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Haaretz Writer Gideon Levy Comments
On August 8, ahead of Netanyahu's testimony, he headlined, "Missing the forest," saying:
"Does anyone actually know the meaning of the term 'Jewish state'? Wouldn't it be better to live in a just democracy," instead of Israel's fake one?
Levy calls Israel's "forest of political, governmental and institutional racism....dark and deep, (containing many) poisonous trees: Citizenship laws, loyalty laws, conversion laws, the razing of Bedouin villages in the Negev," Israeli citizens losing their homes to make way for Jews, "and even the story of the Arab delivery man who was convicted of rape for pretending to be a Jew."
Few see the "big picture....several times worse than the sum of its components," more than ever today under Netanyahu, Israel's most extremist ever leader, backed by a rogue government - militant, racist, fundamentalist, and dangerous, threatening everyone in the region.
"Defining Israel as a Jewish state condemns us to living in a racist (one). This is the new definition of Zionism," moving relentlessly from one injustice to another, a character "embedded in the state's most fundamental values. There is no other state" where religion is so blatantly one-sided.
"Jewish blood, whether authentic or dubious, is kosher. Other blood....is unacceptable." Does this not reflect "a new kind of 'racial purity....a religious ethnocracy or an apartheid state? Wouldn't it be better to live in a just democracy? And how is it even possible" to call a Jewish state democratic, especially one defiling the rule of law, committing crimes of war and against humanity throughout its history, murdering humanitarian activists in international waters, claiming it's self-defense, suppressing truths too disturbing to reveal under a leader even Jews should fear, Levy earlier saying Israelis should be worried.
Discussing the Flotilla attack, he cited a "chorus singing songs of falsehood and lies," accusing activists of committing "a violent attack on Israeli sovereignty," outrageous propaganda claiming the aid convoy violated international law, not the siege but legitimate aid trying to break it, so stopping it by cold-blooded murder is righteously justified.
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