‘ “Settler-kolonisatie” volgens het concept van Patrick Wolfe, zou inhouden dat de Palestijnen, de autochtonen, totaal, compleet, integraal en geheel weg moeten uit die negorijen, zodat de Israëli er met een “schone lei” (sorry, dit is niet ludiek-cynisch bedoeld) kunnen her-beginnen.’
- ‘ De ham-vraag (alweer: geen humor bedoeld; ham is haram) is: wie zijn daar de autochtonen? De Israëli/joden of de Palestijnen? Daar woedt de pr-propaganda-oorlog volop over.’
‘ Waar, wanneer, hoe, gaat “massamoord” over in genocide, ethnic cleansing? Is dat louter een semantische kwestie, of gaan we dat er van maken?’
- ‘ In de Oekraïne is Putin volgens mij niet bezig met ethnic cleansing. Het zijn eerder de Amerikanen die indirect en via proxy-constructies, settler-kolonisering lijken te instigeren en faciliteren. Zowel in Gaza/WestBank als in de Oekraïne. Houd me ten goede, want misschien ga ik er met te ruime terminologie en te grote gebaren doorheen.’
‘ Hoezo? Het gaat toch altijd om de verdienmodellen en bovendien zit settler-kolonisering de Amerikanen in de genen; ik bedoel vooral de WASPs. Denk er maar aan hoe ze de Indianen hebben gegenocideerd. Daarom de “de” Amerikanen (het gaat natuurlijk niet om Joe Sixpack, maar om de politieke nomenklatoera, de deep state, de parasitaire klasse) zo’n natuurlijke affiniteit met de Israëli hebben en voelen. Je zou het zelfs zo kunnen framen dat de Amerikanen de Russen als proxy voor hun karretje spannen, door de Russen de Oekraïners te laten bombarderen. Intussen zitten BlackRock, Vanguard, Bill Gates en andere aasgieren te wachten totdat ze het lijk kunnen schoonpikken.’
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Isabella Hammad and Sahar Huneidi (2023)The Uses and Abuses of Language in Israel’s War on Palestinians. In The Nation, December 25, 2023/January 1, 2024, Issue.
citaten uit Hammad & Huneidi:
Israel and its allies have deliberately crafted language not only to justify their actions but also to persuade taxpaying publics at home and abroad of their moral correctness.
All colonial projects are supported by perversions of language. From American expansion into the “Wild West” to European colonization of African “savages,” deliberately crafted euphemisms have gone hand in hand with the will to dominate foreign populations and appropriate lands and resources. Modern colonial and imperial powers have used such language not only to justify their enterprises but also to persuade the taxpaying public of their moral correctness. Walter Lippman, and Noam Chomsky after him, called this the “manufacture of consent,” but the public relations industry calls it, a little more gently, the “engineering of consent.”
In contrast to other forms of colonialism that rely on labor exploitation, settler colonialism seeks land without its preexisting inhabitants: In the Australian historian Patrick Wolfe’s words, settler colonialism “destroys to replace.” A common counterargument to the colonial framework invokes indigenousness—that Jews have always lived in Palestine—but there is a clear difference between occupancy and dominion, or, indeed, domination.
Unlike other settler-colonial societies—French Algeria or British Kenya and Australia, for example—the Israeli state project is seen by its defenders as unique because there is no metropole. This is debatable. Initial support for the Zionist aspiration to a state in the Middle East came from the British empire, which pledged to support Zionist settlement in 1917 and relinquished mandatory Palestine in favor of a “Jewish homeland” in May 1948. Since then, according to USAID data, US assistance to Israel—overwhelmingly military—has amounted to more than $260 billion, adjusted for inflation and not counting the $14.3 billion in military aid promised by President Joe Biden in November; the United States also supports Israel’s free healthcare system.
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Israeli general killed Israelis on 7 October then lied about it, with Ali Abunimah.
Military veteran recounts Israeli helicopter firing missiles in kibbutz Be’eri.
Dec. 5, 2023 – “Mass Hannibal” — We killed Israelis on 7 October, says Israeli air force colonel.
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