Det vakte oppsikt i Israel at i Tel Aviv nå nylig ville man vise "Green Line", dvs våpenhvilelinjene fra 1949, på kart man underviste i skolene der.
Oppsikt fordi denne linjen ikke skal vises på noe israelsk offentlig kart, det bestemte den israelske regjeringen i 1967.
I en artikkel i Haaretz 6. juni tar to israelske forrfatterne dette opp i en artikkel:
"Who’s Afraid of the Green Line?"
(Hele artikkelen i Kilde underher.)
Artikkelen bør leses av alle interesserte.
Her får man dokumentert hvordan israelske myndigheter systematisk under dekke av "ingen grense" har latt dette gjelde for israelere, mens det er MOTSATT for palestinere.
Slik er folkeretten uthulet og forskjellsbehandlingen har åpnet for det som nå betegnes som apartheid.
En grundig artikkel av to eksperter på feltet.
Og så må man si at i Tel Aviv finnes det politikere som er opptatt av hva ungdommene skal vite og kunne.
Skudeneshavn 9. september 2022
Jan Marton Jensen
Mitt blogginnlegg om samme sak av 24. august 2022
"Sensur av hvor grensene går i Israel"
https://innkast.blogspot.com/2022/08/sensur-av-hvor-grensene-gar-i-israel.html
På Twitter:
11. september 2022
https://twitter.com/janmarton/status/1568905873451270146
14. mars 2023
https://twitter.com/janmarton/status/1635625024278102017
Kilde:
6.september 2022
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2022-09-06/ty-article/.premium/whos-afraid-of-the-green-line/00000183-0f66-dce7-a79f-ef76f7b70000?lts=1662741612866
HELE artikkelen i Haaretz 6. september 2022:
Opinion |
Who’s Afraid of the Green Line?
A metal post marking the Green Line in the Maccabim area.Credit: David Bachar
The laudable decision of the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality to hang maps in
classrooms showing the Green Line – the internationally recognized
border between Israel and the West Bank – has created a storm. The
Education Ministry and the State Mapping Center have opposed the move,
which challenges the 55-year-old ban that the government imposed on the
Green Line. This ban has left most Israelis, young and old, ignorant of
its existence.
Beyond the important discussion about the absence of the Green Line from Israeli maps,
the bigger picture should not be forgotten: While the line has been
erased for Israelis, for Palestinians it has deepened in the service of
creating a regime of Jewish supremacy for the entire land of
Israel/Palestine.
Already at the end of the 1960s, Israel decided to remove the Green Line
from official maps while at the same time asserting Jewish control over
Palestinian territories. This control was established on the ground by
expropriating land, colonizing resources, creating closed military zones,
establishing vast Jewish “shepherding” ranches and the designation of
vast lands as “security areas.” But no less important, the creeping
annexation developed and advanced on official maps, through erasing the
international border while adding the names of some 200 Jewish
settlements in the occupied territories.
Many have rightly argued that erasing the line from the maps made it
possible to imagine the entire Land of Israel (between Jordan and the
sea) as the State of Israel, thereby legitimizing the colonization of
the West Bank by Jews, which is considered a severe war crime under
international law. At the same time, erasure of the Green Line has now
made it possible for Aviv Geffen,
a leading Israeli pop singer previously identified with the left, to
conduct his campaign of obsequiousness in front of the lords of the land
in the settlement of Beit El, without fears or doubts, as if he were
performing inside his country and not on expropriated Palestinian land
in occupied territory.
The erasure of the Green Line is also evident in the way that settlers
are part and parcel of the Israeli political system while the
Palestinians living right beside them are excluded. It’s not a
theoretical issue: In 10 of the last 13 elections, the votes of settlers
were decisive in preventing the formation of a center-left government.
Ahead of the next election, it is worth noting the glaring anomaly:
Israelis accept it as a matter of course that settler politicians like
Zeev Elkin and Avigdor Lieberman sit in the cabinet, that Itamar Ben Gvir,
Bezalel Smotrich and many other settlers are in the Knesset. No other
country, as far as we know, allows lawmakers or ministers to live
outside its borders. At the same time, the Palestinian permanent
residents, ruled by the same Israeli regime, have no political rights.
This is not democracy.
At the same time, for the Palestinians, an opposite process is taking
place: namely the strengthening and deepening of the Green Line. Over
the last 30 years, the relative freedom of movement to enter Israel that
Palestinians once enjoyed has diminished considerably. It began out of
fear of terrorist attacks, but as time went by, barring entry to Israel
became an instrument for determining the political relations between the
Jordan River and the sea. The Green Line returned big-time into the
lives of Palestinians and today constitutes a complete system of
suppression in the form of physical obstacles and fences, as well as
legal and political barriers.
The separation barrier (most of which lies east of the Green Line) is an
important part of this system, side by side with the legal tools, such
as the “citizenship law” and planning and land policies that deny
Palestinians on either side of the Green Line the basic civil rights of
equality, freedom to immigrate, possess property or establish a family
or community.
The result is that the Green Line and the separation barrier constitute a
one-way physical and legal barrier on the national scale. From the
Palestinian viewpoint, the Green Line and the barrier are a physical
obstacle and a borderline all at once. From the perspective of the Jews,
the Green Line and the barrier are neither an obstacle nor a border.
This feature of the Green Line gets Israel, in practice, on the “inside”
without being compelled to accept the fact that the land on the other
side is on the “outside.” If a border typically and legally fixes the
division between two sovereignties, the one-way Green Line enables the
constant expansion of one side’s sovereignty at the expense of the
other, while usurping international law.
The Green Line regime is only the tip of the iceberg: Its duplicity
(open for Jews, shut for Palestinians) set the stage for an apartheid
rule over the entire land, in which Jews have freedom of movement,
residence, work and property rights over almost the entire area, while
the Palestinians are limited to enclosed compounds and lack political,
property and movement rights outside them. In between are the
Palestinians with Israeli citizenship, who enjoy relative freedom of
movement, but their rights to family life, to own property or establish
their own communities are compromised due to the racist administration
of the territory.
The Tel Aviv-Jaffa City Council did well in deciding to expose the
simple truth in its classrooms. It would be right for other
municipalities and academic and professional bodies, such as the
universities, the Bar Association and the Israeli Geographical
Association, restore the line to their maps for the sake of accuracy,
justice and the law. Likewise, it would be appropriate for the political
parties that support peace to do the same ahead of the election.
More than that, this is a wake-up call, a
warning to Israeli society to put the Green Line back on our physical
and mental maps. Only then will the picture emerge, and widespread
opposition begin to the deepening apartheid regime that is taking place
right before our eyes, with the kind help of the silent maps created by
the state.
Prof.
Oren Yiftachel teaches political and legal geography at Ben-Gurion
University. Michael Sfard is an attorney who represents occupied
Palestinians and Israelis who oppose the occupation.
