Merz was with my life since my acquiring at a Friend of the Library book sale in Sacramento an art book called “Schwitters” probably 9th grade. I had been introduced to Berlin reading books on WW1 and it’s aftermath. In my Merz mind cut ups cut into Burroughs and Gysin who cut to now. I snip information and organize more or less by date and now and then create a not scholarly citation to authority. This snippet has not grown stale. And it as old as November! Way before the Final Solution to the Palestinian Problem was put into action revealing the inevitable. Zionism is a theocratic idealist secular totalitarianism built from a totalitarian religion. Which is what a religion is expected to be. The faith consists in obedience to the rules.
Zionist-Nazi Collaboration and the Holocaust-A Historical Aberration? Lenni Brenner Revisited
Published 29 October 2014
History, Political Science
Holy Land Studies
Over thirty years ago Lenni Brenner's Zionism in the Age of the Dictators awakened the ghosts of Nazi-Zionist collaboration. This collaboration was an extension of Zionism's historical attitude to anti-Semitism in Europe, which saw anti-Semitism as the natural reaction of non-Jews to the abnormal presence of Jews. The Zionist movement was outraged by these public revelations of collaboration and sought to censor them. Brenner brought together some of the most damning evidence of Zionism's collaboration with the Nazis and their obstruction of the rescue of European Jews to anywhere but Palestine. This essay critiques Brenner's thesis, especially its failure to analyse the Holocaust in depth. Brenner rightly denounced this collaboration, but, as in the case of the Israeli Holocaust Memorial Museum Yad Vashem, he produced no analysis of this official Israeli memorial project.
And now 11/24/23
Extensive interview with Craig Mokhiber who resigned as UN Human Rights head guy. Says Gaza is a “textbook case of genocide”. Not least because of Israeli action over the decades, but because intent has explicitly been declared by so many Israeli leaders over time. He finds it astonishing as show total impunity by Israel. Most who commit war crimes and genocide try to cover it up.
He says UN structure has 5 regions. The only weird non-geography based region is “Western Europe and Other Countries Group WEOG” which is basically all colonial and settler colonialism powers (incl Can, US, Aus, Nz, Isr). They wield most control.
How Israel and S. Africa took two different paths since Universal Decl of Human rights in 1948:
South Africa: Even if WEOG always supported apartheid, it finally ended in SA because the UN consistently applied pressure using international law. Additional Protocol of Geneva Convention explains rights to armed resistance against occupying powers, especially racist ones etc.
Palestine: law ignored, process was 100% political with Oslo etc., In favour of occupying power. (The same channel also has an interview with a South African labour trade union leader who spells out the parallels between South African and Israeli apartheid).
For some (like me) the issue of Palestine and non-stop bombing of Arab / Muslim world by NATOstan for 30+ years is pretty simple: in various ways they try to resist WEOG imperialism. They have differences with each other and national interests so are not a unified bloc.
For those asking why Arabs / Muslims don’t do something together: this is an admission that WEOG and related international organizations they control have failed. How has the genius idea of bombing stuff thousands of miles away in order to get more control over resources worked to make WEOG safer and more prosperous so far?
I roll my eyes when I hear observers / experts talk of religion, different sects, civilization
clash etc. As if Ukraine Russia is a holy war between Catholic and Orthodox sects of Christianity…
Watching experts in FT, WSJ etc. cutting and pasting their little bullets on Sunni/Shia sects in every article is tragicomic. (The irony is that is now Israel that has gone full Bible Bonkers). The Iran Iraq war and other similar usually start because WEOG is motivating/threatening one of the parties in the war.
Would the US ever have provided support to Iraq if the Shah were around and handing over Iranian oil to the Empire? Trying to equate religion with resistance is largely a manufactured product of the WOEG Global War on Terror to distract from oppression.
History shows WOEG attempted to assert control post WWII even when secular socialism was more popular and pre WWII through overt colonialism. Most of the Arab ME / Africa only became independent from 1950s-1970s.
The 2nd generation of leaders is on a tightrope between economic development and figuring how much of their soul to sell to stay alive. Saudi was “independent” in 1938 but because of Aramco—without which the US would have collapsed—its portrayal in the NATOstan media oscillates on any given day being good little puppet or punching bag for some evil deed. US Gulf refineries are set up to process Saudi sour. The US energy market is not an integrated whole. Geography, refinery and pipeline conflguration etc. means that oil does not move from one part of the country to the other.
The Eisenhower carrier group has reached it's final destination in the Gulf of Oman.
https://news.usni.org/2023/11/13/aircraft-carrier-uss-dwight-s-eisenhower-now-in-gulf-of-oman
All the pieces are now in place, from the Israeli perspective there is nothing to wait for anymore in terms of US assets being moved in.
And just as it made it into place the US escalated by bombing not just "weapons caches" but real human beings in Syria yesterday killing an unknown number of "Iranian-backed militia".
