Zionist policymakers and thinkers are gripped by a strong fear that the state may not survive to see its eightieth year of existence.
Editors Note: This is a guest post from the wonderful author Ayman Ahmed originally published in the News Magazine of the Islamic Movement, Crescent International on February 2nd, 2025, with a preceding introduction from our editors.
Introduction
As I have repeatedly discussed over the last three years through my own post, the pseudo-state of Israel, since its illegitimate foundation in 1948, has been gripped in crippling fear that there will be a repeat performance of the extermination program carried out by the Nazis during WWII. They teach their children that they are hated and despised from the time they are born and continue to use the Holocaust as a psychological weapon to instill fear and anxiety in their own off spring. When these off spring become adults they are anti-human powder kegs that are itching to explode. “Never forgive, Never forget,” is their standing motto.
Anyone who questions Israel’s existence, or their claimed biblical right to eradicate non-Jews near and far immediately triggers these fears and physical violence spontaneously erupts as we have all witnessed on so many occasions across several media platforms.
In its current status, Israel is internally tearing itself apart while lashing out at everything around them. When they are not busying themselves with attacking others, they turn their anger toward each other.
Anti-Conscription Riots June 30th, 2024 Times of Israel 08.12.26.
Haredi Rioters Burning Trash Bins during Clashes with Israeli Police. 2024 Times of Israel 08.12.26
When the cohesion of the three main sectors of the Israel society, the Hiloni, the Haredi, and the Religious Zionist*, is not maintained by a constant propaganda campaign reminding them of their united effort to keep Zionism alive, the only glue left to hold the center together is perpetual raw violence. Child/adult rapes, murders, and suicides are common place in Israel society, with many of these offenses never being investigated or adjudicated. The more violence, the more their minds become eaten away by the infuriation they feel when the rest of the world will not blindly accept their believed supremacy over all other human beings. Its a vicious cycle that will eventually spin apart, and again scatter Zionist practitioners to the four corners of the earth.
Zionist policymakers and thinkers are gripped by a strong fear that the state may not survive to see its eightieth year of existence. This is not because of external threats. In fact, some zionists are living under the illusion that following their genocidal war on Gaza and the rest of Palestine, Israel’s external fronts have been neutralized.
These included assassination of top leaders of Hamas and Hizbullah as well as several Iranian generals. More recently, Syria has also been taken out of the Resistance Axis. So, external threat is not seen as a serious issue by Israel at present.
It is Israel’s internal divisions that are causing sleepless nights among the elite. Menachem Rahat, a leading Israeli journalist and commentator, who used to write for Ma‘ariv newspaper, published a piece titled: “The Curse of the Eighth Decade”.
He wrote: “Far more threatening and dangerous to our future is the division and polarization within Israeli society.
“The same brotherly hatred that came down to the world in the days of Kayin and Hevel, which was repeated in the lives of Yitzchak and Yishmael and Ya’akov and Esav, and exploded again with the brothers’ hatred for Yosef – this is the hatred that burns among us and threatens to overwhelm the zionist enterprise.
“The State of Israel, now in its eighth decade of life and about to celebrate its 75th birthday, is today closer than ever before to the danger of a fratricidal war, each man against his brother. This is the moment to learn from history, before we destroy ourselves through the fire of hate.”
The former defense minister and prime minister, Ehud Barak, has expressed similar concerns. He has framed his concern differently arguing that Israel can either be a ‘Jewish state’ or a ‘democratic state’, but not both.
The former defense minister and prime minister, Ehud Barak, has expressed similar concerns. He has framed his concern differently arguing that Israel can either be a ‘Jewish state’ or a ‘democratic state’, but not both.
The 15-month-long genocidal war on Gaza has merely exacerbated its internal divisions. Within Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet—essentially a bunch of genocidal maniacs—opinion is sharply divided about the just concluded ceasefire. It may not last long.
An odd assortment of parties, all of them neo-Nazi in ideology, compete for influence to push their extremist agenda. The police and security minister in Netanyahu’s cabinet, Itamar Ben Gvir resigned from the coalition regime because he did not want a ceasefire in Gaza.
