American Jewish Activists are carrying out the worst provocations agains Israel, painting it as a bloodthisty antihuman monster. American Jewish student Rachel Carrie came to Gaza - Israel frontier, and threw himself in front of a large Caterpillar bulldozer cleaning the no-man's land and got herself killed, becoming a dead demonstration of Israel's inhumanity. Every time an Israeli intellectual comes to speak in an American university, fanatical JEWISH pro-peace activists are there to protest and to harm him. Today we have the pro-Arab “Free Gaza’ group, funded and lead by American Jewish charities. They are challenging Israel’s sovereignty over coastal waters with two boats hauling 15 tons of dry cement, suitcases of crayons and coloring books and 36 passengers. Among them are former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney and Hedy Epstein, an 84-year-old Holocaust survivor. The idea is to put Israel in a hard spot: it could resign its sovereign power to control its borders and resist illegal entrance of attackers (because they ARE attackers), or it could resist and sink the boat under the eyes of hundred cameras, showing itself as an inhuman etc. This is a well thought out and well funded provocation, perfectly organized and carried out by American Jews.One asks oneself why these bothers and sisters are going to the extreme of causing big Public Relations damages to Israel. Dont they know that the murderous image of Israel reflects on American Jews themselves, on their own image within the American society and in the whole world? Dont they understand that in the mind of the world there is no difference between Israel and the Jews in the Diaspora?
Today I woke up at 3.30 AM to finish an urgent presentation that I was supposed to submit at 900 AM (I was ready, but the other party didnt show up). Frantz Fanon and his book Los Condenados de la Tierra (The Wretched of the Earth) came to my mind. He was a Black Psychiatrist from Martinique, who fought against the Nazis in France and ended by joining the Algerian Revolution, He worte on the psychopatology of the colonized. The Colonized lives in a permanent mental state of oppression, hating himself, hating the color of his skin, hating his inability to free himself of his hate. The colonized person's mind is a permanent trauma and wound, he cannot think straigth and act forcefully in his own interest. He is chained in a sick dependent relationship to the Colonizer. Aujourd’hui, nous sommes enchaînés, humiliés, malades de peur: au plus bas.Jewish Communists in Argentina half a century ago used to apply the colonized - colonizer relationship to their own position in the Diaspora. We Jews were hypnotized by Christian hate, and were acting like colonized, demeaning ourselves, playing for the colonizer's eyes, always trying to show that we personally were not like the colonized, our noses were not hooked, always trying to put a frontier between us and the hated colonized, always doing bizarre things like harming ourselves in an effort to show the colonizer that we hated ourselves so much that we should not be considered equal to the colonized. We were number one example of a colonized, oppressed people.
These American Jews, who are not marginal elements but the elite of American Jewry, come to show the world that they hate Israel so they were NOT Israel, that the world may hate Israel but it should make a distinction and love them. Their mentality is typically a colonized mentality, as described by Dr Frantz Fanon.
The mental disease of the colonized cannot be solved but through liberation. Zionism is the liberation movement of the Jewish people. I see my sick, tortured, oppressed brothers and sisters coming all the way from America to ship cement to the Palestinian jihadists in Gaza and I have a message for them: Move Up (תעלה) to Israel and become free. Let Gazans worry for themselves, you free yourself.
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Interesting. You have a wide-ranging mind. Ta-Nehisi Coates, an African American blogger at the Atlantic, has an open thread most days at noon. If I remember, I'll post a link to this post of yours tomorrow, since his blog often discusses similar themes.
Today we know Fanon was wrong. He thought the Algerian revolution would be therapy for the colonized nation. The horrible civil war of the 1990's showed that Algeria had not healed.
Yes, the whole de-colonization movement from Bandung on went horribly wrong.
What you are saying, Anonymous, is that Fanon as a politician, did not solve the problem. And as a psychiatrist, he did not cure the patient. Agreed.
But the problem is still there. The colonized's mental anguish and disease is still vivid and recognizable. For Jews in the Dispersion, Zionism offers a way towards liberation. It is much less perfect than expected, but it has not failed yet.
Great post. I think the difference between Zionism and any type of African nationalism is the quality of the people. Jews are starting out with high IQ's and first world culture, so we can't be compared to any failed African liberation movement, which doesn't have the same type of people.
