Historically there has often been the idea that American Jewish organizations and Israel should do all to help oppressed others in the Middle East whilst these very oppressed Middle Eastern others themselves should not be expected to really do anything to help Talmudic Jewry and Israel politically. Not surprisingly, considering this very mentality of political slave morality, such contacts instead often ended up as Israeli intelligence operatives rather than as real regional partners of mutual, equal standing. The main exceptions in this regard in the Pan-Jewish world are the de facto independent Crypto-Jewish Iraqi Kurdistan and the de facto independent Crypto-Jewish Kosovo. Of course, this could have been similarly achieved already decades ago in Crypto-Jewish Aram as well – had it not been for politically prevailing inter-religious Master-Slave Morality within the ethnic politics of Grand Liban. Beyond the Pan-Jewish world, independent South Sudan is of course also a very successful outcome of mutual, equal partnership with both Jerusalem and the Talmudically Jewish world.
Advanced democracy in open society requires rational actors in politics or democracy will not function. Those who do not act rationally in competitive politics have no chance of succeeding unless they have either (1) a significant prior political advantage that prevents them from losing or (2) else succeed because their political adversaries act in a manner that is even more irrational and self-defeating. Of course, this political mentality problem is something that needs to be fixed and indeed overcome in the Pan-Jewish world. Obviously, it took Zionism many decades for Talmudic Jewry to overcome its own historical slave morality in relation to other human peoples and nations. This is precisely the mentality of oppressed peoples that do not collectively know how to rationally end their own historical victimhood since oppression has been culturally & structurally internalized by these variously oppressed Pan-Jewish peoples. Ending political Master-Slave Morality is therefore a crucial element for oppressed Crypto-Jewish peoples in achieving self-determination through Pan-Jewish federal-democratic unification.
It is unfortunately all too common for political actors outside the broader Middle East to play down and underestimate the extremely important regional political role played by various ethnic/religious grievances, hatreds, oppressions and prejudices in this broader region, including the very widespread existential Antivrism that tends to also be genocidal in political/religious intent. There is also a still very prevalent double standard towards Muslims and Muslim-dominated parts of the world as regards who is technically considered an enemy of open society & liberal democracy, a distinctly discriminatory double standard which serves to further engender discursively hegemonic wishful thinking generally as pertaining to the Arabophonie and Islamdom.
A further problem with Middle Eastern Crypto-Jewish ethnic groups is that whilst they often seek to get closer to Israel in various ways, they usually have little to no emotional interest in getting closer to each other. This is how exaggerated Crypto-Jewish esoteric secrecy in the broader region rather serves the interests of existential, genocidal enemies of unified, democratic Jewish nationhood. While the esoteric secrecy as pertaining to Pan-Jewish ethnological status in the past actually served to protect Crypto-Jews; now and increasingly so since 1948, this now highly exaggerated secrecy serves increasingly to merely reinforce their very own state of structural oppression inside Islamdom. This is particularly complex in the Republic of Turkey whose mostly variously Crypto-Jewish major constituent peoples tend to severely hate each other quite intensely. It is very important to therefore take note of the fact that Turkish Talmudic Jewry is thus much, much better treated in the Republic of Turkey than are Alevi Jewry which still keeps its Jewish nationality secret – when this secrecy in fact is completely unnecessary and even counter-productive under a state secularism that is under threat from regime-sponsored Islamism. Publically re-embracing a long denied Pan-Jewish nationality is therefore the first step towards a very necessary cultural liberation from slave morality as imposed by religious imperialism.
This Pan-Jewish multicultural, regional complexity means that Pan-Jewish democratic unification must be both careful and gradual. Stateless Crypto-Jewish peoples thus need to overcome their own state of political mentality of slave morality as has Talmudic Jewry for the most part successfully already achieved in relation to other human peoples and nations. Israel can help in this regard, yet this transition requires patience considering the endemic sectarian problem in the Pan-Jewish nation of Jews/Crypto-Jews exoterically not accepting each other as fellow members of our very tribal nation. This tragic, yet certainly understandable historical condition is not only common among contemporary denominations of Talmudic Jewry, but also more or less so among Crypto-Jewish denominations as well. Thus, Pan-Jewish denominations – both Talmudic and non-Talmudic – have technical religious definitions of who belongs to the tribe; ethno-denominational definitions that are erroneously often presumed to supposedly apply generally beyond the particular denomination itself.
