By
MEMO
June 27, 2022:
Information Clearing House
-- In further signs
that support for Israel has morphed into a
religious extremist position,
Bible-thumping, far-right American voters
within the Texas Republican Party have
approved a platform that will make it
illegal to create a Palestinian State in
territories controlled by the apartheid
state.
The platform,
approved by 5,100 delegates in Houston on
Saturday, supports the "prohibition of a
Palestinian State within the historical
borders of Israel, as it would jeopardise
Israel's security and it would force Israel
to give up land that God gave to the Jewish
people as referenced in Genesis."
Going beyond
all previous anti-Palestinian positions ever
adopted by an American party, the GOP
platform approved the creation of what is
often referred to as "Greater
Israel," which will see Israel expand
ethno-nationalist Jewish domination to every
inch of Historic Palestine.
After decades of ethnic cleansing,
artificial re-drawing of borders and
population control based on who is and is
not Jewish, Israel has managed to wrestle
total control of the territory from the West
of River Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea.
Currently, as many as 12 million people
reside in Historic Palestine, but full
rights are granted by the occupation state
to Jews only.
The remaining
six million non-Jews are subjected to
various forms of racial discrimination,
depending on their place of residence. While
non-Jews are denied full equality with Jews
wherever they live, the 1.8 million
Palestinian citizens of Israel, for example,
have more rights than Palestinians in every
other zone of Israeli control.
Though they
face various forms of racial discrimination,
Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem are
granted relatively better status than
Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza,
where the native population has been caged
into an "open air prison".
Also, a racist
policy enshrined in Israeli law denies some
six million Palestinian refugees the right
to return to the territory from which they
were expelled only a few decades ago. The
same law, however, permits every Jew across
the world to "return" and settle in any part
of Palestine, despite not having any direct
connection to the land, other than Biblical
claims mentioned in the Genesis.
Such
practices, including the racial
fragmentation of Palestine into zones of
control where half the population enjoys
full rights of citizenship denied to the
non-Jewish half, every major human rights
group
has labelled Israel an apartheid state.
As of 2019,
138 of the 193 UN member states have
recognised the State of Palestine. Moreover,
every UN member, including the US and
European countries, are ostensibly committed
to the creation of a fully sovereign
Palestinian State. Nevertheless, every major
Israeli party explicitly rejects the
international consensus and now have found
strong support for their radical position
from the Texas Republican party in
foreclosing any chance of a Palestinian
State from ever being established.
Though party
platforms do not necessarily translate into
government policy, critics cite the former
US President Donald Trump and the support
enjoyed by Israel amongst powerful
Evangelical Christians as well as fringe
elements in US society, to argue that the
most extreme and rejectionist views about
the apartheid state have become normalised
in US politics.
Amongst the
other policies adopted by the pro-Israel
Texas constituency is a proposal to hold a
referendum on seceding from the US; a
rejection of Joe Biden's presidency; calls
for the repeal of the 1965 Voting Rights
Act, which guaranteed Black voters
representation.
