Jan J. Wijenberg Former Dutch Ambassador: Israel. A Terminally Ill Patient

Israel a Terminally ill Patient
Jan J. Wijenberg Former Ambassador
for The Netherlands October 2017
The Hague, The Netherlands
Golda Meir:
“We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.”
Yudd Yadid, Israel’s Iron Lady Un ltered: 17 Golda Meir Quotes on Her 117th Birthday, 2015-05-03, Haaretz
Second Edition, Updated and Expanded

For two reasons, the author refrains from claiming copy rights. The study comprises many quotations from other sources. Also, the readers are encouraged to help promote peace between Isra- el and Palestine by disseminating the content and the purport of this study, if so desired without stating its source.
Naturally, he is fully responsible for his considerations, conclu- sions and advice, as well as for the selection of quotations.
He bene tted from the detailed comments on substance by Mr. Egbert Talens from Zutphen, The Neterlands, the author of the standard work Een bijzondere relatie, Het con ict Israël-Palesti- na nader bekeken 1897-1993, [A special relationship, The con ict Israel-Palestine at a closer look 1897-1993], 2005, Uitgeverij As- pekt.
The author is indebted to Mrs. Helen Gamble of Taipei City, Re- public of China, for her valuable contributions in editing and lin- guistics.
He is also grateful for the design and print of this study, taken care of by Mr. Robert Brendel and printing o ce Robine, both in Twello, The Netherlands.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction 4 Executive Summary 10 The Truth 12

Part I

Anamnesis, the Patient’s History 13

1. I-1  The Political Zionist Ideology 13
   
2. I-2  The Ideology of the Settlers 15
   
3. I-3  The Permanent Temporariness 18
   
4. I-4  The Matrix of Control 18
   
5. I-5  Paranoid 18
   
6. I-6  Dehumanising, Demonising 19
   

Part II

21 and trade in, Donor Organs 22 24 25 Military IT, Hard- and Software 25 26 28 28 29
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33 34 39 42
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1. III-1  The State of Israel is Highly
   
2. III-2  The One State Solution, No
   
3. III-3  The Two State Solution, The Road to Peace 45
   

1. I-6-1  A Mengele Moment
   
2. I-6-2  Illegal harvesting of,
   

7. I-7  The Military Complex
   
   1. I-7-1  The Dahiya Doctrine
      
   2. I-7-2  The Quality of Israeli
      
8. I-8  Murder
   
9. I-9  Palestinian Refugees
   
10. I-10  Palestinian Children
    
11. I-11  Palestinian Prisoners
    

The Diagnosis
II-1 Racism and Apartheid II-2 Fascism
II-3 Genocide
II-4 The Israel Lobby

Part III The Recovery Process

Part IV Recovery is Possible Notes

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Unstable and May Implode 43 Solution 44

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Introduction
Two chosen peoples
Just two countries are blessed with a chosen people, North Korea and Israel; one people by Kim il-Sung, the Eternal President and The Beloved Leader, the other people by their Eternal Supreme Being. Both ideologies are intolerant. Both regimes su er from a fortress mentality: the outside world is hostile and intent on their destruction. Chosen people are superior and stand apart from all others, the very essence of fascism.
Both regimes may di er strongly, but four similarities are noteworthy:

1. Intense indoctrination of the dominant ideology. In North Korea this is called ‘Juche’ (self-reliance). Political Zionism, Israel, Jewish and democratic - a contradiction in terms - is imposed relentlessly on the Israeli Jewish and non-Jewish people.
   
2. The national ‘non-chosen’, the real or alleged non-believers, can expect a gruesome fate – in North Korea this can mean murder, torture, imprisonment and concentra- tion camps for the accused and his family. In Israel and the occupied territories, the ‘non-chosen’ people are mostly non-Jewish. Their fate is no better than that of their North Korean fellow su erers: murder, torture, imprisonment, robbery, revenge on family members, and concentration camps.
   
3. Both regimes pose a considerable threat to the outside world. North Korea threatens the western world (notably the USA and Europe), Japan and South Korea. Opponents are abducted or assassinated abroad. Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and numerous other countries - including western nations - su er from open illegal Israeli violence or war [or are threatened with war], military assaults, summary executions and abductions.
   
4. North Korea and Israel have illegal weapons of mass destruction at their disposal, including the illegal possession of nuclear arms and the necessary missiles. North Korea challenges his opponents openly. Israel is less direct. According to Martin Levi van Crevelt, an Israeli military historian, nuclear weapons are also trained on Euro- pean cities, to be made operational ‘when we go under, you go under’. Submarines (substantially subsidised by Germany), American assault jets and rockets, provide Is- rael with a multitude of delivery systems with a worldwide reach.
   

