One month ago, agents of Hamas somehow infiltrated one of the most heavily defended fortresses of one of the most technologically advanced societies in the world, killed 1,200 Israelis and claimed several hundred hostages. Israel responded by bombing and invading Gaza, in turn killing many of their own hostages alongside more than ten-thousand civilians.

Israel told everyone in Gaza to vacate their walled prison and then bombed the only exit. Israel told everyone in the Gaza strip to flee south before then bombing those very portions of Gaza. And after Israel broadcast an intent to target hospitals to the entire world, they blamed subsequent hospital bombings on Hamas.

Hamas is funded by Israel, which is funded by American tax dollars. This fact was admitted as recently as 2019 when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly announced the need for more funds to help “bolster Hamas” as part of his strategy “to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank”:

“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” he [Netanyahu] told a meeting of his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019.

When Yasser Arafat began peace talks with Israel on behalf of the Palestinians twenty years ago, the threat of peace breaking out led Israel to bolster Arafat’s political competitor:

“Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation,” Avner Cohen, a former Israeli religious affairs official who worked in Gaza for more than two decades, told the Wall Street Journal in 2009.

And in 2015 former Israeli diplomat Avraham “Avi” Primor admitted,

“Hamas is the Israeli government. It was we who created Hamas in order to leverage against Fatah.”

But don’t take it from the aforementioned bureaucrats. According to both Business Insider and The New York Times, Israeli officials actually drove suitcases stuffed with cash into Gaza to keep Hamas in power.

For decades the 2.3 million inhabitants of Gaza have been unable to leave their walled concentration camp. The vast majority of these people are refugees who were displaced from their native lands by a 75-year old occupying force. The 5-mile wide by 25-mile long strip of land called “Gaza” is the only place on earth where refugees will be shot if they try to escape. Israeli snipers shoot to kill anyone who tries to leave, whether by boat or by foot (think of Jon Carpenter’s Escape From New York).

Anyone who grows up in such a prison will inevitably dream of breaking out, violently if necessary, especially after decades of watching friends and family murdered by bloodthirsty fanatics. And now the Israeli authorities have not only cut off water, food, medicine, fuel, electricity as well as internet and telephone communications from the Gaza strip, they’ve also bombed it into oblivion … again.

How is the indiscriminate slaughter of children an act of “self defense”? It is neither spiritually virtuous nor strategically efficacious to bomb hospitals. And yet a brain trust of Israeli doctors are now openly calling for the bombing of every hospital in Gaza as Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu suggests nuking Gaza to help secure Israel’s Zionist ethnic cleansing goals.

As Caitlin Johnstone succinctly observed:

“When you live under an empire of lies you’ll be asked to believe a lot of very stupid things. The dumbest thing we’re being asked to believe this week is that Israel’s intelligence services are simultaneously so incompetent that Saturday’s Hamas attack took them completely by surprise, but also so competent that all the buildings they’re destroying with their relentless bombing campaign on Gaza are directed solely at Hamas.”

Although numerous organizations continue to expend a great deal of effort and resources twisting human rights violations into polarizing debates to ensnare us all in elaborate divide-and-conquer narratives, the fact remains that targeting noncombatants with lethal force will never be honorable or heroic, no matter who is doing it.

In the Middle East, two seemingly separate factions have targeted two different civilian populations; one inside of Gaza, and one outside of Gaza. Hamas terrorists targeted civilians in Israel, and the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) in-turn targeted civilians in Gaza as an act of “defending itself” while ignoring Hamas headquarters in Qatar. Both terrorist factions draw contempt by targeting civilians. Period.

Evidence continues to mount suggesting that Hamas attacked Israel at the behest and knowledge of Israel. Jewish charity leader Cecily Routman publicly accused Israel of initiating a 7-hour long “stand down” order when militants were known to be killing civilians. How 400 combatants managed to break through Israel’s defenses without anyone noticing remains a puzzle. In the days prior to the 07 October 2023 “surprise” attack, Israel was repeatedly warned of imminent terrorist threats by both the American and Egyptian intelligence agencies.

But Israel’s foreknowledge of October Seventh reaches as far back as 2022. According to the New York Times, Israeli authorities had specific knowledge of the attack over a year prior to its execution. Netanyahu has since denounced such stories as “fake news”, but it seems worth noting that two weeks prior to the Hamas attack, Netanyahu was showing off his Palestine-free map of The New Middle East at the UN General Assembly in New York.

Israeli authorities further violated international law on 11 October 2023 when water, electricity, fuel, communications and food were all blocked from entering Gaza. Without water, hospitals in Gaza rapidly turned into morgues. Some Israelis took to social media to openly mock the plight of Palestinians.

