Dissenting Opinions on Israel

The political emancipation of the Jews through a military democracy with an imperialist mandate

Chapter 1: Israel and its victims

• The campaign of elimination in Lebanon – Summer ‘82
• Zionism, anti-Semitism and the ethnic character of the state of Israel
• The “Palestinian problem”

Chapter 2: Israel and its enemies

• War as a normal case of Israeli imperialism
• Israeli militarism and its political economy

Chapter 3: Israel and its friends

• A Zionist order-enforcing power of the “free world”
• The Federal Republic of Germany’s relation to Israel
• The FRG’s public sphere:
  National democratic participation in a useful war

Dissenting opinions on Israel...

• do not submit to the nationalist demand to silence the mind when assessing the state of the Jews and let the guilty conscience speak of the good German whose past authorities had killed off the Jews;
• take the liberty, even in the case of Israel, of judging the political goal of a campaign of elimination against a people declared to be a nuisance;
• do not subscribe to the racist idea that the Jews and the Arabs in Palestine cannot get along, when in reality an ethnic Jewish state power is asserting itself at the risk of the lives of its subjects against the native people who have been turned into the “Palestinian problem”;
• do not draft “solution models” for “the Middle East problem,” possibly as an alternative to the “military solution” and in the name of “international understanding,” because they neither consider the results of imperialist violence to be an open question nor war to be an unsuccessful answer;
• but rather criticize the order, namely the brutal rule of Western freedom, for which Israel is financed and armed by the NATO powers and unleashed against every Russian friend in the Middle East.