Philip Giraldi – The Unz Review Jan 26, 2025
The eminent Roman historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus in a biography of his illustrious father-in-law Gnaeus Julius Agrippa famously wrote “Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium, atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.” Which translates in the Loeb Classical Library edition as “To plunder, butcher, steal, these things they misname empire: they make a desolation and they call it peace.” Lord Byron, in his poem the Bride of Abydos, rendered the Tacitus Latin as “Mark where his carnage and his conquests cease! He makes a solitude, and calls it — peace.” Per Tacitus’ no doubt second hand account , the words were originally spoken by the Caledonian chieftain Calgacus who was addressing his assembled warriors concerning Rome’s insatiable appetite for conquest and plunder. The chieftain’s sentiment can be contrasted to pax in terra “peace on earth” which was sometimes inscribed on Roman medals (phalera) awarded to soldiers returning from the imperial wars.
Tacitus’ description of the First Century Roman Empire using a metaphor should strike a chord for modern American observers of the carnage taking place in the Middle East. The only question would be whether the description better fits Israel or the United States. Or, perhaps, does it apply to both since the two nations have lately in practice been governed out of Tel Aviv? Israel is an ethno-religious state that aspires to regional dominance to create what is referred to as Eretz Israel, Greater Israel, a nation state based on the apartheid view that only Jews, as being chosen by God, can rule and have full rights in the area that they control. The modern vision of what that would include as imagined by extremist advocates of the Jewish state’s expansion would stretch from the Nile River in Egypt to the Euphrates River in Iraq, together with South Lebanon to the Litani River. Nations like Jordan and Syria would be absorbed in the process an there would be no Palestinians.
Some observers are supporting the theory that Donald Trump, who subordinated actual US interests to those of Israel during his first term in office, will now play hard ball with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if only to maintain his self-proclaimed reputation as a champion of world peace, solving international conflicts through making “deals” rather than by fighting. Brokering a deal on Israel-Palestine would be an achievement that has proven to be beyond the reach of every previous administration and it would surely earn him the Nobel Peace Prize. His initial position in 2016 was precisely that, to make a deal that would be acceptable to both sides, until the Israel Lobby punished him for it and forced him to back down.
Indeed, Trump is now pulling one of his characteristic one step forward two steps back with his proposal that Gaza should be made free of Gazans who should be conveniently moved to Jordan and Egypt “to clean out the whole thing.” That would be something like a perfect solution for Benjamin Netanyahu but the proposal has not been well received in either Amman or Cairo. Nevertheless, Trump certainly deserves a great deal of credit for what he has achieved. His supporters point to the recently initiated ceasefire with Gaza which came about due to Trump’s pressure on Netanyahu delivered in an impromptu visit by special emissary Steve Witkoff, succeeding in a objective that the clueless and genocide enabling Biden administration failed at for 15 months. While it is true that Witkoff induced a reluctant Netanyahu to accept a temporary ceasefire, possible off the table concessions to Israel that made the deal work have not been revealed. Israel’s special seat at the American Foreign Policy table remains in place evidently, with a recent Trump initiative to suspend all foreign aid for ninety days included Ukraine but exempted Israel. Indeed, the working level of Trump’s administration is measurably more rabidly pro-Zionist than were their counterparts under Joe Biden. The new Ambassador to Israel Ziocon Mike Huckabee denies that Palestinians even exist and sounds a lot like a settler leader which makes one wonder whether he will defend American interests at all. If push comes to shove the new men and women who have taken over will not only support the annexation of some or all of West Bank but also do nothing to stop or mitigate the restarting of the Gaza genocide.
At the same time, there are several incentives for Trump to want to avoid returning to the Biden-era genocide. Surrounding himself with pro-Israel fanatics won’t help, but two other factors may still play into the decision making, most notably US public opinion, which continues to shift toward Palestine and away from Israel and the possibility that Trump will get into a direct personal conflict with Netanyahu, who has been able to publicly ignore and even humiliate the White House for the last four years without any consequences. Given the respective egos, any disagreement between the two could easily escalate into a real rupture. Trump is not a career politician with decades of subservience to powerful lobbies and he also can’t run again for office. Global and national opinion is rapidly shifting against Israel, including among his MAGA base, with figures like Tucker Carlson and Candice Owens calling out Israel firsters as promoting policies that are antithetical to their values. If Israel continues its assault on all Palestine and the whole region with massive US financial and military support, it could hurt Trump’s popularity and legacy. Of course, Mossad provided videos or photos of him with a minor on Epstein Island or similar, if they exist, might be enough to keep him in line but that could well be the only thing that would constitute an off switch.
