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Israelizing the American Police Palestinianizing the American People The Link www.ameu.org Page 1 Published by Americans for The Link Middle East Understanding, Inc. Volume 53, Issue 5 Link Archives: www.ameu.org December 2020 Israelizing the American Police Palestinianizing the American People by Jeff Halper vol 53.5 10.20.indd 1 10/14/2020 1:20:08 PM The Link www.ameu.org Page 2 AMEU Israelizing the American Police, Board of Directors Palestinianizing the American People Jane Adas, President by Elizabeth D. Barlow Edward Dillon Jeff Halper Henrietta Goelet John Goelet et’s begin with a cautionary tale. When suicide Richard Hobson, Treasurer bombers connected to the Islamic State of Iraq Anne R. Joyce, and Syria (ISIS) set off bombs in the Brussels Vice President L Janet McMahon airport in March 2016, the Israeli government did not John F. Mahoney, Executive Director convey its condolences as most other governments did. Darrel D. Meyers Brian Mulligan Instead, Israel Katz, the Minister of Intelligence, issued Daniel Norton Thomas Suárez a scolding. “If in Belgium they continue to eat chocolate, President-Emeritus enjoy life and parade as great liberals and democrats Robert L. Norberg while not taking account of the fact that some of the AMEU Muslims who are there are organizing acts of terror, they National Council Kathleen Christison will not be able to fight against them.” Henry Clifford Moorhead Kennedy You should not be criticizing us, say Katz and his Nancy Lapp Mary Norton cohorts, you should be imitating us. For look at what Don W. Wagner James M. Wall we have done. We have created a country from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River that provides its citizens with personal security, a vibrant democracy and AMEU (ISSN 0024-4007) grants permission to reproduce material a flourishing economy – even though half the population from The Link in part or in whole. AMEU must be credited and one [i.e., Palestinians] are terrorists. If we can achieve that, copy forwarded to our office: 475 Riverside Drive, Room 245 imagine what we can offer Belgium, France, the UK and New York, NY 10115 Tel: 212-870-2053 the US, countries that have suffered terrorist attacks. fax: 212-870-2050 email: [email protected] website: www.ameu.org vol 53.5 10.20.indd 2 10/14/2020 1:20:08 PM The Link www.ameu.org Page 3 To its credit, the Belgian government rejected Israel’s rest (80% of humanity lives on less than $10/day, contention that security must come at the expense 50% on less than $2/day, according to Oxfam). In of the “luxury” of democracy. “Belgium is an open 2018, the International Labor Organization reported and democratic society with human rights and that the majority of the world’s 3.5 billion workers fundamental freedoms at its core,” it declared. “We “experienced a lack of material well-being, economic remain firmly resolved to protect those values in our security, equality opportunities or scope for human response to terrorism.” Still, slowly but surely, Israel development.” More than 2 billion people work in the is promoting its model of a Security State to receptive “informal sector.” governments the world over. Europe is listening, but the United States is buying. Once masses of people are no longer needed on a long-term basis, there arises the political problem for What is a Security State? It is a version of the police the system of how to control this expanded mass of state that we know from Third World regimes, surplus humanity. As the world’s premier consumer but not reduced to merely the repressive use of economy and global superpower responsible for police. A Security State is closest to a totalitarian policing the planet and keeping the global flow of regime – China being the main example today – resource and capital running smoothly, the US has where a preoccupation with total security trumps become neoliberal capitalism’s main enforcer. all democratic protections. It is driven by the logic of securitization, in which fragile regimes, Yet these global inequities are reflected within the lacking popular support, assert their authority US as well. The income of Americans in the top 1% through repressive measures carried out jointly by averaged over 39 times more than that of the entire the military, Presidential Guards, special forces, bottom 90 percent. In 2018, CEO pay averaged $14.5 paramilitaries, security services and a militarized million, compared to average worker pay of $39,888, police. a 287% differential. In the meantime, 40% of the US population (140 million people) are either poor or Why, in the 21st century, is the prosperous US, low-income. The wages of American workers have supremely proud of its democratic traditions, turning risen just 24% since1979, while worker productivity into a Security State? Since the early 1980s, the has increased by 134%. Less than 11% of workers