How Interloper Cuckoo Israel Parasitized Indigenous Host Palestine

Israel is the Cuckoo Chick of British-American Colonialism. It Cannibalized Palestine, the Authentic Child of the Land. 

The "[B]light Unto Nations" of fucking prophet Isaiah is indeed parasitic blight.

You know the story of the Cuckoo bird? It’s an obligate brood parasite which lays its egg in the nests of other birds and tricks them into unsuspectedly brooding its parasitic egg and raising its chick.


Unsuspecting innocent Palestinian parent (right) feeding the much larger parasitic Israeli chick (left)

When it hatches, the cuckoo chick either punctures and breaks the indigenous host eggs, or pushes them or the host’s authentic newborns out of the nest, or grows alongside them but steals their food away from them. Either way, the host bird’s natural chicks die and the parasitic bastard cuckoo chick survives to become the sole child of its now foster parents.


The parasitic "Israel" cuckoo chick after killing the indigenous Palestinian chicks in their nest.

Sounds familiar? Replace “cuckoo” with “Israel”, and “indigenous host chick” with Palestine, and you get a quick summary of the birth of the bastard parasitic country of Israel. 

Parasitic Great Britain and United States, deposited their “Israel” egg in the indigenous Palestinian parents’ nest some time at the dawn of the 20th century. The imposter “Israel” egg was then innocently incubated by the unsuspecting Palestinian parent hosts who were recovering from 400 years of an abject Turkish occupation. The interloper “Israel” chick, however, had other plans: Being much fatter and larger than its smaller indigenous Palestinian nest partners, it proceeded to kill or starve the latter to become the sole recipient of parental food and care.

In fact, the interloper “Israel” chick developed a temporary but deadly hook at the tip of its beak with which it proceeded to destroy the other eggs or murder the natural progeny Palestinian chicks that managed to hatch despite the brutality of the interloper “Israel” chick.

The hook on the beak of the cuckoo Israel chick grows temporarily for the sole purpose of killing the authentic natural chicks of the nest's owners. Once the task of ethnically cleansing the nest of the Palestinians eggs or chicks, the hook disappears.

The Boy Who Cried 'Antisemitism'

 

  Opinion

How Israel hides its atrocities in Gaza

Norman Solomon

Sun, March 24, 2024

When we condemn Hamas for its October 7 attacks in Israel, we’re not accused of anti-Arab bigotry. Nor should we be. Nothing could possibly justify the atrocities that Hamas committed against hundreds of civilians, who were the majority of the 1,200 people killed as a result of the attacks.. And nothing can justify the taking of civilian hostages.

But when we condemn Israel for its actions since then, we run the risk of being accused of antisemitism. Meanwhile, nothing could possibly justify the atrocities by the Israeli government in Gaza, where the death toll is now estimated at 32,000, while uncounted thousands of other Palestinian people remain buried under rubble. Seventy percent of the victims, a UN committee found, have been children and women. 

The U.S. government, meanwhile, continues to make Israel’s atrocities possible. As retired Israeli Major General Yitzhak Brick said midway through the second month of the war: “All of our missiles, the ammunition, the precision-guided bombs, all the airplanes and bombs, it’s all from the U.S.” He added: “Everyone understands that we can’t fight this war without the United States. Period.”

Because of federal laws and minimal decency, the U.S. should have cut off all military aid to Israel long ago. A single standard of human rights should apply. But adhering to that simple, basic precept can provoke the virulent accusation of “antisemitism.”

The gist of the trick is to equate Israel with the Jewish religion — and then to equate opposition to Israel’s actions with antisemitism.

And so, writing in the New York Daily News last November, an official at the American Jewish Committee declared that a “virus of antisemitism has spread to the U.S., where college campuses and city streets have been taken over by anti-Israel protesters raging, ‘From the river to the sea!’ — a call for the mass murder of Israelis, and ‘Globalize the Intifada!’ — an appeal to kill Jews worldwide.” But Peter Beinart pointed out in a 2022 essay, “Under the definition of antisemitism promoted by the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee and the State Department, Palestinians become antisemites if they call for replacing a state that favors Jews with one that does not discriminate based on ethnicity or religion.”

While Israel continues to slaughter children, women and men — no more guilty of anything than a crowd you might see at a local supermarket — the extreme misuse of the “antisemitism” charge often boils down to: Be quiet. Don’t protest. Don’t even speak up.

For sure, antisemitism does exist in the United States and the rest of the world, and it should be condemned. At the same time, to cry wolf — to misuse the term to try to intimidate people into silence while Israel’s atrocities continue in Gaza — is an abuse of the word antisemitism and a disservice to everyone who strives for a single standard of human rights — like the17 rabbis and rabbinical students who went to Capitol Hill last week urging a ceasefire and an end to the unconditional U.S. military aid to Israel. 

“We are rabbis representing hundreds of thousands of Jews affiliated with Jewish Voice for Peace Action imploring our leaders to end their complicity in the Israeli military’s genocidal campaign in the name of tzedek (justice) and real safety for all people,” Rabbi May Ye said.

Are we supposed to believe that those rabbis are antisemitic? 

The Jewish American author Anna Baltzer grew up learning about the evils of antisemitism. “Much of my family was killed in the Holocaust,” she wrote. “My grandparents arrived at Ellis Island traumatized by the unfathomable murder of their families in the gas chambers of Auschwitz while the world let it happen.” And she added: “We must get clear that Israel’s wiping out of entire families in Gaza is not simply revenge for October 7; Israel is continuing its long-existing practice of forcing Palestinians out of Palestine and closing the door behind them.”

Do Baltzer’s words make her antisemitic?

