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Israel’s message to the Palestinians: Submit, leave or die

By Jeff Halper, the Director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD)

Date: 11th July 2014

Source: Mondoweiss

 

The Kerry initiative may have ended with a whimper instead of a bang, but its impact on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was significant and fundamental nonetheless. The end of the political process, futile as it may have been, triggered the collapse of the status quo as we have known it for the past 47 years. It set in motion a series of events that will confront us with two stark alternatives regarding Israel and Palestine: either the permanent warehousing of an entire population or the emergence of a single democratic state.

 

Both the blatantly disproportionate response to the kidnapping and killing of the three Israeli boys and, as I write, the all-out air strikes on Gaza, have been cast by Israel as military operations: Operations Brothers’ Keeper and Operation Protective Edge. Neither had anything to do with the operations’ purported triggers, the search for the boys or rocket fire from Gaza. Palestinian cities supposedly enjoying extra-territorial status were invaded in Operation Brothers’ Keeper, more than 2000 homes were ransacked, some 700 people arrested. Who knows as yet the devastation wrought on Gaza – 100 dead in more than 1,100 air attacks so far, mostly civilians according to reports; deafening around-the-clock bombing of communities by American-supplied F-15 and artillery from the ground and sea that amounts to collective torture; Israel’s Foreign Minister calling for cutting off all electricity and water amidst threats to completely obliterate Gaza’s infrastructure; and the prospect of almost two million people being permanently imprisoned, reduced to bare existence just this side of starvation.

 

What is clear is that the military operations had a purpose of their own, that they would have been launched regardless, that they were merely waiting on a pretext. They had to come because the vacuum left by Kerry had to be filled. “Closure†was necessary – and it was clear that the Palestinian Authority, which had several months to take an initiative that would have bolstered the Palestinians’ position, would not do so, even though Martin Indyk, the American’s chief negotiator and former AIPAC leader, placed the blame squarely on Israel for talks’ failure.

 

In fact, the end of the Kerry initiative marked the culmination of a decades-old campaign, systematic and deliberate, of eliminating the two-state solution. From the start, in 1967, successive Israeli governments officially denied that there even was an occupation, claiming that since the Palestinians had never had a state of their own they had no national claim to the land. The Labor Party denied the very applicability of the Fourth Geneva Convention that protects civilian populations finding themselves under hostile rule with no means of self-defense – and which had been formulated specifically with the intent of providing the protection denied to Jews during the Holocaust. It therefore embarked on a project of establishing settlements, now numbering some 200, in clear violation of international law that prohibits an Occupying Power from moving its civilian population into an occupied territory.

 

Indeed, Labor (the “Zionist leftâ€) bears more responsibility for eliminating the two-state solution than does the Likud of Begin, Sharon and Netanyahu. It was Labor who ruled during almost all seven years of the Oslo peace process, and it was Labor that chose to double Israel’s settler population during that period. Labor fragmented the Palestinian territories into tiny and impoverished enclaves, Labor imposed the economic closure and impediments to Palestinian movement these last 21 years, and Labor – not Likud, which actually opposed the project – initiated the construction of the Separation Barrier, the Apartheid Wall.

 

The Likud, of course, was a willing partner, as were all the secular and religious parties from the center to the extreme right, but it has fallen to Netanyahu to kill the two-state solution for once and for all. The first step was to decisively end Kerry’s initiative and any that might follow it. This Netanyahu did by raising his demands to intolerable levels. He declared that the Palestinians must relinquish their own national narrative and civil rights by recognizing Israel as a Jewish state, and he held to the position that Israel would retain permanently East Jerusalem, the Jordan Valley and Israel’s main settlement blocs (about a third of the West Bank), as well as the water and natural gas resources, the country’s electro-magnetic sphere (communications) and all of its airspace.

 

He left the Palestinians with less than a Bantustan, non-viable and non-sovereign, a prison comprised of the 70 islands of Areas A and B of the West Bank, ghettos in “east†Jerusalem, tightly contained enclaves within Israel, and he cage which is Gaza – half the population of the land between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River confined to dozens of islands on 15% of historic Palestine.

