Should you’ve ever taken a lifesaving course, you already know there’s an actual risk {that a} drowning individual will drag you underneath and also you’ll each die. It’s a lesson that ought to be saved in thoughts when discussing America’s relationship with Israel. (tailored from)@LarryBoorstein
On Monday, Israel intensified its airstrikes on Rafah, bombing greater than 50 websites within the coronary heart of the town. Video footage on Twitter confirmed plumes of smoke rising from the makeshift encampments and residential buildings the place greater than 1.4 million refugees are presently huddled in essentially the most densely populated place on earth. Israel’s air marketing campaign was accompanied by a large ground-offensive that deployed tanks and armored automobiles to the southern border the place Israeli troops rapidly seized the Rafah Crossing with out resistance.
The sudden uptick in violence has triggered widespread panic among the many Palestinians a lot of who’ve already gathered their households and belongings onto carts and buses and fled northward to security. The opening assault on the civilian enclave is harking back to earlier assaults on Gaza Metropolis and Khan Younis each of which adopted an identical sample. The launching of random bombings is designed to amplify emotions of terror inside the inhabitants whereas the humanitarian blockade tightens the stranglehold on vital meals and medical provides. The target right here is to not kill as many Palestinians as attainable, however to power them into sprawling tent cities the place they may languish amid the rubble till the worldwide neighborhood finds a option to spirit them in a foreign country. For Israel, the endgame has at all times been ethnic cleaning, a complete erasure of the native inhabitants. The bottom invasion of Rafah represents the ultimate part of that maniacal technique. That is from an article on the World Socialist Net Website:
The assault on Rafah comes regardless of the acceptance by Hamas Monday of a proposal for a brief cessation of hostilities in trade for the discharge of hostages. However after spending weeks trying accountable the Palestinians for the continued struggle, Israeli officers flatly rejected the proposal….In response to the murderous Israeli onslaught, a number of US officers reiterated their limitless assist for Israel. “We’ve got at all times made clear that we’re dedicated to Israel’s protection,” mentioned State Division spokesman Vedant Patel on Monday. “That dedication to Israel’s safety stays ironclad.” US reiterates “ironclad” assist to Israel as Netanyahu launches assault on Rafah, World Socialist Net Website
The cynical and deceptive phrase “Israel’s proper to defend itself” has develop into synonymous with the premeditated mass-murder of civilians. Most individuals have by no means seen something as horrific as Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza which explains why faculty campuses throughout the US have develop into hotbeds of political activism nearly in a single day. America’s college students now function the nation’s conscience by opposing a flagrantly-immoral onslaught that intentionally targets defenseless girls and kids.
Not surprisingly, Israel has but to supply any onerous proof that their 7 month-long massacre has killed even one Hamas militant. As a substitute, we’re anticipated to imagine the unverified claims of IDF spokesmen who’ve confirmed themselves to be totally unreliable time and time once more. For all we all know, the Hamas loss of life figures are fully fabricated just like the “40 beheaded infants” or the quite a few fictitious rape allegations. All of those elaborate hoaxes have turned out to be a part of a twisted, public relations marketing campaign geared toward constructing assist for Israel’s relentless butchery.
In truth, there isn’t a motive to imagine that Israel’s operation has something to do with Hamas in any respect. Hamas is merely a pretext for corralling the Palestinians and driving them out of Gaza. That’s the actual aim.
