Or a short introduction to my chaotic mindsauce.
Zionism is a complicated subject. If I were born in Israel, I would probably support the Jewish State to some degree because that's where I was born. I mean, what would the alternative be, and if there were one, who would foot the bill for my relocation? In the case of religious persons like Alex Jones, that gets into an even more complex area. The different lenses we view reality through alter our resting paradigm. Even various factions of Jews debate whether or not Jews should presently inhabit the (so-called) "holy land."
So, you have Zionist Jews and anti-Zionist Jews, and that means you're bound to have Christians in both camps as well. Whether or not someone is personally in favor of or against Israel's continuing occupation of Palestine isn't a big deal to me. I wish that TPTB in Israel would "never forget" in the sense that they treat their neighbors with respect and dignity instead of acting as the Nazis did. If you ask me; The whole deal is a classic case of when an immovable object meets an unstoppable force. Forever.
I'm not 100% certain where Alex is on this issue. I know that he loathes many things that Israel does, in the same way that he loathes a lot of the things that the United States corporation does. But if he believes that God gave the Jews that land, that might make him okay with it. It's no more morally acceptable to me than European settlers in America justifying their expansionism via the notion of manifest destiny.
Assuming that westward expansion began 218 years ago in 1803 and Israel was born in 1948. America has a 145-year lead in doing to the Native Americans what Israel is doing to the Palestinians. In America's beginnings, European settlers were just as savage as the so-called "savages" were. Fortunately, here, after much time and great conflict and consternation—Native Americans can live and work wherever they please, and a lucky 42% of BIA recognized tribes get monthly cash from the established Casino monopolies. It doesn't salve the past wounds, but time continues its ever march forward regardless.
Then you've got the entire history of Christian expansionism and the crusades and Islamic expansion too. What can I say? This planet and its warlike people are a veritable cluster of fucks. I don't think Jones' opinion of that geographical area of the globe has much sway on me. I appreciate the work that he's put into waking people up over the decades. But the whole hyperfocus on either Israel or Jews is a bit much for me.
Just imagine if you're a Muslim or Jew in a foreign country and you noticed that nearly all U.S. Presidents claimed Christianity as their faith. You might think that this means there's something inherently evil about Christianity, especially when you consider all the dirt that the U.S. did in such a short space of time on a global scale. That, or what happened during the crusades, for that matter. But we know that politicians are posers at best, and thus their political actions don't necessarily reflect their professed religious beliefs.
I might be an Americanist. I say this because I believe that Americans deserve a nation to call home. However, this doesn't mean I in any way condone the wholesale slaughter that early settlers did to native Americans. I think killing people is a terrible thing to do and best done only when you're defending the life, liberty, or property of yourself or others.
All of that said, we can't very well change history now, can we? What happened happened, and the people it happened to, they no longer occupy the realm of the living. I don't know very much about my bloodline. Nor do I have a strong sense of my family history. I do not know what countries my ancestors came from, but what I do know is that it's many. If you believe in the bible, my bloodline goes back to Adam and Eve.
If you believe in evolution; Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle! And I'm sure my monkey ancestors (if that's what it is) did some jacked-up stuff to your monkey ancestors somewhere along the line. All I know is that groupthink is a poison, and nation-states are too. Nations states are just corporations that have limited liability. And limited liability is what lets the people running the machine commit murder on a grand scale and get off scot-free. Thank you, Sir, for inspiring a bunch of thoughts and stuff!
P.S. I'm pretty sure this post earned me either the death penalty or serious jail time in several European countries across the pond. Fuck'em. & Thank God for the renegades!
