The Israelis – Mondoweiss. Usually when I go to Israel and Palestine I spend all my time in Palestine to observe conditions there. Last month I did it the other way around: I spent all my time in Israel. I wanted to see what extreme nationalism was doing to people’s attitudes, 5. War. And I wanted to think what I would do were I in their shoes. So I stayed in four Israeli Jewish homes (Airbnb) and talked with lots of Israeli Jews on the street.

The general political condition of Israelis can be seen in two pictures I took. The first is of a civilian on the light rail line in Jerusalem with his semiautomatic rifle sticking out amid a bunch of passengers. Semiautomatic rifle on the Jerusalem light rail system, May 2. Photo by Phil Weiss.

The next is of a sign in a bus terminal in occupied East Jerusalem. Notice the destination. Bus stop near Damascus Gate, to Bethlehem Checkpoint. These pictures summarize the inescapable facts of Israel’s existence: half the population under its sovereign authority live without rights or with second class citizenship, they’re angry about that, sometimes they resist; and therefore Israelis are armed to the teeth and live in fear. And, it’s permanent: Israelis have no clue how to change the situation. Guns are everywhere in Jerusalem, and people are nervous. It’s no surprise there have been so many extrajudicial executions by Israeli soldiers and border police.

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They’re on a hair trigger. My instinct when I saw the guns was always to get out of the way, and soon. I don’t have kids, but I can’t imagine raising kids in that environment. Fear of Palestinians is what drives Israeli attitudes about the conflict; fear is what has produced 1.

Benjamin Netanyahu’s premiereship, with his endless calls for more security; fear is what has destroyed the political left, from within. We want a Jewish state,” said Doron, a middle of the roader. Dahlia, a leftleaning woman, said, “We are wrong. But I don’t want them in my state.

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I am afraid of them.”I found a love for Donald Trump almost everywhere I went. Even from a woman whose apartment I stayed in who is a member of the Zionist leftwing organization Hashomer Hatzair. Now not so much.”She also said she was pleased that Trump had gone to the western wall. Virtually every Jewish Israeli I met– before I went to the May 2. Peace Now rally, anyway– said they believe Jerusalem should never be divided. The idea has been deeply indoctrinated, with religious and historical trappings. Michael Oren says that the 1.

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Israel a more Jewish state: a socialist secular political culture gave way to one built on biblical claims in the West Bank. The idea of annexing Jerusalem was put forward during the 1. War by two cabinet ministers, one from Labor, the other Menachem Begin (Uzi Benzamin reported in Haaretz).

Even Uri Avnery, then a member of Knesset, voted to annex Jerusalem. One of my hosts, David, worked for Labor as a political consultant.

When I asked him where the Palestinians should have their capital, he said, “Why not Ramallah?”This political culture can be frightening. Cult Horror Movies Skin Trade (2015). On Jerusalem Day I was in the crowd of Jews entering the Damascus Gate into the Old City and though I saw religious joy, I also saw intolerance and ethnocentrism at every hand. A group of religious men chanted in defiance of the Palestinians surrounding them, “The people of eternity are not afraid of a long path.” An Australian man swigging tequila told me, “Jerusalem is the soul of the Jewish people and it is our capital forever.”Jerusalem Day at the Damascus Gate: an Australian Jew celebrates with alcohol. May 2. 4, 2. 01. 7, photo by Phil Weiss. Really, what does Jerusalem have to do with his life down under?

Put another way, what kind of lout would brandish a liquor bottle in a militarily occupied Muslim Quarter of a country not his own? And look at the illegal Jewish settlers there. They’ve made a home in the Muslim quarter, and are passing out water. Jewish settlers in Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem pass out water to Jews on Jerusalem Day, photo by Phil Weiss.++++++++++++American Jews used to say that Israelis were tough. That was a compliment; we meant that they knew how to live in the real, global world and we didn’t, because we were soft. Most of the Israelis I met were not tough but hardened.

They have contempt for the non- Jews in their midst. In a bachelors’ apartment in a highrise in Ramat Gan, I watched 1. Hours, a thriller based on the Benghazi killings of US diplomatic personnel, with a couple of the roommates.

When the mob of faceless savage Arabs swarmed the consulate, I said, “In America we are always asking, Why do they hate us?”Itamar laughed. Here we don’t ask that. We hate each other.”He and his roommates were amused that I was going to the Peace Now rally after sundown. They regarded it as extremism, and na. There is no occupation, Itamar said.

He had left orthodox life ten years before. He was a lawyer, and he said there was ample legal basis for Israel’s right to the land. You should read the international documents carefully, he said. I could feel a lecture coming on about the San Remo agreement and the League of Nations, and I got up to go to the rally. There I talked to Galia Golan, a founder of Peace Now and a political scientist, about the majoritarian attitudes. At Peace Now’s demonstration against the 2. Gaza War in Tel Aviv, police had to hold back the crowds shouting, Death to the Arabs.

Israeli authorities now surveil social media posts of Palestinians to the point that they contend they can accurately predict who will commit violence, and bring that “evidence” to a judge who will issue an order of administrative detention. And you can expect it to come to your back yard in a few years.”I had asked my most thoughtful host about these attitudes. Allon is an ultra- orthodox intellectual living in an Art Deco apartment in Jerusalem. That is how an American should be treated, a Jordanian, a Turk. But a religious person would say that God gave us this land, so what are you doing here? And therefore the relationship would be different.

The Talmud says there are situations when you do shame others: for instance a child should be shamed when he does wrong. I think that is what they would say of the Palestinians.”It was moving that Allon needed to distance himself from the attitude; and yet the attitude was everywhere; and he and I met in a caf. In preparation for Allon’s parents’ arrival, a cleaning lady was turning the place upside down. She was from South Africa and was doing a religious conversion to stay here.

She likes it here. Anat told me of a friend who lists his place on a couch- surfing site and limits his guests to German girls. It’s how he gets girlfriends. South Africa and Germany and Israel, historical doppelgangers. I want to believe that this situation is unsustainable, as John Kerry and Condoleezza Rice used to say. You cannot maintain an occupation forever. And yet most of the Israelis I met didn’t like this contingency talk and argued that there was no reason it could not go on for a very long time.

They want to move on from the idea that the land must be partitioned, and therefore that the Palestinian portion is occupied. They seem to want the Palestinians to assume the position of the American Indians, and just accept the fact of a Jewish state and get on with it.“There may not be a peace,” David, the Laborite consultant, shrugged. I did not see one yarmulke at the Peace Now demonstration. Many of the demonstrators seemed to be academics. Allon, my ultra- Orthodox host, told me the secular left is shattered because it is western and European, and Israel is following its destiny, to be an eastern undemocratic society. Ayelet Shaked the Justice Minister is actually closer to Muslims than Labor because she is religious, he said.

Labor Party demonstrator at Peace Now demonstration Tel Aviv, May 2. Sign says 5. 0 years of occupation, Halas, or Enough! Photo by Phil Weiss.

Even Anat, the Hashomer Hatzair Zionist, seemed accepting of the political culture.