ILANA MERCER’S FPV Resistance

Here’s JD: The Unbearable Lightness Of VP Vance: A VERY Short Primer

ILANA MERCER’S FPV Resistance — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:59:53 GMT

Without demarcation, Vance has blended into an administration that is terrorizing the world financially, economically and militarily. From Greenland, to Latin America to West Asia to Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. ~ilana

By ilana mercer

DEVOUTLY AND LOUDLY do various media organs of the establishment—CNN, The War Street Journal, The Hill, Politico or Israel’s Axios—dazzle you with flattering depictions of JD Vance’s foreign-policy stance, almost always based on unnamed sources, which have conveniently slithered out of dank corners, at this point of the election cycle. Experts in untruths, these media tell you that Vance, vice president in the Trump regime, has all-along roared about foreign-policy restraint.

If he has, it’s the least leonine roar ever heard in this neck of the woods.

Or, the most “private” political protest ever, as Politico would counter. “Private” is how this particular Deep-State tool dubs VP Vance’s foreign policy bent.

In short, Vance confines his “subversive” murmurs to carefully leaked and curated after-the-fact comments, credited mostly to unnamed sources.

The following facts need to be stated, too:

Juvenile quips from craven politicians like Vance notwithstanding, the United States of America continues to play planet to Israel’s sun. Israel’s genocides in the Levant are Made-in-America. Not once in the course of Israel’s carnage in Gaza, in the West Bank and in Lebanon, all ongoing, have two genocidal administrations, Democrat and Republican, budged in materially directing resources to the missions of mass murder currently conducted by Israel.

America underwrites Israeli evil financially and diplomatically, running diplomatic cover for the Israeli executioners. To that end, the US even sanctions and persecutes countries and individuals who dare disagree with its Israeli deity’s mass murder; dare agitate for justice, or demand that the laws of the land be levied against the Serial Killer State.

The US has even sanctioned judicial and UN officials tasked with investigating the crimes of U.S. or Israeli nationals. “Sanction” is a weasel way to frame America’s theft of their assets, banning of their travel, and restriction of their rights to trade with American business.

In all, Israel remains the holy of holies for American politicians.

With the reverence reserved for that country, VP Vance’s administration has never stopped the Jewish State from en masse execution of civilians and from the eradication of entire communities who refuse to submit to American and Israeli hegemony.

The next fact probably also bears repeating: Not once has JD Vance ever personally conveyed to his constituents a principled objection to the crimes of his administration and for those of Israel. No revulsion or reservations from VP Vance. His most coruscating critique of genocide has amounted to strategically intoning about “Israel’s right to defend itself,” a synonym for the practice of state-sponsored terrorism. From this stupid line, Vance has not strayed.

To hear VP Vance tell it, Israel has a bad hand to play. You know—nudge-nudge, wink-wink—it must deal with the caprices of the People of the region. “A ceasefire in that region of the world just means they’re shooting a little bit less at each other than they were before,” the jocular, pompous Vance told the presstitutes present at a June 18 presser. There, Vance also boasted about sending the Iranian economy into “a freefall,” and causing “a trillion dollars of damage to their industrial base over the last three months.”

Again, I have never heard JD Vance utter a meaningful, principled word in opposition to any depravity, much less Israeli depravity. I have, however, heard Vance echo Trump, the genocidaire. Without demarcation, Vance has blended into an administration that is terrorizing the world financially, economically and militarily. From Greenland, to Latin America to West Asia to Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.

Vance should repulse you, down to the garish eyeliner, which only enhances the “degeneracy of manners and morals” he and his administration represent.

With respect to the criminal, collaborative assault on Iran, Vance has been a “servile cheerleader for the war his boss …launched alongside Israel,” as more honest comment has characterized the Vance stance. Throughout Trump’s many ceasefire farces—all a fig leaf for US-Israel resolve to slowly dissolve Iran, and with it the Axis of Resistance—Vance has eagerly played his part, seconding Trump’s venomous genocidal threats against the Islamic Republic, as well as aping Trump’s idiotic atavistic aggression against other countries.

The insubstantial JD Vance might direct stale, totem words of warning toward those Israelis who speak ill of the Butcher of DC, Trump. But, for the Butcher of Tel Aviv Vance reserves the velvet glove: He took care to exempt Bibi from this particular wrongdoing, during the same June 18 presser, where Vance assured the presstitutes present that he speaks regularly with Bibi and has good rapport with him.

Essentially, Vance, Bibi and Trump are solid partners in vice.

Nonchalantly, VP Vance might opine, as he has, that Israel “can’t kill its way to security.” But that’s the extent of it. The carefully choreographed dance that American and Israeli “leaders” do for the benefit of the perfect American fools who vote for them continues uninterrupted.

A plurality of Israelis, on the other hand, are tickled pink by Bibi’s genocides in Lebanon and Palestine. As the brilliant Diana Buttu gloomily reported, Israeli political candidates are running on a plank of who can inflict more pain on their barely surviving Palestinian victims.

So don’t be swept to sea again, this time by Vance whom the irremediable corporate media (as well as some in the alternative media, regrettably) is portraying as a strident opponent of the war on Iran and wars for Israel. It’s nonsense on stilts.

What the VP is doing now is what he has done since the auspicious start of his political career:

Vance launched his career with a smug, self-aggrandizing book, in which he slimed his hillbilly relatives, even naming names. The book was very badly received by authentic “hillbillies.” The Establishment, however lapped it up and loved its author. Still does.

During the 2024 campaign, and before he was tapped by Trump, Vance did the same. He made the right noises, ones the voters wanted to hear, against “costly and unsuccessful interventions,” as he put it.

Stoutly strategic, in suiting-up for the 2028 race, Vance has dropped a book about his Catholicism. Nothing if not theologically inventive, the triangulating candidate has coopted his Catholic faith as a reason for his fealty to … Israel.

Israel is another exigency of the moment. Vance is reading the room again. America is just not that keen on Israel any longer—although, sadly for their souls, Americans have yet to turn on the Jewish State completely and altogether.

While opinion of Israel has undeniably plummeted in the US, the “bottom line,” sums Gallup soberly, is that “Americans retain a more positive view of Israel, with 46% viewing it favorably, than of the Palestinian Territories, at 37%”:

‘… Americans still have a more favorable view of Israel, as a country, than of the Palestinian Territories, though views of Israel are among the least favorable Gallup has measured historically. Meanwhile, views of the Palestinian Territories are the most positive to date, albeit still negative overall.’ (Gallup, February 26, 2026)

In all, don’t let your imagination run fevered with respect to Vance. Don’t get played again (and again, and again). When the powers that be, their sub-par publications and their strategists, pool their power to portray JD Vance as something other than what (as opposed to who) he is—one would hope your psychological-warfare antennae begin to transmit robust signals.

The reason I say that Vance is a “what”, not a “who”—that “what” is the better syntactic determiner to attach to VP Vance—is because the VP is a political production, not a real person. A production of the worst pedigree.

Vance is a creation of a tech billionaire PAC, a “tech-aligned super political action committee.”

Vance is the personal creation of Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal. Thiel was/is his mentor. Together, the wild-eyed Thiel and the ugly in-and-out Alex Karp founded, still manage, Palantir Technologies. How intimate are the Israel Genocidal Forces and the “CIA-backed” Palantir?

Conjugally intimate.

If the gateway to the internet is Google, and it is; not even Google—algorithmically set to defend Israel at all costs—can conceal the bonds that bind Palantir to the Serial Killer State’s crimes. Put it this way, Google (an aggregator for Zionism) and pro-Palestine sources are in agreement over the Palantir-IDF connection.

Palantir works closely with the IDF’s notorious Unit 8200, which is comprised of a select group of mama’s boys and girls, who snoop, hack, and assassinate in code and in practice. Unit 8200’s killer AI algorithms both calibrate and codify mass murder into the SS IDF’s military’s legal code. They have given themselves imprimatur to Press Kill on locating a single resistance fighter, amid up to 100 non-combatant family members, friends and neighbor. It’s not in violation of Israeli law. The individual is impugned by the flimsiest evidence.

Instead of in the dock, in the Hague, these computer killers, you should know, are also found in Silicon Valley, Boston’s high-tech corridor, and, presumably, in Washington State’s techno-town. These characters will certainly be coming to a community near you, near me, when JD’s friends and sponsors facilitate the assimilation of this human detritus into our communities, as they flee future International Criminal Court subpoenas.

Israel and Unit 8200 are the face of this global death industry. The SS IDF’s Artificial Intelligence products, out of Unit 8200, have, in particular, perfected the auto-kill computer systems known as “Lavender,” Daddy’s Home, and The Gospel, whose killer code has been applied to Gaza and Lebanon.

Palantir works with Unit 8200, on “war-related missions.” Coward Karp, Thiel’s partner, has proudly spoken of his company as being involved in “crucial operations in Israel.”

In backing Vance, co-founder Thiel and CEO Karp are joined by former tech executive and podcaster David Sacks, an influencer in the Vance orbit. Sacks is close, too, to censor-for-Zionism Elon Musk. Both backed Vance. AI-traders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz hobnob too in the Vance hood.

Speaking of Google, Vance’s venture capitalism company, Narya Capital, was sponsored by both Thiel and Google’s Eric Schmidt. So, it’s pointless asking Vance to ease up the Google algorithms.

Vance’s Deep Tech billionaire backers are anathema to human flourishing. Theirs is a system of plunder. They are princes who pauper the universe by their deadly fiat pursuits, financial, technocratic, environmental, military. These people and their necro-industries move humanity further away from community, from the locality; from honest industry, from real knowledge and production and into a consumer, bubble-driven technocracy, anchored in illiteracy, gambling, speculation, buying and selling intangible derivative products.

As if American communities are not already distressed; the infrastructure for AI promises to suck the life out of their natural environment, leaving bereft the communities in whose midst these hideous “data centers” are planted. AI Data centers are an assault-on-the-eye and on ethics. Their stratospheric costs as always are socialized; their profits privatized.

As I say, VP Vance is a slick production. The man is a particularly oleaginous political product, astroturf down to the (alleged) rug on his head.

Lest I forget, in his new book Vance cites Charlie Kirk, a mention that was probably focus-group tested. Metaphorically speaking, Vance is boiling the bones of poor murdered Mr. Kirk to make soup. Mr. Kirk is being exploited posthumously to shape discourse in politically advantageous ways.

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Ilana Mercer, paleolibertarian author, essayist and theorist, has been writing up an anti-war, anti-woke storm since 1998, starting in Canada. On arriving in the US, in 2002, her weekly column was right away syndicated. Mercer’s national syndication fell through shortly after due to writing in strident opposition to the war in Iraq. ILANA is described as “a system-builder. Distilled, her modus operandi has been to methodically apply first principles to the day’s events.” She’s Jewish, grew up in Israel ages five to nineteen, and left, at 19, never to return. She had refused to serve in the IDF, Israel’s compulsory military. Ilana’s focus since October of 2023 has been the genocide. A war against civilians is a war on civilization.

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ILANA MERCER’S FPV Resistance — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:32:10 GMT

If we in the West are the most propagandized people in the world; Gazans are the least propagandized. Outwardly captives, Gazans are liberated from the illiberal political propaganda that grips the West ~ilana
Ugly and evil seeks to eradicate its opposites. Be it reflexively or by design—the West’s brash, technocratic, atomistic and irreligious regimes aim to eradicate communities unlike their own. Decadently woke and cruelly impersonal Gaza is not.. ~ilana

* Warning: indelicate language.

WHAT has Israel been up to since March 18, 2025, which was when the “genocidal entity” formally broke the nominal ceasefire agreement in Gaza? Oracular insight is unnecessary.

Israel has been trampling underfoot everything decent and good.

Genocide is back. This time with President Trump in fawning agreement, playing procurer and pimp for the Israeli State, and subjecting ingrate Bibi Netanyahu to no more than a curt jerk of the leash. Just the same, during a press conference with the US president, on April 7, the Israeli prime minister’s face grew as dark as a thundercloud on mention of possible diplomacy with Iran.

Under such favorable circumstances, Israelis are louder and prouder about killing and destroying with monomaniacal diligence. Indifferently, and for the first time, Israel openly admitted to targeting journalist Hussam Shabat for “elimination,” in December of 2024, and executing the him on March 24. The sadistic serial killer stalked its prey, then pounced.

The predator has so far singled out and assassinated 232 other Palestinian journalists.

Shabat thus knew, as he put it, that “journalism meant Israel would kill him.” Only 23, so full of promise, Shabat wrote his epitaph in advance of his death. It read:

If you’re reading this, it means I have been killed — most likely targeted — by the Israeli occupation forces. … For [the] past 18 months, I have dedicated every moment of my life to my people. I documented the horrors in northern Gaza minute by minute, determined to show the world the truth they tried to bury.
I slept on pavements, in schools, in tents — anywhere I could. Each day was a battle for survival. I endured hunger for months, yet I never left my people’s side.
By God, I fulfilled my duty as a journalist. I risked everything to tell the truth, and now, at last, I have found rest—something I have not known for the past 18 months. I did this because I believe in the Palestinian cause, in our right to this land. The greatest honor of my life was to die defending it and serving its people.
I ask you now: Do not stop speaking about Gaza. Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free.
For the last time,
Hussam Shabat, from northern Gaza.

Trampling underfoot everything decent and good: Fatma Hassona was to be the subject of an upcoming documentary, “Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk,” to debut at the Cannes Film Festival. Israel could not allow that. So, Air Force Genocide bombed the 25-year-old Palestinian photojournalist, also murdering nine members of her family.

After a brief, relative lull, eighteen months into the genocide of the Palestinians of Gaza, Israel has resumed its slaughter of civilians at an average rate of 103 souls a day, with 223 individuals dealt life-altering injuries, also daily. Since March 18, reports Haaretz, Israel has killed 1,652 people and wounded 4,391 in strikes on Gaza. (Haaretz “Israel News” newsletter, Wednesday, 16.04.2025.) The number murdered now exceeds 2,000.

With 62,000 Palestinians missing, over 52,000 confirmed dead; and indirect deaths ranging from three to fifteen times the number of direct deaths, by the Lancet’s account—the fake, fossilized media should be obligated to report the official number of Palestinians dead by Israel as well over 100,000. That too is a vast undercount.

The mind is crowded. Palestinians murdered melt into a montage of faces. Yet remember we must men like Rifaat Radwan. Radwan was among fifteen medical and humanitarian workers who were summarily executed pointblank, on March 23, by the Israeli regime in Gaza.

The underworld that is the IDF (Israel Defense Forces)—the world criminals and lawbreakers inhabit—is premised upon lies. By now you know The Liar’s lines, as he drops American “earthquake bombs” on kids at community kitchens:

“Hamas. Terrorism. If Palestinians die; they needed killing.”

But Satan’s non sequiturs can’t conceal the truth—or silence the deeply felt devotionals of the righteous. As the SS IDF stood above him, riddling his colleagues and himself with thousands of bullets, Radwan, Palestinian Red Crescent Society medic, did not beg the agents of his demise. Instead, he recorded their crime for posterity while righteously reciting his last prayers. These are achingly beautiful:

“Oh Lord, accept us. Oh Lord, accept me as a martyr. Mother, forgive me. This is the path I chose … that I help people. … .” Until he expired.

As Monday of April 7 dawned, a Wi-Fi rigged world watched a funeral pyre of Palestinians, except that the people Israel lit up were alive. The IDF incinerated “a tent housing Palestinian journalists in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.”

Late last year, when teenager Shaban al-Dalou smoldered alive, the presstitutes did what they always do: Fudge the English language in the service of Israel. To shore up this oppressive foreign regime, media deploy euphemisms and the passive voice; syntactic devices that mask the excruciating death of a boy kind, beautiful and bright, who was driven by devotion to kin and community.

“Killed in a fire,” media said about Shaban’s murder. The same fate has now befallen Helmi Al-Faqaawi, “a correspondent for Palestine Today News Agency, and Youssef Al-Khazandar, a civilian assisting the group of journalists.” Photojournalist Ahmed Mansour, seen in images engulfed in flames, is fighting for his life in Gaza.

Does Mansour have a fighting chance, what with the last barely functional hospital in the Strip having been obliterated by Israel? On the morning of Palm Sunday, IDF fiends flattened the Al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital, which had stood since 1882. “Burning a journalist alive in Gaza, exclaimed Lima Bustami, Euro-Med Monitor’s legal department director, “is not aimed at silencing the truth. Israel already relies on a far greater force: the world’s indifference to the truth.”

With a world of indifference as backdrop, Israel set ablaze yet more civilians in tents on April 17. (And still more again on April 21.) Seventeen Palestinian civilians, including nine children, were dispatched, apparently, dead by “waves of [some sort].” Yes, even Al Jazeera has caught the botched-English bug, writing that, on April 18, “a wave of Israeli air strikes” killed them.

Another trope of the malpracticing media is to qualify the daily carnage in Gaza with the clause, “mostly women and children.” Or, “Including many women and children.” As though Palestinian men were fare game.

This genocide exclusionary clause is pronounced among the vanishingly small number of conservative influencers who have registered their objection to Israel’s crimes. Out of Christian charity, these influencers allow that the murdered are “women and children,” for the most. Or, that among the murdered are Christians. This from creedal conservatives who otherwise champion the centrality of men and manliness in society. This from the same conservatives who must surely know that Jesus Christ stood not for sectarian favoritism, but for the universal value of all human beings.

“Meet the Palestinian men the media don’t want you to know exist,” narrates Lara Elborno, a Palestinian daughter, human-rights attorney and activist. This here is a woman who can speak both poignantly and with authority about Palestinian men. By now, so can we. And it is the men of Palestine whom we’ve watched on our screens first to the scenes of slaughter. They dig, carry, evacuate, comfort, perform religious rites of burial, and cry when lulls allow.

The contrast between Palestinian men and the IDF stares at you like blood on a Kaffan, the traditional Palestinian shroud.

At bottom, the most cowardly army known in military history doesn’t engage in battles. The IDF is an air force: It strafes civilians from above. Since it broke the ceasefire, Israel has conducted daily massacres by airstrikes, shelling, and drone strikes, reports Jon Elmer, military analyst for the Electronic Intifada. Well over 1000 such airstrikes—fifty a day—have seen nearly 600 children and babies blown to bits.

With every avenue of ingress and egress sealed off by the Israelis for the last six weeks, fuel to power earth-moving machinery is unavailable. So when, on April 10, thirty-five civilians were murdered and fifty injured by warplanes strafing a “densely populated residential block,” in a Shuja’iyya neighborhood—civil defense teams, Palestinians, were on the scene. They always are. How they do it nobody knows. They currently use trawls, spades, finger nails and faith to get at the trapped.

Ugly and evil seeks to eradicate its opposites. Be it reflexively or by design—the West’s brash, technocratic, atomistic and irreligious regimes aim to eradicate communities unlike their own. Decadently woke and cruelly impersonal Gaza is not. Gaza, attests Zahad Rahman, an American nurse who volunteers in what remains of the enclave, is a community-centered, gracious society. Rahman is not a Palestinian. Israel has murdered more than 1,000 individuals like him—”members of the medical, defense and aid teams in Gaza,” confirms B’Tselem (an Israeli human rights organization). Despite the risk, like so many medical volunteers who go to Gaza, Rahman has found himself drawn back to people who will give you their shirt in zero weather.

In the Ramadan tradition of “cultivating empathy,” in the ruins, Gazans thus laid tables to celebrate. Eid al-Fitr, in particular, explains Imam Dr. Omar Suleiman, a scholar and theologian, “is meant to continue that empathy into our celebrations. On the morning of Eid, every Muslim is required to pay Zakat al-Fitr—a form of charity designed to ensure that no one is left out of the feast. It is a beautiful practice: a way of saying that joy is only complete when shared, that our celebration is meaningless if others are starving.”

Inescapably, Eid al-Fitr spirituality was shattered by Israeli barbarity.

On April 3, Israel murdered 92 worshippers. A volunteer doctor from Gaza Medic Voices spent Eid, which marks the conclusion of Ramadan, cutting away party clothes from the bodies of kids dressed to the nines for Eid. By day’s end, the number of human beings murdered had swelled. Little girls festively dressed were, instead, transported to the morgue, jewelry and finery shrouded in the garments of death.

While 100 Palestinian kids are now “killed or injured in Gaza every day,” since [genocide] resumed,” Israelis have gone and slapped a disability classification on “over 20,000” of their own safe and sated offspring. Victims of terror, claim the Israeli State’s mental-health mavens.

The Psychiatric Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is an ever-mutating manual, now in its fifth iteration. The criteria for manufacturing illness under the DSM, or similar industry-developed manuals, are malleable. In real life, no psychiatric manual required, tens of thousands of Palestinian children are being terrorized, are actually dead, mutilated, mentally scarred for life, orphaned without a soul in the world.

Still, one can well-understand why their Israeli adversaries—predators parading as prey—would want to tar even the Palestinian toddler as an irremediable terrorist-in-the-making. Like so many of their formative figures, Palestinian children are formidable, fierce.

Amid the worry and wear of finding food and staying alive, a slip of a girl composes and recites the poetry of resistance:

“I’m Palestinian and proud.”
“I’m proud because I’m the strong brave girl, the daughter of heroes.”
“The daughter of Gaza, the land of the free…”

And so she goes in modulated, melodic Arabic. Here another young Palestinian girl stops her idol, the late Mr. Shabat, aforementioned, to tell him of her admiration. When she grows up; she wants to be a brave journalist like her hero, since martyred. These are very centered children.

If we in the West are the most propagandized people in the world; Gazans are the least propagandized. Outwardly captives, Gazans are liberated from the illiberal political propaganda that grips the West.

And Gabi Siboni knows this. The former IDF colonel, now an unthinking member of Israel’s think-tank ranks, reflects Jewish-Israeli public and political discourse. For Gazans Siboni expresses genocidal contempt and intent—but also a warped understanding of Gazan ferocity about liberating their ancestral homeland. Said Siboni:

“Hamas is not the problem in Gaza. Hamas is a symptom of a bigger problem. The population in Gaza is a ‘barbaric mob.’ If we don’t wish to bleed our soldiers for decades—because in Gaza there will be Hamas B and C—the only solution is Trump’s ‘vision.’”

Sidoni is a lot more honest than the oleaginous Bernie Sanders, an unreconstructed liberal Zionist.

Gaza is no more because of a concerted campaign to wipe it out; because of extermination and depopulation; not because of “Israeli self-defense,” which is when one sovereign state wards off the armies of other sovereign nation-states. Yet “in the year 2025,” Sanders’ mass rallies are festooned with the line, “Israel has a right to defend itself.”

Bernie Sanders’ sophistry should explode the brain like an ammunition dump!

In international law, explains Philip Proudfoot, a British political scientist, “Occupation is temporary, imposing duties, not rights, upon the occupier. The Fourth Geneva Convention explicitly demands that an occupier safeguard civilian rights. Accordingly, Israel cannot resort to anything more than police powers to ‘defend itself.’”

Genocide is the acid test. Sanders’ insistence, well into genocide, that “Israel has a right to defend itself can only be interpreted as blatant genocide apologia,” propounds Caitlin Johnstone. Clearly an expert in untruths, Sanders, who oversaw the removal from his rallies of protesters and their Free Palestine flag, has further exposed himself as a slick establishment operative, who seeks to capture naïve, politically homeless Democrats.

Back to the malodorous cauldron of death and decadence that is the Israel Defense Forces. (Or, perhaps, the Israel Defense Feces?)

A new load of grief came, in March, to residents of the al-Faraa refugee camp in the foothills of the Jordan Valley, in the northern occupied West Bank. Slatternly IDF soldiers have a familiar signature. They leave behind human waste in the homes they wreck:

“Feces, urine and used condoms—these are just some of the things that Israeli soldiers left behind in these Palestinian homes during their 11-day assault [in March],” reports the Electronic Intifada.

That the IDF has such a documented “tradition” of defecating and urinating in the West Bank and Gazan homes they occupy and vandalize is backed by other reports, not least that of Philip Weiss’ Mondoweiss article, “S-it Israeli soldiers did in Gaza.” A 2014 account in the Guardian seconds the same: “Palestinians returning home find Israeli troops left feces and venomous graffiti.” As has the august author of Drinking the Sea At Gaza, Amira Hass of Ha’aretz, documented the defiling ways of the Israel Defense Feces.

Somebody should rub IDF noses in their own mess to teach them a lesson, once and for all. Nobody has.

Yes, Israel makes atrocities past and present look like sandbox play. Still, puzzling even to me is this recent account of used condoms left by the IDF in these West Bank homes. Why puzzling? We know that despite the feel-good official designation of some Israeli females as combat soldiers, the few women in combat roles “are not explicitly deployed into combat situations.” During these ostensible “military” raids, the IDF functions, I believe, as a male-only “fighting” force.

So, why the condoms left in defiled Palestinian homes, in the course of the IDF’s Dionysian bacchanalia in the West Bank? Whose are they, exactly?

Is this what Haaretz, Israel’s center-left paper of record, calls “the homoerotic side of Israeli army life”? Is “copulating” to be added to the documented IDF “tradition” of male soldiers defecating and urinating in Palestinian homes?

Haaretz, I’ve noticed, waters down debauchery—but not because it is concealing the truth for the “Fatherland.” They tell the truth but frame it differently. Thus, the debauchery of uniformed IDF doesn’t seem to be that big of a deal in the Israeli State. Israel doesn’t appear to share American sensibilities—at least so it seems to me, who has closely observed this society in the Hebrew, for eighteen ugly months.

Dare I say that American culture is quite prudish; Israel’s expressed aesthetic more pornographic? An example is the familiar images of IDF wearing or rummaging through the sexy lingerie of Palestinian women dead or dispossessed. You and I would consider these cross-dressing displays among uniformed military men as inappropriate, kinky.

Not Haaretz. Kinky acts of cowardice and sadism—invading Palestinian homes, looting, vandalizing and manhandling private effects—a writer at Ha’aretz is wont to label “Machismo”: The “Military machismo of Israeli soldiers in Gaza will rear its ugly head at home,” blared a January 2025 Haaretz headline.

