Don’t Blame The Inmates Of The Lunatic Asylum

By Alan Hart

Some Israeli and other Jewish opponents of Zionism’s
colonial enterprise have described Israel as a “fascist”
state. I think the more appropriate terminology is lunatic
asylum. But I don’t blame the inmates (the Jewish citizens
of the state) for what’s happening. They are as much the
products of Zionist brainwashing as are the supporters of
Israel right or wrong throughout the mainly Gentile
Judeo-Christian world. I blame the wardens and
management of the asylum
(Israel’s military and political leaders)

Israel’s leaders still believe that by means of brute
force and reducing them to abject poverty, they can
break the will of the Palestinians to continue their
struggle for their rights. The assumption being that,
at a point, and out of total despair, the Palestinians
will be prepared to accept crumbs from Zionism’s
table in the shape of two or three bantustans, or,
better still, will abandon their homeland and seek
a new life in other countries. In my view the
conviction that Zionism will one day succeed in
breaking the Palestinian will to continue the
struggle for an acceptable minimum of justice is the
product of minds which are deluded to the point of
clinical madness.

There is, however, one solid piece of evidence that a
majority of Israeli Jews are not as mad as their leaders.
It’s in the fact that 64% of them have said their
government must hold direct talks with Hamas.
Less than one-third, 28%, opposes such talks.
(Those were the findings of a Ha’aretz-Dialog poll.
It was was conducted, under the supervision of Professor
Camil Fuchs of Tel Aviv University, before Israel’s
escalation of its confrontation with Hamas in Gaza;
and it could be, because of the international condemnation
of Israel’s massively disproportionate action of the past few
days, that even more than 64% now favour direct talks
with Hamas).

That’s on the one hand. On the other is the fact that Hamas
has long been calling for a ceasefire or truce, which, it has
indicated, could be extended indefinitely. The problem is
that Hamas’s leaders are insisting - they would be as mad
as Israel’s leaders if they were not - that a ceasefire must
be a two-way street. And that means Israel would have to
end its incursions of Gaza and abandon its policy
of targeted assassinations.

Israel’s leaders are not going to do that. Their present
strategy for Gaza is to make life hell for all of its people
in the hope that they will abandon Hamas. And when
that doesn’t happen? Israel will seek to annihiliate
Hamas. I mean competely, not bit by bit.

Question: When is a war crime not a war crime?

Answer: When the perpetrator is the Zionist state of Israel.