Racial Profiling Israel
No, nothing to do with race, that's too abhorrent for a politically-correct-minded United Church of Canada. What they're engaged in is simply pointing out how unacceptable they find it that Israel - just coincidentally a country comprised principally of Jews - was "built mainly on land ethnically cleansed of its Palestinian owners". Who might have 'cleansed' the land of its "Palestinian owners"? Not the urging of unfriendly Arab neighbours whose armies were set to dispatch Israel from the landscape in 1948, surely?Nothing about the fact that Palestinians were also Jews who also lived for millennia in the territory, whose place names even now maintained in the West Bank and Gaza are biblical Hebrew place names reminding of their Jewish heritage. And that most of the Palestinian Arabs now claiming to have owned the land in ancient times and in perpetuity are relative come-latelies in the last century and a half. Let alone that for almost a hundred years Jewish philanthropic organizations and individuals have legally bought land from Palestinians.
Of course, there's no accounting for the stubbornness of some Arabs, those, for example, who stood firm on their property within Israel proper, deciding to stay put and take advantage of Israeli citizenship and economic prosperity, and who now account for roughly one-sixth of the population. And the United Church of Canada is obviously willingly ignorant of the fact that Mahmoud Abbas himself recently spoke on Al-Palestinia TV with another story altogether.
Admitting that his family had not been expelled or driven out of their home, but chose to leave of their own volition, out of fear of the Zionists, that the Jews might decide to take revenge on the Palestinians for the slaughter of Jews in the town he was born into during the Arab pogroms of 19 years before the founding of the State of Israel. But the United Church has their own version of events and their very own perception of the current state of affairs, in willing conjunction with the propaganda of the Palestinian Authority.
The resolution the United Church will be voting on claims that Israel represents a "regime of exclusion, violence and dehumanization directed against Palestinians". Which is really quite the denunciation, given the fact that there is no hint of any knowledge of the fact that Israel has had to embark on a self-protection regime from dedicated Palestinian terrorists who succeeded in suicide-bombing quite a few Jews out of existence.
And while their spokesman, Reverend Bruce Gregerson exhibited especial care in assuring that the church recognizes the right of Israel "to exist as a Jewish state", it insists it must do so by welcoming wholesale all Palestinians into its fold who wish to relocate there, inclusive of generations of descendants of those claiming an original foothold within the State. But of course this is not enunciated so indelicately as to indicate that they understand that diluting the Jewish presence in the State would defeat the purpose and the presence of the State of Israel.
No mention made of Gazan terrorists led by Fatah factions and Hamas, since that appears to be completely irrelevant to the purpose of the United Church resolution. Which is to insult, isolate and beggar the State of Israel through its boycott of Israeli academic and cultural institutions, along with a moratorium on companies doing business in the country. The threat of which should rightly send the State whimpering into obsequious surrender to the demands of righteous Christians.
Labels: Anti-Semitism, Canada, Israel, Justice
posted by Pieface @ Sunday, August 02, 2009
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