Grotesque Propaganda

"All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed." (I.F. Stone) 

Prior to the United States entry into World War I, a grotesque, fraudulent propaganda campaign was run depicting "the Hun" as vicious, sub-human brutes who raped nuns, crucified POWs and bayoneted babies. The American population at that time was generally pacifist and resistant to pro-war arguments. Hence, Germans were presented as the essence of evil which needed to be destroyed, not as an adversary to be dealt with rationally. Fear and hatred were stoked as rational argument was made irrelevant. Notice how this tactic leaves no room for resolving the conflict without going to war. One does not negotiate with the devil. Monstrous evil must be destroyed, hence, engaging in combat with the enemy is the foregone conclusion. In this way war was sold.

Following Hamas' October 7th incursion into Israel, uncorroborated stories surfaced and were reported as true about Hamas "terrorists" beheading babies, Hamas depicted as uniquely evil deserving of complete eradication. This grotesque piece of propaganda is yet another example of the use of demonization to create fear and hatred of Hamas and by extension all Palestinians. It is part of an intensive propaganda campaign to justify the mass murder and planned expulsion of the Palestinian refugees now confined to the Gaza open air prison. What is particularly grotesque about this is that the people being demonized are the relatively powerless victims of 75 years of Israeli brutality, mass-murder and ethnic cleansing, all of which were enabled, facilitated and encouraged by the United States. And once again this demonization propaganda is being used to prevent any possibility of conflict resolution short of Nakba 2.0. Notice also that the "threat" which these caged people pose to Israel does not even begin to stand up to scrutiny, hence, the resort to truly despicable demonization to justify mass murder and ethnic cleansing.

 “Even if not one bullet is fired at us. Even if the residents of Gaza who are not sons of Israel (Jewish) would be constantly offering us flowers… we would be obliged … to start a war to conquer Eretz Israel. …it needs to be conquered. This is our land. Our holy land. God has promised us this land.” (Israeli Rabbi Eliezer Kashtiel) 

It would be bad enough if this demonization of Israel's victims was confined to the right-wing crazies now controlling Israel's government, however, this demonization of Hamas and by extension all Palestinians is echoed throughout the West in an orchestrated totalitarian fashion. U.S. Government officials across the board have demonized Hamas actions and called for unconditional support for Israel's "defense." This is the language of war and mass murder against Gaza's Palestinian victims of 75 years of Israeli repression. Even phony peace candidate Robert Kennedy, Jr. asserts that "... the scale of these attacks means it is likely that Israel will need to wage a sustained military campaign to protect its citizens." This sounds like unequivocal support for Nakba 2.0 along with war against Lebanon (Hezbollah), Syria and Iran. 

Two things to keep in mind are that this level of orchestrated support indicates that this is an escalation of Global War I and that neocon Zionist irrationality now permeates American imperial  policy. This is no small point. The neocons claim to want to spread "democracy" to our Third World victims, however, this is "capitalist democracy", that is one dollar one vote, in other words corporate oligarchic rule. Yet, they seem to believe their own rhetoric and proceed to promote their policies with self-righteous zeal. They are impervious to rational argument, their worldview sanctified by the Holocaust and by Zionism's secularized version of the Classical Judaism of Eastern Europe. A medieval fundamentalist Judaism untouched by the enlightenment. A good versus evil worldview of never ending conflict. A worldview which sees the mass murder and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians as the "redemption" of the Land of Israel.

“These are the basic lines of the national government headed by me [Netanyahu]: The Jewish people have an exclusive and unquestionable right to all areas of the Land of Israel. The government will promote and develop settlement in all parts of the Land of Israel — in the Galilee, the Negev, the Golan, Judea and Samaria.” (Benjamin Netanyahu, January 2023) 

But this is about more than the unfolding U.S. supported mass murder and final ethnic cleansing of Gaza's Palestinians. This is about using Gaza as a pretext for attacking Lebanon, Syria and Iran. And here there is an extreme danger of events spiraling out of control and nuclear war ensuing. Israel is, at best, an extremely untrustworthy ally. If the warmongering Jewish State feels that it is in its interests to use nuclear weapons against Iran to achieve its objectives, it will likely do so regardless of what the U.S. wants. If that happens, it will mark the 5th and final stage of Global War I. We are in the 4th (Gaza) phase now which has the potential to escalate out of control. This whole end-of-era restructuring is being led by warmongering fundamentalists who view moderation as weakness. Rational imperialism, as bad as that is, is being replaced by ideologically driven irrational imperialism which is infinitely more dangerous.

"...We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets for our air force. Let me quote General Moshe Dayan: ‘Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.’ ... Our armed forces, however, are not the thirtieth strongest in the world, but rather the second or third. We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that that will happen before Israel goes under.” (Martin van Creveld, Israeli historian, on or about 2002)

"If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, out children will sing great songs about us years from now." (Richard Perle, neocon intellectual)

Make no mistake, war mongering neocon Zionists have achieved effective control over imperial policies. Their twin goals are to use imperial power to remake the entire Middle East to Israel's liking and to influence the global restructuring now underway so as to ensure American (and by extension Zionist) imperial hegemony in the new world order. Their primary means for achieving this is through ongoing global warfare regardless of the risks involved. They are self-righteous, fundamentalist risk takers who view caution as a sign of weakness. Success will come to those who behave "like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother." I fear that we are headed towards the abyss, unable to halt the process.