Philip Giraldi – Unz.com Aug 1, 2024
Does anyone in Israel in a position of power truly understand what the expressions “human rights” and “rule of law” really mean? Developments over the past ten months in Gaza would suggest “No,” that Israel’s government, its legal system, and its constitution exist solely to empower the state to do whatever it wishes, which in the current version includes the genocidal elimination of the Palestinian people and the theft of their land and property to be incorporated into a Greater Israel that plausibly will include the already annexed Syrian Golan Heights as well as all of historic Palestine running from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.
But even given the fundamental dishonesty over the Jewish state and what it represents, there is something truly frightening about some recent developments which suggest that the long running United States government pander to Israel and its presumed interests have poisoned the chalice, making Americans absolutely complicit in the Israeli war crimes and other assorted crimes against humanity. And the level of control over Washington by Israel virtually guarantees that it will only get worse.
I am, of course, referring to the recent state visit of the world’s leading war criminal Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington, where he was worshipped by both Congress and the White House alike together with considerable fawning from the heavily Jewish-influenced media. Netanyahu, to put it succinctly, spoke for an hour in his address to the US Congress, emitting lie after lie. And the Congress critters responded with an outburst of love combined with total subservience, delivering 53 standing ovations, close to one per minute. The most exuberant ovation occurred when Netanyahu denounced the 50,000 or so demonstrators who surrounded the Capitol building to express their disgust at the Jewish mass murderer’s presence. Bibi called the protesters, some of whom were pepper-sprayed and arrested by a heavy police presence including 360 imported New York City Policemen fresh from their beatings of protesters at Columbia University, “useful idiots paid for by Iran.” That particular lie produced paroxysms of celebration among the leaping and waving Congressmen. Given that performance, does anyone need any confirmation that free speech seems to be off the agenda when it comes to Israel and the clowns who nominally represent the American people in Washington, who once upon time swore an oath to support the Constitution, but now consider speaking ill of the Jewish state to be a “hate crime.” Indeed, bills have been introduced in Congress to that effect.
It is interesting to go through his speech to determine what Netanyahu was trying to accomplish and what lies he thought he could get away with. Actually, he did nothing but lie while blaming most of his neighbors, particularly Iran, for the turmoil that Israel has caused in the Middle East for the past 75 years. And predictably, much of the coverage of the Netanyahu appearance in the mainstream media on the following day was toothless and even laudatory. It generally reflected what was hailed as Bibi’s “fiery speech” that “did not give an inch” which vowed to continue fighting until “total victory” is achieved. “It’s a clash between barbarism and civilization. It’s a clash between those who glorify death and those who sanctify life.” Ironically, Netanyahu was right about the clash of civilization though he was wrong about who represented which side: Israel backed completely by the US is pure evil. And the Netanyahu visit should be seen as a call to arms. The Jewish state is struggling economically and militarily in its war of extermination in Gaza and it knows it is not in any shape to take on Hezbollah and Iran, so it has decided to let the United States do the heavy lifting. Reading between the lines on what occurred in meetings with the two presidential aspirants as well as with a non-compos-mentis Joe Biden, it is clear that Netanyahu expects American boys and girls to do his fighting for him as well as covering the costs.
American complicity in the genocide in Gaza as well as in two possible wars in Lebanon and Iran due to the Israeli embrace is a tragedy for all parties involved, but the damage being done to future generations of American citizens cannot be remedied. Our country has done many bad things, but this whole hearted alliance with unmitigated evil is a betrayal of the birthright of every American.
