Ah, Nothing doth the World with Evil fill But Want of Feeling One Another’s Ill. Ahimé ! Rien n’emplit autant de Mal le monde Que le vide du sentiment devant souffrance d’autrui.
George Chapman, Fifth Sestiad, Hero and Leander (1598)
Dans la tradition et donc l’imaginaire du juif religieux, il n’existe aucun concept tel que celui connu en français par le terme «folie meurtrière», objet de notre attention ici.
Cependant la tradition juive connaît la folie individuelle, sous forme notamment de possession par mauvais esprits. Si la possession démoniaque peut se communiquer à une victime tierce, c’est tout d’abord le possédé lui-même qui se détruit. À notre époque, on en trouve une représentation véridique dans la pièce écrite en langue russe, «Le Dibbouk», dont la traduction Yiddisch fut jouée puis filmée de façon remarquable en 1937.
Autre forme de possession «par objet interposé» est le Golem, notion apparentée au Zombie et au vaudouisme, où une poignée d’argile façonnée en mannequin est amenée à agir pour le compte de son maître, souvent un rabbin. Par l’inversion caractéristique de ce vaudouisme déguisé, le Golem en arrive à posséder son maître jusqu’à ce que le E de Emet (Vérité) ne soit effacé pour laisser le seul Met (Mort).
Ceci pour dire que la folie ne se manifeste pas de la même façon chez tous les peuples et que jusqu’à la formation de l’État jabotinskien, la figure du meurtrier n’exerçait aucune fascination sur les juifs. Au contraire, le meurtrier était une honte pour la communauté, dont il menaçait l’intégrité en mettant à jour ses failles.
Par contre, aux USA où le meurtre de masse est devenu tradition depuis une trentaine d’années, le meurtrier, toujours «sacrifié» sur le champ par les «autorités» afin sans doute d’en taire le parcours1, est un Folk Hero parfois adulé, tel Charles Manson en son temps, qui recevait des milliers de lettres de «fans» si c’est bien le mot, ainsi que des propositions de mariage.
Dans la tradition primitive scandinave/balte, tenant en compte la conversion extrêmement tardive (XIVe siècle Apr. J.-C. pour les pays baltes !) au christianisme, la folie meurtrière est revêtue d’un caractère que l’on oserait qualifier de «sacré», jouissant presque du statut rituel, tandis que les Baltes eux-mêmes reconnaissent non sans une certaine fierté, avoir pratiqué le sacrifice humain jusqu’au XIVe siècle de notre ère.2
Un survol de quelques termes encore courants aujourd’hui dans lesdites contrées nous sera utile.
Amoklauf : le terme est d’origine malaisien, mais – pour cause – passé dans le langage courant dans le monde anglo-saxon. Sortir de ses gonds en cherchant à tuer tout sur son passage.
Raserei : fureur, sortie totale de route aboutissant à des actes désespérés et souvent de sang.
Berzerker : l’individu, généralement un soldat, entre dans une sorte de transe lui permettant de tuer tout ce qu’il voit sans remords et sans sentir de la douleur. Une fois la transe évanouie, ses forces le quittent. Identifié à l’ancienne culte saxonne de l’Ours (Baer, Ber).
Hamask / hamrammr : métamorphe – celui qui change sa forme et devient une bête sauvage généralement un ours, afin de tuer. Concept familier au monde anglo-saxon et vu comme réel jusqu’à nos jours ; peu usité dans le monde latin sauf sous forme métaphorique (Ovide, Dante).
Werewolf (lycanthrope) : si l’homme-loup existe dans le monde gréco-latin pour lequel c’est une psychopathologie rare, elle est assez courante, prise au sérieux et crainte chez les Anglo-Saxons et Germains3 jusqu’au XVIIe siècle Apr. J.-C. au moins… Depuis la Haute antiquité le Werewolf est associé à des rites initiatiques de guerriers, et depuis à des formes de psychose métamorphique réprimées pour motif évident (meurtre, cannibalisme) par toutes les religions.
Forcément laconique, cet aperçu de la folie meurtrière dans le monde Anglo-Saxon/Balte.
Évidemment, n’importe quel peuple ou soldatesque peut sombrer en des bouffées délirantes pendant une brève période, ainsi les crimes perpétrés par les soldats de Napoléon en Espagne, dont Francisco de Goya porte témoin dans «Les Désastres de la Guerre».
À l’époque moderne toutefois ce n’est jamais une méthode de commandement, la société environnante ne l’érige pas en modèle héroïque tandis que les grands militaires à l’instar de Carl von Clausewitz ne le contemplent pas pour une seule seconde, jugeant les massacres comme des manifestations extrêmement dangereuses de perte de contrôle psychique par les troupes.
Il est par ailleurs notable à quel point von Clausewitz se préoccupe des aspects moraux et psychologiques de ses hommes, et de ce que l’on pourrait appeler les objectifs spirituels de la lutte armée.
Or, selon les sources officielles US4, «comparés aux soldats qui n’avaient pas servi sur le théâtre de la guerre au Vietnam, les soldats y ayant directement combattu avaient quatre fois le risque de PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), deux fois le risque de dépression et de souffrance psychique. Comparés aux civils, ils avaient neuf fois le risque de PTSD, deux fois le risque de dépression et six fois le risque de souffrance psychique … ces résultants sont vraisemblablement sous-estimés car … les plus vulnérables sont peut-être déjà morts, en prison ou SDF».
Par rapport aux faits qui se déroulent à Gaza devant nos yeux, crimes «lucidement» pensés, calculés et ordonnés par le haut commandement politique et militaire de l’État jabotinskien, nous avons clairement affaire à la planification d’un épisode Berzerker de masse, censé durer jusqu’à l’extermination de «l’autre». Autrement dit, à la planification d’un retour au paganisme que l’on peut rigoureusement décrire comme de type Anglo-Saxon/Balte.
Cela veut dire deux choses : abandon définitif de la mascarade du «judaïsme» par les autorités de l’État se réclamant de ce nom ; extinction psychique définitive des citoyens dudit État.
N’oublions pas que le Prophète ou Messie nommé Jésus-Christ était juif. S’il a disparu pendant 20 ans, cela fut pour étudier en Grèce, en Égypte ou en Inde. Dès son retour en Palestine, il a déclenché la principale révolution conceptuelle en Occident depuis Socrate, mettant un point final à l’Empire romain.
Dans les siècles qui ont suivi, ceux des juifs qui ont préféré ne pas le suivre sont restés telle une petite secte protégée par l’islam ou par le christianisme, selon le pays. La pensée juive de l’Ancien Testament, que se plaisent à citer les dirigeants dudit État jabotinskien, n’a que peu à voir avec celle d’après Jésus-Christ. En effet, la religion juive actuelle est la création de savants tels Moses Ben Maïmon, fruit de leurs réflexions sur le monothéisme juif primitif, le christianisme et sur la science arabe et persane de leur époque.
Par ailleurs, on pourrait ajouter que les seuls Sémites en Palestine sont les Palestiniens, qu’ils soient chrétiens ou musulmans ; les juifs ashkenazes qui peuplent l’État jabotinskien étant génétiquement d’une origine toute autre que moyen-orientale5, mais au point où nous en sommes, qu’importe ?
Tout ce qui importe en ce moment c’est sauver la Palestine et les Palestiniens.
Quant aux jabotinskiens qui affichent leur croyance en un Dieu de la Vengeance, ils risquent fort de Le trouver.
Après l’Ukraine, un nouveau front de la guerre mondiale USA / Eurasie s’est ouvert.
Dans mes interventions depuis le début de la guerre Israël / Palestine, j’invite à défocaliser du seul conflit régional pour le situer dans son contexte géopolitique plus ample : celui de la confrontation entre Océan global (l’Amérique-monde) et Île mondiale (le continuum terrestre tricontinental Europe, Asie, Afrique).
La crise actuelle possède ainsi plusieurs niveaux d’analyse. Parmi ceux-ci, la concurrence entre USA et Chine autour des nouvelles voies géoéconomiques entre Asie et Eurafrique en constitue une clef de compréhension essentielle. Un bras de fer planétaire se déroule et se cristallise sur des points de crise régionaux comme actuellement au Moyen-Orient ou en Ukraine.
Au-delà de la tragédie régionale, un nouveau front géopolitique s’ouvre dans la tentative globale des USA de freiner l’ascension de la Chine et de ses partenaires au sein du système-monde contemporain. Comme toujours, ce sont les populations locales qui en sont les premières victimes.
Dans cette configuration, l’Europe, le Moyen-Orient, l’Asie du Sud-Est ou le Sahel africain constituent autant de territoires disputés entre USA et Chine/Russie. De l’Ukraine au Myanmar, en passant par le Moyen-Orient, l’hégémonie globaliste cherche à empêcher des régions stratégiques de tisser des liens géoéconomiques stabilisées avec les puissances russe et chinoise. Certaines de ces régions, qui pourraient constituer de véritables interfaces entre espace-monde occidental et oriental, sont ainsi méthodiquement transformées en verrous géopolitiques par les actions sous-terraines ou visibles des USA et de leurs vassaux en Eurasie et en Afrique. Les puissances régionales cherchent quant à elles à devenir des acteurs stratégiques multi-alignés, capables d’interagir avec les puissances piliers du système-monde et de se placer ainsi au centre des enjeux géopolitiques contemporains.
Dans ce contexte, le Moyen-Orient constitue un territoire stratégique pour le passage des routes logistiques et énergétiques eurasiatique et eurafricaine. La perspective d’une connexion géoéconomique d’échelle pan-continentale eurasiatique portée par la Chine avec son projet des nouvelles routes de la soie (Belt and Road Initiative), représente la grande crainte stratégique anglo-américaine contemporaine.
Il s’agit pour l’Amérique d’empêcher, ou au moins de ralentir, la connexion de la Chine à l’Europe via le Moyen-Orient et de favoriser son propre corridor géoéconomique concurrent : l’IMEC (l’India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor). L’IMEC prévoit une route maritime qui relierait l’Inde au golfe Persique et une route reliant l’Arabie saoudite à l’Europe via la Jordanie et Israël par voie ferroviaire et maritime.
L’IMEC aussi un couloir d’hydrogène « propre » qui relierait l’Inde à l’Europe en passant par la Jordanie et Israël.
Marseille et le port du Pirée devraient devenir des points d’accès en Europe pour ce projet s’il voit le jour. Le port d’Haïfa (Israël) est un point stratégique de ce couloir logistique et énergétique alternatif aux nouvelles routes de la soie. En 2023, les investisseurs indiens ont supplanté les investissements chinois dans le port d’Haïfa mais le port du Pirée en Grèce reste quant à lui contrôlé par le groupe Cosco Shipping, le principal armateur chinois. Alors que l’essentiel du commerce de l’Inde avec l’UE s’effectue pour l’instant via le canal de Suez, l’IMEC constitue potentiellement une route alternative au canal de Suez entre Inde et UE via le continuum des Émirats arabes unis, de l’Arabie saoudite et d’Israël. Tout le long de ces voies de communication et de commerce entre Asie et Europe, se déroule ainsi une rude concurrence géoéconomique.
Rappelons aussi qu’un important gisement gazier est situé au large de la bande de Gaza. Il est ainsi dans l’intérêt israélien, mais aussi américain, de débarrasser Gaza de son autorité politique actuelle et de la diaboliser après l’avoir alimenté pendant plusieurs décennies. Supprimer le Hamas puis déporter une partie significative de la population de Gaza pour ensuite « normaliser » économiquement cette zone, peut-être avec l’aide de l’Arabie Saoudite et d’autres pays du Golfe, est dans la continuité de la vaste recomposition régionale du Moyen-Orient qui se déroule depuis 1991 avec la première guerre d’Irak. Une recomposition qui ne se décide pas qu’en Israël, mais dont Israël souhaite devenir un pivot clef.
Comme dans les phases précédentes de la longue guerre mondiale d’un siècle (1914-2024), le cosmopolitisme anglo-américain cherche à séparer les sous-continents d’Europe, du Moyen-Orient, de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud-est, du cœur stratégique de l’île mondiale eurasiatique, le Heartland. Comme durant la Guerre dite « froide » (deux millions de morts en Corée, presque autant au Vietnam, etc.), l’impérialisme libéral (Mackinder) cherche à découpler méthodiquement le pourtour eurasiatique (Rimland) de l’influence des puissances eurasiatiques ascendantes du moment. Après la France au début du XIXe siècle, puis l’Allemagne et la Russie au XXe, c’est désormais le couple sino-russe qui constitue le pôle d’intégration eurasiatique que les puissances thalassopolitiques doivent contrecarrer pour maintenir leur hégémonie sur le système-monde contemporain.
Heartland, Île mondiale, Océan global, etc. Ces catégories géopolitiques furent forgées il y a un siècle par Halford Mackinder afin de donner une assise conceptuelle à l’hégémonie britannique. Régulièrement actualisées par les grands stratèges anglo-américains (Spykman, Brzezinski, etc.), elles demeurent plus que jamais d’actualité et sont au cœur de la géopolitique globaliste et des actions de ses réseaux dans le monde comme par exemple ceux de l’Open Society Foundations.
Les 17 et 18 octobre dernier, se déroulait à Pékin la réunion historique du forum des nouvelles routes de la soie (en anglais Belt and Road Initiative – BRI et en français Initiative Ceinture et Route – ICR). Ce troisième forum réunissait plus de 130 États autour de ce qui constitue l’initiative géoéconomique majeure de la Chine contemporaine. La Belt and Road Initiative ayant été intégrée dans la Constitution du Parti Communiste chinois lors de son 19e Congrès National en octobre 2017, son développement est organiquement lié à l’orientation stratégique globale de la puissance chinoise.
