1968, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, the conscience of Israel: ISRAEL RACIST COLONIALIST DOES NOT DESERVE TO EXIST - The rise of a virulent racism would consume Israeli society.The prolonged occupation of the Palestinians would spawn concentration camps for the occupied and Israel would not deserve to exist, and it will not be worthwhile to preserve it. Religious nationalism is to religion what National Socialism was to socialism. Our situation will deteriorate to that of a second Vietnam, to a war in constant escalation without prospect of ultimate resolution. The Arabs would be the working people and the Jews the administrators, inspectors, officials, and police—mainly secret police. A state ruling a hostile population of 1.5 million to 2 million foreigners would necessarily become a secret-police state, with all that this implies for education, free speech and democratic institutions. The corruption characteristic of every colonial regime would also prevail in the State of Israel. The administration would have to suppress Arab insurgency on the one hand and acquire Arab Quislings on the other. There is also good reason to fear that the Israel Defense Force, which has been until now a people’s army, would, as a result of being transformed into an army of occupation, degenerate, and its commanders, who will have become military governors, resemble their colleagues in other nations. The rise of a virulent racism would consume Israeli society.The prolonged occupation of the Palestinians would spawn concentration camps for the occupied and that, in his words, Israel would not deserve to exist, and it will not be worthwhile to preserve it.” nationofchange.org/imploding-myth-israel-1383661202
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