https://scroll.in/article/879591/from-israel-to-myanmar-genocidal-projects-are-less-about-religion-and-more-about-predatory-states
bipolar condition of biominorities
1.why does the Israeli
state not simply push Palestinians out of their land using its overwhelming
military might, forcing them to join their brethren in other parts of the
Middle East or North Africa, or die on the way?
1A: Palestinians under
Israeli rule have a long tradition of militant resistance, supported at
different times by other Middle Eastern states, most recently Iran. They are
stubborn and, thus, they have to be concentrated, starved and killed until
they elect exit.
without its captive
Palestinian population neither the current power of the religious right nor the
populist authoritarianism of Benjamin Netanhayu has any justification for existence. Like Kurds in Turkey, Jews in
Hungary, Muslims in India and other visible biominorities …An outbreak of
democracy is the last thing the Israeli religious and political right want, and
the Donald Trump White House also hates any hint of moderation in any of its
client states.
2.Conversely, why did
Myanmar not simply create a carceral Rohingya state where this biominority
could be confined, policed, starved and “concentrated” to death?
2A: Rohingyas occupy rich agricultural lands on the Western coast,
which are now ripe for building ports and infrastructure across the Bay of
Bengal. Rohingyas are deeply embedded in their land, which they have developed
over centuries. They need to go, and the murder, rape and armed aggression
directed at them is intended to push them out. The ethnocidal Buddhist
monkhood which provides the ideological fuel for
this extrusion is the willing partner of the militarised state. While their Muslim
identity is a source of ideological fuel for the Buddhist majority, their
relative weakness and location in vital global stretches along the Mynamar
coast are more relevant.
the global dynamics of genocide are not primarily about
Muslimness. The fact is that all
nation states rely on some idea, however covert, of ethnic purity and
singularity. Biominor plurality is thus
always a threat to modern nation states.
today’s
varieties of genocide are not as much about religion as they are about paranoid
and/or predatory nation-states.
