June-July 2024
Zionism Unleashed: 1
~ Bokhim Ve-Yorim in Gaza ~
"The Nazis made me afraid of being Jewish and
the Zionists made me ashamed of being Jewish."
- Israel Shahak, holocaust survivor.
The perennial determination of self-designated leaders of the Jewish diaspora to empty out the righteous reservoir of goodwill extended to the Jewish people after their Nazi nightmare, never ceases to amaze. The seamless sum of their callous Holocaust Industry, cynical anti-semitism scam, and brutal Zionist ideology acted out with impunity in their apartheid state, has seen that seemingly bottomless well of benevolence run dry. Thus, ever locked in foot-shooting mode, they immediately squandered the world's sympathy in the wake of the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023, creating instead such utter disgust for their inhumanity and mendacity that their Israel project hangs in the balance.
So, who are the creatures responsible for this perversity, why would they doggedly pursue such a self-destructive course, and how have they effected it? Those questions and many others apropos Torah Judaism proper, its Talmudic Zionist/Neoconservative simulacrum, and their impact on the Church and the modern world have been extensively treated in these pages: including the present writer's trilogy Benedict and the Jews (Aug-Sept., Oct., and Nov. 2011), and the late Catholic scholar Robert Hickson's trilogy, Facets of Four World Wars (June-July, Aug-Sept. and Oct. 2010). Readers without access to hard copies of the relevant editions can find both works at www.christianorder.com, under "Editorials" 2011, and "Features" 2010 respectively.
The selection of transcriptions carried in this two-part series will serve to confirm those earlier analytical works, as does the explanation of Christian Zionism reprinted from our April 2003 issue. Other past articles might have been profitably added to boot, such as Alison Weir's, Deceit, Racism & Violence: Covering-up Jewish Extremism (Feb. 2015),on the late Rabbi Schneerson's messianic, politically influential Chabad-Lubavitch cult.
Nakbar marker
All such informative offerings help counter the misinformation and disinformation that spews forth from the Zionist juggernaut and keeps it on the road. And yet, to understand its unerring impetus, trajectory and temper all one need do is recall that this latest bout of ethnic cleansing in Gaza simply reflects the original bout of inhumanity that initiated the contrived Zionist enterprise we call Israel: namely, the Nakbar; the 1948 expulsion of 700,000+ Palestinians from their properties and land, with no right of return.
Having laid down this barbaric marker, are we surprised that it's all been murderously downhill ever since? That early tit for tat-style killings in response to lethal Palestinian reactions to Israeli oppression rapidly morphed into 'Kill 'em All!'-style mass retributions? On the contrary, from day one the hellish outcome, exemplified by the current Gaza cleansing-cum-genocide, was inevitable. As outspoken Israeli journalist Gideon Levi once put it during a previous Israeli rampage:
“[During the Nakbar] There were many atrocities, some avoidable, some not. The problem is that 1948 never ended. Israel never changed its attitude towards Palestinian rights. Therefore, 1948 is today; 1948 is the confiscation of 4,000 dunums [988 acres] on August 31th [2014]; 1948 is Gaza.” [Irish Times, 11/9/14]
During a recent interview, Illan Pappé, an Israeli Professor of History and Director of the European Centre of Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter, helpfully elaborated on this ideological policy that actually pre-dated the foundation of Israel (my transcript, original emphases):
The Nakbar is a bit of a misleading term, because it means in Arabic, "a catastrophe." But really, what the Palestinians suffered was not an actual catastrophe, but rather ethnic cleansing, which is a clear policy motivated by clear ideology. And that policy was part, an integral part, of the Zionist programme for Palestine, from the very inception of their movement in the late 19th century. Of course, very eary on they didn't have the capacity to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from their homeland. But already in the mid-1920s, when the Zionist community in Palestine was still very small, it was able, through purchase of land, on which there were many Palestinian villages, to convince the British mandatory power, to evict 13 Palestinian villages, and that was between 1925 and 1926. And then slowly this process of buying land and evicting the people who lived on this for hundreds of years, brought the Zionist movement into a moment where it purchased at least six per cent of the land of Palestine, which was of course not enough. And then they went to the big ethnic cleansing of 1948.
But as we know it didn't stop in 1948. Israel continued to expel Palestinians villagers between [19]48 and '67, from among the Palestinian minority in Israel, which allegedly were citizens of Israel. Israel expelled 300,000 Palestinians during the Six Days War in June 1967, and since June 1967 until today, about 600,000 Palestinians, in one way or another, were dislocated and uprooted by Israel. And of course, now we have a case of ethnic cleansing, that even overtakes the magnitude of the ethnic cleansing during 1948.
