[This analysis was written for the Unz Review]
Just like in 2006, when both Ehud Olmert and George Bush declared that the “invincible IDF” had, yet again, achieved a “glorious victory” and the entire Middle-East almost died laughing hearing this ridiculous claim, today both the US and Israeli propaganda machine have declared another “glorious” victory for the “Jewish state of Israel” cum “sole democracy in the Middle-East”. And, just like in 2006, everybody in the region (and in Zone B) knows that the truth is that the Zionist entity suffered a huge, humiliated, defeat. Let’s try to unpack this.
First, a few numbers. The combat operations lasted two weeks. All other missile numbers are in dispute. Rather than trust this or that source, I will simply say that Hamas fired many thousands of missiles into Israel. Some, probably less than 50%, were truly intercepted by the Israeli air defenses, others hit in no man’s land, and some actually landed and caused plenty of destruction and at least 12 deaths. The Israelis executed hundreds of artillery and airstrikes causing massive destruction in the Gaza strip and killing about 250 Palestinians. Again, these numbers are guesstimates and they don’t really tell the full story. To understand the story, we need to forget about these numbers and look at what each side was hoping for and what each side achieved. Let’s begin with the Israelis:
The Israeli scorecard
To understand Israel’s goals in this war, we first need to place this latest war in its context, and that context is that Israel was comprehensively defeated in Syria. To substantiate this thesis, let’s remember the goals of the Zionists when they unleashed a major international war against Syria. These objectives, as listed in my July 2019 article “Debunking the Rumors About Russia Caving in to Israel” were:
The initial AngloZionist plan was to overthrow Assad and replace him with the Takfiri crazies (Daesh, al-Qaeda, al-Nusra, ISIS – call them whatever you want). Doing this would achieve the following goals:
- Bring down a strong secular Arab state along with its political structure, armed forces, and security services.
- Create total chaos and horror in Syria justifying the creation of a “security zone” by Israel not only in the Golan but further north.
- Trigger a civil war in Lebanon by unleashing the Takfiri crazies against Hezbollah.
- Let the Takfiris and Hezbollah bleed each other to death, then create a “security zone,” but this time in Lebanon.
- Prevent the creation of a Shia axis Iran-Iraq-Syria-Lebanon.
- Break up Syria along ethnic and religious lines.
- Create a Kurdistan which could then be used against Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.
- Make it possible for Israel to become the uncontested power broker in the Middle-East and force the KSA, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, and all others to have to go to Israel for any gas or oil pipeline project.
- Gradually isolate, threaten, subvert, and eventually attack Iran with a broad regional coalition of forces.
- Eliminate all centers of Shia power in the Middle-East.
As we all know, this is what actually happened:
- The Syrian state has survived, and its armed and security forces are now far more capable than they were before the war started (remember how they *almost* lost the war initially? The Syrians bounced back while learning some very hard lessons. By all reports, they improved tremendously, while at critical moments Iran and Hezbollah were literally “plugging holes” in the Syrian frontlines and “extinguishing fires” on local flashpoints. Now the Syrians are doing a very good job of liberating large chunks of their country, including every single city in Syria).
- Not only is Syria stronger, but the Iranians and Hezbollah are all over the country now, which is driving the Israelis into a state of panic and rage.
- Lebanon is rock solid; even the latest Saudi attempt to kidnap Hariri is backfiring. (2021 update: in spite of the explosion in Beirut, Hezbollah is still in charge)
- Syria will remain unitary, and Kurdistan is not happening. Millions of displaced refugees are returning home.
- Israel and the US look like total idiots and, even worse, as losers with no credibility left.
Seeing their defeat in Syria, the Zionists did what they always do: they used their propaganda machine to list an apparently neverending victorious strikes on supposed “Iranian targets” in Syria. While a few civilian simpletons with zero military experience did buy into this nonsense, the truth about Israeli operations in Syria is simple: the Syrian air defenses have successfully prevented the Israelis from striking at important, sensitive, targets, and the Israelis have been forced to declare as major victories the destruction of empty barns as “destruction of important IRGC headquarters” thereby “proving” to a few naive folks in Zone A and to themselves (!) that the IDF is still as “invincible” as it “always was”. As for the Neocons, they doubled-up on that and declared that 1) Russian air defenses are useless 2) that Russia and Israel work hand in hand and 3) that the Israelis are still invincible. Yet if any of that was true, why has Israel failed to achieve a single one of its goals? And why are both the Russians and the Iranians still in Syria? Where the Russians just finished a 2nd runway at Khmeimim and they have just deployed a group of Tu-22M3 at that air base from where they can now threaten any ship sailing in the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean. In their otherwise “free time” they can deliver tons of bombs and missiles to the remaining Takfiri forces in Syria.
As I have been saying for many years now, the truth is that the IDF is a poor fighting force. Why? First, they have the exact same problem as the USA (and the KSA, for that matter): they rely on expensive technology, but don’t have good combat-capable “boots on the ground”. That is now how modern wars are won (see here for a list of popular misconceptions about modern wars).
In its recent history, the entire gamut of Israeli “elite” forces (including the air force, the navy, the artillery and even the Golani Brigade) got its collective butt handed to them by about 1000 and only lightly armed regular Hezbollah fighters in 2006: keep in mind that the elite Hezbollah forces were deployed only north of the Litani river to protect Beirut against a possible land invasion by Israel. Instead of taking Beirut or “disarming Hezbollah” (that was an official goal!), the Israelis could not even control the small town of Bint Jbeil located right across the official Israeli border! So much for being “invincible”!
What the IDF is very experienced at is terrorizing Palestinian civilians and executing what could be called a slow-motion genocide of the Palestinian people. The problem with Gaza now is the same that the failed invasion of Lebanon in 2006 has revealed: just like the Lebanese in 2006, the Palestinians of 2021 are not afraid of the Zionists anymore. Furthermore, with a great deal of help from Iran and others, Hamas in Gaza is now much, much better armed than in the past. True, some of its missiles are decidedly low tech and not very effective (low accuracy, small warheads, simple trajectory, limited range), but Hamas also has shown some pretty decent UAVs too. Most importantly, from now on for Hamas it is only one way: up the “quality ladder” (just like the Houthis did in Yemen, starting with modest drones but eventually getting very capable ones).
The other major goal of the Israelis in this war was to prove to the world (and, even more importantly for the always narcissistic self-worshiping Israeli cowards, to themselves!) that their “Iron Dome” air defense network was the “super-dooper most bestest” in the world (no doubt, due to the famed “Jewish genius”!). It now appears that at best, the Israelis intercepted somewhere around 30-40% of the Hamas missiles. The way the Israeli hid this is by claiming that their fancy shmancy Iron Drone did not even try to engage missiles which were not deemed dangerous. But in the age of the ubiquitous smartphone, that kind of silly nonsense can easily be debunked (including by showing the total chaos in the Israeli skies or, for that matter, the missile strikes on Israeli military objectives). While the full Iron Dome air defense system probably works marginally better than the quasi-useless US Patriot, the Israeli air defenses are clearly at least a generation behind the Russian ones, including the S-300s the Russians sold to Syria (again, in the age of of the ubiquitous smartphone, this is not hard to prove).
It is crucial to remember that Hamas’ missiles are much inferior to those of the Houthis and the Syrians, and even more inferior when compared to Hezbollah or Iranian drones and missiles! In other words, the “invincible” IDF can’t deal with even its weakest, least sophisticated enemies (Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad) and the grotesquely expensive Iron Done cannot protect the Zionists from any determined missile attacks by the Resistance coalition (Palestine, Yemen, Syria, Hezbollah, Iran and Russia).
In their utter despair, the Zionist entity did what the AngloZionists always do when they fail to defeat a military forces: they will turn their wrath on the civilian infrastructure and murder as many as they can. They will also strike highly symbolic targets such as the International Press Center in Gaza or a Red Crescent hospital (under the pretext that Hamas, which is the democratically elected local government) has offices there (this is clearly a F-you to those who condemn Israel for violating international law). To a normal human being, this sounds both obscene and ridiculous. But remember, the Israelis are first and foremost narcissists and they have no means of imagining how normal human beings think or feel. All these guys can feel is self-worship and hatred for all “others”.
We could say that in this war, the Palestinians defeated both military high tech and truly medieval type of genocidal hatred.
In other words, far from showing how “invincible” the Zionist entity is, this latest war against the Palestinians has shown beyond reasonable doubt that the IDF cannot deal with any of its enemies.
Besides missiles and bombs, the Israelis love to use terror, as their ideology has convinced them of two things: the Arabs only understand force and we, the Israelis, are invincible. But this begs the question of why the Israelis did not dare to move into Gaza, not even symbolically. Yeah, I know, the official doxa of Zone A is that “Biden called Netanyahu and told him to stop”. As if “Biden” could give orders to the Israelis!
The truth is that even with a casualty rate of 10:1 in the IDF’s advantage and no armor or artillery, the Palestinians are much more willing to engage in street battles than the IDF. Would the IDF eventually win a ground battle against Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad? Maybe, probably, the objective advantages in everything (except courage!) for the Israelis is so huge that no amount of skills and courage can forever negate the immense superiority in means of the Israelis.
However, as most people in the West tend to forget, wars are but means towards a political goal. If the IDF decided to basically flatten Gaza and kill many thousands of Palestinians at the cost of casualties probably in the hundreds, then this would be politically suicidal for the Zionist regime. This is why I offer this very basic conclusion:
During the latest Gaza war, deterrence did work. But only in the sense that the Palestinians successfully deterred the Israelis from launching a ground attack against Gaza.
There is another crucial political development which should also be noted: while both Iran and Hezbollah did give their full political support to Hamas+Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the latter did not request any assistance. In other words, not only did the Palestinians defeat the Israelis, but they did so absolutely alone, with no help from the other Resistance members.
Again, those Zone A civilians who believe that Israel is scoring huge victories in Syria on a quasi daily basis won’t get it, which is par for the course. But you can be darn sure that at least most of the IDF top commanders know the true score and for them it is yet another huge disaster.
There is also a political factor to consider. While there have been coordination resistance actions by the Palestinians in Israel (proper, as defined by the UN), this is the first time when the Palestinians from Gaza, those from the Occupied Territories and those in “Israel” truly fought, if not side by side (yet!), then at least at the same time and in a common cause. This is a major political victory for Hamas+Palestinian Islamic Jihad and a major problem for Fatah and the Zionists. Now let’s look at the rest of the Palestinian scorecard:
The Palestinian scorecard:
Let’s start by the obvious one: the Palestinians were not defeated. This victory can be further subdivided in the following:
- The Palestinian leadership has mostly physically survived, it still exists as a local authority. Plenty of Palestinians were murdered, but that did not affect the operational capabilities of the Palestinian forces (any more than the IDF succeeded in affecting Iranian operational capabilities in Syria).
- The Palestinian leadership has also survived politically. It was not blamed by the “Palestinian street” for starting the war, nor was it blamed for how it executed it. As for Fatah, it is now, by all accounts, lost somewhere in a political no man’s land which, admittedly, it richly deserves for its incompetence, corruption and subservience to Israel and the USA.
- Militarily speaking, the Palestinian missile strikes were not nearly as effective than, say, Hezbollah (nevermind Iranian!) strikes would have been, but, hey, they made huge progress and we can all rest assured that the Palestinians of Gaza will, sooner or later, catch up with the Houthis and, further down the road, maybe even Hezbollah.
- By many accounts, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad have made major political inroads into the Palestinian political scene outside Gaza. Even in spite of a truly immense hasbara effort by the Israelis, the international public opinion was blaming Israel for the orgy of violence.
It is interesting to note here that the famous Israeli journalist Gideon Levy has written an article for Ha’aretz entitled “Israeli Propaganda Isn’t Fooling Anyone – Except Israelis” which was further subtitled “’Hasbara’ is the Israeli euphemism for propaganda, and there are some things, said the late ambassador Yohanan Meroz, that are not ‘hasbarable.’ One of them is Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians.” This is how Levy’s article began:
And propaganda shall cover for everything. We’ll say terrorism, we’ll shout anti-Semitism, we’ll scream delegitimation, we’ll cite the Holocaust; we’ll say Jewish state, gay-friendly, drip irrigation, cherry tomatoes, aid to Nepal, Nobel Prizes for Jews, look what’s happening in Syria, the only democracy, the greatest army. We’ll say the Palestinians are making unilateral moves, we’ll propose negotiations on the “settlement bloc borders,” we’ll demand recognition of a Jewish state and we’ll complain that “there’s no one to talk to.” We’ll wail that the whole world is against us and wants to destroy us, no less.
Now comes the best part: Levy wrote this on Jun. 4, 2015 and updated it on Apr. 10, 2018 – years before the current disaster! Since then, things have only gone south for the IDF and the Israelis in general. Just the blowback from the war in Syria is, for the IDF, a true disaster.
Of course, “Israel” is still worshipped and faithfully served by many ruling classes worldwide (that is one of the functions of the Empire, to enforce this), but that officially lauded Israel is viewed with disgust and revulsion on most of the planet. Hence the inevitable failure of the truly galactic PR effort to brainwash the regular people into believing that Israeli is a polyyanish country, a “place without people for a people without country”, etc. etc. etc. This “Ziolatry”, if you wish, was effective when the PLO was blowing up Jewish grade schools in Western Europe, but today it has lost almost all of its traction, especially amongst thinking people.
The sad and disgusting reality about the Zionist entity is truly coming out, seeping under the propaganda walls of the Empire, and slowly but inevitably resulting in a common reaction of outrage and utter disgust for what is nothing else but the last officially racist country on the planet, the only country with an open air concentration camp it surrounds on all sides, the only country which truly, openly and sincerely does not give a damn about international law or about the lives of non-Jews (while calling their own lives sacred, of course!). This is a state which constantly repeats the mantra about the supposedly “sacred” blood of Jews while, at the same time, committing a slow motion (but very real) genocide of the Palestinian people while using non-stop terrorist attacks against any country daring to defy the order of the latest, and hopefully last, wannabe “superior race” in human history. This is also why the “crime of crimes” for politically correct and successfully brainwashed people is to declare that Israel has no right to exist. This is such a major crimethink that I want to conclude by committing it right now and asking others to join me in this “crimethink”!
Israel has no right to exist whatsoever first and foremost because it is an artificial creation of West European imperialist powers. Second, it is a country which has always engaged in atrocities and massive violations of international laws and norms. Instead, Israel is based on a racist ideology which is, for all practical purpose, indistinguishable from Hitler’s Nazi ideology (both National Socialism and Zionism have the same roots in both time, space and culture, both being products of European secularism and nationalism). For these reasons, Israel, and the Zionist ideology which supports it, are both a clear and present danger for international peace and stability (for details on Zionism as an ideology and its toxicity, please see here). Furthermore, the only possible way for the Palestinian people to ever recover their land and their rights under international law is for the Zionist “regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time” (to quote the often mistranslated sentence by Ayatollah Khomeini). By the way, this awareness also presupposes a clear understanding that the so-called “Two State Solution” (2SS) is an impossibility. Yes, I know, the 2SS is currently the only one under international law, but that is hardly surprising since the state of Israel was created with not only many of the trappings of “being an internationally recognized state” but also with the shameful complicity of the country which won WWII. There is one thing which Israel has in common with the so-called “Republic of Kosovo”: they will be the very first to be liberated as soon as the AngloZionist Empire finally crashes visibly (of course, it has already crashed, hence the many disastrous outcomes for the USA and Israel on the international scene, but that is still denied officially in Zone A and,of course, by the AngloZionist propaganda and those who pay attention to it.
