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A quarter-century ago in 1999 The Matrix entered our theaters and became an instant film classic as well as a colossal blockbuster, earning nearly $500 million at the box office. There were also interesting epistemological implications to the notion that our own world was merely the illusion created within a computer simulation, hiding the grim reality behind it. The word “redpilling” —breaking through those illusions into the underlying true existence—soon entered our popular political lexicon, with a Google search revealing that “redpill” and its variations appear on well over 5 million webpages, and the term has even inspired the somewhat related notions of “blackpilling” and “whitepilling,” respectively inducing despair and hope.
I found the film outstanding when I originally watched it in a theater and over the years it has held up very well when I’ve seen it on the small screen, although I’d regarded the couple of sequels it quickly inspired as merely so-so or even mediocre.
However, I’ve always thought it a little unfair that this tremendous success so completely overshadowed a different Hollywood film released that same year that dealt with a similar theme. I’ve seen The Thirteenth Floor a couple of times, and although I’d hardly rank it alongside its far better known rival, I thought the plot included some interesting ideas and felt it might have gotten far more attention under other circumstances.
Lacking the hyperkinetically stylized gun-battle sequences of The Matrix, this much quieter film centered upon a virtual reality research company in 1999 Los Angeles that had successfully created a computer simulation of a 1930s society whose characters lived their lives completely unaware that they were merely software constructs. The sudden murder of the company’s director and other strange events led one of the puzzled researchers to eventually discover that his own society also only existed as a simulation in the computer of a higher-level world. The clues leading to that breakthrough came from the power of analogy, as he and others noticed that some of the inexplicable events that so puzzled the 1930s characters they had created were similar to what they were themselves encountering in their own world, which they had always assumed was real.
Thus, once we successfully pierce some of the false narratives constructed by our dishonest media we should always consider the possibility that we are still trapped within another such layer of narrative, much deeper but equally false, and use the power of analogy as a tool to unravel those illusions. These are ideas that we should keep in the back of our minds as we consider the many dangerous and disastrous falsehoods surrounding the Israel/Gaza conflict, now in its eleventh month.
Last week I published an article describing the unspeakable war crimes regularly being committed by Israeli military forces against helpless Palestinian civilians, with some of these incidents finally starting to receive coverage in mainstream American media outlets.
According to American physicians interviewed by Politico Magazine and CBS News Sunday Morning, Israeli military snipers have regularly been executing Palestinian toddlers with precisely aimed shots to the head and the heart; indeed, for many years Israelis have proudly marketed tee-shirts boasting of their success in killing pregnant women and children. An article in the New York Times also reported that IDF forces have seized and tortured to death leading Palestinian surgeons and other medical doctors, with some of the survivors describing the horrific torments they endured at the hands of their brutal Israeli captors.
All of these barbaric atrocities have been justified and encouraged by the sweeping public statements of top Israeli leaders. For example, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has publicly identified the Palestinians with the tribe of Amalek, whom the Hebrew god commanded must be exterminated down to the last newborn baby. Just a few days ago, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich declared that it would be “just and moral” for Israel to totally exterminate all two million Palestinians in Gaza, but he emphasized that world public opinion was currently preventing his government from taking that important step.
“No one in the world will allow us to starve to death 2 million citizens, although it may be just and moral.”
Far-right Israeli minister Bezalel Smotrich expresses his frustration that Israel isn’t allowed to starve 2 million Palestinians to death in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/SuBI8DXOSm
— Palestine Highlights (@PalHighlight) August 8, 2024
Although this officially-stated Israeli goal of eradicating all Palestinian men, women, and children has not yet been achieved, more than ten months of bombs, bullets, and famine have made significant progress in that direction. The Lancet is one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious medical journals and a few weeks ago it published a short piece conservatively estimating that relentless Israeli attacks and the complete destruction of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure may be responsible for nearly 200,000 civilian deaths, a figure many times larger than any previous total mentioned in the media.
The massive, ongoing slaughter of Palestinian civilians together with these widespread, explicit public statements by top Israeli leaders led the esteemed jurists of the International Court of Justice to issue a series of near-unanimous rulings that Israel appeared to be undertaking a campaign of genocide against Gaza’s Palestinians. By late July even the notoriously pro-Israel editors of the English-language Wikipedia had finally endorsed the same conclusion.
