Palestinians as Native Americans, The Dispossessed Natives Canard, an unfounded analogy

A reoccurring lie regarding the Israeli Palestinian conflict is the false analogy between Palestinians and Native Americans and Australian Aborigines. This analogy claims that the Palestinians are like the Native Americans, an indigenous population dispossessed by people who came to their land by ships. In fact there is not a single comparable point between the Palestinian story and that of the Native Americans and the Australian Aborigines.

To begin with Native Americans and Australian Aborigines never kept white Europeans in ghettos like quarters and taxed them for having a different religion then they had. On the contrary, they welcomed the new arrivals, and helped them adjust to their new surroundings.

However some of those new arrivals did not acknowledge the humanity of their new neighbors and preformed horrific mass murder attacks on them, such as pogroms and massacres.

This kind of behavior is something they brought from Europe. There the ruling/dominant religion or nationality oppressed violently other religions and nationalities. In this Europe the perpetrators and the victims were diverse. Protestants persecuted Catholics and Jews, Catholics persecuted Protestants, Jews, Muslims and Eastern Orthodox, and Eastern Orthodox persecuted Jews, Catholics, and Muslims.

The Muslim world, which ruled parts of Europe for the greater part of the last 1300 years, was no different. It treated minorities and conquered population in the same manner, subjecting Christian, Jews and other branches of Islam, to intolerance, backed on more than one occasion by brutal violence. Violence that was no different then the brutal violence Europeans inflicted on the native populations of the Americas, Africa, and Australia.

Both the Christian world and the Muslim world had produced kingdoms and empires that were authoritarian theocracies, and therefore intolerant and brutal towards those who were different. When nation states emerged from those kingdoms and empires, many of them inherited this conduct, implementing it on neighboring nationalities and conquered nations. Europe’s first colonies were in Europe. And the Ottoman Empire had its colonies in the Balkans, as well as in the Middle East.

Zionism, as the national liberation movement of the Jewish people, took the Jews from this vulnerable position, and gave them national sovereignty in their national homeland. There, Jews are able to protect themselves from such violence. In doing so Zionism was a part a world wide anti imperialist effort. One, which included the liberated nations of Europe, de-colonialism, and civil rights movements across the world.
Like all liberation movements, Zionism faced its enemies, as it does today; Enemies that are not much different than past repressors, as the hallmark of deliberately targeting and killing civilians, men, women, and children, repeatedly testifies.

Israel is a racial, apartheid, colonial, Nazi, genocidal state

Israel is a democracy with equal rights for all. Fact of the matter – everyone can and does vote for the Israeli parliament – the Knesset. In Israel Jews and Arabs can vote and get elected to a legislative office, many of Israel’s parliamentarians are Arabs, even right wing parties have Arab representatives, such as Ayoob Kara from the Likud, and Hamad Amar from Israel Beitenu. There are also Arab mayors, businessman and businesswomen; sports clubs owners and managers, newspapers owners, reporters and editors and so on. All these and more are a part of a rich Arab culture that thrives along side the Jewish one in Israel. In a racist, apartheid, colonial, genocidal Nazi state, none of these would have existed.

So why is this accusation, this lie been made?

Just what are apartheid, colonialism, and Nazism?

These are not mere accusation. Apartheid, colonialism, and Nazism are the most monstrous evils of our times. Evils so great they had to be abolished. And those who hate Israel describe the very existence of the state of Israel and its society as evil to be abolished.

And what to they want to abolish?

Israel is the some of its parts, a regime, which is a democracy.
A culture and society based on the Hebrew language, Jewish traditions, and openness to the outside world.
It is made out of a people, individuals, old and young, women and children and men of all sorts of height and color and personality; and all that is labeled loudly apartheid, colonialism, Nazism. All that essence, which every society, country and state on this Earth has and no one denies its right to have. All that wonder we call humanity is labeled as an evil that must be abolished when it comes to Israel.

Racism on all its forms was never the mere existence of a society; that never was and never will be racism. Racism is about the mistreatment of others – from oppression to annihilation, abolishment. Racism is about the abolishment of a society.

An abolishment of what?
An abolishment of everything humanity represents: culture, society, language, the freedom to choose and the freedom to be. All of which lives in Israel today.

In today’s world a smart racist knows that advocating white supremacy or saying that Jews drink the blood of children for Passover won’t attract a lot of respect, let alone believers. So instead he or she shouts loudly at Israel and at everything Jewish the words racist, nazi, zionazi trying to demonize the very existence of a society. Just like racist do. Deferent technique – same purpose.


So when someone calls someone else a Nazi, what are they referring to?
The treatment of others by that someone or the mere existence of that someone??
Because if it is the mere existence of someone that infuriates them, then they are racist as racist could possibly get.

Sometimes these sorts of ‘critiques’ get creative and say that it is not Israel that is racist but the treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, which is racist. If the security measures that Israel implemented in the territories, the security barrier, the check points, the on going military operation against terror cells hiding in civilian communities and others, all of which had reduced the success of Palestinian mass murder operations against Israeli civilians into a near zero, if all these measures are apartheid, racism, then the very lives of each and every Israeli citizens that are saved every day and every minute by those measures are also apartheid and racism, an evil to abolish. Thus this creativity only proves the true intentions of those ‘critiques’.

