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John Whitehead (Rutherford.org): The White House Goes Rogue: Secret Surveillance Program Breaks All the Laws

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Michael Shellenberger (Substack.com): Politicians Urge Censorship Of The Disasters They Create

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Michel Chossudovsky (Globalresearch.ca) There Never Was a “New Virus”, There Never was a Pandemic

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Adam Dick (Ronpaulinstitute.org): House Resolution Calls Criticism of Israel Antisemitism

Craig Murray (Craigmurray.org.uk): No Ceasefire in the Propaganda War

Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo (Antiwar.com): Rape, ISIS, Mein Kampf and Other Lies: How Israel Lost All Credibility

Gareth Porter (Consortiumnews.com): Israeli Deceit & the Ongoing Battle of Shifa Hospital

Caitlin Johnstone (Caitlinjohnstone.com.au) White House Fears Pause In Fighting Will Let Journalists See What’s Been Happening In Gaza

Laurence Vance (Lewrockwell.com): Warvangelicals, Dispensationalism, and Israel

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Aaron Maté (Aaronmate.net): Biden Endorses Israel’s War to Eliminate Gaza

Daniel Larison (Substack.com): The Starvation of Gaza Is a Crime

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Laurence Vance (FFF.org): Reform, Replace, or Repeal?

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Jim Hoft (Thegatewaypundit.com): Here We Go: Marxist Governor Hochul Announces New York’s ‘Ministry of Truth’ Initiative for K-12 Students to Combat “Conspiracy Theories, Misinformation, Disinformation and Online Hate”

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Marc Owen Jones (Thedailybeast.com): Israel’s Comically Bad Disinfo Proves They’re Losing the PR War

David Stockman (Lewrockwell.com): Speaker Johnson’s First and Last Hurrah

James Carden (Antiwar.com): Tel Aviv’s Man in Washington

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Were the Hamas Attacks in Israel a False Flag?

Here is my latest article on Activist Post, Were the Hamas Attacks in Israel a False Flag?

November 16, 2023

The October 7th Hamas attack on Israelis has been referred to as “Israel’s 9/11,” which gives us good reason to believe that it was probably another false flag psy-op.

Some people really do believe it was a false flag, i.e. that the Israeli regime allegedly knew that it was being planned and let it happen.

As Paul Craig Roberts notes, how could Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency not know this was being planned? Don’t Israeli intelligence and military have the most sophisticated and comprehensive monitoring and surveillance of the Israeli sheeple and of Palestinians and of Hamas? 

The planning allegedly was going on for 2 years. Really?

And there were warnings from other countries or intelligence agencies, including Egypt who had warned the Israelis of a terrorist attack being planned, warnings ignored.

In any event, the official narrative of “surprise” attack is just not believable. A possible motive for a false flag op as reported by Jonathan Cook is a planned expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza to Sinai which is controlled by Egypt, an ethnic cleansing plan allegedly under way since at least 2007, according to Cook.

Many people dismiss such allegations as “conspiracy theory.” But would it really be that surprising that government-employed losers would intentionally allow a terrorist attack to occur, and for the sake of implementing a plan of ethnic cleansing of an entire population whose presence is inconvenient?

After all, government bureaucracies generally attract psychopaths. The worst of the worst, as F.A. Hayek had noted.

And now we are learning that there is a high probability that many of the Israelis killed on October 7th were killed by the Israeli military (IDF) itself, possibly as high as 80% of the Israeli deaths, according to Scott Ritter. And Ron Unz described the IDF as possibly “trigger-happy Apache pilots”. It has also been difficult for Israeli authorities to distinguish between many killed Israeli and Palestinian bodies.

But there is some history that is important here. The fact that Israel contributed to the creation of the Hamas organization is quite relevant to the allegation of false flag ops.

Justin Raimondo noted that the Israelis promoted the organization that later became Hamas for the purposes of discouraging Palestinians from supporting the Palestine Liberation Organization and Yasser Arafat as well as to cause blowback.