In mid-October, 43 Jewish American writers, academics and artists — including Michael Chabon, Francisco Goldman, Masha Gessen, Judith Butler, Tony Kushner, and V (formerly known as Eve Ensler) — released an open letter to President Biden saying: “We condemn attacks on Israeli and Palestinian civilians. We believe it is possible and in fact necessary to condemn Hamas’ actions and acknowledge the historical and ongoing oppression of the Palestinians. We believe it is possible and necessary to condemn Hamas’ attack and take a stand against the collective punishment of Gazans that is unfolding and accelerating as we write.”

Along with denouncing Israel’s “war crimes and indefensible actions,” the statement added: “We write to publicly declare our opposition to what the Israeli government is doing with American assistance.

Do those words mean that the signers of the statement are antisemitic?

Or how about the more than 100 Jewish Americans who signed the statement released this week denouncing AIPAC, the Israel-is-never-wrong lobby?

Ten years ago, 40 Holocaust survivors issued a statement condemning Israel for its “wholesale effort to destroy Gaza.” The statement, also signed by 287 people who were descendants of Holocaust survivors or victims, called for “an end to all forms of racism, including the ongoing genocide of Palestinian people” and decried “the extreme, racist dehumanization of Palestinians in Israeli society, which has reached a fever pitch.”

Were the 327 Jewish signers of the statement antisemitic?

For that matter, when I write here that the Israeli government has been committing mass murder and genocide in Gaza, does that mean I’m antisemitic? 

There’s a word for seeing — and saying — that Israel is engaged in large-scale crimes against humanity. And that word isn’t “antisemitism.” It’s realism.

 

The Zionist Tail Wagging the American Dog: A Turnabout?

Having cornered itself into isolation from the rest of the world for supporting the Zionist genocide in Palestine, the US is flailing about like a headless chicken with one-off, haphazard, reactive positions that go nowhere: sanction a few settlers here and there, calling Netanyahu asshole, sending pathetic aid to a starving 2.3 million people by air or by sea.... 

The Israeli tail is still wagging the big fumbling American dog.

But finally, hope looms on the horizon: After months of backing the genocide of the Palestinian people by the terrorist Zionist settler government and sending more arms to conduct said genocide, the US is finally calling for a ceasefire. Remember that calling for a ceasefire has been a death sentence for any American advocating it: Antisemitic, anti-patriotic, terrorist, ... were some of the labels attached to those who want "equal treatment" under the law for both the foreign invading Zionists and the native indigenous Palestinians.

Imagine how, in order to achieve peace, the Palestinians have been generous for accepting that the foreign Jewish invaders keep the land they stole from them, and for forgiving the rabid Zionists for their rape of Palestine. But as the proverb says, "Even if your friend is made of honey, you just can't lick it all off". Colonization is dépassé. Racism is dépassé. Barbaric claims of Jewish racial supremacy over Arabs, of Israelis over Palestinians, when they are really two peas in a pod, just no longer make sense in this 21st century. But violent Zionist terrorists belong to the Bronze Age and they can't seem to extricate themselves out of Yahweh's stupid religious swamps.

The spectacle of the giant US unable, fearful, sissy, castrated and incapable of imposing its will on its own subsidiary colony in Palestine is risible. Perhaps the Zionist colony in Palestine should use its might to overturn the US government (some say Trump and Netanyahu are trying to do just that), secede from America, cut that umbilical cord, become truly independent and no longer depend on the massive American aid without which it couldn't survive 24 hours. Just like the American colonists back in the late 1770s, known as revolutionaries, continentals, rebels, etc.  by the French, but as terrorists by the English, and who declared their independence from mother England. The Zionist colonists should declare they've grown up and no longer want or need their American Mama's protection and its lifeline. They probably think that Yahweh (Yahweh-Akbar) is on their side and that he will save them, and that they can survive another day in Palestine without America's financial, economic and military backing. Let them try.

The daring BBS trio - Biden-Blinken-Schumer - is finally calling for a ceasefire. Not out of heightened ethics. Not out of pity for the Palestinian children. Not out of once, just once, doing the right thing for those human rights they keep propping up against their rivals whenever convenient. But rather, they are calling for a ceasefire because they are terrified at the perspective that no international partner will ever take the side of the US in future conflicts. Remember how the whole world stood by the US after 9-11? That ain't happening again. But perhaps more than anything else, what is driving the sudden American conversion away from blindly endorsing Zionist violence, is Biden-Blinken-Schumer's dwindling chances at remaining in the White Outhouse and in the lead in the Senate.

Just like Netanyahu declares his US-armed Jewish terrorist militia to be the "most moral army in the world", the Americans have long condescendingly lectured the world about human rights, while continuously violating them in their own land. All the stuff about "Manifest Destiny", "Shining City on a Hill", and such self-proclaimed annointments of grandeur... has turned out to be fluff and a smokescreen to hide an imperial, racist, genocidal, white supremacist monstrosity behind it.

On January 9, 1961, the first Catholic ever to be elected president, John F. Kennedy, said in an address to the general court of Massachusetts:

... I have been guided by the standard John Winthrop set before his shipmates on the flagship Arabella three hundred and thirty-one years ago, as they, too, faced the task of building a new government on a perilous frontier. "We must always consider", he said, "that we shall be as a city upon a hill—the eyes of all people are upon us".

But then the Protestants killed Kennedy. Now Joe Biden is America's second Catholic president in all 248 years of its existence, and the neanderthal White Anglo-Saxon Protestants of the Republican Party can't countenance him as a president. Even his Catholic Ireland of origin has denounced him as "Butcher Biden" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndaf7LYsIc8], [https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2024/01/butcher-biden-frau-genocide-van-der.html]. 

