- (june 2024)
Israel is becoming an Enemy not an Ally
Israel’s reliability as an ally is zero.
Israel has always ignored the USA's priorities in the world, maintaining friendly ties with Russia and now China, and causing crisis after crisis that the USA had to manage. So it is not a surprise that Israel did it again:
Israel's current war against Hamas is hurting the USA's strategy in Ukraine.
Israel's invasion of Gaza (and subsequent massacre of civilians) has been the single biggest gift to Putin in two years because it has distracted attention
from Russia's aggression and atrocities in Ukraine.
I happen to think that this whole crisis has been architected by Israel's corrupt and cynical prime minister (See Netanyahu’s War ) to save him from losing his job and from being jailed at a time
when
thousands of Israelis were demonstrating in the streets against him.
And even before this crisis, Israel had shifted so much towards the religious right that it was hard to recognize the original socialist Israel. Under the current right-wing coalition, Israel resembles more Saudi Arabia than Western democracies. It was becoming a theocracy.
The far-right Jewish settlers and ultra-orthodox Jews were pressuring the government
to defang the Supreme Court so that Israelis could easily confiscate Palestinian lands and murder Palestinians. The fanatical Jews make no mystery of their desire to abolish math and science from public schools and enforce religious teaching, basically creating the Jewish equivalent of Taliban-run Afghanistan.
The Palestinians had no hope under that Israeli government of any kind of solution to their stateless condition. In fact, many in the Arab world asked why the West was outraged by Russia's attempt to enslave Ukraine but indifferent to Israel's attempt to suffocate the Palestinians.
Israel was also becoming a banana republic, with a finance minister, Aryeh Deri of the ultra-orthodox Shas party, who was convicted three times of financial crimes (including accepting bribes).
Over the years, the USA has defended Israel at the United Nations when the vast majority of the world condemned Israel. The USA has paid a huge price for this. Even the 2001 terrorist attacks can be said to be a consequence of the USA's steady defense of Israel. There has been no sign of gratitude from Israel.
Just over the last year Netanyahu's government approved more than 7,000 new housing units on Palestinian land, ignoring repeated pleas by the Bush, Obama and Biden administrations not to do so.
The USA is guilty of having continued to supply Israel with weapons throughout the transition of Israel from democracy to banana theocracy.
No country was invading Israel the way Russia was invading Ukraine but Israel
was getting better weapons than Ukraine. Those weapons have now been used to
massacre 20,000 civilians.
Why does Israel need the army and airforce of a superpower, all funded by US taxpayers, when Ukraine can defend itself from nuclear superpower Russia even without US weapons?
Israel has received the most US military assistance of any country in the world since World War II: $158 billion (not adjusted for inflation).
The USA has to start asking seriously the question that was never asked: what would the Middle East and the world in general look like if Israel disappeared tomorrow morning? Would the world be more peaceful or more violent?
Would the USA have more peace or more war? more friends or more enemies?
Who exactly benefits from the existence of Israel? And in particular what does the USA get out of its support for Israel?
See also Netanyahu’s War
See also Netanyahu's War - Part II - The Genocide
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- (april 2024)
Israelis should start asking themselves: Who is the real enemy of Israel?
Netanyahu is a corrupt fascist who is trying to overthrow the Israeli institutions and turn Israel into a fascist state.
When he got under pressure by popular demonstrations against his attempted coup, he needed a distraction and didn't hesitate to kill random Palestianians.
This way he was then able to
call for unity in the fight against "terror", forgetting that he's the one who
created the "terror".
He then blamed Iran for the violent Palestinian reaction (quote):
"95% of Israel's security problems originate from the fanatical regime in Iran".
If there's one fanatic, that's Netanyahu.
And the source of Israel's security problems is his racist policies.
Terrorist organizations like Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah increasingly look like liberation movements against the little Trump of Israel.
It is about time that the Israeli public realizes who the real enemy of Israel is.
Compared with Netanyahu, the various Islamic groups sound like a less existential threat to Israel.
Netanyahu is the one that Israelis should worry about.
Maybe it is time that Israelis use the old adage "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" and embrace the people whom Netanyahu calls "terrorists".
Netanyahu has elevated those terrorists to freedom fighters.
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- (January 2024)
Netanyahu's War - Part II - The Genocide
A deranged Netanyahu is out to start a larger war in the Middle East in order to avoid going to jail.
The USA and its allies need to intervene and overthrow
Netanyahu's government in order to avoid a much bigger war.
Peace is not possible without the removal of Netanyahu.
And the conflict will eventually engulf the West.
As i wrote in Netanyahu’s War ,
the Hamas terrorist attack was the direct result
of Netanyahu’s policies and actions.
He allowed Hamas to amass a fortune via Qatar and to acquire weapons from Iran,
knowing that Hamas was becoming a military threat.
He wanted the terrorist attack and, short of personally engineering it, he let it happen, leaving the Gaza-Israel border virtually unguarded after
transferring most Israeli troops from the Gaza front to the West Bank
(to protect illegitimate Jewish settlers deployed there to provoke Palestinians).
He needs to stay in power to be sure he stays out of jail, as he stands trial on corruption charges, and the only way to remain in power is to keep Israel in a permanent state of war.
