Opuscula Member of Knesset Victim of "apartheid" Does not compute

 

IF ISRAEL IS AN "APARTHEID' STATE, how it is that it has non-Jews in its government?

One of the "victims of Israeli apartheid" - Member of Knesset (MK) Hanin Zoabi - is to speak at a Columbia University panel on: "Israel, Racism and Apartheid."

The fact that she is a member of the country's governing body - despite promoting anarchy - makes a lie of any claims that Israel is an "apartheid" state.

Not by race, not by religion, not even by politics.

What about the fence?

If the fence separating terrorists in the Palestine Authority areas makes Israel an "apartheid" state, then the U.S., with its fence to try to keep out Mexicans - those with weapons and drugs and those who simply want more money in their jeans - is an "apartheid" state.

What about jobs?

My daughter's apartment building in Yavne - distant from any PA-controlled area, was built largely by workers from the PA-controlled areas who legally enter Israel each day to earn wages far above those they can earn at home. (Israel no longer is the "Zionist state" envisioned by the pioneers of the first and second aliyot where Jews did all the jobs; now low paying, hard labor jobs go to imported workers - some from the PA-controlled areas, others from Pacific rim countries. I think that is bad for Israel, but the Israeli Jew of today simply won't do the work.)

What about the military?

In order to "get ahead" in a job, a male must have served in the Israel Defense Force (IDF). If he was an officer, so much the better. There ARE a few Arabs - Muslims and Christians - in the IDF; there are many Druze in the IDF, a few making general grade. Unfortunately, most Muslim Arab men avoid the IDF - unlike a Jewish Israeli, they are not drafted into the IDF. These same Muslim Arab men also refuse national service (in lieu of military service) EVEN IN THEIR OWN COMMUNITIES!

What about education?

Look at MK Zoabi's CV: She studied philosophy and psychology at the University of Haifa, earning a Bachelors of Arts, and received a Masters of Arts in communications from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She was the first Arab citizen of Israel to graduate in media studies, and established the first media classes in Arab schools. She also worked as a mathematics teacher and worked as a school inspector for the Israeli Ministry of Education. (Source: Haneen Zoabi biography also Knesset overview)

Muslim students dominate Haifa University and are represented in ALL Israeli universities and scientific institutions.

What about trade?

When Hamas in Gaza stops firing missiles at Israeli civilian targets, the border is opened and goods flow IN BOTH DIRECTIONS - Gaza farmers ship produce to Israel and the PA.

What about travel?

Israeli Arabs are limited in their international travels only by the countries that accept Israeli travel documents. Arabs from PA-controlled areas routinely get permission to enter Israel to travel internationally via Israel's main airport or to Jordan via the Allenby/King Hussein Bridge. Israeli Arabs DO visit countries that are sworn to Israel's destruction, but they pay a price on their return (interrogation by Israeli security forces). (Consider the reception an American citizen gets when returning to the States from North Korea or Iran. No difference.)

What about medical care?

There is NO distinction made between an Israeli Jew and an Israeli Arab in Israeli public hospitals. (First hand experience.) Muslims from the PA-controlled territory and Hamas-controlled Gaza are treated in Israeli hospitals and allowed to return home unmolested. The PA's dictator's mother was recently treated in an Israeli hospital. Citizens of neighboring countries - notably Lebanon and Syria - are routinely treated at Israeli hospitals DESPITE their countries being in a state of war with Israel.

UNLIKE THE PA-CONTROLLED AREAS there are NO restrictions on where anyone can live in Israel. Muslims do tend to congregate in their own communities, just as almost all groups of people with common interests; but they are NOT restricted to any area. Jews are not welcome in PA-controlled areas and the PA's leadership has repeatedly vowed that a Palestinian state would be free of Jews.

 

DON'T TELL ME
ISRAEL IS AN
"APARTHEID" STATE.

