Tuesday, August 10, 2010
[The following, by Zach, is crossposted from Huffington Post Monitor.]
The odious Ahmed "One State" Moor is back again on the Huffington Post. This time his calls to destroy the Jewish state (and the Jewish state alone) are longer and louder than ever before. In his latest article, "Israel Cannot Be Both Jewish And Democratic," he not only clearly demonstrates his profound hatred for "Zionism" and Israel but also demonstrates his ignorance on both of those topics. Not that I am entirely surprised, given that he is based in Lebanon and apparently has devoted his life to defaming Israel in any way he can.
Because this article is so revealing about the thought processes I'm going to cover the whole thing but in the interests of time I'll start with this paragraph and write about the rest tomorrow morning:
"Zionism -- the idea that Jewish people ought to have a Jewish state in mandate Palestine -- is anachronistic in the 21st century. The idea that non-Jews who have lived on the land for generations before the creation of the state of Israel should be relegated to second-class citizenship because they're not Jewish is illiberal. It's also racist."
So many responses...
1. Why is it "racist" for Jewish people to want to have a Jewish state but not racist for Palestinian Arabs to want a Palestinian state? What is the difference between those groups beside their name and religion? This is the one question that no anti-Zionist will be able to answer, because it means either endorsing a double standard against the Jews or admitting his or her hypocrisy.
2. Mr. Moor also does a great job setting up a strawman, another typical anti-Zionist tactic. Just because Israel is a Jewish state does not mean that non-Jews will have "second-class citizenship." Italy was not created for Germans to live there but Germans immigrants enjoy the same rights. In fact according to Jimmy Carter, both Jews and non-Jews enjoy equal rights in Israel. Is Mr. Moor really going to claim he knows the situation better than Jimmy Carter?
3. Mr. Moor also misconstrues the history. The Palestinians have not lived on that land for "millennia," not even according to themselves. There is evidence that a large percentage of them are recent immigrants, and in testimony before the Anglo-American Committee in 1946, for example, they claimed a connection to Palestine of more than 1,000 years, dating back no further than the conquest of Muhammad's followers in the 7th century.
4. Finally, as for the claim that Zionism is "illiberal," why don't we ask someone who doesn't have a rabid hatred of Israel and everything it stands for?
Tune in tomorrow. I'm just getting started.
Why is it racist for Euro Christians to have a Euro Christian state, but it is not racist for Jews to have a Jewish state?
One wonders.
There has already been a "one-state" solution for 62 years; it is called Israel, in which both its Jewish and Arab citizens have equal rights! If some Palestinians don't want a state of their own, they are not obligated to have one; they, like Somalis, can remain stateless and live a state in anarchy. But a recent poll shows that the majority of Palestinians (86%) do want their own state and peace with Israel.
If Mr. Moor, in the words of the late Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban, wants to "continue to miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity," for a Palestinian state, he may do so, but he will not take the majority of Palestinians with him. Someday, he like the minority of "rejectionists," will wind up on the ash heap of history, as Israelis and Palestinians settle on a "two-state" solution and peace!
Lame rebuttal. Zionism as practiced by Israel is racist. And while there may be some recent arrivals Palestinians have been living in the region since before there was an ancient Israel. Why do European Jews possess a claim more entitling upon Palestinian lands than the Palestinians themselves? It’s absurd on its face. And quite obviously the Palestinians are not treated equally by anyone’s appreciation. There are separate communities built upon stolen lands connected by Israeli use only roads, and sadly much of it paid for with American aid. Clearly might makes right in the Jewish mind as they forcibly evict Palestinians from lands that have been in their families since biblical times to build a wall for security to protect the very same communities illegally built upon stolen lands.
Brushtackey,
Paleswinianism is Racism.
Islamofascism is Racism.
How many Muslims live in Israel?
How many Jews live in Gaza?
How many Jews live in Ramallah?
How many Jews live in Saudi Arabia?
How many NON-Muslims visit Mecca every year?
Here is a picture of a road sign "welcoming" Infidels to Mecca/Makkah.
http://pajamasmedia.com/wp-content/themes/default/images/rogerkimball/Tourist_Traps-Mecca.jpg
How many NON-Muslims are citizens of Saudi Arabia?
Which people lived in Israel first? Jews or Muslims?
Why did Hindu majority India almost have a nuclear war with Muslim majority Pakistan, over a land dispute "Kashmir"?
Who dynamited the two 1,500 year old Buddahs of Bamiyan Afghanistan - displaying their "respect" for non-Muslim religions?
Who murdered 40+ Iraqis just a few days ago?
Who mutilated the face of of the Afghani girl pictured on the cover of the 8/4/10 Time magazine?
http://colorlines.com/assets_c/2010/08/time_cover_0809-thumb-640xauto-486.jpg
Do Muslims kill fellow Muslims?
Who don't Muslims hate?