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Nov 8 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
1/ Murderous solipsism. Israeli football fans go on a rampage im Amsterdam, tearing down Palestinian flags and shouting racist slogans. Why? Because the very presence of anything Palestinian is a threat to the integrity of the solipsistic bubble we inhabit even when abroad. --->
2/ Then, of course, we are surprised. How is it that when we do such things we suffer the consequences? How is it that we are attacked? How is it that the Dutch police doesn't recognize that we are on a mission for peace, that we are good while they must be bad? --->
3/ Events last night in Amsterdam are presented as a "pogrom" here in Israel. We do not occupy the same plane of existence as the rest of you. Our actions have no implications. We can never be the cause of anything. Everything happens to us. Only we are real. Murderous solipsism.

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Nov 9
1/ Events in Amsterdam and their aftermath are important because they present the world with a glimpse at mainstream Israeli discourse, what in the eyes of most Israelis is the bonding agent between various Israeli factions. We are these marauding, beaten fans. --->
2/ The behavior of Maccabi Tel Aviv's hooligans should not be seen as, well, hooliganism. Following your team on am away game is an exercise in belonging. You build on the tropes most immediately accessible to you in order to present a united front, to project faith. --->
3/ What were those tropes? First, violent removal from our sight of anything Palestinian (and Arab; we don't care to differentiate). Palestinian flags must be torn off and ripped. Arab agency and humanity must be mocked and violently disparaged. --->
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Nov 7
1/ Trump and Palestine: The fact that Trump is a degenerate asshole and that he represents a worldview grounded in degenerate assholery does not make his election "wrong". The people who voted for him were no more deplorable than the people who voted (or did not) for Harris. --->
2/ It doesn't take "deplorables" to erect a Gilead. It doesn't take "deplorables" to carry out a genocide. This is not the the system gone wrong; it is the system gone right. Life as "survival of the fittest" is a life of crisis and confrontation to the death. --->
3/ If "we" are not on top, if a hierarchy is not clearly established, then "we" feel existentially threatened. Israelis feel they must be acknowledged as Gods. Many Trump voters just want to lord it over someone. This is considered a legitimate desire, guaranteeing survival. --->
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Nov 4
1/ Israel annihilates. The annihilation is not a purpose in and of itself. The annihilation is a message, the beginning of a process. When the process matures the victims will forget they ever lived actual, meaningful lives. They will be grateful for simply drawing breath. --->
2/ This is the new format for establishing Israel's bona fides. The center-left is now entertaining the thought of protesting "war crimes". We can call these "excessive" annihilation. What makes them criminal in the eyes of these good center-leftists? --->
3/ The answer is that they are perceived as serving the political agenda of the ideological Israeli (often religious-settler) right. As long as the annihilation could not be tagged politically, it was not, apparently, criminal in nature. When it was "a message" it was fine. --->
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Nov 1
1/ Israelis are beginning to speak in terms that show they see the current "situation" as negative. Those on the "right" feel Israel is too weak and lax, that more force would bring about a tectonic shift. Those on the "left" blame the government and the "extremists". --->
2/ The general tone is "we don't want THIS", even as "this" can take on many divergent forms. We need to rectify, to shift, to transform ourselves. We need to welcome redemption or be the change we want. THIS isn't working. It's just that there are no alternatives. --->
3/ The settlers know there is no support for settling Gaza. There's also the additional detail that there is no place that can be settled in Gaza. Israel has turned Gaza into a desolation. A "settlement strategy" will require overt action that is politically unfeasible. --->
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Oct 31
1/ The Gaza genocide is not just the moral issue of the age because of the suffering of the Palestinians. It is the strategic issue of the age. Israel is demanding that its sovereignty (and its alone) be defined as absolute and limitless - the state of murderous solipsism. --->
2/ Israel wants full discretion and permission to kill whomever it desires, wherever and whenever while using whatever means. Israel demands full impunity as it does so. Israel expresses utter disregard for anyone else's notion of sovereignty- from physical to national. --->
3/ Of course this includes genocide, but that is only the beginning. This is a rejection of the Westphalian order, the one that places sovereignty at the heart of the enlightenment. Israel exposes the racism and the fear that anchor this order. --->
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Oct 30
1/ "Hope" is a commidified concept. It has been appropriated by the culture of Capitalism, maintained as a resource that can keep underpaid, crisis-ridden "ordinary" people in check. You can manage with an impoverished life as long as you are allowed to hope. --->
2/ What is "hope" now in Israel? It has two main expressions. One is a frenetic performance of protest. We hate this government! They are ruthless and heartless! We will be in the streets, sign petitions, hold signs, express our outrage at each and every egregious display. --->
3/ What is inherent in this process? The conviction that this isn't us. It's all "them". The crazies, the messianics, the fanatics, the corrupt and incompetent ones. If it was up to "us", we would get this under control in no time. We are rational people, after all. --->
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