In a conscious effort to undermine the Palestine Liberation Organization and the leadership of Yasser Arafat, in 1978 the government of then-Prime Minister Menachem Begin approved the application of Sheik Ahmad Yassin to start a “humanitarian” organization known as the Islamic Association, or Mujama. The roots of this Islamist group were in the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood, and this was the seed that eventually grew into Hamas – but not before it was amply fertilized and nurtured with Israeli funding and political support.

Begin and his successor, Yitzhak Shamir, launched an effort to undercut the PLO, creating the so-called Village Leagues, composed of local councils of handpicked Palestinians who were willing to collaborate with Israel – and, in return, were put on the Israeli payroll. Sheik Yassin and his followers soon became a force within the Village Leagues. This tactical alliance between Yassin and the Israelis was based on a shared antipathy to the militantly secular and leftist PLO: the Israelis allowed Yassin’s group to publish a newspaper and set up an extensive network of charitable organizations, which collected funds not only from the Israelis but also from Arab states opposed to Arafat.

This “blowback” principle applies to Hamas not only insofar as Israel was involved in funding and encouraging Mujama, but also, after the consolidation of Hamas as an armed group, due to Israeli military policy. The much-touted “withdrawal,” which amounts to Israel giving up Gaza while strengthening its hand elsewhere in the occupied territories, has been grist for the radical Islamist mill, as has the Wall of Separation and the attempt to quash the vote in East Jerusalem. Israel’s relentless offensive against its perceived enemies – first Fatah, now Hamas and Islamic Jihad – has created a backlash and solidified support for fundamentalist extremist factions in the Palestinian community.

And see this and this.

Besides the Israeli regime helping to foster an Islamic extremist terrorist group, Hamas, Al-Qaeda was also partially trained and funded by CIA.

See “MI6 ‘halted bid to arrest bin Laden’” on the Guardian and “Mainstream Media Finally Reports on U.S. Funding of Terror” on The New American for info.

Those examples of government-employed buffoonery have been a decades-long part of Western governments’ history of exploiting the more primitive Islamic cultures toward the end of Western regimes’ foreign policy goal of “creating monsters to destroy” to justify the expansion of the national security (sic) state and all its tax-funded largess.

Another example, in 2017 Islamic State or ISIS claimed responsibility for the London stabbing attack that killed 8 and injured 48 people. According to British historian Mark Curtis, author of Secret Affairs: Britain’s Collusion with Radical Islam, one of the 3 attackers had allegedly been “trained by U.K. and U.S. ‘liaison’ officers,” as part of a “covert” op in Libya, as other terrorists get trained to fight in Syria against the regimes the U.S. and U.K governments don’t like. Western regimes train would-be terrorists, who then go on to commit acts of … terrorism. And on and on.

So Western government bureaucrats, especially in the U.S. and U.K., have a history of radicalizing Muslims. As I wrote in this 2017 blog post,

In this article, Curtis states that the Manchester bombing was blowback from “overt and covert actions of British governments.” And Nafeez Ahmed in this article says that the “terrorists who rampaged across London on the night of 3 June were part of a wider extremist network closely monitored by MI5 for decades. The same network was heavily involved in recruiting Britons to fight with jihadist groups in Syria, Iraq and Libya.”

You see, this government bureaucrat-type of idiocy, attempting to manipulate and control hostile factions in society, seems to result in blowback. 

Do bureaucrats never learn from their past mistakes? Or do “intelligence” and “national security” bureaucrats just like blowback?

Why would bureaucrats like blowback? Because of the bureaucrats’ extravagant government budgets at taxpayer expense. As I have maintained especially in this article, the involuntary, confiscatory income tax is the biggest enabler of government criminality ever. Removing the involuntary income tax is an “existential threat” to said government “security” apparatchiks.

