Israel's Little Big Horn Moment

That’s Doug Macgregor’s view of where Israel stands now. There’s actually a lot more to that metaphor than you might think. However, first a few words from Scott Ritter. Ritter takes a bit of a holistic approach, but I’ll try to excerpt some portions that feed into Macgregor’s thesis. The full article, which it totally worth the time to read, is actually quite a bit longer:

SCOTT RITTER: The Fall of Israel

A year ago, Israel was sitting in the catbird seat. Today, it stares into the face of its demise.

From a purely military perspective, the Hamas raid on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, was a relatively minor engagement, involving a few thousand combatants from each side.

As a global geopolitical event, however, it has no contemporary counterpart.

The Hamas raid triggered a number of varied responses, some of which were by design, such as luring the Israeli Defense Forces into Gaza, where they would become trapped in a forever war they could not win, triggering the dual Israeli doctrines governing military response to hostage taking of the “Hannibal Doctrine” and the Israeli practice of collective punishment, the “Dahiya Doctrine.”

Both of these doctrines put the IDF on display to the world as the antithesis of the “world’s most moral military” by exposing the murderous intent ingrained into the DNA of the IDF, a propensity for violence against innocents which defines the Israeli way of war and, by extension, the Israeli nation.

Prior to Oct. 7, 2023, Israel was able to disguise its true character to the outside world, convincing all but a handful of activists that its actions in targeting “terrorists” were proportional and humane.

Today the world knows Israel as the genocidal apartheid state it really is.

The consequences of this new global enlightenment are manifest.

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Israel is rapidly becoming unsustainable, both as a concept (the world is rapidly tiring of the genocidal reality of Zionism) and in practice (i.e., economic and demographic collapse.)

This is the current reality of Israel — in one year’s time, it went from “changing the face of the Middle East” to being an unsustainable pariah whose only salvation is the fact that it has the continued support of the United States to prop it up militarily, economically, and diplomatically.

And herein lies the rub.

That which made Israel attractive to the United States — the strategic advantage of a pro-American Jewish enclave in a sea of Arab uncertainty — no longer holds as firmly as it previously did.

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Israel has, in its post-Oct. 7, 2023, actions, self-identified as a genocidal state totally incompatible with any notion of international law or the basic precepts of humanity.

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Israel is anathema for everything modern civilization stands for.

The world is gradually awakening to this reality.

So, too, is the United States.

For the moment the pro-Israeli lobby is mounting a rear-guard action, throwing its weight behind political candidates in a desperate attempt to buy the continued support of their American benefactors.

But geopolitical reality dictates that the United States, in the end, will not commit suicide on behalf of an Israeli state that has lost all moral legitimacy in the eyes of most of the world.

There are economic consequences attached to American support for Israel, especially in the increased gravitational pull of the BRICS forum, ...

The deepening social and economic crisis in America today will create a new political reality where American leaders will be compelled by electoral realities to address problems which manifest on American soil.

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Apart from die-hard Zionists who will hold out in the unelected “establishment” of government civil service, academia, and mass media, Americans will gravitate toward a new policy reality where unquestioned support for Israel is no longer accepted.

Keep all that in mind. When Israel first launched its war to establish Jewish supremacy over the Middle East, Doug Macgregor would have been extremely uncomfortable with much of Ritter’s rhetoric that I’ve reproduced. Today it’s a different story. Macgregor has awakened to the reality of Israel. He speaks freely of Israel’s “atrocities” and “war crimes”. Even my reference to a war to establish “Jewish Supremacy” in the Middle East comes from Macgregor—formerly an outspoken admirer of Israel. That alone is strong confirmation of what Ritter is talking about.

So, today Macgregor did two interviews—one with Judge Nap and the other with Danny Davis. For our purposes the one with Judge Nap works best, although they’re both excellent. However, it’s in the Judge Nap interview that Macgregor elaborates his Little Big Horn metaphor. Here’s how that works—and we prescind from any question of whether G. A. Custer is being treated fairly. It’s the substance of the metaphor that counts.

