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The façade of Israel’s reality by Abid Ullah Jan A specific class of Muslims continue to deny that the US “war on terrorism” has added dynamism and given new legitimacy to the centuries old war on Islam. Since this ever-intensifying war encompasses almost every aspect of Muslim life, this write up deals only with the way our so-called scholars-turned-US-mercenaries are scoring points for self-projection. These intellectual mercenaries have dwarfed the military mercenary by comparison, because what General Musharraf gets in return for his services is far more than what the confused pen-pushers may just hope to get in reward. The best example of their latest escapade is Husain Haqqani’s article in the Nation, July 23, 2003, which is representative of the research papers being produced from American think tanks, the State Department and even the White House these days.[1] Even the most naïve readers can understand the real objectives behind this kind of write-up. Wrapped in nicely worded prescriptions for the well-being of Pakistan, there are well-studded gems for pleasing master of our destiny, the Zionists in the U.S. Realising Zionist power, the chief opportunist, General Musharraf, took the lead through covert promises of recognising Israel during his visit to the U.S.[2] The intellectual mercenaries are now trying to catch up with some confused mixture of rejecting Musharraf and accepting Israel. Other than the singular factor of not accepting General Musharraf in uniform, there is hardly any difference of opinion among co-mercenaries. Both believe Israel is “a reality and it might be in Pakistan's interest to overcome ideology to recognise reality.”[3] Both suggest, Pakistan can “wait a little longer to be part of its collective recognition by the Arab-Islamic world.”[4] Both see religious elements “enforcing ideological paradigms on an unwilling Pakistani populace.”[5] Both conclude, “Pakistan's options for success and development would certainly be better as a functional democratic state, which retains its Islamic ethos through the conviction of its citizens rather than by the enforcement of conflicting theocratic visions.”[6] Criticising General Musharraf is just for the sake of criticism and guaranteeing a slot in future set-ups. Most importantly, wrapped in the 1200-word brouhaha is the real bomb of introducing the idea of anti-Semitism in Pakistan. The statement through which they want to beat the chief opportunist is: “Violent ideas, including anti-Semitism and sectarianism, should be eliminated to pave the way for a tolerant society.”[7] The strongest argument used in favour of recognising Israel is that it is a “reality” and it is “in Pakistan's interest to overcome ideology to recognise reality.” Before discussing the realities behind the façade of Israel’s reality, let us assume Israel is a reality. If this is the standard for surrendering ideology there are too many realities around to recognise. For instance, the ban on the Ten Commandments and religious education is a reality. Let us ban Islamic teachings from school curriculum altogether. Invoking God is politically incorrect. It is a reality. Let us ban it as a basic step for a tolerant political environment. Alternative lifestyles are a reality. Let us recognise and allow same sex marriages, common law partnerships (living together and procreating without formal marriage), out of wedlock births, gaybies (babies belong to homosexuals), etc. because all these are undeniable realities of the advanced age. Let us get out of our medievalism. The answer comes, ‘you are wrong,’ because “recognition of nations and states is a matter of international law,” and it must not be “influenced by political or religious sentiment.”[8] Well, some one must let us know about the fate of countless UN resolutions that demand Israel to live like a real state.[9] Someone let the poor souls of Taliban understand, where was the international law when they were not recognised for many years. If the answer is they were “brutal thugs” who did not respect human rights; we would love to know if Israel’s foundation is not laid in racism? It is irrelevant to argue that refusal of most Muslim states “to recognise Israel has not diminished Israel's statehood,”[10] because this is not the issue. The issue is of legitimacy. If the principle did not allow many nations to recognize apartheid regime in South Africa, it is again the principle that does not allow us to recognize a racist and oppressive state of Israel. There is no need to bring in Islam and scapegoat it as an ideology for nothing. All we need to see is the realities behind the façade of the Israeli state. Not recognising Israel is not a denial of reality. It is simply a denial to legitimise “an illegitimate child of Western powers.”