Biden needs to show moral strength and overcome his 80-year-old WWII-vintage nostalgia. Times have changed. It's another century. The victim has become a criminal, Joe; adjust to it. No crime can have such a long shelf-life that it becomes a routine excuse for the victim to become the criminal. Biden needs to shown strength not only behind the dais at the State of the Union, but in his own mind; it's tough to keep one's integrity; it's tougher to outgrow fossilized states of mind from another era. The whole world is watching America crawl like a slithering worm at the feet of its Zionist masters and violate every one of its proclaimed values. 

Will Biden himself finally "come to Jesus" and bequeath his country the unprecedented legacy of having emancipated America from the Zionist stranglehold?

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U.S. FINALLY Pressures Israel by Submitting ‘Immediate’ Gaza Ceasefire Resolution at U.N

Dan Ladden-Hall

Thu, March 21, 2024

The U.S. has submitted a draft resolution to the U.N. Security Council calling for an “immediate” ceasefire in Gaza, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday, after months of repeatedly blocking similar calls.

Speaking in an interview with Saudi news channel Al-Hadath, Blinken said Washington, D.C. is now pressing for a ceasefire “tied to the release of hostages” being held by Hamas. He said that the resolution would send a “strong signal” and that while the U.S. supports Israel’s right to defend itself, “it’s imperative that the civilians who are in harm’s way and who are suffering so terribly—that we focus on them, that we make them a priority, protecting the civilians, getting them humanitarian assistance.”

Blinken was asked about how the U.S. is pressuring Israel to protect civilians while still supplying American arms and finances to Jerusalem, as well as vetoing any resolution that calls for a ceasefire at the U.N. Since the conflict erupted in October, the U.S. has vetoed three such resolutions, including one last month that attracted wide support—including from the U.S.’ allies, though Britain abstained—on the grounds that it could jeopardize negotiations involving Qatar, Egypt, and Israel to secure the hostages’ release.

Of the negotiations, which are still yet to secure a new truce, Blinken said an agreement is “getting closer” and that the “gaps are narrowing.” “I believe it’s very much doable, and it’s very much necessary,” he said. “And of course, if Hamas cares at all about the people it purports to represent, then it would reach an agreement, because that would have the immediate effect of a ceasefire, alleviating the tremendous suffering of people, bringing more humanitarian assistance in, and then giving us the possibility of having something more lasting.”

He also reiterated the Biden administration’s opposition to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s stated goal of invading the southern Gaza city of Rafah. Blinken said there is “no effective way” of getting the 1.4 million Palestinians currently sheltering in the city to safety ahead of such a ground operation, and that an Israeli team will travel to the U.S. next week “different way of dealing with the remaining problem of Hamas in Rafah,” though he declined to provide details on what alternative options could be considered.

Blinken’s comments came amid reports Wednesday that the U.S. has received written assurances from Israel claiming that its use of American-made weapons in Gaza is not breaching humanitarian laws. The State Department now has until May to assess if the assurances are “credible and reliable” and report to Congress, as per a national security memorandum President Biden issued last month. Biden could halt arms transfers to Israel if the credibility of the assurances is called into question.

Human Rights Watch and Oxfam submitted a joint memorandum to the U.S. government on Tuesday alleging that Israel is using American weapons and blocking U.S.-funded humanitarian aid in Gaza in violation of international humanitarian laws and that any Israeli assurances to the contrary “are not credible.” The organizations said they had “observed or documented” indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks, the collective punishment of civilians, and the use of “starvation as a weapon of war.”

Israel denies breaking international law.

Nearly 32,000 people have been killed in Gaza—according to Palestinian health officials—over the course of the five-month conflict, which was launched in response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks which Israeli officials say killed 1,200 people. U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres this week demanded that Israel allow humanitarian aid into the enclave after a report warned of an imminent famine, with Guterres calling the crisis “an entirely man-made disaster.”

Ireland: Most Decent European Nation. Most Indecent? England of Course

As victims of English perfidy and savagery over centuries, with their island divided by the forced conversion of Catholics to Protestantism (with blackmailing for food in times of the Great Famine) by English colonial invaders, the Irish people understand the Palestinian people deep in the gut. 

The Irish see themsleves and their history in the ongoing plight of the Palestinians at the hands of Jewish settlers imported by England to Palestine to colonize the country and turn it into an Anglo-Saxon base with easy access to Arab oil.

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Why is Ireland one of the most pro-Palestinian countries?
Justin Klawans, The Week US
Thu, March 14, 2024


Photo composite of [English criminal "Lord"] Arthur Balfour, a vintage map of [historic] Palestine, and scenes of war from the Irish Rebellion and Gaza war. 

As the war between Israel and Hamas nears the six-month mark, the global community remains divided between support for Israel and support for the Palestinian people. Muslim-majority Middle Eastern countries continue to back the Palestinians and most Western governments are standing by Israel, but there is an outlying European Union nation that has consistently shown strong support for the Palestinians: Ireland.

Nearly 80% of Irish people back the Palestinians and think that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, according to the most recent polling. This high level of support for the Palestinian people may come as a surprise to those looking in from the outside, given that Ireland is a majority-white, majority-Catholic country situated more than 2,000 miles away from the Middle East.

While many people in the EU and other Western countries are rallying behind the Palestinians — and support for Israel is slowly declining — Ireland's public backing of the Palestinians is among the highest outside of the Middle East. This support is not new, either — in 1980, Ireland became the first EU country to back the creation of a Palestinian state. Why is Ireland so united in its support for the Palestinian people? 

What did the commentators say?

