The State of Israel as "Cartoonishly Evil"?
By Ron Unz
August 5,
2024
Last week I
published an article on the dramatic events in domestic American politics, including
President Joseph Biden’s sudden disappearance from the presidential race and
the elevation of Vice President Kamala Harris as the candidate in his place.
Nothing like this had ever previously happened in American political history
and it came only a couple of weeks after a highly-suspicious assassination
attempt had nearly killed former President Donald Trump, the opposing
Republican candidate.
Itamar Ben-Gvir is an Israeli far-right
politician and lawyer who has served as the Minister of National Security since
2022. He is the leader of Otzma
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But
although the bulk of my article focused upon those matters, I also included a
few paragraphs near the end presenting some shocking new disclosures in the
ongoing Israel/Gaza conflict. As I wrote at the time:
Politico is one of America’s leading mainstream media outlets on
politics and public affairs and ten days ago it published a very lengthy account by two experienced American surgeons who had
visited Gaza to provide medical assistance and were utterly horrified by what
they encountered there. According to Dr. Mark Perlmutter, in just a couple of
weeks he saw more carnage inflicted upon civilians than he had in the combined
total of his previous thirty years of humanitarian visits to war-zones around
the world. In particular, it was obvious that Israeli snipers were deliberately
shooting young Palestinian children and toddlers, aiming precision shots at
their hearts and at their heads.
We Volunteered at a Gaza Hospital. What We Saw
Was Unspeakable.
American surgeons who witnessed the civilian carnage
of the Israel-Hamas war
Mark Perlmutter and Feroze Sidhwa • Politico Magazine • July 19, 2024 •
4,900 Words
Given that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other top Israeli
leaders publicly identified the Palestinians with the
tribe of Amalek, whom the Hebrew God has commanded must be exterminated down to the
youngest newborn baby, such atrocities may be shocking but are hardly
surprising.
Running nearly 5,000 words and profusely illustrated with photographs,
the Politico story seems to have broken the cordon of silence maintained in
network television and Perlmutter was interviewed for a substantial segment
entitled “ “The Children of Gaza” broadcast on CBS News Sunday Morning, during
which he repeated his story:
It’s
obviously quite disturbing for American doctors to report that Israeli snipers
are deliberately executing Palestinian toddlers with shots to the head and the
heart, and the slight coverage of these facts in our mainstream media outlets
is certainly welcome. But for anyone who had closely followed the Middle East
conflict over the decades, these facts were not particularly new. Even many years ago, Israelis had proudly produced numerous varieties of tee-shirts, which often carried the notorious slogan “One
Shot, Two Kills,” glorifying the killing of pregnant women and young children
by military snipers. I assume that the sheer volume of these current killings
finally led some American media outlets to begin taking notice of this
situation.
These
stories hardly exhaust the roster of ongoing Israeli war-crimes. Despite the
long history of oppression and poverty they have endured, the Palestinians are
a highly educated population and over the years they had created an enviable
medical infrastructure in their besieged Gaza enclave, with numerous excellent
hospitals staffed by well-trained medical professionals.
The
Israelis bitterly resented these achievements by a population whom they deeply
despised and have now destroyed nearly all those hospitals while blocking any
import of new medical supplies. Moreover, just a couple of days ago, the New
York Times carried a story describing the widespread Israeli
detention and brutal torture of leading Palestinian surgeons and other medical
workers, with many of these civilians soon dying from their ill treatment.
Traditional Judaism includes a notorious Talmudic injunction that Jews should
seek to kill ““the best of the Gentiles” and since medical doctors
constitute an elite of Gazan society, it makes perfect sense that they should
be targeted for torture and death. Indeed, international organizations have
reported that some 500 doctors and nurses in Gaza have already been killed,
while another 300 are still being held in Israeli prisons.