 

Operations Brothers’ Keeper and Protective Edge represent the imposition of a regime of warehousing, of outright imprisonment of an entire people. The seemingly blind and atavistic destruction and hatred unleashed on the Palestinians over the past few weeks is not merely yet another “round of violence†in an interminable struggle. It is the declaration of a new political reality. The message is clear, unilateral and final: This country has been Judaized: it is now the Land of Israel in the process of being incorporated into the state of Israel. You Arabs (or “Palestinians†as you call yourselves) are not a people and have no national rights, certainly to our exclusively Jewish country. You are not a “side†to a “conflict.†Once and for all we must disabuse you of the notion that we are actually negotiating with you. We never have and never will. You are nothing but inmates in prison cells, and we hereby declare through our military and political actions that you have three options before you: You can submit as inmates are required to you, in which case we will allow you to remain in your enclave-cells. You can leave, as hundreds of thousands have done before you. Or, if you choose to resist, you will die.

 

Warehousing is worse than apartheid. It does not even pretend to find a political framework for “separate development,†it simply jails the oppressed and robs them of all their collective and individual rights. It is the ultimate form of oppression before actual genocide, and in that it robs a people of its identity, its land, its culture and the ability to reproduce itself, it is a form of cultural genocide that can lead to worse. This is what Israel has left the Palestinians, this is the meaning of the bombing of Gaza, the terrorizing of the West Bank – and the ongoing destruction of Bedouin and Palestinian homes within Israel.

 

Assuming that apartheid and warehousing are absolutely unacceptable “solutions†and, indeed, are ultimately unsustainable, generating even more violence and conflict in the volatile Middle East, Israel has in fact left us with only one workable, just and lasting way out: a single democratic state in Palestine/Israel that guarantees the individual and collective rights of all its citizens. This is what we must struggle for. Israel’s military operations mark the beginning of the collapse of the Occupation. It is incumbent on Palestinian civil society, joining with their partners on the critical Israeli left, to urgently formulate how that state would look and, ensuring everyone in that land a part in its future, to begin the struggle to achieve it. Despite the suffering of the moment, public opinion the world over support us. Only our effective mobilization will defeat warehousing.

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:>_>: urrrhhhhh bjbvjksfbsjkjvjkxvvdssdf zionist (i'm not supposed to swear in this sacred ramadhan :omgwtf: )

#prayforPalestine #savePalestine

 

Ya Allah, help them, give strength to our brothers and sisters...

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i really feel bad for the Palestine people for having to go through all of that :/

and i saw photos of the innocent children being killed. i mean where did all the humanity go?

 

i really hope God will help and protect those who are innocent and also punish those who's been really cruel. :/

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I'm stunned that this is really happening, and at their audacity. My prayers will be with the thousands of innocent people being massacred in Palestine.

 

 

It is the ultimate form of oppression before actual genocide, and in that it robs a people of its identity, its land, its culture and the ability to reproduce itself, it is a form of cultural genocide that can lead to worse.

 

and this reality is very disheartening.

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Funny how 20-30 years ago the roles were reversed...

Not understanding; never has the power of occupation reversed, and most certainly never to this extent...
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Israel=The State of Terrorism. It's Palestine and they should not be asked to leave THEIR country. Take yourselves to an island or something and stop occupying something that is not yours(to Zionists the real terrorists)

 

 

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Edit: i cant post gore, but if all of you would just see what Israhell is doing to Palestinians right now. Mostly children too.

Disgusting people. I hope they get what's coming to them. I hope Israel burns in hell.

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Edit: i cant post gore, but if all of you would just see what Israhell is doing to Palestinians right now. Mostly children too.

Disgusting people. I hope they get what's coming to them. I hope Israel burns in hell.

I've seen the pictures on twitter and it made me cry. I don't know how you could do that to precious children and mothers. Their time will come and they will all be held accountable. May God punish the cruel terrorists.

 

and the turnout was amazing! Bless them<3

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Edit: i cant post gore, but if all of you would just see what Israhell is doing to Palestinians right now. Mostly children too.

Disgusting people. I hope they get what's coming to them. I hope Israel burns in hell.