In addition to these ongoing massacres, many thousands of Palestinian civilian captives have been seized, none of whom have ever been tried or convicted of anything. But with Israeli prison space overflowing, National Security Minister Itomar Ben-Gvir proposed summarily executing all them all by shooting each of them in the head, thereby freeing up their prison space for new waves of captives.
Although the militaries of many countries have occasionally committed massacres or atrocities during wartime, sometimes even with the silent approval of their political leadership, it seems quite unusual to have the latter publicly endorse and advocate such policies, and no similar examples from recent centuries come to mind. I don’t doubt that if television journalists had interviewed Genghis Khan while he was leading his Mongol hordes in ravaging Eurasia, he might have casually made such statements, but I’d always assumed that standards of acceptable international behavior had considerably changed over the last thousand years.
When top leaders regularly issue such wholesale sanguinary declarations, some of their more enthusiastic subordinates may naturally decide to partly implement those same goals on a retail basis. These horrible recent Israeli atrocities merely continued the pattern from earlier this year, which had often been documented on social media by Israelis themselves, eager to emphasize the terrible punishment they were successfully inflicting upon their hated Palestinian foes. 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 behavior 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.
Anglin’s description of the Israeli behavior as being “cartoonishly evil” seemed a very apt phrase to me, and I used it in the title of my own article on the subject.
Nothing like this has ever previously happened in the modern world, or at least I’ve never heard of such things. For example, back in early 2020, officials of the outgoing Trump and incoming Biden administrations joined together to loudly condemn China for committing a “genocide” against the Uighurs of Xinjiang province without being able to cite a single example of a violent civilian death.
In my article I noted that this very unusual behavior by Jewish Israelis seemed best explained by the underlying religious and ideological characteristics of traditional Judaism, which for nearly two thousand years has regarded all non-Jews as totally sub-human, whose only value is to serve as Jewish slaves:
If these ritualistic issues constituted the central features of traditional religious Judaism, we might regard it as a rather colorful 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.
These paragraphs had originally appeared in the first of several 2018 articles I published discussing the true characteristics of the traditional Jewish religion and the resulting behavior of Jews over the centuries. I think these unfolding events in Gaza may have been almost implicitly predicted by that past material:
One of our most level-headed and astute commenters lives in Iceland, and he came to similar conclusions, suggesting that the Israeli government seemed fully intent upon validating those extremely controversial analyses that I had published six years earlier.
To be sure a lot of what Mr Unz has written about Jews is a controversial to say the least. For a normal bloke like me I really don’t know what to think about much of it because it’s so strange and in stark contrast with my limited knowledge on the subject. It follows I haven’t had much to say about it either…It’s almost as if Israel decided to prove Mr Unz correct. The supremacy, the blatant disregard for human (none Jewish) lives. It’s like they are slaughtering cattle. And it’s just getting worse. And they have little or no excuse, because their existence isn’t really threatened, they are the superior military force with full support of the U.S. to protect them.
It’s difficult to come up with a scenario better suited to support Mr Unz writings in the past when some wild sounding claims about Judaism are suddenly on full display -live- in Israel.
I thanked that commenter and concurred, noting that:
It really is astonishing to see one’s controversial analysis so clearly vindicated in real life.It’s like an astronomer calculating the orbit of an undiscovered planet based upon perturbations in the orbits of other planets and then finding it shows up in exactly the predicted location.
I also suggested that the near-stranglehold that pro-Israel Jews had gradually gained across American society, especially including politics, academia, and media, was having very fateful consequences. For example, Netanyahu’s deliberate slaughter of tens or even hundreds of thousands of Gazan civilians actually prompted his recent invitation to address a joint session of Congress for an unprecedented fourth time, with his bombastic speech interrupted by 58 standing ovations, coming at a rate of more than once each minute.
Meanwhile, American students had been heavily indoctrinated for generations with an absolute horror of genocide, war crimes, Apartheid, and racial oppression. But when they reacted against full American government support for the worst example of these seen anywhere in the world in many decades, their peaceful protests at elite colleges were brutally suppressed by harsh police crackdowns. This problem arose because their moral instructors had failed to properly emphasize that all those sweeping prohibitions actually included the key exclusionary phrase “except when committed by Jews.”