Although I
was pleasantly surprised to see the Times run such a candid piece, the same
editors have entirely ignored many others of an even more explosive nature. For
example, despite horrific bombardment, famine, and disease, the official Gaza
death-toll presented by our mainstream media outlets has remained relatively
unchanged in recent months, now set at around 40,000. But as I pointed out in early May, this is almost certainly an
illusion:
During the first month or two of the massive Israeli attack, the Gazan
Public Health Ministry had maintained very detailed rosters of the dead,
including the names, ages, and ID codes of the victims, and regularly released
updates of the total, so those numbers seemed absolutely solid. But the Israeli
assault soon targeted all of Gaza’s government offices and hospitals, and by
early December, the Gazan officials responsible for tabulating the dead had themselves been killed or gone missing, so the count naturally tended to stagnate,
even as conditions horrifically worsened for the surviving Gazans.
The Lancet
is one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious medical journals and just
last month it published a short piece concluding that Israel’s ongoing attacks
on Gaza and its total destruction of the local infrastructure may be responsible for nearly 200,000 civilian
deaths, a figure many times larger than any
previous media estimate. Despite the Lancet‘s considerable international
standing, this story received very little attention in the mainstream media.
Highly-visible
atrocities over many months led the esteemed jurists of the International Court of Justice to issue a series
of near-unanimous rulings that Israel appears to be undertaking a campaign
of genocide against Gaza’s Palestinians, while the International Criminal Court
more recently applied for arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu and others on similar grounds. These
international judicial rulings may have set into motion a series of events that
further demonstrated the unusual ideological beliefs governing much of the
political class of the Jewish State.
With Hamas
militants mostly secure in their underground tunnels, almost none of them have
been captured, so instead the Israeli military and its frustrated troops have
seized and incarcerated many thousands of Gazan civilians, holding them without
trial or charges, and often under very brutal conditions. Indeed, the number of
such Palestinians captives has become so enormous that it has severely
overburdened the Israeli prison system, prompting National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir to publicly propose last month that the prisoners should simply be shot in the head, thereby freeing up their space for additional
waves of new ones.
But with
the possibility of international arrest warrants hanging over their heads, top
Israeli military leaders apparently sought to deflect those accusations by
demonstrating that the Israeli army was willing to police itself and prosecute
some of its members engaged in such illegal war-crimes. There have been
widespread reports of the regular rape of Palestinian prisoners, both male and
female, and the IDF decided to finally investigate one such case, in which nine
of its soldiers allegedly gang-raped a male Palestinian, sodomizing him so
brutally that he suffered severe physical injury. The military suspects were
ordered held at a couple of army bases pending their interrogation.
However,
the notion of Israeli Jews facing punishment for torturing or raping
Palestinian prisoners stoked enormous outrage in major portions of the Israeli
population. As a result, large, violent mobs stormed the military bases in
hopes of freeing those accused soldiers, with the story widely covered in the Israeli media and many of the scenes available on social
media.
According
to Friday’s Grayzone podcast by Max Blumenthal, this embarrassing political conflict
apparently led Ben-Gvir and other important members of the Israeli government
to propose new legislation in parliament intended to head off any similar
situations in the future by officially decriminalizing the torture or murder of
non-Jews by Jews. Although such notions may be quite alien to Western
societies, they are fully in accord with the fundamental tenets of traditional
Judaism, and the proposal seems likely to be enacted into law at some point in
the future. One of my articles from 2018 had described these controversial religious doctrines:
If these ritualistic issues constituted the central features of
traditional religious Judaism, we might regard it as a rather colourful and
eccentric survival of ancient times. But unfortunately, there is also a far
darker side, primarily involving the relationship between Jews and non-Jews,
with the highly derogatory term goyim frequently used to describe the latter.
To put it bluntly, Jews have divine souls and goyim do not, being merely beasts
in the shape of men. Indeed, the primary reason for the existence of non-Jews
is to serve as the slaves of Jews, with some very high-ranking rabbis
occasionally stating this well-known fact. In 2010, Israel’s top Sephardic
rabbi used his weekly sermon to declare that the only reason for the existence of non-Jews
is to serve Jews and do work for them. The enslavement or extermination of all
non-Jews seems an ultimate implied goal of the religion.
Jewish lives have infinite value, and non-Jewish ones none at all, which
has obvious policy implications. For example, in a published article a
prominent Israeli rabbi explained that if a Jew needed a liver, it would be
perfectly fine and indeed obligatory to kill an innocent Gentile and take his.
Perhaps we should not be too surprised that today Israel is widely regarded as one of the world centers of organ-trafficking.
