Those who pay a wee bit of attention to Israel’s conduct over many years may have noticed its tendency to use major news events in the US as cover for Doing Things that might otherwise generate well-warranted press criticism or even some official pushback. The fact that there hasn’t been any apparent Israel Surprise, big or small, during the weeks of the press being dominated by the debate over Biden’s political future, and now the Trump assassination attempt, suggest that Israel is already just as far as it can go up its escalation ladder with Palestine, ex nuclear war.
Mind you, the above statement is not to deny that absolutely terrible things are happening daily in Gaza and the West Bank. But the horrors have been so frequent, even with new sadism of the infliction of starvation, that observers have become numbed to them. Admittedly, by cutting power (and thus the ability to get images out of Gaza) and systematically killing journalists, Israel has succeeded in choking the chronicling of the genocide, which also means casual news watchers (who might be more susceptible to reacting to fresh outrages) have less fodder for outrage.
One might argue that the fresh Israel attack on al-Mawasi, a designated safe zone in Gaza, which killed over 90, so heinous as to elicit Palestinian general strikes in many West Bank cities, was an effort to take advantage of the Presidential election upheaval in the US. As has also become common, the Israeli strike was a so-called double tap, where Israel first bombed the target, then hit a second time so as to kill first responders.
But after Israel destroying hospitals and even torturing doctors, it’s hard to see this heinous act as much of an escalation, save perhaps for the intelligence-insulting justification. Israel claimed it was after Palestinian commander Muhammad Deif, but even Netanyahu has said it has not confirmed he was killed.
And the event du jour is Israel flattening a UN school:
I think this child survived.
Israel just bombed a UN school in Nusairat refugee camp and buried more children under rubble.
Gaza is a constant daily massacre. Please don't let the media distract you with propaganda about other events.
Keep focused. Keep sharing. pic.twitter.com/nEaSUns8i3
— Khalissee (@Kahlissee) July 14, 2024
To widen the frame just a smidge, the Lancet analysis that at least 186,000 Palestinians have died in Gaza has, in keeping, also been under-reported.
A new piece in the Lancet estimates Gaza deaths at 186 000. That would be 7-9% of the population in 9 months. https://t.co/yCyyVhtWiS pic.twitter.com/IV2NDbTsZe
— Ben Phillips (@benphillips76) July 7, 2024
Scott Ritter went through typical ratios of buried dead to other deaths when buildings are destroyed, and argued the Lancet had used the low end of the range. He thought total deaths of 250,000 were more plausible and much higher numbers entirely possible.
Instead they maimed and killed many civilians, including children, which as Lambert faux-blandly noted, seemed to be the point. And of course genocide is the point. We’ve read and heard innumerable statements from Israeli officials and ordinary citizens about how all Palestinians are combatants and/or subhuman, and so entirely deserve to be exterminated.
One could argue that a new Israel act under the cover of the US presidential race mayhem is that Israel has finalized its annexation of the West Bank. But that might not be sexy, erm, nauseating enough to merit much press notice even in less turbulent times. And the perp, Ben Smotrich, is so persistently defiant of US opinion that I doubt he gives our news cycles much mind. From Haaretz in Smotrich Has Completed Israel’s Annexation of the West Bank:
A few days ago, the constitutional revolution was completed, but no, not in Israel. Few were aware of it, but the Ben-Gvir-Smotrich-Netanyahu government has conspired to carry out two coups – one in Israel and the other in the West Bank….
Quietly, without any ceremonies or press announcements, Yehuda Fuchs, the head of the army’s Central Command (and the commander of Israeli forces in the West Bank), signed an order creating a new position in the army’s Civil Administration, “deputy head for civilian affairs” and the Civil Administration’s head signed a document delegating powers to the holder of the new office.
But the “deputy” is in fact a civilian appointed by Smotrich and is in no way a deputy because he is not subordinate to the head of the Civil Administration. He needs no approval for his actions, is not required to consult with or report to him. He is subordinate alone to Smotrich.
