Basic

20 October 2024, by Eric Zuesse

This forcing has happened ever since Israel was created in 1948 (created at that time by U.S. President Harry Truman, no one else — Israel was NOT created by Britain’s 1917 Balfour Declaration), and it is happening again right now, and has actually been happening (though to a lesser extent) during all of the years in between. This predicament is that Israel, a nation which was founded, in 1948, upon the basis of ethnic cleansing, and which continues to do it today (not just in Gaza but in the West Bank), forces upon ANY Jew — and that it ESPECIALLY imposes this upon any progressive Jew — imposing it upon them by means of Israel’s false claim to represent ALL Jews, everywhere.

Either Jewish progressives will condemn and denounce Israel for that lie — for its very FOUNDING CLAIM (to be representing ALL Jews) — or else they accept that lie by Israel, and thereby become themselves morally compromised and exposed as NOT BEING progressives, at all, because of their refusal to condemn the ethnic-cleansing nation of Israel, and to assert publicly that Israel LIES to say that it represents THEM, at all. Israel is, as a result, intrinsically hostile towards ANY progressive Jew.

Jewish progressives do exist, and on 4 December 1948, Albert Einstein and 26 other progressive Jews issued a letter to the editor in the New York Times, saying, about this ethnic-cleansing nation that had just then been created: 

Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the “Freedom Party” (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist [notice that they called Begin, who is Netanyahu’s personal “model” leader of Israel and hero, by the phrase “Nazi and Fascist”] parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine.

Those progressive Jews had thought that this monster Begin didn’t represent Israel but instead ONLY its “Fascist and Nazi party.” However, they tragically turned out to have been wrong about that. Begin went on to become Israel’s leader and Benjamin Netanyahu’s hero.

This ethnic cleansing never stopped; Israel’s Government does all it can to hide the evidence documenting it (even while continuing it); and, then, finally, on October 7th of 2023, some Gazans, under the watchful eyes of Israel’s Government, which knew well in advance about their preparations to do this, escaped from the world’s largest open-air prison, Gaza, and, in retaliation, carried out a slaughter of around 1,200 Israelis, which Israel’s Government promptly took as its excuse to slaughter — by bombing and blockading and starving them to death — as many Gazans as fast as they can, and have now probably already slaughtered around half of Gaza’s 2.3 million population and are going on to kill the rest, all under the fake rubric of Israel’s ‘war against Hamas’ (which had only around 20,000 members). Israel ‘justifies’ its (at least attempted) genocide of Gazans by lying about and exaggerating that October 7th attack. The entire Israeli nation is based upon lies: it even took advantage of the biggest genocide in history, the nazi Christians’ genocide against Europe’s Jews, to ‘justify’ then their own ethnic cleansing if not genocide against the overwhelmingly Muslim Palestinians, who had had nothing to do with that genocide. It is a nation founded upon massive injustice and lies.

The International Criminal Court is now considering the possibility that this ethnic cleansing to get rid of the Gazans is going to turn out to have been a genocide, which Israel is perpetrating by means of its army, armed by, thus far, $18 billion in weapons donated by America’s taxpayers — so, it’s actually a joint Israeli-American genocide, against Gaza’s residents, that is now going on there.

Meanwhile, in both America and Israel (as well as in several other U.S. ‘allies’ — colonies actually), there is also censorship against protesters who are against this genocide, and these Governments are labelling those protesters-for-conscience as being “anti-Semites” — as-if it’s the case that to loathe Israel is to loathe all Jews, even the decent ones (the progressive ones), who are against this genocide-in-the-making. Israel’s allies are for censorship as much as Nazi Germany’s allies were.

Israel’s and America’s Governments are backing, to the hilt, Israel’s equation that Zionist (pro-Israeli) equals Jew, and that Jew equals Zionist: that Israel represents ALL Jews — even Jews who loathe it.

