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Is Israel a Democracy or a Terrorcracy?
by Khalid
Amayreh
One of the most enduring myths about
Israel is the often-made claim that it is a democracy. The big lie
is marketed effectively in many Western countries where
Zionist-controlled or Zionist-influenced media has a definite
stranglehold on public opinion. consequently, the “veracity” of the
myth is taken for granted by many politicians, journalists,
intellectuals and ordinary people, and is used as a ready-made
weapon against Israel’s critics.
The truth of the matter, however, is
that Israel is not a real democracy but rather a nefarious
ethno-centric terrorocracy that heavily employs state-terror as
official policy.
This terror, with all its evil
manifestations, is sanctioned by the law of the land and defended
doggedly by a potent propaganda machine comprising hundreds of news
outlets from Sidney to California.
For skeptics who might still be induced
to give Israeli “democracy” the benefit of the doubt, let us
consider the following facts.
Israeli leaders from Ben-Gurion to Ariel
Sharon committed incalculable crimes against innocent civilians.
Some of these crimes assumed genocidal dimensions, such as the Dir
Yasin, Tantura, Jenin and Sabra and Shatilla massacres.
The First Israeli Prime Minister, David
Ben Gurion, directed and presided over the utter destruction and
obliteration of as many as 500 Palestinian towns and villages. The
remains and relics of some of these towns and villages are
documented in Walid Khalidi’s masterpiece, “All that remains.”
That was ethnic cleansing on a very
large scale, a crime against humanity by every conceivable standard.
Needless to say, the Israeli state committed this genocidal crime
willfully for the purpose of effecting Zionism, and building a
purely racist Jewish state with as few non-Jews as possible.
Another Prime Minister, the infamous
Menachem Begin, praised the Dir Yasin massacre, calling it a
“miracle.”
Another Israeli Premier, Yitzhak Shamir,
masterminded the killing of hundreds of Palestinian and British
civilians. His responsibility for the bombing of the King David
Hotel in Jerusalem prompted the British government to place him on
its most wanted list.
Even, Yitzhak Rabin, the celebrated
“peace maker” and Nobel Prize laureate, had carried out several
atrocities against Palestinian civilians in Lud and Ramleh. And
while acting as Defense Minister during the first Palestinian
uprising against Jewish colonialism, he ordered his soldiers to
break Palestinian youngsters’ bones.
When Rabins’ ideological son, Ehud Barak,
sought to convince Israeli Jews to elect him as Prime Minister, he
had to remind them of the most graphic details of how he murdered
three Palestinian leaders in Beirut in the late 1970s. The grisly
reminder worked effectively, and the decorated terrorist became
Prime Minister.
Then came the arch-terrorist of them
all, Herr Ariel Sharon, Der Fuhrer, a certified war criminal of
Hitler’s and Saddam Hussein’s ilk. Sharon, whom the ignoramus of the
White House so unscrupulously called “a man of peace,” is
responsible for shedding more innocent blood than any other Israeli
leader. Here are some of Sharon’s known infamies: The wicked former
general slaughtered scores of innocent peasants at the village of
Kfar Kassem in the mid 1950s. In 1956, he slaughtered hundreds of
Egyptian prisoners of war by ordering them crushed under the treads
of Israeli tanks in the Sinai Peninsula in 1956. And in 1982, during
the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, Sharon oversaw the mass slaughter
of some 2000 unsuspecting boys, women and children.
Sharon never really regretted the
killing, and his atrocities eventually earned him the glorious title
of “malich Yisrael” or “King of Israel.” Far from trying and
punishing him for his diabolical crimes, Israel actually elected him
twice as Prime Minister, with a landslide majority.
For the past 30 months, Sharon has been
carrying out one of the ugliest reigns of terror in the history of
humanity, prompting the former Israeli minister of education,
Shulamit Aloni, to remark that “we have become a barbarian people.”
Sharon’s crimes against the unprotected
and largely unarmed Palestinians transcend reality and defy human
imagination.
Sharon has presided over killing and
maiming of tens of thousands of civilians, the destruction of
thousands of homes, orchards, farms, fields, and civilian
infrastructure, forcing many conscientious Jews and non-Jews to draw
comparisons between the Nazi holocaust against the Jews and the
Israeli war of liquidation against the Palestinians.
Over a year ago, a Jewish British Member
of Parliament, Paul Kaufman, remarked that “Sharon has made the Star
of David look like the Swastika of Hitler.”
Oona King, another British Jewish MP and
a member of the Jewish Council for Racial Equality, remarked that
“Gaza is the same in nature as the Warsaw Ghetto.” She added that
“as a Jew, I hoped I would never live to see the day I was ashamed
of the actions of the Jewish state.”
The honorable Jewish lady knew what she
was talking about. She was referring to Pregnant Palestinian women
shot dead or forced to give birth at Israeli roadblocks, having been
barred access to nearby hospitals by Zionism’s heroic soldier
She was alluding to hundreds of
Palestinian towns, villages, hamlets and refugee camps reduced by
the Israeli army to huge, open-air concentration camps, only lacking
the gas chambers.
She was talking about the attempted
systematic elimination of a people whose only crime is its enduring
desire for freedom from a Satanic military occupation unparallel in
the human history.
The conscientious Jewish lady was
speaking of a helpless and defenseless people forced into very much
the same situation that Jews encountered in Nazi-occupied Europe
more than half a century ago.
Does a democracy allow soldiers to shoot
and kill pregnant women on their way to hospital for no other reason
than the fact the poor women adhere to the “wrong” religion and
belong to the “wrong” tribe?
Does a democracy instruct soldiers to
plant landmines in the vicinity of schools in order to kill and maim
as many “children of a lesser God” as possible?
Does a democracy dispatch warplanes to
pour death at apartment buildings and crowded streets and
neighborhoods under the pretext of fighting terror?
Does a democracy murder suspects and
opponents without charge or trial?
Does a democracy practice collective
punishment, including hermetic, suffocating and open-ended against
their citizens and subjects?
Indeed, does a democracy practice
apartheid in its ugliest forms against a sector of its citizens
because they happen to belong to the “wrong race.”
Is occupying, tormenting, enslaving and
dispossessing another people compatible with democracy.?
Can a racist apartheid be a true
democracy? If the answer for these questions is in the affirmative,
then Israel is a democracy. If not, we must not hesitate to call the
spade a spade.
In short, Israel is a terrorocracy, not
a democracy.
Source:
by courtesy & © 2003 IAP & Khalid Amayreh
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