Shimon Gapso, an Israeli mayor of Upper Nazareth, recently said that Upper Nazareth is a Jewish city and “will be Jewish forever.” In response to this, and in consideration of anti-Arab statements Gapso allegedly made in the past (and, say, his opposition to the establishment of Arab schools in his city), Israeli civil rights groups called on the attorney general to investigate Gapso’s racism.
Now, he has written an Op-Ed in the Haaretz newspaper to answer his detractors. To prove he’s not a racist, he reminds us that the Bible is racist.
Yes — I’m not afraid to say it out loud, to write it and add my signature, or declare it in front of the cameras: Upper Nazareth is a Jewish city and it’s important that it remains so. If that makes me a racist, then I’m a proud offshoot of a glorious dynasty of “racists” that started with the “Covenant of the Pieces” [that God made with Abraham, recounted in Genesis 15:1–15] and the explicitly racist promise: “To your seed I have given this land” [Genesis 15:38].
When the Jewish people were about to return to their homeland after a long journey from slavery in Egypt, where they were enslaved for racist reasons, the God of Israel told Moses how to act upon conquering the land: he must cleanse the land of its current inhabitants. “But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those of them whom you allow to remain… as I thought to do to them, so will I do to you” [Numbers 33:55–56].
Clearly Gapso is trying to say that his comments are no different than what you can find in the Torah – and obviously that doesn’t contain any racism – so he’s free and clear. But this strategy doesn’t exactly do the trick because, ahem, there is tons of racism contained in the Old Testament.
Gapso then takes to sarcasm regarding Israel’s national founding:
Since then, racially pure kibbutzim without a single Arab member and an army that protects a certain racial strain have been established, as have political parties that proudly bear racist names such as “Habayit Hayehudi” — “the Jewish home.” Even our racist national anthem ignores the existence of the Arab minority — in other words, the people Ben-Gurion did not manage to expel in the 1948 war. If not for all that “racism,” it’s doubtful we could live here, and doubtful that we could live at all.
Really, does he think this is helping his case?
To say that you want a state or city “for the Jewish people” but then deny race has anything to do with it strikes me as strange. And then to point to a religious text filled with racism and genocide as a justification of race-based states – that’s even stranger.
As The Times of Israel reported in February, Alon Liel, a former Israeli Foreign Ministry director-general and ex-ambassador to South Africa, believes Israel currently qualifies as an apartheid state.
“In the situation that exists today, until a Palestinian state is created, we are actually one state. This joint state — in the hope that the status quo is temporary — is an apartheid state,” Liel said recently in Jerusalem.
This is not a fringe view. An Israeli survey conducted last year found that most Israeli Jews support the establishment of an apartheid regime in Israel if it formally annexes the West Bank and a majority explicitly favor systematic discrimination against Israeli Arabs.
This arc of history will be complete when the Israelis decide on one final solution and the states who liberated the jews and prosecuted the Nazi's look on in feigned ignorance, convincing themselves that what is done is rational, justifiable and good. But who will then save the victims of Israel, and will the Star of David someday be akin to the Swastika? Stay tuned for the dramatic climax and conclusion!
What do you mean 'some day', LOL. I have a number of pics with the star of David over laying the swastika. I also have a picture of an IDF with brown shirt and a star of David arm band, LOL. Another pic of an IDF washing the blood off his hands with the caption, white washing war crimes.
Leaving aside Gapso's inability to correctly reference Scripture ~ there is no Genesis 15:38. It's Genesis 15:18 to which he alludes ~ he fails to realize that the "seed" of Abraham whose number shall be "as the stars of the heavens" (Gen. 15:5) and "too numerous to count" (Gen. 16:10) has found fulfillment today in the proliferation of Arabs throughout the very land mentioned in Genesis 15:18. (Both Arabs and Jews descend from Abraham.)
What is revealing is Gapso's reference to the land described in Genesis (from the Nile to the Euphrates) rather than that described in Numbers 34 (from the River Jordan to the Great Sea), which betrays the objective of contemporary Israeli manifest destiny inherent to zionism:
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Not surprisingly, Gapso omits any reference to Deuteronomy 28, which provides the terms and conditions of The Covenant established between God and the Children of Israel, setting forth explicit consequences for both adherence and violation. The history of Scripture that follows is evidence that The Covenant was broken long before Scripture even became accessible to those who were not Scribes and Pharisees of the House of Israel.
Gapso's just trying to peddle a trailer as the movie itself, but we've seen it all before, and he isn't fooling anyone who's paying attention.
The guy sound like a real, genuine lout but the racism angle escapes me. Since the Jewish occupiers and the Palestinians are both of the semitic race I'm not sure this is a classic case of racism. Jewish Messianism, yes; racism, no.
Arabs are the racists, not Jews!
this individual person sound like a real, legitimate lout but the racism angle escapes everyone. Since Jewish occupiers as well as the Palestinians are generally both in the semitic battle I am just unclear it is a vintage situation connected with racism. Jewish Messianism.
This was a real chance at using diplomacy to stave off U.S. intervention that is almost universally opposed and would very likely worsen the humanitarian situation in Syria without any additional utility.
I know, most of the historical incidences were planned diplomatically.
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Shimon Gapso’s statement about Upper Nazareth’s status is sarcastic.
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Being a responsible person, Shimon Gapso should have avoided making those remarks.
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