By Philip Giraldi
Over the past ten days there have been several interesting developments in the continuing ethnic cleansing of Gaza, as well as increasingly on the West Bank, by the Israeli military supplemented by armed settlers. In one particularly grotesque killing, Israeli commandos disguised as medical staff and Arab civilians burst into a hospital room in Jenin refugee camp on the West Bank and shot dead three Palestinians. The Israeli military said one of the victims belonged to Hamas and was planning an imminent attack “inspired by the events of October 7” but provided no evidence in support of the claim. Palestinian hospital staff reported afterwards how “They raided one of the patients’ rooms and killed him, and the people who were in the room with him, his brother and friend. He was a patient, paralyzed and using a wheelchair.” One might observe that Israel, like the White House, lies about everything.
To be sure, Israel and the United States deservedly continue to be subjected to legal challenges, both internationally and in the United States, over their carrying out of a policy in Gaza that many, including the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, might eventually consider to be a full scale and active genocide, the most notorious crime against humanity. The court’s Order last Friday to Israel “to prevent genocidal acts in Gaza and punish incitement for genocide accepts the possibility of Israel being a perpetrator of genocide” and not just a perpetual historical victim, as it chooses to depict itself. As the court continues to pursue the completely plausible claim of genocide submitted by South Africa and to come to a final ruling, which could easily take months to complete, it has “already made history.” But in the meanwhile, manipulation of both the judicial and constitutional processes by the United States to support Israel has enabled the Jewish state to keep bombing and killing an average of 300 Palestinians each day while also controlling and cutting off relief supplies desperately needed by the starving and dying two million nearly all civilians physically imprisoned by the barriers erected by Israel surrounding Gaza.
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In the latest act of undoubted collusion staged to kill even more Palestinians, Israel claimed that 12 members of the United Nations Gaza Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) participated in the Hamas October 7th attack on Israel. The UN has fired some of those accused out of its 13,000 employees in the organization and it is investigating further but that did not prevent the US from immediately cutting its funding to UNRWA in spite of the fact that Israel had produced no evidence to back up its claim and there was no explanation provided why such a report was not issued until more than 100 days after the alleged incident. Timing is everything. Clearly the moves were preplanned by President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to help counter the negative impact of the ICJ report, which was released several days before, and it will accomplish nothing except to increase the misery of the Palestinians.
The international focus on Israel and the United States regarding Gaza is because of the widely held and absolutely correct perception that Israel keeps getting away with murder, literally, and Washington is the accomplice in the crime, using its power and United Nations veto to avoid holding the Jewish state accountable for its misdeeds. Ironically, Israeli behavior often negatively impacts on the actual interests of the United States to include killing American citizens without there being and consequences for the perpetrators. This recklessness has recently been on display not only in Gaza but also on the occupied West Bank where just last week another Palestinian-American has been shot dead in what appears to be something like a vigilante killing.
According to witnesses, the completely unprovoked recent killing consisted of the fatal shooting of American-Palestinian teen Tawfic Abdel Jabbar, 17, a Louisiana native, who was driving a pickup truck near his village Al-Mazra’a Ash-Sharquiya on the Israeli occupied West Bank. Without any warning, a volley of Israeli gunfire struck the back of the truck, hitting Tawfik in the head and killing him, resulting in the out-of-control vehicle turning over several times on a dirt road. Family members who rushed to the scene were confronted by Israeli soldiers at gunpoint, who blocked their access to the truck. In an initial statement, Israeli police admitted that the shooting targeted Tawfic, but claimed the victim was “purportedly engaged in rock-throwing activities.” Police would not identify who fired the shots but did describe the incident as “ostensibly involving an off-duty law enforcement officer, a soldier and a civilian.” That suggests an armed settler was involved. The US Embassy has demanded an explanation but Israel never convicts Jews who kill Palestinians. That is what is expected in this case, which recalls the May 2022 killing by an army sniper of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh at a demonstration which she was covering at the Jenin refugee camp in the Israeli occupied West Bank. She was wearing a clearly identifiable journalist’s jacket. No one was ever held accountable and even the Zionist dominated US State Department eventually believed she had been targeted and deliberately executed. Indeed, there is currently a law pending in the Knesset that blocks prosecution of any Israeli soldier or policeman who kills an Arab.
