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The Case for Politically Disestablishing Modern Israel
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The pertinent historical facts are these:
In the year 1948 -- in accordance with the plans of an organized political movement of Semitic Jews that had arisen in Europe in the late 19th Century, by the title of “Zionism” -- through the political mechanisms of the United Nations, which organization of “mutually recognized” states, nations and unions, lacked any legitimate authority over the targeted, non-member territory and non-militarized people commonly identified as “Palestine” and ”Palestinians” -- under the direct political pressures and financial influence of the U.N.’s most powerul member, the United States of America -- the modern Jews (who collectively constitute less than two percent of the World-population) had been granted a dubious "Right," to re-occupy and take full control over a specific, limited and pre-designated part of the Palestinian land that had been lost in battle to the Assyrians approximately 2,000 years ago (in 721), but that had been legitimately populated by Semitic Palestinians in the long interim, many of such Palestinians having purchased and legally-recorded Deeds to their homesteads .
In their exercise of that "Right," and even before they self-expanded the borders to include land-areas that were not so “granted,” the Israelis via their well-armed Military and Police forces had first seized private homes and properties from the Palestinian civilians without financially compensating them, and next “herded” the natives into refugee camps while they “bulldozer-razed” all of the preexisting houses and structures along with their contents, while they “machinegunned” unarmed civilian protestors, killing even their infants and small children.
Subsequently, in their universally-recognized and universally-practiced “God-given Rights,” to defend their persons,their families and their properties, some of the Palestinian civilians had taken Retaliatory actions against their unprovoked Aggressors and Oppressors, by killing and maiming small numbers of the Israeli soldiers and policemen.
In the year 1967, in a mixture of sympathy for the Palestinians, outrage at the atrocities by the Israelis, and fear for the security of their own territories and peoples, the fully-recognized and militarized states of India, Jordan and Syria had then raised diplomatic and political Protests, along with stationing “token numbers” of their respective military forces along their borders facing Israel. Resultingly, their protests were either ignored or “vetoed-away” in the United Nations, and they became “suckered into” the so-called 6-Day War with Israel, that they resoundingly lost in that short period.
In summation of the above-stated facts, I now defer to and quote the following sources:
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“Israel’s former Commander of the Air Force, General Ezer Weitzman, regarded as a hawk, stated that there was no threat of destruction, but that the attacks on Egypt, Jordan and Syria were nevertheless justified so that Israel could exist according the scale, spirit, and quality she now embodies. Menahem Begin, the first Likud Prime Minister of Israel, also said: ‘In June 1967, we again had a choice. The Egyptian Army concentrations in the Sinai approaches do not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him’.”
--- (Noam Chomsky, "The Fateful Triangle.")
Yitzhak Rabin, Israel's Chief of Staff in 1967, stated:
"I do not think Nasser wanted war. The two divisions he sent to The Sinai would not have been sufficient to launch an offensive war. He knew it and we knew it."
--- (in Le Monde on 28 February 1968.)
Moshe Dayan, Israel’s Defense Minister in 1967, stated:
“Many of the firefights with the Syrians were deliberately provoked by Israel, and the kibbutz residents who pressed the Government to take the Golan Heights did so less for security than for the farmland... They didn't even try to hide their greed for the land...We would send a tractor to plow some area where it wasn't possible to do anything, in the demilitarized area, and knew in advance that the Syrians would start to shoot. If they didn't shoot, we would tell the tractor to advance further, until in the end the Syrians would get annoyed and shoot. And then we would use artillery and later the air force also, and that's how it was...The Syrians, on the fourth day of the war, were not a threat to us.”
--- (The New York Times, May 11, 1997.)
"In violation of international law, Israel has confiscated over 52 percent of the land in the West Bank and 30 percent of the Gaza Strip for military use or for settlement by Jewish civilians...From 1967 to 1982, Israel's military government demolished 1,338 Palestinian homes on the West Bank. Over this period, more than 300,000 Palestinians were detained without trial for various periods by Israeli security forces."
--- (Lockman and Beinin: "Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising Against Israeli Occupation.")
"Under the UN Charter there can lawfully be no territorial gains from war, even by a state acting in self-defense. The response of other states to Israel's occupation shows a virtually unanimous opinion that even if Israel's action was defensive, its retention of the West Bank and Gaza Strip was not...The [UN] General Assembly characterized Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza as a denial of self determination and hence a 'serious and increasing threat to international peace and security.”
--- (John Quigley, "Palestine and Israel: A Challenge to Justice.")
"The Geneva Convention requires an occupying power to change the existing order as little as possible during its tenure. One aspect of this obligation is that it must leave the territory to the people it finds there. It may not bring its own people to populate the territory. This prohibition is found in the convention's Article 49, which states, 'The occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies’."