[11] Even recognition by every single individual on the planet cannot change the reality of its illegitimacy, just as the entire Supreme Court's ruling and legislations cannot make out-of-wedlock births legitimate. Let us not forget the reality that Israel is the only state established on the basis of race. And what about the reality when the whole world at the UN World Conference Against Racism in Durban in 2001 was on one side and US and Israel on the other. Still the world managed to achieve its historic declaration condemning Zionism as racism and Israel for genocide. Actually, the realities behind the State of Israel turns its reality into façade, which no amount of time, power and number of its recognisers can change. Let us not deny the reality that Israel will not exist without racism. Not any anti-Semite, but “most Israelis have argued that Israel cannot remain a Jewish state or a democracy if it incorporates the occupied territories, because Palestinians would alter the nation’s demographic balance.”[12] One of the most important and influential newspapers in the United States, The Wall Street Journal, opined that the “right of return” of Palestinian refugees would result in the “demographic destruction of the Jewish state.”[13] When the same views of a virtual ban on immigration into his nation were expressed by Austrian political leader, Jorge Haider, he was widely condemned in the mainstream media of the United States and Europe as a racist. Asking to recognise Israel’s reality is no more than asking to legitimise Nazism because political Zionism and German Nazism bear some distinct similarities.[14] Joachim Prinz, a former Vice-President of the World Jewish Congress, in 1934 praised the Nazi revolution (1933) in Germany: “Only a state based on the principle of the purity of the nation and the race can possibly endow dignity and honor on…those Jews who themselves subscribe to this principle.”[15] The proponents of Israel’s reality must tell us if the same thinking does not continue to be a reality to this date. Zionism remains a political philosophy that is firmly grounded in the anti-integrationist racial thought of the past and present.[16] A former member of Israel's Supreme Court, Haim Cohen, described the system that applies to Jews and Palestinians in Israel as similar to "Nuremberg laws" of Nazi Germany: “...the bitter irony of fate which has led the same biological and racist laws propagated by the Nazis and which inspired the infamous Nuremberg laws, to serve as a basis for the definition of Judaism within the State of Israel.”[17] In the words of Zionist political thinker Moses Hess, “Jews are not a religious group, but a separate nation, a special race, and the modern Jew who denies this is not only an apostate, a religious renegade, but a traitor to his people, his tribe, his race.”[18] Israeli and American scientists are conducting studies to emphasis the biological history of the Jewish people and prove how the latter differ from the non-Jewish world.[19] This information is used to define into existence a “Jewish race” and discriminate against non-Jews. Indeed, Jewish Zionists and their gentile supporters would probably demand immediate annihilation of the countries involved if, for example, it were found that Muslim scientists were attempting to determine how Muslims differ from non-Muslims in genetic-biological sense, and this information would be used to implement racially discriminatory policies. The obvious reality of scientific studies is that the Zionists are refusing anyone the right to settle in Israel if he does not have “Jewish genes.” With this in mind, consider point four of the Nazi Party Program of May 25, 1920. It reads: “None but members of the nationality may be citizens of the state. None but those of German blood, irrespective of religion, may be members of the nationality.”[20] In contemporary terms, only those with “German genes” could be citizens of Nazi Germany. Is this reality not enough to show façade of the Israeli Apartheid state? In words of Uri Davis, to mask Israeli apartheid, it was necessary to present Israel to the world as an advanced form of democracy. Thus, duplicitous legal structures were devised which effectively mask the racial discrimination and apartheid.