Two parallels are signi cant. The international community totally underestimated North Korea. The regime has acquired an unmatched international position of power, thanks to its nuclear warheads and the ever expanding reach of his ballistic rockets. Diplomatic ne- gotiations seem to be the only, yet rather dead-end option for preventing a nuclear war. The insight seems to be emerging that the regime was allowed to continue its policies for far too long and should have been called to order much earlier.
An equivalent development took place in the development of a position of power of the

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Israeli regime. It should have been disciplined many decennia earlier. Despite all the violations of international law and the creation of sizable, capable and extremely ag- gressive armed forces, the international community remained passive at the systematic increase of its grasp on the occupied Palestinian territories and the illegal build-up of an impressive arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East region. The Israeli regime leaves no doubt that its permanent ambition is the creation of Eretz, or Greater Israel, so that East Jerusalem and the West Bank are forever united with Israel and Gaza is destroyed.
The international community has failed miserably. It has blindly allowed the threat to world peace emanating from the Far East and the Middle East to happen.
Three Theocracies
In addition to comparisons of North_korea and Israel, the similarities among Iran, Saudi Arabia and Israel merit some attention. Iran establishes the administration and civic so- ciety on the Shiite variant of Islam. Saudi Arabia rests the organisation of the state and of the civic society on the Wasabi movement of Sunni Islam. Israel claims to be a democ- racy, indeed the only democracy in the Middle East. Is this correct? Does Israel conform to the minimum democratic criteria?
Just like Saudi Arabia and Iran, the country knows no separation of relogion and state. “[...] Jewish democracy, with exclusive rabbinical power over birth, marriage and death, is a contradiction in terms.
Salomon Bouman, the power of the rabbinate, p. 22, in Israël achter de schermen, zionisme op een dwaalspoor, 2004, Prometeus, Amsterdam
Since the foundation of the State of Israel, all secular Premiers have - prior to taking up their post - gone to confession with a member of the clergy, who have disproportionate political power.
Ibid, p. 25
Amongst Jewish groupings in Israel according to geographical origin (Western Europe, Russia, the Arab world) there is much unequality in terms of political, economic and social rights. In this respect, the Bedouins and Arab Israelis are in a even worse position than the Jews at the bottom of Israeli society. In the last ve years or so, at least 80 laws entered into force eroding even further the rights of the non-Jewish Israeli population. That process is pressed relentlessly forward.
Complete freedom of the press does not exist in Israel. Alongsid censorship of reporting, the free gathering of news is hampered using every possible method, including impris- onment and character assasination.

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“The only democracy in the Middle East” is certainly not Israel. [The last Palestinian elec- tions - in 2006 - were democratically held. Hamas came out as the winner with an ab- solute majority. Al-Fatah colluded with Israel and western nations in a straightforward coup d’état.] Israeli democracy only exists to a certain degree for the Jewish contingent of Israeli citizens. They have considerable freedom of the press and the right to demon- strate.
The rapidly multiplying ultra-orthodox Heradim [those who awe for God] and the Saudi Wahabi di er in the name of their god, otherwise, they cannot be seen or regarded as di erent
Marcel Kurpershoek, Ultra’s en ultra-ultra’s, pp. 158-186, in Onzalig Jeruzalem, 1996, Marcel Kurpershoek en Meulenho bv. Amsterdam
The Prime Minister and Semitism
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s allegiance to President Trump, despite the latter’s apparent appreciations of American Neo-Nazis, and his intimate bond with the Hun- garian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who openly courts anti-Semitism, made the best columnist of the best Israeli daily newspaper conclude:
The best of the ‘friends of Israel’ today are fascists and evangelicals, xenophobes and Islam- ophobes.
Gideon Levy, 2017-08-20, Haaretz
Numerous studies have concluded that the majority of people in western countries want decisive action to discipline Israel. Therefore it is strange that a majority of parlia- ments in Western democracies and a large majority of their media should be considered part and parcel of this odd collection of ‘friends of Israel’.
The Palestinian question, or the Israeli question?

In the discussion on Israel and Palestine, the con ict is frequently referred to as ‘the Pal- estinian Question’. This misses the point, as it doesn’t describe the essence of the prob- lem. As the core, the origin of the problem, rests with the early political Zionists in Vien- na, the responsibility for the con ict between Israel and Palestine - after they realised their project der Judenstaat, Israel, in May 1948 - must then be layed almost entirely with the Israeli regime.

