Zionism, written by Freydis

What is Zionism?

Zionism is such a major factor in 20th century events, and continues to be a major force in the 21st century, that no one can afford to remain ignorant on the topic. Indeed, the true source of most of the major conflict in the world today, from the war on Iraq and Afghanistan to threatened war against Iran and beyond, can in fact be traced back to Zionism.

But what is Zionism? It’s essentially just a fancy word for Jewish nationalism. Until the second half of the 19^th century the established narrative concerning Jewish history was of the expulsion from the Holy Land and the establishment of Jewish populations around the world, but primarily in Eastern Europe. The Jews did not have their own state, and most assumed they did not need one either. However, in an era of great nationalist sentiment some Jewish thinkers began to conceive of nationalism as a tool they could use for themselves.

The primary conceptual proponent behind Zionism was Theodor Herzl, who first published his book The Jewish State in 1896. Born into a Jewish family in Budapest Hungary in 1860, Theodor Herzl was responsible for authoring and selling the concept of a state specifically for the Jewish people. Herzl’s conception of a Zionist homeland for Jews came about from his concern over the continual animosity and conflict between Jews and Christians in Europe. Although intentions are often difficult to discern from writing alone, Herzl seemed to honestly desire a solution that would be acceptable to Europeans while, of course, remaining beneficial to Jews as well.

Zionism was a heterodox notion for Jews, and even though Herzl intended moving to the new state to be a voluntary event, it was not instantly popular in the Jewish community at all. Herzl had to deal with multiple impediments in tradition, such as Jewish culture being tethered to monolithic historical assumptions. The entrepreneurial spirit was active, but the pioneering spirit lacking.

We have cradles, we have graves, and we alone know how Jewish hearts cling to the graves. Our cradles we shall carry with us—they hold our future, rosy and smiling. Our beloved graves we must abandon— and I think this abandonment will cost us more than any other sacrifice. But it must be so. [12, pg. 123]

However, in the category 'be careful what you wish for', Herzl grossly misjudged the consequences of Zionism, predicting that,

[T]he Jews, once settled in their own State, would probably have no more enemies. [12, pg. 153]

The crux of the trouble surrounding Zionism, and indeed the trouble with all forms of nationalism, is the need for land to form the state. Although various regions of the world had been seriously discussed for a Jewish homeland the religious argument for Palestine was the easiest to sell to the Jewish community.

At the end of World War I the Ottoman Empire lost and subsequently collapsed, with the British Empire subsequently taking control over Palestine. Influential Jews, such as Chaim Weizmann, offered support to the British Empire from their community in exchange for giving Palestine to the Jews, in what became the Balfour agreement. However, the existing population in Palestine was not consulted on this deal at all! So, this is where the, now infamous, conflict in the Middle East begins.

Very few Jews actually lived in Palestine before the Balfour Agreement and the ones that did were culturally very different from the Jews spread across Europe. Jews from Europe began to move into Palestine and establish themselves with the absolute religious belief that they and they alone had the right to the land. Consequently, the real Zionism that built the state of Israel was revealed during the infamous forcible expulsion of the remaining Arab population of Palestine in 1948.

So, in essence Zionism was invented as a tool to connect Jews throughout the world with something they had not had before -- a common home. Zionism used religious literature to define the Jewish homeland as the land west of the Jordan River. Palestine was not the first place considered, even Brazil and Madagascar were tossed around at one point, but it was the most viable of the options at the time because it was close to Europe and controlled by a receptive nation - England.

The actual British motivation behind the restructuring of Palestine was much less one of charity towards Jews as it was of simple opportunism. The British government colluded with Jewish Zionism in order to cement control over a strategically important region of the world while also denying control to opponents, especially their inveterate economic competitors in central Europe (Germany). The Balfour Declaration was also seen as a means of getting the Jews out of the country; unfortunately for England the ‘win-win’ situation never materialized.

During World War II the Jewish leadership again sided with the allies and the return payment being full-blown statehood after the war -- in other words, completing what they had started. Indeed this is quite ironic given the current Israeli government resistance to the present Palestinian effort to achieve statehood, but as we'll see this sad tale is rife with double-standards.

By the end of World War II England was for all practical purposes defeated and their Imperial power was eclipsed by that of the United States, yet the objectives of both remained interwoven and as world power shifted from London to New York and Washington DC, so did the nexus of Jewish influence.

Israel Founded as Europe Lies in Ruins

Two devastating, fratricidal world wars in the space of 40 years left Europe physically and economically ruined.  Control of the imploded British Empire, and basically everything that colonial Europe controlled plus the direct influence of world affairs that went with it, all were transferred to the source of the money which financed both world wars - the United States of America.

