Mike Whitney – The Unz Review Jan 20, 2025
Everything we attempted to do has failed. We could not destroy Hamas or the Palestinians. We were powerless in preventing the Syrian revolution. We killed Nasrallah but failed to destroy Hizballah. We most certainly did not destroy the Houthis. We lost. Ori Goldberg
On one hand, the ceasefire agreement appears to be the worst deal that Hamas could have made. But on the other hand, the agreement helps to show that—after 16 months of nonstop slaughter and destruction—Israel has failed to achieve any of its strategic objectives nor has it dampened the spirits of the indomitable Palestinians. On top of that, Israel has exposed itself as a thoroughly immoral rogue regime without a trace of humanity. This is how Abdal Jawad Omar summed it up at Mondoweiss:
The war has laid bare…. Israel’s racialized supremacy, its monstrous capacity for destruction, and its deeply entangled web of ideological, psychic, and political investments in erasure and domination. This is not merely a conflict of arms but a revelation of the structures that sustain and perpetuate the machinery of violence. The war has exposed the exceptionalism surrounding Israel—not only in granting the state impunity, not only in silencing and suppressing dissent across Europe and North America, not only within academic institutions, or mainstream media but in its brazen ability to commit crimes live on air.
For Palestinians, this capacity is viewed through a bitter lens—it is seen as an Israeli strength. After all, Israel is presented as a state that can get away with anything, a reality as oppressive as the violence itself. Yet , it is also this very exceptionalism, this enforced limit on discourse, that calls attention to Israel’s unmasking as a Jewish supremacist and settler-colonial state. Gaza ceasefire reveals Israel’s fragility, and the transformative power of resistance, Mondoweiss
Still—even though Israel’s public image has been forever tarnished—the present agreement does not bode well for the Palestinians either. First of all, there is no incentive for Israel to implement all three phases of the deal. Once the 33 Israeli hostages are returned, Netanyahu can simply terminate the agreement and resume the onslaught. Which is precisely what his supporters expect him to do. Take a look at this clip from the Israeli daily Haaretz:
Here’s more on the same topic from Trump’s hawkish national security advisor Mike Waltz:
“We’ve been clear, that Gaza has to be fully demilitarized, Hamas has to be destroyed to the point that it cannot reconstitute, and that Israel has every right to fully protect itself. All of those objectives are still very much in place…..Hamas cannot have a role in governing Gaza. These are hostage-taking, murderous, torturers that should never have any role in governing….. We’ll never get to a better future until we carve out this cancer.” @mtracey :26 seconds
And here’s how uber-Zionist Ben Shapiro explained it on X:
Notes on the hostage deal:
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- It is a hostage deal, NOT an end of war deal. Phase I allows for the release of 33 hostages; it is not clear how many are alive, but some reports suggest 23.
- Again, the ceasefire is almost certainly temporary. It is not a permanent end to the war. Phase II is, in my opinion, highly unlikely ever to materialize given how many hostages Hamas retains and given that Hamas will never disarm or agree to exile.
- The deal does not force Israel to alter deployment along the Philadelphi Corridor (border between Gaza and Egypt).
So, what does all of this mean?
First, that some hostages will come home alive. This is an unmitigated good.
It would have been excellent to get more hostages out, but that option was presumably unavailable given Hamas’ radical intransigence and the waning health of many of the hostages.
Second, that the war will continue until Hamas has no control over Gaza. Trump’s nominees have said as much; so has the Israeli government.
The Trump team squared this circle. The Biden team undoubtedly wanted a permanent end to the conflict as a condition of hostage release.
Team Trump presumably told Hamas that wasn’t going to happen, and that this was the best deal they were likely to get. Ben Shapiro@benshapiro
So, in Shapiro’s estimation, Trump gave more away to Netanyahu than even Biden. (Biden wanted a permanent end to the conflict as a condition of hostage release whereas Trump rejected that demand.) This suggests that Trump is not going to use the leverage of his office to stop Israel’s year-and-a-half-long killing spree. In fact, Netanyahu admitted as much in a public statement delivered just hours before the ceasefire began. Here’s what he said:
Out of this terrible disaster, the tremendous strength of the Israeli people’s spirit was revealed, as was the supreme heroism of our soldiers, and it’s this that leads us with a fierce determination to achieve all the goals of the war: to return all our hostages, to eliminate Hamas’s governing capabilities, and to ensure that Gaza will no longer pose a threat to our country.
