Israel is the modern original sin!

Right at this precise moment, being a famous person or a content creator who speaks about Israel is the most controversial move one can make. The reason is simple: Israel is a taboo subject.

It’s not that it is forbidden by law to speak or discuss it; rather, it’s a matter of not wanting to have problems of any kind. Indeed, whatever you say, you say it "wrong." If you are in favor of Israel, you are labeled as a supporter of a country that loves genocide. If, instead, you are against Israel—even while bringing legitimate reasons—you pass for an antisemite, therefore in favor of the destruction of Jewish culture and, consequently, aligned with Islam.

For the sake of my blog, I should avoid the subject, limiting myself to talking about butterflies and cute, cuddly teddy bears. Instead, I am stupid; apparently, I don't care at all about my potential future career, and I love to exercise that right of speech and opinion that the Western world still allows me to use. So, here we are: talking about the most controversial and polarizing nation and people in the world.

I truly struggle to remember such a high level of contempt toward a group of people; perhaps not even Black people during the 1950s were so despised (and they were segregated and discriminated against).

Why am I talking about it? Because, honestly, I have problems when I think about Israel as a state. It bothers me for two precise reasons: for how the nation was born and for all that unnecessary and hypocritical victimhood that developed throughout the twentieth century.

What is Israel in reality?

Israel has always been an idea in a fantasy book, namely the Bible, never an established reality in a territory. It has always been a spiritual and religious concept, founded on the scriptures of the Old Testament. A bit like the Force and the dark side in Star Wars. The bond between the Jewish people and the promised land is based on the biblical narrative of the covenant and the "chosen people." In short, an imaginary omnipotent entity told a random group of people on an unspecified day: "You are my chosen ones, and you must live in that land!" This is Israel: an imaginary character saying something to someone.

This claim of "appointment from above" is the basis of a hypocrisy that I cannot stomach. Around the concept of the chosen people, a narrative of almost untouchable moral superiority has been built. For decades, the underlying message has been, "We are Jews, and we are better by divine right." But how can one accept that the fate of a geographical region depends on a private dialogue with the supernatural? If we remove the mythological component—which has the same scientific weight as a fairy tale—what remains is only a group of people using an invisible dogma to exercise real power: Zionism.

What is Zionism? It is the political strategy used to force the world to recognize that "divine right" over lands where, at the time, only a tiny Jewish colony existed. There is just one small detail: while that small Jewish minority always remained in Palestine, the vast majority lived for two thousand years in exile, prospering in European and Middle Eastern societies. Meanwhile, in that land, a secular Palestinian Arab society was consolidating.

For this reason, Israel cannot be defined as a sovereign state in the classical sense. I know that officially it is, but for me, it lacks an organic history. The Jewish people and Zionism have behaved like someone who claims everything because they feel "chosen" by God. Unlike Italy, where the Risorgimento was the result of centuries of presence and struggles by those who had never left the territory, Israel claimed a right when it had none.

Someone will say, "But African and South American states were also drawn on paper!" True, but those populations were already there.They were dominated and then fought to take back their freedom. They didn't run away only to shout from afar, "We want those territories because our God promised them to us!" This is what the Jews have done since time immemorial: they live and prosper far away, but they scream, "We want the promised land." It is as if I today, from my house in Germany, shouted, "I want Qatar because God promised it to me."

For centuries, the Zionists shouted in vain because the world had no reason to give the Jews what they wanted. Then Hitler arrived, with his reverential hatred against everything and everyone. While the Holocaust is officially the ugliest page of history that could ever be written, it was also a "blessing" for the Jews and the Zionist project. I know that sounds absurd; let me explain before I pass for an antisemite: it is true that millions of innocent people died in unimaginable ways, but that was the fundamental piece to transform the Zionist dream into a political reality.

Once the war ended, faced with the horror of the gas chambers, the West felt a collective sense of guilt. The United Nations, born from the ashes of the war, saw in the creation of a Jewish state a way to clear its conscience and a solution to manage not only millions of Jewish refugees—whom Europe no longer wanted or could welcome—but also a geopolitical attempt to resolve an already explosive conflict.

What conflict? The Zionist Jewish colony and the Arab populations in the "promised land" continued to provoke each other, creating dangerous friction. Since the end of the 1800s, Jews had been "returning home" on a massive scale from many parts of the world (the First and Second Aliyah), trying to push forward the Zionist plan to create the State of Israel. Although initially Jews purchased land legally from absentee landlords (often wealthy Arabs living in Beirut or Damascus), the Arab peasants who had worked those lands for generations were evicted, fueling deep social resentment. Local Arabs began to protest as early as the Ottoman Empire and then massively under the British Mandate (one thinks of the Jaffa riots of 1921 or the Great Arab Revolt of 1936-1939).

Thinking that the Jews could be geopolitically useful, in 1947, with Resolution 181, the UN proposed the partition of Mandatory Palestine into two states: one Jewish and one Arab. The Jews accepted the plan with joy (I would have been surprised otherwise), but Arab leaders and local populations, rightly seeing the expropriation of land and the fragmentation of their territory as an act of European colonialism, refused.

With the UN decision, Zionism saw that global legitimation it so craved, which occurred only thanks to the extermination of nearly 6 million Jews. Along the lines of"a necessary sacrifice for a greater good." Thus began the Jewish mass exodus toward the Middle East, with a consequent rapid and drastic process of expropriation, supported by the Soviet bloc first and then the Americans. In this process, many Palestinian families residing in those lands for millennia were driven away in a manner that was anything but kind, losing everything they had.

