Lindsey! And The Evil That Is Israel

I’m wondering what Lindsey! is up to. As most readers will know, Lindsey! went on NBC and presented this position:

It was OK for the US to nuke Hiroshima and Nagasaki, therefore

It is OK for Israel to do whatever it takes to destroy Hamas.

The clear implication is that it would be OK for Israel to nuke Gaza.

One wonders how much Lindsey! was paid to disgrace himself in public with such absurd and reprehensible statements. But what is he up to?

On one level, crazy statements like this show that Israel knows it is losing its war against the Axis of Resistance. The various regional members of this resistance to Israel’s attempt at hegemony—Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, various Iraqi groups, all supported to one degree or another by Iran or, in the case of Hamas, by Israel and the US—have hit upon tactics and strategies that Israel is powerless to defeat. A toll is being taken that is not measured simply in human lives—if that were the case Israel and its US proxy would be winning. But they’re not.

I would argue that the Israelis’ growing realization that they’re losing over the long term is what led to October 7th. I would argue that Israel knew that Hamas was planning a major military operation, a raid into Israel to take Israeli prisoners to use to force Israel to release Palestinian prisoners. In this scenario, Israel allowed the Hamas operation to take place in order to gin up outrage that the Israel Lobby could use to instruct the US to get involved in a major regional war in the Middle East that would establish Israel as an Arab-rein regional hegemon with the major regional power—Iran—destroyed. Only a US led war on Hezbollah, Syraq, and Iran could accomplish this insanely grandiose aim.

Both Hamas and Israel have failed so far. Hamas got their prisoners, but failed to understand that Zionists hold Jewish lives cheap. The Israelis are not willing to release Palestinian prisoners simply to save a few Jews. On the other hand, Israel has failed to draw the US into a regional war—so far.

In support of this scenario, I advance Doug Macgregor. In his discussion with Judge Nap today Macgregor repeated what he has said in the past. He expressed strong doubts about how the Hamas attack could have succeeded to the extent that it did and how Israeli preparedness for the attack was allowed to stand down. He clearly implies that the Hamas attack was allowed as a prelude to something much bigger. He then proceeds to explicitly state what that something else is:

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This is not about Hamas. That's the thing that everyone is missing. This is a war for Jewish Supremacy in the Middle East--period. That's what Mr Netanyahu wants and that's what his population wants him to pursue. Now how do you do that? Well, first of all you expel the Muslim Arabs on your territory--or Christian Arabs if they happen to be Christians--you just expel them, you push them out once and for all and create a Jewish pure State. Then you turn eventually against Hezbollah--that is the one so-called militia that presents very real danger to Israel. That's what the other senators are supporting. Now why are they doing that? You know it isn't because they they have this deep abiding love for Israel. I don't think so. I think it has a lot to do with money. If you go to the various think tanks in Washington DC and just look at who the donors are, where all the money comes from, where does all the money come from that persuades senators from states where very few people have any interest whatsoever what goes on beyond our borders to so vigorously support what the Israelis are doing.

Now, to show just how evil all this is—without going the nuclear road with Lindsey!—I present a transcript of Larry Johnson’s presentation to Judge Nap today:

Larry Johnson: NATO's Next Moves.

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Judge, it's important that people understand how evil Israel is with respect to this. The Israeli Foreign Ministry on its website has a list of all Israelis that have been killed by what they call Palestinian violence, from 2000 through April 26 2024. I took the time and effort to count those up. During that entire period 1,455 Israelis were killed. Okay, over almost a 24 year period. Then I pulled the example of Chicago. In Chicago, which is one fifth the size of Israel in terms of population--Chicago had almost 14,000, largely black, men murdered in that same 24 year period. Think about that. Almost 12 times the number of bodies laying around. Do you see that kind of concern in America? We don't care. And yet here's Israel with 1,455 dead, a total of 671 attacks, and of those attacks only 105 were claimed by Hamas. The rest really looks like the kind of Street violence you get in Chicago--people fighting over turf--West Bank settlers killing Palestinians and Palestinians killing West Bank settlers. And yet during that same time frame the Israelis killed almost 8,000 Palestinians.

Now that was over the previous 24 years, and then here we get to October 7th where Hamas launches this major military attack--it was a military operation, it was not a terrorist attack. And in retaliation for that Israel starts fighting back. Yeah over 1100 Israelis died on October 7th, we're just not sure what percentage of those were killed by Hamas and what percentage were killed by the Israelis--because the Israelis were randomly shooting up vehicles.

Quite a few hundreds of the Israelis who were killed were actually security personnel—military, paramilitary, police, etc. They were targeted because the Hamas operation was a military operation and because Hamas thought that Israeli military/security prisoners would be more valuable in exchange for Palestinian prisoners.

But then, since October 7th, the number of Palestinian civilians killed is 40,000 plus, and growing. Now, in the 70 year history of this the Israelis have never killed this many Palestinians. It's almost like they've now got a taste for it, and they're doing it in such a deliberate, evil manner, where they're starving people, they're preventing humanitarian supplies.

To compare Hamas to an "international terrorist organization", I'll say candidly: It is not. We call it "terrorist" because they've confined their fight to wanting to reclaim territory that they view as their own in Israel. Within this it's really interesting to note the last suicide bombing Hamas was credited with carrying out was in 2012. What happened was the Hamas leadership came to realize suicide bombings and attacking civilians in Israel is just as bad as what Israel is doing to Palestinian civilians. Hamas stopped it, and so over the last 12 years you've not had these repeated suicide bombings. So what we've got is a Western narrative painting Hamas as a consumate, evil terrorist organization, putting them in the same category as Al-Qaeda and Isis. It's a lie. The facts don't back it up.

But there’s another level, or potentially so, of Lindsey!’s craziness. I wonder whether Lindsey!, speaking for most Republicans, is trying to lock Trump into an extreme position before the election. Israel has done their Rafah-lite operation, but they know that their current war effort is unsustainable both on the military level as well as on the world political level. The Dems are getting cold feet and would like to shut the Israeli war down—at least until after the election. Problem: the Israelis may not have that much time. Iran has shown it can stand up to the US and Israel, Hezbollah has begun stepping up its attacks—reports are that Israeli refugees from the north (possibly over 100k) are enrolling their kids in schools where they’ve been forced to relocate. Clearly no one expects that situation to end. And the Houthi blockade is taking a steep toll and is threatening to expand to the Mediterranean.

Clearly Israel needs a radical military breakout from this position, and needs it soon. This can only be accomplished via mass Gaza casualties on the most horrific scale. Netanyahu has been talking a bold line about inserting Jewish settlements into Gaza, but actual results have not been forthcoming. The Neocons probably fear that Trump’s warlike bluster is mostly rhetoric that he thinks is free, because the election is half a year away. However, if Trump—who looks like the odds on favorite right now—can be locked into something like Lindsey!’s extremist position then the Zhou regime could be pressured to going along with Israeli plans for a Final Solution in Gaza.

Think about it.