Eylon Levy. He also said that the ratio of civilians to fighters killed was lower than in other wars.Listening to that interview on WATO today with an Israeli Govt. rep. Can't remember the name, but apparently the problem with Gazans starving is that there's too much aid and no-one to distribute it. Fucking nauseating.
That's the one. I forgot the name due to the sheer quantity of shameless bullshit he was shovelling and how furious it was making me.Eylon Levy. He also said that the ratio of civilians to fighters killed was lower than in other wars.
I think we're at cross purposes here. When I saw the video I didn't take it as a general statement about Israel's historical right versus the Palestinians'. I saw it as a particular reference to the reports and videos that are out where Israeli settlers are turning up in the West Bank to eject Palestinians from their homes and take them for their own, backed by the Israeli army who will shoot Palestinians who resist.
it wouldnt be a live issue if there was a peaceful two state or one state solution in the many decades past, but instead the incomplete settling process is continuing right now with the most barbaric ethnic cleansing taking place this second.
I believe that if the State of Israel ever elected a communist government, the USA would immediately impose sanctions and try to topple it.Of course this is true.
However, there is a sizeable number of people in the world - and the region - who just don't like there being a Jewish nation in the middle east. And without getting into a stupid back-and-forth that can never be resolved, I personally believe that even if Israel had been peaceful from the start (unlikely since it was seeded by war but let's momentarily imagine...) it would have had war forced onto it sooner or later, because it's widely hated not only for its behaviour but for its essence.
Sadly this is used by Israelis to justify some extremely cruel and shit behaviour, but that doesnt stop it remaining true.
Can't see this staying up for long on reddit but also can't see how to copy the video.
im being paranoid but amongst the zionists there is a very strong publicly-stated desire for any gazan survivors to be shipped off to other countries and I worry that this 'port' will come to take on this role.
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I believe that if the State of Israel ever elected a communist government, the USA would immediately impose sanctions and try to topple it.
Of course this is true.
However, there is a sizeable number of people in the world - and the region - who just don't like there being a Jewish nation in the middle east. And without getting into a stupid back-and-forth that can never be resolved, I personally believe that even if Israel had been peaceful from the start (unlikely since it was seeded by war but let's momentarily imagine...) it would have had war forced onto it sooner or later, because it's widely hated not only for its behaviour but for its essence.
Sadly this is used by Israelis to justify some extremely cruel and shit behaviour, but that doesnt stop it remaining true.
First thing I thought when I heard about this is why is Biden doing this?
There's an election coming up and many Muslim voters are angry at his stance on Gaza so far to the extent that they might not vote. Might have something to do with it.
But it was "seeded" by the Nakba.
I've meet people from across the middle East. Secular / religious does not matter. The problem is for them that Palestinians had their land stolen from them.
What you are saying is that people from this region are inherently anti Semitic.
That is essentialist argument imo. And wrong.
WW2 and the Shoah, as well as Mandate Palestine and the Balfour declaration, all normally placed before the Nakba, temporally-speaking.
And I'm not saying that at all, I wrote 'a sizable number of people in the world and the region', which is true. You're responding as if that means everyone ('essentialist') and you're not stupid enough to be doing that accidentally. I wouldn't like to speculate on your motivation for deliberately attributing attitudes to me I don't have or express, but just stop it.
WW2 and the Shoah, as well as Mandate Palestine and the Balfour declaration, all normally placed before the Nakba, temporally-speaking.
And I'm not saying that at all, I wrote 'a sizable number of people in the world and the region', which is true. You're responding as if that means everyone ('essentialist') and you're not stupid enough to be doing that accidentally. I wouldn't like to speculate on your motivation for deliberately attributing attitudes to me I don't have or express, but just stop it.
Go on speculate
Alright your saying a "sizeable" number of people in region are inherently anti Semitic. A big enough number to mean a war. Which to me means a least a majority.
No thanks
So majorities start wars then? I thought perhaps an elite minority, eg some part of the ruling classes, with bad attitudes and power games to hand, lots of dog whistles and populist incitement.
It seems you're inventing all kinds of shit I never said. Why is that?
Yes you are, you're reading things I wrote as things you'd prefer to argue with instead, and arguing with those. But I don't have to argue over what I didn't write.Gone back to look at your original post and I'm not inventing "shit".
Though it was not a simple as the Balfour declaration and a straight line to state of Israel.
The British Empire played both sides. Promising Arabs support if they aided British war effort in WW1 and later at start of WW2.
There were people like Balfour who supported Zionism. But that was not all of the British elite.
This historian says that British promised Arab leaders this part of Ottoman Empire and then reneged on it.
Its a historical debate.
From what I've read in British state circles like the Foreign office some had the neither Zionism nor Arab but for British Empire view.
When Zionists were lobbying Britain in early 1930s to support a population "transfer" for example they met with mixed reception.
I would say British Empire made a complete hash of its policy in middle East. Culminating in the debacle of Suez.
And in the video the historian says Britain should be honest about its impact on the middle East.
Of course later as Britain declined as an Empire US took over.
Interesting interview with the historian who says British misled Arab leaders.
I see nothing about Britain's involvement in the middle East as an Imperial power that it should be proud of.
I think there are good grounds for saying that Zionism (that is to say the concept of the Restoration of Israel) was a British religious ideology which had some force as early as the 1830s. Sorry to repeat myself - but the point needs to be made.
"In 1841, a mission of inquiry sent by the Church of Scotland to Palestine issued a Memorandum to Protestant Monarchs of Europe for the Restoration of the Jews to Palestine, and called on them to take on the mantle of Cyrus and restore the people of Israel to their native land.[6] A member of the mission, a Scottish clergyman named Alexander Keith, was the first to speak of ‘a people without a country; even as their own land [. . .] is in a great measure a country without a people,’ a phrase which eventually came to be transformed into the specious slogan ‘a land without people for a people without a land’. So this slogan, notwithstanding its attribution to the Zionist movement, and sometimes to Israel Zangwill, himself a British Zionist and associate of Herzl, wasn’t Jewish in origin. "
Balfour 100 | Christian Zionism and the Balfour Declaration
Gershon Shafir argues that British Christian Zionism pre-dated practical Jewish Zionism and helped to ensure that, by the First World War, British imperial interests were woven into a narrative of Jew...fathomjournal.org
That is NOW.I've mentioned it a few times but I agree that Christian zionism is a very powerful force in how Israel is allowed to behave by eg the USA, and is what ultimately gives Israel its sense of and actual impunity. Jewish zionism might be driving the sharp end of the project, so to speak, but Christian zionist organizations make a huge contribution of both legitimacy and cash.
That is NOW.
The point I was trying to bring out was historically the Zionist movement as kick-started by the Balfour Declaration had Calvinist roots from 100 years earlier. Which led post World War II to a rapid colonisation - somewhat in the manner of the earlier French colonisation of Algeria.
Israel is almost a mirror image of Algeria, where French settlers with no claim to the land were kicked out after millions of indigenes were displaced or killed.
In Israel psychologically the Israelis have convinced themselves (and the Americans and British) that they are the "home team" and Palestine and Palestinians do not exist for them. "Arabs" they always say.