Neither did Netanyahu but he was forced to accept it because the Israeli army failed to achieve any of the objectives set out by the regime. Hamas has not been eliminated, northern Gaza has not been emptied out of the Palestinians and Israeli prisoners were not released through military force.
Hamas has emerged stronger. Palestinians are returning to their homes even if they are completely destroyed, and the prisoners were released through negotiations.
Israeli army chief Herzi Halevi announced his resignation on January 21. He acknowledged that the army had failed to protect Israeli citizens on October 7, 2023. He will relinquish his post on March 6. Israeli media outlets have admitted that Israel not only lost the war but the army was badly mauled and has suffered major losses. Halevi is leaving it in tatters.
Netanyahu is also running scared because he faces criminal charges for fraud. This is compounded by demands that he resign over his failure to protect Israelis during the October 7, 2023 operation launched by Hamas. It was the biggest humiliation the Israeli regime and army suffered in its entire tortuous existence.
Zionist Israel’s only weapon throughout these years has been its military might. It has used it indiscriminately to terrorize its neighbors, but more particularly the Palestinians under occupation.
The US maintains a pipeline of endless supply of weapons to keep the zionist entity fully stocked. It is better equipped than all the neighbors’ armies combined. The zionist genocidal war on Gaza that inflicted immense death and destruction on the Palestinians, however, failed to subdue much less defeat them. The myth of zionist invincibility lies buried in the rubble of Gaza.
Evidence for this can be found in the casualties inflicted on Israeli forces despite their hi-tech weaponry. Hamas’ Islamic fighters more than matched the invading zionist forces. After 15 months of war, the zionist army is not only exhausted but also demoralized.
Most soldiers and reservists refuse to report for duty. Others seek treatment for mental issues or commit suicide. The length of war has also resulted in Israeli military equipment being degraded due to lack of proper maintenance. True, the US continues to supply it endless amounts of weapons—bombs, missiles and the like—but it cannot rebuild the Israeli army’s morale.
The war has resulted in other problems for the zionist entity. At least 60,000 businesses have shut down including the Port of Eilat, thanks to Ansarallah’s daring attacks on ships in the Red Sea. Israeli bound ships have been intercepted and prevented from going to Israel.
Israel’s financial losses as a result of the war amount to some $70 billion. This is compounded by the fact that the most qualified and productive Israelis have fled the country. They are unlikely to return. When there is no certainty about the future, most Israelis prefer their personal well-being over ideology. Life based and propped on the theft of others’ land and perpetual oppression and killings cannot be sustained forever. There are also strong divisions between Haredim and secular Jews.
Further, the Palestinians cannot be wished away regardless of the scale of barbarism inflicted on them. The zionists have indulged in state terrorism for more than 75 years. The Palestinian resistance has only become stronger and more determined. And it will continue to grow. Time is on the side of the resistance.
The Palestinians are prepared to struggle for as long as it takes to achieve their goal of an independent state free from zionist occupation. The will to achieve freedom is always stronger than the occupiers’ capacity to oppress.
The occupied are willing to make every sacrifice. Palestinian leaders from Sheikh Ahmed Yasin, Dr Abdul Aziz Rantisi, Yahya Ayyash, Salah Arour to Ismail Haniyeh and Yahya Sinwar, sacrificed their lives in the struggle to achieve freedom. Ismail Haniyeh lost 66 members of his family, including three sons, four grandchildren and a sister, in the struggle.
How many zionist leaders—political or military—are prepared to offer such sacrifices? On rare occasions when a few missiles were fired at Tel Aviv, Netanyahu would rush to hide in his underground bunker like a rat. Rats do not revolutionaries or leaders make.
The US is the underwriter and financier of zionist crimes. Recent polls in the US, however, show a worrying trend. More than one-third of American Jewish teenagers sympathies with Hamas, 42 percent believe Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, and 66 percent sympathies with the Palestinian people as a whole. This only adds to the zionists’ discomfort.
It is, however, the curse of the eighth decade that truly haunts the zionists. They are psychologically defeated. Physical defeat cannot be far off. The West Asian region, indeed the entire world would be a far better place without the racist zionist entity.
