The Nature of the State of Israel (The Excluding of Non-Jews From Society) ....
Doc Tavish
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The Nature of the State of Israel
From the Introduction to Israel - An Apartheid State, by Uri Davis,
Zed Books, London and New Jersey, 1987
(This sub-chapter is entitled in the original: Israel and Palestinian
Return)
Israel was established as a Jewish state. It was not intended as a
state for all of its citizens, Jews and non-Jews alike. Rather, it was
primarily envisaged as a state for Jews, that is, a state of which
every Jewish individual throughout the world would be a potential
citizen. Thus, when the state was unilaterally established on 15 May
1948, it became imperative for its legislative body, the Knesset, to
define in law those persons who would qualify as actual or potential
citizens, and those who would be excluded - that is, non-Jews in
general, and Palestinian Arabs in particular. This was done without
undue delay. In 1950 the Israeli Knesset passed two laws: the Law of
Return, defining the boundaries of inclusion ('every Jew has the right
to immigrate into the country') and the Absentee Property Law,
defining the boundaries of exclusion ('absentee'). Under these laws,
every Jew throughout the world is legally entitled to become a citizen
of the state of Israel upon immigration into the country, while some
two million people, the 1948 Palestinian Arabs and their descendants,
who were exiled as a consequence of the 1948-9 and the 1967 wars, are
denied the rights of citizenship. Nevertheless, their right of return
is universally recognized in international law and in repeated UN
resolutions (beginning with Resolution 194 (III), 11 December 1948).
They clearly exist. Yet, they are defined in Israeli law as
'non-existent', and as 'absentees', and they are excluded by law from
actual or potential citizenship in the Jewish state.
The Law of Return (1950) is the cornerstone of the Israeli Nationality
Law (1952). The details of the Law of Return (1950), the Absentee
Property Law (1950), the Israeli Nationality Law (1952), and the legal
mechanisms of exclusion that are codified in this body of legislation
will be discussed in detail [in the following chapters]. It is
important to note here, however, that the Israeli Knesset, having
elevated the attribute of 'being Jewish' to the status of a legally
determining principle of exclusion from, or inclusion in, the
constituency of actual or potential citizens of the state of Israel,
has brought into sharp focus the crisis of modern secular Jewish
identity which the Zionist movement claimed to have solved. Under this
body of legislation, as amended over the past three and half decades,
it is not only the Palestinian non-Jew - first and foremost the
Palestinian Arab 'absentee' - who is excluded from his or her right to
undisputed citizenship. Large categories of Jews are similarly
excluded: Jewish bastards, Jewish persons born to non-Jewish mothers,
Jewish persons born to Jewish mothers who converted to another
religion, and non-Jews converted to Judaism by conservative or reform
rabbis (only the Jewish orthodox conversion procedure is effectively
recognized in Israel. The question of 'who is a Jew' has bedevilled
Israeli political practice and legislation since the passage of the
Law or Return in 1950. As Akiva Orr noted:
First, Zionism did not believe in the existence of God; the movement
was secular, not religious...Zionism insisted that suffering in exile
was a result of a minority status, not of sin. Zionism preached that
the Jews must act on their own behalf to create their state in Zion,
rather than wait till God did it for them. Finally, Zionism argued
that when Jewish independence was resurrected the Jews would become 'a
nation like all other nations' or 'normalized' as some put it (Orr,
The unJewish State, p.6)
And yet, by every conventional criterion, the state of Israel is a
theocracy. Civil marriage is not permitted under Israeli law, and
marriage can be legally consecrated only by Rabbinical, Church or
Shari'a courts. The same applies to divorce. Under Israeli law
(Jurisdiction of Rabbinical Courts (Marriage and Divorce), 1953),
religious courts are state courts and the religious judiciary
(Rabbinical, Church and Shari'a) are paid by the state.
Political practice and legislation have been similarly bedevilled by
the question of 'who is an Israeli' in the state of Israel. Clearly,
the term 'Israeli' and 'Jew' are not coterminous. Seven hundred
thousand of the over four million citizens of the state of Israel
(some 17 percent) are non-Jewish. They are Palestinian Arabs, the
descendants of the remnants of the Palestinian people who have
remained in Palestine under Israeli rule (some 150,000 in 1948-9).
