American Jews and Israel: A divorce in the making?
Short answer – they must open their closed minds to the truth of history as it relates to the making and sustaining of the conflict in and over Palestine that became Israel.
If they did they would discover that Israel’s existence has never, ever, been in danger from any combination of Arab military force and that it could have had peace with the Palestinians many years ago on terms which any rational government in Israel would have accepted with relief.
In other words, exposure to the truth of history would prove to them that Zionism’s version of it – a version to which most Western politicians and the mainstream media are still attached – is, generally speaking, a pack of propaganda lies.
Perhaps even more to the point is that exposure to the complete truth of history would make American and European Jews of today aware of the warnings that were voiced by Jewish leaders who opposed Zionism before the Nazi Holocaust. As I indicated above, their main fear was that if Zionism was allowed by the major powers to have its way it would one day provoke anti-Semitism.
What it has been provoking for many years is a rising, global tide of anti-Israelism, but the danger for American and European Jews is that this could be transformed into anti-Semitism if American and European Jewish support for Israel right or wrong is interpreted as complicity (even if by default) in Zionism’s crimes.
The most explicit warning of this danger was delivered by Yehoshafat Harkabi, the longest serving Director of Israeli Military Intelligence in his 1986 book Israel’s Fateful Hour. In my book I quote him at length but here in one paragraph with my emphasis added is the essence of his warning.
“Israel is the criterion according to which all Jews will tend to be judged. Israel as a Jewish state is an example of the Jewish character, which finds free and concentrated expression within it. Anti-Semitism has deep and historical roots. Nevertheless, any flaw in Israeli conduct, which initially is cited as anti-Israelism, is likely to be transformed into empirical proof of the validity of anti-Semitism. It would be a tragic irony if the Jewish state, which was intended to solve the problem of anti-Semitism, was to become a factor in the rise of anti-Semitism. Israelis must be aware that the price of their misconduct is paid not only by them but also Jews throughout the world.”
If Harkabi was alive today (he died in 1994), and given that Israel is not going to change course and that its brutal oppression of the Palestinians will only get worse and worse, I think he might agree with me that unless the Jews of the world divorce themselves from Zionism, anti-Israelism will be transformed into anti-Semitism at some point in the future.
It’s that vision of the future that ought to motivate American, European and other Jews of the world to come to grips with the truth of history and the conclusion it invites – that Zionism is their real enemy.
The problem for some and perhaps many American, European and other Jews of the world is that divorcing Zionism would mean that they were saying, in effect, that they no longer had need for the insurance policy of Israel as a refuge of last resort. And that would raise a perfectly valid question. How can they be certain they will be safe and secure in their American, European and other homelands if they do abandon the Zionism?
My answer (as in my book) is this.
After the Nazi holocaust, and because of it, the giant of anti-Semitism would have gone back to sleep, remained asleep and, in all probability, would have died in its sleep – IF Zionism had not been allowed by the major powers, first Britain and then America, to have its way, as Balfour put it “right or wrong”.
In that light I say there is every reason to believe that the Jews of the Western world will remain safe and secure if they demonstrate by divorcing Zionism they are not complicit, even by default, in its crimes.
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george beres:
January 26th, 2016 at 5:58 am
It is tragic that so many Jewish-Americans– especially the ones of significant wealth– seem to owe their monetary allegiance to Israel. It would be a favor to them for the U.S to make such donations to the Israeli state illegal. – George Beres
Sami:
January 26th, 2016 at 7:29 am
Allegiance to Israel whether by Jews or the shameless others, particularly the western politicians and journalists, is not only a glaring blot on their escutcheon, but is a damning confirmation of complicity in its barbaric crimes against humanity as evidenced by the daily brutality it dishes out to a defenceless population under its occupation.
The big lie about the 1967 war is only one of great many that the Zionists have used to usurp Palestine. The whole project is built on big lies.
Lastly, if the American Jews distance themselves from their unruly vicious pet in Palestine, that will not translate to relaxation of their stranglehold on the corridors of power or give a US president any leeway to act independently. One should always remember that, shall we call them, the Illuminati are the most dangerous criminal syndicate in the history of the U.S.
Anthony Collins:
January 26th, 2016 at 12:13 pm
Most US Zionists are Christians they are a bigger worry.
Ronald Douglas Kennedy:
January 26th, 2016 at 4:27 pm
The loaded card game has changed again, with King Trump off had declaration reply to the zio Wolf dog 1/25/16. I will move the American embassy. Is it to occupied Palestine, or ever expanding zio land, of tears?
