THE WANDERING WHO? GILAD ATZMON a "Book Review Chapters 1 - 5," tbc

GILAD ATZMON:  THE WANDERING WHO? A STUDY OF JEWISH IDENTITY POLITICS ~

• A transformative story told with unflinching integrity that all [especially Jews] who care about real peace, as well as their own identity, should not only read, but reflect upon and discuss widely.  Richard Falk

zero books, Winchester, UK - Washington, USA, Text copyright:  Gilad Atzmon 2011

~"Book Review" Chapters 1 - 5, to be continued, for consideration in critical thinking IE EG ~

"The Nazis made me afraid to be a Jew, and the Israelis make me ashamed to be a Jew"

Forward, P 11, Para 2:  Through music, and particularly my very personal struggle with Arab music, I learned to listen .. To empathise is to accept the primacy of the ear ~

•  I am searching for the metaphysical, spiritual and socio-political connotations, Gilad Atzmon ~

Chapter 1, The Right to Elaborate

• Western discourse commentators .. not courageous enough to wonder
• what the word Jew stands for ~
• ?This question ..taboo?

• Weizmann .. Jewish-ness .. always remain .. alien?

• racist ideas predate Nazism
• ideology .. Jews practice some proletarian activity, namely production
• yet maintain their national and cultural symptoms

• Zionist Agent ~ Sayanim (assistants) - must be 100 percent Jewish
• live abroad .. not Israeli citizens .. many are reached through .. relatives in Israel
• Paul Wolfowtiz, Rahm Emmanuel, Lord Levy, David Aaronovitch far more effective
• Zionist cause .. staying where they are

• Zionism, a Global Network
• The Organism .. probably the Zionist movement's greatest strength
•  transformed Jewish tribal into a collective functioning system
•  Zionism as an organismus .. leads to major shift in our perspective of current world affairs
• Americans and Brits and, to a certain extent, the West are all subject to a financial turmoil
• 'credit crunch' /
• Zio-punch

Chapter 2, Credit Crunch or Zio Punch

• in 1992, US Defense Secretary Dick Cheney
• appointed Paul Wolfowitz (Undersecretary for Defence Policy) and
• 'deputy' Lewis "Scooter" Libby, to draft
• USA Defense Planning Guidance (DFG) for the 1994-99 fiscal years
•  "'Wolfowtiz Doctrine'"
• leaked to the New York Times .. strategy for merging American and global Zionist interests ...
• into a unified practice
• The Project for the New American Century
• Regime change in Iraq .. consistent position of PNAC throughout 1997 - 2000
• Wolfowitz .. leading figure .. PNAC .. immediate removal of Saddam Hussein
• Clinton's administration constantly pressured
• in 2002 - 2003 .. America and Britain prepared for war against Iraq
• Bush's administration complied with PNAC's political philosophy
• war turned into a complete disaster
• in 2006, there wasn't much left of the notorious neoconservative think-tank
• PNAC was reduced to a voice-mailbox and a ghostly website
• with a single employee left to wrap things up
• the entire American geopolitical philosophy collapsed as the Arab masses identified
• America as their enemy, and some of the Arab tyrants as American collaborators
• How is it that America didn't find, within its 'free media' and political establishment
• the means to resist Wolfowitz and Libby?
• After the election of George W. Bush in 2000
• a number of PNAC's members or signatories were appointed to key positions
• within the President's administration
• The American media and political system were very slow to react
• This fact alone raises a crucial question

• Oil is important .. Moreover, by the time the last American soldier is evacuated or air lifted from the Green Zone (Baghdad) it will be clear that it was actually the failure of Wolfowitz's doctrine that made Iran into the leading regional superpower

• The Greenspan Doctrine - Money Makes The World Go Round .. How come alleged American 'free media' failed to warn the American people of the enemy within?

• "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague."  Marcus Tullius Cicero, (106-43 B.C.) Roman Statesman, Philosopher and Orator, Attributed. 58 BC, Speech in the Roman Senate [emphasis added]

• Throughout centuries, some Jewish bankers gathered reputations
• backers - financers of wars and even one communist revolution
• Though some rich Jews have been happily financing wars using their own assets
• Alan Greenspan, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve of the United States
• found a far more sophisticated way to facilitate or at least divert the attention
• from the wars perpetrated by Libby, Wolfowitz and PNAC

• Without going too deeply into economics
• Greenspan who through some excessive deregulation prepared the monetary ground
• for the rise of the subprime mortgage companies:
• a lending market that specializes in high-risk mortgages and loans
• 'Innovation' .. 'has brought about a multitude of new products, such as subprime loans
• and niche credit programs for immigrants'

• But then the grave reality dawned on the many struggling, working class Americans and
• immigrants, who were failing to pay back money they didn't have in the first place

• The Moral Agenda .. One just has to read the first and prominent Zionist prophet

• Theodor Herzl to know that this is what political Zionism is all about:

• getting superpowers to serve the Zionist cause
• You may wonder at this stage whether I regard the credit crunch as a Zionist plot or
• even a Jewish conspiracy .. In fact the opposite is the case
• It isn't a plot and certainly not a conspiracy for it was all in the open
• It is actually an accident .. The patient didn't make it to the end

Chapter 3, Zionism and Other Marginal Thoughts

• The Jewish political call was inspired by different means of tribal
•  cultural or even racially-oriented segregation .. Our society is an amalgam in which many who
• were once marginal are now assimilated in which many who were once marginal are now
• assimilated and integrated .. This natural tendency to merge with one's surrounding society
• is seen by the marginal politician as a major threat 
• The Margin .. This is why marginal politics depcits reality in terms of binary oppositions
• Zionism, for instance, is maintained by *anti-Semitism*
• *SEE YOAV SHAMIR'S FINE ART FILM:  *ON DEFAMATION 
• Identity, Identification an Authenticity 
• Human beings, it appears, do 'belong to language'
• Language is out there before one comes to the world
• Can we think without applying language?
• Can we experience at all without the mediation of language?
• As soon as we name, we surrender to language
• Hence, looking into oneself can never reveal an authentic identity
• Identity Politics and Marginal Philosophies 
• The Zionists' relationship with the resurrected Hebrew language is a good example
• Even when it establishes its own discourse, lingual signs and symbolic order this discourse
• can only be realised in terms of its relationship and exchange with mainstream discourse
• The Strategies
• Zionist lobbies in America specialise in tracing rich and influential Jews
• During their struggle for recognition, Zionists admitted their contempt for the Diaspora Jew
• This was essentially the birth of Zionist separatism .. In order to support their views .. Zionists
• created an image of emerging anti-Semitism .. a myth of persistent persecution was needed 
• On 15 Oct 1894 Captain Alfred Dreyfus, sole Jewish member of French army's General Staff
• was detained on charges of spying for Germany .. Throughout trial Dreyfus declared innocent
• Theodor Herzl prominent Viennese journalist traveled to Paris to cover the trial moved by saga
• deduced that assimilation was doomed to fail .. Separatism is a strategy of ghetto-building
• and Zionists have followed this strategy since the late nineteenth century

• to American Jewish feminist Andrea Dworkin suggested the idea of Womanland was insane
• she answered:  'Didn't they say that about Israel?  And didn't the world think that Theodor Herzl, the founder of the Zionist movement, was a crank? The Jews got a country because they had been persecuted, said that enough was enough, decided what they wanted and went out and fought for it.  Women should do the same

• One significant difference, however, is that Israel possesses hundreds of nuclear bombs
• The Holocaust was a 'Zionist victory'

• marginal politics is maintained by hostility against oneself .. If there were no burned synagogues
• Mossad would go as far as burning some itself .. Within separatist worldview such behaviour
• is legitimate because the end is far more important than the means, and
• the campaign is more important than any moral integrity.

Chapter 4, The Sabra, the Settler and the Diaspora Jew

• From a pre-1967 Zionist perspective the Sabra ... is a separatist Jew 
• As an Israeli male secular Jew between 1948 and the 1980s, one was destined to participate
• 'willingly' in a collective mimicking of an imaginary Nuevo Israelite icon
• in the form of Rightwing Zionism, this ideology has matured into the most influential
• political force in Israel .. The reason is simple - it manages to knot together Jewish politics
• Judaism and Jewish tribal spirit .. Slowly but surely, this Rightwing ideology, which has
• its ideological roots within the Settler movement, has managed to unite most of world Jewry
• behind Zionism .. However, this process, also regarded as the Zionification of world Jewry
• is not entirely free of faults.

Chapter 5, Fagin vs. Einstein

• the 'J' word contains special righteous attributions .. However, they will also be gravely offended
• if they are called a 'Jew' by others .. Suggesting to a Jew that 'he is a Jew' or 'behaves like a
• Jew' can be regarded as a serious 'racist' offence .. European Jews can easily disappear into a
• white Western crowd by means of assimilation and integration and leave their Jewish identity
• behind, whereas black people and women have to live their life accepting and enjoying who they
• are .. Neither black people nor women are offended by being called 'black' or 'women'
• No one will ever cause you any trouble for mentioning Albert Einstein in reference to Jewish
• intelligence or even bringing up Anne Frank as an exemplary motif of Jewish innocence
• but you may get into some serious trouble once you mention the following list of real and fictional characters:  Bernie Madoff, Fagin, Wolfowitz, Lord Levy, Shylock, Alan Greenspan, Netanyahu and Nathan Rothschild
• Some Jews are rather unhappy with Charles Dickens' Fagin and Shakespeare's Shylock
• who they regard as 'anti Semitic' .. the British Holocaust Education Trust (HET) has managed to
• plant Anne Frank within the British curriculum .. It doesn't take a genius to gather why Julius
• and others are concerned with Fagin or Shylock:

• Fagin is the ultimate plunderer, a child exploiter and usurer
• Shylock is the bloodthirsty merchant

• Zionism is uniquely pernicious, at least for being devastating to the indigenous population of the Holy Land ~tbc~