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FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Israel, an Apartheid Nation? Of Course!

BY MELVIN GOODMAN

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Israel dismisses charges of “apartheid against Palestinians” as anti-Semitic propaganda, and the United States has been an enabler of Israeli racism over the years with its hands-off attitudes toward the inhumanity of Israeli actions on the West Bank and Gaza.  But the tragic death of an elderly Palestinian-American on the West Bank last month highlights the worst aspects of Israeli policy.  The nature of the death, directly due to Israeli brutality and negligence, amounts to manslaughter.  The outrageously tepid response from the Israeli military’s central command tells us everything we need to know about Israel’s unconscionable occupation policy.

First of all, let’s deal with the issue of Israel as an apartheid nation, which Israeli information policy strongly denies.  When serious human rights violations are committed by one racial group to maintain a system of prolonged oppression of another racial group, as in South Africa from the 1940s to the 1990s, international law refers to this as a crime against humanity or a policy of apartheid.  South Africa’s apartheid sparked intense international and domestic opposition to that country.  This hasn’t been the case with regard to Israel. Nevertheless, the fifty-years of apartheid in South Africa is echoed by the fifty-year period in Israel, starting with the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza in the wake of the Six-Day War in 1967.

The circumstances of the death of Omar Abdelmajed Assad are dispositive.  The man’s village was being patrolled by the Netzah Yehuda battalion, which is manned by Ultra-Orthodox Jews, the most racist element in Israeli society.  Placing any members of an Ultra-Orthodox community in a policing role virtually guarantees that crimes will be committed against Palestinians.  The Israeli human rights organization, B’Tselem, has fully documented the crimes in the occupied areas and has condemned Israeli military investigations of the killing of Palestinians as whitewashing.

The Israeli investigation of this particular incident was far worse than a whitewash; it was unconscionable.  The pathetic nature of the punishment of the battalion, which involved letters of reprimand and a temporary removal of command for the leaders of the battalion, is particularly ugly.  The investigation, moreover, stated that the soldiers used no violence “apart from when Assad was apprehended after refusing to cooperate.”  Eyewitnesses, however, stated that Assad was “severely beaten” and “subjected  to harsh treatment and violence.”  An autopsy established there was a traumatic brain injury as well as internal bleeding in Assad’s eyelids as a result of being tightly blindfolded.  Imagine the consequences if the battalion had inflicted similar punishment on an elderly Jew who simply could not produce identification.

Israeli policy toward Gaza has become far worse, involving relentless and repetitive attacks on innocent civilians since Israel’s disengagement from Gaza in 2005.  In addition to using overwhelming and immoral military force against the Palestinians in Gaza, Israel has limited their use of electricity; forces sewage to be dumped into the sea; makes sure that water remains undrinkable; and ensures fuel shortages that cause sanitation plants to be shut down.  Former President Benjamin Netanyahu and now President Naftali Bennett have maintained policies of enforced desperation among the innocent civilians who live in these conditions.

Gaza is essentially an outdoor prison, and a comparison with the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II would not be far-fetched. Both Gaza and the Warsaw Ghetto point to the inhumanity of man.  Living in such conditions might lead any human being to consider violent resistance as the only recourse.

B’Tselem issued a report last year that documented the violence of Israeli settler’s on the West Bank against Palestinians as well as the misappropriation of land.  Over the years, Israel has built more than 280 settlements in the West Bank, now home to over 450,000 settlers.  More than half of these settlements are outposts—the Israelis refer to them as “farms”—that are not officially recognized by the government.  There are two tracks: the Israeli government takes the land openly, using “official” methods sanctioned by judges; the settlers, however, simply resort to violence against Palestinians.  In Track One, the Israelis expropriate these lands by issuing military orders, declaring an area a “state land,” a “firing zone,” or a “nature reserve.”  In Track Two, regular acts of violence include attacks on Palestinians and their property.  Actually, we are dealing with a single track because the Israeli government fully supports and assists the acts of violence, witness the killing of Assad.

