[News] 'Israel' Has No Moral Right To Exist

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'Israel' Has No Moral Right To Exist
Robert Inlakesh
February 22, 2024
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In this current war between Gaza and “Israel”, the Zionist army has
inflicted a civilian death toll in Gaza that makes Daesh look like a group
of humanitarians.
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   - In 1982, some 20,000 Palestinians and Lebanese were then massacred
   when the Zionist military invaded Lebanon and forced the Palestine
   Liberation Organisation (PLO) to leave (Illustrated by Mahdi Rteil to *Al
   Mayadeen English*)

The Israeli regime is unique in its constant need for validation. No other
regime is consistently seeking its enemy’s recognition, nor attempting to
receive a moral approval for its behavior from its peers. Interestingly, as
it always advocates for its position, it puts itself out there for review
and if any regime could be divorced from a “right to exist” based upon
merit, it would be “Israel”.

What has been committed against the people of Gaza, since last October, is
an unprecedented crime in human history. Never before have we seen a people
as severely terrorized with modern military equipment as are the people of
the Gaza Strip. Whether it be the tonnage of bombs dropped on Gaza, the
percentage of the infrastructure destroyed, or even the number of children,
women, journalists, medical workers, and other protected groups killed, the
Zionist military has broken all records.

Today, we objectively see the world's worst humanitarian crisis in Gaza,
labeled as such by the United Nations’ aid chief Martin Griffiths. The
total number of casualties suffered in Gaza has risen well above 100,000,
with the number of injured and dead nearly impossible to count as the means
to ascertain accurate figures do not exist. While the massive,
unprecedented loss of human life in Gaza goes on, the Zionist regime
attacks the credibility of everyone commenting and recording this stain on
humanity’s historical record, attempting to undermine every institution
from the Gaza Health Ministry, all the way to every organ of the UN.

For those who believe that the idea that “Israel” has no right to exist is
too far of a statement to make, consider some of the following pieces of
information:

The Israeli regime is currently on trial at the International Court of
Justice (ICJ) for committing what the World Court’s judges unanimously
decided were viably various violations of the Genocide Conventions. At the
same time, “Israel” has been labeled by all the regional and top
international reputable human rights groups as an Apartheid regime, with
even its own top human rights organization, B’Tselem, labeling it a “regime
of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea”.
Simultaneously, the Israeli regime has a case that is pending at the
International Criminal Court (ICC), over war crimes committed in the
occupied territories since 2014.

In this current war between Gaza and “Israel”, the Zionist army has
inflicted a civilian death toll in Gaza that makes Daesh look like a group
of humanitarians. In the first two years of the Daesh insurgency in Iraq,
the UN stated that some 18,800 civilians were killed by the terrorist
organization, while the Zionist military has massacred well over 30,000
Palestinians in around 5 months. In fact, the true death toll in the Gaza
Strip, when we account for those reported missing and buried under the
rubble, is most likely closer to 40,000.

Historically speaking, the Zionist entity is responsible for not only the
mass ethnic cleansing of between 750,000 to 850,000 Palestinians during the
Nakba (1947-9), but went on to commit mass expulsions of Palestinians from
their homes during the 1950’s; especially with the assaults on the Gaza
Strip during that time period. In 1967, a further 350,000 Palestinians were
expelled from their lands, while around the year 1970, some 100,000 were
forced from their homes during the period of the Jordan Valley clashes.

In 1982, some 20,000 Palestinians and Lebanese were then massacred when the
Zionist military invaded Lebanon and forced the Palestine Liberation
Organisation (PLO) to leave. Once the PLO left Lebanon and there was nobody
there to defend the Palestinian refugee camps, the Zionists used their
fascist allied militia groups to mass murder and mutilate thousands of
Palestinian refugees and Lebanese Shia; the most infamous case being the
Sabra and Shatila massacre. The Zionist entity then decided to impose an
illegal occupation on southern Lebanon, which they did not relinquish until
the Lebanese resistance forced them to leave in 2000.

The one group of Palestinians that the Zionist regime claims is an example
of how they treat “the right kind of Arab” better, is the Palestinian
citizens of “Israel”. These Palestinians are discriminated against legally
through over 60 bills passed in the Israeli Knesset, and were also under
military occupation themselves up until 1966 when the Zionists illegally
occupied East al-Quds, the West Bank, Gaza, the Egyptian Sinai and Syrian
Golan Heights. As for the Bedouin Palestinians, who carry Israeli
citizenship and reside in the Naqab (Negev), they themselves underwent mass
displacement in the hundreds of thousands, as did the majority of
Palestinian citizens of the occupied land, and are now subjected to a
program of displacement, whereby their “unrecognized” villages are
frequently bulldozed and seized for the expansion of settlements.