The root of the support can largely be traced back to historical similarities between the region of Palestine and Ireland. Both are former colonies of the United Kingdom; Ireland gained independence in 1921, while the British ceded Palestine upon the creation of Israel in 1948. Northern Ireland, which remains part of the U.K., also experienced widespread violence from the 1960s to the 1990s during a paramilitary conflict known as The Troubles.

As a result, many people in Ireland say their "experience of British occupation — as well as their own sectarian conflict, and 18th-century famine — gives them empathy and shared history with the Palestinian struggle," Lauren Frayer and Fatima Al-Kassab said for NPR. And beyond the Palestinians, many in Ireland "identify more with the Global South's experience of imperialism and colonialism," Frayer and Al-Kassab said.

Sympathy for Palestinians is "rooted in Ireland's history," Niall Holohan, a former Irish diplomat to the Palestinian Authority, said to The Guardian. The Irish people "feel we have been victimized over the centuries. It's part of our psyche — underneath it all we side with the underdog," Holohan said. He also noted that Ireland's small Jewish population of around 2,500 people — or 0.05% of Ireland's total population — makes the country's Palestinian support more visible. Ireland has become a "template for Palestine" that has "undoubtedly shaped how people from Ireland engage with postcolonial conflicts," Jane Ohlmeyer, a history professor at Trinity College, said to The Guardian.

The "apparatus of occupation — armed military patrols on city streets, military checkpoints, segregated cities and separation walls — that shape daily life today in occupied Palestine" is very similar to the "one once utilized by the British in Northern Ireland," Aisling Walsh said for Al Jazeera. This is the main reason as to "why the people of Ireland widely identify with and eagerly support the Palestinians."

What next?

Beyond public opinion, lawmakers throughout Ireland have also been somewhat of an outlier among EU countries in their support for the Palestinians. Politicians "across Ireland's political spectrum were among the first in Europe to call for the protection of Palestinian civilians and denounce the scale of Israel's response," The New York Times said.

Those at the top of the government have expressed sentiments standing with both Israel and Gaza. Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said he "strongly believed that Israel had the right to defend itself, but that what was unfolding in Gaza 'resembles something approaching revenge,'" the Times said. He has since called for a cease-fire from Israel and the release of the remaining Israeli hostages held by Hamas. Irish President Michael D. Higgins has also condemned Hamas' attacks on Israel while criticizing Israel's response.

Varadkar is set to meet with President Joe Biden on Friday for their annual St. Patrick's Day celebration. That meeting will be used to tell Biden "how Irish people feel, and that is that we want to see a cease-fire immediately, for the killing to stop, the hostages to be released without condition, [and] food and medicine to get into Gaza," Varadkar told reporters.

The Palestinian Challenge to Israel's Right to Exist

Intro by Iznogood: The Daily Beast piece below brings up serious challenges and considerations that both the Palestinians and the Israelis have to accommodate if peace is to ever settle in Palestine. But there is one element that needs to be said bluntly:

One sentence in the piece, "All Israelis have known since their miracle of statehood is the curse of conflict" has my blood gurgling. What did they expect when they steal another people's land and kick them out by sheer violence? Should the indigenous Palestinians have welcomed racist criminal invaders with flowers?

What miracle? The birth of Israel was - and its existence still is - one gigantic episode of Great Replacement, of a barbaric ethnic cleansing of one people, the native indigenous Palestinians, by a foreign people, the European Jews who migrated to Palestine illegally both before and after WWII and the Holocaust. This illegal migration was carried out under the protection of the colluding crooked English colonials and aimed at violently creating a fake new colony where a nation had stood for millennia.

The fact that some Jews arrived to Palestine later after WWII as refugees from German barbarity does not negate the original colonialist idea (pre-WWI) for creating Israel to serve as a forward western base in the Near East: To displace one people and create an otherwise foreign state in the heart of Palestine. 

Now I don't buy - and reasonable rational people shouldn't either - the religious argument of a "return" by the world's Jews to Palestine. The story of the Hebrew people as related in the torah-bible was written as a self-serving fictional saga and should not be taken seriously. Furthermore, even if the biblical account is taken as historically true, the Hebrews themselves did perpetrate a huge ethnic cleansing campaign when they took the land from its Canaanite owners and slaughtered every man, woman, child and animal. Therefore, as far as back as one wishes to go in trying to find a justification for Hebrew-Jewish property rights in Palestine, one must admit that the Promised Land was promised by the Hebrews to themselves; no one, except ultra-religious barbarians, believes that a god named Yahweh talked to Moses and "gave" him and his people the land of Canaan-Palestine.

I have made these points repeatedly in my postings:

- The "returning" Jews are not the genetic descendants of the original Hebrews. They are for the most part Caucasian-Europeans who relatively recently (Mid-1500s or thereabouts) converted to Judaism. As such they cannot invoke a biblical justification to real estate rights in Palestine. If any Jew around the world has a right to Palestine, then any Christian should have the right to invade and conquer Rome, including the Vatican, and also Jerusalem. If any Jew around the world has a right to Palestine, then any Muslim should have property rights to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem. The absurdity of the Zionist "return" argument is unequaled in human history.

- It has been 2,000 years since we last heard of Jews in Palestine. Contrary to the standard assumption, the Hebrews were not expelled from Palestine after the Jewish rebellion and the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD: They stayed, then converted to Christianity around 350 AD, and then again to Islam around 638 AD. In other words, today's Palestinians are the direct descendants of the original Jews of Iron Age Palestine.

There ought to be statutes of limitation on such large population and land claims. Otherwise, our world would sink into more violence than we currently see. Imagine if every empire - Romans, Persians, Greeks, Turks, Italians, Arabs, Indians, native Amerindians, Aborigines, Crusaders, colonial european empires etc. -  were to reevaluate whose land was taken by violence and who is responsible and who should today own the land. If every people on earth starts demanding long-ago rights to property belonging today to someone else, where would such claims end?