Israelis are particularly sensitive to the apartheid analogy that links them to South Africa, but the “system of controls” in the West Bank and Gaza are comparable to the Bantustans established in South Africa.  The settler colonialism in the occupied territories with its ID system, military checkpoints, and inequities in infrastructure is familiar to students of South African apartheid.  The Israeli argument against the apartheid analogy is particularly feckless, emphasizing that occupied territories are not part of sovereign Israel and are governed by the Palestinian Authority and the Hamas government in Gaza.

Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and B’Tselem believe the “bar for labeling the Israeli regime as apartheid has been met.”  I certainly agree.  But the Wall Street Journal and CNN treat these charges as excessively critical of Israel.

There is no sign that the Bennett government will do anything to stop the violence against the Palestinians or the seizure of Palestinian lands.  The United States, meanwhile, does nothing to put any pressure on Israel.  The Biden administration recently held back $130 million in military aid to Egypt because of violations of human rights. Democratic lawmakers favor ending support to Saudi Arabia’s air force because of the killing of innocent civilians. Is it too much to ask the Biden administration to take similar steps against Israel, which receives more military aid from the United States than any other nation in the world?

Melvin A. Goodman is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and a professor of government at Johns Hopkins University.  A former CIA analyst, Goodman is the author of Failure of Intelligence: The Decline and Fall of the CIA and National Insecurity: The Cost of American Militarism. and A Whistleblower at the CIA. His most recent books are “American Carnage: The Wars of Donald Trump” (Opus Publishing, 2019) and “Containing the National Security State” (Opus Publishing, 2021). Goodman is the national security columnist for counterpunch.org.

A good and very factual description of the sad situation reigning in the Palestinian territories, even in our twenty first century, barbarism, colonialism and apartheid are fully tolerated, only for some unfortunately.  My usual many thanks to all for their time.

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A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER ....

 

From the many closely watched cases that shape daily life in the U.S., one is particularly alarming; Americans are very strongly split along what they perceive as ideological lines, especially so in recent years, on abortion, on guns control, labor unions, wealth distribution and taxation, corporate regulation, gerrymandering and fixing electoral districts, campaign finance and voting rights, even on social benefits and affordable health care for all, as well as spending on renewing our infrastructure and public buildings. another front line victim is our democracy, it is no exaggeration to say that the past few years showed us we are in immediate danger of losing sane democracy. One point they are all agreeable on though, is military budgets and military armament spending and wars. 

Some other points now are emerging and becoming important dividing issues, like personal liberties and the limits set on them, exactly as it's happening with the Covid mandates and vaccination requirements, and more so the whole guns and arms issue, where a Kyle Rittenhouse who shot and killed 3 people with a lethal machine gun during some protest gathering, was acquitted on some funny grounds and a law only applied in some areas and few States. 

One side likes to behave in ways compatible with white male Evangelical supremacy, and extreme right wing, while officially denying it. The other side prefer to call themselves progressive and liberal and look at all Americans as one, regardless of race, gender, religion or ethnicity, they are of course automatically labelled socialists and communists. But both sides are very entrenched and dug in their ideas and pseudo ideologies. 

These differences are rendering life more difficult in general, and civility is quickly vanishing, paralyzing politics, legislating and governing, even inciting violence to enhance specific results. Interfering grossly in all aspects of civilized daily life, as the appointment of judges at all levels of the judiciary system, especially the supreme court. 

The armed forces, until now, are spared these ideological divides, but it's coming, as it found its way already with other forces like local police, FBI, and other agencies and departments. The same divide is infiltrating slowly and surely to all Federal and State agencies. It is reaching alarming stages. 

As we all look at, understand and interpret scientific data, regarding essential issues like climate change, rising sea levels, a clear transition to a clean energy economy, health threats and costs and major pandemics, education curriculum, they are all being interpreted with the same partisan divide and its proponents are accusing the others of treason and blasphemy. 

Is it the beginning of the end for a great nation and a leading super power?? By the looks of it, it's coming fast, and it is not a good prospect for our common future, nor our planet's future. Not good when  only dirty tricks and nasty tactics and violence are openly admitted and applied to win the game. Winning is becoming a goal in itself and on its own, regardless of the price the entire country, its people and the world end up paying. 