In one of the highest-profile and most grotesque recent incidents, Israeli doctors reported that a Palestinian captive had been severely injured after being brutally gang-raped and sodomized by nine IDF soldiers. Israeli military leaders have been facing the threat of arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court, so they decided to demonstrate their adherence to international law by having the soldiers arrested and tried, but a huge, violent mob of Jewish activists invaded the army base to free them, and the government later ordered them released. Israeli TV has widely broadcast footage of Palestinian prisoners being raped and sodomized by IDF soldiers, with claims that these brutal scenes were sometimes even live-streamed for the edification of gleeful Israeli political leaders.
BREAKING: CCTV footage of Israeli soldiers gang-raping a Palestinian hostage at Sde Teiman published by Israel’s Ch12
The soldiers put up their riot shields to hide their actions from the camera. pic.twitter.com/QwGiEaPQQM
— Richard Medhurst (@richimedhurst) August 7, 2024
Mike Whitney had summarized much of the shocking early evidence in late July when the story first broke in the Israeli media and a more recent article by journalist Jonathan Cook collected together a great deal of the background information. Cook noted that according to human and legal rights groups, Israeli soldiers and police have a very long history of raping and sexually assaulting Palestinians, including children, and such behavior has been endorsed by the country’s highest religious authorities:
In 2016, for example, the Israeli military appointed Colonel Eyal Karim as its chief rabbi, even after he had declared Palestinians to be “animals” and had approved the rape of Palestinian women in the interest of boosting soldiers’ morale.
The Grayzone is a popular video channel run by young Jewish progressive journalists Max Blumenthal and Aaron Maté, and I regularly watch their weekly live-streamed podcasts, which over the last ten months have heavily focused upon aspects of the ongoing Israel/Gaza conflict.
Beginning around the 31:40 mark on their Friday show, they devoted more than 15 minutes to covering this anal-rape story, which although very heavily reported for two weeks in the Israeli media has been totally ignored by the New York Times and nearly all other mainstream American media outlets. They explained that public support for this systematic policy of raping and torturing Palestinian civilian captives had become widespread across much of the Israeli population, with an influential mainstream pundit publicly declaring on Israeli TV that it was perfectly right and proper for Israeli soldiers to rape Palestinian prisoners as a form of revenge for the October 7th attacks and also as a powerful deterrent against any future uprisings.
The Grayzone editors emphasised that this extensively supported Israeli coverage of raping and torturing Palestinian captives has been publicly justified by the assumption that Hamas militants had gang-raped Israeli girls throughout their October seventh raid. However though these claims had been been given large protection by the New York Occasions and different Western media shops, completely no proof has ever been offered to help them, and so they merely seem like concocted atrocity-hoaxes, now largely debunked.
The advocates of Palestinian rape talking on Israeli TV typically additionally discuss with the Israeli youngsters burned alive by Hamas fighters, an much more ridiculous hoax as soon as extensively lined within the Western media, together with the claims that 40 Israeli infants had been beheaded. Though the media ultimately backed away from these absurd tales, I believe that they had been nonetheless extensively believed by a lot of the Israeli public, serving to to encourage their exceptional persevering with blood-lust.
As I’ve identified in varied articles, all these atrocity tales are nearly definitely false, with each private testimony and different sturdy proof offering a really completely different model of occasions:
I’d beforehand talked about the quick interview of an Israeli girl with two younger youngsters who emphasised that the Hamas militants who occupied her house for a few hours had been fairly respectful to her household. I had additionally reported the eyewitness testimony of a survivor from a Kibbutz close to Gaza who defined that the civilians had been killed when the Israeli navy attacked the Hamas fighters holding them.Moreover, the official checklist of lifeless Israelis signifies that almost the entire victims had been non-elderly adults, with a big fraction being troopers or safety personnel, hardly suggesting a coverage of indiscriminate slaughter.
