The United $tates and England should shoulder the blame for the Mideast crisis today. England is to blame more for the period leading up to the formation of I$rael in the Mideast as the colonial power there and the United $tates is more to blame since then. Without the $100 billion in aid from the United $tates since 1967, I$rael would have ceased to exist. The Jewish people would have been too afraid to settle there and fend for themselves against the world without U.$. aid.
The Soviet Union's leader from 1924 to 1953, Stalin attempted to establish a Jewish state on Soviet territory, but the one currently occupying Palestinian land was more popular. Non-Zionist Jewish nationalists considered the Soviet territory and other places outside of Palestine.
The question of the Zionist vs. Palestinian conflict is one of locating a few million people. While tens of millions of Arabs and billions of Third World people look on in anger at I$rael and sympathy with the Palestinians, the root problem is only a few million people.
With the U.$. military and economic aid, the I$raelis have been encouraged to look at Palestinians as First Nations people who need to be pushed off their land, by murderous force. Every Amerikkkan today who says he or she would have opposed killing off the First Nations people for their land in North America should also oppose U.$. aid to I$rael.
Contrary to many foreign comrades with an unrealistic view of the facts, the United $tates is not run by a Jewish mafia. If a Jewish mafia were running the united $tates, it would have taken much more than $100 billion in aid since 1967. $100 billion -- about the damage to the World Trade Center-- sounds like a lot, but having a realistic view would mean considering that the U.$. economy runs in the several trillion a year and could expand further if prodded.
If all Jews are bankers like many deluded people seem to believe, then those Jews surely know that $100 billion is nothing, especially given the power to print money and create credit under capitalism. $100 billion would only be a difficulty in a world with no unemployed people. Creating that much credit on paper or printing that much money for the future to do some work with people currently unemployed or moved from other jobs--such a feat is actually trivial, even within capitalism. Immigration and economic expansion only angers the out-of-luck "loser" minority of the labor aristocracy hankering for closed borders and an exclusive relationship with u.$. monopoly bankers.
Although the United $tates is not run by a Jewish mafia, it is true that aid to I$rael surpasses the aid to any other country. It is precisely the historical extent of this aid that necessitates that the United $tates go the extra mile for peace in the Mideast.
The truth is that the United $tates also backed the despicable apartheid regime and related settler regime "Rhodesia" in southern Africa ruled by former Nazis and Nazi-sympathizers. In those regimes white minorities ruled African majorities without even granting those Africans the usual capitalist or "democratic" rights. There is nothing new about support for I$rael and other settler societies: it's quite Amerikkkan, and has nothing to do with a Jewish mafia.
The example of I$rael contributes to international instability and increases the likelihood of a species-ending disaster. In the back of their minds, even the most apathetic Amerikkkans believe that the Mideast could be the world's undoing, even as they favor I$raeli imperialism.
The example of I$rael encourages all nations in the world to catch the eye of the united $tates and then take land from people not lined up with Uncle $am's interests in oil or other resources. The example is receiving billions in rewards each year for carrying out land-grabbing war in the name of fighting "terrorism" or other bugaboos. Such an example sends the wrong message globally. What may not have resulted in nuclear catastrophe when President Andrew Jackson led genocidal raids against the First Nations might very well end the species in the year 2002.
We are opposed to the dismantling of the I$raeli state. Both the Jewish (I$raeli) and the Arab nations in Palestine now objectively exist and thus have an unconditional right to self-determination, as Lenin said. We disagree with the logic of many Palestinian activists that the I$raelis have never had, or have now lost through the genocidal policies of their leadership, their national right to self-determination.
However, the economical, technological and military level of development now enjoyed by I$rael is artificially kept up from without--for the most part by direct aid from united $tates, as well as by I$rael's participation, as an imperialist nation, in the super-exploitation of the Third World. I$rael would be incapable of sustaining that level by itself.
The I$raeli state, as well as thinking and practices of the majority of its citizens, are based on the vicious ideology of Zionism which, in its present form, may or may not qualify as full-fledged fascism, but is certainly as genocidal, authoritarian and oppressive a form of bourgeois ideology as there could be. We should also note that I$rael does not even qualify as a full-fledged bourgeois democracy, insofar as it is not a secular state--it privileges Judaism as a state religion.
In the light of the above, we demand the following:
(1) Scaling back the borders of the I$raeli State to the boundaries envisaged by the UN in 1948 and the formation of a fully independent Palestinian State with Jerusalem as the capital.
(2) The unconditional stoppage of military deliveries to I$rael by any foreign countries.
(3) A thorough de-Zionisation of the country under international control. As we have no illusions about the present-day "international community", we envisage this "international control" as a military dictatorship over I$rael by the exploited and oppressed, similar to what happened to Hitler's Germany under Soviet occupation after the Second World War. It is the best thing the I$raelis could hope for to move forward their own thinking as a people. We encourage individuals to think about what Germans had to face in 1945 and 1946 and how a change of thought had to come about.
We refuse to acknowledge the "terrorism" charge levied against the Palestinians. They only fight for their nation the way they can against occupiers. We also believe that indiscriminate violence by the Palestinians and other oppressed people against I$raeli citizens, as well as all Zionists irrespective of their citizenship, cannot be condemned by Communists at the present time. However, indiscriminate violence or pogroms against Jews who are not citizens of I$rael or Zionists, for the simple reason that they are Jews, is anti-Semitism and continues to be as reactionary as it always has been. On another count, we are opposed to _politically anonymous_ violence, such as the bombings of apartment houses in Moscow in 1999 or the September 11 tragedy. We mean attacks for which no political organization or group has taken responsibility. As a good general practice, we recommend revolutionaries to attribute any terrorist attack for which no one has claimed responsibility to the efforts of the secret services, such as the CIA, the Mossad or the Russian FSB.
Although both Amerikkkans and I$raelis are imperialist oppressor nations at the present time, no equal sign should be put between I$rael and the u.$. As explained above, Israel is largely an artificial formation and its present importance is the result of dialectic of relations between the two superpowers in the period 1953--1991. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, its objective importance as Amerikkka's beachhead in the Middle East has been steadily decreasing--similarly to the decrease in the international importance of such puppet states of the social-imperialist USSR as north Korea or the former GDR. In the light of the proposed u.$. aggression against Iraq and in the event of its success, I$rael's role is likely to decrease still further. Therefore, the I$raelis must realize that their chauvinism and Zionist arrogance is based on very slender foundations. We encourage them to become aware of this reality and understand that it is primarily on them that the future of their country and of its relations with the Arabs depends in the years to come.
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