The root of the problem, indeed the cause of the con ict, can be almost entirely attribut- ed to Israel, the violator of international law, the occupier and the oppressor. The pursuit of a just, thus a durable peace, as de ned in international law, nds its point of depar-

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ture in Israel, and more speci cally, in the Israeli regime. Israel will draw the attention of the western world in the years to come. How can we be so sure?
Firstly, the Israeli regime will carry out the announced expulsion of all non-Jewish com- munities from ‘Greater Israel’ (Donald Trump’s presidency may provide a window of op- portunity). This will generate an additional in ux of refugees into already overburdened neighbouring countries, notably Jordan and Lebanon. The population of Gaza in the Sinai desert will meet their end.
Secondly, Israel is a notoriously unstable country. The settlement policy, driven by ex- tremist orthodox settlers, is unsustainable. In addition, explosive internal frictions be- tween several di erent Jewish segments of society in Israel could well explode. The best long term prospect for peace is embodied in international law, yet Israeli divisions ren- der a peaceful outcome virtually impossible.
Thirdly, the almost inevitable eruption of violence among Jewish groupings in Israel and the occupied territories will create even greater regional instability. Repercussions in the already besieged Arab world will be considerable, but are as yet di cult to gauge.
Further external Israeli aggression and/or a straightforward implosion of the state of Israel may well generate renewed oods of refugees. Recent experiences with the in ux into Europe of Iraqi and Syrian refugees mean that the European Union cannot be com- placent on this issue.
The Rohingya
Politicians are upset, and the media have reported extensively, on the fate of this Muslim minority at the hands of the regime of Myanmar, and rightly so. One might ask, however, what is the connection between this disaster and the one faced by the Palestinians and the Bedouins? Sadly, the answer can be formulated in just a few words: western hypoc- risy and disdain for international law.
Similarities exist. Everyday life for the Rohingya, as well as for the Palestinians, is ren- dered impossible and they are driven out. In around 1948, the Palestinians experienced the same fate as the Rohingya are now; they were also expelled and their society largely destroyed. The Palestinians have a name for this: Naqba, or catastrophe. With relentless and increasing determination, the Israeli regime is rendering their lives ever more un- bearable. The ultimate goal is to drive them out. Murder, torture, imprisonment, bom- bardment and the withholding of basic necessities (such as healthcare, education, food and water), as well as a multitude of other measures, are Israel’s weapons.

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Following on from measures rst believed to be conceived by Ariel Sharon , specula- tions abound in Israel that preparations are under way for the deportation, in one large operation, of the Palestinians and the Bedouins of the West Bank, East-Jerusalem, and Israel proper to Jordan and Lebanon. According to these speculations, the inhabitants of Gaza will be driven out into Sinai, where they will die (see remarks on this issue by Netanyahu, I-9, ‘Palestine Refugees’, below).
Both con icts are based on religion: in Myanmar, Hindus versus Muslims, in Palestine and Israel, Jews versus Muslims.
There are di erences, however. The Rohingya are relative newcomers driven out by the earlier inhabitants. The Palestinians and the Bedouins are the original inhabitants, ex- pelled by recent new arrivals. The goal of the Myanmar regime is to drive out the Ro- hingya thoroughly, forcefully and swiftly. Subsequent to the rst wave of expulsions in around 1948, the Israeli regime have begun, and relentlessly pursued, a long-term process, partly hidden from the eyes of Israeli Jews and the outside world.
Another remarkable di erence is the attitude of the western world. The Rohingya can count on international, including western, support, and fairly e ective criticism of Myanmar’s regime. The Israeli aims and subsequent crimes, committed over some 100 years, can be openly observed. Nonetheless, the international community allows Israel act with impunity. As a result, the grip Israel has on the occupied Palestinian territories has become increasingly tighter. The mighty western world largely stands by.
The numerous political and religious considerations, as well as those relating to the fate of Jews under the Nazi regime – the foundations of this permissive attitude – are well known. However, in this context they are totally irrelevant. International law is obligato- ry. Western leaders allow themselves to be mislead by the seemingly desired ‘western oriented’ policies and culture of the Israeli regime. Yet if this is the case, then the Israeli regime are practicing the very worst that the western world o ers, as is analysed and substantiated below.
The western world, notably the US and the EU, violate the international protection by law which the Palestinians and the Bedouins can rightly claim. This attitude, especially when compared with the reaction to the fate of the Rohinngya, is nothing less than hypocritical.
If and when convenient, politicians gladly invoke international law. This is the case for Myanmar’s problem. The Palestinians and the Bedouins are not granted that very same right. This illustrates that ‘international law’ is not accepted as binding, as laws should be. Regrettably, international law is applied and misused à la carte. Politicians deliberately

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undermine the very purpose and the tenor of international law. It is high time to correct their misguided ways. They should honour and apply the law, as they – as our represen- tatives – should do.
The mainstream western media have never criticized the western political class, as they ought to do.
Renewed examination necessary
There is considerable evidence to justify a renewed examination of Israeli behaviour, the essence of the con ict, and what policies o er the best chance for lasting peace. The in- escapable and unavoidable conclusion is that Israel is a critically ill country – a danger to the region, a danger to the European Union and its inhabitants, but especially a danger to itself. Israel is su ering from several severe, contagious, perhaps even lethal diseases. The following analysis derives – with apologies to the medical profession – some com- parison and research methodology from the medical world. 

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