The most recent wave of very uncertain claims has centered upon second-hand tales of Hamas gang-rapes and sexual mutilations. These accounts solely got here to mild two months after the occasions in query and lacked any supportive forensic proof, with most of the claims coming from the identical people behind the beheaded infants hoax, suggesting that they’re equally determined propaganda ploys. Journalists Max Blumenthal, Aaron Mate, and others have mentioned the acute credulity of the Occasions and different media shops in selling these blatantly fraudulent tales. Many of those factors are summarized in a quick video dialogue:
Impressed by my reporting at @TheGrayzoneNews, this sensible takedown by @propandco supplies the strongest and most accessible refutation of the bogus atrocity propaganda Israel concocted to justify its genocidal rampage in Gaza
Watch and share it extensively pic.twitter.com/Q8XawKN07Y
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) December 27, 2023
In the meantime, take into account the very sturdy proof from silence. In accordance with information stories, small GoPro cameras had been worn by the attacking Hamas militants, which recorded all their actions, and the Israelis recovered many of those from their our bodies and started fastidiously inspecting tons of of hours of this intensive video footage. They absolutely would have quickly launched a video compilation offering any incriminating proof that they discovered, but I’m not conscious of a single public clip that exhibits any such brutal atrocities or mass killings, strongly suggesting that little or no of that occurred. Certainly, the Grey Zone found that the principle {photograph} offered of an allegedly raped and murdered Israeli girl truly turned out to be that of a feminine Kurdish fighter from years earlier that had been plucked off the Web, demonstrating the obvious desperation and dishonesty of the pro-Israel propagandists selling these tales.
During the last couple of months it has step by step been admitted that maybe half or extra of all of the 1,100-odd Israelis killed on October seventh most likely died by the hands of their very own panicked and trigger-happy navy forces, in some circumstances being intentionally focused resulting from Israel’s controversial “Hannibal Directive,” and people victims of friendly-fire had been overwhelmingly civilians. Subsequently, it appears fairly attainable that as few as 100 to 200 unarmed Israeli civilians had been killed by Hamas militants, in lots of circumstances unintentionally. This underscores the acute disproportionality of maybe as many as 200,000 Palestinian civilian lifeless.
In that very same livestream, Blumenthal and Maté additionally centered on the strategies used to maintain American elected officers in line on this subject, noting that a number of days in the past Zionist billionaires spent an nearly unprecedented $8 million to defeat Rep. Cori Bush in her personal Democratic main, indignant that the black progressive member of “the squad” had referred to as for a ceasefire in Gaza. Just some weeks earlier, roughly twice as a lot cash had been spent by related people for very related causes to efficiently get rid of her shut political ally Rep. Jamaal Bowman.
These two main races had been by far the costliest in American historical past, and of their aftermath most members of Congress should absolutely notice that they solely stay in workplace on the sufferance of AIPAC and its ideological allies. Though main progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez denounced the function of massive cash in these main races, she was clearly too frightened of pro-Israel donors to even point out whose huge cash had been concerned. The Grayzone editors had been much more candid and precisely characterised the {dollars} as being deployed by “the international brokers of an Apartheid state.”
Again in Could, I’d described some ironic statements I observed in an earlier Grayzone podcast:
This large suppression of all political opposition to Zionism by way of a mix of authorized, quasi-legal, and unlawful means has hardly escaped the discover of assorted outraged critics. Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate are younger Jewish progressives very sharply important of Israel and its present assault on Gaza, and of their most up-to-date livestream video a day or two earlier than that Congressional vote, they agreed that Zionists had been the best risk to American freedom and that our nation was “below political occupation” by the Israel Foyer.”They might or might not have been conscious that their indignant denunciation intently paralleled one of the crucial infamous Far Proper phrases of the final half-century, which condemned America’s current political system as nothing greater than ZOG, a “Zionist Occupation Authorities.” Over time, apparent factual actuality step by step turns into obvious no matter ideological predispositions.
That individual article of mine proved fairly fashionable so it’s attainable that my remarks might have immediately or not directly discovered their strategy to these people. Whether or not or not that was the case, of their present podcast they talked about that though they’d all the time dismissed “ZOG” as some ridiculously antisemitic expression, current occasions had demonstrated its actuality, and People had been clearly now residing in “one nation below ZOG.” I feel this marked an vital step ahead of their understanding of our world.
These profitable makes an attempt to intimidate elected officers have been matched by different authorities efforts focusing on journalists or different personal residents who problem our pro-Israel coverage. Though it didn’t come up of their podcast, over the previous few days that latter marketing campaign appears to have dramatically escalated, as Scott Ritter’s house was raided by twenty FBI brokers on grounds that he might have violated FARA, the Overseas Brokers Registration Act.
Ritter, a troublesome former Marine officer, had spent a part of the Nineties serving as Chief Weapons Inspector in Iraq. In that function, he labored intently together with his Israeli colleagues, and his a few years of service within the Center East and quite a few visits to Israel had given him a heat admiration for that nation and its individuals. In a few his podcasts earlier this yr, he had defined how overcome with emotion he and his spouse had been throughout their first visits to the Holy Land, the birthplace of their Christian faith.