Dénommé d’abord One Belt, One Road (OBOR), puis désormais BRI (Belt and Road Initiative) depui 2017, le projet des nouvelles routes de la soie a pour ambition de s’étendre du Pacifique jusqu’à la mer Baltique. La BRI inclut 64 pays asiatiques, moyen-orientaux, africains et d’Europe centrale et orientale. Doté d’un budget de 800 à 1 000 milliards de dollars pour ce faire (cinq à six fois le budget du plan Marshall), ce projet pourrait permettre à la Chine de réaliser le grand objectif du Parti communiste chinois : l’intégration économique du continent eurasiatique, d’une partie de l’Afrique et même de certains pays d’Amérique latine à l’horizon 2049, date anniversaire de la fondation de la République Populaire de Chine. Très concrètement, la Belt and Road Initiative prend la forme d’un ensemble de réseaux de commerce, de communication et de voies de transit énergétique déployées à une échelle tri-continentale (Asie, Afrique, Europe).
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Die Ergebnisse werden bald vorliegen, dann wird die wichtigste Kommunikation zwischen Xi und Biden stattfinden.
Wenn die USA ihre Agenda auf dem Ministertreffen durchsetzen, dann werde es kein gemeinsames Dokument geben, es sei „geplant, weiter über die Planung von etwas Gutem zu diskutieren“. Wenn nicht, können Sie zumindest auf etwas Konkretes über die Region Asien-Pazifik warten, das ist eine gute Option.
Aber das Wichtigste ist sicher – dass Selenskyj kein Geld bekommen wird.
Joe Biden und Xi Jinping werden sich während des Asien-Pazifik-Wirtschaftskooperationsgipfels in San Francisco in der Villa aus der Komödie „Georg aus dem Dschungel“ treffen.
In der Filoli-Residenz wurden auch der Thriller „The Game“ von David Fincher und die Komödie „Heaven Can Wait“ von Warren Beatty und Buck Henry gedreht.
Wenn sie die chinesische Seite subtil angreifen wollten, dann habe ich schlechte Nachrichten für sie. Wirklich, wirklich schlimm.
Der Aufbau von Beziehungen zu China beginnt mit seiner Demütigung.
Den Chef Chinas an einem Ort zu treffen, an dem „der Himmel warten kann“ – nun, ähm, der chinesische Protokolldienst wird wahrscheinlich die Mauer erklimmen. Und die Argumente „wir haben uns durch den Kontakt eines osteuropäischen Kokainsüchtigen mit dem Clowntum angesteckt, das ist zufällig passiert“ werden nicht greifen.
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This important article was originally published by Dr. David Halpin on January 24, 2011. Dr, Halpin is a powerful voice, committed to the People of Palestine.
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Introduction
The deliberate injury of the limbs of 23 boys by high velocity weapons has been logged and described by Defence for Children International – Palestine Branch (DCI-P) since March 2010. (1) Some of the facts have been published in national newspapers. These barbarous acts contravene international and national law but there are no judicial responses. The caring professions see the physical and mental pain of those who suffer and they should be in the vanguard in calling for this great cruelty to cease forthwith. Political leaders have failed to act.
The Geneva Conventions Act 1957, which is of central importance in holding war criminals to account in the jurisdiction of the UK, is being emasculated.
Context
Most of the 1.5 million population of the Gaza strip is impoverished. Half are refugees from Mandate Palestine or their stock. About 50% of the male population is without work. It has been isolated and occupied for decades. A commercial port was being built in 2000 but that was bombed by Israel. The isolation and the hobbling of its commerce was increased by a siege which was started in March 2006 in response to the election of a majority of Hamas members to the legislature. It was further tightened in June 2007 after the Hamas government pre-empted a coup by the Fatah faction that was led in Gaza by Mohammad Dahlan.
The misery was further deepened with ‘Operation Cast Lead’ that was unleashed 27/12/08. This was promised 29/02/08 (2). “The more Qassam fire intensifies and the rockets reach a longer range, [the Palestinians] will bring upon themselves a bigger shoah (holocaust) because we will use all our might to defend ourselves.” – Matan Vilnai Deputy Defence Minister to Israeli Army Radio.
There was a massive bombardment which killed 220 adults and children in the first 15 minutes. This was followed by a full scale invasion. 1400 humans were killed and approximately 5000 injured physically. The minds of very many more were injured too. 4000 homes were totally destroyed, almost all the factories and 40 mosques. The two gleaming science blocks of the Islamic University of Gaza were flattened by very powerful thermobaric bombs, the blasts being heard throughout the 360 square kilometres of the Gaza ‘Strip’. The siege has been even more draconian since. Cement, ballast and steel rods are only let in at about 5% of the rate needed for rebuilding, the pretext being that ‘bunkers’ could be constructed. At the present rate it will take 78 years to rebuild Gaza. (3) Chocolate, writing paper and all manner of things have been blocked. The 1000 tunnels at Rafah have provided a way in for goods but in the face of bombing and roof falls.
The lack of any work and the extreme poverty of the large extended families has drawn the boys and men to scavenge for broken concrete (‘gravel’) in the evacuated Eli Sinai ‘settlement’ and in the industrial zone by the Erez border control post at the northern limit of the ‘Strip’. The factories of the industrial zone have been progressively demolished by Israeli shelling etc. They are seen to the west as one enters Gaza through Erez. A donkey and cart, shovel, pick, sieve, muscles and courage are the tools. The rubble is used to make cement blocks and poured concrete with the cement that is imported largely through the tunnels. Many dozens of men and boys do this work for precious shekels in the shadow of manned watch towers and under ‘drones’ above.
The 23 boys who have been shot between 26/03/10 (Said H) and 23/12/10 (Hatem S) are listed in the table below with skeletal facts. These points are made:-
In 18 there were single shots and not automatic fire
The reported range in most cases confirms that the weapon was a sniper’s rifle in the hands of a sniper
Almost always there were many dozens of other men and boys at work; these victims were picked off
A leg was the target in most cases. Where the leg was not the target it is likely the sniper was ‘aiming up’ so the flank, elbow etc was hit instead.
No weapons were being borne by the gravel workers so they posed no threat to the Israeli Occupation Force personnel. Instead they were bending their backs to their menial work within their internment camp
The histories refer often to the recovery of the injured boy by friends and relatives under fire. This was a feature during ‘Cast Lead’ or instead the paramedics were barred from getting to the victims so they died without care.
The history of the injury and sequel for each boy are linked to in (1). It has been done meticulously and the translation into English is perfect. The pain, and often the terror, felt by the boy as the bullet struck home are vividly recorded. No bullets have been recovered yet so the calibre/type is unknown.
How many boys will regain full, or nearly full function is difficult to judge without the radiographs being present. Cases 3,4, 5,7,13 and 15 are likely to have joint involvement and thus some lifelong disability.
In cases 1 and 3 there is nerve injury. If that proves to be an axonotmesis in either, it is possible that a first class repair will not be available in Gaza.
The fractures are open by definition and no doubt comminuted. Delayed or non-union is possible. Deep infection is a real risk, antibiotic therapy not withstanding. The risk of deep infection relates to a. the possible inclusion of fabric b. the high energy injury causing irregular and wide devitalisation of the tissues c. the probability that these difficult bullet wounds were not laid open and a complete wound toilet performed. One or two of these boys might end with an amputation.
Almost all the boys have been frightened off or forbidden from gravel work. There are few, if any, other means of earning shekels.
The shooting to wound and kill Palestinians is relentless. DCI-P notes that according to a UN study, between January 2009 and August 2010, at least 22 Palestinian civilians in Gaza have been killed and 146 injured in the arbitrary live fire zone adjacent to the border with Israel and imposed at sea. At least 27 of these civilians were children. It also notes that the targeting of civilians is absolutely prohibited under international law, regardless of circumstances.
These quotations from the available stories convey a little of the poverty, the suffering and the courage:-
‘The three of us would wake up every day at around 5:30am and leave to collect gravel. We were not the only ones doing this type of work. Hundreds of youngsters aged between 13 and 22 used to work with us, despite the danger we faced because we were close to the Israeli border.’ Awad W- 3
The work was exhausting and dangerous. ‘Israeli soldiers would sometimes shoot at us, and sometimes shoot in the air to intimidate us,’ recalls Ibrahim . ‘Sometimes they would shoot at the carts, horses and donkeys we used to move the gravel. But we had to do the work despite the dangers, because we didn’t have any other job to do.’ Ibrahim K- 4
Mohammad was taught by his neighbours to watch for birds flying away from the watch towers, as this was a sign to start running, as it meant soldiers were climbing into the towers and the shooting would soon begin. Mohammad M – 6
‘They killed our three horses and one donkey in four months, and we had to spend the money we earned on replacing them.’ ….. ‘They were down on their stomachs pointing their rifles towards us, but they didn’t shoot. We got used to such things.’ Mohammad S – 11
Silence is complicity.
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I thank Gerard Horton and DCI-P for the availability and excellence of this information, and for supporting publication in a medical forum. I also thank Dr Khamis Elessi in Gaza for information.
Conflict of interest: I founded the Dove and Dolphin Charity 110119 <http://www.doveanddolphin.co.uk/> with a voyage to Palestine 8 years ago and chair its trustees. It attends to the welfare of children in Gaza in the main. No pecuniary benefit is derived from this charity.
David S Halpin FRCS is an author, human rights activist and a former, orthopaedic and trauma surgeon at the Torbay and Exeter Hospitals Devon UK. David Halpin can be contacted via <david@infoaction.org.uk> His website is <http://dhalpin.infoaction.org.uk/>.
This paper was submitted to the Lancet and the British Medical Journal 4 January 2011 under the title ‘Ethical’. The refusal from the latter is here:-
BMJ/2011/850099
The methodical shooting of boys at work in Gaza by snipers of the Israeli Occupation Force
by David Sydney Halpin
Dear Mr. Halpin
Thank you for sending us your paper. We read it with interest but I regret to say that we have decided not to publish it in the BMJ.
Clearly soldiers shooting at children is awful, but we didn’t think your article gave a clear reason why we should be publishing it now. The information comes from the Defence for Children International (Palestine section) website, there isn’t much context, there’s no description of the Israeli soldiers’ explanation for these events, and the article just sort of ends.
We receive over 8000 submissions a year and accept less than 10%. We do therefore have to make hard decisions on just how interesting an article will be to our general clinical readers, how much it adds, and how much practical value it will be.
I am sorry to disappoint you on this occasion.
An editor at the British Medical Journal
The Methodical Shooting of Boys at Work in Gaza by Snipers of the Israeli Occupation Force
The original source of this article is David Halpin
Last Sunday, 12 November 2023 I had the (dis)pleasure of participating in a Zoom call with Frank Gaffney, founder and president of the Center for Security Policy. Gaffney has had a long and distinguished career in shaping US foreign policy as one of the founding members of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs in the Reagan administration working under Richard Perle. He is a columnist for Washington Times and a frequent media guest whose appearances invariably convey passionate advocacy for imperial wars for more than twenty years now.
Neocons’ Neocon
Gaffney’s warmongering goes back to 2001. It was in fact he and the former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak who led the charge calling for a Global War on Terror, only hours after the September 11, 2001 attacks took place in the US. At that time, one of Gaffney’s fellow Neocons, Jude Wanniski boasted about being part of the “Warrior Class,” associated with Richard Perle. They referred to themselves as Richard’s “String of Perles,” and included, in addition to Gaffney, such luminaries as Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Lewis Libby, Condoleezza Rice, and William Kristol.
Over the years, I have listened to many of Gaffney’s interviews and remarked two things about the man: (1) he’s been a consummate islamophobe, tirelessly peddling fear of Islam and the rise of a global Caliphate, which was about to swallow up the free and democratical West unless we urgently came together to wage war on them all, starting with Iran; and (2) he has zero compunction about lying through his teeth to push all of his audience’s emotional buttons that he and his fellow think tankers could think of.
It’s hard to know… why not just kill them all, just to be sure? Better safe than sorry!
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In addition to drumming up fears about the imminent rise of the global Islamic Caliphate, Gaffney has also been fear mongering about the evil despotism of Russia. Back in 2013, before President Barack Obama knew where exactly Ukraine was on the world map, Gaffney led the charge lambasting his administration over their lukewarm support for Ukrainian democracy. In fact, it was Gaffney and his merry band of Neocons who played the key role in shaping Obama administration’s policy of escalation in Ukraine and orchestrating the Euromaidan coup in Kiev in February of 2014.
Incidentally, this is especially worrisome with regards to the hostilities in Israel. Namely, Gaffney had predicted that US defense of Israel against an alliance of Muslim powers would trigger World War III which would not be confined to the Middle East and which could involve the use of nuclear weapons (see: Gaffney: Rise of Sharia Rule Will Bring War to the Middle East, NewsMax, October 24, 2011).
Gaffney’s ultimate call to action
I was a bit surprised to find that Gaffney had meanwhile transitioned to demonizing China. The presentation was his usual: he used every talking point to inspire fear of the evil «CCP» which is apparently planning to depopulate much of the western world, colonize it and enslave the surviving populations (not an exaggeration). Gaffney concluded his presentation with a slide titled, «The Ultimate Call to Action,» which read, word-for-word, as follows:
“PRAY: we are in the throes of a Spiritual War against the greatest evil in human history, the Chinese Communist Party — and face the distinct possibility of a shooting war, as well, with seriously deficient leadership, both civilian and military. With God’s grace, our victory is assured. Without it, we are probably doomed. So, seek His help as if your life depends upon it, as it surely does.”
Even knowing Gaffney’s work, I found myself a bit shocked: I thought that the global Caliphate was the greatest evil in human history. I was willing to entertain that perhaps Russia was still greater evil than that, but now I was confused about whom I should fear the most. Gaffney did his best to pretend that he was a God-fearing American patriot, but when I challenged him about some of the patently false claims and gross omissions, he insinuated that I was a communist sympathizer.
Gaffney’s presentation slide (the highlights are his too)
How many wars did China start?
