Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
“The post-mortem on the disastrous Biden years will be one of incredulity at how Joe Biden, of all people, was ever placed in charge.” —James White
The fog of war has never been so dense, what with the years-long sustained psy-ops of the US Intel “Community” against the American people . . . the lawfare operations of the Democratic Party against innocent patriots. . . the homicidal depredations of the pharma-government complex . . . the Cultural Marxists’ weaponization of language against common sense and common decency . . . the Neocon warhawks’ serial failed crusades to control faraway lands of dubious national interest . . .and the relentless mendacity of the sell-out Big Media. . .
It’s a wonder that anybody might venture a coherent thought, or that such a thought might survive transmission from person to person intact, without a sadistic beat-down or a dishonest, tactical inversion of meaning along the way. A thought such as: the Jews have a right to exist in a place called Israel. This is now up for debate around the world, whereas it had been accepted as self-evident by many civilized states a few weeks ago.
The military pundit Scott Ritter acted out a spectacular mental melt-down on video the other day. Among the statements he made were: “We need the Israeli army to be destroyed, to suffer defeat” . . . “Israel is the greatest threat to peace in the world” . . . “Political Zionism is a rabid dog and must be killed” . . . “I’m glad Hamas is winning” . . .
It’s far from clear what Scott’s definition of Zionism is, but Dictionary.com says: “a worldwide Jewish movement that resulted in the establishment and development of the state of Israel and that now supports the state of Israel as a Jewish homeland.” That’s pretty standard across many dictionaries. So, is Scott Ritter calling for the cancellation of Israel? Sounds like it, a little bit. He’s not alone. That has been the dream of most of Islam in the region for seventy-five years. Now, a great multi-nation jihad rises to expel what the Iranians like to call “the Zionist Entity,” as if it were some scaley thing that slithered out of a UFO. Even the American Ivy League is rooting to drive Israel into the sea.
Among the reasons Scott Ritter reviles the Israelis is that they are too weak and incompetent to defend themselves. Their stand-by army of reservists, he says, are too soft and flabby to hump a standard-issue soldier’s kit into a war-zone — and Gaza is the worst sort of urban war-zone. They’ll fall down and have heart attacks the first time they try to run a hundred yards (which could be true, considering Israel’s 90 percent Covid vaxx uptake and the likely resulting non-symptomatic myocarditis present in young men there). Israeli intel sucks, he says. Israel’s sense of superiority, their notion of being the chosen people, must be smashed. Israeli soldiers should go into Gaza and be shot to pieces, he advises. Scott’s intemperance is… something to behold.
Three weeks ago, the Middle East was on the verge of putting through the Abraham Accords that would have “normalized” relations between several states of the Arabian Peninsula, exchanges of ambassadors, openings to trade and such. Other Islamic nations in North Africa were expected to join anon. And just before the October 7 Hamas attack, Saudi Arabia was about to hold normalization talks with Israel. That’s all out the window.
Scott Ritter’s proposed initiative goes like this: Call a cease-fire and halt the bombing of Gaza. Israel must commence direct face-to-face negotiations with Hamas — no intermediaries! — for the exchange of hostages and prisoners and to begin groundwork toward a two-state solution, that is, the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel. For decades, that two state solution has been hung up on two sharp thorns.
One is the practical question of where that Palestinian State would be. The common idea is that it would be the disputed zone called the West Bank (of the Jordan River) plus Gaza. The West Bank was occupied by Israel in the aftermath of the 1967 Six Day War, as was the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights on Israel’s northern border with Syria. Israel eventually returned the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt in 1982, and Israel ended its occupation of the Gaza Strip in 2005. Gaza has been self-governing since, with internal conflict between its Hamas and Fatah factions. Gaza has been used as a launching site for rocket attacks in Israel ever since, regularly upending attempts to negotiate a lasting peace. Israel, on the other hand, has installed over 600,000 settlers in the West Bank, said to be in violation of international agreements.
The second thorn that hangs up any plausible peace is the Palestinians’ overt declarations in the Hamas charter, for instance, that Israel has no right to exist and must be destroyed. Iran, too, has for years notoriously declared its intention to “wipe Israel off the map.” That is hardly a viable pre-condition for settling this long quarrel. “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” goes the chant. Notice that the Islamic nations surrounding Israel refuse to admit any Palestinian settlers. Egypt, Jordan, Syria, will not take them. Why is that? I’ll tell you: because they understand that the bellicose, fractious Palestinians will bring them trouble.
