tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725411122663433189.post7650398662007769415..comments2024-01-04T19:27:02.335-08:00Comments on Zenpolitics: Peddling 'peace' and selling the aggressor state - Friends of Israel do street propagandaJohn Hilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10072819649049077782noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725411122663433189.post-44527618513446699892015-07-21T19:46:09.793-07:002015-07-21T19:46:09.793-07:00Re: Judy Welemisnky comments.
How easy and yet de...Re: Judy Welemisnky comments.<br /><br />How easy and yet deeply deceitful of Glasgow Friends of Israel to proclaim a desire for peace. Real peace is a fine aim, but it can never come without true justice. And, in its shameless apologetics for Israel's relentless occupation and aggression, true justice is a concept this 'people first' group have no interest in promoting.<br /><br />How coy to say that 'Israelis and Palestinians need to promote each other's welfare', while turning a blind-eye to Israel's brutality in Gaza, its ruthless cantonisation of the West Bank and its subjugation of Arabs inside Israel. <br /><br />How wilfully these comments ignore the true, dark aims of the Nakba terror, as Ilan Pappe relates in his penetrating account of the ethnic cleansing.<br /><br />As the writer Alan Hart also recounts of a key date in that campaign, 10 March 1948:<br /><br />On that day in 1948, two months before Israel’s unilateral declaration of independence in defiance of the will of the organized international community as it then was at the UN, Zionism’s in-Palestine political and military leaders met in Tel Aviv to formally adopt PLAN DALET, the blueprint with operational military orders for the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. They did not and never would refer to the crime they authorised as ethnic cleansing. Their euphemism for it was “transfer”. <br /><br />http://www.globalresearch.ca/israels-plan-dalet-the-green-light-for-zionisms-ethnic-cleansing-of-palestine/5326140<br /><br />GFI talk of 'bringing peoples together', but can't even bring themselves to confront the terrible formative truth of Palestinian suffering, a circumvention which informs every utterance they make in maintaining the illusion of Israel as a 'defensive' and 'benign' state. <br /><br />And the claim that Israel's Arab population are treated as equal citizens, and 'part of Israel's success story', really does tell readers all they need to know about GFI's false and pretentious agenda. <br /><br />The independent journalist Jonathan Cook, resident in Nazareth, has written many fine articles and books on every aspect of the Palestine-Israel issue. Extremely valuable among them are his dispatches on the apartheid treatment of Israel's Arab 'citizens'. <br /><br />In one probing piece, The Transfer of Israeli Arabs, Cook notes:<br /><br />A political campaign by the minority for equality - urging Israel's reform from a Jewish state to a "state for all its citizens" - is officially classified as "subversion". Israeli Politicians - from the right and the left - share a common view, often expressed or implied, that Palestinian citizens can never truly belong to a Jewish state. Instead, they are described variously as a "fifth column", "Trojan horse" and "demographic time bomb". <br /><br />http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/11/analysis-transfer-israeli-arabs-201411135141968716.html<br /><br />Other deeply-informative pieces by Cook on the denial of civil, political and economic rights for Israel's Arabs include:<br /><br />Israel’s Arab citizens fight for a roof over their heads: <br />http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-s-arab-citizens-fight-roof-over-their-heads-696493297<br /><br />Academic freedom? Not for Arabs in Israel:<br />https://electronicintifada.net/content/academic-freedom-not-arabs-israel/7398<br /><br />Israeli Arabs 'racially profiled':<br />http://www.jonathan-cook.net/2007-01-13/israeli-arabs-racially-profiled/ <br /><br />These comments end with the spurious, but familiar, claim that other countries, rather than Israel, are primarily to blame for Palestinian suffering. Such are the contortions of GFI in affecting to express 'concern' for Palestinian people. <br /><br />After reading such profoundly ignorant claims, humanitarian evasions and crass generalisations about Arab societies, there's very little hope that the writer might reflect truthfully on the disastrous militarisation of Israel as a violence-addicted state and society.<br /><br />(Note: this is an independent blog, unconnected to the SPSC.)John Hilleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10072819649049077782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725411122663433189.post-79177617869949165182015-07-21T14:34:09.751-07:002015-07-21T14:34:09.751-07:00It's a measure of the SPSC's increasing co...It's a measure of the SPSC's increasing concern over its exposure in the world as only being anti Israel that they are now venting so much venom on a Pro Israel, Pro Palestinian, Pro Peace group. They revile the Pro Israel, Pro Palestinian, Pro Peace statement that for there to be true peace, Israelis and Palestinians need to promote each other's welfare.<br />It's a people first agenda aiming to combat intimidation, hatred, violence and delegitimisation and to bring Jews, Christians, Muslims and others together in pursuit of peace. SPSC refuse to accept as truth the ethnic cleansing of Jews throughout the Middle East or that the Palestinian Nakba resulted from five Arab nations attacking the new state of Israel in 1948. And they really choke on the fact that the Palestinians who chose to stay are now full citizens of the State of Israel and have grown in number to 1.5 million - twice the number who fled in 1948. <br />These Israeli Palestinians are part of Israel's success story - as attested by so many doing so well. They would rather give credibility to terrorist groups like Hamas, or Palestinian Islamic Jihad or the terror praising corrupt Palestinian Authority than express any concern for the welfare of Israelis. The reality is that many Palestinians now privately recognise that their future is much safer with Israel around and increasingly there are Palestinians like Christy and Mudar Zahran who are willing to say so publicly. <br />In hiding behind the pretence of being Pro Palestinian, the SPSC have just got a racist agenda of trying to destroy Israel. If they really cared for Palestinians then they would put some energy into helping the Palestinians in Syria or protesting the bad treatment of Palestinians in places like Kuwait and their second class treatment in Jordan. And they would speak out against the violation of minority group rights by various Palestinian Muslim groups who have ethnically cleansed Christians from Bethlehem, who attack gay people and violate women's rights. Not to mention the militarisation of children and their lethal use in digging tunnels. I could go on but I will do you a favour and stop here.<br />.<br />Judy Welemisnkyhttps://www.facebook.com/IsPalPeacenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725411122663433189.post-88998673582572119832015-07-20T11:48:29.600-07:002015-07-20T11:48:29.600-07:00Thank you for this... i shall be keeping Close at...Thank you for this... i shall be keeping Close attention to this..and paying them a visit.BeautifulSakuranoreply@blogger.com