{"id":75756,"date":"2015-09-29T19:02:52","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T03:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=75756"},"modified":"2023-09-09T16:13:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T00:13:39","slug":"the-future-of-palestine-righteous-jews-vs-the-new-afrikaners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=75756","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Palestine: Righteous Jews vs. the New Afrikaners"},"content":{"rendered":"

John J. Mearsheimer<\/a> is widely regarded as the most important political scientist in America today<\/a>. I respect his work. Yet his prediction and prescription for Israel in this 2010 talk<\/a> bewilders me.<\/p>\n

Regrettably, the two-state solution is now a fantasy. Instead, those territories will be incorporated into a \u201cGreater Israel,\u201d which will be an apartheid state bearing a marked resemblance to white-ruled South Africa.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With Stephen Walt and John J. Mearsheimer, I don’t think Israel is a worse nation than others. On the other hand, along with Walt and Mearsheimer, I don’t think it is a significantly more kind occupier than others.<\/p>\n

If Israel were kinder to the Palestinians, it would cease to exist. If Israel were harsher, it would lose Jewish and Gentile support. From my perspective, Israel, like most nations, is just doing the best it can with very difficult circumstances.<\/p>\n

John Mearsheimer is a foreign policy realist. He knows that a country’s human rights record has nothing to do with how effectively it can govern and project power and retain its independence. So why is he getting all moral about Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians?<\/p>\n

I am not a political scientist, but what other countries are called “apartheid”? I just did a Google search for “apartheid” and all of the results refer to South Africa except for a handful for Israel. Is the way Israel rules so distinctively and uniquely evil in the world that only it deserves the term “apartheid”?<\/p>\n

For most people in the western world, “apartheid” is about the worst term you can fling at a country.<\/p>\n

So John J. Mearsheimer’s choice of it for Israel and for nobody else (aside from the former South African regime) disturbs me. A Google search for “John Mearsheimer apartheid” reveals he does not use the term for any other country but Israel (and the former South Africa).<\/p>\n

It seems like John J. Mearsheimer, following up on his important book The Israel Lobby (co-written with Stephen Walt) has become unhinged about the Jewish state. I wonder if all the slurs hurled at him have somewhat disengaged him from his rational faculties with regard to Israel?<\/p>\n

Mearsheimer writes “young Israeli Jews, many of whom hold clearly racist views toward the Palestinians in their midst.” Is noticing differences and conflicting group interests racist? I thought the “realist school” of foreign policy analysis meant that the moral quality of a regime has nothing to do with how powerful and effective it can be. Why is Mearsheimer suddenly getting all moral with Israeli attitudes?<\/p>\n

A Google search for “racist John Mearsheimer” reveals in the first 50 results that Mearsheimer only uses the term for Israeli attitudes. That’s weird. Why is Israel’s racism so much worse than everyone else’s?<\/p>\n

Mearsheimer writes that if Israel expels its Arabs, it would be a “crime against humanity.” Would expulsion be a greater crime than all the genocides that happen routinely in the Arab world and Africa? Compared to those genocides, why would expulsion be such a crime?<\/p>\n

Here is an example of why I respect Walt and Mearsheimer.<\/p>\n

From Walt’s blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Ever since John Mearsheimer and I began writing about the Israel lobby, some of our critics have leveled various personal charges against us. These attacks rarely addressed the substance of what we wrote \u2014 a tacit concession that both facts and logic were on our side \u2014 but instead accused us of being anti-Semites and conspiracy theorists. They used these false charges to try to discredit and\/or marginalize us, and to distract people from the important issues of U.S. Middle East policy that we had raised.<\/i><\/p>\n

The latest example of this tactic is a recent blog post from Jeffrey Goldberg, where he accused my co-author of endorsing a book by an alleged Holocaust denier and Nazi sympathizer. Goldberg has well-established record<\/a> of making things up<\/a> about us, and this latest episode is consistent with his usual approach<\/a>. I asked Professor Mearsheimer if he wanted to respond to Goldberg\u2019s sally, and he sent the following reply.<\/i><\/p>\n