   As always, my profound thanks to all my good readers, stay safe and well.                              

PROTECTING OR KILLING AN ELECTION YEAR .....

 

This week's shameful display in the U.S Senate, is one of the worst in many decades and will surely have long term consequences for every coming election. Jointly every Republican Senate member, joined by two very obstructionist and traitors to their party and president Democrats, voted to uphold an old piece of legislation called filibuster, it is a rule that has been used by minority parties to block and delay any legislation i.e. gun control, elections and anti voters games, and racial issues. 

The two Democrat Senators, Manchin of West Virginia and Sinema of Arizona have given the green light and a clear  signal to the far-right anti Democracy extremism that have besieged American democracy for the past year. The sad fact is, the political and financial forces behind anti voter laws, gerrymandered maps, and attempts at outright election sabotage and denial of loss results, will be emboldened by these senators and their Republican colleagues, they are deliberately taking their disgusting political schemes to new lows for this year's elections and future elections as well. 

Meanwhile, in Texas, record numbers of voters are having their registrations rejected under the State's newly introduced ultra strict rules. Even as the State stubbornly refuses to implement secure on line voter registration. Now the State says they're running out of papers registration forms. Florida with its aspiring fascist Governor is asking for special forces or a specialized militia to regulate and observe the entire election process. Missouri Republicans are debating whether to draw a new legislative map that will favor a majority of Republican seats, while trying to fit all of the Democratic seats and their voters into a single ultra-packed district. More than 500 similar piece of legislation are being passed in all Republican controlled States. 

Sadly, this could be just the tip of the iceberg, many more new bills are set to take place, all in one direction, restrict voting power to mostly minorities and people of color. Of course not all Americans agree or approve of these restrictions favoring strictly white supremacy and white male Evangelical conservatism. Democracy is facing unprecedented threats, even when all these legislators knowingly see the veer into fascism. They believe its  their fascist legal era, their right, and their role to secure it. 

This new Republican strategy, under the auspices of the former president, Donald Trump, and his oligarchy and family, are willing to suppress and silence voters in order to secure their winning, and overturn election results that didn't go their way, they've turned repeated Trump's big lies about the 2020 elections into a litmus test, and an entire strategy for the 2022 elections. They have built bigger and more affluent, dangerous on line disinformation networks. they have passed many negative legislations and put many voting stations directly under their control. 

Make no mistake, this year elections will decide the fate of democracy in this country as we know it. and we will deliberately and purposely join the Somalias and afghanistans of the world. It was surely devastating to see 52 (50Republicans+2 pseudo Dem.) choose to uphold an archaic outdated rule, one used strictly to impede and obstruct civil and voting rights, over preventing American democracy from backsliding into ugly forms of totalitarianism and authoritarianism. 

Every American should resist the attempts to destroy what the country upheld for centuries, and to insure that the citizen's rights, all the citizens, are protected and preserved. 

As always, my many thanks to all, stay safe and well.                             

A GOOD AND FACTUAL OPINION .....

 

It’s Starting to Look a Lot Like Treason

Nadin Brzezinski

Dec 20, 2021·3 min read

By Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America — Donald Trump, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=95662264

It’s the time of the year to celebrate in the winter holidays. However, at this time of good cheer and be merry, we are getting confirmation of what many of us suspected. January 6 was treason, and not just because I like the sound of the word. In the very technical sense, it was an attempt to overthrow the government.

I suspected it, from word go. Why? Who was present at the Trump hotel the previous night, and the tours given by representatives. The language used by many Republicans and the refusal to go along into an investigation made this transparent.

Now we got receipts.

The question is what to do with this information at this point?

In an ideal situation, Republican leadership would do more than obstruct, instead, they put their fingers in their ears, and go la, la, la. They would not continue to write fan fiction and misrepresent what happened in far-right, so-called news, spaces. Fox News is hardly alone and should change their name to Fox Fan Fiction at this point.

However, there is a strong minority of the country that is ready for the lies. This is because they want an end to American democracy. They claim otherwise, but democracy demands we allow minorities to vote freely. These are the same people who desire to stop this. This is why electoral laws are shaped to add as many obstacles as possible. This is why cities are centers of degeneracy and electoral fraud in their fevered imagination.

