{"id":111472,"date":"2018-05-21T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=111472"},"modified":"2018-05-17T16:44:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T15:44:02","slug":"jewish-past-vs-jewish-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/05\/jewish-past-vs-jewish-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewish Past vs Jewish State"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Young Palestinians protestors at the Gaza border carry signs in Hebrew: “Soldier, we are not objects, we are human beings.’<\/p><\/div>\n

14 May 2018 – <\/em>Zionism promised to solve the Jewish problem. It vowed to fix Diaspora Jews by means of a \u2018homecoming,\u2019 to make the Jews loved, empathic, bond them to the soil; in essence, to make them \u2018people like all other people.\u2019<\/p>\n

The horrific scenes flooding in from Gaza today demonstrate that Zionism failed miserably. The Jewish State is an embarrassment to its original humanist endeavour and to humanity in general.<\/p>\n

Just today, at least 43 Palestinian protestors have been killed and 2,200 wounded by Israeli troops at the Gaza border. Some reports suggest that half of the injuries were caused by live ammunition. This is \u00a0devastating news. The criminality of Israel is institutional. This is not about one odd sniper who laughs as he shoots<\/a> a young Palestinian in the knee, crippling him for life. Israel is displaying a systematic hierarchic murderous apparatus designed to sustain the oppression of the indigenous people of the land for an unlimited period.<\/p>\n

Despite the Zionist dream, the Jewish state isn\u2019t loved by its neighbours. It isn\u2019t loved by the rest of the world either. In fact Israel\u2019s actions evoke global repulsion. Instead of solving the Jewish problem, Zionism has only relocated the problem and amplified the symptoms it vowed to eliminate.<\/p>\n

Truth can be a disturbing notion; no matter how much you try to suppress it, truth manages to come out. Accordingly, it is impossible to grasp the history of Jewish suffering without taking into consideration the atrocious actions of the Jewish state.\u00a0 As it happens, Israeli politics is driven by a complete dismissal of the other.\u00a0The Israeli military operation in Gaza is simply a license to murder. One would hope that a state that names itself the Jewish State would be slightly more vigilant with its excessive \u00a0use of power.<\/p>\n

By now I believe that Israel is going to be remembered as the darkest chapter in Jewish history and beyond.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Gilad Atzmon is a public opponent of Israel. Born into a pro-Zionist family and serving in the first Lebanon War, he had a dramatic turnaround. He quit the army, picked up his sax and exiled himself to London.<\/em> He is the author of <\/em>The Wandering Who<\/a> and one of the most accomplished jazz saxophonists in Europe.<\/em> \u00a0Atzmon writes\u00a0on political matters, social issues,\u00a0Jewish identity and culture. His\u00a0pieces are published around the world: <\/em>TRANSCEND Media Service<\/a>,<\/a> World News,<\/a> The Guardian<\/a>, Rebelion, <\/a>The Daily Telegraph<\/a>, Uprooted Palestinians<\/a>, Veterans Today<\/a>, Palestine Telegraph<\/a>, Counterpunch,<\/a> Dissident Voice, <\/a>Aljazeera Magazine, \u00a0 Information Clearing House, <\/a>\u00a0 <\/a>Middle-East-Online<\/a>, \u00a0 Palestine Chronicle, The People Voice<\/a>, Redress<\/a>,\u00a0Shoa (The Palestinian Holocaust)\u00a0<\/a> and many more.<\/em> He can be reached at atz@onetel.net.uk<\/a>.\u00a0 visit Gilad’s website<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 gilad.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

14 May 2018 – Zionism promised to make Jews \u2018people like all other people.\u2019 The horrific scenes flooding in from Gaza today demonstrate that Zionism failed miserably. The Jewish State is an embarrassment to its original humanist endeavour and to humanity in general. Just today, at least 43 Palestinian protestors have been killed and 2,200 wounded by Israeli troops at the Gaza border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":104919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}