Israel is Guilty of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity

by angryindian | January 2, 2009 at 05:31 pm
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By The Angryindian

“Thus we conclude that we cannot promise anything to the Arabs of the Land of Israel or the Arab countries. Their voluntary agreement is out of the question. Hence those who hold that an agreement with the natives is an essential condition for Zionism can now say “no” and depart from Zionism. Zionist colonization, even the most restricted, must either be terminated or carried out in defiance of the will of the native population. This colonization can, therefore, continue and develop only under the protection of a force independent of the local population – an iron wall which the native population cannot break through. This is, in toto, our policy towards the Arabs. To formulate it any other way would only be hypocrisy.”

Vladimir Jabotinsky - The Iron Wall, (We and the Arabs)

"It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists (Jews) do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews."

Albert Einstein

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At the very certain risk of being condemned as an anti-Semite for saying what needs to be said, I will say it openly and without reservation: the State of Israel is guilty of Arab Palestinian Genocide and crimes against humanity. As I write this, the Euro-settler Zionist State of Israel has officially entered its seventh day of deliberate ethnocide against what is left of indigenous Palestine. More than 420 Palestinians have been killed, more than 2000 critically injured and its utility and transportation infrastructure has been ground to a complete halt.

Israeli’s chief propagandist Mark Regev, is on record for attributing the existence of the pro-independence Hamas government for the attacks and claims that Hamas wilfully encouraged this crisis by not agreeing to extend the latest U.S.-sponsored truce the Israelis violated several times since it was enacted. Regev fails to impart these facts when he tells the international media that, "Hamas escalated the situation last week with their rocket barrages against Israeli civilians."

So far 3 Israeli civilians have died and one Israeli Defence Forces soldier has been killed since all this began and this bluntly brief casualty list is being reported as the real tragedy of the conflict. U.S. government representatives have gone so far as to point to these deaths as the moral rallying issue to assert the Euro-settler state’s inalienable “right to exist” in occupied Palestine, as opposed to the indigenous Palestinian Arab right to exist at all. Meanwhile, while Israel’s rights are being discussed, Palestinians continue to become silhouettes of red mist. The morgues are overflowing with the battered and torn brown bodies of the victims, pitiful blood splattered and demoralised human clumps of what remains of Arab Palestine. And Israel says it is just getting started.

Hopelessly trapped within the world’s largest indigenous reservation, the native people of Palestine have little left to defend themselves with other than their intense will to survive. This tenacity to exist is treated as a crime against the State of Israel and the entire population of The Gaza, each and every Palestinian, is being held accountable for resisting their own genocide.

Yesterday an Israeli Air Defence aeroplane plunged a one tonne-pound bomb into the home of a high-level Hamas' official assassinating him, his wife and their children along with 18 of his neighbours. Instead of shock, Israeli spokespersons, U.S. officials and the world newspapers are calling this a concrete positive step forward in Mid-East peace process. An entire family has been killed in their home and politicians and pundits are calling actions such as these “progress.” Arab collateral damage be dammed.

The appalling apathetic disdain accorded the Palestinian people and their life and death struggle against a brutal Zionist Lebenstraumpolitik is as of this very moment without parallel in this century or the last. Even the much older Armenian Genocide has received more attention and investigation at this time than the in-your-face ethnic cleansing occurring right now before our eyes. And the deafening silence of the international community sums up precisely which side the world wants to win.

The UN Security Council recently demonstrated this when it declined an opportunity to issue a resolution censuring the saturation bombing of The Gaza. A draft presented by Libyan representatives of the Arab League calling for an immediate end to hostilities and condemnation of the State of Israel under the UN charter was promptly vetoed, unambiguously implying to victim and victimiser alike that the UN member nations do indeed support the genocide of the Palestinian people. To argue any other analysis is intellectual cowardice of the worse kind. It is conscious complicity with the planned ethnic eradication of Palestinian Arabs. In essence, it is the same as openly calling for their genocide.

And everyone is tripping over themselves to jump on the pro-Israel, anti-Palestinian semantic bandwagon. Barack Obama and his staff have officially accused any Palestinian who rejects being a punching bag for Jewish insecurities a terrorist and an enemy of the Jewish race, the only crime against humanity recognised by the world community. He further asserted Israel’s distinctive “right to exist” and scolded Hamas and their fellow Palestinians for not laying down and dying on cue.

The new President-Elect, otherwise known as the “The Change,” is clearly making good on his promise to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) that Israeli Apartheid would be supported by his administration. He promptly confirmed this pledge by appointing Rahm Israel Emanuel, the son of a Zionist terrorist, as his White House Chief of Staff. Logically one is left to conclude that once Obama gets the keys to the White House, the new administration will continue the practices of past administrations by engaging in pro-Zionist protectionism. The falsifications and outright deceptions of the “special U.S.-Israeli relationship” will carry on and the material and ideological support for this ongoing racist genocide will never actually cease.

Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak has publicly identified this anti-Arab pogrom as a justified "all-out war against Hamas and its kind." This broad brush means exactly what it implies, that Israel will employ extreme prejudice against all officers and operatives of Hamas, inclusive of anyone Israel thinks they can get away with labelling as Hamas and shall regard the projected widespread collateral damage as “preventative action” against ‘indeterminate’ “elements” of Hamas extant amongst the entire Palestinian population. In effect, Israel is targeting every Palestinian that dared vote “yes” for Hamas, more than 90 percent of the refugee population. In no uncertain terms, Israel intends to exterminate the Palestinian people as a whole, until there is nothing left but the memory of indigenous Palestine. Then they will obliterate the memory of the Palestinian people entirely.

These are slave laborers in the Buchenwald con...Image via WikipediaWe have seen this before. This is the perverse arithmetic of genocide, the cardinal sin of a civil society and a moral lesson one would think the world’s Jews would viscerally appreciate. With the western world inundated with reminders of the singular uniqueness of “The Holocaust” and its overtly ethnocentric focus on the extermination of the Ashkenazim, one could be forgiven for presupposing that European Jews should be the last people in the world with the moral vacancy to commit a genocide.

And make no mistake, this is a genocide. It is a Euro-supremacist war of ethnic extermination against a people long regarded in mythic European Orientalism as a sub-human, oversexed collection of racial inferiors. Caricatured as dusky, robed sand-dwellers carelessly beheading each other in the hot sun, the Arab represents to the bigot a cipher, a nonentity that the European Israeli-colonialist is under no obligation to respect. In this light, the Israeli Jew has indeed spiritually come full circle with his post-WW2 credentials as a “white” group. Now accepted as an ethnic European, he has finally found common ground between his theological tradition, his own struggle with anti-Jewish ethnic hatred and the ideological trappings of historical White racialism by colonially characterizing the Arab as a non-person therefore deserving of castigation. An outlandish variation on what they themselves have long endured at the hands of Europeans since the salad days of the pagan Roman Empire.

But with liberal backing from the gentile American Empire, the Jew, once branded the plague of the world, can pretend that what is happening in occupied Palestine is not a matter of anti-Arab racial prejudice. This is an ethical injustice within itself but it needs to be pointed out that the entire push behind U.S. and European support for Israel is the deep-seated desire to defend White Power in Western Asia. This is an issue of global European hegemony and the Israeli Jew knows that this is the currency, not a love for Jews, which keeps Israel afloat. So while the obvious analogies to German Nazism are undeniably accurate, it does not convey the reality that Israel is allowed to kill Arabs at will purely because it supplements an already extant pro-White racist agenda. And the Israeli Jew has bought into this paradigm hook, line and sinker.

To be fair, Israel’s psychological and socio-cultural anxiety is understandable considering the history of their historical oppression. But this in no way pardons the Zionist lobby within Israel or the United States from the well-deserved comparisons to German Nazism and all the elements that sober charge implies. The Israeli Jew truly stands on thin ice. The mind-set that defines every living Palestinian as a representative threat to Jewish security is no less xenophobic or less cold-blooded than anything the Nazis ever devised or attempted.

This includes the bizarre contradiction of what actually represents realistic anti-Semitism. Arabs are a Semitic people, so clearly any activity aimed at marginalising and eliminating the Palestinian population is by fiat anti-Semitic. But you will never hear such an analysis within the “acceptable” mainstream debate. The only real defence Israel actually has is the power to accuse its critics of vicious anti-Jewish bias. It is a semantic weapon the Zionist lobby uses with considerable force against any moral umbrage to their goal of an Arab-free Jewish state. In a world where Jews can embrace the ugly business of racial superiorities, territorial exploitation and the ethnic extermination agenda of the Third Reich with a straight face, it is not an exaggeration to say that none of us are safe.

Modern Israel’s spiritual connections to Nazism present an ironic twist on the line of defence employed by the German high command when they claimed to be in reality ardent Zionists seeking a solution to voluntary Jewish emigration out of Europe. This is satirically substantiated by the fact that some Zionists actively pursued this strategy, clandestinely meeting with sympathetic German officials willing to help transport Jews to Palestine, (then under British occupation) in return for Jewish assistance in fighting the Allies on behalf of Nazi Germany. These paradoxes almost never earn intelligent commentary and when the discourse is forced to acknowledge the overtly Naziesque aspects of Israeli policy, critics are severely downplayed as vociferous proponents of anti-Semitism. For the Zionist, his cause is Jewish survival by any means necessary and indigenous Palestinian Arabs just happen to be in the way.