This is why they recoil at critical race theory, a product of law school, and not taught in k-12, no matter what they tell you. The mere idea that we must re-examine American history through a lens of race relations sends them recoiling. Why? This is ideology, that presupposes all that is good with the country is white and Christian. It is an extremely nativist and provincial ideology, that happens to intersect with a global far-right (white supremacy) movement.

This far-right movement feels under threat as people of color secure political power around the world. They also know that they are no longer dominant, partly due to patterns of migration. One explanation for this is a Jewish plot to replace whites, control the media and business, and of course blood libel. All this is recycled antisemitic tropes Donald Trump is part of this, not exceptional.

What we saw on J6 was treason.

I am not going to sugarcoat it.

This was about keeping a white supremacist in power, and not recognizing the democratic process. There were members of Congress who were part of this. There were members of the cabinet or former members of the cabinet who were involved as well.

I am willing to bet that the former president and his family were up to their necks in this. I have suspected this from the beginning.

The question is will the Justice Department act? Going after foot soldiers is always easy. A former president, cabinet members, and members of Congress get a little more tricky. It is eminently political for starters because this DoJ is Democratic. So yes, this will become political in certain spaces. In fact, it already is.

My, as always, many thanks to all, stay safe and well....

A NEW YEAR, A NEW UNDERSTANDING.....

When one is on top of the world, one can afford to be incoherent even weird, and perpetuating lies. Are we discouraged by what is happening in America right now ?? rest assured that it's all by design. And no it's not by Devine design, not even by anyone single religious grouping or religious sect, but there are forces working hard to undermine our democracy, as well as many others around the world, polluting the planet, stoking hatred and planting doubt, and counting seriously on everyone of us to give-up hope. It's easier and more efficient to hit the head or the more influential entity and country and then move to the weaker. And that's exactly what's happening and taking place here in the U.S. 

They want us to believe that the government is always the problem, and never the solution. That the massive wealth gap between the richest one or two percent billionaires and the rest of the population is normal, even healthy, they use prefabricated answers like "these rich people and corporations are the creators of jobs and well being, and good for the economy, so let's cut their taxes, even when they enslave people and millions of workers with barely livable wages." While they amass huge power and colossal fortunes. All a natural extension of "free capitalism, and total lessez fair mentality. Well it's wrong and a big lie.    

They are trying to divide us, from our closest families and friends, even from our neighbors, they are stoking fear by telling us a false story and a big lie of America in which we were perfect from the beginning, and great all the way, while leaving out unpleasant truths about original annihilation of entire populations of natives, ignoring all about slavery, even denying it totally, about colonization and colonialism, racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, and huge inequality in everything. Even today some aspects of our foreign policies, and our allies and pseudo partner's adventurism all indicate that we are still at it big time when we get a chance. 

Our total fear and our total dismissal of certain modern concepts, like social benefits, health for all, education for all, rebuilding our public structures, schools and airports, strengthening our social securities for all needy and elderly retired citizens. all these and others fall under few satanic descriptions;  socialism, communism, dictatorship, lack of absolute freedom, even the freedom to kill under certain excuses and accommodating laws. We are continuously being brainwashed, and that goes to all ages and strata of the population, and lately to some horrific degrees. Terrifying the masses and planting despair. 

Instead of making it our mission, as the most prosperous nation in history, to remedy inequality, and inform millions of Americans and billions globally about our true history, and our current realities, fight together world wide pandemics and what we can all of us do about it, pointing away from despair and apathy, and petty disputes, apartheid and colonialism where they still exist, but looking forward toward hope, dignity, and making sure that change to a better and more stable future are possible and reachable. Because it is possible and doable, and it always has been. 

Why are our politicians willing to pass with no questions, a 780 billion$ annual budget for the Pentagon, while refusing to even fully discuss less than double that amount for over a 10 years period to revive our infrastructure and some other social benefits. Or crying and denouncing a labor shortage, while it doesn't exist, we are living in our lowest unemployment era in decades, but totally ignoring there's a shortage of decent jobs willing to pay workers a descent living wage. Or ignoring that open gun ownership and carry policies are behind the country's most and ugliest mass killings epidemic, The numbers are frightening . 

