Zionist plunder and the Judaic Bible
By Gilad Atzmon*5 April 2008
Gilad Atzmon argues that the “Jewish nationalist project that is supported by the vast majority of Jewish institutions around the world is an attempt to rob the indigenous Palestinians in line with a cultural and religious heritage that is overwhelmingly documented in the Judaic Bible”.
It has become common among rabid Zionists and notorious Islamophobes to quote some isolated and mistranslated verses from the Qur’an for the purpose of collectively libelling Muslims and presenting Islam as a regressive and violent belief system.
Needless to say, so far these recurring attempts have been futile if not actually counter-effective. Not a single Western politician, Zionist campaigner or neo-conservative think tank has managed to establish a comprehensive case against Islam. The reason is simple: in spite of the clear fact that some terrible atrocities have been committed in the name of Islam and in the name of jihad, these acts were performed by disparate, radicalized and isolated cells. It would seem that, in the eyes of the Western masses, it takes more than just a few random acts to undermine a humanist universal belief system and implicate its one billion followers.
In order to incriminate Islam and to discredit its believers, a broad argument is needed, a conclusive undeniable proof that would establish a continuum between a given immoral religious text, a religious infrastructure and a mass movement of worshipers who behave immorally and accordingly. In this respect, a mysterious CIA-created character that allegedly has been hiding in a cave for seven years is clearly insufficient. What we really want to see is a direct link between a so-called “Islamic Satanic verses” and an organic active collective set of worshipers who are tempted to follow these very verses and thereby perpetrate horrific acts. However, such a conclusive and comprehensive link is always missing in the Zionists’ and Islamophobes’ call for action. A radical imam in London is not enough, a deliberate mistranslation of Ahmadinejad speeches won’t do either. Even repetitive images of the twin towers being chewed by airliners would not provide the goods. Seemingly, time after time the ZioCon’s defamation campaigns result in a backlash. Instead of incriminating Islam and Muslims, ZioCons succeed only in marginalizing themselves and exposing their true faces. Time after time, Zionists and neo-conservatives are exposed marching side-by-side with the most radical xenophobe bigots who happen to dwell among us in the West.
Since the collective incrimination of Muslims stands at the premise of neo-conservative philosophy and global Zionism, and since both Zionists and their neo-conservative twins are doing poorly on that front, I have decided to dedicate this paper to a pedagogic cause and try to help them out. I will give here a crash course in rhetoric. I will try to enlighten our foes and show them, step by step, how to establish a case based on a continuum between the holy scripture and merciless collective barbarism.
Assuming that Zionists (both Jews and Christians) as well as neo-conservatives are rather familiar with the Old Testament (as much as they are unfamiliar with the Qur’an), I will point at a relatively very short extract from the Torah. For that purpose I picked up a small biblical extract that will help us to explore the current ZioCon plundering culture in the light of the Judaic teaching and God’s promise. The following verses are a part of an oratory made by Moses to his people while on their way to their “promised land”:
Listen, Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord is one! You must love the Lord your God with your whole mind, your whole being, and all your strength. (Deuteronomy, Chapter 6: 4-5)
Considering the vast number of beings who are engaged in some relentless love seeking, I wouldn’t dare criticize the Judaic God for doing the same. The Judaic God is entitled to demand the love of his chosen people. However, the Israelites’ God is at least kind enough to give something in return:
Then when the Lord your God brings you to the land he promised your ancestors Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to give you – a land with large, fine cities you did not build, houses filled with choice things you did not accumulate, hewn out cisterns you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant – and you eat your fill.” (Deuteronomy, Chapter 6: 10-11)
On the face of it, the Old Testament verses above could stand as the most simplistic yet valid and solid proof of the existence of God. As we know, at least according to the Bible, God indeed managed to live up to his promise. He clearly brought his chosen people to the land of milk and honey and made them live in cities they didn’t build and drink their water from wells they didn’t dig. Clearly, the Lord did not abandon his people. A few millenniums later, the Judaic God capitalized on his might and brought the nations on their knees so they saw the light and willingly voted for the 1947 UN partition resolution. A fatal error that made it legal (rather than moral) for the new Israelite to live in cities he didn’t build and drink from wells he didn’t dig. Indeed, if there is a question regarding the existence of the Judaic God, the above should be enough to prove his existence.However, it is rather obvious and very embarrassing to admit that the Judaic God, as portrayed by Moses in Deuteronomy 6:10 is an immoral, evil God. It is a God who leads his people to plunder, rob and steal. Yet, there are many ways to deal with this negative image of the Almighty. At the literary level one can suggest that the given verses are not more than just two isolated lines in a gigantic text that is well meaning and offers some fundamental universal thoughts. At the contextual level, one may suggest that it wasn’t actually God himself who was talking to his chosen people but rather Moses who failed to deliver the true message of God. In other words, Moses may have “gotten it wrong” or even “made it up”. In fact, there are many other ways to save the Judaic God from being the logos behind contemporary Israeli plundering, yet it is not that easy to save the Israelites from being presented as robbers and plunderers, especially in the light of their spiritual, cultural and religious heritage. In short, it is actually impossible not to see the continuum between Deuteronomy 6:10 and the crimes against the Palestinian people that are committed by the Jewish state in the name of the Jewish people.
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