The genocide option

After October 7 last year I wrote about how the Jewish diaspora has two political options open to it after the trauma it experienced…a trauma caused by the total collapse of the false sense of security and normalcy that Israeli society had created for itself.

So what do my fellow diaspora Jews, living safe integrated multicultural lives in America and Europe, expect to happen? They think they can support an active colonial state and a brutal military occupation…and have people in Israel live normal protected western consumerist lives, just like them, with no hiccups, no violence, no death spilling over the ghetto wall? Yeah, I guess that’s exactly what they want.

If the diaspora really wants to take a shot at making things “normal” in Israel, it has two paths: to either fully back genocide or give up on Zionism and push Israel towards reconciliation and integration. … I don’t have much faith in the second option happening. The diaspora isn’t into it at all. And Israelis aren’t into it, either…

Well, a year on, the majority has indeed backed option #1. What else can you say?

—Yasha

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