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The Israelis claim of superiority

Whenever Israelis mention the historic fact that the Jews developed the land while the Arabs neglected it, Palestinian and Arab propagandists use that to suggest that the Jews are claming superiority over them, as if we’re saying that we are better. Here they use a hole in Israeli advocacy efforts, which do not introduce the historic reasons for this Arab and Islamic neglect of the holy land during Ottoman times.

The historic background is simple: with our back to the pogroms and persecution of the Diaspora, the forced exile, we had a powerful incentive to develop the land in spite of tremendous difficulties, to gain our freedom and develop the land and our lives. The Arabs on the other hand, where apart of the Ottoman empire, which found neglect useful to keep invaders out, while the block of their forces where engaged in the Balkans.

The neglect created malaria infested swamps along the coast, which kept most invaders out but also depleted much of the population. The small elite of the thinly Arab population didn't wish to change that because they where apart of the empire's elite and had incentives into other directions, such as the empire’s regional centers in Beirut and Damascus; and the capitol itself – Istanbul.

Israel is a land just for Jews

This lie is the most devilish of them all. It is apart of the Zionism racism libel, simple yet sophisticated, and highly effective.
All they did was just to add the word just. A simple, harmless little word, which changed the meaning from one end to the other:

Zionism describes Israel as a state for the Jews, a place where Jews can rule themselves by being a majority, a place which contains their national history the way all national homelands do.
In order to dehumanize Zionism, Palestinian and Arab propaganda added the word 'JUST'. By just adding the word JUST, they made Israel and Zionism look like something exclusive. While in fact, Theodore Hertzl, founder of Political Zionism and visionary of the state of Israel, made it very clear in the segment about law and constitution in his book 'The Jewish state', that "no minority living among us shell suffer intolerance, religious or national".

Since the Zionist idea, like all national liberation movements, deals with the liberation of a specific nation, the Jews, the word 'JUST' doesn't seem like a big change to an Israeli or a Jew, but when faced with the new meaning of the sentence, the common reaction is confusion; confusion which help sell the lie.
It is also important to note, that the word 'JUSTt' in regard to racism is connected not to the access to a land, but to the system of power, where the right to vote is exclusively held by one group. In Israel there is one person one vote system, for Jews and Arabs citizens alike, and both have representatives at the legislative assembly.

Zionism and racism

The loudest and the biggest lie of them all is the accusation that Zionism is racism:
Racism is the ideological justification of oppressing other people for the sake of oppressing them. On its various forms and excuses racism justified the rule of one group of people over the other, whether by conquest and imperialism, or by segregation and institutional discrimination within the home country, based on ethnic, religion, and cultural lines or any other differences that may exist.

Zionism is the national liberation movement of the Jewish people; it sought and gained for the Jews self rule and self-determination, a right every nation has (including the Palestinians) where Jews are ruled by Jews and not by other rulers and nations. Before Zionism Jews where a chronic minority: always depended on the (mostly lacking) good grace of others. Prior to the formation of the state of Israel even democratic countries were unable to ensure the safety and well being of their Jewish citizens.

Since racism is about justifying the rule of one group of people over another, and Zionism is about Jews ruling Jews; that is people ruling themselves, Zionism is the exact opposite of racism.


WHAT ABOUT THE OCCUPATION?
Given what has been said above shouldn’t Israel be considered racist because it maintains an occupation over the West Bank?

NO! Is every occupation racist or imperialistic?

What about the occupation of the Confederated States by the Northern States at the end of the American Civil War, which ended slavery there? Was that racist?

And what about the occupation of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, which ended their spate of horrors across the world known as the Second World War?

The fact is that there is no war without occupation, and this war (the Israeli Arab conflict) will always be 19 years longer then the said occupation.

The phase in this conflict known as the Six Days War of June 1967, that resulted in this occupation was a defensive war.
Once the threats to Israel are gone, them being the inability of major players in the Arab world and the Middle East to accept the RIGHT of the Jewish state to exist and the RIGHT of Jews for life and liberty, the road to negotiation and peace will be open, which will end the war and with it the occupation. This is exactly what happened in Sinai Peninsula in 1982, when a peace agreement between Israel and Egypt lead to evacuation of the peninsula from Israeli armed forces and settlers.

WHO’S THE RACIST?

The fact of the matter is that occupation and settlements are not the key markers of racism.

THE DELIBERATE SYSTEMATIC KILLING OF CIVILIAN IS!

This form of abhorrent conduct by Palestinian Arabs against Israeli and Jewish civilians is the most famous feature of the conflict in spite of massive pro Palestinian propaganda, and it predates the state of Israel, and predates the emergence of Zionism.
The earliest known attack was the Safed pogrom, known as ‘The Great Plunder Safed’. It was a 33 days long fest of violence against the Jews of Safed, perpetuated by Palestinian Arabs from the nearby villages.

And since then the methods may have changed but not the conduct.
In denying Jew these equal and most basic rights, anti-Zionists commit an act of discrimination, racism. Which is just as racist as the systematic and deliberate killing of civilians.

Murderous violence that preceded Zionism:



From left to right, victims of the Nebi Musa riots, Jerusalem 1920, the slain body of Haim Brener – the Jaffa riots of 1921, The Kizelshtein family, survivors of the Hebron massacre, 1929. Jewish refugees fleeing Arab Jaffa on their way to Tel Aviv – 1936, the bus and some and some of murdered passengers from the Ma’ale Akrabim attack - 1954. The Ma’alot attack – 1974. The immediate aftermath of the suicide bombing in Sbarro pizzeria 2001.