The requirement for a successful ethnic cleansing

It really has to be that?!

I live in the Golan Heights. One reason I like living here, which we will get to, is the total absence of Arab underclass. Another reason is the relative absence of Jewish underclass. Actually, we can simplify this: the charm of the Golan Heights is that it does not contain a lot of Israelis. Thus I can leave my door unlocked, bike around town without fear of getting hit by a car, not worry if my kids are wandering around unattended, and I don’t have some schizo neighbour playing Breslev trance music in the middle of the night when the mood takes him. There are nicer places to live in Israel, for sure, but on a budget for a family this is as good as it gets if you aren’t Charedi.

Of course, a Zionist looks at a nice bit of Eretz Yisrael like a cat looks at a flower bed you just weeded. We’re getting new developments, and they look like this:

ארץ ישראל יפה ארץ ישארל פורחת

את יושבה בה וצופה, את צופה בה ואת פורחת

So, probably, before too long, there will be enough buildings designed for orcs in my vicinity that I’ll have to go live somewhere else. But in the meantime, things are OK.

Now, as I said, there are hardly any Arabs in the Golan Heights, and that’s because they got kicked out. The details of this, to the best of my knowledge, are as follows (feel free to correct me if I got something wrong):

• The population of the Golan Heights before the 6 Day War was around 150,000.

• There were two towns and 163 villages

• Almost every Sunni Muslim in this population was gone by the end of the year, with only around 6,000 Druze remaining.

• The vast majority of these fled during the fighting. This was deliberately encouraged by the IDF through shelling villages, and also facilitated by the Syrian army who evacuated civilians to safety as it dawned on them that they had made a catastrophic mistake in shelling Israel based on completely fictional Egyptian media reports of having destroyed most of the IDF.

• There were some documented cases of civilians deliberately being killed inside their houses, but this was dealt with swiftly by the IDF.

• The remaining Sunni population, maybe around 10,000, but up to five or six times that, was then evicted over the next few months in an orderly fashion without atrocities.

• The IDF embarked on a systematic and cold-blooded campaign to make permanent the ethnic cleansing by destroying the villages that the Sunni population had left behind.

We have discussed in the previous article how Israel’s expulsion of most Palestinians within the borders of the state between 1947 and 1949 has been anything but a magic bullet, but, rather, the source of literally unending war and death right up until the present day. Though necessary to bring to an end the civil war started by Palestinian militants in 1947, it did not solve the problem, but rather displaced it over time and space. With only mild over-simplification, it is possible to describe the 77 years of Israeli history in terms of a series of attempts to defer, deflect, and deal with the evolving fallout of the War of Independence expulsions, each temporary solution generating the need for another one, until we are where we are today. There is no particularly compelling reason to think the problem will ever be solved.

On the other hand, the ethnic cleansing of the Golan Heights just worked. The Arabs are gone and things are fine. There aren’t any irredentist Golani paramilitaries over the border nursing their gay keys and ecstatic dreams of vengeance. Sure, we get rockets, but they come from Hizb’Allah and thus, at two degrees of remove, are a product of the ethnic cleansing down south, not the one that actually happened here.

Why did it work?

Convention here dictates that I now run through a list of factors distinguishing the ethnic cleansing of the Golan Heights from that of 1948 Israel, building up gradually to the crescendo, perhaps even putting it behind a tastefully cheeky paywall, but I shan’t. One reason for that - necessary but not sufficient - is I have a lot on this week, and it’s getting late, but a second is that I don’t want the haters and losers to get bogged down picking nits amongst the weeds, because the truth is that one factor is just miles more important than the other ones, and this is something you should really pay attention to. So here it is:

The reason why the ethnic cleansing of the Golan Heights worked is that the ethnically cleansed people were Syrians who went to live in Syria.

That’s it. That’s the tweet.

And it’s not just here; in every case we can point to where ethnic cleansing was successfully used to reduce rather than exacerbate violence, the key factor is Pareto efficient racism: the expellers get less of their minority, and the minority get to bolster the majority in their new home. When Turkey expelled their Greeks, they went to Greece; when Greece expelled their Turks, they went to Turkey. Think of any successful example of ethnic cleansing, and that’s what you’ll find.

Now, if I press my ears to the window hard enough, I can just about hear the squeals of a myriad Zionist social influencers around the world. The Palestinians do have somewhere to go because, if you haven’t heard it yet, the Arabs have 22 countries!! The Jews, by contrast, have only one country, which is literally a mere 1/22 of 22. That’s less than 5%! How righteous we are to make do with one, when they greedily demand a 23rd.

Check and MATE, Palestinoid

If I could sum up the difference between Zionism and NonZionism, it is this. The Zionist looks at that map and sees a weapon. Look, you stupid gentile, how can you possibly deny the justice of Israel’s cause when you literally have to squint even to see it in a sea of red? The NonZionist sees a predicament: you decided to build your country directly in the middle of 22 countries who want it to be destroyed. You were high as a kite while you were doing it and it felt amazing, but the drugs wore off, and the new drugs are rubbish and now you have to figure out how not to get killed, so let’s try and discuss it soberly.