However whereas surveys present that a big majority of the worldwide inhabitants opposes Israel’s demented campaign, that’s not the case in Israel. A latest article by Philip Giraldi said that “92% of Israelis totally assist the slaughter of the Palestinians by Netanyahu and his psychopaths.” Writer Norman Finkelstein has largely corroborated Giraldi’s findings however supplied extra element in a latest interview on You Tube. Right here’s what he mentioned:
“It’s not simply the Israeli state. Should you have a look at the Israeli society… overwhelmingly helps the genocidal struggle in Gaza. It’s about 95% of the Jewish Israelis who assist the struggle. … I’ve to confess, I used to be astonished once I learn the numbers… As of January, solely 3.2 p.c of Jewish Israelis imagine the IDF is utilizing an excessive amount of firepower in Gaza. Are you able to imagine these numbers? As of January, when the case had already reached the ICJ on the query of genocide, solely 3.2 p.c of Jewish Israelis believed the IDF was utilizing an excessive amount of firepower in Gaza. So, when folks blame Netanyahu for the madness …that could be a misrepresentation of the details…. The entire inhabitants agrees with what Netanyahu is doing. (Finkelstein additionally studies that 60% of Jewish Israelis oppose even offering Palestinians with humanitarian help.) Norman Finkelstein on Israel Palestine, YouTube 55:10 min
In a 2-minute video on Rumble, Finkelstein supplied much more attention-grabbing datapoints which assist as an example the monstrous character of the present Israeli rampage. Not surprisingly, his remarks had been scrubbed from You Tube however offered as a substitute on a smaller “free speech” platform referred to as Rumble. Right here’s a part of what he mentioned:
I’ve little or no sympathy for what has develop into of that state. It’s a satanic state…. Should you have a look at each metric: Depth of bombing; Payload of bombs; Imprecision of bombs; Destruction of civilian infrastructure; Ratio of civilians to combatants killed; Ratio of girls and kids to complete numbers killed. By each metric,… what Israel is doing in Gaza is in a category all of its personal. …They’re killing folks in a focus camp. They’re killing folks in a focus camp. They will’t go anyplace. They will’t flee. Norman Finkelstein on the Satanic state of Israel, Rumble
What are we to make of this? In any case, People are always being informed that Israelis are identical to them, and that we share the identical western values and western beliefs. So, why the huge discrepancy? Why, for instance, do 75% of Democrats now oppose Israel’s motion in Gaza (Majority in U.S. Now Disapprove of Israeli Motion in Gaza, Gallup) whereas an amazing majority of Israelis suppose the bloodletting ought to proceed? And why will we always hear Israeli political leaders and senior-level bureaucrats denigrating Palestinians in essentially the most vitriolic and hateful language? And, lastly, why will we see a myriad of movies on social media of Israelis celebrating the destruction of Palestinian hospitals, universities and mosques, or blocking meals vehicles headed for Gaza, or gleefully mugging for a digital camera whereas mistreating the prisoners of their care? How will we clarify this phenomenon? What twisted ideology has poisoned the minds of those those who they’d deal with others with such egregious inhumanity? (Try this video of joyous Israelis celebrating the invasion of Rafah.)
BREAKING: ZIONISTS DANCING AND SINGING AS THEY INVADE RAFAH TO KILL CHILDREN
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— Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) Could 6, 2024
Scenes like this (within the video) are certain to make odd folks scratch their heads and surprise why the Israelis are so completely happy that their military is getting used to crush a civilian inhabitants. What glory is there in that?
None in any respect. Many individuals are equally baffled once they hear Israeli politicians spew their loathing for Palestinians whereas making the case that ladies and kids deserve the identical punishment as Hamas. The place does that wellspring of hatred come from? And why would anybody of their right-mind need to block humanitarian help vehicles from delivering meals to ravenous girls and kids? How sick is that?
How do folks get this manner? What kind of social atmosphere produces individuals who have fun sadistic acts of brutality and cruelty?
Writer Lawrence Davidson helps to reply these questions by displaying how the transplanting of primarily European Jews to Palestine created “cultural and ‘racial’ incubators for an ‘us (superior) vs. them (inferior)’” which is pretty widespread amongst settler populations. Right here’s extra:
The founders of contemporary Zionism had been each Jews and Europeans, and (as such) had acquired the West’s cultural sense of superiority in relation to non-Europeans…..This sense of superiority would play an essential position when a deal (the Balfour Declaration) (through which), the British would… assist create a “Jewish nationwide residence” in Palestine……in different European colonies, the place giant numbers of Europeans resided, the period following World Warfare II noticed their eventual evacuation as energy shifted over to the natives….Sadly, within the case of Palestine, this technique of de-colonization by no means occurred…..
Quickly thereafter, the Zionists started executing a ready plan to overcome the “Holy Land” and thrust back or subjugate the native inhabitants. And what of that imperial viewpoint which noticed the European as superior and the native as inferior? This turned institutionalized within the practices of the brand new Israeli state….
That made Israel one of many only a few … self-identified “Western” nation states to proceed to implement old-style imperial insurance policies: they discriminated in opposition to the Palestinian inhabitants in each means possible, pushed them into enclosed areas of focus and sought to manage their lives in nice element.
