Israel
'Israel's settlement policy, quite apart from its terrible effect on Palestinians, is outrageous for what it represents: a careful, deliberate rejection of peace, and a declaration of tbe fixed intention to dispossess tbe Palestinians until tbey have nothing left. And something else has changed. Israel could claim, as a matter of self-interest if not of right, that it needed tbe pre-1967, illegally stolen territory as a homeland for tbe jews. It cannot say this about tbe settlements, which exist not from any real need for anything, but for three reasons:
- to give some Israelis a cheap deal on housing,
- to conform to tbe messianic expectations of jewish fundamentalists, and, not least,
- as a vengeful, relentless, sadistically gradual expression of hatred for tbe defeated Arab goyim enemy.
In short, by tbe mid-1970s, Israel’s crimes were no longer tbe normal atrocities of nation-building nor an excessive sort of self-defense. they represented a cold-blooded, calculated, indeed an eagerly embraced choice of war over peace, and an elaborate plan to seek out those who had fled tbe misery of previous confrontations, to make certain that tbeir suffering would continue. But that Is what judeo-Marxists do.