Category: Military-Industrial Complex

ISRAEL’S APRIL FOOLS DAY

Posted on by Ray Joseph Cormier

NOTE: This was posted Saturday morning, before Iran retaliated in a sublimely measured and effective way later in the Day, to Israel’s Act of WAR against Iran on April Fools Day 2024

It’s hard to make sense of Israel’s Massacre and blatant Ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their Homes in Gaza the World can see if not Israelis.

Israel did 2 stupid things on April Fools Day 2024, escalating the World’s horror of Israeli behaviour, as if Israel deliberately wants to turn the World against it so it could take even more drastic measures in Gaza, the Middle East and the World!

The 1st stupid thing Israel did on ALL FOOLS DAY April 1, 2024 was to deliberately target the World Central Kitchen convoy delivering the insufficient aid reaching besieged Gaza. If only Palestinians were killed, most probably it wouldn’t have been hyped like it was by the Global Media, but white Europeans were killed, and that changed everything! The World was finally outraged!

FILE PHOTO: Site of a strike on WCK vehicle in central Gaza Strip
FILE PHOTO: A person looks at a vehicle where employees from the World Central Kitchen (WCK), including foreigners, were killed in an Israeli airstrike, according to the NGO as the Israeli military said it was conducting a thorough review at the highest levels to understand the circumstances of this “tragic” incident, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza, Strip April 2, 2024. REUTERS/Ahmed Zakot//File Photo

WCK

To keep what is unfolding in the ultra-Religious Middle East in perspective, People must be aware the Old Testament Jewish Establishment Religion became the Israeli government under Netanyahu in January 2023 whose sole/soul goal is to establish on the ground in the West Bank and Gaza, the Likud Party platform which expressly says, “between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty.”

One also has to bear in mind Nuclear armed Israel Today, is a recreation from the Jewish Old Testament some 2700 years ago. For them, the Old Testament trumps Today’s International Law, whether we in the irreligious US West likes it or not, deluding ourselves into thinking it can’t affect MY Future Plans and Goals.

The United Nations Secretary-General said the plain obvious TRUTH, “October 7 didn’t happen in a vacuum” but Israel, in it’s WAR Propaganda where TRUTH is still the 1st casualty of War, wants the World to believe the 17 year Israeli siege and control of Gaza had no influence that led to October 7.

The 2nd stupid thing Israel did on April 1 Fools Day 2024 was to effectively expand the Gaza Massacre with it’s deliberate ESCALATION of the War by Israel’s ACT OF WAR attacking Iran’s Sovereign Diplomatic Mission in Damascus in a gross VIOLATION of International LAW the US West still will not recognize and hype as Israel has drawn in the US into backing Israel’s aggression directly to Iran without conditions.

2024_Iranian_consulate_airstrike_in_DamascusIsrael attacks Iran consulate

This is very interesting to read in The Jerusalem Post!

“The situation is tense on all levels of the government and the IDF. On the one hand, the general assessment is that Iran does not want an all-out war and it is with that assessment that the IDF reportedly came to the security cabinet when recommending that missiles be fired at a building in Damascus to kill Iranian General Mohammad Reza Zahedi.”

There’s no discussion of the FACT, the Israeli attack on Iranian Sovereign Diplomatic Territory in Damascus is in FACT, an Israeli Declaration of WAR on IRAN and a gross violation of International Law.

Israel can get away with consistently violating International Law and getting a free get out of Jail pass since 1967 when the US World KNEW Israeli Settlements in OCCUPIED PALESTINE were a violation of the Real International Law and said don’t do it, but did nothing to stop it.

With all the expert panels, there’s no talk on CNN & MSNBC how dangerous that Israeli ESCALATION in violation of International Law is for the World. With that Israeli ACT OF WAR, Israel just put the World on Notice: EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED!

ARMAGEDDON is on the WAY if the People don’t wake up before that END is too late to stop!

Israel and the US already told Iran if they retaliate against Israel’s ACT of WAR against Iran, together they will retaliate against Iran-again! NO ONE IN THIS WORLD ANYWHERE WILL ESCAPE THE CONSEQUENCES!

https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-796593?

The Israeli Illegal action warned the World: EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED!

In a hyper Religious State like Israel, how would the IDF react when Netanyahu cites a 3000 year old Bible verse saying, “YOU must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible equating present Day Palestinians as the descendants of those Amaleks 3000 years ago? They would kill without mercy because Netanyahu told them it’s God’s Will! Every Palestinian would be expendable.