As a further illustration of the seething hatred traditional Judaism
radiates towards all those of a different background, saving the life of a
non-Jew is generally considered improper or even prohibited, and taking any
such action on the Sabbath would be an absolute violation of religious edict. Such
dogmas are certainly ironic given the widespread presence of Jews in the
medical profession during recent centuries, but they came to the fore in Israel
when a religiously-minded military doctor took them to heart and his position
was supported by the country’s highest religious authorities.
These
developments were heavily reported by the Israeli media, but they were
carefully excluded from any of our own mainstream outlets, so that few
Americans who rely upon our newspapers or electronic broadcast media are
probably aware of them.
However,
social media is another story entirely, and younger Americans who rely upon
those sources of information have been exposed to a great deal of such
material, helping to explain the waves of student protests that swept across
elite colleges a few months ago until they were harshly suppressed. Ironically
enough, much or most of this controversial content has been produced by the
Israelis themselves, proudly documenting the severe punishment they are
successfully inflicting upon their hated Palestinian foes, but perhaps failing
to recognize that the rest of the world may consider these same scenes in a
very different light. As I wrote a few months ago:
Indeed, the Israelis continued to generate an avalanche of gripping
content for those videos. Mobs of Israeli activists regularly blocked the
passage of food-trucks, and within a few weeks, senior UN officials declared
that more than a million Gazans were on the verge of a deadly famine. When the
desperate, starving Gazans swarmed one of those few food delivery convoys
allowed through, the Israeli military shot and killed more than 100 of them in the
“Flour Massacre” and this was
later repeated. All these horrific scenes of death and deliberate starvation
were broadcast worldwide on social media, with some of the worst examples
coming from the accounts of gleeful Israeli soldiers, such as their video of the corpse of a Palestinian child being eaten
by a starving dog. Another image showed the remains of
a bound Palestinian prisoner who had been
crushed flat while still alive by an Israeli
tank. According to a European human rights organization, the Israelis had
regularly used bulldozers to bury alive large numbers of
Palestinians. UN officials reported finding mass graves near several hospitals, with the victims found bound and stripped,
shot execution-style. As Internet provocateur Andrew Anglin has pointed out, the behaviour of the Israeli Jews
does not seem merely evil but “cartoonishly evil,” with all their blatant
crimes seeming to be based upon the script of some over-the-top propaganda-film
but instead actually taking place in real life.
I think
that Anglin’s characterization has considerable value, with the crimes
committed by the Israelis often being so monstrous and so barbaric that
Americans and other Westerners find it difficult to accept their reality, much
like big lies are less likely to be challenged than small ones.
For
example, I suspect that most American Christians are probably convinced that
the ongoing conflict in the Holy Land is essentially a struggle between Jews
and Muslims, but this is entirely mistaken. Back in April, Tucker Carlson
released a 43-minute interview with a Christian Palestinian pastor in Bethlehem
who described the severe oppression that he and his Christian flock suffered at
the hands of Israel’s extremist Jewish government and the militant settlers it
supported. Carlson emphasized how strange it seemed that America’s conservative
Christian leadership did absolutely nothing for their Christian brethren in the
Middle East but instead wholeheartedly supported Israel’s anti-Christian
activities with money and political support. The entire segment is quite
powerful and definitely worth watching on Twitter or YouTube, but
some of the most telling statements have been extracted and distributed on
other Tweets, such as this one:
None of
this was all that surprising to me since back in 2018 I’d drawn upon the seminal research of Prof.
Israel Shahak of Hebrew University to describe the exceptionally strong
hostility that traditional Judaism always directed towards its rival Christian
faith:
And while religious Judaism has a decidedly negative view towards all
non-Jews, Christianity in particular is regarded as a total abomination, which
must be wiped from the face of the earth.
Whereas pious Muslims consider Jesus as the holy prophet of God and
Muhammed’s immediate predecessor, according to the Jewish Talmud, Jesus is
perhaps the vilest being who ever lived, condemned to spend eternity in the
bottommost pit of Hell, immersed in a boiling vat of excrement. Religious Jews
regard the Muslim Quran as just another book, though a totally mistaken one,
but the Christian Bible represents purest evil, and if circumstances permit,
burning Bibles is a very praiseworthy act. Pious Jews are also enjoined to
always spit three times at any cross or church they encounter, and direct a
curse at all Christian cemeteries. Indeed, many deeply religious Jews utter a
prayer each and every day for the immediate extermination of all Christians.
