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Shalom (wise reality image mark amplification)
In the Name of Philadelphia
Tuesday, December 16, 2003
Shalom,
Anti-Zionism is *NOT* Anti-Semitism.
We need to make a clear distinction in our minds between Zionism and
the Jewish people. Zionism has co-opted the identity of the Jewish
people, when in reality; Zionism is their greatest enemy (especially
those Jews living in the state of Israel). The genesis of the state
of Israel as a safe-haven for Jews from Anti-Semitism is a myth
propagated by Zionism. This myth has not only buckled under the
weight of real time and experience, but in fact has been turned on its
head.
To identify the Jewish people categorically with Zionism is to assure
international hatred for Jews. To view these entities as one is to
give birth to Racism/Anti-Semitism. To fall prey to this malignant
manner of perception ultimately is to aid and abet in the
establishment of the abominable vision of Zionism--which is motivated
by a seething hatred for those who submit themselves to the ideals of
Mercy, Compassion, Peace, Justice, and Brotherly Love (Philadelphia).
The article below is from an Israeli Jew defending his people through
elucidation and amplification of the crimes of Zionism, which we have
summarized above.
Nemo Me Impune Lacessit
(A warning to our enemies and a Promise to our Brothers),
*The Waco Uncensored Crew*
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WACOuncensored/
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Uri Avnery
28.9.02
Manufacturing Anti-Semites
The first Israeli victim of Saddam Hussein is a Zionist myth on which
we were brought up.
It stated that Israel is a haven for all the Jews in the world. In all
the other countries, Jews live in perpetual fear that a cruel
persecutor will arise, as happened in Germany. Israel is the safe
haven, to which Jews can escape in times of danger. Indeed, this was
the purpose of the Founding Fathers when they established the state.
Now Saddam comes along and proves the opposite. All over the world,
Jews live in safety, and only in one place on the planet are they
threatened by annihilation: Israel. Here the national parks are
prepared for mass-graves, here (pathetic) measures against biological
and chemical weapons are prepared. Many people are already planning to
escape to the communities in the Diaspora. End of a myth.
Another Zionist myth died even before that. The Diaspora, so we
learned in our youth, creates anti-Semitism. Everywhere the Jews are a
minority, and a minority inevitably attracts the hatred of the
majority. Only when the Jews gather in the Land of their Forefathers
and constitute the majority there, will anti-Semitism disappear
throughout the world. Thus spoke Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism.
Nowadays this myth, too, is giving up its blessed soul. The very
opposite is happening: the State of Israel is causing the resurrection
of anti-Semitism all over the world, threatening Jews everywhere.
The Sharon government is a giant laboratory for the growing of the
anti-Semitism virus. It exports it to the whole world. Anti-Semitic
organizations, which for many years vegetated on the margins of
society, rejected and despised, are suddenly growing and flowering.
Anti-Semitism, which has hidden itself in shame since World War II, is
now riding on a great wave of opposition to Sharon's policy of
oppression.
Sharon's propaganda agents are pouring oil on the flames. Accusing all
critics of his policy of being anti-Semites, they brand large
communities with this mark. Many good people, who feel no hatred at
all towards the Jews, but who detest the persecution of the
Palestinians, are now called anti-Semites. Thus the sting is taken out
of this word, giving it something approaching respectability.
The practical upshot: not only does Israel not protect the Jews from
anti-Semitism, but quite on the contrary - Israel manufactures and
exports the anti-Semitism that threatens Jews around the world.
For many years, Israel enjoyed the sympathy of most people. It was
seen as the state of the holocaust survivors, a small and courageous
country defending itself against the repeated assaults of murderous
Arabs. Slowly, this image has been replaced by another: a cruel,
brutal and colonizing state, oppressing a small and helpless people.
The persecuted has become the persecutor, David has turned onto
Goliath.
