Mordecai Nisan, a lecturer at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, has a crazy/scary piece up on the rightwing site, Arutz Sheva, calling for the expulsion of Palestinians from Israel and the West Bank. Arabs in Israel and Palestine are “a hostage population,” and in the coming war between Israel and the Muslim world, they must be sacrificed as a fifth column.
The piece is significant not just for its hateful prescription, but for its paranoid and alarmist perspective.
Israel is facing a life-and-death struggle against Muslim and Arab forces whose declared and intended goal is to destroy the Jewish State. A unified pseudo-Islamic Caliphate alliance, as an indomitable Muslim ambition, could be closing in on Israel.
Increasingly this seems to be the rightwing Israeli mindset– it is based on racial/religious antagonism, and given to hysterical Zionist appeals. Sixty years ago Hannah Arendt told us that warrior states like Sparta don’t last; and Israelis like Nisan are taking steps to insure that. When he says that Israel faces an “abnormal politico-strategic situation,” the enmity of its neighbors, he is right; and the real question is how Israelis can change their society so as to rectify matters.
Here is his frightening and frankly-racist argument about Palestinians:
The Arabs in Israel have affirmed themselves as an alien element in the Israeli body politic, waving the Palestinian flag, demanding refugee return and recovery of lost lands from 1948, and ending “the occupation;” ideologically dissident while politically hostile to the Jewish state of Israel.
They burn forests, smuggle explosives from Lebanon, stockpile weapons, and revile Zionism. Their religion and desire for people-hood far override their statehood as anchors of identity and loyalty. They can never be trusted.
The relentless and sacred Muslim war against Israel, recruiting Palestinian Hamas, Jihad, and Fatah, includes in its ranks the Arabs of Israel. It is they in particular who bemoan Israel’s founding as a daily humiliation in the Jewish Hebrew-speaking country….
The ultimate weapon in Israel’s arsenal is to push Arabs eastward into Jordan, at the appropriate moment. This will be the consequence of ongoing Arab aggression and bellicosity: of Palestinian Arab grad attacks from Gaza against Ashkelon and Sderot, of Palestinian Arab terrorism and murder in Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv, of Hizbullah’s subversive operations in Israel with its tremendous missile armaments poised for release in south Lebanon against Israel, from Nahariya to Be’er Sheva.
Needless to say that, as in 1948, those communities and villages who joined with the Jews and demonstrated loyalty to Israel will be safe from harm and expulsion.
Israel is in need of a clear consciousness to internalize the reality of her abnormal politico-strategic situation. Israelis have been maligned, bullied and battered, defamed and despised for so long, that Israel hardly sustains a sense of her rights and needs – or dignity…
The Arabs in Israel are a hostage population. Although a grave problem, they are also the solution.
Israel will place the Arabs on notice that the dynamic of conflict will lead to their expulsion. The de-Arabization of the area they call Palestine is unmistakably the most appalling nightmare for the Muslim world, because worse than Arab death and its cultic value is the definitive banishment of Arabs from the land.
The demographics within Israel will change dramatically. The dialectic of history will transform Arab warfare against Israel – as in 1948 –into the dynamic catalyst for delivering Israel from the hands of her enemies.
He sounds like a real Cossack. Or a German thinking of Endloesungen.
I have difficulty understanding “hostage population”. Is it “hostile population”?
hostage: a person given or held as security for the fulfillment of certain conditions or terms, promises, etc., by another.
For example, some argue that the presence of Palestinians in Israel would mitigate the danger of attacks with weapons of mass destruction, in that line of the argument, they may function as (mostly) Muslim hostages. If so, their presence enhances the security of Israel. So perhaps Mordechai Nisam meant “hostile” and a translator of Arutz Sheva made a mistake (I would not be surprised if no moron there can see the difference).
Not hostile, hostage, meanign Israel will expel all the arabs, christian and muslim, into Jordan , and cut off all Muslim access to their remaining religious sites, before they are bulldozed. Complete ethnic and cultural cleansing of Palestine, complete Judaization.
Sorry, I got tired of this drivel and I skipped the last two paragraphs.
Interestingly, I see the signs of “red diapers”, namely that our hypernationalist was originally a Marxist (or he still is, after a fashion). Sign one: “Israel is in need of a clear consciousness”. Working class often exhibits false consciousness, although workers interests are separate from the ruling class of capitalists, workers are not aware of that (except for the revolutionary avanguard), but hopefully, in time they will see the light (perhaps after a period of the dictatorship administered by the avanguard, various trends on Marxism differ on that detail).
Sign two: “The dialectic of history…” I can see Stalin smirking from the sky.