And when it comes to other dead Americans, there is the still uninvestigated killing of 34 crewmen on the USS Liberty in June 1967 by Israeli warplanes and gunboats, the killing of activist Rachel Corrie by being run over by an Israeli army bulldozer in 2003, and the killing of Turkish-American boy Furkan Dogan and eight others in international waters on the Mavi Marmara ferry in 2010. If Israel decides to kill Americans it does not hesitate and the US never does anything but whine after the fact, if that. In that case of the Liberty the White House and Pentagon actually participated in the cover-up, such is the power of the Israel Lobby.
So once again the gloves are off in terms of the abuse that the United States has to take at the hands of “best friend” Israel, particularly now that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a group of fascist ultra-nationalists have formed a war cabinet that is intent on driving out or exterminating the Palestinians. Both in Gaza and on the West Bank any living Palestinian is little more than target practice for the Israel Defense Force half trained thugs in uniform.
And Netanyahu is not even trying to hide what he wants to do to Palestine, even though he is now running into concern from President Joe Biden who apparently is afraid that all the bloodshed in Gaza being endorsed and enabled by Washington will damage his re-election prospects. Netanyahu has not budged however and has made some significant comments over the past two weeks, one of which directly rejects a Biden call to look at options for reviving the so-called Two States plan that would give the Palestinians a mini-state that has actual sovereignty at some level, unlike the almost total military and police occupation by Israel that prevails currently.
Speaking at a press conference on January 22nd, Netanyahu insisted that “I will not compromise on full Israeli security control over all the territory west of the Jordan River”. His statement also prefigures an assault on the West Bank and the seizure of all Palestinian-held territory. War would “continue until the end, until the victory, until the elimination of Hamas” and “nothing will stop us.” Ending the war prematurely “would harm Israel’s security for generations,” he said, suggesting this could mean military action continuing until next year.
Netanyahu has said that there will be no Palestinian state with actual sovereignty and that Israel will control all of the former historic Palestine “From the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.” Yes, Netanyahu is using the very words that Israel’s friends have condemned as “antisemitic” when used by Palestinian demonstrators in the US objecting to the slaughter in Gaza.
Meanwhile, a number of Israeli cabinet and other senior officials have indicated clearly that achieving the goal of an Israeli state incorporating the whole area into what will legally be defined as a Jewish state will be achieved no matter what will have to be done to the Palestinians. This will all start with the ethnic cleansing and resettlement of Gaza by Jews, no matter how long it takes to accomplish, and then will proceed to the West Bank. The displacement of the Palestinians is being justified by claiming that that population is not redeemable as they are nothing but “terrorists,” to include incitement from government officials with comments like “We kill the children otherwise they will grow up to kill Jews.”
To be sure, there has been some pushback against the Netanyahu revelation, coming from many dissatisfied Israelis and even originating within the normally massively pro-Israel US Congress. Calls have come for a cease fire and 15 Jewish Democratic congressmen have supported a two-state solution with a Palestine state having true sovereignty. They issued a brief statement saying “We strongly disagree with prime minister [Netanyahu]. A two-state solution is the path forward.” And there also has been something of a rebellion from the civil service in Washington, where there was a walkout of employees rejecting the Biden Administration’s Gaza policy.
Senator Bernie Sanders and some others in Congress have repeated calls to stop funding what Israel is doing, particularly as the war is already spilling over to Yemen and Iraq and Syria where illegal US military bases are under attack producing most recently three deaths by drone fired from an Iraqi shi’ite militia, allegedly hitting a base in Jordan, and causing ,more than thirty injuries. The incident will possibly lead to further escalation as Joe Biden has said there will be some retaliation against the militia group that staged the attack and its sponsors. Predictably, Joe and others in Washington are actually blaming the attack on Iran though there is no evidence supporting that claim. Several Congressmen and presidential candidate Nikki Haley have nevertheless already called for an attack on Iranian military and economic installations and CBS news is now reporting that preparations are underway for the US to hit “Iranian targets” in Syria and Iraq. The Iranian government has said it was not involved in the incident and has already announced that it would retaliate if attacked. A better policy would be a withdrawal from those illegal bases, reportedly under consideration by the Pentagon, but it has been denied by the inimitable Victoria Nuland at the State Department.
