Thanks, Corey.

Pithy and powerful statement. I’m curious about this, though: “Set aside the Joint List, for which very few Jews (and virtually no Zionist Jews), voted.” Is there anywhere that has this sort of demographic breakdown of the election results? I think I’ve read that one of the Joint List’s MKs is Jewish, I’m wondering what the numbers look like for their supporters.

A sad pathetic commentary destabilizing the entire world in apartheid based in arrogant economic political aggressive power. Vice rules virtue in regulatory capture of governance now and for the Palestinian’s there isn’t even rent control just continuous starvation in a holocaust. Religious idiots worldwide creating permanent imprisonment in predatory chaos claiming peoples have no right to live on their ancestral lands. Why not America was built using the same Occidental WASP theology with a bible in one hand and a gun in the other with American Natives.

Israel Zionist philosophy has chosen the power of force over social interactive relations jurist prudence in negotiated order as being the truth of reality eternally for their own familial brothers and sisters. The consequence of this action is an horrendous calamity disregarding the virtue of leading any form of justice, equality and equanimity in the future of their own society. The implications is a world war over power.

The 1st peace is always within oneself. As a Westerner witnessing this insanity based in spiritual elitist texts makes me sick to my stomach. I feel like a compassionate idiot for the Zionist claim for a homeland. I never want to have another conversation in regards to religious ideological belief systems as having any power in human affairs. I literally hate these coercive deceptive boys bullying in arrested adolescent immaturity on the patriarchal playground that are willing to destroy the entire world for their own regressive fundamentalism of narrow minded self hatred, self absorbed importance, and self deluded ignorance claiming they represent god’s chosen directives. The Zionist philosophy declaration is a hatred for the poor, powerless, strangers and all the children of tomorrow in a shared humanity.

The ultimate emotional contradiction in this historic swept along drift’s myth of the Tree of Knowledge is the denial of the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden. How any leader in Israel’s can justify apartheid on one hand and claim compassion from everyone in the world for a Nazi Holocaust on the other, is a double bind where the Zionist philosophy is now the new Hitler and the consequences are devastation for the Jewish State even in the short run. Why, because history proves that oppression never works. Human beings will do anything and everything necessary to be free in requisite variety because the structural determinism in our humanness is a generative creative mechanism where victims become victors. In the end economic power of patriarchal cultures based in exclusion and appropriation eat their own children in the self hatred of others or disregard for the wholeness, maturity and presence of the goodness in our own humanity.

In deep sadness for the human suffering this will unleash globally.

This is marvelous and seems to echo many, who are disgusted with what Netanyahu represents and the pervasiveness of racism and widespread support for what is truly apartheid in the state of Israel. I just attended the National Membership Meeting of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), of which I am an active member. The overwhelming commitment of the over 600 participants–the majority American Jews of all ages but also many Israelis, Palestinians and non-Jewish people of color–is to a binational, pluralist, democratic state – yes, “from the river to the sea.” This will undoubtedly be a long, difficult struggle, including honoring Palestinians’ right of return and the civil and human rights of all résidents, Jews, Muslims, Christians, Africans, Arabs, whatever. But it’s the only positive vision. As Amira Hass said at CUNY on Wed., the idea of a “Jewish state” (or an “Islamic state” or a Hindu or Christian state) being a democracy is an oxymoron.
Ros Petchesky

Hey, Mushin, how about telling us what you really think?

No, I really sympathize with your point of view. As a non-expert on the Middle East situation who has long since pretty much lost interest in following it because it seems completely hopeless, I just feel very sorry for everyone in that area at this point. There is such a long, complicated history, with everybody stepping on each other’s toes until they are battered and bruised and about mashed into pulp, and then jumping up and down on them again, that there doesn’t seem to be any way forward at this point.

It really seems clear to me that some sort of outside intervention would have to take place to bring about solutions to all the Middle Eastern problems, from North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean region to the Arabian Peninsula to Iran to Pakistan, but who would be able to intervene usefully at this point (certainly not the U.S.) and what kind of intervention would do the job? I don’t think there as been a mess of international problems this bad in all of history, including the WW II era and the Cold War.

The post has been removed. Why is that? Did he get attacked for it?

Err… 20% of Israelis are already Palestinian (Arab, if you prefer). The boat sailed on an ethnically Jewish majority in perpetuity a long time ago considering the birth rate disparity.

Lacking oppression of your own citizens, Zionism lost the war way back in ’48 when it failed to kick out enough indigenous people.

Interesting how the most vicious racist notions of ethnic cleansing don’t raise any protests among readers of this blog. Labour historian Joel Beinin was not so morally blind:

Morris now provides a moral justification for ethnic cleansing that he did not offer before the second intifada, arguing that “[e]ven the great American democracy could not have been created without the annihilation of the Indians.” Native Americans and those with a sounder knowledge of North American history may demur. But in Israel, appeal to the authority of the US is the ultimate clincher in any argument. Yearning for the success of the American example, Morris now criticizes Israel’s first prime minister and defense minister, David Ben-Gurion, for failing to do “a complete job” because “this place would be quieter and know less suffering if the matter had been resolved once and for all. If Ben-Gurion had carried out a large expulsion and cleansed the whole country. It may yet turn out that this was his fatal mistake.” Palestine-Israel might also be quieter today if Hitler had completed his planned genocide of world Jewry. It does not occur to Morris that there might be a parallel between these two historical counterfactuals. The first is in the realm of acceptable speculation; the second is too obviously outrageous to consider.