LETTER: Objective of Zionism has been to expel Palestinians from their land
The Israeli Nation-State law passed in 2018 confirms, both legally as well as in reality, that Israel is an apartheid state
I refer to Natalia Hay’s letter (“Hamas is the problem (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/letters/2021-05-26-letter-hamas-is-the-problem/),” May 26). The objective of Zionism since the 1917 Balfour Declaration has been to expel Palestinians from their land from “the river to the sea”, and this remains the objective of Israel’s governing Likud party and its allies.
The irony is that the establishment in 1987 of Hamas was originally promoted by Israeli governments in an attempt to counter Fatah. Hamas won the 2006 election, which international monitors acknowledged as “free and fair”. Suddenly after Hamas won that remarkably democratic election, Israelis and their US patrons declared Hamas to be a “terrorist” organisation...
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