Now, go, and you shall smite Amalek, and you shall utterly destroy all that is his, and you shall not have pity on him: and you shall slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’ ” 1 Samuel 15:3

That’s exactly what the World sees Israel is doing in Gaza in REAL TIME these 3000 years later.

If that wasn’t Religious enough in Israel here is a Jewish Rabbi telling Israeli Troops, “We must kill them all. Not only those who take up arms against us, it is clear that we must also kill their women and children. This is the generation that wants to kill us in the future, and it is women who give birth to these children.” https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo/status/1766757419231609031

Related insights, ‘It’s a crucible of human misery, this tented existence that spills out of shelters, blankets sidewalks, and covers any inch of empty space in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

“They’ve reduced us to the way the world wants to see us,” one of my Gazan companions comments to me. “Miserable, begging, and in tents.”

This is madness, I think to myself, staring out the car window. We’re barely moving every few minutes through this crush of people, donkey carts, and aid trucks. Ambulance sirens wail, drones buzz above head, and people yell and shout.

It’s the beginning of April, six months into the Gaza war. Rafah’s population has swelled from around 275,000 to, by some estimates, 1.4 million as Gazans were forced to flee their homes in other parts of the strip.

I lock eyes with those of a mother, her infant passed out on her shoulder. She gives me a weak smile. I see two teenage girls hanging off the back of a donkey cart, giggling at each other, and I am relieved—relieved that I caught that moment in the middle of this sea of human sorrow. People look like ghosts but are haunted by all those they have lost.

It’s nearing the end of the holy month of Ramadan, during which Muslims around the world fast from sunrise to sundown. Iftar meals traditionally bring families and friends together to break their fast.

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/gaza-dispatch-inara-humanitarian-aid-world-central-kitchen-israel/

In the Hebrew Bible, Moloch is presented as a foreign deity who was at times illegitimately given a place in Israel’s worship as a result of the syncretistic policies of certain apostate kings. The laws given to Moses by God expressly forbade the Jews to do what was done in Egypt or in Canaan. Moloch is associated in biblical sources with the practice of child sacrifice. The name derives from combining the consonants of the Hebrew melech (“king”) with the vowels of boshet (“shame”), the latter often being used in the Old Testament as a variant name for the popular god Baal (“Lord”)

It’s obvious to those with the eyes to see, Israel lifts up Amalek justifying the killing of all Palestinians, but in reality by killing so many children in Gaza, Israel is in effect, worshipping Moloch.

BLESSED ARE THE PEACE MAKERS FOR THEY SHALL BE CALLED THE CHILDREN OF GOD

This IDF Soldier fought in Gaza and with what he saw and experienced, now he has turned against the Occupation and Genocide!

WAR CRIMES WE SEE AND SAY NOTHING

Posted on by Ray Joseph Cormier

Abby Martin Debunking Israel’s ‘Human Shield’ Defense in Gaza Massacre

I have noticed since the US-Israeli Massacre of the People of Gaza started, Israel has systematically destroyed the Hospitals and Health Care in Gaza. The Israelis always tell us Gaza’s Hospitals have Hamas terrorists operating in there, not Doctors, and so far it’s just accepted without question because Israeli says it in WAR Propaganda. TRUTH is still the 1st casualty of WAR in demonizing ‘the enemy’ or covering up WAR CRIMES

Israeli spokespeople always assure us, Israel takes extreme care to avoid civilian Causalities. They can say it 1000 times, but my eyes aren’t lying from what I see on TV, the Israelis are.

The reasoning is very simple! If the 30,000 + US bombs Israel dropped on Gaza since October 8, an area NO BIGGER that Greater Philadelphia, don’t KILL INSTANTLY, not including those buried under the rubble from those US-Israeli bombs, then without any functioning Hospitals or Health Care, many, many, many more Palestinians will die of their untreated wounds over a longer period of time living in the rubble with No Escape but for our COMMON HUMANITY.

That is ON TRIAL these Days seeing the EVIL brutality in Gaza which is not SELF-Defence, but the brutal Massacre of defenceless WOMEN and CHILDREN.

‘And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things say he that is holy, he that is true, he that has the key of David, he that opens, and no man shuts, and shuts and no man opens.