While this is obviously impractical and certainly unhelpful in terms of Pan-Jewish democratic unification, it is also inaccurate in the sense that various Jewish/Crypto-Jewish ethnicities/denominations have their own distinctive standards for ethnic membership. Pan-Jewish nationhood is thus the sum of all those disparate Pan-Jewish ethnic memberships plus all those Jews/Crypto-Jews religiously excluded from ethnicities of which they are in fact constituent parts. Religious imperialism has sought to reduce the Jewish nation to mere denomination/religion, including by attempting to prevent tribal-ethnic initiation into the Jewish nation by historically seeking to outlaw conversion to Judaism. Intra-Jewish attitudes as regards the deplorable practices of intra-Jewish ethnic excommunication are thus genealogical outcomes of this externally imposed religious imperialism. The modern Pan-Jewish nation is in fact no less a tribal federation than were Biblical-era Israelites. Therefore it is important to acknowledge that each tribe in our nation has its own criteria for ethnic membership, yet that there are also other tribes in our nation aside from our own that as a matter of anthropological fact maintain different membership criteria. Thus, no Pan-Jewish denomination (whether overtly Jewish or Crypto-Jewish) has a monopoly on defining Jewish nationality.
Israel is a geographically very small country which cannot conceivably receive all the Crypto-Jewish peoples of the world. If sovereign-indigenous Israel had been the geographic size of Australia then that would certainly had been a different situation. Rather, the political solution is for Crypto-Jewish majority lands to democratically unite with Jerusalem towards the goal of an increasingly, yet cautiously and incrementally integrated federal-democratic Israel and then there will be much greater capacity to receive and absorb immigration of Crypto-Jewish minorities from elsewhere, whether oppressed or not. Zionism is about uniting the Jewish nation through democratic self-determination in statehood and now we very much need a different and new stage in the global democratic movement for universal Jewish national liberation – namely geopolitical Pan-Jewish unification in advanced democracy.
We must understand that the political pathology in much of Crypto-Jewish political mentality is rooted – as once used to be the case for most of Talmudic Jewry as well – in structural self-hatred as manifested in communal slave morality. Yet it must certainly not be overlooked that there is also a more general political pathology in the geographic core of Islamdom – which afflicts both non-Jews and Crypto-Jews. Of course, we currently see this regional political pathology more clearly in Syria than anywhere else. The hatred is so intensely profound and deep-seated between non-Jews and Crypto-Jews that international diplomats involved feel largely helpless to the degree that current diplomacy now risks becoming increasingly supplanted by more militarized political parameters in terms of armed peace enforcement.
There is no doubt that Pan-Jewish democratic unification is a process that must be carefully calibrated and indeed very cautiously, gradually considered at many different stages. Most Pan-Jewish peoples are still unprepared for federal-democratic unification precisely because the political mentality must change as well as has already been achieved for most of Talmudic Jewry in relation to other human peoples and nations. A Union of Israel as an intergovernmental organization of regional cooperation will therefore serve as a political vehicle for transitional regional, responsible democratization in majority Crypto-Jewish lands while ensuring increased Pan-Jewish integration on the political path towards an increasingly unified federal-democratic Israel.
Need I add that the alternative to slave morality certainly should not be master morality? Zionism is not about establishing new forms of ethnic/religious domination or inventing denominational hierarchies of ethnic excommunication, but is rather about ending ethnic/religious domination and the distinctively Anti-Jewish practice by religious imperialism of reducing Jews/Crypto-Jews to mere denomination/religion. Yet, Zionism is also about being capable of making very difficult ethical choices in defending liberal-democratic Israel and to safeguard Israel against those very dangerous people from both left and right around the world who seek to discursively re-impose & re-inscribe the sovereign-indigenous Jewish nation into matrices of oppressive, simplistic Master-Slave Morality by means of Anti-Jewish discursive discrimination. Rather, the Zionist revolution is a Nietzschean one in structural opposition to Master-Slave Morality of religious imperialism.
Now, this is a crucial lesson that needs to be internalized by both leaders & politically concerned members of Crypto-Jewish peoples. Understanding how Master-Slave Morality is central to structural suppression through the machinery of religious imperialism against much of the Pan-Jewish nation, is indeed a crucial element in politically preparing for Pan-Jewish democratic unification as is certainly overcoming historically quite understandable religious practices of ethnic excommunication within the Pan-Jewish nation.
