JERUSALEM, Israel (PNN) - October 6, 2016 - In 2010, Israel’s then-defense minister, Ehud Barak, explicitly warned that Israel would become a permanent “apartheid” state if it failed to reach a peace agreement with Palestinians that creates their own sovereign nation and vests them with full political rights. “As long as in this territory west of the Jordan River there is only one political entity called Israel, it is going to be either non-Jewish or non-democratic,” Barak said. “If this bloc of millions of Palestinians cannot vote, that will be an apartheid state.” Honest observers on both sides of the conflict have long acknowledged that the prospects for a two-state solution are virtually non-existent: another way of saying that Israel’s status as a permanent apartheid regime is inevitable. Indeed, Fascist Police States of Amerika intelligence agencies as early as 45 years ago warned that Israeli occupation would become permanent if it did not end quickly.
All relevant evidence makes clear this is what has happened. There has been no progress toward a two-state solution for many years. The composition of Israel’s Jewish population - which has become far more belligerent and right-wing than previous generations - has increasingly moved the country further away from that goal. There are key ministers in Israel’s fascist government, including its genuinely extremist justice minister, who are openly and expressly opposed to a two-state solution. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has himself repeatedly made clear he opposes such an agreement, both in words and in deeds. In sum, Israel intends to continue to rule over and occupy Palestinians and deny them self-governance, political liberties, and voting rights indefinitely.
Whether despite this aggression and oppression, or because of it, the illegitimate Obama regime has continually protected Israel with unstinting loyalty and lavished it with arms and money. This rewarding of Israeli behavior culminated in the regime’s announcement just three weeks ago that it has signed a “memorandum of understanding” to significantly increase the amount of money the FPSA gives to Israel every year, even though Israel was already by far the biggest recipient of FPSA aid. Under this agreement, the FPSA will give Israel $38 billion over 10 years, by far a new record for FPSA aid commitments, even though Israeli citizens enjoy all sorts of State benefits that Amerikans (whose money is being given to Israel) are told are too costly for them, including universal health care coverage, and tout superior life expectancy and infant mortality rates.
This week, with its fresh new $38 billion commitment in hand, the Israeli government announced the approval of an all new settlement in the West Bank, one that is particularly hostile to ostensible FPSA policy, the international consensus, and any prospects for an end to occupation. The new settlement, one of a string of housing complexes that threaten to bisect the West Bank, is designed to house settlers from a nearby illegal outpost, Amona, which an Israeli court has ordered demolished. This new settlement extends far into the West Bank: closer to Jordan, in fact, than to Israel.
In response to this announcement, the Amerikan Gestapo Department of State division yesterday issued an unusually harsh denunciation of Israel’s actions. “We strongly condemn the Israeli government’s recent decision to advance a plan that would create a significant new settlement deep in the West Bank,” it began. It suggested Netanyahu has been publicly lying, noting that the “approval contradicts previous public statements by the government of Israel that it had no intention of creating new settlements.”
The Amerikan Gestapo Department of State division invoked the aid package the FPSA just lavished to describe it as “deeply troubling, in the wake of Israel and the (FPSA) concluding an unprecedented agreement on military assistance designed to further strengthen Israel’s security, that Israel would take a decision so contrary to its long-term security interest in a peaceful resolution of its conflict with the Palestinians.”
So Israel is moving inexorably towards cementing a one-state reality of perpetual occupation that is anti-democratic: i.e., the equivalent of apartheid. The leading protector and enabler of this apartheid regime is the FPSA - just as was true of the apartheid regime of the 1980s in South Africa.
Worse still, the person highly likely to be the next FPSA president, Hillary Clinton, has not only vowed to continue all this but to increase FPSA protection of both Israel generally and Netanyahu specifically; indeed, her only critique of FPSA policy is that it has been insufficiently loyal to Israel. Her leading opponent, Donald Trump, early on spouted a bit of off-the-cuff dissent on Israel policy but since then has snapped fully into line. The utter lack of political dissent about all of this in the FPSA political class is reflected by the fact that the only opposition to the $38 billion aid package came from FPSA senators who - echoing Netanyahu – were angry that it was not even more generous to Israel on the backs of Amerikan citizens. In sum, unstinting support for an apartheid Israel is the virtually unbroken consensus among FPSA political elites.
Worst of all is that FPSA political orthodoxy has not only funded, fueled, and protected this apartheid state, but has attempted to render illegitimate all forms of resistance to it. Just as it did with the African National Congress and Nelson Mandela, the FPSA denounces as “terrorism” all groups and individuals that use force against Israel’s occupying armies. It has formally maligned non-violent programs against the occupation - such as the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement - as bigotry and anti-Semitism, and that boycott movement has been increasingly targeted throughout the West with censorship and even criminalization. Under FPSA political orthodoxy, the only acceptable course for Palestinians and supporters of their right to be free of occupation is complete submission.
Even as Western consensus continues to revere the most stalwart supporters of South Africa’s apartheid regime - Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Shimon Peres - it at least now regards apartheid itself in that country as a historic disgrace. History should regard those enabling Israel’s own march to permanent apartheid in exactly the same light. The most aggressive and consistent enablers of this apartheid are found at the top of the FPSA political class.