I agree completely about the psychological necessity for Zionism; the only problem is that the Middle East is such an unattractive location for American Jews. If one isn't religious and doesn't think the physical location of a Jewish state matters, the constant state of war with the Arabs will keep most of us secular types away. I wish Israel Zangwill, the early Zionist & Territorialist, had prevailed. I wouldn't even have to think twice about moving to any Jewish state that wasn't located near Arabs.
Israel is the worst possible choice, agreed. For starts, it is engaged in a permanent life-or-death struggle with its region, the Middle East, if not with the whole Muslim word, from Morocco to Indonesia. It is absolutely suicidal to put one's life and one's children and grandchilden's lives on this boat.
Then it has no natural resources at all. No chance ever of getting rich or moderately well off or having to work less thanks to some oil deposit, or the control of some strategic way like the Straits of Malacca (Singapur), the Panama Canal or the Suez Canal. Israel has no chance to benefit from rents, will have to earn its bread by working.
The third thing you could say of Israel, if you knew it from close, is that its social and ethnic composition is horrible. People in America is complaining of having to live with Africans and Mexicans, but what about us who have 20% population of hostile and violent Palestinians, and 50% of Third World peoples from Afganistan, Egypt, Morocco, India, etc. And Ethiopians with their IQ of 60. It is very difficult.
Having said all these, people is still coming from Russia, Europe and America. Very high quality people. It is a constant mass migration. Maybe fighting for one's life is mentally healthier and produces more satisfaction than living with the Diaspora Jew's identity complexes in say an American University.
I dont know.
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I for one had the choice and here I am.
If I were younger, I would be move to a hilltop camp in Samaria. The climate there - fresh temperatures and psychological health - is the best in the world.
Brazil has plenty of land, much of it undeveloped, particularly in its poorer north. The world might be better off with this sort of arrangement:
1) The holiest sites for every religion are placed under NATO control or nominal UN control but using NATO troops (i.e., not Pakistanis). Any Muslim, Jew, or Christian who wants to see the holy sites gets to see them.
2) Every building in Israel gets an objective appraisal, as do all land and infrastructure improvements Israel has made there since its modern founding. Added to that total is some additional sum for the hardship and expense of relocating. We can speculate on what this total amount would be, but let's call it $X. The U.S., the EU, and the Gulf states pay this fee of $X.
3) Israel then buys a coastal strip of land -- perhaps twice as big in area as the current State of Israel -- from Brazil for, say, $.5X. Israel uses the other $.5X to improve the land, build new cities there, etc.
This seems like it would be a win-win-win for Israelis, Brazilians, and Americans. Israelis would get their own land in the Western Hemisphere, far from their Arab enemies, and it would be one with more natural resources than their current land. They could still take vacations to visit their holy sites in the Middle East. Americans would eliminate a perennial foreign policy headache of attempting to placate American supporters of Israel while trying to appease Arab countries at the same time. Brazilians (and other Latin Americans) would get an economic shot in the arm, by having a first world economy plugged into South America.
The only losers in this deal would probably be the Palestinians. Free of any excuses of colonization or oppression, the onus would be on them to construct a viable country. Chances are, without the conflict with Israel, the Palestinians' sense of national identity would fade within a generation. Their children might even beg Israel to move back.
In addition, Israel in Brazil would be flooded by all the high-quality American and European Jews who want to live in a Jewish state but are avoiding the war.
It won't happen because sane people are rare.
There is already a Jewish state that is not in Israel, and its name is Birobidjan. Stalin, being the Soviet Commissar for Nationalities, established it in the thirties. It still exists, only that has almost no Jews.
The Zionist movement, in its very beginnings, also considered other locations than Israel. The "territorialists", seeing the difficulties of dealing with the Turks that owned this country, went so far as to contact the British Colonial Dept. and asked to be assigned an empty land with good climate. They were offered the Ugandan Highlands, but their faction was defeated by those who wanted the original "Promised Land".
Our problem is not land. Our problem is this land.
I can't imagine the Jews maintaining the same group cohesion if they had a homeland in Brazil. Having the West give the Levant to the Muslims would also be another step into allowing Islam to expand, something it is trying to do in Europe and America right now. Besides, evacuating Israel might break the Jewish people. You are better off where you are now.
Maybe fighting for one's life is mentally healthier and produces more satisfaction than living with the Diaspora Jew's identity complexes in say an American University.
Of course, believing that you have a right to exist is a lot better than self-hatred.
I don't know.
Yes you do.
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