Notes:
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Hiloni (Secular/Liberal)
“The largest group are the Hiloni. These are the secular Jews making up 40 to 50% of the population. They dominate Israel’s tech sector and form the backbone of the economy and the military. They’re generally non-religious Zionists and see being Jewish as a cultural identity and Israel as a liberal democracy with Western values. No democracy, no high-tech. Under this slogan, hundreds of those working in the Tel Aviv high-tech sector.”
Haredi (Ultra-Conservative)
“They’re the ultra-orthodox and the most conservative… Only around half work official jobs. And though they contribute fewer taxes, they’re often entitled to more state support because of their low income. Since Israel’s founding, military service has been mandatory for most Jews. But the Haredi were exempt if they were in full-time religious studies.”
Religious Zionist (Ultra-Right)
“They are deeply committed to the state and strongly represented in the military. But their vision of Israel is not secular. They think that the land was given to Jews by divine right and that Israel is a religious project.” They are the ones currently in power.
There was an eye opening event that happened last Tuesday in the heart of the US Empire that quashes any notion that ordinary people, like you and I, have no agency to stop this hellish madness that has arrested control of our country. I would like to share it with you and you let me know what you think.
It was around 9:40am CST, and I was running some errands before I was to meet a client at 10am about pouring a concrete pad for his above ground swimming pool. To briefly sketch some context, I live in an ordinary small town of about 25 thousand people in Mid-Western USA. In a country where lawlessness on behalf of our greed soaked leaders is common place, we go about our daily lives still minding the traffic signals, stopping at crosswalks for pedestrians, waiting behind the stopped school buses as they are loading and unloading children, and we still pull over to let emergency vehicles pass so that they can reach a person(s) in need at the other end of their journey. You know, we basically still follow the laws we were taught to follow since we were kids so that Yeats’ “Mere anarchy is [not] loosed upon the world.”
Believe it or not, in my neck of the woods common courtesy is still a thing. You still see people open a door for another at the convenience mart, even if their hands aren’t full. In this interchange it is not unusual to hear a, “Yes Ma’am” or “Yes Sir” as that’s just the way we were raised. And a “Thank you” is the common follow up from the obligee to the obliger. Many years ago this all happened with little notice. Now, in a conflictual world that has been turned upside down, people notice! This may be the only act of care they experience for the rest of their day.
In this ordinary Midwest muddy river town some of us are politically red, some blue, others somewhere in between. And some of us have long ago given up the shades of the red/blue color spectrum and sit outside the political prison that has dominated our lives over the last three quarters of a century. Even in these little micro-metros, some people have begun to realize that John Wayne is dead, Norman Rockwell painted nostalgic fantasies, the American dream was just a dream after all, and our fearless leaders do not have our best interest at heart.
Don’t get me wrong, we have our fair share of physical/sexual violence, thievery, and corruption in this town. But that was not at the forefront currently.
“The Full Treatment”- Norman Rockwell, 1940 -digital copy
So, I am sitting at one of the busier intersections of our humble burg around 9:40am waiting for the light to turn green, and I watch as a pickup truck with its tail gate down comes barreling into the intersection and makes a hard left hand turn. I, and the others awaiting their turn at the cross jaws drop as the load of new lumber that was stacked high and loose on the back of the truck comes flying out of the bed and onto the pavement at the center of intersection. The truck’s spare tire, which was sitting on top of the load, was launched over the bedside of the truck and came rolling past the front of my vehicle.
As a matter of course, I jump out of my truck and stop the tire in mid-roll and direct it back to the now stopped vehicle blocking traffic at the intersection. As I approach, the driver and passenger of the halted vehicle get out to survey the situation. The eighty something passenger was the grandmother of the fifty something driver; both were absolutely dumb struck. As I leaned the spare tire against their truck, I asked the grandmother how far they had to go and she said to Calhoun, as her eyes remained gazed at the twixty-twisted pile of wood on the pavement. Calhoun is a thirty plus mile ride from where we stood. I heard someone behind me and turned to see that a younger woman had gotten out of her car that was blocked at the intersection, and picked up one of the planks from the pile to put it in the back in the Calhouner’s truck. I was kind of surprised by this as the granddaughter was still standing in a frozen position on the other side of the truck with a bewildered look on her face. The younger women literally had to ask the granddaughter to move so that she could complete her intent?!? There had to have been at least forty people blocked at that intersection that were staring at us wondering what the hell we were going to do.
