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Nothing but the truth. Even if against me.

Monday, October 28, 2024

Trump Voters: Uneducated, Racist, Religious Bigots

Who are these Americans who vote for the criminal felon, liar, mysognynist, racist, adulterer, rapist, tax cheat, would-be Fascist autocrat and twice impeached Donald Trump?

Hillary Clinton summed it up well: They are the "deplorables" of America. Thanks to democracy, a large swath of the American population thrives on mediocrity and ignorance, on racism and xenophobia, on a vulgar culture of drunkenness and violence, and on bigoted religiosity.
 
Mediocrity, Ignorance and Inferiority Complexes:  
The bulk of the MAGA crowd have less than a high school diploma and are literally ignorant of their country and its place in the world. They often blame the media and the elites because they have an inferiority complex toward intellectuals and educated people (the stereotypical "nerd"). The nativist MAGA crowd knows it is inferior. It knows it has fallen behind by believing that the world in the 21st century can still be dealt with like the pilgrims and pioneers of the 16th century: A cabin in the woods, a gun, and no government.
 
Still, the media too are to blame for catering to this mostly rural segment of poorly educated American society with hypermagnified self-ingratiating myths of superiority, manifest destiny of the "greatest nation on earth and in history". The fact, however, is that it is immigrants, and not those native backwoods peasants who hate immigrants, that make America great with its science, technology, military prowess and entrepreneurship. It was the wealthy elites that produced the founding fathers, not the peasants who served as mere cannon fodder for the wars fought by the elites (independence, secession, civil war etc.)
 
As both the demographics of the United States have changed, and as the world is rejecting power monopolies, the MAGA crowd are nostalgic of a time that is no longer. And in their ignorance, they refuse to adapt and adjust. That is the essence of conservatism. John Stuart Mill once said, “Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives". Instead of accepting that change is inexorable, they dig their heels, reject evolution, cling to religion, and think that a moron like Trump can take them back to an America of apple pie, baseball, hot dogs, Sunday church and Chevrolet. The MAGA phenomenon is probably the last breath of this vanishing pool of imbeciles. Problem is they still make up half of America, and the Electoral College scam keeps them afloat. 
 
Xenophobia and Racism: 
Ignorance is generally the crucible of racism. Racists are ignorant people who do not understand difference. Just as any new idea that is different from their own ideas is suspicious, anyone that seems different (skin color, clothing, accent, etc.) scares the hell out of them and drives them to be hateful. Before the Internet and television, many people in rural America had never seen the ocean or seen a dark-skinned person. To them, a black or dark-skinned person was such a shocking revelation that they attributed to them at best a lesser human nature and worse an evil nature. To this day, the ignorance of rural America (that refuses to study genetics and biology, and prefers the barbaric bible as a source of knowledge) still makes its residents vicious racists who can't seem to accept a black or dark-skinned person as their equal. 
 
These are the bulk of the MAGA Trump voters and the bedrock of southern racism, the KKK, and segregation. They hate everyone that does not look, pray, or sound like them (Blacks, Mexicans, Jews, Catholics, Asians, etc.), and they love those who look like them (in fact their ancestors the English, Germans, Scandinavians, etc.). That is why they are anti-immigration. They don't want more of the "others" in this country, as if this country first belonged to them to begin with, and ignoring the fact that it was immigrants who built this country and gave ot its greatness.

Credulity, Religion, and Outlier Beliefs
Again, ignorance does not give a person sufficient latitude to make rational judgments on events surrounding them. Every living being has a specialization that allows it to survive in its ecosystem. Two living beings with identical specializations end up competing with one of them ultimately disappearing. For us humans, our specialization is our brain. We don't have wings, claws, poisonous glands, etc... We are very average when it comes to our physical capabilities, we don't run fast, swim fast, fly high.... But our brain - intelligence - allows us to magnify our physical attributes with tools, instruments, machines, etc. Problem is our brain wants answers to all questions raised by the environment. When we have facts to explain something, our brain is satisfied with the answer. But we do not have facts to explain something, our brain invents an answer, credible or not. This is where religions and weird beliefs come from in human societies. The more verified proven facts we have, the less we rely on "magical" religious explanations, and the less facts we have the more we rely on religion and weird beliefs.

Now where do verified facts come from? They come from the opposite of ignorance. Donald Trump is certainly the master of ignorance, which he doubles with a Mafioso criminal mind. But of all MAGA idiots out there besides the boss, one person stands out and embodies ignorance to the hilt, and her name is Marjorie Taylor Greene. 

I have pity for these people as much as I hate them. They are a living tragedy.

Machismo, Big Balls, and Brawn (no brain).

Being the ignoramuses described above, Trump voters think like Hollywood fictional characters: They look for heroes, superheroes, charismatic terminators who can take the enemy down with one blow. The "Strongman" disorder that is not the sole purview of American barbarians, since many autocratic dictatorisl countries have their "strongmen" in power. The difference, though, is that in backward countries like China, Russia, Myanmar, Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia, etc... these strongmen ascended to power by force, by coercion, by cheating in elections.... and against the will of their people.

Unfortunately for the US, the ignorant dumb and ugly rural Americans are electing such a tyrant to power. They crave his authoritarianism. They adulate his "masculine bravado". They want the superhero. The savior. The mediocrity of Hollywood has confused reality and fiction in their minds, and they genuinely believe that a strong bullshitter like Donald Trump is the savior who will save America from progress. He will stop progress and take us back in time. Note that the "Make American Great Again" implies a return to the some lost paradise past. "Again" is a throwback to a time in the past. Just as in any Hollywoodian fictional narrative, the superhero will erase the evil and take us back to the previous period. But this is fiction, pure and simple. Donald Trump can never take America back to the heyday of the 1800s, or even that of the 1950s. If his herd of ignoramuses do actually bring him to power, they are in for a big disappointment.

Sunday, October 27, 2024

Trump's Racist and Crude Insults at Madison Square Garden Event

Puerto Rico is a "floating island of garbage".

Kamala Harris is "the devil". 

Kamala Harris began her career as a prostitute.

Harris is “the Antichrist”. 

Harris and her pimp handlers will destroy our country.

Harris is “lazy,” a racist trope used against Black people.

“The migrant invasion of our country ends”.