I know your works: behold, I have set before you an open door, and no man can shut it: for you have a little strength, and have kept my word, and have not denied my name.

Behold, I will make them of the Synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you. Because you have kept the word of my patience, I also will keep you from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, TO TRY THEM that dwell upon the earth. Revelation of Jesus Christ 3:7-10

WE COLLECTIVELY, the HUMAN SPECIES, without acting on any NOTION of COMMON HUMANITY with the People of Gaza, become complicit with our silence and there could be Hell to pay for all of us down the Road.

Leonard Cohen, in his song ‘The Future’ released in 1992 was prescient. The FUTURE he saw 32 years ago in the PAST is NOW!

Anyone with eyes wide open can see the Israeli operation just ended to get Hamas out of what Israel calls their place of operating, the last big Hospital operating in Gaza, Israel just completely destroyed it so that there was no distinction in Israeli eyes between Civilians and Hamas.

To my mind, reading the article and seeing the pictures, is Israeli EVIL made manifest to the World. so there can be no doubt!!!

This was Israel demolishing the last place where Doctors operated from, not Hamas, and now they can’t even do that!

‘No life here’: Israel’s army withdraws from Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital’

Witnesses say hundreds of bodies were found inside al-Shifa Medical Complex and outside in the surrounding streets.

Israel has withdrawn its forces from Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital following a two-week operation, leaving behind scenes of devastation.

The Israeli military confirmed the sudden pullback on Monday, saying it had completed operational activity in the area of the hospital and claiming to have killed and captured numerous Hamas fighters. Witnesses report a swath of death and destruction at the medical complex, where a large number of displaced Palestinians were sheltering.

“Troops have completed precise operational activity in the area of the Shifa Hospital and exited the area,” the Israeli military said. Despite the LIE the Israeli military said, looking at the result of the Israeli operation, “IT WAS NOT PRECISE” in any way.

It is the picture of Israel totally demolishing the WHOLE HOSPITAL in SELF-DEFENCE!

It is an OBVIOUS WAR CRIME and the POWERS in the US West do nothing as Israel escapes accountability with impunity!

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/1/no-life-here-israeli-army-withdraws-from-al-shifa-hospital-in-gaza

April 13 Just came across this other perspective of what this article is about. It is sad and tragic what Israel did in the BLIND HATREDS OF WAR. Reading it rings True to me. What do you think?

‘Come out, you animals’: how the massacre at al-Shifa Hospital happened’

‘Come out, you animals’: how the massacre at al-Shifa Hospital happened

GOD ON OUR SIDE?

Posted on by Ray Joseph Cormier

All US Politicians are obligated in most Christian America to end their speeches with ‘God Bless America!’ President Biden limits that to ‘God Bless OUR Troops!’

The US is the biggest ARMS MERCHANT in the History of Nations, and US Christian Leaders remain BLIND and OBLIVIOUS to this Vision in their Bibles, “‘Not by Military Force, and not by physical strength, but by my Spirit’ says the Lord of Hosts. Mirroring the US government, there are more weapons in private hands than for any other People on Earth reserved unto that Day of Judgment when they will be used by Americans against Americans

Bob Dylan, Masters of War, and the Ukraine Crisis

Red-white-and-blue chauvinism is running wild. Yet there are real diplomatic alternatives to the collision course for war

Fifty-nine years ago, Bob Dylan recorded “With God on Our Side.” You probably haven’t heard it on the radio for a very long time, if ever, but right now you could listen to it as his most evergreen of topical songs:

I’ve learned to hate the Russians
All through my whole life
If another war comes
It’s them we must fight
To hate them and fear them
To run and to hide
And accept it all bravely
With God on my side

In recent days, media coverage of a possible summit between Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin has taken on almost wistful qualities, as though the horsemen of the apocalypse are already out of the barn.

Fatalism is easy for the laptop warriors and blow-dried studio pundits who keep insisting on the need to get tough with “the Russians,” by which they mean the Russian government. Actual people who suffer and die in war easily become faraway abstractions. “And you never ask questions / When God’s on your side.”

During the last six decades, the religiosity of U.S. militarism has faded into a more generalized set of assumptions—shared, in the current crisis, across traditional political spectrums. Ignorance about NATO’s history feeds into the good vs. evil bromides that are so easy to ingest and internalize.