In truth, there is only one true “solution” to this war: the so-called “One State Solution”, meaning that those who live in this land will get to choose their leaders and lifestyles according to the old “one person, one vote” principle. All other “solutions” simply perpetuate the current genocide!
As for those Jews who still want an ethnically pure state of Israel, they can either grow up and get real, or they can choose to colonize some other planet. As long as they don’t persecute local lifeforms, that might work. But if they do this will all happen again, over and over.
Conclusion: “Gaza” and the future of the Zionist entity
I want to end here with what I believe is a glance at the future (or lack thereof!) of Israel. The website Islamic World News Analysis Group (which I highly recommend!) recently posted what it claims to be a video of a new Iranian combat drone named “Gaza” described as so: “The Gaza drone, capable of carrying 13 bombs and 500 kilograms of equipment, as well as 35 hours of flight up to a radius of 2,000 kilometers, is capable of carrying out a variety of combat and intelligence operations. According to the published images, it seems that the Gaza drone uses the Rotary Bomb Launcher mechanism under its fuselage, which can carry up to 5 bombs. This is the first Iranian drone to use this mechanism. 8 bombs are also installed under the wings and in total this drone is capable of carrying 13 bombs”. Here is the footage of this new drone. Take a look for yourself and imagine what the next round of this campaign to liberate Palestine might look like.
The Saker
Why do they settle for so little?
On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates— the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites.”
Dear to whom it may concern,
Please excuse my ignorance, could the author of this comment:
please provide the source name and the respective religion this is from, for the quote above in the comment section (the 1st comment).
It sounds like a nice quote an all, but without the actual source how can anyone hold any light up to it, that is, conduct the necessary research as to its actual authencity (was fabricated line or not?).
Thank you.
P.S. Could someone who actually is of that religion to respond to it.
Meaning, if say, I am a Muslim, it is not my responsibility to comment directly on a passage from the Torah or Bible, I have to wait for someone Jewish or Christian to do that, out of respect, and curtesy of their religious practice (regardless of my personal thoughts).
As further exampled, if I can eat meat in my religion, and I am going over a Hindue person’s household for say a pot-luck dinner, regardless of what my belief out of respect for his religion, I will bring a vegetarian dish.
I do not want to out of religious respect to offend that person or persons, so I can not post my comment, I have to wait for someone from that respective religion to post it, giving an argument against it (sorry I am refusing to touch this topic, for reasons already outlined)
P.P.S for really full disclosure, to the original post person, tell us what religion you are first, if you even believe a God exists, then tell us from your own religion what your book says, and your own interpretation, or if it is someone else’s interpretation, meaning be truthful, I know that is hard to find in this day and age.
Bostonian, it’s in The Book! Genesis Chapter 15: verses 18-21.
Therefore, it is open for comment from any People of the Book.
Likewise from people of any other book.
Right, we should keep all our comments respectful.
I just wanted a Christian / Jewish Perspective / framework for the passage, which I now have, thank you, everyone who commented in the discussion section.
I am already cognizant of the fact that the “carefully selected passage” was a sham, because the passage was never intended to apply to the current state of Israel.
If one simply asks:
“How can world Jewry, who have set up Israel on the basis of “right to return” to their “ancestral homeland” when they have never been there?
The Christian Evangelical Churches in particular who vociferously advocate the return of the Jewish people to the homeland, need to recognize that world Jewry is not of Semitic decent, they are the descendants of the Khazars, and have no historical connection to the homeland.”
The Age of Deception- M. Munir
Of Semitic decent means it is related to Semitic languages: Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic, and Aramaic.
Khazars had their own unique language no one around the surrounding areas spoke, or could figure out- unrelated to any Semitic languages, hence they were not of Jewish decent from the “Holy Land”
By analogy, it is the equivalent of calling millions of “Muslim Chinese” = “Arabs”
That would be plumb crazy.
If you follow that erroneous logic then any group of Chinese Muslims should be able to go back to any Arab land, wage war, and take their land, because it’s their “homeland” and get the entire Western world to back them up.
To repeat, this is insane.
The historical basis for their existence started with the Belfour Declaration, which set the political ball a roll’n for the League of Nations and the British protectorate to “set up house” for “Jewish” immigration to make Palestine their new “home.”
It was never the intention of Zionist planning to stop immigration there, it was always intended to continue indefinitely.
The whole idea was to keep people a’ mov’n in with the hope of eventually leading to a Jewish majority in Palestine. They always intended to take the place over. Hence they keep expanding territories while simultaneously crying “we only want peace.”
This is obvious to Zionist planners, as it has been since November 2nd 1917, the Balfour Declaration. Zionists must look down on everyone else and laugh who are too feeble minded / lacking intelligence/ or too brainwashed to unearth their planning.
Exactly. All we heard was they didn’t have a homeland. Well they have one and still start trouble all over the world and don’t move there.
They wanted the Dead Sea for it’s mineral wealth.
You are 100% correct.
Assuming the original commenter will not deign to speak to you, I, who was brought up in that religion and in that country (guess which one…) will reply.
The quote, as mentioned below is from Genesis. This is what god has purportedly promised the Jews as their land, and the named tribes, are in fact presented as chop change, IOW, slaughterables because, well, they were “not chosen”.
The passage per se is not as offensive as the commandment given later to Joshua to effectively commit full-up genocide, all because the god of the bible (old testament for Christians) said it’s OK.
Now, the thing to remember is that in israel passages like this are studied by school children – secular and religious, over and over. For the religious ones, the rabbis can bring up some of the more “humane” interpretations from the talmud, to kind of “soften the blow” (to be really simple, the talmiud through the discourses of rabinnic scholars over centuries says, effective;y, “it looks bad, but it’s not as bad as you think, and here is why” (to be followed by chapter and verse that’d take a whole year to figure out). The Christians have, of course, the new Testament, which has done a bang-up job of side-stepping passages like this, and/or interpreting them in the light of some “grace” which supersedes harsh judgement s and ordersof the old testament mean old god.
But to Israelis who are secular, or just “mildly religious”, no such escape hatch is available. They are stuck with the naked words of a supposedly all mighty god, who for some reason has chosen “his people” to survive and prosper and “them” to perish. A child subjected to these commands will not ask too many questions – they’ll likely smirlk a little and move on. But the lesson throws roots in the soul and carves part of the heart out of it. leaving just enough for themselves and for no one else.
There’s more to say, but i’ll stop here.
“Well not deign to speak to you…”
Puhleeze! (Dr NG Maroudas)
After obliterating that pundit, (as a sham) not once, but twice, on two different articles, not just from my scripture, but this time from someone else’s scripture, the take away message (just in case you did not catch it):
That pundit keeps misrepresenting scripture:
The first time from the Quran, than the second time from the Bible
Both times misidentifying two different scriptures (in a very obvious way).
Misidentifying scripture not just once, but twice, with the same purpose in mind.
I was hoping someone other than myself would have noticed this and called it.
Using the same devious logic to sow dissension among people of two different religions, is NOT cool.
Nor should anyone on this blog have to tolerate this.
From the bible from Jewish person 👇
C.R. Raynor
Naomi Wolf
July 25, 2014 ·
Okay, so I was challenged below: “Read the Bible! God gave the land of Israel to the Jewish people.” So….I may get crucified for this but I have started to say it — most recently (terrified, trembling) to warm welcome in a synagogue in LA: Actually if you read Genesis Exodus and Deuteronomy in Hebrew — as I do — you see that God did not “give” Israel to the Jews/Israelites. We as Jews are raised with the creed that “God gave us the land of Israel” in Genesis — and that ethnically ‘we are the chosen people.” But actually — and I could not believe my eyes when I saw this, I checked my reading with major scholars and they confirmed it — actually God’s “covenant” in Genesis, Exodus and Deuteronomy with the Jewish people is NOT ABOUT AN ETHNICITY AND NOT ABOUT A CONTRACT. IT IS ABOUT A WAY OF BEHAVING.
Again and again in the “covenant” language He never says: “I will give you, ethnic Israelites, the land of Israel.” Rather He says something far more radical – far more subversive — far more Godlike in my view. He says: IF you visit those imprisoned…act mercifully to the widow and the orphan…welcome the stranger in your midst…tend the sick…do justice and love mercy ….and perform various other tasks…THEN YOU WILL BE MY PEOPLE AND THIS LAND WILL BE YOUR LAND. So “my people” is not ethnic — it is transactional. We are God’s people not by birth but by a way of behaving, that is ethical, kind and just. And we STOP being “God’s people” when we are not ethical, kind and just. And ANYONE who is ethical, kind and just is, according to God in Genesis, “God’s people.” And the “contract” to “give” us Israel is conditional — we can live in God’s land IF we are “God’s people” in this way — just, merciful, compassionate. AND — it never ever says, it is ONLY your land. Even when passages spell out geographical “boundaries” as if God does such a thing, it never says this is exclusively your land. It never says I will give this land JUST to you. Remember these were homeless nomads who had left slavery in Egypt and were wandering around in the desert; at most these passages say, settle here, but they do not say, settle here exclusively. Indeed again and again it talks about welcoming “zarim” — translated as “strangers” but can also be translated as “people/tribes who are not you” — in your midst. Blew my mind, hope it blows yours.
Wow that did blow my mind and makes total sense. Why would the all loving creator of all punish those who had not found the faith. Logic dictates love is the motivation and the solution.
Fake religion cannot stand universality so they have to impose their way to others to survive….Impose as you will but a free man will move on…
Dear Bostonian:
I am writing from within the Christian tradition.
–Abraham’s own sons included Isaac and Ishmael. Ismael means ‘God will hear’, basically the same name as Samuel ‘God has heard’, the great prophet and judge. Ishmael (and his 12 sons/princes) is traditionally regarded to be the patriarch of the Arabs. Even if not literally true, the Ishmaelites were later associated with the Midianites who would have been interfacing with tribes from further into the Arabian peninsula.
–All the religions of the Book (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) consider Abraham to be their father and the father of faith (leaving polytheism and idolatry behind and obeying the voice of the one true God).
–The text comes from Gen 15:18ff. The text makes the context clear by starting off with Abraham coming from Ur of the Chaldees. Abraham has always been understood to be the father of faith because he heard God’s voice and followed it. His children (Ab-raham means ‘great father’ or ’father of many’) are thus those who like him hear and follow God’s voice (there’s nothing more to see than the voice).
–The promised land is not promised to Israel (Jacob’s new name) because he wasn’t born yet.
–The Old Testament regards the land as a perpetual inheritance of the people; it cannot be owned, nor can it be bought, sold, or alienated from the people who inherited it. During the Jewish captivity, the land got the Jubilee (debt forgiveness) sabbath rest it had been denied, implying the people of the land were better off after the elite classes were dragged of to Babylon.
–For Christians, the ultimate seed of Abraham is Jesus himself. Note that Jesus’ genealogy includes individuals from outside the tribe such as Ruth and Rachab (who was a foreigner as well as a prostitute).
–Jesus says (Mt 3:9) “And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham.” In Semitic languages, phrases like (‘sons of’) can mean many things besides literal sons. It can mean pupils, it can mean people that behave a certain way, or people that have some other quality by virtue of which they belong together and are of the same origin, fruit of the same seed, offshoot of the same branch.
–King David had a row with a guy called Goliath, who was a Philistine. Try to say Palestine with your finger in your mouth, and you will realize the Palestine and Philistine is the same word. You could say they’ve been quibbling for 3300 years.
–The Philistines are conjectured to be a “sea people” who made incursions into Palestine during the Dark Ages, much like the Vikings and Barbarians during the more recent Dark Ages, eventually staying, mingling, and being assimilated by the culture of their new home.
–Physically, the area covers Palestine, Trans-Jordan, and Syria up to the Euphrates, including Syrian provinces that have been ceded to Turkey in modern times. But not the Syrian desert, because it was not ‘land’ but wilderness.
–There are many texts which poetically indicate the borders of the Promised Land in other language.
–There is another Jewish State next to Israel/Palestine. In Russia there is a Jewish Autonomous Oblast, of which the Jewish population has today fallen to less than 1% if the total.
Just adding some perspectives: So I will not take any position on the legitimacy of the Jewish State or to whom the land and water belongs or any synonyms for people who use ‘deterrence’.
Israel means 12 tribes. Judea means 2 of the 12, Juda and Benjamin. The 10 tribes became Samaria, hence the Samarians who are not Jews. If the Zionists had some honesty, their state in Palestine would at least be named Judea, not Israel. But this is only the beginning.
They broke their covenant with god and no longer are entitled to the land
Amen! There is a clear condition in the covenant, one that was broken by the remaining 2 tribes of the Israelites, or at least by those who rejected Jesus, the messiah.
But this has a very limited relevance for the issue at hand: the conduct of the secular state of Israel. The only relevance it has is because “covenant theology” invented or reinterpreted in the 1950’s has ensnared evangelical Christians to becoming apologists for the secular state of Israel. Evangelicals support Israel because they have been taught to interpret certain passages of the Bible to adapt it to world events (the return of the Jews) and their desires (to be the generation that experience the second coming of Christ). In this, evangelicals interpret the Bible the same way as liberal theologians: they make it fit their cause. And they do so in support of a state that is hostile to the Christian church!
Because Israel can commit war atrocities with impunity partially because of the support of the evangelicals, more effort should be put into refuting this “new” form of covenant theology, or at least force them to discuss the theological foundation of their errant interpretation. Then at least, those who follow the flock in the belief that there is a clear scriptural basis for the support of war atrocities, would pause and think.
-And on the other side of the aisle (or rather: outside the church), “woke” liberals cannot go on screaming about “systemic racism” in Europe and USA, and at the same time support systemic racism in Israel!
The Jewish lobby control a vast propaganda machinery, and thus control those who do not think for themselves. Our answer should therefor be to make as many as possible think for themselves!
Has it never occurred to you the Old Testament (I’m Christian) is just a little bit self serving, not to mention wrong?
Wrong? No.
Self-serving? In what way? Considering the Old Testament hardly paints a good image of the Jews the majority of the time.
Even God kicked them out of the land when they continued to act up.
What one should reflect on this is how the Israelites well demonstrate our own personalstubborn sinful human nature. Both at its rare best and its sadly all too common worst.
You will notice the name Abram not Abraham. Abram was the father of Ishmael. Abraham was the father of Issac. How can this be missed by so many Christians?
The two are the same person.
Genesis 17:5
5 Neither shall your name any more be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made you.
Huh??
God renamed Abram to “Abraam” just like he renamed “Sara” to Sarrha”. See: Genesis 17:5-15 Septuagent.
In the King James Version, the author(s) changed “Abraam” to “Abraham” and “Sarai” to “Sarah” for some reason. See: Genesis 17:5-15 KJV.
Whether “Abram” or “Abraam” or “Abraham”, they are the same person and not different persons. Ismael and Issac were both fathered by the same man.
Who said ‘god’ kicked them out? Who wrote that ‘book’? Did ‘they’ make it all up? No shortage of BS tipped hooks with no end to……….’the majority of the time’ is a con, ‘hey look, we’re just like you.’
