[wvns] Zionism: Ticking Timebomb of Disaster
The Justifications Of Zionism
by Voltaire
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The justifications for the existence of the Jewish State fall into
several categories: the theological, the historical and the political.
All the justifications are unsustainable; many of them are mutually
contradictory. First, let us examine the theological claims. It is
asserted that because the ancient Jews occupied a small portion of
Palestine in ancient times that this entitles the Jews to a modern
state in Palestine today. The first point to note is that the Jews
were only one of many ancient peoples occupying the land; they had no
exclusive claim to Palestine; then or now. This point constantly
escapes those simpletons who read their history through the lens of
the Bible. The Caanites, Phoenicians and Greeks were in Palestine as
long, or longer, than the Jews and occupied more of the land. None of
them are asserting equal rights to a recreated state. Theologically,
the Zionist claim to Palestine is a repudiation of Catholic/Greek
Orthodox Christianity. Both branches of Christianity taught that God
turned his back on the Jews when they rejected and crucified Jesus. By
rejecting Jesus as the Messiah the Jews voided all the prophecies of
the Old Testament. When Lord Balfour issued his famous declaration of
November 2, 1917 sponsoring British support for a Jewish "national
homeland" in Palestine, the Vatican refused to recognize the impending
Jewish state. Indeed, the Papacy wrote many newspaper articles
denouncing the creation of a Jewish State in Palestine-and warning of
the impending danger to Christianity and the Arabs of Palestine. The
Jerry Falwells, the Pat Robertsons and others who claim that Israel is
the fulfillment of God's will are simply hucksters exploiting the
simple minded.
The historical claim to Palestine is equally absurd. If the Jews are
entitled to Palestine because Jews once occupied a portion of the land
in ancient times, then Denmark is entitled to rule England because a
Danish king once ruled there in medieval times, the claims of the
English kings to the duchies of France in Joan of Arc's time should be
revived in a new Hundred Years War and Mussolini's pretensions to a
recreated Roman Empire should be humbly honored. Ancient titles in a
modern world are simply nonsense. If a certain school of
historiography is correct, then the Zionist pretensions to Palestine
are even more absurd. It is a documented fact that a very numerous and
powerful nomadic empire called Khazaria converted en masse to Talmudic
Judaism in the ninth century A.D. If Eastern European Jewry, which
constitutes the driving force behind Zionism, is even partially
descended from this Mongol-Turkic empire this further undermines any
Biblical pretensions to a Jewish State in Palestine.
. The political claims to a Zionist entity in the Holy Land all
revolve around the persecution myth. Because Jews have supposedly been
uniquely persecuted over the centuries they need a place of refuge, a
state of their own. To deny it to them would be a grave injusticeThe
claim is deficient on many grounds. Even assuming that Jews have been
uniquely persecuted there is no evidence that most Jews have, or ever
did have, any desire to go to Palestine. Most of them seem perfectly
content where they are. Moreover, creating a Jewish State in Palestine
constitutes a distinct injustice to the Arab residents of the land who
never wanted a Jewish State imposed on them. Zionist apologists will
sometimes attempt to confuse the issue by saying that Palestine never
had a separate political existence. This is true but irrelevant. The
Arabs were the long time residents of the land. In fact, they had been
farming and tilling the land at least since the Arab conquest in the
early seventh century A.D. and had thus been in complete control of
Palestine far longer than the Jews in the time of Solomon. To argue
that because Palestine was at all times a political subdivision of
either Egypt, Syria or the Ottoman Empire that therefore there were no
Palestinians in a place called Palestine, is like arguing that because
Poland was wiped off the map of Europe from 1770-1916 that therefore
there was no Polish nation and no Polish people during the intervening
150 years.
Any student of Zionism knows that the basic premise behind it was
segregation or apartheid. Because Jews were presumed to be inherently
incompatible with non-Jews they should segregate themselves into a
nation of their own to avoid conflict with the non-Jewish world.
Zionism arose out of the tremendous anti-Semitism and ethnic conflicts
of Russia and Central Europe in the mid to late 19th century when the
process of Jewish assimilation out of the ghetto was only about a
century old. These tensions and their attempted solutions did not
arise out of the prophecies of the Old Testament. The Arabs of
Palestine have always been the neglected party in Zionism. Those Jews
who wanted to solve the "Jewish problem" by creating a Jewish State
never allowed themselves to be deterred by the fact that the land they
coveted was already occupied by someone else. Neither Theodore Herzl
nor any other prophet of Zionism ever gave a moments consideration to
the Arabs who would have to be expelled from the land to create the
state of Israel.
"The Holocaust", the purported extermination of six million Jews in
purported "gas chamber' has always been the ultimate argument on
behalf of Zionism. However, as this essay has shown, the extermination
hoax merely gave the Zionists the excuse to carry out a policy which
they had already conceived for entirely different reasons. Even were
the story true, the Arabs of Palestine should not have to pay for a
crime committed by the Germans of Europe. Thus, all the justifications
for the creation of a Jewish State in Arab Palestine fail. It would be
idle to belabor the thesis by pointing out that when the Zionist idea
was in its gestation that many Jews opposed it because they felt it
would taint the Jews with the charge of dual loyalty. As anyone can
see from the behavior of the "neo-conservatives" there are indeed
large numbers of Jews who do indeed put loyalty to Israel above
loyalty to the United States. That is why they want to use American
troops to fight Israel's war in Iraq-and soon Iran.
Israel is a state based on false premises. It was an utopian idea from
inception-and one which ignored the realities of the world. It is time
to dismantle Israel. It is a state which, in its embryonic stages, led
the old British Empire to disaster. It is a state which, in its mature
stages, is leading the United States to disaster. It is a state which
no longer protects the Jews who are secure everywhere in the world. It
is a state which threatens the stability of the Middle East. It is a
state which brutalizes the Arabs of Palestine on a daily basis. It is
a ticking time bomb of disaster.
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