#and we are witnessing a genocide on the dime of our country

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I keep saying how Israel’s strategies directly contradict it’s stated goals and how their current campaign will unequivocally lead to further security threats for Israeli Jews and further radicalization of both civilian populations. And I keep repeating this as an educational advisory or warning. My educational background is in terrorism and religious nationalism, and if there’s one thing I learned during my studies, it’s that Western militancy is a large contributor to cyclical violence around the globe. The United States, for example, is one of the larger exporters and producers of (political and religious) extremism or terrorism internationally, on par with Iran, Russia, and Saudi Arabia. U.S. Christofascist and nationalist groups invest BILLIONS overseas to export their ideas while U.S. statecraft and military strategies have led to a catastrophic increase in terrorism globally.

The “West’s” strategies in the “War on Terror” are a danger to people around the world. While the rhetorical goal is to stabilize a region and deradicalize a civilian population (that, statistically, is not made up of radicals or militants), the end result is always further regional instability and extremism.

I wrote about this in my thread about how “counterterrorism is the pretext, ethnic violence is the goal” (also linked above):

I hope that by pointing all this out and explaining it, I can help peel back the screen and reveal these campaigns for what they are. This is nothing short of colonialism with modern weapons. Settler colonialism, especially, requires ethnic cleansing and genocide of a native population. And the thing is? The “West” has been very good at all of it. They perfected it.

The goal is to provide further justification to slaughter civilians. Every oppressive system has a system-justification measure built in. The system justification measure here is that the more brutal we are, the more brutal the reaction against us, and the more justification we have to “crack down” and clean the area out of “those people” (labeled “extremists” or “terrorists”).

As the article says, “They will seek revenge that no security arrangements will be able to withstand.”

That’s the point of this campaign. The point is to “prove” that Palestinians (and oppressed people, generally) will always seek violence against their oppressors. The point is to “prove” that it is necessary to eliminate all Palestinians for the security of Israelis. They want to convince you that if a single Palestinian lives, they will seek revenge and they will kill you, too. (It’s also important to note that the people who make this argument often conflate Israeli and Jew, so when they say “Palestinians want to kill Israelis,” they really mean, “Palestinians want to kill Jews,” while neither is true). Those oppressed people will surely oppress you exactly as you have oppressed them.

I want to warn people that this is the “justification” for genocide. This is how the west is once more rationalizing the need for a genocide. This is what they’re using to excuse genocide.

And the bitch of it is? This bombing campaign can undoubtedly lead to some form of further radicalization and continue the cycle of violence. Hurt people hurt people. Israel is a textbook example of exactly this. The goal should be breaking that cycle. The goal should be working to a solution that codifies group rights for the security Israelis want and the civil rights Palestinians must have. However, that’s not the objective here. And we know this will never be the Israeli government’s objective based on how it marginalizes groups like the Parent’s Circle. They don’t want reconciliation and healing, they want to centralize and entrench right-wing power and finalize their ethnostate from river to sea.

And if you know one thing about Fascism, it’s that it always needs an “enemy of the state,” an anti-staatsvolk if you will, to reproduce its legitimacy. Fascism partially arises out of fear of waning majority power or out of security concerns. There must always be an “other” to generate fear and anxiety about. Because a fascist or proto-fascist/nationalist government comes into power promising to “take care of” the staatsvolk’s anxieties. It’s a political tool, one which the government in power bases its legitimacy on. When there is no more “other,” they no longer have the legitimacy to rule, or, at least, they no longer have the ability to distract people from analyzing the merits of their, often ineffective, policies.

“The scapegoat is an evanescent presence, created through moral panic and just-so stories and projected onto targeted individuals or populations posited as the embodied cause of the conditions generating fear and anxiety. As an instrument of political action, scapegoating’s objective is to fashion a large popular constituency defined by perceived threat from and opposition to a demonized other, a constituency that then can be mobilized against policies and political agendas activists identify with the evil other and its nefarious designs—without having to address those policies and agendas on their merits.” X

When this “complete siege” is over, then what? They have no concrete policy goals because there is no “after,” only a continuation of the violence and oppression, as even their vaguest promises of “after” include things like military occupation.