So there is not one moment in the history of the Palestinians in Palestine, since the arrival of Zionism in Palestine, in which Palestinians are potentially under danger of losing their home, their fields, their businesses, and their homeland.
'Crying and shooting'
Effectively, the Hamas attack provided the convenient pretext to complete the ideological job once and for all: to gather up all unfinished Palestinian business and unleash the Zionist dogs. More Palestinians have now been killed since 7 October than at any point in the last 76 years, and more Palestinians displaced and forced to move than during the Nakbar. Meanwhile, on cue, Israel deploys its stock in trade response: always so predictable and risible that it constitutes a form of wicked performance art.
This Israeli modus vivendi and modus operandi compromises two renowned and complementary Jewish traits and acts. Firstly, chutzpah; illustrated by the Jewish joke about the man found guilty of murdering his parents asking for leniency because he's an orphan. Secondly, bokhim ve-yorim ("crying and shooting"); where a brutal attack "is accompanied by the shrill rhetoric of victimhood and a farrago of self-pity overlaid with self-righteousness," as ex-Israeli soldier Avi Shlaim described Israel's response to its "insane offensive against Gaza" in 2008.
This time, Gaza is bokhim ve-yorim on steroids. "Israelis are calling Palestinians Nazis. Everything Israelis accuses Palestinians of, they appear to be guilty of," is a typical comment posted by those now over and done with the "crying and shooting" ruse. The fact that the "Nazis!" trope is not restricted to Hamas and the Gazans only heightens the universal indignation, even in Israel. As the disingenuous Israeli prime minister turned his artful ire on the world, a 6 May headline in the leading Israeli newspaper Haaretz trumpeted: "For Netanyahu, It's Always 1938 and U.S. College Campuses Are Nazi Germany." They wrote:
Anyone familiar with Benjamin Netanyahu's interpretation of history should not be surprised by his latest ludicrous comparison between the pro-Palestinian protests on U.S. college campuses and 1930s Germany.
That Iran is the reincarnation of Nazi Germany is a recurring theme in Benjamin Netanyahu's limited repertoire of speeches. But now there's a new entrant: U.S. college campuses, which, according to the Israeli prime minister's breathtaking demagoguery, are "reminiscent of what happened in German universities in the 1930s," no less.
The prime minister should save his breath. His government's latest "offensive" is so outrageously disproportionate — e.g., the wounding of 200+ people in one densely populated refugee camp in order to kill a single person they were targetting — that not even the 7 October attack can give currency to their cynical "victim" card. Especially given the incomprehensible lack of preparedness for such an attack, and the fact that most of the 7 October victims were killed not by Hamas but by the Israelis themselves!
Mendacity as policy
Referring to the "outlandish music festival" at which over a thousand Israelis lost their lives, former US Ambassador Chas Freeman stated in a 26 December interview that: "The people who were killed there were largely killed, it appears, by hellfire missiles and by other undisciplined fire by Israeli forces." Along with the charge made by many experienced analysts that the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) and Mossad must have known about the long-planned Hamas operation far in advance yet let it transpire (either through arrogance and complacency, or criminal calculation in order to exploit it for genocidal purposes), this 7 October complicity was reported on alternative media at the time but waved away as "conspiracy theory" by Israelis, until they could no longer deny that their army had bombed Israeli houses and even its own military base with tank shells and missiles fired from Apache helicopters.
Freeman says Israel's infamous Hannibal Directive led to most of the deaths on the day, as it dictates, "rather than get into bargaining over a hostage exchange, you should just kill the Israeli hostages along with their captors. And that was also a factor here." An Israeli helicopter pilot quoted by Haaretz confirmed the charge that Israelis had been murdered by their own army. Liberal commentator Max Blumenthal of the Grayzone podcast raised this merciless Israeli doctrine early on. During a TRT World interview he explained:
"I was one of the first journalists to write about how the Hannibal Directive was used when an Israeli soldier, Hadar Goldin, was captured in August 2014 in Rafah by Hamas militants. And what that meant was the Israeli military blanketed the entire area with explosives, artillery, in order to kill everyone, including that soldier especially, so that he couldn't be used as collateral, to weaken Hamas' negotiating him. I think that's why you saw outlets like ours, with people who had experience in unpacking, excel, because we had so much experience unpacking Israeli deceptions. So really, from our point of view, an information war had begun [on October 7th]. The other side was waging their information war in order to support a genocidal war, create space for it. And ours was to present the inconvenient truths and facts on the ground, that countered that genocidal narrative.