I’m a subscriber. I read enough of Haaretz to get a sense that Israel has a different, un-American aesthetic. Take this depiction of Purim, which used to be celebrated, largely, as a children’s festival. To “a brief history of Purim, the Halloween of Jewish holidays,” Ha’aretz has appended an erotic image of men flirting and kissing deeply. Haaretz appears to consider this image to be Halloween/Purim-appropriate, wholesome.

The only reasonable, quality newspaper in Israel, Ha’aretz, also dishes a lot of bafflegab. The IDF has invaded large swathes of Syria, is bombing the place, annexing kilometers for a so-called buffer zone, and making overtures to certain cowed Syrian communities so as to further divide and rule that country.

An “overbearing embrace,” however, is how Ha’aretz has euphemized the violence of conquest and the breach of Syrian borders, in March of 2025: “Israel’s Overbearing Embrace Threatens Syria’s Druze at a Critical Juncture.

Utter opposites, too, are Palestinians. If Palestinians are united in the yen for freedom; Israeli circuitry is wired for cruelty.

Israel Katz, defense minister, stonily threatened all of Gaza’s civilians, on March 19, 2025. As a Twitter adage goes, “Translating an Israeli tweet from the Hebrew is like finding a lost page of Mein Kampf.” Listen to the “sound of impunity”—and for that matter, never believe any Hebrew-English translation come to you via Israeli officialdom.

These are Katz’ precise words translated from the Hebrew:

Residents of Gaza, this is the last warning. The first Sinwar destroyed Gaza. The second Sinwar will ruin her completely. The assault of the air force against the Hamas terrorists is just the first step. The rest will be many times harder, and you will pay the full price. Evacuations will soon start from areas of battle. If all the Israeli hostages are not released, and Hamas is not expelled from Gaza—Israel will act with the kind of force unfamiliar to you. Take the offer of the president of the US: return the hostages and expel ‘The Hamas,’ and other options will then open before you, including migration to other places across the world, for whomever wishes it. The alternative is destruction and complete ruin.

Defense Minister Katz further reiterated, on April 16, his policy of “halting the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza.” “The State of Israel’s policy is clear. No humanitarian aid will enter Gaza, as this is one of our main pressure tactics” with Hamas. Under the current reality, nobody intends to stray from the policy, barked Katz.

In an instant, Minister Katz had pacified the “Hostages and Missing Families Forum.” While “emphasizing that the release of the hostages and the continuation of the war cannot happen simultaneously,” the group had nonetheless condemned the Israeli government for “quietly preparing to reinstate humanitarian aid.” (Ha’aretz’s “Israel News” newsletter, Wednesday, 16.04.2025.)

On the whole, it has been well-established that from janitor to general, from soldiers to supreme court justices; in words and in deeds—Israeli society generally shares in the genocidal mindset. The exceptions are a few heavily proscribed, minuscule (“around 300 Israelis come to hold pictures of Gazan children”), pro-peace, Arab-Jewish groups. All told, Israelis speak of Palestinians as though they were sub-human, untouchables, unmentionable, lacking any say in how they live or die.

When I wrote, moreover, that “criminality is codified in Israeli law; that genocide, snuff films, extra-judicial assassinations and rape of Palestinians are de facto legal in Israel; I was not engaging in hyperbole. Systemic, societal criminality is regularly codified by the highest court in that land. Late in March came a ruling from the Israeli Supreme Court, “explicitly and directly legitimizing Israel’s illegal blockade of the Gaza Strip.”

Both asinine and depraved, the Israeli high court used, in support of its authoritative ruling for starvation, “the argument that the State of Israel is exempt from the obligations of belligerent occupation under international law in all cases pertaining to the Gaza Strip.”

Sure, you may subsume in logic, as the Israeli supreme court indirectly does, that you are not obligated to help dying human beings. But you cannot make a cogent, rational case for your right to stop others from feeding and healing dying human beings. This displays a defect in the faculty of reasoning, as well as a defect of character. By default, the outcome of the Israeli high court’s ruling is the death of the starved population—the process of mass murder will play out to its legislated conclusion.

The Israeli high court’s acts both defy explanation and demand an accounting. The fault for inaction now lies entirely with those who won’t act to save Gazans: The USA, Western European- and East European countries, East and West Asian governments.

The emanations from the minds of Israel’s Supreme Court are mind-numbingly boorish and banal. Most pertinent for our purposes here is that Israel does not enjoy an independent judiciary. Yet Israel regularly exploits the principle of complementarity in international law, according to which the International Criminal Court (ICC) shares legal jurisdiction with the democratic nation-state under investigation, provided the latter has an independent judiciary.

Beware! With chameleon alacrity, Israel typically scurries to “investigate” itself, and to exploit the principle of complementarity, when the world looks like it’s had enough. Legal investigations by Israel of its own crimes are part of the Israeli superstructure of deception. Nominal prosecutions, or ersatz investigations, by genocidal Israel of its crimes against Arabs must themselves be treated as part of Hasbara’s meta-chicanery, aimed at concealing the Israeli State’s transparently despotic tendencies.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump, like Joe Biden before him, has made Americans confederates in Israel’s crimes. A malign conjunction of events engineered by Trump has further positioned Israeli leadership to finalize its genocidal goal, as its lobby proxies and influencers stateside successfully silence us, and sunder our Bill of Rights protections, including the First Amendment right to think and speak freely.

The level of “state capture” by Israel, a small, oppressive foreign regime, is unprecedented, inveighs Craig Mokhiber, activist and scholar of international, humanitarian law. This is “state capture” at every level: foreign and domestic; federal, state, county and city. For Israel, law enforcement agencies under this and the previous government are willing to silence and disappear activists against genocide for exercising their American liberties.

Absurd, of course, but Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had tweeted that their job is to stop illegal ideas at the U.S. border: “People, money, products, ideas. If it crosses the US border illegally, our job is to stop it.”

“An American-style Cultural Revolution” à la Mao Zedong? Not if we can help it.

*Embedded screen picture courtesy of Mondoweiss.

Two Genocides Down; Does Judaism Need A Reformation? And Is This Jew Allowed To Ask?

ILANA MERCER’S FPV Resistance — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:57:12 GMT

Inescapably, it is not Muslims of the Ummah, in the name of Islam, who have committed the Twenty-First Century’s two Holocausts—in Gaza and Southern Lebanon …~ilana

In examining the causal factors in the criminal psychopathy on display in contemporary Israel, I have questioned “The Judaism-Zionism Bifurcation,” namely the convention, accepted among solidarity commentators and activists, Jews and non-Jews, that there is a strict divide between Judaism and Zionism.

Advocates of this duality portray Judaism as a faith largely beyond reproach—humanistic, universal, and peaceful; Zionism as its opposite. In this asserted split, it is assumed that Judaism is naturally antagonistic to Zionism and always arrayed against Israel.

The zealotry with which our camp, in solidarity with the Palestinians, adheres to the Judaism-Zionism divide can’t but catch one’s attention. It is as though mouthing these platitudes was The Charm, a protective amulet of sorts.

Contrary to this conventional wisdom, I noted that the idée fixe of “The Chosen People” goes a long way to account for the unwarranted sense of supremacy that animates Jewish Israelis. A biblical aspect of Judaism such as “Chosenness” appears to have encouraged, animated and privileged a factional preference among Jews, to the near exclusion of universal fellow-feeling.

Biblically based Chosenness and the corresponding supremacy certainly help explain the indelible reservoir of evil, a bottomless pit of it, expressed and acted out by the Jewish Israeli commonwealth’s most faithful representatives: The People’s army, the IDF, or the Israel Defense Forces.

There is no grimness in the IDF’s approach to the “mission” of mass murder. Undaunted, they go about their “business” with barbaric gaiety. (Remember, I watch the Hebrew-language tv channels. No filters there.) This Israeli “citizen army” is on its second genocide, uninterrupted.

From Gaza, to the West Bank, to Southern Lebanon; from sun-up to sun-down—Israel continues its genocidal deformation of the Levant’s landscape and its people. Now, generations of Lebanese agrarians—food producers, their well-appointed residences, built to blend into, not lord over, the undulating hills—the very means of production: wiped out. Ancient religious heritage sites, Muslim and Christian, gone (although it should be noted that the magnificently spirited Shia community is the prime target of the Terrorist State and its American enabler). Over a million people displaced. Upwards of 4100 murdered. Israel is not on a killing spree; it’s in a comfortable groove, a second-nature killing groove. Jewish Israel is flying close to the sun, and nobody dares to swat it down.

In marked contrast, Haaretz columnist Gideon Levi and the inimitable Norman Finkelstein were quick to implicate “Chosenness” in the psychopathy on display in contemporary Israel. In August of 2024, in conversation with Current Affairs’ editor Nathan J. Robinson, Levi, a veteran dissident journalist, had been commenting about the unexamined lives Israelis lead. Although he has since vacillated; in his better days, alluded to here, Levy had also remarked in anguish that Jewish-Israel shapes its genocidal media, not vice versa. In other words, genocide is market-driven. The general average of Jewish Israelis throughout the country knows and likes what’s going on.

Or, as Levi put it, “They couldn’t be bothered.”

It makes sense that Jewish supremacists—a term I deployed as early as March 31, 2024, in the essay, “ISRAEL: In Violation Of God’s Law, Natural Justice, The Laws Of War, And All Customary International Humanitarian Law”—would lead unexamined lives. They believe they are divinely-anointed superior beings in whom a birthright to commit genocide is inherent.

Lone Israeli voices like Levi and Amira Haas, another Haaretz pro-Palestine columnist, would be first to tell you that, in Israel, “they represent absolutely nobody,” confirmed Norman Finkelstein, also to Current Affairs’ editor on June 6, 2026.

With similar certainty, Dr. Finkelstein has ventured that Jewish supremacy is augmented by economic success. It’s “because Jews are rich,” qualified Finkelstein: They are the wealthiest religious ethnic group in the US. “The Jewish supremacist billionaire class”—Finkelstein’s coinage—is exerting its power. This class is behind the clamp-down on anti-Israel demonstrations and on American constitutional freedoms. “You can’t say anything now critical of Israel,” inveighed Dr. Finkelstein, to podcaster Robinson Erhardt.

Finkelstein has declared “the Jewish supremacist billionaire class” and their proxies as his inveterate enemies, promising that he’ll never ascent to their demands. The upbeat doctrine that these “Jewish supremacist billionaires” have enforced in American campuses is the requirement that everybody be “inclusive and pluralistic toward Israeli students,” or else. Finkelstein, in his inimitable fashion, declared he would never become “inclusive and pluralistic” toward child killers. May they burn in hell, he added.

Over and above the concentration of wealth in Jewish hands, Finkelstein further fingered, on December 12, 2025, a penchant for community organizing and networking among Jews, as well as the impunity that has come with the weaponization of the Holocaust in forming a “lethal combination.” He was speaking to Double Down News. (“Norman Finkelstein Exposes Israel’s Darkest Secret.”)

So, before the curtain falls on this informal inquiry of mine; I’ll ask again: The bloodiest era in Israeli criminal annals—are they not an organic extension of some biblically based, base, atavistic, shared Jewish superiority, grown more regressive, more savage with time and impunity?

The late great exegete Pope Benedict XVI of the brilliant mind and beatific smile delivered an address, in 2006, to the students at the University of Regensburg, in which he worried out loud that Islam may be a closed system, impermeable to reform.

I now believe the Holy See was wrong, possibly swayed, like the rest of the world, by osmotic Hasbara.

Pope Benedict’s opinion, however, has always been wildly popular in the West, having been propagated by a contingent of ersatz experts, which, it so happens, were also ardently Zionist. Arab scholars attempted, respectfully, as is their wont, to counter. “What is aggravating is that the pope has been free with assumptions, and liberal with its first cousin, innuendo.” In vain. It didn’t help Muslims.

In the address aforementioned, nevertheless, the Holy Father spoke of reason as integral to the Christian faith. He went on to recount how the university formed a “universe of reason,” in which, through rational inquiry, even the existence of God was questioned. Had not the “erudite Byzantine emperor Manuel II Paleologus,” in his exchange with his Persian interlocutor, circa 1391, counsel that, “Whoever would lead someone to faith needs the ability to speak well and to reason properly, without violence and threats”? Indeed.

Observed Pope Benedict: “The decisive statement in [the Paleologus] argument against violent conversion is this: not to act in accordance with reason is contrary to God’s nature.”

Inescapably, it is not Muslims of the Ummah, in the name of Islam, who have acted out “contrary to God’s nature.”

It is not members of the Ummah who have committed the Twenty-First Century’s two Holocausts—in Gaza and Southern Lebanon both in progress. It is, rather, a cohort of Jews, not insubstantial, who purported to do so in supplication to their faith.

I ask, then:

If it was acceptable for the Pontiff to have tried to puncture the pieties of one of the three major religions, why is it that another faith—the one into which I was born—may not be poked and probed as well?

Is the question, then, purely a Jewish-Israeli question, or is it perhaps a Judaism question?

Could it be that Judaism is in need of a Reformation? And is this Jew, myself, even permitted to ask?

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Part 1: The Judaism-Zionism Bifurcation: Chosenness
Part 2: The Judaism-Zionism Bifurcation: Tikkun Olam

'The Judaism-Zionism Bifurcation (Part 2): Tikkun Olam: Fixing The World, But For What, For Whom?,' By ©2026 Ilana Mercer

ILANA MERCER’S FPV Resistance — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 20:51:06 GMT

As plain as plain is the idea of charity. It’s a religion surety, I had surmised, that benevolence is meant to improve society, not the State; and to do so through personal, not political, acts in the community. Charity ought to be about fellow-feeling, not factional preferences... ~©2026 ilana

Contra classical natural law theory, my own religious order, Judaism in its popular rendering has always appeared to me quite sectarian. The faith to which I was born frequently seemed a we-only litany, more about Jews and for Jews than about the world, or for the good of the world.

For “a spectacular sense of otherness and unity” (Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith, p. 262), only the Mormons, tethered to their territory of Utah, equal Jews, with whom Mormons also strongly identify.

Myself, I came alive ideologically when I reached the New World, in the mid-1990s. It was as though a new world of ideas heretofore unknown had unfurled to quench the soul and the intellect. Alas, it did not come from Judaism, to which I was born.

I discovered the very American libertarian non-aggression axiom, which flows, at least in my opinion, from Thomist Catholic philosophy, Just War theory, and the Stoic doctrine of natural law, whose first “interpreter and transmitter” was Cicero,[1] to be followed by Saint Thomas Aquinas and the Roman Church.

As plain as plain is the idea of charity. It’s a religion surety, I had surmised, that benevolence is meant to improve society, not the State; and to do so through personal, not political, acts in the community. Charity ought to be about fellow-feeling, not factional preferences. As instructed in Leviticus 19:18, “You should love your neighbor as you do yourself,” וְאָהַבְתָ לְרֵעֲךָ כָמוֹךָ.

Consider the concept of Tikkun Olam, תקון עולם, the Jewish obligation to repair the world. Perhaps willfully—and to comport with my natural-law bias—I had always interpreted Tikkun Olam as a sublimely modest Jewish obligation.

Developed by the scholars and sages of a dispersed people, Tikkun Olam, I had hoped, was intended as a humble thing—as the duty of the Jewish individual to help, bit-by-bit, to bring about a better world in unassuming, day-to-day righteous acts. In his community and beyond.

In the best sense of that much-abused term “Orthodox” is a reader of ours, “a Torah observant Orthodox Jewish man,” and an attorney at law. JBS, Esq. speaks of Jewish “Chosenness” as follows:

As you are likely aware, Judaism is an ancient religion based upon God’s revelation of Himself to Hebrews at Mt. Sinai. Zionism is a recent [19th Century] political movement associated with Judaism but is not Judaism. Most Jewish people conflate and blur the distinction.
The ‘Chosen People’ concept is misunderstood by most Jews. God ‘chose’ the Jewish people to receive, accept, keep and fulfill His Torah and teach it to the world, to be a ‘light unto the nations.’ That is all being ‘chosen’ ought to mean, not a Jewish ego trip.
As to Jewish entitlement to the land of Israel: fulfillment of their Godly duties is required. I think Zionists believe otherwise; that military capture is sufficient. God twice banished Hebrews from the land for their failures and sins. Many Orthodox Jews (myself included) believe that Jewish entitlement to the land of Israel will require the appearance of Mashiach, the Jewish messiah. I don’t know much about that. (May, 2026)

Although there is a certain degree of comic protest about my next question; I ask it not to be a smart Aleck:

Does what our laudable reader say mean that, come Mashiach, real or imagined, ultra-orthodox Jews could be given religious license to rob Palestinian homesteaders? That, you see, is unclear. With respect to the ultra-Orthodox anti-Zionist Jewry; although the question of messiah’s arrival is more than likely immaterial—the question of ethics is not.

In particular, the question of situational ethics and ethical relativism.

Having, attached yourself to the Palestine solidarity movement as an ultra-orthodox Jew; I’m not yet lavish in my praise for you. What excites suspicion is that your conduct, vis-à-vis Palestinian possessions, could be tied to the religious edicts surrounding the coming of messiah. History, more significantly, is replete with people who followed a false messiah. There is even a concept for this eventuality in Hebrew lore: משיח שקר (mashiach sheker).

These days, my own humble perspective on the daily practice of piety is a mirage in the desert.

Certainly, my modest, morally universal interpretation of Tikkun Olam is not the one adopted by Jews who are “chosen”; namely favored, esteemed and elevated by gentiles and by institutional Jewry.

Starting with the barefaced Thomas Friedman, a New York Times columnist, Jews and non-Jews alike have lent spiritual credibility to hubristic insolence. Suffused with such hubristic insolence, during the war on Iraq, Friedman had praised former Prime Minister Tony Blair, demonstrably a war criminal, for “always [leaving] you with the impression that for him the Iraq war is just one hammer and one nail in an effort to do Tikkun Olam, to repair the world.”

“Tikkun Olam in this modern sense,” confirms the encyclopedia Britannica, “has become the predominant ideology” following World War II. “Healing the world after its fundamental breakage in the Holocaust” is seen to require “a robust social and this-worldly project.”

In every way more extreme than laptop bombardier Thomas Friedman is a rabbi who shares a vastly different take than mine on Tikkun Olam, the repair of the world (“Israel: The Narcissistic State,”). The rabbi begins his teachings with an assertion few would quibble with: Tikkun Olam prevails when good dominates over bad.

But wait. When does good best bad? (11:46 minutes into “Israel: The Narcissistic State,”). “When clal Israel rules the world.” Translated from the Hebrew: When the Jewish collective rules the world. When the nations of the world are subjects of the Jewish People, says this rabbi, during his shiur (“lesson”).

A “goy” has “Tikkun” (rectification), avers the same rabbi, when said “goy” realizes the supremacy of the Jewish People and assists them in any way. Gentile existence is “for the betterment of the Jewish People.” (11:35-13:06 into “Israel: The Narcissistic State”) Under the rule of the Jewish People, he claims, the world and its people achieve rectitude and correction. In other words, the gentile must recognize the (putative) supremacy of the Jewish People for Tikkun Olam to prevail.

Is this rabbi’s ruling a fringe doctrinal position? Do those ultra-orthodox rabbis who stand bravely against “Zionism,” also reject the indubitably hubristic concept of “Chosenness”—of Jews as His Chosen People? Or, do they, like most other rabbis, simply reassuringly frame “the Jewish idea of a chosen people” as “the most liberal and tolerant approach to religion possible”; a burden only to Jews; but a blessing to gentiles, as does another rabbi, Shmuel Kaplan, of Maryland.

With similar certainty does one Rabbi Pini Dunner labor to distance Tikkun Olam from manifestly universal biblical values, such as the one about loving thy neighbor as thyself. Dunner’s shell-game is a rejection of what he dubs progressive values, on the ground that these can alienate a Jewish person from “the past,” as well as hamper his respect for his “heritage.”

The intra-faith cacophony is indeed confusing.

For my part, I suspect the idea of Jewish Chosenness is the kernel of the maniacal and murderous contempt for The Other, manifest in contemporary Israel.

What I can further tell you is that my own notion of Tikkun Olam was imbibed by reading, in the Hebrew, the shtetl authors, who wrote originally in Yiddish. These authors—Sholem Aleichem and Peretz are examples—evince little of the hangovers of politics or Zionism. Their story-telling is purely descriptive, non-polemical and poignant. Heavily Jewish, it has heart for humanity, too.

On Mencken’s recommendation (AI confirmed), I purchased a 1950 used copy in the Hebrew of America, a book by Sholem Asch. Yes, no other than H. L. Mencken put me on to the author named Sholem Asch, which Mencken reviewed in English. With aching simplicity, Ash describes the cultural shock and the New York heat that bring about the demise of a small Jewish boy on arriving in America. The child had been uprooted from the diaspora’s intense bonds of faith, family and community, and plonked into the atomistic, hedonism and consumerism of American life.

Asch’s frail Jewish boy expires longing not for Zion (Israel), but for the cool, snowy beauty of his east-European home village. In addition to Zionism, also absent from the early literature in this genre is the Jewish Supremacy, which I first fingered on March 31, 2024, in the essay, “Israel: In Violation Of God’s Law, Natural Justice, The Laws Of War, And All Customary International Humanitarian Law.” This Jewish supremacy is a mutation of Jewish Chosenness.

I am not alone in opining so openly—although other than Dr. Norman Finklestein, Ha’aretz’s Gideon Levi and Ron Unz; few are the Jewish individuals who dare acknowledge, for fear of Israel and its Western lobbies and lickspittles, that the “Judaism-Zionism bifurcation” should be legitimately and critically examined, given the erasure of Palestinian life ongoing, the genocidal onslaught on swathes of Lebanon, and Israel’s fight-to-the-finish with Iran. And considering that this trespass was commenced with overwhelming Jewish-Israeli acquiescence, and with the cover of institutionalized Jewry; a cohort that, combined, forms a sizeable portion of our Jewish community worldwide.

Organized world Jewry is an arm of Israel. Joseph Massad, professor of modern Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia University, goes through the litany of genocide-supporting entities that had checked their humanitarian facade at the Ben Gurion airport, but would now like to reclaim luggage “lost,” for the purposes of being accepted into polite company. “Major British and American pro-Israel Jewish organizations have in their majority remained fully supportive of Israeli actions,” writes the jaded Palestinian scholar.

In the event that Jewish leaders, belatedly, caper about this or the other Israeli or American atrocity; the protest is almost solely anchored not in moral argument, but in utilitarian, sectarian, outcome-based concerns. Nothing else matters to them, other than that this or the other massacre, one among thousands, is bad for Jewish hostages, could impact Israel’s long-term viability, would encourage antisemitism. Or, as when “U.S. Jewish organizations criticized Trump’s diabolical Gaza plan, purely because they were “concerned” it would jeopardize the ongoing “hostage-release agreement.”

By Pew’s April, 2026 poll, “Jewish Americans and White evangelical Protestants have mostly positive views of Israel, at 64 percent and 65 percent, respectively.” In every meaningful way, too many Jews have supported this ebulliently evil entity, Jewish-Israel.

*** Ilana Mercer, paleolibertarian author, essayist and theorist, has been writing up an anti-war, anti-woke storm since 1998, starting in Canada. On arriving in the US, in 2002, her weekly column was right away syndicated. Mercer’s national syndication fell through shortly after due to writing in strident opposition to the war in Iraq. ILANA is described as “a system-builder. Distilled, her modus operandi has been to methodically apply first principles to the day’s events.” She’s Jewish, grew up in Israel ages five to nineteen, and left, at 19, never to return. She had refused to serve in the IDF, Israel’s compulsory military. Ilana’s focus since October of 2023 has been the genocide. A war against civilians is a war on civilization.

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'The Judaism-Zionism Bifurcation: Chosenness (Part 1),' By ©2026 Ilana Mercer

ILANA MERCER’S FPV Resistance — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 20:03:03 GMT

Is Zionism not, to some extent, an excrescence of Judaism? Why the near-religious divide between Zionism and Judaism? And, am I [a Jewish woman] permitted at all even to ask? ~ ©2026 ilana

Pro-Palestine commentators and activists, Jews and non-Jews, are religious about maintaining a bifurcation—a divide—between Judaism and Zionism. Advocates of this duality portray Judaism as humanistic, universal and pastoral, and Zionism as its opposite. In the commingled rumble of commentary over Zionism; Arab commentators have been conditioned, by necessity, to internalize the split and the exact fissure-lines, as though mouthing these were a protective amulet, a matter of survival; theirs, ours. It is, in a sense.

Why this near-religious bifurcation between Zionism and Judaism? Is Zionism, to some extent, not an excrescence of Judaism?

Biblical Chosenness is certainly a facet of Judaism. Does it relate not at all to the Jewish supremacy that animates Jewish-Israeli expression and express action? Are these not connected? If so, should the question posed, then, really be a Jewish-Israeli question? Or, perhaps a Judaism Question is more apropos?

And, am I permitted at all to even ask?

Composer of some of the best, most exquisite English prose, with insight to match, was novelist Anita Brookner. Through her Jewish protagonist in the novel Making Things Better (2002, p 22), Ms. Brookner writes that the gentleman’s Jewish “ancestral religion,” which he did not practice, “seemed to him an affair of prohibitions, of righteous exclusiveness for which he could see no justification.”

Miss Brookner, a rare gem and a genius, was a secular, unaffiliated Jew like myself. “Although resolutely secular in outlook,” Ms. Brookner also conveyed what I have long-since felt. It is that “the mystery of the Holy Spirit,” expressed in good will, gratitude and graciousness, seems absent from the encounters we Jewish outsiders, lonely people, have had within our “ancestral religion.” (Loneliness is the theme that threads Brookner’s novels.)

Like Brookner, I do not speak ex cathedra of the vexation that is Jewishness. It is indubitably a delicate matter. And, although knowledgeable, I am not an “expert.” However, to deny that eddying around the Jewish child is a sense of, or talk of, Jewish specialness—this would be dishonest. Whether you choose to imbibe “Chosenness” or not—I chose not to—as a Jew, you are likely to have been raised hearing about “Chosenness.”

The supremacy fallacy, it would thus seem, issues surely not strictly from “Zionism,” but from “Chosenness.”