So how low can you go, but the tale of Netanyahu visits Congress was soon joined by another truly awful story that demonstrates that there is no bottom to the evil in the minds and hearts of Israel’s leaders as well as among a large majority of the Israeli people, which Mondoweiss calls a “genocide from above and below.” Few Americans are aware of the atrocities that occur by virtue of what the Israelis choose to call their legal system. There is a body of law that is applicable to protect Jews and their interests, but where those interests collide with those of the native Palestinians, be they Christian or Muslim, only one outcome is acceptable even when something comparable to a legal procedure takes place. This has enabled the horrible settlement movement with something like 800,000 Jewish settlers having stolen Palestinian land and other property and has meant that Palestinians who were driven from their homes by force when Israel was founded have no ability to return to their own homes. At its most extreme, severely injuring or even killing a Palestinian, which occurs regularly, often at the hands of the heavily armed settlers, is a crime that is almost never prosecuted. To cite only one recent example, Palestinian-America journalist Shireen Abu Akleh who was wearing a clearly visible journalist vest was shot and killed by an Israeli army sniper in May 2022. In spite of repeated demands that her murder be fully investigated, no one was ever identified or punished for the killing. Israel has also killed 20 other journalists in the past several years with no one being punished. Often Israeli soldiers stand by and watch crimes involving Jewish perpetrators, never interceding to help the Arab victim. If the Palestinians resist they are immediately labeled as “terrorists” and have no rights of self-defense against the occupiers, be they army or nominally civilians.
A story that appeared a week after the Netanyahu visit illustrates perfectly the two-tiered justice in Israel and the occupied territories. There are currently nearly 10,000 Palestinians in Israeli prisons, the number having increased sharply since the war against Gaza began. Many are Gazans, but an increasing number are from the West Bank, which is also being targeted for “settlement” and eventual annexation. Many are held under what is referred to as “preventive detention,” in which they are not charged with a crime, do not appear in any court, and are held at the will of the Israeli army or police. In jail, they are frequently tortured and starved. If they are ever released, they show the signs of the torture and Israeli human rights groups, among other witnesses, have provided substantial evidence of what is taking place behind closed doors. Israel soldiers are, for their part, not shy about what they do to Palestinians, posting photos and videos online of dead Palestinians, torture in detention areas, and the gleeful destruction of Gazan homes and property.
The story is as follows: There are a number of detention centers run by the Israeli Army that are generally used to torture Palestinians prisoners, not in the old fashioned “intelligence” role to obtain “information,” but just for the entertainment of the soldiers who are the jailers. Sde Teiman, one such center in the southern Negev desert region, recently made the news due to a particularly outrageous bit of torture engaged in by ten of the soldiers in charge of the prisoners. Conditions in Sde Taiman reportedly included “Electric shocks, amputations due to bad conditions, severe beatings, surgery without anesthesia, playing loud music until inmates’ ears bleed, deaths due to bad sanitary conditions, systematic torture and sexual abuse.”
A Palestinian from Gaza was reported serially sodomized and otherwise raped at the detention site using various implements even including a cell phone which was inserted in the man’s rectum and turned on for the amusement of the Israeli soldiers. The victim also had a wooden stick inserted in similar fashion and it was believed that he was only one of a number of other prisoners who were treated in that same way, which appears to be systemic throughout the detention facilities run by the army. The activity was only exposed when the victim began bleeding heavily both internally and externally and was unable to walk with a “serious wound in his rectum area”, which may have occurred if or when the phone was removed from inside of him and he was taken to a hospital where what had taken place was revealed. The army, somewhat uncharacteristically, sent some military policemen to the center to detain the soldiers for questioning but the suspects fought back using pepper spray and building barriers. When nine of the men (one went AWOL) were eventually taken to a nearby military base at Beit Lid, the MPs were confronted almost immediately by an angry crowd of civilians, consisting largely of settlers and ultra-nationalists, led by several Likud party parliamentarians who demanded that the soldiers be set free. Something like a melee ensued. The unruly crowd chanted its support for torture and even called for the summary execution of the Palestinian prisoners, which has been an “option” supported by some in the Netanyahu government.
The rioters were so aggressive that they actually broke into the Israeli military base and there was considerable support for their actions even coming from Justice Minister Yariv Levin, who said he was “shocked” to see IDF troops being detained for questioning “in a way that is suitable for arresting dangerous criminals.” He added that the soldiers were doing a “holy job” at the base. Far-right Knesset member Simcha Rotman called the troops “heroes,” instead attacking Israel’s “justice and enforcement systems” for detaining them.