This is the fundamental ingredient of the Zionist equation. After suffering centuries of ethnic persecution, the Jew has for all accounts and purposes claimed the right to operate like a Nazi providing that he does not act out his racial psychosis in precisely the same fashion as the original Nazis did theirs. And no matter what Israel does short of shoving Arabs into ovens, it is regarded as an improvement over what was allowed to occur during the European holocaust. As long as Israel and the United States maintain that the real targets of the onslaught is Hamas, the public morality will be satisfied, international legality negated and the murder of Palestinians will persist.

On this there is consensus, although there shouldn’t be, given that the Palestinian holocaust could not occur without the ideological support of world opinion. The apparatus of mass media propaganda being what it is and the grand sweep of U.S. influence being what it is, this is not a surprise. But what is most revolting about the Israeli ethnocide programme is the argument that their brand of racism is proper and religiously sanctioned. If you objectively compare examples, excuses for German atrocities in no way differ in character and absurdity from the justifications offered by Israel and its supporters. It is no less absent of moral or intellectual fibre than the unforgivable crimes the German Nazis committed and for which the present-day German still humbly apologises for. And even more ironic, they are supported in this analysis by scores of xenophobic Holocaust deniers such as Patrick Buchanan who are vocally critical of Israelis support in the U.S. government. These are people vigorously opposed to the existence of a Jewish state yet they are not considered by Israel and their supporters to be a threat to Jewish existence.

I find this quite odd since it was the social perpetuation and wiling encouragement of German Judeophobia which sent civilians like Julius Streicher to the gallows at Nuremberg. Today’s neo-Nazis might occasionally be labelled anti-Semitic, and that’s without a doubt a correct assessment, but they are never identified as threats to the existence of world Jewry. Any cursory visit to the numerous White Power websites available on the Internet clearly demonstrate that neo-Nazi attitudes have never gone away and that Europeans could potentially reverse their tolerance of Jews at any given time. It is thus a matter of obvious importance that the Israeli must consider the implications of such things the next time the IDF drops another weapon of mass destruction onto a Palestinian refugee village. It is imperative that we all think about the ethical implications of quietly watching European Jews committing racial atrocities and the significance of world opinion while the killing of Arab "savages" rages on unobstructed by the world community.

There is another matter, what of the moral centre of the Israeli Jew? This is the question of the hour. How does a Jew, either directly involved in active participation of anti-Arab racism or residing somewhere safe in the Hebrew Diaspora, stand silent in the face of such overwhelming inhumanity? How does one sit on the sidelines parasitically feeding off of Israel’s considerable political clout while cheering on the slaughter of defenceless Arab men, women and children? Is the cost of Jewish survival the genocide of the Palestinian Arabs? If this is so, the Israeli Jew and the Zionist lackey should have the courage to say so outright without the propagandistic posturing of obligatory self-defence against global Judeophobia. The Palestinian refugee is the victim, not the colonial Israeli. To argue otherwise is an insult to common sense and basic human rights.

It is a frustrating dichotomy. Nearly everything articulated today as criticism of Israel and of Jews in particular is hopelessly embedded within the race-conscious western jingoism of “civilisation” and “progress,” all delivered with a Kiplingesque charade of piteous humility. Systematic IDF abuses and covert Mossad assassination programmes notwithstanding, Israel is portrayed is a beacon of democratic evolution in the Middle East, not a racist Euro-settler state endlessly terrorizing a refugee indigenous population that they brutally and rakishly displaced. Instead of the historical and political reality of Israel, we are fed just the opposite, a mirage of mistruths and distortions intended to mask the reality of an anti-Arab race war. A war supported by the entire world.

It has been argued that the use of the words genocide, Israel and Jews within the same sentence is offensive, anti-Semitic and racially divisive unless the discussion is steadfastly centred on the European tradition of furtive Judeophobia and the remembrance of the Ashkenazim victims of a singular human holocaust. It is a stifled conversation laboured with the pathological Protestant guilt Gentiles harbour for their apathy and hushed ideological support for the Catholics and Pagan mystics who endeavoured to cleanse Europe of “inferior races” and peoples. The expected psychosomatic atonement for sitting on their arses while Europe burned its minorities in the contemporary era is generally assumed to take the form of the rush to convey unconditional support for the State of Israel and its countless atrocities against Indigenous Palestinians. But despite the appearance of apologetic moral penance, sympathy and respect for the trials and tribulations of the Jewish people is not the real motivation.