The United Nations was one of the primary elements in the post-war restructuring of the world order. The United States helped found the United Nations, which although created for multiple, often humanitarian reasons, was essentially seen by the elite in America as a tool for granting legitimacy to certain international policy decisions, especially in this case concerning the Jews and Israel. In November of 1947 the U.N. General Assembly approved a partition plan to create a Jewish state, an Arab state, and an international zone around Jerusalem. Just a few months later in May of 1948 Israel declared themselves a state and President Harry Truman, in defiance of emphatic recommendations against involvement due to the future repercussions against U.S. national interests, immediately recognized the action. War between Israel and the Arab states immediately followed. [21]

The creation of the state of Israel in 1948 deprived Palestinians and Arabs of land they considered to be their own, by virtue of the fact they and their ancestors before them had lived, farmed, and died in that geographic location for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. Even Israel's founders knew this. Israel’s second president Yitzhak Ben-Zvi wrote in 1929,

The vast majority of the peasant farmers do not have their origins in the Arab conquerors, but rather, before then, in the Jewish farmers who were numerous and a majority in the building of the land.

This expulsion of the indigenous inhabitants in 1948 and 1949 has come to be called the Nakba (the Cataclysm). Wars resulted, the biggest occurring in 1967 and 1973. In both instances Israel's neighbors lost, although only because of rapid emergency military assistance from the United States during 1973. Israel has been expanding through the use of violence and economic and political coercion ever since the Zionist state was formed, and this is the crux of the problem.

Zionism is Testament to the Folly of Nationalism

Aggressive nationalism forces everyone else to get a nation and state too, if for no other reason that self-defense against other aggressive states! So, not surprisingly, the arrival of Zionism in the Middle East region drastically altered the situation. Although it’s conveniently forgotten today, before the advent of Zionist nationalism Jews, Christians, and Muslims all coexisted peacefully in the Middle East. The great historical cities of Baghdad, Beirut, Jerusalem, and Damascus, all had mixed religious populations that have declined amidst conflict since 1948. After Zionism and the establishment of the state of Israel the entire Middle East has broken down along religious lines, creating enormous turmoil and violence typified by the carnage and car bombs that now plague Baghdad Iraq in the throes of religious warfare.

9-11: Support for Israel Returns Turmoil to the USA

Despite occasional hollow rhetoric to the contrary the United States government is an unwavering and uncritical ally of the state of Israel, and by extension Israeli government policies, such as the expansion of illegal settlements in occupied territory. This alliance takes the form of billions of dollars in military aid in equipment and technology, as well as direct financial assistance in the form of cash payments as 'foreign aid' and loan guarantees, among other things. Demonstrating the influence of Israel exerts over federal government decisions, loan guarantees are extended to Israel, greatly lowering the price that government must pay in interest, yet the state of California, in a severe budgetary turmoil and economic recession with massive unemployment, cannot get any loan guarantees, yet alone a loan that need not be repaid as Israel regularly receives.

The September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and on the Pentagon were advertised as being unprovoked, yet in fact they were entirely predictable reactions to Israel’s Zionists violence and America’s unconditional support for them. Since Israel is an implacable foe of Arab states, and Islam in general, Osama bin Laden reasons, just as former General Ariel Sharon of Israel does, that coexistence is impossible and defeat of the enemy is the only path leading to victory. Further, since Israel would not have the military tools or finances to survive independently from the United States (they don't), in order to stop Israel one must stop America, right? So now the question is: how do you stop America? This is the main reason why Zionism is such a critical issue for everyone in the United States, as well as the Middle East, and indeed even the rest of the world.

Founding a modern state on a single ethnic or religious identity in a territory that is ethnically and religiously diverse leads inexorably either to politics of exclusion (think of the 139-square-mile prison camp that Gaza has become) or to wholesale ethnic cleansing. Put simply, the problem is Zionism. [...]

If two decades ago comparisons to the South African apartheid system felt like hyperbole, they now feel charitable. The white South African regime, for all its crimes, never attacked the Bantustans with anything like the destructive power Israel visited on Gaza in December and January, when nearly 1,300 Palestinians were killed, one-third of them children. - Ben Ehrenreich, March 2009 [13]

Within the present situation America is trapped between two formidable and seemingly immovable objects. Over the past fifty years the Jewish lobby in America has built an incredibly potent machine for manipulating United States foreign policy to favor the state of Israel and its government, to the point that no federal representative can question this state of affairs without swift and severe retribution. Questioning Israel, or American foreign policy concerning the total support of that west-Asian mini-state, means career suicide for an American politician, and instead the ones that want to climb the ladder do the opposite, they ask how much more can be given to Israel!

Neo-Conned

August 2004

It appears that America will continue down the same perilous path, mindlessly serving as Zionist Israel’s golem, until it either reaches financial oblivion and is physically unable to sustain the current state of worldwide warfare and military sponsorship of violent militant regimes, or until it seriously reevaluates its external associations and adopts a foreign policy as detached and impartial as practically possible, thereby undercutting the explosive fuel of injustice powering the likes of dangerous terrorists like Osama bin Laden.

The Middle East Peace Process Sham

Although Zionism began with seemingly noble intentions, the primary objective of creating a state and safe haven for Jews to move to and live has not been achieved, and in fact the opposite has occurred. Jews are less safe now than ever before precisely because they have employed a belief-system that intentionally excludes the needs and concerns of those that are not Jewish. As a result Zionism has returned only violence and animosity towards the Jews while the security of Israel only becomes more precarious, held together only through a tenuous veneer of intimidation and constant threats.

For many years the national aspirations of the dispossessed Palestinian people have been placated through a convoluted play called the 'Peace Process'. This process never delivered peace for anyone in the region but it did buy time for Israel to continue illegal expansion of settlements on stolen land.