--- (John Quigley, "Palestine and Israel: A Challenge to Justice.")
"Writing in The Jerusalem Report (Feb. 28, 2000), Leslie Susser points out that the current boundaries were drawn after the Six-Day War. Responsibility for drawing those lines fell to Central Command Chief Rehavan Ze'evi. The line he drew 'took in not only the five square kilometers of Arab East Jerusalem - but also 65 square kilometers of surrounding open country and villages, most of which never had any municipal link to Jerusalem. Overnight they became part of Israel's eternal and indivisible capital’.”
--- (Allan Brownfield in The Washington Report On Middle East Affairs, May 2000.)
David Ben-Gurion, in 1936, stated:
"The acceptance of partition does not commit us to renounce Transjordan; one does not demand from anybody to give up his vision. We shall accept a state in the boundaries fixed today. But the boundaries of Zionist aspirations are the concern of the Jewish people and no external factor will be able to limit them."
--- (Noam Chomsky, "The Fateful Triangle.")
Israeli professor, Israel Shahak, wrote:
"The main danger which Israel, as a 'Jewish state', poses to its own people, to other Jews and to its neighbors, is its ideologically motivated pursuit of territorial expansion and the inevitable series of wars resulting from this aim...No Zionist politician has ever repudiated Ben-Gurion's idea that Israeli policies must be based (within the limits of practical considerations) on the restoration of Biblical borders as the borders of the Jewish state."
--- ("Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of 3000 Years.")
“In Israeli Prime Minister Moshe Sharatt's personal diaries, there is an excerpt from May of 1955 in which he quotes Moshe Dayan as follows: ‘[Israel] must see the sword as the main, if not the only, instrument with which to keep its morale high and to retain its moral tension. Toward this end it may, no - it must - invent dangers, and to do this it must adopt the method of provocation-and-revenge...And above all - let us hope for a new war with the Arab countries, so that we may finally get rid of our troubles and acquire our space’."
--- (Livia Rokach, "Israel's Sacred Terrorism.")
"U.S. Senator J.William Fulbright proposed in 1970 that America should guarantee Israel's security in a formal treaty, protecting her with armed forces if necessary. In return, Israel would retire to the borders of 1967. The UN Security Council would guarantee this arrangement, and thereby bring the Soviet Union - then a supplier of arms and political aid to the Arabs - into compliance. As Israeli troops were withdrawn from the Golan Heights, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank they would be replaced by a UN peacekeeping force. Israel would agree to accept a certain number of Palestinians and the rest would be settled in a Palestinian state outside Israel.
The plan drew favorable editorial support in the United States. The proposal, however, was flatly rejected by Israel. ‘The whole affair disgusted Fulbright’, wrote his biographer, Randall Woods. ‘The Israelis were not even willing to act in their own self-interest’."
--- (Allan Brownfield in "Issues of the American Council for Judaism," Fall 1997.)
“A study of students at Bethlehem University reported by the Coordinating Committee of International NGOs in Jerusalem showed that many families frequently go five days a week without running water. It also said that water quotas restrict usage by Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza, while Israeli settlers have almost unlimited amounts.
‘A summer trip to a Jewish settlement on the edge of the Judean desert less than five miles from Bethlehem confirmed this study. While Bethlehemites were buying water from tank trucks at highly inflated rates, the lawns were green in the settlement. Sprinklers were going at mid day in the hot August sunshine. Sounds of children swimming in the outdoor pool added to the unreality’."
--- (Betty Jane Bailey, in "The Link", December 1996.)
Dr Samir Quota, director of research for the Gaza Community Mental Health Program, said:
"You have to remember that 90 percent of Palestinian children two years old or more have experienced - some many, many times - the Israeli army breaking into the home, beating relatives, destroying things. Many were beaten themselves, had bones broken, were shot, tear gassed, or had these things happen to siblings and neighbors...The emotional aspect of the child is affected by the lack of security. He needs to feel safe. We see the consequences later if he does not. In our research, we have found that children who are exposed to trauma tend to be more extreme in their behaviors and, later, in their political beliefs."
--- ("The Journal of Palestine Studies," 1996.)
"There is nothing quite like the misery one feels listening to a 35-year-old Palestinian man who worked fifteen years as an illegal day laborer in Israel in order to save up money to build a house for his family, only to be shocked one day upon returning from work to find that the house and all that was in it had been flattened by an Israeli bulldozer. When I asked why this was done - the land, after all, was his - I was told that a paper given to him the next day by an Israeli soldier stated that he had built the structure without a license. Where else in the world are people required to have a license to build on their own property? Jews can build, but never Palestinians. This is apartheid."