John Mearsheimer writes: <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

In a certain sense, it is hard not to be impressed by the energy and imagination that Jeffrey Goldberg devotes to smearing Steve Walt and me. Although he clearly disagrees with our views about U.S.-Israel relations and the role of the Israel lobby, he does not bother to engage what we actually wrote in any meaningful way. Indeed, given what he writes about us, I am not even sure he has read our book or related articles. Instead of challenging the arguments and evidence that we presented, his modus operandi is to misrepresent and distort our views, in a transparent attempt to portray us as rabid anti-Semites.<\/p>\n

His latest effort along these lines comes in a recent blog post<\/a>, where he seizes on a dust jacket blurb I wrote for a new book by Gilad Atzmon titled The Wandering Who? A Study of Jewish Identity Politics<\/i><\/a>. Here is what I said in my blurb:<\/p>\n

\tGilad Atzmon has written a fascinating and provocative book on Jewish \tidentity in the modern world. He shows how assimilation and liberalism are \tmaking it increasingly difficult for Jews in the Diaspora to maintain a \tpowerful sense of their \u2018Jewishness.\u2019 Panicked Jewish leaders, he argues, have \tturned to Zionism (blind loyalty to Israel) and scaremongering (the threat of \tanother Holocaust) to keep the tribe united and distinct from the surrounding \tgoyim. As Atzmon\u2019s own case demonstrates, this strategy is not working and is \tcausing many Jews great anguish. The Wandering Who?<\/i> should be widely \tread by Jews and non-Jews alike.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The book, as my blurb makes clear, is an extended meditation on Jewish identity in the Diaspora and how it relates to the Holocaust, Israel, and Zionism. There is no question that the book is provocative, both in terms of its central argument and the overly hot language that Atzmon sometimes uses. But it is also filled with interesting insights that make the reader think long and hard about an important subject. Of course, I do not agree with everything that he says in the book \u2014 what blurber does? \u2014 but I found it thought provoking and likely to be of considerable interest to Jews and non-Jews, which is what I said in my brief comment.<\/p>\n

Goldberg maintains that Atzmon is a categorically reprehensible person, and accuses him of being a Holocaust denier and an apologist for Hitler. <\/b>These are <\/b>two of the most devastating charges that can be leveled against anyone. According to Goldberg, the mere fact that I blurbed Atzmon\u2019s book is decisive evidence that I share Atzmon\u2019s supposedly odious views. This indictment of me is captured in the title of Goldberg\u2019s piece: “John Mearsheimer Endorses a Hitler Apologist and Holocaust Revisionist.”<\/p>\n

This charge is so ludicrous that it is hard to know where to start my response. But let me begin by noting that I have taught countless University of Chicago students over the years about the Holocaust and about Hitler\u2019s role in it. Nobody who has been in my classes would ever accuse me of being sympathetic to Holocaust deniers or making excuses for what Hitler did to European Jews. Not surprisingly, those loathsome charges have never been leveled against me until Goldberg did so last week.<\/p>\n

Equally important, Gilad Atzmon is neither a Holocaust denier nor an apologist for Hitler. Consider the following excerpt from The Wandering Who?<\/i><\/p>\n

\tAs much as I was a sceptic youngster, I was also horrified by the Holocaust. \tIn the 1970s Holocaust survivors were part of our social landscape. They were \tour neighbours, we met them in our family gatherings, in the classroom, in \tpolitics, in the corner shop. The dark numbers tattooed on their white arms \tnever faded away. It always had a chilling effect. . . . It was actually the \tinternalization of the meaning of the Holocaust that transformed me into a \tstrong opponent of Israel and Jewish-ness. It is the Holocaust that eventually \tmade me a devoted supporter of Palestinian rights, resistance and the \tPalestinian right of return” <\/b>(pp. 185-186).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It seems unequivocally clear to me from those sentences that Atzmon firmly believes that the Holocaust occurred and was a horrific tragedy. I cannot find evidence in his book or in his other writings that indicate he “traffics in Holocaust denial.”<\/p>\n