Other examples of murderous Western government actions that have resulted in catastrophic blowback include President George H.W. Bush’s 1991 starting a whole new war of aggression against Iraq, even though Iraq was not a threat to the U.S. 

In 1991 the U.S. military bombed and destroyed Iraqi civilian water and sewage treatment centers and then imposed sanctions on the Iraqis, which prevented the Iraqis from rebuilding, which forced the Iraqi civilian population to have to use untreated water, which led to skyrocketing disease and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocents by the mid-1990s, and then hundreds of thousands more by the year 2000.

The September 11th attacks in 2001 were clearly blowback from the decade of violence, bombings and murders by U.S. military in Iraq and the U.S. government’s other invasions, occupations and support of repressive regimes leading up to that time.

So my question is, was the George H.W. Bush regime starting a whole new war in the Middle east in 1991 intentionally to cause the blowback of a 9/11 nature? Are bureaucrats that insane?

What do you think is going to happen when you bomb and destroy people’s water supply and sewage treatment centers? (Which the Israelis are doing to Gaza right now, by the way.)

Another example of that insane motive could be that after 9/11, and after the younger President George W. Bush followed in his father’s warmongering footsteps by starting another war of aggression in Iraq as well as a war in Afghanistan, during the mid-2000s the Bush administration helped Iraq and Afghanistan concoct new Constitutions.

Not a Constitution promoting freedom and individual rights, mind you. Nope. The new Iraq Constitution, still in place, declared Iraq to be an Islamic state under repressive Sharia Law. Why would the Bush administration agree to this?

The new Afghanistan Constitution was the same, although since 2021 Afghanistan now has no Constitution and an even more repressive society. Thanks, George W. Bush.

Prior to the 1990s, the U.S. government armed Iraq and helped Saddam Hussein gas Iranians during the 1980s Iran-Iraq War. (If only the rulers had listened to George Washington!)

Even further back, there were the hostilities between the U.S. and Iran. American “conservatives,” foreign interventionists and neocons are still angry at Iran for taking Americans hostage in 1979 at the time of the Iranian Revolution, which itself was blowback for the CIA’s supporting the Shah of Iran’s repressive SAVAK police state and torture, which followed CIA’s 1953 “Operation Ajax” coup in Iran (that was partly in the name of expropriating Iran’s oil for the British).

The U.S.-backed SAVAK police state kept Iranians in fear of their own government, much like what many Americans fear now thanks to the gestapo-like tactics of the Obama/Biden DOJ and FBI in Amerika.

So, did U.S. government bureaucrats, CIA and Pentagon, intend to cause the radicalization of Islam believers in Iran during the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s?

Iranians living in such repressive conditions in society as imposed by the American CIA-supported SAVAK had to have been a major contributor to the radicalizing of Iranians’ Islamic religion, from the 1950s coup leading up to the 1979 Iranian Islamic Revolution.

Since 1979 the Iranian opposition to the repressive Islamic regime, the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MeK), during the earlier years following the 1979 Revolution had been involved in terrorist acts of assassinations and bombings, and was listed as an official terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department.

That is worth noting here, because U.S. government bureaucrats and their hangers-on had been caught giving paid speeches on behalf of the Iranian MeK, while the MeK was on the U.S. government’s list of terrorist organizations. 

Meanwhile, other people mainly non-involved Muslims had been imprisoned for the crime of providing “material support for terrorism,” as Glenn Greenwald pointed out in 2012.

But some of the American statist lackeys who were supposedly “providing material support” for the officially designated terrorist organization MeK included, according to Greenwald, “Rudy Giuliani, Howard Dean, Michael Mukasey, Ed Rendell, Andy Card, Lee Hamilton, Tom Ridge, Bill Richardson, Wesley Clark, Michael Hayden, John Bolton, Louis Freeh — and Fran Townsend,” a bunch of neocons, interventionist apparatchiks and “national security” swamp creatures.

