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Apartheid label will stick

italy4_432_1In a world characterized by the ubiquity of rapid mass communication the apparent degree of coordination among members of the American Zionist leadership shouldn’t be very impressive. Yet, it is impressive. And it also indicates something about those leaders’ perspective on strategy.

John Kerry’s decision to identify apartheid for what it is – the qualifier, “could be,” is just so much ornamentation – is commendable. And it’s already drawn bilious condemnations from the ADL, AIPAC, Congress and other Zionist strongholds in America.

The condemnations read:

ADL: “It is startling and deeply disappointing that a diplomat so knowledgeable and experienced about democratic Israel chose to use such an inaccurate and incendiary term.”

AIPAC: ‘”Any suggestion that Israel is, or is at risk of becoming, an apartheid state is offensive and inappropriate. The Jewish state is a shining light for freedom and opportunity in a region plagued by terror, hate and oppression.” AIPAC also said that is “shares President Obama’s perspective that while there is a political conflict between Israel and the Palestinians that needs to be resolved, the use of the term “apartheid” to characterize Israel is inaccurate and unhelpful.”‘

Eric Cantor: “The use of the word apartheid has routinely been dismissed as both offensive and inaccurate, and Secretary Kerry’s use of it makes peace even harder to achieve.”

Is the statements’ similarity coincidental? The answer is almost certainly No.

Moreover, one word, “inaccurate” recurs more frequently than any other. That suggests something about the logic that underpinned the frantic discussion that preceded the distribution of talking points to members of the leadership. Mainly, that the “danger” here is that the charge will stick – and that the word “apartheid” may come to be regarded as more-or-less accurate shorthand for what the Jewish-Israelis are perpetrating in Palestine.

Finally, J Street, the center-right Zionist lobby organization, lauded Kerry’s recognition while exhibiting a fundamental inability to abandon life beyond the Looking-Glass. Running fast to go nowhere they seem to remember the future:

“Israel today is not an apartheid state, and that’s not what John Kerry is saying,” said Ben Ami. “For over a year now, Kerry has argued that, without a two-state solution, Israel is risking its future and its values as it moves toward permanent rule over millions of Palestinians without equal rights. Former Prime Ministers Ehud Barak and Ehud Olmert have used the ‘apartheid’ term as well to describe this possible future.”

 

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J-Street comes close to accuracy and at least acknowledges that Israeli leaders have used the same word, and made the same (fearful and hard-sounding) prognostication. Even Kerry did not say that Israel’s governance of Israel-48 (or the OPTs) were TODAY apartheid in nature. It’s all an elaborate argument about what MIGHT LATER happen.

Pooh. Someone ought to ask these guys what set of facts (whether now or in future) would persuade them that “apartheid” had in fact arrived.

There is desperation in how they are lashing out. The world is closing around them, they try as much as they can to control the US and what is happening here, but signs are not looking good for the zionists elsewhere. The EU and colleges are looking at boycotts, the majority of the world voted to give the Palestinians partial recognition at the UN, and the reconciled parties including Hamas and Fatah, are accepted by many, even the EU says it can be workable. So simply observe the obedient servants in Congress, come on zionist US media, and criticize Kerry for speaking what the rest of the world knows is the truth, watch how they do the bidding of their masters in Israel, though their lobbies, and be amazed that the world’s greatest superpower is in the hands of a devious alien nation, who can call the shots, and make their American puppets dance when it so demands. John Kerry unleashed the word “Apartheid”, and it will not go away.

Every Arab country including Palestine is an apartheid regime. They have zero tolerance for Jews and Christians and they segregate men and women and none of them have democratic and liberal governments.

Secretary Kerry applied the apartheid slur to the only democratic and liberal government in the Middle East. Its unworthy of him. Arabs in Israel have equal rights and a better standard of living than the Arabs governed by Fatah and Hamas do and they participate in Israeli society. There is no segregation in the Israeli Jewish society.

The truth is exactly the reverse of that averred by Kerry with so many of the other things he consistently gets wrong about the Middle East.

“Finally, J Street, the center-right Zionist lobby organization”

How is J Street a center-right organization? You make this up as you go along.

Here is how brutal Israel can be….Gaza Ark, supposed to be leaving from Gaza, to bring world attention to, and protest, the blockade, has been hit by a blast. One guess which mean, evil, and occupying military power, is behind this crime.
If an Israeli vessel had been hit, the precision bombs would have hit homes in Gaza by now. Oh the arrogance of occupiers!

“Blast strikes protest boat docked in Gaza, activists say Israel to blame
‘Gaza’s Ark,’ set to sail to Europe to protest Israel’s blockade of Gaza, was hit by a blast early Tuesday; IDF: We don’t respond to such reports.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.588062