"We knew from our experience, especially in dealing with Israel, that when an Israeli official is speaking publicly, they're probably lying. And they're manipulating the American public. So it really did start with the 40 beheaded babies [story]. We began by identifying the source of it, who was a settler who had gone into one of these kibbutzim as a reservist. He was speaking to I-24, which is an Israeli state news agency. It was then disseminated through an assistant to the Israeli prime minister's office to CNN and elsewhere. it was easy to track the sources, and then we just went from there and started following all of the narratives that were spun out from there. You know, a fetus cut from a mother, a pregnant woman.
"And there was also this sense we had that, yes, atrocities were committed. This was a military assault on civilian areas, and so things were going to happen, but what we were hearing just sounded outlandlish, ridiculous.... It just didn't sound right. So... we started to unpack what actually happened on October 7th, and we realised that many people had actually been killed by an Israeli military that was caught on its back foot, that was scrambling Apache helicopters with no intelligence, no ability to distinguish between Israeli civilians and Palestinian militants, or Palestinian civilians who had just come in to take selfies, and were just blasting everything on the ground."
Perennial liars and spinners of false narratives, not only did the Israeli authorities once again hide the Israeli blood on their hands, they proceeded to heap lie upon lie with many fabricated stories of alleged Hamas atrocities (as if the number of actual ones were too scanty, relatively speaking, to serve their propaganda purposes). Delivered with theatrical emotion to the world press, stories of beheaded babies were intended to place Hamas beyond the pale and win international sympathy for their crazed retaliatory strikes. It recalled the Kuwaiti ambassador's daughter, who, in 1999, falsely but tearfully testified before a US Congressional Committee that Iraqi soldiers had ripped premature babies from incubators and tossed them around. … Never. Happened.)
This baby element of the "crying and shooting" strategy inevitably backfired when the tall tales were duly debunked, as Richard Sanders relates herein. Yet the epic fabrications, stupendous self-contradictions, and colossal gaslighting continued uninterrupted. It was showcased by the Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem and Foreign Ministry special envoy, Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, during video interviews with British broadcasters. Consider this exchange with LBC radio (my transcript):
Host: "Why is it necessary, it is reported, to start shooting, having snipers outside a church?"
Hassan: "I saw the reports this morning ... um ... the church ...there are no churches in Gaza. So I'm not quite sure what the report is talking about."
Host: "There's a Catholic church there, isn't there? That is..."
Hassan: "Yeah, unfortunately there are no Christians [in Gaza] because they were driven out, by Hamas."
Host: "Respectfully, there are Christians because I spoke to an MP yesterday who has family members in the Church, who are Christians."
Hassan: "Well, I don't know what happened. I don't know who was attacked. I didn't see the report."
Hassan blithely repeated the dose on Sky News, following which interview a Sky reporter in Israel debunked each falsehood while further exposing her studied ignorance of well-known facts about the IDF and one of its more notorious units.
Clearly, for Israeli spokesmen, as for Hitler and Goering, the bigger, the more flagrant, the more shameless the lies (whether of commission or omission) the better. Ditto for spurious claims plucked from thin air. Fed up with the scam, a fair and polite journalist from Norway's national television broadcaster repeatedly quizzed another Israeli spokesman (formerly a UK Labour functionary) on his refusal to provide actual evidence to verify his gratuitous assertions made during an interview — especially apropos a 3-story high Hamas control centre allegedly located beneath a hospital, which the Israelis used as their excuse to destroy the hospital, killing occupants. Unfamiliar with being held to account by a journalist actually doing his job, the cornered spokesman bristled and played the race card: dismissing the requests as both insolent and anti-semitic.
Burgeoning bipartisan critics
Truly, even by subterranean Israeli standards this perennial policy of mendacity and evasion has reached new depths in the aftermath of 7 October. No mean feat for a government that lies as matter of course, above all to its U.S. ally. "They promised the Americans hundreds of times to stop the [Israeli] settlements on the West Bank, and they didn't do it," notes Jewish historian Pappé.
Concurrently, the partisan press is blinding the citizenry as never before. "I think this [post-7 October reaction] is the darkest hour of the Israeli media. Ever," fumed Gideon Levy recently. "As if they got together and decided, 'We are not covering Gaza. And if you see Gaza you see only Gaza of the soldiers. You don't see the Palestinians'."
The Israeli police and military also enforce the information blackout, stamping on dissent. Nonetheless, there are many vibrant signs of resistance, especially among Holocaust survivors and the ranks of the thoroughly indoctrinated Israeli youth, not all of whom are completely brainwashed and easily controlled. Witness this defiant message from a brave female activist in a 26 December video post on social media (my transcript):
"My name is Gaia Dan. I'm 23-years-old from Haifa. I'm an activist in the anti-occupation bloc. And ever since the seventh of October, me and my friends are being harassed and sometimes arrested over our attempts of protesting against the ongoing atrocities in Gaza and the West Bank. The cops in the station kept chanting songs about... they kept calling us sluts and they called us traitors. We cannot let them silence us like they wish..., and we cannot allow ourselves to sit in silence, while the people of Gaza are being massacred, and the people of the West Bank are suffering at the hands of settlers and the military."
