Philip Giraldi – The Unz Review Dec 28, 2023
I don’t have anyone whom I would consider a friend who supports the genocide being carried out by Israel in Gaza. But my occasional interaction with the psychopaths who infest the US government and media and who are intimately connected by virtue of their political instincts as well as their personal interests in campaign donations and/or elevated salaries derived from Israel and its powerful lobby have plenty of sound bites to throw out to demonstrate their love of the Jewish state in all its manifestations. They mouth the Pelosi-Schumer-Biden assertion that “Israel has a right to defend itself” and that Israel is “America’s closest ally” and “best friend,” all of which can readily be exposed as a series of self-serving lies and deliberate misinterpretations of international law. Beyond that, they inevitably cite their view that critics of Israel are fully responsible for what they choose to refer to as the ultimate evil of “surging anti-semitism.” In so doing they conveniently ignore the obvious fact that anger towards Jews collectively speaking is nearly always derived from the crimes against humanity committed by the Zionist political entity that now legally defines itself as Jewish.
I sometimes ask the friends of Israel what interest the United States has that would warrant our country becoming complicit in committing war crimes that, collectively speaking, amount to precursors for the complete expulsion or killing of millions of Palestinians from what remains of their homes. They try to weasel word their way avoiding the implications of that question by observing that the United States is not directly engaged in the conflict, an evasion that I belittle by pointing out that Washington is providing funding, arming and political cover for the more powerful and lethal party engaged in the conflict while also blocking attempts to bring about a ceasefire to comply with orders from that same party, which sure looks like direct involvement to me. I also point out that Israel is working hard to get the US military engaged against Hezbollah in Lebanon and also against Iran and is likely to be able to maneuver the stoneheads in and around the White House to do its bidding vis-à-vis both objectives.
So the big question has to be “Why does the United States engage in a conflict that inter alia has utterly ruined our country’s reputation worldwide and for which there is no real compelling national interest?” The answer is, of course unpalatable to many, but has to be that the US government is in many respects and vis-à-vis some of its designated national policies completely under the control of Israel and its powerful domestic as well as international lobby. This habitual bowing to force majeure has warped the thinking of the ambitious scallywags who seem to be present wherever one turns in places like Washington. How else does one explain the infamous and quite frankly ridiculous comment delivered at the 2018 Israeli American Council meeting by leading politician Nancy Pelosi, who said that “I have said to people when they ask me if this Capitol crumbled to the ground, the one thing that would remain is our commitment to our aid…and I don’t even call it aid…our cooperation with Israel. That’s fundamental to who we are.”
The delusional Pelosi, who appears to have no “fundamental” attachment to the interests of the American people whom she represents, is unfortunately not unique in the halls of Congress, even less so in the Joe Biden White House, which might be regarded as the illustration of what happens when you appoint Zionists to nearly all key positions running your foreign, economic and national security policies. The degree of direct Zionist/Israeli control over the hapless Biden can best be illustrated by reviewing the course of the recent redrafting of a UN Security Council resolution authored by the United Arab Emirates that sought to bring about a suspension of the fighting and the urgent resumption of humanitarian supplies for Gaza. The US forced the revisions after coordination with Israel to permit the Israelis to continue to attack civilian targets and avoid entering into anything like a ceasefire, changing the word “suspension” in the original draft to the less demanding creation of “conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities.” Language authorizing the lead UN role in monitoring and delivering the assistance to the Gazans was also expunged leaving to belligerent Israel the task of completely controlling the distribution of any supplies allowed entry into the areas inside Gaza, which it is also simultaneously continuing to bomb, thereby slowing the stream of urgently needed supplies to a trickle while also killing hundreds more civilians.
