The Only Jewish
Ghetto in the Middle East
By Gilad Atzmon
September 20, 2019 "Information
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The results from Tuesday’s
Israeli elections have confirmed what many of us
have known for a long while. The Jewish state is an
ultra nationalist right wing swamp. Israel is more
hawkish than more hawkish than ever. There is not a
single Jewish Israeli Left wing party. The
Democratic Party is led and mentored by a
war criminal. What is left of Israel’s Labour
Party has very little to do with peace, harmony and
reconciliation. In fact, that Party is also led by a
person wanted for
war crimes.
As things now stand, although Bibi’s
right/religious block has shrunk, Israel is more
right wing than ever. The longest serving Israeli PM
cannot form his natural right/religious coalition.
Most Israeli commentators agree that the only way
out of the current political stalemate is with a
wide ultranationalist government led by Likud, Blue
and White and others. Such a coalition will be
brokered in the coming days by the rabid nationalist
zealot Avigdor Lieberman who has skillfully made
himself into Israel’s king maker.
While Netanyahu has proven to be pretty
cautious in his deployment of Israel’s vast military
forces, we have good reason to believe that a
coalition led by Blue and White and its IDF
generals, Lieberman and Netanyahu, may be less adept
at such maneuvers. The components of Israel’s next
government are destined to compete among themselves
for the ‘Mr. Security’ title. They will be
determined to reinstate the long faded Israeli
‘power of deterrence,’ and presumably, they will
push for questionable measures that will likely pull
the region into carnage.
This was written on the wall some time ago.
Israel, that was born to emancipate the Jews from
diaspora conditions, to replace the Jewish ghetto
and to eradicate the ghetto mentality, didn’t just
fail in its mission: it has matured into the epitome
of a ghetto. It has surrounded itself with humongous
ghetto walls. It hates its neighbours and not
surprisingly, it is not loved in return.
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The Jewish ghetto on the Palestinian
seashore resembles, on many levels, its
East-European ancestor. Israel’s Jews
are united by their hostile feelings
towards their neighbours although they
are in sharp disagreement amongst
themselves about pretty much everything
else. Once again, the old Yiddish joke
comes to mind: “How many synagogues do
you need in a village with just one Jew?
Two, one to go to and one to boycott.”
Jews are defined not only by what they
are or what they believe themselves to
be, but also by what they hate or claim
to oppose.
Israel is not troubled by its failure to fulfill
the early Zionist promise to ‘civilize’ the Jews by
means of a ‘homecoming,’ to become “people like all
other people.” For more than three decades Israel
has defined itself as the Jewish State. Israel is
not a state of its citizens. Israel is the state of
the Jews, both Israelis and Diaspora. Israel is a
state that enforces racial laws and has
institutionaized discrimination against the people
of the land, the Palestinians.
Unlike Israeli Jews who are divided in their
politics, the Palestinians are more united than ever
and not just in Gaza. Once again, the Arab Joint
List is the 3rd biggest party in the Knesset. If
Likud and Blue and White manage to form a national
unity government, the Arab party will be leading the
opposition in the Knesset. The Arab party not only
united the Palestinians in Israel, it is also the
only Left party in the Israeli parliament. It has
been said that the Party expanded electorally on
Tuesday because those very few Israeli Jews who
adhere to Left universal values gave their votes to
the Arab party. It is more than symbolic that the
only humane and universal political force in the
Israeli ghetto is a Palestinian party.
Gilad Atzmon is a saxophonist, writer, and political
activist. He was born in Israel, but now lives in
London.
https://gilad.online
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