Abba Eban may not have been an extremist right winger, but his stupid soundbite about "Auschwitz Borders" has been taken up by the far right.
They are about as correct in that as the Rapturists were correct in predicting that the world wouyld end yesterday. It didn't and the 67 lines aren't "Auschwitz Borders".
And now we have the Iranian missile argument.It is all right for armchair pundits living 3000 miles from Israel’s borders to pontificate as much as they like. We rather than they will be the targets of Iranian rockets, as such we prefer to listen to what our security experts tell us rather than amateur pundits who mistakenly believe they have the answer to all the world’s problems
The only way territory is going to prevent Iranian missiles hitting Israel - if that God Forbid were to happen -- is to conquer Tehran, Isfahan and Qom etc. The West Bank won't do it. The missile would just fly over that. The far right pseudo-Zionists just want to spread fear and hatred. That and to live out their Messianic nightmare - like the Rapturists, actually.
Ah, 1973, now. "In 1973 which seem to have escaped this pundit’s memory the Egyptians and Syrians were well advanced into Israeli held territory before Israel had a chance to respond. Imagine what would have happened if Israel was not at that time occupying Sinai and the Golan Heights – I would not now be blogging from Israel for a start.
It was a Pyrrhic victory because Israel occupied lands and a nation that eventually would outnumber the Jews. No lesser figures than David Ben-Gurion and Levi Eshkol, obviously notorious anti-semitic anti-Zionists for the pseudo-Zionists were among the first to perceive the perils of conquest for Israel was her greatest victory. prime minister, David Ben- Gurion, by then a voice crying in the wilderness of Israel's turbulent politics.Both warned thatIsrael must prepare to hand over the lands that had been won. They perceived that for Israel to become an occupying power, overlord of millions of embittered and vengeful Palestinians, would be both morally and politically disastrous. And weren't they both right and the pseudo-Zionists, most of them, like "advis3r, several thousand miles away from Israel, wrong. Ah, the safety of being out of range.
There is a fourth choice, by the way. A federated state between the River and the Sea, where there is a Jewish Autonomy/Canton beside a Palestinian Autonomy/Canton. That would be the best option for the pseudo-Zionists of the far right and their little helpers abroad. But it will spell the end of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state. And if that does happen, the pseudo-Zionists will have only themselves to blame.
Historically, it's always been the Jewish extremists who have brought to an end Jewish sovereignty over the land.
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