Is Zionism A Doomsday Cult?

I’ll start this off with a heavily edited transcript/summary of a discussion between Judge Nap and Alastair Crooke. It’s excerpted from a longer and wider ranging discussion:

Alastair Crooke: Is Europe Preparing for War?

Crooke takes the genocide of Palestinians back to the heady days of 1996 when, during the Clinton Administration, the Neocons got their hands firmly on the levers of foreign policy and began putting their eschatological vision into practice—using the US armed forces to pursue their own agenda of transforming the entire world through subjugation to a Neocon dominated America.

Judge: Switching gears, you have an interesting piece out which asks, Is the United States divorcing Netanyahu? What do you think?

Crooke: On the surface that was what was trying to be portrayed when Schumer gave his celebrated address, but actually Netanyahu divorced the Democratic party about 10 years ago [because Reform Jews, the backbone of the Dem party, were on a completely different wavelength from Netanyahu's Likud party. Likud saw the new entry point to US power centers was through the Evangelical movement.] There was a long piece in the New York Times [cf. Zionist Anti-Semite Card Losing Its Sting] which was saying how difficult it is for many Reform Jews to cope with their liberal world and their liberal values and Israel as it is today--moving far to the right--and what's happening in Gaza. Before it was possible to conceive of the idea of liberal Zionism, but now that's become an oxymoron. There's no such thing as liberal Zionism any longer, and this is a profound change that's taken place. Many young Jews living in America are now becoming supporters of Palestinians because they're liberal, and this is creating quite a tension with the older generation and the past structures which haven't moved at all from the past structures where the United States is stuck.

As one person said in that article, 'for Reform Jews living in America, Israel had become a divine project. [Israel] was actually a substitute God.' Everything that has happened was really about keeping Israel safe. That goes back to the Iraq War, it goes back to Syria, it goes back to all of these things in the region. Ultimately, it goes back to Richard Perle's and David Wurmser's "Clean Break" strategy that they wrote in 1996. There was a talk given by Ron Dermer, who is the former Israeli Ambassador in Washington and is a member of Netanyahu's war cabinet. He's the minister for strategic planning, very close to Netanyahu. He said, 'Listen, we're not looking for just demilitarization in Gaza. We want deradicalization. Deradicalization means psychic transformation.' And then he [gives the examples of post WWII Germany and Japan.]

This is exactly what I was told when I complained about the war that was imminent then in 2003 in Iraq, and a senior figure came to me and said, 'Listen, Alastair, the point is that the destruction of Iraq, the annihilation of Saddam Hussein who was an icon for the Palestinians, would send a strong message, it would be transformative for the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah. It would be a bitter message and they would be thoroughly demoralized.' In other words, peace for Israel could come through the destruction of Iraq, of Baghdad, and Ron Dermer was saying the same thing two or three days ago, in in the two or three weeks since Senator Schumer's speech on the floor of the Senate, personally denouncing prime minister Netanyahu.

[Likud has lost young Jews in America. But the attitude of] young Jews in Israel is the opposite. In Israel they have become much more eschatological, they are much more radicalized. One of the things that's going on in Gaza is that the Army Commanders are somewhat losing control over Israeli troops on the ground. IDF troops on the ground are doing things--looting shops, just shooting people on the ground. The Israeli Armed Forces don't have the equivalent of in the US NCOs, the middle tier of the command structure--they only have the commanders who sit far back, and the young people on the ground are in a frenzy, out of control with killing.

But the point is this was exactly what I was told back in 2003. This was what was going to happen after Saddam Hussein was utterly bombed and destroyed like Dresden, or whatever you want, and turned into dust. Then the Palestinians would become docile and would agree to peace on Israel's terms. And I was told specifically, in no uncertain terms, that the path to Israeli safety ran through the destruction of Iraq.

Ironically, the reliably Neocon The Economist supports, backhandedly, Crooke’s statements about Israel’s out of control excesses:

Assal Rad @AssalRad

An entire Economist article on famine in Gaza doesn’t say the word “Israel” once. Not even when describing damage to farmland and water facilities or severely restricted aid deliveries. Saying *who* is destroying the farmland and restricting aid seems like basic info to include.

12:45 AM · Mar 27, 2024

That leads directly into a shrewd observation made by Simplicius the Thinker, today. Simplicius sees what’s clear to any observer, that Israel is alienating the entire world at the very time when its guarantor, the American Empire, is facing rapidly changing geopolitical landscape. And so Simplicius poses the question—riffing off an observation by Alex Jones that mirrors Trump’s recent statements re Israel’s “stupid mistake”:

SIMPLICIUS Ѱ @simpatico771

Israel has torn the mask off and unveiled itself as a veritable, unabashed eschatological end-times Doomsday cult, no different than Heaven's Gate and all the rest. They no longer care about consequences because it's either the Messiah or their total sacrifice as a country.

Unfortunately, such fanatical psychopathy almost certainly condemns them to the unfavorable end as they will now turn the entire world against them at a critical global and historical turning point, when Israel's sponsors--which are solely responsible for Israel's safekeeping--are vastly losing power and hegemony, which means there will be no one left to protect Israel from its enemies in the future.

Good luck facing Hezbollah supplied by endless armaments--artillery, drones, ballistic missiles--from the manufacturing powerhouses of Iran and potentially Russia and others you've pissed off, when your own sponsors no longer have any manufacturing capability and you've already run out of artillery and arms just facing a laughably tiny Hamas force.

In short: Israel will fatalistically double down and go "all in" on their end times prophecy, and they won't make it out the other end as a country.

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3:34 AM · Mar 27, 2024

Also backing up Crooke and Simplicius (and Trump) is the recent poll findings of the Gallup organization:

Majority in U.S. Now Disapprove of Israeli Action in Gaza

Approval has dropped from 50% to 36% since November

Excerpts—there’ much more analysis at the link—but first this observation. GOPer opinion remains favorable toward Israel, but Independent opinion—which Trump needs to capture—has skewed. That’s probably what’s behind Trump’s recent rhetorical shift.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- After narrowly backing Israel’s military action in Gaza in November, Americans now oppose the campaign by a solid margin. Fifty-five percent currently disapprove of Israel’s actions, while 36% approve.

Seventy-four percent of U.S. adults say they are following news of the Israeli-Hamas situation closely, similar to the 72% Gallup measured in November. One-third of Americans (34%) say they are following the situation “very closely.”

Disapproval of Israel’s military action is similar regardless of how much attention Americans are paying to the conflict. However, those paying less attention are more likely than their counterparts to have no opinion on the matter, resulting in lower approval than seen among people paying greater attention.

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