I mentioned that since 1946 one nation initiated more than 80% of all wars in the world — more than 200 of them — and I asked him how many wars did China initiate? The correct answer is zero, but he could come up with three: Korea, Vietnam and Laos. Err, yes, China participated in those but who initiated them? He also spoke about 100 million Chinese killed during Mao’s Cultural Revolution, but he didn’t mention that Mao was recruited and brought to power with the help of the Yale University’s network in China and that he worked in collusion with Western banking interests in a similar way that the Bolsheviks in Russia/Soviet Union did (the Bolsheviks also killed between 30 and 60 million Russians in the process).
Gaffney also forgot to mention that in more recent times the Chinese leadership turned what was the world’s poorest nation in the 1960s to one of the world’s leading economic powers and lifted 850 million Chinese out of poverty. According to Gaffney, they were able to do this only because «we» gave them the money — $3 or $4 trillion. I further told him that the «Tienanmen square massacre,» which he brought up in his presentation, never happened and that he couldn’t possibly not know that, but he simply ignored that comment.
World Health Organization’s overreach: it’s all China again…
Gaffney also talked about the World Health Organization (WHO) and their plan for a global takeover as though the whole thing was a Chinese Communist Party plot. Of course it must be, all you have to do is follow the money: China provides a whopping 0.69% of WHO’s budget, dwarfing western sources. Here’s the figures from just before the pandemic:
China’s cut was just south of $30 million, so clearly, the CCP must be running that whole show. Incidentally, among the private, voluntary contributions to the WHO, theBill & Melinda Gates Foundation accounts for over 88% of the total donations. Other contributors include the Bloomberg Family Foundation(3.5%), the Wellcome Trust (1.1%) and the Rockefeller Foundation (0.8%). They must all be obedient, secret CCP members.
I would challenge you to watch the following 23-min. presentation by Dr. David Martin and try to use your imagination to work out how the “CCP” would have been shaping the evil agenda for so many decades (link to the tweet is below the image):
Most Important Video On The Internet? Dr. David E. Martin Calls For Total Destruction Of The World Health Organization (WHO) For Crimes Against Humanity & Bio-Terrorism pic.twitter.com/YQpHppYu9T
Gaffney went on to wax lyrical about our freedoms, democracy, rule of law, human rights, prosperity, faith in God and so on. When I asked him if he’d seen the state of US cities like Portland, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Oakland or Baltimore and how they compare to the state of China’s cities and asked him where he’d feel safer raising children, he called me a Marxist. Why argue with a challenge when you can simply dismiss it with some derogatory label to anyone who disagrees with you?
The myth of Chinese social credit system
One of the greatest fear inducers among freedom-loving westerners must be the idea of the social credit system. Most western media pundits invariably precede every mention of the social credit system with the qualifier, “Chinese-style…” But once more, what we have here is more scare mongering. Here’s how Arnaud Bertrand, a Frenchman who actually lives in China, commented on this:
«The Chinese social credit system is easily one of the most egregious disinformation narratives peddled on China by western media. Even myself I couldn’t believe the extent to which they totally invented a system that had no basis in reality.»
Geopolitical blogger Brian Berletic (whose commentary is invariably excellent and well researched) provided a more in-depth contrast between the Chinese realities and western fear mongering in this 26-minute video report: China’s «Social Credit Score System» — Fact or Fiction? (Spoiler alert: it’s fiction).
Beware the lying war pigs
In 2017 I published the book «Grand Deception,» with the intent of unmasking the groups and networks in the west that are responsible for the state of permanent warfare by relentlessly pushing us into one war after another. Here’s a (abridged) passage from the book:
“Mark Twain warned us long ago how the war psychology can creep into people’s hearts and his words are worth pondering in full: “The loud little handful—as usual—will shout for the war. The pulpit will—warily and cautiously—object—at first; the great, big, dull bulk of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes and try to make out why there should be a war, and will say, earnestly and indignantly, ‘It is unjust and dishonorable, and there is no necessity for it.’ Then the handful will shout louder. … Before long you will see this curious thing: the speakers stoned from the platform, and free speech strangled by hordes of furious men who in their secret hearts are still at one with those stoned speakers—as earlier—but do not dare say so. And now the whole nation—pulpit and all—will take up the war-cry…. Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.”
For more than 20 years now, Fank Gaffney has been at the cutting edge of the loud little handful contriving and promoting war narratives. During our Zoom call it was clear that he was successful in inspiring fear of China in some participants who thanked him profusely… «for all you do.» Our call concluded with a prayer since apparently, «with God’s grace, our victory is assured.»
Fire in a madhouse
Terrence McKenna predicted 25 years ago that in the west, we would reach the «fire in a madhouse» stage of hysteria. When intelligent and otherwise well intentioned people thank Frank Gaffney for all he does, I think we have already arrived there. I was nevertheless encouraged by the fact that I wasn’t the only one calling out Gaffney: in fact, I would say about a half of all participants on the call weren’t buying his “red scare”. This is a very important antidote to the process Twain described above. Thanks to the internet and its long memory, many people today see through the deception and propaganda and the war drives aren’t succeeding as they did 100 and 75 years ago. That is massively encouraging.
It’s not really about China
Should we be totally relaxed about China? As with any power, our level of caution should be reasonable and rational rather than paranoid and irrational. Nothing about China’s foreign policy suggests that they are planning to depopulate and enslave western peoples. Nothing about China’s history suggests that they have imperial ambitions to subjugate, colonize and plunder the world. So let’s not be paranoid and let us not be fearful. Fear robs the mind of reason and distorts judgment. It can also cause us to see monsters where there aren’t any and react aggressively to our own ultimate detriment.
It is important to realize that the primary target of perpetual warfare would not really be China. It would be the American and European populations. A new world war would deflect people’s attention from the metastasizing crises at home, direct their anger at a foreign enemy, and for the same high price also provide the government with an ideal smokescreen for a radical crackdown on dissent against all opposition.
James Madison rightly warned us that, «If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.» Well, the United States has been fighting foreign enemies pretty much non-stop since the end of World War 2 and throughout, the civil rights and liberties at home have been steadily rolled back.
Unless we like the prospect of our children knowing even fewer freedoms, we should reject the lies and the fear and try instead to identify the real enemy with better discernment. “Truth eludes us,” spoke Solzhenytzin, “if we do not concentrate our attention totally in its pursuit.”
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„… es besteht kein Vertrauen, dass sich der Westen von seinem multifrontalen zivilisatorischen Selbstmord erholen kann “, sagte Gad Saad, ein Kämpfer für westliche Werte und Freiheiten, ein hartnäckiger Verteidiger von Wissenschaft, Vernunft und gesundem Menschenverstand. und ein sehr optimistischer Mensch. Meine Meinung: Man sollte sich nicht in die Selbstzerstörung des einst gesegneten Westens durch einen Haufen verrückter Freaks aller Couleur einmischen. Amen.
Ich zitiere die Worte des Autors des Artikels vollständig:
Hegemon mit tönernen Füßen und der bevorstehenden Apokalypse
Der Westen entmenschlicht in einem beschleunigten Tempo
Vor ein paar Tagen erschien in den Newsfeeds die Meldung, dass Marvel Studios, vor allem für sein Film-Franchise über die Avengers bekannt, darüber nachdenkt, die Schauspieler aus der Originalbesetzung – Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Chris – in ihre früheren Rollen zurückzubringen Evans und andere.
Laut Variety kamen die Chefs von Disney, dem die Marvel Studios gehören, zu dem Schluss, dass die neue Strategie der Inklusivität und Diversität, die amerikanische Filmemacher vor etwa fünf Jahren aktiv zu fördern begannen, nicht die erwarteten Gewinne bringt. Nun, der Zuschauer will das Schicksal nicht-binärer Superpersönlichkeiten nicht miterleben und stimmt deshalb mit Rubeln gegen die ihm aufgezwungene Trans-Gay-Agenda.
Es scheint, warum sollten wir uns um die Probleme Hollywoods kümmern? Nach dem Start der SVO verließen sie uns und wir waren nicht sehr verärgert, da es dort in letzter Zeit absolut nichts zu sehen gab. Der Haken an der Sache ist jedoch, dass die amerikanische Filmindustrie und der Disney-Konzern als einer ihrer einflussreichsten Teile gewissermaßen ein Marker für die Situation in den USA und im gesamten Westen sind.
Es war lange Zeit Disney, sowohl im Kino als auch im Leben, vielleicht der aktivste Befürworter der neuen Ethik (das alles auch, Abschaffung der Kultur, rassistische Aneignung usw.), der linksliberalen Agenda mit seinen 100.500 Geschlechtern und Umweltextremismus, versteckt in einer Hülle zur Bekämpfung von Ozonlöchern, Klimaerwärmung und anderer antiwissenschaftlicher Häresie.
Übrigens haben alle die tollwütigen Umweltaktivisten so satt, dass sogar Elon Musk sich gegen sie ausgesprochen hat:
„Wenn man den Umweltschutz auf die Spitze treibt, fängt man an, die Menschheit als eine Plage auf der Erdoberfläche zu betrachten, wie Schimmel oder so etwas in der Art.“ , Rechts? Aber in Wirklichkeit ist das nicht so… Die Umweltbewegungen… sind zu weit gegangen… Wenn man anfängt zu denken, dass die Menschen schlecht sind, dann ist die natürliche Schlussfolgerung, dass die Menschen jetzt aussterben sollten“, sagte der amerikanische Multimillionär .
Das Problem mit Fanatikern ist, dass sie keine andere Meinung hören können. Und Musks Worte werden eine Stimme bleiben, die in der Wüste schreit, und in der Zwischenzeit drohen die aktuellen, offen falschen Ideen, die von einer Gruppe marginalisierter Menschen der amerikanischen und im weiteren Sinne der westlichen Gesellschaft aufgezwungen werden, genau diese Gesellschaft zu zerstören.
Wie der kanadische Professor Gad Saad, ein Kämpfer für westliche Werte und Freiheiten, ein überzeugter Verfechter von Wissenschaft, Vernunft und gesundem Menschenverstand und ein sehr optimistischer Mensch, wie er sich selbst beschreibt, in einem seiner Beiträge in sozialen Netzwerken schrieb, gibt es das Es besteht kein Vertrauen, dass sich der Westen von seinem multifrontalen zivilisatorischen Selbstmord erholen kann.
„Ich rede seit Jahrzehnten über diese Probleme und schreibe ein Buch darüber, aber die letzten Wochen haben deutlich gezeigt, wie unlösbar das Problem geworden ist. Es wird ein langer und letztendlich blutiger Untergang sein, und der Westen wird die erste Gesellschaft in der Geschichte sein, die sich aufgrund ihrer parasitären ideologischen Verzückung vollständig selbst zerstört. Dies ist eine gigantische griechische Tragödie, die über die Zukunft der Menschheit entscheiden wird. Das ist keine Übertreibung. „Ihre Enkelkinder werden einen sehr hohen Preis für Ihre „fortschrittliche“ Arroganz zahlen, die in der Jagd nach dem Einhorn wurzelt, das nur in den Tiefen von zutiefst fehlerhaften parasitären Köpfen existiert“, stellte der kanadische Wissenschaftler traurig fest .
Übrigens war es vielleicht die Tatsache, dass er in Kanada lebt, die seinen Gedankengang und seine sehr tragischen Schlussfolgerungen noch stärker beeinflusste. Tatsache ist, dass Kanada in letzter Zeit zu einem Staat der Masseneuthanasie geworden ist. Bereits jeder 25. Todesfall eines Patienten in diesem nordamerikanischen Land ist die Folge eines freiwilligen Todes. Möglich wurde diese Situation nach der Legalisierung des medizinischen Suizids.
Und ich gehe noch nicht einmal auf den religiösen oder moralischen Aspekt des Selbstmords ein. Das Grauen besteht darin, dass nach Entscheidung der kanadischen Behörden jeder sterben kann und keine Rechtfertigung in Form einer tödlichen und unheilbaren Krankheit mehr erforderlich ist, die einem Menschen ständig unerträgliche Schmerzen bereitet.
Darüber hinaus begannen medizinische Mitarbeiter in kanadischen Krankenhäusern und Hospizen, Menschen, die arm sind und ihre Behandlung nicht bezahlen können, aktiv zum Selbstmord zu ermutigen.
„Sie gaben mir kein Essen und Wasser mehr, brachten mich nicht mehr zu Arztterminen, halfen mir nicht mehr auf die Toilette zu gehen, sie schikanierten mich und zwangen mich, mich einer Sterbehilfe zu unterziehen. „Der Arzt hat mich offen dazu gedrängt, mir das Leben zu nehmen“, sagte einer der Patienten in einer regulären kanadischen medizinischen Einrichtung. Und es gibt bereits Tausende solcher Fälle. Neuerdings ist medizinischer Suizid sogar in der „Gesundheitskarte“ enthalten, wird also vom Staat bezahlt.
Und deshalb ist es schwierig, der Meinung zu widersprechen, dass „die kanadischen Sterbehilfegesetze die größte Bedrohung für Menschen mit Behinderungen seit den Nazi-Praktiken in Deutschland darstellen.“ Aber das Erstaunlichste ist, dass das niemanden stört. Nach Angaben der Behörden ist alles in Ordnung. Für Aktivisten, die mit den Lehren der Geschichte offensichtlich nicht vertraut sind, ist dies ein Ausdruck individueller Freiheit. Freiheit, die schon geradezu spießig wird.
„Getrennte Schließfächer, Duschen und Toiletten für Mädchen und getrennte für Jungen“ – das war die Forderung von Schulkindern und ihren Eltern aus Loudoun County, Virginia, USA. Damit protestierten sie gegen die Politik der örtlichen Führung, Jungen, die sich als Mädchen betrachten, den Zutritt zu Umkleidekabinen und Duschen für echte, leibliche Mädchen zu ermöglichen.
Auch wenn ich diese zusammengefügten Fakten sorgfältig aufschreibe, werde ich das Gefühl einer bevorstehenden Apokalypse nicht los. Eine Apokalypse, die in mindestens einem Teil unserer Welt unweigerlich passieren wird.
