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Christine Louis Dit Sully ·ontpeodrSs3c m5t8mm1a 34fa5Mm8u 5f91c4:m8a989ff8f8839y001c0g ·
The importance of the ethnonationalist state of Israel for Western ruling classes (especially for the UK and US ruling classes) has been obvious from the beginning. Now, the extreme measures (censorship, attacks on rights and civil liberties, imprisonments, sanctions, destructions of international laws and orders, police violence...) taken to viciously attack anybody or any organisation who dares criticise Israel really highlights the particular and sectarian interests of the powerful Western ruling class and its allies.
Caitlin Johnstone: "
"Basically every Israel-Palestine debate goes like this:
“Israel did X.”
“Yeah, because Hamas did Y.”
“Yeah, because Israel did Z.”
“Yeah but only because the Palestinians keep doing A.”
“Okay but that’s wouldn’t have happened of the Israelis hadn’t been doing B.”
“But that only happened because the Arabs did C!”
But if you bring the debate back far enough in time, eventually you get to the part where the western world forcibly dropped a brand new ethnostate on top of a pre-existing civilization without the permission of — and to the extreme detriment of — the people who were already living there.
“Israel did X.”
“Yeah, because Hamas did Y.”
“Yeah, because Israel did Z.”
“Yeah but only because the Palestinians keep doing A.”
“Okay but that’s wouldn’t have happened of the Israelis hadn’t been doing B.”
“But that only happened because the Arabs did C!”
But if you bring the debate back far enough in time, eventually you get to the part where the western world forcibly dropped a brand new ethnostate on top of a pre-existing civilization without the permission of — and to the extreme detriment of — the people who were already living there.
Sure you can go further back and say “Oh yeah well the Jews lived there thousands of years ago,” but that’s just silly. There’s no valid reason to believe some Jewish guy in New York City even has any meaningful lineage connecting him to that land more strongly than any random Muslim in Turkey or wherever, and even if there was, it would still be absurd to cite ancient history as the basis for a territorial claim. I’m only a few generations removed from my ancestry in Ireland and Scotland, but it would be ridiculous for me to show up demanding the home of someone who lives there.
So the original source for the grievance is clearly the artificial creation of an ethnonationalist state in the mid-20th century, and the push by Zionists and western imperialists to make it happen. That’s the initial act of abuse that spawned this whole gigantic mess.
And how has it all worked out? History speaks for itself. Generations of nonstop violence and abuse, culminating in the slaughter and chaos throughout the middle east that we see before us today.
This means that creating Israel was a mistake. A mistake that needs to be corrected.
Zionists will collapse into a shrieking pile of vitriol and hyperbole when you say this, claiming you’re calling for the extermination of Jews, but this is false. Certainly righting the wrongs of the past and ending a national order premised on putting the interests of Jews before Palestinians would inconvenience a lot of the Jewish people who’ve been living there, but there’s no basis for the claim that it would entail their deaths.
Apartheid South Africa was dismantled without the extermination of millions of white people, and there’s no reason to believe the dismantling of apartheid Israel would entail the extermination of Jews.
The Israel experiment has been tried, and it has failed. It is time to try something else."
The Israel experiment has been tried, and it has failed. It is time to try something else."
Caitlin Johnstone
Daniel Oz
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Nobody "dropped an ethnostate".
Jews have a homeland and when they are sick of being persecuted they return to it. The Arabs too have to understand that 13 centuries of dhimmitude, oppression and persecution of Jews have consequences.
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Christine Louis Dit Sully
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Daniel Oz You are right: they forcefully ethnic cleansed (expelling and killing communities) an area and forcefully created an ethnonationalist and racist Israeli state in the region.
Christine Louis Dit Sully
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Daniel Oz No, the native population was and still is ethnic cleansed from Palestine (including Israel) by the Iseaeli state. I am sure you heard of the genocide perpetrated by Israel in Gaza, with Israel already taking 60% of Gaza for itself, the increase in number of attacks and killings of Palestinians and stealing of Palestinian homes in the West Bank...Read a bit of history rather than some utterly ridiculous Zionist propaganda. We are in the 21st century and you could more easily have acces to the truth.
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Thomas Beyerle
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Dear Caitlin! I follow you now for some time and I like your combative style. Being an old German history teacher at a small Jesuit institute in Santo Domingo pushes me to offer you two alternative visions on "Israel":
1) it was not a MISTAKE, but a clear strategic decision to form a military beach head against a huge multi-ethnic, multi-religious alliance ("Mittelmaechte") which had overcome all medieval strife in order for a last stand against the maritime colonial sea powers UK/USA. The timely inclusion of Russia which was already underway in secret negotiations between the German OHL and the Bolsheviks, would have created The HEARTLAND, against which point 5 of Woodrow Wilson 14 point programme aimed.
2) In apartheid South Africa white racist were alwazs the minority, in Israel it seems (Abby Martin) zionist racists with genocidal delusions are openly mainstream and majority.
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서구 지배층의 이해관계: 이스라엘이라는 민족국가는 초기부터 영국과 미국 등 서구 지배층의 이익을 위해 존재해 왔다
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Daniel Oz
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Nobody "dropped an ethnostate".