Nazi
“Israel is facing a life-and-death struggle against Muslim and Arab forces whose declared and intended goal is to destroy the Jewish State. A unified pseudo-Islamic Caliphate alliance, as an indomitable Muslim ambition, could be closing in on Israel.”
See the hypocritical drivel of the Islamophobes here in the US.
It’s always like this — or has been in modern times, anyway. As a preliminary, the killers and aggressors first need to fantasize that they are under attack.
See the first wave of Nazis. Ask Uncle Adolf. They always see it this way.
Nosiree, it’s not hypocritical drivel, but demonstrated fact! Yessiree! The end-times they are a-coming, the war of Armegeddon (Megiddo) is a demonstrated fact, and the demonstration is the Book of Revelations and the whole-hearted support for Israel of the American evangelical churches.
Also, and more to the point, Israel (in the view of its war leaders, and it has no other) must continue to fight wars with its neighbors from now til “Kingdom Come” (which is my subject, and yours), and those war-leaders will do what it takes to bring about a generalized war between Israel and its neighbors as far away as Iran.
So unless you are given to worrying about global warming or the economy or whatever, you should really, really worry about this war.
“The Arabs in Israel have affirmed themselves as an alien element in the Israeli body politic, waving the Palestinian flag, demanding refugee return and recovery of lost lands from 1948, and ending “the occupation;” ideologically dissident while politically hostile to the Jewish state of Israel.”
The Arabs is alien in the middle east?
The Jews in Israel have affirmed themselves as an alien element in the Palestinian body politic, waving the Israeli flag, demanding refugee return and recovery of lost lands from 2 millenniums ago, and starting “the occupation;”
Lecturer of what? This one is “nothing” with a mouth.
Isn’t this condition called in psychology “cognitive dissonance”? He says they “revile” Zionism. Why the hell wouldn’t they revile Zionism. That second paragraph is definitely the ravings of an unstable mind, I jest not. If this is what Israel will be composed of in future, mentally unstable individuals, President Ahmedinejad (however, the hell you spell his name) is prophetic.
Holy cow, that’s not to mention the ravings in the fifth paragraph!
he’s a freak. his wiki page says he’s professor and scholar of Middle East Studies at the Rothberg International School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. if this represents ..oh never mind. i’m speechless.
Israeli universities are second rate. Ideology always comes before thinking.
There are many racist fruitcakes in the system.
I beg to differ. I do not know much about humanities though. Of course, if the current government will stay the course and eliminate all good departments…
If you think that it is hard to find an American professor with similarly delusional ranting I would have to disappoint you.
Of course you get nuts in the US and everywhere else. But an across the board cut of academics won’t be locked into the same cult as is the case in Israel.
On message Zionism cannot be questioned.
“Needless to say that, as in 1948, those communities and villages who joined with the Jews and demonstrated loyalty to Israel will be safe from harm and expulsion.”
In his book on the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, Ilan Pappe shows that quite a few Palestinian villages tried to protect themselves by cultivating friendly relations with “the Jews” (generally meaning nearby Jewish settlements) but that did NOT save them from expulsion. But perhaps by “those who joined with the Jews” Nisan means only those who actually assisted in the expulsion of other Palestinians, like the Druze.
Didn’t protect Deir Yassin from slaughter, either.
Morris detailed the agreement between Deir Yassin and Givat Shaul and the villagers’ determination not to fight against the Yishuv no matter what. There were also little Munich Agreements with Shiekh Muwannis and the other Jaffa-area villages that didn’t amount to much. (Birth p. 91,97)
Edit: Can’t fix, doesn’t look this way in the edit box.
You just can’t trust them. It is the same with the Oslo process. Bad faith.
I have concluded that Israel has decided that wiping out, or eliminating, the Palestinians, at least as any kind of a polity, if not entirely, is a national project which is worth doing for its own sake, and despite the consequences. Obviously, they are convinced the civilised world will thank them for it, and they can cry this havoc as an honorific.
And the awful self-recrimination which will arise the day after the project is completeted will be wondrous to behold. It’ll be shoot-’n-cry raised to a national art.
All of the other human rights crimes Israel has and continues to commit have been “normalized” why not expulsion of the Palestinians even further. Bet they are banking on a non reaction from the U.S.
Mooser says: “…I have concluded that Israel has decided that wiping out, or eliminating, the Palestinians, at least as any kind of a polity, if not entirely, is a national project which is worth doing for its own sake, and despite the consequences. Obviously, they are convinced the civilised world will thank them for it, and they can cry this havoc as an honorific.”
