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发帖数: 38600 | 1 Fifteen Thoughts About Israel
https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/fifteen-thoughts-about-israel-
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1. I hate writing about Israel. The accusations of anti-semitism which
necessarily go along with literally any criticism of that nation are gross
enough, but even worse are the assholes who take my criticisms of the
Israeli government as an invitation to actually be anti-semitic. They really
do hate Jews, they really do think that every problem in the world is
because of Jews and they post Jewish caricature memes and calls for genocide
in the comments section on social media and it’s incredibly gross and I
hate it. It feels exactly as intrusive, jarring and violating as receiving
an unsolicited dick pic. But the Israeli government keeps committing war
provocations and massacring Palestinians, so it’s something I’ve got to
talk about.
2. Anti-semitism (or whatever word you prefer to use for the pernicious mind
virus which makes people think it’s okay to promote hatred against Jewish
people) is a very real thing that does exist, and I denounce it to the
furthest possible extent. Anti-semitism is also a label that is used to
bully the world into accepting war crimes, apartheid, oppression, and mass
murder. Both of those things are true.
3. There were dozens of Palestinians killed and well above a thousand
injured in the Gaza protests over the US moving its embassy to Jerusalem
yesterday. I haven’t found any report of so much as a single Israeli injury
. The only way to spin this as the fault of the Palestinians is to
dehumanize them, to attribute behaviors and motives to them that we all know
are contrary to human nature. To paint them as subhuman orc-like creatures
who are so crazy and evil that they will keep throwing themselves at a hail
of bullets risking life and limb just to have some extremely remote chance
of harming a Jewish person for no reason. This is clearly absurd. A little
clear thinking and empathy goes a long way.
4. Trump could have prevented all this violence by doing what previous
administrations had done and keeping the US embassy in Tel Aviv. Experts
warned that this would happen. Trump ignored them. He is ultimately
responsible for the mounting pile of corpses resulting from this provocation.
5. The Trump campaign was given $25 million by billionaire oligarch Sheldon
Adelson (the largest campaign donation made by anyone to any candidate), who
provided a further $5 million for Trump’s inauguration. Adelson is a
sociopathic pro-Israel hawk who once called on the US to drop a nuclear bomb
on Iran. He was present at the opening of the Jerusalem embassy, getting
what he paid for.
6. Any position on Israel that is determined by words made up by dead men
thousands of years ago is intrinsically invalid. Saying the Jewish people
are more entitled to Israel than those who were living there seven decades
ago because of some superstitious voodoo written in obsolete religious texts
is not an argument. Religious freedom is important, and it’s important to
be able to believe whatever you like, but your beliefs do not legitimize
your actions upon other people. If you murder someone in the name of Allah,
you have murdered someone. If you kill 58 people because you feel some
ancient scripture entitles you to a particular section of dirt, you have
killed 58 people. Your internal beliefs do not give you a free pass for your
egregious actions upon others.
7. Israel is very dangerous and completely unsustainable, but its interests
are aggressively promoted by powerful plutocrats and lobby groups. It’s
like if fracking was a place.
8. A nation that can’t exist without nonstop war and violence is like a
house that can’t stand without nonstop construction work. If your house
needs a large construction team working around the clock seven days a week
to keep it from collapsing, you should probably either move or consider a
new architectural design.
9. A nation that can’t exist without nonstop war and violence is not a
nation at all, it’s a decades-long military operation with a few suburbs
sprinkled on top. And that is exactly how Israel has functioned since its
creation: as a nonstop disruption campaign that the post-World War Two
western victors dropped on top of the Middle East just as humanity hit new
heights of oil dependence. By 1967 Israel came within inches of a possible
third world war with America’s only rival superpower, the Soviet Union, and
today we have Israel leading the charge in the western empire’s regime
change agendas against Iran and Syria. It’s been a consistent pattern.
10. There’s good conspiracy theory and there’s bad conspiracy theory.
People who say America controls Israel or Israel controls America are
engaged in bad conspiracy theory. We don’t live in a world where the lines
between nations mean anything to those with real power; in reality “Israel
” and “America” are both purely conceptual constructs which only exist to
the extent that people believe in them. There is no actual “Israel” which
can exert control over an actual “America”, and vice versa. It isn’t
nations and governments pulling the strings of real power in the world, it’
s a class of plutocrats who aren’t ultimately answerable to any government.
This class of plutocrats uses governments like Israel, the US, the UK, and
the KSA to advance its agendas to exploit, loot and plunder the rest of
humanity.
11. The western empire is a cluster of tightly allied nations held together
by contracts and manipulation which often function more or less as a single
unit on foreign policy, war, intelligence, trade, etc. What we call Israel
is functionally just the Middle Eastern disruption wing of this empire. The
people in control of this alliance place no special value on Israel beyond
its usefulness in advancing plutocratic agendas in the Middle East.
12. People make a big deal about Zionism in conspiracy circles, but Zionism
is just one more tool of manipulation used by the elite class which only
ever cares about power. The people who are actually calling the shots in
this world don’t care about Judaism or the Jewish people; Zionism is just a
set of ideas they use to move people around. They use Christian
fundamentalism, Islamic fundamentalism, white supremacy and secular
liberalism in the same way. It’s always about acquiring more power for the
western oligarchs, and their insatiable drive in this pursuit is how they
wound up at the top of the western power structure. They’ll use any set of
beliefs to manipulate the masses toward this end.
13. Since Israel plays such a crucial role in the agendas of the western
power establishment for such a key strategic region, it should be no
surprise that the people who lived on that land before Israel was dropped
upon them get trampled underfoot. As far as the powerful are concerned, the
Palestinians are no different from the animals whose habitats are destroyed
by a new military base, or the whales that get killed by navy sonar
experiments. They’re a nuisance to be swatted away.
14. The reason for the extreme brutality that is being used against the
Palestinian demonstrators appears to be the same as that used by the Chinese
government in the Tiananmen Square massacre or the lynchings of the
segregated American south: to send a message. That message is “Here is how
we will deal with you whenever you hold these demonstrations.” They’re
quashing the protests so violently and so aggressively not out of self
defense, but to dissuade such protests in the future. All they have to do is
be brutal enough to convince the Palestinians that such protests aren’t
worth the cost of life, and whole generations could be dissuaded from future
protests.
15. This brutality is exposing the true face of the western empire, a trend
that we are seeing all over the globe in myriad ways. Despite the best
efforts of the mass media machine, people are waking up to what’s really
going on. | i*****9
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夏阳光般火热。 | b********n
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【在 i*****9 的大作中提到】
: 毛主席教导说：对敌人要像秋风扫落叶般无情，对朋友要像春天般温暖，对家人要像盛
: 夏阳光般火热。
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用以色里尼尺朵 | d********m
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