The Chosen-People belief is as old as the Hebrew Bible itself. It is thus in the “Chosen People’s” philosophical marrow. For what—pray tell?—are foundational, early teachings like Deuteronomy 14:2, if not a declaration of Jewish superiority for posterity?

For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.

Alongside all the commentators and broadcasters who insist on upholding the division between Judaism and Zionism; I, too, very much hope that Zionism is not an instantiation or an extension, on some elemental level, of Judaism. I really do.

There are certainly universal elements in the Hebrew Testament. Deuteronomy, an early book, showcases an advanced concept of Jewish Social Justice, and is replete with instructions to protect the poor, the weak, the defenseless; the widows, the orphans, the aliens, even the animals who, as Deuteronomy 11:15 enjoined, must be fed first.

This ethical monotheism, developed centuries before classical Greek philosophy, was certainly expounded upon by the classical prophets, my own heroes. The Hebrew prophets railed against power and cultural corruption so very magnificently. Indeed, the Prophets of the Hebrew Testament are magnificent and munificent, heroes. In speaking truth to power, Jesus followed in the footsteps of the classical prophets.

Yet how can one forget, if one is remotely “knowledgeable,” that, for their righteous, wrath-filled universal message, the Hebrew Prophets had consequently been hounded by The People—by עם ישאל—just as Jesus was persecuted and then crucified at the People’s behest. Did not the crowd cry out “Crucify Him!”? (Matthew 27:15–26)

No doubt, the hounding the classical Prophets had received was an “existential promotion” to crucifixion.

But today, for their words, the classical Hebrew Prophets and Christ would have been chased, excommunicated, throttled on social media, shadow-banned and subjected to death by algorithm—prosecuted legally, too, for “antisemitism”—at the behest of Israel and its Western lobbies and lickspittles. Like many of us who’ve been consistently both anti-woke and anti-war; dissidents since day one, the Hebrew Prophets would have had free speech, but no reach, to use Bassem Youssef’s aphorism.

Still, a faith is more than a doctrine; it is the manner in which the faithful act and speak. I want to believe in the strict bifurcation of Judaism and Zionism, in that magical division. All the same, from Jews, liberals for the most, I’ve always heard the Chosen People storyline. To wit, “The heart of Chosenness,” states one Rabbi Meir Soloveichick (eleven minutes into “Israel: The Narcissistic State”), during a “Jewish Review of Books” symposium, is that Jews are superior, having been chosen as “the eternal nation,” and having made a greater contribution to humanity than any others.

Soloveichik, who officiates on Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission, is wrong; his assertion is untrue on its face. Aristotle (384 BC) was not Jewish. Neither was Johann Sebastian Bach (1685). On the basis of my bias alone; I’d close the case right there. For the reader’s edification, I’ve shored-up my bias with the help of Charles Murray’s tome, Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 BC to 1950 (2003, HarperCollins Publishers Inc., NY).

Here are some of the “giants” who dragged their fellow men out of wattle-and-daub hovels, materially, spiritually and metaphysically:

The Buddha (563 BC)
Confucius (551 BC)
Euripides (480 BC)
Hippocrates (460 BC)
Aristotle (384 BC)
Euclid (300 BC)
Virgil (70 BC)
Al-Mutanabbi (915)
Thomas Aquinas (1225)
Zhao Mengfu (1254)
Dante (1265)
Sesshu (1420)
Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
Michaelangelo (1475)
Raphael (1483)
Titian (1485)
Galileo (1564)
Shakespeare (1564)
Rubens (1640)
Isaac Newton (1643)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685)
Voltaire (1694)
Euler (1707)
James Watt (1736)
Goethe (1749)
Mozart (1756)
Beethoven (1770)
Louis Pasteur (1822)
Thomas Edison (1847)

There has been an attempt to claim for Pasteur and others a “Jewish connection,” but none was Jewish—not even Rubens. The reader who wants badly to see certain faces in the clouds is reminded to refrain from confusing charm and cleverness with transcendent greatness. As Joyce Carol Oats has quipped, “Charisma is just another word for bullshit.” (Fox, p. 387, Hogarth, NY, 2025.)

PART 2: “The Judaism-Zionism Bifurcation (Part 2): Tikkun Olam: Fixing The World, But For What, For Whom?"

PART 3: Two Genocides Down; Does Judaism Need A Reformation? And Is This Jew Allowed To Ask?

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'The Sodom & Gomorrah Media: How The Almighty Would NOT Approach The Modern Serial-Killer State' + VIDEO By ©2026 Ilana Mercer

ILANA MERCER’S FPV Resistance — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:30:41 GMT

What is wrong with the Sodom and Gomorrah media! ‘Oh, Almighty Israel,’ they chant, ‘give us your side of The Story,’ these media persist in pleading with the Serial-Killer State. ‘Give us your take on your latest mass butchery, thievery, looting, and raping. We’re listening, Oh Almighty Israel.’ Would the monstrous media collaborators have cozied up to Jeffry Dhamer to inquire, ‘Mr. IDF Dahmer, please give us your side of the story regarding the last young man you murdered and cannibalized’? ~©2026 Ilana

THE BIBLE has great significance to religiously-minded conservative Americans.

Ben Shapiro, a stupid and sickening influencer, once referred to the Hebrew Bible as the Torah. It’s Tanach, dummy.

The Tanach has three sections: Torah, Nevi’im, Ketuvim, for a total of about 37 books.

To me, the Hebrew Tanach is a great literary work. I know it in the Hebrew, through secular study as a school girl. It’s a literary accomplishment that sports a lot of shit-hot writing.

A story worth considering is Sodom and Gomorrah, and, in particular, how The Almighty approached Sodom and Gomorrah, the Sin City of antiquity.

The all-knowing Almighty possessed full-knowledge of the evidence for Sodom and Gomorrah’s utter debauchery and murderous decadence.

In front of Him, The Almighty had the totality of the crimes. The cumulative evidence was spread before him.

What did He do?

Did He dispatch a group of wise men to further “investigate” the Sodom and Gomorrah Sin City, a place where crime was law?

Did He solicit the perspective and opinion of the City’s top criminals about their crimes?

No. He had in evidence His infinite knowledge, much like an AI archive.

In other words, did the Almighty do what the complicit, narrative-shaping, collaborator, Western corporate media do, at this stage of Israel’s crime spree?

Of course not.

Take UK’s Channel 4 collaborators, and all western media, for that matter.

“Oh, Almighty Israel, give us your side of The Story,” these media persist in pleading with the Serial-Killer State.

“Give us your take on your latest mass butchery, thievery, looting, and raping. We’re listening, Oh Almighty Israel.”

What is wrong with the Sodom and Gomorrah media!

Even “Democracy Now!”, decent dissident journalists, even they insult reality this way. Still! They reported, on April the 23rd, that Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil “was killed by an Israeli strike.”

WTF. And what dross!

Like hundreds of Gaza’s journalists before her, Amal Khalil was first targeted by the serial-killer thugs. Next, she was threatened by the serial-killers, who warned her that her head would be separated from her body, if she didn’t quit reporting on their crimes.

Finally, Ms. Khalil was martyred in a triple-tap hit:

Double-tap or triple tap attacks are all terms from the genocidal entity’s lexicon of crime and cowardice:

First, they hit the target, almost always civilian, a journalist in this instance. They follow up with a strike on survivors and rescuers. For good measure, they repeat the “feat.”

The biblical Sodom and Gomorrah was a city whose crimes, the least of which were carnal, did not come close to those of the modern Serial-Killer State.

By bringing up the Sin City of antiquity analogy, you have not heard me advocate that The Almighty’s solution to Sodom and Gomorrah be applied to the modern-day Serial-Killer State.

What you hear me point out, rather, are three things.

First, that The modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah, Israel, has done crimes many times more wicked than the crimes for which God erased the biblical sin city by that name.

Second, I am alerting you to the fact that a merciful God did not send Abraham over to ask the residents of Sodom and Gomorrah to weigh in.

“Tell me, oh degenerates of Sodom and Gomorrah, what your opinion is about your own mass butchery, mass thievery, mass looting, and raping.”

The Almighty simply said to Abraham that he’d spare Sodom and Gomorrah if Abraham could locate 50, and then 10, righteous people in Sin City of antiquity.

Abraham failed. He could not. There were not even 10 righteous individuals to be found in ancient Sodom and Gomorrah.

Here I come to the third thing I am pointing out:

The near-none—near-none—number of righteous people present in ancient Sodom and Gomorrah obtains in the modern-day Serial-Killer State.

Capital-Crime-by-state-proxy (and plenty Cardinal Sin) is very, very popular in the Serial-Killer State.

I’ll provide you with an update of the accurate percentages of just how popular Capital Crime-by-state-proxy is in Israel.

These numbers have not changed since I wrote, in May of 2024, an essay titled, “The Jewish State Is Genocidal, But Is Israeli Society Sick, Too?” The answer then like today is, “Oh yeah.”

(Another essay I thoroughly recommend in helping you distinguish real from fake journalism is “Gaza Genocide: The Coverup Begins. Johnny-Come-Lately Journos & Politicos Start Covering Keister,” September 2025.)

In his many media appearances, Ori Goldberg, a longtime, pro-Palestine Israeli academic, has remarked repeatedly that he is among a few thousand righteous souls in Israel. A few thousand! This explains the indelible reservoir of evil, a bottomless pit of it, expressed and acted out by Israeli society’s most faithful representatives: the IDF (Israel Defense Forces), which is a citizen army.

So, what did heroic Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil do that got her murdered? In essence, that is the illegitimate question that the toady, fake journalists of Channel 4 and mainstream corporate media have posed to Israel—and have been posing to the Serial-Killer State for three years of a killing spree.

Actually, Israel is in a comfortable groove, a second-nature killing groove, not on a spree.

The act of asking this question must earn the inquiring fake journalist nothing but your revulsion, your contempt.

Ms. Amal Khalil did what hundreds of Gaza’s journalists did before they were targeted by the Serial-Killer State and then martyred, often with their families:

Khalil and colleagues had reported reality on the ground. Ergo, they resisted. Reporting has become an act of resistance!

At this stage of Israel’s crime spree, channel 4, and similar collaborators (like the BBC, Fox, CNN, etc.), persist in asking the Serial-Killer State for its side of the story.

Enough. And what is wrong with these people?

They must do us a kindness and quit their enacted cover-up and deception.

Would these monstrous media collaborators have cozied up to Jeffry Dhamer to inquire, “Mr. IDF Dahmer, please give us your side of the story regarding the last young man you murdered and cannibalized”?

This is “both side-ism.” Would the Sodom and Gomorrah media do “both side-ism” with Jeffry Dhamer?

At this stage of the Serial Killer State’s crime spree, media collaborators, stateside and abroad, have no right—have absolutely no right—to dish up their reality-defying “both side-ism” bullshit.

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'Crooked Kushner Beefs Up His Rap-Sheet,' By ©2026 Ilana Mercer

ILANA MERCER’S FPV Resistance — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:13:18 GMT

…[Israelis] don’t have to explain themselves to the world. Israel [should just] focus on the things that make them incredible …their ingenuity, their innovation, their compassion, …on being exceptional. ~ Jared Kushner, on 60 Minutes
Jared, You forgot killing. Israeli pleasures and pastimes are killing. ~ilana
The US is violating Iran’s territorial sovereignty and denying that country’s riparian rights in the waterways that abut its territory. ~©2026 ilana

We have a “good negotiating team, the best,” blathered Trump, with respect to the individuals he dispatched to the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, April 10, to dictate the terms of surrender to the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Team Trump was led by Israel firsters and Israeli assets like Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoaff (sic), and Vice President JD Vance, whose eyeliner only enhances the “degeneracy of manners and morals” he embodies and represents.

I’ll make this very simple. Against the Islamic Republic, victim of the US-Israel’s untrammeled criminality, the president’s men have committed the most egregious crime, the crime of aggression, categorized as such in international customary law—and in all systems of law, codified and uncodified.

By violating Iran’s territorial sovereignty and denying that country’s riparian rights in the waterways that abut its territory—by strafing Iranian cities, targeting life-sustaining infrastructure and industries; hospitals, healers and first responders.; historic sites and schools; wantonly murdering thousands of Iranian people, assassinating esteemed political and scientific leaders—Trump has demonstrated that he has assimilated Israel’s military doctrines. The president of the United States of America has Israelized the US Military and is ‘going Amalek’ on the Jewish State’s designated enemies.

The “accumulated evil,” another legal term invoked in international customary law with respect to the “supreme crime” of unprovoked aggression—this rot is evident in all Trump’s dealings and deeds. It is etched on his decaying Dorian Gray like countenance and is manifest in what is disgorged from the American president’s mouth.

By extension, it was quite clear what tone Trump’s team of choice would set for any and all “negotiation” proceedings with Iran.

Once the talks in Islamabad predictably collapsed, it transpired that Vance had likely been holding all information in reserve for Bibi Netanyahu’s edifications and approval.

Confirmed Netanyahu: “I spoke yesterday with Vice President J.D. Vance. He called me from his plane on his way back from Islamabad. He reported to me in detail, as this administration does every day, about the development of the negotiations.”

One wonders why Iran’s foreign minister, Seyed Abbas Araghchi, would sit down at the negotiating table with this coterie. After all, “in a phone call with his German counterpart, … Araghchi had proclaimed that Iran entered the failed April 10/12 talks in Islamabad with full distrust because of the US repeated breaches and betrayals of diplomacy.”

Foreign Minister Araghchi is certainly a class act. Team Trump/Netanyahu are class enemies. To wit, during the farcical negotiations, the US sneakily attempted to breach the Strait of Hurmuz, over which Iran has natural, riparian property rights. Simultaneously, the Washington Post ran an article by Marc Thiessen, a mediocre neoconservative, calling for the assassination of the Iranian negotiators if they refuse to submit.

Was it, then, prudent for Iran’s finest to grace with their presence such proven bad-faith actors? More important still, why trust Israel’s proxies—the detritus of humanity, human waste by any other name—with your life, Mr. Araghchi? Had not Mr. Araghchi’s predecessor, former Iranian foreign minister Kamal Kharazi and his wife, been murdered in “a targeted United States-Israeli strike on their Tehran home”? Indeed. So, too, is the supreme leader’s successor, Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei, said to be languishing after wounds inflicted on him by this merged criminal cabal.

Just how duplicitous and vicious a people are we and our Israeli overlords?

A man is only as good as his word. Knowing that America’s word is shit, the Pakistan Air Force is purported to have “deployed an aerial shield” to escort the Iranian delegation, led by Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf,” safely into Pakistani airspace. On departure, their Pakistani hosts scrambled “advanced fighter jets” to protect the Iranians (to whom they had given a rock-star welcome).

True, one negotiates with foes, not with friends. Known, too, is the bravery and self-sacrifice of the Iranians and their leaders. Hours before his murder by Murder Inc., the equally impressive late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had stated that, as long as 90 million Iranians are without bomb-sheltering bunkers, so too will he, their spiritual leader, remain above ground, outside the shelter. He did. He died.

Iranians and their leaders seem to have so much more love and loyalty in them than their oppressors. But this does not mean you sacrifice your finest to Israel’s American idolaters. Trump and team are capable of surprising calculated, calibrated evil. Jared Kushner, in particular.

Behind Kushner’s sylphlike appearance is a boa constrictor anticipating its next meal. Jared Kushner is the “man,” whose “master plan” for stealing Gaza had been in place for the better part of two years.

That’s correct. Because, when Kushner interests himself briefly in the world at the window, it is to covet things not his. Big things. And Trump’s main “man” in the Middle East does not exactly have a pickpocket’s light fingers.

Kushner is the nepotistic scion of a dodgy New York realtor, a former convict, now Trump’s ambassador to France. Kushner senior’s criminal shenanigans had been described by U.S. District Judge Jose L. Linares as “disgraceful and reprehensible.”

The son, Kushner Jr., an androgynous-looking, empty husk of a “man,” had been coveting the waterfront property belonging to Gazans for some time—openly since February of 2024. At the time, Anthony Blinken, secretary of state under Joe Biden, the previous genocidal America president, had been shuttling to-and-fro on missions to smooth over Israel’s genocide in Gaza, so as to make it more sellable.

As sellable as Jared Kushner had assessed “Gaza’s waterfront property” to be.

In 2025, on the Sunday, October 19 edition of 60 Minutes, a CBS current-affairs program, Mr. Steve Witkoff revealed inadvertently what we had already gathered: Jared and sidekick Witkoaff (sic) had “been working for two years,” and “Jared had been pushing ‘it.’” “It” being the grand theft of Gaza, following the commission of the genocide by the Israelis, enthusiastically aided by two American administrations.

Back in March of 2024, in a repulsive vignette, Ivanka’s spouse had let slip that the Gaza “waterfront property could be very valuable.” Kushner was speaking to an audience at an elite American university, which he had been invited to regale. (That tells you all you need to know about the quality—and elan—of intellectual and moral discourse in the USA.)

“I’m sitting in Miami Beach right now,” mused little Lord Fauntleroy to the audience at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Middle East Initiative, “and I’m looking at the situation [in Gaza] and I’m thinking: What would I do if I was there?

Less enlightened people like you and me would want to flood the zone, Gaza, with good food. Minister to the sick and the injured. Rebuild residences destroyed. Exact reparations for survivors. Serve the culprits in their thousands with subpoenas to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague. See that these Israelis and their enablers are punished and their victims made whole.

You know, petty quotidian stuff.

Not Kushner. His calculus is different:

… I would just bulldoze something in the Negev; I would try to move people in there … I think that’s a better option, so you can go in and finish the job. … I do think right now opening up the Negev, creating a secure area there, moving the civilians out, and then going in and finishing the job would be the right move.

Soon to follow was Trump’s first gaudy production dubbed the Gaza Plan. After that, late in January of 2026, came Kushner’s Davos Master Slave Plan. There, the dull-witted Zionist presented a garish, hideous slide show to some of the world’s wealthiest men, who paraded their greed for the property of the most imperiled people, the Palestinians.

Parenthetically, I’ll say that I’m sick of Gaza being reduced to no more than an “open-air concentration camp.” Legally, this is true. But Gaza before the Holocaust was quite beautiful, certainly unique. It was a quaint community with a character and a history, some of it ancient. All of it well reflected in its public spaces. Gaza had nothing of the vulgar gilt of a Trump tower. To compare Gaza of yore to the Gaza dreamt up in the Kushner consortium’s Master Slave Plan for the Strip is like comparing a centuries-old church with the heavily adorned Trump White House and White House ballroom.

With Jared, you just don’t know when he will strike. You just know it’ll be as fast as a snake’s thrust. Kushner’s contacts, of course, came to him quick, “by marriage rather than merit.” Jared used his first White House stint, during the first Trump administration, to secure certain connections. “Monetized access,” Fortune Magazine calls it.

Kushner’s firm, Kosher Finances (fine, my tongue here is firmly in my cheek), “earns more than $US80 million a year looking after the money of “Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (known as MBS), United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohammad Bin Zayed (known as MBZ); and Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.” So reports the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Trump, like Kushner and Jewish-Israelis (93 percent of whom support a continued assault on Iran), is outside all moral gravitational pull. Put it this way: You don’t have to marry a Trump to get Trump to betray America.

When the hostile bids for TikTok, Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery were initiated by Larry Ellison—the multi-billionaire who is the Israel Defense Forces’ largest donor, supporter and promoter—Trump jumped to it.

Ellison, who is heavily invested and vested in the IDF and their necro-industry, successfully led a Trump-approved financial putsch on American media conglomerates that’ll entirely curtail, even criminalize, speech critical of Israel.

Let not Kushner’s cool antiseptic façade conceal that he is a limbic creature whose deadpan delivery helps him to push the boundaries of propriety and exploit gentile slavishness. Until he can’t. For a while, he was all in on some of the Ellison schemes, ostensibly trying to tilt the bid to favor Ellison. Until he was not. Jared suddenly withdrew his involvement on December 8, 2025.

Luckily for him, Pater had matters in hand. Putty in Israeli hands; Trump muscled TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, to sell their company—it had allowed unfettered pro-Palestine content—to Ellison. That was the end of the voices of so many of us. Especially affected were America’s impassioned young, at whose expense Trump was greatly and illegally enriched, claiming at minimum $10 billion as his TikTok deal ‘brokerage fee’.

Kushner and Trump are certainly partners in vice. In-and-out of “the Warner brawl between Paramount and Netflix.” In-league with the House of Saud, and “backed by Saudi billions”—all that remained was to put Kushner in charge of negotiating with Iran.

Memorably, on the same edition of 60 Minutes mentioned above, and with the fey charm of a state-cutter (a coroner) preparing to carve a corpse, Kushner shrugged a slender shoulder, and languidly mused the following about the genocide in Gaza. The full exchange for the reader’s edification:

LESLEY STAHL: Before the hostages actually come out, you decide to go to Gaza. …And what did you see?
JARED KUSHNER: it looked almost like a nuclear bomb had been set off in that area. And then you see these people moving back. And I asked the IDF, ‘Where are they going?’ Like, I’m looking around. These are all ruins. And they said, ‘Well, they’re going back to the areas where their destroyed home was, onto their plot, and they’re gonna pitch a tent.’ And it’s very sad, because you think to yourself, they really have nowhere else to go.
LESLEY STAHL: Would you say now, having been there, that it was genocide?
JARED KUSHNER: No. No.
STEVE WITKOFF: Absolutely not. No, no, there was a war being fought.

Reflexively, Kushner refers to Palestinians as “these people.” They, the Palestinians, are perceived as many times removed from the waxy perfection that are Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump. Or, from the perfection of their serial-killer hosts, the divinely appointed Israelis.

So, Kushner, who cannot conceive of the Palestinians as being the proper owners of the land on which they now live homeless—and who plans to appropriate land in which Palestinians have inalienable title—the same Kushner is fit to negotiate with the protectors of the Palestinians, the Iranians?

What am I saying?! The Kushners don’t even see Palestinians as beings. They have, however, made a religion of Israel’s uncontested superiority.

To correspondent Lesley Stahl’s contention that “Israel has become increasingly isolated because of this ‘war’—because of the pounding in Gaza”—and to her attendant inquiry about “what [Israelis] need to do … to—reestablish the good reputation they had”; Kushner never for once bared his fangs. In dizzy rapture over Israel, Kushner intoned quietly:

…[Israelis] don’t have to explain themselves to the world. I think this war has taken a big toll. But if Israel focuses on the things that make them incredible, which is their ingenuity, their innovation, their compassion, they focus on creating and—and just being exceptional, I think that in a couple years from now you’ll see Israel going from controversial to very, very popular again on the world stage.” (CBS News)

That’s right. Israel can do no wrong. The Jewish State has effectively asserted, and been granted by its Western lobbies, a birthright to do genocide, extended to southern Lebanon, which Team Trump says falls outside of its faux ceasefires.

Consequently, and with American imprimatur, Israel is on a “genocidal rampage” in Southern Lebanon, where it blew-up 350 human beings in the span of minutes, on April 9, and where its genocidal forces are erasing village after villages—a way of life—as well as entire city blocks in Beirut’s Dahiya neighborhoods.

To which Trump has responded by huddling even closer: The American president continues to play procurer and pimp for Israel. Team Trump’s message to Israel is, “just be the lovelies that you are.”

To the civilization of Iran, however, Israel’s American flunkies are full of sound and fury. Your “whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again” (1). “Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell.” (2)

As if his violent actions so far have not already placed Trump in succession as the most evil individual in the world, he now threatens to blockade a waterway in which Iran has God-given, natural riparian property rights.

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'Trump Goes Amalek on Iran: Israelization of The US Military; Gazafication of Iran & Lebanon,' By ©2026 Ilana Mercer

ILANA MERCER’S FPV Resistance — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:08:29 GMT

To Israel’s unbridled barbarism, America has responded by joining in. Trump has naturalized the ideas of conquest, ethnic cleansing; genocide and mass murder.~2026 ilana
Fact: Israel poses a grave existential threat to its neighbors! As if the enormity of this threat is not terrifying enough—Iran (Lebanon and Yemen) must now contend with a distinctly flippant approach taken in the West by ‘credentialed’ elites (and some stellar people, inadvertently) in discussing the possibility that Israel might use tactical nuclear weapons on its victims. ~2026 ilana

Decent, moral people will root for Iran to hold the line against a Satanic confederacy, Israel in the lead, seeking the fragmentation and Gazafication of Iran and Lebanon.

To that end, President Donald Trump had convened “hucksters and shysters” to head his diplomatic corps to the Middle East and beyond, Iran included. In the commission of the greatest Sins known to Man, the “populist” president had recruited billionaires to his White House, who also happen to be Israel-first fixers and assets. Like their boss, both Trump’s point “men” are regarded as “Israeli assets,” as “one Gulf diplomat with knowledge of the talks” told The Guardian, on March 17.

This, the president, to whom Bibi Netanyahu’s word is law, did with a purpose, the outcome of which is in evidence:

The final and full Israelization of the American military, and the attempted Gazafication of Iran and Lebanon. The “Gaza doctrine applied to a new front,” concludes Jonathan Whittall, a humanitarian and fellow South African. “And the American state is in compliance, providing firepower and striving to finally and fully Israelize the American military.”

The crime of aggression is “the supreme international crime” in international customary law. Why so? Because “it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.” The aggression is not only “a crime against the state that is attacked,” but it is “a crime against individuals who are killed or harmed as a result of war.”

Think “accumulated evil” when you look at Trump, a “second-rate gangster who strove to be Bibi Netanyahu” and has finally and fully arrived.

Without half trying, Trump has made us all confederates in Israel’s crimes. The Israel-US criminal regimes are in contravention of the laws of war, and the Charter of the United Nations—Articles Two and 51, in particular—by which “armed force” shall not be deployed against “the sovereignty, territorial integrity or political independence of another State.”

For reasons obvious, the twinned Trump-Netanyahu regimes are also an affront to God’s law, the Ten Commandments—according to which you must not covet or murder—and the natural justice, subsumed within which is the libertarian law. The latter pivots on the universal injunction against unprovoked aggression, not on the “national interest fiat standard.”

Most of all, this obtains “regardless of a declaration of war”! In other words, the murderous parliamentary procedures and protocols of Israel or the US do not usurp eternal codes of morality and ethics. Codified or uncodified, all laws that govern the comity between the community of nations and uphold individual rights have been trashed by the US-Israel coalition of evil.

