Israel, and the Americans who enable it

Barack Obama might consider Israel a stalwart ally, and Hillary Clinton might be willing to obliterate Iran over it, but the facts still remain: You are a banania colonial power whose egregious actions will come back at you if there is any such thing as justice in the world.

Here at the Banania Report, I try to be fair, but there really isn’t a lot to say for Israel. While US-Americans and their banania European cohorts continue to protest and shake fists at China, they’ve completely missed the boat on condemning the continued degradation and veritable genocide Israel is perpetrating every damn day.

Unless, of course, you buy the theory that a 2000 year-old political map justifies taking someone else’s land from them, pouring in immigrants (known in other contexts as settlers), expelling those people from that land, and then systemically starving them to death or exiling them every time their population builds back up. I seem to remember something like this happening in world history before…

It’s called colonialism, and it’s an ugly politico-social arrangement where people who don’t have any right to the land and resources of another people come in and usurp those things with bogus justifications that only end up being about serving their self-interest. England, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Germany used to do this to Slavs, Africans, Americans (you know, the actual ones), Asians – anyone they could reach by land or by sea. We’ve since come to look down at such racist, ethnocentric, self-serving, and illegal behavior. …Except, of course, when it comes to Israel.

Now, before you get all uppity – yes, I recognize that the Holocaust happened and that it was terrible. But genocide isn’t a free pass to getting someone else’s Holy Land. (That goes for you too, Kosovo!) No matter what happened to you, that doesn’t give you a right to take someone else’s land. If anything, the only land you’re owed is German – real talk. But I guess Germany was never Israel. Let’s look at a map, courtesy of the University of Texas Libraries:

Please open that map in another window so you can get a really good picture of how the geographical location of Israel has been traded off since the days of David.  Got it?  Look at the first two maps.  It’s beyond real question that Solomon’s Kingdom was solidly Jewish, but that ended in the 140’s BCE.  That’s right: Before there was Jesus, that kingdom was long since over.  Now, some imperialist bullshit with Rome, some Ottomans, and the British came to pass, and during that time the map become the nearly full field of Palestinians you see on the top right – a map of Palestine.  That’s right – in 1917, the British created Palestine out of their old colonial territories for Jews.  But that wasn’t good for Zionists – they wanted the land in their names.  They couldn’t let the people who were actually living there have it, even though they had no right to it whatsoever. Follow the maps and you can see what happened after Israel unilaterally declared that the land and other lands around it were Israeli as well.

Since then, this stalwart ally worth obliterating Iran over has expelled all the people who were in the lands they both “legally” and patently illegally occupy (all that lighter orange on the bottom right-hand map), and has systemically continued to push them out to keep the Jewish population at some sort of pretend majority.  Then, after pushing them out, cuts off food and fuel supplies to the places it forces them to go.  And the retaliations for these actions?  Of course, that’s all terrorism from Hamas.

Fuck you, Israel.  And fuck America for supporting you.  You don’t deserve the soil you are on, and you never have.  Even if you bought into the Bible’s historical account of your kingdom, you’d know that you didn’t even much start off there.  You danced into and took over someone else’s land once, and now you’re doing it again.  Fuck that.

Lots of Gypsies, Slavs, Catholics, queers, and all manner of other folk were killed in the Holocaust.  Sorry you were Judenschwein, but that shit wasn’t Palestine – it was Germany.  Take Bavaria, if you want it.  Fuck your sense of entitlement to go in and execute a genocide with the blessing of the international community.  Get the fuck off that soil, and talk to Hamas and Palestinian politicos to get those people their homes back.

The right of return is inalienable, you asshole bananias.