Our support of Israel

Where are our tax dollars going? Israel receives over $3 billion annually and although most of it goes towards military weapons, we are indirectly supporting their apartheid and ethnic cleansing programs.

Non-Jewish residents in Israel are not only hated, they are abused and murdered with state approval. The goal is to make non-Jews so miserable, they will leave Greater Israel to the Jews. You will find, in some of the descriptions below, how Israeli Jews have learned their lessons from the Nazi’s well.

On December 17, 2010, three teenage girls born to African refugee parents were assaulted and badly beaten by a mob of Jewish youth while walking home. This assault was not a unique incident but experienced by non-Jews frequently. Jewish children are being taught in their schools, from an early age, that non-Jews hate them and want to kill them and that killing Arabs was acceptable.

On that same day, in the development city of Ashod, an apartment inhabited by seven refugees from Sudan, was torched. The assailants left a burning tire outside the front door of the residence, forcing all those inside to break through the burglar bars on their windows in order to escape the fire.

In Jerusalem, in the middle of Zion Square, on August 16, 2012, a crowd of Jewish teenagers attacked three Palestinians who were innocently strolling through the Ben Yehuda Street pedestrian mall.

Evidently, testimony by some participants, revealed that the Jewish teens went looking for a Palestinian to pulverize when a girl complained to them that she had been raped by an Arab. She later admitted she was lying. She had known that that rumors of sexual advances by non-Jews would provoke Jewish men to respond violently.

Palestinians working in that area described frequent assaults. One Palestinian recalled how 34 Jewish youth attacked him with glass bottles and screwdrivers. He wound up in the hospital for stitches.

I could report many more incidents but I assume the point has been made. It is rare for any Jews who attack Arabs to be arrested, much less convicted of any crime. Those who are convicted most often get a slap on the wrist.

What I find most disturbing, is how our spiritual leaders, rabbis, have not only justified attacks on Arabs or even the murder of Arabs, but justify and legitimize their views by using the words of the Torah and Bible. From their point of view, nothing is too extreme to make Israel a Jewish state because it is God’s will.

Jewish children are being taught to hate so that when they become old enough to serve in the Israeli military, they have no restraints on murdering non-Jews. Laws are passed by the Knesset to make the abuse of non-Jews legal and more easily implemented.

This is the result of making any state an exclusive one, using religion as it’s reason for being. Supporters can and do used the word of God as a rationale for racism and abuses. And, who can question the word of God. Israel’s frame of reference is the notion of manifest destiny, where Jews were destined by the Almighty to occupy Greater Israel. They are only taking what is legitimately theirs.

This is what we, the American public, are paying for and supporting when we grant billions of dollars to a state without any demands that they treat all their citizens and residents humanely. It is time for the world Jewish community to stop having a knee-jerk support of Israel.

The description of the abuses above came from Max Blumenthal’s “Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel.”

Dave Alpert has masters degrees in social work, educational administration, and psychology. He spent his career working with troubled inner city adolescents.

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