Israel & Co. Celebrate Passover with Palestinian Slaughter

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The Fifty-Two Major Jewish American Organizations and Israel Celebrate Passover with the Slaughter of Twenty-Five Muslim, Christian and Secular Palestinians[1]
James Petras
The Unz Review
April 8, 2018

[Y – Forward

I am far removed from Palestine and Israel but have friends on both sides.

What is going on now in Palestine has nothing to do with World War II, Hitler or the Jewish Holocaust. I want to make that clear. That trump card no longer works.

The Holocaust is long past and no amount of historical facts or other justifications can absolve the horrors happening today in Palestine.

This is about a genocidal war that may brand the Israel people the new Facists of the 21st Century – and the world is waking up and will be silent no longer.

No group of people have the right to murder, starve and incarcerate another group including women and children for any perceived religious or political reasons. Humanity cannot allow that.

The Israeli people have a choice and I hope for their sake they can make the right decision.

If you are unable to take on this topic than please read no further. For the rest as always – thank you for reading

-Y]

James Petras is a retired Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York and adjunct professor at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada who has published on political issues with particular focus on Latin America and the Middle East, imperialism, globalization, and social movements.

Petras is the author of more than 60 books published in 29 languages and journals, including the American Sociological Review, British Journal of Sociology, New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation, Christian Science Monitor, CounterPunch and Foreign Policy.

Introduction

As of April 7, nearly three thousand unarmed Christian, Muslim and secular Palestinians have been wounded, over three dozen are in critical condition and at least twenty-five unarmed protestors, including children have been assassinated by hundreds of Israeli snipers and heavily armed troops shooting tank shells into crowds of civilians protesting their decades of incarceration by the racist Israeli state.

The Israeli government praised the ‘restraint and morality’ of the IDF, as did the fifty-two Major Jewish American Organizations (MJAO) who largely control the US Congress. These grotesque massacres began during the Christian Holy Week on Good Friday and Easter, coinciding with the Jewish Passover.

The self-righteous officials of the MJAO and their relatives and friends broke matzos at joyful Seders as the blood of Palestinians soaked into ground at the fence containing the largest open-air prison camp in history, Gaza.

While tribal loyalties bonded the Israeli and Jewish American leaders, the politicians of the Western oligarchic electoral regimes refrained from criticizing the shocking display of brute force and even defended Israel’s cold blood mass killings of Palestinian civilians in their Gaza prison.

This paper will discuss and analyze the reasons for Israel’s willing Western accomplices and the centrality of its fifth column in the United States.

Israel’s Willing Accomplices

Because of the US veto power, the United Nations Security Council refused to condemn or even discuss Israel’s wanton slaughter in Gaza. The Secretary General of the UN meekly mentioned ‘violence’ and the need for an ‘investigation’ into the killings.

The United States Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, prevented any investigation into the ongoing Israeli war crimes. She characterized Israel’s mass murder of unarmed Palestinians as ‘defensive action against terrorists’.

Both major US political parties defended Israel’s crimes against humanity and threatened critics, labeling them as ‘hypocrites’, while deflecting attention away from the state slaughter of Palestinian civilians, pointing to the behavior of the Arab countries.

With the notable exception of Bernie Sanders, both legislative houses and the executive branch expressed unconditional support for Israel’s ongoing slaughter.

The mass media, including all the major television, newspaper and radio outlets echoed the vituperative speeches of Israel’s Ziofascist leaders.

All the major political lobbies in Washington followed the leading arm of the US-Israel lobby, the ‘52 MJAO’.

The key question is what explains the power of Israel to continuously commit crimes against humanity with impunity?

Clearly Israel, by itself, lacks the economic, political and media power to influence international organizations. Nor does Israel exercise sufficient ‘soft power’ or cultural influence to neutralize the tens of millions of critics around the world with any persuasive arguments . . . except in the United States.

Where does the power that protects Israel from any consequences for its brutal crimes reside?

The key to Israel’s impunity lies in a chain of command beginning with the local grass roots of hundreds of fanatical, unconditional Zionist-Israel First organizations in the US.

Every major and minor US city has local Zionist-councils who use their influence to intimidate local professional, business, political and media groups into ensuring that critics are censored and Israel’s war crimes are covered up. The tactics range from ‘friendly’ influence within local civic organizations to outright threats, bullying and slander.

Local Zionist organizations are linked to state-wide and national political and economic confederations that influence the nomination and financing of all candidates, the elected officials and the composition of editorial boards of the major media outlets.

Equally important, Zionist activists pressure and recruit leaders of civil society groups through guided propaganda tours to Israel.

