Whenever the situation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank moves towards a truce, Israel starts to ignite more fire and pours oil on it so that the region does not see stability. It creates conducive situation for the hawks in the Israeli government led by Netanyahu to pass dangerous resolutions and laws that undermines international laws and agreements with a view to fully eliminating the Palestinian cause.
At a time when the world is promoting universal values of tolerance, co-existence and acceptance of the others and achieving unity under the diversity of cultures and religions, Israel is determined to reject these universal values to walk alone in the path of hatred and racism by adopting Jewish nation bill.
On Thursday 19 July, Israel adopted a controversial piece of legislation that essentially defines Israel first and foremost as a Jewish state and singles out Hebrew as the “state’s language”, effectively prioritising it above Arabic which has for decades been recognised as an official language alongside Hebrew. The State of Qatar has condemned the so-called Jewish Nation-state Bill, stressing that it “perpetuates racism and undermines the remaining hopes in the peace process and the two-state solution”.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, described in statement the step as setback in the path towards coexistence, just peace and the bill is a blatant discrimination against Arab landowners.
The statement stressed that this bill, by turning the construction of settlements and the Judaization of Al Quds into a constitutional principle, flagrantly violates international law and United Nations resolutions, calling “upon the international community to activate its resolutions and to compel Israel to abandon this ideological bill and to end its violations of international law”.
The bill is aimed at pressuring the Palestinian people in their homeland and eliminating their cause by imposing facts on the ground that makes the implementation of the two-state solution impossible.
This has pushed the 13 Arab members in the Israeli parliament to threaten of unanimously resignation from the Knesset describing the bill as apartheid – a racial discrimination system imposed by white-minority rule in South Africa. Civil rights groups have also denounced the law and some critics said Israel has long practiced a system akin to apartheid against Palestinians in their homeland.
Palestinians called for the withdrawal of the Palestinian Authority from the Oslo agreements on the grounds that the law paves the way for the liquidation of the Palestinian cause and dedicated to the establishment of a national homeland for the Jews in historic Palestine.
The move is a call for action to a global stand of all the countries of the free world to restrain Israel and confront its racist projects. The inaction of the international community against Israel’s racism policies and practices has encouraged it to go ahead with the bill and kill innocent and unarmed Palestinian demonstrators in Gaza on daily basis.