Over the years prominent Israeli rabbis have sometimes publicly debated
whether Jewish power has now become sufficiently great that all the Christian
churches of Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and other nearby areas can finally be destroyed,
and the entire Holy Land completely cleansed of all traces of its Christian
contamination. Some have taken this position, but most have urged prudence,
arguing that Jews needed to gain some additional strength before they should
take such a risky step. These days, many tens of millions of zealous Christians
and especially Christian Zionists are enthusiastic advocates for Jews, Judaism,
and Israel, and I strongly suspect that at least some of that enthusiasm is
based upon ignorance.
Although
back in the 1970s and 1980s, most Jewish religious leaders doubted that they
had yet acquired the power to finally eradicate Christianity, the balance of
political forces seems to have increasingly shifted in their direction. In
early May I noted that under the guise of combatting antisemitism, clever pro-Israel
lobbyists had persuaded Congress to enact legislation that seemed to ban the
Christian bible in American society:
Some years ago a former senior AIPAC official once boasted to a friendly journalist that if he wrote anything on a simple napkin,
within 24 hours he could get signatures of 70 Senators to endorse it, and the
political power of the ADL is equally formidable. Therefore, it was hardly
surprising that last week an overwhelming bipartisan 320-91 majority in
the House passed a bill broadening
the meaning of anti-Zionism and antisemitism in the anti-discrimination
policies of the Department of Education by codifying the definitions used in
our Civil Rights laws to classify those ideas as discriminatory.
Although I haven’t tried to read the text, the obvious intent is to force colleges to expunge such noxious
activities as anti-Israel protests from their campus community or face loss of
federal funds. This represents a striking attack against academic freedom as
well as America’s traditional freedom of speech and thought, and may also
pressure other private organizations to adopt similar policies. In a
particularly ironic twist, the definition of antisemitism used in the bill clearly covers portions of the
Christian Bible, so the ignorant and compromised Republican legislators have
now wholeheartedly endorsed banning the Bible in a country in which 95% of the
population has Christian roots.
This same
increasing conflation of antisemitism with anti-Zionism and the growing efforts
to suppress both those attitudes in American society has ironic implications,
as I had noted in February:
This is certainly an odd situation, warranting careful analysis and
explanation. The word “antisemitism” merely means criticizing or disliking
Jews, and in recent years, Israel’s partisans have demanded with some success
that the term should be extended to encompass anti-Zionism as well, namely
hostility to the Jewish state.
But let us suppose that we concede the latter point and agree with
pro-Israel activists that “anti-Zionism” is indeed a form of “antisemitism.”
Over the last few months, the Israeli government has brutally slaughtered tens
of thousands of helpless civilians in Gaza, committing the greatest televised
massacre in the history of the world, with its top leaders using explicitly
genocidal language to describe their plans for the Palestinians. Indeed, the
South African government submitted a 91 page legal brief to the International
Court of Justice cataloging those Israeli statements, prompting a near-unanimous
ruling by the jurists that millions of Palestinians faced the prospect of
genocide at Israeli hands.
These days most Westerners claim to regard genocide in a decidedly
negative light. So does this not syllogistically require them to embrace and
endorse “antisemitism”? Surely a visitor from Mars would be very puzzled by
this strange dilemma and the philosophical and psychological contortions it
seems to require.
It is rather surprising that the extremely “politically correct” ruling
elites of America and the rest of the Western world are loudly cheering on the
racially-exclusivist State of Israel even as it kills enormous numbers of women
and children and works very hard to starve to death some two million civilians
in its unprecedented genocidal rampage. After all, the far milder and more
circumspect regime of Apartheid South Africa was universally condemned,
boycotted, and sanctioned for merely the tiniest sliver of such misdeeds.
