The denazification of Israel

Dmitry Orlov

People tend to get very emotional on the subject of Israel, especially now that the Israelis have made it very difficult to regard them as anything other than genocidal maniacs, what with some of them lounging around drinking beer while looking at people starving and dying right beyond the high-security fence which surrounds Gaza, the world’s largest concentration camp.

The Israelis did not invent concentration camps (that was the Brits during the Boer War, 1899-1902); nor did they invent factories of death with such lovely touches as promising prisoners a shower and then gassing them, or bleeding kidnapped Russian children to death to procure blood with which to transfuse wounded soldiers (that was the Nazi Germans during World War II, 1941-45) but the Israelis did add a few touches of their own, such as attracting starving people with the promise of food, then shooting them.

And then there are the scenic overlooks equipped with high-tech binoculars through which to gleefully watch the killing fields of Gaza, and the coastal boat tours from which to do the same from the waters of the Mediterranean, in which the prisoners are forbidden to fish… Oh, and those lovely Israeli T-shirts featuring a pregnant Palestinian woman getting shot : “One bullet, two kills! Yippee!”

Does any of this make you hot under the collar? Are veins beginning to bulge and throb on your fevered brow? Then perhaps such reading is not for you. Such emotional reactions cloud one’s judgement and preclude accurate, dispassionate analysis of the phenomenon of Israel that would allow us to predict the inevitable end of this latest reincarnation of a sporadically recurring, usually short-lived, mostly mythological phenomenon known as “a Jewish state in Palestine.”

Since only the laziest of commentators haven’t yet addressed the issue of Israel, it is hard to keep such analysis fresh and eye-popping. I will attempt to do this by presenting it from a specifically Russian perspective. Israel, you see, is a Soviet creation and at present at least a third of Israelis are Russian Jews — Russian-speaking and with plenty to connect them to their home country, which is not Israel but Russia.

Since we are going to consider the Russian perspective, we must, as is customary, start by traveling back in time, to the creation of the state of Israel. At the time of its creation, Palestine was governed according to the British mandate. And then a very simple, routine thing happened: the British transferred the rights to govern certain Palestinian territories to the new Jewish administration in accordance with the decision of the UN Security Council. It was a lovely beginning, but then the transfer of rights to govern certain Palestinian territories to the Palestinians, which had also been decided by the UN Security Council, somehow inexcusably dragged on, and then was completely forgotten. This often happens with such things, especially if the bureaucratic foot-dragging is to someone’s advantage.

“Whose advantage?” you might quite reasonably inquire. From the very beginning of the creation of the state of Israel, there was a struggle for who would become the main sponsor of the new state, it being tiny and in need of protection and support. But, wishful moralizing aside, in reality such protection and support are never free and certain services are always required in return.

Thus, from the very beginning, this state was created as a client state, its raison d’être being to further the interests of its sponsor. There were two potential sponsors — the USA and the USSR — and they competed for this role more or less in good faith. But then a funny thing happened: at some point, the Israeli administration perfidiously betrayed the USSR. And thus the USA became the sponsor of Israel, with a significant share of influence from Britain as well, while USSR was frozen out.

This initial perfidious betrayal by the Israelis determined all subsequent relations between the USSR/Russian Federation and Israel. For example, it explains Russia’s support of Arab countries, which were, let’s be frank, heavily incentivized to fight with Israel. With a third of Israel’s population Russian, there was never any other choice but to maintain close diplomatic, social and cultural ties, but an unsolved political problem remained.

Perhaps you didn’t know this, but the Russians don’t hold grudges; they write them all down, then patiently wait for an opportune moment to demand payback. Unlike various “popup countries” that are here today, failed states tomorrow, Russia is forever, and such a moment always comes sooner or later. With regard to Israel, such notes, accumulated over the years, by now comprise quite a weighty tome. For example, the Russians very carefully wrote down all the facts pertaining to Israeli treachery and meanness against the Russian Federation during the Syrian campaign.

This compendium of grudges is a working document; you see, all of these slights and injuries have to be rectified in the fullness of time. The Russians always come for what’s theirs. The Russians do forgive, but only those who plead guilty to their misdeeds, correct them and ask forgiveness. As to when they exact their revenge, the American vernacular expression “Surprise, motherfuckers!” springs readily to mind. This should help produce a better understanding of Russia’s position concerning Israel and the current conflict in the Middle East.

There will certainly be surprises, especially as Israel’s sponsor, the US, enters its senescence, as exemplified by its last two presidents, both of them physically rather ancient, one almost a vegetable, another a bloviating buffoon who continuously spews forth a roiling mass of incoherence and self-contradiction. He can in very short order approve an Israeli attack on Iran, join that attack, unilaterally order a cease fire as soon as it fails and Israel starts whimpering about being counterattacked, and then seek a Nobel peace prize for doing so. Meanwhile, the problem of the Epstein client list, which includes everybody who should be in jail but isn’t, is dispensed with using the traditional “I lost it, my dog ate it and I didn’t know about it.”

Russia, on the other hand, has a long-term strategy. And that long-term strategy, though never publicly announced, is that Israel has to be denazified. Zionism, you see, is a rabidly nationalistic creed, indistinguishable from Nazism. Zionists like to portray such statements as “antisemitic”, but such portrayals are an abuse of language and are therefore null and void.

