So, the US and Guatemala are, as of the time of writing, skipping ahead in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process and moving their diplomatic ties to Israel to the contended city of Jerusalem. And while Israel has claimed the city as their own for a long time, other nations haven’t dared to aknowledge such a move.
It’s a cluster fuck of no small proportions. Not a surprise, but clustery none the less. Even though the US are supposed to be leading the peace-talks, everyone with an ear to international news should be able to piece together that they are not only not impartial, but foreign-affairs-wise the same as Israel. The two countries are, by many foreign policy standards, the same. They’re USrael. And Guatemala was one of the very few nations in the UN that supported the US move to Jerusalem, which makes it reasonable that they’d double down with an embassy move of their own.
Now, the international community knows that Israel is an aggressive, apartheid state in the making. The joint USrael political agenda has tried forcefully to hide that realisation through political pressure and a feeble attempt to control the narrative. But seeing as how Israel are slowly creeping towards a greater and greater occupation and annexation of Palestinian terriroty, it’s really hard to hide their aggression.
It’s getting even harder to rationally justify it. There hasn’t been a Jewish state on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean sea for many millennia. And arguing that they were there first is ludicrous. If we decided who should govern or own what land based on who lived there first, well then… the US should capitulate almost all their territory to North American First Nation peoples. To really hammer home how ridiculous that argument is, Swedish vikings founded Moscow. How ’bout giving us back your capital after a thousand years, Russia? See? Unreasonable arguments.
Post-Ottoman colonial powers ceded some land to Jewish refugees. They called it Israel. Since then, Israel has been aggressively expanding their territory and influence. Do they have the right to do that? About as much right as any country ever has had in forcefully taking land and displacing residents. But whether or not you think they have the right to slowly swallow another nation state’s sovereign territory, like Russia’s trying to do to the Crimean peninsula, or how the US did over the course of two hundred years to the First Nations, you should call them by what they are. An aggressive, militaristic state that expands their terriroty on the premise of ancient religious rights and arrogant notions of supremacy. That’s modern day Zionism.
And I think that’s pretty shitty behaviour.
/Sebastian Lindberg 26/12-2017
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