1. the fact that this happened to an ARAB ISRAELI PERSON who has more right to be on Israeli soil than any of the Khazars (EUROPEAN non arabs) currently controlling that nation. So how did "EUROPEAN" Khazars get control of Israel when they have no claim on the land???? BRITAIN, thats how. Who controls Britain? Thats right, the Khazar Queen and Rothschild. So Britain is back up to its old, ancient dirty tricks. When you think about it, why in the world are we ever allies with them as well??? Look at how they have manipulated all this and act just like the khazars??? Is this genetic?
2. OK, notice also the similarity in this case to THE SAME ACTIONS BY THE SPLC AND ADL IN AMERICA. If anyone in America now disagrees with the government (THAT THEY NOW CONTROL) or exercises "FREEDOM OF SPEECH" in a so called democracy, because they speak to someone not approved by the government, they are automatically labeled TERRORISTS and thus thrown in jail. THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT THE SPLC AND ADL TRIED TO DO HERE BUT FAILED SO FAR. That is just how dangerous these two mossad funded and staffed organizations are to this nation and any concept of freedom. They are cattle herders and not humans. Its time to invite them to leave, GET OFF OUR HOMELAND SECURITY BOARD, and go do this kind of nonense in their own country where its condoned. They provide the worse example of freedom and democracy on the face of the planet and we are becoming, UNDER THE CONTROL OF THESE PEOPLE, just like Israel. Its time to chase them out of here........ probably a good idea if the Israeli's chase them out of there as well. SEND THEM BACK TO MONGOLIA WHERE THEY CAME FROM.
Dominci in Israel: Dispossession by Law
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By Seraj Assi, Palestine Chronicle, March 31, 2011
This episode is not taken from a satirical novel. It is what the new Knesset law all about. The law already passed in its second and third reading. “Knesset passes law to strip terrorists of Israeli citizenship” was Haaretz headline. That is, not only does the law make dispossession and transfer of Palestinians legal, but also label the entire people terrorists.
On March 28, 2011, the Knesset plenum in Israel gave its final seal of approval to “citizenship loyalty” law that enables Israel's Supreme Court to revoke the citizenship and the status of any permanent resident convicted of espionage, treason or aiding the enemy during war. We must remember here that Israel considers itself to be in a permanent state of war with Arabs and Palestinians.
"Anyone who betrays the state and carries out acts of terror must know that citizenship and loyalty go together," said Yisrael Beiteinu MK David Rotem, who initiated the bill. Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman (VN: Oh, great, another "LIEBERSCUM") lauded the Knesset's decision as a step toward "contending with the phenomenon of exploiting democracy in order to subvert it."
This is no doubt a modern Israeli version of dispossession and ethnic cleansing. “No citizenship without loyalty” simply means that two million Palestinian Arabs living in Israel today can be immediately expelled or put in prison, by law of course. The absurd irony is that since every Arab Palestinian in Israel is considered a permanent enemy of the state and potential threat of its national security, any discussion involved two Arab citizens can be literally seen as subversive to the state.
One might wonder how could an Arab Palestinian be loyal to a state that continues to define itself as a Jewish state that belongs to the Jewish people, in which native Arab Palestinians are seen as potential enemies? Isn’t the “Jewish democratic” state of Israel after all a state in which democracy and law are goaded into the service of an ethnic hegemony and the suppression of the native community?
One might also wonder what about solidarity with fellow Palestinians under occupation and blockage in the West Bank and Gaza? What about national solidarity with fellow Arab victims of Israeli attacks and massacres? Is that considered treason too? The law is ambiguous enough to include all expressions of national and humanist solidarity under the category of terrorism.
The new law does not tell us whether the category of terrorism includes Israeli Jewish terrorists, such as Kahana’s supporters or Jewish settlers who terrorize Palestinians on a daily basis. Nor does it really explain who the terrorist is. One thing is for sure here; Israel can right now begin a systematic persecution of all Arab Palestinian citizens under the banner of legal and democratic ideals.
There is a famous passage by the French philosopher Roland Barthes named “Dominci, or the Triumph of Literature.” Barthes examines a case in which an inarticulate rural laborer is condemned in terms of legal discourse. The judges describe Dominci’s motives in terms borrowed from literary clichés, jargon and abstract lexicon.
So if your Palestinian grandmother would say in her next prayer “May God grant victory to Arabs and Muslims,” she too can be arrested, trailed, condemned and expelled for providing a divine aid to the state’s “enemies.” Perhaps it is time for young Palestinians in Israel to remove all those Gazan, Lebanese and Syrian “enemies” from their Twitter Friends list.
The timing of the law is by no means coincidence. This week marks the 35th anniversary of the Land Day, the annual commemoration of the massacre of six Palestinian citizens by the Israeli police. The approval of the Loyalty Law comes in this historical moment to mark the transition from ethnic cleansing by direct force to one exercise by law and legal manipulations. Not only does it come to remind Palestinian citizens that Israel is never ready to admit its massacres, but never ready to admit Palestinian right to exist in their homeland.
- Seraj Assi is a PhD Student in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University, Washington DC. He contributed this article to PalestineChronicle.com.
The article is reproduced in accordance with Section 107 of title 17 of the Copyright Law of the United States relating to fair-use and is for the purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.
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After reading your article, I searched in vain for an on-line text of Roland Barthes's work. I did, however, learn something of what the Palestinian author of your article meant.
Every minute, each of us is bombarded with more information than we can possibly absorb. To make sense of it all, and to avoid sensory overload, we depend on "signs" or "symbols" to filter "ambient noise" from salient information--that is, information that fits our model of the world ("mythology").
That new Israeli law seeks to shape everyone's model of the world and relegate everything else to the role of "ambient noise."
The bottom line here is that control of legal structures and the "news" media is more than a simple matter of controlling behavior and the flow of information. It's an attempt to control how we interpret reality.
I've heard it said that the news media can't control what we think, but they can control what we think about. I've come to realize that that's not true. By shaping people's model of the world, they can control people's thoughts.
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