Friends don't let friends drive drunk. Friends of ordinary Israeli Jews don't let them continue the Zionist project that will mean utter death and destruction for them
Why the German Republic Fell - written in the 1930s by a reporter who was in Germany before and during the rise of Hitler who then escaped to UK, read Progress and Poverty by Henry George, and realized that the steps that happened in Germany were what Henry George had predicted in countries that do not address the "land problem" here: https://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/111heil.html#
Theodore Herzl and other key founders of the state of Israel also had high minded humanitarian justice views and were inspired and informed by the writings of Henry George regarding how to solve the problem of land hoarding, speculation and rent-seeking. So I am hereby bringing your attention to an important article by Dusty Sklar on Henry George and Zionism found here: https://jewishcurrents.org/henry-george-zionism
I just read the article "Zionism and Land" that you linked to. Here is a copy of my comment to it:
Fact #1--that some Zionists had some good general ideas about how society should be--is far less important than fact #2--that the Zionist project was to remove the non-Jews from most of Palestine in order to create a state (supposedly*) ONLY of "the Jews."
Fact #2 POISONED with racism any otherwise positive effect of fact #1. For example, the Jewish National Fund may have had some Georgist ideas about land but its main role was to buy land from absentee Palestinian land owners and then evict the Palestinian farmers who rented that land, all for the purpose of removing non-Jews from as much of Palestine as possible. When the Palestinians figured out what the JNF (and the Zionist movement generally) was aiming to do to them it led to the violence of Palestinians against Jews that broke out in 1936.
* I say "supposedly" because in actual fact Israel is no more a state of, by and for the ordinary Jews who live there than the United States is a state of, by and for the ordinary people who live there; both are dictatorships of the rich that treat the ordinary people like dirt. It is important to realize that Zionist leaders had nothing but contempt for the welfare of ordinary Jews (not to mention Palestinians) as I prove at https://johnspritzler.substack.com/p/why-really-zionist-leaders-have-always?r=1iggn .
I just read your substack "cutting the gordian know" post and here is a copy of my reply to it:
Alanna,
What you say here is true: with good will the Jews and non-Jews (a.k.a. Palestinians) could live in peace and mutual aid and prosperity "From the River to the Sea."
But your article does not address the question: "Why is good will not prevailing?" The explanation is NOT that too few people have good will or want the kind of solutions your article discusses. Most of the people in Israel/Palestine would love it if there were peace with these kinds of good will solutions.
The reason these good will solutions don't get implemented is because the people with the real power in the region--the billionaire ruling class of Israel and the billionaires who control Hamas--have been working for decades to make sure that these good will solutions never get implemented; and they have been working with great skill (and unfortunately success) to make ordinary Jews in Israel fear and hence hate Palestinians, and to make Israeli Jews (wrongly) believe that Israeli violence (now genocide) against Palestinians is required to make Jews safe. The billionaire class does this in order to control, oppress and get rich off of the working class Jews and Palestinians in Israel/Palestine. This horrible ethnic war is deliberately fomented by the billionaire class, and it gets away with it because virtually nobody is refuting the lies it uses (especially the lie that Israeli violence and oppression of Palestinians is for the purpose of making Israeli Jews safe.)
Well, let's keep deepening our insights on this.
Please do read:
Why the German Republic Fell - written in the 1930s by a reporter who was in Germany before and during the rise of Hitler who then escaped to UK, read Progress and Poverty by Henry George, and realized that the steps that happened in Germany were what Henry George had predicted in countries that do not address the "land problem" here: https://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/111heil.html#
Zionism and Land: https://alannahartzok.substack.com/p/zionism-and-land
Theodore Herzl and other key founders of the state of Israel also had high minded humanitarian justice views and were inspired and informed by the writings of Henry George regarding how to solve the problem of land hoarding, speculation and rent-seeking. So I am hereby bringing your attention to an important article by Dusty Sklar on Henry George and Zionism found here: https://jewishcurrents.org/henry-george-zionism
Palestine and Israel: Cutting the Gordian Knot - https://alannahartzok.substack.com/p/palestine-israel-cutting-the-gordian
I will read the linked articles you shared.
I just read the article "Zionism and Land" that you linked to. Here is a copy of my comment to it:
Fact #1--that some Zionists had some good general ideas about how society should be--is far less important than fact #2--that the Zionist project was to remove the non-Jews from most of Palestine in order to create a state (supposedly*) ONLY of "the Jews."
Fact #2 POISONED with racism any otherwise positive effect of fact #1. For example, the Jewish National Fund may have had some Georgist ideas about land but its main role was to buy land from absentee Palestinian land owners and then evict the Palestinian farmers who rented that land, all for the purpose of removing non-Jews from as much of Palestine as possible. When the Palestinians figured out what the JNF (and the Zionist movement generally) was aiming to do to them it led to the violence of Palestinians against Jews that broke out in 1936.
* I say "supposedly" because in actual fact Israel is no more a state of, by and for the ordinary Jews who live there than the United States is a state of, by and for the ordinary people who live there; both are dictatorships of the rich that treat the ordinary people like dirt. It is important to realize that Zionist leaders had nothing but contempt for the welfare of ordinary Jews (not to mention Palestinians) as I prove at https://johnspritzler.substack.com/p/why-really-zionist-leaders-have-always?r=1iggn .
I just read your substack "cutting the gordian know" post and here is a copy of my reply to it:
Alanna,
What you say here is true: with good will the Jews and non-Jews (a.k.a. Palestinians) could live in peace and mutual aid and prosperity "From the River to the Sea."
But your article does not address the question: "Why is good will not prevailing?" The explanation is NOT that too few people have good will or want the kind of solutions your article discusses. Most of the people in Israel/Palestine would love it if there were peace with these kinds of good will solutions.
The reason these good will solutions don't get implemented is because the people with the real power in the region--the billionaire ruling class of Israel and the billionaires who control Hamas--have been working for decades to make sure that these good will solutions never get implemented; and they have been working with great skill (and unfortunately success) to make ordinary Jews in Israel fear and hence hate Palestinians, and to make Israeli Jews (wrongly) believe that Israeli violence (now genocide) against Palestinians is required to make Jews safe. The billionaire class does this in order to control, oppress and get rich off of the working class Jews and Palestinians in Israel/Palestine. This horrible ethnic war is deliberately fomented by the billionaire class, and it gets away with it because virtually nobody is refuting the lies it uses (especially the lie that Israeli violence and oppression of Palestinians is for the purpose of making Israeli Jews safe.)
I prove the above statements of mine in my articles at https://www.pdrboston.org/israel-s-government-attacks-jews-to and https://www.pdrboston.org/israel-funds-hamas-keeps-it-in-power and https://johnspritzler.substack.com/p/why-really-zionist-leaders-have-always?r=1iggn .
We need to explain to the public WHY good will does not prevail in Israel/Palestine and build a movement to remove the billionaires from power, as I discuss at https://johnspritzler.substack.com/p/revolutionary-movement-building-101?r=1iggn .
What do you think?
Excellent article, John! May I ask what the source was of the picture and caption of bombed out Berlin?
Thank you! The photo is in the article linked to from the words "fate of Germans" in my article above the photo. That URL is https://www.elinorflorence.com/blog/berlin-bombing/ .
Thank you, John.