And get this. In his subsequent article on the red-faced U.S. government’s 2012 de-listing of the MeK as an official terrorist organization, Greenwald notes,

What makes this effort all the more extraordinary are the reports that MEK has actually intensified its terrorist and other military activities over the last couple of years. In February, NBC News reported, citing US officials, that “deadly attacks on Iranian nuclear scientists are being carried out by [MEK]” as it is “financed, trained and armed by Israel’s secret service”. While the MEK denies involvement, the Iranian government has echoed these US officials in insisting that the group was responsible for those assassinations. NBC also cited “unconfirmed reports in the Israeli press and elsewhere that Israel and the MEK were involved in a Nov. 12 explosion that destroyed the Iranian missile research and development site at Bin Kaneh, 30 miles outside Tehran”.

In April, the New Yorker’s Seymour Hersh reported that the US itself has for years provided extensive training to MEK operatives, on US soil (in other words, the US government provided exactly the “material support” for a designated terror group which the law criminalizes).

In other words, your tax dollars at work, folks.

More info on the U.S. and Iranian MeK here.

And if the October 7th Hamas attack really was an intentional false flag from the blowback of Israel’s “open air imprisonment” of Gazans for 15 years, it could also have been allowed as an excuse for the government to expand even further the police state, the surveillance state cracking down even more on speech and on “disinformation,” and on people who question the government’s official narratives or who criticize the regime. And I mean in the U.S. not just Israel.

Throughout the history of the West, the U.S., Israel, and other governments, false flag acts of violence have been planned and committed in order to blame the violence on others or effect in some desired central planning outcome. 

Washington’s Blog, which apparently no longer exists, had this very detailed list (Wayback Machine link) of the many false flag ops admitted to by governments and militaries. For instance,

The British government admits that – between 1946 and 1948 – it bombed 5 ships carrying Jews who were Holocaust survivors attempting to flee to safety in Palestine right after World War II, set up a fake group called “Defenders of Arab Palestine”, and then had the psuedo-group falsely claim responsibility for the bombings…

Israel admits that in 1954, an Israeli terrorist cell operating in Egypt planted bombs in several buildings, including U.S. diplomatic facilities, then left behind “evidence” implicating the Arabs as the culprits (one of the bombs detonated prematurely, allowing the Egyptians to identify the bombers, and several of the Israelis later confessed)…

The CIA admits that it hired Iranians in the 1950′s to pose as Communists and stage bombings in Iran in order to turn the country against its democratically-elected prime minister…

The British Prime Minister admitted to his defense secretary that he and American president Dwight Eisenhower approved a plan in 1957 to carry out attacks in Syria and blame it on the Syrian government as a way to effect regime change…

The former Italian Prime Minister, an Italian judge, and the former head of Italian counterintelligence admit that NATO, with the help of the Pentagon and CIA, carried out terror bombings in Italy and other European countries in the 1950s through the 1980s and blamed the communists, in order to rally people’s support for their governments in Europe in their fight against communism.

As one participant in this formerly-secret program stated: “You had to attack civilians, people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for greater security”…[Washington’s Blog further expands on this item with several more links.]

As admitted by the U.S. government, recently declassified documents show that in 1962, the American Joint Chiefs of Staff signed off on a plan to blow up AMERICAN airplanes (using an elaborate plan involving the switching of airplanes), and also to commit terrorist acts on American soil, and then to blame it on the Cubans in order to justify an invasion of Cuba. See the following ABC news report; the official documents; and watch this interview with the former Washington Investigative Producer for ABC’s World News Tonight with Peter Jennings…                                                               

A Mossad agent admits that, in 1984, Mossad planted a radio transmitter in Gaddaffi’s compound in Tripoli, Libya which broadcast fake terrorist transmissions recorded by Mossad, in order to frame Gaddaffi as a terrorist supporter. Ronald Reagan bombed Libya immediately thereafter…

The U.S. falsely blamed Iraq for playing a role in the 9/11 attacks – as shown by a memo from the defense secretary – as one of the main justifications for launching the Iraq war.

