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Point Abid
Ullah Jan
The
Façade of Israel's Reality
A
specific class of Muslims continues to deny that the US "war
on terrorism" has added dynamism and given new legitimacy
to the centuries old war on Islam. Since this ever-intensifying
war encompasses almost every aspect of Muslim life, this write
up deals only with the way our so-called scholars-turned-US-mercenaries
are scoring points for self-projection.
These intellectual mercenaries have dwarf the military mercenary
by comparison, because what General Musharraf gets in return for
his services is far more than what the confused pen-pushers may
just hope to get in reward.
The best example of their latest escapade is Husain Haqqani's
article in the Nation, July 23, 2003, which is representative
of the research papers being produced from American think tanks,
the State Department and even the White House these days.(1) Even
the most naïve readers can understand the real objectives
behind this kind of write-ups. Wrapped in nicely worded prescriptions
for the well-being of Pakistan, there are well-studded gems for
pleasing master of our destiny, the Zionists in the U.S.
Realising Zionist power, the chief opportunist, General Musharraf,
took the lead through covert promises of recognising Israel during
his visit to the U.S.(2) The intellectual mercenaries are now
trying to catch up with some confused mixture of rejecting Musharraf
and accepting Israel. Other than the singular factor of not accepting
General Musharraf in uniform, there is hardly any difference of
opinion among co-mercenaries.
Both
believe, Israel is "a reality and it might be in Pakistan's
interest to overcome ideology to recognise reality."(3) Both
suggest, Pakistan can "wait a little longer to be part of
its collective recognition by the Arab-Islamic world."(4)
Both see religious elements "enforcing ideological aradigms
on an unwilling Pakistani populace."(5) Both conclude, "Pakistan's
options for success and development would certainly be better
as a functional democratic state, which retains its Islamic ethos
through the conviction of its citizens rather than by the enforcement
of conflicting theocratic visions."(6)
Criticising General Musharraf is just for the sake of criticism
and guaranteeing a slot in future set-ups. Most importantly, wrapped
in 1200 words brouhaha is the real bomb of introducing the idea
of anti-Semitism in Pakistan. The tatement through which they
want to beat the chief opportunist is: "Violent ideas, including
anti-Semitism and sectarianism, should be eliminated to pave the
way for a tolerant society."(7)
The strongest argument used in favour of recognising Israel is
that it is a "reality" and it is "in Pakistan's
interest to overcome ideology to recognise reality." Before
discussing the realities behind façade of Israel's reality,
let us assume, Israel is a reality. If this is the standard for
surrendering ideology there are two many realities around to recognise.
For instance, ban on Ten Commandments and religious education
is a reality. Let us ban Islamic teachings from school curriculum
altogether. Invoking God is politically incorrect. It is a reality.
Let us ban it as a basic step for a tolerant political environment.
Alternative lifestyles are a reality. Let us recognise and allow
same sex marriages, common law partnerships (living together and
procreating without formal marriage), out of wedlock births, gaybies
(babies belong to homosexuals), etc. because all these are undeniable
realities of the advanced age. Let us get out of our medievalism.
The
answer comes, 'you are wrong,' because "recognition of nations
and states is a matter of international law," and it must
not be "influenced by political or religious sentiment."(8)
Well, some one must let us know about the fate of countless UN
resolutions that demand Israel to live like a real state.(9) Someone
let the poor souls of Taliban understand, where was the international
law when they were not recognised for many years. If the answer
is, they were "brutal thugs," who did not respect human
rights; we would love to know if Israel's foundation is not laid
in racism?
It is irrelevant to argue that refusal of most Muslim states "to
recognise Israel has not diminished Israel's statehood,"(10)
because this is not the issue. The issue is of legitimacy. If
the principle did not allow many nations to recognize apartheid
regime in South Africa, it is again the principle that does not
allow us to recognize a racist and oppressive state of Israel.
There is no need to bring in Islam and scapegoat it as an ideology
for nothing.
All we need to see is the realities behind the façade of
Israeli state. Not recognising Israel is not a denial of reality.
It is simply a denial to legitimise "an illegitimate child
of Western powers."(11) Even recognition by every single
individual on the planet cannot change the reality of its illegitimacy,
just as the entire Supreme Courts ruling and legislations make
out of wedlock births legitimate. Let us not forget the reality
that Israel is the only state established on the basis of race.
And what about the reality when the whole world at the UN World
Conference Against Racism in Durban in 2001 was on one side and
US and Israel on the other. Still the world managed to achieve
its historic declaration condemning Zionism as racism and Israel
for genocide.
