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"On May 14, 1948, in Tel Aviv, Jewish Agency Chairman David Ben-Gurion proclaims the State of Israel, establishing the first Jewish state in 2,000 years. Ben-Gurion became Israel’s first [prime minister].

In the distance, the rumble of guns could be heard from fighting that broke out between Jews and Arabs immediately following the British army withdrawal earlier that day. Egypt launched an air assault against Israel that evening. Despite a blackout in Tel Aviv—and the expected Arab invasion—Jews celebrated the birth of their new nation, especially after word was received that the United States had recognized the Jewish state. At midnight, the State of Israel officially came into being upon termination of the British mandate in Palestine" (History, 2010).

This is an excerpt published through the History Channel website titled the State of Israel Proclaimed, and it details the contentious and gruesome start to the first Jewish state in the modern world. For over 70 years, this Jewish state has embarked on a determined and insidious campaign to ethnically cleanse the land of the same Arab indigenous people, pushing them to the outskirts of Palestine to what is now considered Gaza & the West Bank. Throughout these contentious years, what the Israeli occupation has managed to do to the people of Palestine can’t really be described in any other way but with words that hearken to the Holocaust as that’s exactly what this is for Palestinians who face marginalization politically, socially, economically, and spiritually every day.

To start with, the laws are consistently crafted in favour of the forced Jewish majority in places like Jerusalem with the demographic law that mandates maintenance of at least 70% Jewish majority in the area. There are also interreligious marriage laws that ban Israelis from marrying Palestinians for instance all in the name of Zionism. This racist sentiment and divisionism works from the top down with founders of Israel, like Ben Gurion, claiming Jewish people must, “expel Arabs and take their places”, in the mid 1900s. Others like Levi Eshkol made suppositions such as, “[p]erhaps if we don't give them enough water they won't have a choice, because the orchards will yellow and wither”. There are anti-flag laws that are specifically dedicated to banning the raising and/or waving of Palestinian flags, anti-protest laws, a ban on Arabic as a national language, and even voting rights infringement. This coupled with the overall mainstream racist and genocidal sentiments I’m sure you’ve seen in recent media lately since Hamas struck back against Israel October 7th of this year—Israeli men, women, and children not shying from speaking of killing Palestinians without mercy as if they were casually asked about the weather—makes the situation a living Hell for Palestinians on a daily basis. And the hatred is widely accepted.

We've seen even Jewish people come-out against the Israeli government a lot more lately as hospitals are destroyed killing hundreds and thousands of people by air strikes and bombs that are being dropped at rates unprecedented in history on the people with no resources whatsoever—especially in a sense to fight back against such a heavily funded power backed by the West unconditionally. People are starting to point-out the differences in how parties in America, for instance, are reacting to the Palestinian crisis juxtaposed to just about everything else including the safety of our own children in school. Two parties, democratic and republican, so starkly divided so consistently are showing unanimous support of the actual killing of babies in Palestine. But this is nothing new as, as I mentioned before, this violence against the Palestinians began in 1948—just three years after America saved Jewish people from the Holocaust—just for them to initiate the Nakba on the people darker than them.

Though, it's not just the calculated ways Israel and western media warp stories of atrocities taking place in Palestine, like when President Biden recently announced he had seen babies decapitated by Palestinians and later had to walk-that-back because it wasn't true, and these lies don't just affect Palestinians, whether in America, Israel, or Palestine. Not long after Biden made those erroneous comments about Israeli babies being decapitated, a Palestinian boy in America was stabbed 26 times by an elderly white landlord who was in the process of breaking into his and his mother's home to tell them to leave amid the Palestinian-Israeli conflict news he'd been watching unfold. Allegedly, this coverage led him to break into the woman's home and attempt to murder her and her child. Unfortunately, the boy—being six-years-old and stabbed over 26 times—did not survive this brutal slaying. Biden allegedly spoke against this publicly, but it was too late not only because of what he had said about Palestinians recently that might have incited this man to go forth and do what he did, but also because for decades now, politicians like and including him have advocated for a way of keeping tabs on the Middle East by means of a state such as Israel. For decades, Middle Eastern people and Muslims have been persecuted due to the War on Terror that was really just another cover for colonization of non-white countries. So, the degradation and dehumanization of Palestinian people is just not contested in modern society.

It's so widely supported that desecration of Islamic holy sites is treated with a ‘slap on the wrist’. This is no more evident than in the case of the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. August 21st, 1969, Denis Michael Rohan intentionally set fire to Al Aqsa Mosque, the 3rd Holiest site in Islamic culture and an over 1,300-year-old temple. Rohan claimed he was ordered by GOD to build a new church for Jewish people on the rubble of Al Aqsa. Despite this admission, the criminal was able to return to Australia after making an insanity plea.

Israel support goes further than just anti-Palestinian sentiments, though, as there is a lengthy list of both Jewish & non-Jewish reporters & scholars who have been dismissed for advocacy for Palestinians or criticism of the Jewish state.

o Marc Lamont Hill of CNN

o Nathan J. Robinson of the Guardian

o Roger Waters of Pink Floyd

o Jewish-American Katie Halper of the Hill

o Emily Wilder of AP

Even the A.C.L.U. criticizes the far-reaching Anti-Semitism Awareness Act as Unconstitutional as it, “defines speech that applies a “double standard for Israel,” or denies “the Jewish people their right to self-determination,” as evidence of anti-Semitism” (Waheed & Hauss, 2018). Arizona has a, “state law requiring contractors to sign documentation promising not to boycott Israel” (ACLU of Arizona, 2017).

The living conditions for Palestinians in Palestine are worse than anything I've heard of outside of chattel slavery. Jewish settlers actively set-up their housing, in some cases, atop Palestinian homes, dropping their waste upon them and leaving them to suffer disease, discomfort, and even death in the worst of these cases. Gaza is an open-air prison with 97% of water considered unfit to drink by the U.N. Half of the Palestinians are children, most are jobless, & almost all live in impoverishment. Food is regulated to starvation levels, along with other resources, like electricity.

The recent attack of the hospital in Gaza is not the only time innocent people and internationally protected institutions were struck by the Jewish state. Al Shorouk Journalist Tower was bombed in 2012 & 2021 due to topics covered by the entities it housed (Martin, 2021). Even humanitarian aid is banned by the Israelis. In May of 2010, a Gaza flotilla was boarded by Jewish soldiers and many people were executed who were just bringing aid to Palestinians.

Palestine Conflict Podcast Episode

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/linsbins/episodes/Inclined-toAid-Palestine-e2b77gi

Sources

Scheindlin, D. (2023, October 22). Israel’s 16-Year Blockade of Gaza Failed. Was It Really the Only Option? Haaretz.com. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-22/ty-article-magazine/.premium/israels-16-year-blockade-of-gaza-failed-was-it-really-the-only-option/0000018b-57f3-d2b2-addf-77fb07f60000

Editors, History. com. (2010, February 9). State of Israel Proclaimed | May 14, 1948. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/state-of-israel-proclaimed

Staff, C. (2023, August 21). Al-Aqsa is Burned. https://israeled.org/al-aqsa-is-burned/

Martin, A. (2021). Palestine 101 with Abby Martin. YouTube. BreakThrough News. Retrieved October 25, 2023, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEUIR_JG_b8