Germany is vocal in supporting a Jewish homeland on another state’s territory
Then they must have no problem in supporting it on theirs
Image: a seafarer’s welcome to gastfreundlichem Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Germany is vocal in supporting the existence of Israel in someone else’s country (it constitutes its Staatsräson). And so is Britain, and so is the US. What they are not vocal about is the obvious solution, a final solution, that accords with notions such as “debtors should pay their debts”, “the polluter pays”, it is the “guilty who go to prison and not the innocent”.
These fundaments of our sense of justice should never be abrogated. And that applies whether Israel is murdering Palestinians or even if they had never so much as touched a hair on a Palestinian’s head: they should not be there as uninvited colonial masters, just as Gandhi told the British they were masters in another man’s country. The Jews should have been accorded a homeland on the territory of their persecutors. It was considered at the time, and rejected: by the Zionists. They said they didn’t want anywhere else but Palestine.
The ensuing crime was committed by the nations that said, “Okay, you can have someone else’s territory,” within months of the United Nations having declared in its charter that “armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest”. Once the United Nations had so quickly thrown their own charter down the toilet, how surprised should we have been that Israel likewise threw its membership of the United Nations down the toilet, or should we be that it now treats the United Nations’ General Assembly in such a desultory fashion?
Germany after World War II was in a poor state. It was exhausted and needed a shot in the arm. Many shots were “marshalled” into its arm, and it is now a very wealthy place. What I ask is well within its reach. If it means Germans have to up sticks and move to make way for the Israelis, am I bothered? Of course I am. Someone has to be bothered by a problem that is deadly and intractable. But this is what Germany wants Palestinians to do, to up sticks and move to make way for the Israelis, so they obviously have no objection to having to make room for Israelis. And, if that’s so, they can jolly well do it themselves.
After all, the law of Germany, like the law of pretty much everywhere, forbids criminals from benefiting from the proceeds of their crimes. So, even after 80 years, it’s not too late to recoup more of the proceeds of Germany’s. And, given Israel’s great assets, its move to Mecklenburg-Vorpommern would be a great boost for the area, and would even make Germany a nuclear power. Win-win-win-win, one might say. Win for Germany, win for Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, win for Israel, win for Palestine. If there’s no longer to be free support for Win 10, maybe for Win 4?
Anaheim, Wisconsin, Lancaster County, and many other places in America were settled or founded by Germans, who’d emigrated and left the home country to then oust native Americans from their own lands. This is not anathema to German culture, it is part and parcel, and we are seeing it again raise its ugly head in modern politics: a will amongst Germans to oust incomers from their own soil. The Nema, the Herero, the Cameroonians were all slaughtered by German invaders. If Germans have a problem with moving from their homes to make way for the Jews whom they persecuted, then they have a problem with what German emigrants did in America, in South America, in Africa. Do the Jews not deserve special treatment? If Germans don’t have a problem with German emigrants to the USA, then they can accommodate the Jews in Germany. End of story.
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, in the extreme north-east of Germany, bordering Poland, with strong AfD tendencies and badly needful of industry and innovation. A backwater. Isn’t that the kind of place the Israelis are so good at getting to prosper, empty backwaters? It seems like the perfect solution: area 23,000 square miles. Israel’s area: 22,000 square miles. I wouldn’t begrudge them an extra 1,000 square miles of bonus, if only to cut the backchat.
Legally unsound? Laws were made to be broken, surely Israel knows that; and Germany even supports Israel in its law-breaking.
How reasonable is such a suggestion? We have an easy scale for the reasonableness of a contribution to settling the Israel/Palestine question: the vociferousness of the vitriol cast at the contributor is a fairly accurate measure of the reasonableness of the proposal. No vitriol = suggestion is garbage. Israel threatens a nuclear strike = suggestion is spot on. This much we have learned. And Schwerin will make a beautiful riviera.
The box won’t work. Think out of it. Give Palestine this, Mr Trump, and I’ll personally recommend you to the Nobel committee.