I turned to grandma shaking my head,
“Ma’am, you weren’t going to get two blocks, let alone to Calhoun, with the way that load was set on your truck. Whoever did that didn’t do you any favors.”
As I spoke with her, I noticed that another person, a middle aged male, had exited his vehicle to help re-load the truck. I started smiling.
I told grandma, as I pointed up the road,
“Once you get re-loaded, take the next right and pull over. I will meet you there. Drive slow, or you’ll drop that load again.”
Then another blocked driver got out of his car and started helping re-load the lumber, then another, and then two more! I was really smiling then. ‘This is so beautiful,’ I thought. ‘People helping each other is why we’re here.’
With all the help, the fifty planks and the tire were back on the truck within about 15 minutes, and grandma and granddaughter were slowly headed up to the next turn just like I suggested. The good and noble Samaritan helpers, half-hurried back to their cars to go about their day, as I heartily thanked them all.
I met the couple at the next turn and directed them to the closest parking lot. The granddaughter gets out of the truck and I told her, “We got some work to do here and I’m late for an appointment so we gotta get movin’.” She looked at me like she was a bit perturbed. “What are you going to do?” she asked. Again, I shook my head,
“We have to unload all the planks out of this truck and re-stack the load with the tailgate closed. That’s the reason you lost the load, and the tie off strap they used to hold the load in place was loose. You got at least three quarters of a ton of weight here. If you want to make it all the way back to Calhoun, we gotta do this.”
She begrudgingly agreed as I started pulling the planks and the tire off the truck. I have to admit that I was somewhat confused by her resistant demeanor but, I was running behind and didn’t have time for a heart to heart discussion. She finally pitched in and we got the truck unloaded and reloaded with the tailgate up and the strap re-fastened and cinched tight with some stainless steel wire that I had in my tool box.
I was soaked with sweat. The button down dress shirt I wore for the meeting had tar smeared on it from their spare tire I was lugging around. I turned to the granddaughter and said, “You’re ready to go,” and she got back in the driver’s seat without a word. I walked to the passenger side of their truck and told grandma that they should make it to Calhoun without a problem. She gave a near emotionless “Thank you,” and they pulled off.
As I was driving to my meeting, I recalled the powerful display of spontaneous assistance that helped the Calhouners get back on the road and began smiling again.
If people spontaneously worked together to solve this issue, what prevents us from banding together to solve the larger issues that face our country today? This very real possibility scares the hell out of the moralless oligarchs who are attempting to take complete control of our lives. The fear they experience when they witness a massive display of solidarity among the ordinary populous throws them into maddening convulsions, because they know that coordinated creative energy can wield tremendous political power. Power that would dismantle their wicked networks of domination and force them to surrender the democracy that they have subverted for their own pernicious means. This “people power” as the renowned Stack author, Sobia Quazi puts it, would hold our leaders to account for the crimes they committed against us and the rest of our human family.
Growing up in the 1960’s and 70’s John Wayne movies were regular entertainment in our household. He had long been seated as the iconic US American macho male by this time, promoting individualism, American exceptionalism, and moral superiority. With the vantage of hindsight and a little research, Wayne is exposed as a US White Supremacist who glorifies war and served as a useful propaganda tool for the US military industrial complex. In later interviews he openly praises the colonialist genocide of Native North Americans and blamed the indigenous peoples for their own extermination as they were being selfish in not sharing their land. To make sure that Americans understood his position, in 1971 he stated, “I believe in white supremacy,” in an interview with Playboy Magazine. Sadly, he is still worshiped today as what it means to be an American. For a good review of John Wayne’s legacy, you can read Loren Kantor’s article on Medium.
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