Israel's problem is insoluble insofar as the creation of Israel is reasonably unjustifiable by the fact that it was created at the cost of utter harm and prejudice to an indigenous people already existing on the land. Just like Lebanon was assigned to the French mandate, Palestine was assigned to the British mandate: The word "mandate" is important because it meant that the League of Nations deemed the inhabitants of Lebanon and Palestine as sufficiently advanced not to warrant a long term colonial occupation: All that the Palestinians and the Lebanese needed in the aftermath of a devastating World War I and a long 400-year Turkish occupation was to be guided into establishing state institutions and becoming independent fairly quickly. This worked in Lebanon: The French helped the Lebanese draft a constitution, create a parliament and define the modalities of governance of the country. Two decades later, in 1943, the French withdrew from Lebanon which became independent.

The same process should have taken place in Palestine. The British should have assisted the Palestinians in creating their new state institutions to replace the Turkish ones, leading eventually to an independent Palestine. Just like Lebanon. But what wrecked the process was the sudden influx of European Zionist settlers who were bent on establishing a Jewish colony in Palestine. By all means necessary - bribes, threats, financial enticements, terror and warfare - the Zionists slowly expelled the Palestinians from their lands, villages and towns, a process that became a civil war between the poorly prepared Palestinian population and the super wealthy and armed European settlers, a war that culminated in the 1948 catastrophe when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were chased out of Palestine into refugee camps by way of plunder, massacres, rapes and other refined Jewish European methods of "civilizing" the natives.

Given this background, Israel will always suffer from the brand of illegitimacy. Israeli statehood is not a miracle: It is a gigantic act of violence perpetrated by an aggressive Germanic and eastern European cabal with money and weapons against another innocent and unsophisticated people with no money and no weapons. Israel's creation was perhaps one of the easiest geopolitical crimes to commit. But it is only now that the world has taken conscience of the Palestinian tragedy. Forget the fake heroism of the Jewish terrorist organizations (Haganah, Stern, Lehi, etc.) who plundered Palestine to create their foreign colony. There is nothing heroic in taking advantage of an unprepared people (Palestinian) as it emerged from one occupation (Turkish) ready to organize its state under the protection of what should have been a friendly occupation (the English), but which turned out to be a treacherous perfidious behind-the-back sale to a bunch of wealthy colonial German Jewish land-grabbers.

As long as Israel rejects this factual account of its birth, no one, let alone the Palestinians, will accept its existence as a fait accompli. The only path forward, short of one people annihilating the other, is for recognition, forgiveness, repentance, and atonement. Israel must officially apologize to the Palestinian people, just like Germans apologized to the Jews, and compensate the dispossessed Palestinians for the loss of their homes, villages, towns and cities, and the disintegration of their normal existence. Then, and only then, can the two parties perhaps reach a modus vivendi of coexistence, either as two neighboring separate states or one binational country (like Mandela's South Africa).

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Opinion

U.S. and Western Recognition of a Palestinian State Would Ultimately Make Israel Safer
Daniel Bral
Fri, March 8, 2024

Jaded by failed peace talks and content with a relatively static status quo, Israel had been in no rush to finish eating the cake it was also having. That is, until Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attack savagely transcended (and Israeli bombardment cemented) the “Palestinian cause” from a patronizing talking point to a global crisis and unresolved injustice.

Perhaps the single universal point of agreement about what must come is that there can be no return to what was. Gazans, of course, quite literally can’t go back to what was—as the enclave lies largely in ruins. And beyond that starting point, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been largely relegated to an intransigent spectator as international consensus crystallizes around the idea and imperative of recognizing the State of Palestine.

Unilateral recognition of the State of Palestine—a radical action in a pre-Oct. 7 world—is a necessary and just measure to preserve the possibility of a two-state solution precisely at a time when the bleakest chapter in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has seemingly delivered a death knell to the prospect of peace between the two peoples.

Recognition is an act of restorative justice. It rectifies a generational wrong—not the establishment of the State of Israel itself, but the failures of the international community, Israel, Arab leaders, and, yes, Palestinians themselves, to establish a concomitant Palestinian state.

But dwelling on past failures, the appropriate apportionment of blame, and even the specificities of recognition risk obscuring an inescapable truth: Palestinians are a people in need of independence.

The apocalyptic scenes from Gaza couldn’t paint a more vivid testament. Tens of thousands dead, starving, orphaned, maimed, homeless, and hopeless. And then there are the daily indignities of the West Bank—the unrestrained settler violence, settlements, unjust evictions, home demolitions, etc. Combined, Gaza and the West Bank tell a stark story about how unsustainable and unjust statelessness has become and will continue to be.

That’s not to infantilize Palestinians or absolve Hamas, as their past rejectionism and terrorism have undoubtedly contributed to today’s realities. It is to suggest that recognition could unlock the conditions for a saner paradigm because it would offer Palestinians an alternative they’ve largely lacked: hope.

Lagging behind nearly 150 other countries, the West’s recognition would symbolize their sincerity toward redressing the Palestinians’ plight by transcending the mere lip service of a “two-state solution.”

Righteous in its own right, recognition and eventual independence would provide a measure of liberation—a second independence—for Israelis, too. Not liberation from Palestinians, but liberation from the psychological shackles of past traumas, present crises, and future bloodshed.