Typically, later in the day, when asked by the press about the rape accusations, US State Department Deputy Spokesman Vedant Patel refused to say whether gang raping and torturing Palestinian prisoners would be considered a war crime, even if conclusively demonstrated by witnesses and other evidence. Patel explained “So the reports of abuse are deeply concerning, and we have been clear and consistent with Israel and the IDF that they need to treat all detainees humanely and with dignity in accordance with humanitarian law.” He said that the US was going to let “due process” play out in this case. The western media that is bothering to cover the story are refusing to even use the word “rape” or “sodomy” in reference to the allegations, with the BBC describing how the soldiers are accused of “severely mistreating a Palestinian prisoner” while the New York Times prefers to call it “suspected abuse”.
At the heart of the discussion is the fact that Israel’s Knesset uniquely has a proposed law that was first formulated in 2022 by current National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir which would give automatic immunity to any soldier or policeman who kills or seriously injures any Palestinian. The immunity does not apply if the victim is a Jew. The law still has not passed through parliament, but many conservatives in Israel believe it is the guideline used by the military and judiciary de facto. Ben-Gvir has, in fact, denounced the questioning of the nine men as “shameful,” adding that the Israeli security establishment should support the soldiers and “learn from the prison service: light treatment of terrorists is over. Soldiers need to have our full support.” Ben-Gvir is also supporting a separate bill that would authorize the systematic execution of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. It also does not apply to Jews. In a video statement, Ben-Gvir said that Israel should be able to kill Palestinian prisoners with a “shot to the head.” He also recommended that Palestinian prisoners be given just enough food to keep them alive until the execution law comes into effect.
So, when it comes to human rights Israel lives in another parallel universe where there is one set of rules for Jews and other for gentiles. Perhaps the easily visible brutality evident in the recent Netanyahu speech to Congress coupled with stories like that out of Sde Teiman and the daily horror inflicted on the Gazans will bring about some kind of wake-up for the American public, which has been heavily propagandized and continues to believe in the myth of the perpetual victimhood of the Jewish people. The real victims of the “miracle of Israel” are those in western countries that the Jewish diaspora continues to buy and manipulate as well as the poor Palestinians who are forced to live under a form of daily repression and humiliation that is almost unimaginable.
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
Music of our gods. By religion we were broken. In culture we are healed.
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Excellent Journalism Philip…this expose from a really gets them worried.
Chapeau
Semites vs. Semites. Not my fight. Whites need to start focusing on their own racial predicament in their own nations rather than on these semites, mongrels and wogs in Israel.
Realizing the “Old Testament” only applies to the “Chosen People” wakes one up. It doesn’t apply to the goys. We are useful idiots.Thus our Reps and Sens thunderously applaud Netanyehu and kin and are rewarded with their fake money. End the wars now. Bring our boys home now. Peace forever!
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How did this hell on earth start? With a so-called “holy” book which describes Almighty God choosing Jews as his pets. God you see, decided to interact with his human creations, which were acting badly, so this god, the perfect deity, who can do no wrong, decided to fix his creation, and he chose one tribe to lead man back to morality. The problem, you see, is that the tribe God chose, was the worst and most evil tribe (Jews), and decided to stay the most immoral, rather than follow God’s advice and become moral. Does that sound a bit fishy to you?
But of course, it is only a story, a diabolical story invented to fool the Goyim into thinking Jews were holy, Jews were chosen, Jews were special, Jews have their own laws and nothing we think, say or do – not even our laws apply to them. Jews are above our law, our laws do not apply, nor do our treaties. Israel has not signed the NNPT, which is why they can have nukes and we can not inspect them. In fact, Gordon Duff at VT says we gave them our Davy Crockett mini-nuke warheads, for free, to use, anytime they want.
https://www.veteranstodayarchives.com/search_gcse/?q=davy+crockett
So, we the Gentiles, meaning gentle peoples, are despised by the godly supremacists. To the wolf, the gentle sheep are despised. The Jews, like wolves, view sheep as prey. The loving and sane humans are the insane Jews prey. Since they hold us all in utter contempt, they lie to us, take our money, and plot to kill us all. After Greater Israel is complete, Jews want to do the same to all other nations. All humans are viewed as Palestinians by the Jew reptiles, all humans are to be robbed, tortured, killed, raped, etc. What you are seeing in Palestine is our future, unless we wake up and break the Bible spell.