They enforce obedience and submission to Zionist objectives by blacklisting critics, contacting their places of employment and demanding they be fired. They employ even more repressive tactics against perceived threats to Israel’s interests, including threatening phone calls and unwelcome ‘visits’.

At the commanding heights of the Zionist pyramid, hundreds of billionaires and millionaires finance and influence the corporate mass media, the political parties and conservative and liberal religious and educational institutions and demand adherence to Israel’s agenda.

The Zionist power configuration (ZPC) parlays its influence far beyond its dues-paying members, who, in reality, comprises only a very tiny fraction of the US population.

Wider networks extend and magnify the Zionist presence, multiplying power centers up to the highest levels of public policy making. The ideological influence of the Israel Fifth Column is concentrated on a single issue: Defending Israel and its crimes against humanity.

They succeed because of their enormous impact on the US role in world politics, including Washington’s trade and military policy in strategic regions, especially in the Middle East.

The members of Israel’s Fifth Column may be liberal or conservative on a broad spectrum of domestic socio-cultural issues, (gay rights, immigration reform, racial and cultural identity, feminism, the environment, etc . . . ) while, at the same time, they provide unconditional support for Israel’s oppression, imprisonment, expulsion and massacre of tens of thousands of Palestinians.

In fact, the Fifth Column’s primary commitment to Israel has guaranteed that the US would wage a sequence of catastrophic wars against Israel’s regional rivals and targeted adversaries – Iraq, Libya and Syria – even at enormous cost in US lives and wasting multi-trillion dollars of US taxpayers funds.

This Zionist-promoted drain on the US treasury to finance disastrous wars has completely undermined any policies to address the domestic needs of US working people (which the progressive Zionists have loudly claimed to support!) The consequences have been tragic to the people of the Middle East and to the increasingly impoverished and desperate American working poor and minorities.

Israel’s power to freely murder unarmed civilians in Gaza is derived from the Fifth Column’s influence in the US. Without it Israel would have no power to block the UN from imposing sanctions, or the International Court of Justice from convening a tribunal for war crimes.

Israel would not have nuclear weapons or advanced missiles to threaten its neighbors and destabilize the hundreds of millions of civilians who live in the greater Middle East, were it not for the its US-based Zionist power configuration.

The nation of Israel would be ‘confined’ within internationally agreed borders and it would be forced to reverse its policy of ethnic cleansing. Israel would have to become a diverse – society based on laws, instead of a lawless, apartheid ethno-fascist police state dedicated to oppressing half of the people within its declared and occupied territories

The key to Israel’s power is found in its leaders’ command structure, which dictates policy to its tribal diaspora. Their overseas accomplices command the regional, state and local organizations to relay “the message” and apply various means to enforce it. Dissent by Jews and non-Jews are swiftly and viciously punished, adherence to Zionist dictates is rewarded.

Opponents are ostracized, blacklisted and slandered – without recourse.

Ideological conformity or submission to the Zionist agenda ensures employment, promotions and political and judicial appointments. No Jewish critics of Zionism, no matter how prestigious, have ever received senior political or economic appointments. Even academic careers are systematically derailed. This is well understood by everyone in the US, especially by upwardly mobile ‘silenced critics’.

The so-called ‘uniformity’ of the Zionist-Jewish community is maintained by the stick and carrot. The leading stockbrokers, bankers, casino and media moguls know they can hold liberal or conservative opinions on US domestic issues but must support or remain silent on Israel’s war crimes or else . . . suffer reprisals.

Even critics are careful to temper their dissent by blaming ‘both sides’: They equate the 25 murdered civilians in Gaza with the IDF snipers who complain of fatigue from repeatedly pulling the trigger.

Conclusion

Defending Palestinian rights and finally stopping the massacre(s) in Gaza requires taking on the Israel-Zionist chain of command in the United States. First and foremost, it requires opposing Israel’s corrupt and spineless apologists in the US Congress, who have consistently supported the policies of Israel, taken Israeli-Zionist money, submitted to Zionist blackmail and sent thousands of American troops to their deaths to support Israel’s interests in the Middle East. It requires taking on the local Zionist boosters, including the thugs and blackmailers, as well as the local ‘respectable’ elite.

The prestigious Israel First crowd at Harvard, Yale, Princeton and other elite Ivy League universities just celebrated Passover. Meanwhile, the thuggish enforcer of Zionist expansion, a former nightclub bouncer, Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman praised the IDF snipers who murdered Gazan school kids, saying they “deserved commendation “(FT, 4/2/18 p. 3).