--- (Edward Said, in "The Nation", May 4, 1998.)
Former U.S. Congressman Paul Findley wrote:
“1988: Many avoidable deaths and injuries were caused because Israeli soldiers frequently used gunfire in situations that did not present mortal danger to troops. Israeli troops used clubs to break limbs and beat Palestinians who were not directly involved in disturbances or resisting arrest. At least thirteen Palestinians have been reported to have died from beatings.
1989: Human rights groups charged that the plainclothes security personnel acted as death squads who killed Palestinian activists without warning, after they had surrendered, or after they had been subdued.
1991: Human Rights groups had published detailed credible reports of torture, abuse and mistreatment of Palestinian detainees in prisons and detention centers."
--- ("Deliberate Deceptions.")
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Thus began the “Cycle of Violence” that cannot and will not end peacefully for as long as the real or perceived invaders, occupiers and oppressors -- the Israelis -- remain in the Middle East and surrounded by nothing but Dissimilar peoples.
As the direct results of those facts, the entire Middle-East had become and remains violently destabilized, with both political and ideological factions warring against each other both within and outside of their respective national borders, and with the Military troops of the United States -- and of its few true, but weaker allies -- serving, killing, maiming, and being killed and maimed, as “ignoble mercenaries” at best and as “cannon fodder” at worst -- in fickle and ever-changing allegiances to Arab/Moslem tyrannical regimes and/or insurgencies of America’s own initial creation (i.e.; the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, and the Taliban regime in Afghanistan which later transmuted into the Al Queda insurgency led by the same Osama bin Laden), but in constant allegiance to and sponsorship of the State of Israel (also of America’s initial creation).
The common “human nature” being unchangeable, they are impossible expectations or propositions that the Palestinians be diplomatically persuaded, financially rewarded, or politically forced, to "peacefully coexist" with the Israelis.
In the simplest of terms, there has been too much blood spilled and too much mutual hatred generated between those two Semitic peoples -- who are genetically first cousins, but who are religiously, culturally, politically and militarily at opposite poles, along with being of different skin-colors -- and also too much blood spilled and too much mutual hatred generated between both the allies and the enemies of both of those two peoples.
As the overall world-situation now stands and as it is progressing, it is inevitable -- if not imminent -- that we will become embroiled in a third World War. In that event, it is now apparent that America’s already war-weakened and war-depleted troops and equipment, combined with the same of Israel, Britain -- and the “hesitant allies” thereof -- would pose no true match for those of, for instance, Russia, China, and other Eastern-bloc “Power-nations” that now hold no love for either Israel or America, especially when combined with the assets and manpower of Iran and the Arab and Muslim “Oil rich” nations, and with the assured assistance of at least some considerable number of America’s internal populations of Arabic and Afro-American Muslims.
Because the entire “Worldwide Jewish Community” constitutes less than 2 percent of the world’s total population, and less than 3 percent of America’s total population, but because Jews hold or control greatly inordinate amounts of the wealth, political influence and power, within the societies and governments of America and Britain, it can be reasonably extrapolated that the State of Israel currently has the least to lose and the most to gain, if “push comes to shove” and a World War ensues.
Also, while it would be highly unlikely that any others of the Nuclear-armed States or Nations would dare to initially employ such weapons against each other, in their certain knowledge that there would be devastating Nuclear retaliations against their own respective large cities and military facilities, Israel stands alone as a State with a strongly-avowed oath amounting to; “If we cannot achieve our God-promised destiny of dominion over all Gentiles in this world, we will make certain to take with us into oblivion as many of them as possible” [my own wording], so Israel would obviously not be hesitant to “play the N-card” at the very first sign that it and its allies were headed toward defeat in a World War.
All of that which was written above “boils down and refines itself to” these factual and logical conclusions: That there could never be peace in most of the world and especially the Middle East, and that a third World War could not be precluded or postponed, until and unless there is first a remedy to the “base cause,” or “Dis-ease” -- that is common to all of the adverse effects, symptoms and results that have plagued most of the world since it was first “contracted”.
Therefore, the only workable solution would be a reversal of the machinations by which the approximately 59-years-old State of Israel had been established.
Politically, that would require only the "de-recognition" of Israel by the United States and the United Nations, with or without the simultaneous creation of a “State of Palestine”.
The rest would be matters of logistics and protection for the residents.
