Ehud Olmert, Tear Out Your Eyes

Israel has lost the Lebanon war - this much is already obvious. The IDF has proven itself once again weak and impotent, totally incapable of achieving any real military goal. It can efficiently terrorize cities and murder civilians, but it absolutely cannot destroy Hezbullah.

In fact, there is a simple reason for this: there is ultimately no Hezbullah - so considered in the terms of a discrete and individual entity - to destroy. Ultimately, Hezbullah is nothing more than a symptom of Israel, created as a direct result of the brutal conduct of the IDF during the first Lebanon war.

In many respects, this current war is really nothing more than a haunted repetition of the first one. It serves no obvious strategic purpose for Israel; in fact it will effect to make Israel less, not more secure, in the medium to long-term future. The bitterness which Israel has provoked in Lebanon will last for decades, and from the ashes of Beirut, Hezbullah will rise like a Phoenix, more determined than ever.

Subsequent to the massacre at Qana, several commentators drew analogies to the Soviet Union, asking whether Israel now has reached its Budapest moment. In fact, the real truth is that Israel reached this moment some time ago. Qana has happened before, indeed - all of this has happened before. The contemporary Israeli state is a zombie state, a state which is already dead, which only has not quite yet realized it.

In this way, the current campaign in Lebanon amounts to an act of pure pathological desperation. In attempting to combat Hezbullah, the IDF is doing nothing at all, except for resisting a trauma integral and inherent to Israel itself. It was Israel which ushered Hezbullah into existence, Hezbullah did not emerge out of nothing. Rather, Hezbullah emerged in the terms of a kind of avenging angel, a kind of pure expression of Israeli guilt and sin made manifest.

Hezbullah will only disappear once the Israel has settled the outstanding debt of the despicable crimes which it has commited in the past, and is continuing to commit today. Ultimately, this debt began with the crime of the annexation of Palestine, which is to say the foundation of Israel itself.

To put it bluntly: Israel itself is already a crime, and accordingly there will never be peace in historical Palestine, so long as Israel exists in its present form. This is to say, the form of a messianic Jewish homeland, divided along racial lines.

If Israel genuinely desires peace, even if it genuinely wishes to survive, it must cease to be Zionist. Otherwise, it will be sooner or later destroyed, at the hands of one or other of the enemies of its own creation.

Israel cannot stop creating these enemies so long as it remains Zionist. In the last analysis, Zionism is an ideology of racial purity, and so mandates accordingly logic of suicide: one must purify, and one can never purify enough.



Sooner or later during the next two weeks, Olmert will the mission accomplished, and initiate a general IDF withdrawl from Lebanon. In fact, nothing at all will have been accomplished, except for mass slaughter and carnage. This carnage can only be expected to intensify in the future.

The very real possibility is that Israel will deliver a second Shoah if it does not realize this, tantamount to a general cataclysm engulfing the entire middle east, itself included, in a future war which could consume the world.