Zionism going through death throes

 

By Gordon Duff

Zionism is dead. As it goes thru its death throes, much is revealed of its nature.

 

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President Obama is preparing for his upcoming trip to Israel. He represents the most powerful military force in the history of the world. He also represents a nation, bankrupt, “flat broke – busted,” a nation sick of war and a nation of skeptics.

 

The mainstream news will report that America is ready and willing to shed its last drop of blood to “defend Israel,” and that America stands ready to launch “shock and awe” attacks at any moment on Iran, despite continuing fruitful diplomatic negotiations.

Israel no longer has the love and trust of the American people, including and especially American Jews. The Netanyahu government no longer has the “love and trust” of the Israeli people, as the recent election has shown.

Thus, anyone seeking a shred of reality from the “pop culture media” or the “psyops” ridden “blogosphere” will have to develop their “between the lines” reading skills.

THE GAME IS ALREADY ON

A little over a week ago, the Times of Israel, the Jerusalem Post and the Israel National News all described the meets between Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and the new American Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel as “warm” and “productive.”

The American media, prior to the meetings, had planted false stories about the close friendship between Barak and Hagel. The truth is, Hagel and Barak are and have been anyone but friends.
A top US defense official who worked closely with Barak said this of him:

“Gordy, he is one of the dumbest SOB’s I have ever met. Barak so ‘anti-charismatic’ that his own dog wouldn’t follow him even if he hung a pork chop around his neck.”

Not only were stories about the warm and lasting friendship between Hagel and Barak a wild fabrication, the results of their meetings were as well.

Both the American and Israeli papers, all owned by the same clique, mischaracterized a “defense” related “chat” as though it were a policy discussion involving foreign ministers or heads of state.
Israel saw the meeting thusly:

“America agreed to invade Iran even if it means every last drop of blood for every ‘goyim’ American.”

Secretary Hagel saw the same meeting thusly:

“Why is this idiot in my office?”

NETANYAHU’S LOST ELECTION

A week ago, the Israeli press reported an article from the obscure “World Tribune” describing upcoming American cutbacks and demands by President Obama that Israel abandon the occupied territories in accordance with United Nations resolutions.

Now, when we look at this interval, we see Netanyahu staging a threat in order to garner support from extremist parties who, out of desperation, will help extend his rule through a marriage, not just between different species but different phylum as well.

Thus we finally glimpse the monstrosity that weeks of “negotiation” have assembled, a truly “Frankensteinian regime.”

Today, Netanyahu finally put together his coalition government, weeks late, more than unstable and largely dominated by “settler” elements as we see from RoiTov, in Veterans Today:

“Netanyahu will be the next Prime Minister, but he lost the elections and the coalitional negotiations. The settlers became the principal winners. Even if his party shows restraint and doesn’t carry out a putsch against him, this is probably the last government to be led by Bibi; he should never have chosen a nickname that means (also) ‘my-sewage.’ It became a self-fulfilling Pygmalion prophecy.”

The result for Netanyahu isn’t just a weakened government, the destruction of the Likud Party and probable uprisings in the Knesset.

Israel is reeling from a series of reversals, mass defections at the United Nations, abandonment by American Jews including top Jewish political leaders. More than that, the American people are willing to point their finger at Israel whose high standard of living is underwritten by the crippling taxes paid by low income Americans who are beginning to feel like “Palestinians.”

HERE IT COMES, THE “LIE BOMB”

This leaves Netanyahu and his personal axis of evil, Erdogan in Turkey, Aliyev in Azerbaijan, his friends in the Persian Gulf States, his Saudi brothers and the puppet regime in Jordan.

Losing America as an “occupied zone” like the West Bank is the loss Netanyahu will never recover from.

However, whatever happens during Obama’s upcoming visit next week, what we hear from the press will be the same moronic drooling Hollywood has been pouring out in a raging torrent.

Whenever reality rears its head, the “Iran and the bomb” mantra begins, first as a chant, then a crescendo.

The real meetings, the conclaves, are never publicized. Israel, at least as we knew it, is dead. The plots will continue, the cluster bombs will fall on Gaza; cyber warfare against the world will remain unabated.

The spying, the assassinations, the organ thefts, nothing will appear changed.

