The Spectacular Failure of the Zionist Project

The two-state solution is no longer possible and the only way forward is the struggle for a democratic secular state accommodating both Palestinians and Israelis, writes Stefan Moore.

As a secular Jew raised in a fiercely anti-Zionist family, I grew up viewing the State of Israel as an unfortunate fait accompli and accepting that the two-state solution was probably the best that could be hoped for.

Since then, I have come to the conclusion that the creation of a Jewish state was a catastrophic mistake and that Zionist Israel has relinquished its right to exist.

What good could possibly have come from a project that handed a group of Jewish Europeans a land that for countless centuries was inhabited by Arab Palestinians?

Not only did Palestinians have no say in the creation of a Jewish state on their homeland, but just at the time when other developing countries around the world were finally breaking free from the yoke of colonial rule Palestinians, like Native Americans and Australia’s First Nations people before them, became the victims of European settler colonialism — this time endorsed by a U.N. resolution that neither the Palestinians nor any of the Arab states agreed to or voted for.

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Countless centuries of relatively peaceful times of Palestinians and Jewish living side by side towards the more modern era into the 1800s. There of course have been many migrations, deportations, and interventions throughout the centuries of dominant control to influence the region. But then came the 20th century as the industrial era was kicking in, and world travel becoming more easy. At some point all the religious strife taught in the Bible and past confrontations had been washed away by common sense and neighborly love. That part god only spoke about while he pitted two societies against one another. These people's would eventually find a sense of comradery.

I remember reading in the 90's as fencing was beginning to be erected of stories of these two people's still proclaiming admiration for their neighbors they would lose. Despite the horrific nature of what had already been happening for decades before as the British lead the way for Zionism to become the now dominant factor. Back then significant numbers of each population were still at odds with the direction the region obviously was going to be dominated by. Is it shame or criminal for what technology has brought onto humanity? Mankind has become like two children fighting over who gets to play with that toy. Toys turned into resources for technological products. Innovation to build and use these technologies have turned into means it's being used against us. The children have taken over the household with more powerful toys than the parents can have. The parents with common sense and love for the world society are locked away and silenced, unable to reach the majority of us to have a real sense of democracy.

{“I think the self-image of Israel as a moral society is something I haven’t seen anywhere else in the world. We are the ‘Chosen People’ (in the Old Testament Jews were chosen by God as his special people). This is part of the Israeli self-identification…(But) basically, the project of Zionism has a problem… You cannot create a safe haven by creating a catastrophe for other people.”}

Congress says you're a bad Jew if you're not a Zionist. How antisemitic is that? Jill Stein. A Jew.

{“The mantra of the ‘two-state solution’ has become an open joke in the corridors of the U.N., both for its utter impossibility in fact, and for its total failure to account for the inalienable human rights of the Palestinian people.”}

A stretch of land approximately 25 miles long and 5 miles wide, give or take in certain areas. Over the past months since Oct, basically the entire area has been turned to rubble. Any remaining structures for the most part are unstable. It's basically unsustainable to support life now in much of it. Water is for the most part undrinkable, dangerous to do so, many remaining have no choice, food is profoundly scarce. People are rotting in the rubble, babies left to decompose in hospitals. People pushed out then bombed when arrived.

{In any event, it is time to acknowledge that the Zionist project has been a spectacular failure and the status quo can no longer be maintained. Israel has become a pariah state in the eyes of most of the world and the winds of change are now howling across the region.}

When Zionism began to considered in the late 19th century in Palestine, the proclaimed father of Zionism, Theodor Herzl's statement was to return to the fatherland and do so as representatives of the western civilization. Along with the western capitalism, the world will be profoundly better when they both finally collapse.