If one desires to know what this meant for the evolving character of Israel’s citizenry who now would reside out the colonial drama as an imperial energy in their very own proper, one may check out a e-book by Sven Lindqvist entitled Exterminate All The Brutes (New Press 1996). This work convincingly reveals that lording it over typically resisting native peoples, debasing and humiliating them, frequently killing or in any other case punishing them once they protest, leads the colonials to develop genocidal yearnings….
The Israelis have taught their kids the imperial viewpoint, augmented it with biased media reporting, labeled the inevitable resistance supplied by the Palestinians as anti-Semitism and took it as proof of the necessity to suppress and management this inhabitants of “Others.”
And, from the Zionist standpoint, this complete course of has labored remarkably effectively. In the present day all however a handful of Israeli Jews dislike and worry the folks they conquered and displaced. They want they’d go away. And, when their resistance will get only a bit an excessive amount of to bear, they’re now fairly keen to see them put out of the way in which…..
Now that apartheid South Africa isn’t any extra, the Israelis are the final surviving heirs to that dreadful heritage. Origins of Israel’s Anti-Arab Racism, Consortium Information
Repeat: “…lording over… resisting native peoples, debasing and humiliating them, frequently killing or in any other case punishing them once they protest, leads the colonials to develop genocidal yearnings….”
Does that sum up the Palestinian expertise for the final 75 years?
It does.
And have these “genocidal yearnings” matured right into a full-blown genocide remodeling all of historic Palestine right into a free-fire zone through which the wholesale slaughter of civilians is applauded as a battle in opposition to Hamas?
Sure, once more.
It’s value noting, that the views of different analysts should not totally in synch with Davidson’s. For instance, right here’s how creator Ron Unz responded when he was requested if he thought ‘racism performed a task in the way in which the Palestinians are handled (by Israel)?
As I mentioned in an extended 2018 article, the phrase “racism” is much too delicate a time period to explain the angle of conventional Orthodox Judaism in the direction of all non-Jews. Drawing upon the seminal work of Israeli Prof. Israel Shahak, I highlighted some essential details:… sadly, there’s additionally a far darker aspect, primarily involving the connection between Jews and non-Jews, with the extremely derogatory time period goyim incessantly used to explain the latter. To place it bluntly, Jews have divine souls and goyim don’t, being merely beasts within the form of males. Certainly, the first motive for the existence of non-Jews is to function the slaves of Jews, with some very high-ranking rabbis sometimes stating this well-known truth……
Jewish lives have infinite worth, and non-Jewish ones none in any respect, which has apparent coverage implications….
My encounter a decade in the past with Shahak’s candid description of the true doctrines of conventional Judaism was definitely probably the most world-altering revelations of my total life. However as I step by step digested the complete implications, all types of puzzles and disconnected details instantly turned way more clear….
For instance, my historical past books had at all times disapprovingly talked about Germany’s Max Nordau and Italy’s Cesare Lombroso as two of the founding figures of European racism and eugenics theories, nevertheless it was solely very just lately that I found that Nordau had additionally been the joint founder with Theodor Herzl of the world Zionist motion, whereas his main racialist treatise Degeneration, was devoted to Lombroso, his Jewish mentor…
Clearly the Talmud is hardly common studying amongst odd Jews lately…However it is very important remember that till just some generations in the past, nearly all European Jews had been deeply Orthodox,… Extremely distinctive cultural patterns and social attitudes can simply seep right into a significantly wider inhabitants, particularly one that is still unaware of the origin of these sentiments, a situation enhancing their unrecognized affect. A faith based mostly upon the precept of “Love Thy Neighbor” could or might not be workable in follow, however a faith based mostly upon “Hate Thy Neighbor” might need long-term cultural ripple results that reach far past the direct neighborhood of the deeply pious. If almost all Jews for a thousand or two thousand years had been taught to really feel a seething hatred towards all non-Jews and likewise developed an infinite infrastructure of cultural dishonesty to masks that angle, it’s troublesome to imagine that such an unlucky historical past has had completely no penalties for our present-day world, or that of the comparatively latest previous. The Jewish Roots of the Gaza Rampage, Ron Unz, The Unz Evaluation
IMO, each of those solutions assist to clarify Israel’s uncommon penchant for merciless and sadistic conduct.