To be sure, it was the United States blindly supporting Israel that rendered what was a promising proposal to put an end to the multiplying civilian deaths toothless. Israel demonstrated just how high it regarded Joe Biden when it contradicted what the president said about the US being able to moderate some Israeli offensive action in Gaza. Netanyahu denied that, saying that he and his war cabinet were continuing to make all relevant decisions based on Israel’s own interests. Israel Defense Force (IDF) Chief of the General Staff General Herzi Halevi followed on with his own assessment that finishing the job in Gaza, i.e. totally destroying Hamas by whatever means it requires, will take “many more months.” The Israeli military has indeed visibly increased its efforts by opening up new “battle zones” inside Gaza, to include directly targeting the crowded and starving refugee camps outside the cities. The civilians are paying the price while a grinning Joe Biden is spending his New Year’s holiday in the American Virgin Islands.
Allowing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a known liar and habitual war criminal to tell the US government what to do is about as low as it gets, Mr. Biden! You should not only be ashamed, but more than that, humiliated, compelled to do ghastly things in support of your own fear of possible Jewish/Israeli reaction if you do not bow down before King Netanyahu. He and the band of inhuman monsters he has assembled in his cabinet have made no secret of their intention to remove the Palestinians from Palestine, either by forced emigration or by killing them if necessary. On Christmas Day, Prime Minister Netanyahu told a meeting of his Likud bloc “that he was still working on the ‘voluntary’ immigration of Gaza’s inhabitants to other countries.” His associates Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich have made it clear that the ethnic cleansing process will proceed even if it is not in any way voluntary. As Israel is the occupying power in the former Palestine, what is taking place is, as defined by the Geneva Conventions, the Genocide Convention and the UN Charter, a crime against humanity and the United States is completely complicit in it not to mention actually enabling the slaughter through its supplying of arms and money to the Israelis. It has recently been reported in the Israeli media that the United States has delivered an astonishing “10,000 tons of armaments and military equipment on 244 cargo planes and 20 ships” to sustain the Israeli homicidal assault against the people of Gaza. And to demonstrate its gratitude for the flood of weapons, America’s “best friend” and “closest ally” Israel has nevertheless complained “about a delay in the delivery of munitions.”
The total support of the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians by Washington and the media is not only shameful, it is lacking any context for a crime against humanity that has been going on with US connivance for the past 76 years. Under international law, an occupied people has a right to use force to resist occupation, but even given that, the majority of Israeli deaths on October 7th should probably be attributed to so-called “friendly fire” from the Israeli army not from Hamas. The occupied and woefully abused Palestinians rising-up and seeking both freedom and sovereignty in the land that was once completely theirs is fully justified and should be respected. Israel’s killing women and children through deliberate starvation or even by execution style is indisputably a war crime. Bombing hospitals or leaving newborn incubator babies abandoned to die is a crime against humanity. Arresting innocent Palestinians before parading them naked and even desecrating their dead bodies by harvesting organs that you then sell is unspeakable and almost unimaginable evil as is deliberately targeting and bombing schools and churches where people are trying to find shelter.
The genocide and destruction in Gaza is the worst crime committed in modern history and the man who could have stopped it, Joe Biden, sits on his hands and grins. No one should remain silent when confronted by this horror but the silence and the deliberate distortion of what is taking place is a tribute to Jewish power in America and elsewhere. I am including some recent commentary from the illustrious Australian Journalist Caitlin Johnstone which demonstrates perfectly the hypocrisy and inhumanity of both Biden and the leaders of Britain, France, Canada, and Germany: “Sometimes Israel’s crimes are so horrific that at first you don’t even understand what you’re looking at. You just stare at it trying to make sense of what you’re seeing for a bit, like you would if you suddenly saw a space alien or a leprechaun or something… It’s so incredibly obvious what we’re looking at here. The only thing putting a wobble on people’s perception is the immense amount of propaganda distortion the media is churning out on this issue, plus the fact that the demographics look a bit different from what history has conditioned people to watch out for. If there were two million Jewish people trapped by Christians in a giant concentration camp and placed under total siege, being told that half of them had 24 hours to relocate into the other half or be killed, nobody would have any confusion about what they were witnessing.”
And a leading American journalist Daniel Larison must have the last word of advice from his site on Eunomia: “We are witnessing one of the gravest crimes of our time. Our government is aiding and abetting the perpetrators. It is up to people in this country to make our government cut off all support for this war and to press for an end to the war itself.” Amen, Daniel!