He assisted Hamas into attacking Israel so that the Israeli public would stop asking for his resignations.
Netanyahu is responsible for the massacres, rapes, beheadings, burnings, and abductions of October 2023 as much as Hamas is.
And now he is also responsible for the massacre of thousands of Gaza civilians,
and don't tell me that being dismembered under an Israeli bomb is any less
atrocious than being beheaded.
Worse: Israel has completely discredited the West.
Netanyahu's war is the biggest gift to Russia.
It distracted from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it stretched the US military budget, and it makes the West look hypocritical to the whole world (Netanyahu is
free to kill 20,000 Palestinian civilians in two months while Putin is deemed a war criminal for killing 10,000 Ukrainian civilians in two years of war).
Netanyahu, not Hamas, is the real enemy of the West.
Right now the unhinged Netanyahu is one of the most dangerous people in the world.
Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister for most of the past 15 years,
has turned Israel into a rogue country.
It is not only Muslims who ask for the destruction of the state of Israel:
it is most of the world.
As a man told me in Thailand: why doesn't the USA relocate the Jews of Israel
in Utah or Texas? The USA is the only country that still views Israel in a
favorable light.
Israel has to face another dreadful fact: who voted Netanyahu in power? who elected the most right-wing government in Israel's history? Hamas? No, it was the majority of Israelis. There is a cancer inside Israel and we are losing hope that
it can be stopped. The radical orthodox Jews are multiplying like rabbits while
many progressive Israelis are leaving the country. It doesn't bode well for the
future of a state that was born as a socialist state.
Netanyahu's government was tolerating racist attacks against West Bank Palestinians by fanatical Jewish settlers because these fanatical Jews are rapidly
becoming the kingmakers.
Make no mistake: the radical orthodox Jews of Israel are no
less genocidal than Hamas. They share with radical Islamic jihadists like Al Qaeda and ISIS many traits.
They are Jewish jihadists, possibly even more dangerous than Al Qaeda and ISIS (Israel has nuclear bombs, Al Qaeda and ISIS don't). These radical orthodox Jews have zero sympathy for
the USA, the West, human civilization or anything other than their stupid medieval superstitions: they would not hesitate to annihilate
the entire planet if they think this will be good for their religious cause.
If you think that bombing Hamas is a good idea, why not also bomb the Israeli ultra-orthodox Jews?
Aren't they terrorists too? And nuclear-armed ones!
Arab states have not severed relations with Israel, suggesting they are not too unhappy at the prospect that Israel will wipe up Hamas from the face of the Earth.
Arab states have played this double game ever since: officially they support the
Palestinian cause, but in practice they are even more worried than Israel about
Hamas and the other militant Palestinian groups. It's easier for a US citizen
to travel around the Islamic world than it is for a Palestinian.
The truth is that the Arab states do NOT want a Palestinian state run by Hamas:
it would crown Hamas as the victorious Islamic group and create a dangerous
precedent for all the Arab states run by kings and dictators.
Netanyahu is right about one thing: after the October 2023 attack, there cannot be a Palestinian state next to Israel run by Hamas. It's like asking the USA to accept a state next to its border run by Al Qaeda.
What is happening to the Palestinians is horrible: it is horrible that half of them (Gaza Strip) are ruled by the terrorists of Hamas and the other half (West Bank) are ruled by the corrupt kleptocracy of the Palestinian Authority. It is also horrible that no Muslim country dares to condemn Hamas and the Palestinian Authority in public.
What is happening to the Palestinians is horrible, but the Palestinians also have themselves to blame: they never rose up against their dictators, dictators who claimed that Israel was the real dictator when in fact Israel was simply complicit in the dictatorship but certainly not the one stealing money from ordinary Palestinian families.
The "innocent" Gaza civilians who are now paying a huge price for the October 2023 attacks are not completely innocent: it is hard to believe that in such a
densely populated area like Gaza the ordinary civilians didn't know that Hamas
was arming and rehearsing a major attack. If there are 20 thousand Hamas fighters out of a Gaza population of 2 million, it means that there is one Hamas fighter for every 100 people.
And so one side of the story that is not being told by the media is that the "innocent" Gaza civilians are complicit with Netanyahu in causing this tragedy: they let it happen just like Netanyahu let it happen, they tolerated Hamas just like Netanyahu did. Nobody forced Hamas on the people of Gaza: the people of Gaza never did anything to get rid of Hamas and didn't try to stop Hamas from carrying out this attack.
As for the Muslims of the world who did NOT protest against the barbaric Hamas attacks but DID protest by the millions against Israel's military campaign, someone should remind them that
the Kurds of Turkey still don't have a country,
the Balochis in Pakistan don't,
the Saharawis live in the Algerian desert after Morocco stole their land,
the Darfuris are being massacred by the thousands in Sudan by Arab militias,
Assad is still in power in Syria after killing half a million of his people,
and
non-Muslims have been all but ethnically cleansed from Pakistan and many other
Islamic countries.
Israel is evil, but what about the many Islamic countries that commit the same sins, and often on a much bigger scale?
See also:
Netanyahu’s War
Israel never Misses an Opportunity to miss an Opportunity
The Gaza Cage
What Netanyahu and Putin have in common
The art of inventing inexistent wars
Israel's promised land
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