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    18 January 2017

    Violence: the language a Jewish state

    Ayman Odeh, a member of the Israeli parliament, the head of the Joint
    List, the third largest party in the parliament shot by the Israeli police
    Here is another image (copyright: Keren Manor) that conveys the situation of
    Palestinians these ones Palestinian citizens of Israel more completely than
    any words. The man on the ground is Ayman Odeh, a member of the Israeli
    parliament, the head of the Joint List, the third largest party in the parliament,
    and the highest-ranking Palestinian politician in Israel.
    Israeli police have just shot him with rubber-tipped bullets, not once but twice
    including to the face. Odeh is one of the least confrontational politicians among
    Israels large Palestinian minority, a fifth of the population. His message is
    consistently one of peace and amity between all Israeli citizens, whether Jews
    or Palestinians. That does not seem to have protected him from the shoot-first,
    ask-questions-later approach of Israels security services towards Palestinians.
    This image should be as shocking as seeing a bloodied Bernie Sanders or Jeremy
    Corbyn crawling in the dirt, watched impassively by US or UK police.
    Context is important too. Odeh had joined the 1,000 inhabitants of Umm alHiran all Palestinian citizens of Israel early this morning in a demonstration
    to stop demolition crews destroying the 150 homes of their village in the Negev.
    Israel allowed these families to move to the area of Umm al-Hiran in the 1950s
    after it had driven them from their original, and much more substantial, lands
    during the Nakba. The pretext then for expelling them was that Israel needed
    their ancestral lands for an exclusively Jewish kibbutz.

    That all occurred during a military government that ruled over Israels
    Palestinians for nearly two decades. More than 60 years later, exactly the same
    thing is happening again, but this time in front of the cameras. Umm al-Hiran is
    being destroyed so that an exclusively Jewish community, with the same name of
    Hiran, can be built over these families homes. Israel never issued Umm al-Hiran
    with a master plan, so now it can be declared illegal and its inhabitants called
    squatters and trespassers. The families are being ethnically cleansed a
    second time not during hostilities or in a time of war, but by their own state in
    a time of peace.
    They are far from alone. Thousands of other families, and their villages, face
    the same fate.
    The truth is nothing has changed from the 1950s. Israel still behaves as if it is
    ruling militarily over its Palestinian citizens. It is still a Jewish state, one that
    privileges the rights of Jewish citizens over Palestinian citizens. It still treats
    all non-Jews as a threat, as an enemy.
    Israel is not a normal kind of state. It is an ethnocracy, and one driven by an
    ideological variation of the ethnic nationalisms that tore apart Europe a century
    ago.
    Odeh is a leader who campaigns for peace and equality between Jewish and
    Palestinian citizens. Today, he got his answer. His place is bruised, bloodied
    and bowed, crawling through the dirt. This is the language of a Jewish
    state.
    www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2017-01-18/violence-the-language-a-jewishstate/#sthash.tkk4qRAp.dpuf

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