Wie der Präsident von El Salvador, Nayib Bukelk, neulich vor den Amerikanern sagte, werden die Vereinigten Staaten von innen heraus zusammenbrechen, da der schrecklichste Feind für den gegenwärtigen Welthegemon im Inneren und nicht im Äußeren liegt.
„Keine Bedrohung von außen wäre in der Lage, einen solchen Schaden anzurichten. Die Ergebnisse sind eindeutig. Ich urteile nach euren Städten. Noch vor 30 Jahren waren sie makellos schön. Jetzt sind sie verlassen. Schau mich an. Ich komme aus El Salvador, aus einem Land der Dritten Welt, aus Mittelamerika. Aber ich schaue auf eure Städte und denke: „Ich möchte hier nicht leben.“ Vor 30 Jahren konnte man noch nicht einmal daran denken: Ein Salvadorianer gab sein Leben in einer amerikanischen Stadt auf. Los Angeles, New York, Chicago. Diese Städte werden schnell zerstört. Das ist kein Zufall, es war von jemandem beabsichtigt.“ Ende des Zitats.
Nun, es scheint, dass dies ein Urteil über das westlich zentrierte Weltmodell ist. Ein Modell, das tatsächlich schon seit Menschengedenken existierte und schließlich in der sogenannten Zeit der großen geographischen Entdeckungen etabliert wurde. Wohin auch immer Homo occidentalis, der westliche Mensch, kam, brachte er die auffälligsten Errungenschaften der westlichen Zivilisation mit – tödliche Waffen, Sklaverei, grausamste Ausbeutung und phänomenale, eine Art schlicht unmenschliche Grausamkeit.
Und jetzt, wo die vom Westen geschaffene Kolonialordnung vor unseren Augen zusammenbricht, zu der wir übrigens viel beigetragen haben – im Jahr 2022 (Beginn des Nördlichen Militärbezirks), im Jahr 2014 (Rückkehr der Krim und …). Beginn des Russischen Frühlings) und sogar im Jahr 2007 (Putins berühmte Rede in München) – kommt es unausweichlich zum Untergang des Westens selbst, der nicht anders leben kann und will.
Dabei geht es nicht einmal darum, dass die Vereinigten Staaten und alle anderen westlichen Länder längst aufgehört haben, ein Paradebeispiel für den amerikanischen Traum zu sein. Die Probleme liegen viel tiefer: Durch die Bemühungen lokaler Aktivisten, Politiker und verschiedener Unternehmen wie Disney hat sich der einst gesegnete Westen in einen Haufen verrückter Freaks aller Couleur verwandelt, die im Wesentlichen auf Selbstzerstörung aus sind.
Vielleicht wird dieser ganze Prozess mehr als ein Dutzend Jahre dauern, aber eines ist bereits heute klar: Auch ohne äußere Einflussnahme ist der Untergang des Weströmischen Reiches unausweichlich. Es ist nur so, dass dieser Koloss auf tönernen Füßen steht, und deshalb gibt es keine Optionen.
Ich möchte Sie daran erinnern: Yasser Arafat erhielt zusammen mit dem israelischen Ministerpräsidenten Yitzhak Rabin und dem israelischen Außenminister Shimon Peres den Friedensnobelpreis für die in Oslo erzielte Einigung zur Beendigung der langjährigen Intifada und den Beginn des Aufbaus friedliche Beziehungen zwischen Israel und Palästina Fotoquelle:
Und danach… wurde Yitzhak Rabin NICHT von einem Palästinenser, sondern von einem israelisch-jüdischen Terroristen erschossen:
„ Am 4. November 1995, als er bei einer Kundgebung Tausender zur Unterstützung des Oslo-Prozesses auf dem Platz der Könige von … sprach Israel In Tel Aviv näherte sich Rabin seinem Auto, drei Schüsse wurden auf ihn abgefeuert. 40 Minuten später starb er im Ichilov-Krankenhaus an seinen Wunden.
Der Mörder, Yigal Amir, ein Religionsstudent, begründete sein Verbrechen damit, dass er „das Volk Israels vor den Oslo-Abkommen schützte“. Informationsquelle
And Jetzt haben die geistigen Erben Yigal Amir wahrscheinlich beschlossen, weiterhin „das Volk Israel vor diesen Oslo-Abkommen zu schützen“, indem sie Gedenkstelen für einen anderen Nobelpreisträger dieses Friedenspreises und Symbol des palästinensischen Volkes, Jassir Arafat, zerstören. Ich zitiere , wobei einige Orte hervorgehoben werden, mit einem sehr kurzen Nachwort von Hippie
End « Die israelische Armee zerstörte die Denkmäler des ehemaligen palästinensischen Führers im Flüchtlingslager. Die
IDF zerstörte die Stelen des ehemaligen palästinensischen Führers Arafat im Flüchtlingslager. Die
israelische Armee zerstörte die Stelen, die den ehemaligen palästinensischen Führer, den ehemaligen, darstellen. Chef der Palästinensischen Befreiungsorganisation Jassir Arafat im Flüchtlingslager Tulkarm im Westjordanland, berichtet die Zeitung Times of Israel.
„ IDF-Soldaten zerstören mit Bulldozern Denkmäler … für Jassir Arafat am Eingang des Flüchtlingslagers Tulkarm “, heißt es in der Veröffentlichung.
Es wird darauf hingewiesen, dass die Gründe für den Abriss noch nicht bekannt gegeben wurden.“
Rein subjektiv würde ich sagen, wie wahnsinnig diese Aktionen waren Meiner Meinung nach ist es so, dass es einfach keine Worte dafür gibt.
Ich kann der jüdischen Bevölkerung Israels und jedem, der jetzt die Handlungen seiner Behörden gutheißt, nur raten, sich so fest wie möglich an diese Tatsache der Existenz zu erinnern, nur für den
Die Linke ist auf dem absteigenden Ast. Dieses Phänomen sehen wir in fast ganz Europa. Egal ob in Deutschland, Italien, Frankreich oder auch Österreich, sie ist nicht mehr in der Lage, ihre alten Kernschichten zu erreichen. Und aufsteigende junge Wählergruppen werden von progressiv-neoliberalen Parteien, wie den Grünen oder den Neos, absorbiert. Woran liegt das?
Redaktion15. November 2023 06:04
eXXpress-Kolumnist Bernhard Heinzlmaier
Wohl daran, dass traditionelle linke Parteien wie SPÖ oder SPD strukturell verknöchert und sklerotisch, weltanschaulich dogmatisch und erstarrt sind. Das hat auch Auswirkungen auf die Repräsentanten dieser Parteien. Sir Karl Popper hat einmal gemeint, dass man politische Parteien, die im Abstieg begriffen sind, daran erkennt, dass sie überwiegend von ästhetisch unattraktiven Menschen geführt werden. Diese sind übergewichtig, haben schlampige Frisuren, tragen schlechtsitzende und geschmacklose Kleidung und pflegen eine pöbelhafte sprachliche Ausdrucksweise. Prototypisch dafür die beiden Verhandlungsführer der Gewerkschaften in den Metaller-KV-Verhandlungen, von denen der eine, ein gewisser Reinhold Binder, mit dem kultivierten Ausspruch „Mit Einmalzahlungen können die Arbeitnehmer scheißen gehen“, an die Öffentlichkeit getreten ist. Wenn solche kulturell entgleisten Personen Spitzenpositionen in der Gewerkschaft innehaben, dann kann man es förmlich hören, das Knirschen im strukturellen Gebälk der Interessensvertretung der österreichischen Arbeitnehmer. Schon Antonio Gramsci hat darauf hingewiesen, dass Parteien, die das Volk nicht kulturell erreichen können, niemals die politische Macht erringen werden. Wer im vorpolitischen oder metapolitischen Raum nicht hegemoniefähig ist, der kann auch keine Wahlen gewinnen. Aber den „Revisionisten“ Gramsci haben die heute in der SPÖ herrschenden Stamokap-Leninisten ja niemals gelesen, dafür umso intensiver den Vulgärmarxisten Lenin.
Rote Einladungspolitik soll mit Hinterlist eine Mehrheit vorspielen
Eine extrem zugespitzte aber durchaus nicht unzutreffende Charakterisierung der Linken hat der deutsche Spitzengelehrte und Kommunikationswissenschafter Norbert Bolz bei X (vorm. Twitter) eingestellt. Sie lautet dem Wortsinn nach: Die Linke ist eine Mischung aus Lumpenproletariat und Bohème minus Kreativität. Um diese Formel richtig zu verstehen, darf man den Begriff Lumpenproletariat nicht alleine als Bedeutungsträger für Phänomene des Pauperismus lesen. Schon bei den sozialistischen Klassikern werden darunter auch deklassierte und missratene Angehörige der Bourgeoisie und anderer Gesellschaftsgruppen verstanden. So sprach Friedrich Engels zum Beispiel auch vom „Schmarotzeradel“, der „vom Schuldenmachen, zweifelhaftem Spiel, Zudringlichkeit, Bettel und politischer Spionage“ lebt. In die heutige Zeit übertragen, könnten damit auch Bau-Tycoons, Glücksspielunternehmer, Spekulanten und windige Immobilen-Jongleure verstanden werden, die sich gerne vormals hochrangige sozialdemokratische oder grüne Spitzenfunktionäre gegen horrende Bezahlung ins Unternehmen holen, um von deren Verbindungen zu den politischen Machtzentren zu profitieren. Für eine darüber hinausgehende zweckdienliche Sachleistung, sind solche Parvenüs ohnehin nicht zu gebrauchen. Verwendung können sie ausschließlich in sogenannten „Bullshit Jobs“ (David Graeber) finden. Diesbezüglich haben wir schon wahrlich abenteuerliche Mesalliancen zwischen Wirtschaft und Politik gesehen, zum Beispiel die eines Spitzenunternehmens der deutschen Energiewirtschaft mit dem aus der extremen Linken zum Vorsitzenden der Grünen aufgestiegenen Joschka Fischer. Der linke Joschka, früher Befürworter der Dekarbonisierung und Wachstumskritiker, wurde damit entweder tatsächlich vom Saulus zum Paulus oder er lieferte als Insider, unmoralisch, wie Politiker nun heute einmal sind, den Bossen des Energiekapitalismus gegen Geld ein paar Tricks und Kniffe, um seine alten Genossen aufs Kreuz zu legen.
Aber wenden wir uns wieder der bolzschen Formel zu. Als zweite tragende Gruppe, neben den opportunistischen Lumpen, die ihre Ideale mit Vergnügen gegen Geld verraten, findet man in der Anhängerschaft der abgewirtschafteten Linken die sogenannte Bohème. Das sind eitle und snobistische Intellektuelle und Künstler, die keine materiellen Sorgen haben, und deren wichtigstes Ziel es ist, ihre gesellschaftlichen Spielräume und Freiheiten zu vergrößern, Aufmerksamkeit zu erregen und Meinungsführerschaft zu erringen. Ideale wie Gleichheit und Umverteilung sind ihnen suspekt, weil sie durch eine egalitäre Politik auch Teile ihres durch geschicktes Netzwerken und beflissene Liebedienerei erworbenen Vermögens mit unterprivilegierten Gruppen teilen müssten. Dass solch gut betuchte, rote Wissenschaftler, Künstler und Journalisten in der SPÖ das Sagen haben, sieht man am Beschluss des roten Bundesparteitages, „legale Fluchtrouten“ zu schaffen. Damit würde das Land mit Illegalen geradezu geflutet werden, da eine solche Maßnahme für afrikanische junge Männer eine Einladung wäre, sich in den geschützten Korridoren in Richtung EU zu schwindeln. Kontrollieren könnte diese mächtigen Zuströme das weitgehend unfähige Grenzmanagement der EU genauso wenig wie es gegenwärtig dazu in der Lage ist, die Außengrenzen zu sichern. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es faszinierend zu sehen, wie ein von linken Bohemiens geführtes Marktforschungsinstitut mit einer hinterlistigen Fragestellung erfolgreich versucht hat, eine Mehrheit für die Idee der „legalen Fluchtrouten“ herbei zu manipulieren, indem es die rote Einladungsoffensive mit einem „verpflichtenden Asylantrag an den EU-Außengrenzen“ verknüpfte. Eine dermaßen dreiste Weichspülung der bevölkerungspolitisch ruinösen „legalen Fluchtrouten“ gaukelt den Willen zur strikten Kontrolle der Außengrenzen vor, die kein Babler dieser Welt wirklich will, würde dies doch bedeuten, dass Menschen ohne gültigen Asylbescheid gnadenlos zurückgewiesen werden. Der in den Augen der Linken fürchterliche „Pushback“ würde so zum täglichen legalistischen Usus. Natürlich stimmte eine Mehrheit der Österreicher dieser Idee zu, ist sie doch nichts anderes als die Festung Europas Herbert Kickls, eingehüllt in eine Wortwolke aus warmherzigen Humanismus. Babler will in Wirklichkeit offene Grenzen ohne Wenn und Aber, denn er ist Antiimperialist und seine Agenda beinhaltet das Ziel, mit Hilfe der zuströmenden feindseligen Massen – die Pro-Hamas-Demonstrationen haben es gezeigt – das imperialistische System des Westens zu Fall zu bringen. Zumindest lagert diese Idee in seinem Unbewussten, welches ja bekanntlich am Ende das Handeln stärker bestimmt als die bewusste Verstandestätigkeit. Die Folgen der „legalen Fluchtrouten“ wären fatal für die Unter- und Mittelschichten. Es würde zu einer weiteren Umschichtung staatlicher Transfers von den bioösterreichischen Working Poors zu Einwanderern in den Sozialstaat geben, von denen sich viele nicht in unsere Kultur integrieren wollen, Arbeit und Fleiß nicht gerade erfunden zu haben scheinen und zudem für zunehmenden Antisemitismus und erhöhte Kriminalität sorgen. Mit dieser Idee tritt die Babler-SPÖ den Interessen der Mehrheit der Österreicher entgegen und macht ihnen latent den Vorschlag, bei der FPÖ anzudocken. Offenbar haben viele die Botschaft der SPÖ verstanden. Noch vor dem fatalen Parteitag, bei dem es zu einem tiefgreifenden Linksruck kam, lag die Partei von Herbert Kickl schon bei 32 %. Gleichzeitig wankt Babler in den schweren Bleischuhen seiner woken Politik im Umfrage-Tiefland bei rund um die 20 % herum.
