Will a World without Israel Be Safer and More Peaceful?

EDITORIAL, 3 Aug 2026

#962 | Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service

No human, Jews and non-Jews, who wishes to live in peace and harmony with others, can any longer tiptoe around the globally consequential issues of the Jewish Supremacists pursuing “Mein Kampf in reverse”.

Specifically, there is absolutely no refuting of Isael-led Zionists’ attempt to control global institutions, including the mass media and the global justice mechanisms, as well as the narratives around Israel’s Holocaust in Palestine and its “permanent security” paradigm, that is, perpetual and pre-emptive wars against states and organizations which Israel perceives as a potential threat to its Supremacist Design.

The articulation of Israel as the greatest threat to world peace is not “The Elders of Zion” racist trope being rekindled and re-peddled, out of racial hatred, jealousy or religious bigotry of what the American fanatic Ambassador Mike Huckabee calls “0.2 percent”, the global Jewry.

By all indications, Israel itself – that is, its apartheid policies towards Palestinians, its pursuit of Hitlerite “Mein Kampf in reverse” in the Occupied Palestine and its unmistakably Exceptionalist behaviour worldwide– has become the primary driver behind worldwide moral outrage.  This is evidenced in unprecedented anti-genocide and Free Palestine mass protests and rallies across world’s capitals, both in the West and the rest of the world.

There is also a discernible resultant global rise in fear and loathing of Jews as a demographic category, despite attempts by the anti-Zionist Jewish activists and citizens trying their level best to de-couple Jewish identity and Judaism from Israel.  I have seen many a social media posts, which are solidly anti-Jewish, such as “The Austrian painter was right”.   No explanation needed there.

In terms of Israel’s state policies and practices, the world watch in real time – and with absolute disdain and disgust, Zionists execute their Project of ever-expanding colonial land-grab in all of UN-partitioned Palestine (with pre-1967 borders) via ethnic cleansing and the openly sadistic genocide in Gaza.

As the renowned Reverend Munther Isaac of Shepherd’s Field, Bethlehem, pointedly said, Israel is a settler colonial state, and its foundational and integral act, by definition, is ethnic cleansing, terrorism and genocide – for land grab.

Noteworthy here is that all colonial narratives are, with no exception, Orwellian, whatever the strain: savagery is civilization.   All native populations are communities of lawless, culture-less savages, and all ethnic cleansers are Civilizers, Liberators, Liberalizers, or all of the above.

Zionists, soft or hard, left or right, may spin their settler colonialist stance, normalizing the colonial land-grab within the categorically moral anti-colonialist emancipatory nationalisms, that birthed the newly independent states in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Of late, Israeli professor Omer Bartov of Brown University led the discursive movement which frames Zionism and Zionist project as “a movement for Jewish self-determination”.  This Zionist distorting of the oppressed liberating themselves from the yoke of European colonizers who came to take over their land and enslave the indigenous.    Bartov, the genocide scholar, would like us to believe that Zionists as Liberation Fighters are like all other colonized groups, fighting for their group liberation.

Just like every other ethnic or identity-based people.   Except they are not.   From the get-go, Zionists of Eastern and other European origins had openly declared, “we will colonize Palestine.”  Their liberation is at the expense of the indigenous population of Palestine – and on the latter’s land, call them what you, “Arabs” or “Palestinians”, with the openly-sought-after Western imperialist patronage and material support.

None of these facts matters to Zionists. 

A few days ago, on Piers Morgan show, in a debate with the well-known Iranian professor Marandi of the University of Teheran, the “proud Zionist” lawyer Alan Dershowitz, repeated verbatim Omer Bartov’s line – Zionism is just another national liberation ideology – and Zionist project is about the Jewish liberation – with a straight face.   Mr Dershowitz represented Jeffrey Epstein and Israel’s intelligence and assassination squad, namely Mossad in different legal cases.

The world is not amused by Israelis’ open talk of the Greater Israel Project with their fanatical quest for domination, control and coercion across not only historic Palestine but also across the adjacent Arab world, all the way to Turkey and Iran.

Emphatically, Israel is the only state in the world that, as a matter of strategy and policy, seeks to weaken, de-stabilize, dis-member, and otherwise destroy any neighbour.

Israel-first Jewish oligarchs have been busy buying, and whipping, politicians in key Western regimes in London, Washington, Paris, Ottawa, Budapest, and so on to toe the Jewish Supremacist line.

Israeli leaders open boast of state terrorist operations, including the pager attacks in Lebanon, Netanyahu’s performative handing of Kill List to US Ambassador Mike Huckabee to pass on to Donald J. Trump, assassinations of Israel’s adversaries by carpet-bombing of entire neighbourhoods and apartment blocks, as well as the declared intent to control and censor the entire eco-system of social media including Meta, Google, TikTok and YouTube.

On Israeli streets the air is filled with sadistically genocidal racism towards Palestinians – or “the Arabs!

