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What if Israel were to fold tomorrow? The most obvious benefit would be the
end of the primary objection people in the middle east have to the US. We
are not supposed to say it but everyone knows it. Bin Laden said it. All
public opinion polls in the middle east give that as the reason for negative
opinions of the US. Even the 9/11 Commission said it. But we are not
supposed to make an issue of it.
So clearly there is a major benefit to the US, no more justification for
terrorism, no more using it to recruit terrorists, and being able to check
out library books without Big Brother keeping records.
What would the US lose? We would lose our major source of worthless
intelligence information about countries in the middle east. Israel was the
major source of all the BS about Iraq weapons program. If Israel were gone
we would not get bad intel and also there would be no need for the intel in
the first place. That is getting two for one.
Some might say the US would lose an outpost of democracy in the middle east.
Fact is Israel does everything it can to be considered European rather than
middle eastern so it does not want that honor. It is only used as a
pro-Israel talking point, mere propaganda. As an aggressive expansionist
country Israel is a bad example democracy. And the US really doesn't give a
damn about democracy in the middle east. That too is a pro-war talking
point, more propaganda.
For the sake of argument lets say the US is still facing terrorist attacks.
Does not Israel provide invaluable knowledge and experience in combating
terrorism? Israel has been facing guerrilla warfare, today called terrorism,
for half a century. It appears the only thing Israel can teach the US is how
to prolong terrorism for a half century with no end in sight. I do not see
how that can be considered a good thing. I'd rather deal with someone who
knows how to win.
Should Israel's economic accomplishments be taken as a model to study?
Considering US charity by way of foreign aid accounts for 15% of Israel's
national budget it is frustrating to see how little it has accomplished. It
is like someone giving the US $300 billion a year every year.
Israel's science and technology are often pointed to with pride. In fact
they are like the small town newspaper crediting the home town boy in the
big league with every winning game. The other players on the team get no
credit. But even if not, it is the people not the country. It doesn't matter
where they live and work. Israel does nothing out of the ordinary to promote
research.
In terms of the other players not getting credit, US companies are given tax
reductions for work contracted to companies in Israel. This is another form
of charity, giving Israel foreign investments which make no economic sense
without the reduced taxes. Even with the tax incentive there is so little
investment, we have to conclude it is all because of the tax break.
Israel's advanced military hardware is the same as other science and
technology. Israel is given contracts, technology is shared, major projects
are joint ventures. Israel typically falls behind in their part of these
projects has to be helped along to keep the project on schedule. In
Washington assigning budget overruns to Israel is both expected and quickly
approved.
A favorite propaganda talking point is the value of Israel's military to the
US in the middle east. In fact it has been valueless in both Iraq wars and
in Afghanistan. It has been a major investment for the US which in practice
worthless. The military aircraft the US has provided permit Israel to
project force as far as they can fly. Its German supplied U-boats project
power as far as they can travel. Its 650,000 active and reserve land forces
can project force a little bit beyond the end of the bus lines. Those are
the facts.
Israel does not have tanks carriers. It does not have troop transports. It
does not even have mid-air refueling for its planes. It does use its
civilian buses to move troops to the front.
What about Israel as an example of an open, pluralistic, multicultural
society? That may be the image Israel tries to project in the US. In reality
Israel is a highly segregated society reminiscent of the American South in
the era prior to the civil rights movement. Housing, job and government
benefits are by law and social custom favor Jews to the near total exclusion
of others. Separate but equal schools are the norm.
Rather than an example of the West, Israel is a carbon copy of the worst of
other middle eastern countries. Where some middle eastern countries may not
be favorable to non-Muslims, Israel has public policies to encourage
non-Jews to leave. Not only to leave Israel but to leave the occupied
territories as well. Israel pays Jews to live in the occupied territories
and takes the best land for them to live on, driving out or killing the
rightful owners, or makes it impossible to use their own land, claiming it
as a security zone, a thousand reasons all of which give Jews the land of
other people. Jews publicly say their intention is to make life so miserable
for Palestinians that they will leave.
And here I have switched from Israel to Jews. Israel is not the
responsibility of non-Jews. While non-Jews have the legal right to vote, it
is illegal for their elected representatives to advocate ending Jewish
dominance. It is the same as the pre-civil rights US prohibiting any
politician from advocating the end of segregation. Non-Jews having the vote
is clearly a sham, a travesty of democracy. It would be more honest to deny
them the vote as they cannot gain fundamental improvement to their own
condition by voting.
Is it antisemitic to say Jews are the bigots doing this? Can the truth be
antisemitic? Jews are doing it. They are also Israelis. It cannot be said
politely.
With Israel gone, native expertise in the sciences will be dispersed to
other countries rather than lost. The major cause for anti-American
sentiment in the middle east will disappear. The perverted example of a
western democracy will no longer cause people to reject the idea. And of
course the billions saved each year, not just on those funds keeping Israel
a desirable country but also the matching funds going to Egypt.
Even more, Jews who leave will no longer live every day in fear of bombs and
bullets and cataclysmic war. They will no longer live in a militaristic,
segregated society. They will be freed from the constant barrage of zionist
propaganda. Best of all, the change will harm none of them. There may be an occasional swastika on a
synagogue but no bombs on buses. It would seem a more than fair trade.
Israel's ruling families know all of this. It is obvious to anyone who takes
an unbiased look at it. Therefore the holy holocaust is used to get Jews to
move to and stay in Israel and "Arabs will slaughter us" to keep the
citizens from demanding the government make peace with its neighbors. There
is no threat any place in the world, not even in Arab countries, of any kind
of extermination effort. Therefore
every trivial incident is presented as a harbinger of a holocaust to
come.
The simple fact is no government of any middle east country has ever
threatened to push Israel into the sea. That is a myth of the Zionist ruling
class to keep the peasants in fear. It is a delicate balance between the two
fears. It requires regular demonstrations of military power to keep
immigrants from going home as so many Russians are now doing. US charity
becomes doubly important. First to pay for that military. Second to make the
welfare state possible as it could not exist if Israel had to pay for its
own military.
To maintain the solidarity of Israel, it resorts to the methods developed by
Nazi Germany. Devotion to themselves as a people to the exclusion of all
others, Ein Volk. Fervent nationalism, devotion to Israel as the land of
their fathers, the patriarchs, Ein Reich, der Vaterland. So far they have
not resorted to Ein Führer but two out of three isn't bad.
As with Nazi Germany they have an openly socialist state which is legally
and customarily almost exclusively for the Volk. Circumstances are made as
difficult as possible for non-Jews to encourage them to leave. Some 80% of
Christians have left. Life in the occupied territories is made as
intolerable as possible with laws worse than Nuremberg Laws applied to the
native population.
The end of Israel would be akin to the end of Nazi Germany without the war.
These massive injustices would end overnight. Non-Israeli Jews would cease
being tarred with the same brush as Israeli Jews. With the end of Israel
there would no longer be anti-zionism to spill over as anti-semitism.
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