Zahir
Ebrahim | Project
Humanbeingsfirst.org
April
05, 2010
The
following two passages I find most revealing in this essay by Dr.
Khalil Nakhleh –
“Contested
histories”, “contested narratives”: What kind of
nonsense is this? Again it’s a war of words and concepts!
'Those
who try to explain the prolonged Israel/Palestine conflict in terms
of two “valid” but “contested” histories, are
simply trying to provide an untenable justification for the
imposition of the Ashkenazi Zionist settler colonial system and
structure. This is always contested by the Palestinian Arabs who
have been, and continue to be until this day, victimized by this
colonial structure and ideology, and by those Jews and others who
came to realize and experience the colossal evil embedded in this
colonial and racist ideology. This system does not carry any
legitimacy, except that of brute power and ruthless mechanisms of
suppression.
The
legitimate history of Palestinian Arabs and Palestinian Jews
co-habiting the land of Palestine prior to the onslaught of Ashkenazi
Zionist European colonialism on Palestine is never “contested”,
except by those who usurped indigenous Palestinian basic human
rights. The rest is sheer nonsense!'
---
What
is revealing to me is betrayed by that last statement of the author:
“The rest is sheer nonsense!”
I
wish to provide an alternate perspective to this idea of it being
“sheer nonsense”, and that “this system
does not carry any legitimacy, except that of brute power and
ruthless mechanisms of suppression.” The only empirical
thing – and throughout the history of mankind since time
immemorial – that has carried any legitimacy whatsoever, is in
fact: “brute power and ruthless mechanisms of
suppression.”!!
So
let's move away from platitudes and examine political science of
statecraft, of which endless narratives, and the beneficial cognitive
diversity derived from it, forms an integral part. Palestine is,
after all, all about state, statehood, and statecraft, isn't it? It
is not about the Moral Law of Moses and The Ten Commandments. Because
if it was, then, there'd surely have reigned heaven on earth for 3000
years, and all among humanity would have lived happily ever after. A
nice children's bed time story of course.
Let's
begin with Protocol
1, items 3 through 6 which lend the universally
pragmatic definition to the term "legitimacy":
3.
It must be noted that men with bad instincts are more in number than
the good, and therefore the best results in governing them are
attained by violence and terrorisation, and not by academic
discussions. Every man aims at power, everyone would like to become a
dictator if only he could, and rare indeed are the men who would not
be willing to sacrifice the welfare of all for the sake of securing
their own welfare.
4.
What has restrained the beasts of prey who are called men? What has
served for their guidance hitherto?
5.
In the beginnings of the structure of society, they were subjected to
brutal and blind force; after words - to Law, which is the same
force, only disguised. I draw the conclusion that by the law of
nature right lies in force.
6.
Political freedom is an idea but not a fact. This idea one must know
how to apply whenever it appears necessary with this bait of an idea
to attract the masses of the people to one's party for the purpose of
crushing another who is in authority. This task is rendered easier of
the opponent has himself been infected with the idea of freedom,
SO-CALLED LIBERALISM, and, for the sake of an idea, is willing to
yield some of his power. It is precisely here that the triumph of our
theory appears; the slackened reins of government are immediately, by
the law of life, caught up and gathered together by a new hand,
because the blind might of the nation cannot for one single day exist
without guidance, and the new authority merely fits into the place of
the old already weakened by liberalism.
---
"Legitimacy"
is what the "law" says it is. And "law" is
precisely captured by item 5, stating it again to emphasize its
point:
“In
the beginnings of the structure of society, they were subjected to
brutal and blind force; after words - to Law, which is the same
force, only disguised. I draw the conclusion that by the law of
nature right lies in force.”
Once
again: “by the law of nature right lies in force.”
That's
just an empirically obvious statement. A TRUISM!
Can
anyone think of even one counter example throughout history, and
through modernity:
through
World War I which was all about force which orchestrated the Balfour
Declaration while forcibly destroying the then existing Old World
Order and creating nation-states as a transient grouping of peoples ;
through
World War II which was again all about force which created Israel,
completing the piece-meal obliteration of all the Old World Order ;
throughout
World War III, the infamous Cold War, which was again all about force
which held the entire world in a contrived perpetual fear for 4
decades in a WWF wrestling match forcing all peoples of the planet
into one of two artificially defined ideological camps ;
and
through today, about a third of the way into World War IV which is
forcibly coercing the world into a single New One World Order?
All
that FORCING, done rather straightforwardly with the power of
Legitimacy and Legality – by the simple fiat of proclamation by
victory, i.e., wielding unchallenged POWER to define what is RIGHT!
Nowhere,
at any point in known and recorded history of mankind, and especially
in the modernity of the past 100-150 years, has the moral converse of
that Protocol I ever transpired, namely, that: Right lies in Truth,
or Right lies in Justice!