Cheers, M
“even God kicked them out of the land”. Could anyone show in History, a host country, community, nation from where “God´s elected” have not been kicked out? Have a look at present times USA, UK, France, all of them converted into Judeo-Zionist satrapies: their peoples on debt bondage & their politicians held on a short leash.
What is certainly false is the attribution of the Torah to Moses, around the 13th century, when the earliest semitic writings in history appear around the 9th century BC and Hebrew itself is not identified as distinct from other semitic languages until the 8th century.
In addition, if Jehovah asserts his jealousy time and time again, it is because he was not alone in the Hebrew pantheon. Archaeology has found polytheist artifacts in the ruins of Solomon’s temple (and that was after David). Just like other post-neolithic peoples, the Hebrew rediscovered creational monotheism (which is shared by many so-called primitive people) by promoting one particular god. It turns out it was the god of war, and, even though the scriptures were rewritten and homogeneized a number of times, there are still traces of Jehovah’s command to sacrifice one’s first born to him. (I think that’s in Exodus.) Though there’s another verse that cancels this and says that animals are OK, provided one doesn’t come up empty-handed. In this context, both of the story of the sacrifice of Isaaq (as a reassuring myth) and the many injunctions to commit total genocide (as a human sacrifice, in renouncement to the spoils of war) find a simple explanation. The Torah as we know it may have been put in its final form by the group that “found” the Deutoronomy “while cleaning the temple”. It shows a tension between the tribal Yahweh and an evolution towards universal monotheism. In fact, the second-temple judaism into which Christ was born had many beliefs (eternal life, last judgment) that can only be found in the book of Daniel and books that the rabbis and protestants consider noncanonical, such as the books of the Maccabees. (Actually, the book of Job too has many modern spiritual intuitions. It could have been written after the Exile (6th century); that would make sense, but I don’t know.) The apostolic fathers, in particular St John Chrysostom, warned against treating the Hebrew scriptures as worthless, insofar as they contain fulfilled messianic prophecies. But they were far from treating them as “inerrant” (a Renaissance concept). While they tried to civilize the Psalms (which do contain spiritual jewels) by treating the crual content as metaphors of a spiritual war against sin and forces of darkness, I think that we should really expunge the crual parts from the liturgical psalter; and also encourage the writing of Christian psalms (as has been done to a large extent in the Catholic and Anglican churches).
Descendants of Abram: Does that also include those who converted to Christianity and later to Islam or to whatever belief system they chose, but non the less they are descendants of Abraham. As you chose not notice the great majority of of the people live in Arabia, Syria, Iraq, Jordan and Palestine (those lived in Palestine before around 1880) are the real and perhaps only descendants of Abraham. Another point: Do the khazars who converted in name only but adamant on controlling the planet qualify to be descendants of Abraham. How a British, French, Yankee qualify to be owner of Palestine? The Jews, Christians and Muslims lived in harmony in Palestine before British and French discovered Arabia was floating on a sea of oil and other goodies. Here is a question for you : how come the USA was printing piece of paper ($$$) and backed by nothing. everyone on earth was happy to accept now 65% of everyone don’t want?
The descendants of Abraham are:
from his son Isaac the jewish people
from his son Ismail ( mother Hagar ) the arabs
The Quran on Godlessness of jews.
Quran Kareem Chapter 66- Children of Israel , verse 98
Remember when through you and the believers We punished the Bani Israelis in this world, for they transgress all limits. We find them persistently stiff-necked, most criminal of all nations, exceedingly wicked, deserving God’s wrath in this world and the next. We’ll keep punishing them in this world. We’ll punish them like no other nation has ever been punished before in Dunya as well as in Akhira. And God does not like criminals.
For they used to habitually break the Covenant and transgress all limits in their iniquity. Is there any crime that this most criminal nation doesn’t commit ?
Not a single commandment of Moses do they follow.
The jews start all wars and are the cause of world poverty through methods such as ribaa and inflation. Why shouldn’t We punish such people? Was the first holocaust not a Divine Punishment from Us? We’ll keep punishing them, declares the Holy One of Ismail.
We punished the Bani Israeli tribes of Banu Quraiza and those in Khyber through you, oh Prophet. Taste the wrath of God in this world, criminal people.
Surah Bani Israel 66.67-68
GOD is a real estate agent?
Israel’s “claim” to Palestine is based on the so-called “Word of God” IN A BOOK THEY WROTE, giving it to them in their bible/book as part of a “contract”. Well, if the bible is a CONTRACT giving them Palestine then the Jews have to follow ALL of the conditions of the CONTRACT or it is INVALID. That means they have to stone homosexuals and adulterers and follow all those other biblical laws. Every single one, to the letter, because breaking ONE part of a CONTRACT breaks the ENTIRE contract, ESPECIALLY when GOD told you to do it. These verses seem to set a high moral bar, but the handful of positive moral commands in the Old Testament are desultory and scattered among a sea of violent stories of murder, rape, torture, slavery, and all manner of violence, including capital punishment for a variety of acts:
• Blaspheming or cursing of the Lord: “And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the Lord, shall be put to death.” (Leviticus 24:13-16)
• Worshiping another God: “He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the Lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed.” (Exodus 22:20)
• Witchcraft and wizardry: “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.” (Exodus 22:18)
• Female loss of virginity before marriage: “If any man take a wife [and find] her not a maid … Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die.” (Deuteronomy 22:13-21)
• Homosexuality: “If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.” (Leviticus 20:13)
• Working on the Sabbath: “Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the Lord: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.” (Exodus 35:2)
if you cherry pick from within your religious texts, then you cannot believe the texts are the word of your God. God is not inconsistent or fallible, and so then neither is the prophet through whom God is speaking. And even if parts were fallible, how does a mere mortal distinguish ? I have never heard of a religion taking bits and pieces from its book and discarding the rest. By definition, if you do that you are discarding the religion. It’s a BELIEF system not a TV guide!
This is one of Saker’s most piercing articles. He cut to the heart of the matter.
Saker establishes the fact that victory is not what happened in the brief war between Hamas and the IDF. Victory is the proof that the IDF could not stop the rockets and could not dare to go into Gaza. This makes victory the psychological advantage the Palestinians now hold over the Israelis. Quite similar to the advantage Hezbollah gained in 2006.
In ultra clear terms, Saker then calls a spade a spade. The Israeli government is racist.
Root of the problem:
“Instead, Israel is based on a racist ideology which is, for all practical purpose, indistinguishable from Hitler’s Nazi ideology (both National Socialism and Zionism have the same roots in both time, space and culture, both being products of European secularism and nationalism).”
Solution:
“There is only one true “solution” to this war: the so-called “One State Solution”, meaning that those who live in this land will get to choose their leaders and lifestyles according to the old “one person, one vote” principle.”
So here Larch is the satire.
Universities in the US understand that Jewish equity studies have a higher academic appeal than trans-gender equity studies. Why do you imagie that here are 50 states in the US and 32 Holocaust museums, yet there are only 25 civil war museums. US population is 2% Jewish. Like southern Negros Israel Jews paint themselves as victims and here is the ‘proof’. It is so infantile it is difficult to satirise.
https://youtu.be/uzOxZW5xrZs
”This is one of Saker’s most piercing articles. He cut to the heart of the matter.”
Yes. Thank you Saker
I have always said the only viable solution is one state, Palestine. If jews want to live there in harmony with the other religions so be it. If not, migrate back to where ever they came from.
‘One person, one vote’ ……doesn’t include dead people, right :)
Cheers, M
The israeli regime is racist and nazi. They tried to use Gaza as a testing ground for new planes and other stuff.
People keeps coming up with arguments and psedofacts, even claims, based in religion grounds. It is pointles, this is all about anti-colonialism and anti-imperialism. Israel is unsustainable as a country and war will not finish while they don’t give up their racist and nazist atitudes tolward the rest of the world. I don’t give a dann f$%# their belief they are the chosen people.
Larch, thank you for your comment.
Do you refer to the neo-nations-state situated in the Middle East, or the global trans-national virtual state?
Frequently, when considering situations and conflicts between parties, I ask myself several questions:
1. what are the boundary conditions?
1.1 what happens when either party gets everything they want (including what happens to the opposing party, and everybody else)?
1.2 what is the minimum point at which each party is willing to agree, in good faith, and sustain their responsibilities to commitments to maintain the peace?
Now, it is complicated because of changing dynamics and perspectives, some people may be known to refer to this as “situational intelligence”.
It could be argued that advanced “situational intelligence” is tantamount to not-negotiation-capable (не переговоры способны?).
In the current era, with monstrous technology-enabled mass destructive capability, any supremacist ideology needs to be closely monitored with state-of-the-art technology.
But when an ideological collective premised on a clearly and unambiguously supremacist ideology controls policy creation and implementation across over half of the planet, and has their own state-like apparatus, that ideology becomes the greatest existential threat to humanity and the biosphere.
….just trying to put it all in perspective…
What u have said is exactly the truth
Zheng Junfeng, Pundit on Official CGTN TV: U.S. Provides Israel a Diplomatic Shield because of the Wealthy Jews and Their Powerful Lobby in America; Israel Serves as a “Beachhead” for American Interests
“Arab nationalism is an idea that the Arab world should exist for the Arabs not Jewish settlers and U.S. oil companies. Apparently, the U.S. did not like that idea and Israel did a great service to Washington and U.S. oil interests. Ever since, Israel has become a U.S. “beachhead” or its battlefront, in the Arab world. Israel facilitated the U.S. invasion of Iraq and Syria and bombed Iranian military assets in Syria.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described his country as the ‘West’s outpost in the Middle East’.
https://www.memri.org/reports/journalist-zheng-junfeng-official-chinese-tv-us-gives-israel-diplomatic-shield-because
“truly medieval type of genocidal hatred.”
Puhleeze! The middle ages were a beacon of light and sanity compared to the types of genocidal hatred that I remember from the 20th and 21st centuries.
da boss The Saker has spoken gun barrel straight…
… and that is all!
Gaza drone, NEXT!
as I posted, if the collective Resistence is successful, after ‘death to Israel’ is ‘mission accomplished’, ‘death to USA’ will be NEXT!
As with, when the student is ready, the teacher will show up…
… when the fighters have proven themselves willing to fight, the weapons, all kinds from all different sources, will show up!
as The Saker said, this is a political war – both ideological and geopolitical and history (and perhaps even holy books and their respectives different god/GOD/G_D)
– so I will bet me 2c S here –
… the borderless paymasters are looking w intense interest and many are salvating to the NEXT future…
… remember, in the universe of the paymasters, there is also the Ying and the Yang… it is merely the white supremacist media controlled propaganda that fool the ‘easily believable’ that their ‘POTUS’ and congress are caring, powerful and god-like… unchecked and unquestionable
thank you russia! love you more everyday :)
I am going to plaster this article on my wall of remembrance!
… I dont think this is gonna take dacades to eventuate, as I posted.
… I see the ‘new money’ has already been deposited.
looking forward to MORE new multipolar world friends!
be well be safe
p/s stay alive PAL
OH my! I just had a good look at the pic there! OMG!
Why dont they propagandise that pic of a little child w stones against the mighty invader tank w multiple assult weapons mounted…
… like they made that special photo op they did for 6.4 in china???
… remember that pic of the man in front of the tank to stop it???
racist!!!
be well be safe
“In truth, there is only one true “solution” to this war: the so-called “One State Solution”, meaning that those who live in this land will get to choose their leaders and lifestyles according to the old “one person, one vote” principle. All other “solutions” simply perpetuate the current genocide!”
As a former Christian Zionist who has lived in Israel for the past 30 years, it has been with great sorrow that I gradually saw my hope disappear, of a Holy Land where those who live in this land (all the Peoples of the Book) will get to choose their leaders and lifestyles according to the one person, one vote principle. I think Israel has delegitimized itself by ruthlessly turning itself into the Apart-Hate State that I left South Africa to escape from. The idea of exclusively Jewish State in the Holy Land has been tried and tested up to the hilt, and it just does not work.
A similar idea, of an exclusively Christian State was tried during the Crusades. It did not work either. And I predict that an exclusively Moslem State will no longer be workable in the Holy Land.
Jews do not recognize the legitimacy of Jesus Christ or Christians.
Christians do not recognize the legitimacy of Prophet Mohammed or Muslims.
Muslims recognize Jews and Christians as “People of the Book” / “People of the Scriptures”. The Quran with its derived Islamic Law makes it compulsory on all Muslims to recognize the legitimacy of Jews and Christians.
Not only are Muslims commanded to recognize Jews and Christians, but they are commanded by the Quran to protect Jewish and Christians lives, their properties and their livelihoods.
And this has been the case for the most part of Islamic history, with the exception of the Criminal Ottoman Empire’s practices of the conversion of the Christian Capital city of Constantinople and these criminal ISIS / Al Qaeda types of group in recent times (who ironically have been used and supported by the West).
For this reason, Muslims are the only people who can guarantee the sanctity of Jerusalem and the entire Holy Land..
Until the Muslims regain control of the Holy Land that they have been custodians of since 636 A.D., with the exception of a century of Criminal Crusader European rule….expect the worst criminal racist injustice you can imagine being committed by these Western Zionist colonial Jews…..
And be assured, the Holy Lands will return to its rightful custodians.
Sure, sure, sure, Israel may have been defeated by Hamas and failed to achieve many of its broader geopolitical objectives in the Middle East.
BUT, Israel did achieve one important victory even before this war….
The state of Florida and Israeli Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a law authorizing an official “Florida Stands with Israel” license plate!
‘Florida Stands with Israel’ license plate unveiled
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/florida-stands-with-israel-license-plate-unveiled-652218
Also, the American and Canadian free press are reporting that there is a massive upsurge of antisemitism in the USA and Canada. It’s almost another Kristallnacht.
To distract from Gaza slaughter, Israel lobby manufactures antisemitism freakout
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/05/24/gaza-slaughter-israel-lobby-antisemitism/
I got the solution! Why don’t all Zionists in Israel simply move to Florida? Obviously, they are welcome there. No sense in living where one is not wanted.
Several Jewish friends have stated to me that they feel comforted by the knowledge that they now have Israel, as a home for the Jews, where if push comes to shove, they can always go, if their host country ever turns on them as has happened many times in history.
Without of course going in to *why* they so often have outworn their welcome, I do at least recognize the point — Italians have Italy, the Welsh have Wales, the Dutch have The Netherlands etc. (at least, they used to before the immigrant hordes change the equation, courtesy largely of our Zio buddies)
But, I have to say, who in their right mind would wish to stay on a postage stamp of land, surrounded by a sea of people who regard them as usurpers and invaders, and irrespective of the rights and wrongs of either side, try to live a life which is for the majority of time a dangerous and miserable affair, constantly in a state of tension and bloodshed?
Saker writes: “As for those Jews who still want an ethnically pure state of Israel, they can either grow up and get real, or they can choose to colonize some other planet.”
Good point. But for those Jews who fear they will over time be simply bred out of the majority by the Arabs and then become a minority voice in the country (a reasonable assumption) there is an alternative to ‘another planet’: the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, in Russia’s far east, near Amur, along the Chinese border.
Jerusalem means a lot to so many different faiths, it could quite easily be made to contain an international zone, available to all who wish to visit.