Both Trump and his illegal-migrant friend Elon Musk have been discussing the US elections with their friend, Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The buffoon Hulk Hogan appeared on stage wearing a giant red, orange and yellow boa and violently waving a large American flag. He spat on the stage during his speech, flexed his muscles repeatedly and told the audience: “Trump is the only man that can fix this country today.”

Convicted felon Trump has denounced his political rivals as “enemies from within”.

New York City has indicted Trump last year on 34 felony counts of cheating and falsifying his business records to evade taxes.


 

Saturday, October 26, 2024

Want Better Proof of Zionist Conspiracy? Israel's Freewheeling Crimes Against Humanity

UN: Darkest Moment is Unfolding in Palestinian Gaza 

Israel's Objective: Ethnic cleansing. By terrorizing and starving the Palestinian population, and denying it every basic human need, including medical care, it aims to push the Palestinians to "voluntarily" leave, then claim that the Palestinians left of their own will. Zionists did it in the Nakba of 1948: Massacres, rapes, burning of crops, demolition of homes, etc. forced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians out of their ancestral lands to make way for the foreign Zionist colonizing settlers to move in. Six hundred indigenous Palestinian villages were erased from the maps or given Jewish names. There are mass graves everywhere underneath parking lots and buildings in and around Israeli settlements. Zionist propaganda still says that the Palestinians left their villages and towns "of their own will". Yet, the Zionists refuse to allow them back in compliance with every UN resolution since, including the one that created the artificial state of Israel.

Israeli forces have breached a hospital compound in northern Gaza as the United Nations warned the war’s “darkest moment” was unfolding in the north of the Strip.

After days of laying siege to the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya, the Israeli military twice entered the hospital compound over the past 24 hours and opened fire at parts of the complex, the Gaza health ministry and the hospital director told CNN.

The facility is running low on supplies and is in desperate need of aid as injured people from neighboring areas pour in following Israel’s renewed offensive in northern areas, according to health authorities.

One of the darkest moments of the Gaza conflict is unfolding in the north of the Strip,” the UN’s human rights chief Volker Turk said Friday.

The Israeli military is effectively subjecting an entire population to bombing, siege and risk of starvation, as well as being forced to choose between mass displacement and being trapped in an active conflict zone,” he added, warning that
Israel’s actions amount to crimes against humanity.

Gaza’s health ministry said Saturday that Israeli troops have detained all male medical staff at the hospital “while confining women in one of the hospital rooms without water or food.”

World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday that since the raid on Kamal Adwan hospital, WHO has “lost touch with the personnel there.”

“This development is deeply disturbing given the number of patients being served and people sheltering there,” Ghebreyesus said on X. Prior to Friday’s raid, he said, WHO and its partners managed to reach Kamal Adwan “amid hostilities in the vicinity, and transferred 23 patients and 26 caregivers to Al-Shifa Hospital.”

Ghebreyesus said later Saturday that Israel’s raid on the hospital was over, but came “at a heavy cost.” After 44 male staff members were detained, the hospital’s female staff, the hospital director and one other male doctor were left to care for “nearly 200 patients in desperate need of medical attention,” said Ghebreyesus.

Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, the hospital director, said in a video that Israeli tanks and bulldozers entered the hospital compound late Thursday and began firing at parts of the complex, adding that “all departments of the hospital are under direct shelling.”

“Instead of receiving aid, we are receiving tanks,” he said.

After an hours-long communications blackout and “intense bombardment,” Safiya told CNN late Friday that Israeli troops were still present in the hospital.

“We all gathered in one place, and then the army called for me. When I went down, they put me inside a tank and began
interrogating me about my statements and contact with the media,” Abu Safiya recounted. [The Israeli terrorist settlers were not looking for Palestinian "terrorists"; they wanted to silence the truth].

He said the Israeli military were “searching all the rooms, evacuating the displaced people and removing 44 staff members” as he spoke. “The situation is extremely tragic and terrifying, and the bombing is continuous,” Abu Safiya said.

Kamal Adwan is one of three minimally operational hospitals in northern Gaza, and the closest to Israeli military activity in Beit Lahiya and the Jabalya Refugee Camp. Despite its limited capacity, it has been receiving most of the injured from the surrounding fighting.

The Israeli military claims that its forces are operating in the area of the Kamal Adwan Hospital based on lies about "intelligence information regarding the presence of terrorists and terrorist infrastructure”.

COGAT, the Israeli agency that manages the flow of aid into the strip, said on Friday that with the help of UNICEF and WHO, several patients and their escorts were evacuated from the facility. The hospital was also given fuel, blood units and medical equipment.

Maher Shamiya, an official with the Gaza health ministry, told CNN Friday that the Israeli military had demolished parts of the hospital’s wall. The oxygen station had also been damaged by Israeli fire, he said.

Shamiya said that the military had entered the hospital yard for a second time on Friday morning and had begun separating men from women.

“After that, it became impossible to communicate with anyone.”

In his video message, Safiya said he was “shocked by the entry of bulldozers and tanks into the hospital compound,” adding that tanks began firing at the upper floors, shattering windows and “creating an atmosphere of panic, terror, and fear.”

“Everyone in the hospital gathered in the stairwell; it was a very distressing scene,” he said.

One video showed Abu Safiya speaking from within the Intensive Care Unit, where patients and medical staff were huddled. He said that some severely injured people were dying. Abu Safiya said that a number of properties around the hospital had been set on fire.

Later Thursday night, a convoy of supplies from the World Health Organization reached the hospital, he said. Video showed a fuel tanker and other vehicles close to the facility.

Abu Safiya said the convoy delivered enough fuel for five days, as well as 200 units of blood and a few other supplies, but no food or water.

He said he had been in touch with Israeli officers. “I explained the situation of the patients and the injured people in the hospital, emphasizing that their condition was extremely critical and that evacuation was necessary.”

Abu Safiya also said that there was a large number of injured people in the Jabalya area of northern Gaza, which has been subjected to intense Israeli military operations in recent days. “We have no medical assistance that can reach them, and I do not have the means to help them even if they were able to reach us. We have nothing to offer them.”

It has been 21 days since Israel ramped up its military operation in northern Gaza. Authorities say the military has stopped aid from reaching parts of the area and displaced many of its residents.

