Gilad Atzmon argues that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s speech at the UN General Assembly on 24 September offers "a major insight into the Israeli mentality, psyche and logic", exposing Netanyahu's "genocidal inclinations" but also revealing "shaky and vulnerable spots at the heart of the Jewish national narrative".
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s speech at the UN is a major insight into the Israeli mentality, psyche and logic. In his speech Netanyahu, a prolific and charismatic speaker, gives air to his genocidal inclinations, he brings to light the Israeli supremacy but he also allows us to detect some shaky and vulnerable spots at the heart of the Jewish national narrative. Reading Netanyahu’s speech makes it very clear that both the Zionist Shoa and the “promised land” narratives are on the verge of collapse. It seems as if the “discredited” Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has managed to succeed after all.
Don’t you mess with our Shoa
Israelis love their Shoa, for the Shoa is no doubt their best selling hasbara (propaganda) product. It allows them to kill en masse and to do it indiscriminately while insisting that it is they who are the victims.
“I went to a villa in a suburb of Berlin called Wannsee,” said Netanyahu. “There, on 20 January 942, after a hearty meal, senior Nazi officials met and decided how to exterminate the Jewish people.”
Netanyahu, if you are genuinely interested in “extermination plans” you do not have to travel to Wannsee, Berlin. All you have to do is visit your Israel Defence Forces headquarters in Tel Aviv. Your chief commanders will guide you through their IDF “solutions” to the Palestinians. At the end of the day, it is your army that surrounds Palestinians with barbed-wire, it is you who keeps civilian populations in a siege with inadequate food supplies and medicine. It is your army that poured weapons of mass destruction over the most densely populated neighbourhoods on this planet. While the real meaning of the Nazi “Final Solution” (Die Endlösung) is still being discussed by historians who fail to agree between themselves what it really meant, the true reality of the Israeli murderous solution has been seen by us all.
However, it is almost amusing to see Netanyahu rushing to defend the Zionist Holocaust narrative. Looking at Netanyahu presenting the protocol of the Wannsee conference to the UN General Assembly gives a clear impression that the Israeli prime minister believes that the Shoa needs an urgent pump of credibility. For the first time, the Shoa is on the defensive.
“Here is a copy of the plans for Auschwitz-Birkenau, where one million Jews were murdered. Is this too a lie?” asks the Israeli prime minister.
Netanyahu, may I suggest to you that not a single humanist cares about the exact numbers: whether it was one or four million Jews who died in Auschwitz, no one doubts that the camp was a horrible place. Yet, two questions must be answered once and for all: how is it that the Jews, who suffered so much during that war, managed to get themselves involved in a colossal racist crime against the Palestinians (the 1948 Nakba, or Catastrophe) just three years after the liberation of Auschwitz? How is it that the Israeli leadership, which happens to be so sensitive to Jewish suffering, manages to neglect the pain it inflicts on millions of Palestinians?
Supremacy and beyond
As a national movement, Zionism fails to respect other national and popular movements. Seemingly, Netanyahu fails to respect the Iranian people and their regime. “Wherever they can, they impose a backward regimented society where women, minorities, gays or anyone not deemed to be a true believer is brutally subjugated.” Netanyahu must know that the Judaic law is not very different from Islam on these matters. He must also remember that it was in his country that gays were murdered in the street just a month ago. It is almost amusing that Netanyahu chooses to equate Iran with barbarism and the Middle Ages for its treatment of minorities. As far as minorities are concerned, the Jewish state is actually the darkest place on this planet. In Netanyahu’s promised land half of the population cannot participate in the democratic game just for failing to be Jewish.
Israel, according to Netanyahu, is the embodiment of Western modernity.
“We (the West) will crack the genetic code. We will cure the incurable. We will lengthen our lives. We will find a cheap alternative to fossil fuels and clean up the planet. I am proud that my country Israel is at the forefront of these advances.” I must admit that I am not at all overwhelmed by Israeli scientific or technological achievements. Nor have I ever seen any evidence of Israeli attempts to save humanity or even the planet. In fact all I see is quite the opposite. However, if Netanyahu welcomes scientific progress, he should be the first to rally for the Iranian nuclear project. As we all know, this doesn’t seem to be the case. He, for some reason, thinks that, at least regionally, nuclear energy and weapons must remain Jews-only property.
Netanyahu argues that “if the most primitive fanaticism can acquire the most deadly weapons, the march of history could be reversed for a time”. Netanyahu may well be correct but one should point out to him that the above applies to Israel more than any other country, state or society. For the time being it is the Jewish state that has been caught pouring WMD on its imprisoned civilian population. It is the Jewish state that is dragging us all into an “eye for an eye” primitive Biblical fanaticism. As if this were not enough, it is also America and Britain that launched illegal wars orchestrated by Zionist-led neo-conservatives and fundraisers. This war has cost more than one million lives so far.
However, for once I agree with Netanyhau:
“The greatest threat facing the world today,” he says, “is the marriage between religious fanaticism and the weapons of mass destruction.”
In fact, no one could describe the danger posed by the Jewish state and Zionism any better. Israel is indeed a deadly marriage between Old Testament gross genocidal barbarism, Zionist fanaticism and a huge arsenal of WMD – chemical, biological and nuclear – that has already been partially put into action.
