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Colonial Zionism

"In Hebron a situation has been created that is a national disgrace, a genuine sin and crime: Apartheid, as legal scholar Boaz Okun wrote in the weekly Yedioth Ahronoth last week, is already here. But not only in Hebron: The situation in the territories in general and the lawless outposts in particular, along with the theft of private lands, is testimony to the bankruptcy of the state when faced with the daring of the settler and his determination not to retreat before ethical or legal obstacles. In that way the settlement movement is perforce creating daily violations of the law and a culture of violence: Ofra and Beit El may be quiet and pleasant places settled by idealists, but together with their satellite outposts, Amona, Beit Hagedud and Ofra Northeast, Beit El East and Hill 909, they have seized an area that, according to aerial photos and information conveyed to the Peace Now monitoring committee by government authorities, over 90 percent of which is composed of private Palestinian land (figures from October 2006)."

And:

"I have already written in the past in this newspaper, and I repeat it today: If Israeli society is unable to muster the courage necessary to put an end to the settlements, the settlements will put an end to the state of the Jews and will turn it into a binational state."

Who says? And where? Zeev Sternhell writing in Israel's Haaretz in a piece "Colonial Zionism".

It's a pity that all those naysayers outside Israel who accuse anyone [be it ex-President Jimmy Carter or Desmond Tutu] of being anti-Zionist or anti-Israel and in the case of Jewish critics, "self-hating Jews" continue to be ostriches in failing to see what is happening before their very eyes and where Israel is headed.

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