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TITLE: A Response to Israeli Peace Movement's Call on the Palestinians to Give Up the Right of Return |
AUTHOR: Yav Bar |
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DATE: January 3, 2000 |
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In the first page of HA'ARETZ, from 2/1/01, there is a very expensive advertisement directed (in Hebrew) "to the Palestinian leadership", signed by the most significant leaders of the so-called "Israeli Peace Movement". The main thesis of that urgent call, while millions of Palestinians are subject to blockade and starvation, while the Israeli military death squads are killing Palestinian peace activist as well as Palestinian kids daily, is not to call for an end to the Israeli war crimes, but to call on the Palestinians to give up the right of return... By inciting the Jewish public opinion against the Palestinian demand to the right of return as meaning "the elimination of the state of Israel", the self styled "peace" leaders are working to give legitimacy to the escalation of opression and killing by the Barak government. By denying the right of return from Palestinian refugees, the Israeli "peaceniks" want to validate that the results of the ethnic cleansing performed by Israel in 1948 is irreversible. (The act of 'validation of killing' is well established in the Israeli military culture). In justification to their holy right to live in a racistly defined "Jewish" state, they force political prostitution on the term of "the right to self determination". This Holy right is the right of oppresed nations not to be oppresed, and to separate from the oppressing nation. It is not the right to massacre and expel the people of the land in order to create an ethnicly 'pure' racist state where your nation or religion will enjoy being a majority. By defining the return of the Palestinia refugees as the elimination of Israel they admit that the essence of Israel is being a racist state, that the very existence of Arabs contradicts it being. By defining their preference to live in a racialy segregated society as predominant over their will to live in peace, they prove themselves to what they are, faked coward agents of the Israeli racist military state. But by declaring that "we will never agree to the return of the refugees", they seem to assume being immortal, or that the Israeli-American domination of the middle east will last forever. If, for example, the US will be afraid for its oil interests and stop supplying weapons to the Israeli adventure, our dear peaceniks will eat all available copies of 'Ha'aretz' from 2/1/01, and will preach in pious words that the Jewish masses were never responsible for the war crimes of the likes of Barak and Sharon. Join the anti-apartheid movement NOW! END |