Our Wednesday News Analysis | Apartheid Israel, Genocidally Racist Zionism & Key Existential Nuclear, Poverty & Climate Threats

Source: Countercurrents
https://countercurrents.org/2022/12/apartheid-israel-genocidally-racist-zionism-key-existential-nuclear-poverty-climate-threats/

By Dr Gideon Polya
Published December 7, 2022

The 8,000 million people in the world today are acutely and existentially threatened by nuclear weapons, deadly poverty and ever worsening man-made climate change. Yet as set out below, nuclear terrorist, genocidally racist, climate criminal and racist Zionist Apartheid Israel, ruled by a mere 6.8 million racist Zionists, is hugely and disproportionately involved in these three key existential threats to Humanity and the Biosphere.

Of course I hasten to add that a numerous and growing body of anti-racist Jewish humanitarians (including myself) are resolutely and unequivocally opposed to the appalling and ongoing crimes of a nuclear terrorist, racist Zionist-run, genocidally racist, serial war criminal, grossly human rights-abusing, child-abusing, mother-abusing, women-abusing, anti-Arab anti-Semitic, democracy by genocide and neo-Nazi Apartheid Israel.

A Zionist-subverted and racist West ignores the present horrible realities that Apartheid Israel rules all of a now 90% ethnically cleansed Palestine (plus ethnically cleansed parts of Syria and Lebanon), and of its 14.4 million Subjects 6.8 million (47.0%) are Jewish Israelis, 0.4 million (2.8%) are non-Jews and non-Arabs, 2.0 million (13.9%) are Palestinian Israelis (subject to 65 Nazi-style race-based laws), and 5.2 million (36.1%) are Occupied Palestinians living under highly abusive military rule and with zero human rights [1]. A further 8 million Exiled Palestinians are excluded from the land continuously inhabited by their forebears for millennia. Despite a century of a Palestinian Genocide involving killing, deprivation and repeated mass expulsions (800,000 Palestinians expelled in the 1948 Nakba and 400,000 more Arabs expelled in the 1967 Naksa; 2.2 million Indigenous Palestinians killed by violence, 0.1 million, or imposed deprivation, 2.1 million, from WW1 onwards), Indigenous Palestinians still represent 50% of the Subjects of Apartheid Israel in Palestine, but over 72% of the Indigenous Palestinian Subjects of Apartheid Israel are excluded from voting for the government ruling them i.e. they are subject to egregious Apartheid. About 50% of the Occupied Palestinians are children, and about 75% women and children. In 2022 the per capita GDP is a deadly $3,500 for Occupied Palestinians and $55,300 for Israelis [1-3].

The world is existentially threatened by (a) nuclear weapons (a post-nuclear holocaust nuclear winter will wipe out most of Humanity and the Biosphere) [4-6], (b) poverty (7.4 million people, mostly children, already die avoidably each year from imposed deprivation ) [7], and (c) man-made climate change (unless requisite action is taken, 10 billion people will die this century en route to a sustainable human population in 2100 of merely 1 billion) [8, 9]. Indeed one of humanity’s greatest minds, Stephen Hawking, has stated “We see great peril if governments and societies do not take action now to render nuclear weapons obsolete and to prevent further climate change” [10]...

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WHY THE ‘SECOND NAKBA’ GOVERNMENT WANTS TO REMAKE THE ISRAELI STATE

Source: +972 Magazine
https://www.972mag.com/nakba-government-secular-liberal-zionism/

By Meron Rapoport and Ameer Fakhoury
Published December 9, 2022

The far right’s crusade on secular liberalism is provoking mass opposition in Israel, but it cannot be separated from the state's anti-Palestinian mission.

"… one cannot deny that we have arrived at a moment in which all the contradictions inherent to Zionism from its earliest days have become clearer and more consequential than ever."

It is difficult to remember the last time an Israeli government raised such widespread opposition and resistance before it was even sworn in. Incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new, extreme-right coalition has led to dozens of mayors across the country saying they will not cooperate with the ultra-religious, blatantly homophobic Knesset member Avi Maoz, who is slated to lead the unit responsible for extra-curricular classes, and who seems to be gearing up to block educational programs aimed at teaching liberal values, gender equality, and tolerance toward minority groups.