Even after the 9/11 Commission admitted that there was no connection, Dick Cheney said that the evidence is “overwhelming” that al Qaeda had a relationship with Saddam Hussein’s regime, that Cheney “probably” had information unavailable to the Commission, and that the media was not ‘doing their homework’ in reporting such ties. Top U.S. government officials now admit that the Iraq war was really launched for oil … not 9/11 or weapons of mass destruction…

Washington’s Blog included many more false flag ops by many countries’ governments on the long list there.

Israeli rulers allegedly seeking to expel the Arabs from their Jewish State is a possible motive for a false flag op. And possible motive by the Western central-planning regimes in keeping Gaza, Iran, Iraq and other Islamic-based cultures “oppressed,” poor, primitive and repressive, and their populations angered and enraged at Western governments’ manipulations and false flag ops, in my view, might be so that the U.S. and the West would continue to dominate economically and culturally, as well as for the greedy parasites in those governments to expropriate the oil and natural resources of those lands. 

And to justify the continuation of the greedy Western government bureaucrats’ extravagant tax-funded budgets and high-off-the-hog largess, of course.

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The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Haters and Racists on Both Sides

Here is my latest article on Activist Post, The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Haters and Racists on Both Sides

November 10, 2023

Israelis are calling the large scale terrorist attack by Hamas against Israelis on October 7, 2023 their “9/11.” Over 1,400 Israelis were killed and over 200 people were taken hostage. The Israeli military’s response has been massive, so far killing over 10,000 Palestinians, according to the Ministry of Health in Ramallah.

While the massive pro-Palestinian protests worldwide promoting peace and ending the violence are commendable, it is unfortunate that there are some people openly defending Hamas and its terror attacks on innocents in Israel. 

And the violent anti-Muslim, anti-Arab attacks and anti-Jewish attacks here in the U.S. are sickening.

But the “conservative” talk radio personalities that I listen to are also sickening now in their constantly repeating of Israel First propaganda. No objectivity whatsoever with them. 

After years and years of the talk radio crowd’s countering and debunking the “Trump-Russia collusions” and Covid propaganda and official narratives, you would think that the talk radio crowd would attempt to allow some non-Israel First propaganda to enter the discussion. Nope.

And as soon as the new Speaker of the House was installed, Mike Johnson, the first item on his agenda? Israel First. (Not America First. Not Freedom First. Not “Cut taxes, cut spending first.” Nope.)

Sadly, the conservatives and talk radio crowd are in lockstep with the 51st State, with emotionalistic rhetoric and ignorant commentary, not rationality.

And no, I don’t believe there will ever be a peaceful resolution to the conflicts in Israel/Gaza, because there are haters and racists on both sides, and who dehumanize one another. This crap has been going on for a century in Israel, since well before the founding of the current state of Israel in 1948.

And yes, both sides have plenty of hate and racism to be ashamed of. But we rarely hear about that on the Israeli side. As I wrote in my 2014 article on Zionism,

In Israeli society, anti-Arab racism and discrimination is rampant, whether the censors want that known or not. In a previous article I mentioned “Jim Crow” laws in Israel, and separate buses and schools for Israelis and Palestinians. A 2006 poll conducted by the Center for the Struggle Against Racism found that 68% of Jews polled in Israel would not live in the same apartment building as an Arab, 40% believed that “the state needs to support the emigration of Arab citizens,” almost half would not let an Arab in their homes, and 41% believed that entertainment venues should be segregated. In a similar 2007 poll the Center Against Racism found that more than half of the Jewish respondents believed that a marriage of a Jewish woman to an Arab man is “national treason.”

