The famend author Arthur Koestler warned a few years in the past that Israel risked changing into `a nasty little Sparta.’ Half a century later Israel, grown wealthy on US army and monetary support, has grow to be a really nasty huge Sparta.
Pat Buchanan, President Richard Nixon’s shut aide, wrote ‘Capitol Hill (i.e. Congress) has grow to be Israeli-occupied territory.’ He has been exiled to the political wilderness for this heresy.
The present Gaza Battle tells us simply how a lot Israel now dominates Congress and the Democratic Social gathering which will get a possible 50% of its funding from pro-Israel donors. Average pro-Israel teams have been marginalized. These within the media have been sidelined or fired. It’s the McCarthyism of the twenty first century. As the nice Mark Twain stated, if you happen to don’t learn the US media you might be uninformed. In case you do observe America’s media, you might be misinformed.
Britain, Canada and Australia fall into the identical media jail. The previous Soviet media, as I keep in mind, was freer in its opinions and extra sturdy in its criticism.
None of that is new; simply worse. Over 20 years in the past the Palestinian refugee jail of Gaza tried to construct a small seaport and airport. Each have been denied by Israel. Consequently, even modest meals support for ravenous Palestinians has been blocked. The US, which has been supplying Israel with 2,000 lb bombs and focusing on data has resorted to the PR stunt of air-dropping stale sandwiches to the famine-stricken Palestinian refugees.
Nobody within the tightly managed US media or the Rothschild-dominated British Conservatives get together would dare deliver up the truth that the Warsaw Ghetto ravaged by the Nazis had 50,000 folks as in comparison with Gaza’s 2.1 million trapped folks. Egypt, virtually as responsible as Israel and the US, retains Palestinians locked within the open-air jail. The Mideast’s largest police states are Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia and Morocco. Add Algeria, Oman and Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States (see my ebook ‘American Raj.’
We nonetheless know subsequent to nothing concerning the 7 October assault on Israelis that trigged this battle. I received’t name it a warfare because it pits solely evenly armed civilians towards the mighty, US equipped and directed Israeli armed forces. The strains of burned-out vehicles round the place the preliminary Hamas assaults occurred look very very similar to the results of air assaults. We have to know extra.
The notorious arms seller Basil Zaharoff retorted to criticism within the British parliament, ‘who cares about that little jabber home.’ The identical applies right this moment to the US Congress. Even President Joe Biden dares not confront Israel’s Netanyahu. Biden and State Secretary Anthony Blinken inform can’t even inform Netanyahu to finish his bloodbath. Israel at all times is aware of it could possibly get away actually with homicide earlier than US elections. Israel’s far proper coalition, whom the illustrious journalist Uri Avnery calls ‘Jewish Nazis,’ seems firmly in energy. Netanyahu has thus far averted felony proceedings by stoking the warfare in Gaza. Killing Arabs remains to be standard in Israel. Polls present virtually 80% of Israelis help the savaging of Gaza. Most honorable Israelis and their overseas supporters are silent within the face of a large propaganda marketing campaign that runs on lurid reviews about raped girls and burned infants worthy on World Warfare I British propaganda over Belgium.
Whereas Palestinians are being slaughtered or starved, Israel is busy attempting to goad Iran into a serious warfare. This previous week alone, Israel destroyed the Iranian consulate in Damascus, killing two Iranian generals who have been advising resistance forces. The US has been waging a medium-intensity warfare towards Iran, which threatened America’s Mideast empire and which I name ‘the American Raj.’
Netanyahu is frightening warfare with Iran to divert consideration from the Gaza bloodbath and his authorized issues. Israel has lengthy coveted southern Lebanon as much as the Litani River and extra Syrian land subsequent to the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. I used to be with the invading Israeli Military in 1982 when it attacked Lebanon and I’ve walked the strategic Golan Heights.
Israel can be hungry for big offshore oil deposits close to the Gaza jail. It desires the Palestinians out and entry to the oil and fuel. America has grow to be the champion of Israeli expansionism. The Israeli tail continues to wag the bumbling American canine. As a substitute of engineering a cease-fire, Washington has blocked all efforts on the UN to cease the mass homicide in Gaza. The remainder of the world will keep in mind this.