To return to our topic, though, the problem with this argument that Palestinians have 22 states they can go to is that Arab nationalism is completely fake, and retarded, and has no relation to reality in any way whatsoever. Moroccans and Iraqis aren’t actually in real life the same nation because they speak the same language (kind of, if you also define Dutch and German as the same language too). That’s completely mental. The fact that a lot of people in the 20th century believed in this idea so much that they were willing to die for it, or have large numbers of other people die for it, doesn’t make it true. Have you checked out the other things people believed in the 20th Century? Google ‘Germany 1933’: you will be shocked.

The hasbarist implores us to look at how the Arab states have kept their fellow Arabs in camps, turning refugee status into a bizarre form of hereditary caste. How callous, how cynical, how cruel, to weaponize the suffering of generation after generation just to get a do-over on a war they lost. OK, fine, they suck. The question isn’t why they did it though (they suck), it’s how they did it. If Arab nationalism was real, they wouldn’t have been able too, any more than Syria would have been able to keep its exiled Golanis in camps until the present day, no matter how political advantageous in many ways it would have been.

Ahh, but the hasbarist has one last trick up his sleeve. This one is so devilish that only a truly dyed-in-the-wool antisemite could possibly be immune to it. Ever heard of Zuheir Mohsen? No? Well check this out:

"The Palestinian people does not exist … there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians, and Lebanese. Between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese there are no differences. We are all part of one people, the Arab nation [...] Just for political reasons we carefully underwrite our Palestinian identity. Because it is of national interest for the Arabs to advocate the existence of Palestinians to balance Zionism. Yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity exists only for tactical reasons[...] Once we have acquired all our rights in all of Palestine, we must not delay for a moment the reunification of Jordan and Palestine"

OWNED. Palestinians are Syrians, and Jordanians, and Lebanese after all. He said it, and he was a Palestinian, so it must be true.

Unfortunately, the NonZionist who has achieved truly elevated levels of enlightenment has an answer for this too. He enters the words ‘Zuheir Mohsen’ into Google and he checks out what it says on Wikipedia.

Zuheir Mohsen was a guy with an opinion. As the saying goes, opinions are like the lower intestine: everyone has one and the less exposure you have to those of others, the better. But he wasn’t just a guy with an opinion, he was also a paid agent of the Syrian government, promoting the idea that Syria should get to rule the whole Middle East because the whole Middle East is really Syria.

Now, if you want to argue that, in an alternative history, things could have panned out so Damascus did get to rule the Middle East, and that in that timeline Palestinians would have been absorbed into the Syrian nation then, sure. Bretons could have turned out British, but they didn’t, they turned out French. Belgians could have turned out French or Dutch or Spanish or a whole bunch of other stuff, but they turned out Belgian. Alternative histories are fun to play around with, but the only history that actually matters is the one that happened. In the history that happened, Palestinians are not Syrians and they are not Egyptians, and they are not Lebanese, and the proof is in the pudding. If you want to know the most important factor in the production of a distinctive Palestinian nationality, that’s easy, it’s not even close: Zionism. Don’t like the mess you made all over the kitchen floor? Next time, try not to be such a dumbass. If you want the Palestinians to go somewhere and stop causing trouble, then that place needs to be a Palestinian State.

Reviving an old idea

I have been very unkind to Zionoid friends today. In my defence, they deserve it, but perhaps I can mollify them somewhat, because it turns out what I’m saying was already said by none other than Ariel Sharon:

Jordan is Palestine. The capital of Palestine is Amman. If Palestinian Arabs want to find their political expression, they will have to do it in Amman. The land west of the Jordan River, between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean, is Israel. Judea, Samaria — the so-called West Bank — and Gaza are Israeli. We will never give them up. There will be no second Palestinian state west of the Jordan River!

Ariel Sharon was not kidding around, and even advocated assisting the PLO in the run up to Black September. On the one hand, this is something that only a very deranged nutter would say: take the closest thing to a civilized and decent polity in your vicinity and turn it over to lowlife criminal thugs. But it did make sense. Sharon, before he threw in the towel, wanted the whole land, so the Palestinians had to GTHO, and the only way to get them to GTHO was to give them a country somewhere else. Sharon was a war criminal, a thug, and in varied and diverse respects a disaster for the country he served, but he was at least trying. His ideas were sometimes evil, often demented, but they had a comprehensible relationship to the problem at hand. He didn’t just list names of random countries like some sort of idiot mental case in lieu of an argument and, in that respect, he was, compared to our rightoids, as the very likeness of the nephillim themselves.

Intelligent input from the new generation of proud patriotic and religious Israelis who will sweep away the corrupt Ashkenazi elite holding everyone back

And that’s a wrap!