The “De-Zionization” of Israel: Drying up Ideological Wellsprings of Arab – Israeli Conflict
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However
this awareness has yet to wait for drying up the Zionist ideological
wellsprings of the Arab – Israeli conflict and translating it into real
politics by de-Zionization of Israel and disengaging western foreign
policy from its ideological attachment to Zionism.
In his article published by
Foreign Policy on last October 25, James Traub quoted US President Barak
Obama in a speech last May, “announcing
a re-formulation of the war on terror,” as saying: “We cannot use force
everywhere that a radical ideology takes root;” the only alternative to
“perpetual war” is a sustained effort to reduce “the wellsprings of
extremism.”
The
“wellsprings” of “perpetual wars” and “extremism” in the Middle East
during most of the past twentieth century until now could easily be
detected in the unholy combination of real politics and the “radical
ideology” of the secular – turned – religious Zionism.
This
combination made it possible and seemingly ethical for Americans and
Europeans to accept and justify the unethical displacement of the
indigenous Arab people of Palestine to be replaced by a multi-national
artificial gathering of Jews who suffered oppression, anti – Semitism,
pogroms and holocaust in their western home countries.
US
and European continued attachment to the Zionist ideology lies at the
heart of their treatment of Israel, the offspring of this ideology, as
one of their top “vital interests” in the Middle East, which is an
attachment that in turn lies at the heart of anti-Americanism and other
forms of Arab conflicts with the “west.”
The
safe haven of the “new world” in America was a timely and practical
solution for Europeans to get rid of and solve their “Jewish Question;”
it now absorbs more Jews than Israel does.
The
communists offered their own solution; it materialized in the Jewish
autonomous “Oblast” first ever republic in the Russian Birobidzhan,
close to the border of the former Soviet Union with China, which was
home to some three million Jews before some one third of them immigrated
to Israel following the collapse of the communist empire.
The
nation states basing citizenship on the rule of law is now the rule of
the day in Europe , where Jews enjoy full constitutional religious,
civil, political and all the other rights enjoyed by their compatriots.
There
is no more a “Jewish Question” in Europe in particular or in the west
in general. If such a question still persists there it is one related to
the disproportionate influence of Jewish citizens on the decision
makers in the political, financial and media arenas.
Nonetheless, the Zionist
propaganda in Israel and abroad is still fervently inciting that Jews
are an endangered species outside Israel , soliciting Jewish
immigration, encouraging dual citizenship and binational loyalty among
them and considering all Jews outside Israel as “refugees.”
Writing in the http://www.huffingtonpost.com on September 6 last year, Hanan Ashrawi, a Palestinian leader and elected parliamentarian, quoted Shlomo
Hillel, a government minister and an active Zionist from Iraq , as
saying, “I don’t regard the departure of Jews from Arab lands as that of
refugees. They came here because they wanted to, as Zionists” and
quoted Former Knesset member Ran Cohen, who immigrated from Iraq , as
saying: “I have to say: I am not a refugee. I came at the behest of
Zionism.”
Consequently,
the “Jewish Question” moved ironically to the very Arab safe haven to
which the oppressed European Jews fled with their lives to survive the
culture of inquisition in Medieval Europe.
The largest Jewish minority
among Arabs in Morocco nowadays tells the story.
This Arab safe haven was turned by the Zionist ideology into a hell
of wars, instability, ongoing conflict and home of a revived “Jewish
Question” since Israel was artificially created 65 years ago in the
heart of the Arab world, where Jews used previously to be a prosperous
minority in every one of the capitals of the 22 Arab states except
Jordan.
Zionism justifies the creation of Israel in Palestine by two basic
controversial arguments: That God promised the land to Jews no matter
what would happen to its Arab inhabitants who was there long before
Joshua and his army crossed River Jordan to destroy Jericho and kill
every man, woman, child and animal by “God’s command.”
On November 2, 1917, British Foreign Secretary then, Lord Balfour,
acted as the self – appointed messenger of God’s will to issue a modern
God’s promise to Jews to have a “homeland” in Palestine.
The modern justification of the Holocaust does not care that
another people, namely Arab Palestinians, pay the price for a crime they
did not commit.
Ironic but informative as well is the fact that Zionism was not originally a Jewish product.
According to the author of “Christian Zionism: Road-map to Armageddon?” (InterVarsity Press, 2004) Revd. Dr. Stephen Sizer, writing in the Middle East Monitor on last August 1, “The
origins of the movement can be traced to the early 19th century when a
group of eccentric British Christian leaders began to lobby for Jewish
restoration to Palestine as a necessary precondition for the return of
Christ… Christian Zionism therefore preceded Jewish Zionism by more than
50 years. Some of Theodore Herzl’s strongest advocates were Christian
clergy.” Dr. Sizer headlined his article, “Christian Zionism: The Heresy that Undermines Middle East Peace.”
He,
together with the Heads of Churches in Jerusalem: The Latin Patriarch
Michel Sabbah, Archbishop Swerios Malki Mourad of the Syrian Orthodox,
the Episcopal Church Bishop Riah Abu El-Assal and the Evangelical
Lutheran Church Bishop Munib Younan issued in 2006 and signed the
Jerusalem Declaration on Christian Zionism, which concluded: “We
categorically reject Christian Zionist doctrines as a false teaching
that corrupts the biblical message of love, justice and reconciliation.”
The
Zionist narrative was challenged by Israel ’s “New Historians.” Benny
Morris, Ilan Pappe’, Avi Shlaim, Tom Segev, Hillel Cohen, Baruch
Kimmerling and others have already reconsidered and created a post –
Zionists’ awareness. Pappe’ concluded that the Zionist leaders planned
and executed “ethnic cleansing” to displace most of the Arab
Palestinians.
Shlomo
Sand’s trilogy – - “The Invention of the Jewish People,” “The Invention
of the Land of Israel ” and his upcoming third volume “The Invention of
the Secular Jew” – - hits hard at the very foundations of Zionism.
The
fact that the secular Zionism was not popular among the world religious
Jewry in the early stages of the movement and that it is an ideology
still opposed by a strong Jewish minority is a fact Zionists are keen to
smokescreen.
“The UN avenue” in Haifa, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv was renamed “The Zionism avenue” in response to the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) of Resolution 3379 on November 10, 1975, which determined that “Zionism is a form of racism and
racial discrimination;” it was revoked by the UNGA resolution 46/86 in
1991; the ongoing Israeli Zionist ideology and practices render its
repeal a premature step that should be reconsidered to reinstate it.
The
world community as represented by the United Nations, by adopting
resolution 181 of 1947 dividing Palestine between its indigenous Arab
Palestinians and the invading aliens of the Zionist settlers played in
the hands of Christian and Jewish Zionism to commit an historical
mistake that doomed peace in the Middle East as an elusive humanitarian
hope for a long time to come.
Jews
were an integral part of the region’s history and social fabric until
Zionism cut this fact short.
Only the prerequisite of de-Zionization of
Israel and world politics will make peace a dream that would come true
in the region and restore history to its normal course in it. The
Crusaders’ interruption of the regional history is an informative
precedent from which all those concerned could draw lessons.
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