No, in 1948 these Russian Jews made the worst real estate deal in world history (if you can call it that) and now expect the U.S. government (and John Q. Taxpayer) to PAY FOR IT!!! - to keep giving the Israeli government over four billion dollars a year - that's $4,000,000,000 with a "b" - each and every year. They also expect America's sons & daughters, fathers and mothers to go fight, kill and die for their Israeli cause; which is of course,

a) Zionist Expansionism; Israelis are all about expanding their territorial borders, that's why Israel continues to illegally occupy the Palestinian territories until this day. The Israeli government insists their Israeli military occupation of the Palestinian territories, a "defense posture."

b) create and maintain a state of racial-purity inside Israel's borders;

c) inhibit Islamic technological growth in order to delay angry Islamics from "building a bomb" and using it on Israel. The preferred technique is the Israeli hijacking of the U.S. Congress and the U.S. military to kill, maim, befriend and occupy Israel's enemies.

It's a safe bet to say Israel will never "unpiss" the Arabs; after all, in 1948 Israel did indeed "displace" hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs from their homeland into tent cities, not to mention the illegal Israeli military occupation of the Palestinian territories and the decades of incredible murder, abuse and mayhem exacted upon the Palestinian people by the IDF and the Israel government;

however, Hamas AND the Palestinian Authority has offered to end this conflict with Israel if Israel will withdraw to the 1967 borders and from East Jerusalem, and recognize Palestinians Right-of-Return.

Let's END "the War On Palestinians!!"

Someone once asked, "Do Jews run the media?" Now what ever gave you that idea?

The answer can be found in the stunning absence of U.S. news stories about Hamas and the Palestinian Authority offering to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict if Israel will comply with U.S. Resolution 242: withdraw to the 1967 borders and from East Jerusalem and recognize Palestinian's Right-of-Return. The only show I know of covering this fact was the Charlie Rose show, who interviewed Hamas political bureau leader, Khaled Meshaal on May 28th, 2010: Video here:

KHALED MESHAAL: If Israel withdraws to the borders of 1967, and from East Jerusalem, that will become the capital of the Palestinian state with the right of self -- with the right of return for the refugees and with a Palestinian state with real sovereignty on the land and on the borders and on the checkpoints.

Will there be "Peace In The Middle East?"  It's up to the invading, occupying army Israel: Do they want to keep their foot on the neck of Palestinians on 24/7 military lockdown, killing, wounding and abusing Palestinian men, women and children in the Palestinian streets? Does Israel really want to ignore the rest of the world calling for Israel to STOP abusing and killing Palestinians, and give Palestinians their right-of-return and equal rights for all? That's why I named this website, israelvworld.com.

Is that such an extreme thought? Is "One State For All, Equal Rights For All"  such a radical idea?

EDITOR'S NOTE TO AMERICAN VOTERS: It is essential for the American voter to recognize the reality that as long as you keep voting for politicians who continue to vote YES on the annual Congressional multi-billion dollar aid package to Israel, that's how long America will continue to be the target of Islamic terrorism. As long as our U.S. Congress continues to fund and arm Israel's four decade+ long illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories, that's how long Americans will continue to be the target of Islamic terrorism. Each and every time an Israeli soldier kills a Palestinian with a weapon that has "Made In The USA" stamped on the side of it, the Islamic world will blame us. In fact, it's against our own laws for our government to fund and arm any nation who utilizes our weapons in an offensive manner/capacity. Our own State Dept. has already sanctioned Israel for violating the U.S. Arms Export Control Act.

Does Israel have a right to exist? Under current international law, yes. It is this editor's opinion that if there ever was a case to be made for disbandment and revocation of a nation's statehood, Israel is the supreme, ideal model example. If there was ever a nation whose known conduct has been so egregious and harmful that it warranted a review of that nation's statehood status, Israel is the case. In this instance, the harm Israel has caused has been so great the int'l community should take action to end the Israeli military occupation of the Palestinian territories and enforce Palestinian's legal, lawful Right-of-Return to their own homeland. The int'l community should demand Israel to comply with 1967 U.N. Resolution 242 and withdraw to the 1967 borders and honor Palestinians' Right-of-Return.

If the Israeli government were acting in good faith, they would make accommodations toward these ends; but no, instead the Israeli government absolutely believes that the best defense is a good offense; this is the pervasive mentality that drives Israeli leaders to continue to occupy the illegal settlements and conduct military operations non-stop in the streets of Palestine.

