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Why not? They have gotten and continue to get away with ethnic cleansing, theft, and murder all along, and most of the "civilized" world still treats them as respectable members of the world community, thereby reinforcing and rewarding their behavior, instead of treating them as the racist gangsters and thieves they are.
Oh, he will resign alright and move to a settlement in the occupied West Bank where he can murder and steal with impunity, protected and funded by an Apartheid regime that is enabled (militarily, diplomatically, financially) by a subservient US government. Coddling and funding zio-supremacists for so long and ignoring their crimes only reinforces their supremicist thinking. With time, the Adlers of this world develop an acute case of self-entitlement and a sense that they can say and do anything anywhere with impunity.
But, you have no problem supporting the blockade on Gaza. Go figure! Is this yet another manifestation of the effects of Ziocaine?
link to mondoweiss.net
This should should not come as a surprise. Israel as a settler-colonialist exclusivist enterprise could only be built through terror, and terror is required to maintain the zionist project.
Maxime Rodinson in her book "Israel: A Colonial-Settler State?'' observes:
``Given the initial aims of the [zionist] movement, it could not
have been otherwise. Once the premises were laid down, the
inexorable logic of history determined the consequences.
Wanting to create a purely Jewish, or predominantly Jewish,
state in an Arab Palestine in the twentieth century could not
but lead to a colonial type situation and to the development
(completely normal, sociologically speaking) of a racist state
of mind, and in the final analysis to a military confrontation
between the two ethnic groups.'' (p. 77)
Honest Zionists do not mince words.
"Zionist colonization must either be terminated or carried out
against the wishes of the native population. This colonization can,
therefore, be continued and make progress only under the protection of
a power independent of the native population - an iron wall, which
will be in a position to resist the pressure to the native population.
This is, in toto, our policy towards the Arabs..."
-Vladimir Jabotinsky, The Iron Wall, 1923.
Let's try this for size, eee: "Jesse has done the honest thing. If he prefers the ideals of liberal democracy to the compromises of an exclusivist (i.e., racist) state, Apartheid, and Nazism are not for him. As for the rest of us, we believe that an Aryan state is well worth the compromises." You and your ilk, notwithstanding your attempt to conflate Judaism and Zionism, illustrate what Jesse -- and indeed any decent human being -- finds objectionable, namely, your brand of racial supremacy and settler-colonialism.
Indeed. As Edmund Burke said, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
In reading Jesse’s wonderful essay, I'm reminded here with an observation made by I. F. Stone in an article in August 1967 in _The New York Review of Books_.
He wrote:
".... Israel is creating a kind of moral schizophrenia in world
Jewry. In the outside world the welfare of Jewry depends on the
maintenance of secular, non-racial, pluralistic societies.
In Israel, Jewry finds itself defending a society in which mixed
marriages cannot be legalized, in which the ideal is racial and
exclusivist. Jews might fight elsewhere for their very security
and existence -- against principles and practices they find
themselves defending in Israel."
eee writes: "The US would have accepted Sadat as an ally even if he would not have signed the peace agreement, just like Hussein in Jordan was a US ally and also the Gulf Arabs."
Your assertion rests on a faulty premise: it presumes that it would be even remotely possible that Egypt/Sadat would be inclined or could be persuaded to be an “ally” of a country (the US) that enables (politically, militarily, and diplomatically) a state that occupies part of its territories, or that it would be remotely possible for a congress “bought and paid for by Israel’s Lobby” (© Tom Friedman) could appropriate any aid to a country that represents even a remote threat to the Zionist settler-colonialist enterprise. I suggest that absent Israel, all states in the region would have – by default - been automatic US allies against the Soviets. . Israel was and is still a major liability to the US, in my view.