Philip M. Giraldi, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a 501(c)3 tax deductible educational foundation (Federal ID Number #52-1739023) that seeks a more interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Website is councilforthenationalinterest.org, address is P.O. Box 2157, Purcellville VA 20134 and its email is inform@cnionline.org.
This is a bit superficial.
Remember the analogy that Nazi Britain was a fixed US aircraft carrier off the coast of mainland Europe?
Well, Israel has slowly become Amerikas Middle East aircraft carrier. Not that long ago, the US had many friends in the Middle East. Now they have almost none.
Not only does the Nazi US elite support the genocide and land grab, they want as many Middle Eastern states at each other’s throats.
So far, it hasn’t worked out so well for Nazi Amerika. I’ve no idea if this unity will continue. I hope it does.
Nazi Amerika is 100% behind Israeli murder. Keep in mind that US, UK, Egyptian and other intel, knew what was going on in Gaze a long time before the Hamas attack, and no one did anything to prevent it.
This is the classic planned event, & reaction. I’m sure US intel sent detailed reports to the White House and elsewhere, but they were ignored.
It’s an old trope that Israel says, and Nazi Amerika does. The US could’ve easily said to Bibi, wait, let’s consider our options, but no, the IDF just murdered hostages, because the Nazis don’t like anything which breaks their lying narratives.
Checked, so let’s see how many mistakes they slip in. lol
Just heard on state radio.
Blinken just authorized another $200 million ’emergency use’ tank shells for Israel to blow up Gaza and kill more innocent people.
Do what we want, or those many trillions in debt suddenly become real.
What did you expect to happen? The God of the West for the past 1500+ years has been a Jew (Jehovah-Jesus) who taught ‘Salvation is from the Jews’ (John 4:22), so the West & America can only support/serve Jewish interests. Hitler attempted to resurrect the West & install a new God, but the Judeo-Christian-Commie Allied nutjobs had more weapons, material & manpower to prevent the liberation of Aryan man from the God of Judaism, Communism & Christianity.
But don’t worry about it, since via the A.A. & ‘The Book of the Law’ future Aryan victory is ours.
A.A.
An interesting article I found regarding the US recruiting woes.
https://mwi.westpoint.edu/the-ghost-of-gwot-haunting-the-military-recruiting-crisis/
As the Covid plandemic revealed to the world the sociopathic face and intrinsic evil of the entire globalist movement, what Israel is doing in Gaza reveals most clearly the sociopathic face and intrinsic evil of organized Jewry which ruthlessly exploits all outsiders as a kind of divine right.
However, it is not the people in their natures who are intrinsically evil caught up in both belief systems and organizations. It is the belief systems themselves which are clearly evil, and this calls into question the very idea of freedom of belief and the abuse of powers which led to the monstrous evils in both Covid and Gaza.
If you were thinking that because the world is increasingly becoming more integrated with trade, commerce, communication, and travel, and that because the few who claim to own and control these things ought to have more centralized powers through a global government, which is and will be even further removed the reach of the people to their local and national governments (which incidentally the same few for the most part claim to own and control), then you are a globalist. You may not be intrinsically evil, but essentially you are harboring the intrinsically evil imbedded in the entire New World Order structure, as you gloss over the given facts that those in power are entitled to serve their own interests and also have the right to determine the interests of the people in any jurisdiction they govern. This may not seem like a serious or intrinsic evil to you. So let me explain.
The manifestation of this evil was seen by many during the Covid plandemic, where a bioweapon virus and bioweapon vaccines were clearly used against billions of people to effect top-down, lockstep globalist ends, in which this evil order consistently suppressed the vital interests and rights of the people even to know:
– the true source of the virus,
– the actual risks of the virus,
– the absence of any real need for the restrictions and lockdowns,
– the absence of any real need for the Covid vaccines;
– the actual contents of the vaccines they were being injected with,
– the actual risks of the vaccines; and
– the correlated mortality and morbidity rates associated with the various vaccines.