Much of this volume will be devoted to the analysis and explication of
the political and legal mechanisms in terms of which the state of
Israel confers a priori exclusive and privileged access to national
resources and services on its Jewish citizens, to the exclusion of its
non-Jewish, mainly Palestinian Arab, citizens.
In this context, however, it is necessary to remember that Israeli
legislation is not directed against those non-Jews who are legally
incorporated, albeit in terms of extreme discrimination, into the
Israeli body politic as citizens of the Jewish state. Rather, the most
damaging manifestation of Israeli legislation is directed against
those non-Jews who are legally excluded as 'absentees' from the body
of Israeli polity: two million Palestinian Arab displaced persons,
conventionally referred to as 'refugees'.
Thus, each Israeli Jew has a shadow: the Palestinian Arab refugee of
1948. Israeli Jewish homes are built on the ruins of their homes.
Israeli Jews cultivate their land.
The Palestinian Arab refugee of 1948 is today a soldier in the
Palestine Liberation Army: a fida'i. All human beings will rebel, must
rebel, in such circumstances, to reconstitute their full human
existence, to reclaim their rights, if necessary by armed struggle,
inside every part of the homeland from which they have been excluded.
And in this struggle the Palestinian Arab deserves our full moral and
material support.
(COMPLETE use link above for verifiaction purposes.)
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More on Jewish attitudes toward non-Jews:
From B'nai B'rith (Mother of ADL):
http://bnaibrith.org/ijm/articles/wine/index.html
Vineyard Vanguard:
The new taste of a well-aged tradition
By Joseph Berkofsky
[ ... ] (Excerpt used for "educational" purposes]
Like all other kosher food or drink, kosher wine cannot contain any
unkosher animal or fish products; to be kosher for Passover, it must
also not come in contact with any leavened grains.
But the law regarding wine extracts another, more pressing, demand: It
cannot be handled by non-Jews.
The roots of this law reach back to the ancient Land of Israel where,
to prevent Jews from drinking wines used in idol worship, Jewish law
forbade Jews to touch wine that had been moved in an open vessel by
non-Jews, since it was likely used as a wave offering. The rabbis
later went further in battling assimilation, declaring any wine
handled by a non-Jew unfit to drink.
Today, in order to ensure that a wine meets all the kashrut
requirements, the entire winemaking process from grape-crushing to
bottling is overseen by trained, Sabbath-observant Jews, or
mashgichim, who handle all flow of the wine. And, as Ben Welton, a
mashgiach for St. Supéry and others, can attest, this kind of kosher
supervision can mean as much toil as Torah.
With help from nearby non-Jewish winery workers, mashgichim operate
cranes to unload the grapes from trucks after the fall harvest. They
run the crushers which break the grapes, and pipe the crushed grapes
and juice into steel tanks. And they oversee the rest of the process
from fermentation, when yeast converts the grape's sugar into alcohol,
to filtering the wine and moving it into oak barrels to be aged.
At times, says Welton, this is dizzying work - literally. Not too long
ago, he recalls, he had to dig heavy heaps of stems from a huge
fermentation tank at St. Supéry - while wearing a lifeline to show
that he was not inhaling too much alcohol vapor.
Peak season for mashgichim like Welton is between August and January,
when most of the winemaking occurs. And, although a mashgiach need not
be on premises other than when the wine is being moved through the
process, mashgichim will occassionally return to inspect the wine as
it ages to ensure that it has not been touched by non-Jews.
But those wineries that wish to involve non-Jews in the process can
tap into a Talmudic ruling that makes this possible.
Rabbinic authorities decreed that wine, even if touched by non-Jews,
was fit for Jewish use so long as it was mevushal, or cooked. The idea
was, in part, that cooked wine is far less palatable and no one would
want to use it.
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John 4:6-9 (English-RSV)
6 Jacob's well was there, and so Jesus, wearied as he was with his
journey, sat down beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.
7 There came a woman of Samar'ia to draw water. Jesus said to her,
"Give me a drink."
8 For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
9 The Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask a
drink of me, a woman of Samar'ia?" For Jews have no dealings with
Samaritans.
John 18:28,29 (English-RSV)
28 Then they led Jesus from the house of Ca'iaphas to the praetorium.
It was early. They themselves did not enter the praetorium, so that
they might not be defiled, but might eat the passover.
