Israel & the Psychosis of Annihilation

ETHICAL GROUNDS EXALTING ISRAELIS TO ABANDON ISRAEL

Why?

Why not?

I was born (1944) in Brooklyn, New York, lived there until I was eight, moved to
Woodhaven, Queens, then dwelt there until I went into the Army (1966), and spent four
years in the Miami, Florida area in the late 1960s and early 1970s. I say this because for
many years I was somewhat influenced by the Jewish culture, and I enjoyed the company
of many Jewish men and women. My grandfather, an overzealous Roman Catholic who
spoke fluent Yiddish, from Alsace-Lorraine, operated a delicatessen on Rivington Street on
the Lower East Side of Manhattan and around the corner from where Ethel and Julius
Rosenberg lived before they were controversially executed by the State of New York, and I
still remember eyeing the proselytes of Hasidic Judaism who frequented his store while I
sat in the window of it munching on ungrounded coffee beans and Devil Dogs. I fell in
love with two Jewish women. One discussed her Jewishness intermittently; the other just
once or twice. One told me I could not marry her because I was a goy. The other was
more unpretentious informing me that I could not wed her because I was penniless. Be
that as it may, I have always relished the company of Jews because I have found them to be
intelligent and curious. I don't think they are smarter than other peoples, and the ones I
knew also did not think they were. I believe Sigmund Freud achieved what he did because
for a lifetime he diligently delved into subjects that were pertinent to his theories (including
Schopenhauer!), and the psychoanalyst arrived at profound insights many of which today
have been contradictedespecially his insistence that psychoanalysis is a science. Although
the same might be said about Albert Einstein, I only wish he would have kept his mouth
shut about the Theory of Relativitythere are just too many idiots in this world who
should not be entrusted with atomic weapons or nuclear reactors. Jews exert themselves to
learn. I admire them for that. They have an extraordinary sense of humor (Don Rickles,
Henny Youngman, Groucho Marx, Jerry Seinfeld, Mel Brooks, Lenny Bruce, George
Burns, Bette Miller, Peter Sellers, Woody Allen, et cetera.) They are this way probably in
grand part because they are a minority group and to survive must be alerter and more
adroit than others. Their long history has also equipped them with oodles of experience.

Most of my Jewish friends very, very, very rarely went to the synagogue, just as my Italian
friends very, very, very seldom, or never, go to church. (Because Italy is often anti-Semitic,
Jews in Italy are bound to be closet Jews. They cannot wear, for all to see, their
Jewishness as Jews do in New York or on the beaches of Miami. Near where I live
(seven kilometers from Florence, Italy), the synagogue there is protected by police vans. I
have not one Jewish friend in Italy.) My own notion is that the large proportion of Jews
are atheists. When I asked some of them if they thought of themselves as the Chosen
People, they just laughed in my face. I scrutinize Israel's i24 NEWS television via SKY,
and contrast it with the corporate media giants and the Russian English-speaking RTTV.
One should feel comfortable with the taking up of the gauntlet, on the part of Jews
worldwide and Israelis in their home, to rub the human races nose in the accursed acts
perpetrated on them, the ROM, gay persons, the disabled and other peoples singled out for
destruction during the Second World War by the incomparably atrocious Nazi regime. The
Jewish and Israeli communities did well to harp on these massacres for the benefit of
humanity. Even if only one individual had been locked up in a concentration camp (an
arrangement invented by the English in South Africa), this ghastliness should have been
condemned by all individuals throughout the world defending the virtuousness of Justice.
Nevertheless, it can be argued that the Jews and Israelis exaggerated in the manner they
presented their efforts to condemn andout of feelings of intense grief and justified
bawlings for rectitudecompromised their own position in light of the political and
economic realities of today. Instead of finally aligning themselves with the protests of
other victims of historically-neglected exterminations, the Jews and Israelis went along
well-nigh unaccompanied leaving many of us with the impression that they had a particular
view of themselves that distinguished them from other members of the human racea
mindset mistaken by many to be a configuration of racial superiority and reason why at this
writing pro-Palestinian Jews around the world are being again persecuted this time for the
obstinance of the Israelis.
History itself has not been kind to the Europeanssome 200,000,000 of them were
slaughtered during the First and Second World Wars. Yet, few ever think about the millions
and millions of natives purged by the Europeans in the Americas, the Vietnamese bombed
to death by the Northamericans, the African slave trade, the Opium Wars in China...an ad
infinitum inventory of the revulsions committed by men and women throughout the worlds
olden times, and sadly, today. The Jews gave the world the impression that their reversal
was something more special than the staggering blows executed upon others throughout
centuries of History. The Jews possessed the savvy and means, something maybe the
Northamerican Indians and others did not, to put their case before the world and seek its
pity and judicial and financial compensation. Many of us offered them compassion. It is a
terrible disgrace that History consigned the efforts of the Jews to the heap of so many
other human-made catastrophes, and permitted the Jewish holocaust to pale and take its
ordinary place among them. The death of one person is a Tragedy, the death of millions
is History. Stalin said that. These days many accuse the Jews of exaggerating their

