Jerusalem: Reality vs Impracticality – The Protection Racket of the Jewish State Zahir Ebrahim | Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
Jerusalem:
Reality vs Impracticality – The Protection Racket of the Jewish
State
Zahir Ebrahim | Project
Humanbeingsfirst.org
Wednesday, December 13, 2017 11:00 pm | Last Updated December 17, 2017
12:00 pm
Abstract
The New York Times reported on Wednesday, Dec
6, 2017:
'WASHINGTON — President Trump on Wednesday formally
recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, reversing nearly seven
decades of American foreign policy and setting in motion a plan to
move the United States Embassy from Tel Aviv to the fiercely
contested Holy City. “Today we finally acknowledge the obvious:
that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital,” Mr. Trump said from
the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House. “This is
nothing more or less than a recognition of reality. It is also
the right thing to do. It’s something that has to be done.”
... Recognizing Jerusalem, he added, was “a long overdue step
to advance the peace process.” ... The announcement,
officials said, was recognition of current and historic reality.
West Jerusalem is the seat of Israel’s government, and
recognizing it as such would remove ambiguity from the American
position, they said.'
During the Bush administration in 2004, the New York Times on Oct
17, 2004, had reported on the nature of this “reality”
constructed by history's actors from a bizarre conversation with a
senior White House official:
'In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire
that the White House didn't like about Bush's former communications
director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to
Bush. He expressed the White House's displeasure, and then he told me
something that at the time I didn't fully comprehend -- but which I
now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency. The aide
said that guys like me were “in what we call the reality-based
community,” which he defined as people who “believe that
solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.”
I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and
empiricism. He cut me off. “That's not the way the world really
works anymore,” he continued. “We're an empire now,
and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying
that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating
other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things
will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will
be left to just study what we do.”'
Well, fast forward to today, Wednesday, Dec
13, 2017, exactly one week after President Trump created the
new reality vis a vis Jerusalem as the eternal capital of the
Jewish state in occupied Palestine, the New York Times reported that
the Muslim Leaders Declare East Jerusalem the Palestinian Capital,
rightly refusing to accept the new reality created by the history's
actors, but regurgitating the same old two-state narrative as
scripted by the Israelis themselves for the ingestion of the
beleaguered Palestinians while they piece-meal gobble up all of
Palestine (and then some):
'ISTANBUL — Leaders and officials of Muslim nations declared
East Jerusalem the Palestinian capital on Wednesday at a summit
meeting in Istanbul, producing the strongest response yet to
President Trump’s decision to recognize the city as Israel’s
capital. The gathering of the 57-member Organization of Islamic
Cooperation was held to formulate a unified response from the Muslim
world to Mr. Trump’s decision last week. ... The meeting
condemned in a communiqué Mr. Trump’s “unilateral”
and “dangerous declaration” as an effort to change the
status of Jerusalem. It said that it considered the action a
violation of United Nations resolutions and legally null and void,
and that it would hold the United States liable for all consequences
of not retracting its decision. ... Mr. Abbas on Wednesday told
the gathering that Mr. Trump had committed the “greatest crime”
with his declaration, and that the Palestinians would no longer
accept any role of the United States in peace negotiations with
Israel. “Jerusalem is and always will be the capital of
Palestine,” he said, adding that the United States was
giving it away as if it were an American city. “It crosses all
the red lines,” Mr. Abbas said. Mr. Erdogan urged nations of
the world to recognize the state of Palestine, and declared Jerusalem
as its occupied capital. He warned there would be no peace in the
region unless the city’s status was recognized as such. ...
Calling Israel a terrorist state, he warned that “Israel
will never have any legitimacy in Jerusalem.”'
What is revealing about Trump's action as the henchman of the
history's actors du jour is the rationale statement: “This
is nothing more or less than a recognition of reality”
– a reality previously created piece-meal by other history's
actors with incremental faits accomplis which have always
appeared too impractical if not impossible to reverse.
What is also revealing about the reactionary declaration emanating
from the distinguished Leaders and officials of Muslim nations, is
that they appear to be expert parrots, rehearsing from the same old
script given them as a red herring by the Jewish narrative, and which
has unfortunately come to define the loudest pitch of the Palestinian
struggle to date.
