Knesset Outcome: A Manufactured Death Knell
The Israeli PM headed to US Congress in coming days following Knesset's vote on Palestinian Statehood
1 The Need To Get Back To Actual Politics
When Politics are denied, political violence is an inevitable struggle. Even worse, is that when political violence becomes locked in, politics are the only way out of political violence. So, there isn’t much utility in criticizing Israel without politics. Being unable to cite any real situation, economically, strategically, politically, then begets more violence, apathy, and nihilism.
One of the most interesting things I’ve encountered after a lifetime of political engagement, is that the Palestine solidarity movements at this moment are not amounting to politics, but emotional outrage. The need to criticize Israel must be independent and remain informed.
Yes, Palestinians have the national rights, by international law and norm, to armed resistance of occupation and towards self determination. That is not really anything anyone can deny, but Israel’s Knesset does, and continues to sabotage the conditions for any political process to resolve conflicts. Meanwhile the International Criminal Court of Justice has laid out the total opposite, loosening the Western grip on the international body of cartel governance. The hearings lasted six days, and says Israel’s presence in occupied Palestinian territories is ‘illegal’ and should end as ‘rapidly as possible’.
Renewing the criticisms of Israel at this time needs to be completely independent because the world’s Palestine solidarity with a “Jihad”, isn’t exactly “politics” or sincerely grasping the real politics. There are exceptions, in which revolution is concerned in political science, however what’s happening in West Asia is a genocide, not a revolution. The level of analysis isn’t around a partisan political view, but that it is a humanitarian necessity to reach a ceasefire. We can’t begin to understand why a cessation of violence keeps getting sabotaged, unless we actually look at real politics rather than emotional outrage. The world’s reaction to the recent ICJ ruling echos the need to end Israel’s impunity.
Why take an independent viewpoint? In the history of the Zionist project and Western backed Empire, the situation has actually never been so bad, and it can only get worse. The views captured by the current establishments and locked-in violence are not sufficient to be cognizant of more than each other’s partisan sides.
America, (MNNA) of Israel, is in political upheaval at the moment following the assassination attempt of former President Trump who’s second presidency is now looking more likely, but a few days ago the Israeli parliament, Knesset, voted to deny Palestinian statehood. Trump’s announcement of a VP the day after the assassination attempt is a staunch Zionist, who was all but fated to ascend before the more moderate anti-war moderate Tulsi Gabbard.
The rejection of Palestinian statehood comes at 68-9, which was stated as follows: “The Knesset of Israel firmly opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state west of Jordan. The establishment of a Palestinian state in the heart of the Land of Israel will pose an existential danger to the State of Israel and its citizens, perpetuate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and destabilize the region”…
…“It will only be a matter of a short time until Hamas takes over the Palestinian state and turns it into a radical Islamic terror base, working in coordination with the Iranian-led axis to eliminate the State of Israel,” it continued.
The Israeli PM is now on his way to the US Congress to meet with Joe Biden, and the increasingly uncomfortable Americans who are mixed on the issue of statehood. The Democratic establishment is imploding following the disastrous presidential debate against Trump, prior to the assassination attempt, where the calls for President Biden to step down due to his age and mental fitness are growing.
The judicial coup against Biden does have a legal basis, however the dark money behind the US Supreme Court’s handling of judicial politics is well known.
How Netanyahu will take advantage of the historic political upheaval in America remains to be seen. Is the US even distinct from Israel, in any sovereign sense?
2 Demands on PLO (Fatah) Are Irrelevant
Putting it nicely, while a genocide ensues.
Jeremy Scahill recently departed from The Intercept. Generally not the best source of much outside of the Washington insider realm, leaning more liberal. He interviews Mohammed Al-Hindi of the PIJ about the end of Oslo.
What the Oslo Accords were, boils down to the Arab-Israeli Peace Process signed 1993.
The factionalism between countries and resistance factions is extremely easy to fall into, and while a split would not be ideal in terms of the level that Palestinian interests are concerned, the level of political analysis has nothing to do with any of this. They are different levels.