If you ever find out that Abraham never existed, neither did King Saul, Solomon, or David, that the tales of the Israelites is not supported by any history or archeology, you might start to wonder how modern Jews can claim Palestine as their homeland. No god gave anyone that land, it belongs to the natives. No court outside of Israel would ever recognize the Torah as a land title. The Torah is myth, very bad myth, and the first 5 books are a complete fabrication so says the world’s top archeologists and scholars.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/leading-archaeologist-says-old-testament-stories-are-fiction-1500431.html
A whole lot of Jews and Israelis know this, they read the same books I read, like “The Invention of the Jewish People” is a best seller in Israel. The author Sands unbecame a Jew.
“wiki – Shlomo Sand is an Israeli Emeritus Professor of History at Tel Aviv University.”
He researched the historiography of the Jewish people, found that it was all fabricated, so he stopped being a Jew. If the smartest Jew stops being a Jew, maybe the less educated Jews should take note. Einstein declined becoming the first president of Israel. Why? He was a smart Jew also.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/how-historian-shlomo-sand-stopped-being-jew/13849
I was raised Catholic, and I unbecame that faith as my mind matured, and realized that my indoctrination was not true, so I chose, at great cost to my own family relationships, to stop practicing and believing that religion. There is simply no god “up there” giving us commands, telling us how to behave, choosing some over others. That is all make believe we invented with our creative minds. And we do not survive death either, that is the highest form of wishful thinking, and an idea that is so powerful, that even in our rational scientific age, refuses to go away. In short, we believe because we want to believe. The corollary is that the believers are willfully ignorant, so don’t bother them with facts, or anything that would unravel the credibility of their beloved story.
It took my entire life to figure out why humans are so addicted to the New Testament (NT). Because it is a story that promises us eternal life, and since we are sentient, and know we will die some day, we deny that reality and pretend. Faith is like a kids game of pretend. We believe the story, which comforts our minds, a story which promises that when we die, we don’t die. Christianity is a gigantic death denying cult – and it is married to the parent religion Judaism. The NT can not exist without the OT – and the OT is the Torah, so to be a Christian – you must also believe the OT story – and thus the Christian reverence for Jews.
Permit me to explain how this plays out and why Christian Amerika is so god damned whored to the Jews and Israel. For a Christian to get into heaven, to be with Jew Jesus for all eternity, he must believe the story. The new story (NT) only makes sense if the Old Story (OT) is true. For the NT to be valid, for you to need the savior Jesus, you MUST believe that the story starting with Adam, Eve, and Abraham as real history. Get it? If the OT is not true, then why the hell would you need to be saved? You only need to be saved from the vengeance of the wrathful father god of the OT if it is true. If Yahweh does not exist, you do not need Jesus.
But if you study the NT and Jesus and his mission, guess what, Jesus the Jew came only to save Jews (BTW I am friends with a New Testament scholar who has confirmed this):
“… the Gospels record Jesus as being up front about his nationalistic intentions. He claimed that his mission was only to the “lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Matt 15:24), a statement made upon his initial refusal of a Gentile woman who asked for healing for her daughter.”
Like I said, this all a game of pretend. No Gentile can be saved anyways, at least that is what the book says. Joseph Atwill, in his landmark book “Ceasar’s Messiah, the Roman conspiracy to invent Jesus” explains exactly why Rome wrote Matthew 15:24 the way they did – the Gospels are written by the Roman State to pacify the Zealot Jews of Judea, who Rome was constantly at war with. Rome wanted peaceful, tax paying sheep – they did not want rebellious Zealots – so the Gospels are aimed at converting Jews. This all means all my Catholic indoctrination, 12 long years of nuns and piety, was all in vain, because I am a Gentile and the Gospels DO NOT APPLY to me.