Over the previous few years, Ritter had change into a really sturdy critic of American coverage in the direction of Russia and Ukraine, and through this similar interval he might have step by step change into extra conscious of the darkish aspect of the connection between Israelis and Palestinians, together with a number of the harsh oppression suffered by the latter inhabitants. Then the huge Israeli navy response to the October seventh assaults utterly pushed him over the road, and he grew to become a loud, even bombastic critic of the Israeli authorities and the massive variety of warfare crimes it was committing.
Ritter’s daring new place even prolonged to some admiration for Hamas, regardless of its official classification as a terrorist group by the American authorities. He fairly described its October seventh assault as one of the crucial profitable mild infantry navy operations in fashionable world historical past, with disciplined Hamas fighters going through elite Israeli fight models on the sphere of battle and severely mauling them. A few of Ritter’s current podcast interviews on these issues have been seen two or 300 thousand instances every.
Giant numbers of People work or write for international publications, together with government-owned ones such because the BBC or the Canadian Broadcasting Company. However as a result of Ritter frequently writes for Russia’s RT, he’s now going through selective prosecution, and a former FBI agent has denounced these expenses as totally ridiculous, clear violations of our First Modification rights. Whether or not or not these expenses stick, the plain intent is to intimate Ritter and any others keen to publicly converse out towards authorities coverage. In the meantime, as has been extensively famous, the tens or tons of of thousands and thousands of {dollars} injected into American politics on behalf of international brokers serving Israel has been utterly ignored.
For many years, FARA had remained nearly solely unenforced and I’ve by no means beforehand heard of a big FBI raid focusing on the house of a non-public particular person who was merely accused of writing articles or doing podcast interviews, so this growth would possibly take us a number of steps down the street in the direction of a totalitarian society.
Former Ambassador Chas Freeman has spent greater than a half-century as a extremely regarded international coverage knowledgeable, and he strongly denounced this assault on Ritter’s constitutional rights, condemning it as paying homage to the anti-radical Palmer Raids of 1919 and the McCarthyite Period of the Nineteen Fifties; however I feel he’s mistaken. Practically all of the 1919 arrests focused non-Americans, usually just lately arrived international immigrants, a lot of whom had been avowedly dedicated to overthrowing the U.S. authorities and establishing a Bolshevik-type regime instead, a state of affairs completely dissimilar from that involving Ritter. In the meantime, though appreciable numbers of actual or suspected Soviet brokers had been investigated or prosecuted throughout the Nineteen Fifties, Ritter shouldn’t be being accused on such grounds, and I’ve additionally by no means heard of any FBI house raids happening throughout that period. So the federal government assault on Ritter appears far worse than something Freeman suggests.
Nevertheless, I do assume that there exists a a lot nearer however lengthy forgotten historic analogy. In “the Nice Sedition Trial of 1944,” dozens of unbiased writers, intellectuals, and activists who opposed American international coverage and our involvement in World Battle II had been dropped at trial purely for exercising their free speech rights and criticizing our authorities, though the case ultimately collapsed. A distinguished former State Division official and public mental named Lawrence Dennis was amongst these defendants, and though I haven’t learn it, he later co-authored a prolonged 1946 e-book A Trial on Trial, denouncing and ridiculing the authorized proceedings.
Clearly, the analogy shouldn’t be an actual one provided that our county was at warfare in 1944, with thousands and thousands of People combating and dying abroad, however many different features of that case appear eerily paying homage to in the present day’s America. The defendants had been a particularly heterogenous group, most of whom had by no means had any contact with one another, and so they had been publicly vilified as isolationists, antisemites, fascists, and lackeys of a hostile international authorities, with the plain goal of their prosecution being to intimidate anybody strongly against American international coverage. Given present political traits, it’s simple to think about related such prosecutions in our nation’s future, with the general public cost of “terrorist sympathizer” most likely being added to the combo.
Ritter and Freeman each regularly seem on the favored YouTube channel of Decide Andrew Napolitano, whose different friends embody a protracted checklist of very notable figures drawn from academia, nationwide safety, and journalism, together with Jeffrey Sachs, John Mearsheimer, Ray McGovern, Douglas Macgregor, Larry Wilkerson, Max Blumenthal, Aaron Maté, Larry Johnson, and Philip Giraldi. I often spend a number of hours every week watching these interviews and thereby gaining a substantial amount of vital info from all these specialists. But I’ve additionally observed that a few of these people might possess sure historic blind spots.