The PLO exists in a relationship with Israel, for the purposes of politics. The demand that PLO should cease relations, ie the Palestinian Authority (PA) to cease to exist, isn’t about politics, but the complete destruction of any means to do politics. What does that mean?
As reported by The Cradle “A resolution backed by Netanyahu was passed in February, rejecting the unilateral establishment of a Palestinian state without a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians. However, the resolution passed on Thursday completely rejects Palestinian statehood even as part of any future peace agreement.
Washington’s line has, for years, been that Palestinian statehood must be achieved through a settlement between Israel and the Palestinians”.
The problem with the biggest resistance factions, is that they are foreign operated, foreign backed, and political tools in the region. As I’ve been radically skeptical of Hamas in the past, whether partially infiltrated by Israel, or fully a creation of Israel, doesn’t change the fact that Hamas is useful for Syria, Lebanese elements, Iran, and elements across the region.
Hamas is dual use. It’s useful to manipulate from both West and East.
The Cradle, not portraying balanced understandings of what the Palestinian Liberation Organization is. Sabotaging the Palestinian Liberation Organization can’t be understood without zooming out.
The narrative that the PLO is used as a way to postpone progress or allow Israel’s Zionist project is dwarfed by the fact that “Jihad” has always been the exact pretexts to Israel’s false flags, atrocities, and orientation in the denial of statehood. The Hamas Charter, ie The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement, is a manifesto of the destruction of Israel. The common sense around this is that you cannot achieve legitimate statehood with the other state, when your manifesto is their total destruction. Take the politics of whole region with a grain of salt.
Israel generally wants a perpetual state of war, before it wants a two state solution.
Hamas wants a permanent state of war, because that’s the ideology. Others like PLFP-joint in the fight with Hamas want a one-state solution, as an ideal,—right now, by tomorrow, yesterday, today.
A one-state revolution, before a two-state solution? This is now the most unrealistic fairytale in history, amid an ongoing genocide.
Without the USA, Israel would be forced into a different reality where it’s arrangements might be more practical. The lobby doesn’t just insert into American politics directly, but it is heavily funding the influence of opinion, with 100 million just approved for covert funding of propaganda in the USA. Influencers are often foreign agents.
The argument that Israel’s public image is a losing battle can’t exactly be deaf to the real situations in politics where Israel’s grasp on politics is absolute, and people continue to die.
3 Logic: The Means To Do Politics Isn’t Actually Dependent Upon The Politics
Liberals: Blood curdling cosmic Karen screaming…—
Israel: But-But-But, The Whole World!—
But why are people literally still dying?
Think about it. Right now might be absolute zero.
The answer to this question needs to be on the level that isn’t contingent on the answer. Most people aren’t ready for hard answers or discussing solutions. In Fact it might not even be possible in our lifetimes to uplift ourselves, and awaken from the confusion where politics are even possible.
But PLO has the arrangement of diplomatic relations where it’s possible to politically discuss, regardless of what’s actually discussed.
It is that simple. After the Knesset result on Palestinian statehood, it looks like its going nowhere. But you still have the ability-to discuss with Israel, even if they aren’t hearing you.
If you wrangle that tool out of the hands of the Palestinians, then what’s the point? If you think about it, total nihilism would not want anyone to believe that there is anything to lose. If you subtract four from zero, you still end up with zero. If you subtract four from one, you still get zero. The logic is self-defeating. There’s no reason to wrestle the option out of the Palestinian’s hands, whether one day it’s useful to do politics or not. The demands to sabotage statehood from Hamas are just as irrelevant as the demands to sabotage statehood from Israel’s Knesset are.
The option to do diplomacy is better than the option being permanently unavailable to do diplomacy.
The above thread, and statement from March of this year, which embroils all kinds of allies to Palestine in a situation so messy that it boggles any mind, how it could have gotten this bad. Israel, is currently carrying out a genocide and the world is frantically trying every pathway we have to stop it.
But, the more people awaken to what’s happening in the world, the more people pay attention, perhaps it can be better understood. Keeping as many channels as possible open is vital.