With certified deaths numbering 24,686 as of 30 April (32% of them children), and more than 10,000 bodies still to be identified,(1) is it any wonder that beyond propaganda-soaked Israel the bottom line is crystallising in public consciousness: namely, that if a neighbour kills some of your children (with or without provocation), it doesn't give you license to raze the entire neighbourhood in a fit of anger. Unless, of course, you're Israel, in which case the Rafah 'neighbourhood' — 64 sq. km housing 1.5 million Palestinians — is fair game.
It is deeply disturbing that many otherwise sensible commentators continue to hold that this impossible scenario is not only possible but acceptable — because, they smugly parrot, "Israel has a right to exist, and to defend itself". Granted. But so does Palestine. Which is why the number of Israel's critics on both sides of the political spectrum has increased exponentionally, typified by the following examples:
Interviewed following Fleur Hassan-Nahoum's mendacious offerings on LBC and Sky News recounted earlier, Irish activist Tadgh Hickely responded on the Novara Media podcast:
I think for too long, the Israeli regime has been used to lying, and used to getting away with lying. Even Fleur's bascially following the blueprint that Israel always follows when it's accused of war crimes. It's like initially, 'Did you do it?':
'No, it was Hamas'.
'Okay, we did do it but we didn't mean it'.
'We did do it, we actually meant it, but they were terrorists'.
'No, we did do it, we did mean it, and it was civilians, but why do you keep asking these questions, that's anti-semitic'.
So I think everyone is seeing through the lies. Protests are growing in momentum. And I think people like Sky News and also leading politicians in Britain and the US, are kind of seeing which way the wind blows, and they don't want to be complicit in a genocide, and they don't want to go down in history as a genocide apologist. [My transcript; original emphases.]
During a 26 December interview, Chas Freeman, the former US ambassador, also spoke out against the relentless propaganda. Concerned that an Israeli-led foreign policy is destroying America's power and prestige abroad — i.e., policy dictated via lobby groups gathered under the all-powerful umbrella of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) — he stated the simple truths of the matter thusly: 1. the Israeli response is essentially to conduct a genocide in Gaza; they are attempting to expel or murder all the Palestinians there. 2. this is a crime against humanity under international law, but Israel justifies it with a cover story, which is that it is going after Hamas.
"Hamas is an asset"
Speaking of Hamas, through all of this the Zionists and their apologists decry Israel's critics as terroristic pro-Hamas enablers. But this charge is chutzpah and bokhim ve-yorim on stilts!
It turns out that the "crying and shooting" ruse also works when someone else is first tasked to do Israel's shooting for them, but then shoots at them, thereby providing a convenient excuse to weep and wail while launching another blitzkrieg on Gaza. Which is to say that Israel itself maintained Hamas, as an offset and competitor to Yasser Arafat and his Palestine Liberation Organisation. "It was one more brilliant (aka asinine) example of meddling and launching endless enemies, who become our enemies when they turn on us," as Jon Rappoport truly noted ("A Fearful Rabbit Hole," CO, Nov, 2023). The Israel First mob has managed to bury this key strategy of propping up Hamas. Yet the case for it is so "overwhelming," according to libertarian Dave Smith, that it is not even controversial. During a 21 May Joe Rogan podcast Smith said [my transcript, original emphases]:
"I've done about eight debates on this since the war broke out. Everybody on the pro-Israeli side does not want to grapple with that point [of Israel funding Hamas]. Because it really is like a narrative-shattering point, once you acknowledge it.
"[There are] dozens and dozens of quotes from Israeli leaders all throughout the political spectrum reporting on this, almost every major Israeli newspaper... The Times of Israel, on October 8th, had a piece [about] how Netanyahu's support for Hamas just blew up in his face. It was the next day.... It's totally uncontroversial that this was their plan. The New York Times ran a piece, late last year or early this year, where they [reported that] about two weeks before October 7th, Benjamin Netanyahu sent the head of the Mossad to Qatar, because funds going into Hamas had slowed down, and he sent them in there to make sure the funds continued."
The report Smith cited in the New York Times was lengthy and detailed and gave new prominence to the long-standing Netanyahu-Hamas nexus. According to the newspaper:
Just weeks before Hamas launched the deadly Oct. 7th attacks on Israel, the head of Mossad arrived in Doha, Qatar, for a meeting with Qatari officials.
