TEL AVIV, July 30, 2009(WAFA)- Asher Susser wrote an opinion article published in the Israeli daily Haaretz settlers [colonizers] are undermining legitimacy of Israel's existence.

Commenting on settler organizations intention to establish 11 new outposts in the West Bank inspired by the 11 communities in Negev that were established in 1946, the author said the basic difference between the two undertakings is that the settlement project that preceded Israel's establishment was intended to create the territorial basis for the future Jewish state.

He said: The representatives of the settler organizations have recently declared their intention to establish 11 new settlements in the [Palestinian] territories, including some, according to media reports, on privately-owned Palestinian land. The operation is being depicted as having been inspired by the 11 tower and stockade communities in the northern Negev that were established just before Yom Kippur in 1946. This is not the first time the settlers have compared their efforts to the settlement activities that provided the foundation for the establishment of the state. There is no basis for such a comparison, which is nothing more than an act of forgery and fraud.

The 11 settlements in the northern Negev, meanwhile, were meant to ensure the inclusion of the Negev in the Jewish state upon the expected partition of the Land of Israel into a Jewish state and an Arab state, he added.

He sees that the current settlement campaign believes construction in East Jerusalem, is not designed to ensure the existence of the state of the Jews, but rather to deprive the Palestinians of their state in the West Bank and their capital in Arab Jerusalem. That is precisely the difference between the just Zionism of self-defense and aggressive Zionism, which is totally dismissive of the Arabs and their human rights.

According to the colonizers the writer said: The Jews have the right 'to settle everywhere,' and the Jews of course also have needs created by 'natural growth.' In their opinion, do the Arabs [Palestinians] also have the right to settle everywhere, or is any construction by Arabs illegal for one reason or another? And don't the Arabs have 'natural growth'?

“In the eyes of the settlers, the term 'illegal' only applies to Arabs, not to the settlers' construction, because the source of their inspiration is divine and beyond the democratic context. According to this approach, the law only exists as a tool of the state, as the settlers' subcontractor, to deprive the Arabs of what little is theirs. Such an approach of 'me and me alone' should outrage every reasonable person, and as a result a large and important part of the Israeli Jewish public believes that this line of thinking is intolerable,” the writer concluded.