The Zionist state of Israel continually claims to seek peace and safety, and this excuse is mercilessly exploited as a justification for the application of disproportional military force against neighboring states, and upon the people within Israel’s own occupied territories. Yet Israel’s violent and brutal assault upon the civilian population in the Gaza strip in 2009 is just the latest demonstration of Israeli actions, revealing true intent stripped away from disingenuous propaganda. The perpetual Middle East ‘Peace Process’ is a sham. If you still doubt it professor Norman Finkelstein explains why:

The Palestinian organization Hamas was becoming too moderate; it was transmitting, giving the signal that it was ready to go along with the two-state settlement based on pre-1967 borders. The leadership of Syria and the West Bank have also been making statements like this. So Israel started to get worried that it would be obliged to negotiate a settlement which the international community has been supporting for the last 30 years.

Those who are against this settlement are the U.S. or Israel, backed by the U.S. So when Hamas was becoming moderate and holding to the cease-fire it agreed in June 2008, it was showing herself to be a credible negotiating partner. Hamas was standing by its word. In the meantime, Israel has neglected another core principle of cease-fire, namely easing the blockade. So Israel had to defeat this Palestinian peace offensive. It always does this. It provokes Palestinians into reacting, and it wants to either destroy Hamas or inflicts so much damage that Hamas will have to say it will never negotiate with Israel. That is exactly what Israel wants. Israel never wants a moderate negotiating partner because if there is one, pressure on Israel will grow. Hamas is willing for a settlement; Hamas stands by its word. But Israel does not want to negotiate. - January 19, 2009

Occupied Territories

August 2004

And where does Israel get the weapons and killing technology to wage war instead of seeking peace and mutual security? Mostly from the United States; and without making any public protests against the misuse of their weapons on civilians in war crimes of every imaginable kind (or halting weapons transfers entirely), the United States becomes a willing accomplice to Israel’s murderous military attacks. Israel wins in this process because the international acme of human rights and democracy, the USA, looks just as dirty and brutal as they are.

Amnesty researchers in Gaza found several weapon fragments after the fighting. One came from a 500lb (227kg) Mark-82 fin-guided bomb, which had markings indicating parts were made by the US company Raytheon. They also found fragments of US-made white phosphorus artillery shells, marked M825 A1.

On 15 January, several white phosphorus shells fired by the Israeli military hit the headquarters of the UN Relief and Works Agency in Gaza City, destroying medicine, food and aid. One fragment found at the scene had markings indicating it was made by the Pine Bluff Arsenal, based in Arkansas, in October 1991.

The human rights group said the Israeli military had used white phosphorus in densely populated civilian areas, which it said was an indiscriminate form of attack and a war crime. Its researchers found white phosphorus still burning in residential areas days after the ceasefire.

At the scene of an Israeli attack that killed three Palestinian paramedics and a boy in Gaza City on 4 January, Amnesty found fragments of an AGM114 Hellfire missile, made by Hellfire Systems of Orlando, a joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Boeing. The missile is often fired from Apache helicopters.

Amnesty said it also found evidence of a new type of missile, apparently fired from unmanned drones, which exploded into many pieces of shrapnel that were "tiny sharp-edged metal cubes, each between 2 and 4mm square in size".

"They appear designed to cause maximum injury," Amnesty said. Many civilians were killed by this weapon, including several children, it said. [14]

Operation Cast Lead

Everyone already knows what Israel officially wants, but what do the Palestinian people in Gaza want? Rarely are the Palestinians asked by the mass-media, but obviously they want safety and economic opportunity. “I want a cease-fire and open borders. Crossings are better than tunnels," Abu Mahmoud, 22-year-old tunnel smuggler. [1]

Israel’s mass-assault on Gaza is unequivocally a military and political failure, similar to their attack on Hezbollah in southern Lebanon just a few years ago. The blatant attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure has become a public-relations fiasco for Israel, and it has left Hamas in power while enhancing Palestinian solidarity behind them as the only authority organized in support of the people and willing to resist ongoing Israeli attacks.

So what is Israel trying to do? Their official aims haven’t been met, yet they claim ‘Operation Cast Lead’ was a success, a déjà vu repeat of their war on Hezbollah and Lebanon. Again, we have to discard propaganda statements and focus on facts and actual events, which are much more enlightening anyway.

Israel controls Gaza's borders, coastal waters and airspace, and allows only some food, medical supplies and fuel to enter Gaza, this has little substantive meaning. According to the UN, Gaza needs a minimum of 500 truckloads of humanitarian aid and commercial goods a day. While the Israeli authorities have told humanitarian agencies that they will allow up to 200 truckloads a day, the actual number has never exceeded 120 since the blockade began in June 2007. The average in February was between 88 and 104, including the grain shipped by conveyor belt at the Karni crossing. New security procedures since the January war make it almost impossible for aid agencies to plan deliveries more than 24 hours in advance.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that Israel has arbitrarily refused entry of even basic items like chickpeas, macaroni, and wheat-flour, notebooks for students, freezer appliances, generators, water pumps and cooking gas.

