May 18
GUESTS: Lea and Yakov Pipman,
long time residents and citizens of Israel, talk about
advocating for Palestinian rights and of Matzpen, the
revolutionary socialist and anti-Zionist organization founded in
1962.
Matzpen,
Anti Zionist Israelis
There was a time when Israel could have been a state for all its people. That's what is so intriguing about Matzpen. It is a philosophy that would have avoided apartheid and fostered a just society for all.
Who to blame for Israel's failure to become a viable state? Perhaps it was wishful thinking to believe that Israel could be a democracy, when half its citizens were another religion. Or maybe the early leaders of Israel all knew from the start that such a state was impossible. We have early writings of some of these leaders, and the subject matter never touches on human rights or equality. They pretty much planned on ethnic cleansing to solve this dilemma. Palestinians would be pushed off all their lands in the end.
Only the end hasn't happened yet. At present 5 million Jews and 5 million Arabs still claim their rightful ownership of the Holy Land. And instead of a just society, we have the terror that is always present in an apartheid state. Millions will pay for the Zionist perpetual insistence on getting it all. Matzpen was the way out so long ago. Was it the US and UK that insisted on this creation of Israel? Was the colony simply a way of controlling oil in the Middle East? Should we blame the Western imperialists for their continual drive for dominance and hegemony? Or do we simply blame capitalism for its all to familiar butchery?
Matzpen is what might have been. Or what one day might bring an end this apartheid state in the Middle East.