The real issue for Atzmon \u2014 and this is reflected in the excerpt from his blog post that Goldberg quotes from \u2014 is how the Holocaust is interpreted and used by the Jewish establishment. Atzmon has three complaints. He believes that it is used to justify Israel\u2019s brutal treatment of the Palestinians and to fend off criticism of Israel. This is an argument made by many other writers, including former Knesset speaker Avraham Burg<\/a>, historian Peter Novick<\/a>, and political scientist Norman Finkelstein<\/a>. Atzmon also rejects the claim that the Holocaust is exceptional, which is a position that other respected scholars have held. There have been other genocides in world history, after all, and this whole issue was actively debated <\/a>in the negotiations that led to the building of the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC. Whatever one thinks of Atzmon\u2019s position on this subject, it is hardly beyond the pale. <\/b><\/p>\n

Finally, Atzmon is angry about the fact that it is difficult to raise certain questions about the causes and the conduct of the Holocaust without being personally attacked. These are all defensible if controversial positions to hold, which is not to say one has to agree with any of them. But in no way is he questioning that the Holocaust happened or denying its importance. In fact, his view is clear from one of Atzmon\u2019s sentences that Goldberg quotes: “We should strip the holocaust of its Judeo-centric exceptional status and treat it as an historical chapter that belongs to a certain time and place.” Note that Atzmon is talking about “the holocaust” in a way that makes it clear he has no doubts about its occurrence, and the passage from The Wandering Who?<\/i> cited above makes it clear that he has no doubts about its importance or its tragic dimensions; he merely believes it should be seen in a different way. Again, one need not agree with Atzmon to recognize that Goldberg has badly misrepresented his position.<\/p>\n

There is also no evidence that I could find in The Wandering Who?<\/i> to support Goldberg\u2019s claim that Atzmon is an apologist for Hitler or that he believes “Jews persecuted Hitler” and in so doing helped trigger the Holocaust. There is actually little discussion of Hitler in Atzmon\u2019s book, and the only discussion of interactions between Hitler and the Jews concerns the efforts of German Zionists to work out a modus vivendi<\/i> with the Nazis. (pp. 162-165) This is why Goldberg is forced to go to one of Atzmon\u2019s blog posts to make the case that he is an apologist for Hitler.<\/p>\n

Before I examine the substance of that charge, there is an important issue that needs to be addressed directly. Goldberg\u2019s indictment of Atzmon does not rely on anything that he wrote in The Wandering Who?<\/i> Indeed, Goldberg\u2019s blog post is silent on whether he has actually read the book. If he did read it, he apparently could not find any evidence to support his indictment of Atzmon. Instead, <\/b>he relied exclusively on evidence culled from Atzmon\u2019s own blog postings. That is why Goldberg\u2019s assault on me steers clear of criticizing Atzmon\u2019s book, which is what I blurbed. In short, he <\/b>falsely accuses me of lending support to a Holocaust denier and defender of Hitler on the basis of writings that I did not read and did not comment upon.<\/p>\n

This tactic puts me in a difficult position. I was asked to review Atzmon\u2019s book and see whether I would be willing to blurb it. This is something I do frequently, and in every case I focus on the book at hand and not on the personality of the author or t<\/b>heir <\/b>other writings. In other words, I did not read any of Atzmon\u2019s blog postings before I wrote my blurb. And just for the record, I have not met him and did not communicate with him before I was asked to review The Wandering Who?<\/i> I read only the book and wrote a blurb that deals with it alone.<\/p>\n

Goldberg, however, has shifted the focus onto what Atzmon has written on his blog. I discuss a couple of examples below, but I will not defend his blog output in detail for two reasons. First, I do not know what Atzmon may have said in all of his past blog posts and other writings or in the various talks that he has given over the years. Second, what he says in those places is not relevant to what I did, which was simply to read and react to his book.<\/p>\n

Let me now turn to the specific claim that Atzmon is an “apologist for Hitler.” Again, I am somewhat reluctant to do this, because this charge forces me to defend what Atzmon said in one of his blog posts. But given the prominence of the charge in Goldberg\u2019s indictment of Atzmon (and me), I cannot let it pass.<\/p>\n