The moral and material support the State of Israel receives is not genuine empathy at all but in fact represents a brutal form of racialist realpolitik. As long as the State of Israel is of vital strategic and Euro-settler importance to the United States and the “core” European powers in Western Asia, the Palestinian genocide will be allowed to continue. The State of Israel in reality serves two distinct purposes; it is a zone of refuge for world Jewry who survived the Catholic attempt to eradicate their numbers in Europe and second, it serves as a militarized client-state that reinforces western aims and political influence in the Middle-East.

This is possible because after World War Two, Jews, primarily the Ashkenazim, have become “White enough” to merit all the assumed rights of pillage and colonial spoils theoretically accorded to each and every White person at birth. The string of arbitrary unearned privileges traditionally enjoyed by Whites that mechanically supersede the human rights of others groups. Some Jews have even joined the overtly Judeophobic Ku Klux Klan in the United States and neo-Nazi Israelis are not unheard of these days. White makes right and the reverse engineering the State of Israel has done with German fascism is a fascinating thing to see. I suspect that Josef Goebbels would find it all perversely humorous had he not blown his brains out at the end of the war.

Israel and its pro-Zionist Goyim supporters routinely play the ‘holocaust card,’ the propagandistic notion that an Israeli genocide of Arab Palestinians is necessary to prevent another genocide attempt against Europe’s Jews. A paradoxical quandary if one ever existed, but it in truth a play on the classic fall-back position of the colonialist. The charge that it is they, the invader, who is the injured party impartially defending themselves against malevolent forces opposed to the “civilisation” they have kindly jammed down the native throat with the butt of a rifle. It is the last refuge of the colonial racist when called to defend his reckless desire to obliterate any perceived threat to the authority or psychological security of the invader.

Emotive rationalisations pardoning the State of Israel for its written and unwritten policies of anti-Arab xenophobia fall on deaf ears now. Too many children have died. Too many lives have been shattered beyond repair. A Zionist blanket of death has descended upon the Palestinian people and hundreds of broken bodies litter the Gazan landscape as the world watches and says little and does less. This is what remains left of Arab Palestine. A charnel ground of post-WW2 White colonialism in Western Asia.

The Zionist government argues that the racist butchery of its defence forces is solely devoted to combating Palestinian terrorism, namely the very existence of Hamas, the actual government-in-exile of the Palestinian people. Despite their capitulation to democratic representative politics and their unprecedented participation in a U.S.-sponsored general election that brought them to power, Hamas is still unjustly pigeonholed as a terror organisation rather than as the liberation movement they actually represent. But if the Zionist State of Israel wants to get into particulars about what constitutes terrorism, it should open discussion about Zionist terrorism and how this earned them a Jewish homeland.

Before Hamas or Hezbollah ever existed there was the Stern Gang (Lehi) and Irgun (National Military Organization in the Land of Israel). Before the Munich action by angry young Palestinians, there was Deir Yassin, where 254 Palestinian villagers were executed during the chaotic last days of the British Mandate by brigades of Jewish terrorists, namely fighters of Lehi and Irgun, between the 9th and 11th of April in 1948. The Palestinian is responding to violence, not initiating it. But one must be willing move beyond the rhetorical pro-Israeli, pro-racist fluff to see the situation as it is to understand that. And since the very same people involved in the movement to purge Palestine of U.S. and British occupation in the 1940’s are directly responsible for the Arab Palestinian genocide which began 1948, why is anyone surprised by the current bloodbath?

Following the last global war, the western moral crusade for a capitalist-led world peace brought on by any means necessary would come to arrogantly flout the very humanism it maintains characterizes the present-day “War on Terror.” In the zealous pursuit of a full-spectrum Europocentric world order, the concept of world peace is regarded politically as a fluid hypothesis subject to instantaneous revision. As outlined by the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) dossier, peace is assurance in knowing that the United States and its client-entities (in particular the State of Israel) suffer no significant political challenges or effectual non-compliance to their aims of global hegemony. The existence of the State of Israel is a crucial geographical element to this equation and Jews fearful of yet another attempt at anti-Jewish eradication are willing to act as America’s bottom-@!$%# in the “Middle-East” in trade for a nation and an indigenous genocide all their own.

What we have here in essence is a model of peace solely defined by expansionist Euro-imperial standards. A system of planetary-wide Manifest Destiny ideologically steeped in the quasi-occultist philosophies that circulated in Christianized Europe prior to the extreme Aryanism of the Third Reich. The myth of a divine European master race as hailed in verse by Guido Von List, Rudyard Kipling and every Pope ever appointed to the Holy See. A morality of state oppression, elitist greed, plutocracy and racial stratification championed and rehearsed in that respective order. The necessary illusion of perpetual wars against terror, against the collapse of “civilisation” itself, have proved to be more than enough to satiate the consciousnesses of those of us psychologically encapsulated within the doctrinal paradigms of western predatory capitalism. We can coolly witness the destruction of an entire ethnic group, provided the victims are not ‘White’ and call ourselves Jehovah’s chosen without experiencing the pangs of paradoxical heaving.