Since no one survives death, all this religion is an utter waste of time, anyways. No matter how hard you believe, or pray, or chant, or say the Hare Krishna mantra a million times, you are going to die and that is it. Your life is a cruel joke by whoever or whatever created us, in this real reality or holo simulation. This place is like the Matrix, or Westworld, or the Holodeck on Star Trek.
So can you see why these pretending Christians are obsessed with the story of Abraham and Isaac, Jacob, King David? The pretenders memorize all that fiction and talk amongst themselves as if it is real – and I have told you why – because you must believe the old story true otherwise the new story would just be more bullshit. But the OT and NT is 100% pure fiction, believed by the western hellions, and it is our willful ignorance, staying in a state of faith, that is killing the native Palestinians, who unfortunately just happen to be living in the exact place when the fake Jews from Eastern Europe descended and started killing them en masse with Nabka.
How is it this Jew pretender Mileikowsky claims ownership to Palestine? Ludicrous. He is not blood related to the Palestinians who live there, who are the remnant of those stories. The diaspora stories are about leaving Palestine. The Palestinians are those who were left behind, so they must be the real Jews. Jesus would be a Palestinian, right? So how is it that Christians, who believe in Jesus the Palestinian, are not taking that side of the fight? Like I said, do not confuse them with facts, they have their eyes focused on the prize of heaven, and they don’t care how many die so long as they make it. All this hell is literally being created by those who believe, those who want eternity. Faith in the Holy Bible is making hell on earth – yet no one indicts the Bible as causal to our demise!
The late Jacob Rothschild said a few years before his death that his family crated Israel which is historical fact and the truth. That dynasty is the mainstay of Zionism and many other evils plaguing the world, and the governance of that particular prodigy nation with its abject inability to distinguish between what is good or evil, except with respect to the exclusive interests of the Jewish people, must be considered as a true reflection of the mores of that dynasty and international Jewry.
everything what comes out of human brains is dirt !
so also the devilish holy scriptures of dirty minds
of unenlightened beeings . enlightenment has nothing
to do with brain believe . brain is materia prima + cannot
Illuminate like the Rothschilds + their power plutocrates
believe . they are only MEGALOMANIACS ! and all
efforts in meditation (out of the brain) are in vain if
esoterical freaks dont have the master guru or blessed
spirits of higher dimensions . hindus know more about
this things . jews have just only stoped in their spiritual
developement not even halfways . they are like ancient
oriental magician prisoned by greed, power + material
riches . and all this US famed idiots following enthusiasticly
jews + their kabbala may get riches but no spiritual
success . ALL BELIEVES IN RELIGION IS BRAIN GAME .
@FredB
..yes, all jews are cunts
are you jew…ish?
you know, this Crowley guy makes sense
The animal man is no good, a talking monkey, but with God in you you get better in every way; somehow you need to not forget that it is God and not you. The debate comes down to a Yes or a No at the beginning, and the left-brain could argue it either way. I find depression funny because it is a No in the wrong place
The revelation that all these Gentiles are deluded that they can be saved by Jesus needs to be repeated and examined more closely, I wrote:
“But if you study the NT and Jesus and his mission, guess what, Jesus the Jew came only to save Jews (BTW I am friends with a New Testament scholar who has confirmed this)”
I have a good friend, in his mid 70’s, who has spent his whole life being a Christian monk, living in Christian communes, studying the New Testament, a real scholar on the book about Jesus. This man is ultra thin, lives like a monk, never watches TV or the news, and only read scholarly books, and has spent his life immersed in scripture.
He was awakened in one moment last year, that Jesus came ONLY to save the Jews when listening to a debate between a Christian apologist and some new group of Christian Israelite Jews.
