vrijdag 12 maart 2010

Israel als Schurkenstaat 40

The dark face of Jewish nationalism

By Dr Alan Sabrosky

12 March 2010

Alan Sabrosky considers the characteristics that differentiate Jewish nationalism from other nationalisms, highlighting in particular its intrinsic extremism, its xenophobia, racism and militarism, its undermining of civic loyalty among its adherents in other countries and its propensity to hatred and racial exclusivity.

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu once remarked to a Likud gathering that "Israel is not like other countries". Oddly enough for him, that time he was telling the truth, and nowhere is that more evident than with Jewish nationalism, whether or not one pins the "Zionist" label on it.

"...whereas extremism in other nationalist movements is an aberration, extremism in Jewish nationalism is the norm, pitting Zionist Jews (secular or observant) against the goyim (everyone else)..."

Nationalism in most countries and cultures can have both positive and negative aspects, unifying a people and sometimes leading them against their neighbours. Extremism can emerge, and often has, at least in part in almost every nationalist/independence movement I can recall (e.g. the French nationalist movement had The Terror, Kenya's had the Mau Mau, etc.).

But whereas extremism in other nationalist movements is an aberration, extremism in Jewish nationalism is the norm, pitting Zionist Jews (secular or observant) against the goyim (everyone else), who are either possible predator or certain prey, if not both sequentially. This does not mean that all Jews or all Israelis feel and act this way, by any means. But it does mean that Israel today is what it cannot avoid being, and what it would be under any electable government (a point I'll develop in another article).

The differences between Jewish nationalism (Zionism) and that of other countries and cultures here I think are fourfold:

1. Zionism is a real witches' brew of xenophobia, racism, ultra-nationalism and militarism that places it way outside of a "mere" nationalist context — for example, when I was in Ireland (both parts) I saw no indication whatsoever that the Provisional Irish Republican Army or anyone else pressing for a united Ireland had a shred of design on shoving Protestants into camps or out of the country, although there may well have been a handful who thought that way — and goes far beyond the misery for others professed by the Nazis;

2. Zionism undermines civic loyalty among its adherents in other countries in a way that other nationalist movements (and even ultra-nationalist movements like Nazism) did not — e.g. a large majority of American Jews, including those who are not openly dual citizens, espouse a form of political bigamy called "dual loyalty" (to Israel and the US) that is every bit as dishonest as marital bigamy, attempts to finesse the precedence they give to Israel over the US (lots of Rahm Emanuels out there who served in the Israeli army but NOT in the US armed forces), and has absolutely no parallel in the sense of national or cultural identity espoused by any other definable ethnic or racial group in America — even the Nazi Bund in the US disappeared once Germany and the US went to war, with almost all of its members volunteering for the US armed forces;

3. The "enemy" of normal nationalist movements is the occupying power and perhaps its allies, and once independence is achieved, normal relations with the occupying power are truly the norm, but for Zionism almost everyone out there is an actual or potential enemy, differing only in proximity and placement on its very long list of enemies (which is now America's target list); and

4. Almost all nationalist movements (including the irredentist and secessionist variants) intend to create an independent state from a population in place or to reunite a separated people (like the Sudeten Germans in the 1930s) — it is very rare for it to include the wholesale displacement of another indigenous population, which is far more common of successful colonialist movements as in the US — and perhaps a reason why most Americans wouldn't care too much about what the Israelis are doing to the Palestinians even if they DID know about it, is because that is no different than what Europeans in North America did to the Indians/Native Americans here in a longer and more low-tech fashion.

The implications of this for Middle East peace prospects, and for other countries in thrall to their domestic Jewish lobbies or not, are chilling. The Book of Deuteronomy come to life in a state with a nuclear arsenal would be enough to give pause to anyone not bought or bribed into submission — which these days encompasses the US government, given Israel's affinity for throwing crap into the face of the Obama administration and Obama's visible affinity for accepting it with a smile, Bibi Netanyahu's own "Uncle Tom" come to Washington.

The late General Moshe Dayan, who — Zionist or not — remains an honoured part of my own Pantheon of military heroes, allegedly observed that Israel's security depended on its being viewed by others as a mad dog. He may have been correct. But he neglected to note that the preferred response of everyone else is to kill that mad dog before it can decide to go berserk and bite. It is an option worth considering.


Alan Sabrosky (PhD, University of Michigan) is a 10-year US Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the US Army War College. He can be contacted at docbrosk@comcast.net.

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7 opmerkingen:

Sonja zei

Elma Drayer of Trouw verwijderd column uit lijst.

Hier 'alle columns' van Elma Drayer.

Maar 'Gretta Duisenberg mag je gerust een antisemiet noemen' staat er niet tussen.

Schaamte? Zelfcensuur? Krantcensuur?

AdR zei

Verdrayerd hohoho
Misschien mag het toch niet zomaar.