On Capitol Hill, it’s hard to find a single member of Congress willing to call NATO what it has long been: an alliance for war (Kosovo, Afghanistan, Libya) with virtually nothing to do with “defense” other than the defense of vast weapons sales and, at times, even fantasies of regime change in Russia.

The reverence and adulation gushing from the Capitol and corporate media (including NPR and PBS) toward NATO and its U.S. leadership are wonders of thinly veiled jingoism. About other societies, reviled ones, we would hear labels like “propaganda.” Here the supposed truisms are laundered and flat-ironed as common sense.

Glimmers of inconvenient truth have flickered only rarely in mainstream U.S. media outlets, while a bit more likely in Europe. “Biden has said repeatedly that the U.S. is open to diplomacy with Russia, but on the issue that Moscow has most emphasized—NATO enlargement—there has been no American diplomacy at all,” Jeffrey Sachs wrote in the Financial Times as this week began. “Putin has repeatedly demanded that the U.S. forswear NATO’s enlargement into Ukraine, while Biden has repeatedly asserted that membership of the alliance is Ukraine’s choice.”

As Sachs noted, “Many insist that NATO enlargement is not the real issue for Putin and that he wants to recreate the Russian empire, pure and simple. Everything else, including NATO enlargement, they claim, is a mere distraction. This is utterly mistaken. Russia has adamantly opposed NATO expansion towards the east for 30 years, first under Boris Yeltsin and now Putin…. Neither the U.S. nor Russia wants the other’s military on their doorstep. Pledging no NATO enlargement is not appeasement. It does not cede Ukrainian territory. It does not undermine Ukraine’s sovereignty.”

Whether or not they know much about such history, American media elites and members of Congress don’t seem to care about it. Red-white-and-blue chauvinism is running wild. Yet there are real diplomatic alternatives to the collision course for war.

Speaking Monday on Democracy Now!, Katrina vanden Heuvel—editorial director of The Nation and a longtime Russia expert—said that implementing the Minsk accords could be a path toward peace in Ukraine. Also, she pointed out, “there is talk now not just of the NATO issue, which is so key, but also a new security architecture in Europe.”

Desperately needed is a new European security framework, to demilitarize and defuse conflicts between Russia and U.S. allies. But the same approach that for three decades pushed to expand NATO to Russia’s borders is now gung-ho to keep upping the ante, no matter how much doing so increases the chances of a direct clash between the world’s two nuclear-weapons superpowers.

The last U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union before it collapsed, Jack Matlock, wrote last week: “Since President Putin’s major demand is an assurance that NATO will take no further members, and specifically not Ukraine or Georgia, obviously there would have been no basis for the present crisis if there had been no expansion of the alliance following the end of the Cold War, or if the expansion had occurred in harmony with building a security structure in Europe that included Russia.”

But excluding Russia from security structures, while encircling it with armed-to-the-teeth adversaries, was a clear goal of NATO’s expansion. Less obvious was the realized goal of turning Eastern European nations into customers for vast arms sales.

A gripping chapter in “The Spoils of War,” a new book by Andrew Cockburn, spells out the mega-corporate zeal behind the massive campaigns to expand NATO beginning in the 1990s. Huge Pentagon contractors like Lockheed Martin were downcast about the dissolution of the USSR and feared that military sales would keep slumping. But there were some potential big new markets on the horizon.

“One especially promising market was among the former members of the defunct Warsaw Pact,” Cockburn wrote. “Were they to join NATO, they would be natural customers for products such as the F-16 fighter that Lockheed had inherited from General Dynamics. There was one minor impediment: the [George H. W.] Bush administration had already promised Moscow that NATO would not move east, a pledge that was part of the settlement ending the Cold War.”

By the time legendary foreign-policy sage George F. Kennan issued his unequivocal warning in 1997—“expanding NATO would be the most fateful error of American policy in the post-Cold War era”—the expansion was already happening.

As Cockburn notes, “By 2014, the 12 new members had purchased close to $17 billion worth of American weapons.”

If you think those weapons transactions were about keeping up with the Russians, you’ve been trusting way too much U.S. corporate media. “As of late 2020,” Cockburn’s book explains, NATO’s collective military spending “had hit $1.03 trillion, or roughly 20 times Russia’s military budget.”

Let’s leave the last words here to Bob Dylan, from another song that isn’t on radio playlists. “Masters of War.”

Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good?
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could?