23A042 Yet Another War by Jim Davies, 10/17/2023

It's not new, of course, in one form or another it's been going on since 1948; but the sudden attack on Israel on October 7th is its latest iteration. Hamas, the party running the disgruntled Palestinian enclave, let loose 3,000 missiles on the country and sent armed fanatics to kill and kidnap residents. Rain allegedly delayed the Israeli response but it will be formidable when it comes.

It further proves that whenever you have government, you may get war; that no war was ever fought except by governments; and so that if you want to abolish war you must abolish government.

The Israeli State should never have been set up. It was done by the United Nations [sic] in 1948, with heavy arm-twisting by the USGov. There was and is no need for another government, or state. Jews desperately sought a safe haven after the dreadful slaughter by the German government, and their traditional homeland lay West of the Jordan; but that was sparsely populated and, except for the British occupiers at the time (under authority from the UN - where did that come from?) there was nothing to stop Jews simply going to it and seeking work and opportunity. They would swiftly have made good. Several did exactly that, before 1948.

But the UN made a State of it. War immediately erupted. The present one is just its latest chapter.

Governments and their UN "club" have created this mess and kept it simmering for three quarters of a century, so it lies to anarchists to end it. What would the area between the Jordan and the Mediterranean look like, after governments there have evaporated?

Jewish residents would be happy with the freedom to come and go everywhere in their traditional homeland, which they think God gave them. Descendants of the pre-1948 Palestinian society would be happy too, being able freely to work and travel anywhere that opportunity arose. None of them would have access to any agent with power to give them advantage over others.

In fact, life would be quite comparable to what it would have been if, in the 1940s, immigration by Jews had been unopposed. Being a highly talented race, they would very likely have prospered more than the natives and become a kind of middle and upper class; but nothing would have stopped the natives emulating and learning from the Jewish examples. In either case they would have shared in the rising standards of life. The "trickle down" of wealth would have become a torrent.

But what about those intractible religious conflicts? Which God would prevail? None of them, of course, for nobody rules others when all understand that each is his or her own ruler; but the actual experience inside Israel for 75 years confirms that. Its population is not exclusively Jewish; about 20% is Arab, either Muslim or Christian, and while opinions vary all of them get along quite well - as shown in this short Prager U video.

How to make the transition, from a governed society (in both Palestine and Israel) to a free one? - the obstacles will be fierce, but I can see only one way, and it's the same as applies everywhere: QuitGov. Refuse to work for the rulers. And that won't happen until everyone has learned what an absolute menace every government is; always preaching peace but always waging war.

TOLFA awaits, ready for that purpose.