Israel insists that all trucks enter Gaza via Kerem Shalom near the south of Gaza, where every item on the trucks must be unloaded, inspected, repackaged and reloaded with a "handling fee" of $1,000, even though there are other crossings with more sophisticated security screening equipment. It is clear that Israel's actions are aimed less at preventing arms from getting through into Gaza than intimidating and punishing the Gazan population, destroying whatever remains of the Gazan economy and forcing Gazans into exile. [3]

Israel's tactics of violence and their strategy of state-terrorism aren't haphazard or accidental; they're very much intentional and calculated. Israel even has a name for their use of indiscriminate slaughter and the application of disproportionate force; operation Cast Lead was an extension of what Israel calls the ‘Dahiyah policy’, named after the bombardment of Dahiyah, Beirut in 2006, part of Israel's effort to  destroy Lebanon's national infrastructure while intimidating Hezbollah. [10]

Religion Rules

The involvement of the very influential Jewish religious establishment in Israel forms a key element in the war process. Many Rabbis have been particularly vocal in promoting and fomenting war on the Palestinians, and Israel’s Arab and Persian neighbors as well, using religious commandments as direct support, indeed a mass-mandate, for inflicting pain and suffering upon all who oppose Judaism. This is the same archaic tribal mindset explicitly described in the Torah, or Biblical Old Testament.

In the last decades, the state-financed religious educational system has churned out "rabbis" who are more like medieval Christian priests than the Jewish sages of Poland or Morocco. This system indoctrinates its pupils with a violent tribal cult, totally ethnocentric, which sees in the whole of world history nothing but an endless story of Jewish victimhood. This is a religion of a Chosen People, indifferent to others, a religion without compassion for anyone who is not Jewish, which glorifies the God-decreed genocide described in the Biblical book of Joshua. … The rabbis openly called upon the soldiers to be cruel and merciless toward the Arabs. [4]

And further evidence unmasks the Jewish religious establishment in Israel as enthusiastic promoters of a slaughter of Palestinians, justified as a religious duty for Israel’s soldiers.

Another disturbing element reported by the soldiers was the role of military rabbis in distributing booklets that framed the fighting as a religious war. “All these articles had a clear message: we are the Jewish people, we have come to the land by miraculous means, and now we have to fight to remove the Gentiles who are getting in our way and preventing us from occupying the Holy Land… a great many soldiers had a feeling throughout this operation of a religious war,” said one soldier. [6]

Israel is the one state in the world that recognizes no permanent boundaries

The Jewish establishment doesn’t want to resolve conflict with non-Jews, at least not in a way that the rest of us understand it through dialogue and arbitration. They want to exterminate everyone that doesn’t support them, just as one stone-age tribe seeks to defeat and slaughter another stone-age tribe! Consequently, Israel’s actions are not intended to create a situation where the Palestinians, or the Iranians, accept mutual coexistence, that’s why the goal-posts keep changing within the sham peace process, and no matter what Iran does it can never meet Israel’s standards of nuclear security (never mind Iran’s need for security against Israel’s established nuclear arsenal). In this warped mindset non-Jews can’t do anything to be Jews, they are inherently a different tribe. Israel is pushing a power-trip for perpetual pain upon the Palestinian people.

Not all Jews are Zionists, although Zionists make every effort to convince the world that's not the case! Mathematical theorist Albert Einstein was opposed to Zionism, for all the obvious reasons, yet after his death his statements on the topic were twisted to support the Zionist position. For instance, Einstein once stated that "Peace in Palestine cannot be achieved through force, only through understanding." Later the word ‘Palestine’ was dropped, turning Einstein's words into, "Peace can never be kept by force, only through understanding." In the same spirit the fictional story of Schindler's list corrupted the (Babylonian) Talmud text of Sanhedrin 37a from "Whoever preserves a single soul of Israel, it is as if he had preserved an entire world", into the more gentile friendly "Whoever destroys the life of a single human being...it is as if he had destroyed an entire world; and whoever preserves the life of a single human being ...it is as if he had preserved an entire world."

Ironically, peace with the Palestinians would directly benefit Israel, as well as the Palestinian people, and indeed the world at large. “The shopkeeper said he has fond memories of the 1970s, when he would drive from Gaza City to his Mercedes supplier in the Israeli port city of Haifa without borders or checkpoints.” [1] Open trade and economic interaction would boost the well-being of both sides. The obvious simplicity of this fact is yet another demonstration of the sheer stupidity and self-destruction of tribalism and religious fundamentalism.

Sadly, this insurmountable divide between Jews and goyim extends inside Israel as well; making a mockery of Israel’s supposed state of democracy.