We have to start seriously analyzing how far we've come and how far we still have to go. And I'm talking about America, admitting that the same type of problems exist and plague many parts of the world. We all have to respond quickly. The first couple decades of our 21st century were strange and a bit apocalyptic, things are generally going to the worse, we need, all of us to stop, rethink, and consider restarting and doing the work of the 21st century and beyond. 

Thanks to all my good readers, wishing you all a good and calm year ahead, stay safe and well.                

   

INTERESTING ANALYSIS .... AND SOME FUNNY CONCLUSIONS ....

 

 

How Do Some Catholic Priests See What Most Evangelical Pastors Don’t See?

By Chuck Baldwin 
December 16, 2021

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One of the most mysterious paradoxes of the modern church is how most evangelical pastors can be so deaf and dumb when it comes to the Biblical Natural Law principles of Liberty. And nothing illustrates that reality any more graphically than the way most evangelical pastors have rolled over and played dead regarding the antichrist Covid narrative. As I have said before in this column, most of the resistance to Fauci’s fascism is coming from outside the church. On the whole, the evangelical church has submitted to the beastly Covid Empire lock, stock and barrel. 

 

By submitting to the beastly Covid narrative, evangelicals have demonstrated that 1) They have zero awareness and discernment regarding all things antichrist and 2) They have zero resistance to all things antichrist. This means that in their heart of hearts, they have already submitted to the spirit of antichrist.

 

This is in spite of the fact that evangelicals claim a born-again relationship with Jesus Christ, which if true, would mean that they would be indwelled with the Holy Spirit, Who Jesus said would “guide [them] into all truth.” (John 16:13) Certainly, this Holy Spirit instruction would reveal the system of antichrist to them.

I have brought several messages over the past 21 months showing from the Scriptures how the Covid narrative is a devilish, beastly, antichrist system.

 

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Here.

 

And here.

 

In my mind, any pastor or Christian who does NOT see the antichrist nature of the Covid narrative is more than blind; he or she is spiritually blind, which casts much doubt on their spiritual confession.

To make it even more perplexing, there are several outspoken anti-Covid narrative priests, bishops and cardinals from the Catholic Church who are courageously resisting the draconian Covid system.

It is a very strange and very sad day when leaders from a false religious system have more understanding regarding the God-given Natural liberties of man than do leaders from within Christian orthodoxy.

 

Story Number One

 

A German cardinal has sparked controversy by claiming that the coronavirus pandemic has been used by the likes of George Soros and Bill Gates to create a global “surveillance state.”

 

The Covid-19 pandemic has sparked “chaos” and “turmoil” stemming not only from the “lacking knowledge” about the transmissibility and danger of the virus itself, but from the will of the super-rich to “snatch an opportunity to bring people in line,” Gerhard Ludwig Mueller said in an interview with Austria’s St. Boniface Institute last week. He is a high-ranking judge at the Vatican court.

 

The world’s financial elites are now using the pandemic and the measures governments take to fight the spread of the virus to subject people to “total control” and establish a global “surveillance state,” he added. The St. Boniface published a video showing a small part of the interview and the cardinal has since confirmed to the German dpa news agency that the footage is genuine.

 

“People, who sit on the throne of their wealth,” see an “opportunity to push through their agenda,” the cardinal said, naming Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, billionaire George Soros and the head of the Davos Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab, among those behind the alleged global control scheme.

The cardinal then accused the global financial elites of an attempt to bring forth “a new man” created “in their own image and likeness,” adding that he would not wish such a fate on himself. “That has nothing to do with democracy,” the former Regensburg bishop, who once headed the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said.

 

Ask yourself, dear evangelical friend, have you heard your pastor say anything like this—even once? If not, why are you still attending a church with such an obviously politically controlled and spiritually silenced pastor?

 

Story Number Two

 

A Catholic priest has slammed vaccine mandates from the pulpit, saying that “no earthly king or president…gets to dictate what we must put into our bodies.”  