During the last yr, Hamas has change into the goal of a large media barrage, supposed to completely demonize it as one of the crucial evil terrorist organizations within the historical past of the world. Most likely many tens of thousands and thousands of gullible People, starting from prime elected officers to unusual residents, nonetheless vaguely consider that Hamas militants fiendishly beheaded 40 Israeli infants and roasted others alive in ovens, whereas gang-raping and sexually-mutilated many helpless Israeli girls. Because the mastermind and organizer of that Hamas assault, Yahya al-Sinwar would absolutely rank as one of many worst monsters in human historical past.
However educated people, together with all of the friends on Napolitano’s podcast, are properly conscious that these tales had been apparently simply propaganda-hoaxes, concocted by pro-Israel activists and their media enablers to encourage super hatred of Hamas and thereby assist justify and excuse Israel’s huge retaliatory massacres towards the helpless civilians of Gaza. Certainly, given this extra correct understanding, al-Sinwar’s historical past would possibly as a substitute be portrayed in a really completely different, even heroic mild.
Nevertheless, simply as within the case of the 1999 movie The Thirteenth Ground, typically people who efficiently uncover and pierce one layer of an artificially-created model of actuality might stay unaware that there would possibly nonetheless exist one other deeper layer behind that one. I feel that they need to take into account that if our complete media might shamelessly promote such absurd lies about issues which have occurred within the right here and now, they should be very cautious about accepting with out query what that very same media and its mainstream tutorial allies say about occasions that passed off way back and much away.
Quite a few first rate people have been horrified by the unspeakable atrocities presently being dedicated by the Israeli authorities within the plain sight of all the world. Many naturally specific that outrage by evaluating the Israelis with the supreme exemplar of purest evil that our media has constructed over the previous couple of generations, particularly the Nazi Germany of Adolf Hitler. Ritter, Wilkerson, McGovern, and lots of others frequently stage these expenses towards Israel, and I’ve heard they’ve change into so frequent that Fb routinely bans any comparability of Israelis and Nazis.
However we should keep in mind that those that constructed the “black legend” of Nazi Germany eighty or ninety years in the past truly share many traits with those that rather more just lately constructed an equally vivid “black legend” for Hamas. So if we now consider that the latter is fake, maybe we should always fastidiously examine the previous as properly. During the last decade or so, I’ve performed precisely that, and I regard my findings as pretty conclusive.
Ray McGovern is a highly-regarded former intelligence skilled, who frequently briefed a half-dozen American presidents throughout his lengthy profession as a CIA analyst, and I very a lot belief his candid judgment over the claims made by our dishonest and compromised media relating to present occasions in Gaza, Ukraine, and elsewhere on this planet.
However throughout World Battle II McGovern’s tough counterpart may need been Prof. John Beaty, who as a senior officer in Navy Intelligence ready the each day intelligence briefing stories that had been distributed to the White Home and all of our different top-ranking political and navy leaders.
A couple of years after the tip of the warfare, Beaty printed an enormously fashionable conservative best-seller wherein he defined that the true origins and circumstances of the battle had been completely completely different than what had been portrayed by our authorities and its subservient media, and his placing statements had been strongly endorsed by a protracted checklist of our prime wartime navy commanders. The current lies of the American authorities relating to Russia, Iran, and Hamas appear remarkably much like the sooner lies that earlier American governments had informed about Germany and Japan.