Pan-Jewish democratic unification initially also very much requires becoming publically aware of the Crypto-Jewish nature of secretively Pan-Jewish peoples and subsequently freely embrace a long denied ancient-modern Pan-Jewish nationality. Pan-Jewish national re-Judaization will thus involve warmly welcoming back Crypto-Jewish peoples into our big Pan-Jewish universal family of shared ancient-modern Pan-Jewish nationality, by means of striving together towards federal-democratic unification of our shared, yet historically so tragically divided nation. Pan-Jewish democratic unification will mean that all member states of federal-democratic Israel will also become parts of a very significantly extended, geographically inclusive land of Israel.
What is therefore required is real political partnership on equal footing, not only as pertaining to Israel & Talmudic Jewry in relation to the peoples of majority Crypto-Jewish lands & their geographically dispersed Diasporas, but also certainly between Crypto-Jewish peoples. While sovereign-indigenous Israel was reestablished as the homeland for Talmudic Jewry and is already one of the more densely populated nations in the world, this small indigenous, sovereign space is completely insufficient so as to house all Pan-Jewish peoples of the world. Therefore, the successful Israeli democratic model needs to be adopted, adapted and replicated in majority Crypto-Jewish lands around the region and beyond.
Now, it may seem politically convenient to simply supplant slave morality with master morality, yet this is not the way of democratic Zionism. In fact, Crypto-Jewish peoples that supplant slave morality with master morality ultimately tend to end up harming themselves politically. The current situation in Syria is certainly testament to that predicament as was the mistaken Maronite-initiated post-WWI creation of French colonial Grand Liban with its constitutionally sectarian and hence institutionally ethnically divisive electoral system. Therefore, conclusive region-wide partition between a federal Israel and federal Amistan in ways that will mutually minimize national minoritization of local majority communities – whether Pan-Jewish or Pan-Amian – is certainly an ethico-political imperative so as to mutually end any and all geopolitical hopes for dominating the other nation.
The pro-democratic path forward for not only nations of open society, but also for responsible governments seriously aspiring towards responsible development of advanced democracy – is therefore democratic realism as constituting the ethico-political middle road in foreign policy between myopically delusional master morality of cynical “realism” and the no less myopically delusional slave morality of naïve “idealism” as derived from baseless humanist idealization. The democratic interest is not limited to defending existing open societies, but extends to the fundamental universal interest of ensuring, promoting, safeguarding & defending the growth of open society everywhere (especially digitally), including where necessary by symbolically excluding real domestic enemies of open society from its midst.
There is no doubt that if political reality in the short term – as is currently the case in much of Islamdom – necessarily dictates a political choice between democracy and open society; then open society without democracy is certainly vastly preferable to procedural democracy without open society. As regards the Arabophonie, Islamdom and Crypto-Jewish majority lands in our broader region, the responsibly pro-democratic path forward is to first ensure establishment of genuinely pro-democratic open society and only subsequently – once this is in fact successfully achieved – establish truly sovereign democratic procedures. As now increasingly seen in Egypt, tragically premature elections are not only a domestic threat to the growth of open society in nations that unfortunately arrange such tragically premature elections, but may also threaten both established & emerging open societies as has indeed already happened as regards the Gaza region with the military/political takeover there by the Neo-Philistine branch of the global Qutbist Muslim Brotherhood.
Furthermore, the parliamentary jurisdiction of federal-democratic Israel would initially be limited to certain purely economic, civilian matters (without powers of taxation) in addition to an intergovernmental, yet well integrated, mutual military alliance built in the image of NATO along with a closely coordinated foreign policy. With time as Pan-Jewish cultural integration progresses (as is long since increasingly happening within Talmudic Jewry) – would there indeed also be additional, increasingly broadened and deepened federal authority in various different fields of political jurisdiction. Certainly, there would also have to be development of a unified Pan-Jewish civil society. Therefore, it is absolutely crucial to understand the necessarily cautious, gradual and careful nature of Pan-Jewish, responsibly pro-democratic unification & cultural integration.
Zionism, the global democratic movement for universal Jewish national liberation is still in its early political stages as the immense future challenges in culturally liberating & democratically uniting the wider Pan-Jewish nation in the broader region is one that is still very much before us.
