By Mike Holmes & Walter Block
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There is a sinister twisted connection between anti-Israel Jew bashing (in the Middle East, the EU/UK zone, Canada and the US) and neo-Marxist anti American political rhetoric and open public hating. This is seen in both the EU/UK political zone and in the US itself. Particularly from “elite” academia and MAGA-hostile political leaders. This is because Trump has amped up American support for Israel and military action against Iranian open warfare, targeting both Israel itself and US military allies and bases. Major Middle Eastern nations are supportive and are also under fire by Iran.
Saudi Arabia and several Gulf States have been fighting off Persian air and naval attacks. This seems to come from ancient history (Persians vs, well, pretty much everyone else.) This leads to the conclusion that everyone would probably get along with each other if the Persians, their tiple H allies and a few quasi-independent wealthy oil Sheiks stopped all the fighting.
Palestinian groups who are armed and attacking Israel are essentially welfare clients of these outside sources. Little is said or written about the finances as they are kept carefully hidden in the murky world of mainly cash on the barrel-head funding. Crypto now enters the picture as well. There are always bankers in the region willing to make a commission on whoever is paying whom.
Gaza itself was previously unpopulated; the land and resources there cannot support any sizeable population. Palestinian “refugee” camps are grudgingly permitted by some of Israel’s neighbors, but are mostly financed by international welfare. The decades old premise being sold is that someday, the Jews will leave and Palestinians will return to fully occupy Israel.
But now, in the second quarter of the 21st Century, practically all the nations tin the region, other than the Iranian subsidized terrorist groups, have accepted Israel. They work hard to keep actual Gazans as far away from themselves as they can. The Abraham Accords, as well as Iranian theocratic leadership military attacks, have also united the rational leadership in the Middle East.
When we put on our old John Bircher hats, we start to suspect Russian funding of anti-Israel political outfits in Europe/UK just to make the US and Israel unpopular among dim bulb socialists there. The old Putin Soviets never supported Israel for much the same reason. Is this a replay?
Anything to make the United States unpopular. The USSR opposed Israel to curry favor with the Arab world.
The tie between anti-Israel and anti US in Euro/UK political elites seems pretty obvious and important. The British and many other Europeans are still smarting over disrespect due to their nonexistent militaries and third-rate economies. The Russia/Ukraine war has made that obvious too. Then they admit massive numbers of unscreened and unvetted Muslim immigrants. This results in angry Muslim male terrorist incidents and ardent mosque builders instead of assimilators.
They traded a bunch of busboys and truck drivers who practice dhimmitude against young girls, for a group of Jews where are scientists, professors, doctors, and leave their young females strictly alone. The latter departed for safeties sake based upon the rising antisemitism. Not a good swap for Europe.
Politically, dissident European populists and non-socialists are echoing parts of Trump’s MAGA, only in MEGA format (Make EU/UK Great Again.) Dumping on Israel and Jews in general is not proving popular with the UK/EU working classes or heritage populations. Mass migration of strangers disrupts traditional life and Christian values. At least in theory these are still enshrined local traditions and laws. Israel and Jews are not to blame for this, but socialist governments nonetheless fan the flames of hatred in their direction. Placating Muslim immigrant voters there? None dare say that openly. Some hands must remain hidden.
For politically nervous and shaky leftist ruling coalition governments, the answer is to attack both Trump-led American power and Israel. Also, to harbor local antisemitic social disruptors who work to combine Israel hating with American derangement syndrome. All too often, “hate” is their only real policy.
But Jewish Israel has already won, decades ago. Jews aren’t giving Israel back to the British colonial powers who ran it until 1948. In the U.S., the Mohawks aren’t getting Manhattan back either. At least the Mohawks know that. They are doing pretty well in the casino business too.
Of course, the US is a nation of immigrants who mainly left Europe voluntarily because they were persecuted, poor and used as cannon fodder by the rulers there. But coming to this country resulted in a wonderous success story.
Sound familiar? Palestinian exiles do pretty well almost everywhere they’ve gone. Hating Israel and America doesn’t work for tired leaders of Europe and won’t work for Palestinians sitting in the desert waiting for salvation by either Arab or Persian leaders. The glaring and rarely mentioned fact is that neither the Iranians nor the Arabs want the welfare-oriented Palestinians to move into their countries. Instead, they prefer to use them as pitiful pawns in regional political games.
In truth, few Palestinian refugees really want to return to the subsistence farming and goat herding of their long dead ancestors. They remain only because they are paid to stay. And their local leaders are bribed by outsiders to keep them in line. Hamas does not take kindly to Gazan emigration. It is not a freely elected “government” but an outside hired mafia. Anyone who disagrees with this terrorist organization is killed. It is a family-centric culture and your family is also required to stay obedient, get hurt or cut from the welfare rolls. Then, of course, there is the “pay for slay” policy.
Palestinians in the Middle East need to find and create places where they are welcomed and can succeed. Pining for a mythical “lost homeland” is just being used as a pawn by other Middle Eastern rulers. As well as by jealous American-hating European politicians. John Locke justified land titles on the basis of homesteading. The first to “mix their labor with the land” are the rightful owners. The Jews were in occupation of contested territory long before the Arabs. Widespread archeological evidence all throughout the Middle East attests to this fact. The most prominent example of this is that the Al Aqsa Mosque lies above the Jewish Second Temple, to say nothing of the First.
These “hidden hands” are also unclean hands. They are using others for their own selfish purposes. Being the Pitiful Orphans of the World is not a worthy goal. And Jew blaming has its own unique and horrific recent history in Europe.
Successful futures are not built on hate.
Mike Holmes
&
Walter Block
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