Gadi Eizenkot, the Israeli army’s former chief of staff, has called for mass protests in the streets, as has outgoing prime minister Yair Lapid, who pledged to “protect the courts, the IDF, and the schools.” The head of the Israel Bar Association similarly said the public should “take to the streets” to stop the government from implementing its plans to curb the authority of the courts and to allow politicians to determine judicial appointments. The outgoing chief of staff, Aviv Kochavi, was quoted in closed conversations on Monday that he will not permit any politician — except the defense minister — to appoint senior military officers, nor to move responsibility for the West Bank Border Police away from the military. The chief justice of the Supreme Court, Esther Hayut, said that judges won’t be able to “fulfill their duty” should the independence of the legal system be jeopardized.

As Netanyahu hands out top ministerial portfolios to the most extreme elements of his coalition, the term “civil disobedience” has become a near-battle cry for people who form the beating heart of the Israeli establishment. The seeds of this new resistance were planted not only in response to the written terms of the new coalition agreements, but also as a result of the initiatives that do not appear in print.
While the coalition’s plans cover various issues in Israeli political life, they can be summarized into two main themes: first, handing over all “Palestinian affairs” on both sides of the Green Line to the racist settler right, while promoting annexation and formalized apartheid; and second, enforcing an unabashedly anti-liberal vision of Judaism on the Israeli public while defanging Israel’s already-enfeebled democratic institutions, especially the judiciary.

The attempt to strengthen annexation and apartheid in the occupied territories can immediately be seen in Netanyahu’s consent to giving control of the Civil Administration and the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), which run the day-to-day affairs of millions of Palestinians under occupation, to Bezalel Smotrich, and to reallocating the Border Police to the authority of Itamar Ben Gvir as the new “national security minister.”...

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HOW ISRAEL TARGETS PALESTINIAN SOCIETY THROUGH FAMILY SEPARATION

Source: Middle East Monitor
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20221213-how-israel-targets-palestinian-society-through-family-separation/

By Wafa Aludaini
Published December 13, 2022

"I divorced my wife because I love her and I want my family to enjoy their life," said Abu Snaineh, "yet I know that the occupation will never leave them alone until all Palestinians have been expelled from Jerusalem.”

The decision caused a lot of grief to the whole family.
"It was a severe and very difficult decision, but I had no choice.

Whatever Israel breaks or destroys, though, it will never kill the love in our hearts and the attachment to our homeland.”

The Israeli occupation state makes every effort to disrupt and break up the social fabric of Palestinian communities, leading to domestic disorder. Sundry procedures have been implemented curbing the ability of separated Palestinian families to reunite. Despite this, Israel fails to break the spirit of the steadfast Palestinians who are committed to defending their inalienable rights.

The occupation state often interferes in the lives of the spouses of people who it is targeting for one reason or another. Forcing couples to divorce is a common violation against international law, yet despite the gravity of such a move and the effect on Palestinian society, it is rarely, if ever, reported in the media.

Former Palestinian prisoner Shu'aib Abu Snaineh was forced by the Israeli occupation authorities to divorce his wife so that she could enjoy her life in occupied Jerusalem without being harassed continuously. Abu Snaineh, 55, was freed from prison and although he comes from occupied Jerusalem, he was "deported" to the Gaza Strip. His wife was prevented from joining him there. The occupation state, he says, has made his life a "living hell" since his release.

"My wife was not allowed to stay for more than three months with me here in Gaza, because if she stayed longer then she would lose her rights as a citizen of Jerusalem," he explained. Every time she went back to Jerusalem from Gaza she faced humiliating and difficult journeys through Israeli checkpoints and crossings. When she gave birth in a Jerusalem hospital, the Israeli authorities refused to issue a birth certificate for her baby boy. The family spent 13 months in expensive legal action before a certificate was issued...

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