Som da Rua | Palco MP3 By Jeff Gates Feb 13th, 2010 at 9:13 Category: Features, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, War, Zionism By Jeff Gates*While Zionism is clearly a nationalist ideology, that narrow framing does the term an injustice as it is so much more.Zionism is more accurately described as a strategy for targeting thought and emotion as a means to influence behavior. Naive Jews were its first victims when induced to identify with an enclave in the Middle East that President Harry Truman, a Christian Zionist, was induced to recognize as a "state."Zionism is first and foremost a mental state that manifests as a dispersed form of internalized nationalism-a Diaspora-that binds to an extremist enclave those who may never set foot there. After 1967, this "state" became the "Land of Israel" based on a more expansive area seized by Israel Defense Forces along with other occupied lands that Zionists claim a god gave them.Zionism recruits by sustaining a shared sense of insecurity within the broader Jewish community. It progresses by marketing its perceived vulnerability and victimhood among those on whom it relies for financial, military and diplomatic support.When, as now, policies of the Zionist state come under attack, media campaigns herald an outbreak of anti-Semitism and hatred-not for Zionism but for Jews, enhancing recruitment.By choosing to identify their interests with those of Zionism, Jews choose to make themselves feel insecure. Zionism relies for its success not only on deception but also on self-deceit.Many well-informed Jews opposed Israel's founding in 1948. By 1967, Jewish-Americans were active in the civil rights movement. With the Six-Day War, that activism became problematic. How could Jews back civil rights for Blacks while Zionism denied those rights to Palestinians?That era marked a turning point both for Zionism and legitimate Judaism as many Jews abandoned civil rights activism when they could no longer reconcile their activism with Israeli oppression. Thus the present mental state of Barack Obama's many Jewish Zionist advisers.The Six-Day War induced more Jews to identify with Zionism as a defender of Jews. Yet now we know that war was a long-planned land grab destined to outrage Arabs and Muslims. When combined with a murderous occupation, decades of Israeli provocations were guaranteed to evoke the violent reactions required to rationalize a "war on terrorism."In terms of game theory war planning, today's results were perfectly predictable-mathematically model-able within an acceptable range of probabilities. Once again Zionism targeted thought and emotion to manipulate behavior by provoking antagonism and evoking extremism-the two key ingredients required to plausibly proclaim their insecurity.When your numbers are few and your ambitions vast, what choice did Zionists have but to seduce and deceive a super power so that our military would wage their wars for Greater Israel?Peace is the OpponentPeace is a perilous 'state' to be avoided at any cost by a nationalist ideology that thrives on serial crises wed to a perpetual state of conflict and fear. To realize the Zionist goal of hegemony over the Middle East requires a series of plausible Evil Doers and a persuasive narrative. Could Zionism