Though the Palestinian Authority has rejected an Israeli demand for them to declare their public recognition of Israel as a uniquely “Jewish” state, citing concerns for the nation’s Arab minority, the US State Department has been Johnny-on-the-spot with its own unsolicited declaration that they are committed to Israel’s status in that regard.
“We recognize the special nature of the Israeli state. It is a state for the Jewish people,” declared spokesman P.J. Crowley. Crowley added that it was a “core demand of the Israeli government, which we support.”
The Palestinian Authority has insisted that it is not up to them to define their neighbors’ status, and expressed concern that such a recognition could harm the status of Israel’s large non-Jewish population. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman today suggested during a meeting with his Finnish counterpart that the PA’s refusal was part of an Arab plot to “delegitimize” Israel and carve out a number of additional Arab states inside Israel. It seems however that the case for such a move would be greater with the recognition, as it would cement the Arab minority’s second-class status.
Which seems to be of concern to European Union officials, who today warned that Israel needed to guarantee equal rights for all citizens no matter what sort of label they attach to the nation. Israel recent approved a demand for new, non-Jewish citizens to swear loyalty to Israel as a “Jewish State,” but members of its government have pushed to extend the demand to all non-Jews.
Good article. Keep up the fine reporting Jason.
If that part of Palestine was bonafide jewish land then the the world would have no problem recognising it as a jewish state but it is not and will never be no matter what america says or does.Jews was in possesion of that land for 160years and built the temple that does not give them them that right .
How sickening to see the US trample on its own values in order to uphold Israel's fascist system.
But there can exist no Jewish State in either contemporary world order or in any future if there is any evolutionary directionality in human intellectual and moral development. Instead it is much more likely that political ideology, propaganda and all other deliberate machinations of obfuscation will slowly but surely give way to the underlying reality that the whole idea, the whole concept of a Jewish State is inherently and unavoidably racist.
To define a State as Jewish unavoidably excludes non-Jews from assuming total equality within that State for this State. To define a State as Aryan unavoidably excludes non-Aryans from assuming total equality within that State for that State. To define a State as Islamic unavoidably excludes anyone who isn't Islamic from assuming total equality within that State for that State. To define as State as Lesbian Wiccan unavoidably excludes… and so on.
Only citizenship of a State that guarantees explicitly in a Constitution equal rights to all citizens without discrimination based on race, gender, religion or conviction or any other grounds is compatible with the human spirit and human morality, given the existence of States. I don't think there is a weapon short of one causing total extinction that could stop that force, only postpone the inevitable.
This state or whatever it is has been a pain in our behinds since 1948.
Why does it seem Israel is attached at our hip? Like a undeveloped twin, a parasite.
Time to sugically remove this growth from our hip and become healthy again.
We did alright before 1948
How about putting America first for once?
This shit comes out of American politician/bureaucrat mouths all the time. If Obama feels differently he sure does not have the balls to say so. This is not different than America claiming to be a Christian state and asking the Muslims to recognize it or if India decided to be a strictly Hindu state and ask the Buddhist to make a statement of acceptance. Sure the Palestinians were brutally removed by ours and British military because otherwise the Jews would have come to our countries, but now that we pushed them off as someone else's problem we don't have to continue the same mistakes. There will be never ending war until the Jews loose their stronghold. They, with our support, have committed too many crimes against humanity for the Arab people to forgive without a serious shift in the power structure. Like the Germans were only forgiven after we took all authority from them and we put economic sanctions on them.
Clearly this will not happen without allot more war and that is what I think we will have. The American/Israeli strategy of uniting the world against us is moving along nicely. Along with a resolve of the Arab people that makes western societies look like petting zoos I think the Arabs have a shot at taking the Middle East back. Maybe not this decade or the next but I believe they are patient and persistent. No matter what happens in the next decade or two this will not end and as long as we provide a single target that everyone can unite behind and put that target within reach through occupations the wars will rage on.
The civil wars in Yemen coming to a halt in expectation of NATO arrival is a great example of how to Unite Them Against Us. We should use this as a template for further wars as well. We have not set a foot on the soil and they are already uniting. In Afghanistan it took five years of occupation before they really started to unite as a society and still some are siding with the NATO cause. Too much work for too little progress.
In Yemen we bomb them for a few years on crappy intelligence, openly admit to killing about 9 civilians for every "target" to let the Yemenis people know how valuable we consider their lives and when we show up there will be virtually no local support.
Dad has a few Yemenis friends in Michigan. You should run this by them and see how they feel. The best part about this whole strategy is that the Yemen factor is not just uniting Yemen. America and our allies will encourage the rest of the Arab world to unite against us trough our actions in these most impoverished nations. The chain effect will soon allow us to invade any middle east country we want because they "hate our freedom" to bomb them indiscriminately.
Many feel that support for Middle East wars in America is fading, I disagree. Support for Iraq and Afghanistan is fading but support for Iran and a new mission in Somalia are gaining ground. Once Yemen is introduce with the phenomenal amount of propaganda sure to be thrown at it Americans will be jumping for joy. Especially if we can pull of the Somalia strategy where we plan to pay Ugandan troops to fight on our behalf. This is much less expensive and gives Americans another layer of detachment. The Americans will feel better about it and the Somalians will still be Uniting Against Us. Not to mention no American will directly risk their life and per troop cost is much less when the work is contracted to the poor.
We could broadcast all of these wars as well like we did in Desert Storm so that we can see our hard earned money at work destroying ancient cities full of people. Its kind of like the new modern day Colosseum. Why did we stop doing that after Baghdad anyways? It was great entertainment for the kids. I remember really enjoying watching that in 8th grade. At night the explosions were all green and in the day there was no light at all just dust. The night bombs were so much cooler that I had a hard time seeing why they drop bombs in the daytime at all.
any relation to alistar crowley? know who he was?
It's a tragedy that America and Congress in particular has surrendered (already many years ago) to Zionist blackmail, so as to assure Republican and Democratic parties and delegates of funds from the mainly Jewish owned banking and financial institutions in America and the rest of the capitalist world. America to-day is dancing to the tune of Zionism, which determines US foreign policy in the ME.
I urge readers strongly to read: 'Zionism the Real Enemy of the Jews" by Alan Hart, former ITN and BBC Panorama correspondent. This book is a brand new release and an absolute must to read. You wont regret it. Its one of the best of the many book I have read on the subject and a strong indictment against Zionism and American ME policies since 1947.