I wondered whether South Africa was the only country in the world to have nurtured the fathers of two nations — our own and India’s — who also happen to be the two most universally revered leaders of the 20th Century.
I reflected on the evolution of the first hominids on South African soil, and the responsibility we have inherited to remain at the forefront of evolution regarding ways in which humanity can live together in peace.
via SATODAY.
by comrade Jared Sacks
I grew up being indoctrinated by Zionists throughout my entire life. I was told that the state of Israel is somehow necessary to prevent another Holocaust. That Palestine/Israel was empty and uninhabited when Jews began immigrating there in the late 1800s and even more so post-WWII. I learned all this propaganda. But then I started picking apart that ideology.
1) First of all, we have to see Zionism as a nationalist ideology. The belief that a certain people or nation comes first – ie “the chosen people”. Thats what Zionism is at its core. It is no different than any othert types nationalisms except that its based on religion in addition to race/culture whereas many nationalisms are defined purely culturally and regarding the extent to which this nationalism is expressed at the state level. All nationalisms based on a dominant culture and that identifies a particular race as above all others is by definition racist. Afrikaner nationalism here in SA is an easy example. But so is Zionism.
Exodus 22:21
“Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt.
Leviticus 19:18
“‘Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.
Numbers 10:32
If you come with us, we will share with you whatever good things the LORD gives us.”
Deuteronomy 10:19
And you are to love those who are foreigners, for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt.
Deuteronomy 23:7
Do not despise an Edomite, for the Edomites are related to you. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you resided as foreigners in their country.
Psalm 146:9
The LORD watches over the foreigner and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.
The Joint-State Solution (“JSS”) to the Israel-Palestine problem was mooted several months ago.
The JSS is pragmatic and do-able, yet there would be certain fundamental prerequisites for it to take effect in the current dispensation.
Occupied Jerusalem: Three Israeli rightwing parties, including two that are expected to be part of the next government after elections this month, are talking seriously about annexing all or part of the occupied West Bank.Seized by Israel in the 1967 Six Day War, the West Bank is now home to hundreds of thousands of Israeli colonists, as well as about 1.7 million Palestinians.Talk of annexing the territory, as Israel did with Occupied east Jerusalem — in a move never recognised by the international community — is not new.But as rightwing parties battle for the colonist vote ahead of the January 22 elections, the idea is being discussed increasingly seriously by mainstream parties.
via Serious talk in Israel about annexing Palestine | GulfNews.com.
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