[Marxism] Israel's true intentions

[Néstor Gorojovsky]

I guess Gary hits the point when he states that we cannot understand
what are the goals of the Israeli ruling (leading?) classes by the
observation of their deeds.

Those deeds are overwhelming. But the goals are rather to be
understood by way of considering the concrete situation of  Israel in
the Middle East, the internal currents of the Arab world and, yes, the
internal currents in Israel proper (by which I understand Israeli
Jews, of course).

In this sense, the general trend goes to the Bantustanization of the
Palestinian state, the enclosure of Israeli Arabs (which are not to be
forgotten in our analysis) into an ever decreasing fraction of Israeli
land, and a state of permanent division, turmoil and confusion in the
Arab world in general and in the Eastern fraction of the Arab world in
particular.

That is, the condition for a "pax Israelica" is permanent war in the area.

A most unstable condition, as Talleyrand pointed out to Napoleon
("bayonets, Sire, are useful for many things, but they don´t provide
comfortable seats")

2009/1/1, Gary MacLennan <gary.maclennan1 en gmail.com>:
> I will be attending the demonstration scheduled for tomorrow here in
> Brisbane. Hopefully it will large and militant. What is happening in
> Palestine is something beyond horror. Such are the dimensions of what Israel
> is doing that we cannot come to a consensus as to their intentions. Part of
> the confusion on our side is due to the fact that what Israel intends is so
> evil that we doubt the evidence.  there is of course a pall of lies and
> misinformation over everything. Thus unbelievably I read of the "peace
> process" being suspended or of being in jeopardy.
>
> One of the best bits of teaching I did last year was to bring a headline
> into a class and ask them to critique it.  The headline was "Financial
> crisis puts war on poverty on hold".  The class were largely stumped about
> what to say except for speculation about how deep the crisis was going to
> be.
>
> Interestingly when I pointed out that the headline also claimed there was a
> "war on poverty" very few in the class actually believed that there was any
> such "war".  However the really best part of the lesson was when I got them
> to acknowledge that they had simply read a lie and had not commented on it.
> So they were not "mindful" of the lies which surround them and indeed all of
> us.  Partly of course this is a defense mechanism.  Mindfulness comes with a
> price tag - the end of one's comfort zone.
> Similarly with what is happening in Palestine.  There is of course no peace
> process at all.  There never has been.  There is simply the drive towards a
> Greater Israel (drang nach osten) and the conquest of more and yet more
> Palestinaian land (lebens raum).
>
> So Carroll is right if we are mindful of what is actually happening it is
> indeed logical - but it is the logic of empire and conquest that is at work.
>
> There are of course constraints on what Israel intends.  Above all their
> Arab allies - Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan must be kept safe.  A
> revolution in any of those three countries would immediately place the
> entire Zionist project in danger.  For Israel cannot simply leave the
> conquest of Palestine to the IAF.  Politics like the dialectic never dies.
> The capacity of Israel for killing Arabs is of course horrifically daunting
> but a political defeat for Israel cannot be ruled out.  Nor indeed is a
> military reverse out of the question as Hizbollah showed two years ago.
>
> For the moment however it looks like the Israelis have tested the waters
> with their initial blitz and discovered that Mubarak and the royal families
> of Jordan and Saudi Arabia are still safe.  So they will move to another
> level.  There will be incursions into Gaza to test Hamas' military capacity
> and to flush out and kill as many militants as possible.
>
> If they get away with that escalation they will then move to stage three - a
> full invasion with the aim of eliminating the Hamas leadership and again
> killing militants.
>
> I doubt if they have planned much beyond that. As'ad Abu Khalil (<
> angryarab.blogspot.com>) seems to believe that Israel seeks to enthrone
> Mohammed Dahlan back in Gaza. That of course is a project close to their
> hearts - the degeneration of Gaza into Dahlanistan  would be like a return
> to the days when Myer Lansky and the Mob ran Cuba.
>
> However the outcome of none of this is assured.  I think much of the
> analysis and the response to what is happening is overly governed by a
> belief in Israeli invincibility.  But as I have said previously it is the
> advent of popular revolution in one of the key Arab countries that will
> determine the outcome.  And I suspect that the events of the last week have
> done more to hasten that eventuality, than any one of  us dares hope.
>
> comradely
>
> Gary
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Néstor Gorojovsky
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