Israel has missed every opportunity to find peace. Taking land violently from its Palestinian owners, land that was granted to it by an irresponsible foreign ocupier (England) as a pathetic homeland for foreign settlers, it decided from the start not to make any friends in the region.
Like a xenotransplant, it was - and still is - bound to be rejected in a natural process. Having decided to impose itself by the force of violence, by thinking it could coerce those it was raping into "liking" it, Israel thought it could be accepted by some kind of transnational Stockholm Syndrome. By holding Palestinians hostages in concentration camps to pressure others to recognize it, then waiting, and waiting some more, Israel thought the Palestinians and other nations in the region were bound to one day give up and start liking their oppressor.
Of course, you will hear the standard counter-argument that Israel is the real victim. But let me tell you: Jews and Shiite Muslims are so much alike: They both love to portray themselves as eternal victims of everyone else's hate. Pity, as someone once said, is a powerful underestimated tool to impose yourself. And there will always be idiots to fall for the trap and feel pity for the real culprit.
Hanan Ashrawi once said that the Palestinians are the only people on Earth who are asked to guarantee the security of their occupier, while Israel is the only country that asks to be defended against its own victims.
What kind of fucked up upside-down logic is this, that is oblivious and blind to history?
No reasonable argument has ever been put forward to explain to an objective unbiased observer how is it acceptable that a foreign people can illegally invade another people's land, expel its inhabitants by violence, murder, plunder and rape, then build its own country on the ashes and ruins of that original native people.
No one should be fooled by the justifications. No, the so-called "Jewish" people, a haphazard collection of various ethnicities who believe in a Bronze Age fictional bullshit tale, do not have the right to "return" after 3,000 years and claim someone else's land as their own. Neither are the justifications of the Islamist radicals that Mohamed's flight to heaven on a winged horse from Jerusalem give them the right to impose their own bullshit claims to the land. The only reasonable argument that Muslims in general, but not necessarily Arab Muslims, can put forward is that Palestine had been under Muslim non-Arab rule between roughly 1200 AD (after the demise of the Christian Crusaders) and 1918 AD (when the Ottoman Turkish empire collapsed). But none of these arguments can be used to explain anyone's claims to the land. The only claim that is reasonably justifiable is that of the long-time resident people - the Palestinian people.
No one can argue the fact that there was a Palestinian people living in Palestine for millennia, and like many others of their neighbors, they suffered one invasion and occupation after another. About 100 years ago, there was an overwhelming majority of native Palestinians living on their land in the territory of Palestine, which was subjected to a League of Nations mandate under a jesuitic "civilized" British rule. Living among those native indigenous people, there were a few thousand Jewish visitors who were either refugees from the East European pogroms or western Jewish pilgrims. No problems were reported. The natives did not mind.
The mandatory power, Britain, did not own the land, could not dispose of it at will, and was specifically tasked with assisting the Palestinians in building their institutions and state. No different from neighboring Jordan, also under British mandate, or neighboring Lebanon under a French mandate. But then, some Europeans decided to ruin the prospects of a Palestinian state by buying up the greedy British imperial crooks into letting them have their own exploitable colony, in a me-too type of colonialist impulsion inspired by the other European colonies in places like Africa, Asia and Latin America.
European Jews wanted their own exotic colony somewhere where they could screw the native "savages", pilfer their resources and brag about it to their European friends. After considering Uganda and Argentina as potentially "colonizable" territories where they could establish their Jewish homeland, they finally decided that Palestine was a good place to fuck around because they could take pictures riding camels and hunting antelopes, and they eventually could exploit the nascent oil fields in the Arabian desert nearby.
And so the Palestinian tragedy began. Thousands of foreigners claiming to be Jews descended on Palestine, most often on boats illegally entering the territory. Faced with resistance by the native population, they took up arms and, in the trendy Fascist ways of the Europe of the 1920s and 1930s, they began terrorizing the native Palestinians: Burn entire villages, rape the women, kill the men, uproot the olive trees, raze millennial villages to the ground... Everything these European Fascists had learned in Europe, they brought with them and unleashed on a largely rural, pacifist, unsophisticated population led by an untested urban elite. Palestine was emerging from 400 years of a brutal Turking Ottoman occupation.
The end of WWI had instilled a deep sense of hope for the Palestinians that they could finally implement the "self-determination" promise made by President Wilson at the 1919 Paris Peace conference. The American King-Crane Commission visited the formerly Ottoman region encompassing Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Hatay and Cilicia. As you can see, Jews represented 3% (110,000 over a total of 3,247,500) of the overall population.
| Muslims | 2,365,000 |
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| Christians | 587,500 |
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| Druses | 140,000 |
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| Jews | 110,000 |
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| Others | 45,000 | |||
| Total | 3,247,500 |
The US mandated King-Crane commission opposed the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine because it conflicted with the Balfour Declaration (1917) in respect of the civil and religious rights of non-Jewish communities in Palestine. The commission found that "Zionists looked forward to a practically complete dispossession of the present non-Jewish inhabitants of Palestine. Nearly 90% of the Palestinian population was emphatically against the entire Zionist program.
Given all the above, by what measure of reason do the present-day Israelis believe they can survive on land they stole from its rightful owners? Especially since Israel's conduct over the past decades has been to think it can impose itself by force rather by decency?
I would not want to be in Israel's shoes. Despite occasional victories scored with generous American backing in money and weapons, and despite on and off "normalizations" often obtained by bribing the would-be normalizers, the long term perspective for Israel is pretty dismal.
Israel will never know a genuine peace. The Hamas attack and Israeli conduct in Gaza are both very telling of the future that awaits Israel. And no amount of land theft, colonization and ethnic cleansing will give Israelis the peace of mind any human being seeks. The creation of a Jewish state out of nothing and over the ashes and ruin of another people will never stand the test of time. Yes, the Germans murdered their Jewish population, and now they are friends because the Germans have recognized their barbarity at ethnically cleansing their own fellow Germans. But does anyone genuinely believe that the Palestinians, who had nothing to do with the Holocaust and who were the direct victims of Jewish barbarism, will ever forgive the Israelis?
O Israel, Thou Shalt Never Know Peace. Just as your predecessors the Christian Crusaders, who came with a similar argument that the Holy Land was theirs because Jesus was born there 1,000 years prior, and who lasted 200-300 years before they were politely asked to return whence they came, your Jewish Crusade, based on the argument that the land is yours because you lived there 3,000 years ago, will inevitably crumble under the weight of time, the hatred you disseminated, and the vagaries of alliances.
O Israel, Thou Shalt Never Know Peace.
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