Tuesday 5 February 2013

The Doctrine of Palestinian Exceptionalism

Some political problems, those where two tribes share the same land, appear intractable. One such problem is Northern Ireland. Another such case is Israel, a country the size of Wales, the butt of the venom of the bureaucratic class.
One unusual aspect in this case is the artificial nature of the two tribes. The so called Palestinian people are South Syrian Arabs and the Israeli people are a nation created out of a religion.
The Palestinians claim to be refugees. There are many millions of refugees in this world. Tuaregs are escaping Mali right now. Twelve million Germans were ethnically cleansed after the Second World War. Several million white Africans were ethnically cleansed in the 1960s and 1970s. The Turkish governments of the twentieth century expelled the Christian Greeks and Armenians.
Many Lebanese and Jordanian and yes, Palestinian Christians, who have been pressured to move on, now live in the Americas or Australia.
But the Moslem Palestinian Arabs are an exception. The governments of the region will not give them or their descendents proper citizenship rights. The UN gives them hereditary refugee status, unique in the entire world.
You can be a Palestinian refugee in a way you can’t be any other refugee. You can be born a refugee, live your entire life as a refugee and die a refugee from a land you have never been to, just because the racist governments of Europe and the Middle East want to create a shadow population for Israel, a replacement population for when the second Holocaust comes, the second Holocaust they are preparing.
The political establishment discards the truth. Secular and religious moralists unite in anti-Semitic lies. They ignore the expulsion of the Jews from every country of the Middle East. Where are the Jews of Baghdad? A century ago half the population of Baghdad was Jewish. Where are the Sephardim of Turkey, who were invited there when the Catholic Kings expelled the Spanish Jews? Where are the Jews of Yemen, who lived there since the time of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba? Where are the Jews of Iran, who lived there since the time of Esther? Where are the Jews of Alexandria, the Jews of Libya?
What about their right of return?
Israel isn’t Palestine, it isn’t even a homeland for the Jews. It is a ghetto, ever vigilant, waiting for the next pogrom.
The state, the hierarchy, the bureaucracy is turning on them again. The Jews are the ultimate scapegoat. Those who are slaves to the military bureaucratic complex can only envy them, the ones who stand apart, those who have their own society, their own values beyond the blind obedience of the undead. 
In this crisis of the welfare warfare state we can only expect more and more anti- Semitism, from the official press, from the servile politicians, from the half dead hierarchs.
The voices of hate and blame and self pity grow ever more strident, a mirror of their own self loathing.

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