22 March 2010 By
Jeff Gates While Zionism is
clearly a nationalist ideology, that narrow framing
does the term an injustice as it is so much more. Zionism is more
accurately described as a strategy for targeting
thought and emotion as a means to influence behavior.
Naïve Jews were its first victims when induced to
identify with an enclave in the Middle East that
President Harry Truman, a Christian Zionist, was
induced to recognize as a “state.” Zionism is first and
foremost a mental state that manifests as a dispersed
form of internalized nationalism—a Diaspora—that binds
to an extremist enclave those who may never set foot
there. After 1967, this “state” became the “Land of
Israel” based on a more expansive area seized by
Israel Defense Forces along with other occupied lands
that Zionists claim a god gave them. Zionism recruits by
sustaining a shared sense of insecurity within the
broader Jewish community. It progresses by marketing
its perceived vulnerability and victimhood among those
on whom it relies for financial, military and
diplomatic support. When, as now, policies
of the Zionist state come under attack, media
campaigns herald an outbreak of anti-Semitism and
hatred—not for Zionism but for Jews, enhancing
recruitment. By choosing to
identify their interests with those of Zionism, Jews
choose to make themselves feel insecure. Zionism
relies for its success not only on deception but also
on self-deceit. Many well-informed
Jews opposed Israel’s founding in 1948. By 1967,
Jewish-Americans were active in the civil rights
movement. With the Six-Day War, that activism became
problematic. How could Jews back civil rights for
Blacks while Zionism denied those rights to
Palestinians? That era marked a
turning point both for Zionism and legitimate Judaism
as many Jews abandoned civil rights activism when they
could no longer reconcile their activism with Israeli
oppression. Thus the present mental state of Barack
Obama’s many Jewish Zionist advisers. The Six-Day War
induced more Jews to identify with Zionism as a
defender of Jews. Yet now we know that war was a
long-planned land grab destined to outrage Arabs and
Muslims. When combined with a murderous occupation,
decades of Israeli provocations were guaranteed to
evoke the violent reactions required to rationalize a
“war on terrorism.” In terms of game
theory war planning, today’s results were perfectly
predictable—mathematically model-able within an
acceptable range of probabilities. Once again Zionism
targeted thought and emotion to manipulate behavior by
provoking antagonism and evoking extremism—the two key
ingredients required to plausibly proclaim their
insecurity. When your numbers are
few and your ambitions vast, what choice did Zionists
have but to seduce and deceive a super power so that
our military would wage their wars for Greater Israel? Peace
is the Opponent Peace is a perilous
‘state’ to be avoided at any cost by a nationalist
ideology that thrives on serial crises wed to a
perpetual state of conflict and fear. To realize the
Zionist goal of hegemony over the Middle East requires
a series of plausible Evil Doers and a persuasive
narrative. Could Zionism be the reason we segued so
seamlessly from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism?
See: How Israel Wages War on the U.S. Instead of the
anticipated post-Cold War “peace dividend, the U.S.
finds itself waging what Nobel economist Joe Stiglitz
calls The $3 Trillion War—all of it borrowed,
including $700 billion in interest expense. In hindsight, the
phony intelligence that induced us to war in the
Middle East was traceable to Israelis, pro-Israelis or
assets developed for that purpose such as Iraqi liar
Ahmad Chalabi. Other than those
sharing a Zionist mental state, who had the means,
motive, opportunity and, importantly, the stable
nation-state intelligence to conduct such operations
inside the U.S.? Yet even now those
responsible elude accountability and even scrutiny as
cries of “anti-Semitism” are deployed to intimidate
and misdirect—by manipulating thought and emotion. At the end of World
War II, the U.S. claimed 50% of the world’s productive
power, ensuring we would have the world’s top-rated
government bonds for at least two generations. When
the Cold War drew to a costly close in 1989, the U.S.
had spent $15.9 trillion on defense since 1948 (in
2010 dollars). Now a potential war without end has
taken its place. Americans have been
induced to believe that the Zionist state is an ally.
We are not alone in viewing Israel as a legitimate
nation and a noble experiment to provide a “homeland”
for a victimized people. That alluring storyline
victimized the broader Jewish community while also
laying waste to the nation that was first deceived to
extend to Zionists the hand of friendship. To escape the ravages
of Zionism requires that we concede its duplicitous
nature and make its operations transparent so that its
perpetrators become apparent. As a long-deceived
global public grasps its costs in blood and treasure,
this mental state will be seen for what it is: a
criminal state. The
Psychopath Within In the clinical
psychiatric literature, this “state” features
interpersonal traits such as superficial charm,
pathological lying, egocentricity, lack of remorse,
and callousness that are regarded as characteristic of
psychopaths. In order to betray, psychopaths first
befriend. In order to defraud, they first establish a
relationship of trust. Sound familiar? Those who share such a
mental state will happily incite hatred to catalyze a
reaction and then claim they are the victims of hate.
For those inhabiting this mental state, it appears
rational and even desirable to provoke a response and
then claim to be a target of anti-Semites. Inside this
internal state, self-absorption is all-encompassing
with arrogance its most visible trait. Law is irrelevant to
those who consider themselves above the law. Morality
and conscience are of no concern to those who consider
themselves The Chosen—by a god of their own choosing.
Such a nationalist ideology has no place in a system
of nation states dedicated to the rule of law. Those sharing such a
“state” pose too great a peril to be an object of pity
or compassion. Accountability is the only appropriate
response along with an initiative—deploying force as
required—to secure any weapons of mass destruction
that may be in their possession. Such a state cannot be
delegitimized because any legitimacy attained was
integral to the fraud it inflicted on the community of
nations. The issue at hand is how best to protect a
peace-seeking world from a psychopathic ideology that
assumed the appearance of legitimacy so that
a Christian Zionist president could be deceived to
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