So for the average Jew, it’s a choice between choosing to stay in Palestine, somewhat similar to what was once the case post Ottoman rule and prior to 1947, and live side by side with Arab neighbours, or move to the JAO and enjoy living and raising a family in a safe and frankly beautiful part of the world, where they can be free to live as Jews.
Of course, the Zionists are a different matter. But one wonders if they really care for a peaceful existence, or for world domination by any means.
Just my two cents.
WT
Of course, the Zionists are a different matter. But one wonders if they really care for a peaceful existence, or for world domination by any means.
Seratonin. Adhering to their racist little beliefs gives them a seratonin boost.
Jeff Bezos is building the rocket.
Palestine is occupied by Europeans.
The rest is storytelling.
Wow, there are amazing tid bits (some real jems) , must admit I was amazed as its clear logic and simplisity,the truth, Saker has polishing up.
Much of the popular support for Israel, and on which politicians rely, is based on the relationship “Christians – God’s Chosen People”, this being the true strength of the nation through which the support has converged.
The problem is, for Israel, that this world is increasingly agnostic, including the Jews (due, among other things, to a systematic media campaign, for decades, against religion and in particular against Judeo-Christianity).
Then, this moral force has been diluted, being an undue mission, especially in Tel Aviv its modern and “diverse” metropolis to speak no longer from faith, but from reason, science and common sense, considered as proselytism and / or hate speech.
When “Christians”, especially Zionist philosophers, realize that Israelite society is as or more corrupt than anyone else, and its image of “chosen and holy people” fades, support will cease and true Israel will be left alone.
… And without making a value judgment on this.
In 1990 Netanyahu said that “America is a golden calf and we will suck it dry, chop it up, and sell it piece by piece until there is nothing left but the world’s biggest welfare state.”
How right he was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K84HkfUcEE
You keep posting this thing but I have yet to see him quote that phrase, not that I dont believe you, but a lie told often enough can become a registered factoid.
“Much of the following scenario was outlined initially in 1990 in a discussion at Fink’s Bar in Jerusalem. At the head of the table was Netanyahu. The group at the table had just stolen 5 American KG 84 cryptographic devices with the help of Canadians serving with the UNTSO on the Golan Heights, giving this Israeli-led cabal real-time access to all US State Department, Naval and NATO communications. This is a transcribed quote taken from an audio recording of Netanyahu at that meeting:” (UK Today)
“If we get caught they will just replace us with persons of the same cloth. So it does not matter what you do, America is a golden calf and we will suck it dry, chop it up, and sell it off piece by piece until there is nothing left but the world’s biggest welfare state that we will create and control. Why? Because it is the will of God and America is big enough to take the hit so we can do it again and again and again. This is what we do to countries that we hate. We destroy them very slowly and make them suffer for refusing to be our slaves.”
It is quite logical that the West (US, Europe, Israel) absolutely loses all wars: the fundamental reason is the panic, irrepressible fear it has of death. The ground armies are largely ineffective because of this, no longer dare to engage in combat. The West imagines that by killing large numbers of civilians it will bend their adversaries, mistakenly thinking that it will terrorize as much as they themselves would if it happened to them. It must be admitted that the faith of Muslims in their God and therefore the real belief in the survival of the soul protects them from the noxious fear of death. This unfortunately also explains the kamikaze terrorist actions.
It is always the soldiers who win wars, technological superiority isn’t a decisive factor.
And those with least moral standards lose the wars.
Things have turned against IDF and Israel in general with the spread of homosexuality and other deviant behaviors among the Israeli society.
Israelis have become one of the most corrupt nation in the world, with disintegrating marriages and free sex/fornicarion and wrong religion (Judaism).
This is where they started losing the battles and these kinds of things usually end up with losing the county.
“True, some of its missiles are decidedly low tech and not very effective (low accuracy, small warheads, simple trajectory, limited range), …” — yes, like swarms of misquitoes in a swamp, they eventually exhaust the supplies of repellent and energy. The iron dome ends when the iron runs out, … which is a function of expenditure and resupply capacity (and $budget if there was a real non-Fed non-fiat economy in existance as per ideology).
“As for those Jews who still want an ethnically pure state of Israel, they can either grow up and get real, or they can choose to colonize some other planet.”– or, they could go migrate to the Jewish Autonomous Oblast (JAO) set out in Russia/USSR and wait for their messiah. Some suggest Patagonia is a fall back and many others are thankful that the energy and mineral rich north of Western Australia was not taken up by the tribes when suggested way back when.
This cross-roads in the ME has always been triangulated by the Egyptian, Persian and (what is now) Turkish empires. Their neuted observance of this obsentiy that even Nelson Mandella pointed his finger at IS the core of the problem. But, I agree, the historical cusp has been passed and the dissolution of this historically recent Crusader programme is gathering momentum.
But whether it is Jewish or Hindu or German of British or American exceptionalism is of less import. The fascist underpinnings will emerge to stiff-leg goose-step and salute irrespective of the uniform clothing the beast within. The occupation of Palestine is simply another example of continuing and refining variuous “final solution” experiments in colonialism operationalised during the mid- to late-20th century. The partitian of India and Pakistan is likely another, although (untouchability of the original indigenous “Scheduled tribes” aside) it is more religion than ethnic based.
The so-called partition of India is given religious colors for the future conflict and tension in the subcontinent for continued exploitation. The people of modern-day Pakistan are not aliens from other parts of continental India, they are natives except a few million migrants who lives in Karachi. The argument put forward to Empire for a separate state is of more ethnical lines than religious. The people of Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir, Sindh and Baluchistan (Acronym – PAKSTAN) share common values, traits and history, irrespective of religious affiliation, used to an independent political entity before the Mughals, hence the demand for restoration. But the empire never likes the idea of unity of a nation, it always survived on divide and rule policy, and broke the nations or Bengal and Punjab, like how it did in Korea, Sudan, Syria, Somalia, Yemen etcetera.
Bengal used to be most industrialized and rich nation during 17 century under Mughal empire. Then the White murderers and thieves came and looted the wealth, destroyed infrastructure, chopped off the finger of skilled weavers, brought multiple famines and before they pack off divided the nation into two. Today, Bangladesh is the fastest growing economy in South Asia and also tops in per capita income. Imagine the position of a United Bengal with 300+ million population.
a good development is that Mamta Banerjee is proving to be a heroic and courageous woman who is locking horns with Narendra Modi !
Ah, Saker. How satisfying this must have been for you to write this, and how satisfying for us to read it.
What a noble moment in time we are in, where Palestine has grown up with its new generation – pure, unstained, virtuous, and of one mind for the future of its land and its society.
The “ladder” you describe seems exactly how it is. You take sticks, and stones, to fight with. Then you make wooden swords to fight with. And you keep showing up ready to fight, so we give you metal swords, but the oldest in the arsenal, almost history – and you make them modern with your passion and your courage and your deadly intent.
And now you will get even better swords to fight with. Because now you proved yourself as the tip of the spear, the leading edge of the Resistance.
~~
As we have seen here, Hezbollah acclaims you, O Palestine, as being able and determined to thwart Israel, and to protect Jerusalem, simply on your own. And Hezbollah in its pride for you yearns for the day when it can fight by your side to drive the Zionists from all the land itself.
Palestine is the spear tip of the entire region’s Resistance, and her allies salute her with the deepest respect and admiration – “lead on” come the messages from the allies, take the vanguard in the battle – because you have now shown that you are destined for it.
Finally, at last, Palestine has grown into its promise as no one could have known – except those who helped, such as the martyr Soleimani, whose great work has gone very much into nurturing this fruit from this tree.
~~
And Palestine, foremost and perhaps even perhaps alone of all the allies, has the ultimate right to declare the fate of the invader, the impostor nation Israel – Israel must leave this land. No voice has more right to say it, and no voice could carry the decision as finally as the voice of Palestine.
And now the whole world is free to say this, and to think this, and to ponder the ways for this to happen. And all this, because Palestine chose the path and paid the price and won the war. And so now the fate of Israel is no longer its own to decide. The victor will decide.
Perhaps we have all waited for this forever. But Palestine is alive, Palestine is awake, Palestine is united in one mind, one heart, one voice – and all following the leadership of the Resistance.
What a brilliant moment we are in. We can all now say what we have long thought. Paradigms by the bushel have been upturned. Strategies are ashes. The Israel usurpation is over. The indigenous people will rule this land.
Imagine: indigenous people will decide the future of their land.
This abomination called “israel” is a functional entity; it has a geopolitical purpose, if it was a country it would have made peace long before Hamas, Iran, Hezbollah, etc. Came to the seen.
It’s too bad the Crusades didn’t succeed.
Then again, if they did, whatever would’ve been Israel/Palestine would likely have turned out to be a Middle Eastern European democracy just as susceptible to the control of Jewish lobbies and would’ve just handed them whatever they wanted, including the Temple Mount unless a Cathedral was erected upon it, but ‘ecumenism’ by weak Catholics or Orthodox would’ve allowed Jews free use of it. Then again who knows what the course of imaginary history would’ve been like?
It matters little anyway. As Pope Pius XII, to whom surviving Jews owe a debt, stated that the Holy See had no position to take on modern Israel’s creation as a secular state. It’s existence was indifferent to the fact that the Catholic Church was the new ‘Israel’ ruled by its King, Jesus Christ, and whose 12 tribes are succeeded by the 12 Apostles who baptize all nations into the body of the only true ‘world government’ that is not of this world.
The Mosaic Covenant is fulfilled and over, despite what some modernist Catholic and protestant heretics claim and thus through erroneous theology support the secular state of Israel, no matter what.
It makes further little difference to fight over area that is believed to one day fall under Antichrist, and when the old creation will in the end all be burned up and God will bring forth a New Jerusalem.
The Catholics gave the reconquest a shot, but God decided that reclaiming Europe from the Mohammedan invaders was sufficient enough. The Holy Land remains near to our hearts because of Salvation history and our religious heritage. We also charitably wish for peace to its current inhabitants no matter how they got there. But as regards who has control over it, is about as irritating of a question as who controls the USA or China? Nothing special in the grand scheme of things so long as it is accessible for pilgrimages and tourism as the baseline. But ideally all ought to have been Catholic Confessional States, but what can you do?
‘Catholic Confessional States’
Catholic as in the religion?
or
Catholic as in its definition ‘Universal’ but not religion?
be well be safe
Saker, I understand when you say that Israel is artificial entity and it is the truth
You say that Israel does not have right to exist.
But it exist.
And if Israel stop to exist probably violently because it is not possible otherwise, the question is what to do with 7 or more million Jews that live in Israel now.
And Israel has nuclear bombs. And Israel will use them without hesitation if it gets in mortal danger.
Israel cannot continue like this because circumstances change and their enemies are stronger and stronger every day.
But problem of Palestinians cannot be solved by destruction of Jews.
You mention Kosovo
Today Serbia militarilly can take Kosovo in 7 days. And it will one day.
Bit what to do with million or more ethnic Albanians who live there for hundreds of years, for centuries.
Couple of hundreds of thousands ethnic Serbs escaped from Croatia in 1995 and it was disaster because at that time Milosevic did not allow them to accept plan Z-4 made by USA and Russian diplomacy and that agreement would be solution for both Serbs and Croats.
And regions Serbs abandoned never recovered economically and never repopulated
In Bosnia and Herzegovina massive ethnic migrations killed any future for that country.
And here, we are talking about several hundreds of thousands, and it was absolute catastrophy, and imagine millions and millions of people
All of that happened bàecause idiots in power did not want normal political solution that could be achieved relatively easily.
No, such problems can be solved only by some political agreement.
Otherwise it is disaster and genocide
And nobody had right to do genocide, despite to somebody’s affinities.
” what to do with million or more ethnic Albanians who live there for hundreds of years, for centuries”.
Nothing. As long as accept that they have the same rights as everybody else and not some Tito-era minority super-rights.
The Gheg Albanians are nomadic and move around between Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia. Their birth rates, previously 8 – 9 children per family, (made possible with Tito’ s handouts) has totally collapsed. So an accurate population census within Kosovo should be very interesting and revelatory.
As for the Z4, we ‘ve already had this conversation, Bosnian Croat. The Serbs accepted the plan. It was the Croats who reneged and launched Operation Storm. This was all dissected in minute detail during the prosecution of Slobodan Milosevic.
http://slobodan-milosevic.org/news/smorg-anl082804.htm
For those searching for answers or trying to reconstruct events the a/m website contains a lot of information and source documents.
As for Bosnia, it is indeed in a sorry state, not least because the Muslim-Croat entity is so eager to join NATO and EU that they are ready to destroy the Dayton Agreement which is currently the only thing holding the country together.
First, Serbs and Albanians CANNOT LIVE TOGETHER.
End of story. A and you know that.
And about Z-4, Russian ambasador in Zagreb Leonid Kerestedjianets said everything about it. He and American ambassador P. Galbrairh tried to convince Serbs to accept Z4 but they refused to talk about that saying that Milosevic ordered them to refuse any conversation about that . They went to Milosevic and he refused to see them.
So, Serbian girl, you can tell your fairytales to anyone but not to me.
Tens of thousands of Albanians already live & work on our territory, Bosnian Croat…you’re not suggesting the CroatIan solution ..? I mean, yes relations are tense, and the KLA is a terrible organisation, but I would never wish “Operation Storm” onto Albanian civilians.
Regarding Z4 peace treaty, the link above contains source documents from the Hague tribunal: Milan Babic signed the Z4 peace plan on behalf of the Serbian Orthodox population of Croatia on 2nd August 1995 in the presence of Galbraith and with Milosevic’ s blessing.
Basically, Croatia waged war against people who signed a peace deal with them.
There are two possibilities
1. Kosovo inside Serbia, Albanians out
2. KOSOVO out of Serbia, Serbs out
Kosovo in Serbia with Serbs and Albanians to live together in tolerance – it is mission impossible. We all know that
Yes, Babic signed Z-4 and he was immedietelly removed. Martic was in charge and he listened Milosevic. And Milosevic did not want to sign anything.
Babic was smart but irrelevant.
Plan Z-4 assumed Serbs ethnic region as strong autonomy but INSIDE CROATIA.
And Serb extremists did not want to talk about that.
The rest is history. And you Serbs stop blaming everyone else for your stupid actions.
And stop to play Saints because you are far from it.
2nd August : Babic signs Z4
3rd August: Babic gives interviews to Serbian media saying the Serbian leadership has accepted Z4. Galbraith confirms this on Croatian TV.
4th August: Croats launch Operation Storm. ~200k people lose their homes. Those left behind are killed.
Its all in the link above. Not only does your narrative not match historical record, it doesn’t even match the dates!
The only ones “playing saints” are people like you who are trying to whitewash crimes like Operation Storm.
Maybe there should be a two state solution……for the USA.
Sure Israel has provided a home for the Jews. Every other country in the world accepts other creeds and races as voting members of their society. To not do so, as is the case in Israel, is racist, as the Saker has said.
There will be no solution here while Israel gets special treatment from the USA Europe and the UK.
All that said, many deep state linked organisations have condemed israel’s recent handling of events, pro-palestininan demonstrations have been allowed in many western states and the Egyptian egime has assisted Gaza. Perhaps Israel is being set up to be thrown to the wolves by its friends.