The
Israel/Gaza conflict has now lasted nearly ten months, producing an absolutely
unprecedented amount of global media coverage of the underlying struggle
between Zionists and Palestinians, whose roots stretch back for more than a
century. As a result, I think that many millions or even tens of millions of
Americans have discovered shocking facts that they had never previously
suspected.
But as for
myself, none of these disturbing developments have been all that surprising or
unexpected and to some extent they were almost implicitly suggested in a series
of articles that I had published just over six years ago:
· American Pravda: Oddities of the Jewish Religion
Ron Unz • The
Unz Review • July 16, 2018 • 7,800 Words
· American Pravda: The Bolshevik Revolution and Its Aftermath
Ron Unz • The
Unz Review • July 23, 2018 • 6,900 Words
· American Pravda: The Nature of Anti-Semitism
Ron Unz • The
Unz Review • July 30, 2018 • 5,500 Words
· American Pravda: Jews and Nazis
Ron Unz • The
Unz Review • August 6, 2018 • 6,800 Words
In those
pieces, I did my best to cautiously draw upon highly reliable sources for my
material, but much of it seemed so totally discordant from the narrative
presented in my standard history books and media outlets that I sometimes
inwardly wondered whether it could possibly be correct. I’m sure that a very
substantial fraction of the hundreds of thousands of other readers had a
similar reaction, but in far more extreme form. However, everything I had
suggested now seems to be fully confirmed by the daily reports coming out of
Israel and Gaza. As I emphasized in a May article, this may be one of the most
important lasting consequences of these current Israeli actions, and perhaps extremely
damaging to the future of the Jewish State
Israel/Gaza: The Masks Come Off in American
Society
Ron Unz • The Unz Review • May 6, 2024 • 6,800 Words
The fourth
article in that 2018 series ran six years ago Tuesday and it might be
especially surprising to many Americans, describing and documenting the strong
ties between the Zionist movement led by David Ben-Gurion and Adolf Hitler’s
Nazi Germany. Not only was the Nazi-Zionist economic partnership of the 1930s
absolutely crucial for the establishment of the State of Israel, but even after
war broke out in 1939, a smaller right-wing Zionist faction sought to enlist in
Axis Powers as a Nazi military ally. Yitzhak Shamir who served as Israel’s prime minister for eight
years during the 1980s and 1990s had been the leader of that strongly pro-Nazi
faction, and indeed according to later claims by Israeli insiders, he retained a seething hatred of the United
States during all decades that followed, never forgiving America for having
failed to support Hitler during World War II.
Once these
surprising facts are fully absorbed and assimilated, other revelations may
become much less difficult to accept. For example, although the horrific Nazi
atrocities of eighty years ago are still regularly described on almost a daily
basis in the Times and our other mainstream media outlets, as far as I can
tell, few if any of them ever actually happened and they were just as fictional
as the lurid recent propaganda-hoaxes of Hamas militants beheading or roasting
Israeli babies or gang-raping Israeli women.
· American Pravda: Israel and the Holocaust Hoax
Ron Unz • The
Unz Review • January 8, 2024 • 8,200 Words
Indeed, I
think the best means of understanding the Nazi Holocaust—as well as the more
recent claims of horrific Hamas atrocities—is that both may have merely
represented extreme examples of Jewish psychological projection:
· Why Everything You Know About World War II Is Wrong
Ron Unz • The
Unz Review • June 12, 2023 • 12,600 Words
· More Falsehoods of World War II
Ron Unz • The
Unz Review • June 19, 2023 • 7,500 Words
· Hitler, Churchill, the Holocaust, and the War in Ukraine
Ron Unz • The
Unz Review • July 17, 2023 • 9,700 Words
Israeli
leader Benjamin Netanyahu faces international charges of genocide and has a
looming arrest warrant for war-crimes hanging over his head, while also being
burdened with dismal poll ratings in his own country. Nonetheless, he was
recently invited to address a joint session of Congress for the fourth time, an
unprecedented American honor never previously granted any world leader. His
lengthy, bombastic speech was rapturously received, being interrupted by some
58 standing ovations, coming at a rate of more than once each minute.
