Israel Conquers the World
Fealty to Israeli and Jewish interests is
the new normal
By Philip Giraldi
I have to confess a
certain liking for Russian President
Vladimir Putin. No, it’s not over his
actions in Ukraine, nor his authoritarian
tendencies domestically. It is due to the
fact that he sometimes articulates the
hypocrisy of foreign countries and leaders
in a pithy and take-no-prisoners fashion. He
has lately been brave enough to compare and
contrast what the Russian military has been
accused of in Ukraine with what Israel has
been doing to Gaza. He has done so by asking
a series of questions that together
demonstrate the hypocrisy of Washington and
of some Europeans over what constitutes war
crimes or crimes against humanity. The
questions were “First, are there any
sanctions against Israel for the murder and
destruction of innocent Palestinian women
and children? Second, are there any
sanctions against the United States for
killing and destroying lives of innocent
women and children in Iraq, Syria,
Afghanistan, Cuba, Vietnam, and even
stealing their diamonds and gold? And third,
were there any sanctions against the US and
France over the killing of Muammar Gaddafi
and the destruction of Libya?”
Russia, of course,
has been on the receiving end of sanctions
and boycotts and even official theft of the
money that it had in US and European banks.
It has also had to deal as well with
military support provided by NATO to the
Volodymyr Zelensky regime in Ukraine. Last
month the US Senate
unanimously passed a ridiculous
nonbinding resolution declaring Russia to be
a “state sponsor of terrorism,” which, if
endorsed by the White House, would
inevitably lead to still more sanctions and
increasing aid to Zelensky and his corrupt
cronies in an openly declared attempt to
weaken Russia and bring down Putin. It would
also mean that a future functional
diplomatic relationship between Moscow and
Washington would become impossible. Implicit
in Putin’s questions is the clear accusation
that there is a double standard on what
constitutes national security. The West
supports military resistance by Ukraine
against Russia but does not support the
right of the Palestinians to defend
themselves when attacked by Israel, as took
place on August 5th, an
unprovoked attack that killed inter alia
17 Palestinian children.
The Russian Foreign
Ministry followed-up with
a statement first posted on its Egyptian
Embassy social media accounts. The statement
included a screenshot of a tweet Israeli
Prime Minister Yair Lapid posted April 3rd
on the claimed killing of civilians in the
Ukrainian town of Bucha, attributed by Lapid
and the western media to Russian forces.
Lapid declared “It is impossible to remain
indifferent in the face of the horrific
images from the city of Bucha near Kiev,
from after the Russian army left.
Intentionally harming a civilian population
is a war crime and I strongly condemn it.”
The Russian post observed how one might
“Compare Yair Lapid’s lies about [Ukraine]
in April and attempts to place blame and
responsibility on [Russia] for the deaths of
people in Bucha brutally murdered by the
Nazis with his calls in August for bombing
and strikes on [Palestinian] land in the
Gaza Strip. Isn’t that a double standard,
complete disregard and contempt for the
lives of Palestinians?”
The point about a
double standard is particularly relevant as
Ukraine, which claims to be enduring a
brutal Russian assault replete with war
crimes,
has openly endorsed Israel’s bombing and
shooting of the unarmed Palestinians. Two
weeks ago, Ukrainian Ambassador to Israel
Yevgen Korniychuk expressed his full support
for Tel Aviv, saying “As a Ukrainian whose
country is under a very brutal attack by its
neighbor, I feel great sympathy towards the
Israeli public. Attacks on women and
children are reprehensible. Terrorism and
malicious attacks against civilians are the
daily reality of Israelis and Ukrainians and
this appalling threat must be stopped
immediately.”
Korniychuk’s odd, and
manifestly false, comment takes reality and
turns it upside down. But nevertheless, to
be sure, Israel’s recent bloody assault on
Gaza did not earn it much favor from a
global audience that has become tired of the
Jewish state’s belligerency and self-serving
flood of disinformation. A number of human
rights organizations and even some churches
responded by declaring Israel to be an
“apartheid state.” Some critics of the
Israelis have also been pleased to observe
that ordinary voters in the US Democratic
Party in particular have moved away from
knee-jerk support of Israel and have
accepted that it is racist and undemocratic.
Even a considerable number young Jews, many
of whom have protested against the Israeli
automatic resort to gunfire and bombs in
suppressing the Palestinians, have broken
with their parents over the issue of what
constitutes the legitimate “right” of Israel
to “defend itself.”
Israel is far from
defeated, however, and it has struck back in
the time-honored fashion, using the Jewish
diaspora and its vast wealth to buy up or
leverage the media, to corrupt politicians
at all levels, and to propagate a narrative
that always depicts Jews sympathetically as
perpetual victims. That narrative relies on
the so-called holocaust and the slogan
“never again” to generate the moral
authority and outrage that makes the entire
otherwise unsustainable imposture work.
What might be
plausibly described as an International
Jewish Conspiracy directed from the Israeli
government’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs
and from the think tanks, banks and
investment houses on Wall Street and K
Street is working hard to make it illegal to
criticize Israel and is enjoying
considerable success. Israel’s recent and
continuing slaughter of Gazans and West Bank
villagers has not induced the thoroughly
controlled governments and media outlets
that the Jewish state dominates that there
is anything seriously wrong going on between
the Israelis and Palestinians, only business
as usual.