 

Apartheid

Apartheid (Afrikaans pronunciation: [ɐˈpartɦɛit]; an Afrikaans word meaning "the state of being apart", literally "apart-hood") was a system of racial segregation in South Africa enforced through legislation by the National Party (NP), the governing party from 1948 to 1994. Under apartheid, the rights, associations, and movements of the majority black inhabitants and other ethnic groups were curtailed and Afrikaner minority rule was maintained. Apartheid was developed after World War II by the Afrikaner-dominated National Party and Broederbond organizations. The ideology was also enforced in South West Africa, which was administered by South Africa under a League of Nations mandate (revoked in 1966 via United Nations Resolution 2145),until it gained independence as Namibia in 1990. By extension, the term is currently used for forms of systematic segregation, established by the state authority in a country, against the social and civil rights of a certain group of citizens, due to ethnic prejudices.

Only in Israel But there is A difference

 

ACCORDING TO AN ISRAEL HaYom ARTICLE, The Supreme Court on Tuesday reversed the Central Elections Committee's decision to disqualify MK Hanin Zoabi (Joint Arab List) and far-right ‎activist Baruch Marzel (Yahad Haam Itanu) over their alleged incitement and racism.

One of the two wants to destroy Israel and turn it into "Greater Palestine" and has committed what in any other country would be considered treason.

The other candidate would like Israel to be "Arab-free."

The Israeli press tosses them into the same basket with the label "Extremists."

COWARDLY COURT

The article continues:

In what was an 8-1 decision, the court said Zoabi and Marzel would be eligible to run in the upcoming election despite their controversial conduct, although it did not elaborate on the specific allegations against them. In the majority opinion it was explained that in light of the constrained timetable --- with elections are less than a month away -- the rationale for the decision would be made available at a later date. (Emphasis mine.)

The Central Elections Committee, which unsuccessfully again tried to bar Zoabi from running - and was, once again, deterred by the Supremes - wanted to prevent Zioabi's candidacy for having voiced outspoken support for an armed struggle against Israel, noting that her behavior was a form of sedition and that she posed a threat to the state.

Zoabi was aboard the Mavi Marmara bringing weapons to Gaza and encouraged those aboard to resist Israeli military who ordered the ship to stop and be searched.

According to the Times of Israel, Zoabi

  *was under investigation for saying that the killers of three Israeli teens in June were not terrorists. She is also under investigation for accosting a police officer in Nazareth

  * Zoabi, who participated in the 2010 flotilla sail to Gaza organized by the Islamic IHH group in Turkey, recently angered right-wing lawmakers with articles she penned that they interpreted as advice to Hamas on how to defeat Israel and as a call for violence against Israel.

All Ms. Zoabi wants to do is destroy Israel and send it back to its pre-1948 status.

ON THE OTHER HAND, Israel HaYom reports,

The Coalition against Racism in Israel criticized the court's decision to greenlight Marzel's candidacy. "Unfortunately, the Supreme Court paved the way for (Rabbi Meir) Kahane to return to the Knesset," the groups said in a statement, referring to the leader of the Kach party who was assassinated in 1990. "Marzel has stated that he no longer subscribes to Kach's ideology but these declarations are nothing more than lip service. We believe the Israeli public will vote against racism and in favor of democracy, " the statement continued.

According to Wikipedia,

Baruch Meir Marzel is an Israeli politician. Marzel, an American-born Orthodox Jew, lives in the Jewish community of Hebron in Tel Rumeida with his wife and nine children. He was the leader of the far right-oriented Jewish National Front party. He is now a member of Otzma Yehudit. He claims he was the "right hand man" of assassinated Rabbi Meir Kahane, acting as spokesman for the American rabbi's Kach organization for ten years until it was outlawed in Israel and the US as a terrorist organization. The mainstream Israeli press regularly describes him as an "extreme right-wing activist". The "main stream" Israeli press is not identified.

Strange bedfellows before the Supremes,