Jeffrey D. Sachs – The Unz Review Feb 20, 2024
The cabinet of Israel’s Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu is filled with religious extremists who believe that Israel’s brutality in Gaza is at God’s command. According to the Book of Joshua in the Hebrew Bible, dated by scholars to the 7th century BC, God promised the land to the Jewish people and instructed them to destroy the other nations living in the promised land. This text is used by extreme nationalists in Israel today, including by many of the 700,000 or so Israeli settlers living in occupied Palestinian lands in violation of international law. Netanyahu pursues the religious ideology of 7th century BC in the 21st century.
Of course, the vast majority of the world today, including the vast majority of Americans, are certainly not in line with Israel’s religious zealots. The world is far more interested in the 1948 Genocide Convention than in the genocides supposedly ordained by God in the Book of Joshua. They don’t accept the Biblical idea that Israel should kill or expel the people of Palestine from their own land. The two-state solution is the declared policy of the world community, as enshrined by the UN Security Council, and of the U.S. government.
President Joe Biden is therefore caught between the powerful Israel Lobby and the opinion of American voters and of the world community. Given the power of the Israel lobby, and the sums it expends in campaign contributions, Biden is trying to have it both ways: supporting Israel but not endorsing Israel’s extremism. Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken hope to entice the Arab countries into yet another open-ended peace process with the two-state solution as the distant goal that is never reached. Israeli hardliners would of course block every step of the way. Biden knows all of this but wants the fig leaf of a peace process. Biden also hoped until recently that Saudi Arabia could be lured into normalizing relations with Israel in return for F-35 fighter jets, access to nuclear technology, and a vague commitment to an eventual two-state solution… someday, somehow.
The Saudis will have none of it. They made this clear in a declaration on February 6, stating:
The Kingdom calls for the lifting of the siege on the people in Gaza; the evacuation of civilian casualties; the commitment to international laws and norms and international humanitarian law, and for moving the peace process forward in accordance with the resolutions of the Security Council and the United Nations, and the Arab Peace Initiative, which aims to find a just and comprehensive solution and establish an independent Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as capital.
Domestically, Biden confronts AIPAC (the innocuously named American Israel Public Affairs Committee), the lead organization of the Israel lobby. AIPAC’s long-running success is to turn millions of dollars of campaign contributions into billions of dollars of U.S. aid to Israel, an amazingly high return. Currently, AIPAC aims to turn around $100 million of campaign funding for the November election into a $16 billion supplemental aid package for Israel.
So far, Biden is going along with AIPAC, even as he loses younger voters. In an Economist/YouGov poll of January 21-23, 49% of those aged 19-29 held that Israel is committing a genocide against the Palestinian civilians. Only 22% said that in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, their sympathies are with Israel, versus 30% with Palestine, and the remaining 48% “about equal” or unsure. Only 21% agreed with increasing military aid to Israel. Israel has utterly alienated younger Americans.
While Biden has called for peace based on the two-state solution and a reduction of violence in Gaza, Netanyahu has brazenly brushed Biden aside, provoking Biden to call Netanyahu an asshole on several occasions. Yet it is Netanyahu, not Biden, who still calls the shots in Washington. While Biden and Blinken wring their hands at Israel’s extreme violence, Netanyahu gets the U.S. bombs and even Biden’s full backing for the $16 billion with no U.S. red lines.
To see the absurdity—and tragedy—of the situation, consider Blinken’s statement in Tel Aviv on February 7. Rather than putting any limits on Israel’s violence, made possible by the U.S., Blinken declared that “it will be up to Israelis to decide what they want to do, when they want to do it, how they want to do it. No one’s going to make those decisions for them. All that we can do is to show what the possibilities are, what the options are, what the future could be, and compare it to the alternative. And the alternative right now looks like an endless cycle of violence and destruction and despair.”
This morning, the U.S. used its veto power to kill the Algerian draft resolution in the UN Security Council calling for an immediate cease-fire, with U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield calling the effort to pass the measure “wishful” and “irresponsible.” Biden has put forward a weak alternative, calling for a ceasefire “as soon as practicable,” whatever that means. In practice, it would also surely mean that Israel would simply declare a cease-fire to be “impracticable.”