By rights, Iran then is not only expected to defend its people—but to defend them against any “State [that] allows its territory, which it has placed at the disposal of another State, to be used by that other State [USA] for perpetrating an act of aggression against a third State [Iran].” By the letter of the law, Iran is fighting fair when it targets the Persian Gulf states, from which attacks on the Iranian people are staged.

These eternal universal laws have been sundered by two rogue, nuclear powers, whose nuclear proliferation is undeclared and unsupervised. Obscenely, the US and Israel have justified their attack on a third state [Iran] that has no nukes and has not initiated war in centuries, by invoking nuclear control and non-proliferation, comments Craig Mokhiber.

This is enough to make one gag.

Trump’s team of choice gave tone to all negotiation proceedings. The Three Amigos—Trump and his Israel-first fixers—have recruited America into their unbridled barbarism. In progress is a system of plunder developed by this coterie. Don’t, however, let the sweep of destruction they leave in their wake fool you. Trump and his loyalists are amassing fortunes. So too are sons Odai and Qusai making money hand over fist.

The one oaf sent abroad to “represent,” Steve Witkoff, is an old pal of the president. A real estate developer and investor, the man knows less than nothing about most things, the world of stocks and bonds excepted.

As we know, Trump is economical with the truth. Like him, Witkoaff has told lies right and left. About the long-suffering, patient, genial Iranian negotiators—a class act if ever there was one—he piled up a heap of lies to a receptive media:

“There’s almost no stopping them; they have an endless supply of [enriched uranium] … They thought they could strong-arm us. ... It was very, very clear that it was — it was going to be impossible, probably by the second meeting…

They bragged about having 60% enriched fuel, enough for 11 bombs,” Witkoaff prattled on elsewhere to reporters seven days into the conflict. “They told me and Jared, ‘We’re not going to give you diplomatically what you couldn’t take militarily.’ So you know, I think they’re gonna need a change of attitude. …In a year, if you had someone who didn’t have the courage to do this action, you’d have 30 or 40 nuclear bombs,” Witkoaff crowed in an interview with CNBC on Tuesday.”

Swap family names and place names with current names and place names—and my description of the ramp-up to the onslaught on Iraq obtains today as well as it did in July of 2003 (minor adaptations are italicized):

Reducing this administration’s single-minded will to war to an erroneous report ignores the big picture. First came the decision to go to war. The misbegotten illegality that was this administration’s case for war followed once the decision to go to war had already been made. The administration’s war wasn’t about a few pieces that did not gel in an otherwise coherent framework; it wasn’t about an Iran that was poised to attack the U.S. with germs and chemicals rather than with nukes and missiles; it was about a resigned, hungry, economic pariah that was a sitting duck for the power-hungry American colossus.
By all means, dissect and analyze what, in September 2002, I called the ‘lattice of lies’ leveled at Iran: the uranium from Africa, the aluminum tubes from Timbuktu, the invisible ‘meetings’ with al-Qaida in Prague, an al-Qaida training camp that existed under Kurdish—not Iranian—control, as well as the alleged weaponized chemical and biological stockpiles and their attendant delivery systems that inspectors doubted were there and which never materialized.
But then assemble the pieces and synthesize the information, will you? Do what the critical mind must do. The rational individual, wedded to reality, reason, and objective, non-partisan truth saw Trump’s sub-intelligent case for war on Iran for what it was. He saw Trump as the poster boy for ‘the degeneracy of manner and morals’ which James Madison warned war would bring—the same ‘bring ’em on’ grin one can also observe on the face of a demented patient with end-stage syphilis. The rational individual saw all this, and understood that when Madison spoke of ‘war as the true nurse of executive aggrandizement,’ he was speaking of the disposition of this dictator, Trump.” (“Bush’s 16 Words Miss The Big Picture,” Ilana Mercer, July 16, 2003.)

The difference: Trump’s “degeneracy of manner and morals” was already on display in Gaza. “Genocide was Trump’s gateway crime.” Like the vanquishing of Venezuela, the assault on Iran should’ve been easily foreseen by devotees of the codes of justice aforementioned.

The drift of events being what it is; Wittkoaff is begging Iran “to resume talks.” According to reliable pipelines, the worn and wary Iranians now ignore Wittkoaff’s desperate texts.

The other oaf involved is Jared Kushner, Trump’s “best friend and his son-in-law.”

Initially, Trump had puled about being doubly indebted to Kushner. Kushner, Trump had insisted, was the brain trust of his administration, who “was giving [him] ‘valuable expertise’ on Iran while … working as an ‘informal, unpaid advisor.’” Genuflection has since turned to bitching. Still impenitent himself, Trump now concedes that the war on Iran is a result of Kushner’s “expertise,” “because Kushner told me,” quotes Haaretz.

To Israel, Trump has offered nothing but service and subservience. Yet in 2011/12, Netanyahu, then a defense minister, with Prime Minister Ehud Barak in tow, tried to impose the Iran “ticking-clock deadline” on Barack Obama. We’re attacking, he and Ehud Barak threatened. They failed. Subject to the same Israeli shakedown tactics, even President Biden managed to steel himself. Biden refused to “support an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities or oil installations.”

In his devotion to Israel, Trump has bested Biden, a senile, creedal Zionist.

As expected, in amoral Israel, state and civil society, there is no rankle of conscience. Ninety-three percent of Jewish-Israelis love the assault on Iran. The country operates outside all moral gravitational pull, its finest are currently transmitting footage of the trashing of Lebanese lives and land.

Clearly, to Israel’s unbridled barbarism, America has responded by joining in. Trump has naturalized the idea of conquest, ethnic cleansing; genocide and mass murder.

American forces are strafing Iran’s cities and civilians à la Israel—and in coordination with that odious entity. Like Israel, America is giddy over the prospects of illegally and immorally assassinating those Iranian leaders who heroically volunteer to succeed their many colleagues assassinated. Vulgarly, emulating the Israelis, the US State Department has placed a $10 million bounty on the head of supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei, whose father they murdered.

It all has a kind of yeehaw quality to it.

Big Daddy Beelzebub and the “Synagogue of Satan” (Jesus’ words, not mine, in Revelation 2:9 and 3:9) are crass, boorish entities. Countries and cabals whose philosophy is plunder hate refinement and cultivation in others. That Ali Larijani certainly was. A mathematician, computer scientist, PhD in philosophy with an interest in Kant: murdered! What a waste. President Masoud Pezeshkian “has confirmed ‘the cowardly assassination’ of Esmaeil Khatib, Iran’s Intelligence Minister and others: On the homes of the commander of the Basij and the head of the Basij intelligence directorate Israel dropped bombs, for the IDF is an air force, not a fighting force. (To a man, the Israeli Air Force should be served with subpoenas to the Hague.) Murdered too was the spokesperson of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Two (alleged) omissions are noteworthy in the inexhaustive Wikipedia list of Israeli assassinations since 1956: The one dated November 22, 1963; the other occurred on September 10, 2025.

Americans are now also party to Israel’s chemical warfare, a particularly dastardly war crime prohibited under international humanitarian law. Israel illegally spews banned chemical weapons—white phosphorous—over land across the Levant.

Iranians are thus “gasping for air,” inhaling “airborne crude,” following Israeli airstrikes on “major oil depots and infrastructure in Tehran neighborhoods … as well as in the nearby city of Karaj.” The sky is a blackened dome. The rain has turned acid. Trump’s dissembling notwithstanding, the airstrikes on the South Pars Gas Field in Iran were, too, a joint, Israel-US effort. Operation Epstein Fury has seen the dropping of “5,000-pound deep penetrator munitions on Iranian missile sites along Iran’s coastline near the Strait of Hormuz,” because, “How dare Iran defend its sovereignty.”

According to UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, 3.2 million Iranians have been displaced. “At least 10,000 residential homes have been damaged or completely destroyed,” all courtesy of the Epstein Alliance. “US forces have struck more than 5,000 targets in Iran since last Saturday.” In all, said Trump’s mini-Israeli Pete Hegseth, “over 15,000 targets have been hit in Iran, while the Iranian Red Crescent reports strikes on over 21,700 civilian sites.” At least 1,444 people have been killed and 18,551 injured by US-Israeli attacks on Iran since February 28, Iran’s Health Ministry says.

With the acquiescence of the collaborator Lebanese government, Israel has murdered more than 1000 of its citizens, amid ongoing airstrike assaults on Lebanon’s infrastructure, a crime to which Israel’s defense minister has copped. With one million people displaced,” Lebanon is nearing “breaking point,” reports Drop Site News.

Since writing the previous paragraph, the number of murdered Iranians has risen to 1500. All figures curated above are already obsolete. Understand: This is in the nature of the serial-killer state and its pathetic, perfidious American poodle.

Fact: Israel poses a grave existential threat to its neighbors! As if the enormity of this threat is not terrifying enough—Iran (Lebanon and Yemen) must now contend with a distinctly flippant approach taken in the West by “credentialed” elites (and some stellar people, inadvertently) in discussing the possibility that Israel might use tactical nuclear weapons on its victims.

Predictions, classifications, derivations, etiologies: Man has always performed these mental operations. However, the war gaming going on under the guise of military scholarship is both repulsive and dangerous, given the “place of massive impunity” that has been carved out for Netanyahu and his complicit countrymen. As I see it, the gaiety someone like Robert Pape affects, while huffily flogging his war-on-Iran predictions, comes under the “Ugly American” category.

As a method of war, as a military doctrine, Israel is conducting annihilatory campaigns with the intent to bring about the disintegration of Iran as a functioning, sovereign state capable of defending itself. An ideal Iran, from rogue state Israel’s perspective, is a place to which Israeli “fighter” pilots “can return every six months to ‘mow the grass.’” (See Double Down News)

Heightened by American collaboration with a genocidal entity; flippant, morally debased exchanges are a consequence of decreased public and pundit sensitivities to all this legalized crime.

The use of tactical nuclear weapons must be decried with the lash of logic, not logistics, and in clear moral language. Protest, rather than prattle to show how much you know or how predictive your war gaming is.

While Col. Douglas McGregor had underestimated the age of the pre-Christian Persian civilization by a few thousand years during an interview; the colonel is commended for dubbing Iran “a civilizational nation.” In Iran, the Axis of Epstein, whose combined age is 327 years, is trying to destroy a civilization 6000 to 8000 years old. Pray they fail.

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'Why Tehran Should Go Heavy On Israel' + VIDEO, By ©2026 Ilana Mercer

ILANA MERCER’S FPV Resistance — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:33:14 GMT

“At bottom, Israel doesn’t want educated, erudite neighbors; equals with whom to make magic in the region; they want subjects they can sanction and slaughter into submission. It’s in the nature of the beast. Israel is never a peace-maker; it’s an annihilator. Vampiric Israel has already vowed to murder the successor of Iran’s spiritual leader. If not taught a lesson, this pox upon the nations will continue murdering little girls like Zahra, the granddaughter of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamanei, RIP, martyred alongside her grandpa. ...”~©2026 ilana

I’m thinking that Iran should have—could still—go heavy on Israel, but not on their neighbors. And not on the US. The reasons I say this are as follows:

First the US: Iran cant’s significantly hurt the United States of America. It’s obvious.

Our Epstein Elites, running their mouths and running the war, are impervious to morality, decency; to fairness, and to the costs of their unending, insatiable aggression. (The crime of aggression is considered the supreme crime in international law. The natural law and libertarian law are agreed.)

Over time, the US Epstein Elites have accrued wealth and power so obscene, so ill-gotten that they are able to have a say over the livelihoods and lives of their subjects, stateside and the world over. Wars and catastrophic events serve as ruses through which power is centralized. Of note is the consolidation of power and wealth that COVID afforded these elites. (More about the precedent-setting violations of individual rights in my book about Deep Tech, Deep Pharma and the Aberrant Economy.) COVID and genocide. Genocide was Trump’s gateway crime.

Yes, we are subjects of the Israeli-American Epstein Elites. And nothing will sway the Orange Entity, his formal accomplices stateside, nor his unofficial accomplices, Trump’s Jewish-Israeli billionaire handlers. Nothing. Nonchalantly, Bibi’s bitch told America that he anticipates losing American men in his war of choice on Iran (for Israel). The price is worth it, he suggested.

In the service of Israel, American lives are Trump’s to dispatch. These are Goyim, as Epstein and friends refer to non-Jews. So what does Trump care if the shiksas mourn the Goyim. (Shiksa is a non-Jewish girl or woman. It’s the female for Goy, and it is as offensive.)

The same goes for the Democrats. I don’t have to tell you that Genocide Joe and all his Democrats—from AOC to Pelosi—smoothed the way in normalizing genocide in Gaza, “because Israel.”

As ugly as this reality is; The US Epstein Elites, our overlords, are too big, too evil, too resolute to be subject to influence or pain. They’re untouchable, impervious. They’re not subject to the ordinary schedules of reinforcement and punishment to which even Europe’s and England’s Epstein Elites have reacted. There was residual shame expressed in resignations and attempted suicides that took place across The Pond.

America’s Epstein Class has no shame. It thrives, in power, independent of the influence of ordinary folks like you and me. We appear incapable of dislodging the Class that rules us.

So, Iran is wasting time and scarce resources in trying to punish Little Satan (America). Am I biased? Of course. Naturally, I don’t want Iranians to punish our hapless soldiers, my countrymen, even though the patient Iranians are well within their right to so do.

I come now to the Gulf States, which Iran is pummeling—and not only US installations, but facilities and installations across the region:

I say this with weary contempt: When it comes to the elites of the Persian Gulf countries; it’s literally the case of, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” Yes, Qatar, UAE, Bahrain and Kuwait, etc., they host US forces and all the support structure of war. But they are puppet states, vassals. They are in thrall to the Anglo-American-Israeli axis. Intractably so. Gulf State leaders lie supine at the feet of the Epstein Elites of America and Israel.

A genocide of their brethren has not moved them; a few bombs—depleting Iran’s arsenal of short- and medium-range ballistic missiles—will not change the morally bankrupt Arab bloc. It is without fortitude. Restoring proud pan-Arab resistance is a long-term project.

The advice to layoff the Gulf states also comports with Iranian character revealed in the country’s conduct so far. Iranians are a patient and planful people. Moreover, there might be some leverage and goodwill generated for Iran in forgiving its foolish, feckless dictator neighbors, especially since the peoples of the Gulf States are with Iran and Palestine.

For maximum impact, scarce resources are better deployed against Israel.

First, going all in against Israel is just. Israel is responsible for the wars of aggression on Iran and in the region. Israel’s trademark terrorism, psychological and military operations, is aimed at eliminating Iranian sovereignty and unity. Plainly, Israel wants to dissolve the Islamic Republic. Since Iran has always supported the Palestinians, always helped the Resistance; Israel wants to ensure Palestine ceases to enjoy this crucial backing. “Iran, for the most, is being punished for its support for the Palestinians.”

As Israel sees it, the Arab Peninsula and the Levant must bow not toward Mecca and Medinah but to the Mad Dog Medinah (מְדִינָה is country in Hebrew). Regional submission is achieved by reducing the region to rubble, on any pretense and at every turn, and making it utterly dependent financially on America, which itself is, as we now know, in thrall to Israel. American blood and treasure are enabling and subsidizing Israeli evil.

At bottom, Israel doesn’t want educated, erudite neighbors; equals with whom to make magic in the region; they want subjects they can sanction and slaughter into submission.

It’s in the nature of the beast. Israel is never a peace-maker; it’s an annihilator. Vampiric Israel has already vowed to murder the successor of Iran’s spiritual leader. If not taught a lesson, this pox upon the nations will continue murdering little girls like Zahra, the granddaughter of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamanei,* RIP, martyred alongside her grandpa.

The 1979 Iranian Revolution took decision-making away from Tel-Aviv and returned it to Tehran. Israel wants that reversed.

Not that Israel needs a reason to war—but more so than a war of aggression for regime change, Israel’s sneak attacks on Iran, in June 2024 and now, are meant to eliminate Iran as we know it.

As we saw, when Iran hit Israel in retaliation for its aggression in June of 2024, Israelis whimpered and wailed their eternal victimhood. How did the world respond? It told Israel, essentially, to “talk to the hand; because the face isn’t listening.” That’s a hip-hop expression for go pound sand.

Yes, Israelis are cowards. Not “Roaring Lions,” which is what they’ve dubbed their war of aggression on Iran. Like sewer rats, they scurry into their well-fortified shelters, stomp their hideous chant, “The nation of Israel lives,” עם ישראל חי, and salivate for news of innocents murdered. While most Americans oppose the Israel-Trump war on Iran, most Israelis welcome it, according to the Wall Street Journal and the Jewish Insider.

Finally, the Western foreign-policy establishment—aka the whoring and warring Global Epstein Elites—does not believe that patriotism, nationalism, and fellow-feeling exist among groups outside the West. To them, the valiant military intervention of the Houthis and Hezbollah on behalf of the Palestinians (still massacred daily with Western approval) is at the behest of their Iranian puppet masters.

As this mindset goes, only “soldiers” of the West act in solidarity with their people.

I want to quote for you the words of Iran’s late spiritual leader, Ayatollah Khamanei, days before his martyrdom, words that are practically impossible to retrieve from Google, gatekeeper of the Epstein Elites.

Unlike the sewer rats, the Ayatollah refused to descend below ground. He said:

“I have a disabled body. I have a little bit of dignity, which you the people have given me.” I put all this on the line, ready to sacrifice everything, for my faith and for my people. He then led the crowd in prayer.

Contrast the Ayatollah’s transcendent message with the words of the degenerate in DC, on Saturday last:

“The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost, and we may have casualties. That often happens in war.” As news of our fallen broke, Trump followed-up by boasting about his gaudy, vulgar, gilded White House ballroom to be.

Who inspires you more?

VIDEO: “Why Iran Should Go Heavy On Israel, And Spare The US & Gulf States“

* Image sources: https://news.am/eng/news/933270.html
& https://www.unz.com/runz/is-america-winning-or-losing-the-war-with-iran/

'By Admitting to Just Over 70K Dead And Disappeared In Gaza; Israel Is Haggling, Pleading Out, Copping to A Lesser Charge' + Video By ©2026 Ilana Mercer

ILANA MERCER’S FPV Resistance — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:07:27 GMT

Every common criminal and serial offender knows the tactic. Israel is copping a plea. Its pleading to a lesser charge. The ‘genocidal entity’ knows full well that the number of murdered (and maimed) in Gaza is many, many times higher. So, Israel cops to what is, in reality, the lesser charge. ~ ©2026 ilana
To date, about 12 percent of Gaza’s population has been murdered, disappeared or detained. ~ ©2026 iilana

In the lexicon of crime, what Israel is currently doing is called plea bargaining. Israel is copping to a lesser charge with respect to the number of Palestinians dead and disappeared by its death squads in Gaza.

Nothing if not cunning, the Israelis know just how reliably compliant the West’s pundits are. At least those who did time in mainstream media. As an example take the celebration among some self-styled independent media of the fact that Israel’s military now admits that 70,000 souls were murdered in Gaza.

Nothing Israel does is uncalculated. The “genocidal entity” knows full well that the number of murdered (and maimed) Ghazzawi is many times higher. So, Israel cops to what is, in reality, the lesser charge. Every common criminal and serial offender knows the tactic.

Moron media fail to comprehend that Israeli leadership is copping to a lesser charge with the intent to sustain Israel’s international impunity.

The dumb, non-dissident media are reflexively offering Israel a plea bargain in advance. “You can’t fix stupid,” said one Texas funny man. “There is not a pill you can take or a class you can go to. Stupid is forever.”

On top of that, since Israelis keep killing and destroying as the fancy takes them; the 70,000 plea-bargained figure, readily accepted by the Israeli perpetrators who are still on the lam, is no longer valid. Even that erroneous undercount, reported by CNN too, is outdated. Late in December of 2025, OCHA had counted 70,668; Haaretz 71,000.

In fact, as far back as June 26, 2025, Nir Hasson, writer for Haaretz, announced that, “Yes, in Gaza about 100,000 human beings were already killed.” Later, in the Hebrew edition of July 18, Haaretz featured an op-ed by a “University of London” expert in the assessment of the casualties of “war” (“genocide is not war”), who admitted that “Yes, in Gaza about 100,000 human beings had already been killed.”

After that, on November 25, 2025, the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) proclaimed that “the current violent death toll” in Gaza likely exceeded 100,000. While their underestimation is already invalid for obvious reasons; at least the “great” scientific minds of the Max Planck Institute understand that the situation in Gaza is … fluid.

With the pomp of officialdom, the MPIDR and the Centre for Demographic Studies (CED) had proffered that the death toll in Gaza, which this lot appears to attribute to the inchoate forces of “armed conflict and political instability,” will keep rising and life expectancy will continue to sharply decline.

How does one even respond? An inelegant Dah? An eye roll? I’ll go one better:

Why don’t we all settle down and wait for the “legitimate” Piers Moron Media, in their infinite wisdom, to remind us that before the serial-killer state can be named and implicated in the homicide of hundreds-of-thousands of Palestinians; the “evidence” in Gaza must be carefully bagged and tagged, and fingerprints lifted from each and every corpse.

More seriously, one might inform the misguided simpleton media and the MPIDR that their belated undercounts were preceded by others like them months ago. Nir Hasson aforementioned. And before Haaretz came The Lancet.

Ten months into the genocide, in July of 2024, The Lancet, an august British medical journal, pegged the direct and indirect casualties of Israel’s industrial-scale mass murder in Gaza at around 186,000, then. Look around you now at Gaza’s landscape and the spectral souls who’re now confined to the western half of the tiny enclave. (The demonic Israel Defense Forces have bisected the Strip, occupied the east, and are surreptitiously stealing western Gaza.)

In 2024, Airwars (via “Bearing Witness – Gaza,” by Lee Mordechai, historian and Israeli citizen, July 5, 2025), “An independent non-profit that collects data on violent conflict worldwide,” suggested that “by almost every metric, the harm to civilians from the first month of the Israeli campaign in Gaza is incomparable with any 21st century air campaign. It is by far the most intense, destructive, and fatal conflict for civilians that Airwars has ever documented. ... One expert claimed Israel’s war on Gaza may have been the fastest case of killing 1% of the population in the 21st century, and the death of 2% of the population [at that stage] placed the Gaza conflict among the five most lethal conflicts in the 21st century.”

Make that 12 percent of the population.

The Airwars report hails from 2024. On the ground, always beyond reproach; the Euro-Med Monitor observers reported, in November of 2025, that 12 percent of Gaza’s Palestinians has been murdered, disappeared or detained.

From the evidence I had collected since early November of 2023—I felt it not imprudent to deduce then that, twelve months on, we’d be speaking of the following distinct possibility: By the time the Israeli serial killers are cajoled into stopping the carnage, there could be at least 250,000, maybe more, direct and indirect Palestinian deaths brought about by Israel.

Why did I so surmise in November of 2023? Well, the thing itself speaks. Res ipsa loquitur. And my own simple calculations helped.

Early in December Of 2023, in the face of Israel’s unfathomable ferocity and falseness—killing and lying about everything in sight—I set about to conduct a proportional, if limited, mathematical comparison as to just how vampiric the ‘vaunted’ Israel Defense Forces are.

Force-fed the fiction of the IDF as the most moral army in the world; I decided to compare like with like, albeit in limited but significant theaters of “war.” My December 2023 modest inquiry endeavored to compare Israel’s offensive in Gaza against “Hamas,” late in 2023, to America’s onslaught in Fallujah against the Iraqi resistance, in 2004.

On the numbers, I had been exceedingly charitable to the Israelis, given that their victims, buried beneath the rubble, were still mostly unaccounted for, and considering that the IDF resumed hostilities against civilians on December 1, after the briefest pause.

“Gaza Vs. Fallujah, Barbaric Blitzkrieg Highlights U.S. Marines Superiority,” yielded these results:

“Were Fallujah as populated as Gaza (2.4 million), the United States Marines would have killed approximately 4,200 Iraqi souls by December 2023. This is a far cry from the Israel Defense Forces’ butcher’s bill of 15,000 civilians (acknowledged) dead in Gaza by 2023’s end—and climbing.”

Were Gaza as small as Fallujah (400,000); the Israelis, befitting their butcher’s bill until December of 2023, would still have killed at least 2,500 souls to our Marines’ 700. Ceteris paribus, naturally.

Furthermore, does the rational mind really need the plonks at Max Planck and their Bayesian modeling methodology to tell him or her that which is before our very eyes; to tell us what deductions that cleave to reality have produced over two years?

Consider the destruction of infrastructure alone (courtesy of the Institute for Palestine Studies) and the humanitarian- and service sector martyrs who man it:

Percentage of destroyed civilian infrastructure: More than 90%.
Initial direct losses in all sectors: More than 70 billion USD.
Amount of rubble in the Gaza Strip: More than 61 million tons.
Number of explosives dropped on Gaza: More than 200,000 tons.
Number of unexploded ordnance/bombs: More than 20,000.
Area of the Gaza Strip seized by occupation through invasion and fire: More than 80%.
Number of hospitals destroyed or disabled: 38.
Number of destroyed universities and educational institutions: 165.
Number of destroyed schools: 670.
Number of mosques completely destroyed: 835.
Number of days border crossings were closed: More than 600.
Number of aid trucks denied entry by the occupation: More than 120,000.
Number of food kitchens and aid distribution centers targeted: 108.
Number of martyrs from medical personnel: 1,670.
Number of martyrs from Civil Defense crews: 140.
Number of martyred municipal employees, including 4 mayors: 176.
Number of martyred police and aid security personnel: 787.
Number of martyred UNRWA employees: 203.
Number of martyred journalists: 254.
Number of martyred scientists, academics, and teachers: 1,023.
Number of martyred athletes: 894.

This account, too, is no longer current.

After all, Israeli pleasures and pastimes are killing Palestinians. Nobody can keep up with the IDF’s relentless bloodletting. And many, like our American envoys, have covered it up. It might have been easier for Americans to confront the enormity of Israel’s crime had the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem not “suppressed a February 2024 report on northern Gaza. (The excuse: The report “lacked balance.”)