If the world ever held Israel to full account for their crimes and transgressions against the Palestinian people and revoked Israel's statehood status, it is this editor's opinion the Israeli government would hold the entire world hostage with their illegal nuclear arsenal. Israel is above the law and has enough illegal nukes to destroy this planet several times over. Israel already has contingency plans in place to nuke Europe. To this day, Israel refuses to join nuclear-armed nations of the world in signing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Israel is truly the defacto, "rogue state."

 

Ahmed Moor is a Palestinian-American freelance journalist living in Beirut. After graduating from university in 2006, he spent several years in New York before moving back to the Middle East. He was born in the Gaza Strip, Palestine.

Benjamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama have spent a great deal of energy trying to forestall any discussion of Israel's Jewish character and what that actually means. The Israelis want the feckless and illegitimate Palestinian Authority head, Mahmoud Abbas, to affirm Israel's "right to exist as the Jewish state." But that raises the question: Does Israel have a right to continue as a race-exclusive state?

Israel is the Jewish state for the Jewish people. It came to be through an act of ethnic cleansing -- creating the world's most protracted refugee crisis in the process. Today, the Jewish state is home to about 1.5 million non-Jews. To be a non-Jew in the Jewish state is to be a second-class citizen. The ideology that underpins the existence of the Jewish state -- Zionism -- is a racist doctrine.

Zionism is the belief that Jewish people ought to be privileged in Palestine/Israel solely because of their race. Moreover, non-Jewish indigenous people -- the Palestinians -- must be forced off the land so that it can be settled by Jews. That's what happened in 1948 and that's what's happening today in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Many liberal Zionists don't like to acknowledge it, but the process that yielded the land west of the green line was just as wrong as anything the setters have done. Its scale was also several magnitudes larger.

I don't believe that militia that purged my people from their lands to create a racially pure Jewish state had a right to do so. I don't believe that the Jewish state has a right to exclude me from living as an equal citizen on the lands of my forefathers. I have a right to exist in Be'er Sheeva -- that's where my family is from. But, I am barred from doing so because I am not Jewish.

And that's really what all of this is about. I believe strongly that all people are equal, irrespective of race or religion. Israel was founded on just the opposite view. Most people agree that no state that takes racial supremacy as its foundational germ has a right to resist reform. So why is Israel the exception? Well, it's not.

It's astonishing that this is a controversial view in the 21st century. It's surely a feat of Zionist historicizing that otherwise intelligent and moral people in the West continuously affirm the "right of Israel to exist as the Jewish state." The racism inherent in this statement -- Jewish privilege exists through ethnic cleansing and apartheid -- is appalling. Yet, people uncritically affirm that "right."

Frankly, it is perverse and absurd to ask a brutalized people, a people who have been ethnically cleansed from their homes at the ends of European Zionist guns, to affirm the "right of the Jewish state to exist."

Barack Obama recently told the UN General Assembly that "Israel's existence should not be subject for debate." The American president should be reminded that as Leader of the Free World, his mandate ends with Palestine; the Palestinians are not free. Furthermore, as the principal enabler of Jewish Likudik policies, Obama is hardly a disinterested party to the conflict. He has a vested interest in a robust Israeli occupation. The Israel lobby threatens to derail his bid for reelection, and the lobby endorses Jewish privilege. That's how Obama ends up stumping for a racist state at the UN.

The existence of colonial entities is always subject for debate, and Obama should understand that. When he took the Oval office, he famously returned the bust of Winston Churchill to the British authorities. He was right to do so. Churchill was a rabid colonialist and was Prime Minister when Britain suppressed the Kenyan Mau Mau rebellion. Obama's grandfather was tortured by the colonial British authorities for resisting colonialism and fighting for his freedom.

The elder Obama had it right. Freedom is a human prerogative which propels people to resist overwhelming power, even in the face of torture. One wonders how the grandfather would react to see his grandson come down so forcefully on the side of racial oppression and colonialism.

It is time for the world to reject Zionism and Jewish privilege in Palestine/Israel. It is time for all the people in Palestine/Israel to live as equals. It worked in South Africa, and it has to work there.

I will never affirm the right of a Jewish person to purge my grandparents from their lands for being the wrong race. But I will work with that Jewish person's grandchild to create a non-racist, egalitarian future for all of us. What I'm talking about is the one-state solution, where all the people of Palestine/Israel live as equals under the law. Is that really so controversial?