The term “semitic” is a linguistic term that applies to a group of languages that include “Arabic, Amharic, Tigrinya, Aramaic, Hebrew, Maltese, Modern South Arabian languages and numerous other ancient and modern languages.” [Wikipedia]

It also has a mythical, biblical connection with a character named Shem, son of Noah: “The children of Shem are Elam, Ashur, Arphaxad, Lud and Aram. […] Abraham, the patriarch of Jews, Christians, and Muslims, is one of the descendants of Arphaxad.” [ibid.] There is nothing to indicate that Jews are the only Semites/Shemites and should have some exclusive claim to that term. By this logic, the Zionists themselves are the worst anti-Semites imaginable, given their treatment of the equally Semitic Palestinians and other Arabs.

Another Nazi-dominated state that Russia is officially planning to have denazified is the Ukraine. Some people still scoff at such characterizations, but the Ukrainians certainly pass the duck test: if it looks, walks and quacks like a Nazi, then it is probably a Nazi. Well then:

• Do the Ukrainians worship genocidal German Nazi collaborators like Bandera and Shukhevich, whose followers nailed children’s tongues to tables, letting them dangle, cut off women’s breasts and disemboweled men, letting pigs feast on their entrails? (There’s all of that in the Russian archives, and more.) Yes, they do; they have named streets after them, erected statues to them and have schoolchildren sing paeans to them.
• Do they sport German Nazi insignias? Yes, they like the Totenkopf and the Wolfsangel very much and they like getting tattooed with the Hackenkreuz. When Ukrainians in military garb bearing Nazi insignia showed up in Germany, where such insignia are illegal, they were politely ignored. (Does Germany need some more denazifying?)
• Do they copy Nazi German slogans? Yes, “Ukrayina ponad use” is a favorite, and it’s a direct translation of “Deutschland, über alles.”
• Do they dream of something like Hitler’s Lebensraum — lands to the east? Yes, they not only covet them but have even unsuccessfully invaded Russia’s Kursk region (committing fat binders full of atrocities and losing over 75 thousand soldiers in the process).
• Do they show genocidal tendencies? Yes, they do, and wish to kill as many Russians (fellow-Slavs) as possible. For a decade now they have been shelling residential districts in what was formerly Eastern Ukraine, peopled by Russians. They have a particular penchant for shelling beaches during summer holidays. They just recently shelled a city beach in Kursk.
• Do they see themselves as a master race? Yes, they have concocted an entire fictional history of themselves and their past greatness. According to some versions, it is they who built the Egyptian pyramids. They also claim to have excavated the Black Sea and heaped up the spoil to make Caucasus mountains. Such nonsense can be readily found in their schoolbooks. Nobody ever said that evil has to be smart.

Is that enough of a duck test for you? I hope so! Back to the Israelis, which, it turns out, are just as ducky as the Ukrainians, minus the German Nazi bling, of course.

• Is Israel “über alles”? Yes, Israelis, in their own minds, are God’s chosen people. According to their foundational myth, Palestine was promised to them by their tribal god Yahweh (Jehovah) in exchange for them promising to follow 10 simple rules chiseled into stone (or some such).
• Fictional history? Yes, there is King David of Israel, of whom no physical evidence exists except for some ambiguous inscriptions. In a land full of ancient ruins, he didn’t leave any. Oh, and that parting of the Red Sea; care to demonstrate? If not, then that’s fictional history.
• Coveting their neighbors’ lands? But of course! Most of the Palestinian lands have by now been absorbed by Israeli “settlers”, evicting the people whose land it actually is. Most recently, Israel grabbed the rest of the Golan Heights and other formerly Syrian territory.
• Genocide much? Yes, their “operation” in Gaza has been officially declared to be such. The Ukrainians worked hard to genocide their fellow-Slavs (but ended up genociding themselves — oops!); the Israelis have been far more successful at genociding their fellow-Semites/Shemites the Palestinians.

The similarities between the Ukraine and Israel do not end there. From the Russian point of view, they are both, to some extent, part of the Russian world. A third of Israel is Russian-speaking while much of the rest came from various parts of the Russian Empire or the USSR. They may be Russian Jews, but to a Russian a person is first Russian and then Mordvin, Mari, Nenets, Bashkiri, Komi, Udmurt, German, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Armenian, Chechen, Ingush, Ossetian, Buryat, Yakut… Ukrainian… Jew.

A question, then: why would Russia wish to denazify one part of the Russian world but not another? Wouldn’t that be inconsistent of it? Doesn’t it stand to reason that it would want to denazify both? Russia is certainly not alone in wishing to denazify Israel: for one, there is also Iran. When Iranian crowds chant “Death to Israel!” they mean no harm to Jewish people, plenty of whom have been living peacefully in Iran/Persia for a couple of millennia and are treated with respect. Nobody has any particular issues with the Jews; even most of the Israelis are OK; it is the Zionists that are the issue. What they should be chanting is “Death to Zionism!” What’s more, there is no shortage of Jews who think that Zionism is an abomination. There are even Jews who think that the existence of the state of Israel is the result of a blasphemous misinterpretation of the scripture.

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