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 (DIR) Post #AanYrQxCNzVaJuk0eW by AnarchoDoggo@kolektiva.social
       2023-10-15T07:50:29Z
       
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       Reading The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi and in the introduction he cites a letter written by Theodor Herzl (considered the founder of the modern Zionist movement) to one of Khalidi's ancestors:[Glossing over the fact that Zionism was ultimately meant to lead to Jewish domination of Palestine, Herzl employed a justification that has been a touchstone for colonialists at all times and in all places and that would become a staple argument of the Zionist movement: Jewish immigration would benefit the indigenous people of Palestine... "In allowing immigration to a number of Jews bringing their intelligence, their financial acumen and their means of enterprise to the country, no one can doubt that the well-being of the entire country would be the happy result."]Beyond colonialism, this reasoning was also applied as a rationalization for chattel slavery. John C. Calhoun (the 7th US vice president) said: "Never before has the black race of Central Africa, from the dawn of history to the present day, attained a condition so civilized and so improved, not only physically, but morally and intellectually."
       
 (DIR) Post #AanYrRkTQmvKmjnMSO by AnarchoDoggo@kolektiva.social
       2023-10-15T09:12:02Z
       
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       My meaning here is in no way to speak negatively of immigration (I am a fierce advocate for the rights of migrants and asylum seekers); and of course Jews fleeing Russian pogroms or immigrating due to the horrors of the holocaust is infinitely understandable.But when Herzl speaks of "immigration" in this 1899 letter, he of course means the deliberate project of displacing Palestinians to establish a Jewish state. I assume this distinction is obvious but it is well worth stating directly. It is precisely this distinction that renders a two-state "solution" untenable according to Khalidi. The ethnic cleansing and domination cannot be undone. Israel is not a neighbor; it is an oppressor.Migration: moving to a new place and establishing a homeSettler colonialism: moving to a new place and taking someone else's home
       
 (DIR) Post #AanYrT9gCYgF9Cb0Ns by AnarchoDoggo@kolektiva.social
       2023-10-15T09:52:43Z
       
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       Some people tend to say the quiet part out loud... [Significantly, many early apostles of Zionism had been proud to embrace the colonial nature of their project. The eminent Revisionist Zionist leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky, godfather of the political trend that has dominated Israel since 1977, upheld by Prime Ministers Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Shamir, Ariel Sharon, Ehud Olmert, and Benjamin Netanyahu, was especially clear about this. Jabotinsky wrote in 1923: “Every native population in the world resists colonists as long as it has the slightest hope of being able to rid itself of the danger of being colonised. That is what the Arabs in Palestine are doing, and what they will persist in doing as long as there remains a solitary spark of hope that they will be able to prevent the transformation of ‘Palestine’ into the "into the ‘Land of Israel.’”] From The Hundred Years' War on Palestine, Rashid Khalidi.It is so fucking disturbingly clear that the brutality is the point. Why is Israel blocking food and water and desperately needed medical supplies? Why it is bombing the shit out of neighborhoods and wiping out entire family lines? They are trying to snuff out that spark of hope.