Against all of that, Netanyahu has told his supporters and political allies that the United States will support Israel if it opts to suspend the unpopular ceasefire and resume the onslaught due to “Hamas violations,” which will almost certainly be contrived or even cunningly false flagged. In fact, Netanyahu is already doing just that to inhibit the return of the north Gazans to their ruined homes. Hamas will be careful to avoid falling further into Bibi’s trap, but Israel’s propaganda mill is far more effective at reaching a global audience than is that of the Palestinians and the narrative will surely be muddied. Israel is also covering all based by maintaining its occupation of southern Lebanon, which was supposed to end on Sunday January 26th, in a ceasefire and truce that was set up and guaranteed by Washington, without a peep coming out of the Trump administration even though the Israeli Army has been shooting and killing Lebanese trying to return to their homes. Israel has also expanded its occupation of the Golan and Mount Hermon areas in neighboring Syria. However most significantly, Netanyahu has stepped-up pressure on Palestinian areas in the West Bank as a preparation for full annexation within the next year. Israeli snipers and army units have been killing Palestinians in Jenin and surrounding districts and have also stormed the center of the town using tanks and airstrikes, essentially shifting the slaughter in Gaza to a massacre on the West Bank while the ceasefire holds.
Again, there has not been one harsh word out of Washington over the Jenin killings and the White House has even lifted the sanctions on extremist settler groups on the West Bank that have made Palestinian lives so miserable as to encourage them to emigrate. Jews-only Israeli roads cris-cross the West Bank with armed soldiers and police manning check points and I have recently learned that Palestinians are not even allowed to collect rainwater to water their crops! The water belongs to Israel! And beyond that, the new administration has apparently rewarded Netanyahu by lifting a ban on the supplying of certain categories of weapons that the Biden administration had blocked, including 1800 of the devastating MK-84 2,000 pound bombs that have so effectively destroyed Gaza.
Iran, which is the ultimate target of Israel and possibly of the United States as well judging from “discussions” that have apparently taken place, is very much aware of what is going on and is making preparations for war by concealing and going deep underground with its vital military and energy related sites. Interestingly, however, the principal claim being made by both Israel and US government hawks like Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina that Tehran might develop a nuclear weapon within a week if it chooses to do so has been denied by the outgoing CIA Director William Burns, who claims that the Iranians have no nukes and have no capability to quickly produce them, nor do they have any desire to acquire a nuclear weapon.
The upside to the ceasefire in Gaza is that some Palestinians apart from those who are being blocked have been able to return to their homes, 92% of which have been destroyed or badly damaged, to dig up the bodies of the families and neighbors. Food trucks, under the terms of the ceasefire agreement, are indeed beginning to arrive in much larger numbers for the starving Gazan population that remains. But if Israel renews its assault on Gaza it would be able to stop the humanitarian aid literally overnight, as it has done in the past.
So what could happen? If Israel continues to go carry out its plans of ethnic cleansing, genocide, territorial expansion and foreign aggression with unconditional US support, this may motivate other countries and some international institutions to continue turning against Israel, particularly as US power and influence are in rapid decline due to the rise of China and BRICS. All these trends are already underway: the questions is how fast they will develop into policies. But a renewed Israeli attack on an already devastated Gaza fueled by billions of US dollars could result in more and wider popular protest in the US in spite of government efforts to suppress pro-Palestinian protesters. It will also mean that the new phase of conflict will become Trump’s war, not Biden’s or Harris’ meaning that Democrats who stayed silent so as not to hurt the new administration will suddenly have a powerful incentive to criticize it. Alternatively, Trump is in a unique position to have “Nixon-goes-to-China moment,” which would have tremendous upsides for him politically and personally. Of course, Israel and its supporters would rise up in anger (they’ve killed people for less), but changing US and global public opinion could make the difference this time around if there is anyone in the White House who is listening.
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
Rachel Thieves has announced plans to reduce sickness benefits as part of a crackdown on so-called ‘jobless Britain’. The Chancellor announced intentions to overhaul the welfare state, accelerating plans to cut benefits right back for the elderly and those deemed too unwell to work.
As reported in The Sun on Sunday, as the UK slides toward communist totalitarianism
The mounting bill for the millions of migrants is crippling the country
and money must be found some how as Tony Blair said
the benefits of multiculturalism must be paid for
whistelbowers have already said egypt first then jordan and turkey
last it was be iran
not fought by israel but by stupid americans
Here’s what you can be sure of.The jews will gradually wear down Trump until he cannot make a move without their permission.