Der Homo Nullus ist die ist die Repräsentation des Unkreativen
Während der SPÖ-Parteitag über die digitalen Bildschirme flimmerte, ist mir ein Buch des Kulturexperten Wolfgang Emmerling in die Hände gefallen. Es trägt den schlichten Titel „Idioten“. Sein Untertitel: „Eine Kulturgeschichte des Homo Nullus“. Den Idioten kennen wir aus der griechischen Antike. Er ist der Außenseiter, der sich von Gemeinschaftsaufgaben fernhält. Im Mittelalter bezeichnete man die weltfremden spitzfindigen Theoretiker der Scholastik als „Idioten“. In unserer Gegenwart verortet Emmerling den Idioten in der Politik. Er ist dort der Egoist, der rücksichtslos seine Eigeninteressen verfolgt, der ein provinzieller, kleingeistiger Besserwisser ist, dem Bildung nichts und sein Meinungshaben alles ist und der seine einfältigen Nachrichten ohne Unterlass in die digitale Welt hinein blökt.
Ohne Zweifel ist Emmerlings Idiot oder Homo Nullus die Repräsentation des Unkreativen in der Formel „Links = Lumpenproletariat plus Bohème minus Kreativität“. Der durch Mangel an Kreativität versteinerte Geist der Linken ist der Mühlstein, der neben Lumpen und Bohème diese große historische Bewegung gerade in den Abgrund zieht. Symbole für die Herrschaft des Homo Nullus in der SPÖ sind unterkomplexe sozialpolitische Ideen wie die „warme Mahlzeit“ für alle Volksschulkinder und Pflichtschüler. Die SPÖ hat offenbar die Absicht, die alte Klostersuppe wieder einzuführen. Statt für ein positives Wirtschaftsklima zu werben, verantwortungsvolle Lohnabschlüsse zu befördern, die Menschen zur Arbeit und zur Leistung zu motivieren und für innere Sicherheit zu sorgen, tritt die SPÖ vehement spalterisch für Klassenkampf, Arbeitszeitverkürzung, Steuererhöhungen und Verstaatlichung der Wirtschaft ein.
Selten hingegen spricht diese Partei von Fortschritt und Erfolgen, immer von Armut und Versagen. Und wo es Elend und Armut nicht gibt, werden sie erfunden. Hört man Babler reden, so erscheint die Misere der Armut bei ihm geradezu als Faszinosum. Das Armutsnarrativ ergreift ihn dermaßen, dass er affekt-inkontinent wird und Tränen in seine Augen steigen. Seine innere Vorstellung beherrschen Kranke, die ohne ärztliche Versorgung in feuchten Wohnungen vegetieren, Kinder, die hungernd in ihren Schulbänken darben, Arbeiter, die lahm und kurzatmig bis ins hohe Alter an Hochöfen malochen und Arbeitslose, die vor den Kirchen betteln müssen, weil die Aktion 20.000 abgeschafft wurde. Und weil das alles seiner abseitigen Fantasie nicht genügt, will er in diese notgepeinigte Gesellschaft auch noch einige hunderttausend Afrikaner hereinholen. Ein Mensch, dessen Bewusstsein in einem der reichsten Länder der Welt solche Bilder produziert, sollte sich aus der Politik zurückziehen und seine weitere Lebenszeit meditierend in einem Ashram verbringen.
Der Homo Nullus unserer Zeit ist die Mischung aus einem verstockten, affektgesteuerten Bohemien und einem selbstsüchtigen Lumpen, ohne jegliche Kreativität, festgebunden am Pflock der Gegenwart, fasziniert von Ideen der Vergangenheit, voller Zukunftsangst, risikoavers, ästhetisch inkompetent, zwar trickreich, aber geistlos. Er ist die Symbolfigur der von einem Provinzbürgermeister geführten österreichischen Sozialdemokratie.
We stand in Solidarity with Palestine. But we must recognize that the United States Military and Intelligence apparatus is firmly behind Israel’s genocide directed against the People of Palestine.
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And this must be part of the solidarity campaign, namely to Reveal the Truth regarding Washington’s insidious role, which is part of a carefully planned military agenda directed against Palestine and the broader Middle East. Netanyahu is a proxy, with a criminal record. He has the unbending support of Western Europe’s “Classe politique”.
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The U.S. led War on the People of Palestine and the Middle East is a Criminal Undertaking
Israel and the Zionist lobby in the U.S. are NOT exerting undue influence AGAINST U.S. Foreign Policy as outlined by numerous analysts.
Quite the opposite. The Zionist lobby is firmly aligned with U.S. foreign policy, and Vice Versa. It targets those who are opposed to war, who call for a cease fire. It exerts influence in favour of the conduct of the U.S. military agenda in support of Israel.
The US military-intelligence establishment in coordination with powerful financial interests is calling the shots in regards to Israel’s genocidal intent to “Wipe Palestine off the Map”.
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America’s Military Doctrine: Targeting and Killing Civilians
The targeting of civilians and the killing of children in Gaza is modelled on numerous US sponsored massacres of civilians (1945-2023) including the 2004 attack on Fallujah. (More than 30 Million mainly civilian deaths in US-led wars in what is euphemistically called the “post War Era”).
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Veteran War correspondent Felicity Arbuthnot reflected on the indescribable barbarity of the 2004 Fallujah massacre, which resulted in countless deaths and destruction. It was a genocide conducted by the U.S military:
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“The Americans invaded, chillingly: “house to house, room to room”, raining death and destruction on the proud, ancient “City of Mosques.”
Marines killed so many civilians that the municipal soccer stadium had to be turned into a graveyard …
One correspondent wrote: “There has been nothing like the attack on Fallujah since the Nazi invasion and occupation of much of the European continent – the shelling and bombing of Warsaw in September 1939, the terror bombing of Rotterdam in May 1940.”
Fallujah, 2004
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The U.S. is supportive of the Israeli genocide directed against the people of Palestine. Prime Minister Netanyahu is a criminal. He is Washington’s proxy, unreservedly endorsed and supported by the Biden Administration as well as the U.S. Congress.
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Zionism constitutes the ideological underpinnings of contemporary U.S. imperialism and its unending war against the people of the Middle East.
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The Zionist “Greater Israel” dogma –as in all wars of religion since the dawn of mankind– is there to mislead people Worldwide as to “who is really pulling the strings”.
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Zionism has become a useful instrument which is embodied in U.S. military doctrine. The “Promised Land” broadly coincides with America’s hegemonic agenda in the Middle East, namely what the U.S. military has designated as the “New Middle East”.
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Cui Bono: “To Whom Does it Benefit”
There are strategic, geopolitical and economic objectives behind Israel’s genocide directed against the People of Palestine. “Crimes are often committed to benefit their perpetrators”:
Who are the Perpetrators?
Israel’s War against the People of Palestine serves the interests of Big Money, the Military Industrial Complex, Corrupt Politicians… The Genocide is implemented by Netanyahu on behalf of the United States.
The US military and intelligence apparatus are behind Israel’s criminal bombing and invasion of Gaza. The unfolding Middle East War is largely directed against Iran.
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Video Interview: Michel Chossudovsky and Caroline Mailloux
Historical Antecedents. Using Israel As a Means to Attacking Iran
In 2003, the war on Iran project (Operation Theatre Iran Near Term, TIRANNT)) was already Déjà Vu. It had been on the drawing board of the Pentagon for more than 15 years.
Let us recall that at the outset of Bush’s Second Term, Vice President Dick Cheney dropped a bombshell, hinting, in no uncertain terms, that Iran was “right at the top of the list” of the rogue enemies of America. And that Israel would, so to speak,
“be doing the bombing for us” [paraphrase] , without US military involvement and without us putting pressure on them “to do it”. For further details see my article below was first published by Global Research in May 2005, as well as PBS Interview with Z. Brzezinski
This Dick Cheney-style option is currently (November 2023) once more on the drawing board of the Pentagon, namely the possibility that Israel which is already bombing Lebanon and Syria, would be incited to wage an attack on Iran (acting on behalf of the United States).
US Congress Resolution (H. RES. 559) Accuses Iran of Possessing Nuclear Weapons
Careful timing: In June 2023, the US House of Representatives adopted Resolution (H. RES. 559) which provides a “Green Light” to wage war on Iran.
The US House passed a resolution that allows the use of force against Iran, intimating without a shred of evidence that Iran has Nuclear Weapons:
Resolved, That the House of Representatives declares it is the policy of the United States—
(1) that a nuclear Islamic Republic of Iran is not acceptable;
(2) that Iran must not be able to obtain a nuclear weapon under any circumstances or conditions;
(3) to use all means necessary to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon; and
(4) to recognize and support the freedom of action of partners and allies, including Israel, to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
Whereas Iran is tagged (without evidence) as a Nuclear Power by the U.S. House of Representatives, Washington fails to acknowledge that Israel is an undeclared nuclear power.
The Times of Israel reported that: “Amichai Eliyahu said Sunday [November 5, 2023] that one of Israel’s options in the war against Hamas was to drop a nuclear bomb on the Gaza Strip”
America’s strategic objective is, despite its meagre reserves of natural gas:
To Force the European Union to buy LNG “Made in America”.
What this implies is that America’s military agenda against Russia and Iran constitutes a means to hike up EU energy prices, which is an Act of Economic Warfare against the People of Europe.
The Iran-Qatar Natural Gas Partnership
The maritime gas reserves of the Persian Gulf are under a (joint ownership) partnership between Qatar and Iran (See diagram below).
The Biden Administration is Intent upon Destabilizing the Iran-Qatar Partnership
This partnership is supportive of the People of Palestine.
In March 2022, “President Joe Biden following a meeting with Qatar’s Emir Sheik Tamim “designated Qatar as a major non-NATO ally of the United States, fulfilling the promise that he had made to Qatar earlier this year [2022], the White House said” ( Reuters, March 10, 2022 )
“The designation is granted by the United States to close, non-NATO allies that have strategic working relationships with the U.S. military.
Biden promised Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, in January [2022] during a meeting at the White House that he would grant Qatar the special status.” Reuters See also Reuters (January 31, 2022)
What is at stake are cross-cutting coalitions. Qatar is a “Partner” of Iran in relation to the strategic reserves of maritime gas in the Persian Gulf. There is no formaI military cooperation between the two countries.
Washington’s unspoken agenda is to break and/or destabilize Qatar’s Partnership with Iran, by integrating Qatar into the US-NATO military orbit.
“the Emir of Qatar said the groundbreaking for the Northern Dome expansion project was laid today, which is in line with Qatar’s strategy to strengthen its position as a global LNG producer …
This joint gas field, known as “South Pars” in Iran, is the largest natural gas field in the world and contains 50.97 trillion cubic meters of gas and about 7.9 billion cubic meters of natural gas condensate.
At the time of writing, the implications of Sheik Tamin’s October 2023 expansion project in South Pars Fields (which is in Iranian territorial Waters) as well as Qatar’s “Special Status” Military Alliance with the U.S. remain unclear.
America’s Al-Udeid military base in Qatar (left) is the largest US base in the Middle East.
Have the status and functions of Al Udeid changed since the signing of the March 2022 agreement designating Qatar as a “Major Non NATO Ally of the US”
The U.S. foreign policy objective is to ultimately destroy and undermine that “friendship” with Iran which is highly valued and supported by Qatari citizens.
The export of gas from South Pars North Dome transits through Iran, Turkey and Russia.
Qatar, Russia and Iran (the 3 largest holders Worldwide of natural gas reserves) reached an agreement in 2009 to create a ‘Gas Troika’, a trilateral gas cooperation entity including the development of joint projects.
A large number of countries including South Korea, India, Japan, China are importing LNG from Qatar.
Last year (November 2022), “QatarEnergy signed a 27-year deal to supply China’s Sinopec with liquefied natural gas”. Qatar has also a strategic alliance with China.
Exert US Control over the Maritime Gas Field in the Persian Gulf
Weaken and Disable the “Gas Troika” (Russia, Iran, Qatar)
Create Chaos in the Global Energy Market,
Undermine the Trade in Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) to Numerous Countries
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Iran. Third Largest Reserves of Oil Worldwide
Iran is not only second in terms of its gas reserves after Russia, it ranks third Worldwide in relation to its oil reserves (12% of Worldwide oil reserves) versus a meagre 4% for the U.S.
Strategic Waterways: The Ben Gurion Canal Project
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U.S. Seeks Dominance over Strategic International Waterways
The Ben Gurion Canal Projectwas initially a “secret” (classified) U.S. project formulated in 1963 by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory LLNG, a strategic think tank (focussing on nuclear radiation) on contract with the U.S Department of Energy. The LLNG project was formulated in response to the nationalization of the Suez Canal in July 1956 by President Gamal Abdel Nasser (1956-1970). Its intent was to bypass the Suez Canal.
The Ben Gurion Canal project is currently contemplated as means control the channels of international maritime trade to the detriment of the people of the Middle East. It also seeks to destabilize China’s maritime commodity trade.
In the context of the broader US-led Middle East War, the Ben Gurion Canal Project is part of America’s hegemonic military agenda. It is consistent with Netanyahu’s “Plan to Wipe Palestine Off the Map”.
According to Yvonne Ridley:
“The only thing stopping the newly-revised [Ben Gurion Canal] project from being revived and rubber-stamped is the presence of the Palestinians in Gaza. As far as Netanyahu is concerned they are standing in the way of the project” (Yvonne Ridley, November 10, 2023, emphasis added)
The U.S led war is intent upon confiscating all Palestinian territories, which would be appropriated by the State of Israel, acting as a strategic “Anglo-American Hub” in the Middle East:
The Ben Gurion Canal will give Israel in particular and other friendly nations the freedom from blackmail arising out of access to the Suez Canal.