Western Civ, weakened, broke, and mind-fucked, now faces a fast-unifying multi-nation Jihad that looks more and more like World War Three. The pressure is on for Israel to re-think its furious response to the savage attacks of October 7. Yet, the threat to its survival has never been so stark. There is little appetite for the US to get involved, though reports out of the war fog indicate that there might be as many as 5,000 US soldiers already inserted into the Gaza campaign alongside IDF soldiers. We have plenty of reason to worry that US towns and cities could be the next target, since no one really knows how many Jihadis have crossed into our country from Mexico under “Joe Biden’s” wide-open border policy. What a moment to be leaderless!
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Wait, what? We had a leader before this moment?
If leading a country away from debt slavery counts, Andrew Jackson was our last ‘leader’.
Then we let jew banks take control of everything and lead us here.
There will never be a ‘two state solution’. I’m thinking it looks more like ‘the final solution to the question’.
Sure there will. The Biden Regime will transport the Philistines into the US Midwest, and give them the two states of Minnesota and Michigan.
BTW, that clip was not easily obtainable from YouTube. Had to get it from Rumble. Alphabet Co running interference for the Dems, as usual.
Thanks for your trouble!……
Displays of DC insanity are always useful!
He is a member of the luciferian antichrist leadership. One of the neocon warmongers.
Incompetent senile blowhard was selected for his compliance to whoever is doing the thinking.
Elected?
No….Really JK?……too close to the forest?….
All citizens in ALL countries need to throw off the chains of THEIR respective GOVERNMENTS who are acting together to subjugate their own citizenry…….
I don’t believe death is what the “Palistinians”want or anybody else for that matter…..do YOU support what DC is doing????of course you don’t!….
Oh and a little perspective…..some 50 to 90% of Muslims are ILLITERATE……if you can’t read ….YOUR A SUBJECT!!!….how about we start there…….
Where are you CHRISTIANS!?!?!?!?……
One of the classic and (historically) always repeated moves of any budding dictatorial effort is to crush the target country’s societal safety net through overwhelming illegal immigration.
We will absolutely see terrorism on US soil like we have never seen before thanks to the 5 to 8 million illegals (80% of whom are military aged young men) Biden O’Bozo brought into the US in the last year alone.
With the terrorism will come an effort to impose martial law. And a further effort by O’Bozo (Biden has recently floated this to cure the dearth of Americans willing to enlist) to offer citizenship to the ~80% of the border insurgents from last years (and previous years) military aged men in exchange for military service. Think they will hesitate to shoot actual Americans? Oh yeah another hallmark and historically repeated move by budding dictatorships across all history is to enlist criminals as police (happening in LA and Illinois right now).
O’Bozo hates the Jews. He is a Muslim. He thinks he is getting back at the white people who colonized countries all over the world. And the relentless propaganda machine now has millions of Americans (and millions more of illegals) siding with the Muslim hoardes.
The military industrial complex only cares about their personal continued enrichment via war. Who the hell told Biden he could send troops into war anyway?
Confused Americans everywhere view the “holy land” as sacrosanct. So the field is set to pit the muslims against the christians in this country in order to get the acts of terrorism started.
In the future nobody will question why Biden was put in office. Everyone will know O’Bozo (along with a complicit traiterous band of bureaucrats) did it to further his mission of destroying America.
Correct. But bath house barry isn’t a shot caller, but a pawn, maybe a rook at best.
War like seen in Europe has never happened in N murika, but its coming. And for our safety all ‘rights; and freedoms will be suspended until the govt can get things built back better.
Why would Obama hate the Jews? They made it possible for him to be POTUS….twice !!
Where do you think the money came from for him, Trump and Biden? They all put the little hat on and kiss the wall.
They might have helped him get elected in 2008, and quietly steal the 2012 election. But he’s still a Shite Muslin and he certainly hates the Jews.
While the kikes and the democrat party pound Gaza killing young and old alike……….kunstler cries out in pain for his beloved rothschilds nation state.
