{"id":139703,"date":"2024-01-14T14:57:27","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T21:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=139703"},"modified":"2024-01-14T14:57:27","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T21:57:27","slug":"chris-hedges-the-death-of-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/01\/14\/chris-hedges-the-death-of-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Hedges: The Death of Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy ScheerPost<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p><strong>Settler colonial states have a terminal shelf life. Israel is no exception.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scheerpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2897ea16-4649-479e-93b4-3c22d1386048_4264x3262.webp?resize=780%2C596&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-79379\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Birth of a New Nation \u2013 by Mr. Fish<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By Chris Hedges \/<\/strong>&nbsp;<em>Original to ScheerPost<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israel will appear triumphant after it finishes its genocidal campaign&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/chrishedges.substack.com\/p\/israels-final-solution-for-the-palestinians\">in Gaza<\/a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/6lcXlKJQPzM\">West Bank<\/a>. Backed by the United States, it will achieve its demented goal. Its murderous rampages and genocidal violence will exterminate or ethnically cleanse Palestinians. Its dream of a state exclusively for Jews, with any Palestinians who remain stripped of basic rights, will be realized. It will revel in its blood-soaked victory. It will celebrate its war criminals. Its genocide will be erased from public consciousness and tossed into Israel\u2019s huge black hole of historical amnesia. Those with a conscience in Israel will be silenced and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bitcoins1stlady\/status\/1736148919975862759\">persecuted<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But by the time Israel achieves its decimation of Gaza \u2014 Israel is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/14\/israel-tells-us-it-needs-months-to-defeat-hamas\">talking about<\/a>&nbsp;months of warfare \u2014 it will have signed its own death sentence. Its facade of civility, its supposed vaunted respect for the rule of law and democracy, its mythical story of the courageous Israeli military and miraculous birth of the Jewish nation, will lie in ash heaps. Israel\u2019s social capital will be spent. It will be revealed as an ugly, repressive, hate-filled&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/campaigns\/2022\/02\/israels-system-of-apartheid\/\">apartheid<\/a>&nbsp;regime, alienating&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/12\/05\/us\/jewish-american-israel-gaza-generation-gap.html\">younger<\/a>&nbsp;generations of American Jews. Its patron, the United States, as new generations come into power, will distance itself from Israel the way it is distancing itself from Ukraine. Its popular support, already eroded in the U.S., will come from America\u2019s Christianized&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Fascists-Christian-Right-America\/dp\/0743284461\/ref=sr_1_1\">fascists<\/a>&nbsp;who see Israel\u2019s domination of ancient Biblical land as a harbinger of the Second Coming and in its subjugation of Arabs a kindred racism and white supremacy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scheerpost.com\/2023\/12\/17\/chris-hedges-the-death-of-israel\/\">Chris Hedges: The Death of Israel \u2013 ScheerPost<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy ScheerPost Settler colonial states have a terminal shelf life. Israel is no exception. By Chris Hedges \/&nbsp;Original to ScheerPost Israel will appear triumphant after it finishes its genocidal campaign&nbsp;in Gaza&nbsp;and the&nbsp;West Bank. Backed by the United States, it will achieve its demented goal. Its murderous rampages and genocidal violence will exterminate or ethnically cleanse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}