When the rest of the diaspora realized that the Promised Land had become a reality, the migratory flow increased, making Israel a threat to neighboring countries. This was followed by the 1948 war between Israel and the Arab alliance of all bordering states. The end was the beginning of the modern drama. First, we have the post-war territorial Israeli expansion, with the consequent expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from the newly occupied territories (the Nakba). The result? It created that hatred that the entire Arab world harbors toward Israel and that paranoia that Israel has. If that region is now a powder keg, it is because of a state that should never have existed and that has not respected the borders indicated to it.

This is the story of how Israel was born. Paradoxically, the trauma of the Holocaust was the moral lever for the Zionist movement to get what they wanted. Without those innocent deaths, the Zionist project would never have obtained the worldwide diplomatic green light. Those very figures who weep every year on January 27th are the same ones who used that obscenity to obtain a political and economic advantage. How can one appreciate a state that profits from the mass genocide of its own population? Today, Israel exists as a recognized sovereign state, but its origin remains a geopolitical "original sin": a Western outpost grafted into a context that perceives it as a foreign body functional to the interests of the great powers, born from having used the death of their own brothers to obtain power.

The False Victimhood.

And now we come to the reason why many harbor feelings of hatred toward Israel: victimhood. The Israelis, since they suffered the Holocaust, have often played the eternal victim card: "Everyone is against me." "Everyone wants to destroy us." This fear of its own shadow has led Israel to react in a senseless manner to non-existent threats. I would like to say that it is about antisemitism and that the world hates you only because Jews are Jews; in truth, the world hates Israel for what it has done and is doing against the populations that it itself drove from their homes because of the "chosen" vision it has of itself.

Let's start with the Arab-Israeli wars. The Jews did not trigger the war, but that of the Arab countries was the reaction, perhaps clumsy, to remove a foreign body in a region that already lived in a precarious balance. They wanted to prevent external forces from sticking their noses into matters that did not belong to them. The conflict ended with the victory of Israel, which not only repelled the attacks but also expanded beyond the borders established by the UN. The partition plan (Resolution 181) assigned about 55% of the territory to the Jewish state; after 1948, Israel controlled 78%. It is here that the "problem" of the Gaza Strip is born.

What is this strip? It is an enclave created by the war, where today about two million Palestinians live. Before 1948, Gaza was simply a Palestinian coastal city. With the Israeli expansion, it became the refuge for hundreds of thousands of fleeing refugees (the Nakba) and was incorporated and surrounded by the State of Israel. From that moment, Gaza transforms into a prison under the total control of Tel Aviv, which for decades has decided on every aspect of life: energy, water, and food. The Israelis sold it as "merciful coexistence"; in reality, with insurmountable walls and barbed wire, they created an open-air imprisonment. When Hamas was born—a cell fueled by Iran but supported by an oppressed people—the cycle of blood began. Everything, however, was always monitored and permitted by Israel.

We come to the present day. In 2023, Hamas breaches the walls, kills a thousand people, and kidnaps others. An attack that raises enormous doubts: how is it possible that one of the best intelligence services in the world noticed nothing? It sounds very strange. That event was used by Israel to unleash rhetoric of total hatred and give the go-ahead to the genocide we have seen with our own eyes. Tens of thousands of civilians were killed, and an entire civilization was wiped out to eliminate a few militiamen.

The Israeli government claimed to know exactly where Hamas was hiding, speaking of schools and hospitals used as shields. If it had been true, they could have used secret services or precision missiles—as they did to eliminate leaders in Iran without raking Tehran to the ground. Instead, they preferred to destroy everything, even blocking humanitarian aid. The reality is that the Israeli leadership seems to want to systematically kill every Palestinian in the Strip to then annex that territory.

Finished with Gaza, they moved on to Hezbollah and then to Iran. The one with Iran was the total demonstration of Israeli paranoia. Israel is an illegitimate state in a place that is not its home, yet it claims to be the regulator of universal peace. It brought up the story of Iranian funding to Hamas only when it seemed appropriate to drag the United States into a global crisis. Iran has supported Hamas for decades, but Israel decided to react only when victimhood served it to justify a new escalation.

All because Israel knows that Zionism has condemned the Jews themselves. Perhaps, if the Jews had ignored the religious zealots, who only had political interests, and had remained in Europe to rebuild, even going against the UN if necessary, all this bloodshedto "protect an existence with a divine flavor" would never have flowed. The Middle East would, perhaps, be a much friendlier place.

Small Reflections.

So, what are these "small reflections" for? They serve to remind us that respect cannot be claimed if it is obtained by force, nor can empathy be claimed if one uses their own pain to obtain power and control.

The true taboo is not criticizing Israel. The true taboo is admitting that we created a geopolitical monster to wash the European conscience after the Holocaust, dumping the bill on a people—the Palestinians—who bore no blame. We planted a Western flag in ground that did not belong to it, and today we are surprised if that land burns.

Israel continues to scream to the world that it is the only democracy in the Middle East, but a democracy that feeds on occupation, walls, and carpet bombings is not a state: it is a permanent siege. As long as Tel Aviv continues to confuse its own security with the annihilation of its neighbor and as long as the West continues to consider that territory a strategic chessboard for its own resources, there will never be peace.

Perhaps it is time to stop talking about a "right to exist" based on sacred texts from millennia ago, whose truthfulness can be refuted, and start talking about the "right to live" of those who were born and raised in that land without having to ask permission at a checkpoint.

My blog will not talk about teddy bears and butterflies because I prefer to be called "stupid" or "antisemitic" rather than remain silent in the face of a hypocrisy that is dragging the entire world into the abyss. History does not forget, and this time there will be no lines on paper capable of erasing the bloodshedin the name of an idea that, quite simply, no longer has a reason to be.

M.