Not a single US Congressperson raised a critical voice against the grotesque brutality of Lieberman fearing the Fifty-Two Presidents of the Major Jewish American Organizations. The 52 respectable presidents endorsed the wounding of nearly three thousand unarmed Palestinian civilian protesters, who never even crossed from their horrific mass prison into the Zionist state of Israel.

To support a meaningful protest one must shame and name the Zionist 5th column close at hand, because they are politically responsible for making sure that US political leaders submit to Israel’s agenda and guarantee total impunity and indeed praise for all the brutal ‘Liebermans’.

Zionist tribal organizations and leaders, their networks and organizers who ‘commend’ the IDF killers need to be named, exposed and confronted.

The US enablers, who protect, promote and defend Israeli war criminals are Zionist psychologists, lawyers, journalists and experts who can talk at great lengths about ‘Jewish ethics’ but who have never shown a shred of decent human compassion and solidarity for the victims in Gaza.

The issue of Zionist crimes resonates across the social spectrum.

Prominent progressive working-class leaders, like Jeremy Corbyn, the head of the British Labor Party, are routinely slandered as anti-Semites for speaking publicly about Israel’s oppression of Palestinians. Leading Zionist spokespeople have launched a vindictive media campaign to destroy Corbyn and prevent a courageous politician from leading tens of millions of British workers in their struggle for social justice.

In the United States, Zionists organize to slander any and all popular leaders engaged in the struggle for social justice, labor and minority rights if they dare to speak against Israel’s injustice against their counterparts – workers and oppressed minorities in Palestine.

The struggle for Palestinian self-determination has a profound significance for the United States as its youth and minorities confront increasing desperation and injustice in their communities. American youth and minorities see their own struggles for justice against an increasingly oligarchic police state mirrored in the protests of Palestinian youth.

Their defense of free speech (including the freedom to criticize and confront Israel’s war crimes), freedom of assembly (including the freedom to organize boycotts of Israeli products) and self-determination, mean that American working class youth must confront the oligarchy run by and for the plutocrats at home and in Israel.

James Petras
The Unz Review

Citations
[1] http://www.unz.com/jpetras/the-fifty-two-major-jewish-american-organizations-and-israel-celebrate-passover-with-the-slaughter-of-twenty-five-muslim-christian-and-secular-palestinians/

[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2018/04/15/watch-palestinian-analyst-claims-holocaust-a-lie-perpetuated-by-jews-in-collusion-with-hitler/

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[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

Love that flick tower!

[Y_Participant 4591]

PistolPete wrote:

http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2018/04/15/watch-palestinian-analyst-claims-holocaust-a-lie-perpetuated-by-jews-in-collusion-with-hitler/

Apologies – there will always be people who claim outlandish things and these crackpots are not taken seriously. The vast majority of people have no doubt the Holocaust happened.

However I believe that article is not related to this post? Peace.

[Faust For ScienceParticipant 22526]

Israel stirring the pot with their recent open military attacks on their neighboring nations is not winning Israel friends and positive influence.

There have been some articles written and released in the last year by Israel citizens cautioning that Israel needs to change its course if Israel wishes to survive in the changing events of a collapsing U.S. and other western nations influence and a rising Chinese Empire, with allies such as Russia.

Also, those currently in power in Israel are dealing with various scandals.

That is not taking into account demographic issues with their birth rate.

It looks like Israel is about as much a mess as the rest of western civilization.

[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

Ah but it is, it perpetuates two myths:

a) That sometime, somewhere, somehow a mythical palistinain state existed, and
b) Jews are somehow, someway, illegitimate occupiers of the mythical land of palistine, and the holocaust was a convenient story concocted to legitimize their “occupation” of the mythical homeland.

I would never high-jack a thread man!

[Y_Participant 4591]

Faust For Science wrote:

There have been some articles written and released in the last years by Israel citizens cautioning that Israel needs to change its course if Israel wishes to survive in the changing events of a collapsing U.S. and other western nations influence and a rising Chinese Empire, with allies such as Russia.

The US muscle is not working anymore. As far as East Asia people are angry. I met a Japanese woman who was returning to Gaza as a relief worker, and she was one of many.

I found that many anti-zionist groups have been cleverly taken out of circulation or financially ruined. We will never hear those Jews that speak out against this.

People care. I believe people the world over are realising more than ever we need to stop these things. Unfortunately no one knows exactly how to do it.

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PistolPete wrote:

Ah but it is, it perpetuates two myths:

a) That sometime, somewhere, somehow a mythical palistinain state existed, and
b) Jews are somehow, someway, illegitimate occupiers of the mythical land of palistine, and the holocaust was a convenient story concocted to legitimize their “occupation” of the mythical homeland.

