Official PA daily: Israel plans to "cleanse the Jewish state of the ‘gentiles’"
Op-ed by Izz Al-Din As'ad
“IS was a pawn of Israeli-American intelligence, meant to fulfill the dream of the Jewish state, alongside several other purposes…
The danger in a religious state is evident to all groups of a people’s ethnic and religious minorities, given that the Islamic State – represented by IS – has imposed a poll tax on the Iraqi Christians, and fought other Muslims – both Sunni and Shiite – under the pretext of [their] having forsaken Islam and [committed] heresy. In other words, a religious state, whatever the religion may be, is based on an ideology of exclusion, inequality, injustice and a complete accusation of heresy…
Every religious state has fought and will always fight other religious and ethnic minorities in order to expel them from the country. This is what happened in Serbia, this is what is being carried out in Iraq by IS, and this is what may happen to the Palestinians in Israel, both Muslims and Christians, if the dream of the Jewish state is fulfilled…
Establishing a Jewish state means the Jewish territory controlled by the Jewish state will be land for Jews only. In the Palestinian case, this is a complex issue, because this state is a colonialist, settler and Orientalist state, which fabricated a historical narrative in order to colonize Palestine. It will act forcefully to destroy the Arab society in Palestine, which was colonized in 1948. This may amount to the expulsion of the Palestinians living in Jerusalem, in order to cleanse the Jewish state of the ‘gentiles’ – the Jewish term for non-Jews…
The creation of IS, the outlining of its strategy and the designing of its model of Takfir (i.e., the act of accusing other Muslims of heresy) contribute dangerously to the realization of the idea that Israel is a Jewish state.”
“IS was a pawn of Israeli-American intelligence, meant to fulfill the dream of the Jewish state, alongside several other purposes…
The danger in a religious state is evident to all groups of a people’s ethnic and religious minorities, given that the Islamic State – represented by IS – has imposed a poll tax on the Iraqi Christians, and fought other Muslims – both Sunni and Shiite – under the pretext of [their] having forsaken Islam and [committed] heresy. In other words, a religious state, whatever the religion may be, is based on an ideology of exclusion, inequality, injustice and a complete accusation of heresy…
Every religious state has fought and will always fight other religious and ethnic minorities in order to expel them from the country. This is what happened in Serbia, this is what is being carried out in Iraq by IS, and this is what may happen to the Palestinians in Israel, both Muslims and Christians, if the dream of the Jewish state is fulfilled…
Establishing a Jewish state means the Jewish territory controlled by the Jewish state will be land for Jews only. In the Palestinian case, this is a complex issue, because this state is a colonialist, settler and Orientalist state, which fabricated a historical narrative in order to colonize Palestine. It will act forcefully to destroy the Arab society in Palestine, which was colonized in 1948. This may amount to the expulsion of the Palestinians living in Jerusalem, in order to cleanse the Jewish state of the ‘gentiles’ – the Jewish term for non-Jews…
The creation of IS, the outlining of its strategy and the designing of its model of Takfir (i.e., the act of accusing other Muslims of heresy) contribute dangerously to the realization of the idea that Israel is a Jewish state.”
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