King David Star

“Israel” is not just a racist state and society! Surely the State
Department’s recent report on discrimination in “Israel” that was
posted on the net recently is important, but it’s not important
enough, because it disregards the three most crucial aspects of
the injustice called “Israel”: OCCUPATION, OCCUPATION, OCCUPATION.

Imagine that the bad King David Star kidnapped your five children.
He then starts bargaining with you on releasing only the youngest,
under very strict terms, in exchange for your recognition of the
LEGITIMACY of his keeping the other four. The courts are on his
side. He can make you look like the bad guy too. He can threaten
to kill you. He can burn your house and put you to slavery. But
there’s one thing he can’t do: he can’t legitimately keep your
children until you say it’s alright. He can keep them by force
of course and he can bend the laws, but he can’t keep them
legitimately! He knows it and you know it too . .

See moral issues have a funny thing about them. It doesn’t matter
how many are arrayed against you, and it doesn’t matter what the
odds are. You lose your case only when you lose inside, when you
give up your right to what is your right. In the moral arena alone,
the force of your argument is superior to the argument of force.

Similarly, I claim that those who want us to focus exclusively on
the racism of “Israeli” society are with ill or good intentions
letting us fall for the trap of granting LEGITIMACY to the occupation
on the side.

“Israeli” society was built on militarism, aggression, and
expansionism. The racism is but the benign outward manifestation
of those. But we don’t know how much power we have, how much power
each of us has, in the face of all that. Simply by refusing to grant
legitimacy to that society, if one does nothing else at all, one
would be practicing one of the highest forms of civil disobedience
there is.

You think that granting legitimacy to injustice is a joking matter?
Well, it’s still something that the PNA is supposed to again grant
“Israel” in the final status agreement. For according to the much
disregarded international law “Israel” can’t freely use the land
until the legal owners say it’s okay. Naturally, Zionists will
trivialize the issue, and will never let you know how much they
crave your recognition. But if Palestinians and Arabs keep voicing,
not their disapproval of Oslo, but that Oslo is NON-BINDING to them,
and that the PNA doesn’t represent them, then “Israel” will forever
continue to have a problem with the legitimacy question, nuclear
weapons and all notwithstanding. That’s why they had to bring in
the PFLP and the DFLP into the framework of Oslo, even without asking
them to withdraw their DISAPPROVAL of Oslo, to grant the show an air
of legitimacy.

But that’s not enough. Believe it or not, they need *YOUR* approval
too.

See we are not weak. Even as individuals we are not powerless. Just
by saying every time the occasion arises that “Israel” is illegitimate,
that all these sorry agreements are NON-BINDING to you, that *YOU* do
not recognize the right of the PNA to represent you in deals with
Zionists whatsoever, that *YOU* refuse to honor such agreements if
they were signed, that *YOU* will not deal with Zionists except as
invaders, you’d be shaking the moral and legal ground beneath the
entire settler-invader society called “Israel”.

But if instead you start preaching coexistence and focusing exclusively
on attaining ‘equal rights’ within the framework of the settler-invader
society that oppresses you, thus naively or purposely giving away what
is your biggest asset in your current state of weakness, you wouldn’t
even achieve ‘equal rights’. Some of the invaders will feel sorry for
you, and the majority will go on oppressing you as before simply because
they can. Or they will tell your children and your grandchildren that
you signed them away.

Look how the oppressed Palestinian Arab has to always justify what
s/he will do with the “Israeli” Jews if s/he EVER wins. But this is
a ridiculous request. For the one who has to do all the justifying
is the oppressor, not the oppressed. Why am I supposed to swear oaths
and sign promises that I will act humanely when I’m the one deprived
of my humanity?  Whose record shows a greater deal of tolerance, and
whose history shows a greater deal of mercy? And who has the power
to do more tangible harm onto the other anyway?

I refuse to be the one justifying. Let them justify. My responsibility
is to DEFEND the legitimacy of my struggle the best way I can, not to
justify. Palestine is my right and I’m not giving it away.

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