Tuesday 12 November 2013

Right of Return

Avigdor Lieberman has been acquitted of corruption, and he is now back as Israel's Foreign Minister. The merger of his gutter mob with Naftali Bennett's sewer mob can therefore proceed.

With or without that merger, Lieberman will continue to use his position to agitate for the denaturalisation of the fast-growing population of "ultra-Orthodox" Jews, and for the denaturalisation of the Arabs, who are the emerging or existing majority of the population in half the territory within Israel's 1948 borders.

The Arabs include the original inhabitants of the Land, those whom the Israelites conquered, who founded Jerusalem, who became Christians when or well before the Romans did, who remain so to this day, who had comprised the entire population of Jerusalem for centuries at the time of the Islamic Conquest, and who embody the Holy Land's historic norm of Christian sovereignty: Roman, Byzantine, Frankish, British.

Such are the lengths to which the secular Ashkenazi nationalist project must go in order to save itself from the unwillingness of its proponents, either to move to Israel, or to reproduce once they have arrived there.

By contrast, Theodor Herzl denied the possibility, once the Zionist State had been founded, that Jews, as such, could then continue to exist anywhere else. They would have lost the right to call themselves Jews, according to the founding father of Zionism.

Not only is the population within the pre-1967 borders 20 per cent Arab and growing, but the majority of the rest is of Middle Eastern rather than European origin: dark-skinned, linguistically and culturally Arabic, and with little or (overwhelmingly) no connection to the victims of Hitler.

How is it, then, that the place is run by Avigdor Lieberman, who was born in what is now Moldova, who did not move to Israel until he was 20, and who continues to sport an obviously European surname; by a white man called Bennett; and by Benjamin Mileikowsky, who affects to be called Netanyahu, a name inscribed in Ancient Hebrew on a 2800-year-old signet ring which he displays in his office?

Why does this overwhelmingly brown country in the Levant have an apparently irremovable white ruling class which is basically and ultimately European or European-American?

Why, indeed?

1 comment:

  1. All hail the Mossad Martyr of the Daily Telavivagraph!

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