Sabbath Goyim
Like other Zionist operations around the world, Netanyahu is convinced that the Goyim should fight the Jewish wars. “Above all, will the international community stop the terrorist regime of Iran from developing atomic weapons, thereby endangering the peace of the entire world?” I actually would like to stress that Netanyahu is all wrong here. If the United Nation is interested in bringing peace to this region and the world, it is essential to help Iran develop its nuclear project and even its military nuclear capacity. This seems to be the only thing that may curb the English-speaking empire’s lethal expansionist enthusiasm as performed recently in Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan. It will surely stop the Zionists from celebrating their symptoms at the expense of their neighbours.
Following the successful transformation of the American and British armies into a subservient Israeli mission force, Netanyahu seems to expect the UN to follow and to fulfil the very same role. “Hamas,” he says, “fired from Gaza thousands of missiles, mortars and rockets on nearby Israeli cities. Year after year, as these missiles were deliberately hurled at our civilians, not a single UN resolution was passed condemning those criminal attacks.” I guess that someone should remind the Israeli PM that the dispute between Hamas and Israel is not exactly an international quarrel, for Palestine is not a sovereign state and Gaza is nothing less than an Israeli-run concentration camp. In other words, the practicality of the matter is simple. The UN should only deal with war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Israel, its leadership and its army. It is not down to the UN to pass any kind of judgment on the oppressed.
Mass murder fantasies
It doesn’t take long before Netanyahu lists his ideological mentors and the core of his lethal inspiration. “When the Nazis rocketed British cities during World War II...” Actually, the allies levelled German cities, causing hundreds of thousands of victims... By these twisted standards, the UN Human Rights Council would have dragged Roosevelt and Churchill to the dock as war criminals. What a perversion of truth. What a perversion of justice. Delegates of the United Nations, will you accept this farce?”
Netanyahu is almost correct. In his recounting of World War II he surely admits here that Israel follows Roosevelt’s and Churchill’s mass murder tactics. But he surely fails to realize that if it were indeed down to ethics and justice (rather than the usual dirty politics), Roosevelt and Churchill would have been charged with war crimes on a most severe scale. Shockingly enough, Netanyahu falls into the most obvious legal trap equating Israeli activity with acts of carpet bombing on a huge scale. For those who fail to see it all, this is a rapidly blinking red light hazard. In Netanyahu’s perception of reality, nuking countries and flattening towns is a justifiable act. Roosevelt and Churchill seem to be his moral mentors. In fact, these statements are enough to make it clear to every reasonable human being that Israel is a genocidal entity that is capable of bringing our civilization to a devastating end.
This is a wake up call: it is not just the Palestinians or the Iranians. It is actually all of us that is in danger.
“Bibi” the peace maker
By now, the Israeli prime minister is ready to state his Judaeo-centric peace mantra. “Ladies and gentlemen, all of Israel wants peace”. Yet as far as statistics are concerned, we have recently learned that 94 per cent of the Israeli Jews also approved the carpet bombing of their next-door neighbours. It is impossible not to see a clear discrepancy between the “peace loving” verbalism and the murderous reality.
“We ask the Palestinians to finally do what they have refused to do for 62 years: Say yes to a Jewish state.” Once again, I happen to agree with Netanyahu. The Palestinians may as well say YES to a Jewish state, but not in Palestine nor in the Middle East. If Barack Obama, Gordon Brown, Angela Merkel or any other deluded world leader who is still insisting on endorsing the validity or necessity of a racially-orientated “Jewish national homeland”, he or she is more than welcome to allocate land to such a project within his or her own territory. Palestinians should say NO to a Jewish state in the Holy Land or in the region. Palestinians should never agree to the existence of a Jewish state on their land. In fact, the UN must follow this line and do whatever it can to dismantle this evil apartheid regime.
Khazarian united
To a certain extent, Netanyahu’s UN speech expresses some deep concerns Jews tend to keep to themselves. At the end of the day, the Israelis, and Ashkenazi Israelis in particular, know pretty well that Palestine is not exactly the land of their ancestors. If the Israeli Ashkenazi Jews, including Netanyahu, do want to find their roots, Khazaria is the place to start. However, Netanyahu tries to defuse these historical facts. “The Jewish people are not foreign conquerors in the land of Israel. This is the land of our forefathers... We are not strangers to this land. It is our homeland” says Netanyahu with total conviction.
Netanyahu, I will make it plain and clear. Not only are you foreign to the land, you are also foreign to almost every possible understanding of the notion of humanity. In fact, the Separation Wall that is going to be left after the inevitable disappearance of your “Jews-only democracy” will serve generations to come with an astonishing historical monument of Jewish national identity estranged from ethics, universalism and human brotherhood. The crime against humanity committed by the Jewish state in the name of the Jewish people is not something that will be wiped out from the history textbooks in a short time. Quite the opposite; it will stand as another mythological chapter in this never-ending saga of supremacist, compulsive, pathological self-loving.
“We must have security,” says Netanyahu as he ends his speech. And I am here to disappoint him. Israel will never be secure. It was born in sin, and its existence surpasses any notion of ethics or human existence. The Jewish state has passed the “no return zone”. It is doomed to vanish. We can only hope that once this happens the process of Jewish assimilation and integration into humanity will restart. At the end of the day, Jewish nationalism, both left, right and centre, was there to keep Jews apart. The history of the 20th century teaches us that this tendency to segregate oneself is bad for humanity and also devastating for the Jews.
Gilad Atzmon is an Israeli-born musician, writer and anti-racism campaigner. His latest jazz album, "In loving memory of America", was released on 1 March 2009 and can be purchased here.
