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Palestinians have the power to change Israel

Posted on January 4, 2019January 4, 2019 By rayhanania No Comments on Palestinians have the power to change Israel
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Palestinians have the power to change Israel

By Ray Hanania

In this week’s column for the Middle East Monitor I write about the power that Palestinian citizens in Israel have to bring change to Israel’ racist, Apartheid government and participate in forcing the so-called “Jewish State” to respect the rights of Christians and Muslims.

Israel’s government war crimes are extensive and its encouragement of racism in society through practice, policies and laws, has made it one of the worst nations in the world to assert itself as being a “Democracy.” Israel claims to be a Democracy but it doesn’t practice Democracy. It’s society is built on principles of the worst forms of racism and religious hatred, disrespecting the memory and tragedy of the Holocaust survivors.

There are about 1.8 million Palestinians living in Israel’s racist society as “citizens,” even though they do not have equal citizenship with Jewish citizens. And there are nearly 3.4 million Palestinians living under occupation in the West Bank and about 400,000 Palestinians living in occupied East Jerusalem. There are some 600,000 Jewish settlers living in illegal settlements in the Occupied West Bank and in Occupied East Jerusalem. The 600,000 Jewish settlers, most (but not all) armed thugs and terrorists who live on lands and property stolen from non-Jews, have voting rights inside Israel. Why shouldn’t the Palestinians living under occupation also have voting rights to vote in Israel’s elections?

Israeli Knesset Deputy Speaker Ahmad Tibi is beaten by Israeli police while participating in a protest against the relocation of the US Embassy Monday May 14, 2018. Photo courtesy of MK Ahmad Tibi
Israeli Knesset Deputy Speaker Ahmad Tibi is beaten by Israeli police while participating in a protest against the relocation of the US Embassy Monday May 14, 2018. Photo courtesy of MK Ahmad Tibi

Israel will hold elections in April. There are 13 Arab members of the Knesset. They represent the third largest voting block under the name of the Arab Joint List behind the racist Likud Party and the Zionist Union. If more Arabs would exercise their oppressed rights to vote in Israel’s elections, they could help oust the racist violent militants like Benjamin Netanyahu and replace the government through coalition with moderate Jewish parties with a moderate government that would pursue peace.

One of the pressures on Palestinians in Israel or to not vote or demand their right to vote living in the Occupied West Bank and Occupied East Jerusalem is the concept of “normalization” which is prohibited y extremists in the Palestinian community. Activists use anti-Normalization rhetoric to suppress moderate voices for peace and to artificially elevate themselves as the false and dysfunctional and failed leaders that they are.

You can read the column at the Middle East Monitor by clicking this link.

Israel’s has many hurdles to overcome to become a true Democracy. One of them is to force Jewish Israelis to recognize the principles of true Democracy and embrace human rights and the International Rule of Law. But they can’t do it without the help of Palestinian Arabs in and outside of Apartheid Israel.

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