The order and the letter of delegation of powers transferred most – in fact almost all – of the powers held by the head of the Civil Administration to the new deputy. Land management, planning and construction, enforcement against unpermitted construction, supervision and management of local authorities, professional licensing, trade and economy, management of nature reserves and archaeological sites…
In order to understand how dramatic this change is, one should realize what international law was trying to achieve when it determined that occupied territory should be managed by a military government.
International law regulates a state of occupation as a temporary management of the territory by the occupier, and it categorically prohibits its unilateral annexation. This is not just another prohibition, but a key principle meant to cement the principle which precludes the use of force in international relations except in self-defense. If it is clear sovereignty cannot be acquired by force, there will be less motivation for embarking on a war of aggression. In other words, this prohibition on unilateral annexation of an occupied territory principle is at the core of the international rule-based order established after World War II, that in its heart lies the desire to eradicate wars. The purpose of determining that an occupied territory will be managed by a temporary military administration, and not directly by the occupying government, was to create a buffer between the citizens of the occupying country, who are its sovereign, and the ruling apparatus in the occupied territory.
But despite the ever rising toll of death and destruction in Gaza, Israel’s success in exterminating or otherwise ethnically cleansing the Palestinian population is not coming quickly enough, at least for its citizens. Alastair Crooke has stressed that Israel’s premise, of being a haven where Jews could everywhere be safe, was shattered by October 7. Not only has it not been restored, it is unlikely ever to be restored.
The pretext for the extermination in Gaza was to, as Netanyahu vowed, to eliminate Hamas. Many pointed out that could never happen, that more Hamas fighters would enlist and replace the ones lost. But more important than external opinion is increasing confirmation in Israel. For instance, from CNN in late June:
Israel’s top military spokesman has said Hamas cannot be made to “disappear,” casting doubt about whether the government’s war aim of defeating the militant group can be achieved and drawing a sharp rebuke from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“The idea that it is possible to destroy Hamas, to make Hamas vanish — that is throwing sand in the eyes of the public,” Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said Wednesday in an interview with Israel’s Channel 13.
The IDF kinda-sorta walked that back, but the point was made.
More generally, as many Western military commentators have pointed out, Israel and the US are both set up to wage high intensity, airpower dominated, relatively short conflicts. Hamas (and Hezbollah and Iran) all understand that, and so went well underground and set themselves up to wage a war of attrition.
Despite the appearance of cohesion and normalcy in key centers (think of Kiev until recently as an analogue), there are plenty of cracks beneath the surface: the departure of some Israelis over the war (generally Ashkenazis, including skilled, readily employable IT workers), the refusal of the ultra-religious to serve in the military, the failure of the government to secure the release of most hostages, and Hezbollah’s continues shelling of northern Israel. Israel has been threatening for months to attack Lebanon, with hardliners strutting that they will push Hezbollah to the Litani River. In fact, Israel only barely got there in its failed 2006 war, planting a flag for a photo and quickly running away. And everyone watching this war who also possesses an operating brain cell, above all IDF leaders, know that Hezbollah is much more powerful than in 2006 and Israel is not. So many commentators believe that the reason for the continuing saber-rattling is that Israel leaders are confident that the US would join a war with Lebanon, even though the head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Charles Brown cleared his throat to state otherwise. In a potentially more convincing communication, the US also said Ukraine was the top priority customer for new Patriot missile deliveries, and asked Israel to turn over eight (admittedly stockpiled) Patriot batteries to Ukraine.
One has to wonder if Netanyahu and the hardliners continue to talk up launching a war with Lebanon to try to wear down the IDF, or whether instead this is actually an empty formula to try to placate the angry, displaced border area settlers.The recent dustup with Iran over the Israel attack on Iran’s consular premises demonstrated conclusively how vulnerable Israel is. Iran agreed to hit only pre-identified targets and sent a big wave of slow-moving drones to announce it was coming. Even with all that notice, Iran was still able to penetrate Israeli defenses and take out military assets at these highly defended sites. So if Israel (with US and French assistance) can’t protect itself in textbook perfect circumstances, how will it do in a bare knuckle conflict?