In
fact, Zbigniew Brzezinski even opened his blueprint for making
America bankrupt and eventually collapsed into One-World Government:
'The Grand Chessboard', with the tortuous truism: “Hegemony
is as old as mankind.”
Apparently,
Zbigniew Brzezinski was still echoing Protocol I of the Elders of
Zion circa 1800s in 1996, and its been playing out right before our
very eyes since 911 in this entire first decade of the 21st century.
And so are the leaders of Zionistan also still following it!
Therefore,
my first empirically analytic "equation" so to speak, is
that that bullshit, ahem what's labeled as the “sheer
nonsense”, cannot be dismissed as sheer nonsense, because that
very bullshit is what fuels the destruction of the Palestinian
peoples. It is what makes empires. Morality and Truth and
Virtuousness do not. These latter of course do make good human
beings, and also the fodder for empires!
Therefore,
this “sheer nonsense” has to be taken very very seriously
as part of the political science of hegemony, and not treated as a
debate of morality, righteousness, truth, eschatology, or
metaphysics.
---
My
second empirical "equation" is the impact of this bullshit
upon our understanding of truth. This factor is even more
interesting.
So,
first of all, please watch this short video of how "truth"
can get created sociologically across generations through just the
psychological conditioning without any deliberate cognitive
infiltration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZeiSKnhOBc
Juxtaposed
to that penetrating amusement of the 5-monkeys, please ponder upon
the following insightful words of one of the masters of
socio-psycho-anthropology who have figured out a lot of Machiavellian
political science just from astute observations of behavior in
various psychological warfare and Public Relations institutions (from
Freud to Bernays to SOMA to the “Ultimate Revolution”):
'Public
Assumptions' Shape Views of History: “Such presumptions are
beliefs (1) thought to be true (although not necessarily known to be
true with certainty), and (2) shared in common within the relevant
political community. The sources for such presumptions are both
personal (from direct experience) and vicarious (from books, movies,
and myths).” -- Philip
Zelikow on Public Myths
Thus
my second empirically analytical "equation", so to speak,
is: what is right is what MIGHT makes RIGHT ; and a few generations
down, that RIGHT becomes TRUTH even when left alone, but more so when
calculatingly aided and abetted in its vicarious construction through
deliberate cognitive orchestration!
---
So,
endeavoring to make sense of all this in a simplified, layman's
modeling sort of way, we have a system of two "equations"
in two "variables". One of power, and one which creates
empirical reality, i.e., effective TRUTH (usually spanning over a
time frame longer than what it takes to raise/educate a single
generation).
The
only way to counter this system of equation of HEGEMONY is to yank
the very fundamental which anchors its “legitimacy” –
POWER! It is of course power which also creates the TRUTH. [1]
Otherwise,
the statement of Efraim quoted by Palestine's good friend Mr. Shaukat
in his comment
to this article, “Not an existential threat. Israel is
indestructable. I don’t think we should talk to in apocalyptic
terms”, is for all practical purposes, and for the
foreseeable future, the most accurate assessment.
That
Efraim's observation is not just false bravado, but accurately
anchored in the famous 1923 political science statement of Vladimir
Jabotinsky which is often misunderstood by the innocent to mean the
physical Wall that is today closing off the Palestinians into
open-air concentration camps while its intellectuals delightedly
accept Peace and Orwell prizes for their own narratives of moral
truth:
“The
Zionist colonization must either stop, or else proceed regardless of
the native population. Which means that it can proceed and develop
only under the PROTECTION of a POWER which is independent of the
native population behind an iron wall, which the native population
cannot BREACH.” -- V. Jabotinsky
What
is that PROTECTING POWER that has lowered that figurative
constricting Iron Wall upon the indigenous population of Palestine
which its natives simply cannot BREACH? Never mind BREACH, when I
eventually locate a Palestinian intellectual who can even see that
PROTECTING POWER, I'll know that it's finally too late!
Damn
it, who sustains Zionistan? In whose name is Balfour Declaration
issued?
Please
endeavor to understand that PROTECTING POWER, and you would have
actually understood the prime-mover of "legitimacy".
That
word, "legitimacy", is merely a euphemism for PRIMACY of
the oligarchy. Henceforth, the syntactically un-sugared capitalized
form is used.
---
Not
"conflicting narratives", but the PROTECTING POWER is
what's the core fundamental force behind the exercise of PRIMACY in
Palestine. That PROTECTING POWER creates many narratives, many
conflicts, and manages their controlled and orchestrated clash for
beneficial cognitive diversity: the Left-wing, the Right-wing, the
Abhorrent Straussian claiming “in the age of atheism, the
Jewish people can no longer base its existence on God but only on
itself alone, on its labor, on its land, and on its state.”
to the Pious Orthodox bobbing at the Wailing Wall, all of which
singularly serve to dilute the one truth that is to be supplanted
with conquest in order to raise the new phoenix from the ashes of
humanity left behind!