And he will discover that all the myths about jewish power are actually facts not myths.
By the time four years are up Trumps reputation will be shredded to pieces…..but all his financial skullduggery will be kept under wraps…..a bargain with the devil!!.
Some European officials were recently seen laughing as Trump made his grand announcement about the “Gulf of America”…when all the public want is a return to rational government.
According to fuckwit Trump….Starmer is going a very good job….It’s a joke isn’t it.
Like most western leaders Starmer is emphatically NOT doing a good job.So Trumps handlers have instructed him what to say.
Fury as more than 1,600 terror-obsessed migrant youths like Axel Rudakubana free to roam UK
Story by Ryan Fahey •
The Police Gazette tell of 5000 black gangs in the greater london area
these vary from 5 to over two hundred members
The authorities say more than 1,600 migrant youths with terrorist aspirations still roaming the streets of the UK after Axel Rudakubana’s heinous slaughter of three girls in Southport.
The Government’s Prevent scheme – which was set up to deter people from becoming terrorists or participating in terror offences – has sent just 228 of the 1,830 youngsters referred to the programme for full monitoring. The remaining 1,602 individuals were left unsupervised.
Teachers had referred Rudakubana, 18, to the service three times before he killed the three young girls – Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and nine-year-old Alice Da Silva Aguiar in July at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper told The Sun on Sunday: “I am clear that urgent reforms are needed to Prevent. The programme’s work is vital to stopping migrant extremists and preventing crime and terrorism. But it missed three chances to intervene in the case of the Southport killer and swift changes are needed.”
dont forget we bombed families across the world and killed many many children
an no one here bats an eye
Next? anything can happen.the end goal is already set.abraham accords coin,in their pockets.a real tangible coin,unlike the moshiach’s meme coin;fight, fight, fight.6,6,6.a way to collect tribute from the faithfully stupid.
The destruction Israel has wrought on the folks it occupies beggars belief.
Next is the humanitarian crisis.
It’s a holocaust of their making which they intend to deny…
AUSCHWITZ
Last January, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, a 98-year-old Auschwitz survivor, addressed a House of Commons committee about the proposed new Holocaust memorial in Victoria Tower Gardens, next to the Houses of Parliament.
Mrs Lasker-Wallfisch was sent to the death camp when she was 18 and only spared because she could play the cello, becoming part of the Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz. Why would a death camp have an orchestra ?
they also had a football team post office shop brothel and small hospital
Political commentator Ben Habib has called for the detention and deportation of all migrants in Britain during an appearance on GBN America.
Every single person in the United Kingdom who is here illegally should be detained and if possible, deported,” Habib stated.
He insisted that those who cannot be deported should either face repatriation or remain incarcerated.
No one should be allowed to break into the United Kingdom and stay here free of charge and indeed in many, many cases sponging at the cost of our generosity,” he added.
“…. US power and influence are in rapid decline due to the rise of China and BRICS.” Why is this?
As Bertrand Russell said, “If there is one thing we learn from history, it is that we learn nothing from history.” We keep doing the same insane things over and over again like walking over the faces of other people “to get ahead”.
Intergalactically, if there ever was such a possibility for intelligent beings to participate in, then planet earth would either have to be destroyed or remain in a prison of perpetual interdiction, lest humankind corrupt other ecosystems and civilizations.
The Jews who rejected Christ sent to redeem us and dethrone all Luciferian orders based on the Satanic principles that “might makes right” and “the ends justify the means”, are generally most of the Jews of today, working hand in glove with the various Masonic orders, under the guidance of the Rothschild money-power octopus, and in total control of the very corrupt US deep state, and our equally corrupt governments and propaganda outlets. In the salvific divide between Christian universalism and international Jewish exclusiveness, the Jews were not just “excluded” for their rejection of Christ, in fact they chose and preferred to be be separate and apart. They chose to be “in” Christendom but not to be “of” it.
Religiously, their justification was that they were dispersed from their homeland, and therefore entitled to do everything in their power to get it back from the inferior goyim, their long histories of persecutions in the foreign nations, they say mainly arising from their superior intelligence and successes. The problem is that in their overt resistance to the Caesar’s of the world, and in particular to the Roman legions of the Flavian dynasty, they mixed their own blood with the Romans ways of Satan and not with the ways of God, and that as a result they have been at war with the rest of the world ever since. They look upon their own dispersion as the only dispersion of peoples which ever mattered, and they ack any real universal basis or empathy in their creed to judge such horrors, crimes, and injustices as fundamentally evil, unless done to themselves.