Even with the Israeli Jewish population, discrimination against
non-European Jews was always rampant, this included spraying Iraqi Jews
with disinfectant in the 1950’s when they first arrived in occupied
Palestine and even the theft of Yemeni Jewish babies in their thousands,
who were assumed to have been gifted to White Jewish households. This
treatment of Jews from the Arab World, who were viewed as having the
mentality of “lesser peoples” and were even discussed using racial slurs by
members of the Israeli ruling elite, bares resemblance to the Stolen
Generation and Residential Schools that were used to so-called “civilize”
the indigenous communities of Australia and Canada. This is not to mention
the more recent sterilization of African women and rampant discrimination
against Ethiopian Jews that has led to countless anti-police riots, the
most recent coming in 2019.

Racism is woven into the Israeli social fabric on every single level and
does not exempt Jewish people themselves, part of this history was the
emergence of the Israeli Black Panthers party, which was formed primarily
of Jews from MENA backgrounds.

All of this is not to mention the daily horrors under the occupation that
began in 1967 in the West Bank, Gaza and East al-Quds. None of this even
scratches the surface of the never-ending expansion of illegal settlements
on Palestinian lands, the daily demolition of homes in the West Bank and
East al-Quds. It doesn’t cover the fact that the Zionist entity was the
first UN recognised state to legalize torture and to enshrine human shield
taking into their military doctrine.

Everything mentioned above leaves out the siege on Gaza, which began in
2006 and was tightened in 2007. It leaves out the high-tech massacres
carried out against the people of Gaza in 2006, 2008-9, 2012, 2014 and
2021. It also leaves out the mass murder of around 300 Gazan non-violent
protesters during the Great Return March of 2018-9. This list of aerial
assaults on Gaza also misses out smaller-scale bombing attacks which were
carried out during the years in between, for instance there was an attack
on Gaza in early 2023, before the war in October, and an assault on Gaza in
August of 2022 also.

At this point, much of the world knows now that 97% of the water was unfit
for human consumption in Gaza, before October 7. It is well known that Gaza
was declared unlivable in 2020 by UN experts and that the conditions in the
besieged coastal territory were tantamount to a concentration camp.

The short summary that is provided above, only scratches the surface of
what the Zionist entity has committed during its history, for context. What
is happening right now is so incredibly horrific, in its content and scale,
that you have to go back to the colonial era in order to find somewhat
adequate comparisons. Yet, this is the first time we are seeing a genocide
in real time, minute to minute and on live feeds through our phones. Nobody
can claim that the world doesn’t know, or that the Israelis themselves
don’t see what is happening. In fact, the Israeli society supports this
genocide overwhelmingly, according to every available poll conducted.

On every level of Israeli society, from politicians to media personalities,
civilians on social media to the soldiers on the ground, the daily
genocidal remarks against Palestinians are unrelenting. There are no viable
Israeli opposition parties that are challenging Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu, they all advocate the same racist policies and it is
considered as a mutiny for any Israeli to advocate against slaughtering the
people of Gaza.

The Zionist entity is premised on being a secure place to protect the
Jewish people, a regime that will prevent another Holocaust, yet they have
proven that they are not only incapable of defending against a
well-disciplined opposition, but they are a regime which is causing a
genocide. Every argument that could be presented by the Zionists is
defeated and in the dust, the only one left is that they are able to do
anything because they are superior and Palestinians/Muslims/Arabs are
inferior beings in their nature. The Zionist entity was born of European
bigotry, with the idea being that to end anti-Semitism in Europe, they had
to emulate other settler colonial movements and behave as White
Supremacists overseas.

No State has the inherent right to exist, they exist as a fact and this
remains the case as long as there is the means to allow them to remain. On
a moral level, if you believe in “Israel’s right to exist” then you are
saying that you believe in Apartheid, Genocide, War Crimes, and a Racist
ideology, the Zionist entity’s existence is predicated on these outcomes
and ideas. In response to arguments, like the one presented here, bad faith
actors will argue that the rejection of “Israel’s right to exist” is a call
for the extermination of the Jewish people, the argument is quite the
contrary. The call for the end of the Israeli regime is a call for the
liberation of people living in occupied Palestine, it is a call for the
abolishment of a racist Apartheid regime and installing a system that
grants equal rights. It is also a call for justice and following this
genocide in Gaza, the only just solution is the end of the Zionist regime
and the granting of equal rights to all peoples living between the river
and the sea, in the land of Palestine.

There is no other member State at the United Nations that falls under the
category of being an Apartheid State while dwarfing the civilian death toll
inflicted by Daesh, is accused of Genocide at the highest judicial body in
the world, war crimes at the ICC, and is also an illegal occupier/annexer.
If there is any member of the UN that can be argued has no right to exist,
it is “Israel”.
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