An otherwise great article, except for the “racist” bs. The entire concept of “racism” is nonsense. Race is real. No matter how many foolish people attempt to claim otherwise. This is basic science. There are different breeds of dogs, monkeys, horses, cattle, etc. Nobody sits around wasting time calling people “breedists” for noting the differences between breeds, do they? Nobody idiotically argues that English Mastiffs are not different from French Poodles, even if they are both dogs. Different races of people evolved in different environments and hence have adapted different traits to accommodate their respective environments. This is why Ethiopians tend to be the best long distance runners, American Blacks tend to be far better at basketball, and yes, some races are better at math, or business or what have you.
EVERYONE should recognize the differences between races and celebrate them, rather than this stupid attempt to pretend we live in a world where everyone is the same. We aren’t all the same and thank God for that! It is this ability to adapt to our circumstances that has allowed humans to persist on this planet. The more “alike” we become, the less resilient in the bigger scheme of things we will be.
This is not to say that one race is better than another, but all people of all races should feel that their family, their community, their nation and yes, their race is the best. Everyone should be proud of who they are and they should act upon their natural affinity for what they perceive as “their own”. This “racism” bs is all about breaking us all down into individuals, disconnected from any sense of collective identity and hence devoid of the ability to act collectively.
The crime of the Israelis is not that they believe the interests of their own people should be put first, or that they wish to live among their own kind. These are natural and healthy traits and necessary for any people who hope to survive over the long hall. Their crime is not even that they tried to colonize Palestine or that they made war on the Palestinians to do so. This is the way of the world and has been for all time.
No, their crime is their great hubris and for that they are about to pay dearly.
Except that over here we have legally convinced ourselves that everyone is created equal and therefore a one glove fits all policy is appropriate, as long as its the grade A policy.
Now the remainders have to pick up and deal with the grade A disaster.
Probably the best comment among all this Christian-hating. Humans have always been garbage, no matter their race. It is just normal for each country to have, you know, interests.
But Russia? Russia likes to move about without a head, I tell you.
Russia helping Syria – a mistake.
Russia helping Iran – a huge mistake.
Russia helping Turkey – Oh God, what a mistake that was.
Russia, despite being at war against Islam for centuries, suddenly becomes some Arab countries saviour just for s**t and giggles. Besides returning Krim, every other policy decision in the last 10 years was a total failure. Especially recent decision to support none other than head-chopping militants from Hamas and Palestinian Jihad. Well done, Putin! Such a strategist you are!
And well done Nemirni. What an ignoramus you are.
Muslims have been Russians or subjects of the Russian tsar for more than 500 years starting with the Volga-Ural Muslims.
People nowadays like to write Russia’s relationship with its Muslims as one of constant conflict. While it is true that there were resistance, conflicts and violence, it is not true that both parties did not seek ways to accommodate each other; one to govern a heterogeneous population and maintain a stable state and the other to maintain its religious autonomy within a state ruled by non-Muslims.
The German-born Catherine the Great started the ball rolling by being the first to incorporate Islamic clerics into the state apparatus. Russia had its first state ‘Mufti’ (Islamic jurist) in the 18th century. By contrast Indonesia, presently the most populous Muslim country — and colonised 300 years by the Dutch — has yet to have one.
On the eve of WW1, the Ottoman Empire — instrumentalising Islam — called on Russia’s Muslims to rise up against the Tsar. The (Russian) Orenburg mufti issued a call against it. One million of Russia’s Muslims answered the mufti’s call and served in the Tsar’s forces against the Ottoman, German, and Habsburg armies.
Especially recent decision to support none other than head-chopping militants from Hamas and Palestinian Jihad
How’s the weather in Tel Aviv?
Bob, hubris (Greek for “pride goes before a fall”) is worse than crime, it is stupidity.
Proverbs 16:18 “Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall”
I’m not sure of the true objectives of this short but violent clash. To me it seems more “theater” for internal use only. Everything started from the clashes at Al-Aqsa: they should have known that firing rubber bullets on people gathered in their most sacred place would have caused an upheaval. The simplest explanation is that this was precisely what they wanted. Internal political situation of Israel is a mess, with five elections in two years, and Netanyahu, who has several ongoing processes, is losing the government. Now this is impossible due to this chaotic situation. And nothing really changed, i.e. Gaza conditions are not improved, West bank colonization continues.
On the opposite, Hamas has shown that it can saturate Iron Dome. Good news for them, but is this worth the lives of hundreds people? Imho, no, because it was obvious from the beginning that you can saturate any defense system with enough fire power.
The only good thing form Palestinians could be if they are approaching the Shia resistance, and this clash was a way to say “we are ready to join”. As far as I understand, Palestinian are Sunni and, historically, they have been sustained by Saudis, not Iran. Indeed I don’t remember that Hamas was so warm and supportive towards the legitimate Syrian government in the last seven years. Maybe now they are shifting towards Iran due the recent approach between Israel and gulf monarchies?
Objectives? There was one primary Israeli objective and that was finding a way for Bibi to form a new government, continue as PM and avoid prison for corruption. I wonder if the likudniks think it was worth it?
Of course it was worth it. Hardly any Israeli died. It is a total victory by Natanyahoo and his future government.
Only Saker here believes this little war had any other, grander objective.
Social media has been flooded with shocking images of wounded and dead Palestinian children. I believe this was not just military disaster, as Saker describes, but also a PR disaster for Israel.
What, if anything, Netanyahu gets out of it remains to be seen.
Maybe those children would not be dead if Hamas played it smart and didn’t launch thousands of rockets into Israel?
Never fight a war you can’t win. If only our naive Yugoslav leadership realized it during the 90’s. Maybe we wouldn’t have Muslim terrorist hotbed inside Novi Pazar and KiM.
The leadership of our ex-country was not naive they were complicit. Who separated Kosovo from the rest of Serbia? Who turned a religion (Bosnian muslim) into an ethnicity (Bosniak)? The answers to those questions will reveal the true enemy.
I know who you mean and I agree with you there.
Serbs never should have betrayed their King. The same goes for Russians.
Talvez o Hamas não lançasse mísseis se os israelenses não roubassem suas terras e casas e os confinassem num novo gueto de Varsóvia.
Se você defende o que Israel faz em Gaza, automaticamente defende os que a Alemanha fez em Varsóvia.
Você defende o extermínio do Gueto de Varsóvia? Defende o que os alemães fizeram em todos os outros guetos e nos campos de concentração?
Google translation,MOD:
Perhaps Hamas would not launch missiles if the Israelis did not steal their land and houses and confine them in a new Warsaw ghetto.
If you defend what Israel does in Gaza, you automatically defend those that Germany did in Warsaw.
Do you advocate the extermination of the Warsaw Ghetto? Do you defend what the Germans did in all other ghettos and in the concentration camps?
I live in Italy and I can assure you that official media do not care anymore about Palestinians, and Israel PR are always good. This was not true twenty years ago, as Italian left parties were very supportive of Palestine, but now many other agendas (e.g. Belarus) have the priority. The Palestinian cause is considered not worthy. The media coverage started only with Hamas firing rockets, shamefully forgetting that the trigger was the Al Aqsa storming. I guess that in all western countries is the same. For the “Zone B”, using the Saker terminology, they already know the situation.
Nevertheless, I think that, if Hamas and Palestinians are truly shifting towards the Shia resistance, favoring this is a mistake by Israel as country, despite it served Netanyahu short term purposes. But if Palestinians do not join the forces with other bigger allied, and limit themselves to this periodic upheavals, their situation will never improve.
What changed all the equations derived in the divide provoked between sunni and shia was the storming of the Al Aqsa Mosque.
It was that event which acted as catalizing for the whole Umma to come to terms and become allies instead of fighting each other as happened to just recently for the benefit of the Zionist entity.
The forgivennes by the Syrian Givernment to Hamas so testify.
The Israelis went a step wy too far, encouraged by seeing how they had been able to disposses defensless Arab civilinans in Dheikh Jarrah without too much resitance except crying by women and children and protests by the unarmed husbands and fathers, they thought they could now step further and strom and may be destroy Al Aqsa Mosque, stepping in the mine that will result in their destruction as so called state/entity.
The lack of obvious security will now not only avert investment coming to Lebanon and Syria, as was the AngloZionist goal by unleashing the Syrian war, that is, to ruin these countries and make them slaves of the IMF and International Banking System so as to take over them.
It is a matter of time that the fully hedonism immersed double national israeli society start packing and leaving to a moe prosperous, peaceful, paridisiacal place.
The general ruin provoked by the highly likely orchestrated pandemic will make only possible for them to install themselves in the places more benefitting from this pandemic and thus not so ruines, that would be where they came, the US, the UK, and Germany, plus, if they are allowed into, Russia.
The best place for them to settle would be Ukraine, as in the end they, the Zionists, did not got along so badly with the nazis, in fact, they both cooperated with each other to create that outpost for the financial capital in the ME; as the Haavara Accord so cleary shows.
The ethnic makeup of Jews in Israel
MIZRAHI OR SEPHARDIC JEWS 50.2%
Morocco (15%) Iraq (7.7%) Yemen (4.9%) Iran (4%) Algeria/Tunisia (3.8%) Other Asia (2.5%) Turkey (2.5%) Libya (2.3%) Egypt (1.9%) Other Asia (1.7%) India/Pakistan (1.3%) Latin America (0.04%) Other Africa (0.05%)
BETA ISRAEL (ETHIOPIA) 2.2%
ASHKENAZI JEWS 47.5%
Russia (20.9%) Poland (8.3%) Romania (7.6%) Other Europe (3.7%) North America (2.8%) Germany/Austria (2.7%) Bulgaria/Greece (1.9%) Latin America (1.4%) Hungary (1.3%) Czechoslovakia (1.2%) South Africa (0.4%)
Faisal, thank you for those statistics. Interesting to see that that the majority of Israelis come from the poorest countries.
52% come from Africa, Asia and Latin America.
From the remaining 48%, the majority (31.8%) come from relatively poor European countries (Yeltsin’s Russia, Poland and Romania).
Only 5.5% come from prosperous countries (U$A, Canada and Germany). In those 3 countries there are 13 million Jews. In Israel there are 7 million Jews.
Which reminds me of a definition of Zionism that I heard from a Russian Jewish lady in London: “One Jew collecting money from a second Jew to send a third Jew to Israel”.
Brave words, Saker. I hope you are right. Vive la Palestine !
Excellent article. Really well-written overview of what the world has just experienced.
There is one other dimension to this recent action by Hamas that I think should be brought out. Whilst Hamas might have accomplished this action on their own, it must be emphasised that they do not act without the advice and assistance of their partners – Hezbollah, Iran and others. I believe that Hamas was provided with the tools and equipment to build these missiles. There were far too many of them to have been the result of independent action. There was a reason that these thousands of missiles suddenly appeared in the Hamas arms cache. There had to be a reason so many at once were thrown at Israel.
I believe that Hamas was working with Hezbollah and Iran to test the Iron Dome, which has not, before this action, been fully tested. Iran and Hezbollah want to know the limits of the Dome – how long it takes to essentially exhaust its supplies of ammo, what the saturation point is (how many missiles can be thrown at it simultaneously to produce a breakdown) and how effective it is at shooting down many incoming missiles.
I believe that now the Resistance has that knowledge in hand and will use it to plan strategy for taking down Israel in the near future. Iran and Hezbollah have many, many thousands of missiles at the ready – powerful and highly accurate missiles. They used thousands of simple, cheap, mostly ineffectual, Hamas missiles to test the Dome without having to use their more sophisticated and expensive ones.
I would not at all be surprised if the Resistance was planning a major campaign against Israel at this moment. They would first saturate the Dome with these cheap missiles and then proceed to level Israeli cities with thousands of powerful and accurate missiles. Israel would be defenceless against such action – even with their invincible technology. The big question, of course, is what would the US and its European and British vassals do in response? Would they suddenly see the futility of supporting this rogue state? Or would they step into the fight, and bring with them Russia and China and Iran?
I also wonder if Israel is barraged with missiles would they retaliate with nukes?
If they believe their very existence is threatened by a large hailstorm of missiles? i’m no expert on this and would love to hear what Saker or others think?
I fear the article is largely based on wishful thinking. It seems fairly obvious to me that the Palestinians were beaten again, but, of course, I am not a military expert…
You can win all of the battles according to the statistics…but Hamas still stands strong in Gaza and they proved that they can now rain down rockets (mostly crude to be fair) and small suicide drones on large parts of Israel and the IDF cannot stop them. This changes the calculus from this point forwarrd.
That the IDF inflicted more death and destruction on the Palestinians matters little in the long run. The Palestinians have proven themselves to be resilient and able to endure extreme hardship and to absorb heavy casualties while maintaining high morale and effectiveness (at least by Palestinian standards). The Israelis on the other hand, are snowflakes with very little tolerance for dead and wounded Israelis.
More specifically, the Israelis have been strangling Gaza economically with their blockade. For the first time, the Palestinians have displayed the ability to bring the Israeli economy largely to a halt and to do so for an extended period. There is no doubt that the Palestinians could have kept up the pace of rocket fire for some weeks further…and the IDF would be unable to halt it, save a direct reoccupation of Gaza. The IDF has no stomach for this kind of fighting or the kind of casualties they would suffer in such an operation.
The Palestinians, with the support of Hezbollah and others, now have the tools and knowledge necessary to win any future war with the IDF. If I were the resistance, I would be planning for an extended campaign that would shut down the Israeli economy and keep it shut down for months if needed. The key here is to remove any sense of physical security the Israelis may have heretofore enjoyed. Let them learn to live with the knowledge that death could rain down upon them from the sky at any moment. The result of such a campaign would be a mass exodus of Jews from Palestine for safer and more profitable environs in the West. The writing is on the wall.
“The key here is to remove any sense of physical security the Israelis may have heretofore enjoyed.”
I agree entirely with this. When it is achieved, the struggle is practically over. In the immediate term, will the settlements right next to Gaza be emptied (“Kerem Shalom”, “Holit”, “Kisufim” etc.)? If I was one living there, I would certainly not stay after this.
Expert on al jazeera….USA is attempting to manage the current situation….not resolving it….especially the differences in treatment eg 735 millionto IDF and only 75m to Palestine actually exposes the circumstances of the conflict to resurface. Going to cost 150m to make damaged buildings safe and clear debris…..another 50 m to rebuild buildings……but of course….that funding is going to soooo slowly to feed through probably under very controlled directed methods…not enough plant machinery building workers where will it come from etc….materials and space to rebuild….population will still be homeless and struggling plus what economy during this time which could of course could be maybe a decade.
So USA policy is perpetuating 2SS and managing the imbalance between Palestine and Israel….on order to keep the current misery actually exactly as it is if not slowly degrading . As the brilliant UNWRA guy said the other day…..situation has to be resolved from the bottom up. Seems like USA and Israel ain’t listening or going to respond in that way. One wonders how quickly volatile the statis is…..more evictions…”heavy handedness”….settlers creating civil havoc….is there enough time for Hamas and regroup plus next time rhey will call in assistance?
Amongst the ten Anglozionist goals for unleashing the takfiri invasion and war on Syria you mention, I would add the erasing of the whole history and civilization of the Middle East and ancient Mesopotamia, to then rewrite history to their convenience, as they are currently doing with the history of WWII.
