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Part III: Racism as official State Policy from the beginning… Israel is an American value? When did the affairs of foreign countries become the value system of
Americans? Are we supposed to embrace a foreign country because it gets attacked? Of course not. Israel wouldn't have a terrorist problem if it upheld the promises it made when its statehood was granted. It hasn't and according to the writings of its founders, it never intended to. Racism has always been intrinsic to Zionism. State sanctioned apartheid and terrorism constitute founding principles and values of Israel and the Zionist movement according to the laws currently on the books in Israel and the writings of: Theodor Herzl... "Spirit the penniless population across the frontier by denying it employment... Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly." Theodor Herzl, founder of the World Zionist Organization, speaking of the Arabs of Palestine, Complete Diaries, June 12, 1895 entry. "If we (the Zionists) move into a region where there are wild animals to which the Jews are not accustomed-big snakes, etc.-I shall use the natives (the Palestinians), prior to giving them employment in the transit countries, for the extermination of these animals." Theodor Herzl, ibid, Vol.I, pp.108-109 Joseph Weitz... "There are some who believe that the non-Jewish population, even in a high percentage, within our borders will be more effectively under our surveillance; and there are some who believe the contrary, i.e., that it is easier to carry out surveillance over the activities of a neighbor than over those of a tenant. [I] tend to support the latter view and have an additional argument:...the
need to sustain the character of the state which will henceforth be Jewish...with a non-Jewish minority limited to 15 percent. I had already reached this fundamental position as early as 1940 [and] it is entered in my diary." Joseph Weitz, head of the Jewish Agency's Colonization Department. From Israel: an Apartheid State
by Uri Davis, p.5. Benjamin Netanyahu
"Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories."Benjamin Netanyahu former Prime Minister of Israel, November 24 1989
Ariel Sharon "Everybody has to move, run and grab as many hilltops as they can to enlarge the settlements2 because everything we take now will stay ours... Everything we don't grab will go to them." Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of militants from the extreme right-wing Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, November 15, 1998. "Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial," 3 Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon -Sunday, 25 March, 2001
quoted in BBC News Online (in response to the international fact-finding mission, headed by former US senator George Mitchell, investigating what sparked the 2000 September Intifada) and David Ben Gurion to name a few. We must do everything to insure they ( the Palestinians) never do return....The old will die and the young will forget."
David Ben Gurion, 1948 Based upon the principles and values the United States is founded on and the principles and values Israel is founded on, no correlation or synergy exists. Therefore the question: Is Israel, the current apartheid state an American value? Let's take a look at what is an American value: We hold these truths
to be self-evident,
that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Read our full Declaration How do the pictures and statements witnessed in this essay support the above statement?
CONCLUSION Rather than Israel moving toward our value system of democracy, equal rights and a respect for all human life regardless of race, creed, origin or sex, the United States increasingly adopts Israel's distortion of these. Prior to our favored nation affinity, the United States' people opposed beatings, forced internment, murder, pre-emptive wars, torture, lying, victimization and collective punishment.
Not only are these policies in violation of our Constitution, each violates the teachings of Jesus Christ. American values find their origin in the Gospels, rather than the Talmud, which Israeli law draws on. These two collections are fundamentally incompatible. The American values expressed by our founding fathers versus the Israeli values illustrated, Americans need to decide which is who we are. We say those of our founding fathers are our values yet we act like Israel. Since the primary drivers of this disparity in conscience claim to be Christian,
did not Jesus admonish people who present themselves one way yet act another? "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of extortion and self-indulgence."
Matthew 23:25 Within the gospels and New Testament there are several passages dealing with God's number one pet peeve, hypocrisy. They follow the familiar morality line of doing as one preaches. Perhaps the Christian Zionists including our President, so blindly supporting Israel, akin to idol worship some will say, and driving these genocidal and imperialistic policies may take time to read these passages, along with the Book of ACTS
rather than regurgitating versus without practicing their meaning. A miracle in the making? No. Those driving this are Christians and Jesus would never support Zionism. It is man's arrogance to believe God requires our help to cause Armageddon. In the end their faith and hearts will show them THE WAY 4. In conclusion, let us ask the question we began with: Given the facts on the ground, Is
Israel an American value? Answer: No, thank God it is not. <END>
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