Israel's Chutzpah

The chutzpah!

Consider this for cognitive dissonance: A nation constantly whines that its enemies want to exterminate it and its people, but said nation is the only one that has actually committed such atrocities and continues to threaten further acts. Such is Israel and its reigning ideology of Zionism.

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The Israelis tell the myth of 1948 with the cry that the Arabs threatened to "throw the Jews into the sea" and explain away the uprooting of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes with the farce that "their leaders told them to leave" in order to make way for the "throwing the Jews into the sea". In reality, the Jewish state outnumbered the so-called seven Arab armies by a ratio of 3:1 and had for more sophisticated weaponry in its disposal. There is no evidence of Palestinians being told to leave their homes, because none are extant. Instead Palestinians were massacred in Deir Yassin and then Zionists on trucks went around to Palestinian villages threatening similar killings if the villagers did not leave. So the call to compel Palestinians to leave was not from Arab leaders but from Zionists threatening further massacres.

As for the claim "throw the Jews into the sea". This was never uttered by a Palestinian but falsely attributed to him by Israeli propaganda. In contrast, in a book by Israel's current ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, on the Six-Day War a leading Israeli air force commander is quoted as saying that Israel intends to "push the Arabs into the desert". So the threats of expelling a people were voiced not by Palestinians or Arabs, but by Israel.

This is a standard duplicitous routine for Israel. It expels Palestinians from their homes and threatens Arabs with massacres, and then self-righteously whines to the West that it is they, the actual occupiers and colonizers, who are threatened with loss and uprooting. All the while Palestinian homes are demolished and trees overrun by tanks.

The tragedy of the Palestinians in 1948 is spoken as al-Nakba. The Israeli Knesset, parliament, recently passed a law denying state funds to any institution that even utters the word Nakba and this law was actually a compromise to a proposed far-right measure that would ban public use of the word in toto. But Israelis do not hesitate to use the word when threatening wars against the Palestinians in Gaza:

Referring to Israel’s founding war of 1948 that uprooted half of Palestine’s population, a former senior Israeli intelligence man says “a mini-naqba”, Arabic for “catastrophe”, would be unleashed.

Israelis know full well what that word entails, but this threat of ethnic cleansing and massacres will go unnoticed in Washington and by the American press. But if a Palestinian newspaper ever called for such acts against Jews the U.S. Secretary of State would take time to denounced Palestinians, collectively mind you, for their "incitement".

And now Iran. The Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is admittedly and inarguable a vile tyrant, religious fanatic and antisemitic demagogy. Due to his denial of the Holocaust and his calls for ending Israel in a militant tone, it is understandable if Israelis fear that the Iranian zealot may make good on his words if armed with a nuclear bomb.

But Israel's response has been commensurate in its rhetoric to the alleged Iranian threat of genocide against the Jews. While crying about alleged Iranian words of genocide, Israel's leader has employed similar words of genocide against the Iranian people:

Speaking of the dear Baron [Israeli prime minister Benyamin Netanyahu], somehow this idiot sees nothing wrong with calling another people "Amalek" while whining that said people (Iran, in this case) want to kill us all. For those of you who don't know their bible too well - Amalek are a nation in the bible whom the Jews are religiously bound to utterly exterminate. As in genocide. ("thou shalt blot out the memory of Amalek from under the heavens"). The first Hebrew king, Saul, was deposed by the prophet Samuel for not adhering to this commandment closely enough. See, Saul killed all the Amalekites, men, women, children - but spared their livestock. That wasn't zealous enough for Jehovah and his nasty henchman, who informed Saul, like some premordial unkempt Donald Trump, that he was fired.

This, see, is the metaphor that seems totally appropriate to the leader of my country when speaking against the crime of genocide. Cause apparently, if it's Jews committing genocide on orders from their imaginary friend, then it's ok.

Isn't their a Yiddish word for such an actor? See above.