[Please do notice: "They themselves did not enter the praetorium, so
that they might not be defiled..." It looks to me as if the Jews have
a cob up their ass when it comes to Gentiles! Notice, though, that
they thought well enough of Pilate to get him to actually do their
dirty work. Come to think of it Jews haven't changed one bit! They
still get duped Gentiles to do their dirty work for them!]
29 So Pilate went out to them and said, "What accusation do you bring
against this man?"
[Pilate had to go out to them! What disrespect! Now do you understand
why people dislike Jews? It's easy!]
Acts 10:28 (English-RSV)
The Apostle Peter said: "You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a
Jew to associate with or to visit any one of another nation; but God
has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean."
Acts 10:28 (NIV)
[The Apostle Peter] He said to them: "You are well aware that it is
against our law for a Jew to associate with a Gentile or visit him.
But God has shown me that I should not call any man impure or
unclean."
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Ezra 9:1,2,12 (English-RSV)
1 After these things had been done, the officials approached me and
said, "The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not
separated themselves from the peoples of the lands with their
abominations, from the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Per'izzites, the
Jeb'usites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the
Amorites.
2 For they have taken some of their daughters to be wives for
themselves and for their sons; so that the holy race has mixed itself
with the peoples of the lands. And in this faithlessness the hand of
the officials and chief men has been foremost."
12 Therefore give not your daughters to their sons, neither take their
daughters for your sons, and never seek their peace or prosperity,
that you may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for
an inheritance to your children for ever.'
[Notice the passage: "....never seek their peace or prosperity, that
you may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an
inheritance to your children for ever." Don't ever forget this!]
Ezra 10:2,3,10,11,44 (English-RSV)
2 And Shecani'ah the son of Jehi'el, of the sons of Elam, addressed
Ezra: "We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign
women from the peoples of the land, but even now there is hope for
Israel in spite of this.
3 Therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all these
wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of
those who tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done
according to the law.
10 And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, "You have trespassed
and married foreign women, and so increased the guilt of Israel.
11 Now then make confession to the LORD the God of your fathers, and
do his will; separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from
the foreign wives."
44 All these had married foreign women, and they put them away with
their children.
[They literally told their Gentile wives and their children
to "get lost!"]
If you don't believe Jewry has long wanted to be a Master Race and is
concerned with their geneaology and family tree then read this:
Nehemiah 7:5,6,7,61-65 (English-RSV)
5 Then God put it into my mind to assemble the nobles and the
officials and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. And I found the
book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found
written in it:
6 These were the people of the province who came up out of the
captivity of those exiles whom Nebuchadnez'zar the king of Babylon had
carried into exile; they returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his
town.
7 They came with Zerub'babel, Jeshua, Nehemi'ah, Azari'ah, Raami'ah,
Naham'ani, Mor'decai, Bilshan, Mis'pereth, Bigva'i, Nehum, Ba'anah.
The number of the men of the people of Israel: { a real long list of
Jews and their offspring up to verses 61}
61 The following were those who came up from Tel-me'lah, Tel-har'sha,
Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but they could not prove their fathers'
houses nor their descent, whether they belonged to Israel:
62 the sons of Delai'ah, the sons of Tobi'ah, the sons of Neko'da, six
hundred and forty-two.
63 Also, of the priests: the sons of Hobai'ah, the sons of Hakkoz, the
sons of Barzil'lai (who had taken a wife of the daughters of
Barzil'lai the Gileadite and was called by their name).
64 These sought their registration among those enrolled in the
genealogies, but it was not found there, so they were excluded from
the priesthood as unclean;
65 the governor told them that they were not to partake of the most
holy food, until a priest with Urim and Thummim should arise.
[Read verses 64 & 65 and see that Jews were very much into racism,
heritage and preserving their way! Anyone else that wants the same is
a "racial bigot!"]
Here are examples of Jews today referring to Gentiles as various forms
of trash:
Being called "trash" or "trashie" or "trailer park trash" see:
http://x1.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=312257803&CONTEXT=885169473.484966655&hitnum=2
http://x1.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=312766838&CONTEXT=885169473.484966655&hitnum=4