In another proof of US weakness, the Houthis continue to wreak havoc in sea lanes and the US has spent a lot of money in not subduing them:
‼️ During its failed #OperationWhackAMole in the Red Sea region, the USS Eisenhower carrier strike group owns up to the expenditure of at least 770 precision-guided munitions of various types!
Now the USS Roosevelt CSG is rushing there to expend hundreds more.#TheBigAttrition https://t.co/efmLYMRdaf
— Will Schryver (@imetatronink) July 15, 2024
And Israel’s economy continues to suffer. From Middle East Monitor last week:
Some 40,000 Israeli companies have closed their doors since October, amid expectations that the number will rise to 60,000 by the end of the year, Israel’s Maariv newspaper said yesterday.
The Israeli paper cited data from the CEO of business information company CofaceBDI, Yoel Amir, saying: “This is a very high number that includes many sectors.”
The vast majority, 77 per cent, of the companies are small businesses which are most vulnerable.
He pointed out that the most affected sectors are construction and related industries such as ceramics, air conditioning, aluminium and building materials.
While trade, including fashion, furniture and household appliances and the service sector, including cafes, entertainment and entertainment services, and transportation have also been hit hard.
Tourism has been severely impacted by the war with almost non-existent foreign tourism, along with the decline in national mood.
“The damage in combat zones is more serious, but the damage to businesses is across the country, with almost no sector spared,” Amir noted….
“Apart from companies closing their doors, there has been a sharp decline in corporate activity in various sectors since the beginning of the war,” he added.
And some prominent individuals are speaking out. From TurkiyeToday:
Former Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Monday that Israeli soldiers are having nightmares, the economy is collapsing and diplomacy is eroding.
“Nine months have passed since the deadly surprise attack by Hamas on the state of Israel and its people, and it seems as though nothing has changed within the Israeli leadership,” Lieberman wrote in an article published on the Israeli news site Walla.
“Children and adults, soldiers, and reservists are suffering from nightmares about what has happened and what might happen. The Israeli economy is collapsing, and Israeli diplomacy is eroding,” the leader of the right-wing opposition Yisrael Beiteinu Party said.
Lieberman also addressed tensions between Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah, saying: “The north is desolate and scorched; Iran continues to arm itself; and while all this is happening, the corrupt government continues as if nothing has happened.”
Israel seems to have become a hostage to its vision of itself, above all its sense of divine entitlement to Biblical lands and to subjugate, expel, or exterminate its inhabitants. Israel has managed the difficult task of uniting not just its neighbors but now the entire world against it, and remains defiant even as its sponsor is visibly enfeebled and overcommitted.
So even if Netanyahu, in his speech to Congress next week, gets his expected record level of applause and again tells us how to run our foreign policy, the US does not have the resources to make commitments to change Israel’s trajectory. The time it will take to have largely exterminated the Palestinians is more than it has. Yet Israel, like many old people, insists on being even more of who it always was no matter what the longevity cost.
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Thanks for keeping this story in the mix.
I am beyond depressed that we have three major candidates for President and none of them are talking about this Genocide.
The only hope I have is that Ansar Allah will continue to punch way above their weight class. They’ve really done a number on shipping in that region. A commenter the other day asked why it wasn’t affecting the US inflation numbers yet. I believe that is because most US shipping comes either trans-Atlantic (European goods) or much more likely, from the Pacific (China, Asia.)
So, we dodged a bullet, there. But Europe not so much. I read that UK inflation shot up unexpectedly … maybe related? Funny how they always end up getting shafted by big brother across the pond.
Even before October 2023, Israel was a society in deep trouble. Bibi Netanyahu was trying to change the constitution to avoid criminal charges for corruption.
Right now, it seems that the decline is accelerating. It could result in a demographic decline, as the wealthier citizens with dual citizenship depart. Many of them will not be returning, unless as Crooke has noted, they are certain it is safe. Birth rates, except for the more fundamentalist sects of Israel, tend to be below replacement rate. Investment from abroad has also halted.
