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No, this isn't an Israeli weight loss guide, but another chapter in the cruel and unscrupulous history of Zionism. When Zionism meets its demise, and it will eventually happen, it will be written - among other horrors - that one of the greatest ironies is that a movement born out of the suffering of one people and promoted in order to offer them peace and security has from the very beginning resorted to the most vicious attacks against a third innocent party, the Palestinians.
The Palestinians have been made by Israel and its Western backers to pay the price for centuries of Western antisemitism. As Noam Chomsky once wrote,
The Jews of Europe suffered a disaster on a scale and of a character unknown in human history, following upon centuries of persecution and terror. Their growing national movement turned back to a homeland that had not been abandoned in memory of tradition. The author of the Balfour Declaration expressed widely-held sentiments in the industrial West when he wrote, in 1919, that 'Zionism, be it right or wrong, good or bad, is rooted in age-long tradition, in present needs, in future hopes, of far profound import than the desires and prejudices of 700,000 Arabs who now inhabit that ancient land' ... Somehow the Palestinian peasants mired in their prejudice, were never able to appreciate their moral responsibility to expiate the sins of Christian Europe. Whatever one may think of the conflicting claims to national and human rights in the former Palestine, it is difficult not to be appalled when Western politicians and intellectuals explain their backing for Israel's policies in terms of 'moral obligation', as if the sins of the Nazis and their predecessors, or of the Americans who closed the doors to refugees from Hitler's horrors, require the sacrifice of the Palestinians - on moral grounds. How easy it is to meet one's moral obligations by sacrificing someone else's life.
And as the decades wore on Israel has inflicted injustices against the Palestinians that more and more resemble the harsh fate that European Jewry faced:
"The Tel Aviv District Court last week ordered the office of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories to release internal documents that detail the minimum nutritional requirements and calorie calculations needed to sustain the residents of the Gaza Strip."
Imagine a nation whose very identity is rooted in Western antisemitism, where Jews were locked up in ghettos and forced to live on mere bread and water and denied, even if they could afford it, any decent life, that this very nation would one day resort to a meticulous oppression - in the form of actually counting calories - against another people.
The cruel irony of Zionism will only hasten its demise and only darken its legacy.
