…by Jonas E. Alexis
The Zionist regime continues to get hit pretty hard. Last April, the BBC reported that Israel is probably on the brink of losing “its American firewall at the United Nations in New York…” We read:
“Protecting Israel from critical resolutions at the Security Council has long been a central pillar of US Middle East policy. But so rapid has been the deterioration of relations between the Obama administration and Netanyahu government that America’s protective shield is now up for discussion at the White House, as part of a broader review of US relations with Israel.
“Rarely have the grievances between two such close allies been given such a public airing, or chronicled in such vivid and profane detail.
“Obama and his aides have made no secret of their anger at Benjamin Netanyahu for accepting an invitation from the Republican leadership to address a joint session of Congress in the midst of his re-election campaign, and then using that pulpit to denounce the potential nuclear deal between Washington and Tehran.
“Netanyahu’s voiced opposition to Palestinian statehood in the final days of the Israel election campaign injected more poison into relations.”[1]
Just two days ago, Benjamin Weinthal has lamented in the New York Post that Europe has declared an “economic war on Israel.”[2] A few hours ago, the Financial Times has come out with an article entitled, “Israel: A New Kind of War.”[3]
Listen very carefully to this recent and lively talk by Irish lawmaker Richard Boyd Barrett in the Irish Parliament:
More recently, England’s Former Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks “admitted a belief that the BDS movement had succeeded in making the State of Israel a ‘divisive factor’ in Jewish life and claimed that, as a result, supporting Israel was ‘almost impossible’ for European Jews.”[4]
The BDS movement has indeed reached a critical mass in Europe, and even “Britain’s student union votes to boycott Israel.”[5] In response, an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesperson said,
“Instead of expressing hatred, British students would benefit from studying history and understanding that the distance between conveying hate language and prejudice to committing despicable crimes is not that great.”[6]
Well, maybe those students have picked up Israeli historian Ilan Pappe’s The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine and realized that the Israeli regime has indeed committed mass murder. Maybe they have read what Israeli and Zionist historian Benny Morris has said. Morris declared unapologetically:
“A Jewish state would not have come into being without the uprooting of 700,000 Palestinians. Therefore it was necessary to uproot them. There was no choice but to expel that population. It was necessary to cleanse the hinterland and cleanse the border areas and cleanse the main roads. It was necessary to cleanse the villages from which our convoys and our settlements were fired on.”[7]
Maybe those students have read what happened to the civilian populations in Gaza last year.[8] Maybe they saw what happened to the four innocent boys who were killed on a beach by an Israeli bomb while playing soccer.[9] (I could have been one of those boys.) Maybe they saw that the New York Times “helps Israel whitewash the killings” of those boys.
Certainly the Israeli minister is not that stupid or blind.
Things are getting so bad for the Zionist regime in Europe that they have chosen Tony Blair—yes, Tony Blair!—as one of their representatives to fight “anti-Semitism.” Blair is also working hard to make “Holocaust denial a criminal offense.”[10] Sheldon Adelson, for his turn, is planning to “host secret anti-BDS summit for Jewish donors.”[11]
In response to the BDS movement, Sacks proposed that “Jews have been faced with a choice: live in Europe and criticize Israel or be silent, or leave Europe.” Alternatively, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, arguably America’s poster boy, said, “What he [Sacks] shockingly neglected to mention is the obvious third option: to stay in Europe, embrace Israel, and fight for the Jewish State.”[12]
The moral of the story here is that much of the world cannot stand Zionism any longer precisely because Zionism does not abide by the moral and political law and order. Zionists set one standard for others and a completely different one for themselves. Here is a classic example.
In 2010, Joe Lieberman “pushed for strict anti-leak legislation and who said that the individuals responsible for WikiLeaks ‘are going to have blood on their hands.’ WikiLeaks was ‘not only an attack on our national security, but an offense against our democracy and the principle of transparency.’”
Yet a few days ago, Lieberman, along with Tony Blair and the owner of The Atlantic, asked a judge to go easy on David Petraeus. Keep in mind that Petraeus admitted to secretly giving classified information to Paula Broadwell, his mistress.[13] How did Lieberman wiggle out of this inherent double standard?
Well, Lieberman said Petraeus is an “extraordinary human being” who ended up making “mistakes and [yielding] to public temptation”![14] Perhaps Paul Krugman was right in 2009: “By all means, hang Senator Joe Lieberman in effigy.”[15]
As Marcy Wheeler of Salon puts it, the law simply “does not apply to people like David Petraeus.”[16] Wheeler writes,
“Not only does the national security elite believe members of their club should face different standards of justice, but they also believe our recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been successes.”[17]
For Lieberman, Petraeus made a mistake, and the entire world needs to forgive him. Further, he ought not to face jail time. But Assange and Edward Snowden do not deserve to be forgiven. They are traitors and ought to be hanged. One certainly needn’t be an intellectual to realize that this is just crazy.
