STOP LIVING IN DENIAL, ISRAEL IS AN EVIL STATE
Een goede reden om bovenop het gigantische bedrag van 800 miljard nog eens 50 miljard aan 'Defensie' uit te geven en minstens elk jaar aan Israel 3 miljard te schenken.
Zo doende heeft de uitspraak van Lord Acton (1834-1902):
"Power
corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely" nog niets aan kracht ingeboet.
In mijn vorige bericht kwam dat morele misbruik al aan de orde. Twee dagen geleden kwam ik een artikel in Mondoweiss http://mondoweiss.net/2017/08/crushed-glimpsed-beauty/ tegen met een weinig verheffende inhoud.
In mijn vorige bericht kwam dat morele misbruik al aan de orde. Twee dagen geleden kwam ik een artikel in Mondoweiss http://mondoweiss.net/2017/08/crushed-glimpsed-beauty/ tegen met een weinig verheffende inhoud.
As Israeli soldiers crushed Gaza, world Jewry united, and sent Ben & Jerry’s ice cream to the front
Philip Weiss on August 1, 2017
Philip Weiss on August 1, 2017
A former combat officer during the Gaza onslaught, Yaakov Selavan relates that his troops were buoyed again and again by the generosity of global Jewry because Jews were unified during the war– when more than 2200 Gazans were killed, most of them civilians, including 500 children; and about 70 Israelis were killed, six of them civilians.
Selavan says the Israeli troops got a flood of love from around the world.
During those days when we awaited the order to enter and destroy the terror tunnels, we began getting a trickle of love, which turned into a flood. Thousands of packages were reaching us every day; hundreds of visitors were treating the troops…
He says that Jews were “one” against “our enemies,” we were family and “saw the beauty in each other,” and the lesson is we must not be divided.
[I]n the two biggest tragedies our nation went through in the past 2,000 years, the destruction of the Second Temple and the Holocaust, we were divided and separated into sectors, and even in crisis we refused to unite.
In 2014, we were one. We shook off the dust of thousands of years, and could look beyond the facades of politics and sectors. We suddenly saw the beauty in each other, we suddenly understood: we are a family, no matter how different we are. So, now that I can say in the time of crisis, when our enemies remind us we are one, we have learned to love and unite…
The Ben & Jerry’s ice cream was a gift from South African Jews.
The morning before Tisha B’av a truck full of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream was sent to us by a South African community. After finishing my fourth box, just an hour before the fast, we got a message that there was a ceasefire, and it was final.
And the piece concludes with a religious message: In the rebuilding of Jerusalem we shall be comforted.
These are explosive materials: The unification of Jews worldwide behind a state committing a massacre on a religious-ethnic basis; and the invocation of religion to justify that violence. One of our themes here is the potentially explosive nature of Israeli political culture; the mixture of nationalism and superiority and militarism that Israeli Jews have evolved in a fortress-like state in a bad neighborhood cannot work out well.
The Ben & Jerry’s ice cream surely came from nearby. Ben & Jerry’s has a plant in Israel and sells ice cream in the settlements.
Vermonters for a Just Peace organized a boycott of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream because of that plant and those sales to the settlements — and the 2014 onslaught that Selavan is consecrating: VTJP’s thinking on the necessity for a boycott reached a tipping point during Israel’s military assault against Gaza in the summer of 2014. 2,200 Palestinians were killed and more than 11,000 wounded. The casualties were overwhelmingly civilians.
While this massacre of innocents was being carried out, Ben & Jerry’s “peace & love” ice cream was passing through Israeli checkpoints, being transported on Jewish-only roads, and being sold to supermarkets and for catered events in Jewish-only settlements.
A “massacre of innocents.” But Jews “suddenly saw the beauty in each other.” These two views are incompatible. I urge my community to reflect on the damage of unifying behind an ideology of us-against-the-world, with guns and God.
We moeten niet verbaasd opkijken bij deze misplaatste uitlatingen van officier Yaakov Selavan. Hij is voorgeprogrammeerd.
Gilad Atzmon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilad_Atzmon meent in zijn boek The Wandering Who? dat de Joodse Gemeenschap aan het Pre-Traumatic Stress Syndrome lijdt.
Een aandoening die binnen de Joodse en Israëlische cultuur ontstaat. Jonge Israëliërs worden door verschillende Zionistische organisaties naar Auschwitz gebracht met als effect dat ze uitgroeien tot paranoïde getraumatiseerde volwassenen.