This charge by Israel and America against decent Jews — against anti-fascist, anti-racist, anti-nazi, Jews — has thrown down the gauntlet to such Jews as were Albert Einstein, challenging today’s progressive Jews to proclaim loudly and clearly (which even Einstein never did), “I am a Jew, but condemn Israel,” and for them to go further (which Einstein also did not do in the few years of life that were left to him), to recognize that racist-fascism (the ideology called nazism, not the German Nazi Party, which represented it in Germany) is fundamental to the Israeli state — and, in the current context, this would also include supporting the courageous 7 October 2023 action by those Gazans, just like any decent person would support any slave anywhere who kills his or her slave-master. However, unlike the slave-slavemaster relationship, this is a collective relationship, between the Israelis and the Palestinians: it is (and ever since 1948 has been) a war between the residents of Gaza (and the West Bank) versus the residents of Israel — it goes all the way back to when this ethnic-cleansing first did: 1948. 

The philosophical garbage that liberals (Jewish and otherwise) put forth about this, in order to be ‘even-handed’ about this ethnic cleansing, is that the two sides must negotiate a settlement of their differences. But since when did any slave negotiate with the person(s) who stole that individual’s freedom? This is a war, not any sort of win-win conflict; it can end only by one side defeating — destroying — the other: a purely win-lose result. The objective here isn’t mere ‘peace’ (you can get that in any graveyard) — it is instead REAL justice. And that entails punishment of the ethnic-cleansing or genocidal side. Any citizen of the racist-fascist nation of Israel is a legitimate target, because all of them accept the rule of, and pay taxes to, the Jewish-nazi state: Israel. To talk about civilian-versus-military casualties of this war is therefore largely to miss the point of what this war is actually about, which is: Which side, from a fully scientific and empirically verifiable —  that’s to say, ACTUALLY historical — standpoint (and this excludes the Bible, or any other mere myth), actually owns this land. Is it Jews from all over the world, or is it instead the 92.5% of Arabs (overwhelmingly Muslim) who lived there in 1918 before the World Zionist Organization (WZO) started importing Jews from elsewhere to move them there? All of this land is Palestine, and it belongs to the Palestinians — the descendants of the people who lived there in 1918. Their land is being stolen from them even today. The "Nakba" still continues. This is acceptable? It is so only to Jewish nazis — and they should be killed, because nazis never negotiate — they only lie. A war with racist-fascists — nazis — is inevitably to the death. If any decent Jews still remain in Israel, their obligation is to leave it and then to testify publicly against it.

How ironic it is that when Jews were largely exterminated by Christians in Europe under the Christian Hitler’s Nazi leadership, many of their survivors were brought into Palestine by the WZO and became themselves ethnic-cleansers and even genocidists against the Muslims there — people who had had nothing to do with the Holocaust. The Israelis and the Palestinians will inevitably end their war only by one side eliminating the other. No ‘negotiation’ can end it.

Ought the inmates in Hitler’s concentration camps to have ‘negotiated a settlement of their differences’? How stupid is that idea? But liberals support it, in the case of Israel. This is a war which can’t and won’t be able to end by any negotiations between the two sides: it will end only by eliminating either the Israelis, or else the Palestinians. That’s the reality. Liberals have always denied it.

Who is to blame for the genocide in Gaza? Is it the Gazans who finally struck back on 7 October 2023, or instead is it the nation and the individuals whom Einstein and other progressive Jews called “Fascist and Nazi” when it started in 1948? The Begin-Netanyahu faction in Israel BECAME, and have long ruled in, Israel. There is no way of removing this stain from Israel; that stain has long since emerged undeniably to become Israel. Israel is the stain upon the conscience of many deceived people. They have an obligation now to work toward eliminating that stain, by opposing Israel. It has no right to exist. Jews have the same right to exist that anyone else does, and anti-Semitism (like ANY form of bigotry) is evil. But Israel — that genocidal nation — has no right to exist. It was one of Harry Truman’s biggest blunders — and Truman was the worst President that America has ever had. These are just historical facts (regardess whether ‘historians’ acknowledge them).