And
it is not just the exercise of PRIMACY upon the largely agrarian
Palestinian populations who lived peaceably side by side and who were
suddenly overwhelmed by the sophisticated European ASHKA-NAZI
onslaught as also accurately observed by Khalil Nakhleh in his essay,
but it is also the indivisible prime-mover force behind the PRIMACY
upon the entire world's populations! World domination in a One-World
government. It is the exact same PROTECTING POWER, and it has
analogously caught the entire world's people unprepared!
That
PRIMACY (“legitimacy”) granting PROTECTING POWER, unless
challenged ab initio, is handing the fate of the Native Americans to
the Palestinians while the learned among them write their erudite
theses dissecting the anatomy of “Contested histories”,
“contested narratives”. I find this to be an entirely
asinine and empty war of words! Useful perhaps for writing academic
papers and history books. However, entirely futile in the real world
run by the PROTECTING POWER which directly benefits from what the
author of the essay has glibly dismissed as “sheer nonsense!”
The
real heart of that PROTECTING POWER beats not in Zionistan –
which is itself a monumental mystery of such cataclysmic proportion
“whose parallel may only be the one of Sinai when something
was revealed to mankind” that the heavens too might perhaps
now be lamenting why did it ever foist the "chosen peoples"
upon mankind, and which all mankind today can see the spectacle of to
sing our Hallelujah in gratitude – but in the Golem that lives
elsewhere. And which, apparently, none can see even when it hides
only in plainsight and actively thrives on that obscurity by
controlling all the public narratives where its name is never
mentioned! Even by its own victims.
That
golem is the real PROTECTING POWER which Jabotinsky had knowingly
invoked for the Iron Wall. This POWER is independent of the native
population of Palestine, a POWER which they in point of fact cannot
BREACH by the manner in which they have been conducting their
struggle.
And
what manner is that? They write brilliant treatise as in the above
essay. I am sure it is worthy of presentation at academic
conferences, and perhaps also win some glowing awards for its lovely
walk down the pedantic lane like this fellow received for his
physical
walks.
And
what do some other uber-learned Palestinians do? They piously air the
dirty laundry of their own fifth columnists before the "masa's"
own institution which is entirely subservient to the same PROTECTING
POWER that Jabotinsky invoked for the conquest of Palestine! Instead
of boldly challenging the very PROTECTING POWER ab initio and
exposing the crucial palpitating heart of the Golem which only
thrives in obscurity, they unwittingly play the role of dumb pawns in
the Golem's own great con-game. See Open
Letter to Palestinian Intellectual.
And
the Palestinians are only the proverbial canary in the coal mine. The
same fate is to be dished out to the rest of the world soon enough as
they today silently spectate the fate of Palestine! See: The
Secret King of Zion – House of Rothschild and the new Roman
Jerusalem and Rothschild
Connection to World Government and Zionism: David Icke –
Origins and Symbolism of the EU.
---
Conclusion:
We
are running out of time exhausting ourselves in the war of words dear
friends of Palestine. A very good red herring distraction that is
also noted in the Protocols. Please study them carefully. It is in
fact Machiavelli Second Edition plusplus, and it doesn't matter who
are its authors. The Protocols speak as much glaring truth of many an
empirical matter of diabolical statecraft, as did the solo
Machiavelli. Perhaps a lot more!
For
all the singular courage displayed by Palestine's young lads hurling
physical stones at the Goliath tanks, and its fair maidens fighting
the Zionists' pull on their hijab ; for all the tears of parents and
grandparents crying themselves to sleep reciting Fatiha while casting
their own stones at the tanks of insanity to keep them at bay ; and
with each unequivocally delineating the power calculus before it is
eventually transformed into narrative mythology to be handed down
from generation to generation ; there is evidently not one single
intellectual parallel of it which can hurl a single penetrating
intellectual stone at the PROTECTING POWER in order to effectively
BREACH that IRON WALL!
Let's
change that! This is a battle of both 'mens et manus', just
like MIT's credo, 'mind and hand'! Not just of hand alone.
So,
firstly, do understand that by having multiple narratives,
conflicting, competing, whatever one may wish to call it, is not at
all “sheer nonsense”. It is acute political
science, an integral part of the intellectual plan of conquest by
creating “beneficial cognitive diversity” which
fundamentally dilutes focus from the crime to the narratives of the
crimes. From what is right or wrong, to whose narrative might be
right or wrong. What do you think the 2008 Orwell prize was awarded
for? Please read this scribe's deconstruction of it at the
aforementioned link.