As knowledge not only is power, we also know that the sharing of it is necessary such that we as rational people can make rational decisions in formulating our beliefs and to govern our interests. When that power is suppressed and usurped from us by any top-down order, what you have is tyranny, and that is the true face of globalism.
It is shared knowledge through the duty of disclosure by those entrusted with power over us which is an essential factor in exercising the right of free speech and the very basis of our freedom from tyranny.
For those who have been selected and appointed by the few to rule over us, there now appears to be no checks or balances over the anti-gospel of the few which comes down to the intrinsically-evil principle that might makes right. For the past three and a half years the common people in all of our nations have been subjected to repeated brainwashing, engineered deceptions, and mass fear mongering operations. All of our concern over truth, justice, accountability, and security over our very lives, have been ridiculed and summarily dismissed by all of the major institutions, including the media, our legislatures, and the courts, which most clearly Covid has reveled to us are in the total control of this same very evil globalist top-down order.
As for the matter of intrinsic evil and individual persons, no one thinks they are intrinsically evil, but all of us do have intrinsic ignorance, the awareness of which we constantly nourish when we refuse to be honest with ourselves. Casting a blind eye to the Covid crimes is only one example of how we buy into belief systems and organizations which are built upon that intrinsic evil and lie that might makes right. Even in a jungle for the diversity to flourish, truth prevails and every creature and plant is armed with a means to survive and propagate.
Those who have bought into all of the New World Order scheming for centralized controls over virtually everything, even if they think it will lead to world peace or increased prosperity, have in effect bought into the intrinsic evil that might makes right, by virtue of the fact of all of the evil methods they have either planned, endorsed, or cast a blind eye to, which have been used to suppress any resistance. These acts of instilling mass fear, uncertainty, and division, through deceptions and lies will not go away until we make them go away. To those who are secure in their jobs and holdings, and who go along with the globalist agendas in order to get along, thinking they will be safe under the ever-increasing centralization and concentration of wealth and power into fewer and fewer hands, they are totally deluded. The process now underway will eventually usurp their own holdings and security.
The evil and dishonest methods in which the banksters and robber barons usurped their wealth and powers through once-illegal cartels, trusts, and monopolies, they have “legalized”, doing away with all of the checks and balances. It is the same intrinsic evil process at work and without any real disclosure and accountability with respect to the globalist crimes used to gain more powers and controls over us, all of their evil methods of deception and coercion simply will be legalized and institutionalised as if any ruling government or institution with power over a people have a right to deceive, manipulate, exploit and even exterminate them.
This brings us to all of the parallels with what is going on in Gaza and with what went on during the plandemic, such that we can safely say that not only is the intrinsically evil idea that might makes right at work in the slaughter, but also that so many Jewish people have freely chosen to be a part of and to support an elite network or organization which has no qualms about the methods they use to increase their wealth and power over others.
Through Covid we have seen the true face of globalism and through Gaza we can see the true belief system and face of organized Jewry.
I think it is a stretch to think the Zionist Biden regime has to be coerced, threatened or has surrendered to Netanyahu. They are fully in on it and equally guilty. They were not goaded, they are active participants. Biden regime is run by Zionist Jews and their helpers. The Jews in Biden’s cabinet are not surrendering to Israel, they are Israelis, or they agree with Israel, etc. Biden may be a crypto Jew or shabbos goy.
All politicians like Biden, Blinken, Yellen, Nuland who aided and abetted the criminal Netanyahu regime stand trial for genocide, then when found guilty, executed by military firing squad, all Congressmen who signed a loyalty oath to Israel and/or accept AIPAC monies also be tried for treason and executed by guilotine.
But since that justice will never happen, the criminals will continue with their war committing ever more atrocities, and the war could easily spread and become the feared Armageddon end times one. So if we don’t stop Biden then things could get much worse.
The quote from Caitlin Johnstone encapsulates the evil cowardice of the ‘West’ – So they simply fail to report anything of the real horror of Gazacide and turn instead to the ‘war-crimes’ in Ukraine. That equivocation might be OK if NATO were arming & assisting Gaza to the hilt. Only they can’t, won’t. Moral degeneracy, self-inflicted.