Another reality is that the current ethnic cleansing heading to become genocide against the Gazans, is increasing anti-Semitism all around the world; and, so, outside of Israel, any Jew who FAILS to join in condemning it and condemning both Israel and America for perpetrating it, is affirming the Zionist lie that EVERY Jew supports Israel and is therefore partly responsible for this genocide-in-the-making — they are affirming the lie that every Jew is a supporter of this genocide. They are thus supporting anti-Semitism. They are giving non-Jews the false impression that ALL Jews support Jews who steal from Palestinians and who blame Palestinians for living on ‘their’ land. Hitler called the Bible the “Monumental History of Mankind” — not myth, but “History.” He shared that view with Zionists. No progressive — Jew or otherwise — does, nor should be blamed for believing what racist-fascists believe, because a progressive gets his/her ethics from science (and that’s from authentic history), not from any faith, any myth at all.

Some individuals think that the Scriptural source for Zionism is the Talmud, which was written hundreds of years after Jesus, and they cite especially the late-written part of it, the Gemara, which was written around the year 500, barely a hundred years after the Christian Bible had become canonized for Christians as “the Word of God”; and the Gemara portion of the Talmud was partly a response to Christian anti-Semitism, which had just gotten started at around that time, on the basis of the newly canonized New Testament, but the Scriptural source for Zionism is instead the Torah, the first five books of the Christian Bible, which was written hundreds of years before Jesus — not after Jesus and not as a response to anti-Semitism, which hadn’t yet even existed as-such. Furthermore, whereas every synagogue has to have the Torah, none needs to have the Talmud (which merely interprets the Torah); only the Torah is “law” in Judaism — the “Law of God.” Specifically, Zionism (the movement that created Israel) is based upon such passages in the Torah as 

Genesis 15:18-21
"On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, ‘To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt [the Nile] to the great river, the Euphrates, including the lands of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the Amoriotes, the Caananites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.’”

Israel’s Government takes such passages as ‘justifying’ what they do to Palestinians.

Those passages are also parts of the Christian Bible, and therefore many Christians accept Zionism, because they too view such passages as being holy “history”, instead of as being toxic mythology. Progressives don’t think that the Earth is flat, and also do not think that the Bible is (as Hitler, for example, believed it to be) the “Monumental History of Mankind.” He accepted the Torah, but interpreted it for himself, as a Christian, through the lens of the New Testament (such passages as John 8:44. Matthew 23:31-38, 1 Thessalonians 2:14-16, and Revelation 20:1-6).

Anti-Semites (haters of all Jews) generally allege that the bad things in Judaism come not from the Torah (since they too believe it to be “God’s Word”) but from the Talmud, and they quote especially from its anti-Christian statements, which were actually written at around 500 CE, by Jewish rabbis who (since they were in a Christian culture) thought that Jesus himself had actually been anti-Semitic and personally inspired Christians’ anti-Semitism. But Jews had actually started existing — their Torah became finalized as their “Word of God” — around a thousand years earlier than the Gemara and its statements against Christianity; so, anti-Semites mis-identify not ONLY the source (as being the Gemara), but ALSO the date (as being around 500 years after Jesus’s birth, instead of around 500 years before Jesus’s birth). In fact, Marc Zvi Brettler, a respected Jewish historian of the Torah, identifies “the date of composition of the Torah, soon after the conquest of Babylon by Cyrus the Great of Persia,” which occurred in 539 BC. That’s when the passages which Zionists cite as their ‘justification’ for the way they treat Palestinians became finalized as being their “Word of God,” including the ones that were just cited here.

To accurately understand current events, one must first accurately know the relevant history. The easiest way to fool a mass or a mob is to instead build upon their prejudices — which usually are what has brought them together into that particular mass or mob. Consequently, this is the way that many of the most successful politicians have won their public offices. And this fact is a major reason why democracies tend to be fragile.

—————

Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.