BDS Makes Progress, Driven by Fear of Entanglement in Humanitarian Law Violations




Thiel's Palantir dumped by Norwegian investor over work for Israel
Stefania Spezzati and Gwladys Fouche
Fri, October 25, 2024



FILE PHOTO: Logo of U.S. software company Palantir Technologies is seen in Davos


By Stefania Spezzati and Gwladys Fouche

LONDON/OSLO (Reuters) - One of the Nordic region's largest investors has sold its holdings in Palantir Technologies because of concerns that the U.S. data firm's work for Israel might put the asset manager at risk of violating international humanitarian law and human rights.

Storebrand Asset Management disclosed this week that it had "excluded Palantir Technologies Inc. from our investments due (to) its sales of products and services to Israel for use in occupied Palestinian territories."

The investor, which manages about 1 trillion crowns ($91.53 billion) in assets, held around 262 million crowns ($24 million) in Palantir, a spokesperson told Reuters.

A representative for Palantir, based in Denver, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Storebrand said Palantir had not replied to any of its requests for information, first lodged in April.

The data analytics firm, co-founded by billionaire Peter Thiel, provides militaries with artificial-intelligence models.

Earlier this year, it agreed to a strategic partnership to supply technology to Israel to assist in the ongoing war in Gaza.

Palantir has previously defended its work for Israel. CEO Alex Karp said he was proud to have worked with the country following the Hamas attacks in October last year and in March told CNBC that Palantir had lost employees and that he expected to lose more over his public support for Israel.

Storebrand's exit follows a recommendation from Norway's government in March warning businesses about engaging in economic or financial activity in the Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories, the asset manager said in its third-quarter investment review published on Wednesday.

The International Court of Justice, the United Nations' highest court, said in July that Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories including the settlements was illegal.

Israel's foreign ministry rejected that opinion as "fundamentally wrong" and one-sided, and repeated its stance that a political settlement in the region can be reached only by negotiations.

Storebrand said its analysis indicated that Palantir provides products and services "including AI-based predictive policing systems" that support Israeli surveillance of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.

Palantir's systems are supposed "to identify individuals who are likely to launch 'lone wolf terrorist' attacks, facilitating their arrests preemptively before the strikes that it is projected they would carry out," Storebrand said.

It added that, according to the United Nations, Israeli authorities have a history of incarcerating Palestinians without charge or trial.

A U.N. Special Rapporteur said in a 2023 report that "the occupied Palestinian territory had been transformed as a whole into a constantly surveilled open-air prison."

Israel rejected the U.N.'s findings.

In September Reuters reported that Norway's $1.7 trillion wealth fund may have to divest shares of companies that violate the fund watchdog's tougher interpretation of ethics standards for businesses that aid Israel's operations in the occupied Palestinian territories.

($1 = 10.9253 Norwegian crowns)

(Reporting by Stefania Spezzati in London and Gwladys Fouche in Oslo; Editing by Tommy Reggiori Wilkes and Matthew Lewis)




Thursday, October 24, 2024

What is the Difference between Netanyahu and Sinwar?

 In their typical propaganda machinery, supporters of colonial Zionist terrorists are claiming that Qatar’s Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, the mother of Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani,  praised the dead Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar by saying that his name - Yayha - يحيا - in Arabic means "The one who lives". 

Besides the linguistic interest, supporters of Zionist colonial terror are actually quite biased in ignoring that Israel's "state terrorism", ever since the first ethnic cleansing of 1948 and still currently in practice across Palestine, is simply terrorism on a much bigger scale than anything Hamas did on october 7. 

The Zionist propagandists want you to ignore that what they always conveniently labeled as Palestinian terrorism - from its secular nationalism of the late 1960s to its present cloack of Islamic nationalism, including those "terrrorists" like Yasser Arafat and many others with whom Israel signed peace treaties it later violated - is fundamentally acts of resistance against a foreign settler invader and criminal ethnic cleanser of native indigenous people. Did anyone reproach the Algerian resistance of the 1950s and 1960s against the French colonial occupier for their use of Islam as a rallying ideology? The leaders of the Algerian resistance and their political descendants are after all those who run the country today and receive respect and recognition from the entire world community. 

Then, even if I reduce Palestinian resistance to terrorism just to abide by the Zionist Big Brother dictate, isn't the enemy of Palestine, Israel itself, founded on barbaric religious arguments from the Bronze Age, just like Iran and its affiliates like Hamas and Hezbollah? Isn't the present Israeli government made up of ultra-religious torah-thumping terrorists not unlike those of Koran-thumping Hamas terrorists, with the difference that Israel terrorizes innocent civilian populations with sophisticated technology, killing people from a distance, while Hamas terrorists kill people up close, face to face, with knives and rocks? Does the magnificence of a killing tool really mark the distinction between what is terrorism and what is not?

I am supposed to be shocked by the comments of the mother of the Qatari emir. But shouldn't I be equally shocked that a designated war criminal - a fancy title for a terrorist - like Benyamin Netanyahu and his coterie of radical ultra-religious barbarian ministers with weird eatsern european names like Ben-Gvir and Smotrich, are allowed to address the United Nations like some respectable leaders of a decent country? Israel, let us not forget, is an artificial Jewish colony implanted in a land not its own by the western perpetrators of the Holocaust trying to atone for their own crimes against Jews by dumping their remaining Jews on the Palestinian owners of the land.

Netanyahu is a terrorist, just like Sinwar, because they both kill innocent civilians and terrorize entire populations, in the name of their respective barbaric religions from the Bronze Age of humanity. But Palestinians have the intellectual advantage of being the victims of a foreign invading colonial settlers who never owned the land, except according to a bullshit religious text written some 2800 years ago and endlessly edited over the centuries to create self-promoting fiction. You'd have to be an idiot to believe the garbage of the torah-bible, but you have to be a criminal idiot to use its text to justify atrocities and ethnic cleansing, and as some sort of property deed to a land you have no right to. 

Enough Islamic terrorism. Enough Jewish terrorism. Enough.

 

Thursday, October 17, 2024

US-born White Evangelical Arkansas Pastor: 100 Counts of Child Sex Abuse

To the delight of his herd of stupid faithful, in the backward American state of Arkansas, sex preda-pas-tor James Vincent Henry was arrested on charges related to child sex abuse. God bless their soul, those evangelicals miscreants claim to know God's thoughts while slipping their hands into children's underwear. I think thus is exactly what Martin Luther had in mind when he launched the Protestant Reformation: Rid the church of sexually-repressed chaste Catholic priests and replace them with sexual predators albeit-married Protestant pastors.

