Israel has long been a copy-paste Jewish clone of the Iranian theocracy, what with the Haredim and other neanderthal barbarian Jews from the Bronze Age. To its credit, it managed to fool the world that it was a "democracy" - better yet, the "only democracy" in the Middle East.
But the Hamas operation has unleashed the truth and revealed what Israel really is: A primitive, one-religion-only, foreign, exclusive country club whose terrorist militias began the dirty job of ethnically cleansing the native indigenous Palestinian population some 100 years ago by killing, bombing, displacing, raping, dispossessing, and dehumanizing them.
Why did it take so long for a sycophant West to understand the true nature of the British-American Jewish Disneyland colony in Palestine? Because of two reasons:
- The West had been on a vicious anti-semitic campaign ever since the early 19th century, since Europeans were riding the wave of imperial nationalisms and didn't want their own Jews to be part of the nationalist-colonial-imperial orgy of genocide, theft, occupation, enslavement of the natives, and the pilfering of the colonized countries' natural resources. European Jews saw what was being done to them and decided to do the same thing to other people by undertaking their own colonization program of Palestine. The result: The artificial, ultra-religious, ultra-nationalistic state of Israel.
- Happy as they were to get rid of their Jews, the Western empires saw it useful to nevertheless exploit the Jews even as they were kicking them out of Europe. The Jewish colony they implanted in Palestine could very well serve the European empires by being a pseudo-western outpost, extending the reach of imperial Britain right into the heart of the nascent oil fields of Arabia further afield.
Both of these considerations have lamentably failed. Yes the Jewish colony was established over the ashes of historic Palestine and the millions of dead Palestinian natives, but this was taking place even as Europe began its decolonization. All European empires (France, Britain, Spain, Holland etc.) were shedding their colonial past, but they could not shed their Israeli colony because that meant the Jewish settlers would return to Europe, and the Europeans couldn't fathom having to welcome their Jews back. Just as France, for example, did not open its arms to welcome the Pieds Noirs, its French settlers of Algeria who, after 130 years of racist oppression of the Algerian natives, had to return back to France after the victory of the indigenous Algerians in their bloody - the French called them terrorists of course - war of liberation from French colonialism.
For now, Israel has become an ultra-religious, racist, exclusive, fundamentalist barbarian theocracy based on the Torah and such other garbage texts from the Bronze Age of humanity. What distinguishes one theocracy from another? Very little: Change the name of the god and the name of the "holy" text and you wouldn't tell the difference: The result of both is an oppressive society that does not tolerate difference and dissidence, a hegemony of thought that kills all kinds of freedoms, especially those of expression and conscience.
Enlightened, secular, reformed, modern Jews like Bernie Sanders, the great senator from Vermont in the US are beginning to speak up against the barbarity of a state like Israel. Those enlightened, secular, reformed, modern Jews who may have moved to Israel from otherwise decent countries are now moving back to their countries of origin. They never really believed that Israel represents them because of its ultra-religiosity and racism. For many of them who did not make Aliyah, Israel was merely a Jewish resort on the Mediterranean where they sent their children for summer camp.
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Bernie Sanders says Israel is ‘becoming a religious fundamentalist country’
Independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders says Israel is ‘becoming a religious fundamentalist country’ under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Too many people do not understand that the Israel of today is not the Israel of…20 to 30 years ago,” Mr Sanders told news outlet Crooked Media. “[Israel] is a right-wing country, increasingly becoming a religious fundamentalist country where you have some of these guys in office believe that God told them they have a right to control the entire area.”
Mr Sanders has long been critical of the Israel-Hamas war, which began 7 October when Hamas militants attacked Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking another 200 hostage. Since then, more than 32,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, have been killed by Israeli attacks, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. Now, half of Gaza’s population is facing imminent famine, the United Nations warns.
“So bottom line, Hamas committed an atrocity in my view, Israel certainly had the right to defend itself, but it did not and does not have the right to go to war against the entire Palestinian people,” Mr Sanders continued. “Two-thirds of the casualties and deaths are women and children. Unacceptable.”
Mr Sanders previously told The Independent he wants to “kill funding for Netanyahu’s war machine — period,” referring to ongoing US aid to Israel. He was one of only four members of the Senate Democratic caucus — along with Senators Jeff Merkley of Oregon, Chris Van Hollen of Maryland and fellow Vermonter Peter Welch — who voted against a national security package last month that would provide aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. However, Mr Sanders has yet to call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
Meanwhile, US support for Mr Sanders’s position is growing. Some 55 per cent disapprove of Israel’s ongoing offensive in the besieged territory, while 36 per cent approve, according to a Gallup poll released on Wednesday, marking the first time a poll has found that a majority of Americans do not support the war. This is a significant shift from November when the same survey found most Americans were in favour.
The Biden administration has also begun to shift its position on aid to Palestinians.
On Monday, the US withheld its veto at the United Nations Security Council and allowed the body to pass a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in the war. This is the first time the US has done so since the war began; previously, the Biden administration used the US veto three times to block a ceasefire resolution in support of Israel’s continued offensive in Gaza.
Mr Netanyahu criticised the resolution, saying it “is not contingent on the release of hostages.”
On Tuesday, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin also said the civilian death toll in Gaza is “far too high” ahead of a meeting with his Israeli counterpart on Tuesday. Mr Austin also made an urgent call for Israel to increase the amount of aid it is allowing into Gaza to prevent a famine.
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