The Protective Wall of Messianic Judaism Destroying Israel

[Israeli]

The more Israel strengthens its democratic nature, the more its legitimacy will increase. But meanwhile, Israel is marching in the opposite direction.

Roni Schocken Aug 28, 2016

Following are several statements that are not at all contradictory:

1. The Jewish people have a right to self-determination in the framework of a state.
2. This right is not a right to deny the right of another nation to self-determination in the framework of a state, nor is it a right to violate international law.
3. Despite that, the State of Israel – whose agenda has been dominated by the settlers in the past decades – was not satisfied with the international mandate it received to establish a national home for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel, and chose to include messianic-ethnocentric (and anti-Zionist) content in the definition “Jewish,” whose main objective is to promote the settlement enterprise in contradiction of international law.

This means undermining the right of the Palestinians to control their own fate, whether in the framework of a sovereign State of Palestine alongside the State of Israel (which requires the division of Jerusalem and withdrawal to the 1967 borders), or in the framework of the one-state solution (which requires granting the right to vote). The only possible solutions to the problem of the Palestinian population according to the messianic-ethnocentric interpretation are transfer or apartheid.

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