Anoniem zei

ONE OF THE PROBLEM IN ISRAEL THAT ISRAEL AFRAID FROM UNITED STATE THAT IN MANY CASES HAS DIFFERENT INTEREST THE ISRAELI DOING BASIC MISTAKE NOT STANDING UP AGAINST UNITED STATE SOONER OR LATER . UNITED STATE WILL TURN THE BACK ON ISRAEL . WE THE ISRAELI HAS TO LEAVE OUR LAND BECAUSE THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT GIVE UP THE BROUGHT US TO ISRAEL TO SUFFER . NO LAND NO HOUSES . UNITED STATE AND EUROPEAN INTERFEAR IN ISRAEL AFFAIR . JOE BIDEN DONT HAVE THE RIGHT TO COME TO ISRAEAL AND TELL US WHAT TO DO . YOU THE ISRAELI ARE "CHICKEN " AND CORRUPTED . I WILL GIVE BACK YOUR $ 4 BILLION MR AMERICA THE BUY US AND DESTROY MANY ISRAEL LIFE MR NATNUHO GET OUT FROM YOUR POST AS PRIME MINSTER . WE HAVE TO STAND UP TO THE TERRORIST AND PEPLE LIKE JIMMY CARTER AND JOE BIDEN . WHICH SUPPORT THE DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL .
I POSTED BEFORE AND I KNOW FAIR WELL AMERICA ISNT FIEND OF ISRAEL ALSO THE EUROPEAN . THIS CHANGING THE LAW IN ISRAEL JUST DESTROY ISRAEL FURTHER FOR DESTNCTION . I EVEN COOL OF ANY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ISRAEL AND AMERICA . DEFINITELY I WILL NOT ACCEPT THIS DIRTY MONEY THAT USA BUY US WITH CORRUPTED 4 BILLION DOLLAR A YEAR .
THE END OF ISRAEL IS COMING . IF THE CANNOT STAND ON THEIR OWN .
ARE THE CORRUPTED USA WITH 10 TRILLION DOLLAR DEBT . GO TO EGYPT AND AND TELL THEM THE DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT ON THE LAND . THE ISRAELI HAVE TO REPLACE THIS GOVERNMENT . THAT THEY ARE ANTI ISRAELI .
all this is only another war to destroy Israel we beat the Arab fair and square . this Arab murder try different tactic . and use USA to destroy Israel with help of another terrorist Mr "jemmy carter" yes people like him and un and other look like peace people but actually the are terrorist. we will give up building home on wet land in Jerusalem .
what next ???????......

Anoniem zei

De humor van Verhagen

Reformatorisch Dagblad

Verhagen: Wilders beschadigt belang Nederland
10-03-2010 18:54| gewijzigd 10-03-2010 19:42

Verhagen: Zoeken naar oplossingen.

NOORDWIJK AAN ZEE (ANP) – Minister Verhagen (Buitenlandse Zaken) vindt dat PVV–leider Wilders de belangen van de Nederlandse bevolking en de reputatie van Nederland in het buitenland beschadigt. Dat doet hij door spanningen en tegenstellingen tussen mensen op de spits te drijven in plaats van te zoeken naar oplossingen op basis van gedeelde waarden.

De demissionaire bewindsman haalde woensdag fel uit in een speech in Noordwijk aan Zee. Daar opende hij een conferentie van het instituut Forum over publieksdiplomatie. Verhagen stelde dat Nederlandse diplomaten in het buitenland bezig zijn om deze schade tegen te gaan of te voorkomen. Dat gebeurt vooral in islamitische landen waar de beeldvorming over Nederland slecht blijkt te zijn.

Verhagen benadrukte dat Nederland opkomt voor „gedeelde waarden als vrijheid, gerechtigheid en medemenselijkheid. Op basis van die waarden zoeken we naar oplossingen”, stelde Verhagen. Dat uitgangspunt wordt in zijn ogen doorkruist door Wilders. Verhagen vindt zijn methode niet constructief. „Omdat hij angst en haat verspreidt, is hij alleen maar aan het afbreken en niet aan het opbouwen”. Als discriminatie en het verspreiden van haat worden toegestaan, leidt dat volgens de minister alleen maar tot segregatie, polarisatie, escalatie en uiteindelijk confrontatie.

Uit een onderzoek dat het departement in vijftien landen heeft laten uitvoeren naar de internationale beeldvorming, blijkt dat Nederland het laagst scoort in moslimlanden als Indonesië, Turkije en Egypte. Het rapportcijfer over Nederland in de onderzochte landen loopt uiteen van 6– tot 8+.

Het ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken heeft een diplomatiek offensief in gang gezet om de bevolking in andere landen rechtstreeks aan te spreken of snel op incidenten te reageren. Daarvoor zijn drie regionale coördinatiecentra ingesteld in Washington, Peking en Caïro. Ook worden jonge toekomstige leiders, journalisten of opinieleiders uit belangrijke of opkomende landen uitgenodigd om een evenwichtiger beeld van Nederland te krijgen.

anzi

Lucas zei

Israel is launching a potentially trailblazing experiment in organ donation: Sign a donor card, and you and your family move up in line for a transplant if one is needed.

The new law is the first of its kind in the world, and international medical authorities are eager to see if it boosts organ supply. But it has also raised resistance from within Israel's ultra-Orthodox Jewish minority.

These opponents say it discriminates against them because their religious convictions forbid the donation of their organs, and while they are unlikely to get the law reversed, they have the political clout to slow its implementation.

Only 10 percent of Israeli adults hold donor cards, compared with more than 30 percent in most Western countries. The actual rate of families donating a deceased's organs is 45 percent, but in other countries it rises to 70 percent, according to Jacob Lavee, director of the heart transplant unit at Israel's Sheba Medical Center.
http://www.the33tv.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-ml-israel-organ-donors,0,2120683.story

Lucas zei

Rahm Emanuel, antimseiet volgens de Israëlische televisie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG93iKvB1iM

Paul zei

Veteranensite lust er ook wel pap van
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/03/19/22329/

Peter Flik en Chuck Berry-Promised Land

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