'Never again they say, and then spread misery around them'.Pre-Traumatic Stress Syndrome induced by a continual grand narrative of Israeli victimization caused by the Holocaust: being driven into the sea, being wiped off the map, delegitimized, all portend the impending disaster that awaits the Jewish state.
Gilad Atzmon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilad_Atzmon meent in zijn boek The Wandering Who? dat de Joodse Gemeenschap aan het Pre-Traumatic Stress Syndrome lijdt.
Een aandoening die binnen de Joodse en Israëlische cultuur ontstaat. Jonge Israëliërs worden door verschillende Zionistische organisaties naar Auschwitz gebracht met als effect dat ze uitgroeien tot paranoïde getraumatiseerde volwassenen.
De mensen die deze opvoedkundige reizen organiseren weten wat een 'impact' dit op deze jonge mensen zal hebben en hoe dit het Zionistische verhaal ondersteunt en handhaaft. Helaas leren deze jongelui de verkeerde les wanneer ze terug gaan en in het leger belanden. In plaats van empathie te voelen t.o.v. onderdrukte groepen zoals de Palestijnen gedragen deze geïndoctrineerde Israëlische jongeren zich met SS achtige bruutheid.
'Never again they say, and then spread misery around them'.Pre-Traumatic Stress Syndrome induced by a continual grand narrative of Israeli victimization caused by the Holocaust: being driven into the sea, being wiped off the map, delegitimized, all portend the impending disaster that awaits the Jewish state.
Hetzelfde geldt voor de 'Hebron Shooting'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebron_shooting_incident Een 'geneutraliseerde' Palestijnse aanvaller (terrorist?), die gewond op de grond lag werd door de IDF soldaat Elor Azaria ter plekke dood geschoten. De gehele gebeurtenis werd gefilmd, waardoor het voor de IDF onmogelijk was dit in de doofpot te stoppen, hetgeen anders ongetwijfeld gebeurd zou zijn. Wederrechtelijke executies zijn schering en inslag. De soldaat werd niet aangeklaagd voor moord maar voor doodslag.
Hij kreeg 18 maanden gevangenisstraf. De rechters in hoger beroep hielden ondanks het publieke/politieke tumult rond deze uitspraak de rug recht en handhaafden de uitspraak. De publieke reactie was hysterisch en voorspelbaar en een getrouwe weergave van het Joods Israëlische racisme voor Arabieren en Palestijnen in het bijzonder. Ondanks de scheiding der machten konden diverse politici o.a. Netanyahu het niet laten om zich met de rechtsgang te bemoeien. De rechters verdienen bewondering alhoewel de opgelegde gevangenisstraf een schijntje is vergeleken bij een zelfde actie als die gepleegd zou zijn door een Arabier.
Israel is not Nazi (it does not want to conquer the world and has not industrialized its oppression of Palestinians), it is not fascist (Israel has several parties competing for power and a free press); and it is not overseeing a system of South African-style apartheid. (Apartheid was not part of a military conflict, whereas the very group that Israel oppresses and segregates, the Palestinians, are also engaged through a system of regional alliances in a military conflict with Israel through its identification with self-declared enemies of Israel as Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Syria, Lebanon.
Vorig jaar verscheen er in de krant Haaretz een artikel van de hand van Gideon Levy https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_Levy_(Isra%C3%ABlisch_journalist)
dat ik zeer verhelderend vond. Israel heet een democratie te zijn. Echter het heeft zoveel kwaadaardige kenmerken dat deze regeringsvorm onvoldoende de lading dekt.
Het is is natuurlijk ook geen fascistische staat.
Toch meent hij dat Israel wel tot de familie van "Evil States" behoort.
After we’ve cited nationalism and racism, hatred and contempt for Arab life, the security cult and resistance to the occupation, victimhood and messianism, one more element must be added without which the behavior of the Israeli occupation regime cannot be explained: “Evil. Pure evil. Sadistic evil. Evil for its own sake”. Sometimes, it’s the only explanation. http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.734309
Hij laat vervolgens een aantal voorbeelden van het kwaad de revue passeren:
It is not the case of the individual – Sgt. Elor Azaria, for example, who is being tried for the death of a subdued Palestinian assailant in Hebron – but the conduct of the establishment and the occupation regime that proves the evil. In fact, the continuation of the occupation proves the evil. Illouz, Sternhell and others provide debatable analyses on its origins, but whatever they are, it can no longer be denied.
One case is like a thousand witnesses: the case of Bilal Kayed. A young man who completed a prison term of 14.5 years – his entire sentence – without a single furlough, without being allowed to at least say goodbye by phone to his dying father; a clear sign of evil.
