The Fallacy of Israel

By M. Aziz

In the nearly 70yrs since the birth of the State of Israel, Palestinian dreams for freedom have consistently been crushed. Yet mounting intellectual arguments and international discomfort threaten to smash the lead-filled blue star boxing gloves before they can deliver their knockout blow.

The Fallacy of Israel is a digital-only essay by Mohammed Aziz which concisely questions Zionism on biological, theological, moral, historical and political bases, and declares a two-state solution in the Middle East dead.

• Language: English
• Publisher: M. Aziz
• Release date: Sep 17, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370198757

M. Aziz

British Asian male, b. 1979.

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THE FALLACY OF ISRAEL

Mohammed Aziz

Contents

Title page

Dedication

Introduction

Biological

Theological

Moral

Historical

Political

Conclusion

Also by M. Aziz

Copyright

Dedicated to the iron spirit of the Palestinians.

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Introduction

At the time of first draft – 1 August 2014 – Israel and Hamas have been trading rocket fire. The seeming trigger for this conflict was the death of three missing Israeli teenagers in the West Bank.¹ Initially attributed to Hamas, the link was soon found to be erroneous and the Israeli government were accused of having known that the teenagers had died earlier than admitted in order to stoke Israeli support for an attack.² With the basis sinking in quicksand, the mission to eliminate Hamas was supplemented with the need to destroy underground Gazan tunnels into Israel that have been used to kidnap Israeli soldiers.³

Because of Israel’s impressive Iron Dome defence shield⁴ and an unconditionally US-backed military the damage that Israel caused to Gaza in their pursuit of Hamas militants has been much greater than that by Hamas to Israel who utilise what could be generously described as glorified fireworks.⁵ Global condemnation focussed on Israel with calls for their Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be tried for war crimes⁶ due to the allegedly targeted bombings of hospitals and schools.

This is, of course, not the first and unfortunately not the last episode in the nearly seven-decade-old conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. While international solidarity is largely allied to the latter group, powerful political and media support from the West (due to regional interests) persists in the illusion that Palestinians are an entirely unreasonable people who wish to repeat the Nazi Holocaust on Jewry and therefore do not deserve their own independent state.⁷ Though one can sympathise with Israelis and Jews in general following World War II and condemn post-Cold War Islamic fundamentalism because of its effects elsewhere, it is disingenuous to paint Palestinians as the aggressors, particularly as an Islamic-inflected resistance is a relatively modern development in the conflict. In fact, there is some irony in that it was Israel who funded the precursor to Hamas in order to break Yasser Arafat’s Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) whose statehood mission was devoid of Islamic character.⁸

As much as the creation of Israel appears abhorrent to many people who see it as classic colonisation backed by a pseudo-religious narrative, it would be equally abhorrent, if it were genuinely achievable, to call for the physical destruction of Israel (even Iran’s former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad only alluded an end to racist ideology⁹). Whether one likes it or not the children of settlers born in Israel