But that craziness is foundational to the Zionist matrix. Lindsey Graham, like other Zionist puppets,
“wrote in on Petraeus’s behalf, though he regularly blasts the Obama administration for national security leaks, but argued that his ‘friend’ Petraeus should not see jail time. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who has called Edward Snowden’s actions ‘treason,’ wrote that she believes Petraeus ‘recognizes the error of his actions as well as the importance of protecting classified information.’”[18]
What the Zionists end up saying indirectly here is that Petraeus was working for the Dreadful Few throughout much of his political career. When Petraeus declared that the Iraq war was a good surge, neoconservative shills like Thomas Sowell and Victor Davis Hansen had a sigh of relief.[19] But that relief was short-lived precisely because Petraeus’ predicament turned out to be another lie.
Now, fast forward to 2015, things got even worse for our young and impressionable people in the military.
“New government research shows that female military veterans commit suicide at nearly six times the rate of other women, a startling finding that experts say poses disturbing questions about the backgrounds and experiences of women who serve in the armed forces.
“Their suicide rate is so high that it approaches that of male veterans, a finding that surprised researchers because men generally are far more likely than women to commit suicide.
“Though suicide has become a major issue for the military over the last decade, most research by the Pentagon and the Veterans Affairs Department has focused on men, who account for more than 90% of the nation’s 22 million former troops. Little has been known about female veteran suicide.
“The rates are highest among young veterans, the VA found in new research compiling 11 years of data. For women ages 18 to 29, veterans kill themselves at nearly 12 times the rate of nonveterans.
“In every other age group, including women who served as far back as the 1950s, the veteran rates are between four and eight times higher, indicating that the causes extend far beyond the psychological effects of the recent wars.
“The data include all 173,969 adult suicides — men and women, veterans and nonveterans — in 23 states between 2000 and 2010.”[20]
The people who ended up paying the price are not the Dreadful Few. “Military children,” the LA Times tells us, are “more likely to have a history of suicide attempts.”[21]
[1] Nick Bryant, “US raises prospect of Israel UN isolation,” BBC, April 1, 2015.
[2] Benjamin Weinthal, Europe’s Economic War on Israel,” NY Post, June 11, 2015.
[3] John Reed, “Israel: A New Kind of War,” Financial Times, June 12, 2015.
[4] Shmuley Boteach, “Legendary Rabbi of England Calls for Jewish Surrender in Europe,” Observer, June 6, 2015.
[5] Tamar Pileggi, “Britain’s student union votes to boycott Israel,” Times of Israel, June 2, 2015.
[6] Ibid.
[7] Ari Shavit, “An Interview with Benny Morris,” Counter Punch, January 16, 2004.
[8] See for example Norman Finkelstein, Method and Madness: The Hidden Story of Israel’s Assault on Gaza (New York: OR Books, 2014).
[9] For recent development, see for example Peter Beaumont, “Israel exonerates itself over Gaza beach killings of four children last year,” Guardian, June 11, 2015.
[10] “Tony Blair takes on anti-extremism and anti-Semitism role,” BBC, June 4, 2015.
[11] Nathan Guttman, “Sheldon Adelson to Host Secret Anti-BDS Summit for Jewish Donors,” Forward, June 1, 2015.
[12] Boteach, “Legendary Rabbi of England Calls for Jewish Surrender in Europe,” Observer, June 6, 2015.
[13] See for example Kate Brannen, “Petraeus Lied to FBI,” Foreign Policy, March 3, 2015.
[14] Quoted in Cora Currier, “Leack Critics Ask Judge Not to Send Patraeus to Jail for Unauthorized Disclosures,” The Intercept, June 8, 2015.
[15] Paul Krugman, “Pass the Bill,” NY Times, December 17, 2009.
[16] Marcy Wheeler, “Why the law doesn’t apply to people like David Petraeus,” Salon, June 12, 2015.
[17] Ibid.
[18] Currier, “Leack Critics Ask Judge Not to Send Patraeus to Jail for Unauthorized Disclosures,” The Intercept, June 8, 2015.
[19] Thomas Sowell, Intellectuals and Society (New York: Basic Books, 2009), 270-271; Victor Davis Hanson, The Savior Generals: How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost—From Ancient Greece to Iraq (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2013), 191.
[20] Alan Zarembo, “Suicide rate of female military veterans is called ‘staggering,’” LA Times, June 8, 2015.
[21] Alan Zarembo, “Military children more likely to have a history of suicide attempts,” LA Times, March 19, 2015.
Jonas E. Alexis has degrees in mathematics and philosophy. He studied education at the graduate level. His main interests include U.S. foreign policy, the history of the Israel/Palestine conflict, and the history of ideas. He is the author of the new book Zionism vs. the West: How Talmudic Ideology is Undermining Western Culture. He teaches mathematics in South Korea.
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