Israel a menace to peace

Rockets showered down on Israel from Gaza today [24 June 2008] breaking the calm of a hardly a week's old truce. Al Quds brigade claimed ownership in response to the Israeli army's murder of two Palestinian civilians in Nablus on the west bank. Even though the truce between Hamas in Gaza and the Olmert government does not cover the west bank, you would think that Israel would have the wisdom to keep a low key. No, the Zionist state has never waivered from making what it refers to Samaria and Judea Arab rein in the footsteps of Herr Hitler who wanted to make Germany and Europe Juden rein. The more Israel tightens its hold on the territory it took over 41 years ago in the June 1967 six day war, the more two independent states, living side by side is a chimera. Ultimately if things continue the way they are, there will be but one state Israel with an overwhelmingly Arab majority treated the same way blacks and coloured were treated in apartheid South Africa. Israel can in any sense be then thought of as a Jewish state, but of a Jewish over class trampling on the rights of Arabs. Ahad Ha Am warned Israel of this almost a century ago; Hannah Arendt gave up hope that the newly founded Zionist state would treat Palestinians equally, and so though a strong Jew culturally she turned her eyes more to Europe and to her adopted country the US. Israel has no intention of making peace; it is the Goliath whom so far no David has fallen. It may suffer humiliation in Lebanon but on its own turf it acts as stormtroopers. And as such is a menace to peace in its own backyard.