Actually, the realities behind the State of Israel turns its reality
into a façade, which no amount of time, power and number
of its recognisers can change. Let us not deny the reality that
Israel will not exist without racism. Not any anti-Semite, but
"most Israelis have argued that Israel cannot remain a Jewish
state or a democracy if it incorporates the occupied territories,
because Palestinians would alter the nation's demographic balance."(12)
One of the most important and influential newspapers in the United
States, The Wall Street Journal, opined that the "right of
return" of Palestinian refugees would result in the "demographic
destruction of the Jewish state."(13) When the same views
of a virtual ban on immigration into his nation were expressed
by Austrian political leader, Jorge Haider, he was widely condemned
in the mainstream media of the United States and Europe as a racist.
Asking to recognise Israel's reality is no more than asking to
legitimise Nazism because political Zionism and German Nazism
bear some distinct similarities.(14) Joachim Prinz, a former Vice-President
of the World Jewish Congress, in 1934 praised the Nazi revolution
(1933) in Germany: "Only a state based on the principle of
the purity of the nation and the race can possibly endow dignity
and honor on…those Jews who themselves subscribe to this
principle."(16)
The proponents of Israel's reality must tell us if the same thinking
does not continue to be a reality till date. Zionism remains a
political philosophy that is firmly grounded in the anti-integrationist
racial thought of the past and present.(16) A former member of
Israel's Supreme Court, Haim Cohen, described the system that
applies to Jews and Palestinians in Israel as similar to "Nuremberg
laws" of Nazi Germany: "...the bitter irony of fate
which has led the same biological and racist laws propagated by
the Nazis and which inspired the infamous Nuremberg laws, to serve
as a basis for the definition of Judaism within the State of Israel."(17)
In the words of Zionist political thinker Moses Hess, "Jews
are not a religious group, but a separate nation, a special race,
and the modern Jew who denies this is not only an apostate, a
religious renegade, but a traitor to his people, his tribe, his
race."(18)
Israeli and American scientists are conducting studies to emphasis
the biological history of the Jewish people and prove how the
latter differ from the non-Jewish world.(19) This information
is used to define into existence a "Jewish race" and
discriminate against non-Jews. Indeed, Jewish Zionists and their
gentile supporters would probably demand immediate annihilation
of the countries involved if, for example, it were found that
Muslim scientists were attempting to determine how Muslims differ
from non-Muslims in genetic-biological sense, and this information
would be used to implement racially discriminatory policies.
The obvious reality of scientific studies is that the Zionists
are refusing anyone the right to settle in Israel if he does not
have "Jewish genes." With this in mind, consider point
four of the Nazi Party Program of May 25, 1920. It reads: "None
but members of the nationality may be citizens of the state. None
but those of German blood, irrespective of religion, may be members
of the nationality."(20) In contemporary terms, only those
with "German genes" could be citizens of Nazi Germany.
Is this reality not enough to show façade of the Israeli
Apartheid state?
In words of Uri Davis, to mask Israeli apartheid, it was necessary
to present Israel to the world as an advanced form of democracy.
Thus, duplicitous legal structures were devised which effectively
mask the racial discrimination and apartheid.(21) A study of Israeli
and South African apartheid published in the 1980s brought the
reality to forefront that "The parallels between South Africa's
system of legalized racism and that of Israel are well-known in
academic circles but rarely discussed in the mainstream media,
peace community or halls of Congress."(22) Former Congressman
George W. Crockett, Jr. noted back in 1985 that "Here in
Congress we are fighting against South Africa's repressive measures,
and yet closing our eyes to the institutional repression and the
brutality that is daily being conducted against the Palestinians
in the Israeli-occupied Arab territories."(23)
The former editor-in-chief of the Rand Daily Mail (the Johannesburg
newspaper that fought against South African apartheid), Raymond
Louw, further clarifies the reality that the situation in the
Israeli occupied territories is worse than the way things were
under the South African apartheid regime because the under South
African apartheid "there was a recognition that the blacks
would continue to live in these areas. Here the impression is
that the objective is to push the Palestinians out."(24)
It is thus wrong to blame Muslims, or Pakistanis in particular,
that they are refusing to accept Israel purely on religious grounds.
Besides the above mentioned realities, the other important factors
that do not allow one recognise the façade of Israel are:
1. Not only Israel was founded on racism but through the means
of terrorism, brutal murders of men, women and children, exiling
700,000 of them for occupying their lands, homes, gardens and
farms. Among those events was the sadistic massacre of 254 Palestinian
at Deir Yassin. It was an especially vicious, cold-blooded massacre
characterized by Jews cutting apart the bellies of pregnant women.(25)
Former Israel Prime Minister, Menachem Begin, a participant in
this horrendous massacre, boasted of the terrorism of Deir Yassin.
He wrote that there would not have been a State of Israel without
the "victory" of Deir Yassin. "The Haganah carried
out victorious attacks on other fronts... In a state of terror,
the Arabs fled, crying, 'Deir Yassin."(26)
2. Zionist plan is to incorporate the West Bank within Israel
but only after ethnic cleansing by repeating the same terrorism
and brutality that preceded for the establishment of Israel. Israeli
refusal to accept the right of return of the Palestinians is due
to their fear of altering the nature of the Jewish state. And
leading Americans and American media outlets approve this philosophy.(27)
3.
