COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN GOV’TSLAVES
“US media’s silent
complicity in Israeli massacre in Gaza”
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Response to a comment
saying Israel was the Jewish homeland and Palestinians don’t belong there:
Your comment is really uninformed and straight from a
script.
In case you hadn't noticed, the Ashkenazi, the people who
run modern Israel and the people who provided most of the early Zionist
movement, in fact are a Germanic people whose native language is Yiddish, a
dialect of German.
As a people, DNA tests show they arose no more than a
thousand years ago.
They have no relationship, except sharing their religious
beliefs, with the Biblical Hebrews. The Hebrew language was perpetuated by
distant Jewish religious schools in exactly the way Arabic is perpetuated in
distant Muslim religious schools. Muslims believe they should read Koran in its
original, if possible. Jews believe the same thing about Torah.
If anyone qualifies as what remains of the ancient Hebrews
of two thousand years ago, it is the Palestinians themselves.
The Romans never removed the Hebrews from their province
despite rebellion. It was not the Roman practice in its conquests to do so, and
the Romans, really good record-keepers, left no record of the Hebrews being
sent packing. It would have been a pretty big operation, and it would have
caused ripples and disturbance all over the Empire, but there is absolutely no
record.
After all, Jewish people embrace many myths and stories with
little basis other than tradition, just as all religious groups do. There is no
record of Jews as slaves in Egypt. Not a single word or artifact. The name
Moses is indeed said to be from the Egyptian. There is no record of King David.
And of course, there is no record of Jonah or Lot’s Wife or a hundred other
matters.
The entire Askenazi story of Jews wandering the world after
expulsion from the Holy Land is just that, a story.
It ties them into the Hebrews they mimic, but it just has no
basis in fact, anymore than all those earlier Hebrew stories have.
The Ashkenazi, a Central and Eastern European people, were
undoubtedly converted to Judaism by Hebrews long ago who saw the blazing
success of Christianity in its evangelism - Christianity having started as one
of many Jewish sects and splinter groups going back to the time of the Dead Sea
Scrolls - and for a while, the Hebrews seem to have copied the Christians’ evangelical
efforts in hopes of having their always fairly small community grow.
That is almost certainly how we ended up with small groups
of Jews in a number of scattered places, including even Africa.
Even were it true that today's Jews were the descendants of
the ancient Hebrews - and it emphatically is untrue - what possible and
reasonable claim to Palestine would they have after two thousand years of
supposed absence.
Surely, no more than the Greeks would have claiming part of
Turkey for having won the Trojan War three thousand years ago, as described in
Homer’s Iliad. And there are countless other examples of ancient events – wars
and movements of peoples – which, if admitted into ways of settling modern
boundaries and affairs, would turn the world into chaos, just as the Middle
East has been turned into chaos by Israel.
This would all be laughable, basing land claims and rights
in the 21st century on questionable events from one group’s ancient
holy book, were it not so tragic.
You claim what is not yours, and you claim it based on
2500-year old religious texts saying some "God" gave it to you. What
a promising standard for 21st century arrangements.
The silliness only goes unchallenged because many in the West
feel guilty over the Holocaust and are more than happy to see yet a different
party, the poor Palestinians, be provided as sacrificial lambs to angry Jewish
people. The whole modern re-creation of Israel is precisely about that and little
more.
The Holocaust - used as a way to justify modern Israel and
to defend its many brutal excesses - occurred on another continent, Europe, and
it involved one set of German people abusing another set of Germanic people,
the Ashkenazi. The Palestinians, in Western Asia, had nothing whatsoever to do
with it.
But they were in a very weak and vulnerable position owing
to European colonialism, so they were made to pay.
Just imagine an arrogant government official in Britain
vaguely promising – and the Balfour declaration’s wording is indeed vague - a
Jewish homeland to some Zionists whose help was needed by Britain in WWI, a
homeland which was already the home of other people, although of course the
British ruled it as part of their long efforts to keep a passage to India, the
Crown Jewel of their Empire.
The declaration has no basis in proper law, was entirely
arbitrary and self-serving, and yet that little note is kept in Israel today in
a glass display case as though it were the American Declaration of Independence.
No, the Palestinians had nothing to do with the Holocaust, yet
it is the Palestinians who were made to pay a great price, and they are paying
still. Generations of occupation and abuse, countless attacks and debasements
and assassinations, deprivation of all the norms of civilized life. No rights,
no citizenship, no freedom of movement.
The leaders of today's Israel seem to have learned only one
thing from their grandparents’ terrible abuse at the hands of the Nazis, and
that is how to copy them in many of their horrible behaviors to get what you
want.
Gaza, to any unbiased eye, is just a vast concentration
camp, one allowed to endure for more than half a century in misery.
But everyone in the West is intimidated against saying so,
intimated by the constantly-repeated slur of "anti-Semitism” and by the
power of the United States, a world bully today behind whose skirts Israel
hides.
Of course, the United States is happy with the situation. It
did not have to take all those Jewish refugees it very much had shown that it
did not want, having turned boatloads away before the killing of the Holocaust
was started. And given today’s arrogant and hyper-aggressive world-imperial
United States, Israel provides it a handy colony and pied-a-terre in the Middle
East.
It’s all a pretty inglorious chapter in modern history.
