No Country For Liberal Jews
“The arc of history is long, but it bends towards zombie apocalypse.” -Nick Land, “The Dark Enlightenment”
When you talk about ethnostates, you have to talk about what it means to be a reactionary. A reactionary in the modern political scene values unilateral authoritarian movements in support of a national-racial interest. In an intellectual sense, a reactionary may simply be pro “monarchy,” but in actuality, this is always culminated in racial-authoritarianism.
Israel is not the west, this much is clear.
Some Western Jews, the Jews who haven’t taken the Saturday synagogue songs too much to heart that chant “Israel” over-and-over, wonder why a large portion of bloodthirsty and clinically psychotic Israelis won’t simply knock-it-the-fuck-off. The more observant Western Jews have realized that Israelis simply have to stop choking the Palestinian state to death with gray area violence and grant Palestine formal legal sovereignty, but they can’t figure out who to write the angry letter to in order for that to happen.
The two centerpiece self-interest arguments against Israeli salami tactic territory annexation of Palestine are these:
1: (Materially) Israeli Jews are gaining nothing from the territory that they are taking.
2: (Psychologically) The reactionary enjoyment of Israeli victories is making Jewish people into the feverish bloodlusters which they have escaped for centuries.
If you’re wondering about what is happening in Palestine, here’s a brief excerpt on the game theory strategy, “salami tactics,” from Wikipedia:
Salami tactics, also known as the salami-slice strategy or salami attacks, is a divide and conquer process of threats and alliances used to overcome opposition. With it, an aggressor can influence and eventually dominate a landscape, typically political, piece by piece. In this fashion, the opposition is eliminated "slice by slice" until it realizes, usually too late, that it is virtually gone in its entirety. In some cases it includes the creation of several factions within the opposing political party and then dismantling that party from the inside, without causing the 'sliced' sides to protest. Salami tactics are most likely to succeed when the perpetrators keep their true long-term motives hidden and maintain a posture of cooperativeness and helpfulness while engaged in the intended gradual subversion.
Ultimately, Palestinians will be driven to the least ideal and smallest ghettos within Israel possible. Since this is already happening and will only happen more and more, I’m simply telling you a weather report you have likely already heard. This gains Israeli Jews and International Jews alike nothing, unless you are actually one of the settlers. Territory gains in Palestine cost lives and reputation of Israel and Jewish Israelis, and money in Israel, which is to say the corporate power of Israel, doesn’t gain from seasonally wiping Arab children off the face of the Earth .
Israeli dominance will win territory for Israeli Jews in the West Bank and Gaza. The spirit this fosters is cold bloodlust and rational self-preservation at all cost.
Formal, Full Palestinian Statehood is Liberal Jewish Success, But It Won’t Happen
With the right to self-govern, the successes and failures of Palestine will be their own. No longer will Jews be in the situation of killing second-class citizens of their nation, but rather the nations could stand side-by-side, trade with each other.
At the moment, grey areas of power allow Israel to act unilaterally and violently within Palestinian territories, while leaving the governance to various military and splinter groups. No one is fully and formally responsible for Palestinian governance, but since one nation refuses to simply give full control to the people of Palestine, Israel will bear the brunt of Palestinian impoverishment as well.
Once again, this feeds the blood lust of a murdering enjoyment, and eliminates the Jewish ability to participate in the fields of the betterment of mankind in the eyes of the world (no matter how many Jewish scientists win the Nobel Prize).
Eventually, bloodlust as state policy tends to fail in a Western context. How Israel will relate to the world in the future is unknown, with progressive liberalism standing next to vicious reactionary imperialism, even the United States can’t do this anymore.
Eventually, the rubber is going to snap back. A zombie apocalypse of a progressive/anti-semitic pincer will escalate anti-semitism around the world more and more. But this hardly matters.
The Jews will survive, but a liberal Israel will never exist.
Reactionary tactics have taken root in Israel, and they will only become more and more focused on preserving the reactionary form. Protecting the ethnic population, and keeping out those who are enemy ethnicities.
This will ironically be done to uphold liberal western values.
I’d love to be proven wrong at some point, so when this stops being true, send me this article and tell me how wrong I was.