Ronald Douglas Kennedy
confoundmeonce:
January 27th, 2016 at 1:38 am
How many more lives are to be forfeited for this Sliver of Stolen Territory In the Middle East..[ that they call Isitreal ] that is so determined to Push Their Way Thru Rivers Of Blood To Gain Leverage They Will NEVER be able To Keep ? Even their jewish Brethren Can not Suffer This To continue. The “Foolish Dream their ‘ancestors’ Have schemed to Put together >>Is Turning to Dust Before their EYES. THEY Realize Just HOW Wrong And Delusional It IS to Pursue. The Whole World IS Turning Against These Misguided Zionist jews.. They See What is Ahead for The Jewish People..If they Don`t very soon now.. Change Their ‘Direction. They have Blown their Last Trumpet.. Best to heed its` warning. Our God will not Ignore This Travesty For Much Longer. For you who seem hell-bent on “supporting This Place..And Thinking it to be your “social security” When There is Nowhere else to Run to…Remember..That Would BE A Very Bad Plan.. to herd yourselves all up in One Spot ! Bad Planning. Best TO Stop All this HATE You Have Been Building UP For Yourselves..And Learn How to Join the Human race..And Realize YOU ARE NOT Gods` Chosen..And HE will NOT Take Kindly To your Ever Trying TO Put yourself Above Any Other Human Being. For..WE ARE ALL Gods` Chosen. THE Blood-Letting Has to STOP.
Bob:
January 27th, 2016 at 2:48 pm
I wonder how the crooks in the White House will try to carry on the killing as normal when American Jews finally turn their back on this? That goes too for the Israel apologists in the UK and Europe. I expect them to for they are dangerous exploitative psychopaths far worse than your average serial killer. They have an inverse “morality” to the rest of us.
Rehmat:
January 29th, 2016 at 1:52 am
Dear Hart – I hate to spoil your opinion of Philip Weiss or ‘Mondoweiss’. It’s a Israeli fifth column within pro-Palestine electronic media. Philip maybe anti-Zionist regime, but he never hesitated to disciple commentators who dared to challenge Jewish occupation (Israel) of 78% of the historic Palestine or criticized Jewish communities over the criminals among them.
Dr. Finkelstein made a similar statement about Israel losing American Jewish support several years ago. However, how much truth in this claim – just look at the statements issued by all 20 presidential candidates for 2016 election. They’re all unanimous in their blind support for Israel and hatred toward Palestinians and the rest of 1.7 billion Muslims.
In May 2015, former US Sen. Joe Lieberman predicted: “Next US President will be better for Israel.”
All 2016 presidential hopefuls are trying their best to convince the powerful Jewish Lobby in United States that he/she would be more loyal to Israel than United States.
However, the Jewish Lobby is not fully convinced. It wants the next US president more subservient to Netanyahu than Barack Obama, who is accused of throwing Israel under bus over P5+1 and Iran nuclear deal.
The pro-Israel lobby groups’ hold on White House was exposed when Israeli jets attacked USS Liberty and blamed it on Arabs. Even though the crew managed to broadcast SOS on a makeshift antenna identifying Israeli jets, then President Lyndon Johnson said, “I don’t care if the ship sink, I’m not going to embarrass an ally.”
On October 9, 2015, Jewish commentary website The National Interest, published Israel-First John Ford’s cry that next American president’s priority must be repairing US relations with Israel damaged by its friendly gesture to Iran.
“In January of 2017 a new president will be sworn. He or she should immediately seek to repair American relation with Israel. From the Israel perspective, a strong relationship with the US provides valuable security in a dangerous region. From perspective of the US, Israel can check the rise of a regional power that could threaten the position of United States….. Until 1979, America aligned itself with Iran to check Soviet influence in the Middle East. Now, with the Soviet Union gone, Iran is the country that poses the greatest risk becoming a regional hegemon that could drive American influence out of the Middle East,” Ford said.
http://rehmat1.com/2015/10/11/lobby-next-us-president-must-obey-bibi/
Socrates:
February 7th, 2016 at 9:56 pm
So can someone enlighten me
Why are the Jews ‘hated’ through the centuries-why have so many great men been so critical of this religious tribe-?
They are not a ‘people’- as Shlomo Sand has so eloquently proven.
Why does Western culture allow Jews to make questioning of the ‘holocaust’ numbers an imprisonable offence?
The ‘Jews’ who have a proven history of dissembling and conspiring based on the dishonest money the Rothschilds and the Fed in the US have made -They use money to bribe and destroy people of integrity and scholarship-
This is repellent to the Western mind .
Our politicos have become available to highest bidder.
All of this imposition of Jewish blackmail can only lead to an explosion -The Hebrew tribe brings nothing to civilisation that has to do with questioning debate challenge to the conventional wisdom!
I fear that one of these days the jews shall again suffer another unforeseen and tragic reversal and they would have only themselves to blame!
Whenver the tribe has wielded power it has been bloodthirsty and brutal-as in Palestine today