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/13/us-carries-out-two-more-strikes-on-iran-backed-groups-in-syria
I forgot to post, Responsible Statecraft as a nice collection of all the US military deployments to the Middle East since October 7th. It is continuously updated. It makes for disturbing reading. As I've said from the start this situation has opened a golden opportunity for the Israelis to get the US to fight wars against Iran and Syria by provoking them with an atrocity in Gaza they can't ignore (Sound familiar?) and then portraying itself as the victim of a war of an unprovoked war of aggression (Sound familiar?) with the US then bound to find itself at war with Iran, Hezbollah and probably also Syria too. (Egypt and Jordan will be interesting wild cards, will they continue to follow their American masters? Jordan has already dispatched the Israeli ambassador and of course, will the Egyptians tolerate having to take in the Gazans or watch them die on the other side of the wall?)
While the clock is ticking on US ability to do these unilateral wars for Israel (Due to stupidly throwing away it's hegemony in Ukraine, itself done in the name of Israel due to Russia's intervention in Syria and generally the neocons sense that no peer state is allowed to exist else they might stop the US wars for Israel) and the golden opportunity has presented itself for Israel to slide into a genocide or dispossession of the Gazans, triggering the regional war and the US to come in and fight Iran and Syria for it, it's now or never. What do you do with a depreciating asset? You spend it. Two birds, one stone too. Nothing the US has done makes it seem like the Blinken, sorry Biden admin isn't fully onboard with this war for Israel. The repeated ridiculous finding of ever more absurd reasons (That were never mentioned on objections to the previous drafts) for a UN resolution for a cease-fire despite there simply being no military objective to buy time for Israel to accomplish. The endgame is provoking the regional war by actually or being perceived to be ethnically cleansing Gaza. That is all you're buying time for Israel for to do. You're also buying time for the US assets to get in pre-placement for the war.
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/us-troops-israel-gaza-2666062447
Posted by: Altai | Nov 14 2023 13:36 utc | 12
I thought, from recent updates on the war in Palestine, that Israel seemed looking to declare victory. To declare many victories, perhaps. And there is talk of negotiations involving release of hostages.
I wonder if this recent summit between Morocco and Azerbaijan has anything to do with it, Azerbaijan being a major supplier of fuel to Israel.
https://x.com/Marocdiplo_EN/status/1724201963556872221
https://x.com/Marocdiplo_EN/status/1724106018295017648
I am of a somewhat similar and different view. Even within the context of this Western Phynance tradition plunder is first and foremost. Not only by the West So called nation states existing on fumes of traditional habit all are dissolved into money. Coupled to the acid bath of perpetual change (unmanaged really but still strongly influenced by globalization) nothing else has the cachet to balm ego wounds of leaders. Most people are keen on change but they have no intention to do so because they don’t have ability to change their minds about anything that matters to a human being
Extremely interesting reading, Stegiel. I had to research nearly every item you "clipped" because I have no previous knowledge on those subjects.
I would agree that most anyone who understands the true nature of the U.S. can easily see that the U.S. principally remains in the ME to continue destabilizing the region as well as to plunder and loot wherever they can as the oil in Syria.
The Arab response also reveals quite impressively that they know Israel and the U.S. want a conflict and that the two states are attempting to offer sufficient provocation to begin kinetic war. The ongoing genocide in Gaza is such a provocation. IMO, Oct. 7 was a false flag by Israel.
The U.S. is enormously wealthy because we hold the world currency. Many say we'll lose that status shortly. I would point to an unending strength in those who hold and control the U.S. federal reserve. These predictions of our demise have been shrieked throughout ZeroHedge in the 9 years I've been reading. The utter zaniness of the mounting U.S. debt and continual encroaching poverty of its citizens should tell us that they're winning. Trump will likely be elected to salve or delay any overt rebellion for four years. He'll "right" many wrongs. This is how they operate. They're masters at the art.
I didn't understand Iran's response to the bombing of their Syrian embassy until I read another article a day or so ago. They hit their targets at least 80%. Even alternative journalism portrayed the slow-moving drones ripe for counter-missile attack by both Israel and U.S. as a juvenile effort. Another interpretation could perhaps be they look like a country too afraid to confront another more powerful country face to face.
I hope they're playing the long game. The strikes revealed how Israel's defense system operates in detail even with U.S. support from intelligence to surveillance to additional fire power. I say "I hope" because I agree with the assessment that the ME has been the subject of both destabilization and outright terroristic bombing by Israel and U.S. for many decades. Perhaps when "The End" comes, Steigel, the end might be far more catastrophic than any of us can imagine at this point. 80% of Iranian bombs arrived through a defense network touted as the most supreme in the world. If those drone warheads were nuclear, you could devastate Israel. Of course, you'd have to incapacitate the U.S. forces which, unfortunately, are widespread throughout the ME at this time. So, we have a checkmate-checkmate situation.
At a certain point, a trapped or imprisoned enemy who is constantly beaten wishes only for their own death. Perhaps we'll arrive at this juncture in the ME and perhaps not. I don't think the faction who rules and controls U.S. policy understands this point. They're likely entities who fail to understand the depth of human emotion because they, themselves, can't access this power within themselves.