The white fatso you see in the picture below is a man of the christian God, a so-called pastor with a herd of imbeciles whom he bilks out of their money. Didn't the christian God say, through his radical extremist Jewish supremacist son Jesus, "let the little children come to me"? Let me emphasize that Jesus insisted on the qualifier "little" because pastor Henry apparently was following Jesus's teachings by preferring them "little". I bet you this US-born white aryan protestant monster hates everyone else: Catholics, Black people, gays and Jews, and is a Trump voter.

But Trump keeps reminding us that immigrants are rapists, criminals and gang members. Hence the confusion. If primitive backward states like Arkansas, that used to elevate slavery to the level of a divine-mandated institution, produces white criminal pigs like Pastor Henry, born and bred in the American heartland, can Trump be wrong?


Arkansas pastor charged with 100 counts of crimes related to child sexual abuse material

Pastor Henry lives, worships and leads his herd in the town of "Delight" in Arkansas. What a joyful coincidence that pastor Henry found his personal "delights" in abusing little children. His Southern boutique church is called the Crossroads Assembly of God Church. In jail, he'll have plenty of time to consider the crossroads he missed in his twisted life as a bigoted man of God who liked little children.

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children tipped off local police on Sept. 25, 2024 based on messages on Snapchat and Kik were collected after agents executed a warrant. Henry was arrested on Oct. 15 and charged with 100 counts of possession, viewing, and distribution of child sexual abuse material, the release states.

On the web site of the Crossroads Assembly of God Church, Henry is said to have once served as the youth pastor at some other church in the state of Arkansas - hence surrounded by children- and that he and his wife were foster parents to 76 children in four years at New Beginnings Children’s Home outside Centerton - again surrounded by children. He very diligently abided by the teachings of Jewish son of God, Jesus, to "let the little children come to me".

 

Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Macron Breaks a Taboo: Israel was Created [out of nothing] by the UN

Sometimes, when your enemies spar amongst themselves, they let out truths that they've so far held secret. 

Everyone knows that, in 1947, Israel was artificially created over the ashes of historic Palestine by a heavily-biased newly-born United Nations composed at the time of the 50-or-so guilt-laden former Fascist and colonial western countries that had perpetrated the Holocaust. 

Though the English crooks had since 1918 a mandate over Palestine granted by the precursor of the UN, the so-called League of Nations, they sold Palestine to wealthy European Zionist bankers and allowed hundreds of thousands of European Jews to illegally enter Palestine and massacre and ethnically cleanse the indigenous Palestinian population. The accomplices in the crime, namely the western countries that owned the infant UN, declared this European Jewish colony an independent state called Israel. 

For proof of the colonial artificiality of Israel, just look at its "map": It is a long sinewy stretch of land that basically follows the coastline of Palestine from north to south where the millions of illegal European Jewish invaders first landed "fresh off the boats" between the 1920s and 1940s. Otherwise, most of the land of Israel is taken by the Galilee in the north which remains a mostly Palestinian territory where the so-called "Israeli Palestinians" live, and by the Naqab desert in the south where Arab Bedouins dominate. "Jewish" Israel has no center and no internal geographic coherence. It has only settlements (recently established), while Palestine has villages (ancient millennial dwellings). 

The center of the land is still in the Palestinian interior of the West Bank, where many Palestinian refugees and escapees from the 1947-1948 Zionist carnage along the coast fled for shelter as the Jewish terrorist organizations Irgun, Lehi, Haganah, etc. bombed, raped, killed and rampaged with the unique purpose of expelling the native indigenous Palestinians from their lands, villages and homes. 

Which explains why the Zionists continue to wage war and establish colonies in a desperate attempt to annex the West Bank and Gaza. That was part of their original plan back from 1948 of taking all of Palestine, from the River to the Sea. If you look at the boundaries between Palestine and Israel as they stand today, the only significant part of the Palestinian heartland that the Zionists have managed to steal is Jerusalem: The city is at the tip of an arrow-like thrust from the West by the invading Jewish settler hordes as they try to pierce through the heart of ancestral Palestine. This alone points to the colonial and artificial nature of the Jewish colony in Palestine.

As they felt guilt and remorse at having contibuted to the crime of creating this monster in a region where it does not belong, those same western monopolizers of the UN created an agency specifically tasked with caring for the millions of Palestinian refugees that were expelled from their lands, villages and towns. This agency is called UNRWA, and Israel is doing everything it can to destroy UNRWA and deprive the Palestinian refugees of any assistance. If UNRWA ceases to exist, then the Palestinians refugees no longer exist, and the claim of an independent Palestine dies, which is exactly what Israel wants: The millions of Palestinian refugees would vanish out of existence.

Israel is artificial because the last time there was an "Israel" in Palestine was ~800 BC, some 2,800 years ago. That "Israel" was divided into two enemy kingdoms (Judah and Israel), and they lasted a mere 200 years. Second, those "Jews" who claimed to want to turn the clock back 2,800 years are by no means genetic descendants of the original Hebrews of 800 BC. Hard as they tried, Israeli scientists have failed to find any genetic link (DNA analyses of all kinds) between modern-day Israelis and the Semitic Hebrews of the Bronze Age. In fact, many studies show that today's Palestinians are the descendants of those Hebrews from Jesus's time, who never left Palestine after the Romans destroyed the temple in 70 AD, and who were then forced to convert to Christianity by the Roman Empire (mid-4th century), then to Islam by the conquering Arabs (8th century). 

Today's Israeli "Jews" are of Eastern European descent: They came from a population - the Khazars - in the Eurasian Caucasian region (southeastern section of modern European Russia, southern Ukraine, Crimea and Kazakhstan) who began converting to Judaism around the year 740 AD  and well into the upper Middle Ages. In the ensuing centuries they migrated westward to form the European Jews known as the Ashkenazis, Israel's largest community of settler Jews.

Just look at the average Israeli Jew, especially the extremist ultra-religious barbarian Haredim who form the essential base of the Zionists, and they have blond-red hair, blue eyes, wear traditional Russian fur hats and other eastern european clothing (long coats) that clearly have nothing to do with near-eastern Palestine whose culture is fundamentally a Mediterranean one. Just because these Europeans converted to Judaism does not entitle them to the land of Palestine that the unrelated Hebrews ruled 2800 years ago. If one takes their argument and applies it to other religions, then all African or Latin American Catholics (recently converted by colonial Europe) would have a right to the lands of Catholic Europe, say Italy and the Vatican. It is an absurd argument.