Israel's Palestinian citizens live a precarious existence lacking well-defined rights, despite the nation's boasting of being the only democracy in the Middle East. Even the number of Palestinian citizens of Israel is an open question, since Jerusalem is home to a quarter million Palestinians who, despite being born in areas Israel claims are within its borders, do not receive citizenship at birth and face a nebulous legal status as “permanent residents.” [5]

Proponents of Judaism continually emphasize the noble qualities of the religion with its emphasis upon charity, but they conveniently ignore the fact that the charity is intended for Jews only. But then again, lying to a non-Jew isn’t really a lie either. Judaism of the Talmud holds that only Jews are human and that everyone else is just an animal, and as a consequence all charity and mercy is reserved for Jews only. This explains why so many Rabbis promote extreme brutality and merciless hatred against Palestinians, Arabs, and anyone that directly opposes Jewish Israel. This kind of us-versus-them double standard leads to all sorts of bizarre and warped behavior patterns. Indeed the root paranoia that anti-Semitism represents is the chronic fear that Jewish hatred and brutality will eventually be returned against them by non-Jews, it’s a projection of Jewish Zionism’s tribal ruthlessness onto others. Yet at the same time these Jews are afraid that if they let up on the cruelty and tactics of terrorism for just a moment the people they’ve been tormenting for decades will lose their fear, rise up and retaliate. The terrorists become terrorized themselves, but it does create a sense of solidarity in collective guilt and fear. This is why Jews and Zionists around the world, think of Alan Dershowitz, exert such enormous effort continually trying to defend the indefensible!

The IDF military campaign in Gaza enjoyed the support of 94% of the Israeli population. 94% of the Israelis apparently approved of the air raids against civilians. The Israeli people saw the carnage on their TV screens, they heard the voices, they saw hospitals and refugee camps in flames and yet, they weren’t really moved by it all. They didn’t do much to stop their “democratically elected” ruthless leaders. Instead, some of them grabbed a seat and settled on the hills overlooking the Gaza Strip to watch their army turning Gaza into modern Hebraic coliseum of blood. [8]

The official objective of Zionism is to create a safe haven for the world’s Jews, yet through the violent and brutal actions of Israel, combined with the theft of land and ongoing illegal settlements; Zionism actively creates new enemies around the world and makes Jews less safe than ever before! Zionism is a screaming example of the ends trying to justify the means, only generating tactical success that inexorably leads to colossal strategic defeat.

Human Shields, Human Targets

To deflect criticism of vicious attacks on dense and virtually defenseless Palestinian populations, Israel claims that the people they’re targeting hide amongst the civilian population and so they have no choice. In other words, the cowardly terrorists hide behind human shields. Actually this isn’t a lie; it’s just being terribly misleading because Israel’s intended target is the civilian population. But even if the excuse made sense Israel does exactly that anyway, frequently taking Palestinian adults, and particularly children, hostage in order to clear a room they suspect of being booby-trapped, or to walk down a street threatening to shoot the hostage if they come under attack. These tactics are well documented, and in March 2009 the United Nations condemned one egregious incident where an 11 year Palestinian was used as a human shield by Israeli forces in Gaza. At the same time the Israeli newspaper Haaretz revealed Israeli soldiers wearing t-shirts with slogans in English and Hebrew like "1 Shot 2 Kills," with a pregnant Arab woman in the cross-hairs, and "The smaller they are, the harder it is," featuring a child with a gun. [7]

Israel’s use of white phosphorus (WP) artillery shells on Gaza has come under major criticism around the world, with the usual exception that nearly nothing is heard or written in the American or Canadian press that reflects negatively on Israel. White phosphorus burns intensely on contact with oxygen and it is used to create a smoke-screen or to act as an illuminating agent for nighttime operations where the pieces slowly float to the ground and burn out. But to be properly used the artillery shells have to be fired at a high angle so the pieces have a long time to fall. Israel lobbed the shells at a low angle and into populated areas where phosphorus becomes a horrific weapon as it quickly hits the ground and burns everything it touches. The respected NGO Human Rights Watch has concluded in a report that Israel intentionally used white phosphorus shells indiscriminately, in a text-book war crimes incident.

The group documented only some of the cases, including white phosphorous shells fired at a Gaza City hospital, the U.N. headquarters, a school and a market. In six attacks, 12 civilians were killed and dozens wounded, said Human Rights Watch researcher Fred Abrahams. [9]

This is a particularly important event to Americans because the WP shells were made in the United States, and Israel’s use of them in a documented war crime is a direct violation of the foreign arms sales agreement. Any country besides Israel would be immediately placed on the black list, like China was after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. But for a very special Israel with a death-grip on America's political process, the American-made weapons keep on coming. 

Israel's Operation Genocide

Damning testimony from Israel’s own soldiers operating in Gaza confirms that Operation Cast Lead was a genocide mission against Palestinians in everything but name. It’s going to be really tough for the Israeli government to blame this one on HAMAS:

“That’s the beauty of Gaza. You see a man walking, he doesn’t have to have a weapon, and you can shoot him,” one soldier told Danny Zamir, the head of the Rabin pre-military academy, who asked him why a company commander ordered an elderly woman to be shot. … There were also accounts of soldiers being ordered to throw all the furniture out of Palestinians’ homes as they were taken over. “We simply threw everything out the windows to make room and order. The entire contents of the house flew out the windows: refrigerator, plates, furniture. The order was to remove the entire contents of the house.” [6]

Interestingly, in March 2009 the President of Sudan was issued an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the rebel region of Darfur – a first against a serving leader.

