It is “the natural right of the Jewish people to be masters of their own fate, like all other nations, in their own sovereign State,” states the Declaration of Independence. But Israel is denying this natural right to the Palestinian people. The declaration’s key paragraph guarantees the democratic component of the Jewish and democratic state. “The State of Israel ... will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel; it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex,” it declares. But this promise has been replaced by an occupation regime in the territories, and is under violent attack within Israel itself by the government — a government of the right-wing Im Tirztu organization. [...]
The Declaration of Independence adopted the vision of Israel’s prophets — the universal values that put man at the center, the ones through which Judaism made an enormous contribution worldwide. But the nationalist State of Israel, with its fascist tendencies, scorns and derides these values. Israeli society must fight to restore the vision of the Declaration of Independence and make it the state’s vision once more. We cannot and must not accept its abolition.
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