Israel’s seemingly limitless brutality is rooted in ‘the logic of dehumanisation’
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The Zionist project has been a never-ending nakba not just for the Palestinians, but for the entire Middle East. Booby-trapped pagers and walkie-talkies have been remotely detonated in Lebanese homes, offices and the hands of children, killing, maiming and blinding hundreds of random victims, while bombing raids on packed civilian areas have driven more than a million from their homes.
At its root is a dizzying inversion of historical reality: Israelis have persuaded themselves, and much of the Western world, that they are natives, while the Palestinian are violent interlopers bent on denying Jewish Israelis their rights. Zionists in the mould of the American Jewish Committee trumpet the alleged ancestral link between Jews and Palestine, as it was known from the ancient Greeks until 1948.
In the standard Israeli narrative, the Romans exiled the Jewish people after the Bar Kokhba revolt of 132 CE. The mind-boggling Zionist claim is that Jews everywhere are one people with an unbreakable title to the land stretching back to the Patriarchs, despite being a tiny demographic splinter in Palestine for 2 000 years.
In the Ottoman headcount of 1533, they are thought to have numbered just 5 000 compared to 6 000 Christians and 156 000 Muslims. In 1690 their niche status had contracted further to 2 000 . At the dawn of our age the numbers were largely unchanged — in 1885 there were 16 000 Jewish inhabitants , compared to 48 000 Christians and 432 000 Muslims .
One report-back to European fellow ideologues candidly remarked: “The bride is beautiful, but already married.” Following the 1948 exercise in ethnic cleansing and replacement, Jewish Israelis controlled 80% of historic Palestine and comprised a slim majority for the first time in almost two millennia.The implication is clear: the Israelis are not an indigenous people; they imposed themselves on the indigenous Palestinians during the 20th century in waves of settlement and expansion, often through violent land grabbing.
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