The way they all at unison run to the press to make exagerated statements of complaint every time one of their nazi operatives like the last caught this past day in a flight, so demonstrate..
beautiful article Saker. So much hope for Gaza – blessings on Gaza
To the Saker,
Sir it is me belief that all the begatin that is in the book of Genesis, has the effect of putting the reader into a comatose like state. As a result, some very import points are stated that seem to be unrecognized by the reader. God blessed Abram and Abrahams son. He told both sides of that divided family that their children would be as numerous as stars and grains of sand on the beach. It has been my experience, that American evangelical preacher can only read one half of the story and if you pointing that out to them it will cause you to have to look for another pastor. All in all it is my belief that they still have their blinders on, as they have yet to be knocked of their donkey.
Saker is wrong about the Israelis: Muslims (Turks and especially Northern Africans) only understand force and power, that is what they respect the most. If you show weakness they will attack you like a group of hyenas, i know, i live amongst them.
Turkey won this conflict: Gaza offered Turkey a maritime economic exclusion zone. Next goal for Turkey will be spreading their influence to (inciting) the Muslims of the Caucasus at the Nato southern front with the goal of destabilizing Russia. Turkey is already selling their S-400 and pantsir killing drones to Poland and Ukraine at the Nato eastern front which has angered Russia and might further escalate tensions between Turkey and Russia.
Quoting Saker: “”In truth, there is only one true “solution” to this war: the so-called “One State Solution”, meaning that those who live in this land will get to choose their leaders and lifestyles according to the old “one person, one vote” principle.””
That old one person one vote principle is not even applied in the USA. The west and Bosnian Muslims also want to forcefully impose this undemocratic system onto the Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina and centralize all power into the hands of Muslim ruled Sarajevo. You cannot have this system in a country with opposing civilizations (unless the country is communist), this will only (culturally) destroy the other group (as in the case of Russians in the Ukraine).
Bingo yet again to the Saker!! KO this time.. ca frappe chez toi!!!
Thanks Dave bring up an often overlooked issue of – energy, gas (excludes anglo-zionist verbal flatulence!!).
Quote Palestine Chronicle..
´´If this were to occur, the Gaza gas fields would be integrated into Israel’s offshore installations, which are contiguous to those of the Gaza Strip.
These various offshore installations are also linked up to Israel’s energy transport corridor, extending from the port of Eilat, which is an oil pipeline terminal, on the Red Sea to the seaport – pipeline terminal at Ashkelon, and northwards to Haifa, and eventually linking up through a proposed Israeli-Turkish pipeline with the Turkish port of Ceyhan.
Ceyhan is the terminal of the Baku, Tblisi Ceyhan Trans Caspian pipeline. “What is envisaged is to link the BTC pipeline to the Trans-Israel Eilat-Ashkelon pipeline, also known as Israel’s Tipline.” (See Michel Chossudovsky, The War on Lebanon and the Battle for Oil, Global Research, July 23, 2006)..
Naturally our ignoble snake-oil friends CHEVRON and British Gas (not English comedy or Boris Johnson..) are also heavily involved in stabbing Gaza yet again in the back.
** possible confirmation that at least one Israeli gas rig/installation was hit and exploded
** definite confirmation that with China being so heavily involved with completed construction of Haifa robotic container port (perhaps in exchange for the juiciest US-Israeli block F-35 info, codes and what-have-you). Plus heavy Chinese investment in Greece and Serbia etc., we are back to basic energy chess..
** What about Egyptian involvement with their Suez Canal and their own gas fields links to Greece OR Turkey!!
** PS Uncle Schmuel with full Turkish and TelAviv compliance, continues stealing Syrian oil big time.
Maybe the second extended runway completed at the Russian base Kmeimim with those ever so beautiful swans – TU-22M3s..3 for starters, then a few Bears TU 16s to join them..
will nudge the Pentagon and US Navy into reassessing a ´most delicate situation´!!!!
So what you are saying is, the Zionist colony in Palestine is untenable unless it is imposed by force upon the majority population of the land? Sounds like the most practical solution would be for the Jews to give up their colonial project and leave. This is also the most likely solution, IMO.
Finaly someone who gets it. You are right, and it is not a coincidence only us Serbs realize how dangerous is to help any Muslim, let alone a radical one.
Russia is making a mistake after mistake ever since that bold and righterous move to bring back Krim to the Motherland.
First the useless and costly entry into Syria, then idiotic assistance to the Sultan Erdogan. Now they needlessly support Palestine, going against their natural ally Israel.
Let’s see how Putin survive another election when Israeli diasphora in Russia has it’s say.
I would like to remind the Serbs on this blog that the main instigators in the war against us in the 1990s were Madeleine Albright, Richard Holbrook, Wesley Clarke and Bernard Kouchner. They led the military, financial and media campaign against. These are not Muslims, but Jews.
Israel has now recognised Kosovo as an independent state, whereas many Muslim states have not. Palestine voted against Kosovo in UNESCO ! ( it was very close vote http://untribune.com/kosovo-falls-three-votes-short-in-unesco-bid/)
Why would we show any sympathy towards a nation who has openly and brazenly declared itself to be our enemy?
Why would we show sympathy to anyone- friend or foe- who treats others the way they have treated civilians in Gaza?
Very curious for your explanations!
About the war criminals, you listed as being Jewish:
Madeleine Albright: Her grandparents were Jewish, they were killed during the Holocaust. That’s about it. This does not mean she has anything to do with Israel.
Richard Holbrooke’s father was a Polish Jew:
“Holbrooke’s father, who died of colon cancer when Richard was 15 years old, was born of Polish Jewish parents in Warsaw and took the name Holbrooke after migrating to the United States in 1939.”
As far as I’m concerned, him being Polish, he was more of a nazi than a Jew.
Wesley Clark has Jewish origins, but he himself is not a Jew but a Catholic. Out of the four you mentioned, Kushner is the only one who is a real American Jew. Still, this does not mean Israel wanted to destroy us. See for yourself:
“Israel refused to support the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, leading to admonishment from the United States. Ariel Sharon criticized NATO’s bombing as an act of “brutal interventionism”.”
USA and Germany wanted to destroy Yugoslavia. Not Israel. Please, check your facts next time.
“Israel has now recognized Kosovo as an independent state”
Yes, once again thanks to our incompetent leadership. Bravo.
Nemirni,
Well in that case, Bernhard-Henri Levy is Algerian, Alain Finkielkraut is French, and Bernard Kouchner (not Kushner), considered the 15th most powerful jew in the world by the JPost, is actually Protestant.. because of his mom..btw all these people above played a huge role in the 1990s war..
As for our idiotic leadership, didn’t they recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital a few months ago? So Israel repays us by recognising Kosovo…
Thank you Serbian girl.
Always important to remind people of the history. Many people are blinded by decades of propaganda of Muslims being the terrorist by nature and they forget that in the grand scheme of things the people truly behind the human catastrophes have achieved what they wanted. An artificially created hatred between people with different religious background indigenous to the same land.
Divide and conquer.
Tukey won this conflict by having f*** all to do with it? Am I getting smarter or is the hasbara getting dumber?
One country: Palestine!
Worship the princes of the spirit your hearts are enamoured of—-but prostrate yourselves before the Most High. By whom you were created and to whom you will return.
Even Satan knows what I’m talking about.
Brother Blue Iconoclast
Thank you Saker for keeping us anchored to our sanity. The Anglo Zionist mass media does the opposite.
For all those who might think that the people of Palestine will not be victorious against the fascist Zionist colonialist regime I recommend that you correct yourself by reviewing the contemporary history of Algeria.
Having and endured over 130 years of French colonialist crimes and atrocities, the people of Algeria woke up and rose up against one of the most powerful empires in human history and defeated them with bare hands. And that was in the 1950s when the people of Algeria had no outside help. Today, setting aside the criminal Arab puppet dictators, outside help is gathering steam for the victims of the fascist Zionist regime.
Most Zionists in the USA are Christian, not Jewish. Palestine figures into their end-times eschatology as the place where their warrior messiah will supposedly return to vanquish all unbelievers. Each year they throw millions of dollars at Netanyahu and Likud to finance the ongoing genocide of indigenous Palestinians. Christian Zionist pastors like John Hagee even went so far as to say that an IDF spokesman had assured him during a briefing that all deaths in Gaza were the result of Hamas rocket misfires – “It’s the terrorists that are killing their own people!”
Netanyahu must be smiling and shaking his head at how these folks have been so bamboozled by their Zionist-inspired Scofield Reference Bible into thinking that the European Ashkenazim are the rightful heirs to the Holy Land, while the actual Palestinians are being ethnically cleansed. Wonder if he knows that those “unbelievers” who will be vanquished include him and most of the Ashkenazim?
With reference to Gaza and the claim that Hamas is taking the civilian population hostage:
Whenever there is a hostage situation, i.e. a bank robbery, the police always tries to safe the hostages/ civilians.
In the case of Gaza, even seen from the Israeli point of view that Hamas is allegedly holding the population in Gaza hostage, the Israeli army is bombing civilian targets, killing women and children and elderly. The innocent.
They want us to believe that Israel with all its advanced military technology is not able to target the rocket firing positions of Hamas directly?
The Israeli claims that it applies precision strikes are completely implausible and it is obvious that the main goal for the Israeli army is to use the opportunity and to kill as many Palestinians as possible.
Never forget that the demographic issue is of utmost importance to the Israelis.
Israel is a artificial creation of western imperialist powers 👌
The israelites of the OT lost their land due to continous disobdience to God in 70AD the fall of Jerusalem, and they got evicted and scatteted and the land became Palestine, The Zionists(Khazars) then took it in 1948.
I would love to know how well Hamas was able to sustain their rate of rocket fire from day 1 to day 10. Netanyahu is not a good guy. I don’t think he was worried about increasing Israeli casualties as Iron Dome ran low on missiles.
Let’s suppose the 4,000 missiles fired number is real, this means that Hamas was able to fire as many missiles in 10 days in 2021 as they did in 50 days in 2014. They achieved deterrence.
I found the IDF attacks on Palestinian infrastructure appalling. An extension of the ‘we will destroy the house of the family members of anyone we arrest for attacking us to deter future attacks’ mentality. Basically, reprisals. It shows the corrosive effect of doing such things over time, lying about it and getting away with it. I pity Israel, that their best friends, Evangelicals, encourage them to do such things.
This article from The Saker is not to be missed. It is pure substance and honesty from start to finish. In my humble opinion, the demolishing solvency of the article when it explains with simplicity and no bends the reason of the humiliating defeat of the “invincible Israelites” is anthological.
However, the most impressive and what I liked the most was that at last, a writer of the stature, renown and prestige of The Saker, dares to dismantle this outrageous, impossible and crude hoax of “the two-state solution”. As we say in my homeland, the beleaguered Venezuela, “you have to have a pair of cojones” to take that step which means to confront the powerful,ruthless and “canceling” Zionist-Neo-con lobby that controls almost all the Western mass media (and a lot more)
For having said something much less important, the actor Mark Ruffalo is today begging not to be punished and erased from the casts, as Mel Gibson was cancelled in his time. Mis respetos mi querido Gavilán!
Saker, one of your best!
Thank you Saker for another outstanding article. The truth in your words are ‘comfort to the afflicted afflicting the comfortable’.
When Shlomo Sand came out with his book ’The Invention of the Jewish People’ there were a lot of comments for and against. Here are the revealing words of one commentator:
“Academic research confirms the suspicion of many that the claimed justification for the establishment of an Israeli state in the Middle East just 60 years ago, was, and is, one of the most damaging confidence tricks ever perpetrated on a gullible world. Political zionism is merely a highly succesful European-based movement barely a hundred years old, that has unfortunately destabilized the global community in a spectacular fashion over the past few decades. This has succeeded with the help of the Evangelical Christian lobby in the U.S. that has misinterpreted a biblical narrative to further a new-style religious belief that the Messiah will not come until all Jews live in Palestine. This illogical and impossible premise is supported by tens of millions of Christian Zionists in America who while having no interest per se in Judaism are quite prepared to support a political movement that makes no sense, has no valid justification and no historical basis”
And, as far as I understand it, it is the Christian Zionist version of Armageddon, not the Islamic, which prescribes the annihilation of Israel.
The entire premise of this article is wrong. The author declares that somehow, someway despite over 250 Palestinian deaths and half of Gaza in ruins, Hamas won this war.
Saker spells out “exactly” what Israel’s and Gaza’s objectives are as if he is some kind of ancient all-knowing Seer. Predictably, Israel wants to genocide all of Palestine, while innocent Palestinians, together with their Qatari and Turkish extremist friends, are just defending against Israel’s aggression.
Saker is blatantly ignoring Benjamin Netanyahu’s election promise of new settlements for the Jewish people. He is ignoring his imminent election defeat days before launching the operation. He is yet again ignoring how this war was all about Netanyahu’s clutch to power, which he won in less than 10 days of easy fighting. Not only that, but he will now be much more ruthless since he now has the support of hardliners in his country.
Saker writes that Israel had no courage to put boots on the ground in Gaza. Why would Israel even put boots on the ground? Why would Netanyahu risk hundreds of Israeli lives, when he can just blow Gaza to bits and still earn the support he needed?
The best part? This war showed the world that the West doesn’t care about Palestine. Not one bit. And all that talk about Muslim unity, you can shove it down where the Sun doesn’t shine. Only Iran helped. And it is next on the hit-list.
Saker writes like an intel analyst. They have a unique way of looking at things, it can take getting used to it. The try to be objective which can appear cold blooded, if x achieved their goals, the gained ground. It’s not a matter of liking them or viewing it as ‘are more people happy’.
Look at the relative performance from previous fighting.
2014: Hamas fired 4,000 rockets over 50 days and killed 6 in Israeli territory and somewhere between 2 to 10,000 Gazans were killed. Even more rockets misfired back then.
2021: 11 days, 4,000 rockets 13 killed on Israeli territory, 250+ Gazans killed
Both engagements were brutal on the Gazans but this one was less so. Why did Netanyahu stop, do you think he cares about Biden? I don’t. I suspect that he was unable to reduce Hamas’ firing rate, it was stressing Iron Dome and he figured it was a good idea to declare victory and stop before a really bad event happened in Israel.
Hamas 2021: 1. better (not brilliant) military performance
2. political gains w/Palestinians because Abbas’ PLA was imitating Vichy France and Gazans blame Israel, not Hamas for atrocities. Hamas made two very public offers to prevent and end hostilities. They did not impulsively attack Israel.
3. Internationally, some doubt Israel went after military targets despite having lock on MSM coverage. Even if 100% of hosts bray, ‘human shields’, showing apartment buildings collapse over and while not being able to show even one instance of Hamas rockets firing on or around those buildings undermines your case.
Israel killed 250 Palestinians, that’s a human tragedy for sure, but cynically and strategically that’s a drop in a bucket, from a population of 2 mil, especially considering the overwhelming disparity of force. As for almost nobody caring for Palestine, meaning no governments caring for Palestine, because people do care, and some have shown it, some are afraid to publicly show it yet, this is news from at least 30 years ago. But then again, I’m pretty sure you’re one of those Jews helping the Palestinians, always helping when not needed, never helping when needed, always looking for straws.
A war is not won by counting the number of deaths and damage that can be inflicted.
If that would be the case, then nazi Germany would be the indisputable victor of WW2, as nobody inflicted so much death in Europe during that war.
Yet nazi Germany lost.