It’s worth noting that Hamas agents murdered Israelis with American-made weapons. Then Israel responded by targeting unrelated civilians on the strip of land that Israel covets most: Gaza. Not only is the ground beneath Gaza purported to contain half a trillion dollars of oil and gas reserves, Israel now wishes for a canal to run through the northern portion of Gaza to compete with the Suez Canal’s ability to link the Mediterranean and Red Seas together.

Not only have American politicians failed to condemn the criminality of collective punishment and collateral damage, they’ve actively pushed for wildly disproportionate escalations of violence. It is a war crime to commit collective punishment on a civilian population and Israel knows it. But a curious cat has the tongue of many American officials who remain unable to condemn Israeli violations of humanitarian law (such as Israel’s deployment of white phosphorus against civilians in Gaza and Lebanon).

Between its lobbying power and the Loyalty Oaths pushed on American professionals, Israel has deep roots overtly influencing the American political system. The Alliance for Israel Advocacy openly pushes American politicians to fund the “ethnic cleansing” of Palestine. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) provides all-expenses-paid trips to Israel for American politicians and media personalities and pours $4 million annually into influencing American officials. The Israel Lobby has bragged for years about how effectively their money influences Washington DC. Bibi Netanyahu has boasted about how “America is very easy to influence”. The Israel Lobby have even attempted to universally criminalize criticism of Israel.

Given that Ghislaine Maxwell’s father helped establish the Israeli intelligence service known as the Mossad, and given that Jeffrey Epstein acted in the employ of Israeli military intelligence (and likely for American intelligence as well), it seems obvious that Israel has also achieved a covert influence over American politics by sexually compromising countless American officials in various honey pot schemes.

With regards to Israel’s Stranglehold on American Politics, Chris Hedges observed in 2019 that, “The Israel lobby’s buying off of nearly every senior politician in the United States, facilitated by our system of legalized bribery, is not an anti-Semitic trope. It is a fact.”

Meanwhile the well-funded American Christian Zionist movement supports the Jewish ethnostate because they believe Israel can usher in the “fire and brimstone” events necessary for Jesus Christ’s “Second Coming.”

Unlike American politicians, who deny war crimes, Israel justifies them as a badge of honor. Israeli leaders publicly revel in the carnage and readily admit that the weapons employed are very much intended for civilians. Former Israeli Ambassador to Italy Dror Eydar admitted that, “For us [Israel] there is one objective: to destroy Gaza, to destroy this absolute evil.” It’s not “collateral damage” because it’s not an accident. A myriad of Israeli officials have explicitly stated on international television that they deliberately target civilians because Palestinians are nothing but “human animals” in service to Hamas (which Israel funds). Israel readily admits that Hamas militants are all deep underground in an elaborate tunnel system but continue turning the above-ground portions of Gaza into rubble with American bombs.

Israel’s most fanatic Zionists will readily admit that they want all the Palestinians to disappear, and a leaked document from Israel’s Intelligence Ministry recently surfaced that recommends the “forcible and permanent transfer of the Gaza Strip’s 2.2 million Palestinian residents to Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula”.

Is it any surprise then, to learn that in 2014 the Times of Israel published an article titled “When Genocide Is Permissible”?

Clearly Israel has international carte blanche to murder civilians with impunity. Since Israel wouldn’t have a military without US tax dollars, if American-made weapons are found to have been used against civilians, the United States is required to cease supply of said weapons under international law (not to mention basic morality). After years of condemning Russia for civilian casualties, the fact that $4 billion in weapons are gifted annually to Israel stands as the single worst double standard of American foreign policy, which operates at a very low ethical bar already.

From Charlie Wilson’s Mujahideen to the CIA’s al-Queda, terrorists are very often funded by American tax dollars. America’s corporate terrorism empire abandoned $80 billion in military equipment to the Taliban and another $6 billion directly to Iran. The same network of crooked actors likewise provided finances and arms to ISIS, with one “loss” accounting for nearly $1 billion worth of weapons and military equipment. This method has played out for so long that in 2017 Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard introduced the “Stop Arming Terrorists Act” which would formally “prohibit the U.S. government from using American taxpayer dollars to provide funding, weapons, training, and intelligence support to terrorist groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS.”

Needless to say, Tulsi’s bill did not receive much support from the war profiteers of the American Congress. And as the vultures circle over Gaza in 2023, weapons stocks have “soared” as the merchants of death have told investors to expect big profits from the next deadly wave of Middle Eastern conflicts.

Since it’s founding in 1948, Israel has accepted more than $158 billion in military assistance from the US government. If US citizens ever became savvy to the truth about Israel’s war crimes, the unlimited funding might come to an end. This is why the conversation is so “controversial” in the US. As long as Israel exists as a client state of America, it will always remain dependent upon American tax dollars.