As soon as he was elected, President-elect [Donald] Trump mobilized himself to free the hostages. He spoke to me on Wednesday evening. He welcomed the agreement, and he rightly emphasized that the first phase of the agreement is a temporary ceasefire. That’s what he said – a ‘temporary ceasefire,’” Netanyahu emphasized, stating that both Trump and Biden have given full backing to Israel’s right to return to resuming the war if Israel concludes that the negotiations of the deal’s second phase are futile.
I also appreciate President Trump’s decision to lift all remaining restrictions on the supply of essential weapons and ammunition to the State of Israel.
Why would Netanyahu want to emphasize the “temporary” nature of the ceasefire if he was seriously committed to ending the hostilities?
He wouldn’t. He’d make every effort to end the dispute through diplomacy and negotiations, which is the literal meaning of the term “ceasefire”: (def—a temporary suspension of fighting, typically one during which peace talks take place.) But the present ceasefire bears no resemblance to the dictionary definition. There are no peace talks scheduled nor will there be, which means that Israel is simply using the current agreement to get its hostages back without giving up anything in return. (The return of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners to the Gaza warzone where food, water and basic security are no longer available, does not appear to be a fair trade-off. But there’s more going on here than meets the eye.)
Even so, we should not ignore “Trump’s decision to lift all remaining restrictions on the supply of essential weapons and ammunition to the State of Israel.” What does that mean?
It means that Trump is even more eager than Biden to provide Israel with the bombs and lethal weaponry they need to kill more women and children in Gaza. What else could it mean?
Keep in mind, Trump’s supporters still believe they elected a non-interventionist who wants to end America’s destructive foreign wars, and yet, that clearly is not the case. Trump is not only the most Zionist president in US history ; he’s already given Netanyahu a green light to “finish the job” in Gaza and the West Bank; just as he is already on record saying that Israel should strike nuclear sites in Iran. He has repeatedly showed his willingness to provide ‘unconditional’ support for his constituents in Israel who—by the way—contributed $100 million to his presidential campaign. How much of that money will be spent promoting America’s interests?
Not a dime, I’d wager. Here’s more on Trump’s role in the ongoing genocide from Mondoweiss:
For Donald Trump, the agreement is less a diplomatic breakthrough than a carefully wrapped narrative gift. It hands him a clean storyline of triumph—the return of Israeli captives, the cessation of conflict—crafted perfectly to match his populist brand of politics. It slots seamlessly into the mythology of his presidency: the consummate dealmaker, the leader who succeeds where others fail, the disruptor who shakes the foundations of entrenched stalemates and deadly status quos. Gaza ceasefire reveals Israel’s fragility, and the transformative power of resistance, Mondoweiss
Trump knows what is expected of him and he will undoubtedly comply. Otherwise, Bibi’s allies on Capitol Hill will launch a third impeachment that will either terminate his presidency or derail his ambitious political agenda. In any event, it will be very hard to prevent the resumption of hostilities in Gaza mainly because key players in the current government are fully committed to the eradication of the native population. For example, Israeli Minister of finance Bezalel Smotrich stated the following on Army Radio:
I will bring down the government if it does not return to fighting in a way that [leads to us] taking over the entire Gaza Strip and governing it…. Israel “must occupy Gaza and create a temporary military government because there is no other way to defeat Hamas.”….
If I were the prime minister, I would tell the chief of staff, ‘This is my policy; if you don’t execute it, go home,’” Smotrich says. Times of Israel
What we’re trying to show is that a resumption of the killing and destruction is a near certainty. But that doesn’t mean that the ceasefire isn’t a significant victory for the Palestinians. It is! IMHO, Netanyahu never would have agreed to the truce had he anticipated the triumphalist celebrations that have taken place in Gaza along with the outpouring of sympathy and support from people around the world.
Free at Last
Free at last
Israeli forces stormed the home of Palestinian hostage Zeina Barbar in Silwan, warning her family against celebrating her expected release on Sunday, enforcing Israel’s policy to suppress any “expression of joy within Israeli territory.”