DEAD, GONE, TOO LATE

Israel put all its resources behind a losing presidential candidate. It then tried to grind the American government to a halt by brazenly demonstrating total control of the Republican Party, not realizing that they had hitched themselves to, not only a dead horse but one the maggots keep clear of.
Some years ago, someone said:

“History will erase Zionism from the sands of time.”

They were right. Zionism is dead. As it goes thru its death throes, much is revealed of its nature.
The failure of one form of evil isn’t enough to restore justice.

Back in 1942, a famous British politician said, while speaking at Mansion House in London:

“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”

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Is Palestinian Solidarity an Occupied Zone?

Why Israeli Apartheid is Worse Than South Africa’s Version

By Gilad Atzmon

 
 
Once involved with Palestinian Solidarity you have to accept that Jews are special and so is their suffering; Jews are like no other people, their Holocaust is like no other genocide and anti Semitism, is the most vile form of racism the world has ever known and so on and so forth.

But when it comes to the Palestinians, the exact opposite is the case. For some reason we are expected to believe that the Palestinians are not special at all -  they are just like everyone else. Palestinians have not been subject to a unique, racist, nationalist and expansionist Jewish nationalist movement, instead, we must all agree that, just like the Indians and the Africans, the Palestinian ordeal results from run-of-the-mill 19^th century colonialism – just more of the same old boring Apartheid.

So, Jews, Zionists and Israelis are exceptional, like no one else, while Palestinians are always somehow, ordinary, always part of some greater political narrative, always just like everyone else. Their suffering is never due to the particularity of Jewish nationalism, or Jewish racism, or even AIPAC dominating USA foreign policy no, the Palestinian is always a victim of a dull, banal dynamic – general, abstract and totally lacking in particularity.

This raises some serious questions.

Can you think of any other liberation or solidarity movement that prides itself in being boring, ordinary and dull? Can you think of any other solidarity movement that downgrades its subject into just one more meaningless exhibit in a museum of materialist historical happenings? I don’t think so! Did the black South Africans see themselves as being like everyone else? Did Martin Luther King believe his brothers and sisters to be inherently undistinguishable?

I don’t think so. So how come Palestinian solidarity has managed to sink so low that their spokespersons and supporters compete against each other to see who can best eliminate the uniqueness of the Palestinian struggle into just part of a general historical trend such as colonialism or Apartheid?

The answer is simple. Palestinian Solidarity is an occupied zone and, like all such occupied zones must dedicate itself to the fight against ‘anti Semitism’. Dutifully united against racism, fully engaged with LGBT issues in Palestine and in the movement itself, but for one reason or another, the movement is almost indifferent towards the fate of millions of Palestinians living in refugee camps and their Right of Return to their homeland.

But all this can change. Palestinians and their supporters could begin to see their cause for what it is, unique and distinctive. Nor need this be all that difficult.  After all, if Jewish nationalism is inherently exceptional as Zionists proclaim, is it not only natural that the victims of such a distinctive racist endeavor are at least, themselves, just as distinctive.

So far, Palestine solidarity has failed to liberate Palestine, but it has succeeded beyond its wildest dreams in creating a Palestine Solidarity Industry, and one largely funded by liberal Zionists. We have been very productive in schlepping activists around the world promoting ‘boycotts’ and ‘sanctions’ meanwhile Israel trade with Britain is booming  and Hummus Tzabar is clearly apparent in every British grocery store.

All those attempts to reduce Palestinian ordeal into a dated, dull, generalised materialist narrative should be exposed for what they are – an attempt to appease liberal Zionists. Palestinian suffering is actually unique in history at least as unique as the Zionist project.

Yesterday I came across this from South African minister Ronnie Kasrils. In a comment on Israeli Apartheid he said : “This is much worse than Apartheid..Israeli measures, the brutality, make apartheid look like a picnic. We never had Jets attacking our townships; we never had sieges that lasted months after months. We never had tanks destroying houses.”

Kasrils is dead right. It is much worse than Apartheid and far more sophisticated than colonialism. And why? Because what the Zionists did and are doing is neither Apartheid nor is it colonialism. Apartheid wanted to exploit the African, Israel wants the Palestinian gone. Colonialism is an exchange between a mother and a settler state. Israel never had a mother State, though it may well have had a few ‘surrogate mothers’.

Now is the time to look at the unique ordeal of the Palestinian people. Similarly, now is the time to look at the Zionist crime in the light of Jewish culture and identity politics.