It was
widely believed that a central goal of Netanyahu’s visit was to assure himself
of full American military support in the event of an Israeli war with Iran and
Hezbollah. He seems to have received those assurances since almost immediately
upon his return home, he unleashed an unprecedented series of assassinations seemingly intended to provoke such a wider
regional war. These included an airstrike killing one of Hezbollah’s
highest-ranking military officials in Beirut and an explosion that took the
life of the top political leader of Hamas while he was in Tehran for the
inauguration of Iran’s new president. These actions were obviously intended to
provoke a wider regional war and there was some evidence that the American
government may have been aware of them since a flotilla of American warships
had already been dispatched to the Middle East in order to provide potential
military support to Israel.
The Israeli
government has long specialized in assassinations, and these were merely the
most recent and important of such deadly attacks. An April article of mine had
discussed the previous round of such incidents:
Around the same time, the Israelis used three consecutive drone strikes to kill all the members of a relief convoy of
the World Central Kitchen, the organization that the American government had
tasked with bringing food supplies into Gaza. The WCK leadership is very close
to top figures in the Biden Administration and the convoy had fully coordinated
all its movements with the Israeli government, so the latter’s claim of
mistaken friendly fire seems highly implausible. Israel’s government and
Israeli activists have been deliberately blocking all food deliveries to Gaza’s
starving population of two million and it is widely suspected that the targeted
killing of the members of the relief organization closest to the American
government was intended to terrorize all other aid groups into abandoning their
efforts and leaving the Gazans to their grim fate.
And in perhaps the most shocking incident of all, the Israeli government bombed part of Iran’s
Damascus Embassy, killing several high-ranking
Iranian generals, a total breach of international law that has no precedent in
the last several centuries. Such a blatant Israeli assassination strike against
traditionally inviolate diplomatic quarters was an obvious act of war intended
to provoke the sort of Iranian retaliation that would draw America into a
regional military conflict. The Iranians have now responded with a large wave
of drone and missile attacks, and the next few days may see whether the Israeli
gambit succeeds.
This pattern of outrageous behaviour continued and the following week
the Israelis targeted and killed the three adult sons of the top-ranking Hamas
leader and former Gazan prime minister with whom they had been negotiating.
Apparently none of the victims were themselves Hamas militants and several
grandchildren also died in the attack. A couple of months earlier, the Israelis
had previously targeted and assassinated the Hamas official in Beirut who had been their
negotiating partner on hostage exchange issues. Around the same time, a very
well-connected Israeli journalist revealed that Israel’s airstrikes against
suspected Hamas militants relied heavily upon an AI system called “Where’s Daddy?” aimed at striking them at home so that their
entire families would also be killed.
The common thread across all of these incidents is Israel’s remarkable
indeed overwhelming focus on assassination as its central tool of military
conflict or statecraft, coupled with absolutely no respect for normal
international law or even basic human decency. Although these numerous cases
might shock many Americans, I was not particularly surprised due to my past reading
of the history of such Israeli activities. These had been the subject of f an extremely long article that I had written in early 2020.
The
fortuitous timing of these latest, very high profile assassinations raises dark
suspicions in my mind.
For
decades, Netanyahu has unsuccessfully sought to force America into destroying
Iran, his most powerful regional rival, and he now obviously believed that a
massive provocation aimed at Iran and its Hezbollah ally might finally ignite
the war he had long desired. The attacks on the Hezbollah and Hamas leaders
occurred almost simultaneously, with the latter especially intended to
humiliate Iran, killing the Hamas political leader in Iran’s capital just hours
after he had been warmly embraced by the new Iranian president following the
inauguration ceremony. Thus, the timing of the two killings seems to have been
planned and prepared well in advance. Indeed, Israeli intelligence sources
claimed that a bomb had been hidden in the tightly-guarded guest house
regularly used by the target, then detonated. Furthermore, this audacious
assassination must also greatly raise Iranian suspicions regarding the death of
their country’s previous president, who was killed in a strange helicopter
crash in mid-May, only a few weeks after a back-and-forth exchange of missile
strikes between Israel and Iran.