The president is accused of "directing attacks against an important part of the civilian population of Darfur", said Laurence Blairon, a spokeswoman for the court in The Hague. She told reporters the attacks had included "murdering, exterminating, raping, torturing and forcibly transferring large numbers of civilians and pillaging their property". [2]

Yet Israel’s leaders have basically done the same thing for years against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank; an arrest warrant for them is noticeably absent -- and don’t hold your breath waiting for one considering the enormous Zionist influence upon the political establishment in Europe and the USA. This blatant hypocrisy only undermines the validity of the ICC and similar western institutions supposedly seeking universal justice; the victory of Zionism is an unequivocal loss for everyone everywhere.

Business as usual for Israel - Making Palestinians as miserable as possible

Israeli forces raided ICS [Islamic Charitable Society] institutions on 6 March and 1 April seizing equipment, clothing, school buses and food and clothing from ICS warehouses and posting military closure orders on several buildings and offices. The charity estimated the cost of the raids in lost equipment and damage at US$418,000.

Describing the raids, Lynes said, "The Israeli army […] went into a bakery and literally destroyed all the equipment. They went into a sewing machine workshop, which is used for training the orphan girls, and they wrecked all the sewing machines and removed all the textiles. The machines turned up in the town dump."

A similar series of Israeli raids has been reported in Nablus since 7 July, with six charities reportedly joining the 50-odd closed by Israel in the last two years. [16]

Israel blocked access for journalists and humanitarian aid into Gaza.

Despite our protests the Israelis authorities have refused to let journalists in ... Never before have journalists been prevented from doing their work in this way. We believe it is vital that journalists be allowed to find out for themselves what is going on in Gaza. Israel controls access to Gaza. Israel must allow professional journalists access to this important story. [17]

Precision Strike

July 2006

Israel attacked UN schools nine times, the health clinic and the Gaza UN headquarters during Operation Cast Lead, even attacking during Israel's announced ceasefire!

Richard Miron, a UN spokesman, said the Israeli army had been notified in advance about the UNRWA convoy, which was hit as it approached the Erez crossing with Israel. Two Palestinian forklift drivers were killed.

With the Czech Republic currently holding the EU presidency, its foreign minister Karel Schwarzenberg said: “After the striking of the UN school, this is another terrible episode, which moreover occurred during the three-hour ceasefire declared by Israel. [18]

All the while the Israeli military was shooting just about every Palestinian that they could find.

In one, Palestinian witnesses said that an Israeli sniper shot and killed a 40-year-old woman carrying a white flag when she emerged from her house as an Israeli bulldozer was demolishing it in an attempt to tell the Israeli forces that there were dozens of civilians inside the home.

In the other, Human Rights Watch concluded that evidence backs Palestinian claims that an Israeli soldier opened fire on a woman, her mother-in-law and three girls as they stood on the steps of their home waving a white flag.

Two of the girls, aged 2 and 7, were killed. The third girl, 4, and the older woman were wounded. The 4-year-old was one of the few who managed to escape Gaza for special medical care in Europe. [19]

In the wake of Israel's attack on the people of Gaza, the United Nations produced a report on the conflict. Even though the study was led by self-described Zionist Richard Goldstone, Israel’s actions were so egregious that the report was forced to strongly condemn them as, “a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate and terrorize a civilian population, radically diminish its local economic capacity both to work and to provide for itself, and to force upon it an ever-increasing sense of dependency and vulnerability”.

Numerous atrocities on the part of Israel have been reported, such as:

Neurosurgeon Dr Ahmed Yaha catalogued horrific injuries such as babies being shot in the head, babies with broken spines due to being thrown by shell blasts. People burned to the bone by white phosphorus, nail bombs causing brutal injuries and a new phenomena, micro-pellets, that leave no entry wound but cause fatal internal injuries. [20]

From Eastern Europe to Israel, the Hidden History of Jewish Origins

The official motto of Israel’s spy service, the Mossad, is “By way of deception thou shalt do war”. [11] Yet this mentality is hardly the exclusive domain of the Mossad. Zionists in general must live in a cloud of lies because the truth is completely against them. Zionists are typified by the likes of defense attorney Alan Dershowitz, who must continually attempt to spin and justify the brutal and appalling actions of the state of Israel in defiance of world opinion, reason and logic. In fact, the deception goes much further than most even realize. Today’s Jews aren’t even originally from Israel! They actually descended from a Turkic tribe called the Khazars.

A growing body of archeological evidence and written accounts substantiates the fact that the vast majority of the Jews in the world today actually originated from a group of Turkic people from Asia living between the Caspian and Black Seas in an Empire known as Khazaria, from about the year 700-1200. Khazaria was a formidable and populous power that dominated regional trade routes and accumulated great wealth. Their conversion to Judaism marked one of the most momentous events of the past two millennia. Hundreds of years later the decline and fall of Khazaria pushed Jews into new settlements in Eastern Europe.

This was the steady state of affairs until the 18th century when Napoleon swept through Europe on his way to Russia and broke open the stagnant and inbred ghettos with new laws that usurped religion in favor of economy. Then in the last part of the 19th century Theodor Herzl dreamed up the nationalist theocracy of Zionism and sold it to Jewish and Christian leaders who found it attractive for their own reasons. Zionism offered the Jews their own state and a chunk of real estate in Palestine, which was chosen because it matched the religious texts and the land was politically feasible to acquire. European Jews gradually moved into what is now the state of Israel as another conqueror arrived on the scene who was less charitable towards the Jews than Napoleon, Adolph Hitler, accelerating the flow of Jews into British controlled Palestine.