capitalist world system has taken a dramatic and are protected by labor unions. Still, the median repressive turn. The rise of predatory neoliberalism White worker made 28% more than the typical Black in the Reagan, Bush and Clinton eras has seen the worker in 2019, and more than 35% more than the flow of global resources to the Global North (the median Latino worker. Women make up 63% of US, at 4% of the world’s population, uses 18% of the workers earning the federal minimum wage, which world’s resources per year; Europe another 33%), has been stuck at $7.25 since 2009. the emergence of a transnational capitalist class (the wealth of the world’s 2,153 billionaires is 82 While the Global North – from the core G-7 times more than that of the world’s poorest 50%, countries out to the advanced OECD economies – and the world’s richest 1% own 44% of the world’s tries to keep itself aloof from the poorer countries, wealth), and the impoverishment of most of the the “Global South” is expanding into the Global vol 53.5 10.20.indd 3 10/14/2020 1:20:08 PM The Link www.ameu.org Page 4 North. In the US and other capitalist countries, the Rise of the Warrior Cop vast majority of people – working class and middle class alike – are losing their job security and with it The thrust of all this is a preoccupation with their financial and personal security. Young people “security,” and police forces are capitalism’s domestic are increasingly excluded from the market of “real” enforcers. But the “security” is misleading. It jobs before they even begin—and this was before implies a self-evident need to respond to sources of corona. Together, working people are becoming a insecurity. Of course I want to be secure; indeed, I “precariat,” the working poor. At the mercy of a job expect and demand that my government secure me. market that demands “flexibility,” they have no job But what if the sources of insecurity were made up, security and no assurance of job mobility. At the or if they were exaggerated in order to instill fear and same time, they lack community and family support distract us from the real sources of our insecurity: (neoliberalism is built on atomistic individuals, scraping to eke out a living, being pitted against and besides, we’re all in the same sinking boat). other working people or immigrants for scarce jobs, State-insured “safety nets” are being withdrawn, all the while Wall Street and the 1% are raking in and personal savings on which people can draw are billons? What if my “security” concerns actually hid dwindling. Middle-class and working-class alike, an agenda intended to control me, to pacify me? To middle aged and young, white and people of color return to the story we opened with, what if Israel – none see a sustainable and dignified future for were exploiting legitimate concerns over terrorism to themselves. And they’re pissed off about it. replace our democratic systems with a Security State? What if the powers-that-be in our grossly unequal economies and societies were using “security” as a Such inequalities undermine the stability of the way to drive ourselves into a passive conformity to system, of course. Since the 1% retain more and their system, delegitimizing both questioning and more of total income relative to that which goes to resistance? We want to be secure, but do we really labor, working people do not have the resources to want to be pacified? purchase the products being produced. This leads to what is called over-accumulation: capitalists accumulate massive amounts of surplus capital, but As it is, the Security State acts to head off such critical cannot find outlets in which to profitably invest, questions and to instill conformity-through-fear. thus making speculative financialism the basis of Preferring the term “police state,” John Whitehead the economy. For our purposes, it is the threat that writes in A Government of Wolves: The Emerging economic polarization poses to the ruling classes American Police State: that concerns us. Wall Street is not Main Street, and A police state is characterized by bureaucracy, as social unrest grows, neoliberal capitalism must be secrecy, perpetual wars, a nation of suspects, increasingly enforced. The nice face of capitalism – militarization, surveillance, widespread Ronald MacDonald, Disney, the latest models of cars, police presence, and a citizenry with little vacations, shopping, democracy – if not displaced, is recourse against police actions….. By ‘police’ also reflected in the image of the Warrior Cop. I am referring to the entire spectrum of law enforcement and surveillance personnel from the local police and state troopers to federal agents (the FBI and intelligence police that vol 53.5 10.20.indd 4 10/14/2020 1:20:08 PM The Link www.ameu.org Page 5 work locally through ‘fusion centers’), as immigrants, poverty, unions, radicals, etc.).
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