@tearsof_rage@HeTows@anaraintuitive I wish our leaders today had a bit of the pragmatism of Eshkol and ben grunion generation. they believed in statesmanship, and knew the limits of power, Eshkol actually has a famous quote where he said, and iโm translating
I compromise and compromise until i get what I want.
The place Israel occupies in these people's imagination is ridiculous. Israel as the linchpin of colonialism, capitalism, white supremacy, ecological devastation - whatever bugs you most, Israel does it worst. Get rid of Israel, save the entire world.
It is much bigger than Rooney. Over the last few years, artists, activists, and academics have repeatedly advanced versions of the same claim: Israel as humanityโs arch-nemesis, the disappearance would somehow solve everything.
Example: Jason Hickel, visiting professor at the London School of Economics, claimed that โA liberated Palestine means a liberated Middle East. A liberated Middle East means capitalism in the core really faces a crisis.โ Because why not.
Israel has become a western totem, personifying the cumulative sins of the Westโs entire history. In an incredible historical irony, the Jews are now not an oriental, semitic pariah nation nor a degenerate sub-human race, but the purest representatives of the West and the most atrocious white supremacists.
As the Westโs original essence Israel naturally carries the Westโs original sins: colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, etc. Because the Jews are now considered the very essence of the West, Israel's sins are understood as the carrying the collective blame of all westerners. Making Israel pay is thus not only a step on the long arch towards justice, but serves as a purgative practice for all westerners.
As the effigy of the West, burning Israel will cleanse the West from its past transgressions. The wish to eradicate Israel is therapeutic, salvific: the sins of all western forefathers, those imperialist, colonialist, slave-holding Europeans, will finally be atoned. Capitalism will fall, the environment will be saved. Redemption is nigh, we just have to eradicate that wart of a nation.
As the eternal alter-ego of the West, Jews will always function as its scapegoats. When the West loved itself, we were the alien element supposedly defiling it. Now that the West despises itself, we have become its distilled essence: the figure through whose destruction it fantasizes about purification.
@Ras_Bery@TheArmedLiberal@matthewstoller Dude you really need to read more, the British wouldnโt allow jewish immigrants in the midst of the holocaust, they actually trained the Jordanian army, which was part of the invading Arab force in the 48 war,
By the way its general was a British man called john bagot
@Ras_Bery@TheArmedLiberal@matthewstoller Plan daled was in the middle of a civill which again was started by the arabs with the explicit goal of โpushing the jews into the seaโ, amazing by the way how people always forget the 700,000 jews kicked from every Arab country