Biden needs to take back U.S. policy from the Israel lobby. The U.S. should stop backing Israel’s extremist and utterly illegal policies. Nor should the U.S. spend any more funds on Israel unless and until Israel lives within international law, including the Genocide Convention, and 21st century ethics. Biden should side with the UN Security Council in calling for an immediate ceasefire and indeed in calling for an immediate move to the two-state solution, including recognition of Palestine as the 194th UN member state, a move that is more than a decade overdue since Palestine requested UN membership in 2011.
Israeli leaders have shown not the slightest compunction in killing tens of thousands of innocent civilians, displacing 2 million Gazans, and calling for ethnic cleansing. The International Court of Justice has determined that Israel may well be committing genocide, and the ICJ could make a definitive determination of genocide in the next year or two. Biden would enter history as an enabler of genocide. Yet he still has the chance to be the U.S. president who prevented genocide.
While Biden and his Nazi regime don’t want this Middle East mess, when they’d rather focus on UKraine and China, they can see the reason why Israel is making its last stand, because this is exactly what Israel it doing.
The Chinese peace process in the Middle East, the BRICS expansion, the prospect of Biblical tradeband wealth out side of the Nazi extortion system, has put Israel up against the wall, with no real options, because their ways, are not the ways of the NFW.
Biden is wedded to Israeli. I wonder what Biden muttered after hearing about Prince Wills? Get our man Harry on the throne ASAP?
If you see this in pure geopolitical terms, would Nazi Amerika abandon it’s aircraft carrier in the Middle East? Very doubtful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bsm99krHbvg
For Heaven’s sake, watch this video series made by John McCarthy about the archaeology of the so called “holy land.”
First of all there were never any Jews or Hebrews in ancient Israel. Ancient Israel was ruled by Ahab (who was married to Jezebel and she was a foreigner – a Phoenician and very nasty it seems.)
They worshipped The BULL – a fertility symbol, and they kept tight borders against the South – Judah, the desert region.
Ahab annoyed the Empire too much too much until Sargon the Great descended on ancient Israel and took away every single living human being in the place – including I suppose thae disgust Jezebel and that entire population were dispersed throughout the4 Empire, never to be seen again,
Furthermore, Christianity originated in Egypt and had nothing whatsoe3ver to do with any Jews or Hebrews. The teachings were usurped by the Essenes, who were Jews, when the Great Library of Alexandria was destroyed.
Read book such as CHRIST in EGYPT by DM Murdock.
Nutenyahu was a close fiend of UK minister Leon Britten
Special Branch warned Prime Minister Maggie Thatcher of Leon Brttens taste for small boys
they also warned her of Elton John and Jimmy saville
all would visit boys homes
The pop singer George Michael after treatment from top psychiatrist Prof Angie mc dougal announced he was cured
of homosexual leanings and would write a book exposing all the child rapists in show biz
then he dropped dead
sorry just realised this did not come out on leon britten
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/leon-brittan-sex-abuse-allegations-two-come-forward-to-claim-they-were-abused-by-former-home-secretary-10001676.html
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Unz just lurves Jeff sacks..he was pushing the imbecile when Sachs was playing controlled opposition to the plandemic and jabbedy Doozy…the voice of reason so to speak..but not really.Because just like old homonculus Ron who laughably was intent on banning ‘conspiracy theorist’ antivaxxers on his shoddy webzine.. Jeffs a regime stooge..
Which should explain everything…
Of course Sachs is one of the Harvard ‘jewes’ that designed the looting of post wall (hehe..to use a popular euphemism) Russia.. and thus an architect of the Yeltsin crime syndicate and along with Hank Kissinger one of the creators of the Putin entity..
Disgusted’ Katharine Hamnett throws CBE in bin over UK’s ignoring of Palestilian genocide
Katharine Hamnett the fashion industry idol has thrown away her CBE and said she is “disgusted to be British”
over the government’s non response to Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.
where no food drinking water or medicines have been allowed in since October
The 76-year-old fashion designer also urged her followers to tell their MPs they will “never vote for them again unless they support a permanent ceasefire”.This is my CBE. It belongs in the dustbin, with [Rishi] Sunak and [Keir] Starmer,” Hamnett said, in a video shared on Instagram.
She is seen wearing a shirt with the phrase: “DISGUSTED TO BE BRITISH”.
