A NUMBER OF ISRAELI NEWS sites have reported that Arab Members of Knesset (Mks) are calling for Israeli Arabs to join with Muslims in Gaza to invade Israel.
The leader of the anti-Israel group in the country’s Knesset (=parliament) is Israeli-educated Hanin Zoabi. 1
To her call for “millions of Palestinians to march on Jerusalem” she adds that this won’t happen because “the Israelis would kill them.”
ZOABI AND REALITY
Zoabi, faced with the reality of Israel and Arab women’s rights, chooses to ignore the truth.
The MK was aboard the Turkish provocation vessel Mavi Marmara when Israeli commandos boarded the ship (after it refused to stop for inspection). The vessel was found to be carrying not just “peaceful passengers,” but war materials to be used against Israel. (A later ship, the Turkish ship Lady Leyla , carrying more than 10,000 tons of humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip has reached the Israeli port of Ashdod from which the aid was trans-shipped overland to Gaza.3 Had the Mavi Marmara been carrying aid to Gaza and not contraband, it too could have berthed at Ashdod; it’s purpose, however, was to provoke Israel to board it at sea, to create an international incident – with Zoabi right in the middle.)
Zoabi castigates Israel as being a “fascist” state (ibid.) Despite two degrees from Israeli universities – one of which was in “journalism” – she apparently does not know the definition of the word “fascism” (and by extension, “fascist”). Merriam-Webster explains that fascism stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.4 Israel could never be considered a “fascist state” under MW’s definition. (Anyone who believes Zoabi never has been to Israel and seen Israelis of all religions treated with respect and general equality.)
Poll after poll suggests that – if a poll can be believed – most Muslims living in Israel prefer to live in Israel than in the PA areas or any neighboring Muslim state (e.g., Egypt, Iran and Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria,) I specify Israeli MUSLIMS since there are non-Muslim Arab residents of Israel.
Israel’s army has an Arab (Druze) general. He is an army general – not a general for Druze or Muslims. Israel’s Knesset (obviously) has Muslim Mks. Israel’s highest court had a Muslim justice.
Imagine an Israeli – of any faith – as a general in a Muslim army. or a member of the ruling body, or a member of the country’s highest court.
Yet, according to Zoabi – from her seat in Israel’s parliament – Israel is a “fascist” country.
When I lived in Israel (circa 1976) I could, and did, take either an “Arab” bus or an Egged bus to Nazareth (for school business). Muslims had, and exercised, the same options.
Having lived in Israel, the only discrimination I see is that practiced against women – Arab women, Jewish women, both can suffer equally – albeit not legally – abuse by their male relatives.
If Zoabi finds life in Israel so distasteful, so racist, so unsatisfactory that she has to align herself with the radicals who would wipe out all the Jews and throw “Palestine” back into the middle ages (along with Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Iran), let her relocate to the PA areas. Would she be welcomed as a member of the PA’s parliament? How about the despots ruling Gaza?
Zoabi bites the hand that feeds her and her rants should been seen as those of a spoiled child, one out to spite the people who give her the soapbox.
Every country has people like Zoabi, but most countries don’t tolerate traitors in government. Her statements to whomever will listen are without doubt treasonous and she should – at a minimum – be stripped of her Knesset seat.
But that won’t happen in”fascist” Israel where she is protected by the courts.
Sources
1. http://tinyurl.com/ycpnpmyn
2. http://tinyurl.com/ydh74qr5
3. http://tinyurl.com/zup8hop
4. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fascism
PLAGIARISM is the act of appropriating the literary composition of another, or parts or passages of his writings, or the ideas or language of the same, and passing them off as the product of one’s own mind.
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