{"id":26564,"date":"2011-05-17T15:46:04","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T15:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=26564"},"modified":"2011-05-19T12:57:26","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T12:57:26","slug":"israel%e2%80%99s-doomed-fate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=26564","title":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s Doomed Fate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gilad Atzmon \u2013 gilad.co.uk May 17, 2011<\/h4>\n

\u201cThere will be no return\u2014 time has come to tell Palestinian refugees they will not be returning to the State of Israel,\u201d\u00a0<\/span>writes Nahum Barnea<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a>, a prominent Israeli \u2018liberal\u2019 columnist.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is becoming clear that Israel lacks the means to cope with Palestinian resilience. Despite Israeli barbarism; despite\u00a0sixty-three\u00a0years of oppression, racial discrimination and mass murderous tactics\u2014 including the usage of WMD\u2014 the Palestinian people have remained determined to return to their land.<\/span><\/p>\n

This week they reminded the Israelis, world Jewry and the rest of the world that the Palestinian cause is not going to fade away. If anything, in 2011, Palestinians\u00a0seem more decisive, firm and united than their parents\u2019 or grandparents\u2019 generations.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hence, it is almost amusing to follow the bizarre manner in which Israeli writer Barnea tries to convince himself otherwise, proclaiming \u201cTheir politicians told them it would happen. The clerics promised Allah\u2019s help. Foreign sponsors provided flags and buses. They embark on their mission with the confidence that the Zionist project is destined to collapse. Another small push and the entire Land of Israel, from the Jordan to the Sea, will become Palestine.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Whether Barnea grasps it or not, this is indeed the vision more and more Palestinians have in mind and this is exactly the vision I have in mind. This is the exact vision more and more people\u00a0around the world envisage as a perfect solution, and clearly, this is the only ethical\u00a0and universal solution to this bitter conflict: Israel will be Palestine. It will stretch from the river to the sea. And it will be a State of all its citizens as opposed to the racially exclusivist \u2018Jews only\u2019 State.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI have news for you, my dear cousins*,\u201d says Barnea in a condescending manner. \u201cIt won\u2019t be happening \u2013 not in your lifetime\u2026. Sixty-three years have passed since that war; the time has come to embrace other dreams.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t take a genius to gather that Barnea, like many other Israelis, expresses wishful thinking here\u00a0rather than a reading of the reality on the ground.\u00a0 As it happens \u2013 and more than a few of us detected it decades ago \u2013 Palestinians are at the forefront of a battle for a better world. The current regional Arab revolution is a mass call for justice, but also for justice in Palestine. As much as the world looks with admiration at young Muslims and Arabs\u00a0making a change, it also becomes general knowledge that Israel is the biggest threat to world peace.\u00a0 The Palestinian Right of Return is about to become an international\u00a0priority issue, and Israel will be defeated on that front. The West wouldn\u2019t hesitate\u00a0to sacrifice Israel on that issue:\u00a0isolated and humiliated, Israel is going to struggle hopelessly against the entire region. And to clarify the matter, time is not exactly on the side of the Jewish State.<\/span><\/p>\n

Israel has had sixty-three years to confront its original sin. It had a window of opportunity to repent, and open its border to the millions of refugees it so brutally expelled.\u00a0 But now the window seems to have been closed. Israel has lost the chance to save itself from itself. And what we saw this week\u00a0was just an introduction. Israel is about to face a tidal wave of Palestinian gatherings on its borders. Israel doesn\u2019t possess the political or military means to deal with these emerging forms of non-violent resistance.<\/span><\/p>\n

Barnea like many other Israelis\u00a0loves Abbas: according to the Israeli columnist\u00a0Abbas is\u00a0\u201cthe most humane, lovely politician in the three governments currently serving in the Land of Israel.\u201d However,\u00a0 Barnea is disappointed to find out that even Abbas \u201cgets carried away\u201d when he declared on the eve of Nakba Day that no Palestinian leader will renounce the right of return: \u201cthe return is not a slogan\u2026Palestine is ours.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Barnea stresses that Abbas refrained from clarifying the question of how, and where this right will be realised, and whether it will be through compensation or physical return. Barnea concludes that \u201canyone could make what he wanted\u201d out of Abass\u2019 words.\u201d But in fact Barnea is\u00a0 wrong again. Abbas’ words were totally clear: there\u00a0was no hidden message or even ambiguity in them. The return is not a slogan. For a while it was a universal and an ethical call. But as things stand this week, it is now becoming\u00a0a call for a direct action.\u00a0Barnea and most Israelis may still fail to grasp that today\u2019s Middle East is a new entity all together.\u00a0 It is united; it is firm, and it is far from timid. It is vibrant, and revolutionary, and fuelled by yearning for justice and freedom.\u00a0 Israel is surrounded by a wall of fierce resistance. As far as the Jewish State is concerned, the countdown has begun.<\/span><\/p>\n

Barnea ends his diatribe by telling his fellow Israelis that \u201cthose who wish to live in the sovereign, Zionist and democratic State of Israel have no other option but to keep telling the Palestinians: with all due respect, what\u2019s in the past is in the past.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet, a universal reading of Barnea\u2019s suggestion surely also logically implies that the rest of us then, can also now relieve ourselves of the endless burden of Jewish exceptional suffering too: after all, Barnea did say, \u2018what\u2019s in the past is in the past.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Accordingly then,\u00a0if the Jews are not unique in their collective pain, nothing should stop the Israelis from opening a new page too, so they can cross the divide and build bridges with the indigenous people of the land; those whom they themselves ethnically\u00a0cleansed and attempted to destroy. For if the burden of the past can, as Barnea suggests,\u00a0lose its relevance or significance, Israel might as well live up to that, and turn its face to a brighter future and voluntarily invite the Palestinian refugees to return\u00a0to their land. Such a move would mean an immediate end to the conflict.<\/span><\/p>\n

But, needless to say, I do not hold my breath.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet, there is one crucial (currently hypothetical) question I must address: nowadays,\u00a0 when it becomes clear that the Jewish state approaches its final phase,\u00a0 how would\u00a0 Israelis\u00a0 who would like to return to Europe react to a Barnea-like\u00a0 \u2018no return\u2019 statement if it were expressed by a European \u2018liberal\u2019 columnist?\u00a0 How would Israelis or the rest of us react to the following:\u00a0 \u2018there will be no return-time has come to tell the Jews they will not be returning to\u00a0Europe\u2019?<\/span><\/p>\n

Such a statement would clearly provoke outrage amongst many of us.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet sadly enough, we are all too used to hear similar statements\u00a0from \u2018liberal\u2019 Israelis and Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n

*Cousins- a derogatory manner in which Israelis refers to Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims. I vow to explore this term and its origin in one of my next papers.<\/span><\/p>\n

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