What defines victory or defeat is the ability to achieve the purposed goals.
What were the goals of the Israeli side? what the ones of the Palestinian side?
Which side reached its goals? Which side was forced to accept an unfavorable end of hostilities?
“The best part? This war showed the world that the West doesn’t care about Palestine. Not one bit. And all that talk about Muslim unity, you can shove it down where the Sun doesn’t shine. Only Iran helped. And it is next on the hit-list.”
Not true. Iranians, Lebanese, Syrians, Yemenis, and some Russians too, were involved in the total campaign.
After multiple elections, Netanyahu hasn’t been able to form a government. He is desperate to remain in power as he is facing legal action regarding corruption. A report from Richard SIlverstein regarding Sara Netanyahu suggests she may have succombed to the strain of their uncertain position.
https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2021/05/24/breaking-sara-netanyahu-treated-in-viennese-psychiatric-clinic/
His hope was to remain in power and pass legislation granting total immunity. He resorted to a well-worn strategy – an incumbent never loses, and usually gains, votes by killing Palestinians. A little bit of incitement of some rabid settlers, and hey presto, rockets launched from Gaza give Israel/Netanyahu/IDF the excuse they need.
A ground war is exactly what Hamas were waiting for. That would have even things a bit and you forgot or maybe didn’t know that in the last israeli war on Gaza, in 2014, when Hamas were much weaker and didn’t have sophisticated Iranian rockets, they still killed no less than 66 zionazi soldiers in ground battles (rockets killed only about 2 if memory serves me) and some taken prisoners. No wonder Yahoo aka Mileikowski only threatened with that option, the number of KIA Israelis this time would have been in the hundreds.
Well written, of course. Many interesting details about the Zionist world. But nothing new.
In fact, we really are, all of us, Palestinians, have been already a long, long time. We are not bombed daily, not yet, but we are getting there, soon.
These main man netanyahus are doing their thing in our countries. Oh yes, they do. The Zionist media dominates all white countries, including Russia, yes, including Russia.
The war is already in our countries. First, all white countries are being robbed, outright, blatantly and with no shame. EU is just simply a Union of Debt. Massive, unsustainable debt. Hopeless, dystopian debt. USA is simply a Wrecked Economy with Suicidal Debt.
And, being as it is, debt is still a minor problem compared to the Genuine Ongoing Holocaust of White People by Mass Immigration. All, and I mean all, streets of the Capitals of White Countries, are being attacked daily, 24/7, by mass immigration. Streets are inch by inch turning to a Third World cesspits. And deadly dangerous. In my capital “teens” (read: BLM material) “control” the streets with knives, machetes and, yes, axes. Here we are, once peaceful streets are turned to a nightmare.
Yes, this is the War. And it is here, and will go nowhere. Compared to our situation, the Palestinians at least fight. At least they stand up and fight.
We cower and betray our people. We sell our countries and our people for the 30 silver coins, the losers as we are.
Don’t be ashamed or despair for the perceived lack of ability of your people to fight. This is the eternal story of the host and the parasite. The host always adapts last. Biologically speaking and this is mirrored by the culture wars perfectly. The host only reacts to the parasite when it’s survival is in danger, and there is a certain maximal ratio at witch both the host and the parasite can “coexist”. When that ratio is exceeded the host will start to fight, and admittedly the host can die in the process, and the whole species can disappear, but that’s just the law of nature. The parasite will of course also die, or find another host, but this is admittedly little consolation for the host. Point being that the fight will unavoidably happen, and, if the natural laws are to be believed, the parasite will either be extinct or get reduced to minimal population, in which case the cycle will start again. Sounds familiar?
There is no “Israel’s right to exist”, it’s all a fabrication. It’s exactly the same as the Romanians clamming Italy for themselves, as the rightful owners of the Roman empire. Even for the religious people it should be clear that if one wants to call himself a Jew, and claim Israel, he must provide proof he is a Jew, as in proof of his/hers historical Israeli roots. It’s idiocy to allow someone to convert to Judaism and claim that land. And no proof was ever provided. Ever! For no one! As no proof can be realistically provided, and they know it.
Israel Does Not Have, Nor Can it Have Any Right to Exist
(Partially abridged translation from original Portuguese article)
The Saker, as usual, cuts straight and goes directly to the heart of the beast.
Israel is a state, the only state in the world today, that makes genocide an official policy. Since it was founded in 1948, the Zionist state has devoted itself to a gradual policy of ethnic cleansing the indigenous population of Palestine and destabilizing its Arab neighbors, all with the never-confessed objective of creating “Greater Israel”. Anyone who has any doubts about this, just needs to study the Oded Yinon Plan, and everything is all there.
What we have seen happening in Syria over the past ten years is entirely in line with what is outlined in the Oded Yinon Plan. The Zionists intended to make use of the self-styled “Islamic State”, which was created by Mossad and the CIA, primarily to destroy the Bashar al-Assad regime and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Israel would then have the perfect excuse to invade and annex parts of Syrian territory and southern Lebanon, citing “security” reasons. Along the way, any Syrians and Lebanese who would be unlucky enough to cross the path of the Zionists’ diabolical plans, whether they were Christians or Muslims, would simply be exterminated or would have to move to refugee camps.
Who fought this madness was primarily the courage and resistance of the Syrian Armed Forces, together with Hezbollah, along with Putin’s Russia and Iran, who from the first moment provided financial and military assistance to both Hezbollah and the Bashar al-Assad regime. We must not forget that the Russian military intervention in Syria, only started in 2015 and was largely owed to General Qasem Soleimani , who was the one who convinced Putin to intervene militarily in the conflict . For four long and dark years, the Syrian Armed Forces and Hezbollah, had to fight practically alone, against a coalition of Wahhabi terrorist groups – where Daesh stood out – and who received financial, military and even “intelligence” support, directly from the USA/NATO and Israel . This is not a minor thing.
Let no one have the slightest doubt that Zionism constitutes an existential threat, not only for Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese, but for all of humanity. It is precisely because of this factor that Israel does not have, nor can it have any right to exist and defending the existence of the State of Israel, is as unacceptable as defending the existence of a National-Socialist Germany. I will even say more: the State of Israel and Zionism are today, by far, the greatest danger and the greatest threat facing Christianity . Therefore, the silence of Pope Francis and the Vatican in relation to all this is not comprehensible, unless, of course, Pope Francis and the Vatican, have already been completely co-opted by the satanic forces that are pushing all of this Machiavellian chess …
Link to original article: https://toranja-mecanica.blogspot.com/2021/05/israel-nao-tem-nem-pode-ter-qualquer.html
“…the latest, and hopefully last, wannabe “superior race” in human history”.
Also, paradoxically, one of the first. (See the “Old Testament”, passim).
“El ejército mas inmoral del mundo”
Israel esta vilipendiado y ni los Medios de Comunicación en su control pueden limpiar su imagen bestial.
Saludos Cordiales !
Yandex translation. Mod:
“The most immoral army in the world”
Israel is vilified and even the Media in its control cannot clean up its bestial image.
Best Regards !
I feel so sorry for the Palestinian people. I actually met an expat Palestinian who worked as a repair man for a coffee company and it floored me to be standing next to a bonafide. I think he was a Christian as well. I was floored really and told him well aren’t you one of the lucky ones? He just kind of laughed and his partner turned to me and said his wife is pregnant with their 8th child. Of course she is I replied, someone has to repopulate his people. I so wanted to have a conversation with this man and hear about his story but he clammed up and shunned me. Trust is indeed earned not given.
‘a clear and present danger”
Wow, can you imagine here we go again? It so reminds me of the words of Christ to St. Paul on the road to Damascus:
As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. 4 He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”
5 “Who are you, Lord?” Saul asked.
“I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,” he replied. 6 “Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”
This I’m afraid could be it though? You have to wonder don’t you just what is it going to take for them to recognize Jesus is their Messiah? What?
and since God had forsaken that place why would anyone want anything to do with it? Why live in the center of madness?
For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Matt. 23:39
If I were Palestinian I’d leave ASAP. Heck if I were Jewish I’d leave to. Even as a Moslem I’d leave! I know what the teachings are about the End of the World!! You can read it to if you wish Math 24 & 25.
To clarify by here we go again what I am saying is simply this desire of theirs for salvation by another hopeful king like unto a Solomon. According to their scriptures it was promised to them and they pin their hopes on it. A classic and significant example of this is of course the date May 31, 363 AD and one paragraph puts it this way:
“The stones were piled high and ready. Costly wood had been purchased. The necessary metal was at hand. The Jews of Jerusalem were rejoicing. Tomorrow—May 20, 363 A.D.—the rebuilding of the Temple would begin! Suddenly, and without warning, at the third hour of the night… the streets of Jerusalem trembled and buckled, crushing two hundred years of hope in a pile of dust. No longer would there be any possibility of rebuilding the Temple.”
People historians especially will tell you that AD70 was the significant date. I balk at that and point to this date in 363 AD? Why? Because this was an act of direct judgment by God Himself and now what do we see occurring again? This same desire all over again and for it to be within their grasp and to only suffer from more and more group conflict and violence well no wonder we find this on youtube:
https://youtu.be/rHBiT6eJaQQ
When I first saw this video I trembled because guess what after some 2 thousand years history and what Jesus said may very well be coming to fruition:
“I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.” John 5;43
This Christ referred to as the Abomination of Desolation as foretold by Daniel the prophet and this is the great problem isn’t it. There are still scriptures that wait to be fulfilled or haven’t been fulfilled yet and the Jews are pinning their hope on those scriptures which teach a golden age for them and for the world.
The truth of the matter however is that before we get there because of all of this group conflict and violence another earthquake is coming and this time it will be global:
“There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, 13 and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. 14 The heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.” Revelation 6:12
A prophecy that fits and agrees completely with what is taught in Zechariah 4. There are Rabbi’s who even mention this same earthquake but unfortunately are in the dark about the above from the Book of Revelation.
You know if religion can be summed up by just one paragraph it would have to be this:
My people will accept all of the good things that exist in my word while neglecting and even rejecting the hard and difficult things it has to say.
A paragraph that is applicable unfortunately to us all.
The good news though is look it is written for us, we know what the future actually is thank Jesus for that yes?
“I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will BELIEVE” John 14:29
This is our salvation! BELIEVE! Not more group conflict and Jihad. One’s worldview must have Jesus at the center. He is both Messiah and God.
Israelis are first and foremost narcissists and they have no means of imagining how normal human beings think ….
My theory that zios are actually psychopats and their so called culture is better described as a Psychopat Support Group.
The only difference between a psycho and a narcissist is tha the latter actually care about being liked. Psychos don’t although they may pretend that they do. Just a part of their constant gaslighting and enforcing of fraud.
Israeli pilots killed 248 Palestinians because it made them feel better.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-gaza-attack-bombing-pilots-vent-frustration
From the Link by James:
“Israeli air force pilots’ bombing and flattening of Palestinian residential towers in the besieged Gaza Strip in its military offensive earlier this month was a way to vent their frustration for failing to stop Palestinian armed factions from firing rockets into Israeli towns, according to an Israeli TV report.”
“I went on a mission to carry out air strikes with a feeling that destroying the towers is a way to vent frustration over what is happening to us and over the success of the groups in Gaza,” one Israeli pilot told Channel 12.
The pilot, identified as Major D in the report, added: “We failed to stop the rocket fire and to harm the leadership of these groups, so we destroyed the towers.”
A brilliantly clear-sighted analysis from the Saker. One of his best. The occupying entity was completely taken by surprise by Hamas. Its response was wildly disproportionate suggesting a great deal of panic. And after only eleven days, during which it achieved precisely zero strategically, it was humiliatingly forced to the negotiating table where it folded with a whimper and agreed to a ceasefire. This was a major turning point for the occupying entity and its long-term prospects don’t look good.
More misery for the empire and it continues and will increase in large numbers
Yes. My prediction is that the USAmericans will be gone from the Middle East within five years. What then for the occupying entity?
I wonder if the real reason Israel agreed to the current ceasefire is that they were running out of bombs? Israel appeared desperate to get that new supply over from the U.S.A. whose delivery was being challenged in the U.S. Congress. (First time that ever happened.) So, would this maybe suggest that that Israel cannot last for more than a couple of weeks in an all out firefight?
Robert, I think you have put your finger on the weakest point of our modern over-mechanized over-informatized over-extended over-monetarized world: It depends on JITS — Just In Time Strategy. Disrupt the supply chains and the whole thing falls apart.
I suspect that if they start WW3, billions of people will die but more from starvation and disease than from radiation sickness.
“Just like in 2006, when both Ehud Olmert and George Bush declared that the “invincible IDF” had, yet again, achieved a “glorious victory” and the entire Middle-East almost died laughing hearing this ridiculous claim,”
I assume there is an “I” missing:
“Just like in 2006, when both Ehud Olmert and George Bush declared that the “invincible IDF” had, yet again, achieved a “glorious victory” and the entire Middle-East I almost died laughing hearing this ridiculous claim,”
Please correct as I am posting this quote with the “I” added.
I think it was written the way he meant it to be.He said the “entire” Middle East almost died laughing… That makes sense as written. With the “entire” in the sentence putting an “I” in there would throw the sentence off.
No. The “entire Middle east” is the subject of the verb dying.
The entire Middle East almost died laughing……
“Israel has no right to exist whatsoever first and foremost because it is an artificial creation of West European imperialist powers”.
False. It was created by zionist lobbyists in Western European governments. Here’s a rotschild admitting it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsRuB-Qw1b0
“both National Socialism and Zionism have the same roots in both time, space and culture, both being products of European secularism and nationalism”
Europeans have always been “nationalists”. Even before secularism. And 99.99% of humans that have ever lived would be considered “evil fascists” today.
“As for those Jews who still want an ethnically pure state of Israel, they can either grow up and get real, or they can choose to colonize some other planet”.
I’m sure if it was some african ethnic group wanting a country for their people that you would have no problem with it.
I’m also sure that, at the same time you criticize jews for wanting a country for their ethnic group, you criticize “Western European imperialist powers” for not taking into consideration ethnic groups when they divided african countries among themselves.
A look at the big picture.
Zionist footprint can be seen all over the place. In Middle East it is dead (and I mean dead, for many people living in Middle East) easy to see. War, simply war, everywhere. In the middle of it all, the Zionist entity, Israel. Israel visits its neighbours mainly and almost exclusively only with an aggression. Missiles, and missiles, that is the welcoming and neighbourly Zionist. Killing is the main theme.
At the same time elsewhere. Zionism functions at all levels. Main economical effect is seen in all White Countries. They are simply getting poorer and poorer, more and more without any other future than dystopia. Try to convince me otherwise.
Zionism excels in producing billions and zillions of empty money from the mysterious “banks”. It is produced easier than anything, it is actually almost the only Zionist industry apart from killing industry. These are the two industries: make money from nothing and give it to the poorer and poorer White People and on the other hand, manufacture wars around the main base. Any other Zionist industry?
Oh yes, I almost forgot. Mass migration for thee, but not for the Zionist himself. That is the third main industry. Fill White Countries with hopeless low IQ “immigrants” and give them, the White Countries, endless loans from the Mystery Machine. Mystery Machine produces, like a miracle, money from nowhere and it can only be paid with hard work,endless hard work, generation by generation. And when you have paid it back, the Lords will give you more, from the same Mystery Machine. Zionism par excellence.
