Saturday, August 19, 2017

Destroy a state, not build one - Dr. Reuven Berko




by Dr. Reuven Berko

Israel erred when it accepted Umm al-Fahm from Jordan in 1949 • Proof of that lies in a 2006 manifesto from the Israeli Arab leadership and the ongoing murderous ideology of the city's native son, Raed Salah of the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement.



Sheikh Raed Salah of the outlawed Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement
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Photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch


Sheikh Raed Salah of the Islamic Movement, whose nerve center is in the city of Umm al-Fahm in northern Israel, was arrested this week for the umpteenth time after inciting to bloodshed at Al-Aqsa mosque. This activity, alongside the subversiveness of many senior members of the Joint Arab Party, threw a spotlight on the city's central role as a hotbed of terrorists and Islamic State recruits, most of whom belong to the Jabarin clan -- three members of which were responsible for the murder of two Border Police officers at Al Aqsa on July 14. 

There is no difference between Salah's movement and other Islamist terrorist organizations throughout the world. They all operate according to the Muslim Brotherhood's interpretation of Islam, and their message is clear: slaughtering minorities, Jews, and Christians; rape; and the destruction of mosques and churches. Salah's operational code called for the Islamic State model to move from Raqqa in Syria to Israel; Umm al-Fahm was supposed to become an isolated military city from which offenses were launched; and Jerusalem was supposed to look like the ruined Damascus. We got a glance of that scenario at the funerals of the Al-Aqsa murders, and from the terrorists and Islamic State volunteers from Umm al-Fahm who were raised on the diet of violence fed to them by Salah and his people. 

One of the main purposes of the nation-state bill is to prevent the democracy being exploited for purposes of subversiveness and incitement, which come both from the Islamists and from the political wing of the Israeli Arab leadership. The bill aims to protect the identity of the country and protect it from those who hate it. 

As a representative of those who seek to erase Israel from the regional map and make it into another Palestine like the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and Jordan, MK Yousef Jabareen from Umm al-Fahm has taken a stance against the bill. In an orderly legal document, MK Jabarin argued that "the bill increases inequality between the [Jewish and Arab] populations, and subjugates the Arab minority to the interests of the Jewish majority and ignores the ties of the Palestinian people to the homeland of their birth. The bill throws the legitimacy of Israel as a democracy into question in Israel and abroad." 

It turns out that Jabarin and his colleagues want to establish a "Palestine" that is "clean" of Jews in Judea and Samaria, but demand that Israel forgo its symbols, its flag, its menorah emblem and its national Jewish holidays and become a state "of all its citizens." His argument is based on U.N. Resolution 181, which addresses the establishment of two states, one Arab and one Jewish. According to Jabarin, a two-state constitution is supposed to "give every member of the opposing minority equal rights and protection under the law." But according to that citation, the equality applies only to "every person" and not to giving legitimacy to isolationist organization in the other state, as his hostile belief system calls to do. 

Indeed, "The Future Vision of the Palestinian Arabs in Israel" manifesto of 2006, brought to us by the National Committee for the Heads of the Arab Local Authorities in Israel, and whose legal chapter Jabareen wrote, demands "isolation as a group, a nation, autonomy, Palestinian in every aspect of life in the state," as well as a demand for enforced equality and an influence on the main body of government in Israel and its institutions, far beyond their demographic representation. 

You have to read it to believe it 

The arguments in the "Future Vision" and Jabareen's letter are worse than the demands themselves. You need to read them to believe them: they are based on "the Arabs of Israel being a 'native' minority to be protected, and should benefit from affirmative action," given the perception that "the Palestinian Arabs of Israel are the landlords and the Jews who invaded are the result of Western colonialism," as well as "the Jews forced a Jewish character on the state and prevented the natives, who are oppressed and who hold the true rights, from being able to conduct popular activity and a public struggle." 

And that's not all: "Israeli citizenship was forced on the Arabs to keep them oppressed," and "Israel intentionally prevents physical and spiritual national contact with Palestinians in the territories, enforces a culture of occupation, and treats the Arabs like a minority ethnic group and not as a single national Arab minority." Therefore, Jabareen concludes, "the Arab Israeli leadership refuses a Jewish, democratic Israel, as a wall that keeps Arabs from achieving equality." 

The documents also reject the nation-state bill and call to "rebuild Israel's political, social, and economic institutions by turning into an ordered democracy." The change, the documents say, will ensure "that both nation groups in the state will be balanced partners in government," and from a "balanced place at the table, the Jews will divide resources, land, and decision making and national symbols with the national Palestinian elected body, including a mutual veto." Under this arrangement, the Palestinians would be paid reparations, have equal rights to move to Israel, the "domestic refugees" would be able to return to their cities and villages, and the Muslim Waqf and the Christian and Muslim holy sites will be under the exclusive control of the Palestinians." 

A short-lived partnership 

These ideas unite Arab MKs who are atheists, communists, militants, and radical leftists with Salah's Islamist agenda, despite the knowledge that most of the Arab population rejects the Islamist regression, its laws, its dress code, and its takeover, and it's clear that this partnership is short-lived. 

But most of the Arab MKs, who swore an oath of allegiance in the Knesset, hypocritically incite to enact this Islamist agenda, which actually threatens both the Palestinian Authority and the moderate Arab states. They support Hezbollah, Hamas terrorism, rioting, propaganda (Al Jazeera), fanning the interreligious conflict at Al-Aqsa, and international condemnation of Israel. In doing so, they also create Arab antagonism to the Palestinian issue. 

It's amazing: representatives of the Arab minority, which makes up some 20% of the population, are trying to enforce their wishes on the country's solid 80% majority. If the "native, oppressed" people of the Triangle region of Arab towns "on whom citizenship was forced," wanted to implement their vision, they would unite their homes, their land, and their property with their brothers in the Palestinian Authority and build their own "native" majority state. Without oppression, without "apartheid." But the oppressed refuse to do that. They don't want to build a state; they want to destroy one. 

There are also some who dream of "resistance" as a whitewashed term for terrorism. The blow that the rioters of October 2000 sustained quelled that desire a bit. If the Arab MKs and Salah manage to kick up riots similar to the "October events," it would be a Pyrrhic victory for their voters. 

Israel erred when it accepted Umm al-Fahm from Jordan in 1949, and when it included the villages around Jerusalem in the municipality. A withdrawal and "transfer to Israel" will fix that. Yes, under the "Umm al-Fahm first" plan, Israel is to withdraw -- as it did from Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip -- and close the city's western border. In doing so, Israel will help make the "Future Vision" a reality.


Dr. Reuven Berko

Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=44739

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