{"id":297882,"date":"2024-11-03T07:08:18","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T07:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=297882"},"modified":"2024-11-04T08:20:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T08:20:25","slug":"the-war-against-the-palestinians-must-go-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=297882","title":{"rendered":"The War Against the Palestinians Must Go On"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philip Giraldi \u2013 The Unz Review Nov 1, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The sucking up to Israel and its backers by the political class in America never seems go away. Indeed, it if anything increases during the lead up to national elections. In the latest manifestation of Judeophilia, Rudy Giuliani, self-described as \u201cAmerica\u2019s Mayor,\u201d has now informed us that \u201cThey [the Israelis] are our best friends. I worked for Ronald Reagan for eight years and Ronald Reagan said that we have to always be there for Israel because Israel is always there for us! Hamas is not there for us, the Iranians are not there for us, they want to kill us and the Palestinians are taught to kill us at two years old! They won\u2019t let a Palestinian in Jordan. They won\u2019t let a Palestinian in Egypt. And [Kamala] Harris wants to bring them to you! They may have good people, I don\u2019t care, but I won\u2019t take a risk with people that are taught to kill Americans at two! I\u2019m on the side of Israel! You\u2019re on the side of Israel! Donald Trump is on the side of Israel! And they [the Democrats] are on the side of the terrorists.\u201d<\/p>\n

Giuliani said all that and more at a Donald Trump election rally in New York\u2019s Madison Square Garden, where he was breathing fire in a speech<\/a> [at minute 17:27] that one media outlet described as \u201cunhinged\u201d to rouse the overflow crowd to hate Israel\u2019s enemies, which apparently includes the Democratic Party if they should regain the presidency. I would not want to disagree with a man of Giuliani\u2019s psycho-phantasmagoric stature about facts, but I do not recall when the United States was actually threatened by Israel\u2019s enemies to include Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran or a place we once called Palestine, but then again, I am getting older and my memory might be failing. Nor can I recall anything at all that Israel has done for what was once my country apart from take huge bundles of our tax money equivalent to one quarter of a trillion dollars while also corrupting our politicians and undermining both our rule of law and our Bill of Rights, but, then again, blame it on my memory since I cannot imagine a warm and friendly chap like Benjamin Netanyahu doing anything nasty or naughty.<\/p>\n

In trying to score political points, Giuliani does not seem to get that the adoration of the Jewish state is a bipartisan thing, that the US government, no matter who wins elections, will continue to supply the Israelis with money and weapons to expel or kill as many of its neighbors as possible. The carnage will create a new metaphoric \u201cland without people\u201d empty space between the Euphrates and Nile Rivers that will become a great nursery for establishing and populating the Eretz or \u201cGreater Israel\u201d Chosen by Yahweh to rule the Middle East.<\/p>\n

One good thing about Giuliani and his master Donald Trump is that they do not even pretend to want to help Palestinians and other \u201clesser breeds without the law\u201d to resist the occupation and eradication by their Jewish masters. Trump would like to have the job of extermination finished so Israel\u2019s public relations image would not be further damaged. Kamala, on the other hand, would keep handing out weapons and money while piously calling for a cease fire, an objective that is routinely rejected by a stern Netanyahu. How the Biden-Harris rule of foreign relations vis-\u00e0-vis the Middle East operates is to pretend one thing while doing something else. It has been reported that<\/a> Biden\u2019s peace negotiators Amos Hochstein, an Israeli who served in the IDF, and Brett McGurk, who were ostensibly working to help avoid expansion of the Gaza crisis into Lebanon, were doing quite the opposite. They have been working \u201cbehind the scenes\u201d to encourage Israel, and they are now describing Israel\u2019s Lebanon operations that have included a major land invasion as a \u201chistory-defining moment\u201d \u2014 one that will \u201creshape the Middle East for the better for years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

And there\u2019s more. The US Ambassador to Lebanon one Lisa Johnson has been meeting with<\/a> the various parties and groups that make up the Lebanese government and its social and religious mix with a proposal that it organize to prepare the country for a \u201cpost-Hezbollah era\u201d by mobilizing \u201cinternal\u201d forces to eliminate the Islamic resistance movement while it is engaged in fighting the Israeli Army. Johnson, a Joe Biden appointee to her post, certainly reflects White House and State Department thinking on the Middle East. She reportedly told Lebanese politicians, \u201cIsrael cannot achieve everything through war; it\u2019s time for you to do your part and launch an internal uprising under the banner of \u2018Enough.\u2019 The Lebanese people must show their desire to rise-up and get rid of Hezbollah.\u201d Johnson challenged the politicians, \u201cWhy do you seem afraid? Hezbollah has been defeated, its leadership is destroyed, and we are with you, and the entire free world stands by your side\u2026 We do not only want to limit Hezbollah\u2019s influence, but we will strike its support lines, and we are working non-stop to bring down the regime in Iran as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Someone should remind Ms. Johnson as well as McGurk and Hochstein that we are not legally at war with Lebanon, nor with Iran, and nor even with the Palestinians whose genocide we are enabling. The reality is that Gaza and Lebanon are America\u2019s war in the sense that Israel\u2019s onslaught against its neighbors would not be either possible or sustainable without Washington picking up the costs and supplying the weapons. A recently released report by the Israeli news outlet Calcalist reviewed Israeli military spending<\/a> on wars since fighting began on October 7th<\/sup>. It determined that Washington has over the past year funded directly 70% of Tel Aviv\u2019s total military costs. That has amounted to more than $20 billion in military aid, a figure close to the $22.57 billion<\/a> estimated by several US sources including Brown University\u2019s highly respected Cost of War Project which has likewise looked at the numbers. And, one assumes there are also substantial hidden expenses consisting of armaments shipped directly from US arsenals without any accounting procedure as well as money concealed in other projects. As a bottom line, one has to conclude without direct US support, Netanyahu\u2019s war would simply be unaffordable for the Jewish state. Calcalist concludes that \u201cTherefore, it is doubtful whether this war would have been conducted as it is \u2013 neither in intensity nor in scope \u2013 without the American assistance.\u201d So in a very real sense it is and has been America\u2019s war while the secret objective by the US government to destroy Hezbollah as well as Hamas and even overthrow the regime in Iran indicates clearly that Netanyahu\u2019s hegemonical and genocidal plan to make Israel the supreme power in the Middle East is shared by many in Washington.<\/p>\n

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 <\/em>inform@cnionline.org<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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There\u2019s little to choose the two candidates in the upcoming election in regard to foreign policy. Particularly when it comes to Israel. As witness, a recent speech in support of Trump given by Rudy Giuliani<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39258,"featured_media":297883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7-10-gaza-war","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39258"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=297882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297884,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297882\/revisions\/297884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/297883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}