Here is an example:
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/intel-suspends-planned-expansion-of-its-israeli-semiconductor-manufacturing-plant/
Western armed forces like the IDF have performed very poorly. They haven’t been able to beat Hamas, and are clearly at a disadvantage against Hezbollah. As noted, they are built around short wars with air superiority. On the ground, Western forces are fighting a war that their industrial base and military doctrine are not designed to handle. The US is looking at losing now in both the Middle East and Ukraine.
The Israelis appear to be concealing their dead and wounded, but it is likely much worse than what has been commonly reported. Keep in mind that younger people who are casualties cannot contribute as much to the economy post-war and are often a burden on the state.
There is very real and lasting economic damage from the Ansar Allah / Houthi actions to block the Red Sea.
Post-conflict, Israel is likely to be a pariah nation outside of the declining Western economies. There has been no discussion of how to reverse these trends. The Israeli lobby is likely to demand US taxpayer and military support, but that’s limited by America’s ability to give those things (and the US military has not done well against Ansar Allah).
The Israelis are very unpopular in the Islamic world for their actions, and for good reason. Many of the current political leaders in the Middle East, have been subservient to the US and risk the wrath of their own populations if they do anything else more pro-Israel.
Lawrence Wilkerson has previously argued that Israel in its current form will not exist in 20 years.
My “ability” to give “those things” is zero, as is my resolve of support, zero.
The issue here is the US has long since given up even the pretense of being a democracy. The Israeli lobby will ensure that only their loyal members of Congress are elected.
Fiscal realities in the US, along with the most recent losses in the US wars are the far more likely factor to force change. It will happen whether the ruling elite in the US and Israel want it or not.
Fascinating that after the world stood witness while Israel commits genocide so “openly and notoriously,” an underlying assumption exists that Israel has a future, has a “day Zero” —
Allies committed war crimes a-plenty in WWII with the expressed and agreed-upon intent to destroy Germany. Germany was brutally “de-Nazified” down to its very soul. I continue to make the very unpopular case that “Germany was more sinned against than sinning.”
But Germany was “de-Nazified.” Germany was forced to a Day Zero. Allied occupiers spent years forcing the German people to internalize the reality that Germany HAD NO SOVEREIGN FUTURE. Germany’s Day After was entirely dependent on the preferences of Allied occupiers (who have not yet left Germany).
Why should Israel be treated any differently?
Germany wasn’t really “de-nazified”… like the saying goes, when hitler lost the war, the german nazi’s took off their uniforms and put on their hugo boss suits and took right back over…. or something like that.
between operation paperclip in north america, and operation gladio in europe… and the american sector high commisioner in 1949 , john j Mccloy; freeing most of the nazi’s convicted at the nuremburg trials. The same year the new creature called NATO… is born. With ex-nazi’s all over it and at the UN… now their kids and grandkids are in the show..
There really wasn’t a de-nazification anywhere.
That is like saying the winners of the american civil war beat the southern slave states, and got rid of the white supremacist’s.
So ,in relation to isreal,
history has no example of “the right thing being done”, and no one is ever held accountable, and the children are always taught history so as not to embarrass polite society.
I have said before, in the US .. most of both the repub and demo party candidates from the president on down are unfit for office and incapable of upholding the constitution as that would require a full accounting of the transgressions against the constitution and the people for whom they should be concerned.
But all has been pay-walled and big money has corrupted as designed.
Sorry TR and FDR and all those from the start to know who’s hard work a great deeds have come to naught in these states.
When did Congress or the american people have a say in authorizing the use of currency to project offensive warfare – where was the declaration of war authorized by congress …. oh yea, they have been negligent in their duties to uphold the constitution for a long time now…to hell with the shinning city on the hill or whatever claptrap…just show me the money…. money talks BS walks has been and continues to be the ultimate corruptor throughout the ages
From The Economist some stats on the number of trucks entering Gaza since Oct 7, 2023:
https://archive.ph/hf4l2
If before Hamas break out of jail action, about 500 trucks per day was the norm (not that was enough, but survivable). After that it mostly hovered to around 200 trucks per day. After the attack on Rafah, it dropped to maybe up to 75 trucks per day, so at times 10 times less than befor Oct 7, 2024.