The images attached to the 2024 embassy report—corpses on Gaza’s streets, predators not Israeli feeding on them; predators Israeli smearing the walls with messages of hate and rape, the guts of buildings bedecking a destroyed landscape pouring out from crumbling edifices—these came via a “UN fact finding trip.” They were “visual evidence of the conditions” the culprits (Israeli and American) hoped to conceal, bulldoze over, bury. Upon the corpses beneath the earth’s surface, the vampiric Kushner consortium proposes to erect structures sporting the vulgar gilt of a Trump tower, or that of the Trump White House ballroom. (Liberace, a flamingly flamboyant performer, would have just loved it all.)

What’s left of Gaza, the land and the living ghosts that roam it, continues to peter out. Eighteen months since the Lancet’s 2024 estimate, given the scale of destruction of everything in sight—given that death, starvation and injury don’t end with a genocide nominally reduced—it’s not unreasonable to peg the loss of Palestinian life, via direct and indirect Israeli violence, at the estimated 250,000 souls at least.

Yet February 2025 finds The Lancet asleep to its own findings.

If in July of 2024, with some certainty, The Lancet had determined that Israel had directly and indirectly murdered around 186,000 Palestinian souls. By February of 2025, The Lancet had begun to deploy Israel’s plea-bargain undercount instead of their own initial figures.

On February 8, 2025, presumably as follow-up to its June 2024 report, The Lancet provided not so much of an update, as some weasel words instead.

Behold! A “capture–recapture analysis” has been affected!

The bafflegab the Journal has now adopted entails indirectly conceding what we already know; that the Palestinian Ministry of Health (MoH), in the past, had “achieved good accuracy in mortality documentation,” with some under-reporting. However, the “level of under-reporting” the Journal puts at a mere 41 percent. Less than their researchers’ original, 2024 estimate of 186,000 souls lost to date.

As I remarked in 2004, during America’s onslaught on Iraq—you could trust The Lancet to be appallingly late to the Truth, or to prevaricate about it.

A far more credible source than Max Plonk is Mads Gilbert, a dedicated Norwegian physician, who had worked in Gaza for decades until banned by the Predator State, and who now attests that, before October 7, the average life expectancy in Gaza was 74 years.

Today, an infant born in Gaza can expect to live for 35 years, should he survive the Isra-American interregnum genocide now simmering: You know, the lull between full-blown genocide and the end of genocide. (I’d like to offer you a link to the Mads remarks about life-expectancy in Gaza. It’s the custom, over these pixelated pages, to cite, cite, cite. Google, alas—beholden to You Know Who—generally scrubs the links to explosive pro-Palestine interviews and articles. See “Israel paid Google $45m to help cover up Gaza starvation,” New Arab, September 6, 2025. This last news item was there when last I looked.)

Late in June of 2025, there was word of a “Harvard-published report, according to which 377,000 had gone missing or were dead in Gaza.”

Myself, I’ve been unable to access the data extracted from it, other than via a secondary source, Dr. Dahn Shaulis of the Higher Education Inquirer blog. Shaulis appears to recite data points he had collated from a document, “The Israeli/American/GHF aid distribution compounds in Gaza: Dataset and initial analysis of location, context, and internal structure,” authored by Professor Yaakov Garb of Ben-Gurion University, and posted at 21st Century Wire, on June 23, 2025.

Quite the chain of custody.

In “Gaza’s Disappeared,” dated June 25, 2025, Shaulis confirms the documentational provenance just cited above, writing that “prior to the 2023-25 siege, Gaza’s population was approximately 2.227 million. Israeli Defense Forces estimate that the three main populated enclaves now contain only 1.85 million people:

Gaza City: 1 million
Mawasi: 0.5 million
Central Gaza: 0.35 million.”
That leaves 377,000 Gazans whose whereabouts are unknown. While some may be displaced or trapped in inaccessible areas, the report strongly implies that the missing are dead—many likely buried under rubble, dismembered beyond recognition, or perished from starvation and disease in isolation.
This number dwarfs commonly cited death tolls and challenges the sanitized statistics reported in international media. It is not the product of speculation, but of direct analysis of Israeli military data. What Garb calls a ‘demographic horror story’ is also a legal and moral reckoning.

Let that sink in.

Although unconfirmed, I here repeat the 377,000 missing number because of the utter plausibility of it, given the extent of the cover-up and the territorial asphyxiation to which Palestinians are still being subjected.

Ultimately it will come down to “How many Gazans remain?”

In actuality, the plea is peanuts compared to what the indictment ought to be. As with so many of Israel’s quicksilver narratives—admitting that 70,000 Palestinians perished in Gaza is part of a process of haggling; hammering-out an agreement that pacifies both prosecution and defense, with truth falling by the way. Plainly, Israel’s aim is to subvert the truth.

As the predominant method of adjudication in the United States, the plea bargain is ideal for that. Since the plea bargain is nothing more than a negotiated deal, it subverts the very goal of any justice system; is a taint on any system of justice.

Not that you’d know it, but the justice system’s mandate is to unveil the truth.

The common criminal who accepts a plea confesses to a lesser charge, in exchange for a lighter sentence or no sentence.

This means no trial, no guilt phase and no penalty phase.

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'Introducing Mossad Farsi, The (Hebrew) Motto And The Methods' + VIDEO By ©2026 Ilana Mercer

ILANA MERCER’S FPV Resistance — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:58:47 GMT

Those involved in these foreign-policy drives honestly believe that to be American or Israeli is the existential Gold Standard. Lowly humanity is a pilgrim en route to the Promised Land, whether they know it or not—sometimes by hook or crook. Ultimately, the lives of all The Others, (Iranians in this instance) being roused to revolt are just not worth much until they ‘arrive’ at the desired state-of-being. ~ilana

I’ll stifle the impulse not to say the obvious, and say it: An Israeli-American regime-change operation is underway in Iran.

It’s “right out of the US-Israel playbook” for such operations, notes Professor John Merisheimer, a scrupulous scholar of “great-power politics,” or, more precisely, of naked imperial power.

First, the US “wrecked the country’s economy through crippling sanctions, making the populace profoundly unhappy, poor, desperate, hungry.” Next, cheek-by-jowl with Israel, massive protests were fomented, confirmation for which came in a December 29, Jerusalem Post article, the headline to which read as follows:

“Mossad spurs Iran protests, say agents with [the] demonstrators, in [a] Farsi message: As protests grow across Iran, the Mossad posted an unusual Farsi message urging demonstrators to act, saying it is with them in the streets, amid rising economic pressure and public unrest.”

To Israel, the United States of America offers service and subservience.

Thus, comments from Trump on Truth Social and Mike Pompeo, more openly, backed the fact of an orchestrated, malevolent intervention, in what were initially organic, peaceful protests that stemmed from ruthless economic warfare (American) against the Islamic Republic.

Duly, on January 2, 2026, Pompeo, former U.S. Secretary of state and CIA director, wrote: “Happy New Year to every Iranian in the streets. Also, to every Mossad agent walking beside them....”

As reported by the Times of Israel, on January 16, “Channel 14, seen as close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,” initially said that “‘foreign actors’ are arming the protesters in Iran with live firearms, which is the reason for the hundreds of regime personnel killed.” A little later, a typically oleaginous Israeli source quipped: “Everyone is free to guess who is behind it.”

Oh, we know who it is. As Candace Owens likes to say, “We don’t know, but we know-know.”

We’ve sensed as much. The Iranian January 2026 protesters are acting out-of-character. More like Israelis than ordinary Iranians. These protesters appear thoroughly Isralized—it is certainly unusual historically for the generally demure, respectful Iranians to burn down and desecrate their own holy sites; acts that conform, however, to the rules and customs of Israeli “transnational terrorism.”

Historically, Iranians-in-protest have targeted government symbols, but not national and religious symbols.

And, Lo: These Iranian protesters had enjoyed access to 40,000 StarLink Internet terminals, a news tidbit confirmed by the Times of Israel and Fox News, in bursts of good cheer and cheerleading. The “live” firearms provided were in keeping with Israel’s terror-state tactics. Recall that, in June of 2025, in connivance with the CIA, Mossad, MI5 and Trump—Israelis had smuggled needed materiel into Iran for their war of aggression. Trump had done his part in the subterfuge by pursuing “diplomacy-as-deception” with his trusting Iranian interlocutors, thus distracting and deceiving them.

The third stage in the “four-part regime change playbook” of the “US-Israel Axis,” avers Mearsheimer, is the disinformation campaign.

Before their respective, well-coordinated air forces and armies alight on their Iranian victims in targeted attacks and assassinations—the “transnational terrorists” of the “US-Israel Axis” have a trifling task: Convince the most-propagandized minds in the world, we in the West, that this grotesque burlesque of a regime-change farce is a naturally occurring thing.

In other words, that America’s color-coded, plant-based “democratic” revolutions, you know the kind—“Purple” in Iraq, “Blue” in Kuwait, “Cotton” in Uzbekistan, “Grape” in Moldova, “Orange” in the Ukraine, “Rose” in Georgia, “Tulip” in Kyrgyzstan, “Cedar” in Lebanon, “Jasmine” in Tunisia, “Green” in Iran, still un-christened in Russia and Syria—these are but natural uprisings, led by noble patriots, who just happen, all-too frequently, to be aligned with and sponsored by Foreign Policy Inc., the clubby DC foreign-policy establishment and its Israeli offshoots and operatives.

Iran has and will continue to endure this devilry for decades to come.

For although Mearsheimer appears to imply that the stages of regime change are consecutive, or sequential; I would argue that, as in all formulaic stage theories—the stages of regime change, in this case, overlap, run into each other, reoccur and repeat.

Over and above regime change, Israel, by Mearsheimer’s careful estimation, has a “deep-seated interest” in “wrecking Iran,” in breaking the Islamic Republic apart, and fracturing the surrounding nations.

“At bottom,” I posited during the 12-day war on Iran, “If Israel wanted to enjoy its neighborhood; it would not perennially reduce it to a primordial, pre-civilization stage, as in Gaza, by wiping out knowledge, experience, strength; smarts, beauty and goodness. … These Israeli atavists—who during the 2025 offensive in Iran murdered nearly 900 Palestinians in Gaza—don’t want educated, erudite neighbors; equals with whom to make magic in the region; they want subjects they can sanction and slaughter into submission.”(”IRAN: Everything You Need To Know But Were Too Afraid Of The Israel Lobby To Ask,” July 3, 2025.”)

I should revise that: According to the twinned belief-systems of Jewish supremacy and American exceptionalism; all ‘good,’ ‘happy’ human beings are either those who are like Americans or like Israelis, or en route to becoming clones of the one or the other.

Those involved in these foreign-policy drives honestly believe that to be American or Israeli is the existential Gold Standard. Lowly humanity is a pilgrim en route to the Promised Land, whether they know it or not—sometimes by hook or crook. Ultimately, the lives of all The Others, (Iranians in this instance) being roused to revolt are just not worth much until they “arrive” at the desired state-of-being.

As to their deep involvement in inciting regime-change riots in Iran: News tidbits to that effect have come to us directly via the Israelis themselves.

By now you know that Israel is “amoral,” it acts outside the laws of both man and God. By now you know that bursts of pride accompany Israeli barbarity. As is often the case, Israelis and their media openly report their crimes. And they are especially proud to be inciting regime-change in Iran. On the ground.

Take the X account titled “Mossad Farsi.” So nauseatingly audacious in content is it, that I doubted its authenticity.

In sickeningly sugared tweets, “Official Mossad in Farsi” and its bots (the programmed, online Artificial Intelligence responders or Israel’s paid lickspittles) profess the love Israelis have for the largely pro-Palestinian Iranians.

These are the same Israelis, still mid-murder in Gaza and the West bank, who were posting and celebrating imagery of murdered Palestinians with the flesh hanging on their bones in ribbons. That amoral Israel is now “loving on” the Iranians, a people who have generally resisted for Palestine.

Filled with The Love, “Mossad Farsi” has been loud and proud about its role in attempting to break the Islamic Republic. Here is the Mossad Farsi tweet that got world attention. Dated December 29, it reads as follows: “Let’s come out to the streets together. The time has come. We are with you. Not just from afar and verbally, we are with you in the field as well.”

Speaking in unison, Israeli media—Channel 14, i24, Israel Hayom, and others, no doubt—confirmed the authenticity and impetus of this account. In identically scripted messages, all outlets announced that a “Mossad X account in Farsi urges Iranians to protest as unrest sweeps the country.”

The criminal Svengali Bibi tips the nose toward Iran (allegedly), in a December 29 meeting at Mar-a-Lago, and Trump runs. “Fetch,” says Netanyahu to a pack of dreadful American curs, and they fetch. (Apologies, again, to animals for using them as the source of metaphor for things stupid and evil. It’s a regrettable feature of the English language.)

What might I add to the information provided by Mearsheimer (and reported by Max Blumenthal) in hashing out the finer points of the Israeli scheme? I can provide a translation from the Hebrew of the motto embedded by Mossad Farsi in its X account’s graphic. It reads as follows:

“Without connivance [as in scheming], a nation will fall”:

באין תחבולות יפול עם

Mossad Farsi’s motto is The Message. Israel’s message.

VIDEO: Introducing Mossad Farsi, The [Hebrew] Motto And The Methods:

'Genocide Was Trump’s Gateway Crime. Why The Surprise Over His Vanquishing Of Venezuela? + VIDEO, By ©2026 Ilana Mercer

ILANA MERCER’S FPV Resistance — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:29:19 GMT

In the mind of the minimally moral, minimally compos mentis American—’America First’ and genocide ought to be two mutually exclusive categories. ~©2026 ilana
The simple, base truth is that, Trump, a second-rate gangster, wants to be Bibi, a rank butcher ~©2026 ilana

The fuss and feathers over Trump’s foreign policy is silly, childish. It attests to what happens to the minds of men when they view the very public mass murder of The Other—committed by their Leader—as unrelated to their own moral integrity and future welfare: the brain goes to mush. Or perhaps it was the size of a lentil to begin with.

In the mind of the minimally moral, minimally compos mentis American—”America First” and genocide ought to be two mutually exclusive categories.

Here’s a useful clue: If your politician of choice, going into an election, supports genocide or is silent about genocide; he’s not your friend. You ought to be smart enough, in possession of the very basic moral faculties—having reached a rudimentary development of conscience—to make that minuscule determination.

Has mommy not taught you that murder is wrong and that no mass murderer and congenital thief is your friend? Alas, the decay of the American Mind is such that Trump’s fans are apoplectic—and one or two even texting me in tears: “America First, ilana; what-oh-what has happened to it?”

How the fuck should I know? Did I vote for Trump in 2024? No! For the reasons cited, I registered a protest vote for Jill Stein, whose foreign policy—from Israel to Latin America—is libertarian perfection.

I was hardly being a crusty cynic when, in a January 3, 2018 column, “How President Trump Normalized Neoconservatism,” I foresaw the coming vanquishing of Venezuela:

Neoconservatives were, are pleased with President Trump’s foreign policy.
A couple of months back, Bloomberg’s Eli Lake let it be known that he was in neoconservative nirvana: ‘… for Venezuela, [Donald Trump] came very close to calling for regime change. ‘The United States has taken important steps to hold the regime accountable,’ Trump said. ‘We are prepared to take further action if the government of Venezuela persists on its path to impose authoritarian rule on the Venezuelan people.’
‘For a moment,” swooned Lake, ‘I closed my eyes and thought I was listening to a Weekly Standard editorial meeting.’ (“How President Trump Normalized Neoconservatism,” Ilana Mercer, January 3, 2018)

“Onward to Venezuela!” I wearily wrote. It was not a mysterious sense of foreboding; I was just following facts. Then, I watched the lies with fascination. By now, I knew all the tricks. What’s the excuse of Trump’s base?

That his phlegmatic followers now whinge and whine over Trump’s lackluster America-First focus is really quite puzzling, if not contemptible. It’s like complaining—not that serial killer Ted Bundy killed a lot; but that he was unpatriotic for driving around in a Volkswagen Beetle.

“Ever heard of a Chevy Tahoe, Ted? Boohoo, Bundy, why did you go to work in a Volkswagen, you traitor? Buy America, not German.

Bundy and Trump, Joe Biden and Bibi Netanyahu, and their minions, are murderers all. Murder is what defines them; it’s their defining feature. Except that the last three delegated mass murder to the mercenaries of a military. Bundy did the deeds himself.

Surely, you don’t need mommy to tell you that murder is more than a secondary personality trait? It defines who a person is. It tends to crowd out all other positive attributes. If that’s not obvious, think of Oscar Wilde’s simple guidelines for cretins: “Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.”

Still, for some reason, his fans and voters speak of Trump’s genocide as though it were a minor item of foreign-policy, albeit—small mercies—an unwelcome foreign policy event. Absurd—as the commission of genocide puts the perpetrators and co-perpetrators outside the human species. And genocide and mass murder are the defining features of this man’s foreign policy in Western Asia; in Gaza and beyond.

“Genocide for Israel” is Trump’s de facto Middle East foreign policy.

Impoverished heroic Houthis of Yemen Trump has murdered beginning in 2018: The House of Trump in partnership with the House of Saud. Iranians Trump has helped murder. Somalis and Nigerians Trump has been murdering. Sailors in vessels, on the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, no due process required: them, too, Trump has murdered. All this with nary a meaningful check on executive power from the dullards serving in the world’s “greatest” deliberative bodies, the US Congress and Senate.

And now Venezuelans, ordinary men and women, scan the skies nervously for the telltale metallic shimmer, wondering whether they are being simply surveilled from above, or targeted by Hellfire missiles.

Genocide, the crime of all crimes, was Trump’s gateway crime. Once you’ve crossed over to genocide, the world (and its people) is your oyster.

Indeed, like Joe Biden before him, Trump doubled down on the eradication of the international law and its redeeming natural-law features. Like Biden, Trump ensured that no international prosecutor or prominent UN chronicler of Israel’s crimes against humanity went unpunished. Trump has sanctioned and persecuted countries and individuals who sought to cuff the criminal Netanyahu and levy the law of God and nature against Israel’s sexually perverse serial killers, loosed upon the world. Also thanks to Trump. Yes, thousands of these sexually deviant Israeli serial killers roam among us, when they could be, should be, in the dock, at the Hague.

Enmeshed, the American and Israeli cabal, two self-appointed world powers—Pax Americana ceding to “Pax Judaica”—are presently and shamelessly still engaged in genocide. Israel acts to “disappear” the Palestinians as individuals, as a people and as a polity. Trump, who respects Israel’s wishes to the letter, appoints people who do the same. He pursues and imposes policies that dovetail with what Israel demands.

Trump, corporate media and the political ring leaders sashaying up and down both aisles may call the “new” dispensation under which Palestinians live a “ceasefire.” In point of fact, the so-called ceasefire is just Trump’s “engineered new normal: a slow-paced genocide.” All for the love of Israel.

The future of Gaza, Trump has made clear, would “be pretty much up to Israel.” Although he is there with Israel to help in the dismembering and looting of Gaza. When Israel declared its intention to take over Gaza, Donald Trump had shrugged and egged them on. “Ramp it up,” he whooped. Having long since slipped between the sheets with soulmate Bibi Netanyahu, Trump gave the Israeli prime minister the go-ahead to “fight and finish the job.”

Under Gaza’s weeping winter skies, massacres continue with Trump’s imprimatur. Drones, killer quadcopters and other Israeli shelling implements come scudding at Gaza from the north all the time. The “destruction of remaining homes, property and land, and the prevention of the entry of food, humanitarian aid and basic infrastructure materials” had never ceased, only let-up slightly. Genocide hums along now at the rate of more than eight human beings murdered a day, and at more than 20 injured, also each day.

By no unfortunate coincidence, Trump has normalized genocide for Israel, albeit at a slower pace. Any depravity Israel thinks up; Trump has fulfilled in kind and in kindly blessings. Pictured here is the president of the United States, partying, on December 31, 2025, with the butcher of Tel Aviv.

And his fans expected Trump to compartmentalize the killer-within and keep to his America-First promise? Are they dense?

As to Venezuela: Trump knows nothing about the anti-imperial spirit of the Bolívar Revolution still animating Latin America. Successfully, Venezuela native “Simón Bolívar led the people of South America to rebel against Spanish colonial rule.” However, the independence movement’s victories, won between 1775 and 1850, live on in the wishes of a preponderance of the people of Latin America to retain national sovereignty, to decide about the political dispensation under which they’ll live—including the right to reject Trump “populism” in favor of their own Chavismo populism.

And they want to control the bounty of their lands.

Trump’s handlers, only marginally smarter than he, tell him to say stuff that makes him seem in-the-know. So, Trump stammers about The Monroe Doctrine and the imperative to make errant Latin America submit to America (much like Arabia bows to Bibi).

Trump’s Other Handlers have yet to hand Trump his marching orders. But they’re happy. On Israel’s ILTV, four minutes into a segment titled “Maduro Arrest: Venezuela Blames Israel, U.S. Warns Iran,” one of Israel’s many pig-ignorant panelists weighs in—the country appears utterly bereft of high-minded intellectuals. The Hasbara comes courtesy of Dan Diker, president of the Jerusalem Center for Foreign Affairs.

Diker describes Venezuela as part of an evil axis of resistance, “a rear base for the Iranian regime.” Hezbollah and Hamas are also all over that poor benighted and blighted country. Likewise Iranians: Leaders who refuse to die by Israel (which in itself is completely “antisemitic”); they too, accuses Diker, will often seek shelter in Venezuela. Altogether, Israel is pleased with Trump’s decapitating moves in Latin America.

Although Israelis have expressed themselves about the American invasion of Venezuela at the speed at which they commented on the assassination of Charlie Kirk—they, in the person of Dr. Diker, want you to know that Venezuela’s acting president Delcy Rodríguez is an … antisemite. She accused Israel “of orchestrating the U.S. military operation that led to the arrest of Nicolás Maduro, branding it ‘Zionist aggression.’”

Psychologizing about people is a form of ad hominem argument, in my opinion. It’s bad. I don’t like it one bit. But Trump is the kind of single-celled organism, an amoeba in mentation and affect, to which psychologizing is suited.

The simple, atavistic truth is that Trump, a second-rate gangster, wants to be Bibi, a rank butcher.

Trump has been fellating Bibi Netanyahu without let. He has been made to feel politically impotent, lacking in agency in the face of the master magician, Bibi, who is leading Trump around by the nose. The bully-cum-tyrant Trump, a stupid man of cold violence, needs to regain manly potency by any means at all other than neutering Israel.

So he “bombs the Venezuelan capital, and kidnaps President Maduro.” Let’s hope Trump’s acolytes understand by now, that folly, ignorance, bluff and blind conceit will continue to typify his actions, stateside and abroad.

Tom Woods TV: ILANA MERCER VS. WALTER BLOCK On GAZA

ILANA MERCER’S FPV Resistance — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:50:59 GMT

TOM WOODS TV DEBATE:

Essentially, my position—also the only correct one—is that libertarianism pivots on the axiom of non-aggression. Basis of our law. The fulcrum of it.

The worst thing a human being can do in libertarian law is murder an innocent human being, as in without due process. The serial-killer entity does it again, and again, and again and again times hundreds-of-thousands of times.

Committing industrial-scale mass murder puts you outside the human species, let alone libertarianism.

There can be no disagreement between libertarians. Never. You cannot be a libertarian and exculpate or support genocide.

There is no disagreement among humanity, in fact, and its respective systems of ethics and law.

* Classical liberal, anarchist, minarchist or statist: genocide is forbidden, has no defense, or exculpation.

Genocide: Can anyone, with assorted excuses, commit libertarianism to industrial-scale mass murder and the eradication of a community’s life-sustaining habitat and conditions?

* NEVER. We cannot disagree over mass extermination. No exculpation. No mitigation. No legal defenses. No defenses legal or moral. Committing genocide puts Israel, state and civil society, outside the human species, to say nothing of libertarianism.

November 2025.

TOM WOODS TV DEBATE:

The ‘National-Interest’ Is A Statist Fiat Standard; Solidarity With Palestine Is Libertarian,' By ©2025 Ilana Mercer

ILANA MERCER’S FPV Resistance — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:11:07 GMT

As Candace Owens likes to say of things known intuitively, some things ‘we don’t know-know, but we know.’ The same with the natural law. It’s why I’m a natural-rights libertarian, not a national-interest statist. The national interest ‘feels a little fake and gay,’ to use another Candace coinage. ~©2025 ilana
To frame Trump’s active proxy genocide in ‘national interest’ terms—as a betrayal of his promise to his political constituency—is as irrational and perverse as accusing serial killer Ted Bundy not of mass murder, but of lacking in patriotism. ~©2025 ilana

Stateside, people speak of genocide as though it were an item of foreign-policy, albeit—small mercies—an unwelcome foreign policy event.

Absurd, of course!

Whether such crass utilitarians like it or not, the Anglo-Israeli-American genocide in Palestine is a moral matter, not to be subsumed within the confines of foreign policy, but transcending it.

“Genocide for Israel” is Trump’s de facto Middle East foreign policy. Enmeshed, the American and Israeli cabal, two self-appointed world powers, are presently and shamelessly still engaged in genocide. Israel acts to “disappear” the Palestinians as individuals, as a people and as a polity. Trump, who respects Israel’s wishes to the letter, appoints people who do the same. He pursues and imposes policies that dovetail with what Israel demands.

Israeli-American devilry has entailed the decimation of Palestinian habitat, the salting of their earth for decades to come; the despoiling and theft of their rightfully owned resources, the elimination of their historical artifacts and records; of thousands of their bloodlines. Gone are Gaza’s institutions of law, of learning of healing; their churches, their mosques, their leadership.

All ongoing. We are 790 days into Israel’s relentless bloodletting.

The future of Gaza, Trump has made clear, would “be pretty much up to Israel.” When Israel declared its intention to take over Gaza, Donald Trump had shrugged and egged them on. “Ramp it up,” he whooped. Having long since slipped between the sheets with soulmate Bibi Netanyahu, Trump gave the Israeli prime minister the go-ahead to “fight and finish the job.”