US President Joe Biden also followed up on the recent Netanyahu statements with what was reportedly his first phone call with Netanyahu for a month, after which he suggested that the Israeli leader might consider some “type” of two-state solution. But Netanyahu’s spokesman dismissed Biden’s claim on the following day, saying that “In his conversation with President Biden, prime minister Netanyahu reiterated his policy that, after Hamas is destroyed, Israel must retain security control over Gaza to ensure that Gaza will no longer pose a threat to Israel, a requirement that contradicts the demand for Palestinian sovereignty.”
Netanyahu then personally expanded on the message, saying how “I emphasized to President Biden our determination to achieve all the goals of the war, and to ensure that Gaza never again constitutes a threat to Israel.” Under his leadership, Netanyahu pledged that Israel would go beyond that to wage a far wider regional war “on all fronts and in all sectors. We are not giving immunity to any terrorist: not in Gaza, not in Lebanon, not in Syria, and not anywhere.”
Netanyahu and his generals have repeatedly stated that Israel is waging war not just on the Palestinians but also against Iran and its allies, with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant explaining that Israel is confronted by a war on seven fronts: Gaza, the West Bank, and Iran and its proxies in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and the Houthis in Yemen. Replying to a question from a reporter asking why Israel is not attacking Iran directly, Netanyahu responded, “Who says we aren’t attacking Iran? We are attacking Iran.” Indeed, Israeli forces have repeatedly bombed Syria’s capital, Damascus, targeting Iranian forces allied to the Syrian government. In the most recent incident, Israeli missiles fired from the occupied Golan Heights killed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) Syria intelligence chief and four more IRGC members.
As a final observation, Netanyahu and his supporters appear to be using the prospect of a Donald Trump victory in the US presidential elections in November to put more pressure on Biden to make him back off from supporting any concessions over Gaza and a Palestinian state. Bibi is also intent on extending the war until the end of 2024 to make his domestic opponents who are demanding his resignation appear unpatriotic, many of whom believe that the Israeli actions vis-à-vis Gaza have been motivated by Netanyahu’s own political and personal interests. As Netanyahu might well otherwise be in jail currently due to corruption charges, many critics now support the theory that Gaza may have been a false flag setup with the Prime Minister himself giving the green light to an operation that would open the door to keeping himself in power while also destroying Gaza and ridding Israel of the Palestinians forever. If Netanyahu plays his cards right with the clueless Biden he might also be able to convince the United States to attack Iran very soon, something that he has been seeking for more than twenty years. That may be what is coming next.
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 Via Unz Review
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16 responses to “Benjamin Netanyahu shows Joe Biden who’s boss”
Miliekowski needs to vacation in gitmo.
The Israeli genocide against all others has been going on for 70 years. In 2021 when Ariel Sharon, then prime minister, was confronted about Israeli genocide against the Palestinians, he replied, “America this, America that, we the Jewish people control America”. No truer words have been spoken. More than once Sharon bragged about having killed “700 Palestinians with one blow”. What’s happening today is no different than what’s been happening for the last 70 years with no change is sight; “the Jewish people are still in charge”.
Correction, Sharon said that in 2001, not 2021, obviously he’s been dead for several years.
People around the world need to understand that the mRNA “vaccine” (bioweapons) mass murderers are now in a state of desperation so extreme, created by a global army of attorneys working hard for their prosecution(s), that they WILL start World War III to escape arrest, if not arrested, prosecuted and imprisoned FIRST.
https://onenessofhumanity.wordpress.com/2024/02/03/covid-19-grand-jury-petition-will-prevent-world-war-iii/
According to the Israeli media ,Mossad has the capabilities to read people’s minds and murder
them in self defense should this be considered cool or pure unadulterated horse manure .I think I know what your thinking .