Israel appears to be
winning its war against the Palestinians
(and let’s not forget the Iranians) where it
matters most, among the power brokers in
both the US and elsewhere. Witness for
example the reaction of the US government to
the killing of the Gazans. President Joe
Biden declared that Israel has a “right to
defend itself,” the standard line also
parroted by Speaker of the House of
Representatives Nancy Pelosi. Thirty-four
congressmen meanwhile
signed on to a letter calling on the
United Nations to disband a UN Commission of
Inquiry (COI) into Israel following recent
controversial remarks by one of the
commission’s members. The COI was set up to
investigate possible Israeli war crimes and
crimes against humanity in the occupied
territories and Gaza.
The signatories
particularly objected to what the always
vigilant Anti-Defamation League has
described as anti-Semitic statements by COI
member Miloon Kothari, an Indian human
rights expert and investigator. In a podcast
Kothari observed that Israel routinely
“practiced apartheid and settler colonialism
against the Palestinians,” before rejecting
criticism of his commission as the work of
the Jewish lobby that controls the media,
saying “We are very disheartened by the
social media that is controlled largely by
the Jewish lobby or specific NGOs,” adding
that “a lot of money is being thrown at
trying to discredit the commission’s work.”
Jewish power
particularly in the anglophone world was
also on display recently in Canada. The
painfully politically correct Justin Trudeau
regime has succumbed to the example set by
Germany and several other European states in
enshrining the official Jewish
organizations’ perpetual victim narrative in
the Canadian Criminal Code,
s. 319. Henceforth
(2.1) Everyone
who, by communicating statements, other than
in private conversation, willfully promotes
antisemitism by condoning, denying or
downplaying the Holocaust
- (a) is guilty of an indictable
offence and liable to imprisonment for a
term not exceeding two years; or
- (b) is guilty of an offence
punishable on summary conviction.
So, from now on in
Canada, if you question the claimed facts
surrounding the approved so-called holocaust
narrative you can be sent to prison for two
years. So much for free speech or the right
to challenge disinformation.
Finally, in Britain,
the two contenders for the position of Prime
Minister replacing the disgraced Boris
Johnson, Liz Truss, the foreign secretary,
and Rishi Sunak, the chancellor,
were boasting of their pro-Israel
credentials over the very weekend when
Israel was killing more than fifty
Palestinians, including 17 children, while
wounding scores more. Truss and Sunak played
the Israel/Jewish card big time, with Truss
asserting that “The UK should stand side by
side with Israel, now and well into the
future. As Prime Minister, I would be at the
forefront of this mission.” Truss has also
hinted that she would follow the Zionist
stooge Donald Trump’s lead in moving the
British Embassy to Jerusalem and she has
supported a Free Trade Agreement between the
UK and Israel, which would primarily benefit
the Israelis. She has also declared that any
criticism of Israel is rooted in
anti-Semitism, a popular line that is also
being extensively promoted in the United
States.
The two dominant
parties in the UK’s parliamentary system are
the Conservatives (Tories) and Labour. Both
parties have organized “Friends of Israel”
groups that have as members a majority of
parliamentarians, including more than four
out of every five Tories, who currently form
the government. Recently, the Labour Party
ousted leader Jeremy Corbyn because he dared
to express sympathy for the Palestinians and
replaced him with Keir Starmer, who is as
close to Israel and the powerful British
Jewish community as, well… choose your
metaphor. For what it’s worth, Truss, Sunak
and Starmer all support a hard line against
Russia in Ukraine and also advocate putting
extreme pressure on Iran, Israel’s declared
regional enemy. They also all support using
the British veto in the United Nations to
protect the Jewish state against critics.
In 2001, Israeli
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
angrily admonished his colleague Shimon
Peres, who was arguing that Israel should
heed US calls for a cease fire, saying “I
want to tell you something very clear, don’t
worry about American pressure on Israel. We,
the Jewish people, control America, and the
Americans know it.” It now appears that the
US, Canada, and Great Britain, joined by
other anglophone states like Australia and
New Zealand, are riding on the same horse
when it comes to sacrificing actual national
interests to pander to a foreign nation
which can rightly be regarded as both a
habitual war criminal and manifestly racist.
The British and Canadian politicians on both
sides of the aisle have now become like
their American counterparts in allowing
themselves to be corrupted by money and
media influence, making an uncritical and
near total commitment to Israel the defining
issue in any political campaign for high
office.
Modern Jewish power
as a global phenomenon is a cancer that was
in a certain sense made in America and has
spread worldwide. But, fortunately, the
smearing of critics as anti-Semites is
beginning to wear thin. As Chris Hedges
observed in March 2019 “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. The
lobby’s campaign of vicious character
assassination, smearing and blacklisting
against those who defend Palestinian
rights…is not an anti-Semitic trope. It is a
fact. Twenty-four state governments’ passage
of Israel Lobby-backed legislation requiring
their workers and contractors, under threat
of dismissal, to sign a pro-Israel oath and
promise not to support the
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
movement is not an anti-Semitic trope. It is
a fact.”
It should also be a
fact that Americans are beginning to rally
against their government being manipulated
by the unregistered insidious agents of a
foreign government, but that will have to
wait presumably. For the moment, Israel and
its fifth column have key elements in both
government and in the public space in their
iron grip. It might require something like a
revolution to loosen that.
Philip M. Giraldi,
Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Council
for the National Interest, a 501(c)3 tax
deductible educational foundation (Federal
ID Number #52-1739023) that seeks a more
interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the
Middle East. Website is
councilforthenationalinterest.org,
address is P.O. Box 2157, Purcellville VA
20134 and its email is
inform@cnionline.org.