Beaty’s views had been hardly alone. Throughout that very same warfare, Classics Prof. Revilo Oliver served as Director of Analysis in a secret Battle Division intelligence unit, with 175 professionals working below him, and on the finish of the warfare he was adorned for his excellent service. His views had been fairly much like these of Beaty and in his memoirs printed a long time later, he was scathing in regards to the horrific warfare crimes dedicated by his personal nation and its British allies towards Germany:
Nice Britain, in violation of all of the ethics of civilized warfare that had theretofore been revered by our race, and in treacherous violation of solemnly assumed diplomatic covenants about “open cities”, had secretly carried out intensive bombing of such open cities in Germany for the specific objective of killing sufficient unarmed and defenceless women and men to drive the German authorities reluctantly to retaliate and bomb British cities and thus kill sufficient helpless British males, girls, and youngsters to generate amongst Englishmen enthusiasm for the insane warfare to which their authorities had dedicated them.It’s unimaginable to think about a governmental act extra vile and extra wicked than contriving loss of life and struggling for its personal individuals — for the very residents whom it was exhorting to “loyalty” — and I believe that an act of such notorious and savage treason would have nauseated even Genghis Khan or Hulagu or Tamerlane, Oriental barbarians universally reprobated for his or her insane blood-lust. Historical past, as far as I recall, doesn’t document that they ever butchered their very own girls and youngsters to facilitate mendacity propaganda….In 1944 members of British Navy Intelligence took it with no consideration that after the warfare Marshal Sir Arthur Harris can be hanged or shot for prime treason towards the British individuals…
Very similar to in the present day’s Iran, Hitler’s Germany had made completely each effort to keep away from warfare with America, simply because it had earlier tried to succeed in a negotiated settlement with Poland in 1939. However FDR had personally orchestrated the outbreak of World Battle II for home political causes and he was decided to see our nation concerned:
His first plan was defeated by the prudence of the German authorities. Whereas he yammered in regards to the evils of aggression to the white People whom he despised and hated, Roosevelt used the USA Navy to commit innumerable acts of stealthy and treacherous aggression towards Germany in a secret and undeclared warfare, hidden from the American individuals, hoping that such large piracy would ultimately so exasperate the Germans that they’d declare warfare on the USA, whose males and sources might then be squandered to punish the Germans for attempting to have a rustic of their very own. These foul acts of the Battle Prison had been identified, after all, to the officers and males of the Navy that carried out the orders of their Commander-in-Chief, and had been generally mentioned in knowledgeable circles, however, as far as I do know, had been first and far belatedly chronicled by Patrick Abbazia in Mr. Roosevelt’s Navy: the Non-public Battle of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, 1939-1942, printed by the Naval Institute Press in Annapolis in 1975.…Though the U.S. Navy’s acts of outrageous piracy on the excessive seas had been efficiently hid from the vast majority of the American individuals earlier than Pearl Harbor, they had been, after all, well-known to the Japanese, and partly account for Roosevelt’s success in deceiving them together with his “confidences” to the Portuguese Ambassador…they assumed that when Roosevelt was able to assault them, his energy over the American press and communications would allow him to simulate an assault they’d not the truth is made. That the deception was profitable was, after all, proven in December 1941, once they made a determined effort to avert the treacherous blow they feared.
As soon as America entered the warfare, Oliver centered upon the horrific manner we had waged it, intentionally slaughtering the civilian inhabitants of Germany:
Each British and People have all the time claimed to be humane and have loudly condemned pointless bloodshed, mass massacres, and sadistic delight within the infliction of ache…in 1945 their professions might nonetheless be credited no doubt, and that meant they’d be stricken with regret for a ferocious act of unmitigated savagery unparalleled within the historical past of our race and unsurpassed within the document of any race. The bombing of the unfortified metropolis of Dresden, properly timed to insure an agonizing loss of life to the utmost variety of white girls and youngsters, has been precisely described by David Irving in The Destruction of Dresden (London, 1963), however the necessities of that sickening atrocity had been identified quickly after it was perpetrated. To make certain, it’s true that such an act may need been ordered by Hulagu, the celebrated Mongol who discovered pleasure in ordering the extermination of the inhabitants of all cities that didn’t open their gates to him — and of some that did — in order that the severed heads of the inhabitants may very well be piled up into pyramids as perishable however spectacular monuments to his glory. The People and British, nevertheless, deem themselves extra civilized than Hulagu and fewer sadistic.