[21] A study of Israeli and South African apartheid published in the 1980s brought the reality to forefront that “The parallels between South Africa’s system of legalized racism and that of Israel are well-known in academic circles but rarely discussed in the mainstream media, peace community or halls of Congress.”[22] Former Congressman George W. Crockett, Jr. noted back in 1985 that “Here in Congress we are fighting against South Africa’s repressive measures, and yet closing our eyes to the institutional repression and the brutality that is daily being conducted against the Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied Arab territories.”[23] The former editor-in-chief of the Rand Daily Mail (the Johannesburg newspaper that fought against South African apartheid), Raymond Louw, further clarifies the reality that the situation in the Israeli occupied territories is worse than the way things were under the South African apartheid regime because the under South African apartheid “there was a recognition that the blacks would continue to live in these areas. Here the impression is that the objective is to push the Palestinians out.”[24] These are just glimpses of the realities that do not allow Pakistan to recognize the façade of the Israeli state. It is all too easy for Muslim intellectual mercenaries to be swayed by their personal interests and cajolery without serious study of cold historic realities. However, those who have eyes to look beyond façades know what they are supposed to do. We are not supposed to swallow, no matter how much the Western media sweetens a practice based on a philosophy that is worse than German Nazism. Interestingly, no anti-Semitic Muslim, but diligent non-Muslim researchers have discovered all these tips of the icebergs. All we can do is to accept the reality or continue to live in denial because the majority has opted so. July 24, 2003 NOTES: [1]Haqqani, Hussain. “Israel or the home front,” The Nation, July 23, 2003. See: http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/July-2003/23/EDITOR/op1.asp [2] To see how Jews are reluctant to recognize Israel, please visit: WHY JEWS ARE OPPOSED TO A ZIONIST STATE, See: http://www.nkusa.org/AboutUs/Zionism/opposition.cfm, http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/ and http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/rabbis.htm [3] Ibid. Haqqani, Hussain. [4] Ibid. Haqqani, Hussain. [5] Ibid. Haqqani, Hussain. [6] Ibid. Haqqani, Hussain. [7] Ibid. Haqqani, Hussain. [8] Ibid. Haqqani, Hussain. [9] UN Resolutions Against Israel, 1955-1992. See: http://www.nowarforisrael.com/UN%20Resolutions.htm [10] Ibid. Haqqani, Hussain. [11] In the words of Founder of Pakistan, Israel is an illegitimate child of Western powers. (25th October 1947). [12] Jewish Middle East analyst, Mitchell Bard, says in Ohio’s most important newspaper The Plain Dealer, January 19, 1989, p.3-E. [13] The Wall Street Journal, February 7, 2001, p.A26. [14] Francis R. Nicosia, The Third Reich And The Palestine Question, pp.16-21. [15] Quoted in Uri Davis, Israel: An Apartheid State, pp.1-2. [16] 8. Roselle Tekiner, Samir Abed-Rabbo, Norton Mezvinsky, eds., Anti-Zionism: Analytic Reflections (Amana Books, 1988); Uri Davis, Israel: An Apartheid State (Zed Books, Ltd, 1987); The International Organization For The Elimination Of All Forms Of Racial Discrimination, Zionism And Racism (North American, 1979); Francis R. Nicosia, The Third Reich And The Palestine Question (University of Texas Press, 1985); Lenni Brenner, Zionism In The Age Of The Dictators (Lawrence Hill, 1983); Regina Sharif, Non-Jewish Zionism: Its Roots In Western History (Zed Press, 1983). [17] Badi, J. (1960). Fundamental Laws Of The State Of Israel. New York. p.156. [18] Quoted in Dr. Robert John, Behind The Balfour Declaration: The Hidden Origin Of Today’s Mideast Crisis (Institute for Historical Review, 1988), p.35. [19] See Nature, 21 March 1985, p.208; See the Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences, 9 May 2000, as reported on in Nicholas Wade, “Y Chromosome Bears Witness to Story of the Jewish Diaspora,” New York Times, 9 May 2000. [20] See Robert Vexler’s Germany: A Chronology And Fact Book: 1415-1972, p.129. [21] Uri Davis, Israel: An Apartheid State, pp.4, 25, 44, 49, 53, 55, 58, 60. [22] Louise Cainkar, ed., Separate And Unequal: The Dynamics Of South African And Israeli Rule (Chicago: Palestine Human Rights Campaign, 1985), see Preface. [23] Ibid. Page 49 [24] Quoted in Ha’aretz (Israel), 24 May 2001.
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