{"id":200167,"date":"2021-11-29T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T12:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=200167"},"modified":"2024-06-12T21:24:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T20:24:10","slug":"ultimate-dog-whistle-world-misses-israels-hebrew-language-incitement-against-palestinians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/11\/ultimate-dog-whistle-world-misses-israels-hebrew-language-incitement-against-palestinians\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultimate Dog Whistle: World Misses Israel\u2019s Hebrew-Language Incitement against Palestinians"},"content":{"rendered":"

22 Nov 2021 – Israeli State-sponsored terrorism and incitement against the Palestinians are not new. The intensity that we currently see, particularly since the uprising of May 2021, is a serious cause for concern.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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A reporter stands in front of a bulldozer digging up rocks during the building of Israel\u2019s apartheid wall in Al-Walaja, West Bank near Bethlehem. Photo | Activestills<\/p><\/div>\n

The Naqab–Zionist incitement against Palestinians–is at an all-time high but you wouldn\u2019t know it by reading the international press because it is all done in Hebrew. The violent, racist-supremacist discourse that takes place in the Israeli media and among Israeli politicians is also done in Hebrew and so it gets little or no attention. And so, as the world remains comfortably numb, the Zionist apartheid state is wiping Palestine \u2014 or what remains of it \u2014 off the face of the earth. The intent is to push Palestinians out of their homes, to take their land, to erase their history, and eventually, to come to the moment Israelis have all been waiting for: the final, glorious destruction of Al-Aqsa and the building of a so-called third Jewish temple in its place.<\/p>\n

Wadi Ara<\/h2>\n

Wadi Ara is a valley in Northern Palestine that connects the coastal plain to Marj Ibn Amr. In 1948, heavy fighting took place in the area and it was eventually occupied and became part of the State of Israel. While there were villages that were destroyed and subjected to ethnic cleansing, many Palestinians did remain steadfast and, to this day, the area is home to Palestinian towns and villages with a combined population of close to 120,000. This reality is one that Zionists, in general, find troubling.<\/p>\n

From the outset, Israel has been obsessed with demographics, and particularly what they refer to as the \u201cdemographic threat,\u201d wherein Palestinians outnumber Israelis. There have been many open discussions about how to deal with the large Palestinian population that still resides in this very strategic area of northern Palestine. Talk of transferring the people \u2014 with or without the land \u2014 outside of the state of Israel is not uncommon, and the term \u201cJudaizing the Galilee,\u201d which means boosting Israeli presence in the area so as to create a \u201cJewish majority,\u201d is not uncommon either.<\/p>\n

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Women protest against home demolitions on the road in Wadi Ara, April 5, 2008.
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However, in a recent interview with the Israeli daily Ma\u2019ariv<\/i>, retiring Israeli Army General Yitzhak Turgeman took the incitement against the Palestinian citizens of Wadi Ara to a whole new level. He warned that in a future war, military convoys going north will have to avoid driving through Wadi Ara. This, he said, is one of the conclusions the Israeli top brass reached as a result of the Palestinian uprising that took place in May of 2021, in which all of Palestine resisted the Zionist oppression, the desecration of the Al-Aqsa mosque, and the brutal bombing of the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n

According to a piece<\/a> in The Times of Israel<\/i>, General Turgeman is quoted as saying,<\/p>\n

What I\u2019m really concerned about\u2026 is the impact of violent disturbances on internal security and movement of IDF\u2019s transport convoys\u2026 It is a factor that I foresee as having significant potential to delay the ability to maneuver IDF troops.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While it might seem encouraging to think that Palestinian citizens of Israel have the capacity to slow down the Israeli military, it is hard to believe that they possess such capabilities. Palestinian citizens of Israel \u2014 unarmed and suffering greatly under the brutality of the Israeli apartheid system \u2014 do not have the ability to slow down the movement of Israeli military convoys going towards Lebanon and Syria. The comments made in this interview are dangerous incitement, feeding into what Israelis already believe of the Palestinian citizens of Israel, even though there is no evidence to this claim: that the Palestinian citizens are, in fact, a fifth column and must be treated as such.<\/p>\n

Jenin<\/h2>\n

A piece in the Hebrew news outlet Mako <\/i>reports<\/a> about an event that \u201craised serious concerns in Israeli military circles.\u201d It was during the funeral of former Palestinian Minister for Prisoner Affairs Wasfi Qabha<\/a>. According to the report, written in Hebrew, there was a large turnout of armed Hamas fighters during the procession. Qabha was a Hamas leader and, the report claims, this not only worried the Israeli military but also presented a serious problem for the Palestinian Authority.<\/p>\n

\u201cArmed members of Qassam Brigades were marching in the street during the procession,\u201d the report states, and it continues, \u201cThis is not Gaza but Jenin,\u201d which, the readers are reminded, is near the northern Israeli city of Afula. Jenin does in fact sit in the very northern boundary of the West Bank which means it is close to many Israeli settlements in 1948 Palestine.<\/p>\n