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Israel is a racist state which must be boycottedEven though the UN has changed its mind about Zionism and declared that, after all, it is not racist, Jimmy Carter’s book “Peace not Apartheid” has spelled out what most Middle-East observers already knew: that Israel has imposed an Apartheid-like regime in the Occupied Territories. What is less well-known, but at least as important, is that Israel is also a racist state *inside* its official borders (although no such borders have ever been officially defined by Israeli officials). Jonathan Cook’s absolutely ground braking book “Blood and Religion: the Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic state” has finally raised the issue of the racist policies imposed upon those Palestinians who have Israeli citizenship and who live inside Israel. Now a world-wide movement for a boycott of Israel has finally begun. John Pilger has recently written an article which looks into this most important development. The fact that the Israel Knesset has just passed yet another racist piece of legislation has only given a stronger impetus to this movement. Lastly, more and more people are coming to the realization that no “two state solution” is possible in Israel as, by definition, any such “solution” being based on race will only lead to more violence. From Hassan Nasrallah to Ilan Pappe, an increasing number of Middle-East actors and observers are openly advocating the creation of a unitary state, based on a “one man one vote” democracy, which would fully accept the right of return of all Palestinian refugees and which would make no distinction between its citizens on the basis or race or religion. As in the case of Apartheid, the growing boycott of Israel will not affect it economically, not with the USA dumping trillions of dollars on the “Jewish State”. But morally this boycott will, with time, have an impact on the Israeli public and will bring it to question the nature of the society it lives in. This is not an easy solution, and it will take time. But it is the only viable one. The upcoming Imperial war against Iran will only accelerate the inevitable. Bookmark/Search this post with: 
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Israel is a racist state
Let's see... Iran, Iraq, Cuba, Libya, now Israel? Yeah, those boycotts really work.
Why punish millions of good jews just because of a few rotten ones? The regressive parties continue to be elected, but how is this different from the USA? Should the world boycott the USA because we have a monkey for president? You're sounding like a neo-Republican policy maker - I don't like this nation so we'll punish them, pretend they don't exist, not talk to them, and one day we'll get around to bombing them.
Israel is a racist state
Last time I checked Cuba and Iran are not a racist states, in fact Cuaba might be the single most racially integrated state on the planet. nor do Cuba or Iran fight endless wars with systematic violations of international law, law of war, or human rights law. What I am saying is that we, as people, as individuals, should refuse to in any way provide aid or support to the racist regime in Jerusalem and make that rejection of ours public. As for punishing the Israelis, they *choose* their government as much as the South African whites chose their own and my heart does not go out to them in the least. I remind you that it is their kulture which makes it possible for their RECRUITED/CONSCRIPTED soliders to commit atrocities against the Palestinians on a daily basis. The guys who shoot Palestinian kids on a daily basis are not some SS stromtroopers, but young conscripts. As long as the Israeli public at large supports that kind of atrocities they can forget about getting any kind of sympathy from me.
The boycott should be a moral stance, not an economic strangulation strategy.
I will support B’Tselem or Gush Shalom and Israelis like Pappe or Gilad Atzmon, but the rest of them Likudniks/Kibbutzim/Haredim will have to pay the price for their own chosen racism. There are plenty of decent people in Israel. One does not need to be a Neturei Karta to realize that racism, any racism, is intrinsically evil. I am not talking about the goosestepping Fascists of the Rabin/Peres crowd, or even about the Peace Now folks, but the B’Tselem or Gush Shalom types. Alas, many of them are now leaving Israel and have been doing so for years and the trend so far is definitely for a hardening of the Israeli public opinion which is being terrified into racism by the Israeli establishment. But fear is no excuse. Jim Crow laws were ALSO based on fear, that hardly makes them worthy of anything but contempt.
Where did I say that I do not like the Israeli nation?! What I don't like is the Zionist racism which forms the basis of the current Israeli regime in power.
And yes, the US *should* (and already is) being punished for having a evil monkey in the White House.
As for me sounding like a Neocon, this is a first. You sure make up in originality what you lack in sound thinking ;-)
Motto: chown -R linux:GNU world
Distros: Debian, gNewSense
http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/
Gush Shalom advertisement published this week in Israel
SILENCE:
In an army action
This week,
Two boys,
Aged 9 and 11,
Were shot dead.
The Minister of Defense,
Ehud Barak,
Leader of the Labor Party,
Did not even apologize
Or express regret.
Silence is admission:
This is now the policy.
zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/weekly_ad/1187861294/
Gush Shalom ad in Haaretz, August 24
Israel is a racist state
"Last time I checked Cuba and Iran are not a racist states"
So, an embargo doesn't work on any of the other states but it will work on Israel because Israel is racist?
I don't know what's happening there and why they're voting for people like Ehud Barak, but Barak is certainly not known for being friendly with the Arabs. I think this is a simple matter of "vox populi, vox stulti" - the voice of the people, the voice of idiots. It's the same phenomenon that got Bonzo into the White House. So, how will your planned embargo work? It sounds like a Dubbyah-inspired plan to me.
Israel is a racist state
Now that you mention it, I did talk to Dubya before writing the article. Oh wait, I did not write it. Nevermind. Boycotts worked on Jim Crow laws and on Apartheid so their record on racist states is 2 and 0. Grant you, the Israelis make the US rednecks and the Afrikaners look outright progressive, but I refuse to give up hope that they might end up being disgusted with themselves and their racism one day.
Motto: chown -R linux:GNU world
Distros: Debian, gNewSense
http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/
Right to return?
Vees,
Could you, please, list all the nations of the world that have a "right of return" law?
Also, how many nations in the middle east are “one man one vote” democracies?
Can we use the word apartheid to describe the actions of slave traders? What a way to separate people.
Are you defending the Arab people that sold the Kafirs to the Portuguese and to this day, as reported by the U.N., still deal in human misery?
Where is Allah?
bigot or racists
To me a racists is someone who can sit down with the "other"race at the local pub and tip a few while still feeling the superiority of his/her race. A bigot on the other hand cannot stand to be around the folks falling withing his/her bigot eligibility criteria.
So, I think that you might be mixing bigotry and racism here.