The coming confrontation between Israel and the International Criminal Court is part of a broader struggle between the Jewish State and various forms of globalization and must be understood at the source. To many, the source of this struggle is anti-Semitism. But why would globalists, who oppose the existence of nation-states, hold anti-Semitic beliefs? What is so special about the Jewish state?
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Compared to other warring countries, Israel is considerate of human rights. If it was human rights they were worried about, these globalists would criticize Israel to the same extent and with the same criteria they use for other countries. Israel, however, is obsessively attacked by members of cultured society because it represents a principle antithetical to their worldview.
The State of Israel and the Judaism Zionism has politically revived stand in opposition to the globalists' plan to root out the sovereignty of democratic nation-states. They are an obstacle in the path of those who seek to "regulate" the world through expert-led international organizations like the ICC and international corporations that are not held accountable to any public.
Israel is also the chief target of their ire because it is anchored in the past and the present at a time when these globalist liberals believe we all need to "just grow up" and "get over it."
The Jewish state is also "suspected" of holding a theological-political view that the world's redemption will revolve around a particular people: the Jews. Globalists will not tolerate such "racism."
In the historical memory of Christian and Islamic civilizations, the Jewish people represent obstinate opposition to empires and multinational religions. And what is globalism if not preparations for the establishment of an oligarchical empire with a progressive religion at its center? Judaism, therefore, is the archetypal enemy, a model of resistance to empires that may have an influence on other peoples as well.
The globalism of our time is anti-Zionist because, despite all of its problems and the threats it faces, this is a vital nationalist movement, unlike the nationalist crises we are now witnessing taking hold among the tired nations of America and Europe. The EU is hostile to Israel because Zionism contradicts its principles of non-democratic politics without a sovereign nation at its center. And the State of Israel contradicts its vision for the future of a "family of nations" and supposedly inevitable "progress" toward national cosmopolitanism.
In reality, this blurring of countries' sovereign borders for the benefit of international corporations and organizations devoid of democratic controls takes human society backward, not forward. Despite the rhetoric of progress, it is leading the world toward the darkness of the European Middle Ages and the kind of blurred sovereignty the world saw under the Holy Roman Empire. It is transforming people from civilians to subjects. Israel is the exact opposite of all that. No wonder they want to cancel it.
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