I would never high-jack a thread man!

No sweat bro’ 🙂 if my response was not clear – I honestly just did not see the connection as you obviously did. These late nights are getting to me.

Thanks for the explanation.

[Faust For ScienceParticipant 22526]

PistolPete wrote:

Ah but it is, it perpetuates two myths:

a) That sometime, somewhere, somehow a mythical palistinain state existed, and
b) Jews are somehow, someway, illegitimate occupiers of the mythical land of palistine, and the holocaust was a convenient story concocted to legitimize their “occupation” of the mythical homeland.

I would never high-jack a thread man!

This goes back to the fall of Ottoman Empire in the early twentieth century. After World War I the European Allies carved up the Middle East without any input of those living the Middle East.

The British stole that land, then the Israels stole that land from the British.

But, that is not the real issue. The issue is that instead of exiling, converting, or killing those that were on the land, the Israels created a defaced ghetto situation for over the last fifty years. The Palestinians have no rights and cannot freely travel outside of “Palestine”.

Clearly this is only continued to turn Palestinians into would-be terrorists to justify the continued police state in Israel.

But, after over half a century more and more people see the situation for what it is. Slavery by any other name is still slavery.

The Palestinians need to be either freed to have their own nation, exiled, killed, or given Israel citizenship in the form of amnesty. To do otherwise means that Israel has created their own destroyers. Because no nation lasts forever and should this situation still exist when Israel final crumbles from their own corrupt, these abused peoples will act.

Though, given the arrogance of those in charge of Israel, they will likely destroy the world, while blaming the world for their destruction, and they will refuse to admit to themselves that they brought the situation on themselves.

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Darn I clicked on a THX clone post. Who knew this was going to happen.

mgtow is its own worst enemy- https://www.campusreform.org/

[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

Y_ wrote:

No sweat bro’ if my response was not clear – I just did not see the connection as you did.

Thanks for the explanation.

No problem I don’t mind discussing the topic (albeit) a sensitive one in a calm rational factual matter. I do object to those who get triggered, and have melt downs and start name calling etc. It would be nice to have a sane discussion about it without all that baggage.

For example I was tempted to post a couple of articles about the “recent riots” and the armaments of the rioters, or the number of jews murdered by “palistinians” in the streets. But it occurs to me that a tit/for/tat exchange of dead bodies really doesn’t solve much of anything.

As for solutions, I’m pessimistic. Either the Jews are going to need to kill all the palistinians to the last one, or the palistinians are going to succeed in killing ever jew to the last one. That seems to be the dynamic from where I sit.

[Faust For ScienceParticipant 22526]

Y_ wrote:

The US muscle is not working anymore. As far as East Asia people are angry. I met a Japanese woman who was returning to Gaza as a relief worker, and she was one of many.

China is rising. And China has no cultural ties Israel.

Y_ wrote:

I found that many anti-zionist groups have been cleverly taken out of circulation or financially ruined. We will never hear those Jews that speak out against this.

The same type of censorship that is being done on social media.

Censoring the sane whom warn of self-destruction is never a wise move.

Y_ wrote:

People care. I believe people the world over are realising more than ever we need to stop these things. Unfortunately no one knows exactly how to do it.

It will likely take a million man Chinese army marching into the Middle East to demand this to be stopped.

[VladParticipant 210]

PistolPete wrote:

http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2018/04/15/watch-palestinian-analyst-claims-holocaust-a-lie-perpetuated-by-jews-in-collusion-with-hitler/

That is unlikely.
Although I can confirm, fully backing it with verifiably accurate documents:

1. Hitler systhematically demolished anyone he considered detriment to his country indiscriminating by belief, and sometimes race. He was a person with broad views and hated everyone in his way with sheer equality.

The discrepancy in the Holocaust number for Jews is actually because they were like 10-25% of Holocaust victims, while Jewish historians attempt to portray they were like 90%, making mess and difficulty with exact calculations. Noone even remembers today about all gypsies Hitler nearly fully extincted…

2. Jewish had their own, pretty strong version of racism during that time, based on their religious techings. Hitler saw it, took to heart, and was quicker on the draw. Now Jews portray pooooooor viiiiiictiiiims, which were harshly dealt with aaaaabsoooooluuuuutely for nooooo reeeeeasoooon, waaaaaa…

3. Iran, together with nearby arab countries, claim “Israel has no right to exist.”, motivating it by “Okaaay, maybe you had Holocaust, but dat was in Europe! Settle those there somewhere! Why you bring the troublemakers to our lands?” and so “we will remove them any way we see fit.”. Also saying “If Israel is allowed to have nuclear weaponry, we will have it too! Either stop giving us flak about making it ourselves, or make nuclear-free zone for that East region, including Israel“.