The videos emerging from the warzone of abused women and children (even a 4-year-old for godsakes!) being released by heavily armed Israeli goons, is a propaganda coup that Bibi never expected. The imagery goes way beyond the confines of a territorial dispute that has persisted for more than 7 decades and speaks directly to the human spirit that seeks liberation whatever the cost. And the Palestinians have certainly paid that cost in full. Alon Mizrahi summed it up best in a comment he posted at X:
What is getting clearer at this unique moment, is that Hamas, a small Palestinian movement, defeated not only Israel, but the entire West. All of it. It won on the battlefield, and it won in public opinion. It managed to make spectacular use of its reading of Israeli mentality, and it employed every asset it had with extreme efficiency.
It won hearts for the Palestinian cause the world over.
It has not been destroyed or dismantled. It kept virtually every captive it took 6 months ago. It yielded to no pressure. It remains functional and lethal, in a besieged and bombed to oblivion tiny strip if land
History will judge the last six months as one of the most genius and unbelievable achievements in all military history. This is beyond unfathomable.
By waging this war this way, by not thinking or feeling, Israel made Hamas a legend of resistance that will live in cultural memory for ages.
No one believed they could pull this off. But they did. And they changed history forever. Palestine is never returning to the shadows again. Hamas won. Alon Mizrahi, Jewish Arab who no longer lives in Israel @alon_mizrahi
Beautifully stated. Bravo, Alon!
here are “grave questions” to answer about how the system failed the Southport murder victims,
Sir Keir Starmer has said.
The Prime Minister welcomed the news that Axel Rudakubana, 18, of Banks, Lancashire, had pleaded guilty to the murders of three young girls in Southport last July, and pledged to “leave no stone unturned” in investigating why the attack had not been prevented. The stabbings sparked demands for answers which were fobbed off causing summer riots across the country.
The Government’s political rivals, including Tory leader Kemi Badenoch and Reform UK’s Nigel Farage, have called on Sir Keir to reveal who at the heart of Government knew what, and when they knew it about Rudakubana, following his guilty plea.
You cannot go to other countries bomb the shit out of them, kill their children import in the migrants and not expect some of the same treatment
Starmer hid up the rapes on young children across the north of England, the crimes of Jimmy Saville and Stephen Fry, and made sure Michael Barrymore got off
Starmer is a total bastard
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Cambridge, a city renowned for its disgusting communist homosexual traitors
and its prestigious university and picturesque streets, is about to undergo a massive transformation mainly of its city centre.
The local authority has launched an ambitious £55m redevelopment plan for the Civic Quarter, focusing on several key landmarks that are essential to the city’s identity and its reputation as a must-visit destination for tourists.
Much more housing is needed for incoming migrants
At the heart of the plans are significant improvements to the Grade II-listed Guildhall, the Corn Exchange, and Market Square, with a focus on sustainability and modernizing public spaces, parks and green spaces are needed for MP housing
MP housing is migrant priority
This initiative represents a major step forward for the city’s infrastructure and will shape the area for years to come
I worked for Robert Maxwell and also Rupert Murdoch
both Rothschild funded
My job was to befriend certain people such as whistleblowers get into their confidence and do hatchet jobs on them
Maud Dib Kevin Field Chris Spivey, i worked to ruin them
Rupert Murdoch had permission to open and read letters home by soldiers in iraq
anyone not onside with the war, would chucked out or several were killed in ” friendly fire” incidents
The phone of school girl Millie Dowler and her family were all tapped, milions were spent to frame the boys in the death of small time drug dealer Stephen Laurence
and i was told also Levi Bellfield
The sequel to Prince Harry vs. the British tabloids begins Tuesday in a high-stakes pitting him against Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers that could cost him millions even if he wins.
Harry, 40, the younger son of King Charles III, and one other claimant remain alone among hundreds who have settled lawsuits against News Group Newspapers, the publisher of The Sun and the now-defunct News of the World, over allegations their phones were hacked and investigators unlawfully snooped on their lives.
People no longer buy news papers, W H smiths only sell Baur publishing which is Rothschild propaganda, and they are about to close a lot of branches
LOL..
