Obama Administration “Recognizes Israel’s Right to be Jewish”
The utter hypocrisy which engulfs the politicians in Washington DC was illustrated once again with the announcement by U.S. State Department Spokesman Philip J. Crowley that Israel had the right to be a state for the Jewish people.
Speaking on the current impasse in talks between Israel and the Palestinians after the latter rejected an offer by Israel to stop building settlements in Palestinian territory, Mr. Crowley reiterated his commitment to the recognition of Israel as a Jewish state.
“We recognize the special nature of the Israeli state. It is a state for the Jewish people,” he said.
Mr. Crowley added that the Obama administration was backing this issue as a “core demand of the Israeli government, which we support.”Israel recently approved a demand for new, non-Jewish citizens to swear loyalty to Israel as a “Jewish State,” but members of its government have pushed to extend the demand to all non-Jews.
The hypocrisy of the situation lies in the fact that the Obama administration — and all the elected politicians in Washington DC — will support this “core demand” of Israel to be Jewish.
There is, of course, nothing wrong with a demand by Jews for their own state. Such a demand is perfectly natural and a right which should be accorded to all people on earth.
The actual mechanics of Jews exercising that right in Israel is the cause of the dispute with the Arab world. But that, as far as the American Third Position is concerned, is another matter entirely.
We are interested in the concept of a “state for Jews” as, we argue, this justifies the creation of a state for all other ethnic groups as well.
After all, if Jews have the right to their own state, then why do European Americans not have that same right?
Why would the U.S. State Department claim Israel’s right to be ethnically Jewish and a state for “Jews only” while denying that right to all other ethnic groups?
No one would question the right of Mexicans to their own state. No one would question the right of Nigerians to their own state. No one would question the right of the Chinese to their own state.
So why is any demand by European Americans for their own state dismissed as “evil” and “bigoted?”
What the American Third Position demands is the same right which is accorded to Jews in Israel, Mexicans in Mexico, Nigerians in Nigeria, and the Chinese in China.
It is utter hypocrisy for the U.S. State Department to endorse a state for Jews only, while actively seeking to destroy the state which European Americans created for themselves and their descendants.