Thousands have agreed with her
Hamnett was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to the fashion industry in the 2011 New Year Honours thing
There is no ‘democracy’ anywhere. All these democracies of the world are actually ‘Jewocracies’–where a cabal of Jews/Commies constitute a shadow government behind the sham facade of Presidents/PMs & their major political parties. In the past the Jew would appoint gentiles to these various government offices to hide behind & convince the gentiles that Jews don’t control it all, but now in certain of these Jewocracies like the USA or Russia all the visible cabinet members of the Admin are Yids pretending to be ‘Americans’ or ‘Russians’. The more powerful these Semitic mongrel ghouls get then their arrogance increases, as they begin to unveil their total control without any fear of their subjects noticing or caring.
Biden is just a rubber stamp for anything the US deep state wants him to approve, and the US deep state is a total shill of Israel because both the US deep state and Israel are instruments of the Rothschild dynasty.
Biden’s gibbering and scripted wishes are of no relevance, Totem-Man is openly derided by Bibi and his ghouls who no doubt have found another more modern ‘effective’ cypher to carry out their commands – likely Mrs Obama-watch this space.
Meanwhile, the theatre of the obscene continues in Westminster with the charade of objectivity and transparency – but not the sort you dreamed of – with the Speaker of the House Of Vermin intervening to save Starmer’s Zionist ass from a huge rebellion by his own troops. “We all want fairness & decency but limits must realistically be set ” etc.
Meanwhile Assange will be bundled on a plane next week to the promised land and another rabbit-hole opens, note Starmer’s role in that obscenity and in the endless murder in Gaza he actively endorses but publicly pretends compassion (take in the millions of the ethnically cleansed) .
As bad in this mass liquidation are these supine Arab Jackals who do nothing but wring their hands or spout meaningless declarations of support. If Saudi Arabia and Egypt meant business they would cut off ALL oil and other exports and refuse to take in those left displaced. But they won’t, they are on Biden’s pay-roll too. Where is the latter day Nasser in the Middle East? Replaced by ineffectual clerics and paid hands. Where is the latter day de Gaulle in Europe? Replaced by US installed sycophants and paid hands.
System Change not Climate Charade.
Up to sixty British MPs (mostly Tories I gather) have called for the Speaker of the House to resign after he went against parliamentary protocol and bumped up a vote on an amendment before a vote on the primary bill itself. The Amendment was from Labour and called for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, while the primary bill was some wishy-washy SNP yawn about Gaza with no committal.
As a consequence sixty MPs have shown they’re more aligned with Israeli genocide and atrocities than the human rights they so often bleat about regards Russia, China and Iran.
It is routine to declare Palestinian ownership of “their” land, and also routine to deny that any White people own their land, in any White country, so we live upside-down, politically
The Biden’ and ‘the Netanjahu’ are optics of a a multi facetted war against the global deep state.
Nuttnyahoo & Joebuffoon: is there a difference? They can’t even produce material for satirists, parodists or comedians.
1. the jews will annihilate the palestinians in the end whatever happens
2. the jew-k and the jew-sa are exactly that, jew nations, and therefore stuffed full of faggots that fully support all slaughter done by all jews
3. who cares about the palestinians anyway – better you care about your own race in your own country – stop flag waving for palestinians that would take everything you have if they could, and instead feed and clothe and (heaven forbid) house a white homeless person where you live
there is no independent USA/Canada/Europa/Australia/NZ !
All are sucked empty by the jews ! in different ways .
Astraea Shaw–but do you not like the theory that we move a twelfth on the Zodiac every 2000-odd years and the Bull and the Sheep are fairly recent and we enter Aquarius next, and the religions are brought in to fit the relevant (usually) animal symbol ? Also, the “sons of Jacob” have the same significance (?)
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A lot of my patients enjoyed the music of George Michael. Shalom
This is like saying The Rock is going to bring down Triple H in a WWE match. Commissar Joe Biden and Nuttyyahoo are both performers playing for Team Judaica and all is going according to plan.
“According to the Book of Joshua in the Hebrew Bible, dated by scholars to the 7th century BC, God promised the land to the Jewish people” … Some deranged dehydrated hook-nosed huckster 2700 years ago claimed “God” promised everything from Tanzania to Timbukfukintu to THE most evil pieces of shit to ever get squeezed out of Satan’s asshole, so it must be true. What Joshua failed to mention was his “God” was actually Satan.