Israel’s very name, existence, and reputation would no longer be defined by nor tethered to its treatment of the Palestinians. Anti-Israel attitudes and outright antisemitism wouldn’t be cured, of course, but Palestinian sovereignty could rehabilitate Israel’s international standing that—thanks to Bibi and extremist members of his ruling coalition like Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich—is steadily progressing toward outcast status.

Recognition would trigger broader regional acceptance, and the safety, economic, and cultural benefits that will follow.

For all the concern about the threat an independent Palestine would pose to Israel, the cruel irony is that Palestinian statehood represents a lifeline that would actually save Israel from its greatest existential threat: itself.

Kicking the can down the road can support Israeli hubris for only so long until reality beckons with an inconvenient truth: it is impossible for the State of Israel to remain both Jewish and democratic without the establishment of the State of Palestine.

Perhaps most importantly for Israelis, recognition and eventual independence would allow Israel to credibly honor its founding promise and raison d’être: being a safe haven for the Jewish people. The attacks of Oct. 7 didn’t bring to light the irrationality or inherent dangers of Palestinian statehood, they proved that the strategy of containment was nothing more than a house of cards.

All Israelis have known since their miracle of statehood is the curse of conflict. Not by choice, of course. Parents—Israeli and Palestinian—could finally raise the first generation of children who truly know peace. Bouts of violence or lone wolf attacks wouldn’t cease, as is the case elsewhere, but the foreseeable tragedies of endless conflict would be rendered a relic.

Recognition is, therefore, the most “pro-Israel” thing President Joe Biden and Western leaders can do.

The understandable anxieties of traumatized Israelis notwithstanding, Netanyahu’s protestations should be taken with Dead Sea-size grains of salt.

The same man who shamelessly brags about preventing the establishment of a Palestinian state cannot, out of the other side of his mouth, convincingly claim that unilateral actions like recognition would taint the sanctity of the very direct negotiations he’s made a mockery of for his entire political career. It is precisely Netanyahu’s unwillingness to engage in good faith negotiations that leaves the Biden administration and the West with no choice but unilateral recognition to catalyze the unavoidable peace process.

Bibi’s feigned outrage is particularly rich, considering one need only look at the West Bank to appreciate his contempt for unilateralism. Legitimizing such naked bad faith would thus grant veto power over vital United States foreign policy to an admitted saboteur.

Equally disingenuous are claims that recognition would be tantamount to “rewarding” terrorism. Such a talking point overlooks the definitional premise: Hamas doesn’t want a two-state solution. “Giving” someone something they don’t want isn’t a reward, it’s a punishment.

Further baked into that faulty premise is the conflation of Hamas with all Palestinians, the belief that the Palestinians’ primary motivation is not sovereignty but the genocide of Jews, and the illusion that the occupation is a sustainable phenomenon whose bloody effects stop at Israel’s borders.

The perversity of rock bottom is that it has the power to resurrect hope in what has been a hopeless situation. Recognizing the State of Palestine—an overdue moral, ethical, safety, and strategic imperative for Palestinians and Israelis—is the starting point to a path of peace that cannot be bypassed. It may be our final chance.

Compare and Contrast: Auschwitz and Gaza

Take a good look: 

To the right is an adult German Jew starved to death by his fellow Germans.

To the left is a Palestinian child starved to death by German Jews.

The link between the two statements is the word "Jew". Basically, the Germans starved, killed and evicted their own German Jews who then fled to Palestine and, in turn, starved, killed and evicted the Palestinians. The suffering of the Palestinians for the past 100 years is retribution by former victims, the German Jews, against the wrong people, the Palestinians.

If the so-called "Israelis" were to be fair, they ought to be fighting in Germany to recover their homes and their German heritage. Instead these former "victims" found a new and "easier" victim, the Palestinians, to play the executioner with. Misplaced revenge is twice the crime.

The Jews who were starved, killed and evicted by Germans were German citizens, not some foreign terrorist invaders. 

But the Jews who starved, killed and evicted the indigenous Palestinians are foreign German terrorist invaders.

In other words, if the Jews have every right to hate the Germans, the Palestinians are even more in their right to hate the Jews. Yes, the Germans did horrible things to their own citizens of the Jewish faith, but that is not the responsibility of the Palestinians who had nothing to do with the whole affair. Rather, the Palestinians at first opened their country to the fleeing German Jews, and for the first 10-20 years did not suspect what the Jews were planning for them: An elaborate program to expel them from their land, confiscate their homes and villages, erase Palestine from the map and change its name to Israel. A classic case of a wealthy cabal of sophisticated colonialist "white" Europeans invading a third-world "dark" country, enslaving, killing or evicting the indigenous people, stealing their lands and resources, and declaring them extinct: if there is no more a Palestine, there is no Palestinian people either! All under the argument that the Jews were victims of the Germans. If the German Jews had an axe to grind with someone, it is not the Palestinians, it is the Germans. But as we see today: Germany and Israel are best friends - of course, they are both white European Germans - in a weird psychotic Stockholm-Syndrome kind of friendship in which the German guilt - but not repentance - is so blatant that the Germans crawl like worms at the feet of Israel.

Clearly, the Jews fleeing Germany, being themselves Germans to the core, did not have to learn the skills of abuse, rape, murder, torture, starvation and other ethnic cleansing skills that they applied to their Palestinian hosts as they fled their homeland of Germany to Palestine. Those brutality skills of the German people have been fine-tuned over centuries of European barbarism, and are therefore built into the psyche of every German, including Jewish Germans. We see today those German skills of dehumanizing their victims on full display in the German Jewish war against the indigenous Palestinians of Palestine.

As they fled to Palestine where they were at first welcomed by their Palestinian hosts, the German Jews found themselves like a wolf in a hoop barn: Innocent, poor and unsophisticated Palestinian victims were an easy prey to the wealthy savage invading Germans. Being of the Jewish faith did not alter the default brutality that is programmed in their genes. 

