Israel Is A Terrorist State – Say Israelis

by kilamxx

The Israeli invasion of Gaza has nothing to do with the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier or even with Hamas’ rise to power. It is a continuation of the unalterable policy of annexation through terror and brutality and the subjugation of the Palestinian people that had been the backbone of the illegal regime’s territorial expansion plans. This policy is easily understood from the statements that have been made by every Israeli prime minister since the founding of the state in 1948. Read some of the statements in my 5^th March 2006 blog Never Forget The Victims - The Palestinians.

Terrorism is most often defined as the practice of the deliberate inflicting (either directly or indirectly) of harm, injury, death and/or destruction upon a civilian target sufficient to cause horror, revulsion or despair among civilian populations and/or their political leaders, with the goal of causing those populations or political leaders to act in a way desired by the terrorists.

A terrorist state is a state which practices terrorism, even if it pretends (or rather, lies) to the world that it does not. By this definition Israel is a terrorist state.

The nations of the world know this even if most of their leaders are too scared to express it officially. The few who have, like Chavez, Ahmadinejad and Castro, are immediately subjected to ridicule and condemnation by the Zionist controlled media and the ‘big brother’ of the Israeli regime, the United States of America.

This, however, has not stopped Israelis themselves from stating the obvious that the world leaders are too timid to say. The following are a few examples:-

The late professor Israel Shahak, a Holocaust survivor, and then chairman of the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights, wrote: "There is nothing new in the fact that Israel is a terrorist state, which, almost from its inception, has used its intelligence service (the Mossad) to assassinate people on foreign soil with any violence or terror it considers necessary for its ends."

Referring to the current action in Gaza, Haaretz, the Israeli newspaper, wrote in its editorial (30^th June 2006), “The tactic of pressuring civilians has been tried before, and more than once. The Lebanese, for example, are very familiar with the Israeli tactic of destroying power stations and infrastructure. Entire villages in south Lebanon have been terrorized, with the inhabitants fleeing in their thousands for Beirut.”

The paper, referring to the arrest of elected Hamas officials also said, “…arresting people to use as bargaining chips is the act of a gang, not of a state.”

Haim Bresheeth is an activist and film-maker of Israeli origin, living in Britain, where he is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of East London. He had the following things to say about Israeli governments:- "I don't think there is the slightest difference between the different Israeli governments in one important respect - the Zionist project was, is, and will be about the dispossession and expulsion of the Palestinian population of Palestine. It was this, it is this, and it will be this - every Israeli government has done this - it doesn't matter if it was Barak and now Sharon or Netayahu before him - it was no different..."

Raya Fidel, a professor at the University of Washington, was born and raised in Israel. She criticized the brutality of Zionism in the Freedom Socialist (July-Sept. 2002)

“Internationally,” she wrote, “Jewish opposition to the Israeli government is growing very rapidly, challenging the impression fostered by the mainstream media that Jews are united in their unconditional support of Tel Aviv. Far from it. From the "refuseniks" in the Israeli armed forces who recoil from serving in the occupied territories, to U.S. Jews who protest Israeli state terrorism with signs saying "Not in my name," Jews are increasingly demanding that Israel end its war against the Palestinians.”

She noted, “….since the systematic increase in the brutality of the occupation following the beginning of the new Palestinian Intifadah in October 2000, growing numbers of Jews, even Zionist Jews, realize that the war against the Palestinians makes Israel a racist and immoral state.”