Gilad Atzmon considers whether the Obama phenomenon – the US electing its first black president – could happen in racist Israel, with a Palestinian being voted in to lead the Jews-only state.
Once again, America has proven that it can bring about change.
In fact, I would not count on Barack Obama himself to bring a real change, as we all remember, how he was very quick to appease the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) upon winning the nomination of the Democratic Party as its candidate for the presidency.
It was actually the American people who are the real winners here; they are the ones who voted for a change.
The oppressed voted against the lethal, devastating combination of greed represented by the “Wolfowitz doctrine” and Greenspan economy, a combination that brought death to 2 million Iraqis and the biggest financial disaster on record.
The American people said NO to the most Zionized administration ever. They said NO to Zionist wars, they said NO to Greenspan’s economy, they said NO to foreign interests shaping their lives. Whether Americans are aware of the depth of their country’s involvement with Zionist interests is a big question. Clearly, they are very unhappy with the way things turned out; they rushed to the polls en masse to oust the Republicans that betrayed them.
Apparently, we can claim that there is democracy in the United States of America. However, one question is left open: what about the alleged “only democracy in the Middle East?” Could the same thing happen in Israel?
What would it take for a Palestinian to be voted in to lead the Jews-only state?
I would not hold my breath. In apartheid Israel, millions of Palestinians are surrounded by barbed wire. They are not entitled to shape their fate.
For Israel to become a democracy of its people, it has to drop its racial orientation. It has to stop being a Jewish state.
I do not doubt that this will happen eventually. However, I could not see the Israelis giving up their supremacy peacefully.
Israel must be defeated and it will be defeated. It is just a question of time.
The lesson of last night is pretty obvious. It only takes the right man at the right time to bring about hope for change and a better future.
