Benign Social Genocide – Moon of Alabama

August 21, 2004

Benign Social Genocide

This from the lead paragraphs of today’s New York Times: U.S. Now Said to Support Growth for Some West Bank Settlements.

The Bush administration, moving to lend political support to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at a time of political turmoil, … In the latest modification of American policy, the administration now supports construction of new apartments in areas already built up in some settlements, as long as the expansion does not extend outward to undeveloped parts of the West Bank, according to the officials…

Translation:

The Bush administration says it will take a 180 degree turn in foreign policy and snub the road map partners Russia, Europe and the United Nations. The administration ditches its previous stand on a solution of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and sides with Ariel Sharon to significantly extend Israeli settlements on Palestinian land in West Jordan.

National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice and her director of Middle East affairs, Elliott Abrams, explained the issue: The President takes this step to nuture the votes from the Jewish and evangelical electorate for his sharply contested reelection. Candidate John Kerry, competing for the Jewish votes and financial support by the Jewish establishment, is not expected to disagree with Ariel Sharon and President Bush on the Israeli strategy and the expansion of settlements.

There are two patriotic imperatives for Israel. The first, to take possession of Eretz Israel, ´the holy land of its fathers´, contradicts the second, by which the state will always need a massive Jewish majority. The demographic growth of the Palestinian people does not allow for a peaceful solution of this contradiction. Short of reenacting a holocaust like scenario, current Israeli policy, as described by Israeli sociologists like Baruch Kimmerling, is to achieve a politicide. The application of military, diplomatic and psychological measures to extinguish the Palestinian people as a political, social and economical entity.

Major steps have already been taken by destroying the infrastructure that could enable any Palestinian leader to effectively govern his people. The next steps to be taken now are to further expand the imperial strongholds in West Jordan, build more roads between them to sectorize Palestinian land and erect walls that restrict Palestinians to four or five Bantustans. The hope of the Palestinians has to be broken to make them leave West Jordan, thus: benign social genocide.

Sharon, as any other Israeli politician, knows, that there will never be any US president or presidency candidate criticising Israel in the months before a contested election. He grips his chance now to completely bury the road map forever.

Again the SCLM fails to report the facts in straight words and refuses to analyse the real political coherences.

Posted by b on August 21, 2004 at 19:24 UTC | Permalink

Comments

We can either re-examine our foreign and defense policy vis a vis Israel and Arab/Muslim states, or we can resign ourselves to a life of war and terror. It’s that simple.

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Aug 21 2004 19:49 utc | 1

I guess because I am a de facto citizen of the US…I must also be a de facto supporter of all things pro-Israel.
Of course no one ever asked me my take on all matters Middle-Eastian…
And I guess that is just as well.
Not because my opinion doesn’t matter, although it certainly doesn’t (especially to Sir Bush and Lord Cheney)– but because in the end Israel really doesn’t matter.
Which is to say: Israel is doomed as they are presently politically alligned.
They can’t build a wall thick enough, high enough or long enough to upset the birth rate dyanmics.
The only question is…are they going to go out with a boom (nuclear suitcase bomb) or a whimper (buried beneath a rising Palestianian population explosion¹).
I’ve got five quid and a pint of England’s best cider on them being drowned by the rising Palestinian population explosion.
[Aside:Man those Arabs love to fuck..don’t they? Should we thank God they don’t believe in Western birth control either? Or..parachute drop them our best condoms? Just wondering….]
By the way…
Regarding all this happy republican talk of Iraq acting as terrorist flypaper…
Isn’t it great that Israel is functioning as flypaper for Soviet-inspired suitcase nukes?
Better Israel than us… Right?
Right?
If you don’t know the answer to that rhetorical query…try asking it to Lord Cheney or Sir Bush–provided of course that you could ever get them to condescend to answer any significant geopolitcal question whatsoever.
Believe me, the Bush/Cheney/Wolfie crowd have already run the various dyanmics through their best Operations Research Turing machine.
And of course–Israel has also run its own metrics through its own super-stupid supercomputers.
Ever wonder where every one of Israel’s nukes are pointed? All of ’em are aimed at those stinkin’ Muslims right?
Surely they wouldn’t aim any of those big-bad-booms at thee or ye???
Oy vey…No way!
I can’t imagine Isreal trying to hold the western world hostage as their decaying states decays both from within and without…
Can you?
No way!
That’s why I say…Israel doesn’t matter. They are defunct, moribund, incipiently extinct.
Right?
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¹
Within Israel the Arab birth rate is twice that of the Jewish birth rate, while the Palestinians of Gaza have one of the highest birth rates in the world.

Posted by: koreyel | Aug 22 2004 1:10 utc | 2

The never-ending Israeli conflict serves as flypaper for fundamentalist extremist Jews.
Whenever I hear the American-accented Israeli ‘settlers’ justifying land theft and genocide on the basis of being God’s chosen people, and BTW justifying oppression of Jewish women on the same FUNDAMENTALIST religious basis, I am grateful that they all emigrated from New York and Philadelphia in order to go f***-up some other country instead. Good riddance!
Now, can we create some foreign refuge for fundamentalist Baptists who feel so oppressed by the separation of church and state? We’ve got too many of those here too.
/sarcasm/

Posted by: gylangirl | Aug 22 2004 2:43 utc | 3

benign ?
WTF are you smoking today, bernhard ?

Posted by: name | Aug 22 2004 3:17 utc | 4

While foriegn policy and Israel are important subjects, something is happening under our noses that scares the hell out of me.
Lee hamilton on Friday called for greater control for government and a curbing of civil liberties. There is even talk of check points to travel within the US borders.
This is pure bullshit and just more ways to control the sheeple. Don’t roll over for this crap. I am again going to call my senators and Rep on Monday. Altough, we have Levin and he’s useless as a sore tooth.

Posted by: jdp | Aug 22 2004 13:21 utc | 5

Free Press in Israel

Posted by: Cloned Poster | Aug 22 2004 16:37 utc | 6

Arabs Say U.S. Destroys Hope Over Jewish Settlements

Palestinians, backed by the Arab League, accused the United States on Sunday of destroying the Middle East peace process after Washington signaled it could accept some growth of Israeli settlements.
Until now, the United States had demanded a freeze on building all Jewish settlements on land occupied in the 1967 Middle East war. The communities are seen as illegal by most of the world, though Israel disputes this.
…
Accepting limited construction within existing settlements could also benefit President Bush , who is loath to cross Jewish-American voters who back settlements and other conservative supporters of Israel in the run-up to the November election.

Posted by: b | Aug 22 2004 17:29 utc | 7

@jdp
Lee hamilton on Friday called for greater control for government and a curbing of civil liberties. There is even talk of check points to travel within the US borders.
You got a link for that? I’d like to be able to cite the source when I rip my congresscritters a new one.

Posted by: prof fate | Aug 23 2004 19:49 utc | 8

UN agent: Apartheid in territories worse than S. Africa

South African law professor John Dugard, the special rapporteur for the United Nations on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, has written in a report to the UN General Assembly that there is “an apartheid regime” in the territories “worse than the one that existed in South Africa.”
As an example, Dugard points to the roads only open to settlers, from which Palestinians are banned.

Posted by: b | Aug 24 2004 8:58 utc | 9

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