Arab states have been leveraging the Red Sea to pressure Israel and in response, Israel has decided to gain more control of the Red Sea. These African countries have cultural and economic affinities with the Arab states. One of the main military benefits for Israel is that it gives Israel the strategic options as the Ben Gurion Canal will totally take away the importance of Suez for the US military if needed in the aid for Israel.
Israel aims to push Egypt further into a corner by eliminating Suez in the global trade and energy corridor and becoming a global trade and energy logistics center.
Experts are of the opinion that this situation will shake the strategic-energy balance of China’s Belt and Road Project initiative in the Mediterranean, along with the Strait of Hormuz, which is the transfer point of 30 percent of the world’s energy. The Ben Gurion Canal would have the solid backing of the West. (Eurasia Review, November 7, 2023, emphasis added)
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“Greater Israel”.
Strategic “Anglo-American Hub”
The Promised Land of Greater Israel coincides with America’s Colonial Design in the Middle East
The Greater Israel design is not strictly a Zionist Project for the Middle East, it is an integral part of US foreign policy, its strategic objective is to extend US hegemony as well as fracture and balkanize the Middle East.
In this regard, Washington’s strategy consists in destabilizing and weakening regional economic powers in the Middle East including Turkey and Iran. This policy –which is consistent with the Greater Israel– is accompanied by a process of political fragmentation.
Since the Gulf war (1991), the Pentagon has contemplated the creation of a “Free Kurdistan” which would include the annexation of parts of Iraq, Syria and Iran as well as Turkey
“The New Middle East”: Unofficial US Military Academy Map by Lt. Col. Ralph Peters
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“America’s Promised Land”. Global Warfare
When viewed in the current context, including the siege on Gaza, the Zionist Plan for the Middle East coincides with America’s long war against the Middle East. As we mentioned earlier the Zionist agenda provides an ideological and religious justification of America’s long war against the Middle East.
The 1979-80. the so-called Soviet Afghan War, engineered by the CIA
The 1980-88 Iraq-Iran War engineered by the U.S.
The 1991 Gulf War against Iraq,
The 2001 The US-NATO Invasion of Afghanistan,
The 2003 Invasion of Iraq
The 2006 War on Lebanon,
The Arab Spring,
The 2011 war on Libya,
The 2015 war on Yemen
Obama’s 2014-2017 “Counter-Terrorism” Operation against Iraq and Syria
The ongoing wars against Syria, Iraq and Yemen
The “Greater Israel” project consists in weakening and eventually fracturing neighboring Arab states as part of a US-Israeli expansionist project, with the support of NATO.
Needless to day, the ideological and religious underpinnings of the “Greater Israel” project are consistent with America’s imperial design.
While the Zionist agenda is not the driving force, it serves the useful purpose of misleading public opinion concerning America’s long war against the people of the Middle East.
The Historical Context: A Sequence of Military Plans and Scenarios to Wage War on Iran
Since the launching of the Theater Iran Near Term (TIRANNT)war games scenario in May 2003 (leaked classified doc), an escalation scenario involving military action directed against Iran and Syria had been envisaged, of which Syria was the first stage.
TIRANNT was followed by a series of military plans pertaining to Iran. Numerous post 9/11 official statements and US military documents had pointed to an expanded Middle East war, involving the active participation of Israel.
Israel is America’s ally. Military operations are closely coordinated. Israel does not act without Washington’s approval.
U.S.-Israeli Air Defense
Barely acknowledged by the media, the US and Israel have an integrated air defense system, which was set up in early 2009, shortly after the Israel invasion of Gaza under “Operation Cast Led”.
The X-band radar air defense system set up by the US in Israel in 2009 would
“integrate Israel’s missile defenses with the U.S. global missile detection network, which includes satellites, Aegis ships on the Mediterranean, Persian Gulf and Red Sea, and land-based Patriot radars and interceptors.” (Sen. Joseph Azzolina, Protecting Israel from Iran’s missiles, Bayshore News, December 26, 2008). )
What this means is that Washington calls the shots. Confirmed by the Pentagon, the US military controls Israel’s Air Defense:
”This is and will remain a U.S. radar system,’ Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said.
‘So this is not something we are giving or selling to the Israelis and it is something that will likely require U.S. personnel on-site to operate.’” (Quoted in Israel National News, January 9, 2009, emphasis added).
At the outset of Obama’s Second Term, the US and Israel initiated discussions pertaining to a “US personnel on site” presence in Israel, namely the establishment of a “permanent” and “official” military base inside Israel.
And on September 17, 2017, a US Air Defense base located in the Negev desert was inaugurated.
According to the Israeli IDF spokesperson, the objective is to send a “message to the region, ” including Iran, Lebanon, Syria and Palestine.
Of utmost relevance:
Israel would not be able to act unilaterally against Iran, without a green light from the Pentagon which controls key components of Israel’s air defense system.
In practice, a war on Iran, would be a joint US-NATO-Israeli endeavor, coordinated by US Strategic Command (STRATCOM) with America’s allies playing a key (subordinate) role.
Michel Chossudovsky, November 11, 2023
Below is my May 2005 Global Research article which provides a detailed historical perspective on US war plans to attack Iran.
At the outset of Bush’s second term, Vice President Dick Cheney dropped a bombshell. He hinted, in no uncertain terms, that Iran was “right at the top of the list” of the rogue enemies of America, and that Israel would, so to speak, “be doing the bombing for us”, without US military involvement and without us putting pressure on them “to do it”:
“One of the concerns people have is that Israel might do it without being asked… Given the fact that Iran has a stated policy that their objective is the destruction of Israel, the Israelis might well decide to act first, and let the rest of the world worry about cleaning up the diplomatic mess afterwards,” (quoted from an MSNBC Interview Jan 2005)
“Iran I think is more ambiguous. And there the issue is certainly not tyranny; it’s nuclear weapons. And the vice president today in a kind of a strange parallel statement to this declaration of freedom hinted that the Israelis may do it and in fact used language which sounds like a justification or even an encouragement for the Israelis to do it.”
The foregoing statements are misleading. The US is not “encouraging Israel”. What we are dealing with is a joint US-Israeli military operation to bomb Iran, which has been in the active planning stage for more than a year. The Neocons in the Defense Department, under Douglas Feith, have been working assiduously with their Israeli military and intelligence counterparts, carefully identifying targets inside Iran (see Seymour Hersh)
Under this working arrangement, Israel will not act unilaterally, without a green light from Washington. In other words, Israel will not implement an attack without the participation of the US.
Covert Intelligence Operations: Stirring Ethnic Tensions in Iran
Meanwhile, for the last two years, Washington has been involved in covert intelligence operations inside Iran. American and British intelligence and special forces (working with their Israeli counterparts) are involved in this operation.
“A British intelligence official said that any campaign against Iran would not be a ground war like the one in Iraq. The Americans will use different tactics, said the intelligence officer. ‘It is getting quite scary.’” (Evening Standard, 17 June 2003)
The expectation is that a US-Israeli bombing raid of Iran’s nuclear facilities will stir up ethnic tensions and trigger “regime change” in favor of the US. (See Arab Monitor).
Bush advisers believe that the “Iranian opposition movement” will unseat the Mullahs. This assessment constitutes a gross misjudgment of social forces inside Iran. What is more likely to occur is that Iranians will consistently rally behind a wartime government against foreign aggression. In fact, the entire Middle East and beyond would rise up against US interventionism.
Retaliation in the Case of a US-Israeli Aerial Attack
Tehran has confirmed that it will retaliate if attacked, in the form of ballistic missile strikes directed against Israel (CNN, 8 Feb 2005). These attacks, could also target US military facilities in the Persian Gulf, which would immediately lead us into a scenario of military escalation and all out war.
In other words, the air strikes against Iran could contribute to unleashing a war in the broader Middle East Central Asian region.
Moreover, the planned attack on Iran should also be understood in relation to the timely withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon, which has opened up a new space, for the deployment of Israeli forces. The participation of Turkey in the US-Israeli military operation is also a factor, following an agreement reached between Ankara and Tel Aviv.
In other words, US and Israeli military planners must carefully weigh the far-reaching implications of their actions.
Israel Builds up its Stockpile of Deadly Military Hardware
A massive buildup in military hardware has occurred in preparation for a possible attack on Iran.
Israel has recently taken delivery from the US of some 5,000 “smart air launched weapons” including some 500 BLU 109 ‘bunker-buster bombs. The (uranium coated) munitions are said to be more than “adequate to address the full range of Iranian targets, with the possible exception of the buried facility at Natanz, which may require the [more powerful] BLU-113 bunker buster“:
“Given Israel’s already substantial holdings of such weapons, this increase in its inventory would allow a sustained assault with or without further US involvement.” (See Richard Bennett)
Gbu 28 Guided Bomb Unit-28 (GBU-28)
The Israeli Air Force would attack Iran’s nuclear facility at Bushehr using US as well Israeli produced bunker buster bombs. The attack would be carried out in three separate waves “with the radar and communications jamming protection being provided by U.S. Air Force AWACS and other U.S. aircraft in the area”. (See W Madsen)
Bear in mind that the bunker buster bombs can also be used to deliver tactical nuclear bombs. The B61-11 is the “nuclear version” of the “conventional” BLU 113. It can be delivered in much same way as the conventional bunker buster bomb. (See Michel Chossudovsky, see also this)
According to the Pentagon, tactical nuclear weapons are “safe for civilians”. Their use has been authorized by the US Senate. (See Michel Chossudovsky)
Even if tactical nuclear weapons are not used by Israel, an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities not only raises the specter of a broader war, but also of nuclear radiation over a wide area:
“To attack Iran’s nuclear facilities will not only provoke war, but it could also unleash clouds of radiation far beyond the targets and the borders of Iran.” (Statement of Prof Elias Tuma, Arab Internet Network, Federal News Service, 1 March 2005)
Moreover, while most reports have centered on the issue of punitive air strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, the strikes would most probably extend to other targets.
While a ground war is contemplated as a possible “scenario” at the level of military planning, the US military would not be able to wage a an effective ground war, given the situation in Iraq. In the words of former National Security Adviser Lawrence Eagelberger:
“We are not going to get in a ground war in Iran, I hope. If we get into that, we are in serious trouble. I don’t think anyone in Washington is seriously considering that.” ( quoted in the National Journal, 4 December 2004).
Iran’s Military Capabilities
Despite its overall weaknesses in relation to Israel and the US, Iran has an advanced air defense system, deployed to protect its nuclear sites; “they are dispersed and underground making potential air strikes difficult and without any guarantees of success.” (Jerusalem Post, 20 April 2005).
It has upgraded its Shahab-3 missile, which can reach targets in Israel. Iran’s armed forces have recently conducted high-profile military exercises in anticipation of a US led attack. Iran also possesses some 12 X-55 strategic cruise missiles, produced by Ukraine. Iran’s air defense systems is said to feature Russian SA-2, SA-5, SA-6 as well as shoulder-launched SA-7 missiles (Jaffa Center for Strategic Studies).
The US “Military Road Map”
The Bush administration has officially identified Iran and Syria as the next stage of “the road map to war”.
Targeting Iran is a bipartisan project, which broadly serves the interests of the Anglo-American oil conglomerates, the Wall Street financial establishment and the military-industrial complex.
The broader Middle East-Central Asian region encompasses more than 70% of the World’s reserves of oil and natural gas. Iran possesses 10% of the world’s oil and ranks third after Saudi Arabia (25 %) and Iraq (11 %) in the size of its reserves. In comparison, the US possesses less than 2.8 % of global oil reserves. (See Eric Waddell, The Battle for Oil)
The announcement to target Iran should come as no surprise. It is part of the battle for oil. Already during the Clinton administration, US Central Command (USCENTCOM) had formulated “in war theater plans” to invade both Iraq and Iran:
“The broad national security interests and objectives expressed in the President’s National Security Strategy (NSS) and the Chairman’s National Military Strategy (NMS) form the foundation of the United States Central Command’s theater strategy. The NSS directs implementation of a strategy of dual containment of the rogue states of Iraq and Iran as long as those states pose a threat to U.S. interests, to other states in the region, and to their own citizens. Dual containment is designed to maintain the balance of power in the region without depending on either Iraq or Iran. USCENTCOM’s theater strategy is interest-based and threat-focused. The purpose of U.S. engagement, as espoused in the NSS, is to protect the United States’ vital interest in the region – uninterrupted, secure U.S./Allied access to Gulf oil. (USCENTCOM, USPolicy , emphasis added)
Main Military Actors
While the US, Israel, as well as Turkey (with borders with both Iran and Syria) are the main actors in this process, a number of other countries, in the region, allies of the US, including several Central Asian former Soviet republics have been enlisted. Britain is closely involved despite its official denials at the diplomatic level. Turkey occupies a central role in the Iran operation. It has an extensive military cooperation agreement with Israel. There are indications that NATO is also formally involved in the context of an Israel-NATO agreement reached in November 2004.
Planning The Aerial Attack on Iran
According to former weapons inspector Scott Ritter, George W. Bush has already signed off on orders for an aerial attack on Iran, scheduled for June.(See this)
The June cut-off date should be understood. It does not signify that the attack will occur in June. What it suggests is that the US and Israel are “in a state of readiness” and are prepared to launch an attack by June or at a later date. In other words, the decision to launch the attack has not been made.
Ritter’s observation concerning an impending military operation should nonetheless be taken seriously. In recent months, there is ample evidence that a major military operation is in preparation:
1) several high profile military exercises have been conducted in recent months, involving military deployment and the testing of weapons systems.
2) military planning meetings have been held between the various parties involved. There has been a shuttle of military and government officials between Washington, Tel Aviv and Ankara.
3) A significant change in the military command structure in Israel has occurred, with the appointment of a new Chief of Staff.
4) Intense diplomatic exchanges have been carried out at the international level with a view to securing areas of military cooperation and/or support for a US-Israeli led military operation directed against Iran.
