Israel is preparing for war. Israeli leaders are slowly beginning to understand the nature of their predicament: with Ariel Sharon they embraced war, and they now see war as a solution, an escape, a panacea for their inability to defend (and also maintain) their crusader fortress. MOSSAD, the Israeli intelligence agency, is bolstering its numbers; the Israeli Defense Forces are buying and building large quantities of weapons, both rudimentary and sophisticated.
High and expensive walls (largely paid for by the United States government) have been erected. An illusion of security has been cultivated by Israeli authorities, in the media and in their public statements. The “cash cow” (for the Western nations) that is Israel is blithely ignored, and indeed denied. The modus operandi that is called Zionism is no longer serviceable. Yet it is a truism that philosophies do not simply disappear and die. They explode – in violence and recrimination and hatred.
What will happen to Israel? That it will be destroyed is obvious – this has been obvious for a number of years. Israel cannot be defended. Militarily it is an utter impossibility, though we can be certain that a valiant attempt will be made to “defend” Zionism and the sovereignty of Israel. That this valiance will quickly degenerate into cowardice and confusion is also obvious. We will not see a real “defense” of the indefensible. A philosophy is a personal confession, as Nietzsche so brilliantly explained, and Zionism is merely another one of the 20th century’s philosophies. It found perfect expression by becoming a testament, a dramatic testament, of the Jewish people – perhaps the final testament. Was the project foolhardy? Clearly it was, but this is not the point: their project expunged the guilt of the Jewish people; this was a massive confession, an act of contrition. We cannot explain it otherwise. Grandiose is perhaps an accurate description of Zionism. A racial awakening it also was – but few Jews will easily admit to this.
Richard Nixon, America’s 37th head of state, famously declared on February 1, 1972 in the White House (to Bob Haldeman, his Chief of Staff), “The Jews are an irreligious, atheistic, immoral bunch of bastards….” Whether there is truth in this statement is almost irrelevant, and the reason is obvious: such a condemnation is virtually akin to an act of war, a declaration of conflict. The Jewish people wish what all human beings wish – freedom and prosperity. We know the truth, and we must make continual confessions – hence philosophy. Can we visualize what is possible in the future? Perhaps, but we are reluctant to do so. A confession must perforce become a nightmare, and this is what Israel and Zionism have become for the Jewish people.
Israel’s disintegration and destruction will be shocking, swift, and totally unexpected. In this new era knowledge and technology are liberating us, and we all desire freedom and dignity. So Israel will disappear, and soon. But its disintegration will be violent, very violent. The “undemocratic” regimes of Jordan and Egypt will collapse after a change in power takes place in Saudi Arabia. Arab fighters will infiltrate Israel from Jordan and Egypt, and then it will be a matter of days. Israel’s ruling elite will be the first to flee. The masses of Israelis will flee on small craft into the Mediterranean, and attempt to reach the shores of Turkey, Greece, and the island of Cyprus. They will remain refugees – always. The Palestinians will fight for their land and their freedom, and the Arab people – all of them – will achieve total independence.
Israel, the West’s weapon against the Arabs, and the oil-rich Middle East, will be lost. This first became clear to the editor of World Affairs Monthly in November 2000, when The Logic of the Arab-Israeli Conflict was published. We are living in a new era, the era of freedom for the Arab people, and of course for the Palestinians. Zionism will merely be a flicker on the TV screen of history.
http://worldaffairsmonthly.com/articlebyid.php?id=385