Jews have a homeland and when they are sick of being persecuted they return to it. The Arabs too have to understand that 13 centuries of dhimmitude, oppression and persecution of Jews have consequences.
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Christine Louis Dit Sully
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Daniel Oz You are right: they forcefully ethnic cleansed (expelling and killing communities) an area and forcefully created an ethnonationalist and racist Israeli state in the region.
Christine Louis Dit Sully
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Daniel Oz No, the native population was and still is ethnic cleansed from Palestine (including Israel) by the Iseaeli state. I am sure you heard of the genocide perpetrated by Israel in Gaza, with Israel already taking 60% of Gaza for itself, the increase in number of attacks and killings of Palestinians and stealing of Palestinian homes in the West Bank...Read a bit of history rather than some utterly ridiculous Zionist propaganda. We are in the 21st century and you could more easily have acces to the truth.
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Thomas Beyerle
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Dear Caitlin! I follow you now for some time and I like your combative style. Being an old German history teacher at a small Jesuit institute in Santo Domingo pushes me to offer you two alternative visions on "Israel":
1) it was not a MISTAKE, but a clear strategic decision to form a military beach head against a huge multi-ethnic, multi-religious alliance ("Mittelmaechte") which had overcome all medieval strife in order for a last stand against the maritime colonial sea powers UK/USA. The timely inclusion of Russia which was already underway in secret negotiations between the German OHL and the Bolsheviks, would have created The HEARTLAND, against which point 5 of Woodrow Wilson 14 point programme aimed.
2) In apartheid South Africa white racist were alwazs the minority, in Israel it seems (Abby Martin) zionist racists with genocidal delusions are openly mainstream and majority.
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세진님, 공유해주신 케이틀린 존스톤(Caitlin Johnstone)의 글에 대한 요약과 평론입니다. 요청하신 대로 <해라> 체를 사용하여 정리했다.
<이스라엘-팔레스타인 논쟁의 핵심 요약>
서구 지배층의 이해관계: 이스라엘이라는 민족국가는 초기부터 영국과 미국 등 서구 지배층의 이익을 위해 존재해 왔다. 최근 이스라엘 비판 세력에 가해지는 검열과 권리 침해 등 극단적인 조치는 서구 지배계급의 분파적 이익을 노골적으로 드러낸다.
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분쟁의 기원: 이스라엘과 팔레스타인의 끝없는 인과관계 논쟁을 거슬러 올라가면, 서구 세계가 기존 문명 위에 거주민의 동의 없이 인위적으로 민족국가를 세운 지점에 도달한다.
영토권 주장의 허구성: 수천 년 전 조상이 살았다는 고대사를 근거로 현재의 영토권을 주장하는 것은 논리적으로 타당하지 않으며, 이는 외부 세력과 시오니스트들에 의한 인위적인 결과물이다.
실패한 실험: 이스라엘 건국 이후 수 세대에 걸쳐 폭력과 학살이 반복되었으며, 이는 이스라엘이라는 국가 모델이 실패했음을 증명한다.
해결 방향: 이스라엘의 민족 국가적 질서를 해체하는 것이 과거의 잘못을 바로잡는 길이다. 이는 유대인의 멸절이 아니라, 남아공의 아파르트헤이트 종식처럼 공존을 위한 체제의 변화를 의미한다.
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<평론: 인위적 국가 건설의 모순과 그 대가>
존스톤의 비판은 현대 국제 정치의 가장 민감한 부분을 정면으로 타격한다. 그녀는 이스라엘-팔레스타인 문제를 단순한 종교적, 민족적 갈등이 아닌 제국주의적 기획의 산물로 규정한다. 특히 분쟁의 인과관계를 따지는 소모적 논쟁의 종착지가 '서구에 의한 강제적 이식'임을 지적한 부분은 이 문제의 역사적 실체를 관통하는 통찰을 보여준다.
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본 글의 핵심 논지는 이스라엘을 하나의 '국가' 이전에 실패한 '실험'으로 본다는 점에 있다. 고대사에 근거한 영토 점유의 부당함을 아일랜드나 스코틀랜드 혈통의 후손이 현재 그곳에 사는 사람의 집을 요구하는 상황에 비유한 것은 현대적 민족국가의 정당성 문제를 매우 직관적으로 비판한 처사다.
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또한, 시오니즘 비판을 곧 유대인 멸절 주장으로 치부하는 논리적 비약을 경계하며 남아프리카공화국의 사례를 든 점은 인상적이다. 이는 체제의 해체가 인종적 청산으로 이어질 것이라는 공포 정치를 효과적으로 반박한다. 결국 이 글은 현재의 비극이 일시적인 전술적 오류가 아니라, 잘못된 설계도(인위적 민족국가 건설)에서 비롯된 필연적 결과임을 강조하며 근본적인 패러다임의 전환을 촉구하고 있다.
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이 글의 시각에 대해 세진님은 어떻게 생각하시는지 궁금하네요. 혹시 더 구체적으로 논의하고 싶은 부분이 있으신가요?
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