On 1 August, even the pro-Israel BBC felt compelled to broadcast verbatim its interview with Yehuda Shimon, an Israeli lawyer and a settler who represents Jewish extremists who terrorise Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

In Shimon’s broadcast words,

“I think now after they kill one Israeli people (person), we need to kill all the (Palestinian) people in Tal and Sarra, even Jit and Farata.”  When the BBC correspondent pressed, “it sounds like you are saying one Jewish life is worth hundreds of thousands of Palestinian lives”, the Israeli lawyer replied emphatically, “one Jewish life is 10 millions, OK?”   The journalist pressed him further, “it sounds racist”.   Yehuda Shimon concurred, “Yes, I know.  This is the truth.  Because God chose us.  Because of this you are jealous.”  (Mid-East Eye, 1 August 2026).

The same day, Haaretz published an op-ed by Dr Ariel Handel, entitled “It’s no wonder Israelis want war.  Violence has become a source of joy.”

Dr Handel quoted from “The Complete Hilltop Lexicon”, a 2015-investigative report by Akiva Novick and Chaim Levinson, the two Israeli journalists, studying setter violence in Hebron, when he wrote “ “Happy Jews” are those who are not bound to the archaic conventions and rules of morality, and carry out “’price tag’ [retaliatory operations against Palestinians] with a smile on their face.”   Handel further observes, “Invitations to carry out pogroms are circulated on colourful, cheerful posters that look more like flyers for an open-air rave than calls to violence.”

This call to sadistic violence is directed at the indigenous Arab Palestinians, both Muslims and Christians, all across the occupied Palestine while the discursive justification is hoisted on large billboards in the Old City of Hebron from where the ICC-wanted Itama Ben-Gvir hails.

In January last year, hosted by Sabeel, the highly reputable Liberation Theology Centre in Jerusalem, our small delegation of international scholars and writers from six countries, were visiting Issa Amro, a leading non-violence Palestinian resister and a rape-survivor in Israeli’s prison (torture centre, really), and his fellow Palestinian activists, in a run-down community centre a few minutes’ walk away from a site marked “Abraham’s Well”.

On our way to Amro’s centre, we saw a huge billboard in a ghostly deserted street corner, that reads, “The Jewish Return to Hebron (and Palestine) after 2,800 years is justice while passing through about 5 Israeli checkpoints in the entirety 500 metres from the parking lot where our coach was parked to our destination, a hilltop community centre.

At every checkpoint, the Israeli armed security units stopped us, demanded our passports and asked a single question, “Any Muslim?  Are you Muslim?”   Israelis we encountered breath fear and loathing of Muslims while its leaders reportedly promote worldwide Islamophobia, even before the 9/11 of 2002.

The fact is that Israelis have established monopoly control over both the land of Palestine via sadistic violence and the narrative of “God’s Chosen people” while systematically persecuting Palestinian Christians and Palestinian Muslims.   I couldn’t help but wonder what Father Abraham, born in the Syrian-Eastern-Southern Turkish region (ancient Mesopotamia) of Sanliurfa or the City of Prophet (Glorious Urfa or biblical Ur), would say about that.

A hundred meter away from one check point, I saw God’s Chosen Israeli settler couples on their way to and from the Tomb of the Patriarch with a young husband/father with an M-16 dangling from his shoulders and a young settler mother pushing their baby in a buggy.

As a brief backgrounder, there are 750,000 Jewish settlers – from Oakland, San Francisco, Evanston/Chicago, New York, and so on on the occupied land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.   The coalition regime of ICC-wanted Netanyahu-Ben-Gvir-Smotrich has issued them 200,000 M-16 and other semi-automatic rifles with hundreds of rounds of ammunition, with all relevant Israeli state organs – the courts, the police, the IDF, the Shin-Bet – grant these armed and increasingly terroristic settlers a blanket impunity.

Further along our way to Issa Amro’s Palestinian community centre, we also saw a few coaches bringing groups of well-dressed Zionist Jews from the diaspora. They apparently checked out advertised apartments in the ethnically cleansed Holy Hebron, where colourful real estate advertisements tell which building is how many minutes walks from Jewish holy sites such as Leah’s Home or the Tomb of the Patriarchs, where an earlier generation settler, one medical doctor Dr Goldtsein from Brooklyn, New York massacred scores of Palestinian Muslims during their prayers inside the mosque where the Tomb of the Patriarchs is.    Goldstein is a known idol of Ben-Gvir who now holds the Home Affairs of Internal Security Ministry in Netanyahu’s cabinet.

Dr Handel wrote that invitations to Jewish pogroms directed at the indigenous Arab Palestinians are printed on colourful (glossy?) flyers.  One wonder if the invitations to the West Bank land auctions too are printed colourfully on glossy papers, the criminal events hosted by and held in synagogues in London, Montreal, Toronto, Sydney, New York and so on.

