Zionists: Aiming to be Arab-free

international | anti-war / imperialism | other press Monday April 12, 2010 16:08 by pat c

Tony Greenstein writes on how the Zionists are continuing to cleanse the Occupied Territories, making parts of the West Banks permanent no go areas for Palestinians. But the Zionist State is also moving against Israeli Jews who oppose Zionism. Full text at link.

In the past two weeks there has been an increase in Israeli attacks on Gaza, culminating with the bombing by Israel of a factory and civilian areas on April 1. Presumably some form of April fool’s joke - with a vengeance.

However, the sporadic firing and shelling does not tell the whole story or even part of it. Israel continues to maintain its starvation blockade, which has in itself resulted in hundreds of silent deaths - ie, medical emergencies, the elderly and very young without nutrition, people living outdoors in the cold (concrete is barred from the list of imports).

Most areas of the West Bank will be Arabrein (Arab-free), with Palestinians acting as the hewers of wood and drawers of water for the settlers. The aim is to destroy their agriculture and turn Palestinian into landless labourers.

Israel has even begun targeting Jewish demonstrators such as Ezra Nawi, a gay activist and pacifist. Just as it has targeted NGOs and other civil society groups.

What we are seeing in Israel, with the appointment of an open racist and fascist, Avigdor Liebermann of the Yisrael Beteinu party as foreign minister, is the beginning also of a curtailment of civil rights for Israeli Jews as well as Palestinians. Just as in South Africa, where there was a measure of democracy for the settler population, so in Israel attacks on the Palestinians are now spilling over into Jewish society too. Leftists are seen as the enemy.