"There is no such thing as a Palestinian people...It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They never existed."
-Golda Meir, 1969
"This country exists as a result of a promise made by God himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy."
-Golda Meir, 1971
"Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the state of Israel on trial." -Arial Sharon, 2001
The arrogance, self-importance and delusional sense of entitlement to immunity from the rules that regulate others has been a consistent worldview of the Zionist project, illustrated here unmodified over 30 years.
This worldview is perfectly consistent with Israel's contemptuous responses to UN resolutions, the International Court of Justice, and less formal expressions of world opinion, and corresponds clinically to the attitudes of those suffering from antisocial personality disorder (aka sociopaths).
Understandably, therefore ,many Israeli thinkers are recognizing that Zionism is the obstacle to any reasonable solution. The insistence on a Jewish majority is an intrinsically racist objective, a 19th-century model essentially identical to Jim Crow Mississippi and Apartheid South Africa.
The internationally recognized and repeatedly affirmed right of all Palestinian refugees to return or compensation - at their choice - is hysterically characterized by Israel as "annihilation of the Jewish state." This "annihilation" simply means loss of a Jewish majority. With constitutional protections like those in the US, all minorities would be protected, as former AIPAC editor AJ Rosenberg acknowledged by observing that "America is the best home Jews have ever had" with only 3% of the population.
Israel's Apartheid system and abuse of the Palestinians appears to be predictably eroding the spirit and collective self-respect of the society, requiring oblivious denial or coarse anti-Arab racism to defend the practices.
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