Israel is the Ultimate Anti-Imperialist State

European imperialism in the Middle East was preceded by Islamist imperialism. The Jewish state is the only indigenous fragment that survived the onslaught of Islamic imperialism

Mount Moriah, location of Jewish Temple. Occupied by Islam (Photo - Andrew Shiva/Wikipedia)









Most of Israel’s enemies eventually realized that the Jewish state could not be defeated in the military battlefield. Israel’s military superiority has only grown since the so-called Arab Spring left most of its foes’ military forces in ruins.

Israel’s enemies however, have exploited the Jewish state’s numerical inferiority by demanding that it commit national suicide by assimilating into the region’s Muslim Arab majority.

After failing to destroy Israel through terrorism, PLO eventually tried to impress gullible Western liberals by advocating the replacement of Israel with a “democratic” PLO state for Muslims, Christians and Jews.  In a New York Times op-ed some years ago, the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi even promoted the destruction of Israel by replacing the Jewish state with a Muslim Arab majority “utopia” called “Isratine”.

To Islamist and Arab supremacists, a tiny Jewish nation-state within any borders is considered unacceptable. Hebrew-speaking Jews are viewed as “colonialists” regardless of whether they reside in Judea or in Tel Aviv.

Many Western leftists, who officially claim to oppose imperialism, hypocritically support the racist notion that the Middle East is somehow an exclusive Muslim Arab domain. Ironically, the term “Middle East” is of Western origin and was introduced by the British in the 19th century.

The Muslim Arab world has successfully promoted itself as the “inheritor” of the region’s ancient and extinct civilizations like the Babylonians and the pharaonic Egyptians. PLO’s Arab leadership absurdly claims to be the descendants of the extinct Canaanites.

A vibrant and reborn Jewish state though, shatters the Muslim Arab world’s attempts to present itself as the “inheritor” of ancient Israel. The relentless demonization and delegimitization of Israel is part of the ongoing Islamic neo-imperialist ambition to wipe out the remaining traces of the region’s indigenous pre-Islamic and pre-Arab civilizations.

In his book “The New Middle East”, the late Israeli leader Shimon Peres optimistically envisioned a peaceful Middle East based on regional cooperation and integration akin to the European Union. This utopia ignored the harsh reality of chronic inter-Arab and Muslim violence. How can Israel “integrate” into a Muslim Arab world that cannot even live in peace with itself?

In reality, a “normal” Middle Eastern state equals a Muslim/Arab failed state and impoverished third world dictatorship that embraces ignorance and oppresses women and minorities.

Why would a successful first-world Jewish state emulate backward and failed societies? Would Western leftists themselves want to live in despotic societies that mistreat women, minorities and gays like Saudi Arabia and Iran? Would leftists rather live in thriving democracies like the US and Britain or in backward failed states like Syria, Iraq and Yemen?

In reality, Israel is the ultimate anti-imperialist state that successfully combines a proud ancient civilization with a thriving democracy and cutting-edge technologies.




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  1. Currently dominant in the social sciences and the humanities is the neo-leninist postcolonial theory, which offers the keen insight that history began in the 17th century with European imperialism, when evil was first introduced to the world. Prior to Western imperialism, everyone in the world got along beautifully, mixing and mingling in an egalitarian and sharing fashion.