The Siege Mentality with Blinkers and Denial of South African Jews in Respect to the Palestinian Question for Liberation from Colonial Occupation , Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing

Abstract

The paper argues that there is a “siege mentality” among South African Jews in respect to the question of Palestine, as exemplified by the actions of the Netanyahu government in Israel. The state of Israel is committing crimes against humanity and against the people of Gaza and Palestine for decades, without any repercussions from the free world and in flagrant violation of international law. It is nothing short of genocide and ethnic cleansing against the legitimate demands of a people’s aspirations for a free and independent Palestine. A demand on the basis of colonialization and occupation by people (Zionists and Israelis worldwide and with the assistance of a host of Western nations including Great Britain, and the United States and the European Union) who stole the land through the processes of British colonialism and, under the Balfour Declaration of 1924. The irony of Israeli, self – righteousness and superiority because of the unprecedented support, it receives from the United States government and powerful European nations and allies, including the tyrannical governments of some of the Arab countries, are based on this so – called “superiority” it espouses on the world stage. The state of Israel is a single island of a Western imagined culture and value system amidst a sea of Arabs and Arab nations. Astoundingly it espouses this Western culture and value system in the heart of the Arab Middle East, and that to amidst an Arab culture, which is completely different in orientation to the Western way of life, in terms of its social system, its world view, and its values. A people that share equally with Jews, the Judeo – Christian ethic and religious beliefs, grounded and formulated tacitly in the Abrahamic faiths. It is an indictment to the United Nations, to the United States under Barak Obama, successive United States Presidents and the entire world; they have all played a pivotal role, in aiding Israel to oppress the Palestinian people, for decades. It is an indictment to peace, morality and justice as, indiscriminate bombings by the Israeli military escalates with impunity, against men women and defenceless children, with a death toll of over 2000 people in a space of just over a month from, the beginning of July of 2014. This figure rises as each day passes. It’s a question of disproportionate use of power, by the use of superior modern war technology, against the almost harmless and insignificant “homemade rockets” being fired into Israel by Hamas on behalf of the Ghazzans (Palestinians). Legitimate demands for