He confessed this to me, that he learned from some radio show about Jews being the only one’s that could be saved. He can quote the NT up down left and right, and I repeatedly asked him if it was scripturely true, that Jesus only came to save the house of Israel ONLY.
I was very polite and wondered why it took his whole life to figure this out since he is a New Testament scholar. He explained it all to me and I have forgotten what he said, because it is way over my head. Anyways, I told him, that you did not have to read the Bible to understand his “big” revelation – I told him there’s no angry god out to get us, that Yahweh is fiction, that Abraham never existed and all that stuff.
I told him all the stuff I write daily on the web and on this site, that the Bible is all myth, no one needs to be saved, no one can be saved (except from bad Jewish literature). I told him you only need Jesus if the OT is true, which it is certainly NOT! The angry god thesis is the worst form of fear mongering ever foisted on the minds of men. I also explained to him in detail Joseph Atwill’s “Caesar’s Messiah” thesis, that Rome wrote the Gospels, etc.
And after a few visits, I finally laid it on him what is really going on – that we humans do not want to die and not exist, and so we invented theologies that convince us that we can live forever in paradise. And I told him that idea is so powerful, that people will do anything to keep that myth alive, because the alternative, is to face reality, and your own mortality, and admit to yourself that you do NOT know what happens when you die, and the default condition is nothing.
Understand that. Until someone proves otherwise, the default argument is that when you die you are dead. And I told him passionately NO ONE WANTS TO BELIEVE THAT, so they curse truth tellers as agents of the devil and all that because they absolutely do NOT want the story of everlasting life to be proven false.
Now let me cut to the short – the reason this is important is that this information is critical to why Christian Zionists support Israel. They have been led to believe, by fat bastard preacher John Hagee that to get into heaven you must love Jews and Israel. That is false on the face of it, because that is not a requirement to get into heaven, the Evangelists believe you only have to believe in Jesus, NOT Jews, NOT Israel. But like I say, Christians are dumb as rocks and can be made to believe anything BECAUSE their brains are inop. When you exist in a state of faith your brain is turned off.
You can blame the Scofield Bible, the freemasons, Zio subversion why so many modern Christians are apostate, supporting genocidal Israel, and the hell on earth those allies cause. But the really BIG JOKE is none of it was ever true in the first place.
No one can get to heaven, no one can be saved, your beliefs matter not when you die, they are only delusions you entertain in this life because of your condition of being self aware (sentient) and want to exist (survival instinct) so you will believe in life after death because it is your wishful thinking and survival instinct to do so.
And who am I to tell you otherwise? I am only writing this because many want to know why this hell on earth is happening. It is happening because humans are this seriously malformed specie, created by the gods, with their big brains, furless bodies, desperately trying to make it through this hell, on earth, because we do NOT belong here, we are not fit to exist here. Whoever or whatever created us is torturing us by creating our specie and dumping it on earth. And so our fate is the Apocalypse, because we will probably go out with a bang, because we are an abomination unto Nature.
If you want a better understanding of our predicament, our individual consciousness is only a shard of the collective consciousness operating the simulation. When we die, all our experience is data, harvested by the simulators, but we die, and our consciousness just becomes data in the Akashic Record. Just like a learning computer would do that is tasked with creating simulations. IOW we don’t matter – but you see – we think we matter – so we have these religions that tell us that we matter – but you see we really don’t matter.
Think of your consciousness as a drop of water, when you die that drop is absorbed back into the sea of the collective consciousness. Yes Virginia, your fate is to be absorbed into the Borg consciousness we call god.
And the only way to beat the system animating us is to not exist. No past lives, no future lives. You can only suffer if you exist, so the ultimate way to solve the problem of existence is to simply not exist, not play along, and be used like toilet paper for the simulators, which we call god. Of course, that knowledge is the ultimate heresy.
And the part of the myth that God loves you. Is that true? Does love put sentient beings into a hell matrix with Jews? Love does not torture living beings so it can gain experience.
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