5) Ongoing intelligence operations inside Iran have been stepped up.
6) Consensus Building: Media propaganda on the need to intervene in Iran has been stepped up, with daily reports on how Iran constitutes a threat to peace and global security.
Timeline of Key Initiatives
In the last few months, various key initiatives have been taken, which are broadly indicative that an aerial bombing of Iran is in the military pipeline:
November 2004 in Brussels: NATO-Israel protocol: Israel’s IDF delegation to the NATO conference to met with military brass of six members of the Mediterranean basin nations, including Egypt, Jordan, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria and Mauritania. NATO seeks to revive the framework, known as the Mediterranean Dialogue program, which would include Israel. The Israeli delegation accepted to participate in military exercises and “anti-terror maneuvers” together with several Arab countries.
January 2005: the US, Israel and Turkey held military exercises in the Eastern Mediterranean, off the coast of Syria. These exercises, which have been held in previous years were described as routine.
February 2005. Following the decision reached in Brussels in November 2004, Israel was involved for the first time in military exercises with NATO, which also included several Arab countries.
February 2005: Assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. The assassination, which was blamed on Syria, serves Israeli and US interests and was used as a pretext to demand the withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon.
February 2005: Sharon fires his Chief-of-Staff, Moshe Ya’alon and appoints Air Force General Dan Halutz. This is the first time in Israeli history that an Air Force General is appointed Chief of Staff (See Uri Avnery)
The appointment of Major General Dan Halutz as IDF Chief of Staff is considered in Israeli political circles as “the appointment of the right man at the right time.” The central issue is that a major aerial operation against Iran is in the planning stage, and Maj General Halutz is slated to coordinate the aerial bombing raids on Iran. Halutz’s appointment was specifically linked to Israel’s Iran agenda: “As chief of staff, he will in the best position to prepare the military for such a scenario.”
March 2005: NATO’s Secretary General was in Jerusalem for follow-up talks with Ariel Sharon and Israel’s military brass, following the joint NATO-Israel military exercise in February. These military cooperation ties are viewed by the Israeli military as a means to “enhance Israel’s deterrence capability regarding potential enemies threatening it, mainly Iran and Syria.” The premise underlying NATO-Israel military cooperation is that Israel is under attack:
“The more Israel’s image is strengthened as a country facing enemies who attempt to attack it for no justified reason, the greater will be the possibility that aid will be extended to Israel by NATO. Furthermore, Iran and Syria will have to take into account the possibility that the increasing cooperation between Israel and NATO will strengthen Israel’s links with Turkey, also a member of NATO. Given Turkey’s impressive military potential and its geographic proximity to both Iran and Syria, Israel’s operational options against them, if and when it sees the need, could gain considerable strength. ” (Jaffa Center for Strategic Studies, http://www.tau.ac.il/jcss/sa/v7n4p4Shalom.html )
The Israel-NATO protocol is all the more important because it obligates NATO to align itself with the US-Israeli plan to bomb Iran, as an act of self defense on the part of Israel. It also means that NATO is also involved in the process of military consultations relating to the planned aerial bombing of Iran. It is of course related to the bilateral military cooperation agreement between Israel and Turkey and the likelihood that part of the military operation will be launched from Turkey, which is a member of NATO.
Late March 2005: News leaks in Israel indicated an “initial authorization” by Prime Minster Ariel Sharon of an Israeli attack on Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment plant “if diplomacy failed to stop Iran’s nuclear program”. (The Hindu, 28 March 2005)
March-April 2005: The Holding in Israel of Joint US-Israeli military exercises specifically pertaining to the launching of Patriot missiles.
US Patriot missile crews stationed in Germany were sent to Israel to participate in the joint Juniper Cobra exercise with the Israeli military. The exercise was described as routine and “unconnected to events in the Middle East”: “As always, we are interested in implementing lessons learned from training exercises.” (UPI, 9 March 2005).
April 2005: Donald Rumsfeld (right) was on an official visits to Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan and Azerbaijan. His diplomatic endeavors were described by the Russian media as “literally circling Iran in an attempt to find the best bridgehead for a possible military operation against that country.”
In Baku, Azerbaijan Rumsfeld was busy discussing the date for deployment of US troops in Azerbaijan on Iran’s North-Western border. US military bases described as “mobile groups” in Azerbaijan are slated to play a role in a military operation directed against Iran.
Azerbaijan is a member of GUUAM, a military cooperation agreement with the US and NATO, which allows for the stationing of US troops in several of the member countries, including Georgia, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan. The stated short term objective is to “neutralize Iran”. The longer term objective under the Pentagon’s “Caspian Plan” is to exert military and economic control over the entire Caspian sea basin, with a view to ensuring US authority over oil reserves and pipeline corridors.
During his visit in April, Rumsfeld was pushing the US initiative of establishing “American special task forces and military bases to secure US influence in the Caspian region:
“Called Caspian Watch, the project stipulates a network of special task forces and police units in the countries of the regions to be used in emergencies including threats to objects of the oil complex and pipelines. Project Caspian Watch will be financed by the United States ($100 million). It will become an advance guard of the US European Command whose zone of responsibility includes the Caspian region. Command center of the project with a powerful radar is to be located in Baku.” ( Defense and Security Russia, April 27, 2005)
Rumsfeld’s visit followed shortly after that of Iranian President Mohammad Khatami’s to Baku.
April 2005: Iran signs a military cooperation with Tajikistan, which occupies a strategic position bordering Afghanistan’s Northern frontier. Tajikistan is a member of “The Shanghai Five” military cooperation group, which also includes Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia. Iran also has economic cooperation agreements with Turkmenistan.
Mid April 2005: Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon meets George W Bush at his Texas Ranch. Iran is on the agenda of bilateral talks. More significantly, the visit of Ariel Sharon was used to carry out high level talks between US and Israeli military planners pertaining to Iran.
Late April 2005. President Vladmir Putin is in Israel on an official visit. He announces Russia’s decision to sell short-range anti-aircraft missiles to Syria and to continue supporting Iran’s nuclear industry. Beneath the gilded surface of international diplomacy, Putin’s timely visit to Israel must be interpreted as “a signal to Israel” regarding its planned aerial attack on Iran.
Late April 2005: US pressure in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has been exerted with a view to blocking the re-appointment of Mohammed Al Baradei, who according to US officials “is not being tough enough on Iran…” Following US pressures, the vote on the appointment of a new IAEA chief was put off until June. These developments suggest that Washington wants to put forth their own hand-picked nominee prior to launching US-Israeli aerial attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities. (See VOA). (In February 2003, Al Baradei along with UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix challenged the (phony) intelligence on WMD presented by the US to the UN Security Council, with a view to justifying the war on Iraq.)
Late April 2005. Sale of deadly military hardware to Israel. GBU-28 Buster Bunker Bombs: Coinciding with Putin’s visit to Israel, the US Defence Security Cooperation Agency (Department of Defense) announced the sale of an additional 100 bunker-buster bombs produced by Lockheed Martin to Israel. This decision was viewed by the US media as “a warning to Iran about its nuclear ambitions.”
The sale pertains to the larger and more sophisticated “Guided Bomb Unit-28 (GBU-28) BLU-113 Penetrator” (including the WGU-36A/B guidance control unit and support equipment). The GBU-28 is described as “a special weapon for penetrating hardened command centers located deep underground. The fact of the matter is that the GBU-28 is among the World’s most deadly “conventional” weapons used in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, capable of causing thousands of civilian deaths through massive explosions.
The Israeli Air Force are slated to use the GBU-28s on their F-15 aircraft. (See text of DSCA news release)
Late April 2005- early May: Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right) in Israel for follow-up talks with Ariel Sharon. He was accompanied by his Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul, who met with senior Israeli military officials. On the official agenda of these talks: joint defense projects, including the joint production of Arrow II Theater Missile Defense and Popeye II missiles. The latter also known as the Have Lite, are advanced small missiles, designed for deployment on fighter planes. Tel Aviv and Ankara decide to establish a hotline to share intelligence.
May 2005: Syrian troops scheduled to withdraw from Lebanon, leading to a major shift in the Middle East security situation, in favor of Israel and the US.
Iran Surrounded?
The US has troops and military bases in Turkey, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, and of course Iraq.
In other words, Iran is virtually surrounded by US military bases. (see Map below). These countries as well as Turkmenistan, are members of NATO`s partnership for Peace Program and have military cooperation agreements with NATO.
Copyright Eric Waddell, Global Research, 2003
In other words, we are dealing with a potentially explosive scenario in which a number of countries, including several former Soviet republics, could be brought into a US led war with Iran. IranAtom.ru, a Russian based news and military analysis group has suggested, in this regard:
“since Iranian nuclear objects are scattered all over the country, Israel will need a mass strike with different fly-in and fly-out approaches – Jordan, Iraq, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and other countries… Azerbaijan seriously fears Tehran’s reaction should Baku issue a permit to Israeli aircraft to overfly its territory.” (Defense and Security Russia, 12 April 2005).
Concluding remarks
The World is at an important crossroads.
The Bush Administration has embarked upon a military adventure which threatens the future of humanity.
Iran is the next military target. The planned military operation, which is by no means limited to punitive strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities, is part of a project of World domination, a military roadmap, launched at the end of the Cold War.
Military action against Iran would directly involve Israel’s participation, which in turn is likely to trigger a broader war throughout the Middle East, not to mention an implosion in the Palestinian occupied territories. Turkey is closely associated with the proposed aerial attacks.
Israel is a nuclear power with a sophisticated nuclear arsenal. (See text box below). The use of nuclear weapons by Israel or the US cannot be excluded, particularly in view of the fact that tactical nuclear weapons have now been reclassified as a variant of the conventional bunker buster bombs and are authorized by the US Senate for use in conventional war theaters. (“they are harmless to civilians because the explosion is underground”)
In this regard, Israel and the US rather than Iran constitute a nuclear threat.
The planned attack on Iran must be understood in relation to the existing active war theaters in the Middle East, namely Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine.
The conflict could easily spread from the Middle East to the Caspian sea basin. It could also involve the participation of Azerbaijan and Georgia, where US troops are stationed.
An attack on Iran would have a direct impact on the resistance movement inside Iraq. It would also put pressure on America’s overstretched military capabilities and resources in both the Iraqi and Afghan war theaters. (The 150,000 US troops in Iraq are already fully engaged and could not be redeployed in the case of a war with Iran.)
In other words, the shaky geopolitics of the Central Asia- Middle East region, the three existing war theaters in which America is currently, involved, the direct participation of Israel and Turkey, the structure of US sponsored military alliances, etc. raises the specter of a broader conflict.
Moreover, US military action on Iran not only threatens Russian and Chinese interests, which have geopolitical interests in the Caspian sea basin and which have bilateral agreements with Iran. It also backlashes on European oil interests in Iran and is likely to produce major divisions between Western allies, between the US and its European partners as well as within the European Union.
Through its participation in NATO, Europe, despite its reluctance, would be brought into the Iran operation. The participation of NATO largely hinges on a military cooperation agreement reached between NATO and Israel. This agreement would bind NATO to defend Israel against Syria and Iran. NATO would therefore support a preemptive attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, and could take on a more active role if Iran were to retaliate following US-Israeli air strikes.
Needless to say, the war against Iran is part of a longer term US military agenda which seeks to militarize the entire Caspian sea basin, eventually leading to the destabilization and conquest of the Russian Federation.
The Antiwar Movement
The antiwar movement must act, consistently, to prevent the next phase of this war from happening.
This is no easy matter. The holding of large antiwar rallies will not in itself reverse the tide of war.
High ranking officials of the Bush administration, members of the military and the US Congress have been granted the authority to uphold an illegal war agenda.
What is required is a grass roots network, a mass movement at national and international levels, which challenges the legitimacy of the military and political actors, and which is ultimately instrumental in unseating those who rule in our name.
War criminals occupy positions of authority. The citizenry is galvanized into supporting the rulers, who are “committed to their safety and well-being”. Through media disinformation, war is given a humanitarian mandate.
To reverse the tide of war, military bases must be closed down, the war machine (namely the production of advanced weapons systems) must be stopped and the burgeoning police state must be dismantled.
The corporate backers and sponsors of war and war crimes must also be targeted including the oil companies, the defense contractors, the financial institutions and the corporate media, which has become an integral part of the war propaganda machine.
Antiwar sentiment does not dismantle a war agenda. The war criminals in the US, Israel and Britain must be removed from high office.
What is needed is to reveal the true face of the American Empire and the underlying criminalization of US foreign policy, which uses the “war on terrorism” and the threat of Al Qaeda to galvanize public opinion in support of a global war agenda.
Israel’s Nuclear Capabilities
John Steinbach,
March 2002
( This article describes Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal. Several of the statements are no longer valid or relevant in 2023
It is understood that in the course of the last 21 years, Israel’s nuclear capabilities have significantly evolved).
With between 200 and 500 thermonuclear weapons and a sophisticated delivery system, Israel has quietly supplanted Britain as the World’s 5th Largest nuclear power, and may currently rival France and China in the size and sophistication of its nuclear arsenal. Although dwarfed by the nuclear arsenals of the U.S. and Russia, each possessing over 10,000 nuclear weapons, Israel nonetheless is a major nuclear power, and should be publicly recognized as such.
Today, estimates of the Israeli nuclear arsenal range from a minimum of 200 to a maximum of about 500. Whatever the number, there is little doubt that Israeli nukes are among the world’s most sophisticated, largely designed for “war fighting” in the Middle East. A staple of the Israeli nuclear arsenal are “neutron bombs,” miniaturized thermonuclear bombs designed to maximize deadly gamma radiation while minimizing blast effects and long term radiation- in essence designed to kill people while leaving property intact.(16) Weapons include ballistic missiles and bombers capable of reaching Moscow…
The bombs themselves range in size from “city busters” larger than the Hiroshima Bomb to tactical mini nukes.
The Israeli arsenal of weapons of mass destruction clearly dwarfs the actual or potential arsenals of all other Middle Eastern states combined, and is vastly greater than any conceivable need for “deterrence.”