What’s wacko Mike smokin’..Apparently according to ‘Mike’ none of IS-RA-EL’s objectives have been reached..this is presumably because he’s been in an induced coma for the last six months… perhaps that’s because he suffers from panic attacks and needs a safe space…and it must be said a very small one..which is the boundary of what passes for his mind…
of course he could just be selling narrative and on the payroll to keep the muggles warm and sleepy tucked up in bed…like the rest of the Z anon hopium crew…
because the ‘jewes’ are doing very well indeed off the back of their false flag…with a little help from their fiends of course…. and definitely on a rocky roll…
having folded up theYemen, HEZbuller and the Syrian Drug dealer.. found oil on the stolen golan heights and now having checkmated the crypto’s and stuffed the Turkey..
Drumpf’ll ‘ICE’ the cake fer ’em… and build them a new wall..
WELL SAID EAMON HOLMES
Eamonn Holmes blasts Starmer after he defends ‘suppressed information’ on Axel Rudakubana:
‘He’s a lawyer!’
Story by Gabrielle Wilde •
GB News presenter Eamonn Holmes has criticised Sir Keir Starmer’s handling of information about the Southport attack, claiming the Prime Minister’s legal background influenced his approach.
same as the muslim rape crisis
“He’s a lawyer, that’s what he is and that’s what he puts first,” Eamonn said of Starmer’s decision to withhold details about the case.
Its true most of the people in UK politics have no experience or knowledge , they are just lawyers
not real people
The criticism comes after 18-year-old Axel Rudakubana pleaded guilty yesterday to murdering three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport.
Starmer has defended his decision to withhold information about the case, stating he had to “protect migrants ”
* you canny go bomb peoples families across the world import them in here and expect them not to be angry
Only problem is, its all a Truman Show production/hoax. Hamas is a fantasy muslim terror org, existing in name only, where Jews dress up in Hamas uniforms for photo ops.
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
lets hope these semites wipe each other out
Trump poised to reject Mandelson as ambassador to US unless serious restrictions placed on his activities
Donald Trump is still threatening to reject Peter Mandelson’s appointment as the UK’s ambassador to the US unless the British government accept serious restrictions on his activities.
” leave the little boys alone ”
Sir Keir Starmer is being placed under increasing pressure by the incoming Trump administration to bow to diplomatic demands or face a humiliating and unprecedented veto on his pick for envoy to Washington. A source in the Trump team has told The Independent the incoming president is still minded to reject the credentials of Lord Mandelson when they are presented.
Known as ” lord of the rings” rings is a slang word for boys bottoms
But they added: “There’s also a possibility that they approve it conditionally. There would be a very short leash.”
The Independent revealed over the weekend that Mr Trump was considering the unusual move of rejecting Lord Mandelson’s credentials. No British ambassador in Washington or US ambassador in London has ever been refused in such a manner, but then none were lying cheating jewish perverts
Lotsa Karma here. Genocide can work both ways.
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The International Jew
The World’s Foremost Problem
Henry Ford • 1920 • 323,000 Words
Volume 1 • The International Jew: The World’s Foremost Problem
(November, 1920)
Preface
Chapter 1 • The Jew in Character and Business
Chapter 2 • Germany’s Reaction Against the Jew
Chapter 3 • Jewish History in the United States
Chapter 4 • The Jewish Question — Fact or Fancy?
Chapter 5 • Anti-Semitism — Will It Appear in the U.S.?
Chapter 6 • Jewish Question Breaks Into the Magazines
Chapter 7 • Arthur Brisbane Leaps to the Help of Jewry
Chapter 8 • Does a Definite Jewish World Program Exist?
Chapter 9 • The Historic Basis of Jewish Imperialism
Chapter 10 • An Introduction to the “Jewish Protocols”
Chapter 11 • “Jewish” Estimate of Gentile Human Nature
Chapter 12 • “Jewish Protocols” Claim Partial Fulfillment
Chapter 13 • “Jewish” Plan to Split Society by “Ideas”
Chapter 14 • Did the Jews Foresee the World War?
Chapter 15 • Is the Jewish “Kahal” The Modern “Soviet”?
Chapter 16 • How the “Jewish Question” Touches the Farm
Chapter 17 • Does Jewish Power Control the World Press?
Chapter 18 • Does This Explain Jewish Political Power?
Chapter 19 • The All-Jewish Mark on “Red Russia”
Chapter 20 • Jewish Testimony in Favor of Bolshevism
Volume 2 • Jewish Activities in the United States
(April, 1921)
Preface
Chapter 21 • How Jews in the U.S. Conceal Their Strength
Chapter 22 • Jewish Testimony on “Are Jews a Nation?”
