The recent J Street national conference, which featured a keynote speaker who extolled the virtues of racial and ethnic separation, was almost enough to lead a cynical person to believe that there’s a symbiotic relationship between Israeli fascists and liberal Zionists.
Israel’s new fascist government remains to be officially seated and that should be cause for alarm because conditions in Palestine are deteriorating quickly, and elements of the incoming government thoroughly encourage violence against Palestinians.
The incoming Israeli government is by far the most right-wing and racist government in Israeli history, and that’s saying a lot. And so far the messaging from the Biden administration seems to be that its policy towards this new government will be one of benign neglect.
Every day, every hour, pretty much each living moment, Palestinians living in Israeli-occupied Palestine are subject to and endure egregious and immoral impositions on their lives that none of Israel’s supporters would countenance for even ten minutes.
If there was any doubt as to the extent Israeli apartheid infiltrated the most personal and intimate aspects of the lives of Palestinians then those doubts ought to be banished by a story this week.
It’s been almost one month since Israel’s last war in Gaza, euphemistically called “Operation Breaking Dawn,”ended. It bears repeating that 49 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes during that three-day assault. Seventeen of those killed by American-made and supplied weapons were children.
There is no type of advocacy for Palestine that Israel can tolerate. And as long as Israel won’t tolerate it, the United States is more than happy to go along, because anti-Palestinianism is as American as apple pie.
It’s been nearly two weeks since Israel’s latest offensive in Gaza concluded and as ought to be expected from prior experience, there doesn’t seem to be any exploration of the moral dimension of Israel’s behavior on the part of the Jewish-American pro-Israel bloc.
Again, the self-proclaimed “Israel Defense Forces,” are pulverizing Gaza.
Israel can’t manage to put together a stable government is because Jewish Israelis largely refuse to form a government with the representatives of a major bloc of the Israeli electorate – Palestinian citizens of Israel.