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Israelis fear Arab population growth
Israel News.Net
Friday 20th November, 2009 ((Op-ed) Uri Avnery )
When the TV news starts with a murder, people are relieved.
This means that no war has broken out, no suicide bomb has exploded, no Qassam rocket has been launched at Sderot. Ahmadinejad has not test-fired a new missile that can reach Tel Aviv. Just another murder.
Not that Israel is the world’s murder capital. But lately Israel has been shocked by a series of exceptionally brutal murders. A husband took revenge on his wife by killing his little daughter and burying her in a forest. A man who lived with the wife of his son killed her daughter, his own granddaughter, put her little body in a suitcase and threw it into Tel Aviv’s Yarkon River.
A son who quarrelled with his wife killed her and her mother, cut up both bodies and dispersed the parts in garbage bins. A young man who had a quarrel with his mother killed her, and then went off to kill his brother, too. A man in his 70s killed his wife in her sleep with a hammer. In recent weeks, there were two cases that trumped even these atrocities.
Damian Karlik, an immigrant from Russia who worked as head waiter in a Russian restaurant, was dismissed for theft and decided to take revenge on the owners, Russian immigrants like him. He went to their apartment and stabbed to death six people, one after another — the owner and his wife, their son and his wife and their two small grandchildren.
An immigrant from the US called Jack Teitel, an inhabitant of one of the most extreme West Bank settlements, has now confessed to the killing some years ago of two random Palestinians. He returned briefly to America, and, after coming back, put bombs into police cars. Why? Because the police were protecting gays and lesbians. He is also suspected of killing two traffic policemen for the same reason. He also claimed responsibility for the mass killing of gays in a Tel Aviv club. He planted a bomb in the home of some Messianic Jews (Jews who regard Jesus as the Messiah) and grievously injured a 15-year-old.
What is so special about these two cases is that they involved new immigrants who were allowed into Israel in spite of already being under investigation for crimes in their homelands. The Law of Return accords every Jew the right to immigrate (“make Aliyah”) to Israel, where he or she automatically receives Israeli citizenship on arrival.
Karlik’s case is especially interesting. He was suspected in Russia of armed robbery. After his arrival in Israel, the Russian authorities officially applied for his extradition for robbery, but the request was denied. Teitel’s case is similar. The logic of those in charge of emigration to Israel is the same: To bring immigrants without asking unnecessary questions. According to religious law, a Jew remains a Jew even if he sins. These affairs shine a spotlight on one of the guiding principles of the Zionist establishment: To bring Jews to Israel, whatever the price.
So what if somebody, a kosher Jew, has robbed a bank or mistreated children? But if he is a goy, the story is quite different. That is the province of the leader of the Shas party, Eli Yishai, the minister of the interior who has absolute power over the civil status of every person in Israel.
He is untiring in his efforts to guard the real Israel — not the “Jewish and democratic state” as it is officially defined, but rather the “Jewish and demographic state”.
It is difficult to decide whether Yishai is an extreme fanatic or a complete cynic, or some strange combination. As matter of fact, when Shas was still a moderate party when its guru, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, ruled that it is permissible to give back the occupied territories. But since then much dirty water has flowed down our polluted rivers, Shas has turned into a radical right-wing party and Yishai is now the most extreme rightist in the government. His unshakable devotion to the purity of the race arouses admiration. He fights like a tiger for the expulsion of 1,500 children of foreign workers who were born in Israel, who speak Hebrew and attend Israeli schools. Yishai is ready to lay down his life for their deportation.
The Interior Ministry prevents the entry of American and European citizens who bear Arab names. Officials of the UN and the EU in charge of projects for the Palestinians are normally unable to enter from Jordan (or anywhere else outside Israel), and if they somehow do obtain permission — they are then forbidden to cross the Green Line into Israel. Foreign women married to Israelis are expelled without mercy. There is no end to the examples.
In the eyes of Yishai, every son of a Thai is an enemy of the Jewish state, every daughter of a Colombian worker is a threat to the purity of the Jewish people. He has declared that the foreign workers are an “infection”, and warned that Tel Aviv is “becoming Africa”.
Such a person would not remain a minister in the cabinet of the US or most European countries. In the homeland of the Nuremberg laws he would not even come close to a government position. Recently, during the Operation “Cast Lead”, Yishai demanded that we “bomb thousands of houses, to destroy Gaza” — which does not hinder him from denouncing Judge Richard Goldstone as an abominable anti-Semite. He himself, by the way, never risked his skin as a combat soldier — this national hero served as an NCO for religious services in a transport unit.
But more important than Yishai himself is the phenomenon that he represents: The invocation of the demographic demon, which terrifies the country. 62 years after its foundation, the State of Israel is still living in fear of the “demographic danger”. It is afraid of its Arab citizens, and therefore discriminates against them in every sphere. It is afraid of the 400,000 Russians who have come to this country with their Jewish relatives in accordance with the Law of Return, but whose mothers were not Jewish.
Practically all Hebrew Israelis want a state with a Hebrew majority, but many of us do not want a man-hunting, woman-hunting and child-hunting state, closed to asylum-seekers, where foreign workers who outstay their welcome must live in permanent fear, like our ancestors in the ghettoes. In order to exorcise the demographic demon, my friends and I have applied to the courts and requested that the registration “Nation: Jewish” in the Ministry’s Register of Residents be replaced with “Nation: Israeli”. Our application was rejected by Judge Noam Solberg — the very same person the minister of justice is moving mountains to get appointed as attorney general.
Uri Avnery is an Israeli peace activist. He served three terms in the Israeli parliament (Knesset), and is the founder of Gush Shalom peace movement.  Email this story to a friend
Comments on this story
kawahchan
11-20-09, 10:43 AM |
Israeli activist laments open borders
Just like other Jews, at least Eli Yishai loves himself so much ! Before the Jews to circle around to burn a Holy Cross, in the United States of America, there are many many MidEast-Americans out there are also BEST wishing Iran to complete their nuclear warheads sooner to meet the 21st century’s Race of the races too. Yeah, Eli Yishai, you just have to compete with others who you don’t like and hate most.
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Theblade
11-20-09, 03:00 PM |
Another finger pointer who needs a forced shave.
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**+*
11-20-09, 10:40 PM |
It looks as if this guy has been a star pupil of adolf Hitler
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captain grumpy
11-21-09, 12:23 AM |
kawahchan
Thuis is going on everywhere,!!! The Africans wont stay home and improve their country ,they want to cross illegal borders and stuff up everyone else’s place.I am damn sick of illegal immigrants in every country. Why wont ONE gov protect their borders,. In Sydney now there are gangs with guns but they are all African and Asian. Send the buggers home.
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Fatma
11-21-09, 01:57 AM |
The jews will never thrive until they stop acting like Hitler. God will punish the jews until they stop this ethnic cleansing, their arrogant attitude, and aggressive ways.
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STAR
12-07-09, 01:04 PM |
Israel is suppose to be different
Israel is suppose to be the only country in the middle east that resembles the United States. As the United States opens it borders for legal immigrants (not illegal)*social equality*. After all many have had power over the land. Let us remember history and not fall back, but look toward a better and safer tomorrow with a government that applies better laws, social equality both for Jews and Non Jews who truely love Israel.
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