Plus, I see that Walter Russell Mead, who is also fond of smearing Steve Walt and me, has put this charge up in bright lights on his own blog<\/a>. Picking up on Goldberg\u2019s original post, Mead describes Atzmon\u2019s argument this way: “poor Adolf Hitler\u2019s actions against German Jews only came after US Jews called a boycott on German goods following Hitler\u2019s appointment as German Chancellor. Gosh \u2014 if it weren\u2019t for those pushy, aggressive Jews and their annoying boycotts, the Holocaust might not have happened!”<\/p>\n

It is hard to imagine any sane person making such an argument, and Atzmon never does. Goldberg refers to a blog post that Atzmon wrote on March 25, 2010<\/a>, written in response to news at the time that AIPAC had “decided to mount pressure” on President Obama. After describing what was happening with Obama, Atzmon notes that this kind of behavior is hardly unprecedented. In his words, “Jewish lobbies certainly do not hold back when it comes to pressuring states, world leaders and even superpowers.” There is no question that this statement is accurate and not even all that controversial; Tom Friedman<\/a> said as much in the New York Times <\/i>a couple of weeks ago.<\/p>\n

In the second half of this post, Atzmon says that AIPAC\u2019s behavior reminds him of the March 1933 Jewish boycott of German goods, which preceded Hitler\u2019s decision on March 28, 1933 to boycott Jewish stores and goods. His basic point is that the Jewish boycott had negative consequences, which it did. In Atzmon\u2019s <\/b>narrative \u2014 and this is a very important theme in his book \u2014 Jews are not simply passive victims of other people\u2019s actions. On the contrary, he believes Jews have considerable agency and their actions are not always wise. One can agree or disagree with his views about the wisdom of the Jewish boycott \u2014 and I happen to think he\u2019s wrong about it \u2014 but he is not arguing that the Jews were “persecuting Hitler” and that this alleged “persecution” led to the Holocaust. In fact, he says nothing about the Holocaust in his post and he certainly does not justify in any way the murder of six million Jews.<\/p>\n

Let me make one additional point about Goldberg\u2019s mining of Atzmon\u2019s blog posts. Goldberg ends his attack on me with the following quotation from a Feb. 19 blog post<\/a> by Atzmon: “I believe that from [a] certain ideological perspective, Israel is actually far worse than Nazi Germany.” That quotation certainly makes Atzmon look like he has lost his mind and that nothing he has written could be trusted. But Goldberg has misrepresented what Atzmon really said, which is one of his standard tactics. Specifically, he quotes only part of a sentence from Atzmon\u2019s blog post; but when you look at the entire sentence, you see that Atzmon is making a different, and far more nuanced point. The entire sentence reads: “Indeed, I believe that from [a] certain ideological perspective, Israel is actually far worse than Nazi Germany, for unlike Nazi Germany, Israel is a democracy and that implies that Israeli citizens are complicit in Israeli atrocities.” This is not an argument I would make, but what Atzmon is saying is quite different from the way Goldberg portrays it.<\/p>\n

Finally, let me address the charge that Atzmon himself is an anti-Semite and a self-hating Jew. The implication of this accusation, of course, is that I must be an anti-Semite too (I can\u2019t be a self-hating Jew) because I agreed to blurb Atzmon\u2019s book. I do not believe that Atzmon is an anti-Semite, although that charge is thrown around so carelessly these days that it has regrettably lost much of its meaning. If one believes that anyone who criticizes Israel is an anti-Semite, then Atzmon clearly fits in that category. But that definition is foolish \u2014 no country is perfect or above criticism-and not worth taking seriously.<\/p>\n

The more important and interesting issue is whether Atzmon is a self-hating Jew. Here the answer is unequivocally yes. He openly describes himself in this way and he sees himself as part of a long dissident <\/b>tradition that includes famous figures such as Marx and Spinoza. What is going on here?<\/p>\n