efforts, and some still think that the Jews and Israelis believe themselves to be some special
ethnic group more brilliant than others. The Jews I have known do not accept this
exaggerated perspective of themselves.
Our mea culpas for the Jewsand at an earlier date the Israeliscan be grasped still further
by analyzing in a more revisionist political sense, not a particularly historically religious one,
the post-Second World War dividing up of the spoils of that calamity. Shocked beyond
belief, military and political leaders attempted to deal with the catastrophic loss of life and
the rubble of bombed-out cities, which they had surveyed, and that had befallen the
European continent. Death and destruction horrified all of us, and still today we carry in
our psyches the enormously scarred memories of the deathly twentieth century and the
two world wars forever blotting its History. What was to be done? Where was one to
begin to reconstruct? Who would have what? How would a continent be rebuilt on the
shambles it had twice made of itself ? How could it?
One would have to distend his or her imagination quite a long stretch to believe that the
United States and the United Kingdom had purely sentimental and honorable objectives in
their minds when they guaranteed European Jews not only a safe exodus to their promised
land, but even the assurance that they would be protected from any hostility that they
might encounter during their settlement activitiesattempts to fulfil their religious dreams,
and then those expectations of establishing the State of Israel. The Jews had come to stay,
and they would be sustained militarily, politically, economically and morally by the victors
of the Second World War who tremendously revelled in wielding their newly-acquired
global powers in 1948.
As immediately as the Jews and the soon-to-be Israelis comprehended that their religious
and chauvinistic stakes in a sliver of terra firma, more or less half the size of Switzerland
(41,277 sq km), was not appreciated by their Mashreq (Middle East) neighbours, those
inhabitants similarly, hastily revolted at the notion that several newly invigorated Western
nations were to be the determiners, not them, of the Jews and the not-yet Israelis in the
centuries-old homelands of an awesome measure of Arab-speaking peoples. This was an
intolerable state of affairs. Blood was shed. It continues to be. (Israel is 20,770 sq km;
smaller than El Salvador, larger than Slovenia; Israel's population is 7,821,850; 75% of
Israel is Jewish; more people live in Togo than in Israel and less people live in Jordan than
in Israel; and, 42% of the total amount of Jews in the world live in Israel. (Updated
Central Stupidity Agency statistics.)
Having wedged a handful of Hebrews between the Christian world and the overwhelming
astronomic Islamic sphere, the exponents of Judeo-Christian Democratic Capitalism,
shown the way by the soon to be DisUnited Kingdom (protesting Londoners are
defecating on the floors of their banks! Power to the People's S**t!) and the DisUnited
States of Northamerica, had put their foot into the entryway of Mashreq, had fortified
their turf with a strategy of long duration in mind, and had started in on looking forward
to counting on the political and economic hay in that area which would be needed to fuel
their expansionist aspirations brandishing, in one hand, the vicious, dog-eat-dog MBA

dogmas of Harvard University and the University of Chicago, and, in the other, the St.
James bible. Psychoanalysts describe this as the double bind syndrome. Others simply
refer to it with the more mundane appellation: mealy-mouthedness.
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There exist at least two ethical grounds upon which Israelis might be exalted to abandon
the Protectorate of Israelin the main sustained militarily and economically by the
DisUnited States and its subalterns. Would it be possible to envision an Israel without the
military accoutrements of the DUS? The foreign affairs of America, in economic and
political descent, are under fire in all parts of the world where they have left their
signboards of cultural, social, political and economic hegemony often with disastrous
consequences. The hate for the DUS is intense. In the Middle East Americans are loathed
more than Israelis. The main source of tension in the Middle East is the fractious policies
of the DUS. What encourages the Israelis to depend on the DUS? No one else wishes to
underpin an associated state, on their own borders, initially constituted by a foreign power
possessing a universal viewpoint of life totally antithetical to its own. Who would protect
the Israelis if the Americans fell into a Black Hole? (Are they not falling?) It is from good
sense that the Israelis must rationalize and then cease and desist and seek safety in other
parts of the world.
Secondly. Israelis must renounce their lost cause that horrifies each day the global
community with the blood-letting in Israel and Palestine giving mankind the dreadful
nightmare that there can be no hope for peace on this planet. Surely, Israelis have a right
to defend themselves. So do many other peoples in the world embroiled in conflict. But
do Israelis have the right to be in Israel which has become a focal point of hatred for a
billion peoplea detestation that has been incubating for at least two-hundred years? The
Israelis are a mere seven million individuals in a world of more than 7,000,000,000, and
they constitute almost one half of the total worldwide Jewish population. What rabidness
makes them think they can continue to exist with such odds clearly against them? What
ethical justification do they possess that would fittingly reassert their continued
confrontation with the Palestinians that causes so much anguish for individuals who are
both their neighbors and those who are not? What principled concept entitles them to risk
the lives of some half of their own people?
My dear Jewish and Israeli friends, if you depart from the promised land, (the promise
of what?), you will relieve a tremendous tension that threatens the worlds security and
their most treasured hopes for the future lives of their children. Further, this act will cause
us to respect you. Your choice to relinquish your homeland for the benefit of humanity
will not be regarded as a surrender on your part, but a wise move made considering your
own restricted options, and the prospect that you possess with respect to the rest of the
human race. Such a feat just might save the Jewish people and the Israeli colonization in

Israel from still another mass butchery this time caused by your own unrelenting
recalcitrance and conceit. It is impossible for you to count any longer on the DisUnited
Kingdom and the DisUnited States of Northamerica. It is time to cease being their pawn.
A word to the wise should be sufficient. A posse ad esse.

Authored by Anthony St. John

3 August MMXIV
Calenzano, Italy
www.scribd.com/thewordwarrior

The author wishes to acknowledge

Ethics: edited by Peter Singer
Oxford Readers, 1994
Oxford University Press