When this “incremental genocide,” the Nakba, is over, then what? Does the threat end when every last Palestinian has either been killed or removed?

Al Jazeera, 29 Oct. 2023

No innocents in Gaza.

We are watching a genocide unfold under the guise of “counterterrorism.” This isn’t about Hamas, and never was. Hamas is a convenient excuse. This is about the destruction of the Palestinian people. This is about land. This is about the genocidal project of settler colonialism.

I’ve been telling people that Israel— and the Zionist movement as a whole— is actually a security threat to the whole of Southwest Asia *and* to Jewish People globally.

The moderate conservatives and fascists who control the US government keep saying that Israel is vital to western geopolitical interests in the region. But those interests are *not* “security” interests. The interest isn’t preventing war in Southwest Asia or North Africa, especially not when historically colonial leaders (US, UK, and France) are involved. Like… Israel has often been a roadblock in diplomatic deescalation with Iran and counterterrorism in the region (see: Bibi funding terrorists, for one).

I’ve been saying that Israel’s violence is going to spill over to the region. I’ve been warning that Zionist expansion and aggression is going to meet fierce resistance. I’ve been trying to explain that Zionist aggression and expansion is dangerous not just to the Arab people of Southwest Asia, but also Jewish people in Israel and the SWANA region. At some point, Israel will meet too much resistance. At some point, there will be too many fronts and not enough resources.

This violence going to continue to widen in the region and diplomacy will continue to deteriorate. Hezbollah and Houthi activity are only the beginning. Jordan withdrawing their ambassador, the deterioration of normalization with Saudi Arabia, the complete cessation of relations with Brazil, etc… are only the beginning.

But America’s support is likely to remain unwavering, and as long as America has the international power it does, that means little is likely to change. As long as Israel has American support, there will be violence in Southwest Asia.

What a lot of the “I stand with Israel” promoters don’t understand is that the only way to secure the long-term safety and wellbeing of Israeli Jews, and the only way to achieve security and longevity for whatever state they live in, is to provide full and equal rights to Palestinians. That includes their full participation and representation in political systems, full land rights and protections, full economic freedoms, full citizenship, and the right of return.

Zionism has led to nothing but Jewish and Arab death. And the thing is? When the concept was first created in the early 1800s, long before it became a term Israelis attached to Jewish Nationalism, that was its point. People supported this concept as a solution to their country’s “Jewish Question.” They saw it as an opportunity to get Jewish people out of their country. And many Christian groups have come to support the concept believing that all Jews must return to the holy land to be massacred so Jesus can return. They want death. Death is the literal point of Zionist support and movements in countries like the US, UK and France. Christian Zionists want war while Secular Zionists just want to get rid of Jewish people, and don’t give a shit if they die.

There are more Christian Zionists in the US than there are Jewish people in the US. There are more non-Jewish Zionists in the US than there are Jewish people in the whole world. Jewish people make up a fraction of Zionists, and that is because many Jewish people recognize the antisemitic origins of the concept and the danger of ethnic and religious nationalism.

Anti-Zionists recognize that Jewish Nationalism is being used for US and UK colonial interests. Zionism justifies putting Jewish people in harm’s way and the line of fire for US economic interests in Southwest Asia, and calls it “necessary” for Jewish freedom and security. Zionism as well as terrorism is the reason over 1400 Israelis died on Oct. 7th.

Israel ignoring Egypt's warnings, Israel's chaotic "recovery" (a.k.a. their explicit non-recovery and bombing of hostages), and the IOF's chaotic engagement with Hamas fighters on Oct. 7th and 8th that caught hostages and civilians in crossfire should be proof enough that Israel cannot and will consistently fail to provide for the security and welfare of Jewish people. It should also be proof enough that Netanyahu's government doesn't give a shit about Israeli lives unless they can be weaponized to serve his political and regional goals.

From “Zionism encourages and spreads antisemitism around the globe.”