So when French President Emmanuel Macron, whose country was a collaborationist country with Nazi Germany during WWII, warns Netanyahu that "he must not forget that Israel was created by the UN", he let out a dirty secret that no one has so far dared divulge in public. The French, like most European and western countries, hate Jews - anti-semitism is a Northern-Western hemisphere (European Christian) creation that never existed in the Eastern (Asia) and Southern (Africa) hemisphere where Jews coexisted in peace for millennia with other peoples including Muslims and Arabs. Jews thrived under Muslim Spain. They thrived in every Arab capital, until the Zionists showed up (e.g. the Jewish Agency) and bribed and threatened them to leave and settle in the new state of Israel for the sole objective of artificially increasing the numbers of Jews at the expense of the Palestinians. 

I personally know three Lebanese Jewish families from my childhood's neighborhood who tearfully came to tell us they were leaving for the simple reason that they were "told" to leave and were bribed with huge sums of money and other enticements. No one chased them. No one persecuted them, except the Zionists who harassed them and forced them under threats of harm to their businesses to leave countries and cities they and their ancestors had lived in for centuries. I recommend reading the newspaper "Alliance Israelite" [available at the Harvard University library] which Lebanese Jews published in the years preceding the creation of Israel and you'll find that it was a thriving community that shared representation with other minorities in the Lebanese parliament and had schools, synagogues and other social institutions across the country.

After murdering half of them in the Holocaust, the Europeans created Israel to get rid of their remaining Jews by dumping them in Palestine. So now it is easy for westerners to pretend to love the Jews as long as they stay away from Europe. Otherwise, since westerners are such human rights lovers whose populations are declining because of low birth rates, and who need migrants, why wouldn't they invite the highly sophisticated Jews of Israel, Europeans by birth, back to their countries of origin in Europe and, in recent decades, North America?

Unlike coward Biden, Macron is essentially reminding the war criminal settler Netanyahu that we, the Europeans who dominated the UN in 1947, made out an artificial colony, Israel, especially for you, European Jews. We helped you ethnically cleanse Palestine, but now you are going too far. Time for some tough love. Given the recalcitrance of the native indigenous Palestinians at disappearing gently into the night of oblivion, the fake Western friends of Israel are taking stock of the disaster they have caused with the uncontrollable monster they have created. So they are left arguing publicly with the Israelis like husband and wife and divulging their dirty secrets. And this is what French Macron has done by reminding his spoiled Israeli brat that 'I made you, and I can unmake you' if you continue with your crimes.

Sunday, October 13, 2024

Trump's Term as President was Much Worse than Biden's

When confronted with the lies, cheating, crookedness, criminality and vulgarity of Donald Trump, his supporters will say, "but he was a good president", or "we were much better off during the Trump years".

But this one BIG LIE that Trump has been selling to the American people because he has no arguments to make in his favor other than inanities and racism and populism. Here is a list of why the economy was much worse under Trump.

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ou really think Donald Trump was a good president? Look at his record | Opinion
Andres Oppenheimer
Updated Fri, October 11, 2024


Here’s the biggest myth that Republican candidate Donald Trump is trying to sell to Americans and to the world: that he was a good president.

Trump’s continuously repeated falsehoods about his record as president have convinced many people who find him to be a horrible person, but nevertheless support him because of what Trump says about his term in office.

“Yes, I know, he’s 78, he’s not as sharp as he used to be, he lies all the time, he has cheated on his wives, he makes racist comments, he is a convicted felon, and he tried to carry out a coup after he lost the last elections. But he was a good president,” a Republican friend told me recently.

Let me share with you some facts to help fight political amnesia. In fact, Trump was one of the worst presidents in recent history. Here are the facts:

A larger deficit

On the economy, Trump left the biggest deficit in U.S. history.

Under Trump, the national debt grew much faster than during his successor Joe Biden's term. Like most populists, Trump cut taxes and spent as if there were no tomorrow, leaving a national debt that will have to be paid by our children and grandchildren for decades.

The national debt rose by almost $7.8 trillion to $28 trillion during Trump’s four years in office, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The debt has kept growing since, but at a significantly slower pace.

As for the country’s economic growth, the U.S. economy under Trump grew by an overall 6.8%. By comparison, it grew by 8.4% in the Biden years.

On the jobs’ front, Trump left office with 3 million fewer jobs than there were when he entered the White House. Granted, that was largely because of the pandemic, but Biden has added nearly 16 million jobs since then.

Granted, inflation was lower under Trump than under Biden. The pandemic disrupted supply chains from China and made consumer prices soar in America in 2021 and 2022. But inflation has since fallen to 2.4%, close to its pre-pandemic levels.

A weakened democracy

On democracy, Trump undermined democratic institutions and the rule of law like no other American president in recent memory. He is the first U.S. president I can remember who tried to stage a coup d’etat to stay in power.

Trump falsely claims to this day that he won the 2020 election, even after more than 60 courts and the conservative-majority Supreme Court found his objections to be unsubstantiated.

Then, he tacitly tried to incite rebellion on Jan. 6, 2021, when he waited for hours before trying to stop a pro-Trump mob from invading the U.S. Capitol in hopes of overturning the election result. He continues to praise the violent rioters who injured more than 100 police officers, calling them “patriots” and government “hostages.”


Emboldening dictators


On foreign policy, Trump weakened America’s standing in the world by picking fights with the closest U.S. allies while at the same time embracing dictators such as Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.

Trump withdrew from the Paris Climate Accord and threatened to abandon the U.S.-European NATO military alliance. Trump’s threats to leave NATO significantly damaged the group’s unity and probably encouraged Putin to plan his 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

If you look at the world in terms of superpower-led blocs, Trump left power in 2020 with a weaker Western alliance and a stronger China and Russia.
 

Reproductive rights

On abortion, Trump appointed three conservative Supreme Court judges who played a crucial role in overturning Roe v. Wade, a ruling that had made abortions legal in the country for nearly 50 years. As a result, some states banned abortions, and some women reportedly died because they could not get proper medical care to end their pregnancies.
 

More hatred

On crime, hate crimes increased by 28% during Trump’s term and hate-motivated murders, mainly committed by white supremacists, reached their highest number in 28 years, according to FBI statistics.

