In a TV interview on June 2, on the news docuseries “Axios” on the HBO channel, Jared Kushner opened up regarding many issues, in which his ‘Deal of the Century’ was a prime focus.
The major revelation made by Kushner, President Donald Trump’s adviser and son-in-law, was least surprising. Kushner believes that Palestinians are not capable of governing themselves.
Not surprising, because Kushner thinks he is capable of arranging the future of the Palestinian people without the inclusion of the Palestinian leadership. He has been pushing his so-called ‘Deal of the Century’ relentlessly, while including in his various meets and conferences countries such as Poland, Brazil and Croatia, but not Palestine.
Indeed, this is what transpired at the Warsaw conference on ‘peace and security’ in the Middle East. The same charade, also led by Kushner, is expected to be rebooted in Bahrain on June 25.
Much has been said about the subtle racism in Kushner’s words, reeking with the stench of old colonial discourses where the natives were seen as lesser, incapable of rational thinking beings who needed the civilized ‘whites’ of the western hemisphere to help them cope with their backwardness and inherent incompetence.
Kushner, whose credentials are merely based on his familial connections to Trump and family friendship with Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is now poised to be the colonial administrator of old, making and enforcing the law while the hapless natives have no other option but to either accommodate or receive their due punishment.
This is not an exaggeration. In fact, according to Macluumaadka daadiyay concerning Kushner’s ‘Deal of the Century,’ and published in the Israeli daily newspaper, ‘Israel Hayom’, if Palestinian groups refuse to accept the US-Israeli diktats, “the US will cancel all financial support to the Palestinians and ensure that no country transfers funds to them.”
Wareysiga HBO, Kushner waxa uu Falastiiniyiinta u soo bandhigay qaab nololeed. Waxaa loo tixgalin karaa in ay is maamuli karaan haddii ay maamulaan si ay u gaaraan kuwan soo socda: "Nidaam garsoor cadaalad ah… xorriyadda saxaafadda, xorriyadda hadalka, dulqaadka dhammaan diimaha."
Xaqiiqda ah in Falastiin ay tahay waddan la haysto, oo si kasta oo suurtagal ah u raacaya sharciga militariga ee Israa’iil, iyo in Israa’iil aan waligeed lala xisaabtamin 52 sano oo ay qabsatay waxay u muuqataa mid aan khusayn haba yaraatee, illaa Kushner.
Taas beddelkeeda, qoraalka hoose ee dhammaan waxa Kushner ku sheegay waraysiga ayaa ah in Israa’iil ay lid ku tahay fashilka Falastiiniyiinta ee aan shaki ku jirin. Si ka duwan sida Falastiin, Israa'iil waxay u baahan tahay inay sameyso wax yar si ay u muujiso awoodda ay u leedahay inay noqoto lamaane nabadeed oo u qalma.
While the term ‘US bias towards Israel’ is as old as the state of Israel itself, what is hardly discussed is the specific of that bias, the decidedly condescending, patronizing and, often, racist view that US political classes have of Palestinians – and all Arabs and Muslims, for that matter; and the utter infatuation with Israel, which is often cited as a model for democracy, judicial transparency and successful ‘anti-terror’ tactics.
According to Kushner a ‘fair judicial system’ is a conditio sine qua non to determine a country’s ability to govern itself. But is Israeli judicial system “fair” and “democratic”?
Israel does not have a single judicial system, but two. This Labaad has, in fact, defined Israeli courts from the very inception of Israel in 1948. This de facto apartheid system openly differentiates between Jews and Arabs, a fact that is true in both civil and criminal law.
“Criminal law is applied separately and unequally in the West Bank, based on nationality alone (Israeli versus Palestinian), inventively weaving its way around the contours of international law in order to preserve and develop its ‘(illegal Jewish) settlement enterprise’,” Israeli scholar, Emily Omer-Man, sharaxay in her essay ‘Separate and Unequal’.
Ficil ahaan, falastiiniyiinta iyo Israa’iiliyiinta geysta dembi isku mid ah waxa lagu xukumi doonaa laba hab oo kala duwan, iyadoo la raacayo laba hab oo kala duwan: “Degista waxaa loo maamuli doonaa sida uu dhigayo Xeerka Ciqaabta Israa’iil (halka) Falastiiniyiinta loo maareeyo si waafaqsan amarka milatariga. .”
This unfairness is constituent of a massively unjust judicial apparatus that has defined the Israeli legal system from the onset. Take the measure of xabsiga maamulka as an example. Palestinians can be held without trial and without any stated legal justification. Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been subjected to this undemocratic ‘law’ and hundreds of them are currently held in Israeli jails.
It is ironic that Kushner raised the issue of freedom of the press, in particular, as Israel is being derided for its dismal record in that regard. Israel has reportedly committed 811 xadgudub against Palestinian journalists since the start of the ‘March of Return’ in Gaza in March 2018. Two journalists – Yaser Murtaja and Ahmed Abu Hussein – la dilay and 155 were dhaawacay by Israeli snipers.
Like the imbalanced Israeli judicial system, targeting the press is also a part of a protracted pattern. According to a press release issued by the Palestinian Journalists Union last May, Israel dilay 102 Palestinian journalists since 1972.
The fact that Palestinian intellectuals, poets and activists have been imprisoned for Facebook and other social media posts should tell us volumes about the limits of Israel’s freedom of press and expression.
It is also worth mentioning that in June 2018, the Israeli Knesset loo codeeyay for a bill that prohibits the filming of Israeli soldiers as a way to mask their crimes and shelter them from any future legal accountability.
Xagga xorriyadda diinta, inkasta oo ay cillado badan leedahay, Maamulka Falastiin si dhib leh uma takooro diimaha laga tirada badan yahay. Isla sidaas oo kale lama odhan karo Israa'iil.
Although discrimination against non-Jews in Israel has been the raison d’être of the very idea of Israel, the Nation-State Law of July 2018 further cemented the superiority of the Jews and inferior status of everyone else.
Marka loo eego Sharciga Aasaasiga ah ee cusub, Israa'iil waa "guriga qaranka ee dadka Yuhuudda ah" oo keliya iyo "xaq u yeelashada aayo-ka-tashiga qaranku waa mid gaar u ah dadka Yuhuudda ah."
Falastiiniyiintu uma baahna in casharro laga siiyo sida ay Israa'iil iyo Maraykanku u filayaan, mana aha in ay waligood damcaan in ay ku daydaan qaabka Israa'iil ee aan dimuqraadiga ahayn. Waxa ay si degdeg ah ugu baahan yihiin, taa beddelkeeda, waa wadajir caalami ah si looga caawiyo inay ku guuleystaan dagaalka ka dhanka ah qabsashada Israel, cunsuriyadda iyo midab-takoorka.
Ramzy Baroud waa saxafi, qoraa iyo tafatiraha taariikhda falastiin. Buuggiisii ugu dambeeyay waa Dhulka u dambeeya: Sheeko Falastiini ah (Pluto Press, 2018). Waxa uu qaatay shahaadada Ph.D. ee Daraasaadka Falastiin ee Jaamacadda Exeter, waana aqoonyahan hore oo aan deganayn Xarunta Orfalea ee Daraasaadka Caalamiga ah iyo Caalamiga ah, UCSB.
ZNetwork waxa lagu maalgeliyaa oo keliya deeqsinimada akhristeyaasheeda.
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