It must be taken into consideration -- that only those who are younger than 59 could be "native-born" -- that the balance had been invited, persuaded, and even financially subsidized, to leave the countries of their births and recent ancestries -- that they have living relatives and strong organizations outside of Israel -- that the same sources that had "picked up the tabs" for their emigration into Israel (and their relocations within it) could finance their immigration from it -- that they are inured to "pulling up stakes" and relocating both outside of and within Israel -- that while they richly deserve sympathy for the actions that were taken against the German Jews by Hitler, the Palestinians and Arabs were not parties to those atrocities, but the Israeli leaders have directly and indirectly rained-down upon Palestinians and other Arabs even worse atrocities -- and that while they constitute less than 2 percent of the world’s population, they are placing the other 98+ percent at risk of being killed in a World War.
In other words, the “peaceably dismantling” of the "forcibly established" State of Israel Israel would cause the least amounts of suffering and harm to the fewest number of people over the shortest period of time.
As for the prophesized New Israel, we should merely allow it to come in its time and in accordance with the prophecies.
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The predictable counterargument to this proposal can only hinge upon and revolve around the slogan, motto, or mantra; “Israel’s Interests are America’s Interests”. However, that notion has already proved to be inverse of the facts and statistics of evidence. In truth, there has not been a single tangible benefit that has accrued to our United States and the vast majority of us ordinary citizens and military personnel thereof, provably stemming from our Government’s allegiance to, alliance with and sponsorship of Israel. Conversely, our people and troops have suffered and endured egregious losses of lives, limbs, health, sanity, morality, personal freedoms, owned properties and Income Tax Payments, while our nation has suffered and endured egregious losses of admiration, respect, trustworthiness and emulation-desire, among all other nations and peoples of the world save Israel and its political leaders.
Effectively adding insult to injury, our Government has caused, condoned and/or allowed members of the minus-3 percent minority of Jews in our population to achieve highly inordinate amounts of: special protection under the laws, favoritism, influence, governmental power, wealth, control over the “collective thinking and beliefs” via private ownership of the News and Entertainment Mass Mediums, special sympathy and compassion via widespread Holocaust museums and memorials, special recognition via days and months devoted to their history and achievements, Presidential ceremonial lightings of Menorahs with “pomp and circumstance” equal to or exceeding that of lighting the National Christmas Trees at the White House, the omission of the words “Christ” and “Christmas” from the Presidential Christmas Cards, the paid presence of rabbis to oversee the preparation of meals served at the White House whenever any number of Jews are among the invited guests, and even the involuntary imposition of Kosher Dietary Laws upon the entire American population via the Orthodox Union’s pressures (and fees) upon the major processors and packagers of foodstuffs. Previously, while the American Medical Association was “top heavy” with Jewish-American physicians, they had managed to impose the Jewish religious belief that all males “needed to be circumcized” as infants.
But worst, our Government had hired and empowered Israeli companies and individuals to, not only “provide security” for our most sensitive Military/Industrial complexes in America, and not only to “safeguard” our most secret and sensitive technologies (including Nuclear-related), and not only to “re-teach and retrain” our Law-enforcement personnel at all levels as to handling hostage-situations without regard for the lives of the hostages, but also to act as both trainers and practitioners of “the fine points” of Human-torturing techniques at America’s “offshore detention facilities” such as Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay.
Just as disingenuously or uninformedly, others might counterargue that the Jews, because of their long and tedious trials and tribulations during the +2,000 years of Diaspora (the dispersion of Jews outside of Israel from the sixth century B.C., when the Jews were exiled to Babylonia, until the present time) “richly deserve” to recover and reoccupy the war-lost homeland of their ancient ancestors. However, I am certain that none of them would hold that any of the Native American Indian Tribes similarly “richly deserve” to recover and occupy any of the large or small cities that were built upon lands from which the U.S. Army had forcibly displaced their ancestors just more than 200 years ago.
By Joseph Sarandos
Visalia, California, USA
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Re: The Case for Politically Disestablishing Modern Israel
Joseph,
I don't see how anybody could actually and honestly rebut your "case," but I would dearly love to see someone try. I'm not expecting it to happen, though.
Congrats on yet another of your "cutting through the BS" and "connecting all the dots" pieces.
Busy Bob
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J/S,
I took the time to "run this past" a few cyber-friends who are also Jews against Zionism.
Pending their permission, I'd like to forward their e-mails to you.
A few are very long, point-by-point commentaries, with "mild to moderate" disagreements on some of your inclusions that they thought to be "over-kill embarrassments" in the context of your justifications and explanations. I personally share some of those disagreements, although only mildly because I know that the last thing you are is anti-Semitic and you know that the last thing I am is a self-hating Jew.
But, the end-consensus was agreement, including mine, that you'd made a valid and viable case for peacefully ceasing the otherwise-endless hostilities in the "Cycle of Violence".
Aaron
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