The European structure of imperial criminality has always maintained a veneer of legality in regard to its own offences. Like war, the European world powers recognise amongst themselves a pithy assortment of extremely flexible rules concerning the acceptable use of military force by a government against internally colonialized or significantly weaker populations. These conventions have long been codified in black-letter international law and are based on what became known as the Nuremberg Principles, the legal strategy created to address the civilian atrocities of the last internal European tribal conflict of the last century.

The glaring paradox of acceptable rules for warfare aside, The Principles were used as a strategy for convicting German and later Japanese officers, politicians and industrialists of military and political delinquency by the Allied Powers and in the case of Julius Streicher; they were also decisive in convicting civilians for encouraging transgressions against specific human populations. In short, the legal if not ethical framework for the identification, prevention and prosecution of a genocide in the post-WW2 information age has been long understood, copiously documented and duly established as a punishable offence. Plainly, it is an international crime to engage in extremes of human incivility and savagery, period.

In the decades following the European and Japanese war trials of the 1940’s, these international conventions were selectively put to use against states engaging in crimes against humanity. In practise however, these laws were chiefly used against individual political personalities either opposed to or no longer useful to Euro-Imperial neo-liberalism. Anti-colonial Cuban leader and revolutionary icon Dr. Fidel Ruz Castro has been repeatedly and falsely accused of genocide, yet the Chinese government under Mao commenced a real genocide in Tibet which is still maintained by the post-Tiananmen neo-capitalists currently running the country. Harsh language may be used sporadically in condemnation of China for its actions in limiting a western-style Tibetan democracy, but few dare call what China is doing to the Tibetan people a genocide. The Balkan ethnic massacres of the 1990’s were deemed to be ethnic as well as theological genocides and people were prosecuted, while East Timor’s indigenous holocaust still struggles for similar recognition, respect and legal action. Genocide in African states might receive a bit of mention here and there and infrequently produce a book or a trial or two, but the genocide of Aboriginal peoples in Africa, in the Americas and in Asia typically garner no mention at all.

So it should of no surprise to anyone, let alone the Palestinians that in the wake of Israel’s aggressive return to murderous 1967-style military action in The Gaza, a clear challenge to international law is occurring and no one really cares. The entire world is looking the other way as Palestinians die en masse and no one cares enough to tell Israel to its face that it is a homicidal out of control colonialist settler-state that should hang its head in shame for enacting their very own Final Solution.

As a person of Ashkenazim extraction by way of a fairly diminutive blood-quantum, I challenge the Jews of the world to come to grips with what is being done in their name. I am no longer interested in hearing about the lost tribes and the terrorism of the European pogroms if you insist on slaughtering the very people whose lands you have already stolen at bayonet-point.

I cannot and will not respect anyone, especially a colonial population of genocide survivors, who in turn have the nerve to practice genocide. Jewish Nazism is still Nazism, even if brief passages from the Talmud are tucked under the yarmulkes of the murderous gunmen of the IDF.

The Angryindian

Editor, Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo

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Heritage

Great piece!


the State of Israel is guilty of Arab Palestinian Genocide and crimes against humanity.
I completely agree with this statement. End the Occupation.

"It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists (Jews) do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews."

Albert Einstein

History repeats......

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Erich J

Moral foolishness.  A country defends itself from terrorism with pinpoint strikes on an area it could easily decimate in hours and the terrorist defenders and defenders of evil come out of the woodwork.  You poor morally confused fools.  I truly pity your ignorance.

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djsblack

I don't pity them--because they the cause that they support has no future.

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tikun

Actually no one is doing anything in YOUR name. This is not about you it is about Israel, protection of its citizens and fight against Terrorism. Hopefully Hamas will end their rule over Gaza and allow its citizens the freedom to be out from under the thumb of the Iran-Hamas axis. Much of the Arab world and Palestinians would like to get rid of this group that is not interested in their welfare but perpetrating their desire for the destruction of Israel.

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Kashif Akram

i have duoub

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Kashif

I have doubt that is there any civilian in  Israel ( the occupied land ). Maybe you talking about people who don’t own weapon right .“ if you cant speak the truth don’t speak at all”

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wbsfr8

~ end the occupation YES! by sending the terrorist dogs back to Syria -where they came from, for a free, safe and peaceful Israel.

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SOLARLIFE

The Gaza, a clear challenge to international law is occurring and no one really cares. Good peace

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kingpaddy

Yeah, no one cares.  With Africa, where millions of children have been killed and women raped most of the world can't be bothered.  No one cares.

