{"id":263876,"date":"2024-06-10T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=263876"},"modified":"2024-06-09T05:44:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T04:44:12","slug":"the-brutalization-of-israel-is-well-underway-collapse-is-only-a-matter-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/06\/the-brutalization-of-israel-is-well-underway-collapse-is-only-a-matter-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Brutalization of Israel Is Well Underway–Collapse Is only a Matter of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Israeli right-wing youth activists attacking Palestinian freelance journalist Saif Kwasmi in a march commemorating Jerusalem Day on Wed 5 Jun 2024.
Credit: Hazem Bader\/AFP<\/p><\/div>\n

Haaretz Editorial 7 Jun 2024:<\/em><\/h3>\n

It is impossible to watch the photographic documentation of the ugly, violent demonstrators during Wednesday\u2019s [5 Jun] parade of Jewish supremacy through the streets of Jerusalem without hearing Prof. Yeshayahu Leibowitz\u2019s warning echoing in the background:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe national pride and euphoria that followed the Six-Day War are temporary and will bring us from proud, rising nationalism to extreme, messianic, ultranationalism. The third stage will be brutality and the final stage will be the end of Zionism,\u201d <\/em>the farsighted philosopher said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The process of brutalization is at its height. \u201cThe general spirit was that of revenge<\/em>,\u201d wrote\u00a0 Haaretz journalist Nir Hasson<\/a>, who was assaulted by a gang of teens who hurled him to the ground and kicked him.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe leading symbol on the marchers\u2019 shirts was the Kahanist fist, the popular chant was a particularly bloody revenge song, alongside chants of \u2018Death to Arabs\u2019 and \u2018May their village burn.\u2019 The most popular minister was Itamar Ben-Gvir and the overall atmosphere was frightening.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nor was Hasson the only person to be assaulted. The rioters threatened, cursed, shoved and\u00a0attacked Palestinian passers by<\/a>\u00a0and anyone they identified as a journalist or who tried to film them. The reason they attacked journalists is that they couldn\u2019t find enough Palestinian victims, since Palestinian families were hunkered down at home. They have already learned that when the\u00a0Jews are celebrating Jerusalem Day<\/a>, it\u2019s better to vacate the arena so the celebrants won\u2019t be tempted to lynch them.<\/p>\n

We aren\u2019t talking about a handful of wild weeds or any of the other euphemisms used by parts of the religious Zionist movement in its\u00a0full Kahanist incarnation<\/a>. Brutality is no longer confined to the margins or to the settlements and settlement outposts; it has spread in every direction. Terrifyingly, it has even penetrated the military, the Knesset and the cabinet.<\/p>\n

Cabinet ministers and Knesset members joined the thousands of marchers, and some even danced to that bloody song of revenge, \u201cAvenge but One of My Two Eyes upon Palestine,\u201d which speaks of the biblical Samson\u2019s revenge on the Philistines. Ministers\u00a0Bezalel Smotrich<\/a>\u00a0and Miri Regev marched, as did lawmakers Tzvi Succot, Simcha Rothman and Almog Cohen, and of course the king of the Kahanists, Ben-Gvir, who took advantage of the opportunity to threaten the\u00a0status quo on the Temple Mount<\/a>\u00a0(known to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif, the site of Al-Aqsa Mosque) and foment a religious war.<\/p>\n

If Israel\u2019s political center does not act to return the extremists to the margins of society, eliminate Kahanism and remove the\u00a0malignant growth of the occupation<\/a>\u00a0from the body politic, Israel\u2019s final fall will only be a matter of time. The countdown has begun.<\/p>\n

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Source: <\/em>HAARETZ<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> \u00a0 Dilip Simeon<\/em>: My blogs are non-commercial. I believe strongly in the power of ideas; and am opposed to ideological tyranny and the control of the mind by dictators or totalitarian movements of any doctrinal inclination whatsoever. My blogging has been devoted to fostering an informed and non-polemical debate in India and globally, about the crucial concerns of our time. Here\u2019s a thought that I consider profound: <\/em>\u2018It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honored by the humiliation of their fellow human beings.\u2019 (M. K. Gandhi). The title, <\/em>After the Truth Shower, is from <\/em>a poem I wrote<\/em><\/a> for a friend.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Haaretz Editorial 7 Jun 2024: Brutality is no longer confined to the margins or to the settlements and settlement outposts; it has spread in every direction. Terrifyingly, it has even penetrated the military, the Knesset and the cabinet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":263877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[101,1199,125,87,865,88,3120,378,234,427,99,126,1025,886],"class_list":["post-263876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-cultural-violence","tag-ethnic-cleansing","tag-freedom-of-the-press","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-israel","tag-jewish-settlers","tag-journalism","tag-media","tag-palestine","tag-structural-violence","tag-violence","tag-west-bank","tag-zionism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263876","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=263876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263878,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263876\/revisions\/263878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}