As for the allegation of anti-Semitism in Pakistan is concerned,
Pakistanis have no reason to hate Jews. They rather hate the Zionist
philosophy and activities. As far the Semites are concerned, people
of this regions have the same genes.(28) Furthermore, according
to Arthur Koestler over 90% of European Jews were Ashkenazi people
who were Caucasian converts to Judaism. It means that less than
10% Jews are Sefardic and may qualify to be genetically linked
to Bani Israel (see his book The Thirteenth Tribe).
These are just glimpses of the realities that do not allow Pakistan
to recognize the façade of Israeli state. It is all too
easy for Muslim intellectual mercenaries to be swayed by their
personal interests and cajolery without serious study of cold
historic realities. However, those who have eyes to look beyond
façades know what they are supposed to do. We are not supposed
to swallow, no matter how much the Western media sweeten a practice
based on a philosophy that is worse than German Nazism. Interestingly,
no anti-Semitic Muslim, but diligent non-Muslim researchers have
discovered all these tips of the icebergs. All we can do is to
accept the reality or continue to live in denial because the majority
has opted so.
July 24, 2003
Notes
1. Haqqani, Hussain. "Israel or the home front," The
Nation, July 23, 2003. See: http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/July-2003/23/EDITOR/op1.asp
2. To see how Jews are reluctant to recognize Israel, please visit:
WHY JEWS ARE OPPOSED TO A ZIONIST STATE, See: http://www.nkusa.org/AboutUs/Zionism/opposition.cfm
http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/ and http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/rabbis.htm
3. Ibid. Haqqani, Hussain.
4. Ibid. Haqqani, Hussain.
5. Ibid. Haqqani, Hussain.
6. Ibid. Haqqani, Hussain.
7. Ibid. Haqqani, Hussain.
8. Ibid. Haqqani, Hussain.
9. UN Resolutions Against Israel, 1955-1992. See: http://www.nowarforisrael.com/UN%20Resolutions.htm
10. Ibid. Haqqani, Hussain.
11. In the words of Founder of Pakistan, Israel is an illegitimate
child of Western powers. (25th October 1947).
12. Jewish Middle East analyst, Mitchell Bard, says in Ohio's
most important newspaper The Plain Dealer, January 19, 1989, p.3-E.
13. The Wall Street Journal, February 7, 2001, p.A26.
14. Francis R. Nicosia, The Third Reich And The Palestine Question,
pp.16-21.
15. Quoted in Uri Davis, Israel: An Apartheid State, pp.1-2.
16. 8. Roselle Tekiner, Samir Abed-Rabbo, Norton Mezvinsky, eds.,
Anti-Zionism: Analytic Reflections (Amana Books, 1988); Uri Davis,
Israel: An Apartheid State (Zed Books, Ltd, 1987); The International
Organization For The Elimination Of All Forms Of Racial Discrimination,
Zionism And Racism (North American, 1979); Francis R. Nicosia,
The Third Reich And The Palestine Question (University of Texas
Press, 1985); Lenni Brenner, Zionism In The Age Of The Dictators
(Lawrence Hill, 1983); Regina Sharif, Non-Jewish Zionism: Its
Roots In Western History (Zed Press, 1983).
17. Badi, J. (1960). Fundamental Laws Of The State Of Israel.
New York. p.156.
18. Quoted in Dr. Robert John, Behind The Balfour Declaration:
The Hidden Origin Of Today's Mideast Crisis (Institute for Historical
Review, 1988), p.35.
19. See Nature, 21 March 1985, p.208; See the Proceedings Of The
National Academy Of Sciences, 9 May 2000, as reported on in Nicholas
Wade, "Y Chromosome Bears Witness to Story of the Jewish
Diaspora," New York Times, 9 May 2000.
20. See Robert Vexler's Germany: A Chronology And Fact Book: 1415-1972,
p.129.
21. Uri Davis, Israel: An Apartheid State, pp.4, 25, 44, 49, 53,
55, 58, 60.
22. Louise Cainkar, ed., Separate And Unequal: The Dynamics Of
South African And Israeli Rule (Chicago: Palestine Human Rights
Campaign, 1985), see Preface.
23. Ibid. Page 49
24. Quoted in Ha'aretz (Israel), 24 May 2001.
25. De Reynier, J. (1950). Chief Representative Of The International
Committee Of The Red Cross In Jerusalem. (A Jerusalem Un Drapeau
Flottait Sur La Ligne De Feu', Geneva.
26. Begin, M. (1964). The Revolt: The Story Of The Irgun. Tel-Aviv:
Hadar Pub. p.162.
27. Ibid. The Wall Street Journal, February 7, 2001, p.A26.
28. See. The "lost tribes of Israel" are the Muslims
of Afghanistan and Kashmir -- Proved from the Bible and History.
Web Site: http://www.answering-christianity.com/lost_people_of_israel.htm
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