On Palestine And The Worthlessness Of The Western Liberal by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2024-03-03 at 20:39:08 )

On Palestine And The Worthlessness Of The Western Liberal by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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There is an infuriatingly common type of liberal who purports to oppose Israels actions in Gaza while also saying they support "Israels right to exist", as though Israels existence is somehow separable from its genocidal murderousness.

This is a state that literally cannot exist without nonstop violence and tyranny, as demonstrated by its entire unbroken history since its inception.

It was set up as a settler-colonialist outpost for western imperialism from the very beginning, and that is exactly what it has been ever since.

History has conclusively established that it is not possible to drop an artificial ethnostate on top of an already-existing population in which the pre-existing population is legally subordinate to the new one without tremendous amounts of warfare, police violence, mass displacement, apartheid, disenfranchisement and oppression. This is not actually debatable. It is a settled matter (no pun intended).

Is it possible to have a nation in which Jews are welcomed and kept safe? Of course. Many such nations exist outside of Israel, and the majority of the worlds Jews live in them. What is not possible is a Jewish ethnostate in historic Palestine in which the pre-existing population is treated as less than the Jewish population that does not necessarily entail nonstop violence, tyranny and abuse. This is self-evidently a direct contradiction in goals, but it is what the liberals we are discussing here pretend to believe is a reasonable possibility.

Nice of you to join us Bernie.

Where were you the last 4 months?

Oh that is right, defending Israels wholesale slaughter of Palestinians. "please see here:"-Richard Medhurst (richimedhurst) March 3, 2024

There absolutely could be a state in that region wherein Palestinians and Jews coexist peacefully, but it would be so wildly different from present-day Israel that you can not pretend it would be the same state as the one we see now.

It would entail such a radically dramatic overhaul of Israeli civilization, such a comprehensive dismantling of deeply ingrained racism, such a drastic restructuring of governmental and living systems, so much labor, sacrifice, humility, inner work and reparations, that to call it by the same name as the state that presently exists would be nonsensical.

And that is not what the liberals in question are talking about instituting when they say they oppose Israels atrocities in Gaza but "support Israels right to exist".

What they are saying is they want Israel to remain the unjust and tyrannical apartheid state that is has always been, but for the killing to stop.

They want the injustice to continue, but they want its most overt manifestations to stop causing them cognitive dissonance.

They want the status quo, without the murderous savagery that is necessary for the status quos existence.

They want to pretend they live in an imaginary fantasyland where such a thing is possible.

In order to make this fantasy seem more believable, liberals will pretend that the violence we are seeing can be blamed entirely on the Netanyahu government, as though things would be fine without Bibi in office despite the fact that Israels abusiveness began long before he showed up, and despite the fact that Israels atrocities in Gaza have the approval of the vast majority of Israelis.

Israeli violence is not the product of Netanyahu, Netanyahu is the product of Israeli violence. He built his political career upon sentiments that were already in place.

They will also tell themselves fairy tales about a two-state solution to make their position seem more valid, ignoring inconvenient facts like that Israeli officials have been openly saying a Palestinian state will never happen, that Israeli Jews overwhelmingly oppose such a measure, and that Israeli settlements are being built in Palestinian territories with the explicit goal of making a future two-state solution impossible.

Liberals subscribe to these fantasies as a kind of cognitive pacifier, which allows them to relax and feel okay with themselves despite the fact that they are not actually endorsing any viable path toward justice.

And to be clear this is not just what liberals do with regard to Israel-Palestine; it is their whole entire position on everything.

On every issue their position is little more than "Maintain the status quo, but make it pretty and psychologically comfortable for me."

They never want to do what is right, they just want to feel like they are right.

Theirs is an imperialist, militarist, tyrannical oligarchic ideology with a bunch of feel-good social justice bumper stickers slapped on top of it. A boot on your neck and a flower in its hair.

That is who liberals are.

It is who they have always been.

Phil Ochs released the song "Love Me, I am a Liberal" in 1966, and they have not changed one iota ever since.

The issues change, their arguments change, but their "maintain the status quo but let me feel nice about it" values system has remained exactly the same for generations!

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