Trump has exacerbated racial hatred in the country since he started his 2016 campaign falsely declaring that most Mexican undocumented immigrants are “rapists” and are “bringing crime” to America. In 2017, he said that there were “very fine people” among white supremacists and the anti-racism demonstrators who were protesting against them in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Trump’s racist statements have worsened since. He recently falsely claimed that Haitian immigrants are eating the pets of Americans in Springfield, Ohio. In an Oct. 7 radio interview, Trump said that unauthorized migrants who committed violent crimes have “bad genes,” a language reminiscent of Adolf Hitler’s efforts to dehumanize Jews.

Also, in 2020, the last year of the Trump presidency, there was the biggest one-year increase in the number of murders since the 1960s, according the Politifact fact checking website. In addition to the pandemic and the George Floyd riots, Democrats attribute the 30% rise in murders to the relaxation of gun control laws under Trump.
 

False border promises

On immigration, Trump never completed the border fence nor got Mexico to pay for it, as he had promised in his 2016 campaign. Trump now claims to have built much of the current 654 miles of border wall, but most of it was already in place. It was mainly repaired or upgraded during his years in office, according to Customs and Border Protection data.

On the COVID-19 Pandemic, Trump scorned face masks and at one point asked Americans to inject themselves with disinfectant to fight the virus. Scientists say many of the 400,000 Covid deaths during his presidency could have been averted if he had exhorted people to get vaccinated.

The list of Trump administration failures goes on and on. So if you are planning to vote for Trump because of something specific he has promised, and you are willing to believe a compulsive liar, go ahead. But please don’t tell me he was a good president: he was a disaster on virtually all fronts.


Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Netanyahu: Failure or Intentional Criminality?

Egyptian Intelligence told Netanyahu that something was afoot several months prior to the October 7, 2023 attack. IDF soldiers themselves warned their own government of the Hamas attack as one soldier confided to NBC News' Richard Engel [See: https://www.yahoo.com/news/idf-soldier-says-she-warned-015420568.html].

For seven long hours into the cross-border Hamas attack, there was no Israeli response whatsoever. Strange for a hyper-militarized state that is always on alert and that brags about its superior intelligence and technological supremacy.

At the same time, the Saudis were about to conclude a normalization agreement with Israel that called, to the chagrin of Netanyahu and his ultra-religious neanderthals, for an independent Palestinian state.

Draw your own conclusions, after hearing Netanyhau beaming and smiling as he keeps repeating that his "retaliation" to the Hamas attack will be new maps of the region, changing the Middle East, etc.

Netanyahu's Jewish Daesh government is just like the Islamic Caliphate (ISIS, Daesh)'s plans for a Greater Islamic Umma ruled by barbarian Muslim radicals on the basis of a literal reading of the Koran. The barbarian Jewish ultra-religious radicals have a plan for a Greater Jewish Israel that will include the entire region from the Nile (Egypt) to the Euphrates (Iraq) based on a literal reading of the equally monstrous Torah bullshit of "God promised us the land".  Who could argue against such a compelling rational scientific reason?

In 1897, when Theodore Herzl decided to steal Palestine from its rightful owners with the help of the British colonial crooks, there were about 1,000 Jews in Jerusalem (and nowhere else in Palestine), some pilgrims, some refugees from the pogroms in Europe.

By 1947 when the European Jews raped Palestine and declared the independence of their foreign colony, there were in all of Palestine 600,000 foreign European settlers and 1.2 million native indigenous Palestinians (two-thirds of whom had been expelled into refugee camps).

The entire process of the creation of Israel is the deliberate and willed construction of a Jewish supremacist state at the expense of indigenous lands and populations. Do not be confused by the instantaneous events - who did what to whom and who started it. Just focus on the trajectory of the genesis of the Zionist idea behind the creation of Israel, the stages it went through, where it is today and where it is clearly going.

Netanyahu has been showing maps in his press conferences and at the UN where there no longer is a Palestine. Period. No west Bank, no Gaza, no Golan.... It's all Israel.

Therefore, in order to implement this gradual encroachment and land theft, Israel constantly needs pretexts to wage expansionist wars, i.e. a war in which it scores a victory thanks to dumb US military largesse, and from a position of the victor, it makes claims to land it did not occupy prior to the pretext and the war. Israel always initiates the violence or war on the inane pretext that it is the victim of its own victims. This is exactly what it did in 1948, in 1967 and every war since. And every time, it gains land. It also gains land by literally stealing Palestinian lands and building settlements. All of this is illegal, but it benefits from impunity because of its blackmail of the West with the guilt of the Holocaust.

As the normalization with Saudi Arabia was coming to a positive conclusion prior to October 7, 2023, Israel decided to wreck the process because it does not want an independent Palestine. Such a Palestine would be a setback to the Greater Israel project so dear to fanatic Jews. Israel never wanted an independent Palestine. Even if the Palestinians had agreed to the partition of 1947, which many blame them for not accepting, do you think the Zionist state would have let Palestine live in peace? Of course not. It would have fabricated pretexts, disseminated lies, and propagated disinformation anywhere it could, with which to wage war on an independent Palestine and destroy it. The process (how Zionists go about it) is less important than the destination (eliminating Palestine from existence).

After Gaza and the West Bank, which will soon be "cleansed" of their Palestinian populations; after the Golan Heights which the Assad regime in Syria doesn't really care about, being more preoccupied with reinforcing Assad's Alawite rule and future independence as a separate state in the stretch of Syrian territory along the Mediterranean; and now with the Lebanese south which Israel plans to annex, including the historic Phoenician cities of Tyre and Sidon. 

Israel is growing in size until the day when Yahweh, the fictional Bronze Age demagogue super hero, will finally send his fucking Messiah and torment the world with Armageddon and be done with all humans. Except of course the Chosen ones who have always been Yahweh's favorite pet people. Sounds like a Hollywood science fiction movie that Cecil B. DeMille missed making, but that is what the Torah/Bible really is.

Should I worry about climate change? Or about Israel's barbarity? Tough decision.

Sunday, October 6, 2024

October 7, 2023: Beyond candles, vigils, tears...Bleak Future for Zionist Colony in Palestine

NO  COMMENT. I WILL NOT COMMEMORATE YET ANOTHER VICTORY FOR THE PERPETUAL VICTIMHOOD CHARADE.

