FACT: Likud’s far-Right, annexation/settlement policy involves forced occupation by the IDF: the violent razing of Arab houses and villages and the killing of those, mainly young Palestinians, defending their homes, businesses and families – continuously since 1947. This atrocity is anathema to democracy, justice and morality, as well as a deliberate violation of Resolution 2334 that was passed by 14-0 votes in the Security Council of the United Nations, in December 2016.

FACT:  The state of Israel is the only undeclared nuclear weaponised power in the world and, as such, is not a ratified party to the IAEA, the NPT, the OPCW, the CWC or the BWC* and, therefore, the only UN member state that treats the global community with such complete contempt.

FACT:  It is also the only state in the world that is supported militarily and economically by the American taxpayer to the extent of billions of US dollars every year, upon the authority of the AIPAC, Christian Zionist, lobby-influenced, US Congress.  In effect, Israel is the 51st State of the Union albeit not subject to US law. Consequently, it has grown to be a constant, belligerent threat to both the indigenous Palestinian Arab, the entire Middle East and the wider world.

FACT:  Equally important is the effect of US-Israeli policies of immigration and illegal settlement in former Palestine upon the worldwide Jewish diaspora, centred in New York, Paris and London – who total in the region of eight million. They are now increasingly subject to antisemitic invective and action in their communities by those sympathetic to the Palestinian cause – both on campus and generally – who are clearly incensed by the obvious injustice against a dispossessed, indigenous people of 5m whose families have lived in Palestine for over a thousand years as the dominant demographic.

FACT:  The acceptance of the IHRA definition of antisemitism, although widely adopted, does nothing to ameliorate this shocking situation and is, sadly, often just a distraction.

FACT: The status quo that has allowed the government of one of the smallest countries in the world, Israel,  to become a secret nuclear power capable of destroying an entire continent with its reportedly uninspected, 100-200 ICBMs / nuclear warheads, in its underground storage silos/ bunkers at the Negev Nuclear Research Centre in Dimona and the Jericho Missile Base at Sdot-Micha, is unconscionable and one of the most potentially dangerous factors that could lead to nuclear, world war (WW3), today.

Israel’s secret nuclear arsenal should be de-weaponised, and its government made to comply with the resolution of the United Nations Security Council, failing which there should be a total trade embargo instituted upon all Israeli exports, both to the EU and worldwide.

When the threat of nuclear WMD is removed, and compliance with the will of the UN Security Council, observed, then would global trade be resumed, and the Israeli state returned to full membership of the international community.

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