For years, the Qatari government had been sending millions of dollars a month into the Gaza Strip — money that helped prop up the Hamas government there. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel not only tolerated those payments, he had encouraged them.
According to the Times, Israeli intelligence agents travelled into Gaza with a Qatari official carrying suitcases filled with cash to disperse money. Retired Israeli General Shlomo Brom described the logic of Netanyahu's position thus: "One effective way to prevent a two-state solution is to divide between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank." If the extremist Hamas ruled Gaza, then the Palestinian Authority — a compromised comprador [intermediary] government with a tenuous hold on the West Bank — would be further weakened. This, according to Brom, would allow Netanyahu to say, "I have no partner [for peace]."
In 2015, Bezalel Smotrich, currently the finance minister in Netanyahu's government, summed up the strategy by stating, "The Palestinian Authority is a burden. Hamas is an asset."
Impunity
Before this inconvenient "narrative shattering" reality — viz., Israel acting as Hamas' facilitator and thereby orchestrating its own misfortune — Israel's supporters resort to ad hominem misdirections to cover it over, hurling weaponised "pro-Hamas/po-terrorism" epithets at those who are simply pro-justice, pro-freedom, anti-ethnic cleansing and anti-genocide.
Effectively, by demonising their opponents in this way, the Zionists would have us believe that walking and chewing gum at the same time is an impossible task. Yet dispassionate observers are perfectly able to decry one murderous attack while at the same time recognising a far greater vengeful one deserving even stronger condemnation. When it comes to the Fifth Commandment there's always plenty of righteous criticism to go around, while the notion of 'favouring' one bad actor over another by handing them a free homicidal pass is ludicrous. (Indeed, the aforementioned article on Rabbi Schneerson's demented Jewish cult was carried in a CO issue focussed on militant Islam and its incendiary Koran. A 'walking and chewing' edition, no less.)
Ultimately, the never-ending lies and preposterous rationalisations of the Zionists and their enablers can be traced back to the tragic post-war settlement articulated by Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, who reportedly said: "After the Holocaust we can do whatever we like." Whether or not those were her exact words hardly matters since many statements mouthed by Zionist bigwigs express the same contempt. This trademark impunity is fuelled by a Washington swamp awash with the filthy lucre of the Israel lobbies, as described by Prof. Pappé during a recent video interview (my transcript, original emphases):
"I think that people underestimate the fact that all the lobbies that work in America — not all of them Jewish, by the way. A very important lobby in America is the Christian lobby, Christian Zionist lobby. Another important lobby in America is the Military Industrial lobby — all the lobbies that work for Israel, have been doing it from the very first day of the State: namely, they are in action for 75 years. Many of them were already active on behalf of Zionism before the establishment of the state of Israel. When you have such a longevity of lobbying, it works by inertia. Namely, Biden knows what he has to do without even one phone call from an Israeli ambassador, or a lobbyist from AIPAC. That's part of the DNA of American politics: to make sure that you satisfy the pro-Israeli lobby."
During his Joe Rogan interview, Dave Smith also alluded to this cast iron protection for any and every Zionist outrage, noting that all the Presidents since Jimmy Carter have "wanted an outcome [i.e., a two-state solution] that they're unable to get." He recounted the contents of notorious footage that features the Israeli Prime Minister — the personification of Israeli arrogance — boasting about his license to deceive and manipulate; unbridled power afforded him by the Israel lobbies referenced by Ilan Pappé:
"There's one video of Benjamin Netanyahu, where he doesn't know he's being recorded, and he's speaking openly about this. He openly starts bragging about how he basically blew up the peace process. He's bragging about how he put all of these poison pills into the peace agreement. He was like, 'Oh yeah, sure, I agreed to grant them a state, but only after it was determined that Israel could control important military areas.' And then he was like, 'I also snuck in that only Israel gets to define what the militarily important areas are, and I decided that that is a third of the West Bank.' He's bragging about how he tricked Bill Clinton, and how easy it is to move the Americans. It's wild. There's a lot of power plays at work here."
In fact, the full video is even worse.
Originally broadcast in Hebrew on Israel's channel 10, it was shot in 2001 when the government of Ariel Sharon had started reinvading the main cities of the West Bank to crush Palestinian resistance in the early stages of the second intifada. Netanyahu, who had taken a short break from politics but was soon to join Sharon’s government as finance minister, was visiting a home in the West Bank settlement of Ofra to offer condolences to the family of a man killed in a Palestinian shooting attack. Sitting on a sofa in the house, he was answering questions with such candour (making frank admissions about his first period as prime minister, from 1996 to 1999) because he didn't know the cameras were rolling. To briefly elaborate on Smith's summary above:
Netanyahu mocked American foreign policy as "something that can be easily moved. Moved to the right direction … They won’t get in our way … Eighty percent of the Americans support us. It’s absurd". And he did indeed boast that he had destroyed the Oslo accords — the US-sponsored peace process between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation — telling the family that he deceived the "extremely pro-Palestinian" Bill Clinton into believing he was helping implement the accord by making minor withdrawals from the West Bank while actually entrenching the occupation. "The trick," he told them, "is not to be there [in the occupied territories] and be broken; the trick is to be there and pay a minimal price."