Addressing his congregation at Christ the King Church in Towson, Maryland, Father Edward Meeks of the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter used Catholic doctrine to defend the right of bodily autonomy through his homily.

 

Speaking on the feast of Christ the King, November 21, Meeks reminded the congregation that “you and I belong to another realm, another kingdom. This earthly kingdom, this earthly realm is not our home; it is part of our journey.” 

 

Mentioning the “ongoing conflict” within the human being, Meeks noted that in saying that “Jesus is our Lord and King, what we’re saying is that we owe our allegiance and our loyalty first and foremost to Him and to His kingdom.” 

 

“So then how does this principle work itself out in our daily lives, practically speaking?” he asked rhetorically. 

 

Drawing from Scripture, Fr. Meeks defended the right of individuals to refuse forced medical intervention, saying that the body must be cared for since it is a “temple of the Holy Spirit”: 

 

Our King tells us in His written word that our bodies … are temples of the Holy Spirit. First Corinthians, 6:19: “Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God? You are not your own, you were bought with a price, so glorify God in your body.” 

 

Do you believe that? Do you believe that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit? Do you take it seriously? 

 

Among all the other things that that implies – if you do, if you do take it seriously – is this: that no earthly king or president or public health official or billionaire technocrat gets to dictate what we must put into our bodies – into these temples of the Holy Spirit. 

 

For decades, I have been flummoxed by the inability (or unwillingness) of evangelicals to understand the evil, conspiratorial nature of our Enemy. If God would warn the prophets, priests and people of Old Testament Israel of the evil conspiracies of the Enemy in that day (Ezekiel 22:25 – 29; II Samuel 15:12; Jeremiah 11:9) and if evil conspiracies are noted taking place against the Early Church (Acts 23:13), are we to think that that same diabolical Enemy has abandoned his evil treacheries in our day? Such a proposition is utter foolishness!

 

For the past 21 months, our Arch-Enemy has been manipulating the medical and pharmaceutical industries, including hospital officials, local health boards and health officers, educational systems, including school teachers and principals, the major media, Big Business and politicians from both parties to launch the most diabolical and devilish antichrist system of our lifetimes. And the vast majority of evangelical pastors don’t even see it.

 

Then again, these same evangelical pastors do not see the diabolical, devilish nature of Zionist Israel either. Maybe that explains it. I am willing to bet that the Catholic priests, bishops and cardinals referenced in this column also understand the sinister evil nature of Zionist Israel. That is not a coincidence.

 

The blindness of evangelicals to the antichrist system known as Zionism has blinded their eyes to many things, including the antichrist nature of the Covid Empire.

 

P.S. I am introducing a brand new message DVD entitled Christian Zionism Has Taken Bethlehem Back To The Days Of Herod.

 

I began the message with a detailed description of the wickedness of King Herod and his family. I showed how the evil family of Herod constantly intersected—in a very menacing way—with the life of Christ and the apostles.

 

I also relayed my visit to Bethlehem (and Palestine) and told of my preaching in a church in the city of Christ's birth—comprised mostly of Palestinian Christians—and the fond impression I had of those wonderful people.

I went into some detail to show how the rise of the Religious Right in America back in the 80s (which I was much a part of) has enabled the Zionist Israeli government to torment and terrorize Palestinian Christians for many decades now.

 

(I, again, urge readers to get the powerful book written by renowned Israeli historian Ilan Pappe entitled The Ethnic Cleansing Of Palestine. This book tells the true story of how Israel became a state off the murder, rape, genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people. I consider this book MUST-READING.)

 

I also gave a somewhat graphic description of the kind of life Palestinian Christians are forced to endure under Zionist domination and how evangelical Christians in America are facilitating Israel's persecution of Christians because of their acceptance of the false prophecy doctrines of Scofield Futurism.

 

I urge readers to get this brand new DVD message: Christian Zionism Has Taken Bethlehem Back To The Days Of Herod.