Judaism is technically a matrilineal tribal faith, considered to be a long and unbroken chain of a single people that have wandered out, around, and now back to the Eastern Mediterranean with the advent of Zionism and the modern state of Israel. But the classic storyline of Jewish origins has never been able to explain how hundreds of thousands of Jews, supposedly from the Levant, remarkably all appeared in villages across Eastern Europe beginning about the 13^th and 14^th centuries, with virtually nowhere else of any comparable population. However, the rise and fall of Khazaria does explain the situation perfectly well.

Historical facts and archeological evidence demolish the established origins and assumed racial and ethnic character of the Jews. The vast majority of Jews alive today are not descendants of the Middle East, and therefore the pejorative term anti-Semitism is effectively meaningless because most Jews are not a Semitic (Middle Eastern) people. Not that the term 'anti-Semitism' made much sense to begin with since it was always selectively employed to refer to Jewish but not Arab Semites! Christian Zionists as well have a perplexing dilemma on their hands since today's Jews are not 'God's chosen people' of the Bible but rather a Turkic people from Asia having no substantial connection to the characters and tribes described in the holy books. 

Anti-Semitism, Fact and Fiction

The problem with Zionism, as is obvious today, is that by using religious justification to seize Palestine, a potentially secular Zionism was mortally undermined by exclusionary religious beliefs. So, while the state of Israel was hypothetically (but not in actuality) better glued together by a shared faith, in fact it instantly created widespread animosity through its formation based on the theft of land.

This fact demonstrates one of the fundamental flaws in anti-Semitism: it’s not who the Jews are that generates the animosity, it’s what they do. Anti-Semitism is an excuse and a very dangerous delusion for Jews to maintain because of the self-righteous way it so neatly absolves them of all blame for any and all actions. The standard Jewish conception of anti-Semitism maintains that they, the gentiles, hate us by their very nature so it doesn’t matter what Jews do or don’t do. Few things are more pernicious than self-righteous delusion, and an uncritical belief in religious superiority offers this up in unlimited amounts.

Although he wasn't referring to Israel, the Jewish state has become exactly what Herzl wrote about concerning despotism: The mere preservation of obsolete institutions is a task severe enough to require the enforcement of all the despotic measures of an autocratically governed State. [12, pg. 88]

The charge of anti-Semitism has been turned into the new witchcraft; the accused can’t be proven innocent, they can only atone through endless penitence. Yet in reality the actual presence of hate for Jews is more fiction than fact being remarkably absent from the mainstream, with exception being places, like the Middle East, where such hostility is understandably justified considering Israel's actions.

Seymour Martin Lipset notes that in 1985, according to a poll, a majority of Jewish Americans in San Francisco were sincerely convinced that no Jew could be elected to the U.S. Congress from San Francisco—when in fact all three members of Congress were Jewish Americans, plus the two state senators and the mayor!" [15]

Zionism and the Holocaust

Today Zionism drags the rest of the world into fighting wars in the name of the Holocaust. Palestinians are tormented and killed in mass while trapped inside the open-air prison of the Gaza Strip by Israel, perpetuating gross injustice, while Israel proclaims the necessity of self-defense to prevent another holocaust against Jews! A situation that defies logic, yet in Europe it remains illegal to publicly question the establishment's version of the World War II Jewish Holocaust!

[W]hether it was one or four millions Jews who died in Auschwitz, no one doubts that the camp was a horrible place. Yet, two questions must be answered once and for all:  how is it that the Jews, who suffered so much during that war, managed to get themselves involved in a colossal racist crime against the Palestinians (1948 Nakba) just three years after the liberation of Auschwitz? How is it that the Israeli leadership, that happens to be so sensitive to Jewish suffering, manages to neglect the pain they inflict on millions of Palestinians? - Gilad Atzmon, September, 2009

The Holocaust narrative is full of confusing and contradictory stories, exactly because it has been granted immunity from thorough scrutiny and honest public discussion. The Jewish Holocaust has little to do with objective history and everything to do with serving a political agenda.

As embarrassing as it may seem, in just three moves Ahmadinejad manages to expose the current deceptive Western mode of discussion. He, in fact identifies the holocaust as the core of our hypocritical stand, a tendency that has managed to shatter our ethical judgment. The holocaust was there to divert the attention from the colossal crimes committed by the allies: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Dresden are just brief examples of institutionalised genocide at the hands of the English Speaking Empire. The holocaust has successfully matured into a new religion. Yet, it lacks theology. It doesn’t allow any form of criticism or reformism. It is in fact an anti-Western religion inspired by hate and vengeance. It is dark, it is blind and it lacks mercy and compassion. It is a faith that declares an assault on any form of doubt. It is a crude brutal belief system that stands in opposition to the notions of liberty and goodness. As if this is not enough, those who subscribe to this religion are complicit in an ongoing assault against grace and peace. - Gilad Atzmon on the Holocaust and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, October, 2009.