Yet oddly
enough, the Israeli government claimed that the Beirut assassination was actually in
retaliation for a deadly Hezbollah rocket attack several days earlier that killed a dozen children and teenagers on a soccer field in Israel’s Golan Heights. A
dozen such Israeli civilian deaths was a huge number, greater than the combined
total for all the recent years of cross-border skirmishes with Hezbollah, and
the story of so many Israeli youngsters killed playing soccer blanketed the
Western media, easily justifying the Israeli assassinations that followed a
couple of days later. So the timing of those civilian deaths, which occurred
while Netanyahu was still in the U.S. meeting with top officials was
exceptionally beneficial for his political plans and efforts. Hezbollah
naturally denied being responsible for the rocket attack, but they were
ignored.
However, it
soon came out that none of the dead youngsters were Jewish Israelis, but they
were instead Druze citizens of Syria, members of a community vehemently hostile
to Israel and the illegal Israeli occupation of their lands. Furthermore, as
the Grayzone and others have recounted, local eyewitnesses have reported that the
projectile that hit and killed them was not the Hezbollah weapon that the Israeli
government had claimed, which anyway could not have reached that far into the
Golan Heights, but was instead an Israeli missile. This has led the Grayzone
and many other analysts to conclude that the Druze youngsters had probably been
killed by an errant Israeli Iron Dome defensive missile that had failed to
properly intercept a Hezbollah rocket.
This
account of events is certainly possible, but consider a few extremely
suspicious elements:
·
Nothing
like this civilian loss of life in Israel had ever previously occurred during
all the years of cross-border missile exchanges with Hezbollah.
·
The
American media initially portrayed the attack as the brutal slaughter of Jewish
Israeli youngsters by a Hezbollah rocket and the deaths were perfectly timed
for Netanyahu’s political meetings with American leaders.
·
The
deaths then turned out to be Syrian Druze, a group that Israel hates and
despises, thus adding just another dozen non-Jewish deaths to the tens of
thousands that the Israelis had killed over the last year.
·
Although
initially reported as a Hezbollah rocket, the projectile appears to have been
an Israeli missile.
·
Israel
used the attack to justify its assassination of a top Hezbollah commander, a
provocation that occurred almost simultaneously with the long-planned
assassination of the Hamas leader in Iran.
I have
absolutely no evidence that the Israelis deliberately targeted and killed those
Druze youngsters playing soccer in order to strengthen their political
negotiations in America and help justify their planned campaign of provocative
assassinations aimed at goading both Iran and Hezbollah into a wider war. But
considering their track record over the years, I can’t imagine why they
wouldn’t have done such a thing, and with the strong assistance of the
pro-Israeli media, it seems to have worked perfectly. I’m sure that an
overwhelming majority of the Americans who heard of those dozen soccer deaths
still assume that the victims were Jewish Israelis rather than Syrian Druze. So
deliberately slaughtering a group of non-Jewish youngsters in the Golan Heights
in order to help provoke and justify assassinations leading to a regional war
with Iran and Hezbollah may be “cartoonishly evil” but it also seems to have
been quite effective.
However, I
think that in the longer-term the Israelis face a very serious problem. Each of
their individual assassinations or terrorist attacks may succeed on the
tactical level with the compliant American media carefully hiding many of the
facts discussed above. But over time, the enormous number of those very
high-profile and daring assassinations of important foreign figures and even
high-ranking leaders creates a pattern that most intelligent Americans will
quietly recognize. And at that point, such individuals may begin to consider
all the top American political figures over the last couple of generations who
were strongly opposed to crucial Israeli policies and then died by
assassination or under other very strange circumstances, with President John F.
Kennedy and his younger brother Robert being the most notable examples.
Stacking up
a huge barrel of gunpowder is a dangerous thing to do when sparks might
occasionally fly. And indeed, many people have pointed out that if and when the
American public discovers that the Israeli Mossad was behind the 9/11 Attacks,
a certain small Middle Eastern country will probably cease to exist along with
nearly its entire population.
· Israeli Assassinations and Public Scrutiny
Ron Unz • The
Unz Review • April 15, 2024 • 7,800 Words
Related Reading:
· Israel/Gaza: The Masks Come Off in American Society
· American Pravda: Israel and the Holocaust Hoax
· Israeli Assassinations and Public Scrutiny
· American Pravda: Oddities of the Jewish Religion
· American Pravda: Jews and Nazis
· American Pravda: The Nature of Anti-Semitism
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