He also said that the only way to deal with Palestinians is to "beat them up, not once but repeatedly, beat them up so it hurts so badly, until it's unbearable" (Another translation from the Hebrew says the same thing less colloquially: that Israel must inflict "blows that are so painful the price will be too heavy to be borne.")
Predictably, the pro-Zionist Western press ignored this tell-all video that Gideon Levy, writing in the liberal Haaretz at the time, decried as "outrageous." He said it proved that Netanyahu was a "con artist … who thinks that Washington is in his pocket and that he can pull the wool over its eyes." He added that the prime minister had not reformed in the intervening period: "Such a crooked way of thinking does not change over the years."
Totalitarian trademark
It would be foolish to think that the current catastrophe is a regional conflict that will only affect us if Israel sets off a world war by unleashing its nuclear arsenal against Gaza. Incredibly, American politicians are openly and zealously advocating that annihilation. "Why is it OK for America to drop two nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end their existential threat? Why was it OK for us to do that?" Republican Senator Lindsey Graham told NBC News,adding: "So, Israel, do whatever you have to do to survive as a Jewish state. Whatever you have to do." He repeated the dose on Fox News, telling Israel to obliterate Gaza: "I am with Israel. Whatever the hell you have to do to defend yourselves; level the place."
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley proposed the same summary response on Fox News: "I say this to Prime Minister Netanyahu: Finish [the Palestinians]. Finish them," she proclaimed.
That barbaric course would yield apocalyptic consequences. Yet there are other Zionist-related developments which although less vapourising than nuclear war still have fearful implications. For, the Washington swamp is not only once again defending the indefensible in Israel's regard, but also turbo-charging the integral 'anti-semitic' scam by way of a new Bill aimed at criminalising any and all criticism of Israel. That they are doing so on the back of a high-water mark in Israeli crimes against humanity makes it even more reprehensible.
The shutting down of public discourse is a long-running goal and totalising signature of Zionist ideology. It signals the high danger posed to each and every one of us by its bellicose Neocon front; especially via the the U.S. State Department's Office of the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism: a "hate crime" factory originally created in 2004 by Jewish freemasons (viz., the Anti-Defamation League [ADL] of B'nai B'rith) to foster attacks against Christians and their doctrine, morality and culture. Extensive background to this relentless subversion of free speech is related in Benedict and the Jews.It is also discussed in a highly informative 2019 interview on the Guns & Butter podcast, during which Alison Weir discusses her extended essay, published as a pamphlet, The International Campaign to Criminalize Criticism of Israel.(2)
A ferocious media scrap recently highlighted how the Gaza obliteration has heightened this fascistic threat to our freedom. It involved Candace Owens, a well-known American online personality and committed Christian who was recently received into the Church at London's Brompton Oratory.
Victimhood or Bust
An articulate no-nonsense black commentator, Owens hosted a hugely successful show on the Jewish-run Daily Wire platform. Her woes began when she had the temerity to tweet on 3 November 2023 that:
"No government anywhere has a right to commit genocide, ever. There is no justification for a genocide. I can't believe this even needs to be said or is even considered the least bit controversial to state."
On Zionist cue, this expression of independent thought caused an equally prominent Jewish colleague, Ben Shapiro, to erupt. "I think she's been absolutely disgraceful," he whined. Due to Owens' vast Daily Wire audience and wider popularity, he then calmed down somewhat and reined in his fury, only to reignite after Candace tweeted on 13 March 2024:
"Christ is King.
Every knee will bow."
Subsequently, she left the Daily Wire amid a raging controversy that split conservatives asunder. As one liberal recently noted, "Especially among conservative commentators, as soon as Israel's mentioned, whatever principles they were just rolling with, are like, gone."(3) And so it came to pass. Many conservative chatterati, including highly paid, Christian-friendly Daily Wire contributors, like Jordan Peterson, reflexively opted for Israel; tip-toeing around the Zionist elephant in the room as they distanced themselves from Owens' off-message outrage over Gaza.