Who’s volunteering to reduce their diet by a 10th or a 7th normal diet? The pictures from Gaza will start to resemble more and more the pictures taken after the liberation of concentration/extermination camps in 1945…
I am waiting now to see ICJs legal opinion on the Israel’s illigal occupation and mistreatment of Palestinians in Gaza and West Bank since 1967 (to be released on July 19th), opinion requested by UNGA. I am pretty sure that would corner Israel even more as the pariah of the world, and US and the West by association. Likely the West will keep a blanket over it: silence is what pros do…
Ha. The Economist. There’s an ‘unbiased’ source. Personally I think they’re a tad NeoCon, don’t you think?
Full blown neocon. But even with their information, which is likely not leaning towards Palestinians, one cannot but conclude that Israel(is) is starving to death the people of Gaza.
I am waiting for the indictment of Netanyahu and Gallant by the ICC as war criminals although I understand it is “being delayed” ie a lot of pressure is being exerted to stop any further action. Surely it is illegal to pressure a court? Another basic democratic law that the Us and Israel don’t think applies to them. News in the Times of Israel (you can read it, there’s no paywall,) stated that Netanyahu was busy altering the official record of what was said/what he said in the lead up and during this genocide. (And the Israelis are outraged when we don’t believe them! So many lies!!) As an “ordinary person” who thought the world, in a pinch had laws to stop truly awful things I now know that isn’t true. That if you are powerful or have powerful friends you can basically do what you want. The only little ray of hope is that Netanyahu and Trump will do so much damage to their respective countries that their schemes will come to naught. However I am increasingly hopeless, it really seems that even in our supposedly democratic countries who could be doing the right thing, power politics comes first. It is disgusting how Canada, Germany all the rest of the so called enlightened west just sit there and do nothing.
Guy Ziv, Associate Professor
Foreign Policy & Global Security at UWashington DC shed some light on the situation, too. The title “Netanyahu vs the generals” gives away the gist of it.
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As I understand it, the Gazan Health Ministry has relied on hospitals and morgues for their reports on the number of deaths and injuries. As those institutions have largely been disabled or destroyed completely, those numbers have decreased proportionately, but as the Lancet report indicates, the actual numbers have not. I have heard it said that perhaps Hamas doesn’t want the true numbers to come out which would underscore their inability to protect the population? The population certainly understands that they are being slaughtered. The Zionist Project has been brutal since, well, even before 1948, now it is in full bloom.
As Michael Ratner asked rhetorically around 2011 with the release of the Goldstone report: How long is the world going to let this go on?
Far too long Michael. Far too long.
The French killed 1 million Algerians, using the type of horrid, monstrous barbarism we see today by the IOF (attributed in movies solely to Germans in WW2) to gain independence.
The difference is that the gatekeepers of what is Done in Our Name cannot shut the flow of videos to the outside world.
Note, although the French people were kept in the dark about what their military was doing in their name out of worry they would object, the Israeli people are not kept in the dark. A sad commentary on the species.
~the Israeli people are not kept in the dark.
I’m not so sure about that. There are indications that I have seen that they are not receiving much information on the extreme suffering of the Gazans (or the people in the West Bank). Now, having said that, I do believe that Israeli society has been long and increasingly programmed to consider Palestinians as the Other, that their suffering is somehow deserved, or can be rationalized. I am certain that the Israelis are largely oblivious to the fact that their presence in historic Palestine was a violent imprint of a colonial settler project on a region with a long standing indigenous population. A land without a people for a people without a land was, and continues to be the mantra, except for those that have escaped it.
And yes, there are grim historical analogies and Algeria is certainly one. I did see the film the Battle of Algiers, oh my.