Dr Handel continues, “What differentiates happy Jews from Jews who are not happy is not their world view, but the very act of participating in violence. … Happiness that results from using violence against Palestinians has migrated from settler’s militias to the institutionalized army, as seen in thousands of expressions of happiness posted in social media about the destruction of the Gaza Strip.    From homes that were bombed or torched, to dance parties with soldiers brandishing the panties of Gazan women, to destruction and brutality that have been celebrated openly.”

Though passionate Jew haters — just watch fDocumentary “Devil’s Confessions” (lost audio-recorded interviews with Eichmann –), Nazi executioners were generally bureaucratic genocidaires, hence Hannah Arendt’s “banality of evil” after observing how ordinary, dull and bureaucratic a man Adolf Eichmann, the SS Colonel in charge of the Jewish Affairs Division and a key participant in the production of the Meeting Minutes, “The Final Solution to the Jewish Question” (or “the Final Solution”, in short).

In sharp contrast, both the Israeli state (the bureaucracy) and the Jewish Supremacist civil society as well as its diasporic Israel-First supporters, both Jews and non-Jews, Zionist oligarchs and average Janes/Joes, throughout “the West”, are inflamed by their fanatical racism towards Palestinians.  Anyone of us who stands up and speaks out against Israel’s ongoing holocaust and the Hitlerite warmongering across West Asia.    To be sure, there were sadists amongst Hitler’s executioners, particularly amongst Himmler’s SS.

I read curatorial captions at Mauthausen Concentration camp in Upper Austria, that certain SS officers were infamous for their sadistic cruelty, pushing their Jewish forced labourers/prisoners off the cliff into the bottom of quarries, while laughing out loud and shouting, “a helicopter!”

Israeli sadism pervades the Jewish Supremacist society and state, including the sacrosanct Israeli armed forces, both permanents and reservists.

It is then to be expected that the world of humanity has turned categorically and irreversibly against the Jewish Supremacists and their state of Israel.

Even the most watched sporting event of 2026. FIFA World Cup, was seen through the prism of Israel-allied Argentina vs.pro-Palestine Spain.  The rest of the world celebrated Spain’s win as if it were a good omen for the Downfall of Israel and the new dawn for a Liberated Palestine.

At the moment, the United States under Donald J. Trump, “the first Jewish President” as Fox Talk-show host Mark Levin characterized his “friend” with his arms around the un-hinged Class A criminal American real estate man, is waging the Hitlerite war of aggression against Iran – at the behest of Israel.   Levin himself has used his considerable media platform to urge the US President to nuke Iran, just like Harry Truman did over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.

In 2022, Daniel Shapiro, a distinguished fellow at the Atlantic Council and a former US ambassador to Israel, approved of Ukrainian President Zelenskyy’s vision for Ukraine as “a big Israel”, and offered “a road map”, in his short advocacy piece, entitled “Zalensky wants Ukraine to be ‘a big Israel.’ Here’s a road map.”

Deeply worrying is the fact that Zalensky, Kiev’s TV-Clown playing “Churchill” 2.0, is trying to merge his country’s NATO proxy war against Russian Federation with Israel-US Hitlerite war against Iran.

To belabour the obvious, the human world of ours does not revolve around Jews or Israel, contrary to the pathetically self-centred Jewish Supremacist worldview.   But, the consequential wars today do revolve around Israel and its allies/supporters, including American neo-cons who gifted us the mass-murderous “war on terror”.

That Israel has no legal rights to exist is beyond intellectual dispute or debate as Craig Mokhiber brilliantly argued in his essay, “No, Israel does not have ‘a right to exist” (Mondoweiss, 14 July 2026).

What needs debating urgently is whether the world of humans will be safer and more peaceful without Israel.

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A Buddhist humanist from Burma (Myanmar), Maung Zarni, nominated for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, is a member of the TRANSCEND Media Service Editorial Committee, of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment, former Visiting Lecturer with Harvard Medical School, specializing in racism and violence in Burma and Sri Lanka, and Non-resident Scholar in Genocide Studies with Documentation Center – Cambodia. Zarni is the co-founder of FORSEA, a grass-roots organization of Southeast Asian human rights defenders, coordinator for Strategic Affairs for Free Rohingya Coalition, and an adviser to the European Centre for the Study of Extremism, Cambridge. Zarni holds a PhD (U Wisconsin at Madison) and a MA (U California), and has held various teaching, research and visiting fellowships at the universities in Asia, Europe and USA including Oxford, LSE, UCL Institute of Education, National-Louis, Malaya, and Brunei. He is the recipient of the “Cultivation of Harmony” award from the Parliament of the World’s Religions (2015). His analyses have appeared in leading newspapers including the New York Times, The Guardian and the Times. Among his academic publications on Rohingya genocide are The Slow-Burning Genocide of Myanmar’s Rohingyas (Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal), An Evolution of Rohingya Persecution in Myanmar: From Strategic Embrace to Genocide, (Middle East Institute, American University), and Myanmar’s State-directed Persecution of Rohingyas and Other Muslims (Brown World Affairs Journal). He co-authored, with Natalie Brinham, Essays on Myanmar Genocide.

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