On the white vs. dark classification (some argue that both German Jews and Palestinians are caucasian white, but this is not entirely true), I personally - as a geneticist - do not believe in the classification of humans into races. Scientifically, there is no such thing as a "race". What we see in skin, hair and eye color are very superficial minor genetic variations (out of millions of variations that are invisible to our eyes) one finds in every and all groups of humans. Racism is nothing but glorified ignorance. 

But I learned yesterday that the "liberty-and-justice-smitten" white English Americans, back during the great migration of mediterranean people to the Americas in the early 1900s, were discriminating between northern "white" Italians and southern "dark" Italians, segregating them as they arrived to Ellis Island. The Italian "darkies" from the south were seen as savages with strange customs, disease-bearers and with high criminal dispositions, which was compounded by the existence of the Sicilian Mafia. On the other hand, the northern Italian "whities" were seen as similar and equal to the domineering English founder stock. Indeed, those northern Italian whities were steeped in Fascism, which fits very well into the American English racist Ku Klux Klan and the German racist militaristic mindset.

If dark and brown Italians were so discriminated against, can you imagine how other mediterraneans (Greeks, Turks, Lebanese, Syrians etc.) who were also emigrating to the Americas were treated?

Palestine is today paying the price of deep German psychological disorders that I believe will come back to haunt us. I strongly believe that Germany has not fundamentally changed from its Nazi past. The Nazi incubator or matrix, so pregnant with conformity, xenophobia, the herd instinct factor, arrogance and superiority complexes, obedience and compliance to authoritarian rule, is still very much in place in every neuronal circuit of the German mind. Over the years, I often tried to get my German acquaintances to "relax", have a sense of humor, and not be so harsh in applying rules, but I failed to make any headway. One German I knew was so fanatic about being on time that if I showed up invited 5 minutes before the agreed upon time, my host would get upset because he/she "was not ready". And if I showed up 5 minutes late, the reaction was even worse. If trains run on time, then humans should also run on time.

I project that Germany will have play a very insidious role in the building confrontation between Russia and the West. Germany ought not to be trusted.

As explained in: [https://academic.oup.com/book/5539/chapter-abstract/148474923?redirectedFrom=fulltext ]:

Explanations of the Nazi phenomenon took several forms. Some focused on putative psychopathology, either of Nazi leaders or Germans as a whole; some focused on particular German cultural and social adaptations that were thought to produce particularly obedient and authoritarian individuals; still others emphasized the interaction of some or all of these factors with long-term, large-scale historical and cultural processes. Gordon Allport saw prejudice and racism as central to understanding the Holocaust. After Stanley Milgram’s studies appeared in the early 1960s, genocidal behavior was largely seen by psychologists as an obedient response to situational pressures. Recent decades have brought greater diversity in social psychological explanations of perpetrator behavior in the Holocaust and in genocide more generally.

Those explanations apply perfectly well to the Jewish behavior in the American-British colony in Palestine known as Israel:  Obedience, authoritarianism, inborn prejudice and racism. Regardless of whether they like to hear it, but Israelis are by and large heirs to the Nazis: It doesn't matter who is the  victim and who is the executioner; they both hail from the same incubator of German psychosis.

Whatever it is, Zionists are Germanic Jews (genetically unrelated to the biblical Hebrews) who brought to Palestine the same foundational elements of Nazi racism and brutality. In retrospect, the "Zionism is Racism" resolution (November 1975) of the UN General Assembly was on target, but it was ultimately revoked because of the usual propaganda, lies, threats, and harassment by Zionists and their American poodles. Perhaps the Gaza genocide will make such a resolution more compelling a second time around, now that the world finally realizes that Zionists are residual Nazi liars.

Imminent Hezbollah-Israel War: Who Will Strike First?

[Iznogood's Note: The piece below says that on the Israeli side, both Israeli and American military planners are preparing together the upcoming Lebanon genocide, sort of a Gaza II sequel. Meanwhile, the US pretends to be trying to broker a diplomatic solution by dispatching Amos Hochstein whose "penny-pinching" negotiating skills are those of a bazaar merchant trying to swindle his Lebanese "buyers". 

Instead of finding a permanent solution to the 50-year-old manufactured charade in south Lebanon, mighty America is haggling over how many miles should Hezbollah withdraw from the Israeli border, without putting any pressure on Israel to withdraw from Lebanese land it stole as it withdrew from the south in 2000. The crooked and terrorist Israeli settler army back then handed over the area to its supposed enemy Hezbollah, instead of coordinating with, and handing it to, the Lebanese Army and the United Nations contingent of UNIFIL]. Just as it did with Hamas, Israel's game has always consisted in promoting its enemies (Hamas, Hezbollah...) while backstabbing its peace partners (Palestinian Authority, Lebanon's government).

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Official Says Israel Must ‘Strike First’ in ‘Inevitable’ War in Second Country

Tom Mutch -   Sat, March 2, 2024

KIRYAT SHMONA, Israel—“War is inevitable,” Avichai Stern told The Daily Beast, as artillery and rocket fire cracked around us, “If it is only a question of time then making a preemptive attack is a better idea than being sitting ducks here.” Dressed in a smart suit and rimmed glasses, the mayor of border city Kiryat Shmona sticks out among the Israeli Defence Force soldiers in their combat fatigues, toting their machine guns. But they are all agreed on the fight ahead of them. “We are just waiting here for the big war to start,” said Aidan, an IDF soldier originally from the town.