Under Gaza’s weeping winter skies, massacres continue. Drones, killer quadcopters and other Israeli shelling implements come scudding at Gaza from the north all the time. The “destruction of remaining homes, property and land, and the prevention of the entry of food, humanitarian aid and basic infrastructure materials” had never ceased, only let-up slightly. Genocide hums along now at the rate of more than eight human beings murdered a day, and at more than 20 injured, also each day, attest the Euro-Med’s human-rights monitors, on the ground.

By no unfortunate coincidence, Trump had normalized this mindset during his first administration. I was hardly being a crusty cynic when, in a January 3, 2018 column, “How President Trump Normalized Neoconservatism,” I foresaw the vanquishing of Venezuela:

Neoconservatives are pleased with President Trump’s foreign policy.
A couple of months back, Bloomberg’s Eli Lake let it be known that he was in neoconservative nirvana: ‘… for Venezuela, [Donald Trump] came very close to calling for regime change. ‘The United States has taken important steps to hold the regime accountable,’ Trump said. ‘We are prepared to take further action if the government of Venezuela persists on its path to impose authoritarian rule on the Venezuelan people.’
‘For a moment,” swooned Lake, ‘I closed my eyes and thought I was listening to a Weekly Standard editorial meeting.’ (“How President Trump Normalized Neoconservatism,” Ilana Mercer, January 3, 2018)

“Onward to Venezuela!” I wearily wrote. It was not a mysterious sense of foreboding. I was just following facts.

Then, I watched the lies with fascination. Now, I know all the tricks. Of course I did not vote for the man in 2024. And, of course Trump was bound to normalize genocide for Israel, albeit at a slower pace.

Another of Trump’s hombres is Florida Representative Randy Fine. No sooner did the “Hebrew Hammer,” as he fondly calls himself, advise the Palestinian collective to “starve away”—than Trump rushed to pose by Fine’s side. The pair of them, two mountains of flesh as soft as sin, giving themselves over with passionate intensity to criminal complicity. That was in July of 2025. Come October of 2025, Trump endorsed Fine’s candidacy.

Having gotten their hostages back, the inviolable Israelis, for their part, have settled into a different rhythm of genocide. The only thing that has come to an end in Israel are mass hostage protests. Since the Israeli-dictated “ceasefire” took effect on 10 October, upwards of 352 Palestinians have been murdered by Israel and over 900 injured. “Gaza is a living necropolis,” reports the Glia organization, also on the ground in Gaza.

Having kept up its standards, the majority of the casualties inflicted by the “most moral army in the world” are women, children and the elderly. You might look at these two diminutive brothers, small for their ages (for obvious reasons), and think kids. IDF terrorists, with far greater acuity than you, were able to discern “two suspects who crossed the yellow line,” and were conducting “suspicious activities on the ground.”

What kind of “activities”? The children Israel murdered, two among “more than 50,000 kids killed or injured in the Gaza Strip” (that we know of), were foraging for sustenance for their crippled father, who was likely unaware of a new rule. The rule is the offshoot of the tolerance evinced by Trump and the “civilized” West toward Israel’s Hunger Games production, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, in which IDF terrorists and hired hands played at culling starved Palestinians, lured to “food”-collection sites.

The new rule is that Israelis shoot to kill anyone who sets a barefoot beyond the giant ugly yellow cement blocks with which these terrorists have deformed the Strip of land they’ve stolen.

Yes, the IDF has bisected the Gaza Strip again. Whether it is into west and east, north and south or both, or into still tinier grids, I cannot quite say. All we know is that Israeli high revelry in murder and in the deformation of the landscape have not abated a bit after 790 days of it. All Israelis want you to know is that if Palestinians die; they needed killing, one and all.

Or, as one brilliant Palestinian thinker has averred, Palestinians are the only people who must negotiate an end to their murder and starvation.

The ‘National Interest’: A Statist Fiat Standard

Given the president’s behavioral profile, how silly, then, is it to center the case against President Trump around the “national interest” and his betrayal of it!

Let me demonstrate what I mean, with the hope that someone sees the madness for what it is:

Say a criminal profiler were drawing up a profile of prolific serial killer Ted Bundy. Say said criminal profiler then reported to his handlers that he found Ted Bundy deficient in patriotism. Considering that Bundy’s signal and salient personality trait/habit was his serial killing—not his alleged lack of patriotism—you’ll agree that the direction our profiler’s inquiry took and his deductions were bonkers. Nuts. Dumb.

Same here. Genocide is the Crime of all Crimes. It’s the stand-alone, indefensible crime-of-all-crimes. Genocide, moreover, is not a war crime, or a once-off crime. To these, you can attach a set of mitigating or explanatory legal defenses. Not to genocide. There are no legal or moral defenses to attach to genocide. There are no extenuating circumstances, historical, legal or other, for genocide.

Therefore, to frame Trump’s active proxy genocide in “national interest” terms—as a betrayal of his promise to his political constituency—is as irrational and perverse as accusing serial killer Ted Bundy not of mass murder, but of lacking in patriotism.

For if you are an unreconstructed murderer, why would we care about or trust your patriotism, fellow feeling and fidelity to us, The American People? I want mass murderers dethroned and punished. Severe punishment for Israelis and their helpers will do the world a world of good. Crime and Punishment, yes? Crime to be followed with punishment fulfills the requirement of ordered liberty. Leave grotesque crimes unpunished; and you’ll get more of them.

Put plainly, if your political plank’s default position includes openly aiding or committing genocide—then this puts you outside the human species, to say nothing of libertarianism, patriotism, or a national-interest focused, America First foreign-policy.

You’ve no doubt noticed that the national-interest debate is only ever over whether the U.S. government should or shouldn’t act on its divine rights as transnational judge, jury and executioner; seldom over what’s morally right and what’s wrong. This is why, as I mentioned in a debate, Block V. Mercer, courtesy of Tom Woods TV, I’m a natural-rights libertarian, not a national-interest libertarian. The latter is a thoroughly statist standard.

To repeat: The commission of genocide puts the perpetrators and co-perpetrators around the world outside the human species, to say nothing of libertarianism, an America-centric foreign-policy “interests” or the natural law.

In fact, at this point of the genocide of the Palestinians, warned the wise commentator Mouin Rabbani, if you think that silence still absolves you of complicity; you are wrong.

Trump, like Biden before him, is a co-belligerent in Israel’s war on the Palestinians People. He thinks nothing of extra-judicially murdering people for personal aggrandizement, which he conflates with the national interest. Trump would have certainly told his voters, in 2020, that murdering Qassim Soleimani, an Iranian major general, was in our “national interest.”

These days, Trump and his gang adhere to the “monkey see; monkey do” principle. The president of the United States of America aims to do as Israel does. (Personally, I am tired of animals used as the source of metaphor for all things stupid and evil. “Animals, like children, are closer to God,” proffered author Daphne du Maurier, in a novel. How about we substitute Israelis, who torture animals worse than they do Palestinians?)

Mimicking the kill-crazy Israelis in Gaza and the West Bank, Trump’s own Israeli mini-me, Pete Hegseth, is blowing up vessels in the Caribbean and Pacific international waters. Donald Trump has defended Hegseth, who, à la Israel, even authorized double-tap strikes: First, you hit a target. You follow up with another strike on survivors and rescuers. Barbarism in the national interest, of course.

While these violations of customary international law and the law of armed conflict provisions “have been incorporated into American domestic law”—they are never enforced against Israel. None of these American (and international) domestic legal provisions does America ever apply to Israel.

It’s not in the national interest, you’ll be told.

Taken to its logical conclusion; the “national interest” standard goes something like this:

If genocide is deemed in the American “national interest”; then, dot, dot, dot…”

Taken to its realistic reductio ad absurdum, the national-interest standard, as practiced by Trump and Biden, means “We do what Israel tells us to do.”

Todd Huntley, “director of the National Security Law program at Georgetown University Law Center, who had previously served as a judge advocate in the Navy for more than two decades,” reminds us, inadvertently, of the expansive and nebulous nature of violence in the “national interests”:

“The President, as the Commander-in-Chief under Article II [of the US Constitution], has authority to use military force if it is in the U.S. national interest, and if it’s for a limited duration, scope, and intensity. …The domestic legal basis comes from a line of several Office of Legal Counsel (O.L.C.) opinions.”

So, no thanks to the national-interest fiat standard. However dreamy this may sound to you, dear reader, I’ll cleave to the Stoic doctrine of natural law, whose “interpreter and transmitter” was Cicero. “The lex nata is the law within us,” said Cicero of natural law. (Heinrich A. Rommen, The Natural Law, A Study In Legal And Social History And Philosophy, Liberty Fund, Indianapolis, 1998.)

Or, as Candace Owens likes to say of things known intuitively: Some things “we don’t know-know, but we know.” The same with the natural law. It’s why I’m a natural-rights libertarian, not a national-interest statist. To apply here another Candace coinage, the national interest “feels a little fake and gay.”

Contra the national-interest fickleness, the natural law is a system of ethics knowable through reason, revelation and experience. Because it is anchored in the very existential nature of man and reality, the Natural Law is the highest law known to man and is therefore deductively true and just.

Man knows right from wrong full-well. He knows he is perpetrating evil even as he does so.

Deep down we all know that there are no two sides to genocide; that there are no two sides to permanent military Occupation; that there is no debate as to who gets to determine the future of Palestine other than the Palestinian people. We in the West act like permanent rulers of the world in absentia. We all know full well that’s wrong—that Palestinians, not westerners who helped in their demise, must be the authors of their future.

I’d like to think that libertarianism isn’t dispassionate abstraction existing in the hermetic confines of theory, but rather a community—albeit a small one—of passionate individuals who are on the side of those who are denied life, liberty and property in a systematic and systemic way.

Natural-rights libertarians should therefore be squarely in the Palestine Solidarity camp, and certainly skeptical of the national-interest standard, invariably set by Dr. Evil statists and their mini-mes.

'Israelis NOT Sweating Sde Teiman Rape! Prosecutor Concerned Rape Tape Undermines Israel’s Legal Impunity,' By ©2025 Ilana Mercer

ILANA MERCER’S FPV Resistance — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:32:58 GMT

About the Sde Teima leaked rape tape, suffice it to say that, like the Hostage Square demonstrators in Tel Aviv, whose concern was exclusively for their hostages; there are no nettles of conscience in the genocidal society. The on-camera rape has just become a PR (public relations) problem. Unless the world’s yelling can be quelled, Israel’s legal representatives fear for the country’s legal impunity, which is meant to last in perpetuity. Like all shouting scraps in Israel, this one is entirely without an ethical or moral dimension. ~©2025 ilana

There’s a reason I purposefully avoided mention of the fracas in Israel over the leaked Sde Teiman video, in the companion column to this one: “Rape of Palestinian Men By IDF & Israeli Security Forces: Habitual.”

You see, the Hasbara herd seems to have one gift, in Israel and stateside. They live in a self-reverential and self-referential world: They talk from under wet cement about ... themselves. And, they are training you to do the same: talk about them.

As hard as it is for this lot to compute; the genocide, however, is about their victims, Israel’s victims, the Palestinians.

About the Sde Teima leaked rape tape, suffice it to say the following: Like the Hostage Square demonstrators in Tel Aviv, whose concern was exclusively for only their hostages; the same Israeli society is not unhappy about crimes against Palestinians; but that one such crime had been made public to the detriment of their criminally complicit countrymen.

More so than mere publicity—after all, Israel is conducting genocide to a packed house, the world—Israel’s military advocate general worries that the leaked Sde Teiman footage will undermine Israel’s international legal impunity.

The case of the rectal-rape-with-objects of a Palestinian hostage, one among thousands held in the legal limbo of detention-without-trial, was leaked by the Military Advocate General’s office (MAG), whose apparatchiks had heretofore never expressed—nor acted to convey—regret, remorse, contrition, or penitence over the genocide ongoing. (So you know, Israel has merely shifted to “genocide lite” and to the “ghettoization” of the Strip.)

There are no nettles of conscience in the genocidal society. The on-camera rape has just become a PR (public relations) problem. Unless the world’s yelling can be quelled, Israel’s legal representatives fear for the country’s legal impunity, which is meant to last in perpetuity.

Like all shouting scraps in Israel, this one is entirely without an ethical or moral dimension. The leak of the filmed rape is but a procedural, administrative annoyance, the “Minister of Defense and many others in the political sphere and public discourse,” even claiming that any criminal proceedings constitute a “blood libel.“

At about this time, Israeli think-tank residents are fretting. As the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) put it (in all sincerity), it is imperative to preserve “Israel’s legal and diplomatic ‘resilience’ internationally, and thus ... our ability to protect IDF (Israel Defense Forces) service members from legal risks around the world.”

If the IDF justice system, headed by the [aforementioned] MAG [Military Advocate General], is not perceived as professionally independent, Israel will struggle to argue that there is no place to advance overseas legal proceedings against soldiers and commanders alleged to have violated the law of armed conflict, and that the Israeli justice system should be given primacy in handling suspects. (IDI)

Cloaking themselves in the raiment of decency, the code-word for “impunity” in Israeli think tanks is “resilience.” The country must remain “resilient” internationally. Bathed in blood though it is; Israel and its military advocate general still want continued carte-blanche from the international community for their crimes. Hence the Brownian motion over the public rape of a Palestinian hostage.

Again, the leaked Sde Teiman tape threatens Israel’s legal impunity which is meant to last in perpetuity.

Let us, then, end forthwith conversation about Israel’s two-bit Kabuki players. We who inhabit the Global Genocidal Western Woke matrix have a responsibility to help pilot Palestinians through these dangerous shoals. Or, support those who are doing that work. Let’s, then, return to the resilient victims of the genocidal entity, the Palestinians.

Early in the genocide, in essays that provide a comprehensive chronology of the signal events, the people violated and the first principles flouted, I had picked up on—and postulated about—the seemingly systematic nature of the sexual sadism evinced by Israel’s army and security forces.

Palestinians are “living alongside serial-killing sexual sadists,” I remarked in a subsection of the essay, “Why The Israel-Occupied Levant Must be Liberated, S.O.S.,“ further noting that “the pairing of sexual arousal and violence toward Palestinians, in the practices of the IDF and Israeli Security Forces, makes for a particularly irremediable pathology, the stuff of serial killers.”

As though Israel was not already outside all moral gravitational pull—the evidence for my deductions is now in. What we’ve known to be deductively true has been empirically confirmed. The social science is in: Palestinians are sexually brutalized by Israeli occupation forces!

If you had lingering doubts that sexual perversion and predation by the Israeli military and security forces is systemic and statistically significant—new social science nixes that naïve notion.

Incidents of sexual torture are not outlier cases. The Israel Occupation Forces are indeed a festering cauldron of serial-killing sadists and sexual deviants. Helpless Palestinians are the repository of this rot.

Having investigated the phenomenon and tabulated the results; the UN International Commission of Inquiry has revealed that rape, genital mutilation—of men, women, boys and girls—exhibitionism (public flashing); all the sexual perversions and paraphilias I had picked up on—are systemic, pervasive, carried out happily, seemingly ordained from above. No crime is a “one-off.”

“Israel uses sexual violence as a weapon of war,” concludes the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, writing, on March 13, 2025, that,

The frequency, prevalence and severity of sexual and gender-based crimes perpetrated across the Occupied Palestinian Territory leads the Commission to conclude that sexual and gender-based violence is increasingly used as a method of war by Israel to destabilize, dominate, oppress and destroy the Palestinian people. The Commission documented a pattern of sexual violence, including cases of rape and other forms of sexual violence, torture and other inhumane acts that amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Section number 222 of the report’s summary states that, “Israeli detention is characterized by widespread and systematic abuse and sexual and gender-based violence. These practices have increased significantly in severity and frequency since 7 October 2023, following orders and statements of the Minister for National Security Ben Gvir who is in charge of prisons. The mistreatment of Palestinian detainees by Israeli authorities is a result of an intentional policy that utilizes sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence to humiliate and degrade Palestinians in detention. This was observed across several facilities, temporary holding locations, during interrogation and while in transit.”

These Israelis are men and women of cold violence. Their hearts are as black as boot polish. The brutalized bodies of Palestinian men, women, and children; their pets and livestock bear this out. But broad-brush statements aggregating their practices are not enough.

Daily, the Palestinians’ closest neighbors, the settlers, make manifest their red-hot hatred toward them, stealing private Palestinian property, vandalizing installations on this land, regularly slaughtering helpless livestock with biblical cruelty (watch settlers gouge the eyes out of helpless lambs), and generally menacing Palestinian property owners. Most disturbing is the overt, perverted threat of sexual violence from settlers and their soldier helpers.

Indeed, the poisonous cabal of Israeli settlers and soldiers works cheek by jowl.

In “Holy Redemption: Stealing Palestinian Land,” a TRT World exclusive documentary, there is no editorializing. The videographers plainly followed and recorded these settlers in character. Twenty-nine minutes and 20 seconds into this TRT settler odyssey, Turkish TV captures a uniformed IDF, in cahoots with settlers, publicly manhandling himself on camera, in a manner not fit to print.

Said IDF soldier hisses:

“I spit on Palestine. F-ck your mother. I’m the Israeli Army.” He is not done. Just as I imagined this breed of Cain could not expose itself as more indecent, the same soldier comes close to indecent exposure. At the said timestamp, the atavistic, low-brow individual shows himself to be lacking the inhibitions to keep his perversion private. Reflexively. Quite obviously, this IDF had been aroused by threatening a helpless group of Palestinian homesteaders. He had likely imbibed a pornographic sensibility and had not been taught propriety and shame in public.

Right there on film is that pathological pairing of violence and sexual arousal, the stuff of serial killers!

In another unremarkable vignette, filmed by B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights group, an armed settler threatens a Palestinian farmer in the South Hebron Hills with rape. “Rape in the name of God,” a la Sde Teiman, promises settler Shem Tov Luski, to a mortified, modest Palestinian man. “No officers were dispatched, and the residents were advised to file a complaint at the Kiryat Arba police station,” reports Wikipedia.

At one point, the “Halachic right to rape” (See “Sde Teiman: Genocide, Snuff Films, Extra-Judicial Assassinations & Rape Are De Facto Legal in Israel”) had been issued from the very top of Israeli moral precincts.

His flesh softer than sin, the delightful Rabbi Col. Eyal Karim, the head of the military rabbinate of the Israel Defense Forces, had instructed, in 2016, that, essentially, any carnal demands of the flesh be allowed: “As part of maintaining fitness for the army and the soldiers’ morale during fighting, it is permitted to …satisfy the evil inclination by lying with attractive Gentile women against their will… .’ News of the rabbinical rape-injunction came courtesy of Israel’s own YnetNews.com.

Before Rabbi Karim, there was Shmuel Eliyahu, chief rabbi of Safad, who “urged a genocide in Gaza and excused rape by soldiers.” (Via Electronic Intifada.)

Israel’s female soldiers are as sadistic and malevolent. In a clip, “Israel’s ‘Sick’ Female Guards,” young Israeli uniformed IDF females and security police terrorize Palestinian men as they shuttle from one check point to the next.

We zoom out again to the abstraction of the aggregated data:

“Israel has targeted civilian women and girls directly, acts that constitute the crime against humanity of murder and the war crime of willful killing. Women and girls have also died from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth due to the conditions imposed by the Israeli authorities impacting access to reproductive health care, acts that amount to the crime against humanity of extermination. ...”
“Palestinian men and boys have been subjected to specific persecutory acts intended to punish them collectively. The way in which these often-sexual acts are committed, including their filming, photographing and dissemination online, in conjunction with similar cases being documented in several locations, shows that forced public stripping and nudity, as well as sexualized torture and ill-treatment, are part of the persecutory attack against men and boys committed to punish, humiliate and intimidate Palestinian men and boys into subjugation. ...”
“Specific forms of sexual and gender-based violence such as forced public stripping and nudity, sexual harassment including threats of rape, as well as sexual assault, de facto form part of the Israel Security Forces (ISF) standard operating procedures towards Palestinians. The Commission concludes that these and other forms of sexualized torture, including rape and violence targeting the genitals, are committed with either explicit orders or an implicit encouragement by the top civilian and military leadership. The Commission found that all its documented incidents of sexual and gender-based violence committed by members of the ISF were met with impunity. Under these circumstances, the civilian and military leaders are as responsible for these crimes, as are the direct perpetrators. ...”

In the “widespread use of sexualized violence against men and boys,” the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security has [too] identified several specific patterns of sexualized violence that are indicative of a genocidal process, not all overlapping the findings of the International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory:

Life-force atrocities (including ritualized humiliations); separation of families and other reproductive violence; and possible elitocide through the use of sexualized violence.

By “elitocide,” the Lemkin Institute is probably referring to sexual violence to whittle at the finest and noblest; the people we most rely on: altruistic aid and rescue workers, healers in their clinics ministering to their patients, peace activists, writers, reporters and intellectuals recording the crimes for posterity.

Dr. Adnan Al Bursh, for example. The 50-year-old renowned orthopedic surgeon headed the orthopedic department at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. “A doctor. a stellar surgeon. The embodiment of Palestinian ethics, Dr. Al Bursh was likely raped to death.”

To genocide, snuff films, the torture and torching of animals, and the rape and robbery of their Palestinian owners; to bombings, boobytrapping and extra-judicial assassinations the world over—add “elitocide.”

Another new term to add to Israel’s lexicon of crime. All this, remember, is customary, informal law in the Genocidal Society.

ILANA MERCER’S FPV Resistance — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:10:10 GMT

The recognizable ancestor of the Israel Defense Forces is not the Marquis De Sade, a mere sexual deviant, but your common serial killer with added pathological paraphilia, and the ability to industrialize the scale of his crimes. ~ ilana
The greater goal of Israel’s legal apparatus and jurisprudence is to fend off charges of genocide and war-crimes in international courts of law. Be mindful, then, that any investigation ever launched or any arrests made by Israeli authorities are symbolic, cursory and inconsequential, part of a well-established strategy to safeguard the greater criminal enterprise. ~ ilana

As I had remarked before, patterns of arousal—the commingling of serial killing and sex—are tied to psychopathy. The psychopathic fusion of lust and murder appears endemic among Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers.

Honed in rendition torture camps, sexual violence has become the coin of the Greater Israel realm, certainly in occupied Palestine. A glimpse into Sde Teiman, a torture rendition camp in Israel proper, revealed to the world that Israel has de facto systemized the practice of anally rupturing the bowels of Palestinian prisoners, most detained without charge.

Marquis de Sade, whose name is used to denote things sexually bent, was no murderer. The recognizable ancestor of the IDF is not the Marquis De Sade, a mere sexual deviant, but your common serial killer with added pathological paraphilia, and the ability to industrialize the scale of his crimes.

Paraphiliacs are said to enjoy exhibitionism or masochism or sadism, “in which sexual gratification is derived from activities or fantasies that are generally regarded as atypical or deviant. A paraphilic disorder is present when it causes … “actual or potential harm to others.”

After de Sade came out in Sde Teiman, “rape in the name of God” had become part of the settler and soldier lexicon of crime. From the West Bank, legendary British journalist Peter Oborne has filed detailed dispatches exposing Israel’s torture camps, into which thousands of young Palestinian men are disappearing, only to emerge unrecognized, physically deformed and mentally damaged. (Watch “EXPOSED: Israel’s Secret Torture Camps.”) “Nukhba” prisoners, the Israeli devils dub them.

The habitual infliction of rectal rape on Palestinian men has joined the crimes of genocide, the making and mass-marketing of online snuff films featuring murdered Palestinians, and the commission of extra-judicial assassination the globe over. These practices are de facto legal in what passes for law in the Israeli thugocracy.

As televised vignettes at July’s end showed, the Israelis, a “bizarre specimen of moral laxity”—the 1728 words of Southern gentleman William Byrd—had been openly rationalizing the need to codify in law the rape of Palestinian hostages. From Knesset members to the distinguishably dumb panelists who festoon that country’s tv networks, “Israeli media’s coverage of the rape of Palestinian [hostages] shows support for sexual violence in service of genocide.”

By the Middle East Monitor’s telling, “A Gaza detainee allegedly sexually abused by Israeli soldiers at Sde Teiman … suffered ‘a ruptured bowel, a severe injury to his anus, lung damage and broken ribs’ as a result of the immense torture he was subjected to by Israeli occupation soldiers. …One of the nine Israeli soldiers arrested for abusing him was released without charge. Deliberations about the other eight are continuing.” As far as I know, none has been charged.

Like Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the rape in Sde Teiman was captured on camera. Watch! Have an emesis dish close by.

According to Truthout.org, the Knesset, at July’s end—Israel’s lawmakers, no less—was debating whether or not sexual abuse à la de Sade Teiman was a legitimate tactic for Israeli soldiers. (International law considers sexual violence by soldiers to be a war crime.) Members of the Israeli government have also defended the soldiers, claiming it is wrong for the government to charge the [rapist] reservists.

To its patsy press, the AP, “The Israeli military had said, in July of 2024, that “it was holding nine soldiers for questioning following allegations of ‘substantial abuse’ of a detainee at a shadowy facility where Israel has detained thousands of Palestinians since Oct. 7.”

Next, via Democracy Now’s account, “A right-wing mob, including members of the Knesset, broke into two Israeli military bases in an effort to prevent Israeli military police from detaining the nine soldiers who were under investigation for gang raping a Palestinian prisoner at the notorious Sde Teiman facility.”

When they are not fantasizing and embellishing about mass rape by their enemies (read Ali Abunimah’s “Debunking ‘Screams Before Silence,’ Sheryl Sandberg’s 7 Oct. ‘mass rape’ film”), and raping Palestinian prisoners—the Israel Defense Forces, and Israel’s other policing agencies, in conjunction with the societal structures that support them, are striving to codify their de facto daily criminal conduct in law.

In both word and deed, Israelis have systematically and systemically agitated for the legal right to gravely mistreat their enemies, justifying the twisted sensibilities of their military and a plurality of their countrymen.

The canvassing I conducted in May of 2024, “The Jewish State Is Genocidal, But Is Israeli Society Sick, Too?”, was seconded by Oren Ziv of the +972 Magazine (“A riot for impunity shows Israel’s proud embrace of its crimes“). Ziv correctly elucidates that “the support of Israeli political leaders, including some members of the Knesset who participated in the [pro-rape] riots, and the apathy of the military police, all indicate that those protesting against the soldiers’ [rape] charges are ‘the face of the state,’ expressing what are ‘mainstream’ views in Israeli society.”