IF I HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN MOURNING 1,200 PEOPLE (ENEMY ADULTS AND SOLDIERS) ON ONE SIDE, VERSUS 42,000 (ENEMY CHILDREN AND WOMEN) ON THE OTHER SIDE, GUESS WHERE A DECENT SENSE OF MORALITY WILL TAKE ME.

Saturday, October 5, 2024

Lebanon's Decline: Who's to Blame?

Iran will NOT wage war with Israel to save Hezbollah. Nor will Israel wage a land war against Hezbollah.

Iran fears the destruction by a far more superior Israeli airforce of its infrastructure. It keeps wavering between wanting "peace' and a "ceasefire" with Israel while at the same time issuing grandiose threats against the Jewish colonynin Palestine. Bottom line: Iran will not take any chance of an open war with Israel to save the skin of its idiots of Hezbollah who now feel abandoned to their fate.

Israel knows that the only war it can sort-of-win is the one it is conducting right now, with massive airstrikes against anything that moves on the ground and underground. But it will not send its terrorist settler soldiers on the ground because it knows they will be slaughtered. Israel's reputation as invincible was built on fighting conventional wars with poorly trained and equiped regular armies whose soldiers have low morale. But when it comes to guerilla warfare, the asymmetry between its massive war machine and a bunch of stealthy fighters hiding in every corner and behind every bush in the Lebanese maquis, Israel knows it will lose. 

Since neither Israel nor Iran want a broader war between each other, the current stalemate will continue as is. Decaptitating Hezbollah will not bring about a victory for Israel; it might scare off potential successors to the leadership but the terrorist organization, like many similar organizations, end up relying on lone wolf type of organization without a leader. And that was, in retrospect, Hezbollah's mistake: As it mutated from an undeground guerilla organization facing its enemy in the south of Lebanon to an army and a structured visible and broader political organization, it became more vulnerable. Therefore, to survive and to be effective, Hezbollah might return to its roots, but with the caveat that it no longer faces its enemy across a front line similar to when Israel occupied south Lebanon. Other than lobbing rockets and missiles into Israel, which would scare Israel but never defeat it (as Hezbollah still claims), there is very little it can do other than take blow after blow.

Not only is Iran abandoning Hezbollah to its fate, but so is Syria and its criminal regime in Damascus. After dying in huge numbers defending the Stalinist regime against its own people, Hezbollah has not heard one word from Bashar Assad who has been eerily silent. He and his vulgar Baath party are not even treating us to the standard Arab nationalist testicular bravadoes. This silence means that Assad is afraid that one of these 2,000-lb bombs comes down from the sky on his "palace" in Damascus. But Hezbollah too has been silent on Assad's cowardice and lack of defense of the ally that saved his skin during the Syrian civil war beginning in 2011. Alternatively, as many of us have long suspected, Assad is in cahoots with the Israelis and secretly wishes that Hezbollah be done with. He has reintegrated the Arab League and after all, he hasn't fired a single bullet from his own Golan Heights that have been occupied and annexed by Israel since 1974. Shouldn't there have been a "resistance" and a "Syrian Hezbollah" on the Syrian-Israeli border? Why is that, barely a couple of miles away, the Lebanese have been getting killed for the past 50 years so that every Arab and Iranian jackass could warmonger and claim to want to liberate Palestine, while the Syrian annexed Golan has been very quiet? 

Nothing has really changed. Lebanon continues to be the only open Arab-then-Persian war front against Israel, a situation imposed on it by every Arab country and by Iran, ever since the Arab League forced Lebanon to cede the south of the country to Yasser Arafat's PLO in 1969 (Cairo Accord), which was then recuperated by Iran that substituted the PLO with Hezbollah. Yet, not one of the Arab countries, and now we find Iran as well, are willing to die for Palestine. Only the Lebanese.

You want to know why? Because of Lebanon's Christians who are deemed disposable by the fucking Arab Muslims all around. On the scale of alterity (otherness) that Muslims have on their hatred roster, Jews occupy the top position. Next down the list are the Christians. Since Jews are inaccessible to them, while Lebanon's Christians have been forced to open their country to every Arab and Persian mongrel, then the Muslims vented their rage at the Christians of Lebanon who have become the proxy enemy that should be sacrificed and must die in lieu of the Jews.

That is in essence the real cause of Lebanon's decline since the early 1970s. After making Lebanon a jewel of a country between 1920 and 1970, the Christians who led the country, in total collaboration with the Muslims mind you, were attacked by Lebanon's Sunni Muslims as not "arab enough" and had to prove their arabity by sacrificing the beautiful country they had built. Between 1970 and 1990, it was the Lebanese Sunnis, backed by every Arab member of the Arab League, no exception, from mild and meek Jordan to mighty Egypt and every son-of-a-bitch Arab in between, who decimated the country militarily, using the Palestinians as their militia, to steal power from the Christian president and give it to the Sunni prime minister. Between 1990 and 2005, the Sunnis economically ran the country to the ground with corruption and subservience to the Syrian occupation and the Iranian Hezbollah terror organization that muzzled any residual Christian opposition. 

After the Shiites killed the Sunni prime minister Rafik Hariri, it was too late for the Sunnis to mount an opposition to Hezbollah which mutated from an underground militia into a political party that quickly seized power and ran the country to the present time. All of this heartache has been under the pretext of liberating Palestine, but only from Christian Lebanon. The stupidity of the Arabs and the Persians goes like this: by destroying the Christians of Lebanon (no. 2 on their hatred list), the Arabs and the Persians thought they could face off directly with the Jews of Israel. Somehow they saw the Christians of Lebanon as an obstacle, and perhaps even as a dry run to their supposed dream of eliminating Israel.

But given Iran's animosity to the Sunni Arabs, the latter jumped into the arms of Israel and the US, and are now the best friend of their Zionist enemy. They have embassies in Jerusalem and Israel has embassies in every other Arab capital, and they still talk about Israel being "the enemy", or the "Zionist entity", and about liberating Jerusalem and praying at Al-Aqsa Mosque. If the history of the barbarian English can be summarized by the "perfidious Albion", the Arabs should be in the Guiness Book of Records as the most perfidious of nations, way ahead of the English.

And so, Lebanon, the tiny, diverse and liberal country by the Mediterranean stood as a thorn in the side of both the Jewish extremists of Israel and the Muslim Arab extremists, and had to be disposed of as the ultimate sacrificial lamb in this whole affair.

