An Excellent Solution to a Pressing Problem
All but two governments in the world agree that the slaughter of Gazans and decimation of Gaza must stop. None – but these two governments – fund it openly, and applaud it behind closed doors. The strip has been buried, along with many of its men, women and children, their belongings, their pets and livestock, in the dust and rubble of what was before. Those living are now being starved and chased in circles by the truly pathetic IDF, stupidly sharing proof of their criminality on social media, oddly expecting that there will be no trials, punishment, or retaliation.
The spiraling fear and narcissistic rage of 7 million Israelis has been created, not calmed, by a state experiment – political Zionism – gone horribly wrong. Last century’s racialist colonialism, clothed in a flawed mythology, veiled by a false religiosity, shaded by a hatred of stateless tribes by a people who themselves traded badly, tribe for state. This admixture of chaos is today evident on every dubious and shifting border of Israel.
The world begs that the genocide stop, that the perpetrators of genocide be brought to justice. But global begging has not worked. Neither has the growing sense of global guilt, or even late-stage panicked reaction to the imminent Zionist-required starvation of two million people for the collective crime of not being European or Jewish in Palestine.
The IDF tsunami in Gaza has never been a military conflict, nor a defensive operation. Instead, it is the defining symptom of a diseased and defective state that, in its ache to politically survive, is itself committing committing political suicide. It is time for triage, not only for Gaza, but for Israel itself.
The proposal that follows is offered as a kinder and more lasting solution for Israeli security in Palestine. It is inspired by the latest Israeli plan for the land they ruined, and the people they are trying to exterminate, but unlike that one, will serve both sides in this conflict for centuries to come, rather than creating even more fear, more war, and more destruction.
In designing the self-governing religious state to be constructed in Palestine, Zionists ignored proven contemporary cases. The world already had a successful model of a small, religiously-defined, self-governed state, supported grandly by a diaspora, one that influences widely and has few security concerns: the Vatican, the influential and unifying hub of world Catholicism.
Zionists harnessed two mythologies to drag and drive European Jews to Palestine. Atrocity narratives of World War II and biblical narratives of a promised land of milk and honey served as stick and carrot for urban Jews reporting for socialist agricultural duty in Palestine. To deal with the fact that the land was already populated and owned, a kind of Zionist warrior ethos was coaxed into being, an apotheotic murder ethos written in the Talmud as “Rise and Kill First.” Christians celebrating this aspect of political Zionism – and many Christian Zionists do celebrate it – reveal their deep ignorance of the words and example of Jesus Christ, among other things.
European-derived Israelis can claim no affinity for the land in practical terms, and Palestine under Israeli occupation has become literally unnatural, opposed to nature. It is polluted by concrete and unnecessary construction of roads and fences – to ensure the strict apartheid and “safety” of God’s chosen people. The topsoil been scraped and mounded as Israel destroys all living things, as they prepare for the construction of Soviet-looking settler compounds – complete with more isolating wal
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