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Following poll on Israeli support for apartheid, Gideon Levy says ‘making peace would be an almost anti-democratic act’

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 Results of a poll carried out by Dialog in September, 2012, based on a sample of 503 Jewish Israeli interviewees. For more on the poll, see here. (Image: Haaretz)

Gideon Levy says, “Meet the Israelis“:

Nice to make your acquaintance, we’re racist and pro-apartheid. The poll whose results were published in Haaretz on Tuesday, conducted by Dialog and commissioned by the Yisraela Goldblum Fund, proved what we always knew, if not so bluntly. It’s important to recognize the truth that has been thrown in our faces and those of the world (where the survey is making waves ). But it’s even more important to draw the necessary conclusions from it.

Given the current reality, making peace would be an almost anti-democratic act: Most Israelis don’t want it. A just, egalitarian society would also violate the wishes of most Israelis: That, too, is something they don’t want. They’re satisfied with the racism, comfortable with the occupation, pleased with the apartheid; things are very good for them in this country. That’s what they told the pollsters.

Until a courageous leadership arises here, the kind that appears only rarely in history, and tries to change this nationalist, racist mood, there’s no point in hoping for change to come from below. It won’t come; indeed, it can’t come, because it is contrary to the desires of most Israelis. This fact must be recognized.

The world must also recognize this. Those who long to reach an agreement and draw up periodic peace plans must finally recognize that Israelis are plainly telling them, “No thanks, we’re not interested.” The Arab world must similarly recognize that this survey (and others like it ) is Israel’s real Bar-Ilan speech.

Levy goes on to say these levels of racism are perfectly understandable given the segregation in Israeli society and “years of brainwashing; the demonization and dehumanization of Arabs in general and Palestinians in particular,” but that this doesn’t absolve Israelis of responsibility.

Read the entire article here.

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A very inconvenient truth! Incredible that such an opinion could never get published here in the United States of Denial.

“No thanks, we’re not interested.”

They even have apartheid in the prisons:

“The Israel Prison Service (IPS) allows standard conjugal visits to non-Palestinian inmates who are married or are in a common-law relationship, and have been on good behavior.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjugal_visits#Israel

What is a non-Palestinian prisoner in Israel?

A Spring of Life?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensborn

“The word is about, there’s something evolving,
whatever may come, the world keeps revolving
They say the next big thing is here,
that the revolution’s near,
but to me it seems quite clear
that it’s all just a little bit of history repeating

The newspapers shout a new style is growing,
but it don’t know if it’s coming or going,
there is fashion, there is fad
some is good, some is bad
and the joke is rather sad,
that its all just a little bit of history repeating

– and I’ve seen it before
– and I’ll see it again
– yes I’ve seen it before
– just little bits of history repeating”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_NWYDMy7dI

How about the same questions put to the Palestiniens?

For instance:
– “Do you support the transfer of some Israeli Jews back to where they came from?”

I think these views are shallow, much like a good deal of the antisemitism amongst Palestinians.

It’s somewhat unfair, Adam, to conclude, based on Israeli support for separate roads in the West Bank, that Israelis support apartheid. There are not separate roads within Israel itself, and the separate road system became prevalent after a lot of drive-by shootings. This didn’t happen in a vacuum.

I know people in New York who won’t drive on certain roads near the projects because they are afraid of what might happen. Should Israelis simply accept being shot at? Isn’t it fair to say that if there wasn’t a risk, there would be no need for separate roads?

If Israel can’t be changed from within, it’ll have to be from without. But how? By turning the public against the Zionist entity through BDS, BDS, BDS plus exposing Israel firsters for the traitors that they are, thereby souring the public on the U.S.-Israel special relationship, without which the Zionist entity will no longer be sustainable.