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tallison

When Saddam was hanged I said it was justice. Now it is increasingly becoming clear that some sinister design  is there to destroy the muslims and keep them bogged down. U.S is the defining authority. on earth.

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Yellow Guitar

greetings tallison. I'm not sure I understand your comments about some sinister design. But I felt compelled to wade in and point out that the biggest killer of muslims is other muslims. iraq and iran butchered over 1 000 000 in their war through the 1980s. america may have been involved by arming both sides, a cynical position but hardly responsible for the hatred that separted these 2 muslim states. in fact the iranians chanted 'death to iraq' with as much religious fervor as they now chant 'death to america/israel/the west' etc. There are claims that Arab states are as afraid of fanatacism as they are of Israel and America.

this is not to mention the ongoing butchery in africa of muslims against other muslims, animists, christians, or anybody else who disagrees with them.

some might argue that a key factor in the survival of the state of israel is that the muslim and arab states who surround israel distrust and hate each other with almost as much passion as they detest israel. amazing isn't it? but i suppose nobody can hate like brothers.

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Amaad

wow... you nailed it bro.. couldn't agree more.. I am Muslim by the way (cough)

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Yellow Guitar

greetings angryindian: Well, you start off by saying you're likely 'to be labelled an anti-Semite' - nice. But you're not anti-Semitic, as you obviously know. You're just anti-Jewish. The opinions you cite are tired, odious, hate-filled and unhelpful.

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angryindian

My deceased Ashkenazism grandfather would find that queer, especially since my piece explains quite clearly my opposition to Zionist racism and the political enitity known as the State of Israel, not Jewry.  That's like saying since I oppose the Ku Klux Klan a oppose all White people and Protestant religion everywhere.  If anything, the complaint you register is entirely redundant and after last week devoid of any moral fibre at all.  So if you have some factual or at least ethical data to support your knee-jerk belligerence in calling me anti-Jewish for analyzing Israel and the United States actions in The Gaza as genocide, please present it.


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tikun

I think that the name ANGRY explains the tirade against Jews and Israel. Spare us the Ashkenazi: some of my best firends are..

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tikun

Honestly what could you be wrangling except hatred.

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Yellow Guitar

greetings angryindian. Your reference to 'the Jew' as if all Isrealis and Jews in general think and act as one seems racist, as does your reference to Europeans plotting to take over the world.  None of the Isrealis or Europeans - Jew or Gentile - that I've known have ever expressed anything remotely resembling your conspiracy. Nor would they desire it. In fact the only people I know who talk this way are either racists, anarchists, paranoids, or individuals bent on revenge. Keep in mind I don't get out much, and I'm not that intelligent, but in blaming European colonialism and 19-early 20 C. Zionism for the plight of the Palestinians, it sounds like you are swinging at ghosts.

You speak as if the current problems begin and end with 'the Jew' and his 'Euro-Zioinist' or American masters. This denies the centuries, even millenia, of conflict between the nations that have lived here. And only by doing so can you speak of the Palestinian Arabs living in Gaza as 'indigenous.' How far back do we go to resolve the question of indigenous rights? The Islamic invasion? It's difficult to go down this road against a Jew, unless you happen to be a Canaanite.

Finally, what makes you believe that the people of Gaza will fare better under Hamas, the pawns of Iran and fundamentalist Islamic imperialists? You're probably aware that more Moslems have been and continue to be oppressed, mistreated and murdered by Islamic governments than by the IDF, America and Europeans combined. Are you suggesting that this too is the work of European imperialists and their Euro-Zionist dupes?

Hamas has made it clear they are committed to aims other than the welfare of Palestinians. Their first duty is to their masters in Iran and Syria. This premise seems a far more likely explanation of the instability in Gaza then your notion of a mystical European loathing of Arabs and a Europeanized Jew.

I won't even comment on the likening of IDF invasion of Gaza to genocide. I'm not sure how a thinking person can find the gall to suggest Israel is behaving like the Nazis. You see the world through dark glasses indeed.

But I suppose we all see the world differently as a result of different ideas. Ideas like imperialism and colonialism and jingoism as embodied in European expansion of the last 200 years are lasting and powerful. But are they powerful enough to animate those committing the carnage in Gaza today? I think not. These people have their own constructs, and are likely motivated by hatred and/or revenge and/or survival, or even mob bloodlust. As such they've chosen their own path. We don't need to explain their plight by blaming the ghosts of imperialist boogie men.

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angryindian

You have "read" Judeophobia in my article where none exists.  Where did I state that Jews were trying to take over the world?  If you are going to make such a bold charge, point it out.  You are purposefully confusing me with the Nazi wannabes and Islamic fundamentalists who think the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion is a real document, like the Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, or the Eugenicists who really want to believe that Ashkenazi Jews are really Khazars and are not genetically Semitic in origin at all.  There is absolutely nothing in this piece of that spirit and it is intellectual cowardice to suggest that there is.   