In my opinion , it's a fair and bright analysis of the indoctrination and attitude phenomenon within a large part of the American population, even spreading to other western countries, it couldn't have been said any better or clearer.   Thanking all my good readers for their time and appreciation, stay safe and well.

I'm including a link to the original article, for anyone who might be interested to dig further.https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/KtbxLxglmqsRpzgcLMnLTMFNdQWZWJNngVanalysis of a growing indo

WHAT EXPLAINS SUCH COMPLACENCY.....

Americans who pay attention to international affairs - a category that surely includes Kissinger and the authors of the Intelligence Report - are growing fed up with Israeli intransigence and fanaticism. Netanyahu's bizarre, widely-ridiculed performance at the United Nations, where he brandished a cartoonish caricature of a bomb in such a way that he himself came across as a caricature of a “mad Zionist,” was the latest in a series of gaffes by Israeli leaders who seem prone to overplaying their hand.

A second factor is the festering resentment many Americans feel over the Israel Lobby's imperious domination of public discourse. Every time a well-known American journalist is fired for going “off-script” about Israel, as happened to Helen Thomas and Rick Sanchez, a mostly-invisible backlash, like a tidal wave rippling beneath the surface of the ocean, grows in power. And every time the Israel lobby slaps down someone like Maureen Dowd, who recently observed that the same Israel-fanatics who dragged the US into the Iraq war are now trying to do the same thing with Iran, the more people begin to wake up and realize that people like Dowd, Thomas, and Sanchez are speaking the truth.

A third reason for complacency in the face of Israel's impending demise: The American Jewish community is no longer united in support of Israel, much less its Likudnik leadership. Sophisticated Jewish journalists and analysts like Philip Weiss are recognizing the insanity of Israel's current leadership and the hopelessness of its predicament. According to recent reports, it is no longer fashionable among young American Jews to care about Israel. And despite Netanyahu's frantic attempts to sway Jewish voters toward the Mormon Likudnik Mitt Romney, polls show that Obama, who is on record saying he “hates” the “liar” Netanyahu, will easily win the majority of Jewish votes.

Finally, we come to the least obvious - but most powerful - reason for Kissinger's and the CIA's complacency in the face of Israel's implosion: The inexorable trickle-down of knowledge that Israel and its supporters, not radical Muslims, carried out the 9/11 false-flag attacks.

Increasingly, it is not fringe anti-Semitic groups, but high-level responsible observers, who are saying this. Alan Sabrosky, the half-Jewish former Director of Strategic Studies at the US Army War College, has come on my radio show to say that he has discussed with his colleagues the “100% certainty” that Israel and its supporters did 9/11. And Alan Hart, the former lead BBC correspondent for the Middle East (and personal friend of Golda Meir and Yasser Arafat) has also come on my radio show to break the story that he, too, knows that Israel and company orchestrated 9/11.

Today, we even have a presidential candidate, Merlin Miller, who is on the record stating that Israel, not al-Qaeda, carried out the 9/11 attacks. The chief purpose of 9/11 was to “seal in blood” an intense, unbreakable emotional bond between the US and Israel, in a desperate bid to assure Israel's survival by launching a long-term US war against Israel's enemies. As the “dancing Israelis” arrested for celebrating the 9/11 operation tried to convince the police: “Our enemies are your enemies. The Palestinians are your enemies.”

But more and more Americans, including the US intelligence community as a whole, now recognize that the enemies of Israel (the entire Muslim world of over 1.5 billion people, along with most of the non-European world) do not have to be the enemies of the United States. In fact, the US is going broke and sacrificing thousands of lives in wars for Israel - wars that damage, rather than aid, US strategic interests. (One of those interests, of course, is buying oil and gas from stable, cooperative governments.)

As the recognition grows that 9/11 was not a radical Islamic attack, but an act of dastardly, bloody treason by supporters of Israel, it will become ever-easier for American policy makers, following in the footsteps of Kissinger and the sixteen intelligence agencies, to recognize the obvious: Israel has reached the end of its shelf-life.

 

 This is part two of an article by Kevin Barrett, part one was copied in my November 23 blog, an excellent analysis, albeit a few years old. 

 As always, my many thanks to all my good readers, keep safe and well.