No hate. No violence
Races? Only one Human race
United We Stand, Divided We Fall
Radio Islam
Know Your enemy!
No time to waste. Act now!
Tomorrow it will be too late

English

Franç.

Deutsch

عربي

Sven.

Español

Portug.

Italiano

Русск.

бълг.

Hrvat.

Češt.

Dansk

Suomi

Magyar

Neder.

Norsk

Polski

Rom.

Srpski

Slov.

Indon.

فارسی

Türkçe

日本語

汉语

Support Barak?

To My Friends in the Peace Movement

By Jeff Halper
Mon, 10 Jul 2000
 

I wish the division in Israeli society between those who support the peace process and those who don't was so simple. It isn't. While I certainly support a GENUINE peace process, I cannot in good conscience join the Peace Now "Support Barak" activities. My hesitation in giving Barak an open check during the up-coming Summit was only reinforced when I heard the man on the 9 o'clock news tonight.

Barak said very clearly what his vision of peace is -- and its a vision he has repeated since before the elections. Perhaps the worst is his opening statement: Barak vision is "separation" -- "us here; them there." I don't know if he speaks for Peace Now and others from the center to the left, but I find the notion of "separating" ourselves from the Palestinians as repugnant, racist and, when mixed with the power Israel will have over the Palestinian state, simply the Afrikaan's word for "separation" -- Apartheid. With a million Palestinian living in Israel and 400,000 Israelis living across the Green Line, where the hell is "here" and "there?" Are we really going to have a "peace" based on Barak's proposals of walls, canals, bridges, tunnels and Erez- type checkpoints, such as he is building between Bethlehem and Jerusalem at this moment? Is this what "peace" means to Peace Now?

Barak then went on to demolish his own absurd notion of "here" and "there" when he stated his second negotiating position: Israeli annexation of "settlement blocs" -- a new concept simply linking dozens of settlements through loose "master plans," thus giving them new legitimacy. These blocs will contain by Barak's own admission some 80% of the West Bank settler population (he also stated that he expects the settlers to support the "peace agreement" he will bring home). Israel will control the entire central West Bank from Ariel in the northwest, Shilo in the north-center and the Jordan Valley in the northeast through "Greater Jerusalem" extending from Modi'in through Ma'aleh Adumim until the Jordan River, and including in the south the massive area of Efrat, the Etzion Bloc, Beitar Illit and down to Kiryat Arba. Even if the Palestinians get 85-90% of the West Bank (sounds generous, doesn't it?), they will have nothing but four bantustans separated by Israeli settlements, highways, industrial parks and checkpoints -- the northern West Bank enclave, the souther West Bank enclave, East Jerusalem and Gaza. In short, we are "here" AND we are "there" -- and we control the entirety.

Barak then went on to reiterate that Jerusalem will remain under Israeli sovereignty and will never again be divided. But what's "Jerusalem?" What Israel calls "East Jerusalem" is a complete fiction. Jordanian East Jerusalem -- the Old City, Sheikh Jarrah, Wadi Joz and the Mount of Olives -- was only 6 sq. kms. in size. Israel unilaterally annexed another 64 sq. kms. from the West Bank (92% of "East Jerusalem") and now claims that Wallejeh, Sawarehreh and Kufr Akab are part of our "historic, sacred and indivisible" city. Even we of the "peace camp" have internalized an annexation that no one else in the world (including the U.S.) recognizes. The practicality of dismantling them aside, why don't we insist on viewing Ramat Eshkol, French Hill, Ramot, Rekhes Shuafat, Pisgat Ze'ev, Neveh Ya'akov, East Talpiot and Gilo as settlements -- just as we do Moskovich's Ras el-Amud project and Har Homa? The bottom line is that Barak, Peace Now and many of the rest of us in the "peace camp" accept annexation and settlement no less than do the "anti-peace" camp of the right. Why should we send Barak off with a mandate to "keep" all of Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty instead of sharing the city and letting the Palestinians partake of its holiness and historicity as well, as their capital as well as ours?

Barak's fourth stated position should be reputiated by any Israeli moved by justice and the desire for peace and reconciliation. Not only will Israel steadfastly refuse to let Palestinian refugees back into the country, but Barak disclaims ANY Israeli "responsibility, accountability or sense of guilt" in creating the refugee situation. This, despite well-documented policies, acts and campaigns to remove Palestinians from their lands and homes in 1948, the willful destruction of more than 400 villages so that their inhabitants (including "present absentees" could not return), and laws ensuring not only that the refugees could not return but that their property would revert to Jewish ownership. Israel's moral position should be the right of return, and then the details worked out in negotiations. How can we, the moral ones, the peace-lovers, send Barak to Washington knowing our responsibility in ending 50+ years of misery for millions of people?

Can we in good conscience join the Peace Now bandwagon knowing that Barak's positions foreclose any possibility of a viable Palestinian state? Can we support a vision of "peace" based on separation, control and in the end even Apartheid? Can we go along with empty and downright WRONG slogans about Jerusalem and the refugee issue? Can we disassociate -- like Barak can -- from our historical responsibilities?

