Juan Cole: Shin Bet: Jewish Terrorists Out to 'Violently Overthrow' Israeli Government

Juan Cole reposts Shin Bet: Jewish Terrorists Out to ‘Violently Overthrow’ Israeli Government.

Israel’s domestic security agency Shin Bet, on Thursday, cautioned that a Jewish terror organization is seeking to “violently overthrow” the Israeli government, Israeli media reported.

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Israeli media across the board described the public statement issued by the security agency as a rare response to actors who have slandered the Shin Bet in a campaign to defend Jewish extremists responsible for a fatal arson attack on a Palestinian home last summer.

Suspects belonging to a Jewish terror organization, on July 31, set the home of the Dawabsha family ablaze, killing an 18-month-old baby immediately.

The infant’s parents later died from severe burns.

“A Jewish terror organization has been under investigation recently, whose activity is suspected to include serious terror attacks that endangered life and harmed religious sanctity and property,” the Shin Bet statement said, according to Israeli media.

Shin Bet claims that the group adheres to an extreme, “anti-Zionist” ideology and has set itself the goal of violently overthrowing the Israeli government.

“The terror attacks that are suspected to have been carried out by the organization led to, among other things, the murder of three innocent Palestinians. This contributed to instability in the region and worsened the security situation,” the agency added.

Emphasis Mine

In Israeli squatter-terrorists kill Palestinian toddler, injure 4 after setting their Home Ablaze, I wrote then that:

ISIS burn a Jordanian pilot alive and are justly condemned throughout the world.

Israelis burn a Palestinian child alive and there is silence.

As John Pilger says, Palestinians are unworthy victims. Indeed, they are even blamed for all the violence done to them.

Now, we have the Israeli secret police recognizing the existential threat to the Israeli state does not come from the Palestinians, but from the extremist Zionist organizations that dominate Israeli politics. The Israeli governments have been playing the same dangerous game as the Saudi royal family has been playing with Al Qaeda, the US governments with various white power and anti-Abortion groups, and the various Pakistani governments with the Taliban. All of these governments are using religious extremism to shore up support against domestic instability.

Shin Bet may want to think of them as “anti-Zionist”, but the agency refuses to see that these terrorists are the natural consequence of the Zionist ideology applied to the Palestinians. The core of the Zionist ideology is that of a Jewish homeland. Implicit in that idea is the exclusion and explusion of non-Jewish elements. This have the Israeli government project since independence.

The problem with extremism is the exclusion of moderation and compromise. Now, the Israeli elite is being viewed as not being real Jews, and need to be replace by the “true Jews”.

The ideology that nourishes and sustains the Israli state threatens to subsume the state into the Jewish equivalent of ISIS (Daesh) and the Taliban. These Israeli terror groups cannot be fought ideologically because the groups and the state share the same ideology.