Tellingly, while facilitating her exit, the Daily Wire maintained a 'no comment' line apropos the weight it gave to her 13 March tweet. But four of its Christian employees eventually confirmed that: "Candace's repeated use of 'Christ the King' was deemed antisemitic, dating back to November when a meeting with Ben Shapiro was leaked. In the meeting, he badmouthed Owens for not being overtly pro-Israel" (— the Original Sin for America's Israel First brigade).
Siding with Shapiro during an interview on the British Triggernometry podcast, another Jewish commentator claimed that "The phrase 'Christ is King' was being used as an anti-semitic trope." Asked by a quizzical (unreligious) interviewer how "Christ is King" can be used "in an antisemitic way?", he replied: "Well, I've gotten tweets that say, 'Christ is King, Jew'."
So, even mean tweets are now anti-semitic! This is the new Zionist-inspired low bar — the post-October 7 benchmark for establishing Jewish 'haters' and Jewish 'victims.' (Be sure to factor it in during the next bout of 'Anti-semitism on the rise!' hysteria.)
Equally ludicrous and perhaps more dangerous, however, was this same commentator's elastic view of the "anti-semite" profile.
Even while stating that he had no idea about Owens' motivations and intentions, he resorted to puerile guilt-by-association to suggest that Owen used "Christ is King" as a vile slur because other people online (presumably mean tweeters!) did so. This Pythonesque ploy effectively demonises every sincere tweeter or texter of pious Catholic expressions, who have no control of how others tweet or text. Is the fact that the Ku Klux Klan burn crosses another reason we shouldn't say "Christ is King"? And since the KKK also carry American flags, are all American flag-carriers now KKK sympathisers? Since he views pro-Palestine protesters as Nazis, Mr Netanyahu would presumably answer "yes!".
Truly, there is no appellation or argument too ridiculous or twisted for Israel Firsters. Like their self-serving masters — the odious architects of the Holocaust Industry — they do and say whatever it takes to maintain their victim status. For them, it's literally Victimhood or Bust. And that is why, post-October 7, in the eyes of Zionists and State Department lackeys, we're all Candace Owens now.
Exporting Zionist 'expertise'
The other related development perceived by seasoned researchers with deep knowledge of the globalist endgame was summed up by Brighteon's Mike Adams thus:
The Gaza Strip is a massive experiment in human enslavement and behavioural engineering involving 2.3 million civilians who have now been dubbed "animals" and are being systematically displaced and/or exterminated. Everything learned from this pilot program will next be deployed against all of us.
Over many years, Israel has perfected this model that will power "15-minute cities" and human extermination camps that will be pushed by depopulation globalists as the next phase of human extermination gets under way.
This once seemed too far-fetched: an impossibly bleak sci-fi scenario. Post-Covid, however, faced with the dystopian agenda being rolled out before our incredulous eyes by fascistic elites and Green zealots pushing WHO-enforced jabs, lockdowns, vaccine passports, domestic and international travel restrictions, as well as digital currency controls etc., the Zionist cultivation of the Gaza nightmare assumes a much broader and even darker aspect. Especially given Israel's Machiavellian success in getting others to exhaust military, financial and human resources in pursuing and attaining Zionist agendas and goals. In addition, their disproportionate global influence on wicked Western trends they have initiated, exported and profitably exploited on the back of their 'Palestine experience' — from torture programmes to pre-emptive wars, to brutal military and police tactics — is portentous.
And of course there is state surveillance and detention that the Israelis have honed and perfected and now sell to governments via the lucrative safety/security market they dominate. Professor Pappé himself experienced this Zionist 'product' on a recent visit to America. On arrival at Detroit airport he was taken to a room and interrogated for two hours by federal agents about Hamas and other issues. He was only allowed to enter the country after they copied the entire contents of his phone. On 21 May, he related the ordeal to Democracy Now! by video link (my transcript and bold emphasis):
"I arrived in Detroit, after eight hours flight from London, and was taken immediately to a side room by two federal agents, and they had two sets of questions for me. One was about my views. My views about the Hamas, my views about what's happening in Gaza, do I frame what happened in Gaza as genocide. They wanted to know my reaction to the slogan, 'Palestine should be free, from the river to the sea' [now deemed antisemitic! - Ed.] They refused to tell me why they stopped me, and why did I have to answer these questions.
"And then another set of questions had to do with whom do I know among the American Muslim community, the American Arab community and the Palestinian community in the United States. And that was followed by taking my phone for a long period, copying everything in it, and making me wait another [period of] time for phone conversations, before letting me into the country.
"To the questions: do I define Hamas as a terrorist organisation, I refused to answer that question, and I suggested to them that they should go and listen to my talks in the Michigan area, where I will discuss this issue. And as for the question of genocide, I laconically said that, yes, I do frame the Israeli actions in Gaza as genocide. But again, I suggested that if they want a more detailed analysis, why do I frame it like this, they are most welcome both to read my articles, and to come to my lectures in the Michigan area.