Those leading Zionrael and the ‘West’ by the nose, are committed to racial extermination and living space only for one people. Their demand is for a Palestinianfree Palestine and their principles are transparent ” A bullet/drone strike/ tank shell or a suitcase”
He’s at it again, Commie Carl calling all Brits ‘Natzis’.
And they claim Whites are racist
LoL
@CARL JONES
In the end the outcome will be against ZIO/US/UK
insidiousness : a worldwide unificated Kalifat from
Indonesia to Marocco/Spain ! detest it or not .
ADVERTS ARE ALREADY APPEARING IN JEWISH AREAS OF THE USA TO BUY BUILDING PLOTS IN GAZA
Did you see the experienced Israeli settler real estate company has now advertised ‘beach front homes’ in the demolished sections of Gaza? Palestinians and their supporters this week condemned a proposal by an Israeli real estate developer specializing in the construction of illegal settlements to build beachfront homes for Jewish colonists over the bombed-out ruins of Gaza.
“A house on the beach is not a dream,” reads an advertisement published by Harey Zahav—an Israeli company notorious for building settlements in the illegally occupied West Bank—that drew international attention following last week’s Practical Preparation for Gaza Settlement Conference in Tel Aviv.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israeli-firm
-pitches-beachfront-real-estate-leveled-gaza?
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SPIT ON ZION; SPIT ON JEW JESUS; SPIT ON JUDAISM !
hail dont comes from the jews ! JHWH IS DEMON !
no one will save you !
Fred B–the shark is “mighty” and eats the small fish, so it is “right”? No-one says that; the shark and the fish have no rights, are not right or wrong, there is just a feeding habit of a particular kind. The Right and Wrong paradigm is the error here. You are taught your own little rules but they are not attached to any Cosmic Law, of which there is none
@ lewis jones
Without a clear moral basis of Right &Wrong applied through our laws to everyone, and one which supersedes the might-makes-right ideologies of all the predatory sociopaths who think that armies and ownership give them an absolute right to walk over the faces of everyone else, you may as well keep sucking up to all of the sharks in your environment until you are completely devoured, but most others who are awake to their evils to at least want to make a fight of it for the survival and flourishing of all that is actually good.
@lewis jones and @Fred B
What if a mysterious squid thought the little fish how to resist against the mighty Sharks!? Telling them that some of the small fish have to poison themselves and allow themselves to be eaten by the Shark for the greater good of the entire small-fish community? Many of the fish would refuse, but some would buy the esoteric dimensions of the Ideology of Resistance thought by the old squid and so they prepare themselves to be sacrificed for their people! How do we explain such morality that enables weaker opponents to deliver stronger blows above their weights? and It is clear that this morality is not enforced over anyone and is chosen willingly.
This is asymmetric-response in which one acts inside enemy field/land based on his own rules and does not act based on enemy rules in his own field/land. The key “ingredient” for such action is: Willpower or Cojones!! And is a type of internal power that seemingly large outwardly powerful enemies lack! Indeed this is what makes one “unpredictable”, because surely under normal primal DNA circumstances, small-fish would act predictably and run away from the bloodthirsty Sharks, no!?
my two tomans
I forgot to mention the ideology of the Sharks! They are The Bloody Chosen Ones! : ) They think they have accumulated all the power and their might makes right, until some small-fish with the help of the old mysterious squid learn what asymmetric-response is and also develop the willpower to be able to act on it. Might makes right no doubt and Sharks will be defeated.
Remember such morality can not be enforced or “applied” on people. Say some crazed freedom-loving zombies were agitated through enemy mass psi-op and were led to seek full nakedness and mayhem in our Hijab oriented peaceful and sacred land, they have their plans and weapons and cryptocurrencies are distributed through traitors among ourselves, how do we defeat them? The answer is asymmetric unpredictable willpower based action! Don’t kill the zombies! NO… let them kill a few of us, our blood will wash their filth away, and we will win! A people or country unable to create martyrs are destined to be wiped off the map in the jungle!