Is a peaceful resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict REALLY possible?
I put the complicity by default of Western leaders and their governments down to two fears – fear of offending the Zionist lobby too much and fear, expressed to me by former President Carter, of the havoc nuclear-armed Israel might create in the Middle East and possibly beyond if its deluded leaders felt they were being pushed too far.
The other main reason why I was entertaining the conclusion that Palestine is a lost cause is to do with Israel itself.
For it to make a good faith commitment to peace a big majority of its Jews would have to acknowledge (1) that a terrible wrong was done to the Palestinians by Zionism; and (2) that the wrong must be righted in a way that provides an acceptable amount of justice for the Palestinians and security for all.
I couldn’t see that happening because most Israeli Jews have been brainwashed by Zionist propaganda and can only see themselves as victims and not the oppressors they actually are; and as a consequence they are beyond reason on the matter of justice for the Palestinians. (“The trouble with us Israelis is that we have become the victims of our own propaganda.” That statement, quoted in my book Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews, was made to me in 1980 by then retired Major General Shlomo Gazit, the best and the brightest of Israel’s Directors of Military Intelligence. It was his response to my statement to him that Israel’s existence had never, ever, been in danger from any combination of Arab military force and that its assertion to the contrary was a myth).
I’ll add here that I was and am sick and tired of having to listen to and read the propaganda bullshit delivered by all who speak for Netanyahu’s Israel. That said it is not Netanyahu who comes closest to making me want to vomit when he speaks. It is Ron Proser, Israel’s ambassador to the UN. In the open Security Council debate on tensions between Israelis and Palestinians in Jerusalem he said, “The prime obstacle to peace is not the settlements.” In his speech and body language Proser is the personification of the self-righteousness that a former Israeli Director of Military Intelligence, Yehoshafat Harkabi, described as the biggest threat to Israel’s existence. (If I didn’t have many Jewish friends and a good understanding of how Jews have been brainwashed and why very many of them who loathe what Israel has become are frightened to speak out, the odious Proser could provoke the Gentile me into becoming anti-Jew).
It was the article in The Atlantic by Jeffrey Goldberg with the headline The Crisis In US-Israel Relations Is Officially Here that caused me to put my conclusion that Palestine is a lost cause on hold. Here is a taste of what Goldberg wrote.
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The other day I was talking to a senior Obama administration official about the foreign leader who seems to frustrate the White House and the State Department the most. “The thing about Bibi is, he’s a chickenshit,” this official said, referring to the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, by his nickname.
This comment is representative of the gloves-off manner in which American and Israeli officials now talk about each other behind closed doors, and is yet another sign that relations between the Obama and Netanyahu governments have moved toward a full-blown crisis. The relationship between these two administrations – dual guarantors of the putatively “unbreakable” bond between the U.S. and Israel – is now the worst it’s ever been, and it stands to get significantly worse after the November midterm elections. By next year, the Obama administration may actually withdraw diplomatic cover for Israel at the United Nations, but even before that, both sides are expecting a showdown over Iran, should an agreement be reached about the future of its nuclear program.
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