2010 poll of Israeli high school students conducted by researchers at Maagar Mochot and Tel Aviv University found that half of the students oppose equal rights for Arabs in Israel, and more than half would ban Arabs from serving in the Israeli Knesset. Another 2010 poll of Israeli youth conducted by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the Macro Center for Political Economics found that 46% of the youths would revoke whatever rights Arabs actually do have in Israel. 60% of the youths believed that “strong leadership” was more important than the rule of law, and, when asked how they feel about Arabs, 25% answered, “hate.” (Those who would actually admit it, that is.) And a 2012 poll conducted by Israeli pollsters Israel’s Dialogue also showed large percentages of Israeli Jews approving of official discrimination policies against Arabs and denying Palestinians the right to vote.

Have things changed at all since then? Nope.

In 2016, the Times of Israel wrote:

Nearly half of Jewish Israelis agree that Arabs should be expelled or transferred from Israel, and a solid majority (79 percent) maintain that Jews in Israel should be given preferential treatment, according to a Pew Research Center in Israel survey published on Tuesday.

The poll, with 5,601 in-person interviews of Israeli adults, conducted between October 2014 and May 2015, found that Israeli Jews increasingly believe the West Bank settlements help, rather than hurt, Israel’s security – and most (61%) believe Israel was given by God to the Jewish people.

In 2021 the Haaretz newspaper wrote on a 2020 University of Jerusalem survey:

The center surveyed 1,100 teens aged 16-18 who constitute a representative sample of Israel’s different “tribes” – secular, religious Zionist, Haredi and Arab. The questionnaires were filled out between May and July, 2020, before the second coronavirus lockdown…

The survey found that a significant portion of teens view other groups as unfriendly or as having low abilities. About 60% of Haredi teens and 40% of religious Zionists view Arabs that way. Similarly, around half of Arabs and 37% of secular teens view Haredim that way.

Fully 49% of religious Zionists and 23% of secular Jews favored stripping Arabs of the right to vote…Religious Zionists also expressed the lowest support for the idea that minorities deserve equal rights.

Secular Jews and Arabs were the most willing to meet members of other groups, Haredim the least. Religious Zionists were specifically unwilling to meet with Arabs. Only secular Jews expressed relatively high willingness to improve relations with all the other groups.

Arabs are the group most feared and hated by Jews of all kinds. This view was expressed by 24%, 42% and 66%, respectively of secular, religious Zionist and Haredi teens. For secular and Arab teens, hatred is dispersed among several groups; among Haredim and religious Zionists, it is more focused on Arabs.

In 2022, the Israel Hayom newspaper wrote on a different survey:

The survey, which examined the Israeli sense of security and governance among a sample of 1,068 Jews and Arabs aged 18 and over, further derived that 75% of the country’s Arab citizens believe Jews have no right to sovereignty in the land of Israel, while only 25% said that they gave this right.

However, asked where their loyalties would lie in case of an existential battle between Israel and Arab states, 26% of Arab Israelis said they would support the Jewish state, 23% would back the Arab aggressors, and 51% said they would not support any of the warring parties.

The poll further showed that Arab Israelis place little if any faith in the country’s law enforcement agencies: 66% of all Israelis said they distrust the Israel Police, and within the Arab sector, the figure jumped to 73%.

Hmmm, I’m glad I don’t live in Israel. So, there are a lot of indoctrinated people on both sides. We don’t hear about the Israeli racists from the usual U.S. corporate media or talk radio, just the stories about the fanatical Islamists among Palestinians, it seems.

And the hatred and collectivist mentality in Israel is at the official level. As I further wrote in my 2014 article:

Regarding Gaza and the “Arab question” and the sentiment of a “Jewish State” meaning that only Jews may live in Israel, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, a former member of Rabbi Meir Kahane’s far-right militant Kach Party that was banned in Israel, has called for an Israel free of Arabs, and for Israel to give the Gaza Strip a “thorough cleansing.” Lieberman also believes that Israel needs to treat Hamas in Gaza as the U.S. treated the Japanese at the end of World War II.