Other voices able to perceptively penetrate the red herrings thrown
to the Palestinian and Muslim leaders continue to remain unheard. And
so is the solution. The first essay
below, published in February 2007, systematically dissects
the red herring of reality vs impracticality, and presents
what is perhaps the obvious and commonsense solution for a piece of
geography that is most sacred to the followers of all three Abrahamic
faiths. A geography for which the existent native inhabitants of that
sacred land have been wronged, oppressed, brutalized, killed,
evicted, and their land systematically colonized and occupied ever
since the Balfour
Declaration was issued by the previous generation of
history's actors. The current generation of history's actors whose
visible henchman in the White House is President Trump, is working
for the same oligarchic interests that created the conditions and
realities of “revolutionary times” to motivate
Great Britain to grant Muslim Palestine to the Jews as if they were
giving away a piece of their own land. The perceptive statement made
by Mr. Abbas “that the United States was giving it away as
if it were an American city”, is capturing the reality of
the same Oligarchic script that Great Britain, as the dominating
empire of its time, previously rehearsed from. American leaders are
merely continuing the same acts as the latter day henchmen of
history's actors. Mr. Trump is evidently the boldest of them all in
form, but there is little difference in substance.
The oligarchy controlling the Jewish state in Palestine for its own
interests, is singularly defeated in its more than hundred years long
shenanigans if the world leaders sympathetic to the Palestinians,
instead of parroting the Jewish narrative, demand the commonsense
solution that eludes the West in its unrelenting support of the
misconstruction of Israel as an apartheid state.
It is the obvious one nation-state solution for all its
inhabitants. In that tight piece of geography, two nations simply
cannot be constructed justly; the one with the bigger guns will
always dictate the terms. And it is truly no ordinary piece of
geography. It is so steeped in the history and intermingling cultures
of all three Abrahamic religions that try as the transplanted
European Zionists may, to obliterate the vestiges of the other two,
its history and its emotional affiliations cannot be divorced from
that geography. Abolishing apartheid and eliminating the racist
Zionist philosophy, and replacing it with a society with secular,
civil and moral laws that are based on the common moral teachings of
all three religions and which treat all three peoples as equals,
permitting each to practice their own faith, to hold sacred their own
heritage without encroaching upon the rights of each other, is the
only just solution today. That is the actual ground reality when
primacy is replaced with fairness. It is also the solution that the
ordinary Palestinian peoples themselves demand. It is high time the
Palestinian and Muslim leaders listened, and dared to lead as
history's actors in their own right. Other nations' leaders will
follow suit once the singular demand is tabled by the Palestinian and
Muslim leaders, with no back-off whatever the pressure and
consequence. In time, all wounds will heal naturally, as all three
peoples have far more in common than they have the courage to
recognize and accept.
The status of Jerusalem is then naturally and organically resolved
as the common sacred heritage of all three faiths. Surely some
formula for administering the holy city in fairness to the peoples of
all three faiths can then be devised by the citizens themselves and
ratified as the fair law of the sacred land that is named in the Holy
Scriptures of all three faiths as “The City of Peace”.
All this may sound Pollyannaish today just as once abolishing
Apartheid in South Africa may have sounded to the oppressed natives
of that land, or abolishing slavery in the United States may have
sounded to the oppressed Negroes of this land. Abolishing Zionism
from Palestine is no different, despite all Zionist attempts to mimic
the genocidal Settlement of the Americas by the colonizing Europeans
in centuries past. The second
essay below, published in May 2010, looks into the oligarchic
power behind the Zionist state. It outlines the struggle forward for
pragmatically overturning the Machiavellian force of “impracticality”
protecting the Zionist state that is making a mockery of the very
name of Jerusalem. The third
essay below, published on May 15, 2010 on the 62nd
anniversary of the Nakba, examines the psychological cataracts which
become impediments and which must first be overcome in order to forge
that real struggle forward that can effectively overturn the reality
of “impracticality” on the ground.
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Jerusalem:
Reality vs Impracticality – The Protection Racket of the
Jewish State Zahir Ebrahim | Project Humanbeingsfirst.org