{"id":50496,"date":"2014-12-01T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=50496"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:27:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:27:15","slug":"i-support-israels-national-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/12\/i-support-israels-national-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"I Support Israel\u2019s National Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mazal Tov, a controversial bill that officially defines Israel as the \u201cNation-State of the Jewish People,\u201d was approved by the Israeli cabinet last Sunday [23 Nov 2014].<\/p>\n

Finally Israel has acknowledged its true Jewish nature. Instead of pretending to be a \u2018Jewish Democracy\u201d – a contradiction in terms, the Jewish State admits that it is a theocracy guided by Jewish racial supremacist ideology.<\/p>\n

The bill, which is intended to become part of Israel\u2019s Basic Laws, recognises Israel\u2019s Jewish character, institutionalises Jewish law as an inspiration for legislation and delists Arabic as an official second language. As if until now Arabic had been equal to Hebrew.<\/p>\n

No longer will\u00a0Jewish anti Zionists and their few Palestinian cronies be able to deny the Jewishness of the Jewish state. They may even have to admit that Palestine is engaged in a religious war that was imposed on them.<\/p>\n

According to some Israeli critics, the new Israeli bill would weaken the wording of Israel\u2019s declaration of independence, which states that the new state would \u201cbe based on the principles of liberty, justice and freedom expressed by the prophets of Israel [and] affirm complete social and political equality for all its citizens, regardless of religion, race or gender.\u201d<\/p>\n

Israel has always been the Jewish State, it has never been a liberal place nor has it been committed to justice or equality. The deepest truth is that universal humanism and ethical culture is foreign to Judaic thinking that is tribal and legalistic.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, as Israel is finally admitting that it has little to do with democracy, the USA is strengthening its relationships with Iran. I guess that in the White House and the Pentagon they had already understood that Iran is the only democracy in the region.<\/p>\n

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Gilad Atzmon is a public opponent of Israel. Born into a pro-Zionist family and serving in the first Lebanon War, he had a dramatic turnaround. He quit the army, picked up his sax and exiled himself to London. Atzmon writes\u00a0on political matters, social issues,\u00a0Jewish identity and culture. His\u00a0papers are published around the world: TRANSCEND Media Service<\/a>,<\/a> World News,<\/a> The Guardian<\/a>, Rebelion, <\/a>The Daily Telegraph<\/a>, Uprooted Palestinians<\/a>, Veterans Today<\/a>, Palestine Telegraph<\/a>, Counterpunch,<\/a> Dissident Voice, <\/a>Aljazeera Magazine, \u00a0 Information Clearing House, <\/a>\u00a0 <\/a>Middle-East-Online<\/a>, \u00a0 Palestine Chronicle, The People Voice<\/a>, Redress<\/a>,\u00a0Shoa (The Palestinian Holocaust)\u00a0<\/a> and many more.<\/em><\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 gilad.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finally Israel has acknowledged its true Jewish nature. Instead of pretending to be a \u2018Jewish Democracy\u201d – a contradiction in terms, the Jewish State admits that it is a theocracy guided by Jewish racial supremacist ideology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}