As Israeli war crimes in Gaza continue, the mass formation psychosis gripping the Apartheid State are producing some surreal debates inside Israel itself. One article was translated from Hebrew (not meant for foreign consumption) by a retired Major General of the IDF, Giora Eiland. It can be assumed that he is speaking on behalf of the IDF high command and the Israeli Deep State with his article below. In the absence of a military victory, ethnic cleansing of Gaza’s Palestinian population has become the official policy of the IDF. No distinctions are being made between civilians and militants, moreover, apparently no intellect in the Israeli high command has the capacity to see why people would want to fight the IDF after they have invaded their territory, destroying their businesses, places of worship, homes, schools and killing their children.
The IDF have thus doubled down on a Pyrrhic war in Gaza, after having lost their percieved deterrents with the Arab world and credibility with many Gentiles around the world. In a fit of emotional rage and vindictiveness, the Israeli brutality on display could be explained by several factors. First, the US and Britain have provided the usual cover for Israel to act with impunity. Second, it is compensatory for the intelligence failures of Aman, Mossad and Shin Bet over the October 7 attacks. Third, Sinwar’s operation has shattered the IDF’s carefully curated image by waging an unprecedented shock attack around the time of Yom Kippur. Fourth, Benjamin Netanyahu is a psychotic criminal on the run and an extended war helps him avoid prison for the time being. Fifth, Likud are in a shaky alliance with extremist Jewish Religious Zionist parties, and figures such as Smotrich and Ben Gvir. To them, the war presents a tempting opportunity to steal more Palestinian land and implement the ‘Oded Yinon’ plan, giving them cover to justify ethnic cleansing and forced displacements of Palestinians, to replace them with useful idiot Israeli settlers.
The only problem for Israel is that any previous rapprochement efforts with the Sunni Arab world – the ‘Abraham Accords’ – are all but dead. The geopolitical landscape has changed and the Arabs will be demanding much more. Peace treaties with Jordan and Egypt are under threat. The ‘Dahiya Doctrine’ and ‘Mowing The Grass’ have reached their limits, now that the poorly planned Israeli assault on Gaza has unified Sunni, Shi’ite, Arab, Persian and Turk alike in the emerging multipolar world. The Israeli regime’s over-reliance on American largesse is not a sustainable strategy given the increasing financial pressures on the crumbling American imperium. Facing potentially simultaneous wars with Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia at the same time is not in Israel’s interests. The IDF is not the 1967 army it once was. Lastly, the Zionist experiment in the Middle East faces its greatest test since 1967. Internal fractures are set to grow due to demographics: Exreme-right ‘Haredi’ Religious Zionists are outbreeding secular ‘Hiloni’ Jews, – their racist Apartheid policies and eschatological fantasies are on a collision course with legal institutions such as the secular courts. Even Israeli media has splintered along these lines, with Haaretz taking an increasingly vocal stance against Religious Zionism.
New solutions and new thinking is needed for Israel, unfortunately the Israeli Deep State and its Religious Zionist stranglehold is failing to deliver at every turn. The future for secular Jews in Israel is looking bleak and there may very well be a ‘reverse Aliyah’ as scores of Jews start to emigrate out of Israel, given its current trajectory. Israel’s future looks increasingly extreme and religious. There is very little doubt that the country is all but heading towards a theocracy dressed up as a secular state, with racist Apartheid laws and policies completely at odds with democratic pluralism. The IDF is crying for help, but has closed itself off from everybody and anybody. Perhaps one day the Haredi Jews might learn some basic lessons in governance, that they have not been able to achieve in over 2000 years and counting. That day might never come if they continue to believe that rushing towards a holy war with Islam by leveling the Haram al Sharif and reinstating animal sacrifices on its bloody altars, would be the ‘right’ thing to do. A true God after all, would love all his earthlings equally, not pick and choose one group of bipedal simians over the rest and be jealous of other gods.