And
secondly, to the Palestinian child courageously fighting back with
mighty stones in tiny hand at ground zero:
1)
Demand from your intellectual elite that equivalent mental stones be
simultaneously hurled at the Golem from intellectual slingshots
rather than the crappy platitudes and drab rehearsals of histories
and puppetshows du jour which add nothing new – demand that
they return every one of their co-opting prizes won upon your blood
as the first sign of rejuvenating a real second front, the
intellectual front of the mind!
2)
Remove the co-opted mental-midgets and mercenaries from representing
your struggle in any and all forums, and from your local governance –
the Golem is the master of the art of co-option and calculatingly
installs, funds, and endorses buffoons, old-fogies, controlled
opposition, and patsy warriors in positions of power to represent
you, who then hastily proceed to sell you short in the great-game
that's often mostly over their head.
To
conclude then, I must also observe in all humility that I am not sure
how to implement any of the above game-altering strategies "on
demand" so to speak!
Perhaps
it will happen organically when the Palestinians, and the rest of the
'untermensch' world, finally wizen up that they never ever had even a
fighting chance by fighting-back with their hand alone against the
far superior un-breachable PROTECTING POWER which had deployed, from
the very beginning, both its 'mens et manus' with the full
Machiavellian force of the Protocols and infinite funding from their
legally sanctioned private central banks! What was it they had oft
proclaimed: “give me control of a nation's money supply and
I care not who makes its laws”?
And
by then, by the time the missing 'mens' in 'mens at manus' is
genuinely revived, perhaps it may not matter at all. Only a couple of
generations down from today, all might freely be able to read the one
TRUTHFUL narrative in children's sixth grade history books in all
languages about the lofty MORAL NATURE of the PROTECTING POWER. How
it had courageously, and with much tenacity over a 100-200 year
period, finally freed mankind from the clutches of the evil
barbarians while simultaneously uniting the entire planet into the
safety and security of a One-World Government Order under the holy
banksters' generous protection! The new gods of mankind.
These
forthcoming gods are far easier to tear down today with a little bit
of 'mens et manus' than they will ever be when the IRON WALL has
finally closed around all of humanity!
Thank
you.
Footnote
[1]
The
second "variable" of "truth" is evidently not
entirely independent, but is perhaps a conditional, or stochastic, or
some sort of complex sociological variable, somewhat still dependent
on the power which creates "truth" that is of any physical
and material consequence, but also with an independent component
which can acquire a life of its own in a stochastically predictable
direction! Such truth may subsequently also by forcibly sustained
"vicariously" to become the dominant REALITY that is
henceforth inseparable from conditioned myths. The objective truth or
reality for those suffering its largesse however, at best, become
laments and narratives in families and tribes whispered down from
generation to generation, sometimes even appearing in books in public
libraries, and in the most egregious of cases even studied in the
public school curriculum as early as sixth grade.
The
unarguable proof of this observation is the cataclysmic destiny
apportioned to the indigenous native Americans – the ones
fortunate enough to be left alive after more than 10 million of their
forefathers were brutally eradicated by means not incomparable to the
"cleansing" of Palestine. Today, they can narrate their
pertinent truth all they want, but their personal objective reality
is powerless before the empirical REALITY du jour. This is political
science of hegemony in action.
Palestinians
are hurtling down that exact same path peddling vacuous narratives of
historical truth with all the morality on their side – not a
very meaningful prescription for self-defense when self-defense can
actually be temporally effective, i.e., before fait accompli! But of
course it is great for making movies, for narrative story telling,
for running fast on the treadmill to soothe the conscience from the
safety of one's ineffective dissent, for landing lucrative book deals
ex post facto, perhaps earning a Ph.D. in political science at a
Rockefeller funded university, etceteras.
Source URL:
http://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2010/04/resp-palestine-contested-histories.html
The
author, an ordinary researcher and writer on contemporary
geopolitics, a minor justice activist, grew up in Pakistan, studied
EECS at MIT, engineered for a while in high-tech Silicon Valley
(patents here),
and retired early to pursue other responsible interests. His maiden
2003 book was rejected by six publishers and can be read on the web
at http://PrisonersoftheCave.org.
He may be reached at http://Humanbeingsfirst.org.
Verbatim reproduction license at
http://humanbeingsfirst.org/#Copyright.
04/05/2010 23:30:07
3529
Links Fixed February 28, 2018
Response
to Palestine's Contested Histories – Contested Narratives :
It's only Beneficial Cognitive Diversity, Not 'sheer nonsense'! By
Zahir Ebrahim April 05, 2010 11/11