He additionally condemned the very brutal American occupation of Germany that adopted the tip of the warfare:
…with the American invasion of German territory started the innumerable atrocities towards her civilian inhabitants — the atrocities towards prisoners started even earlier — which have introduced on our individuals the popularity of Attila’s hordes. The outrages had been innumerable and nobody, as far as I do know, has even tried to compile a listing of typical incidents of rape and torture and mayhem and homicide. A lot of the unspeakable atrocities, it’s true, had been dedicated by savages and Jews in American uniforms, however many, it should be confessed, had been perpetrated by People, louts from the dregs of our personal society or regular males crazed with hatred. All victorious armies, it’s true, include parts that need to outrage the vanquished, and few commanders in “democratic” wars can preserve the tight self-discipline that made Wellington’s armies the marvels of Europe or the self-discipline that typically characterised the German armies in each World Wars; what so manufacturers us with disgrace is that the atrocities had been inspired by our supreme commander in Europe, whose orders, presumably issued when he was not drunk or occupied together with his doxies, made it tough or hazardous for accountable American generals to watch what had been the foundations of civilized warfare. Virtually each American soldier in Germany had witnessed the barbarous remedy of the vanquished, the residents of one of many biggest nations of Western civilization and our personal kinsmen, and — regardless of the efforts to incite them to inhuman hate with Jewish propaganda — a lot of our troopers witnessed such outrages with pity and disgrace. The cumulative impact of their stories once they returned to their very own nation ought to have been nice. It’s unnecessary to multiply examples, a few of which can be present in F.J.P. Veale’s Advance to Barbarism (London, 1953).
He argued that the Nuremberg Tribunals introduced eternal disgrace upon his personal nation:
I used to be, after all, profoundly shocked by the foul murders at Nuremberg that introduced on the American individuals an indelible disgrace. Savages and Oriental barbarians usually kill, with or with out torture, the enemies whom they’ve overcome, however even they don’t sink so low within the scale of humanity as to carry out the obscene farce of holding quasi-judicial trials earlier than they kill, and had the People — for, given their absolute energy, the accountability should fall on them, and their guilt can’t be shifted to their supposed allies — had the People, I say, merely slaughtered the German generals, they might declare to be morally no worse than Apaches, Balubas, and different primitives. Civilized peoples spare the lives of the vanquished, exhibiting to their leaders a respectful consideration, and the deepest instincts of our race demand a chivalrous courtesy to courageous opponents whom the fortunes of warfare have put in our energy.To punish warriors who, towards overwhelming odds, fought for his or her nation with a braveness and dedication that excited the surprise of the world, and intentionally to kill them as a result of they weren’t cowards and traitors, as a result of they didn’t betray their nation — that was an act of vileness of which we lengthy believed our race incapable. And to enhance the infamy of our act, we stigmatized them as “Battle Criminals” which they most definitely weren’t, for if that phrase has which means, it applies to traitors who knowingly contain their nations in a warfare contrived to inflict loss, struggling, and loss of life on their very own individuals, who’re thus made to combat for their very own efficient defeat — traitors equivalent to Churchill, Roosevelt, and their white accomplices. And so as to add an final obscenity to the sadistic crime, “trials” had been held to convict the vanquished based on “legal guidelines” invented for the aim, and on the idea of perjured testimony extorted from prisoners of warfare by torture…
And identical to Prof. Beaty, Oliver particularly ridiculed the supposed Jewish Holocaust, which was concocted out of probably the most ridiculous lies, fairly related in lots of respects to the present tales of the 40 beheaded Israeli infants:
The People…had been howling with indignation over the supposed extermination by the Germans of some thousands and thousands of Jews, a lot of whom had taken the chance to crawl into the USA, and…one might have supposed in 1945 that when the hoax, devised to pep up the cattle that had been being stampeded into Europe, was uncovered, even People would really feel some indignation at having been so utterly bamboozled.The immediate publicity of the bloody swindle appeared inevitable, notably for the reason that brokers of the O.S.S., generally identified in navy circles because the Workplace of Soviet Stooges, who had been dispatched to conquered Germany to arrange fuel chambers to lend some verisimilitude to the hoax, had been so lazy and feckless that they merely despatched again footage of bathe baths, which had been so absurd that they needed to be suppressed to keep away from ridicule. Nobody might have believed in 1945 that the lie can be used to extort thirty billion {dollars} from the helpless Germans and can be rammed into the minds of German youngsters by uncouth American “educators” — or that civilized males must wait till 1950 for Paul Rassinier, who had been himself a prisoner in a German focus camp, to problem the notorious lie, or till 1976 for Professor Arthur Butz’s detailed and exhaustive refutation of the venomous imposture on Aryan credulity.
Over the previous few years I’ve mentioned these issues at very appreciable size in fairly quite a few articles and interviews. Those that have acknowledged the lies just lately informed about Russia, Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah ought to take into account that a lot of what they consider in regards to the historical past of the final 100 years might have been based mostly upon very related lies, lengthy congealed into accepted historical past.
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