That really is one of the most irritating aspects of the whole Zionist project. It’s only designed to benefit a population making up 0.2% of mankind in the first place — and of that 0.2%, perhaps at most 25% would be interested enough to actually take part if they had an authentic choice in the matter. So we’re talking this all being for perhaps 0.05% of mankind…if that.
Largely on behalf of this group, a fifth of mankind — over a billion people — are relentlessly vilified. We flirt with genocidal global holocaust. We pointlessly make life worse for all.
And for what? For a disgusting, implicitly Nazi lie subscribed to by a tiny minority of people who willfully refuse to accept the most obvious facts. They’re not even from frigging Palestine in the first place! Stop this idiocy!
“expulsion of Palestinians” Will never forget my conversation/run in with a group of young Jewish men up on Ohio State’s (Columbus) campus after a Palestinian solidarity conference about 9 or so years ago. After the conference I was outside talking with students and this group of young men were using strong and violent words about expelling Palestinians. We probably talked about a half an hour. They were adamant about the potential expulsion of Palestinians from their internationally recognized land. Very creepy, militant, and racist.
“Very creepy, militant, and racist.”
Don’t worry, the national, heck, international outpouring of Jewish grief, guilt, self-recrimination will give rise to exquisite works of art and literature, after the job is done.
Mooser says: “Very creepy, militant, and racist.”
Don’t worry, the national, heck, international outpouring of Jewish grief, guilt, self-recrimination will give rise to exquisite works of art and literature, after the job is done.”
You’re obviously thinking of the American Indians here. Fair enough — but there are a number of differences that imply that while it worked pretty good on the Indians, it won’t work on the Palestinians.
First is the most clinical and obvious. Indians were a New World group, and very susceptible to Old World diseases. Overwhelmingly, they went away in the most definitive way possible. They died. By the time my ancestors got to California in 1864, there appear to have been only 50,000 Indians in the whole state. If the Palestinians had been similarly cooperative, the Zionists would have found only 9000 Palestinians. It would indeed have been ‘a land without a people for a people without a land.’
But in case you haven’t noticed, Palestinians are not dying off. They’re just going to stay there — and in cheerfully growing numbers. In fact, economically depriving them will only make them all the more fecund.
Second, North American settlement had enormous demographic pressures driving it — like my ancestors. There were literally tens of millions all to willing to flood the new land. The Zionist project has managed to get a couple of blips, but fundamentally, Jews just don’t want to go there.
Third, the moral weather’s changed. What could be openly done in 1838 just can’t be openly done now.
Fourth, the Palestinians aren’t a disoriented aboriginal group. Not only are there millions of ‘em, but they know perfectly well what their birthright is, and they’re going to keep wanting it back. I saw them at the protests against ‘Cast Lead’ in San Francisco. All these Americanized, middle class children — all spilling out of the suburbs, and all quite sure they were Palestinian. They are not going away.
The dispossession of the American Indians worked. The dispossession of the Palestinians isn’t going to work.
Let’s pray it’s expulsion. Some sick mind may recognise that Palestinians may start to be new wondering Jew, pray about the “next year in Jerusalem” and be potential trouble in future, befriending/ holding hostage next superpower coming. And the same sick mind may decide that there is only one way to solve the “Palestinian problem” and it was already done in Europe, Middle East, Africa, Russia….., and, frankly, once the deed is done, the consequences, historically, are hardly something worth worrying about.
Trust me, there are people in America and in Israel who are discussing it right now.
>> Israel is in need of a clear consciousness …
What Israel actually needs is a conscience.
As a Canadian who settled in Israel in 1972, Nisan is well qualified to lecture about outsiders.
“…. calling for the expulsion of Palestinians from Israel and the West Bank. Arabs in Israel and Palestine are “a hostage population,” and in the coming war between Israel and the Muslim world, they must be sacrificed as a fifth column.”
Why does there need to be any war with the Muslim World? Why does there need to be any sort of war at all? If it hasn’t started, then its avoidable…and pretty simple to avoid too….JUST DON’T START IT.
And Mr. Mordechai, you might want to recognize that its not all Muslim Arabs living in Israel and the West Bank. There are Christian Arabs and Secular Arabs here too. If you want to sacrifice anyone for a war you intend to start, I would suggest sacrificing yourself. Its a shame that Hebrew University would put you in a teaching position where you can poison youth with your racist and genocidal views.
He sounds like Ben-Gurion, who claimed in 1948 that a second Holocaust was impending while at the same time organising, with self-defense as an excuse, an ethnic cleansing of more than half the Palestinians. You can read my article about it: link to tiny.cc
It might happen again.