Whether or not that conduct is an expression of a colonial-settler mindset that sees the occupier as inherently superior to the native folks or a spiritual doctrine that denigrates outsiders as “merely beasts within the form of males”; the end result is identical. In each circumstances, the aggressive conduct of 1 group is justified when it comes to his primary superiority to the opposite. That is the kind of Nietzschean logic that enables a nation to pound a whole civilian inhabitants into mud after which attempt to dignify it as a ‘struggle between equals.’ What a joke. As Finkelstein says, “They’re killing folks in a focus camp.” Gaza will not be a gladiatorial cage-match, it’s the ethical equal of a firing squad.
We additionally should ask ourselves why Netanyahu is urgent forward with the Rafah operation when it has clearly exacerbated Israel’s rising isolation and strained relations between Tel Aviv and Washington. The reason being, fairly merely, that the plan to expel the Arab inhabitants from Palestine precedes the creation of the Jewish state by almost 50 years. In different phrases, the plan to forcefully eradicate the indigenous folks from their historic homeland dates again to the beginnings of Zionism itself greater than a century in the past. As “Zionist zealot Yosef Weitz mentioned in 1940 – eight years earlier than the founding of the state of Israel:
“It should be clear that there isn’t a room within the nation for each peoples … If the Arabs go away it, the nation will develop into large and spacious for us …. The one answer is a Land…with out Arabs. There isn’t any room right here for compromises… There isn’t any means however to switch the Arabs from right here to the neighbouring international locations … Not one village should be left, not one tribe… There isn’t any different answer.” Israel’s Architect of Ethnic Cleaning, Stefan Moore, Consortium Information
Right here’s some further background from Moore’s column:
In 1932, when Weitz joined the Jewish Nationwide Fund, there have been solely 91,000 Jews in Palestine (roughly 10 p.c of the inhabitants) who owned a mere 2 p.c of the land…. Altering that demographic actuality referred to as for a radical two-pronged answer first, to persuade the British Mandate in Palestine to permit extra Jewish migration and, concurrently, develop an environment friendly program to expel indigenous Palestinians.”….Due to Weitz’s obsessive dedication to the mass expulsion of Palestinians he turned often known as the “architect of switch” — a euphemism for ethnic cleaning… that will attain its apotheosis within the Nakba of 1948….
“There isn’t any room for us with our neighbours. . . . . the one means is to chop and eradicate them [the Palestinian Arabs] from the roots...
Talking in 1938, David Ben-Gurion …introduced in a 1938 speech:
“After we develop into a robust power…we will abolish partition and develop to the entire of Palestine…The state must protect order – not by preaching however with machine weapons.”….
Plan D, it was the ultimate Masterplan for the ethnic cleaning of Palestine:
“The orders got here with an in depth description of the strategies for use to forcibly evict the folks: large-scale intimidation; laying siege to and bombarding villages and inhabitants facilities; setting fireplace to houses, properties, and items; expelling residents; demolishing houses; and, lastly, planting mines within the rubble to forestall the expelled inhabitants from returning…”
When it was over, greater than half of Palestine’s indigenous inhabitants, over 750,000 folks, had been uprooted; 531 villages had been destroyed… and an estimated 10-15,000 Palestinians had been useless….
….In the meantime, the racist language utilized by Israel’s leaders to justify the mass eradication of Palestinians stays unchanged: “We’re combating human animals and we’ll act accordingly,” spits Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant; “It is a battle, not solely of Israel in opposition to these barbarians,” intones Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, “it’s a battle of civilization in opposition to barbarism.” And “There aren’t any Palestinians, as a result of there isn’t a Palestinian folks,” declares Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.
“It’s tempting to dismiss the revival of switch … because the wild ravings of right-wing extremists,” writes Nur-eldeen Masalha. “Such a dismissal is harmful, nonetheless, and it’s effectively to be reminded that the idea of switch lies on the very coronary heart of mainstream Zionism. Israel’s Architect of Ethnic Cleaning, Stefan Moore, Consortium Information
A cautious studying of Moore’s article ought to persuade readers that the present furor over October seventh is merely a smokescreen that’s getting used to hide the actual motive for the struggle, which is Israel’s dedication to manage all of the land between the River to the Sea as a way to set up a demographically viable Jewish state with a transparent Jewish majority. That’s the major goal of the Zionist mission and it has been for greater than a century. The final remaining impediment to reaching that aim is the almost two million Palestinians who would fairly die than abandon their homeland.
We want them success.
