Israel Zionist state violates Jewish morality: Expert
December 9th, 2012
(PressTV) – The Zionist state violates the basic Jewish moral commands, leading to hostile acts against neighboring groups, a prominent author tells Press TV.
Israel has launched several wars on the besieged Gaza Strip and has invaded other Islamic countries, with international calls to organizations such as the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the Arab League and the United Nations to take serious measures to stop Israel’s aggression.
Press TV has conducted an interview with Joel Kovel, a journalist and author from New York, to further discuss the issue. Kovel is joined by Kenneth Katzman, an advisor to the US Congress, from Washington, and Kevin Barrett, a founding member of the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance, from Wisconsin. The following is a rough transcription of the interview.
Press TV: How are you, first of all, assessing Ehud Barak’s announcement [to retire from politics]? Is this decision in any way related, do you think, to the eight-day Gaza offensive?
Kovel: Well, I don’t see how it could not be. He used a fairly cogent explanation on the basis of this is the time of life he has to step down and so on.
But as your announcer correctly pointed out, his supervision of the Israel military has not produced any victories and this is very much a downhill path as far as the IDF is concerned.
They have all the weapons in the world. They have the unlimited support both material and political from the United States, and yet they’re ending up as what Nixon used to say is a pitiful, helpless giant against resistance from people who are some of the most beleaguered and oppressed in the world, and are yet able to stand up and say no to the Israeli invaders which will happen again and again, no doubt.
Barak is an intelligent man. He’s a cultured man. He’s sort of one of the ideals of the Israel military type. He’s a pianist. He’s a very sophisticated person.
But he’s also capable of great personal military qualities. He’s the most decorated military man in Israeli history, actually. He played a big role in thwarting in 1972 and again in 1976 in the hijackings of various airplanes. He’s probably killed more men with his bare hands than the other two leaders in the Israeli government, Netanyahu and Avigdor Lieberman.
He probably senses that his time has come. His era is over. He’s losing the stomach for continuing. This is just speculation on my part but I think it’s a reasonable speculation.
Press TV: We know that during the 2008, 2009 war, a large part of the international community – we had the United Nations organization and human rights groups – saying that war crimes had been committed during that war, but we didn’t see any act of retribution. We didn’t see any act of justice, did we, practically on the ground?
When it comes to the role that Ehud Barak has had in that war and also in this recent eight-day war, of course there needs to be investigations on the ground. But will there be, when Ehud Barak is saying he’s going to quit politics, any act of justice for those who do have claims?
Kovel: That’s very well put. No, there won’t be because the United States gives Israel blanket protection.
Perhaps the other person on the panel, Mr. Katzman, I know he’s obviously not responsible for this, could give some explanation as to why the US government and US civil society all throughout our country gives Israel a blank check?
-Basically, creates an aura of impunity and it’s this aura of impunity that you can get away, literally, with murder and all kinds of war crimes without anybody saying that they’re war crimes.
Anybody ever bringing them to the dock rests a lot on the unanimous consent and endorsement of Israeli crimes and aggressions by the United States Congress. It’s one of the great scandals in world history that a superpower would let a client state push it around.
Benjamin Netanyahu was seen on a video at a Bat Mitzvah of his nephew of his – somebody asked him informally, ‘well, what about the US, aren’t they going to disapprove?’
He said explicitly in so many words, ‘we don’t worry about the US – we can take care of the US – the US is no problem for us – the US will do what we say.’
That is amazing, really amazing; the world’s greatest superpower acts like a servant to this upstart nation which commits endless crimes knowing that it can get away with it.
The actual impunity reinforces the internal dynamic of the Zionist which is to exterminate everything that’s not Jewish from the soil of Palestine. So, it generates the crimes themselves.
I’m also very interested in what Mr. Barrett said about Ehud Barak masterminding 9/11. That’s quite an important revelation. Maybe we could come back to that.
Press TV: We had Ehud Barak declaring during this recent war, “We shall not stop until Hamas gets on its knees and begs for a ceasefire.” Now do you think that Tel Aviv actually did that? What was Tel Aviv’s achievement in this war? What was its goal and did it reach that goal?
Kovel: I really can’t speak for them because their minds are so warped that it beggars the imagination. I think they have a compulsion to lash out at anything which threatens the Zionist dream which is to hate the entire land of historical Palestine preserved for the Jewish people. It’s a horrible idea. It’s a really bad idea.
It’s led to a betrayal of also the democratic dreams of Israel because you can’t have a democracy and also have an ethnocracy with democracy for just one people.
Because the Jews have been very, very – I was raised Jewish and we know we have very, very lofty moral commands as part of our identity. If those commands are being violated every which way by the basic project of the Israeli state, then it’s going to lead to what you call a bad conscience and you’re going to lash out at the victims. Periodically, they do that. They lash out at the victims.
Gaza is a total dead end for Israel foreign policy. What they would love to do is to get rid of them all but they can’t because as powerful as they are, they’re also very weak and they’re surrounded by literally a billion people who don’t want them there.
They only rest upon the agency of the United States which they sort of made this deal back in the Truman administration. When Truman recognized Israel in 1948, it precipitated a huge rebellion in his foreign policy establishment.
The Secretary of State Marshall said this is a horrible idea. He said it’s going to create 50, 60 endless years of fanaticism, of endless war.
Truman says, ‘I can’t help it – the only people who support me are the Zionists – Roosevelt died and I don’t have any political backing, but the Zionists take good care of me so I’m going to do this’. So, there it is.
There’s a man named Grant Smith who wrote very cogently that there’s something called the Foreign Agents Registry Act…I said my piece, I could keep going.
GMA/PKH
Source: PressTV
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