The Politics of Revenge

It might come as a surprise to Americans that the majority of Israelis are opposed to the illegal occupation of Palestinian territory. It may come as a surprise to Americans that Israel intentionally targets schools, hospitals and mosques, or that 40% of all Palestinian casualties are children. It may come as a surprise to Americans that the West Bank is a military occupation where fanatics from the world over are encouraged to purge Arabs. Few of us seem aware of the fact that American police officers regularly conduct counterterrorism training in Israel as part of an international “exchange program”. These facts surprise us because we in the west are exposed to an unfathomably gargantuan volume of corporate propaganda that daily justifies the systematic annihilation of our fellow humans with antiquated ideas and harmful ideologies. It is this propaganda apparatus that has cleverly conflated anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism as a time tested method of deflecting criticism.

America funds Israel. The Israeli government in-turn funds Hamas. Hamas are neither based in Gaza nor the West Bank, but farther east in Qatar (which depends on American military support and hosts an American military base) at the request of the United States government. Qatar hosted the Taliban Information Office for the same reason; to provide a venue for bureaucrats to conduct meetings.

Zionist fanatics will never acknowledge that the Palestinian peace movement called the “Great March of Return” was neither engineered nor directed in any way by Hamas. Starting in 2018, tens-of-thousands of men, women and children marched every Friday for 18 months in a peaceful act of mass civil disobedience that lasted until the end of 2019. The Israelis responded to every one of these peaceful marches with snipers who targeted civilians (including children, journalists and medics) with deadly force, killing hundreds and wounding thousands.

Following Israel’s unprecedented blockade of Gaza in 2006, some Palestinians began to view Hamas as the only viable political option as the walls literally grew up all around them. But Hamas was sponsored by Israel, first as a means of ousting Yasser Arafat and later as a reliable boogie man to justify further land grabs.

Sadly, the utterance of such obvious truths is predictably labeled as (or conflated with) pro Hamas “hate speech” by those who benefit from the bloodshed and the fanatics who support them. The path toward justifying the genocide of the Palestinians is paved with all the same cancel culture tactics we’ve seen before. Accusations of anti-Semitism are vigorously employed against anyone who dares question Israel’s sacred infallibility. Former Israeli Minister Shulamit Aloni admitted that “antisemitism” is a weapon against criticism that “we always use”.

Nothing justifies the indiscriminate murder of children, but that hasn’t stopped war-hungry fanatics from denouncing such matter-of-fact wisdom as “anti-Semitic” hate speech. Never mind the fact that the term “Semite” applies equally to Hebrews, Arabs, Akkadians and Phoenicians. It is therefore not anti-Semitic to denounce Zionism for the death cult it is. If the condemnation of child slaughter can be construed as “anti-Semitic” then our cultural values have become perverted and hijacked.

Referring to those who oppose this genocide as “anti-Semite” seems as transparent as referring to Jews critical of Israel’s actions as “self-hating”. Anyone who questions Israel’s indiscriminate mass murder of innocent civilians and ongoing apartheid of the native Palestinians is always automatically labeled a de facto Nazi by the zealots who daily prove themselves to be the very thing they claim to be against, becoming indistinguishable from the evil they claim to be fighting. Indeed the shocking alliance between Zionism and Anti-Semitism goes even deeper.

The fact that Israeli students are required to visit Auschwitz to guarantee such atrocities “never happen again” is made into mockery by Israel’s decades-long subjugation of millions of people who are trapped in a literal concentration camp called Gaza. Routine massacres dubbed “mowing the lawn” have regularly occurred within the walls of this open-air prison since it’s inception, just as hundreds of massacres have taken place in the West Bank territories with support from the Israeli authorities since the expulsion of the Arabs from Palestine began in the 1940’s.

The wholesale slaughter of the Palestinian population has remained mostly invisible to Americans, largely due to a western assumption that Arabs are inferior people who must be “modernized” if there is to be hope for them. Such “orientalism” allows for the luxury of hiding behind the false reasoning that those dirty Palestinians just aren’t willing to compromise.

Corporate media bias helps reinforce anti-Arabic perspectives which amass together from the likes of Benjamin Netanyahu, David Frum and Richard Perle who unanimously conclude that the Middle East is a, “fetid swamp that must be drained and reconfigured in a western image of democracy.”

Israel has also unabashedly justified their repetitious cycle of genocidal mania by claiming that the Holocuast was conceived by Muslims. Bibi Netanyahu angered the world when he declared in 2015 that Hitler did not intend to exterminate Jews until a Palestinian Muslim convinced him to do it. Speaking to the World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem, Netanyahu arrogantly stated:

“Hitler didn’t want to exterminated the Jews at the time, he wanted to expel the Jews and Haj Amin al-Husseini went up to him and said if you expel them, they’ll all come here [Palestine]… ‘So what should I do with them?’ He [Hitler] asked. He said, ‘Burn them’.”

