Posted: 29 Jul 2014 06:01 PM PDT
By
Gilad Atzmon
IDF’s colossal
defeat in Gaza this week leaves Israel and Israelis with
just three political and personal options:
1.
Mass expulsion – ethnic cleansing of the entire
Palestinian population from territories controlled by
Israel. Such action may sound unreasonable or even
phantasmic, but it is actually consistent with Zionist
ideology and has many supporters within Israel and within
the current Israeli cabinet. Moreover, oppression and
brutality are embedded within Jewish political culture and
even within the culture of the Jewish Left*. Clearly Israel
possesses the military capability and fire power to proceed
with such a plan for Nakba II.
2. Exodus – mass
emigration of Israelis who, quite reasonably, prefer to run
for their lives. This option is obviously embedded within
the exilic Jewish culture and completely consistent with
Jewish diaspora identity. Emigration is available to most
Israelis at the moment. However, it is likely that as
violence in the region continues to escalate and Israel
finds itself complicit in more and more war crimes and human
rights abuse, Israelis may find out that their freedom to
travel around the world is gradually restricted.
3.
Buying time –Israel’s favourite option. And certainly
Benjamin Netanyahu’s preferred policy.
While both the 1st and the 2nd options are consistent with Jewish ideology, heritage and culture, it is the 3rd option that has been chosen by Israel’s governments for decades. It entails constant devastation of Gaza by means of medium scale massacres in the hope that Palestinians will eventually surrender and accept the domination of the Jewish State.
Just a month ago it seemed as if only divine intervention could save the Palestinians. However, as things stand at the moment, even God may find it difficult to rescue his favourite people. Israel has sunk into a fatal political, military and ideological paralysis. The destiny of the Jewish State has been revealed. It has no future in the region.
The key to understanding of Israel’s paralysis is not complicated. As much as Israelis favour the deployment of their devastating military might and its fire power, Israelis do not like to be caught with blood on their hands. As much as they like to kill, they hate to be [ known as ] the killers. This dilemma has matured into a political, ideological, strategic and spiritual deadlock. It puts the Jewish State into an impossible scenario that makes dwelling on someone’s else land simply unimaginable.
Noticeably absent among the viable options above is peace. Reconciliation is not a viable concept anymore. The notion of ‘peace’ as we understand it in the west (harmony and reconciliation) does not exists in modern Hebrew. The word ‘shalom’ that is commonly translated as ‘peace” is understood by Israelis as ‘security for the Jews.’ Israel has had plenty of time to reach harmony and reconciliation with the Palestinians. But it didn’t happen and for a reason. Israel is the Jewish State, it is ethno centric to its core, it is blind to the notion of universal rights and totally dismissive of the Palestinians and their rights.
It may be crucial at this point to add that the final stage of the Jewish State and the genocidal enthusiasm in which it manifests itself, throws a devastating light on Jewish culture and the dangerous aspects that are entangled with Jewish identity politics and Jewish national collectivism.
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* It was Stalin’s ‘willing executioners’ who wiped out millions of Ukrainians in the name of ‘collectivization’ in the 1930s (Holodomor). It was the Yiddish Speaking International Brigade that massacred Catholics and burned their churches in Spain (1936), once again in the name of the ‘revolution.’ It was the Zionist Left which expelled the Palestinians in 1948. Killing en masse in the name of a great ideal, be it Moral interventionism, Gay rights, or even Jewish suffering, is unfortunately, consistent with Jewish political culture and attitude.