"As for the question: how do I respond to the slogan, 'Palestine should be free, from the river to the sea,' I said that everywhere where there is a river and there is a sea and people living between them, they should be free. Which was a moment a bit ironical or comical when one of them tried to show me his geographical knowledge, and he said, 'So what about Saudi Arabia.' So I corrected my phrase and I said, "Well, anywhere where there are countries between two sources of water, people should be free." Which seemed to satisfy them at that particular moment.
"They were polite. But what really bothers me is why at all do they have the right to ask me, and what was the real subtext for this whole affair? And I have my own understanding of that."
Another Jewish academic, Naomi Klein, had a similar foreboding; one that echoed Mike Adams' scenario. A severe critic of Israel's apartheid state, the noted liberal author and arch-feminist wrote in 2007 of its possible ramifications for America; warning of a "disaster apartheid future" in the United States, in "gated communities" secured by private "paramilitaries."
"Creative" destroyers
Thus, far from a limited regional cataclysm, Gaza cries out with Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and the rest as another hapless victim of the baleful Zionist spirit; one more living laboratory in the ongoing quest for global chaos and destruction at the service of control, as bluntly admitted by Zionist Michael Ledeen:
The radical transformation of several Middle Eastern countries from oppressive tyrannies to freer societies [excluding Israel, as it would seem] is entirely in keeping with American character and the American tradition. Creative destruction is our middle name, both within our own society and abroad. We tear down the old order every day, from business to science, literature, art, architecture, and cinema to politics and the law [he conspicuously or deceitfully omits religion]. Our enemies have always hated this whirlwind of energy and creativity which menaces their traditions (whatever they may be) and shames them for their inability to keep pace. Seeing America undo traditional societies, they fear us, for they do not wish to be undone. They cannot feel secure so long as we are there, for our very existence — our existence, not our policies — threatens their legitimacy. They must attack us in order to survive, just as we must destroy them to advance our historic mission [The War Against the Terror Masters, 2003, pp. 212-213].
Having thus quoted Michael Ledeen in part one of his Facets of Four World Wars, cited earlier, Lt. Col. (Ret.) Robert Hickson nailed Ledeen's conflation of Zionism with America, noting that a thoughtful reader might ask: "Who is this 'we' and who is this 'our,' as in 'our middle name' and 'our historic mission'? Ledeen certainly affirms that the essence of 'American character and the American tradition' is some form of 'Messianic Politics'."
Truly, from their own mouths and acts, the Providential role of Israeli Zionists in the raising up of Antichrist upon the rubble of Christian civilisation is manifest. Robert Hickson adduced noble Jewish witnesses to the dangers we face from "some parts of Judaism, especially Zionism, both Jewish and Christian Zionism, in light of their fevered intensities and often deceitful dialectics" — characteristics ramped up during this latest travesty. In light of the Gaza extermination and Mike Adam's earlier summary of its potential wider implications, the words of Naomi Klein, for one, are more striking today than they were when Dr Hickson summarised her insights and warnings. He wrote:
For example, in her 2007 book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, she shows deep mercy for the vulnerable and humiliated Palestinians in Israel. She, too, gives a moral warning to Israel, which she forthrightly characterises as “the Standing Disaster Apartheid State”, and which she further presents to us as a kind of Counter-Intelligence-and-Surveillance Police State. She courageously warns Israel — and she also warns us — about the long-range consequences of the protracted and humiliating Jewish injustices, and about Israel's ongoing “disposal process”: the disposal of its seemingly “surplus humanity”, “the disposable poor”. Such is her Jewish Witness.
To conclude next issue.
FOOTNOTES
(1) Figures tallied by Gaza's Ministry of Health and announced by the UN. Although unable to independently verify the figures, the UN considers them reliable, as the Gaza Health Ministry has been "generally accurate" in the past. Israel naturally disagrees and considers the numbers an overestimate.
(2) https://soundcloud.com/guns-and-butter-1/the-global-campaign-to-criminalize-criticism-of-israel-alison-weir-402 (The interview covers the traditional definition of anti-Semitism and the new "improved" 3-D definition of anti-Semitism; the history of the campaign to criminalise criticism of Israel; the many international and national organisations that have adopted and promote the new definition; policing the new anti-Semitism on college campuses; thought crime; AIPAC and ADL; the crack-down on pro-Palestinian political activity; the multiple hundreds of groups that lobby for Israel; and current congressional legislation.)
(3) Tragically, even traditional Catholics head for the hills at high speed when the anti-semitic card is played. See Benedict and the Jews - Part III, Nov. 2011.