georgephillip
Diamond Member
Are you predicting al-Nakba 2.0?All of those Palestinian fruit orchards must have blown away like their homeland is about to.Moral legitimation has little to do with material gain, especially when the gains come from stealing farms, homes, businesses, and bank accounts:By becoming a world power and economy, growing lush orchards from the same rubble that still exists in Palestine. All in half a century.Do those central processes you mention include imperialism?It is hard to comprehend how Yinon could write in the 1980s about the destruction of Iraq and Syria as part of a long term goal for Israeli supremacy over the Middle East; obviously, he was a man ahead of his times.
Did he anticipate the fall of the USSR?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/pdf/The Zionist Plan for the Middle East.pdf
"At the outset of the nineteen eighties the State of Israel is in need of a new perspective as to its place, its aims and national targets, at home and abroad.
"This need has become even more vital due to a number of central processes which the country, the region and the world are undergoing. We are living today in the early stages of a new epoch in human history which is not at all similar to its predecessor, and its characteristics are totally different from what we have hitherto known.
"That is why we need an understanding of the central processes which typify this historical epoch on the one hand, and on the other hand we need a world outlook and an operational strategy in accordance with the new conditions.
"The existence, prosperity and steadfastness of the Jewish state will depend upon its ability to adopt a new framework for its domestic and foreign affairs."
very astute>>>>"This need has become even more vital due to a number of central processes which the country, the region and the world are undergoing. He was right
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/pdf/The Zionist Plan for the Middle East.pdf
"The (Yinon) plan operates on two essential premises.
"To survive, Israel must 1) become an imperial regional power, and 2) must effect the division of the whole area into small states by the dissolution of all existing Arab states.
"Small here will depend on the ethnic or sectarian composition of each state.
"Consequently, the Zionist hope is that sectarian-based states become Israel's satellites and, ironically, its source of moral legitimation."
How would you define Israel's "source of moral legitimation"?
The forgotten story of the original Jaffa oranges
"'The citrus industry is perceived in the Israeli consciousness as an exclusively Zionist pioneering effort. In fact, the Palestinian-Arab citrus industry predated it, and for most of the period, until 1948, exceeded it in both physical area and quantity of exports,' Karlinsky and co-author Prof. Mustafa Kabha, from the Open University, wrote in an article recently published in the historical journal Zmanim. (Karlinsky has also published a book in English on the subject: 'California Dreaming: Ideology, Society, and Technology in the Citrus Industry of Palestine, 1890-1939.') "
2018 Gaza border protests - Wikipedia