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Category: News and Politics
 I haven't written yet about what Israel is doing in Gaza because frankly, it would be redundant. Thankfully, the internet is flooded with people calling out Israel for the war crimes it is currently committing. Information about the conditions in Gaza is coming out despite the mainstream media bias and blackout. Reports on the millions of people around the world who have been protesting the current events have gone out as well. The only curious aspect of this particular attack is the timing. Israel has let Obama and Bush off the hook for this operation which surely was planned for months, after over a year of cutting off services and supplies to Gaza. Did they do it now because having Bush out trying to sell this attack daily as a great thing would only make it look worse because he's the most unpopular world figure? Did they do it while Obama was on vacation so that he wouldn't be forced to talk about this attack daily as if it was perfectly reasonable? Although Obama has kissed all the Israel lobby / AIPAC rings, they are aware that when he started out his political life in Chicago he was far more pro-Palestinian. He's just smart enough to know that you rise up in American politics through selling yourself as staunchly pro-Israel. But I'd like to focus on the two main reasons why The Powers That Be, or the Establishment, or the Elite, or whatever name you want to use, loves Israel so much. It is NOT because a Jewish cabal rules the world. It is NOT because of oil. It is NOT because of hatred against Muslims. Israel provides those powerful political leaders two unique things. The first is, it allows them to easily brand themselves as the good guys. Western leaders see themselves as the good guys. What makes the political and economic leaders of the West good? Fighting communism? Standing up for freedom? Running democracies? The Establishment believes in central control of the markets and the economy. They aren't in the business of genuinely fighting socialism and communism. The West's economy is married to the largest communist state, China. So that premise won't work as far as selling themselves as 'good'. And freedom? The Establishment has methodically worked to whittle down both individual freedoms and the freedom of individual nations over many decades, both from the left and the right, and from both sides of the Atlantic. So standing up for freedom wouldn't work for selling themselves as 'good'. So what is an easy way to brand yourself as a good guy? Say that you are the champion against the bad guy. And the worst bad guy in the history of the modern world is still Hitler and the Nazis. Some of their crimes may have been exaggerated, but they are still the established epitome of modern evil. And although the Palestinian people were pushed out and ethnically cleansed for crimes they didn't commit, and although the modern zionist movement was going strong as early as the latter 19th century, the founding of the nation of Israel is forever linked as a direct result of the Holocaust. To stand for Israel is to stand against the Holocaust, against anti-Semitism, against racism, against hate, against Hitler. That is an easy message to ingrain into the population of the West that has worked for decades. Israel being enemies with most of its neighbors only helps ingrain that image assocation. The bible also helps. Although numerous facts easily show that the nation of Israel is not the reconstituted Davidic kingdom propehesied in Ezekiel 38 and 39, is not the Israel of biblical text that is talked about as being blessed, the Establishment sells the country as that anyway. And Christian zionist preachers happily help because it's a beneficial tradeoff for them. By selling the nation of Israel as a biblical Israel, as a prophesied return of Israel, they use the country to "prove" that God exists. Why challenge believers to have faith when you can point to a map and say, "the country of Israel exists, therefore the God of the bible exists." Because of all this, Establishment members know how powerful a symbol of "good" Israel is, despite decades of respression, crimes, and slaughter. The second aspect of Israel that the Establishment loves and reveres is a direct result of the first point: utter and complete lawlessness and the use of power. Because of the motto of "never again," referring to the Holocaust, Israel has established itself as a nation that has the self-given right to do whatever it wants. Sure, it can play nice and abide by rules when it feels like it, but nothing is forbidden if it links that action to ensuring that a Holocaust will never happen again. Obtaining nuclear weapons clandestinely? No problem. Launching wars against it's neighbors? No problem. Ignoring dozens of UN Resolutions? No problem. Establishing a racist apartheid domestic policy? No problem. Covert operations through deception, false flag attacks, and terrorsim? No problem. Spying on, violating the soverignty of, and even attacking nations allied to them? No problem. Using chemical, biological, and experiemental weapons against civilians? No problem. Much of the political movement of the last thousand years in the West in a broad sense has been the establishment of the rule of law and checks on absolute power. Kings putting checks on the power wielded by the Catholic church, nobles putting checks on kings with advances like the Magna Carta, landowners and citizens putting checks on nobles with Common Law, habeas corpus, separation of powers in written constitutions, establishment of stated rights of individuals against the state, trials by jury of peers, the abolition of slavery, and so on. The people at the pinnacle of power in the West didn't think they'd ever see a situation where you could claim unlimited power and still be the good guy again. But the nation of Israel found just that with the Divine Right of Never Again. It has no checks on its actions, and the whole Western political elite is in awe of that fact. The central premise of the War on Terror established by the Bush administration was to take what Israel has and give it to the United States. Many of the hardcore neoconservatives and PNAC members (Project for a New American Century, look it up) are people with either dual citizenship or strong ties to right wing Israeli political parties like Likud. There was great risk in letting the neocons shape U.S. foreign policy, and a lot of them had been looked on as kooks and extremists by most of the Establishment for many years. But the possible benefit of what they were trying to do was so enticing they were allowed to try. Could the Israeli doctrine of Divine Right of Never Again because of the Holocaust be duplicated into the American doctrine of Divine Right of Never Again because of 9/11? That was the grand policy experiment of the entire Bush presidency. And it sure was ugly to witness it unfold. Israel in recent years is finally starting to lose the propaganda wars related to its lawless actions because of cheap video technology and the internet. I don't know what Israel will do in response to this, but I do know, all options will be on the table.
5:06 PM
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