Zionism is a settler colonialist project called Jewish Colonial Trust

 

For decades Israel pretended to be an innocent country established after the horrors of the holocaust for the protection of the Jews. 

Turns out, it was all a lie. 

The zionist project is much older and has little to do with the wishes of the Jews when it was established. 

Inherently a christian doctrine, Zionism was always a plan to resettle the jews of Europe even against their will and to dominate West Asia in the process. 

Today, prof. Jeffrey Sachs and prof. Yakov Rabkin are discussing the past and the future of a racist settler-colonial political project that has become so violent in the past decade that the entire world now sees it for what it is. 

An irredeemable political fascism.

The Zionist leaders, most famously Herzel, were nationalist and secular. 

They were propounding at that stage a nationalist cause that each nation to protect itself had to have its nation state. That was the idea of nationalism.

American ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabe, said a few weeks ago just before the current war of aggression of Israel and the US that, Israel owns all the land, has the right to all the land from the Nile to the Euphrates. Based on that there's a a sense that in our world Israel should has the right to all of this land.

Israel's acting on that because part of the Israeli government is Jewish biblical Zionism, now which was not the Zionism of a 100red years ago.

The rabbis said no.

They say that Tora says: 

Live where you are, obey God's commandments, behave. 

So this Zionist movement was not what it is portrayed today as the great cause of the Jewish people. 

Anti-semites want to get rid of the Jews wherever they happen to live, and Zionists want to bring them to Palestine.

Their interests combine and it's not a coincidence that during the 1930s in Germany Zionist established very much a cooperation with the Nazi authorities who wanted to get rid of the Jews and the Zionists were trying to show that Palestine was a good place for Jews to go. 

There was an episode which I think is very important as an Israeli film called Flat and it shows well it's the story is about a SS official in 1935 visiting Palestine in the company of the chairman of the Zionist Federation of Germany and writing wonderful articles in the SS newspaper and on the occasion of that visit a medal was coined with a swastika on one side and the Zionist symbol of the six shaped star on the other. 

So it's part of history. We have a lot of evidence.

If 100 years ago someone said to a Jew you don't belong here you belong to Israel, he would be considered anti-semite. Today, for some strange reason, when someone says well I have nothing to do with Israel I'm American, oh no you're anti-semitic you're denying the right of Jewish people for self-determination.

So you have a very interesting inversion of what anti-semitism is. 

There are 50 million Zionists in the United States.

There are 15 million Jews.

John Mirshimer wrote this very important book about the Jewish lobby.

Who is actually lobbying for Israel? 

The American political system it's an incredibly corrupted system.

Big money, big influence.

What is this Israel Lobby or the Zionist lobby? 

It's it is a actually a mix of a number of things. 

Partly, it's directly the penetration of Israel into US politics because there's a lot of Israeli money and effort. 

Epstein was a Mossad agent, for example, and was definitely an Israeli asset operating in the United States.

And the evidence for that, by the way, is not only the circumstantial evidence that Ahood Barack, who had been the head of military intelligence, was his big buddy, but the fact that Epstein was representing himself all over the world as making deals on behalf of Israel. And if he was freelancing, the Israelis would have stopped him. Believe me, they didn't stop him. So the fact is he was operating at someone's behest.

That's an example of direct Israel influence. 

Then there's big Jewish money and there definitely are Jews that are Zionists and there definitely are billionaires Jews that are Zionists and they put a lot of money into this.

Miriam Naden, who is the widow of Sheldon Adlesen, a big casino magnate, she definitely has influence. It's hundreds of millions of dollars given to Trump. 

Ted Cruz puts influential people into the National Security Council and elsewhere that are basically some are even dual citizens literally Israeli citizens and US citizens handling the Middle East portfolio in the US government. So the US is a very porous politics. It's completely interest group sold to the highest bidder.

Zionism has been moving from the stentatious left because it used to be very socialist, and in the last decades turned to fascist right.

And this has nothing to do with the personalities involved. 

Is a very natural evolution of a political movement which is based on discrimination on ethnic nationalism.

And here it's important to distinguish between ethnic nationalism and civic nationalism because in the system of ethnic nationalism just like in anti-semitism you cannot change your characteristics.

In other words either you belong or you don't belong you cannot change it. 

The violence that we've observed in the Middle East in West Asia for the last 80 years is largely connected with Zionism. Because you have to control the population that is naturally unhappy. You displace it, you exile it, you discriminate, you now submit it to genocide.

Of course, they're not going to be happy. Of course, there will be resistance.

But this resistance is not considered by Israel as legitimate and as logical in a way. 

But they tried to dress it as anti-semitism.

The higher the income of the Jew the more Zionist he's likely to be.

So the evolution of Zionism in the direction of fascism is perfectly predictable and I would say that it certainly is not Bib Natanyao or Smriidge or Beng also very much mentioned in among those who say well how horrible these people are taking Israel in the wrong direction. 

I wouldn't say so. 

I say that they represent their embody that trend towards fascism which had been there from the beginning and then maybe we have to be mindful of time. 

The clean great doctrine says that Greater Israel will control all of Palestine. 

There will never be a Palestinian state. 

But more importantly, even that in response to resistance movements like Hamas or Hezbollah or others, Israel's response will be to overthrow the governments in the Middle East that support those resistance movements. That's Netanyahu's insight.

Don't fight the resistance, fight the governments that back them. 

So, Israel has been on a war spree since 1996.

Wesley Clark famously told us about the seven wars that the US would fight.

These are basically US-Israel wars.

And that list included Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. 

And here we are.

So this is the logical effect. 

Also, you abuse your colonial settler. You push aside the local population. There's resistance. That resistance has its allies regionally and you end up in regional war. 

And this is the disaster that we're in.

It's important to distinguish between Zionism is a political movement and Jews and Judaism which may be religion or ethnic group whichever way you want to put it because this confusion really serves Israel and Zionism.

Israeli leaders whether they were socialists like Shimon Perez or fascists like Benjamin Netanyahu or anyone else who would come later, will convince you that Israel represents the entire Jewish people and for Israel it's a source of legitimacy. 

For Jews it's a source of shame and insecurity so it's very important to see that Israel not only hasn't brought security to the Jews, that's what the Zionist movement was promising. 

In fact, the most insecure place for a Jew to live today, is Israel.

Strangely enough, not in Tehran because Jews there don't identify with Israel and are very well integrated and accepted. And the anti-zionist government of Iran knows very well how to distinguish between Jews and Zionism.