Alon Mizrahi
Fenced in, Tagged and Marked for Taming: Zionist Predators Get Slammed Against the Harsh Reality of a Boundary
A wide international consensus regarding the validity and existence of a Palestinian people, territory, and state dramatically changes the geopolitical landscape in which all of us, including Zionists, operate.
What, precisely, this recognition means, what it expresses and entails in realistic terms, I’m going to discuss separately (it is not very complicated, but people refuse to feel any sense of energy and progress, and this is a big part of why Zionism hasn’t met serious resistance for so long. Downtrodden people make for a very feeble enemy).
What is important for me to elucidate at this point is the extremely important psychological significance of this moment, and this momentum: Zionists have been accustomed to operating, on every level, like no moral, legal, economic, or philosophical boundary exists for them.
The territorial boundlessness of Zionism – Israel is a country without set borders – expressed itself in a matching psychology (or, probably, the other way around).
The fact that Jews continued to live everywhere but became increasingly Zionist, with growing power and influence in local communities and countries, contributed to this total collapse of any sense of boundary. Zionism was about everything and applied everywhere.
Because Zionism was everywhere and about everything, and applied to no clearly defined piece of land or set of acceptable behaviors, it drove both Jews and much of the rest of the world to a state of constant near-psychosis. People cannot exist in such uncertainty: when there’s no good and bad, legitimate and illegitimate, the result is bloody chaos.
If this sounds too philosophical, this is what we’re seeing in Gaza, the West Bank, and US politics right now: moral and territorial boundlessness that leads people to a sense of constant, primordial existential fear (which cynical political powers are using to advance their goals, till the inevitable collapse of the entire structure).
October 7 forced Zionists to meet with the limits of their ability to torment and subjugate other people. The 12-day war forced them to come to terms with the limits of their technological and military capabilities. And now, when countries like Britain, France, Canada, Australia, and Portugal (and many others will soon follow) recognize Palestine, Zionism, as a movement, is faced not only with firm territorial limits, but also with the limits of its influence and power in the West.
They have lost their superpowers. They have clear limits. They are like everyone else. Oh lord, what a calamity.
Living without lush, revitalizing, and exorbitant privileges was never part of the Zionist agenda, so I expect this gentle boundary-setting to be experienced as a major destabilizing event, which will only result in more self-destructive behavior.
As I have so often said in the past months, it is all coming down. It has no hope.
Today is a good day for humanity. Allow yourselves to experience joy.
Alon Mizrahi is an Israeli publicist and thinker.
Source: https://alonmizrahi.substack.com/p/fenced-in-tagged-and-marked-for-taming