The vast majority of Jewish Israelis supported the expansion of the war into Rafah, to name just one example. So you may be right that the Israeli population isn’t fully informed on the extreme suffering of the Palestinians, and the calls for expanding and escalating the war is possibly a result of that. (Or, as I’m more inclined to supect, and as you also suggest as a possibility, they know very well and are simply not satisifed anyway.)
The French still have tributes to their soldiers who died in those campaigns. There has been no reckoning.
I think the Lancet report of 165,000 or so deaths is a measure of likely deaths accompanying starvation, lack of health care , disease etc. Apparently in most wars the number of deaths caused by direct violence often leads to maybe three more indirectly from these other causes.
But how much more devastation does Israeli really need to visit upon Gaza? After they’ve destroyed all essential civilian infrastructure, housing, electricity, running water, medical facilities, isn’t it only a matter of time before every single Palestinian dies? Some singular international pressure is necessary to allow an unfathomable aid in, continuously, to try to stem this. I can’t see the US saying “no more munitions for you”. Real economic sanctions might work given how small Israeli is as a country, but is that in the offing? Or buying off Egypt in a big big way to open its borders? I don’t see the US taking a million refugees either. A cease-fire, well welcome, would be just the beginning, and masses of aid would need to be delivered, rapidly to stem loss of life further, and Israeli would need to allow that to happen.
I’ve always felt (Hiroshima aside) that the United States committed a terrible atrocity
during WWII in firebombing Dresden. But Dresden was a mere firecracker compared
to what Israel has done to Gaza. And they’re happy about it.
Any congress critter applauding Bibi is pandering to his paymaster.
JRB, DJT, RFK jr are supporters of genocide and panderers to the paymaster.
Do not vote for any of them
Agree – But I still encourage people to vote. Jill Stein is anti-war. I know we aren’t hearing much from the Greens but they are the only party of peace that is also on most of the state ballots. It is a protest vote – indeed – but we are saying something when we cast our vote. I saw an interview with Jeffrey Sachs who stated he was voting for Stein. So there will be a few of us who aren’t sucked into the Lesser of Two (Three) Evils mythology.
Jill Stein. Imagine, a candidate who is actually against forever wars. Of course, most Americans have never heard of her, thanks to the forever wars media.
My personal opinion is that anyone who votes for any of these three (instead of voting for someone like Stein or not voting at all) is a part of the problem. All three are ghouls because of their support for Israel.
While Avigdor Lieberman has indeed spoken out against the Netanyahu government for causing an economic collapse, and “nightmares” for soldiers, reservists and children, his criticism is that it has not been sufficiently insane. Two weeks ago he called for Israel to attack Iran with nuclear weapons.
Have to wonder if both Netanyahu and Putin are waiting it out for Trump to take office. But as pro-Israel and anti-Iran as Trump is, I don’t know and certainly hope that he would not let Israel drag the United States into a war with Iran.
Don’t count on it. He has some very rich Zionist donors who are giving generously but with strings attached.
What I’m counting on (or at least rooting for) is his cowardice and ineptitude. Remember when Iran retaliated against the assassination of Soleimani with a massive ballistic missile attack on an American base in Iraq, and Trump’s response was to do precisely nothing? (There were reports – impossible to verify of course – that he begged Iran to let him strike some insignificant spot in Iran’s desert areas, just for show, and that Iran said no.)
Now just imagine how furious and disappointed Trump’s Zionist donors must have been at that. He had the perfect pretext for at least a massive attack on Iran (a ground invasion wouldn’t gotten very far though), and he didn’t deliver anything at all. (Nevermind that Iran’s missile strikes were in response to the murder of their most important military commander on a peace mission to a Saudi Arabian delegation – the pretense was of course, as always in these situations, that Iran carried out an “unprovoked attack”.)
In response to the Oct 7th attacks Israel hoisted the black flag, this means they will give no quarter, the corollary is of course that they will receive no quarter. They hope that the US will protect them from this which has worked out so far but the underlying dynamic remains.
Once you run up the black flag there is no going back as any pirate will tell you when you are captured you are run up the mast in a noose without any trial. The section of Israeli society that thinks they will be able to revert to their old place in the world after this is delusional.