There we are, we live in Zionism. Debt forever, war forever, immigration at holocaustic levels.
Now enjoy!
It is always forgotten that the Soviet Union (Stalin) was co-founder of Israel and supplied via Czecoslovakia Israel with weapons. That’s why Trotskyites denounce it as one of Stalin’s crimes.
As long as the mainstream of Islam has problems with women and LGBT-persons and remains the most important feudal ideology Israel with all its problems, the Islamic world has no chance to win this conflict, and the Russia of Putin will defend Israel and the million of Russians living there.
In the end the conflict will die out when all those religious fairy tales will have vanished. It will take a long time. But in the end human reason will win.
But still Mr. Saker, I loved the Soviet Union. And I still love Russia (but not so much). That’s why I admire your analyses.
Otto Kern
Both sides agreed to a truce which means both sides can spin who “won”.
An amazing article by Tom Luongo, who I have always felt has a lot of clarity. I remember laughing right out loud at his words that I can only paraphrase: The two political parties in the US occupy either side of the same butt hole!
Tom’s article: A Critical Shift In The War For Oil: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/critical-shift-war-oil
Tom links not only your terrific article written for the Unz Review, but this one as well:
https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/nothing-wrong-with-your-set-bennett-could-become-prime-minister-next-week/2021/05/28/
Thank you Saker, most particularly, for your your courageousness, in bringing some of the most relevant issues, for global continuance, to discussion, with your (comparatively) objective analysis and opinion derived from that analysis.
This is at the heart of “the issue” sometimes other places/times referred to as, “the problem!”
Your words…
…and the clincher…
Anybody who is reasonable, rational, and with a reasonably sovereign cognition, should already know this.
However, we can surmise that… perhaps the percentage of the population meeting the conditions of: reasonability, rationality, and personal sovereignty may be a low number?!
I am unclear, and perhaps it has been left purposefully ambiguous (for good reason), as to the definition of the aggressor in this story.
The context of the entire article itself, suggests the scope is limited to the neo-nation state entity, geographically located in the Middle East.
However, at this stage in the evolution of this pernicious supremacist ideology, the rational, reasonable, cognitively sovereign must certainly understand that the pernicious supremacist ideology in the discussion has certainly become a virtual trans-national nation!
It seems as if it was always designed for this, always maximizing the existing information management capabilities to maintain: a. adherence to the collective, and b. imposition of a. upon successive generations as the primary values of the culture.
Of course, notwithstanding that unpacking of adherence to the collective necessarily includes and necessitates, fundamentally discriminating against all out-group people, the adherence to the collective’s required values, likely to result in animosity from the out-group majority in any given geographic location, since it necessarily is antagonistic to social functionality, the behaviours necessary to supplicate adherence are largely conducted secretly from the out-group majority in any given geographic location; this severely discriminatory secret behaviour, has also, of course, become part of the required values of adherents.
With the advent of this new level of silicon technology and internet (universal inter-connectedness), information management capability has accelerated by an order of magnitude beyond… what most people can even imagine.
So, when, it is morally obviously stated that the geopolitical neo-nation state entity has “…no right to exist whatsoever…”, could you, or anyone else, please explain why this does not apply to the entire virtual trans-national entity?
“However, at this stage in the evolution of this pernicious supremacist ideology, the rational, reasonable, cognitively sovereign must certainly understand that the pernicious supremacist ideology in the discussion has certainly become a virtual trans-national nation!”
I can’t tell if by “pernicious supremacist ideology” you mean the chosen people ideology of Judaism, or just the fact that in any battle of power, there will be those who will try and reach for supreme power.
What is happening in the world today is not new. There are many historical examples of people and nations occupying the supreme position of power on Earth, and many mythical tales of prehistory which paint a picture of the world as the scene of a struggle for supreme power by certain parties.
Of course by saying supreme power we are merely talking in a comparative sense, ie. the most powerful among people or nations, and nothing else.
I don’t believe the urge to supreme power in of itself is the problem. There are historical examples of supreme power which has not been an evil oppressive force against the world. And in theory, I see no reason why a good man couldn’t do good works from a position of supreme power. In Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei is the “supreme” leader, and he wields supreme power in the country, and he has done a great deal for the Iranian people, and for other nations in the region. I have seen people in Lebanon who have pictures of him framed on their walls in their homes.
Poor Khamenei, he’s such a good guy, and commands so much respect and dignity, that even his enemies pause before attempting to slander him. Nasrallah in Lebanon is cut from the same cloth, as is Mohamad Ali Houthi in Yemen. As was Qassem Soleimani.
I take it by “virtual trans-national nation” you are referring to Global Zionism?
I would have no problem with Global Zionism, and their quest for supreme power, if they weren’t downright evil as they are, what with their feeding all of us Monsanto-Bayer Roundup glyphosate poison, giving us cancer, and then selling us Bayer-Monsanto cancer treatments, etc.
Even if right now the human component of Global Zionism repents and renounces the evil which they are caught up in, the Resistance will reach out and grab their hand in brotherhood and friendship, before pulling them down.
Their dreams of supreme power are over. No matter what happens now, their dream of establishing a massive energy-rich country in the Middle East, in such an important geopolitical crossroads, and possessing the geopolitical crown jewel which is the land of Iran, is not happening.
The Resistance will force them to back off, or to create some great nuclear catastrophe and turn all of the region into a radioactive wasteland, hardly their “Promised Land” of milk and honey.
I myself was unsure until just recently. I thought Soleimani and others were too optimistic. I saw the power of the enemy as something truly enormous and invincible. I was wrong. The enemy is even weaker than the besieged Gazans.
The Zionist state is finished. I can see it now. And with the rise of the Iranian Resistance economic bloc, Global Zionism will finally have a true rival (which Russia and China are not; they are aligned with Global Zionism, they trade with the US and Israel, they have McDonald’s and other Zionist corporations operating in their countries, whereas Iran does not trade with the US and Israel and does not even have genuine Coca Cola on the shelves). It means that supreme power will be snatched out of their hands, and all of their scheming and playing the West against the East, Capitalist against Communist, US against China/Russia, for such a long century as what just passed, will be fruitless in the end. They killed all those millions in Russia and in Europe for nothing.
They moved all these Jews to Palestine, for nothing.
The holiday is over, and the Jews are already starting to go back home, just as the Syrians have begun returning to theirs.
US military and economic power is eroding by the day, while the Resistance has perfected its “resistance economics” ie. surviving under sanctions that have created a state of near total isolation, ie. self-sufficiency.
Meanwhile, the West has moved all of its production to China, like fools, and now they provoke and insult China, like double fools.
Triple fools, their politics are completely dominated by Global Zionism, they perpetually make decisions to their own detriment.
The late Ayatollah Khomeini compared Global Zionism to a cancerous tumor on the world’s nations. The Resistance is going to cut it out.
Anonymous on May 31, 2021 · at 7:00 am EST/EDT:
Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
pernicious – group collective behavours, realizing the ideological directives, specifically to dominate everyone who isn’t in the group, or kill them, or if you can’t do that, destroy everything, repeatedly, in a recurring pattern for over 2500 years – i.e. systemically destructively hateful to out-group peoples – well documented
supremacist – again well supported by the cannon of Rabbinical Talmudist documentation (the talmud) – explicitly, and with very, very, very much elaborations, to be the “only real people, and by devine charter, to be chosen, thus justifying any destructive act, as long as it doesn’t negatively impact another member of their so-very-special collective.
I assumed the context of (especially western) (wokish) condemnation of “supremacist ideologies“, (but most and especially vehemently is you are “white“); this is an almost universally publicly opposed ideology.
It is interesting that in your comment you write, you “…have no problem with Global Zionism, and their quest for supreme power…”
With this particular trans-national collective, we see a pattern, across millennia, of gaming societal benefits of societies, which they steadfastly insist on being “separate” and distinct, above the host society/culture, thereby eventually breaking down the value-proposition between individuals and society. People get sick of doing their part, and not getting their due; while it eventually becomes impossible to hide, even if you are an expert at it, that some are getting well beyond the standard due, as a group, consistently, and co-incidentally mind-staggeringly over-represented within the societies’ policy creating and implementing cohort, and further at all managerial positions; how about 95% of the POTUS cabinet!?
Without the trust that binds societies’ together, they collapse, but some people, always have places to go, and means to go to them, while that vast majority of the host society-dedicated citizens get caught in the cross-fire.
I don’t discriminate, I think all supremacist ideologies, without exception, need to be controlled and eliminated, to the extent possible, within the guidelines of the Geneva Convention of human rights, for the global society to survive, and the biosphere ultimately.
It is about the ideology, it is irrelevant what labels are used, be it: religion, people, race, the “Z” word, the “J” word, or anything else.
The people of the world need to be united under one banner, and work together as one, if we are serious about world peace.
As a student of history, I know that this was achieved once in historical times by Cyrus the Great, and Darius the Great, who brought peace to the civilized world, which had known nothing but non-stop war since the rise of Sargon of Akkad, followed by the endless USA-style warmongering of the dreadful Assyrian war machine, the scourge of the ancient world.
The “supremacism” of the Persians was quite benign, just ask the Jews. The supremacism of Assyria and the Romans was not, as again the Jews can testify.
As I said, if Global Zionism was not evil, and they sought to conquer the world and bring all people under one banner, in order that all may have peace and prosperity, and they were succeeding, I would say congratulations to them, and I would not oppose their progress like a fool, like the ancient Greeks who were too proud and refused peace under the banner of Persia, and _chose_ war and discord instead, and then ended up fighting each other (eg. other Greek city states) to the brink of total destruction.
The world needs unity, not more and more tiny states forever at odds with each other, nor multiple large states like the USA and China and Russia fighting it out while the rest of the world is held hostage, like Iran was held hostage in the Anglo-Soviet invasion of 1941, with millions dead of starvation as a result. There will never be peace as long as there are multiple centers of power on Earth which are at odds and opposed to the others, because the urge to supreme power is always there.
When I said that supreme power is being snatched away from Global Zionism, I should have stated that it is fate that is doing the snatching, and not the Resistance, which is merely resisting the advance of Zionism.
If it were not for Iranian efforts since 1979, the country of Israel would stretch all across the Middle East today, with a Jewish master race and a Muslim second class slave race to serve them.
China and the USA have been inextricably linked now by the designs of Global Zionism, and neither can survive without the other, and it doesn’t matter which one dominates the other, as long as neither is independent and self-sufficient. Imagine if Eretz Israel had been established by now, taking its place in the geographical center between East and West. Sitting on all the world’s energy, and occupying the crucial juncture of the East-West trade route. Supreme power would be theirs forever.
And if China and Russia and the US are so meek in front of Israel today, it isn’t hard to imagine what they’d be like if that day ever comes.
The Resistance is the only thing standing between Global Zionism and total world domination. The media has been demonizing Iran consistently for over forty years. Everyone in the world hates us. Our job is a thankless one, and except for the few oppressed nations that have sought our protection, all others mock us and jeer at us. And yet we struggle on, so that the people of the world will never have to know a world ruled by Zionist Israel, which is the world that the Palestinians know.
Saker, we know the Anglo Zionism problem well. But as Orthodox Christians, we have to remember to focus on the bigger picture. We have to remember that if Anglo Zionism were to disappear tomorrow, the world would still not “become a better place”! Yes, it would seem so at first, with the end of all the Anglo Zionist generated violence and injustice, but given we are all sinners in a fallen world, other sources of violence will arise. As Solzhenitsyn said the line between good and evil passes not between nations or parties… but through each of our hearts. Though it is important to always expose the false ideology of Anglo Zionism, it is literally vital for us not to lose our way.
Saker can you please tell me what you think happend to rt and sputnik news?? Is it just me or are they not as good as few years ago. It is allmost not any different frome western media. Thank you:)
Hello Petter, they just work together! None of them is better.
Just be true to yourself and go your own way. It’s your own nature, your own dreams, which count.
They did just and only that (follow their own, not other’s dreams) and that’s why they succeeded.
For me, that’s me who counts, not them. Because, if I contact them, I never get even an answer, I have no importance for them, very NONE, I’m just zero for them, and so I better attend for my own affairs. That makes more fun and better sense :-)
Now I drop out from internet&computer and I go into nature, bye bye :-)
Israel does not have a ‘right to exist”, because Israel is born of genocide and war crimes against the Indigenous People of PALESTINE. ISRAEL brags about that in the bible. To recognize their false claim today is to validate crimes against humanity. The Palestinians were in Palestine for THOUSANDS of years before israel was thought of.
The “STAR of DEATH” represents the ORIGINAL “nazis”, the perpetrators and braggarts of Humanity’s first SHOAH: FUNNY that everything they claim the nazis did is an EXACT COPY of what they brag about doing to the ORIGINAL Palestinians.
Deuteronomy 7:16, 20:16 “And thou shalt consume all the peoples which the Lord thy God shall deliver unto thee; thine eye shall not pity them…thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth.”
KILL THE SICK and CRIPPLED
Numbers c.5 v.2-4
KILL HOMOSEXUALS & UNDESIRABLES
Leviticus c.20 v.13 well, really the whole chapter
KILL ALL DISSIDENTS:
Exodus c.32 v.27
Numbers c.11 v.1-2
Numbers c.16 all
Numbers c.21 v.5-6
Numbers v.26 v.10
KILL anyone who engages in “DIVERSITY” or “INTEGRATION”
Numbers v25 v.4-8
Deuteronomy c.14 v.2
DEHUMANIZE and then EXTERMINATE ALL NON-MEMBERS:
SEXUALLY ENSLAVE any females “who have not KNOWN a man”
a very brief selection, many more in THEIR book.
Numbers c.21 v.03 Canaanites
Numbers c.21 v.24 Amorites
Numbers c.21 v.33-35 Bashan
Numbers c.31 all Midianites
Numbers c.32 v. more Amorites
Deuteronomy c.2 v.34 People of Heshbon
Deuteronomy c.3 v.6 really the whole chapter. threescore cities
Joshua c.12 A list of victims of Israeli GENOCIDE
OCCUPY YOUR VICTIM’S DWELLINGS/LAND
Numbers c.21 v.25
Numbers c.32 v.39
Numbers c.33 v.53
(just to name a FEW)
GENOCIDE CODIFIED IN THEIR RELIGION
Numbers c.33 v.31-34
Deuteronomy c.7 v.2
Deuteronomy c.12 v.28-30
Deuteronomy c.20 v.11-16
TERRORISM CODIFIED IN THEIR RELIGION
Deuteronomy c.2 v.2
Deuteronomy c.7 v.1
Jews SELF-anointed “The CHOSEN People of GOD”
Nazis SELF-anointed “The CHOSEN People of GENETICS”.
TODAY Israel states that it is creating “A PURE Jewish State”
YESTERDAY the Nazis were creating “A PURE German State”
And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword . . . (Joshua 6:21)
For modern day reinforcement of these “rules” research/google “the KINGS TORAH” is a good start.
I don’t understand this people, because “Palestinians” are Jewishs too (Filisters of the Old Testament!). Why they make always war for the smallest pieces of land? I’m too disappointed by both of them and I don’t like neither the one nor the other side! They are both the same, ’cause brothers. Both of them have lost in my opinion. All land reduced to rubbles and even still war! Bye bye!