In short, your charges are mean-spirited and baseless. If you have something concrete that refutes the reality of European Jewish fascism and xenophobia, present it.  You are only presenting complaints, not analysis of factual evidence.   If you refure my findings, debate on points.  Your emotive defences for Zionist xenophobia only display intentional arrogance in the face of overwhelming empirical evidence to the contrary.

As far as Hamas goes, I have said for the record in print and on audio that I do not support Hamas or for that matter any theologically based-political organisation.  What I do support is the vote of the Palestinian people, that's democracy, and they voted for Hamas.  To deny them their choice of political representation is a violation of international law and is intended to limit their socio-political collectivity.  If you do not understand that, it is because you do not wish to understand it. 

Further, if you are basing your position solely on the unique "Right to Exist" rule of world Jewry within territorial Palestine, what is this "right" based on?   Are other negatively subjected populations allowed to make use of similar rationalisations for actions that purport to "protect" their people and territorial integrity? 

If Israel can make a political claim to Palestine after being ejected following the first Roman-Jewish War in the year 70, by rights, Indigenous nations still extant with some degree of socio-cultural comprehension trapped within the Unted States would be due the very same respect the State of Israel enjoys under the United Nations charter, the U.S. Constitution and the more than 400 U.S./Indian Nations treaties still recognised under international law.  If such a thing occured, by treaty, more than 1/3 of the U.S. landmass would be reverted back to the original owners. 

Mexico and Canada  would also face territorial divisions, the same sort of displacement Palestinians have been subject to since European invasion.  Pick your chosen era and ask yourself why only Israel has these privileges.  There is a history and a political background to all of this.  Why not address these issues and abandon the petty name-calling to mask the fact that you have no legitimate argument.


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tikun

Well Said. Finally someone gets it.!

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Yellow Guitar

No angryindian, I do not read Judeophobia in your piece, rather I referenced what appears to be a loathing of Jews in general. I 'read' these sentiments in your treatise against Israel's will to survive, and sensed they were embedded in a conspiracy theory in which the Jews of European descent are denigrated to the status of the white man's spaniel, so intent on being assimilated that they sell their Semitic souls in order to enjoy the spoils of 'white colonialism' in the Middle East. Surely to God you can see that the Jews - especially those who emigrated from Europe - recognize the trap of assimilation. After all, German Jews were among the most highly assimilated in Europe. And what did it get them? No, you do not say explicitly that the Jews are attempting to take over the world, but you do present them as the fawning vanguard of colonial Europe, and as such, guilty of it by association. Maybe I'm misreading you completely and you're not anti-Jewish, but perhaps I can be forgiven for assuming you are in light of your patronizing and insulting view of the Jews who founded and continue to fight for their lives in Israel.

The right of return was granted to all Jews by UN charter. It has been maintained by brute force in the face of ongoing challenges to, and outright denial of that right by hostile nations. "Democracy don't rule the world, better get that through (our) heads" to quote Dylan "this world is ruled by violence, but that's better left unsaid." (that's why he's a poet) It's ironic isn't it that terrorism on all sides by all parties acted as the midwife for Israel's nascence. Live by the sword, die by the sword. Or survive by it, as Israel has against all odds.

You mention that the people of Gaza elected their Hamas government, and that while you don't support Hamas, you recognize and respect the right of the Palestinians to choose their own government. (Where does that right come from, and how did a belief in western democracy wind up in Palestine?) That's another question. More to the point is the consequences of choosing Hamas. Like the Germans who voted for Hitler during the elections of the 1930s, Palestinians are now suffering the terrible consequences of voting for a regime that is predicated upon hatred and revenge. In fact they voted to go to war against Israel. Thus every drop of blood that gets shed in Gaza from that point on falls directly on the heads of the Hamas leadership. This is their genocide, not the Israelis. It has absolutely nothing to do with Europe, Zionism, Khazars, Shoa, etc.... or any of those obfuscating issues you raise.This is a self-inflicted deep and debilitating wound. If there are Nazis in Gaza today, they are called Hamas.

I am not trying to be mean-spirited or obtuse as you claim. You are an eloquent writer, a deep thinker, and (hopefully) a person whose prime interest is to bring peace to the people of Palestine. I just believe you are entirely mistaken in where you land on this issue. I speak from that conviction, not from some self-willed ignorance.

