On 9 April, 100 Russian Jewish notables wrote to the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, urging him to ignore a recent plea by US Jews to the Israeli government to pursue a peaceful solution to the conflict with the Palestinians.
The plea they were objecting to had been made a week earlier by a New-York-based liberal Zionist organization, the Israel Policy Forum, which works for a negotiated two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In its plea to Netanyahu, the US's Israel Policy Forum said:
We believe that this is a compelling moment for you and your new government to respond to President Obama's call for peace by taking concrete confidence-building steps designed to demonstrate Israel's commitment to a "two-states for two peoples" solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. We urge you, in particular, to work closely with Secretary of State John Kerry to devise pragmatic initiatives, consistent with Israel's security needs, which would represent Israel's readiness to make painful territorial sacrifices for the sake of peace.But weak and half-hearted as this was, it was too much for the former Soviet Jews, who included the president of the Russian Jewish Congress, Yuri Kanner, businessman Mikhail Fridman, one of the organization's founders, and Pinchas Goldschmidt, a chief rabbi of Moscow and president of the Conference of European Rabbis.
In their letter to Netanyahu, Stalin's Zionist sons said:
We, the Russian Jews ... believe that the decisions of the head of the government of Israel on critical issues should be taken for the sake of [the] people of Israel only, based exclusively on Israel's assessment of the situation. Decisions on national security issues must not be made under external pressure, regardless of its origins: world public opinion, US leaders or even influential American Jews.They might as well have said:
We, the Chosen People, are superior to any other and shall murder, steal and pillage as we like, irrespective of the pain and harm we inflict on others. After all, did not the Old Testament say:It is time the world woke up to the reality of Jewish politics and the Zionist lobbies that have infested the body politic not just of Western countries, but also of Russia and all the former Soviet republics.
- You will chase your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword before you. Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight; your enemies shall fall by the sword before you. (Leviticus, 26:7 - 8)
- When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations ... you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy. (Deuteronomy 7:1 - 2)
- Do not leave alive anything that breathes. Completely destroy them ... as the Lord your God has commanded you ... (Deuteronomy 20:16)
If most decent humans stood as one against Nazism and Apartheid South Africa, then why make an exception for the racist Zionists?
The strategic weakness with the Israeli position is that it's over-leveraged. It's power is dependent upon continuing material, military and political support from the U.S. Of course, Israel uses every means to sustain this relationship but all that is smoke. The fire is ongoing mutual business profit. The U.S. and Israel have a convenient division of labour - a modus vivendi - and oh how the money rolls in!
But, if the money doesn't roll in the covenant is undermined. Americans are being exhausted by financial insecurity. When the tipping point is reached that there is no light at the end of the tunnel patience with subsidizing the Israeli sacred cow will evaporate. The Israelis and their U.S. dependents will make extraordinary efforts to divert or paralyze a restive public to be busy blaming alternative alternative parties.
It is certain that Israel will continue to be aggressive, provocative and demanding. It is certain that Americans will just get tired of Israel sucking up all the oxygen, setting the agenda and bleeding the U.S. Already, Israel is tarnished. Today, Israel disappoints. Tomorrow it betrays.
Our way of life is under siege in our own neighborhoods. How dare those ungrateful Israeli's add to our miseries. And American Jews conclude that Israel is the biggest threat to their ongoing security. The Know-Nothings are back.
The driving engine is an over-leveraged economy. There is way more outstanding debt than can be resolved, written down or dumped on the working class and poor. The incendiary tension between international finance capitalism and the political power of the many nation states approaches ignition. What country will tell the bankers and bondholders to just get stuffed? Since we're ruined anyways we're happy to bring the house down over your heads too. If you won't spare us, we'll fuck you.
Lenin must be laughing. It's been just a hundred years but the suckers have finally bought that rope.