Sunday, May 12, 2024

Despising the Nation State of Israel

I DESPISE ISRAEL, the nation state, the military super power with nuclear weapons. I long have. I love the Jewish people,only because they are people, even though, on balance, I do not like human beings, and much prefer animals, as intelligent people often do. And also, I despise Judaism, and all other organized religions. History, told honestly, can have that effect on you, as can a lifetime of living among human beings and animals..."I make friends with people. And I wear a derby on my head as others do. I say "they are strangely stinking animals." And I say "no matter, I am too". (Bertolt Brecht).... That about sums it up for me. I despise Israel for living on stolen land, and for not taking the lead in establishing a Palestinian nation state, a "homeland" as we call it. And now, this genocidal war. Yes, thousands of years ago the Hebrew people lived on that land. Before they came, others lived there. Many people have come and gone there, like on all other land masses. But in 1948, both Jews and Palestinians lived there, which is the relevant fact, still do, and both should be accomodated. To this day, the Israeli genocidal tyrant opposes the establishment of a Palestinian homeland, the bastard. I love the good people, young students, bravely risking their futures and freedom protesting Israel's genocidal war. As a child, I felt the same way about the college students protesting the the evil Viet Nam war, and the imperialist murderous United States. I still do. They were right, history hath shown, just as these students, two generations removed, are right today. I have rarely if ever met a progressive protest I disliked and didn't support. I finally got to participate in the first Iraq war protest, and almost got beat up by a conservative imperialist thug. Women's rights, gay rights, civil rights, the bonus army, Black Lives Matter, Iraq, Iraq,etc.....bring it. All for sacred causes, all for peace and justice.. The Viet Nam war was ill conceived, plain wrong, an American imperialist adventure to make Viet Nam safe for American corporate investment, correct? We know that now, if we didn't fifty years ago. (I did,even as a child. I knew it!)... Women should be allowed to vote, correct? "Black" people deserve equality in apartheid America, correct? Gay people are human beings, am I right? We are just beginning to see the folly of Bush's many wars against Iraq. Soon, we will completely see it. Hindsight is twenty twenty, as we say. All progressive protest movements are sacred causes, including the current one. The mainstream conservative corporate American media distracts us from the sacredness by focusing on the miniscule negative. The looting and violence of the "Black Lives Matter" movement was emphasized out of all proportion to the ninety nine percent good peaceful people who participated. Martin Luther King marched peacefully down mainstreet, and the media put the camera on a thrown rock, more than on police German Shepherds ripping holes in peaceful protestors. Herbert Hoover called the Bonus Marchers, heroic veterans of World War One, "communists" and thugs. And here we go again. Ninety nine percent of today's college campus protestors are peaceful crusaders for justice. A few fights break out, and there go the cameras, showing the fights, ignnoring the peace protestors. History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. (Mark Twain). "In the earthquakes to come, it is to be hoped I shan't allow bitterness to quench my cigar's glow."(Bertolt Brecht)

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