Finally you question why Isreal's right to exist is privileged over other nations. I don't have a satisfactory answer for that, but it may be a moot point. My belief in Israel's or Palestine's right to exist doesn't do much for a soldier in the trenches. A culture, like any other organism fights to survive. Clearly circumstances have militated against Israel's survival. Everything from subtle assimilation to extermination has been attempted by an impressive pantheon of the world's power-elite. Time will tell if the Palestinians, Israel's Semitic brothers, are made from the same stuff. I know you are well aware of Semitic history, more so than I, and your ability to express your deep understanding supercedes my own. But this may be a simple case of a nation's right to exist residing in its continued survival. This sounds perilously close to 'might makes right' or the law of the jungle. But how else do we broach this question without invoking the hand of God? Isaac and Ishmael survive, while Trugannini and Shawnadithit get tossed onto the ash heap of history, and few if any weep. Nations that survived for thousands of years in the forests of North America get swallowed up or wiped out by a culture that is unlikely to last another century without collapsing and visiting generations of misery on its progeny and on the planet. And it doesn't have to be this way. That's the tragedy. I'd be interested in hearing your ideas on resolving some of the land claim disputes here in North America, or if you believe resolution is possible. My own government, ifsofar as it belongs to any of us anymore, has paid a lot of lip service to Native self-government. A great idea for First Nations People provided their Band Councils are committed to serving their members without robbing them (as current councils often do) or marginalizing them (as current federal policy seems to do.) I guess that would be another story, another post.

thanks for your comment. I disagree wholeheartedly with your position on the Gaza, but better men than I have almost certainly done that. And I am suspicious about your theories on Isreal, Jewishness and Europeanism, but that may be due to the fact that I am often as thick as a brick and have misread your intentions. Or perhaps your great learning has driven you to madness. Either way, cheers for taking the time to elaborate.

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angryindian

No, you did read Judeophobia in my piece and flatly and falsely accused me of promoting Jewish conspiracy theories.  Your accusation of a hatred for Jews on my part is baseless.  And it would be pointless to list my own Jewish bloodline or my Hebrew social contacts in defence as once the charge of anti-Semitism is lodged it carries a moral weight impossible to dismiss.  It is also a grand cop-out to quell debate against Israeli political policy.  You have actually placed me in good company, Noam Chomsky and Normal Finkelstein are deemed anti-Semitic too for coming to the very same conclusions I have.

You say that the question of Isreal's unique "right to exist" is a moot point.  Moot to who?  The Palestinians removed during the Nabka?  It is entirely selective and wholly supportive of White Euro-settler power in that region, or any other Euro-settle state, to ignore this point.  This is a question of full-spectrum European dominance.  How else could such a massacre occur without the country responsible for the aggression being condemned roundly? 


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Yellow Guitar

I never accused you of spreading Jewish conspiracy theories. But I do believe you have (willingly or not) positioned Jews as dirty-working hacks for European imperialists intent upon colonizing the Middle East. Questioning Israeli political and social policy is good, and I commend you for doing that, and for encouraging the supporters of Israel, myself included, to do the same. This is healthy and I don't consider you anti-Semitic for it. In fact, I think I see you a little more clearly and I must apologize for that accusation. Forgive me for being slow to see and quick to condemn. As for Noam Chomsky, I may be one of only 2 or 3 men in the free world who would not consider him good company necessarily. Of course I don't know him at all really, although I have enjoyed what little of his work I've read on language acquisition and sense-making.

My perception of Israel - her policies or 'right to exist' - is immaterial to their struggle is it not? This is what I meant when I said the privileging of Isreal's right over other indigenous people was a moot point. It is not my intention to insult the Palestinians who lost their homes and livelihood as a result of the partitioning of their homeland.

One last point with respect to your last post. Your inclusion of European Jewry in the category of "White Euro-settlement in the region" is intriguing. Have they then in your eyes ceased to be 'real' Jews? How is this different from the Khazar connection put forth by Arthur Koestler and others? I'm trying to grasp the logic you use to connect Zionism with white European imperialism and, given your loathing of said imperialism, how you manage to avoid being 'anti-Jewish'?

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René

Israel has as much right to exist as the other countries created at the same time, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, and later Saudi Arabia.

Who are you to deny it?

As far as who is guilty of crimes against humanity, please explain this to me: the PaliKids, and what they teach them.

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Surulere

There is something about human nature that has continued to repeat itself. "We hate people we hurt. We hurt people we hate." Nelson Mandela once referred to the decision to attack Iraq as follows: "This President does not think. This President lacks foresight." He was probably right, but "Power corrupts.  Absolute power corrupts  absolutely.- Lord Acton. In the domain of relative powerlessness, I womder whether Gandhian passive resistance has a place in an atmosphere of self-righteousness (They did worse to us during second world war.) It has taken 3000 years of togetherness and disciplined family and religious life to make one power. I hope it will not take that long for the weaker in Middle East to take stock and focus on democratised society which is very highly advanced in its values. 

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