Israelis: Facing Reality, Considering Alternatives, Reviving the Birobidzhan Option

Israel Reassures Eternal War With Its Neighbors Through Its Barbarism Towards Palestinians

Occupation, Displacement, Apartheid, Genocide

When a person is being held unjustly in prison, can his killing someone to get out be considered a crime? So goes the story of Palestine; they have been held as prisoners since Zionists usurped the territory the Palestinian Arabs have called home for centuries & declared it to be the state of Israel in 1948. Evicting 700,000+ & wiping out 100s of villages, the Israelis have been perpetrating unjustified displacement, imprisonment, torture, killings, apartheid, & genocide against the Palestinians ever since. What happened on October 7, 2023 was not terrorism but defense against incessant violent savage abuse of the local Palestinian Arabs since Zionists began invading from Europe in the 19th century.

No one should be surprised that they will resist & kick their prison wardens in the marshmallows whenever possible. This will likely continue as long as the prisoners are unjustly confined & continually persecuted. If genocidal Israelis remain in the Middle East, they will eventually force the ultimate response that can set off the nukes & the 3rd World War that everyone dreads. Having enough loose caboose nations & national leaders in the region as well as among distant players like the U$ assures that someone, someday, will go off the rails. With everyone’s emotions running at full steam, a train wreck is virtually guaranteed.

What is most ghastly about the situation is that the Israelis, themselves having just suffered the worst genocide in human history, one that even earned its own unique name of The Holocaust, turned around in 1947–1948 & began perpetrating an elimination of the residents of land they claim was given to them 1000s of years ago by none other than “god.” One must remember that the prevalent means of communication in those ancient times was burning bushes & the baked hallucinating brains of people who’d been out in the hot desert sun for too long, some of whom thought they were getting messages from “god” along with a playbook with some serious rules as well as many petty guidelines about things like their diet & what is allowed to be done on certain days of the week.

Birobidzhan: Stalin’s Forgotten Alternative

Stalin has been the only sane one in this whole mess proposing a solution that would have forestalled a century of horror. He offered the Jews an autonomous region in eastern Siberia which some foresighted Zionists accepted & gradually started settling as they saw what was happening in Nazi Germany. The Jewish Autonomous Oblast (JAO) with Birobidzhan as its administrative center was far removed from Arabs, Germans, or other intolerant anti-Semites who would be life-&-death competitors with them for any territory. Had enough Jews acted quickly when it was offered by a Soviet decree in 1928 & an official act establishing it in 1934 instead of fruitlessly pushing to get into unaccepting intolerant western countries, they might have prevented their own genocide in The Holocaust. The plan might have worked rationally & peacefully for everyone, & Stalin’s mark on history might have been dramatically different from the one he left.

The Zionists were initially tolerated in Palestine but lost all respect when they got aggressive & started killing those who had been rightfully living there. The final injustice was setting up the state of Israel in 1948, getting brutal with the locals, & beginning a genocide of the longtime residents of the area which continues in Gaza & the West Bank to this day. Migrating from the boiling pot of intolerant anti-Semitic Europe to the actively burning violently confrontive adversarial position in Palestine was arrogant, shortsighted, & will ultimately prove suicidal. I fear the situation has heated up so much that we are not likely to see a solution without major war.

The U$ & Israel, Partners in Unconscionable Crimes Against Humanity

The U$, with a military presence in 38–1000+ sites outside the U$, depending on whose statistics one believes, & the invasion of scores of countries around the globe since its founding, & Israel, with 75 years of formal occupation as a nation of a territory that had millions of people living there when they invaded, have both received what they have earned. The U$ got slammed with planes taking down the New York towers, while Israel got surprised by Hamas on October 7th, 2023.

So-called “terrorism” is merely the strategy of an underdog who must work around accepted rules in order to survive. Surprise is its primary feature. So, Surprise! Surprise! It’s time to wake up & notice the ongoing genocide in Palestine that everyone’s been ignoring.

Hamas has been accused of using human shields, but have not the Israelis been using the Holocaust & the persecution of Jews for 2000 years as their shield, excuse, essentially a free pass to treat others any way they want. As a result, they will never live in peace in Palestine where they have behaved savagely. They will always be looking over their shoulders.

What the Zionists have done to the Palestinians is no better than what European settlers did to Native Americans, aboriginal Australians, the Maori New Zealanders, or other native peoples anywhere they went. It is Genocide! What is most horrid is that a people who had just experienced their own genocide under Nazi Germany would inflict it upon others.

I think it may be time for the Israelis to reconsider Birobidzhan & the Jewish Autonomous Oblast once again. Ironically, one of the most brutal psychopaths ever — Stalin — may have had what may be the only peaceful solution.

© Vytas Stoskus, 2023

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