His Clusterfuck nation comments section had a civil war after Fridays piece.
He actually deleted posts and banned posters.
Methinks we are seeing his true stripes.
Kunstler is a really fine writer. Agree or not with him, he usually has range and largesse. These last two columns are disgusting, with him going for the straight-out mainstream narrative. Thanks for the continued variety of thought here.
Installing Biden is living proof that the Progressive Left has shit for brains.
Our entire Gov. has shit for brains, all the way down to mayors.
Military coup d’etat for $500 Alex…… (yes, I know he’s dead)
Israel was created on a lie. Nothing built on a foundation of lies can last.
Israel also joins the US in the illusion that the US is the worlds dominant power, and that it can defeat the rest of the world combined.
The fact is, both the US and Israel have lost all sense of situational awareness. They are so deeply deluded by their belief in their superiority that they cannot see that the situation around them has changed.
The arrogance of the US and Israel present a danger that neither one sees.
If the genocidal actions of Israel in Gaza ignite the fuse of war in the Middle East, it will be a war that Israel will not survive, and that the US will be powerless to stop until it runs its course.
“Israel was created on a lie. ”
Sincerely, rachel levine’s baby boy
Yes, you nailed it, we’ve “lost all sense of situational awareness!”
Danger, danger.
This whole propaganda thing runs in cycles. Initially Israel had it. Now the people in the streets have it. But the longer it runs on. People will look at the people in the street and say “what are you still going on about? Get a job.”
The pendulum swings faster each way now. So the next turn will probably be only a couple of weeks.
A couple of weeks. You mean like that prediction for the Ukraine war?
Ukraine never had anyone in its favor except some lunatics transitioning from the Covid hoax. I never saw organized protests. What I’m saying now is that the lunatics will over play their hand and the pendulum will swing back.
While the pendulum theory is correct, you must understand where it is, and which direction it is going.
The pendulum has not changed directions yet, but it is very close to losing the momentum it had for decades along with the direction it is going.
It is also necessary to understand what it is that powers the pendulum, which is human nature.
The human nature you are seeing play out presently is the arrogance and self deception of the west and Israel failing to be aware of the situation changing around them.
Israel has controlled the narrative that has shaped the worlds opinion of Israel ever since it was established. That control of the narrative is now failing. Israel is so convinced of its ability to control the narrative, that it believes it will be able to get away with the genocide of the Palestinian’s and the murder of thousands of children without creating a tsunami of hatred towards itself worldwide.
This is similar to the self deception the US had when it began the war in Ukraine. The Neocons running the US government fully believed all the bullshit they were spewing about Russia being a 3rd rate power and that they would crush Russia both militarily and economically using sanctions. The problem was, their narrative had no basis if fact. As a result, it is the western economies that have been crushed, as well as the western military objectives. Arrogance is the downfall of every empire, and this time is no different. The world is watching the US and Israel make catastrophic mistakes based on their beliefs of their own invulnerability, and understand that the best thing you can do when your adversary is making a mistake is to stand back and allow them to do it.
the Palestinians have a right to exist in a place called Palestine
Try this one on, JK.
Don’t tell that to Biden, he’ll end up flying them back in those military transports he sent over there, to a place called Palestine all right, the one in western Ohio.
A reminder that in his memoirs, Harry Truman wrote that he knew he was committing the world to “an endless war” by recognizing the state of Isreal but he needed the Jewish vote to win the election in ’48 and the only way he could do that was to recognize the Zionist state.
“the election in ’48 ” ?
Please. REALISTICALLY, What POSSIBLE % of the electorate could they have been?
OR have ‘rigged elections’ been around for a minute?
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This is one of the authors poorer articles. Saudi Arabia was never going to sign a normalization deal with Israel! That went out the window when they signed an accord with Iran which was brokered by China. Since that occasion Both the Saudis, and Iranians have applied to BRICS. The Saudis are gravitating towards the Eurasian alliance. This is due to perceived American weakness. The middle east is not our fight! It is our involvement in it which gives cause to Mr. Ritters ire, as well as many others. We should leave the battles of the middle east to be fought by the people in the region. Let them work it out, however poorly they may be at it.
Fraud, the word is fraud.