The key to understanding Atzmon is that he rejects the claim that Jews are the “Chosen People.” His main target, as he makes clear at the start of the book, is not with Judaism per se or with people who “happen to be of Jewish origin.” Rather, his problem is with “those who put their Jewish-ness over and above all of their other traits.” Or to use other words of his: “I will present a harsh criticism of Jewish politics and identity \u2026 This book doesn\u2019t deal with Jews as a people or ethnicity.” (pp. 15-16)<\/p>\n

In other words, Atzmon is a universalist who does not like the particularism that characterizes Zionism and which has a rich tradition among Jews and any number of other groups. He is the kind of person who intensely dislikes nationalism of any sort. Princeton professor Richard Falk captures this point nicely in his own blurb for the book, where he writes: “Atzmon has written an absorbing and moving account of his journey from hard-core Israeli nationalist to a de-Zionized patriot of humanity.”<\/p>\n

Atzmon\u2019s basic point is that Jews often talk in universalistic terms, but many of them think and act in particularistic terms. One might say <\/b>they talk like liberals but act like nationalists. Atzmon will have none of this, which is why he labels himself a self-hating Jew. He fervently believes that Jews are not the “Chosen People” and that they should not privilege their “Jewish-ness” over their other human traits. Moreover, he believes that one must choose between Athens and Jerusalem, as they “can never be blended together into a lucid and coherent worldview.” (p. 86) One can argue that his perspective is dead wrong, or maintain that it is a lovely idea in principle but just not the way the real world works. But it is hardly an illegitimate or ignoble way of thinking about humanity.<\/p>\n

To take this matter a step further, Atzmon\u2019s book is really all about Jewish identity. He notes that “the disappearance of the ghetto and its maternal qualities” in the wake of the French Revolution caused “an identity crisis within the largely assimilated Jewish society.” (p. 104) He believes that this crisis, about which there is an extensive literature, is still at the center of Jewish life today. In effect, Atzmon is telling the story of how he wrestled with his own identity over time and what he thinks is wrong with how most Jews self-identify today. It is in this context that he discusses what he calls the “Holocaust religion,” Zionism, and Israel\u2019s treatment of the Palestinians. Again, to be perfectly clear, he has no animus toward Judaism as a religion or with individuals who are Jewish by birth. Rather, his target is the tribalism that he believes is common to most Jews, and I might add, to most other peoples as well. Atzmon focuses on Jews for the obvious reason that <\/b>he is Jewish and is trying to make sense of his own identity.<\/p>\n

In sum, Goldberg\u2019s charge that Atzman is a Holocaust denier or an apologist for Hitler is baseless. Nor is Atzmon an anti-Semite. He has controversial views for sure and he sometimes employs overly provocative language. But there is no question in my mind that he has written a fascinating book that, as I said in my blurb, “should be widely read by Jews and non-Jews alike.” Regarding Goldberg\u2019s insinuation that I have any sympathy for Holocaust denial and am an anti-Semite, it is just another attempt in his longstanding effort to smear Steve Walt and me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Who could read that and the linked smears against him and not side with John Mearsheimer in this case against the slur merchants?<\/p>\n

In early 2009, John Mearsheimer castigated Israel for its war in Gaza<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Israel and its supporters claim that the IDF is going to great lengths to avoid civilian casualties, in some cases taking risks that put Israeli soldiers in jeopardy. Hardly. One reason to doubt these claims is that Israel refuses to allow reporters into the war zone: it does not want the world to see what its soldiers and bombs are doing inside Gaza. At the same time, Israel has launched a massive propaganda campaign to put a positive spin on the horror stories that do emerge.<\/p>\n

The best evidence, however, that Israel is deliberately seeking to punish the broader population in Gaza is the death and destruction the IDF has wrought on that small piece of real estate. Israel has killed over 1,000 Palestinians and wounded more than 4,000. Over half of the casualties are civilians, and many are children. The IDF\u2019s opening salvo on Dec. 27 took place as children were leaving school, and one of its primary targets that day was a large group of graduating police cadets, who hardly qualified as terrorists. In what Ehud Barak called \u201can all-out war against Hamas,\u201d Israel has targeted a university, schools, mosques, homes, apartment buildings, government offices, and even ambulances. A senior Israeli military official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, explained the logic behind Israel\u2019s expansive target set: \u201cThere are many aspects of Hamas, and we are trying to hit the whole spectrum, because everything is connected and everything supports terrorism against Israel.\u201d In other words, everyone is a terrorist and everything is a legitimate target.<\/p>\n

