This analysis is based up on a report by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem and Israel. The report details how Israeli authorities and security forces deliberately target Palestinian children, resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. This report was presented publicly at a press conference in Geneva, Switzerland, recorded below:
It should be clear that the genocidal and criminal actions described in the report are the inevitable result of the Zionist project to create an ethnically Jewish state in Palestine by emptying it of its existing population and replacing it with immigrant Jews.
Such projects are not new, and can be found throughout history, from the accounts of eradication of populations in ancient history, including the Bible (which may or may not be historical). In recent times we have witnessed such genocidal actions by European settler populations in the Americas, the behavior of US troops during and after the Spanish-American war in the Philippines, the partition of India, the French repression of the Algerian resistance, the Rwanda genocide, the Nazi treatment of captured territories and populations, the wars in Yugoslavia, and more. Not all reached the same level of violence, criminality and population extermination, but all deserve the same degree of condemnation and accountability.
But first, I would like to address the issue of inevitability. In the case of the Zionist project, it was always deliberately brutal, even if there were periodic, mostly anecdotal attempts at temporary coexistence and commerce. The killing and expulsion of 60% of the Palestinian population as part of the founding of the Israel, which Palestinians call the Nakba (“catastrophe”), was called Israel’s “original sin” by “liberal” Israelis (e.g. Tanya Reinhart), who believed that Israel should have returned the territories occupied in the 1967 war, and settled a peace agreement with the Palestinians.
However, the Zionist leadership was always beholden to the more radical population that preferred to keep the 1967 acquisitions, including the Syrian Golan Heights, and ethnically cleanse them before annexation. Furthermore, their territorial ambitions extended to part or all of Lebanon, additional areas of Syria, the Sinai peninsula, and ultimately far beyond.
The “liberals” were not suitable for such endeavors, and so the leadership invested heavily in the more radical settler movement, with subsidies, protection and legal maneuvers to allow them to confiscate increasing areas of occupied Palestinian land. The result of such investment can be seen in the current Israeli cabinet of ministers like Bezalel Smotrich, Itamar Ben Gvir, Israel Katz and even Benjamin Netanyahu, who defend or disingenuously deny the types of atrocities described in the report of the Commission of Inquiry.
What I am saying is that this progression toward atrocities and savagery is is normal for movements that require ethnic cleansing and annihilation to achieve their goals. It has always been the case. It is an inevitable consequence of the drive for a Jewish state, a white Aryan state, a pure Khmer population, a Japanese manifest destiny, a European manifest destiny, and so on. The only way to achieve such ethnic and racist goals is through such methods as described by the Commission of Inquiry. Such crimes are the inevitable consequence of the idea of a Jewish state, unless it is abandoned or prevented early enough in its evolution.
This is why I say that supporters of Israel are criminals. The enormous crimes of the state of Israel are part of its nature and therefore inevitable. It is not possible to prevent them by making Israel into something that it cannot be. Israel is racist, and would prefer no non-Jews at all within its (undeclared) borders. Soldiers who commit atrocities are an asset to such a state, and therefore not only tolerated, but valued. The state requires large numbers of such criminals in order to reach its objectives. As a consequence, the state itself is criminal. And those who support such a state are also criminals, guilty at the very least of the crime of aiding and abetting, i.e. complicity. Those who wish for a better, kinder Israel are therefore deluding themselves, and making themselves criminals in the process.