THE ZIONIST SYSTEM IS CRUMBLING BECAUSE OF GREAT EDUCATIONAL STRUGGLES

The Zionist consensus has been breeched in recent weeks as far as the ideological control system in the United States is concerned.  For a lifetime the United States has been completely uncritical of anything and everything Israeli.  That carte blanch era has ended.

While the Goldstone report has been largely diverted by the Zionist lobby it remains a stunning exposure of the real Israel with its endless reports of civilian slaughter by a religiously motivated army.  Somehow the one hundred to one casualty rates in favor of the Israelis has finally started to penetrate into public consciousness.  

The apparent murder of a Hamas official in Dubai by the Israeli apartheid state has blown up in the face of Mossad and the Israeli regime.  Now Mossad agents and Livni face charges for crimes in various jurisdictions.  The era of Israeli impunity is rapidly ending.


While the old line Zionists are playing their same old games and gathering for a reactionary counteroffensive they are actually quite clueless.  The era when everyone in the United States is totally for anything Israeli or Zionist is over.

Even more significant is that this change in public policy has been won through the essentially nonviolent and democratic struggle of hundreds of thousands of activists in more than forty lands.  Progressive internationalism is possible and the effort to guarantee the rights of the Palestinian people in the face of a colonial settler state could be just the beginning of changing the situation for all oppressed peoples, leading them from oppression to liberation.

Of course the hard core imperialists and subimperialists may or may not like this change.  On the one hand Israel may threaten world peace more than any other nation, precisely because it is a strategic nuclear power with a strongly independent government.  So the United States, as the recent statement by General Petraeus suggests, is probably in conflict with Israeli maximalists, those who seek to obliterate Palestinian rule anywhere.  Of course this is and has been the Israeli policy to somehow dispose of the unwanted non-Jewish population so what does the United States have to do with that kind of apartheid really?

In recent years a strong Zionist movement has sought to place the United States in violent confrontation with the Muslim world.  It is a bad idea that has partially succeeded with the wars in Iran, Afghanistan and elsewhere.  Of course this Zionism may be more based in the United States than Israel for all I know.