Ethnic Cleansing of Arabs Continues In Israel

The ethnic cleansing of Palestinians continues in occupied Palestine 1948 or "Israel".

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The far-right fascist Israel Is Our Home party has long sought to target Israel’s 1.3 million Arab citizens. The process is to slowly demonize them, criminalize the pronouncement of their grievances, force them to sign loyalty to Jewish supremacy and then finally ethnically cleanse them.

The start of this agenda is the Nakba ban bill advanced by the youngest member of the Knesset and Israel Is Our Home MK 28-year-old Alex Miller who is a reflection that the rising generation of Israelis is the most militant and racist thus far. This is the face of the Jewish state: young and drawing inspiration from Nazi-era laws. A former president of Israel has predicted in a recent book that Israel will one day enact Nurmberg Laws that just like the Nazis banned marriage between Germans and Jews, Israel will ban marriage between Arab and Jew.

Israel is moving there with the Nakba law. The Nakba is the 1948 ethnic cleansing of over 800,000 Palestinians by Zionists militias. To this day, Palestinians commemorate the Nakba. This drives Zionists mad as they wish to erase the Palestinians and their history.

So they wished to ban without up to three years in prison for violation any public words on the Nakba. And, yet, this is the nation that claims to be the only democracy in the Middle East. Bullshit!!!

Less right-wing Israeli knew that if passed the Nakba would worsen Israel’s already justifiably bad image problem. So they have diluted the bill to this just banning any institution which receives state money from mentioning the Nakba. But this is a compromise which the far-right only views as a primary step toward achieving their ultimate goal.

And they are becoming more successful in discriminating against and slowly pushing out Arabs from their own homes. The Economist:

NOT long ago, Lod, an Israeli city near the commercial hub of Tel Aviv, was a sleepy backwater. Its 20,000 Arabs among 45,000 Jews peppered their Arabic with Hebraisms, voted for Jewish parties, and described themselves as Israeli. The Arab population, drastically reduced in the 1948 war that marked Israel’s birth, has revived, exceeding its previous total.

But the calm has been disturbed. This month Israel’s leaders have taken their demand that the world—and the Palestinians—should recognise their state as specifically Jewish in exchange for a renewed freeze on building Jewish settlements in the West Bank, to Lod. Cabinet members have proposed “strengthening” the city’s population by bringing in more Jews and have approved a wider bill requiring new citizens to swear a loyalty oath accepting Israel as Jewish and democratic—in that order. Other measures are aimed at Israel’s Arabs, including a ban on teaching the Palestinian narrative that Israel expelled most of its Arabs in the war of independence.

Adding to the psychological barriers, the Lod authorities have erected physical ones. This year they have finished building a wall three metres high to separate Lod’s Jewish districts from its Arab ones. And where the Arab suburbs are cordoned off to prevent their spread, Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, encourages building for Jews to proceed with abandon.

His foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, on the coalition’s far right, champions building quarters for soldiers’ families in the town. The equally chauvinistic interior minister, Eli Yishai, who heads an ultra-Orthodox party, Shas, grants building permits for religious Jews. A series of gated estates are sprouting across the city reserved for religious Zionists. “These blocks will ensure Lod stays Jewish,” says Haim Haddad, the town’s chief rabbi, one of the first to move into a new estate.

By contrast, old Arab houses are under threat of demolition. Now and again, bulldozers demolish a couple, stressing Arab vulnerability. A study by a liberal Israeli group called Shatil (“Seedling”) estimates that 70% of Arab homes in Lod lack legal status. Many municipal services, such as street lighting and rubbish collection, stop at the boundaries of Arab suburbs. Sixteen kilometres (ten miles) from Tel Aviv, Israel’s richest city, sewage flows through some of Lod’s Arab streets.

Once mixed districts are separating. Ramat Eshkol, a housing estate built for Jewish immigrants in the ruins of Lod’s old Arab city, bulldozed after the 1948 war, is today a squalid slum, housing mostly Arabs. Piles of rubbish make it grimier than refugee camps in Gaza, the blockaded Palestinian territory 35km to the south. Gangs cruise the streets. The local community centre has been shut for the best part of a decade, says its last employee: the Jewish Agency, a welfare organisation, does not want it “overrun with Arabs”.

After Lod’s eighth murder this year, Mr Netanyahu said he would stop the city descending into Israel’s “wild west”. He briefly sent in the border guard, Israel’s gendarmerie, reviving Arab fears of dispossession anew. Lod’s 120-strong police is Muslim-free.

All this is happening not in the 1967 occupied territories or even in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem, but miles away from Tel Aviv against citizens of the state.

And they want to tell us that Israel is not an apartheid state.