The Christians today are again facing the same dilemma. By rejecting war against Israel they are accused of being traitors to the Arab cause, while the Arab custodians of that cause have given up on it. The Christians continue to walk the fine line of not provoking the Muslims while trying to preserve the only country where they can live free.

Enlightened Jewish Settlers Bring Civilization to Primitive Middle East

This picture represents the much-heralded advanced civilization that Jewish settlers are bringing to Palestine and the entire Middle East. 

 

 

When challenged by Zionists to answer the question, "would you rather live in Saudi Arabia or in Israel?", people are expected to answer "Israel" because propaganda has defined Israel as the only democracy in the entire Middle East, while Saudi Arabia is some sort of primitive backward desert of absolute monarchy and autocracy.

But things are not that black and white. Living in Saudi Arabia, I am told, is great if you shut your mouth and do not raise uncomfortable questions that challenge the status quo. The less you think the better you'll be. On the other hand, living in Israel is equally great is you also shut your mouth about the birth of the  "country" as a European colony born out of the raped womb of Palestine. Otherwise, you'll be branded an enemy of the state and a terrorist. Both Saudi and Israel are based on two identical-twin religions born from the same Semitic womb.

Instead of the primitive Arab headdress, Russian hats will usher a more modern look. 

Instead of repetitively bobbing over, and memorizing, the Koran, the more fashionable and civilized repetitive bobbing and memorizing the Torah will take Palestine centuries into the future.

And while much of the world has gradually shunned the male genital mutilation practice called circumcision, the civilized Eastern European Jews will continue to hail the practice as a pact between a nomadic barbarian by the name of Abraham and a Bronze Age god by the name of Yahweh. Problem is that Muslims already practice that same genital mutilation and celebrate it as a pact between said nomad Abraham and the Bronze Age god by the name of Allah. Here, the civlizational influence of Jewish settlers wil be minimal. Dogmatic differences remain as to whether Abraham was told by Yahweh to slay his son Isaac (born to 90-year old Sarah) or his bastard son Ismael who was born from Abraham's diddling and fornicating with his maid Hagar.

Still, there are many cultural advantages that Arabs can draw from being colonized by the more refined European Jews. For instance, they can learn about novel forms of "democracy", namely Herrenvolk democracy (rule by only a specific ethnic group) or Kraterocracy (rule by the strong) or the more common theocracy (rule by a religious elite). Israel is an only-Jews democracy. Just like the German settlers of Namibia in 19000 or the Belgian colonization of the Congo by Kind Leopold II, or the French colonization of Algeria.... all these colonies were "democracies" for the colonizers but not for the colonized. 

So it is in the Jewish Zionist colony in Palestine, born out (1897) of a me-too colonial envy by wealthy German Jews who saw King Leopold II of Belgium acquire the entire Congo as his personal hunting range. Those same German Jews, scientists no less, were adepts of the European supremacist beliefs that by studying and measuring the skulls of the colonized natives one can definitely prove the superiority of the white European race over the natives of any of their colonies in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Hence, the European Jews wanted their own colony, somewhere in the vast expanses of a credulous, innocent and open-minded third world who naively believed the soothing hypocritical words of the colonizers.

The German Jews initially proposed three places they could colonize and create their own little Jewish resort: Uganda in Africa, Argentina in Latin America, and Palestine in the Middle East. As the discussions progressed and the world entered World War I, the British crooks had their eye on Palestine as a new colony to add to their vast empire. Needing money to fund their war effort, the british crooks turned to the wealthy European Jews - now known as the Zionists - for money. The British crooks and the German Jews agreed on a quid pro quo: Money in exchange for Palestine. The british crooks sold Palestine (which was theirs now by virtue of the Sykes-picot agreement) to the German Zionists in what became known as the Balfour Declaration (1917).

Just like the superior German Christians whose massacres, displacement and ethnic cleansing of the Herero and Nama peoples of Namibia were considered "civlizational" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herero_and_Nama_genocide), the German Jews wanted to civilize the people of Palestine by using the same methods of their Christian fellow Germans:  Massacre, displace, etnnically cleanse the native Palestinians and bring in settlers to colonize the "suddenly" empty land. When the zionists claim that Israel was a "land without people", they meant the land after it was ethnically cleansed of 600 Palestinian villages and towns, the mass massacres of many residents of these villages, and the displacement of those who were still alive into concentration camps known as refugee camps. Exactly what the German Christians did to the Herero and Nama people of Namibia.

The Zionists want to make a distinction between zionism and colonialism. But how can any reasonable sane person keep separate and treat differently two movements (colonialism and Zionism) that came out of the same country in central europe, at the same time, that were embedded in the same social norms of the time (scientific racism, eugenics, racial hygenics, colonialism, etc.) and with the same identical motives that were prevalent then: Economic dispossession of primitive peoples by the superior white race. A Jewish Semite, regardless of his insistence on a special "racial" definition of his own identity, remains a "white Caucasian". 

All the stuff that the Zionists borrowed from their own German and Central European environment to lay the bases of their colonial movement was to later be used against the Jews themselves. The early racist German and European colonial movement against the primitive peoples of the third world and the foundations on which it was based, were to be later applied to the Zionists themselves by Hitler and his Nazi movement. The Zionist movement with its deeply disturbing racist and supremacist underpinnings ironically opened a direct intellectual highway to the "Final Solution" and the Holocaust. Racist supremacist German scientists and intellectuals became Nazis and suddenly discovered that their Jewish fellow countrymen, colleagues, friends, partners and relatives were themselves primitives that needed to be annihilated to clean up the German Aryan race.

Israel should today officially accept its genesis in those dark times in human history. It should apologize to the Palestinians for uprooting them from their native land and dispossessing them. It should withdraw from its ongoing barbaric colonial onslaught in Gaza and the West Bank, and allow the Palestinians to establish their own fully sovereign state. If, as Netanyahu keeps remind us, Israel can reach anywhere in the Middle East to punish its enemies, why does it fear a sovereign Palestine next to it? Should such a Palestine pose a threat to Israel, the latter can immediately use its might to neutralize that threat. How different would the situtaion be between such a scenario and the current one: Will Palestinians be any more dangerous to Israel as a free people than under occupation?

But Israel is an expansionist colonial enterprise that has yet to declare its borders. It needs pretexts to keep warmongering and acquiring more land.