2023 was a horrible year to be a Tankie
I would argue it is nigh incapable of Israel (or its state apparatus and the majority of its population) to make peace with Palestinians. Not because they are Jewish, but because it is the nature of settler-colonialism.
One could point at the Anglo settler-states claiming they show there's a step forward- but what justice has been done there, for the native peoples? I live in Canada, I was raised mostly rural, many of my childhood friends, classmates were indigenous and they all were being raised by white, Christian families. If you think there's any justice- hell, any equality here, I got a bridge to sell you...
There is only one answer to settler-colonialism- indigenism. It doesn't require the driving out of all settlers (though I won't claim I'd shed many tears about it if it did). It's the answer in Bolivia, it's the answer in South Africa, it's the answer in Algeria, etc... while NZ is far from perfect to my understanding, some degree of it is in employ there, as well.
There is no place for a white, Jewish ethnostate imposing itself in the rightful land of the Palestinians, and the settler mentality is aware of that- so long as the Palestinian people exist in any meaningful sense, peace with the ethnostate is a pipe dream. There's a place, perhaps, for a state that comprises both the indigenous Palestinians and the settler Jewish peoples- but Israel? I don't believe that, just as there was no place for the Pied-Noirs to have their state, there was no place for the Rhodesians to have their state, there was no place for the Apartheid government and Boer minority rule to continue.
China toeing the UN line- the pragmatic approach- is sensible. I'd toe it too, if I were in any position to do so. But inevitably, IMO- so long as the apartheid-state exists, so long as the state built upon the ideals of white supremacy and the destruction or suppression of the indigenous peoples, and the sole benefit of the settler-colonials exists, the Israelis will show their true colors, time and time again. Not because they're Jewish, but because they're colonials clinging to a colonial ideal, who have not faced justice or equality, and this is what colonials do. Eventually the Anglo settler states no doubt (IMO) will have to face their own reckoning, it may not be indigenism in the truest sense (as the native peoples aren't demographically relevant enough) but it will be a reckoning of the white, imperialist state, especially as the white demographics continue to decline.
What I’m thinking here is put Israelis face to face with the Western European culture they revere so much and meanwhile, force the Nazi-sympathetic among the Ukrainians to live side by side with Jewish people and force them to give up their antisemitis- okay that’s not going to work.
It's certainly the most hilarious and poetically just scenario, though. I support
Honestly? Replace "leftists" with "liberals" and he's right. But he's not a liberal, he's worse...
The latest in a long and tired series of AmeriKKKan spinoffs. There are the mainline sequels (Canada, Australia, NZ), the failed titles people don't talk enough about (French Algeria, British Kenya, Rhodesia, Apartheid South Africa, etc), there's the spinoffs who tried and failed to compete in their own Manifest Destiny ripoffs (Nazi Germany, Mussolini's Italy, imperial Japan), and there's also all the various attempts at being the next AmeriKKKa/white settler-colonial homeland in Latin America as well.
China is exporting the most important kind of revolution, one welcomed by the vast majority of any society regardless of ideology- it's exporting the revolution of human development, in infrastructure projects, in non-exploitative loans, in the industrial development of countries that have had the means of it withheld and suppressed by western capital, in education, in hospitals and healthcare and vaccines, in roads, ports, rail, telecom infrastructure, etc...
For revolutions which aim to change the socioeconomic structure of a society- it's best left for the locals to figure out; IMO if China tried to export that sort of revolution, especially in the current circumstances, it would only lead to disaster- to a fragmenting of the global southern, non-western world. Foreign exploitation can be countered by providing a far superior, non-exploitative alternative; indigenous problems require indigenous solutions.
I'd say that Wahhabism and radical, fundamentalist Islamic doctrine and jihadi movements are not entirely the product of colonialism (though a fair bit is in reaction to colonialism)- but their proliferation and general success (for certain measures of success) absolutely is, both in the sense that the west has a long history of backing Islamic extremists to undermine secular Arab, north/west African, central Asian, and Muslim south and southeast Asian countries, and that the conditions of "post-imperialism" naturally also don't lend themselves to moderate religious views (particularly when a certain grouping of countries tends to kill off secular nationalists and socialists).