We Israelis, living in a bubble of self-brain-washing, find it hard to
imagine how the world sees us. In many countries, television and
newspapers publish daily pictures of Palestinian children throwing
stones at monstrous tanks, soldiers harassing women at the
checkpoints, despairing old men sitting on the ruins of their
demolished homes, soldiers taking aim and shooting children. These
soldiers do not look like human beings in uniform - "the neighbor's
son" as they look to Israelis, but like robots without faces, armed to
the teeth, heads hidden by helmets, bullet-proof vests changing their
proportions. People who have seen these photos dozens and hundreds of
times start to see the Israel in this image.
For Jews, this creates a dangerous vicious circle. Sharon's actions
create repulsion and opposition throughout the world. These reinforce
anti-Semitism. Faced with this danger, Jewish organizations are pushed
into defending Israel and giving it unqualified support. This support
enables the anti-Semites to attack not only the government of Israel,
but the local Jews, too. And so on.
In Europe, Jews already feel the pressure. But in the United States,
they still feel supremely self-confident. In Europe, Jews have learned
over the centuries that it is not wise to be too conspicuous and to
display their wealth and influence. But in America, the very opposite
is happening: the Jewish establishment is practically straining to
prove that it controls the country.
Every few years, the Jewish lobby "eliminates" an American politician
who does not support the Israeli government unconditionally. This is
not done secretly, behind the scenes, but as a public "execution".
Just now this was done to the black Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, a
young, active, intelligent and very sympathetic woman. She has dared
to criticize the Sharon government, support Palestinians and (worst of
all) Israeli and Jewish peace groups. The Jewish establishment found a
counter-candidate, a practically unknown black woman, injected huge
sums into the campaign and defeated Cynthia.
All this happened in the open, with fanfares, to make a public example
- so that every Senator and Congressperson would know that criticizing
Sharon is tantamount to political suicide.
Now this is repeated in a big way. The pro-Israel lobby - which
consists of Jews and extreme right-wing Christian fundamentalists - is
pushing the American administration to start a war. This, too, openly,
in full view of the American public. Dozens of articles in the
important newspapers point this out as a plain political fact.
What will happen if the war ends in failure? If it has unexpected
negative results and many young Americans die? If the American public
turns against it, as happened during the Vietnam War? One can easily
imagine a whispering campaign starting: "The Jews have pushed us into
this," "The Jews support Israel more than they support America," and,
finally, "The Jews control our country."
Furthermore, Sharon may sooner or later bring about a revolution in
the Arab world. This will be a disaster for American interests.
American Jews, now completely identified with Israel, will be blamed.
Anyhow, the conspicuousness of the Jews in the United States,
especially in the media, and their disproportionate influence over the
Congress and the White House, can backfire one of these days.
Of course, the special political culture of the United States
encourages such phenomena - but that was also true in Spain of the
"Golden Age" and the Weimar republic in Germany. History does not have
to repeat itself, but neither should one disregard its lessons.
There are people in Israel people who secretly wish for the victory of
anti-Semitism everywhere. That would confirm another Zionist myth on
which we were brought up: that Jews will not be able to live anywhere
but in Israel, because anti-Semitism is bound to triumph everywhere.
But the United States is not France or Argentina, it plays a critical
role in the Middle East. Israel's national security, as established by
all Israeli governments since Ben-Gurion, is based on the total
support of the United States - military, political and economic.
If I were asked for advice, I would counsel the Jewish communities
throughout the world as follows: break out of the vicious circle.
Disarm the anti-Semites. Break the habit of automatic identification
with everything our governments do. Let your conscience speak out.
Return to the traditional Jewish values of "That which is altogether
just shalt thou follow!" (Deuteronomy 16,20) and "Seek peace and
pursue it!" (Psalms 34, 14). Identify yourselves with the Other
Israel, which is struggling to uphold these values at home.
All over the world, new Jewish groups that follow this way are
multiplying. They break yet another myth: the duty of Jews everywhere
to subordinate themselves to the edicts of our government.
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