COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE INDEPENDENT
I find this no surprise at all, although in any important
matter, it's nice to have confirmation.
Israel has had slow-motion ethnic cleansing going on for
years.
And someone as important as former House Majority Leader, Dick
Armey - a long time recipient of pro-Israel money and a rather crass man in
general - said a few years back it would be fine with him if Israel just
removed all Palestinians.
Israel, I believe, faces its collapse in not many years, and
the collapse will come because this utterly failed enterprise resembles in many
of its characteristics the old Soviet Union.
It builds walls, it limits who can come and go, its military
is a Frankenstein for the size of the place, its security forces are the
equivalent in every way of the KBG or Stasi, it holds millions against their
will, it steals private property regularly, it has more than one class of
citizen, its economy is terrible and it only keeps up appearances by huge
subsidies from outside, it claims to be a democracy but behaves as anything but
one, it is a place seething with hatreds and discontent, and many of its acts
break all international law and convention.
Founding the new Israel was a great historical mistake,
especially founding it on someone else's property, a sure way to create endless
conflict.
Moreover this modern effort at reconstruction of Israel is
by a people with almost no connection to the Middle East other than sentimental
associations through religion. The Ashkenazi people are a European people
largely, indeed, a Germanic people.
The whole thing has become pretty much a disaster for human
rights and rule of law, much as the Soviet Union.