While I cannot condone methods arabs use in their military and political struggle, those arguments seem quite… legit, I’d say.

Marriage is the tomb of love (c)Giacomo Casanova

[Y_Participant 4591]

PistolPete wrote:

Yumbo wrote:

No sweat bro’ if my response was not clear – I just did not see the connection as you did.

Thanks for the explanation.

No problem I don’t mind discussing the topic (albeit) a sensitive one in a calm rational factual matter. I do object to those who get triggered, and have melt downs and start name calling etc. It would be nice to have a sane discussion about it without all that baggage.

For example I was tempted to post a couple of articles about the “recent riots” and the armaments of the rioters, or the number of jews murdered by “palistinians” in the streets. But it occurs to me that a tit/for/tat exchange of dead bodies really doesn’t solve much of anything.

As for solutions, I’m pessimistic. Either the Jews are going to need to kill all the palistinians to the last one, or the palistinians are going to succeed in killing ever jew to the last one. That seems to be the dynamic from where I sit.

If you want to post that by all means. Yes – Israeli’s have died and that is inexcusable. Let’s have a rational discussion with no name calling (can’t speak for others) and listen to the FULL STORY. I would really appreciate your side as well. This should happen. We are all grown men. We can handle it.

[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

Faust For Science wrote:

The Palestinians need to be either freed to have their own nation,

They were offered that in 1948 and they rejected it believing they and their arab allies could destroy Israel and jews militarily…they guessed wrong.

And under the terms of “land for peace” they were given Gaza and what was the first thing they did? Used it as a base to launch missiles into Israel indiscriminately killing people,

They chose poorly. And no its not slavery—slavery implies that the slave owner gains some benefit from the slave. Israel gains nothing from the “palistinians”. Besides the palistinians are not chained to a post, they can leave anytime they wish, go anywhere they want. That doesn’t sound like a slave to me.

I think they actually LIKE and ENJOY the mantle of “victimhood”. They are akin to the SJWs here in the USA. EVERYONE! is a victim (except straight white christian males of course) And why? They love the status of victimhood. They think it confers an mystic of nobility. “OH Poor Oppressed BUT NOBLE ME! Thank God there is someone I can accuse of oppressing me! Otherwise I’d just another normal joe trying to make a living”. Can’t have that can we. No its much more EGO boosting to label one’s self a “freedom fighter”, than take a job in a factory somewhere.

Sorry about the delay in the reply lost power a couple of times—we’re getting blasted by a huge storm right now.

[Y_Participant 4591]

Faust For Science wrote:

It will likely take a million man Chinese army marching into the Middle East to demand this to be stopped.

Or a collapse of the US economy. Is this why the Zionists feel the need to accelerate the takeover? Once that happens I believe Israel will have to work within the UN Charter and the hopes of the Zionist cabal will have been dashed at least for the forseeable future.

[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

Good point Yumbo. Although I support Israel as a Jewish homeland—and not due to any ancient texts, rather they have won it by right of conquest. And the simple reality is they are not going to leave, and they are not going to allow themselves to be exterminated. Now I certainly oppose their machinations with regard to the US government. We don’t need or want them dragging us into perpetual wars that do not serve our interests. Nor do I excuse them when they engage in “questionable acts” with regard to the palistinians. Sometimes I think the Israelis have as much to gain from perpetual strife as the palistinians.

But I stand by my two options for a solution…if there is another one I’d like to hear it.

[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

I should also point out that Faust makes a good point. This whole questions is potentially rendered academic by the reality of demographics. Arab Israelis have on average 4 kids, while the Israelis are about 1.8. Pretty simple math in the long run.

One other final thought: To our power elite Israel serves the same purpose in may ways as North Korea serves the Chinese. Its an interesting analogy.

[Faust For ScienceParticipant 22526]

PistolPete wrote:

They were offered that in 1948 and they rejected it believing they and their arab allies could destroy Israel and jews militarily…they guessed wrong.

They had just by thrown off their land by force and into ghettos, and then they were demanded to accept these actions at legitimate. No one in that situation would accept such terms.

Now, 70 years later, the Palastinais are still forced to live in those ghettos and their hatred is a thousand times worse. And all likely by design to keep the Israel people under the fear of the threat of terrorism to allow the elitists that control Israel to keep that nation under a constant police state.

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