Mainstream approval in Israel of genocide, rape, and snuff-film production explains why one of the reservist rape perpetrators, like so many members of the Israeli security establishment, proudly pleads his case on a YouTube video. In Israel, he is a patriot. Crime is SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) for the Israeli army. Yes, do not dub a first-degree felony a “war crime.” A crime is a crime is a crime. A criminal is a criminal. A serial killer, state or lone actor, must be stopped (too late for that) and punished.

Across the occupied territories, the Israel Security State summarily detains people absent due process, often deploying rape as a weapon to shame traditional men and women, and it loots and demolishes their homes. You see, Lockean homesteading principles, by which many Palestinians have come to own ancient land, flouts the Israeli Administrative State. The Israel security forces commonly also steal Palestinian money at checkpoints, as Middle East Eye editor Daniel Hearst has attested in conversation with award-winning journalist Chris Hedges. Both veteran reporters vouch for the veracity of the shakedown routines.

Silver-tongued Israelis and their Hasbara office at Foggy Bottom (The US Department of State), continue to deny this existential Palestinian reality, framing it as outlier cases. The “most moral military in the world” will investigate … itself.

But Israel is a lattice of lies.

A deception embedded deep in this lattice of lies is that, contrary to most criminal enterprises and individuals, a spectacular democracy like Israel has the absolute ability to investigate itself. Indeed, a report authored by the aforementioned +972 Magazine, “for the human rights group Yesh Din, shows how the main role of Israel’s military law-enforcement system is to maintain the appearance of internal accountability in order to shield itself from external criticism.” (“How Israel plans to whitewash its war crimes in Gaza“)

In this case, the greater goal of Israel’s legal apparatus and jurisprudence is to fend off charges of genocide and war-crimes in international courts of law. Be mindful, then, that any investigation ever launched or any arrests made by Israeli authorities are symbolic, cursory and inconsequential, part of a well-established strategy to safeguard the greater criminal enterprise.

Essentially, expect the Jewish State’s stooges to be trotted out to huff and puff indignantly at the very notion that a manifestly lawless thug of a state, whose justice system is complicit in minting maniacal laws in support of unfathomable thuggery and cruelty, is incapable of investigating itself. Antisemitism.

Ultimately, Israel has become adept at narrative, at manufacturing mantras about its unsurpassed morality, this, as it is mired in illegality and criminality. (Read my own analysis of how Israel and its courts “CO-OPT HUMAN-RIGHTS LAW,” in the essay, “Defending Gaza (II): Israel Engaged In The Mother Of All Performative Contradictions: Denying Genocide, While Committing Genocide, Effectively Asserting A Right To Genocide”.)

'Free Speech After Charlie Kirk: An American Lesson For Pam Bondi, Donald Trump & Netanyahu,' By ©2025 Ilana Mercer, October 2

ILANA MERCER’S FPV Resistance — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:05:06 GMT

Freedom needs no justification. It is an end unto itself. You are deficient in American solidarity if you don’t stand up for non-violent protest and all speech ~ilana

Let us be clear about what freedom of speech à la America truly means:

The words people speak, chant, write and tweet; the beliefs they are known to hold, the flags they fly or burn, the symbolic, non-violent ceremonies and rituals they enact, the insignia, paraphernalia; the goose-stepping, Hitler salutes they muck around with—provided no physical aggression is involved (violence against animals included), all this counts as protected speech, licit in natural law.

So long as oddities and idiosyncrasies, whether performed alone or in groups, thoughts harbored privately or shared in public—so long as no violence accompanies such speech or behavior; so long as your mitts stop at the next man’s face (or at the next mutt’s fury face, Kristi Noem): SPEECH. It’s all speech. It should be free, unfettered and as wild and as wanton as can be.

At their worst, expressions of ostensible antisemitism, Nazism, racism or other antipathies amount to thought crimes, nothing more, if expressed as a belief system severally or collectively, rather than in palpably violent actions. Whether your thoughts are spoken, chanted, written or preached; be they impolite or impolitic: they are, at worst, no more than thought crimes.

Thought crimes are nobody’s business in a free society. Thought crimes ought to be ferociously protected by a free people. By logical extension, any accusations of antisemitism, Nazism or other antipathies and racisms, are especially suspect when emitted as a meme from American institutionalized power structures.

One such obscenely wealthy and worthless power structure is the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), or Defamation League—a more apt moniker once suggested by Elon Musk, before he joined the ADL in severely censoring some speech on the X platform. The ADL is a meddlesome shakedown operation, in the mold of the Southern Poverty Law Center (“Smear Artists for the Total State,” wrote Tom DiLorenzo). It has taken it upon itself to decide who lives and who dies socially and financially on the basis of the unfortunate individual’s ideas, spoken and written.

In the American tradition, thoughts and words spoken or written that are politically impolite—again, racism; Nazism, antisemitism—retain protected status as speech beyond the adjudication of law-makers, bureaucrats, mediacrats, educrats and technocrats.

Sniffing out racists or anti-Semites is an absolute no-no for any and all self-respecting, libertarian-minded Americans, or any American, for that matter. Like creedal libertarians, Americans don’t, or should not, prosecute thought crimes or persecute thought “criminals.”

Ours should be The Skokie Standard of free speech and thinking (which I articulated in August 2022). What is The Skokie Standard of free speech? In 1978, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) took a stand for free speech by defending a neo-Nazi group that wanted to march through the Chicago suburb of Skokie, where many Holocaust survivors lived. The Skokie Standard of free speech is one that champions unpopular expression, and vigorously defends all marginalized speakers and thinkers, rather than purveying and protecting state and corporate ideology du jour.

Let me repeat what the Skokie Standard of free speech stands for here: However which way they are grouped, the words people individually or collectively speak, chant, write and tweet; the beliefs they are known to hold, the flags they fly or stomp, the symbolic, non-violent ceremonies, rituals and protests they perform; the insignia, paraphernalia, the goose-stepping, Hitler salutes they dick around with—provided no physical aggression is involved, all that counts as protected speech.

Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk, RIP, got it. On May 2, 2024, Kirk wrote the following: “Hate speech does not exist legally in America. There’s ugly speech. There’s gross speech. There’s evil speech. And ALL of it is protected by the First Amendment. Keep America free.”

Trump’s Attorney General Pam Bondi doesn’t get it. No wonder even Glenn Greenwald, once a practicing constitutional attorney—and a man of manners and decorum—regularly appends “dumb” and “lacking any grasp of constitutional law” to any mention of Bondi, who said this after Kirk’s murder:

The Justice Department would “absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech... There’s free speech, and then there’s hate speech. And there is no place—especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie — [for that] in our society,” Bondi told a podcaster likewise cerebrally compromised.

If you thought the nation’s chief law enforcement officer had blurted out on an impulse such promises of unconstitutional hate-speech prosecutions; I’m sorry to say that Bondi only doubled down. In scant regard for the letter and spirit of American constitutional law, she advised employers, on September 15, of their “obligation to get rid of people who are saying horrible things.”

While “The First Amendment doesn’t stop private employers from choosing to fire people for speech; it can be illegal for the government to use its power to pressure a private company into firing a staff member.” In America, not even do celebrations of Kirk’s assassination count as threats of violence or incitement to violence. In fact, “government retribution for speech,” lambasted U.S. District Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, “is directly forbidden by the First Amendment.”

For our libertarian purposes, moreover, speech should never be defended by deploying a contents-driven defense, such as that a book, an utterance or their author must be spared on account that the person is good and his words are not racist and are against bigotry.

The Argument from Freedom means arguing process, not content. Racism, (alleged) antisemitism or Nazism in targeted literature or in protests should always and everywhere be a peripheral issue. Or, preferably, no issue at all.

The Argument from Freedom means arguing not over the contents of publications like Mein Kampf or the merit of protests for Palestine, but for their publication and practice irrespective of their contents. Which is why I say freedom’s argument is an argument from process, not content.

Freedom makes the case for an unfettered free market in ideas, good and bad. Freedom argues for politically impolite books to be published and read freely. It demands that all offensive literature be available to the free men and women who inhabit the free society. And not because of history; so that we don’t forget it or repeat it. Rather, freedom needs no justification. It is an end unto itself. You are deficient in American solidarity if you don’t stand up for non-violent protest and all speech.

Liberty is a simple thing. It’s the unassailable right to shout, flail your arms, and verbally provoke people in power, unmolested. Tyranny is when those small things can get you assaulted, incarcerated, injured, deported, even killed.

Ultimately banning books or proscribing speech and speakers as the kangaroo courts of Britain, Europe and Canada do legally, assumes a lack of choice and agency among ostensibly “free” human beings. It’s also predicated on the acceptance of a higher authority which decides for the rest of us which cultural products are fit for our consumption.

I thus put it to you, dear reader, left and right, that speech restrictions stateside in the form of the Antisemitism Awareness Act mirror the worst of British and western Europe’s anti-speech tribunals. Tabled by a Republican and a Democrat, S. 4127, which mercifully is still in committee, would embed state agitprop throughout American education. For posterity. Aside being in violation of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, the Antisemitism Awareness Act would utterly enervate discourse in our country and criminalize vast tracts of speech as well as proscribe actions that are licit in constitutional and natural law.

Left, Right and libertarian; we can and must, then, join in unapologetically rejecting the very idea of policing, purging, persecuting or prosecuting people for holding and expressing politically unpopular ideas in action or in speech.

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'Gaza Genocide: The Coverup Begins. Johnny-Come-Lately Journos & Politicos Start Covering Keister,' By ©2025 Ilana Mercer

ILANA MERCER’S FPV Resistance — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:34:59 GMT

There was no need for the AWOL, Missing-In-Action Piers Morgan Media, which was never in Gaza, never stood up for Gaza, and never broke down barriers to reach and report about Palestinians sequestered in genocide. Thanks not to the MIA Media, but to Palestinian journalists, the living and the martyred, The Truth about genocide in Gaza continues to be conveyed faithfully and meticulously. ~©2025 ilana
Wearily I repeat what has been obvious early on to anyone with some cerebral agility: There is no ‘fog of war’; there is no fog (only ash). There is no war. There never was anything but a genocidal impetus and the attendant declared intent to commit genocide, followed, in quick succession, by an enacted genocide in which Palestinian humanity was crushed, dismembered and burned alive; dispossessed of home and history on live tv. By Israel. ~©2025 ilana

With the Genocide of Gaza accomplished; a convoluted coverup has begun. The Johnny-Come-Lately culprits, the professional liars in media, politics, in advocacy and in the tech industry—also the custodians of The Narrative—have commenced their dull recital of excuse-making.

A dull mediocrity which was fully behind Israel—or, alternatively, had confined itself to occasional quips about mass murder in Gaza being antithetical to the American “national interest”—is suddenly simulating belated passion for the truth. Or, versions thereof. All to sanitize their sins.

Having carved out “a place of massive impunity” for Netanyahu and his complicit countrymen, these sinecured, “credentialed” Western elites have duly begun to hijack storylines—even chronology—to absolve themselves of the genocide of Gaza. The same “perpetrator block,” wading in the blood of Palestinians, intends, for now, to remain mum about the territorial asphyxiation of Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. There, strategic adaptations of the Twenty-First Century Gaza Holocaust are rapidly and energetically underway. Pursuant to popular demand in Israel proper, Jewish-Israeli thieves and murderers are purloining Palestinian land and lives in the West Bank.

I had imagined that the media organ’s formulaic production had reached a nadir in Iraq, when my own passion burned as hot as a Babylonian kiln against that war. The “Truth” about Iraq, I had then observed incredulously, arrived officially only once the Empire’s agents declared it so, and released it in massaged, flattering form. And only as exigencies of power allowed. The sizeable dissident community did not rate a mention.

The current crop of Israel apostles who’ve connived and colluded to suppress truth include, broadly speaking, the Western news, commentary, advocacy and policy-making classes; the overarching tentacular corporate media and its clientele—the military-media-congressional-industrial complex, if you will. In a word, the international Imperial Comitatus: the foot soldiers who share in the loot or aspire to do so (like “Washington’s Arab puppets, whose sound and fury signify nothing”).

The international Imperial Comitatus make themselves known by affinity and affiliation, but mainly by what they do: They “ravage, slaughter, usurp … and where they make a desert, they call it peace.” Originally by Tacitus, the words were popularized by economist Jeffrey Sachs in an epic essay about these influencers, Israel’s co-belligerents.

Israel’s helpers had covered up the Crime of The Century, and now it could out. And although they’ve made excellent time—Palestinian erasure is near complete—these special interests wish, nevertheless, to salvage their standing in the world. They’re doing PR (public relations).

“Gaza panics the pro-Israel media,” said Owen Jones, a dogged British media critic. The genocide-era journalists are “creating a record that’ll allow them to say one day, ‘Here is proof that we denounced and tried to stop the genocide,’” remarked Laith Marouf, a Lebanese geopolitical reporter and commentator. They waited until now, because the genocide comported, broadly, with their worldview. “Media has manufactured consent for the genocide with atrocity propaganda,” seconds Hamza Yusuf, a British-Palestinian writer and journalist. “They did this.” “Western media is Israel’s Iron Dome,” averred Bassem Youssef, commentator, comic and former surgeon.

Although Israel’s abominations have been watched by humanity for the best part of two years; and despite Israel’s industrious, industrial-scale mass murder playing interminably, on a loop—the truth watered-down will only be permitted to come into being, officially, on the say-so of gatekeeping interests and personalities.

Such as Piers Morgan and the Missing-In-Action Morgan Media (shall we call it?).

And so, with pomp and Piers, forever slow on the uptake, those in control of The Storyline prepare to “excavate” a modified version of “the truth” about the Gaza Holocaust.

In attempting to clear his name, Morgan, a spirited evangelist for Israel’s right to practice state terrorism—he calls it “self-defense”—sounded the worst false note: the Iraq Defense: “nobody knew,” nobody could have known. (See “Iraq Liars And Deniers: We Knew Then What We Know Now,” May 22, 2015.)

The reason “nobody knew, or could have known” about a televised genocide, proclaimed the lemon-faced Piers with trademark verbose vacuity, is that there have been no “credible, international journalists” in Gaza!

Did you hear that? Palestinian journalists don’t count! In an instant, the MIA Morgan Media set about canceling the work done by the greatest journalists to have lived and died on the job. As you can see, society’s gate-keepers are also wretched human beings. To further their scheme and vanity, these power-brokers imply that absent their AWOL, MIA Media, we cannot and could not have known what was underway in Gaza.

The Missing-In-Action Media was never in Gaza, never stood up for Gaza, and never broke down barriers to reach and report about Palestinians sequestered in genocide. Now, the same Media asserts that we cannot know—could not have known—what was underway in the tiny Gaza Strip without them. Only Morgan and his ilk could have given us the goods on Gaza.

The Palestinian truth-tellers who’ve been documenting their own demise so as to bring us The Truth, nothing but the manifestly obvious Truth, are being disappeared by their moral and professional inferiors, who had never defended or doffed a hat to the work of these Palestinian journalists—professional or citizen journalists.

Wearily I repeat what has been obvious early on to anyone with some cerebral agility:

There is no neatness and dispatch in the way Israel has destroyed Gaza. It’s not like we’ve got nothing to go on. There are no empirical loose ends to tie up in Gaza; no cobwebs to clear. From the air, from space, from the ground—for all to see—on display in Gaza is, was, has been, the utter annihilation of a civilization.

There is no “fog of war”; there is no fog only ash. There is no war. There never was anything but a genocidal impetus and the attendant declared intent to commit genocide, followed, in quick succession, by an enacted genocide in which Palestinian humanity was crushed, dismembered and burned alive; dispossessed of home and history on live tv. By Israel.

From terra firma, Palestinian journalists have transmitted unimpeachable evidence of this annihilation. From space, pioneering scientists divined proof of genocide ongoing. Thanks not to the MIA Morgan Media, but to Palestinian journalists, the living and the martyred, The Truth continues to be conveyed faithfully and meticulously.

For the genocide of the Palestinians of Gaza is as clear as day—has been since 2023’s end, which is when, for instance, scientists such as Corey Scher and Jamon Van Den Hoek (featured in my early Gaza essays) had used Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) to monitor the damage to buildings in Gaza. Their aim was to impart a picture of what saturation bombardment had done to Gaza’s habitat and humanity.

Some will experience a Homeric “D’oh!” moment at the next proposition: Beneath this well-documented damage—under the collapsed structures—lie the remains of human beings in their tens-of-thousands, murdered. By Israel.

At this late hour, we do not need the Morgan Media to tell us what is deductively true. “Reality is truth,” as I had put it. Res ipsa loquitur. The thing speaks for itself. Believe your lying eyes was satirist Richard Pryor’s wry phrase for he who has been caught in flagrante delicto. “There is no question any more. There is no need of investigation,” said Martin Griffiths (belatedly, sadly), a former UN diplomat. “We can with confidence and we should with conscience tell it like it is” (08:49 minutes into “Is it a genocide?”).

Whether you speak the language of the law (res ipsa loquitur), the language of facts and apodictic logic (“reality is truth”); gazing upon Gaza, listening to its people and to the humanitarians who rushed to their aid and remained on the crime scene—this was sufficient to know what’s what. By January of 2024, Gaza was ashen and barren. Dresden-level destruction was there for all to see—from the air, from space, and on the ground. Genocide.

The Gaza Holocaust, moreover, has played to a packed house, the world. It has been both a democratic genocide as well as an international genocide, remarked perhaps the only scintillating “genocide scholar,” with a moral compass to match his intellectual heft.

Dr. Martin Shaw pierces the carapace of lies now under construction:

‘The genocide that is being committed now is being committed not just by the Israeli State and the Israeli army. There is a larger perpetrator block. It isn’t just these most obvious core-actors. This is what we could call a democratic genocide, carried out with the active contributions of the Israeli-Jewish population in arms, Israeli right-wing activists who have stood at the gates of Gaza and have tried to block even the little bit of aid that the Israeli government has been willing to let in. And it’s a genocide supported ideologically and practically by a very large segment of the Israeli society: by the political opposition, by most of the media, and by vast majority of public opinion. In this sense, it is a democratic genocide. The other thing about it is that it’s an international genocide. It is being carried out by the essential support of the United States, which is now in direct partnership, trump with Netanyahu, to complete the project with the forcible removal of the complete population from the territory.’ (9:02 minutes until 10:40 minutes.)

The obliteration of Gaza had been achieved well before Piers Morgan’s May, 2025 self-serving pivot, which arose out of “moral panic.” And well before an American whistleblower did the rounds on US media, in June of 2025, bearing witness to the death squads of the misnamed US-Israel Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).

Picture this: A starving, emaciated, wee Palestinian boy kisses the hand that controls his fate, and cradles a face that looks upon him with some kindness. The American mercenary—a hired security subcontractor for the Isra-American GHF Gulag operation—he may wish to believe that the child does so out of abiding “respect” for our American soldiers.

Palestinian mothers know better.

As an insightful American (novelist John O’Hara) had long-ago remarked: “You don’t keep friends by having them obligated to you,” much less when their very existence depends on your cruel whim. The achingly sad image of Amir, who kissed the hand of whistleblower Anthony Agilar, is that of a hungry, helpless, forsaken Palestinian boy, bowing-and-scraping like a beggar before his only “benefactor.” For these overlords might kill him or feed him as the fancy takes them.

Surrounded by the SS IDF, Palestinian boys like Amir kiss a hand, smile beguilingly, and hope for a miracle: That a kind stranger might rescue them, rather than make them run through daily cycles of “hunger games.” One day it’s the groin that the thrill-seeking gamers of the Israel Occupying Forces (IOF) have been reported to target; the next it’s center-mass the demons aim for. As recounted by humanity’s finest (the very many medics volunteering in Gaza), the GHF food-procurement massacres are rounded-off with headshot clusters, courtesy of the same gamers: the delirious marksmen of the IDF.

Nevertheless, a Homeric “D’oh!” was duly disgorged by a recent flyover reporter, who pretended to have just discovered genocide two years hence. Gone is “the soul of the place along with the souls who lived here,” intoned this particular ITV News editor, on August 4, 2025.

Our flyover visitor had popped in over Gaza, early in August, as party to an Israel-controlled, airborne contingent that was throwing “paltry, lethal parcels of food aid” on small sections of the Strip, “instead of forcing Israel to open the crossings to over 22,000 aid trucks that remain blocked from entering.”

Missions of mercy these air drops are not. By design, Israel shells the anthills from above. The imperious, complicit “Western and regional states” and their stooges throw parcels of food at the people whom they’ve bombed into oblivion—and into begging. Israel is loving it. Its vampiric i24 News network entertained one Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, friend of i24’s Laura Cellier show, who waxed fat about “flying ‘missions’ over Gaza.”

Throwing a few nutrient-free parcels of dry goods at starving Palestinians from the air; or herding them, for the ostensible purpose of feeding them, into “agricultural cattle pens, like animals in a human abattoir,” to be, then, sprayed with bullets, or targeted by the marksmen of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation: These slow extermination-liquidation operations are, have been, part of Israel’s Final Solution to its Palestinian problem, for the best part of two years. Openly pursued, openly discussed in the Hebrew (with which I am fluent).

Full famine in Gaza has galvanized the West—not to feed Palestinians, but to feign action by convening forums of inaction.

To meager food drops, the West has added fuss and feathers—white noise—about the two-state diplomacy, and has given speeches about recognizing the State of Palestine. This is just what a people being starved and butchered need: speeches. Besides, upwards of 140 states had long-since recognized Palestinian statehood. Had that stopped Israel’s genocide? The fake, defunct two-state “solution” notwithstanding, rhetoric is not what’s needed in the face of a reality, whereby a many-times dislocated population made homeless is being starved and slaughtered out of existence.

If Israel has been exposed, so has the West, with America in the lead.

Israel’s extermination campaign has been sacralized at the highest of political and journalistic altitudes. It is these genocidal criminals, these cagey characters—vicariously involved or on active duty—who now want to salvage their reputations by sullying the reputation of Palestinian, Gaza-based reporters.

Long months sequestered in genocide, notwithstanding, Palestinian journalists have nevertheless been crisscrossing Gaza, on the scene of every Israeli mass murder; every tent encampment incinerated by the heavy payload-weapons of the Israel Occupation Forces; interviewing and filming by-standers, healthcare workers, assisting the faithful civil-administration functionaries and rescuers (reduced to digging for survivors with homemade trowels); living alongside their families in nylon domes, and standing vigil over dead kin and colleagues in prayer. And now, the chroniclers of Palestine starve with their people.

In truth, it is the Morgan Media, ex officio town criers, that don’t count. Best to express their nullity was the fierce Francesca Albanese, a woman not desperate to feature on Piers Morgan’s low-intelligence, large podcast, alongside his other suck-up guests. Albanese had refused to get drawn into Piers’ broadsheet-sensationalism! The UN’s rapporteur for Palestine (an unpaid, punishing position) told the desk-bound ponce, “What you say, Piers, is worth zero.” Your opinion counts for zero.

The epitome of grace in a life-and-death struggle, Palestinian journalists, on the other hand, have been exceedingly polite to the Julius Streicher Media, given that the latter have colluded with the Israelis in the murder of 266 of their colleagues (and climbing). This is more than “the U.S. Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the wars in Yugoslavia, and the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan combined, according to a new report from Brown University’s Costs of War project.” (Via ForeignPolicy.com)

As is the case with the genocide of Palestinians, the news chyrons on your televisions are out-of-date as they scroll by. The Associated Press counted, but failed to name, Israel’s August 25 prey among Palestinian journalists. Four. It fell to readers to name the fallen. Newly martyred for Truth were:

Reuters’ Hossam al-Masri
Al Jazeera’s Mohammad Salama
Freelancer Maryam Abu Daqqa
NBC’s Muath Abu Taha

Forgive me. I should have known that the news scroll across our screens is also reliably wrong. The AP failed to accurately count the fallen. Five. The AP omitted Ahmed Abu Aziz, a local journalist murdered. The “betrayal of Palestinian journalists in Gaza” peaked with the presstitutes of the International Women’s Media Foundation. Playing procurer and pimp for Israel; the IWMF withdrew a “Courage in Journalism Award” from Gaza-based Maha Husseini. (The reason? Likely Antisemitism or housing Hamas: You choose. I won’t dignify another Zionist blood libel.)

Martyred for truth before the five aforementioned were Anas Al-Sharif and his team (here is the live footage via real journalists). The veteran young reporter was the kind of human being whom members of the pampered Morgan Media can only dream of equaling. Like so many of these magnificent Palestinians, Anas Al-Sharif wrote his epitaph, final will and testament, before his words were lost forever in death. Why? Because, as night turns to day, the world knows what Israel will do next:

Murder! All the more so if you are a Palestinian reporter chronicling a genocide of your people.

Piers Morgan, who announced in May of 2025 that he “was wrong,” was joined in public expiation by other genocidal British public figures, including politicians such as Tory MP Mark Pritchard. At the eleventh hour, Germany, Israel’s second largest supplier of baby-busting munitions, worried the optics, too. Nineteen months into the genocide of the Palestinians of Gaza, Chancellor Friedrich Merzagain whimpered that Israel’s operations “no longer appear to [him] as strictly necessary for defending Israel’s right to exist and for combating Hamas terrorism.” Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni stalled until August 27, which was when she condemned Israeli attacks on Gaza as “beyond the principles of proportionality.” Editorialists in leading western publications joined this coalition of evil.

You know just what a confidence trick and a fraud the Piers-type Israel pivot represents—when a she-devil like podcaster Megyn Kelly feels called upon to add her shenanigans to the production. For glib viciousness, Kelly—whose métier is feel-good militarism and assorted “girly gutter journalism”—is unbeatable. Fifteen minutes and 22 seconds into a July 28, 2025 “visit” with the perfidious Briton, Kelly said this:

“I am reluctant to put too much stock in the images coming out of Gaza, because they are manipulated and they are masters of propaganda. They are fine having their own children starve, just so long as they can put them on camera and show them off to the world. That’s Hamas, and frankly, that’s a lot of Palestinians. So, I’m very skeptical at [sic] taking those images at face value, and saying that it’s Israel’s fault.”

