could actually be provoked. Meantime, as a purely temporary measure, the Palestinian population is to be atomized and separated - not only from the Israeli Jews but also within their own community, village from village, neighborhood from neighborhood. And make no mistake: this is not going to be like a Bantustan, more like a series of Indian Reservations.
Conflating this with apartheid in fact misses the most essential point. Incidentally, it can also backfire: defenders of Zionism can easily show that the Palestinian citizens of Israel, while not enjoying equal rights, are nevertheless considerably better off than Black Africans used to be under apartheid.
But, much more importantly: talk of Israeli 'apartheid' serves to divert attention from much greater dangers. For, as far as most Palestinians are concerned, the Zionist policy is far worse than apartheid. Apartheid can be reversed. Ethnic cleansing is immeasurably harder to reverse; at least not in the short or medium term.
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[westphalianprinz]

Boycott Israel!

Israel gives Apartheid a good name!

I don't hate Jewish people, but the solution for the persecution that the Jews have suffered is not a ghetto nation-state. It's to fundamentally stand up to all forms of racial and ethnic discrimination where-ever they might be. And they obviously are prevalent in the land formerly known as Palestine.

[Yorku1986]

:'( :'(...Oh Allah Please Help all Humanity Victim to War and Crime in the World. May they be at rest.Ameen.

[Metsada007]

Bomb Israel. Long live Iran and Hizbullah, the last hopes.

[KyoNingyo]

@jameson627

You sir are the most black hearted ignorant human possible. You know nothing of this area and to support the mass murder of life is digusting. Israel has been murdering the indiginous Arabs of Palestine going back 90 years. The Palestinian people and every other people, have a duty to kill invaders of their land, homes and resources. While many Americans suffer hardship, America gives $10 billion a year plus billions in military aid to suppress the freedom of Palestinians.

[KyoNingyo]

@jameson627

Jews have been mostly oppressed by European Christians.

NEVER by the Arabs of Palestine.

[Aleckael]

@TheyDidThis It's a popular belief because they both state that they worship the Deity of Abraham.

[TheyDidThis]

OK 3.28 is just fukn sick

[TheyDidThis]

why do christians think jews have same beliefs as them? They dont believe in Jesus and they dont believe in the same God. They wont even say or write the word God. Zionist jews teach that the world is theirs and all non jews are slaves. Do the research folks.

JewsAgainstZionism com

[selenadelos]

Whats new is this not what they were doing all through The Bible, 2 Thousand years and still going strong. You know its ok their the creators special people at as they made it up !

[modelfan1979]

Since you care so much about violence, when are you going to do a video about Black September, the expulsion of Palestinians from Kuwait and Iraq.

When are you going to talk about the systematic oppression and discrimination that Palestinians face in Lebanon?

You won't. That is the problem. If you really cared about the Palestinians you would talk about these things. But you don't.

[Mojoman360]

You keep naming all of these bad things Israel have done, but it's nothing the Palestinians wouldn't have done to them. The world is looking the other way because they know that the alternative is just too horrible to consider.