 

Wow how good is that you have to wish bad things to others to defend your opinion?? Those jews protesting are either ultraorthodox jews that dont want to live near muslims,or jews that only want to live peacefully with the muslims,christians,jews that already lived there in fact that was the original plan but intolerant people started disturbs and then the united nations made a partition plan that the arab league didnt accepted ,in 1948 alone israel achieved its independence

 

 

 

 

thats why i dont get why they're doing the same thing to others dont make sense

Do you see muslims being held in camps or ghettos without food to be exterminated ,do you see muslims that live in israel being persecuted just because of their religion or originis? Muslim people that live in israel lives peacefully and have the SAME RIGHTS AS ANY JEW OR ISRAELI CITIZEN

please read some books before talking

 

 

 

asking million people to leave their country or Die , Israel what inhumanity Murders Criminals God will surely Punish u for ur monsters Crimes

#PrayforPalestine #PrayforGaza

 

If israel is a murder and a criminal what is hamas? they have donde lots of terrorist attacks in israel killing tons of civilians

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Wow how good is that you have to wish bad things to others to defend your opinion?? Those jews protesting are either ultraorthodox jews that dont want to live near muslims,or jews that only want to live peacefully with the muslims,christians,jews that already lived there in fact that was the original plan but intolerant people started disturbs and then the united nations made a partition plan that the arab league didnt accepted ,in 1948 alone israel achieved its independence

I'm wishing bad things on them because they've done bad things.

 

Your point is?

 

 

I've seen the pictures on twitter and it made me cry. I don't know how you could do that to precious children and mothers. Their time will come and they will all be held accountable. May God punish the cruel terrorists.

 

and the turnout was amazing! Bless them<3

Same. It amazes me how there are still people defending Israel.
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I'm wishing bad things on them because they've done bad things.

 

Your point is?

 

 

Same. It amazes me how there are still people defending Israel.

me too! It's not difficult to see who the criminals are here. Zionism needs to die and as far as my opinion is concerned, I'm not even going to acknowledge Israel's existence. It's Palestine being occupied by an inhumane government of thieves .

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Wow how good is that you have to wish bad things to others to defend your opinion?? Those jews protesting are either ultraorthodox jews that dont want to live near muslims,or jews that only want to live peacefully with the muslims,christians,jews that already lived there in fact that was the original plan but intolerant people started disturbs and then the united nations made a partition plan that the arab league didnt accepted ,in 1948 alone israel achieved its independence

The moment that you realize that every Israeli and every Jew has their own perception of what Israel should be and what Zionism should be, then you make your own life easy.

 

Plus, the Arab League has recognized Israel - and I've mentioned this in another thread. They have no choice, but for Israel to expect that this is also to back their Zionist goals by demanding that there should be acceptance that Palestinians forget their dispossessions, and legitimize it, is crossing the line into racism for the Jewish-only state. That is too much to ask for; of course, the Arab League cannot deny the Jews that live in Israel, and that is a very obvious claim to be making, but they cannot deny the Palestinians nor can they support the continued ethnic cleansing. It has become wordplay where Israel and Zionism is interplayed.

As Jewish people, you are all recognized by the 22 Nations, but as a Zionist practice, you are not supported, and don't deserve to be.

 

 

Do you see muslims being held in camps or ghettos without food to be exterminated ,do you see muslims that live in israel being persecuted just because of their religion or originis? Muslim people that live in israel lives peacefully and have the SAME RIGHTS AS ANY JEW OR ISRAELI CITIZEN

please read some books before talking

First of all, this article is about Occupied Palestine.

Secondly, equality in Zionism does not exist, and institutional discrimination is notoriously rampant in Israel.

If you want to make comparisons to make to the Holocaust era then take a closer look at the policies and practices Israel forces on Gaza; it's too alike, but worse, than Warsaw Ghetto.

 

 

If israel is a murder and a criminal what is hamas? they have donde lots of terrorist attacks in israel killing tons of civilians

Zionism has already been mentioned and all you can say to address that is 'if Israel is a murderer and a criminal, what is Hamas?'... ?

Zionism, at the very least, sits up there along with Nazism as one of the most influential evil movements. Hamas is nowhere close; they too useless, pathetically unproductive and outstandingly weak.

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I agree that what Israel is doing is not okay. Killing civillians without any reason is not okay, but I don't think we should hate all Israel because the problem lies not on the whole israelite population, but rather on the government.

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