Chapter 23 • Jew Versus Non-Jew in New York Finance
Chapter 24 • The High and Low of Jewish Money Power
Chapter 25 • “Disraeli of America” — A Jew of Super-Power
Chapter 26 • The Scope of Jewish Dictatorship in the U.S.
Chapter 27 • Jewish Copper Kings Reap Rich War-Profits
Chapter 28 • Jewish Control of the American Theater
Chapter 29 • The Rise of the First Jewish Theatrical Trust
Chapter 30 • How Jews Capitalized a Protest Against Jews
Chapter 31 • The Jewish Aspect of the “Movie” Problem
Chapter 32 • Jewish Supremacy in Motion Picture World
Chapter 33 • Rule of the Jewish Kehillah Grips New York
Chapter 34 • The Jewish Demand for “Rights” in America
Chapter 35 • “Jewish Rights” Clash With American Rights
Chapter 36 • “Jewish Rights” to Put Studies Out of Schools
Chapter 37 • Disraeli — British Premier, Portrays the Jews
Chapter 38 • Taft Once Tried to Resist Jews — and Failed
Chapter 39 • When Editors Were Independent of the Jews
Chapter 40 • Why the Jews Dislike the Morgenthau Report
Chapter 41 • Jews Use the Peace Conference to Bind Poland
Chapter 42 • The Present Status of the Jewish Question
Volume 3 • Jewish Influences in American Life
(November, 1921)
Preface
Chapter 43 • The Jews and the “Religious Persecution” Cry
Chapter 44 • Are the Jews Victims or Persecutors?
Chapter 45 • Jewish Gamblers Corrupt American Baseball
Chapter 46 • Jewish Degradation of American Baseball
Chapter 47 • Jewish Jazz Becomes Our National Music
Chapter 48 • How the Jewish Song Trust Makes You Sing
Chapter 49 • Jewish Hot-Beds of Bolshevism in the U.S.
Chapter 50 • Jew Trades Link With World Revolutionaries
Chapter 51 • Will Jewish Zionism Bring Armageddon?
Chapter 52 • How the Jews Use Power — By an Eyewitness
Chapter 53 • How Jews Ruled and Ruined Tammany Hall
Chapter 54 • Jew Wires Direct Tammany’s Gentile Puppets
Chapter 55 • B’nai B’rith Leader Discusses the Jews
Chapter 56 • Dr. Levy, A Jew, Admits His People’s Error
Chapter 57 • Jewish Idea in American Monetary Affairs
Chapter 58 • Jewish Idea Molded Federal Reserve Plan
Chapter 59 • Jewish Idea of Central Bank for America
Chapter 60 • How Jewish International Finance Functions
Chapter 61 • Jewish Power and America’s Money Famine
Volume 4: Aspects of Jewish Power in the United States
(May, 1922)
Preface
Chapter 62 • How Jews Gained American Liquor Control
Chapter 63 • Gigantic Jewish Liquor Trust and Its Career
Chapter 64 • The Jewish Element in Bootlegging Evil
Chapter 65 • Angles of Jewish Influence in American Life
Chapter 66 • The Jews’ Complaint Against “Americanism”
Chapter 67 • The Jewish Associates of Benedict Arnold
Chapter 68 • Benedict Arnold and Jewish Aid in Shady Deal
Chapter 69 • Arnold and His Jewish Aids at West Point
Chapter 70 • The Gentle Art of Changing Jewish Names
Chapter 71 • Jewish “Kol Nidre” and “Eli, Eli” Explained
Chapter 72 • Jews as New York Magistrates See Them
Chapter 73 • Jews Are Silent, The National Voice Is Heard
Chapter 74 • What Jews Attempted Where They Had Power
Chapter 75 • The Jewish Question in Current Testimony
Chapter 76 • America’s Jewish Enigma — Louis Marshall
Chapter 77 • The Economic Plans of International Jews
Chapter 78 • A Jew Sees His People As Others See Them
Chapter 79 • Candid Address to Jews on the Jewish Problem
Chapter 80 • An Address to “Gentiles” on the Jewish Problem
(Republished from Wikisource by permission of author or representative)
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