In a similar way, propagandists often posit the logical fallacy that if Palestinians really aren’t just “human animals” then why don’t the surrounding Arab states accept any of them as refugees? Not only is this claim blatantly untrue (as of 2015 more than 3 million Palestinian refugees had made their way to Jordan, Lebanon and Syria) but this talking point was explicitly used by Hitler to justify the expulsion of Jews from Europe.

Ironically, Zionists in Israel are actually brought up to believe the very thing that Americans are taught about Germans under the Third Reich: they are taught that they are a supreme master race. Non-Jews are inferiors called “Goyim” and the public justification for civilian deaths in Palestine is referred to as “Hasbara”. They’re also taught that anyone who questions the corrosive mentality of Zionism is a “pathetic Jew-hater” and deserves bloody execution, especially fellow Jews. After everything westerners have been brought up to believe, it seems maddeningly ironic that support for Zionism provides fuel for the very same definition of “anti-Semitism” that’s employed to censor and control speech.

Caitlin Johnstone notes that, “The fiercest and most incisive critics of Israel I follow are all Jewish. Don’t let propagandists frame this as “Jew haters vs Jews” when it’s really justice vs injustice.”

When snowflake Zionists like Ben Shapiro post fake images as proof of atrocities to accuse impartial viewers of being “pathetic Jew-haters” they reveal themselves as agents of the state in service to the war machine.

Cleverly crafted “atrocity propaganda” invites us to internalize the hypocritical notion that Israel’s violence is not only acceptable, but righteous. President Biden claimed to have seen “confirmed pictures” of beheaded babies in Israel when no evidence of any such occurrence ever existed; a contrivance that originated from an IDF reservist named David Ben Zion who was instrumental in destroying a Palestinian village earlier this year.

No matter how the propagandists might twist it, targeting large masses of civilians with lethal force is not an act of war, but an act of genocide. Whether it’s Dresden or Gaza, it’s a repugnant war crime. Experienced tacticians know that such moves only create more enemies and greater hatred.

Despite the explicitly murderous rhetoric of Israeli officials, western leaders continue to proclaim their support for Israel’s “right to defend itself” while the corporate media continues to blame Arabs for resisting their own extermination. George Carlin noticed this double standard when he said, “Israeli murderers are called commandos, Arab commandos are called terrorists.” American tax dollars fund both groups.

In his book Inside Terrorism, Bruce Hoffman revealed the fact that Israelis were just as guilty of terrorism as Hamas, from the July 1946 King David Hotel Bombing that killed 91 and injured 45, to the lynching of 150 British Soldiers to the 1967 attack on the USS Liberty that killed 34 Americans. The incontrovertible proof of Israel’s barbaric war crimes is as voluminous as it is nauseating.

Corporate media whitewashed the 2018 Gaza massacre and subsequent bombing campaign just like they lied about the 2014 massacre of 2,000 Palestinians in “Operation Protective Edge” or any of the other countless massacres Israel has waged in it’s 75-year existence that most westerners have never heard about. And time and time again the Israeli authorities repeatedly blame the overwhelming number of dead civilians in Gaza as resulting from Hamas’ employment of “human shields”.

In a News Target piece entitled, “Why I No Longer Stand With Israel,” former UN Special Commission (UNSCOM) inspector Scott Ritter writes:

In the aftermath of the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, the muscle memory in my heart and brain told me that I must stand with Israel as it responded to this atrocity.

But then I watched as Israeli generals and politicians openly advocated for war crimes on national television, calling the Palestinians “animals” and openly advocating for their elimination.

I watched as the Israelis lied about the nature of the Hamas attacks, turning what had been a flawless assault against a series of militarized settlements and military strongpoints that encircled the open concentration camp that was Gaza, into a narrative of uncontrolled bloodlust which was then fed to an unquestioning western audience by a compliant mass media.

I watched how the world rallied to the shock generated by the fiction of 40 beheaded Israeli babies, while remaining silent over the real deaths of nearly 400 Palestinian children killed—no, murdered—by Israeli air attacks.

Without American support, the unconscionable human suffering of the hell that is Gaza would simply not be possible. America protects Palestine’s tormentor. Americans, in turn, sponsor the deliberate killing of innocent Palestinian children while CNN assures us that Israel’s violence is simply a matter of self-defense. This has been the case for decades. The Israel Lobby has leveraged our collective memory of the Holocaust as a smoke screen to obscure their own murderous crimes against humanity. How anyone can lament concentrations camps while taking steps to perpetuate and ignore the exact same thing happening on a much larger scale in real time shows the world what depraved depths a few psychopathic criminals are willing to plunge.