Israel is an echo chamber.
The feedback loops have no circuit breakers.
The logical flaw with monotheism is that ideals are not absolutes.
Truth, beauty, platonic forms are ideals.
The core codes, creeds, heroes, narratives at the gravitational center of every culture are ideals.
The universal, on the other hand, is the elemental.
So a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgment, from which we fell.
The light shining through the film, than the stories playing out on it.
Morality is not absolute, as it could not be transgressed, if it were. Like a temperature below absolute zero.
Morals are the ideals, the codes, beliefs, habits, practices, relationships that enable a healthy society.
Traditionally that one’s status be a function of what one adds, not what one can extract.
While the 3000 years where we have gone from mostly tribal societies to nations of millions of people might seem long, in evolutionary terms, it is fairly short.
The technology has evolved far more than the sociology.
As linear, goal seeking organisms in this cyclical, circular, reciprocal, feedback generated reality, it’s like we haven’t internalized the implications of the world being round, not flat. What goes round, comes round.
For every action…..
The problem for the Zionist paradigm is that it is basically trying to re-litigate the conflict the Zealots had with the Roman Empire. Messianic religions can’t acknowledge negotiations, win, lose or draw, as the other side cannot be granted validity.
What if the Angles and Saxons both had messianic core religions and could not iron out their differences? Where would Western Civilization be today?
Nodes and networks.
Synchronization and harmonization.
I had always heard (I guess it’s a stereotype) that Jews and Catholics chronically suffered from free-floating feelings of guilt. There was a meme during WWII that
pictured a small postwar child asking his or her father, “What did you do in the Big
War, daddy?” Speaking honestly, an IDF vet would have to answer, “I murdered
a whole lot of children just like you. And their mothers, too.” But there seems to be a
nationwide denial in Israel of said guilt. PTSD? Apparently it’s un-Jewish. I haven’t
heard a whisper about it, although this may be the first war in the history of Mankind
where it has not been present. And prior to the present conflict, IDF soldiers were
not hardened professionals, but ordinary citizens. Very few reports of suicides, for example.
How is Israel feeding itself, what with all the shipping interruptions?
The logic is that if you kill all the Palestinians, there will be no more Hamas. It’s the quiet part that Israeli officials have been saying to their Hebrew audience. Unfortunately for them, anyone can translate their words which is why South Africa’s case at the ICJ was such a slam dunk despite none of the judges wanting to go there.
Once the 2.5M Palestinians in Gaza have been extinguished, they will turn against the 2.8M in the West Bank and, ultimately, the 2.3M Palestian citizens of Israel. For anyone shying away from comparisons with the Holocaust, we’re talking about numbers well in excess of 6M. Israel must not be allowed to continue. Their neighbours need to stop them before they complete their task.
Regarding the Lancet estimate, they’ve been quite explicit about calling their estimate conservative. They found that indirect deaths range from 3 to 15 (in the war on terror) for every direct death and they chose the lowball estimate of 4. On top of an already vastly undercounted total of direct deaths (I estimate it to be around 80k), the indirect deaths are likely to be well in excess of 15:1 such is the devastation visited on critical infrastructure. Ultimately, they will need to look at initial population plus estimated births less emigration (very limited, they can’t leave) less final population, if there are any left.
Clearly, I didn’t understand anything when I learned in school Never Again.
I should point out the indirect deaths will ramp up to over 15 over time but are not there yet. They are, however, already baked in, unless the remaining population is somehow evacuated.
Hmmm… Last ‘evacuation to a safe zone’ resulted in Israel bombing the ‘safe zone’.
The embedded video from Khalissee looks like it’s directed by the White Helmets.
The White Helmets – often quoted by the MSM.
And Palliwood often quoted by the Lefties (and the MSM as well).
But as you may know:
Palestinian Dead Are Necessary (according to Hamas)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn-L3J_j00M
If you want to go back in history, not starting at 7th of october is good.
But stopping at 1948 is bad.
You have to go back to the 7th century, to understand the root cause of the conflict.