“Everything for Israel”, complain the Jews who have assimilated to the universal standards of God’s decency and goodness to others in “foreign” nations. Indeed, they must wonder if their leaders will whump up again the bogyman of antisemitism as a pretext to send them packing as “settlers” to fill the newly conquered territories being gobbled up for the Greater Israel Project. However, don’t worry, not all will go as, because the international Jewish money power has vast holdings in the West, and it needs to continue to maintain and cultivate them, to enable them to control more and more with their various Anglo, Chinese and other foreign partners they are using.
“To Sid Levine, reclining in his heavy armchair, nursing a cigar in his fat lips, what he heard was a music more beautiful than a symphony of many strings. It meant to him the delicious murmurings of the river of gold which continually poured out of his crooked establishment into the deep pool of his pocket.
He could sit here for hours and see visions of greater delight. The time would come when Sunday Slough was drained of all its treasure, and then he would depart to other fields. But he would go with such experience and such capital that he could afford to start on the grandest scale. He saw clearly that the way to prosperity lies over a pathway paved with golden pavements and with still richer promises. He could afford to pay in gold; he could afford still better to pay with hopes that never would be fulfilled. When he considered the greatness of his winnings in the town of Sunday Slough and the small percentages which he had delivered over to his helpers ……, he felt that he was being especially set aside from the ordinary race of men.”
Frederick Faust (a.k.a. Max Brand) – Drifters Vengeance, 1932
“Russia’s exclusion from the commemorations marking the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation is not just a diplomatic snub – it is an insult to history and to the memory of millions who suffered and died during World War II. This decision, part of a growing trend of historical revisionism, diminishes the decisive role played by the Soviet Union in defeating Nazi Germany and liberating concentration camps, including Auschwitz. It’s a troubling development that undermines the lessons of the past in favor of political expediency.” – From RT 611719-russia-exclusion-auschwitz-commemorations
What comes next on the greater Israel agenda is already here/everywhere.
“Tech billionaire Elon Musk appeared virtually at a campaign event for a far-right German political party on Saturday, where he urged listeners not to be ashamed of their country’s history…. ‘It’s good to be proud of German culture and German values, and not to lose that in some sort of multiculturalism that dilutes everything,’ Musk said.”
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/27/nx-s1-5276084/elon-musk-german-far-right-afd-holocaust
Where is Carli Jones when the world needs him? Nazis everywhere!
david irving newsletter
gas ovens bullshit
http://www.wearswar.com/2023/09/10/matthew-ghobrial-cockerill-vs-thomas-dalton-debate-discussing-jean-claud
What is the difference between Eretz and Erets Israel. The Zeta (Hebrew is in freehand, Greek backwards just as all the idiots that are goy in freemasonry and Templars use) means ALL LAND| ON THE EARTH.
It is the same as Oz and Os …
The west is, according to the Rabbinical majority, are stupid trying multiple forms of unification and failing at every level while giving all their intellectual property, weapons and massive amounts of money to these Turkic Mongrels whose documents and un-holy books are are nothing more that blasphemy and and anathema to creator and creation.
Few if any of the characters are legitimate having no history but in the lies of these monsters. Bobby Fischer has stated that if any form of decency is to come to this earth, 10 million or more Jews should be eliminated just as the real abomination of WWII was the Morganthau plan just putting any German in massive pens with no protection and food being minimal and and having to drink their urine.
Those who support these monsters Golem as they have no soul and have wiped out well over 1 billion over the last 2000 years.
I have no respect for any Abram faith and the worst are the Saturn worshippers (Sabbat which includes thousands of years of blood sacrifice and are equal to what would be the children of Set which both are of the neutral of absolute BLACK.
No life will be left as the Talmuds state the elimination of the 3 spheres of creation and we are nearly there but no one is so blind as those who are companions of what are truly Halel (the shining one(s) are the devil incarnate and their fruit proves it).
The majority of man will wipe out all living things and become part of what would be the Borg, a singularity that you are already becoming if you breath and especially if you take in the WHO shots. May those who follow those who are the Devil as there are many acting as a hive mind of one, rot eternally in HEL (look at the Scandinavian Cabala as it is vastly more accurate and not a bunch of slop which no consistent direction just as the Turkic Mongrel books are as their OT is an abomination and perversion of the Phoenicians, Egyptians and especially the Indians and Greek (Minoans) which the last two are vastly older than any other by several orders of magnitude.