About six weeks ago, Kayed was getting ready for his release. A representative of the Shin Bet security service – one of the greatest agencies of evil in Israel – even showed him a photograph of the home his family had built for him to stir him up even more ahead of his release. And then, as his family waited impatiently for him at the crossing point and Kayed grew ever more excited in his cell, he was informed that he was being thrown into administrative detention for at least another six months, without trial and without explanation.
Since then, he has been on hunger strike. He is cuffed to his bed. His family is not allowed to see him. Prison guards never leave his room and the lights are not turned out for a moment. Evil.
Only evil can explain the state’s conduct toward Kayed – only an evil state acts this way. The arbitrary announcement, at the last moment, of a senseless detention is abuse, and the way he has been treated since then is also abuse.
Only evil can explain the detention last week of another young man, Hiran Jaradat, whose brother Arif (who had Down syndrome) was killed in June and whose father died two days ago. He is under arrest for “incitement on Facebook” and was not released to attend his father’s funeral. Evil.
The continuation of the detention of poet Darin Tatur – evil. The destruction of the tiny swimming pool that the residents of Khirbet Tana in the northern West Bank had built for themselves – evil. The confiscation of water tanks from a community of shepherds in the Jordan Valley in the July heat – evil.
Since then, he has been on hunger strike. He is cuffed to his bed. His family is not allowed to see him. Prison guards never leave his room and the lights are not turned out for a moment. Evil.
Only evil can explain the state’s conduct toward Kayed – only an evil state acts this way. The arbitrary announcement, at the last moment, of a senseless detention is abuse, and the way he has been treated since then is also abuse.
Only evil can explain the detention last week of another young man, Hiran Jaradat, whose brother Arif (who had Down syndrome) was killed in June and whose father died two days ago. He is under arrest for “incitement on Facebook” and was not released to attend his father’s funeral. Evil.
The continuation of the detention of poet Darin Tatur – evil. The destruction of the tiny swimming pool that the residents of Khirbet Tana in the northern West Bank had built for themselves – evil. The confiscation of water tanks from a community of shepherds in the Jordan Valley in the July heat – evil.
A great many of the decisions of the occupation regime that decides the fates of individuals, families, communities, villages and cities cannot be explained without evil. The list is as long as the occupation. The extortion of sick people from Gaza to enlist them as collaborators, the blockades on cities and towns for weeks, the Gaza blockade, the demolition of homes – all evil.
Wanneer je zo handelt volgens Gideon Levy ben je 'Slecht' 'Evil'.
Eva Illouz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Illouz beschrijft http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.735303 de verschijnselen van een dergelijke maatschappij vorm. Dit kwaad is niet banaal (Hannah Arendt) het kan niet overal gebeuren maar heeft in Israel diep gewortelde sociale en politieke vertakkingen.
Ze zegt: A distinctive characteristic of evil regimes in general is the belief in the need to preserve the racial or ethnic or religious purity of the dominant group, with minority groups – be they “Jews,” “Muslims,” “Tutsis” or “Armenians” – becoming a qualitatively distinct group, a compact entity perceived to be radically “other,” distinct from the majority by dint of some invisible and powerful criterion. Mixed marriages represent a dangerous threat of pollution to the purity of the race.
Israel is not Nazi (it does not want to conquer the world and has not industrialized its oppression of Palestinians), it is not fascist (Israel has several parties competing for power and a free press); and it is not overseeing a system of South African-style apartheid. (Apartheid was not part of a military conflict, whereas the very group that Israel oppresses and segregates, the Palestinians, are also engaged through a system of regional alliances in a military conflict with Israel through its identification with self-declared enemies of Israel as Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Syria, Lebanon.
Yet, many in Israel and around the world are growing increasingly uneasy about the political actions and statements proffered by representatives of the government, so much so that we may speak of a new political regime having taken over. So what exactly is the current Israeli regime?
The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein offered a concept that may help the perplexed here, using the following example: Such activities as card games, board games, ball games and strategic games are all different (with different rules and objectives) and in fact even have nothing in common (Monopoly, Scrabble and chess games have nothing in common). Yet, Wittgenstein says, we know they are all games and that they bear what he calls a “family resemblance.” We know they are games in the same way we know three people are of the same family when we look at their faces, even if we cannot pinpoint a specific identical trait. There can be a family resemblance between different objects, even if we cannot isolate a common overlapping traitWittgenstein’s analogy was for language but it is an apt one to understand what is at stake here:
Israel’s current colonialist regime bears a family resemblance with other evil regimes, even if it does not share overlapping features with them. It is not Nazi, not apartheid, not fascist – yet it belongs to that unhappy family.
