April 11, 2024
By Don Hank
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Since Israel started openly declaring its dominance over Palestine and has started murdering Palestinians and killing by starvation, it has become obvious that it is a state based on ethnic cleansing.
The difference between now and the recent past back to about 1947 and beyond is that the mainstream media, along with the social media, have finally stopped pretending that Israel can do no wrong.
This is a sea change and both Israelis and “Christian” Zionists are sleeping through it as though today’s events are business as usual. But there will never again be business as usual in Israel and Palestine. The world now knows what Israel is and it will never recover its reputation. I also realized that only the political class and the “Christian” Zionists are still stuck on, I daresay, stupid. They simply refuse to recognize the truth.
I saw an article in All Israel reporting that religious groups recently went to Israel and met with Netanyahu to show them their support, despite his obvious genocidal policies.
I decided to interact with these people because I was brought up in a “Christian” Zionist home in the heart of the Bible Belt and had heard people all around me repeating the lies about “Israel.” It made me heartsick to realize that otherwise sweet, kind Christians were the bedrock of a doctrine that has been killing innocent men, women and children ever since 1947 and 48 even as Israel enjoys the reputation as the inheritor of the “Holy Land.”
I began seeing “Christian” Zionists as the bearers of a dangerous heresythat was far from Christian and, worse, was turning the Middle East into a powder keg that threatened the world with nuclear war.
Around this time, I received a flyer from Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, a “Christian” organization that vehemently opposes abortion. It seems Tony was just then visiting Israel along with about a dozen other Israel-loyal Evangelical leaders.
I contacted the FRC and warned them that, because of Israel’s atrocities toward the Palestinians, it no longer enjoys a sterling reputation, not by a long shot, and that US fundamentalist groups that supported it unwaveringly were not enjoying the same popularity they once did.
Last week I heard from the 700 Club, a radical pro-Israel Evangelical group that had apparently read my email and decided to try and guide me back into the fold like the other sheep.
They sent me a video entitled Whose Land Is It? Jewish Claims Explained(youtube.com), intended to show skeptics why Israel is legitimate.
The film’s narrator, Gordon Robertson, said there were 4 main reasons why Israel deserves to be a nation:
1—God gave Abram the land we now call Israel
2—History. He gave examples of the history of Israel, including the fact that King David had built his capital in Jerusalem
3—Law, starting with the Balfour Declaration and going through the different international law organizations that declared Israel to be a nation.
4—What Israel did with the land, namely, the developments and the enormous population compared to the smaller population in 1948.
The following is my response to this presumptuous presentation, showing why these claims do not hold water:
1—No other nation state in world history has ever claimed legitimacy on the basis of religion. Needless to say the US Constitution forbids the preference of one religion over another. Further, while the Bible does say that God gave the land to Abram, it also lists sins that the recipients of this land may not commit lest they fall out of favor with God and lose their land rights. “Christian” Zionists like to call God’s land covenant “unconditional,” but it is not. In fact, the different diasporas were motivated by God’s dissatisfaction with the inheritors of the land.
And in this regard, why would you expect an Israel that slaughters little children to stay in favor with God?
2—History. All of the points of Israel’s history came to an end roughly 2000 years before supposedly, “Israel” was reborn (although to be accurate, today’s Israelis lack the consistency of DNA required to constitute an ethnicity).
These historic grounds are absurd. If we applied those to today’s various ethnicities, we would have to declare a long list of ethnicities to be “nation states.”
For example, the Kelts, ie, Irish, Scotts, Welsh, etc, could legitimately claim most of Europe as their rightful territory because there were Kelts in Europe before there were Germans, French, Italians and many others. Can you imagine any serious court of law telling modern nations to evacuate their homes and make way for the Kelts? In fact, one could even throw in a religious reason since the Kelts were devout believers in the Druids, whose deity might be said to have bequeathed Europe to them. This idea is no more absurd than the idea of throwing the Palestinians out of the land they occupied for centuries. Though that is exactly what happened!
3—Legal grounds. The first example Robertson lists is the Balfour Declaration. However, as history scholars know, this was not a legal document.
He then mentions the League of Nations as the signatory to the British Mandate, which was to be responsible for the further development of “Israel.” This League of Nations then was superseded by the UN. The problem with both these international law agencies was that none of the signatories at the time of signing were Arab nations. Therefore, the Arabs in Palestine had zero representation, and it is clear that the legal steps that led to the creation of the Israel as a nation were illegitimate since the whole process was a racist project of white Europeans and white Americans. Particularly the American politicians were bullies who forced their will on the rest.
The Israelis also famously claim that all the land they “won,” for example, in the 1967 war, is theirs because they were fighting for their survival. However, this official accepted narrative does not hold water, as masterfully explained by Norman Finkelstein.
None of the territories Israel claims on the basis of this war belongs to the countries that possessed it before the war.
4—The last point is moot because no amount of development of a piece of land can in any way enhance a claim to said land. If you own it, no one can insist that you develop it.
No Arab states in the League of Nations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_states_of_the_League_of_Nations
Emma Olive 