If you go out looking for Indians, says Mac, you need to be sure you want to find them—and have a good plan for what to do if you do find them. Custer’s problem was that not only did he find the Indians he was looking for, he actually found just about every Indian within a range of hundreds of miles. The rest is history.

How does that relate to October 7th and the year since then?

Mac argues that there is strong evidence that Israel went into October 7th with its eyes wide open—in the sense that Israel knew the Hamas raid was coming and invited it. The reason lies in what followed—the war to establish Jewish Supremacy, first in the Levant but then, using victory over Hamas and the Palestinians, then over Lebanon and Syria, as a stepping stone to regional supremacy. That final step would result from the victory over Iran. The savage Israeli assault on Gaza was supposed to provoke Hezbollah and Iran into an attack on Israel that would lead to the great regional war for Jewish Supremacy. All of this dependent on US support, based on Netanyahu having Zhou in his pocket, thanks to Neocon dominance in the US government. In other words, Netanyahu colluded in the deaths of many Israelis—heavily military and security personnel, or persons killed according to the Hannibal Directive—in order to establish a suitable pretext for the sort of total war that he did, in fact, initiate. That’s Mac’s view. Again, the rest is history—virtually nothing happened according to the Israeli plan, except for the genocide.

In a sense, that’s the point where the metaphor breaks down. Whereas Custer realized his mistake and attempted to extricate his command, Netanyahu has doubled down on the original plan. When the genocide alone failed to elicit the hoped for total regional war Netanyahu went ahead and resorted to serial provocations intended to draw that response—this despite being bogged down for a year in Gaza and unable to cope with Hezbollah harassing rocket fire. Every effort to negotiate an end to the war has been firmly rejected. The push for total regional war continues and appears to be on the brink of coming to fruition. And this involves what Mac regards as the final miscalculation.

Mac is convinced that Israel will respond to Iran’s final devastating warning/demonstration strike by throwing everything—up to and including the kitchen sink—at Iran. Iran, he says, will respond in kind. Further, Iran will probably make good on its promise to target US assets if the US assists Israel. Mac is convinced that the US will go down that road, given that the US has an overwhelming majority of its refueling tanker aircraft in the region. That will lead to the first ever showdown between an aircraft dominant paradigm (US, Israel) in direct conflict with a missile dominant paradigm (Iran). Mac argues that Iran’s missiles are definitely as good as advertised, and that the sophisticated Russian manned air defenses will give a good account of themselves.

The major miscalculation Mac sees in all this—beyond the craziness of initiating such a war in the first place—is that the Anglo-Zionists, living within their own psychosis, fail to understand that Russia will not abandon Iran. As I have argued repeatedly, Iran, from both the Anglo-Zionist and the Russian perspective, is the southern front of the war on Russia and on BRICS. An Anglo-Zionist attack on Iran is existential for Russia—and probably for China. Russia, says Mac, has been flooding Iran with advanced weaponry and, in cases where Iranians can’t be trained up in time for the coming war, with Russian personnel. That weaponry, according to Mac, includes Russian hypersonic missiles, in addition to Iran’s home grown varieties. Including air launched hypersonic missiles, Russia can cover the entire region with weapons against which the Anglo-Zionists simply have no defense. Somehow, the Anglo-Zionists have persuaded themselves, even after losing in Ukraine, that Putin is all bluff.

And yet Mac sees this war advancing inexorably towards us, who also continues to see the region shifting against the US and Israel. As Mac sees it, the time has come to “pull the plug on Netanyahu.” That’s the only way to step back from disaster. Mac’s not holding his breath.

You can find a short form summary of this here.

All this is building up, of course, with the backdrop of both wings of the Uniparty competing for the “same pot” (Mac’s words) of Jewish campaign contributions. The technique, if you can use such a word for the sort of groveling being employed, is escalating pledges of fealty to Israel and escalating promises to do whatever Israel and Zionist Jews demand of them. Americans, a deeply divided populatin, get no say in this, since Jewish campaign contributions dwarf theirs. Obviously, this dynamic is fueling the movement towards war. Well, we all remember what happened at the Little Big Horn.