Burying Zionism and Surviving the 21st Century

If you ask why we still have to be so concerned with archaic remnants and discredited mindsets that honest and educated people have already moved far beyond, like nationalism, religion, and tribal warfare, the biggest reason is Zionism. Because the religion of Judaism is tribal and not universal, like Christianity or Islam, the origins matter. Since Jews aren't really a special or singular race originating in the Levant, dispersed around the world and then returned, then the whole religious story is a sham that must be addressed and rectified. All of the disastrous consequences of Zionism are a direct result of the tribalism that it emerged from – the raw hatred, the blatant racism, the extreme violence that characterizes blood-soaked Old Testament Bible stories. It's about the absolute belief that 'we' are superior to everyone else, we’re the chosen people, and everyone else are vermin to be exterminated.

Zionism and human rights are mutually exclusive since human rights are inherently universal and Zionism is inherently exclusive. Zionism is an anachronism, out of time and out of space that must continually struggle against the headwinds of cooperation and integration.

Zionists struggle within an artificially distorted context created by their indefatigable belief in being the chosen people, alone and unique among the world, and that everyone else is an inferior outsider worthy only of lies, duplicity, and merciless exploitation. This imbalanced view of people and events leads to some strange outcomes such as double-standards for ethics and morality, one used for relations with Jews and one for relations with the Goyim (non-Jews). Schizophrenic morality quickly leads to neurosis that inevitably manifests as harmful physical effects too. Zionism is an example of this schizophrenic morality in action. Zionism believes that all the Holy Land is for Jews alone and this belief necessitates a raft of unsavory actions such as theft of land and resources, expulsion and killing of non-Jews, and a continuous stream of duplicity and rhetoric intended to justify these actions to non-Jews when blatant acts of theft and murder would otherwise seem to be indefensible.

The burden of Zionism takes its toll not just on Palestinians but on the mental stability of Jews as well. This is just one reason why it's crucially important to maintain a consistency in personal thought and action based on a stable, non-relative moral conception in the mind used to determine how to treat everyone you interact with. You can be a hero or a coward, a friend or an enemy, just as long as the reasoning behind that behavior emerges from a consistent framework within the mind and is not random, hypocritical, or unjust. Treat others as you want to be treated, and then treat them as they treat you (reciprocation).

Everyday more and more people are actively protesting and resisting Zionism, and we need more to do the same every way possible. We have to keep hammering on the walls of authority’s fortress of immunity with reality, and eventually the citadel that shields power from truth will collapse. In the aftermath of a discredited and buried Zionism we can all build a more integrated, cooperative and productive world that's safe for everyone to live in.

References

1. Gazans want open borders, not handouts, by Karin Laub, AP, March 2, 2009.

2. Arrest warrant draws Sudan scorn, BBC, March 5, 2009.

3. Gaza donor conference: conspiracy wrapped up as compassion, by Jean Shaoul, WSWS, March 5, 2009.

4. Black Flag, by Uri Avnery, Information Clearinghouse, February 2, 2009.

5. The ‘Right to Exist’ as an Arab Israeli, by Jaime Omar Yassin, Extra!, Volume 22, Number 3, March 2009, page 13.

6. Israeli soldiers admit to deliberate killing of Gaza civilians, by James Hider, The Times (UK), March 20, 2009. 

7. Israeli soldiers' T-shirts depict shooting Arabs, Matti Friedman, AP, March 23, 2009.

8. The End of Jewish History, by Gilad Atzmon, Information Clearing House, March 20, 2009.

9.  HRW: Israel's white phosphorous use indiscriminate, by Karin Laub, AP, March 25, 2009.

10. Military investigations whitewash Israeli war crimes, by Jean Shaoul, WSWS, May 2, 2009.

11. Deception, Spin and Lies, by Gilad Atzmon, Information Clearing House, October 16, 2009.

12. The Jewish State, by Theodor Herzl, Dover Publications, reprinted 1988.

13. Zionism is the Problem, by Ben Ehrenreich, Los Angeles Times,
March 15, 2009.

14. Amnesty calls on US to suspend arms sales to Israel, by Rory McCarthy, The Guardian, February 23, 2009.

15. America Right or Wrong - An Anatomy of American Nationalism, by Anatol Lieven, 2004, page 204, Oxford University Press.

16. Israel sets sights on Islamic organizations, July 25, 2008.

17. Foreign journalists demand Gaza access, by Rory McCarthy, Guardian, December 30, 2008.

18. UN aid agency suspends work after Gaza strike, The Times (UK),  January 8, 2009.

19. Report: Israeli troops fired on Gazans waving white flags, McClatchy Newspapers, August 13, 2009.

20. Self-defence Stories from Gaza, by Paul J. Balles, Information Clearing House, October 26, 2009.

21. Truman Library: The Recognition of the State of Israel Online Research File, Harry S. Truman Library and Museum.

News

• Israel approves 900 new housing units in Gilo settlement,
  The Times (UK), November 18, 2009.

• West Bank rabbi: Jews can kill Gentiles who threaten Israel,
  Haaretz, November 11, 2009

Resources

• Jewish Origins: The Khazar Empire, written by Freydis

• Neo-Conned: The Neo-conservative Connection, written by Freydis

• Understanding America's War on Iraq - Oil, Dollars and Israel, written by Freydis