And following in Lieberman’s collectivist footsteps, the late Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s son, Gilad Sharon, had written an op-ed in 2012 stating that, ”We need to flatten entire neighborhoods in Gaza. Flatten all of Gaza. The Americans didn’t stop with Hiroshima — the Japanese weren’t surrendering fast enough, so they hit Nagasaki, too. There should be no electricity in Gaza, no gasoline or moving vehicles, nothing.”

Also in 2012 the former Minister of Internal Affairs Eli Yishai said of the Israeli Operation Pillar of Defense attack on Gaza, “The goal of the operation is to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages, only then will Israel be calm for the next 40 years.” At that time, Knesset member Michael Ben-Ari declared, “There are no innocents in Gaza,” and he urged Israel to “mow them down!”

More recently following the Hamas October 7th attacks on Israelis, Knesset member Revital Gotliv of the Likud Party tweeted, “Jericho Missile! Jericho Missile! Strategic alert. before considering the introduction of forces. Doomsday weapon!…”

So she wants to nuke the Arabs? That’s what it sounds like.

Those kinds of statements are not rare among Israeli officials and public figures. In a recent editorial in Haaretz, “Racism Towards Arab Israelis Starts with Netanyahu,” the editorial board wrote,

“The pursuit of Jewish supremacy, discrimination against Israel’s Arab citizens and the deepening of the occupation is Benjamin Netanyahu’s life’s work…(In) 2003, he declared, ‘We have a demographic problem, but it lies not with the Palestinian Arabs, but with the Israeli Arabs’ who will remain Israeli citizens…

“Initially there was the limitation on political expression in Arab society and later the false claim that ‘the Arabs are going to the polls in droves’ and the nation-state legislation that established Jewish supremacy in Israel’s Basic Laws…

“…His government is apathetic to the wave of murders in Arab communities and to crime organizations’ taking control of the lives of hundreds of thousands of citizens. It denies the existence of Jewish terrorism in the West Bank, which members of the government coalition are openly encouraging…”

The racism in Israel isn’t reserved just by Israeli Jews against Arabs, but also against black Israelis and African immigrants. Writing on “Israel’s Anti-Black Pogrom,” the late antiwar foreign policy analyst Justin Raimondo wrote in 2013,

…in southern Tel Aviv, Israel, where Likud member of the Knesset Miri Regev – a former IDF spokesperson and prominent political figure – led a well-organized march of ultra-nationalists demanding the expulsion of all blacks from Israel. Just look at the ugliness of these people – listen to them screaming “White Power”! And here are the Jewish Hitlers, proclaiming their desire to set up a “Jewish monarchy.” A few extremists? No. Israel’s Interior Minister has pledged to ship all blacks back to Africa…

Rising ultra-nationalist star Naftali Bennett, of the religious fundamentalist “Jewish Home” party, is demanding their immediate expulsion in order to preserve the “purity” of the Jewish state. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for his part, has pledged to get rid of the Africans in short order, and ordered the construction of a “security fence” bordering the Sinai, where most of the refugees turn up seeking asylum from Africa’s wars.

They come from Sudan, Eritrea, and Ethiopia, for the most part, victims of the constant conflict that has made East Africa a bloody battlefield for many years. As Israel has made a concerted effort to boost arms sales to African nations, including Ethiopia, where many of the refugees come from, the influx can be seen as blowback – otherwise known as karma.

But the main conflict in Israel is still between Jewish Israelis and Arabs, Palestinians. In 2018 the Knesset approved a new law affirming Israel’s Jewish supremacy over the rights of Arabs and other non-Jews. Prior to that, a law was approved which required “all new non-Jewish citizens to swear loyalty to Israel’s status as a ‘Jewish’ state,” according to Antiwar.com.

Perhaps it is better for a society to just be a free society? Let people think and believe what they want? Ya think? Perhaps Israel would be a better country if it were based on more of a philosophy of individualism, as America had been based on, and not this collectivism and superiority stuff?

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