I, for one, cannot participate in Peace Now's uncritical "Support Barak" campaign. I understand the need to support the beseiged "peace camp," but I do not consider Barak's vision of peace to be anything close to the vision of a just, viable and lasting peace that will bring true reconciliation to our region. It is, in my humble opinion, merely a more sophisticated version of Likud's annexation, only the Palestinians are confined to a few impoverished bantustans instead of living under outright occupation. I fear both for the failure of the Summit and for Barak's success in imposing his version of peace.



"When a Jew, in America or in South Africa, talks to his Jewish companions about 'our' government, he means the government of Israel."

- David Ben-Gurion, Israeli Prime Minister


Palestine banner
Viva Palestina!

Latest Additions - in English

What is this Jewish carnage really about? - The background to atrocities

Videos on Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam and Blacks and Jews  

How Jewish Films and Television Promotes bias Against Muslims

Judaism is Nobody's Friend
Judaism is the Jews' strategy to dominate non-Jews.

Jewish War Against Lebanon!

Islam and Revolution
By Ahmed Rami

Hasbara - The Jewish manual for media deceptions

Celebrities bowing to their Jewish masters

Elie Wiesel - A Prominent False Witness
By Robert Faurisson

The Gaza atrocity 2008-2009


Iraq under Jewish occupation
Iraq - war and occupation


Jewish War On Syria!

CNN's Jewish version of "diversity" - Lists the main Jewish agents

Hezbollah the Beautiful
Americans, where is your own Hezbollah?

Black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan's Epic Speech in Madison Square Garden, New York  - A must see!

"War on Terror" - on Israel's behalf!

World Jewish Congress: Billionaires, Oligarchs, Global Influencers for Israel

Interview with anti-Zionist veteran Ahmed Rami of Radio Islam - On ISIS, "Neo-Nazis", Syria, Judaism, Islam, Russia...

Britain under Jewish occupation!


Jewish World Power
West Europe    East Europe
Americas          Asia
Middle East       Africa
      U.N.              E.U.

 

The Internet and Israeli-Jewish infiltration/manipulations

Books - Important collection of titles

The Judaization of China

Israel: Jewish Supremacy in Action - By David Duke

The Power of Jews in France

Jew Goldstone appointed by UN to investigate War Crimes in Gaza

When Jews rule...
The best book on Jewish Power


The Israel Lobby - From the book

Jews and Crime - The archive

Sayanim - Israel's and Mossad's Jewish helpers abroad

Listen to Louis Farrakhan's Speech - A must hear!

The Israeli Nuclear Threat

The "Six Million" Myth

"Jewish History" - a bookreview

Putin and the Jews of Russia

Israel's attack on US warship USS Liberty - Massacre in the Mediterranean

Jewish "Religion" - What is it?

Medias in the hands of racists

Strauss-Kahn - IMF chief and member of Israel lobby group

Down with Zio-Apartheid
Stop Jewish Apartheid!

The Jews behind Islamophobia

Israel controls U.S. Presidents
Biden, Trump, Obama, Bush, Clinton...

The Victories of Revisionism
By Professor Robert Faurisson

The Jewish hand behind Internet The Jews behind Google, Facebook, Wikipedia, Yahoo!, MySpace, eBay...

"Jews, who want to be decent human beings, have to renounce being Jewish"

Jewish War Against Iran

Jewish Manipulation of World Leaders

Al Jazeera English under Jewish infiltration

The Founding Myths of Modern Israel
Garaudy's "The Founding Myths
of Israeli Politics"


Jewish hate against Christians
By Prof. Israel Shahak

Introduction to Revisionist
Thought
- By Ernst Zündel

Karl Marx: The Jewish Question

Reel Bad Arabs - Revealing the racist Jewish Hollywood propaganda

"Anti-Semitism" - What is it?

Videos - Important collection 

The Jews Banished 47 Times in 1000 Years - Why?

Zionist strategies - Plotting invasions, formenting civil wars, interreligious strife, stoking racial hatreds and race war

The International Jew
By Henry Ford

Pravda interviews Ahmed Rami

The Founding Myths of Modern Israel
Shahak's "Jewish History,
Jewish Religion"


The Jewish plan to destroy the Arab countries - From the World Zionist Organization

Judaism and Zionism inseparable

Revealing photos of the Jews 

Horrors of ISIS Created by Zionist Supremacy - By David Duke

Racist Jewish Fundamentalism

The Freedom Fighters:
   Hezbollah - Lebanon
   Nation of Islam - U.S.A.

Jewish Influence in America
- Government, Media, Finance...

"Jews" from Khazaria stealing the land of Palestine

The U.S. cost of supporting Israel

Turkey, Ataturk and the Jews

Talmud unmasked
The truth about the Talmud


Israel and the Ongoing Holocaust in Congo

Jews DO control the media - a Jew brags! - Revealing Jewish article

Abbas - The Traitor

Protocols of Zion - The whole book!

Encyclopedia of the Palestine Problem
Encyclopedia of the
Palestine Problem


The "Holocaust" - 120 Questions and Answers

Quotes - On Jewish Power / Zionism

Caricatures / Cartoons 

Activism! - Join the Fight!