Borrowing a little excerpt from Antony Blinken, “… the President said, …” Is there anyone on this earth that would actually believe that the neo-cons would even bother listening to a dribbling, blithering half-wit, like Joe Biden? Of course not! It is so bleedingly-obvious that Blinken and the people he works for are dead-set on doing whatever their wet-dreams have envisaged, while they have the dementia-patient unwittingly ‘signing-off’ on their dirty-deeds, so as to create the cover for any enquiries which might return to haunt the current administration later. At this point it should have become more than apparent to EVERYBODY in America that the government is being used, illegally, with total disregard for the interests of the American people. WTF up for heaven’s-sake!! Your government is controlled by Satanists who now control ALL the levers-of-power, and unfortunately, our governments are invariably beholden to those same evil-forces … whether we in the 5-Eyes cohort, et al like it or not …
Are you Hotrod aware that Anthony Blinken is of pure Hungarian Jewish heritage? Therefore a non American is running American Foreign policy in support of his Zionist masters in Israel and beyond. Biden’s case is of obvious treason in my book, however Blinken, Victoria Nuland and husband and many other Americans of Jewish persuasion fill the ranks of US public administration and even the Pentagon. What did you expect? They defend their true motherland.
Biden senile as is Trump. I fear the worse for our country.
The power of Israel´s power elite over the US power elite derives from massive blackmail power. They have deep insight into the deeds of the US power elite, particularly of Kennedy´s assassination and the inside job of Nine Eleven! They can always threaten to reveal that knowledge.
The next step should be to name self-appointed Sheriff Wa$hington, Deputy £ondon, and their Nato po$$€ as source of the genocide being implemented by their I$ra€£i enforcer.
Otherwise the UN continues to play ‘good cop’ to the Nato corporate cart€£$ bathing in blood from Ukraine through an expanding tranche of west Asia and girding up for the Taiwan bait and trap snap.
South Africa’s courageous stand needs support, before they organise another Maidan switch.
The US is the only world power with the tail wagging the dog. Moscow and Beijing are firmly in control of their societies. Will Biden initiate the genocide of Yemen in defense of Israel? Washington makes the North Koreans look like Boy Scouts.
The genocide in Yemen has been going on for generations. Sunak is the 9th PM to bomb there. In 2015, due to Saudi/US/UK bombing and blockade, it is estimated that 85,000 children died of hunger. Thats why the Yemenis have underground facilities.
I object to Giraldi’s charact.ation of Israel as “the Jewish State.” Judaism is an ancient religion that forbids theft and murder. Israel is the Zionist State.” Zionism is a fascist, racist political movement, the essence of which is theft and murder.
While one shows to the other who the boss is, there are still the people that seek communication and understanding!
https://philosophyofgoodnews.wordpress.com/2024/02/04/tucker-carlson-is-spotted-in-moscow-media-reports/
To Americans if you disbelieve that Zionism controls US check the passports of every politician.This research will shock you into reality. For the last hundred years the US has been under Zionist control.
As much as I appreciate Giraldi’s attempt to summarize events, I’m very angry with him because he omits a major part of the story, without which all his writing is in vain.
The fact that Giraldi and other high-level writers ignore the dominant influence the US Jewish Lobby has on the US government and its citizenry means these writers can never give an accurate news analysis.
Why don’t these writers describe the US Jewish Lobby and its overwhelming power? Are they afraid of being called “antisemite?” Are they afraid of Jews?
Giraldi doesn’t even mention the Jewish Lobby by name, using the misleading term, “Israel Lobby.” Do these take us for idiots? Are they themselves idiots? Are they saying there isn’t a Jewish Lobby and only an Israel Lobby? Are they saying Israelis are in this country bossing us around? Don’t they understand that the US Jewish Lobby is made up of US Jewish citizens? If Israel was truly in charge of this lobby, wouldn’t that be an example of a foreign power influence and thus illegal?
What is the US Jewish Lobby? The link below takes you to a list of US Jewish political organizations. There are over 270 of them and they are funded to the level of billions of dollars. This is the smoking gun that proves the humongous influence of the Tribe. Without this lobby, the Israeli Jews could never get away with their crimes.
The US Jewish Lobby is a tremendous political attack on our democracy, and no one is even talking about it. We have enemies of our democracy among us! Wake up!
No other cultural/ethnic/religious minority can come anywhere near it.
https://articlebiz.com/article/1052218096-the-jewish-lobby
It’s The Tribe, stupid.