Can the solidarity movement meet this challenge? Probably, but like Palestine, it must first, itself, be liberated.

Gilad Atzmon’s latest book is: The Wandering Who? A Study of Jewish Identity Politics

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The ambitious goal to be formally designated as the United States’ “major strategic ally” is apparently on the agenda at the annual American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee gathering that’s kicking off in Washington, known as AIPAC. If the plan becomes legislation, it could oblige the US to support Israel diplomatically and militarily if it strikes Iran.

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Israel introduces 'Palestinian only' bus lines, following complaints from illegal Jewish settlers

Afikim bus company to have special buses for Palestinian workers commuting from the West Bank to jobs in central Israel; announcement follows complaints from settlers that Palestinians are a security risk.

 

Palestinian protesters on an Zionist bus line in the West Bank last year.

Starting on Monday, certain buses running from the West Bank into central Israel will have separate lines for Jews and Arabs. 

 

The Afikim bus company will begin operating Palestinian-only bus lines from the checkpoints to Gush Dan to prevent Palestinians from boarding buses with Jewish passengers. Palestinians are not allowed to enter settlements, and instead board buses from several bus stops on the Trans-Samaria highway. 


Last November, Haaretz reported that the Transportation Ministry was looking into such a plan due to pressure from the late mayor of Ariel, Ron Nahman, and the head of the Karnei Shomron Local Council. They said residents had complained that Palestinians on their buses were a security risk. 

The buses will begin operating Monday morning at the Eyal crossing to take the Palestinians to work in Israel. Transportation Ministry officials are not officially calling them segregated buses, but rather bus lines intended to relieve the distress of the Palestinian workers. Ynet has reported that fliers are being distributed to Palestinian workers notifying them of the coming changes. 

A passenger waits at a bus stop.

Any Palestinian who holds an entrance permit to the State of Israel is allowed by law to use public transportation. Officials at the Samaria and Judea District Police have said there is no change in the operation of the rest of the buses, nor is there any intention to remove Palestinians from other bus lines. But Haaretz has in the past reported incidents when Palestinians were taken off of buses, and witnesses at checkpoints say that such incidents are ongoing. 

Ofra Yeshua-Lyth is a member of Machsom Watch, a female advocacy group monitoring West Bank checkpoints. She says that recently, Bus 286 from Tel Aviv to Samaria arrived at a checkpoint filled with Palestinian workers. She filed the following report: 

"Police officer Advanced Staff Sergeant Major Shai Zecharia stops the bus at the bus stop. Soldiers order all the Palestinians off the bus. The first thing they do is collect all their identity cards as they get off. One by one, the Palestinians are told to go away from the bus stop and walk to the Azzun Atma checkpoint, which is about 2.5 kilometers away from the Shaar Shomron interchange. All of them responded with restraint and sadness, at most asking why. Here and there they received answers such as, ‘You’re not allowed on Highway 5’ and ‘You’re not allowed on public transportation.’ 

Advanced Staff Sergeant Major Zecharia gave some vital information to one of the older Palestinians who had arrived there, telling him: You should ride in special vans, not on Israeli buses.” 

In response to the report, the Transportation Ministry said it "has not issued any instruction or prohibition that prevents Palestinian workers from riding the public bus lines in Israel or in Judea and Samaria. Furthermore, the Transportation Ministry is not authorized to prevent any passangers from riding those lines." 

"The two new lines that will be run as of tomorrow (Monday) are intended to improve the services to Palestinian workers that enter Israel via the Eyal Crossing," the ministry's statement continued, adding that the new lines will replace the "pirate" driving services who have been transporting Palestinian workers "at exorbitant prices and in an irregular fashion." 

According to the ministry, the new lines will depart from the Tzofim area near Qalqilyah and will transport workers to their places of work in the Sharon region and Tel Aviv, at "especially cheap prices." For example, the tariff for traveling to Kfar Sava or Raanana will be NIS 5.1, and to Tel Aviv will cost NIS 10.6. This is compared to some NIS 40 that passengers have been charged by the private transportation services for each direction, the ministry said. 

"The new lines will lessen the burden that has formed on buses as a result of the increase in numbers of working permits provided to Palestinians, who are permitted to work in Israel and will contribute to the improvements of services, for the betterment of Israelis and Palestinians as one", the statement said. 

The Samaria and Judea District Police have yet to respond to the report.

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