Fateful Triangle

The Road to Armageddon751the time when exactly the opposite was true as a direct consequence ofthe state policies that they were supporting. Typical examples have beencited above; the consequences of this “support” should by now at last beclear.We have seen, in chapter 4, the expression of ideas of the sort thatNisan again puts forth from the pens of religious-chauvinist extremists intheir own journals (see. e.g., chapter 4, section 5.1). As this and manyother examples indicate, however, such “Khomeinism is far broader. Afurther indication of its scope is given by the Israeli writer Amos Oz in aseries of articles in Davar, based on interviews. One group is from thesettlement of Tekoah south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, a“detestable area,” one settler explains, because the Arabs “raise theirheads” here. A recent American immigrant from a religious family inNew York tells him that she hopes for a war or a “terrible disaster to theJews abroad” so that “they shall be persecuted” and come to Israel.There will never be peace, she says:The hatred the Gentiles feel towards the Jews is eternal.There never was peace between us and them except whenthey totally beat us or when we shall totally beat them.Maybe if they will give someone like Sharon the chance tokill off as many of them as possible, destroy their countries,until the Arabs will understand that we did them a favor inletting them remain alive... We are powerful now and powershould talk now. The Gentiles only understand the languageof power.Those who have had the pleasure of addressing an audience of youngAmerican Zionists, chanting their slogans and waving their Anti-Defamation League handouts like Little Red Books, will recognize theClassics in Politics: The Fateful TriangleNoam Chomsky