Signs of war are everywhere. Driving to the city, we saw large numbers of Israeli artillery pieces being transported on the back of transport carriers towards the frontlines. Fighter jets flew back and forth overhead, presumably coming from bombing runs towards Gaza or northern Lebanon.

Just a few miles over the border are the fighters of the fearsome Iran-backed militia Hezbollah, their command posts and missile launch sites entrenched in southern Lebanon. Despite being designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S., U.K. and even the Arab League, the militia holds enormous power in Lebanese politics and is considered the world’s most heavily armed non-state actor.

After Hamas militants killed nearly 1200 Israelis on Oct. 7, and Israel began its retaliatory campaign that has killed 28,000 Palestinians in Gaza, a smaller scale conflict started here, with both the IDF and Hezbollah firing sporadically across the border. Around 200 Hezbollah fighters have been killed, along with at least 30 Lebanese civilians and three journalists. On the Israeli side, 12 IDF soldiers have fallen, and seven civilians have been killed.

Our interview with the mayor was temporarily delayed when a siren rang out announcing the presence of incoming rocket fire. Even hearing one of these is lucky, explains Ofri Moyal, a 24-year-old who was evacuated from Shlomi, another border town. “Many of the bombs there, they don’t hear any alarms or sirens because it is too close,” he told The Daily Beast in an interview from the hotel where his family is staying in Jerusalem. “That is why we can’t go home, they have no idea when it is about to hit their houses, there is no siren.” Of Kiryat Shmona’s original population of around 23,000, around a thousand of so remain behind. “Israel fires in one direction, Hezbollah fires in the other. Civilians are stuck in the middle,” he said.

The danger has forced both countries to evacuate tens of thousands of their civilians from the border regions, turning them into what one soldier described as a ‘free-fire’ zone for both sides.

Stern evacuated on Oct. 16 when Hezbollah rockets started landing near his house. Since then, he and his family have been living in a hotel in Jerusalem. Around 96,000 people have been evacuated from the Israeli side of the border. For many, it is their second time. Moyal remembers when he was seven years old, himself and his family were forced to move to tents in southern Israel, after war broke out between Hezbollah and Lebanon in 2006.

Yet it is the prospect of a full-scale war here that keeps Israeli and American military planners up at night. As Stern stands outside his office in the city center, now transformed into a military style command bunker he shows us a video, produced by a Hezbollah propaganda channel which shows a plan for a Hezbollah strike on northern Israel. First, thousands of rockets will be fired from hidden launch facilities. Then, thousands of seasoned troops would swarm down and capture towns such as Shlomi, Metulla and Kiryat Shmona, taking hostages and human shields among the civilian population to dissuade further Israeli strikes on their positions.

Before Oct. 7, plans like these were treated as empty bluster—now they are taken deadly seriously. In a 34-day long war in 2006, Hezbollah fought the IDF to a standstill on the ground, denting the perception of military superiority Israel had enjoyed over its Arab neighbors ever since the first war in 1948.

Israelis speak of Hamas with contempt and disgust. They speak of Hezbollah with fear and grudging respect. “Hezbollah is not just a terrorist group” Stern says, “they are a great powerful military, their troops fought in Syria in the last six years, they are well trained and ready for war.”

A report by Reichman University’s Institute for Counterterrorism from before Oct. 7 recently detailed the lack of preparation in Israel for the realities of all-out war with Hezbollah. It said, “Beyond causing immense destruction in Israel, including thousands of casualties on both the frontlines and the home front, causing public panic, a central objective of the multi-front attack will be to collapse the IDF’s air defense systems. Precision-guided munitions and low-signature weapons, such as loitering munitions, drones, and standoff missiles, will attempt to physically strike and destroy Iron Dome batteries.” “It was a miracle they didn’t co-ordinate their assaults on Oct. 7” said one local IDF security official. “Or we simply wouldn’t have been able to stop them”.

“Since 2006”, Stern says, “Hezbollah took their time to buy ammunition. To increase their Radwan unit from 5000 to 10,000 Increase their missile from 1000 a day to 4000 a day. It isn’t legitimate, we won’t let the people of Kiryat Shmona be killed... an evil force like Hezbollah they have to be eliminated.”

He goes on to elaborate a controversial equation that critics say is at the IDF’s strategy, not just in Lebanon but in Gaza. “We must create an equation that anyone who threatens Israel will be hit much more… they must be threatened by us… everyone in the Middle East who has bad intentions for Israel must be taught a lesson.” This is the unofficial strategy elaborated by a former IDF commander, Gadi Eisenkot in 2008 called the ‘Dahiya doctrine,’ named after a suburb in Beirut, that was a Hezbollah hub, before it was annihilated by Israeli airstrikes in the 2006 retaliation. The doctrine specifically calls for overwhelming force to be used as a response to attacks on Israel in order to deter the enemy from ever attacking again.

As he put it “we will wield disproportionate power against every village from which shots are fired on Israel and cause immense damage and destruction.” Israel’s critics believe that this doctrine is at the heart of its tactics in the current war in Gaza, where it has leveled major population centers with huge civilian casualties. Stern agrees that Beirut would be a major target in a wider war, “We would not hesitate to strike at the heart of Lebanon,” Stern said.

For Israeli officials, this is necessary to deter wider threats emanating from Iran and its proxy network in the region. “Understand that everything is about Iran. Hezbollah and Hamas are proxies of Iran, and this is why they have the same ideology and are capable of the same atrocities,” said Stern.

Hezbollah chiefs have expressed equal confidence in their supposedly inevitable victory. In a speech given in early November, Hezbollah’s Secretary-General, Hassan Nasrallah said that “Israel has revealed itself to be a weak state, as fragile as a spider web” and promised to fight until Israel’s destruction.