Here is Joseph Massad at Electronicintifada, using the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising as the role model:
received word that the resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto was finally
crushed and many of its fighters killed, [Szmul] Zygielbojm turned on the gas
in his London flat and committed suicide in protest against the
indifference and inaction of the Allies to the plight of the Jews in
Nazi-occupied Europe. He also felt that he had no right to live after
his comrades were killed resisting the Nazis…. Meanwhile, the Palestinian
people will resist the invading Israelis with all their might and
against astronomical odds. The Palestinian people, like Zygielbojm
before them, understand very well that Abbas, his clique, the Arab
regimes, the US and Europe are all culpable in their slaughter as much
as Israel is.
And here is Berkeley anti-Zionist Jew Marc Sapir, in an outraged email to friends:
the
Palestinian people are doing as a whole today only what all Jews ought to have
done as a whole people in the very difficult environment of the Nazi
terror. That is, to refuse to collaborate with one's oppressors and to
totally resist by any means possible until the enemy collapses from the weight
of its own aggression. Zionism, for 60 years, has been stealing from
and punishing, in the most depraved manner, the Palestinian people, based
upon European Jewish survivor guilt. The colonialist
project the Ashkenazi Zionists bought into with the British–Eretz Yisroel–was
no solution for anyone–dispossessed or possessor.
'The colonialist project the Ashkenazi Zionists bought into with the British–Eretz Yisroel–was no solution for anyone–dispossessed or possessor.' — Marc Sapir
That's the bottom line, isn't it. Zionism, like Communism, was based on false premises. It will never work. It can't work. But meanwhile, keeping it on life support grows ever more costly, even as security within the zionist enclave deteriorates.
Since guided missile technology exists, and is widespread, it's inevitable that it will make its way to the perimeter around Israel. And since missile interception systems do not work very well, no amount of military muscle will provide a defense against incoming missiles. Even the primitive Qassams can't be stopped.
The probable result of Israel's crushing of Gaza is that this inevitable development will happen sooner than it otherwise would have. U.S. money — that unwarranted three billion a year — gives Israel a delusive sense of invincibility. U.S. aid actually has been terribly corrosive to Israel's well-being.
Strident U.S. support for Israel's military blunder is the best way to invite another 9/11. LIHOP/MIHOP all over again?
"Strident U.S. support for Israel's military blunder is the best way to invite another 9/11."
Israel's strategy (or desperate hope) is to stir up so much hatred and violence that it can never be extinguished, and will suck in the U.S. and Europe.
In a sense the "clash of civilizations" school was right, but they got the civilizations wrong.
Desparate people resort to desperate means. The Warsaw ghetto uprising was suicidal and it looks like the Gazan prison uprising may also be suicidal as well.
If so, then perhaps this perpetual crisis will be removed and the rest of us can peacefully move on. Harsh words, but it would be a solution.
Of course, we must accept that this attack is not just by Israel but by the US-Israeli alliance. As long as we design, build and provide as gifts these weapons, then we are complicit. Not today, but we can hope that someday the American people will wake up and insist that we withdraw from this ugly war.
Jim Haygood – Hear, hear!
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I think Marc Sapir has touched on something important: does the inability of Zionists to understand Palestinian resistance as legitimate stem from a deep sense of shame that so many European Jews were passive in the face of Nazi extermination?