told me he lost five thousand dollars in the stock market last week, someone who though financially secure is certainly not wealthy, just good at saving money. I'd warned him that diasater was coming and that was only when it was the "AI" bubble bursting which I was sure was coming, then came the Israeli-American war on Iran. About which, what will $200 per barrel oil do to the energy hogging "AI" bubble? You know, what has been inflating the stock markets so irrationally up till now.
Get ready for a depression. It's coming and this one is going to be worse than the last one because back then lots and lots of People grew up on farms and in hard scrabble conditions and knew how to cope. Americans brought up on media and lies are not going to cope well, especially that one third (at the best of times) who have violent, fascistic tendencies. We're going to see some really, really hard times. Biden almost saved us from it but the media sandbagged him and then Kamala Harris ran face on into America's indigenous fascists, the white supremacists and that other strain of native fascism, misogynists. We're already finding out how expensive racism is, yet again.
Speaking of Israel, they just imposed a death penalty on Palestinians exactly in the period when Palestinians are under some of the most intense and deadly attacks from the largely American born "settler movement," the fascist movement largely comprising Meir Kahane's fascists. There is absolutely no doubt about it, Israel which so many of us were suckered for so long into believing was some kind of idealistic socialist progressive movement is a fascist apartheid country which is even more extreme than South Africa's apartheid government was. This was inevitable, as those such as Hannah Arendt predicted it would be in the early 1940s. And they, along with such as the Saudis and some of the other Sunni governments in the region are the ones who bribed Trump into starting this war.
The end result of fifty years of Zionist politics was embodied in the recent resolution of the largest and most influential section of the World Zionist Organization. American Zionists from left to right adopted unanimously, at their last annual convention held in Atlantic City in October, 1944, the demand for a “free and democratic Jewish commonwealth … [which] shall embrace the whole of Palestine, undivided and undiminished.” This is a turning point in Zionist history; for it means that the Revisionist program, so long bitterly repudiated, has finally proved victorious. The Atlantic City Resolution goes even a step further than the Biltmore Program (1942), in which the Jewish minority had granted minority rights to the Arab majority. This time the Arabs were simply not mentioned in the resolution, which obviously leaves them the choice between voluntary emigration or second-class citizenship. It seems to admit that only opportunist reasons had previously prevented the Zionist movement from stating its final aims. These aims now appear to be completely identical with those of the extremists as far as the future political constitution of Palestine is concerned.
It is a deadly blow to those Jewish parties in Palestine itself that have tirelessly preached the need for an understanding between the Arab and the Jewish peoples. On the other hand, it will considerably strengthen the majority under the leadership of Ben-Gurion, which, through the pressure of many injustices in Palestine and the terrible catastrophes in Europe, have turned more than ever nationalistic.
I don't know if she would have welcomed me saying so but this passage strikes me as prophecy in line with anything in the Old Testament and as disturbingly topical right now.
Nationalism is bad enough when it trusts in nothing but the rude force of the nation. A nationalism that necessarily and admittedly depends upon the force of a foreign nation is certainly worse. This is the threatened fate of Jewish nationalism and of the proposed Jewish State, surrounded inevitably by Arab states and Arab peoples. Even a Jewish majority in Palestine—nay, even a transfer of all Palestine Arabs, which is openly demanded by Revisionists — would not substantially change a situation in which Jews must either ask protection from an outside power against their neighbors or effect a working agreement with their neighbors.
I am absolutely certain that she, more fully informed than almost everyone about the politics of Europe and the world, knew that that outside force would certainly be the United States. And she was right.
You can read her entire essay, Zionism Reconsidered here.
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