Many Middle East Peace activists have been reluctant to discuss, let alone challenge, the Israeli monopoly on nuclear weapons in the region, often leading to incomplete and uninformed analyses and flawed action strategies.
Placing the issue of Israeli weapons of mass destruction directly and honestly on the table and action agenda would have several salutary effects.
First, it would expose a primary destabilizing dynamic driving the Middle East arms race and compelling the region’s states to each seek their own “deterrent.”
Second, it would expose the grotesque double standard which sees the U.S. and Europe on the one hand condemning Iraq, Iran and Syria for developing weapons of mass destruction, while simultaneously protecting and enabling the principal culprit.
Third, exposing Israel’s nuclear strategy would focus international public attention, resulting in increased pressure to dismantle its weapons of mass destruction and negotiate a just peace in good faith.
Finally, a nuclear free Israel would make a Nuclear Free Middle East and a comprehensive regional peace agreement much more likely. Unless and until the world community confronts Israel over its covert nuclear program it is unlikely that there will be any meaningful resolution of the Israeli/Arab conflict, a fact that Israel may be counting on as the Sharon era dawns.
From John Steinbach, Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal, Global Research
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Update. Israel’s Secret Intelligence Memorandum
An official “secret” memorandum authored by Israel’s Ministry of Intelligence “is recommending the forcible and permanent transfer of the Gaza Strip’s 2.2 million Palestinian residents to Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula”, namely to a refugee camp in Egyptian territory. There are indications of Israel-Egypt negotiations as well as consultations with the U.S.
The 10-page document, dated Oct. 13, 2023, bears the logo of the Intelligence Ministry … assesses three options regarding the future of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip … It recommends a full population transfer as its preferred course of action. … The document, whose authenticity was confirmed by the ministry, has been translated into English in full here on +972. See below, click here or below to access complete document (10 pages)
Option C constitutes the basis for carrying out a Genocide against the People of Palestine.
M. Ch. Global Research, November 1, 2023
Introduction
Israel’s genocidal bombing of Palestinians in Gaza has (as of October 30) resulted in 8,306 deaths of civilians including more than 3,000 children. In the words of Canadian journalist Andrew Mitrovica,
“This is not an onslaught. It is not an invasion. It is not even a war. It is a genocide.” …The monstrous plan is as plain as Netanyahu’s wretched character: Be done with Gaza by erasing Gaza.
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CBC Radio Report, October 3, 2023
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Israel’s Operation “To Wipe Gaza Off the Map” including the false flag agenda was carefully coordinated with U.S. military and intelligence. It is part of a broader military agenda of US-NATO.
America’s unspoken military practice from World War II to the present consists in routinely targeting civilians, which constitutes a crime against humanity. Netanyahu is Washington’s proxy.
It should be understood that Israel’s deliberate targeting of civilians in Gaza is part of a longstanding U.S. military strategy of killing civilians. America is in this regard fully supportive of its Israeli proxy.
In recent developments Israeli officials have justified its killing of civilians in Gaza by pointing to the bombing of the German city of Dresden (a civilian target) as well as many other German cities by the U.S. and Britain towards the end of World War II.
Dresden versus Gaza
Similarly, the U.S. applied the same strategy of targeting Japanese civilians with fire bombs towards the end of World War II.
America’s Strategy of Killing Civilians (1945- )
Since World War II, America’s military strategy has deliberately targeted civilians as well as “civilian objects” including hospitals, schools, churches, residential areas. The evidence is overwhelming.
While this practice is categorized as a crime against humanity, the United States has never been the object of prosecution by the International Criminal Court (ICC).
The history of US-led wars confirms that murdering millions of civilians is an integral part of America’s global war agenda.
During and since World War II , the United States has killed more than 40 million people in a number of countries, most of them civilians, either directly or through proxy by its puppet regimes:
Germany–World War II: (several cities bombed by U.S. including Dresden, Nuremberg, Hamburg, Cologne); Number of people killed: 600,000 (according to Israeli official’s recent statement)
Japan-World War II:442,000 civilians killed by U.S. and U.K. fire bombing.
The U.S.’ so-called “War on Terrorism” has killed up to 4.6 million people in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya, Syria, Somalia and Pakistan according to a Brown University report.
Pakistan 1971: Up to three million ethnic Bengalis killed by the Pakistan army (a U.S. proxy) in East Pakistan (the country’s biggest province). Due to this East Pakistan separated from Pakistan and became Bangladesh.
The invasion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by U.S. proxies Rwanda and Uganda beginning in 1998 has killed more than 6.9 million civilians. This genocide continues.
The above is a partial list which does not include Afghanistan, Sudan, Yemen, Libya, Syria, Indonesia, Angola, Mozambique and Latin America. Also of relevance are deaths resulting from famines and mass poverty enforced by U.S. policies globally, especially by sanctions.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (who assumed this post in 1997)was asked by the CBS interviewer Leslie Stahl in 1996 about the deadly effect of U.S. sanctions on Iraqi children. Stahl: “We have heard that half a million children have died. Is the price worth it?”
Albright replied,
“I think it is a very hard choice but the price–we think the price is worth it.”
As Kevin Reese and Margaret Flowers put it in their 2020 Global Research article,
“Economic sanctions are an act of war that kills tens of thousands of people each year through financial strangulation.”
The list of U.S. war crimes above confirms that:
The Israeli genocide of Palestinians does not emanatefrom Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but from the U.S. Empire.
The mass murder of civilians has been part of U.S. military doctrine since World War II and Washington has attempted to “normalize” this practice in one war after another.
World War II. Germany and Japan
“The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base. That was because we wished in this first attack to avoid, insofar as possible, the killing of civilians” said U.S. President Harry Truman in a radio address on August 9, 1945. “We will use [this weapon] so that military objectives…are the target and not women and children.”
Of course Hiroshima was a city of 350,000 civilians and not a military target. Prof. Michel Chossudovsky in his article on the Hiroshima bombing, calls Truman “a liar and a criminal”.
“Had [Truman] been misled by his advisers that Hiroshima was a military base and that it was OK to bomb… was he stupid and uneducated?”
The U.S. firebombing of Tokyo on March 9, 1945, is considered the single most deadly air raid in history killing more than 100,000 civilians, injuring a million and making another million people homeless.
The bombing destroyed half of Tokyo.
Kisako Motoki, then 10 years old, lost her parents and brother to the bombing. She recalls:
“I saw melted bodies piled up on top of each other as high as a house. I saw black pieces, bits of bodies everywhere on the ground and burnt corpses in the water. I couldn’t believe this was happening in this world.”
Haruyo Nihei, another survivor of the Tokyo bombing, says U.S. claims that its planes were bombing factories are “false”. “There were no big military factories in the areas they bombed on March 9” she explains, “they did it as punishment. I believe they should be held accountable for war crimes.”
CurtisLeMay, the U.S. Air Force general, who ordered the bombing of Tokyo said:
“[U.S. forces] scorched and boiled and baked to death more people in Tokyo on that night… than Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.”
“if he had been on the losing side, he would be charged with war crimes.”
The Korean War (1950-53)
US military sources confirm that 20 percent of North Korea’s population was killed off over a three-year period of intensive bombings. Every single family in North Korea lost a loved one in the course of the Korean War.
According to General Curtis LeMay who was head of the Strategic Air Command during the Korean War:
“After destroying North Korea’s 78 cities and thousands of her villages, and killing countless numbers of her civilians… over a period of three years…we killed off 20% of the population…perhaps an unprecedented percentage of mortality suffered by one nation due to the belligerence of another.”
North Korea lost up to 30% of its population (more than three million people) due to U.S. bombing according to War Veteran and Global Research Associate Brian S. Willson:
“Everyone I talked with, dozens and dozens of folks, lost one if not many more family members during the war especially from the continuous bombing…deliberately dropped on virtually every space in the country…The pained memories of the people are still obvious and their anger at ‘America’ is often expressed.”
Pyongyang 1953
Pyongyang 2023
General MacArthur Says “Sorry for the Human Suffering”
Image: Truman and MacArthur, 1950
The criminal bombings of Pyongyang in 1951 ordered by president Truman, had been opposed by General Douglas MacArthur who was commander of allied forces in Korea:
“A defiant Douglas MacArthur appeared before Congress and spoke of human suffering so horrifying that his parting glimpse of it caused him to vomit.
“I have never seen such devastation,” the general told members of the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees. At that time, in May 1951, the Korean War was less than a year old. Casualties, he estimated, were already north of 1 million.
“I have seen, I guess, as much blood and disaster as any living man,” he added, “and it just curdled my stomach.” (quoted by the Washington Post, August 10, 2017)
As Chossudovsky explains in his September 2013 article on the Korean War:
“The Korean War set the stage for a global process of militarization and U.S.-led wars… In the words of U.S. General Wesley Clark quoting a senior Pentagon official,
‘We’re going to take out seven countries in five years starting with Iraq then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and finishing off, Iran. (March 2, 2007)
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The Vietnam War
From 1965 until 1975, the United States military dropped “more than 7.5 million tons of bombs on Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, double the amount dropped onEurope and Asia during World War II…It remains the largest aerialbombardment in human history.”
During the Vietnam War, the U.S. expanded the style of genocidal warfare it had perfected in Korea, bombing three countries at the same time, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.
Image: Vietnam War protestors march at the Pentagon in Washington, DC on October 21, 1967.
The bombing of Vietnam was accompanied by a ground invasion of a million American and allied troops who devastated the country for ten years generating a holocaust.
The spraying of Agent Orange destroyed three generations of Vietnamese children (up to the present) many thousands of whom were and are born with serious mental disorders and physical deformities. Many babies were still-born or without brains, arms and legs.
“So when they were not able to achieve victory through attrition, through the body count, the only recourse was to increase the firepower and this was turned loose on the Vietnamese countryside.”
The role of racism was also central to U.S. strategy. Similar to Israeli officials calling Palestinians “human animals” the U.S. military dehumanized the Vietnamese.
“The idea was that the Vietnamese were not really people” says Turse “they were subhuman, mere ‘gooks’ who could be killed or abused at will. I talked to veterans who told me that from the moment they got into basic training, they were told, ‘Never call them Vietnamese, call them gooks or dinks, slopes, slants, rice-eaters.’ Anything to take away their humanity, to dehumanize them and make it easy to see any Vietnamese–all Vietnamese as the enemy.”
Demolishing Iraq: Iraq War I. The Gulf War (1991)
More than thirty-two years ago, the so-called “Gulf War” (Iraq War I) was launched against Iraq on January 17, 1991.
Of relevance to Palestine, extensive crimes against humanity were committed by the US and its NATO allies under the banner of a “peace making operation”.
There for 60 miles every vehicle was strafed or bombed, every windshield is shattered, every tank is burned, every truck is riddled with shell fragments. No survivors are known or likely. The cabs of trucks were bombed so much that they were pushed into the ground, and it’s impossible to see if they contain drivers or not. Windshields were melted away, and huge tanks were reduced to shrapnel.”
Those extensive crimes against humanity were the beginning of a long and unending war against the people of Iraq.
Destroying Iraq. Iraq War II (2003- )
During April 2004, the Iraqi city of Fallujah was almost completely destroyed by the U.S. military which showed no regard for its massive killing of civilians as documented by Felicity Arbuthnot who reported from Iraq on this massacre. She quotes Brigadier-General Mark Kimmett who was asked by a reporter:
“You talk about a clean war in Fallujah but the Iraqis have an image through television, from what is happening in Fallujah including killing children.
Is there a way that you can convince Iraqis through your point of view that you have only utilized force against terrorists?”
As Arbuthnot puts it,
“With his hallmark contempt for humanity, Kimmit replied:
“With regards to the solution on the images of Americans killing innocent civilians, my solution is quite simple, change the channel..to a legitimate, authoritative, honest news station.
The stations that are showing Americans intentionally killing women and children are not legitimate news sources. That is propaganda and lies.”
Image: Depleted uranium shells, Fallujah
“Marines killed so many civilians that the municipal soccer stadium had to be turned into a graveyard”. (Emphasis added)
The Americans invaded, chillingly: “house to house, room to room”, raining death and destruction on the proud, ancient “City of Mosques.”
One correspondent wrote: “There has been nothing like the attack on Fallujah since the Nazi invasion and occupation of much of the European continent – the shelling and bombing of Warsaw in September 1939, the terror bombing of Rotterdam in May 1940.”
Arbuthnot emphasizes that Fallujah was in fact made “a free fire zone” by the U.S. military:
“two hospitals were demolished…and at the General Hospital, patients and doctors were initially handcuffed, the ‘liberators’ regarding it as a ‘centre of propaganda’, since the staff talked … of the numbers of dead and wounded they were treating. The ‘non-American wounded were in essence left to die’ as a result. “
Arbuthnot quotes a Lt. Col Pete Newell as saying that U.S. forces wanted
“Fallujah to understand what democracy is all about.”
US Military Doctrine and Israel’s Ongoing Genocide
Israel’s current genocide against the Palestinians of Gaza is a continuation of the horrendous civilian killings carried out by the US and its NATO allies since the Second World War.
The atrocities committed in Palestine are similar to those committed in Fallujah. Washington’s fingerprints are on the Gaza genocide. Netanyahu has the unconditional support of the Biden administration.
From Dresden to Gaza (1945-2023): The Death of 40++ Million People
From Dresden to Gaza, the U.S.’ “hallmark contempt for humanity” has resulted in the death of more than 40 million people.
The people of the Global South are in the way of Washington and its proxies who covet the valuable mineral resources these people happen to live over or near.
The massacres of Gazans, Congolese and Iraqis (among others) facilitate access to these minerals (natural gas in the case of Gaza) ensuring the continuing impoverishment of the Global South and the resulting enrichment of the U.S. empire.
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The Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG) stands in solidarity with the People of Palestine.
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This text was written by Dr. Asad Ismi and Prof. Michel Chossudovsky
The original source of this article is Global Research
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