Israelis tend to be blunt, and they occasionally say what they are really doing. After the IDF killed 40 Palestinian civilians in a UN school on Jan. 6, Ha\u2019aretz reported that \u201csenior officers admit that the IDF has been using enormous firepower.\u201d One officer explained, \u201cFor us, being cautious means being aggressive. From the minute we entered, we\u2019ve acted like we\u2019re at war. That creates enormous damage on the ground \u2026 I just hope those who have fled the area of Gaza City in which we are operating will describe the shock.\u201d<\/p>\n

One might accept that Israel is waging \u201ca cruel, all-out war against 1.5 million Palestinian civilians,\u201d asHa\u2019aretz put it in an editorial, but argue that it will eventually achieve its war aims and the rest of the world will quickly forget the horrors inflicted on the people of Gaza.<\/p>\n

This is wishful thinking. For starters, Israel is unlikely to stop the rocket fire for any appreciable period of time unless it agrees to open Gaza\u2019s borders and stop arresting and killing Palestinians. Israelis talk about cutting off the supply of rockets and mortars into Gaza, but weapons will continue to come in via secret tunnels and ships that sneak through Israel\u2019s naval blockade. It will also be impossible to police all of the goods sent into Gaza through legitimate channels.<\/p>\n

Israel could try to conquer all of Gaza and lock the place down. That would probably stop the rocket attacks if Israel deployed a large enough force. But then the IDF would be bogged down in a costly occupation against a deeply hostile population. They would eventually have to leave, and the rocket fire would resume. And if Israel fails to stop the rocket fire and keep it stopped, as seems likely, its deterrent will be diminished, not strengthened.<\/p>\n

More importantly, there is little reason to think that the Israelis can beat Hamas into submission and get the Palestinians to live quietly in a handful of Bantustans inside Greater Israel. Israel has been humiliating, torturing, and killing Palestinians in the Occupied Territories since 1967 and has not come close to cowing them. Indeed, Hamas\u2019s reaction to Israel\u2019s brutality seems to lend credence to Nietzsche\u2019s remark that what does not kill you makes you stronger.<\/p>\n

But even if the unexpected happens and the Palestinians cave, Israel would still lose because it will become an apartheid state. As Prime Minister Ehud Olmert recently said, Israel will \u201cface a South African-style struggle\u201d if the Palestinians do not get a viable state of their own. \u201cAs soon as that happens,\u201d he argued, \u201cthe state of Israel is finished.\u201d Yet Olmert has done nothing to stop settlement expansion and create a viable Palestinian state, relying instead on the Iron Wall strategy to deal with the Palestinians.<\/p>\n

There is also little chance that people around the world who follow the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will soon forget the appalling punishment that Israel is meting out in Gaza. The destruction is just too obvious to miss, and too many people\u2014especially in the Arab and Islamic world\u2014care about the Palestinians\u2019 fate. Moreover, discourse about this longstanding conflict has undergone a sea change in the West in recent years, and many of us who were once wholly sympathetic to Israel now see that the Israelis are the victimizers and the Palestinians are the victims. What is happening in Gaza will accelerate that changing picture of the conflict and long be seen as a dark stain on Israel\u2019s reputation.<\/p>\n

The bottom line is that no matter what happens on the battlefield, Israel cannot win its war in Gaza. In fact, it is pursuing a strategy\u2014with lots of help from its so-called friends in the Diaspora\u2014that is placing its long-term future at risk.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think Mearsheimer is over-doing the case against Israel. I don’t know of any other nation that has been hit by a constant barrage of rockets and reacted with more restraint than Israel did? Which people in Israel’s position would be more compassionate to Palestinians while staying alive as their own independent state?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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