To the word “complicit,” some, not me, naturally, would add “c-nt and cretin.”

Come August 19, 2025, in an attempt to both stay current and outshine her guest Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Kelly was practically climbing over those “phantom” starving Palestinian children, to cast herself as an edgy resister and critic of AIPAC, the Israel Lobby, and its “multiple reachouts” to Me, Myself and I, Megyn Kelly.

Now please lead me to the Vomitorium.

Meloni and Merzagain, whose administrations, like all western nations, have not divested materially or diplomatically from the genocidal entity, share the moral pedigree of a Megyn Kelly and a Piers Morgan. They all resolved to stop framing genocide as self-defense long after the genocide in Gaza was completed.

It was in May-June of 2025 that Morgan morphed Israel’s status from the legitimate exerciser of self-defense to no longer exercising legitimate self-defense. For nearly two years, Morgan had watched Palestinians being “denied the right to life on an industrial scale.” He had tried and succeeded quite well in framing Israel’s mass murder ongoing as self-defense. Until one day when it was not. Piers’ posture is obviously forced, insincere and strategic. Why and where precisely was the pivot-point?

There is no reason in logic. Piers Morgan’s flabby reasoning is reliably circular and self-serving. The point of demarcation—where Israel went from legitimate self-defense to state terrorism—is measured in Piers Morgan Units: in the time it took Morgan to go from avid Israel supporter, to reluctant critic of the genocidal entity (14:41 minutes in).

Circular reasoning, indeed. What reasoning other than circular would one expect from the journalistic circle jerk?

What really motivated “august” members of the Media Circle Jerk, such as Piers Morgan or Megyn Kelly, to rap Israelis on the knuckles, suddenly, for that is all this is?

Joseph Massad, a Palestinian scholar, homes in on what’s afoot among these scullions. While the structure of genocide has been the same throughout, the “suddenly developed moral compunction” is about “the more recent phase of the genocide, where the continued outright bombing and incineration of Gaza in a holocaust is now compounded by the deliberate mass starvation of the Palestinian survivors,” remarks Massad. In essence, the sight of jutting baby bones and distended bellies is not a good look.

If Piers Morgan and his clones were men of conscience, as they undoubtedly are not, they would come clean; lie low, listen, flagellate, be ashamed, stay ashamed. Piers should be begging Palestinian pardon—perhaps admit to being a mouthpiece of power, and endeavor to listen to his betters.

This staged reckoning comes against the backdrop of Israel’s ongoing, imposed famine-starvation in Gaza. Awash with evil, when Israel is not assassinating negotiators (Qatar) as well as entire governments, heads of civilian portfolios, and journalists across the Middle East (Yemen), the exterminatory Jewish Israel is willy-nilly murdering over 100 Palestinians each day and wounding many hundreds more, consigning the injured to slow death by sepsis and starvation, without hope for recovery.

The Gaza Strip Israel has demolished. Just in case, The Demon State has set about demolishing “around 300 residential units a day in Gaza City, aided by the Israeli army’s explosive-laden robots.” Soldiers the IDF are not. Here’s a “news” story from the crypt of an archaic, old-fashioned keeper of records: By November 15, 2023, ancient Gaza City, “the largest, oldest Palestinian city,” was near complete destruction. Given the state of the collective memory, it behooves me to remind readers:

The SS IDF has already crisscrossed the Gaza Strip in one way or another. When Israel announced its plan to “conquer” Gaza City, you ought to have asked: As opposed to what? Destroy it? Done. Kill tens-of-thousands of its residents? Done. Concentrate the starving population for the purpose of killing more of it? Finalizing what has been a Final Solution? Done and done. Mere semantics. The place, Gaza—city and strip—is ashen and barren.

I deal in words. Stale, worn words. I have none left.

The “Dispossessed of the Earth” are being starved to death by evil-on-earth: Israel and its willing accomplices.

The people of the world are with the “Dispossessed of the Earth,” the Palestinians. The governments of the world and their mouthpieces, North and South, are either nowhere to be seen or, alternatively, with evil-on-earth, Israel.

And that includes the complicit, MIA, Piers Morgan-Megyn Kelly Media.

One of many selfless healers and humanitarians currently operating with great difficulty in Gaza is Dr. Tarek Loubani. By this point, day 711 of the genocide, what Dr. Loubani said on day 236 of Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Flood is amplified many times over. If you have been silent so far—or, enveloped by the warm smell of the herd, are conveniently piping up two years into the sacking of Gaza—you must not be forgiven.

©2025 ILANA MERCER
The Unz Review, September 16
LewRockwell.com, September 18
The Mises Institute (genocide as a “Note in the Margins,” https://mises.org/notes-margin/gaza-genocide-coverup-begins-johnny-come-lately-journos-start-covering-keister, on https://mises.org/profile/ilana-mercer) October 1

ILANA MERCER’S FPV Resistance — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:55:06 GMT

‘If one million Egyptians try to break the siege on Gaza, the genocide would end’~ Georges Ibrahim Abdallah
A large-scale regional military intervention must be mounted post haste, for there is an affirmative, not a passive, obligation to stop Israel. The world, with some heroic exceptions, has so far breached that legal and moral obligation ~©2025 ilana

Enough!

The world has built up a head of steam over Israel. Yet at no time has anyone offered a military plan of action—even though genocide is criminalized by the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG), or the Genocide Convention; even though this international treaty “obligates state parties to pursue the enforcement of its prohibition.”

Israeli mass murder has been fenced off from any outside intervention by no other than the United States of America.” With American backing, Israel, you can say, has outwitted the world. Nominal ceasefires imposed on the “genocidal entity” have not stopped the carnage. Israel continues to murder Arabs and destroy their lands and leaders as the fancy takes them.

The maelstrom of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the country’s vertiginous expansion across the Levant to include a dirty war (of assassinations) in Iran, and the continued forbearance of the Global North—all these factors have only encouraged Israel to expand its evil endeavor and give voice to it. Emanations from the collective Israeli mind continue to flow as freely as an open sewer and are as septic. Unless stopped, Israel will continue to open up new fronts of evil.

Libertarians worth their salt will apply to the collective the same moral code applied to the individual. If a lone serial killer and home invader must not be left to continue on his merry spree of murder and theft; neither may a band of killers armed with WMD do the same. If a lone serial killer ought to be hunted down by good men and women, cuffed, incarcerated and tried; so too must a gang engaged in high-tech, AI-assisted mass murder. That is the simple meaning and application of the libertarian axiom of non-aggression in a world in which defense is not privately produced.

Curiously—and considering the centrality of a values-based pretense in U.S. foreign policy, of good-vs-evil—if ever a clear, moral case for American military intervention presented itself; it is on the side of the civilians of Gaza as against the Israelis, who are armed with Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD).

This must lead to an inescapable conclusion:

Since the United States of America is not a “global force for good,” it remains for the locals to do the job. A large-scale regional military intervention must be mounted post haste, for there is an affirmative, not a passive, obligation to stop Israel. The world, with some heroic exceptions, has so far breached that legal and moral obligation.

Right now, the Arab people wish to act in support of their brethren butchered in Palestine and Lebanon. Conversely, their governments refuse, bought and paid for as they are by the US, whose foreign policy is centered on what Israel wants.

Even more extraordinary: Israel is funded by America, yet it does exactly what it likes and to hell with America. The two propositions don’t seem to be mutually exclusive. Like Israel, the Arab nations receive subventions from America. They should take a leaf from Israel’s book and quit cowering. Do what their people want them to do.

Contrary to the swindlers of the corporate western media; Turkish youth, for example, and its people at large, oppose the game of footsie Erdogan plays with Israel, while pretending to oppose it. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has extended his country’s military role in the Levant, realizing his neo-Ottoman impulses in Syria in ways harmful to what remains of the Axis of pro-Palestinian Resistance.

At the same time, Erdogan has limited himself to being merely “rhetorically strong” about Israel’s genocide, as Lebanese journalist Rania Khalek had observed. The people of Türkiye, by contrast, continue to protest vessels such as the US aircraft carrier USS Wasp, docking in Izmir, en route to assist Israel in dropping ordnance on impoverished, starving people, penned in a deathcamp. Risking the Empire’s wrath, Erdogan, on the other hand, had in fact previously hosted the beleaguered Hamas

In other words, so baffling is Türkiye’s subterfuge in the Middle East that nobody would be surprised if Erdogan, forever unpredictable, out-of-the-blue, scrambled fighter jets to establish a No-Fly Zone over Gaza and the West Bank, which are occupied, not Israeli, territory!

With a No-Fly Zone; Türkiye’s fighter pilots will not be initiating hostilities, but establishing a dome of protection over civilians, whose tiny enclaves in Gaza had been hit, so far, with the equivalent of six nuclear bombs, prompting Hiroshima, a civilized city of peacemakers, to beg Israel to cease its murder spree.

Prime Minster Erdogan would do well to heed his people. In the long run, this is wise for political longevity and stability.

Likewise is the Egyptian military fuming over their country’s leaders’ failure to help Gaza, and their inaction with respect to Israeli atrocities. From the Egyptian Ground Forces, which corrupt Egyptian leaders have historically feared, rose Gamal Abdel Nasser, a revered leader of Egyptian pan-Arabist nationalism.

“Conscripts at the Sinai-Gaza border” have decried the Sisi government’s silence over the killing by the Israelis, their putative allies, of comrades-in-arms during Israel’s annexation of the Philadelphi corridor. These Egyptian military men are eager to act. Who other than the Axis of Genocide would object to Egypt reclaiming the Philadelphi Corridor, illegally annexed by Israel, and opening its side of the Rafah border to flood the zone to its north with aid trucks under heavy military escort?

Despite broad public anger over Israel’s crimes in Gaza, Jordan’s King Abdullah has helped Israel fend off Iran’s drone and missile reprisals. The Jordanian people protesting Israel feel betrayed, reports Deutsche Welle, a German broadcaster. “Jordanians are currently fuming, outraged, because of a gourmet food festival” taking place this month, “while Gaza starves.”

Because of the Hashemite monarchy’s close ties to and assistance to Israel; revolution is simmering in Jordan, whose people are of Palestinian ancestry. In fact, “the Hashemite monarchy, which has ruled Jordan for its entire history, fears a Palestinian takeover of the country.” Abdullah, king of Jordan, would reduce chances of revolution in the Kingdom were he, at least, to stop assisting the Israelis. Scrambling the Royal Jordanian Air Force to enforce a No-Fly Zone over the occupied neighboring territories would vastly strengthen Abdullah’s position domestically given his restive people.

A meek adjunct though it may be, let the Spanish Armada set sail for Gaza’s seafront. Whatever naval assets can be mustered by other Palestine-supporting countries—Norway, Ireland and Belgium—ought to provide amphibious support to brave No-Fly Zone fighter pilots crisscrossing Gaza and the West Bank.

I bet dollars to doughnuts that the Axis of Genocide, challenged for the very first time, will be cowed. Bullies are cowards.

As that most American of crime writers, Raimond Chandler, counselled, “It never pays to let the enemy make all the rules.” And Israel is the enemy, the enemy of humanity.

Similar counsel comes from a recently released, elderly, pro-Palestinian resistance fighter, who spent four decades in a French prison. Described in the French press as a “Lebanese leftist militant imprisoned in France since 1984,” Georges Ibrahim Abdallah remains a masculine force at full tilt.

Abdallah arrived in Lebanon on July the 25th. A large gaggle of press and supporters eddied around him. He told them, “If one million Egyptians try to break the siege on Gaza, the genocide would end.”

Abdallah deferred to lionheart Greta Thunberg as an example of courage: The Swedish young woman had sailed forth in international waters intending to reach the riparian territory of the people of Gaza. For wishing to administer kindness—to slake the thirst and assuage the hunger of some Palestinians—and to galvanize on behalf of Gaza; Israeli terrorists kidnapped Freedom Flotilla activists and forced them into their own benighted country.

Piracy on the high seas. What should have been a safe, peaceful voyage was terminated by pirates, perpetrators of genocide. Does Israel now rule the high seas as well?

I might have misunderstood Mr. Abdallah, but by praising a wee girl for her bravery he seemed to be asking, where are the men?

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ILANA MERCER’S FPV Resistance — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:25:38 GMT

Israel’s ‘strategic perspective’ requires everywhere and always an enemy. This designated enemy will be tarnished by a blood libel, an abstraction: he, she or they will be said to be antisemitic, baying for Jewish blood. This blood libel ignores the truth, because when facts and reality are scrutinized, it’s Arabs who are being exterminated daily en masse, with western grants of government privilege, not Israelis. You have to hand it to Israel. It has positioned itself as the world’s cross, a curse that every individual not Jewish-Israeli is born into and must carry like an albatross. ~ilana
The costs of Israel’s warmongering have pyramided. Is it not time to look this particular gift horse in the mouth? ~ilana

IT’S ABOUT PALESTINE. Of all the known facts about Israel’s war of aggression against Iran, now nominally suspended by Trump, this is the most important. Incisively put by Craig Mokhiber, “Iran is the last, independent, frontline state that refuses to submit, to normalize the crimes against the Palestinian people.” Quite simply, “Iran was being punished for its support for the Palestinians.” If you are free of the prefrontal lobotomy that comes with subscriptions to the Murdoch or Adelson Media; you will grasp this.

Israel’s unprovoked, illegal war against Iran was not in anticipatory self-defense by any stretch, explains Mokhiber—prominent and principled scholar on the international law (always bringing it back to its natural-law elements). It was old-fashioned aggression, Normalized by Israel and its sponsors, wars of aggression are considered the “supreme crime” in international law (the natural law and libertarian law are agreed).

Israel’s trademark terrorism was aimed at sundering Iranian sovereignty. Before the Iranian Revolution, locus of control over Iranian affairs resided in Washington, D.C., a synonym, we can now all agree, for Tel Aviv. The 1979 Revolution took decision-making away from Tel-Aviv and returned it to Teheran. What the 1979 Iranian Revolution militated against; Israel seeks to reinstate.

For its part, the United States of America, Israel’s lickspittle co-belligerent, is now viewed, certainly in West Asia, as a mulish military power that doesn’t know Shiite from Shinola.

Trump, you’ll recall, stumped our county—the president has forgotten at whose pleasure he serves—promising peace. He delivered war. Commentators Chas Freeman and Scott Ritter, both in-the-know, had divulged early on that the president had been engaged in “diplomacy-as-deception“ with Iran. Having connived with Israel, Trump knew in advance of Israel’s impending “surprise” attack. He had engaged in fake negotiations with the Islamic Republic. With the help of the CIA, Mossad and MI5—the Israeli terrorists then smuggled the needed materiel into Iran. A con-man, concluded Dr. Foad Izadi, an Iranian academic.

Not that Israel needs a reason to war—but more so than a war of aggression for regime change, Israel’s June 13 sneak attack on Iran was meant to eliminate Iran as we know it.

Professor John Mearsheimer, one of America’s most distinguished scholars of international relations, offers a description of Israeli aims in terms that contradict the defunct, deceptively Panglossian ideas of a “two-state solution” and a “peace process.” Over and above regime change, Israel, in Mearsheimer’s always-careful estimation, has a “deep-seated interest” in breaking apart—in fracturing—the surrounding nations.

Iran’s ‘Rogue’ Status

Israel’s gestalt is annihilatory. As shown during two years of genocide and ongoing destruction in neighboring countries, Israel is an “annihilatory state.” The Hebrew verb lechasel (לחסל), to eliminate, is used quite promiscuously by the pedestrian minds on the piss-poor TV panels, on the street and in the Knesset.

There exists in Israel a condition that is as much a part of the nation’s collective “soul,” as it is the “souls” of individual Israelis. The mindset is Jewish supremacy; the shared endeavor emanating from it is regional, military supremacy.

Commensurate with this pathology; Israel does not seek to live alongside its Arab and Persian neighbors as an equal. Rather, it aims to maintain hegemony across the Middle East. Wherever and whenever the pro-liberation, pro-Palestinian axis of resistance surfaces, Israel will move—not to negotiate with or resolve “conflicts” with it, but to eliminate it and restore Israeli hegemony.

To wit, notice how Israel, methodically and spitefully, picks off peace negotiators. The “genocidal entity” made an attempt on Ali Shamkhani’s life. He was lead negotiator on nuclear talks with the United States, before June 13. The illegal and immoral assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas chief diplomat, falls into this category of elimination (chisul/חסול). There were others. Against the laws of war, Iranian scientists and non-combatant elite military personnel were targeted in their family homes—and will continue to be eliminated at a pace, in line with Israel’s predatory, cannibalizing nature.

This annihilatory impetus, the core of Israel, accounts for why, as has been observed, documented and anatomized over 20 months, Israel revels in wiping out Arab (and Persian) human capital—intellectuals, men and women of the arts, in the applied and theoretical sciences, reporters, activists, healers and humanitarians. If you wanted to enjoy your neighborhood; you would not perennially reduce it to a primordial, pre-civilization stage, as in Gaza, by wiping out knowledge, experience, strength; smarts, beauty and goodness.

This eliminatory core of Israeli society, as I emphasized in March of 2024, accounts for why Israel targets “the very fabric of a society—immeasurable human capital—including otherwise- indissoluble, extended family networks, the kind of generational bonds we in the West can only dream of, whittled down and depleted in numbers and in their native energy.”

At bottom, these Israeli atavists—during the offensive in Iran, they murdered nearly 900 Palestinians in Gaza—don’t want educated, erudite neighbors, equals with whom to make magic in the region; they want subjects they can sanction and slaughter into submission. All the better to bring them to their knees, where they now languish, Iran, Yemen and Palestine excepted.

As Israel sees it, the Arab Peninsula and the Levant must bow not toward Mecca and Medinah but to the Mad Dog Medinah (מְדִינָה is country in Hebrew). Regional submission is achieved by reducing the region to rubble, on any pretense and at every turn, and making it utterly dependent financially on America, which itself is, as we now know, in thrall to Israel. With a coopted Arab world, the US can assume the status of dictator as well as benefactor.

On the facts, then, which is the rogue state, Israel or Iran?

Israel launches wars of aggression on its neighbors. Iran does not. Israel, not Iran, is a promiscuous proliferator of nuclear weapons. It is believed to possess “90 plutonium-based nuclear warheads and has produced enough plutonium for 100-200 [more] weapons.” Iran is a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Israel is not. Unlike Iran, so far, Israel has rejected any IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) oversight, any inspections and safeguards. In marked contrast, Israel, not Iran, is a genocidal entity. Israel, not Iran, had begun this war, is conducting air raids on neighboring nations, and committing mass murder daily.

Iran & Terrorism

And unlike Israel, Iran doesn’t practice state terrorism; it reluctantly and ably defended the realm.

Warnings, stateside, of “a heightened threat environment in the United States” from Iran have been issued by the US National-Terrorism-Industrial-Complex. These generally portend a false-flag operation. The “country of origin for the largest number of foreign-born terrorists” is Ameri-Israel’s good friend Saudi Arabia. Between 1975 and 2024, the Saudis were responsible for 2,354 murders on American soil; Iranians for … none… not one.

To change that, FBI entrapment operations, dubbed sting operations or counterterrorism, are routinely launched—and are likely underway right now. Beware! These stings are governed not by laws passed by Congress, but by creative handles. A vintage FBI entrapment method is when some needy simpleton is enticed by FBI agents into committing a crime he or she had no intention of committing until approached.

Bum joke, perhaps, but we all need a laugh. As a likely example of entrapment, I give you the case of Masih Alinejad, an inconsequential Iranian-American regime-change “journalist.” The woman, with her mad-hatter, tumbleweed hair, mouths the kind of cliched ideas of which we have an abundance in America.

Ms. Alinejad had alleged that she had been the target of a kidnapping plot by the Iranian mullahs. She also said “the Federal Bureau of Investigation had approached her eight months prior with photographs taken by the plotters.” Nudge-nudge, wink-wink, say no more.

Come off it, Ms. Alinejad. In rebuttal, I’d say that I don’t believe that the Iranian supreme leader (whose life the grubby Israelis have recently threatened) wants her back. I don’t believe the mullahs think Masih is a keeper. If anything, theirs was a desperate plea: America, please keep Iranian regime-change agitators like Masih Alinejad away.

IRAN & WMD

The current status of Iran’s nuclear capability has never been the issue, although the “genocidal entity,” Israel, is pursuing, and will pursue, “wars to preserve its own nuclear monopoly” in the region.

Before she turned tail (to wag the dog for Trump), Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence (DNI), “delivered the U.S. Intelligence Community’s (IC) collective conclusions covering a broad swath of national security issues and geographic areas—including the threat posed by Iran and its possible development of a nuclear weapon.” “The IC continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003,” reported Gabbard, who “was echoing an assessment that U.S. intelligence agencies have been making since 2007.”

Not unrelated to the manufacture of Israel’s casus belli is that the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) appears to no longer act impartially, as it did in the build up to war on Iraq, under the leadership of Dr. Mohammed ElBaradei. The utterances of Rafael Grossi, the IAEA’s mercurial director general, had helped justify kinetic action against Iran.

Prior to Israel’s unprovoked war of choice on Iran, the vainglorious Grossi had been roaming the region, raising alarm about the Islamic Republic. Distilled, Grossi’s May 31, 2025 report, “Verification and monitoring in the Republic of Iran in light of United Nations Security Council resolution 2231 (2015),” very plainly equates his annoyance with Iran with weapons-grade enrichment by Iran.

Rafael Grossi’s hornet’s nest is in the IAEA’s use of Palantir necro-software. According to Wikipedia, Grossi’s hokum WMD report was generated for the IAEA by Palantir Artificial Intelligence software. Palantir makes a tidy sum in the necro-industry, peddling software for mass surveillance (and attendant, “alleged” executions). In Gaza, Palantir software is “alleged” to have enabled Israel’s Unit 8200 in the algorithmic generation of kill lists.

Without evidence other than “a mosaic of AI storytelling,” Grossi had continued to cook up stories against Iran. Following the June 22 American aerial and amphibian strikes on that heavily sanctioned nation; Grossi took to blabbering about amounts, down to the kilogram, of uranium enriched and secreted away in Iran. Sometimes it was 400 kilograms, other times 900. Post haste, the agency’s WMD sightings have since been walked back. “We did not have any proof of a systematic effort to move into a nuclear weapon,” Grossi sheepishly told CNN’s Christian Amanpour on June 17.

The costs of Israel’s warmongering have pyramided. Is it not time to look this particular gift horse in the mouth?

Back To Beginnings: Palestine

What is the basic cause for this trouble in the greater Middle East, asks Dr. John Mearsheimer, speaking to the Notre Dame International Security Center. Who is responsible for the offensives begun, after October 7, by Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, and assorted militia in Syria and Iraq, against which the United States elects to wage low-grade wars?

There are two dueling opinions. The genocidal regime and its partners—they had planned, before October 7, to drop the Palestinians out of history—all blame Iran. Iran is said to form the gravitational pull; is the “master puppeteer” of Hamas, Hezbollah, even the plucky Yemeni Ansar Allah movement.

These Israel-centric asininities are enforced by the West’s obedient “terrorist” designations—and by discussions so riddled with cliches as to be devoid of meaning. A favorite reductionism, for example, is the “proxy” word, disgorged by the clubby DC foreign-policy establishment and Israel’s sub-intelligent ruling elite. By Foreign Policy Inc’s telling, these complex and variegated regional Arab communities—the Resistance—are engaged in an unprofitable, punishing enterprise spanning decades, because commanded by Iran. Never mind what the principals themselves say.

In its deeply rooted intellectual mendacity, the Western foreign-policy establishment does not believe that patriotism, nationalism, and fellow-feeling exist among groups outside the Occident. (I’m being cynical.) Unchallenged, the national security and foreign policy conglomerate contends that the Houthis’ valiant military intervention on behalf of the Palestinians, massacred daily with Western imprimatur, is no more than the protest of marionettes manipulated by their Iranian masters. As this mindset goes, only Anglo-Ameri-Israeli “soldiers” act in solidarity with their people.

The countervailing theory, “the alternative scenario,” argues Dr. Mearsheimer, is that Israel is responsible.” That “it is largely a result of Israel’s occupation that the Palestinians attacked Israel on October the 7th. Having assessed the evidence for the theory of Iranian hegemony over resistance militias, Mearsheimer, a scrupulous scholar of “great-power politics” (and a patriot who served in the US Air Force for five years), has found there to be “little evidence that Iran is responsible for all these conflicts in the Middle East.” For the longest time, Dr. Mearsheimer has argued that on the evidence, “Israel is principally responsible for the conflict in the Middle East. Israel and its barbaric Occupation of the Palestinians.”

Israel’s baleful presence in the de facto annexed territories is why every American president has understood the imperative of a solution to the Palestinian plight, without which Intifadas—one, two, three, ad infinitum—would culminate in events like October 7.

The “blame-Iran, change-the-Iranian-regime” tedious cant was begun by Israel in the 1970s and is at the behest of Israel, seconds Dr. Stephan Walt. It was during the 1990s, that the US acceded to Israel and began excluding Iran. In 1994, confirms Ali M. Ansari, professor of Iranian History at the University of St. Andrews, “In line with Israel’s budding rapprochement with the Arab world” and the signing of “a peace treaty with Jordan”—Israel “switched its strategic perspective from one that cast Iran as a [regional] balancer to one that saw Iran as the enemy. Henceforth, the United States would be encouraged by Israel to ostracize and isolate the Islamic Republic.” (“The Shallow Roots of Iran’s War With Israel,” Foreign Affairs, May 29, 2024.)

What Dr. Ansari cannot say, I will: Israel’s “strategic perspective” requires everywhere and always an enemy. This designated enemy will be tarnished by a blood libel, an abstraction: he, she or they will be said to be antisemitic, baying for Jewish blood. This blood libel ignores the truth, because when facts and reality are scrutinized, it’s Arabs who are being exterminated daily en masse, with western grants of government privilege, not Israelis.

You have to hand it to Israel. It has positioned itself as the world’s cross, a curse that every individual not Jewish-Israeli is born into and must carry like an albatross.

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