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WATCH & READ (UPDATES 6/6): ‘The Real Israel Vs Hasbara History’

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‘… Hasbara and Israeli official myth-history aside, because of Gaza you don’t have to know much history at all to arrive at the truth about Israel. Reality is truth. The reality of genocide gives rise to irrefutable truths. Because of Gazans, the living and the martyred, the truth about Israel is now ahistoric’ ~ilana

The reaction to “The Real Israel Vs Hasbara History,” an address I delivered at the Revisionist History of War Conference, in Auburn, Alabama, for the Mises Institute, was humbling and overwhelming: cheers, tears and responsorial calls, like in a Church.

https://rumble.com/v6toq73-the-real-israel-vs.-hasbara-history.html

UPDATE (5/27/2025): The written address is up in full on IlanaMercer.com. When excerpting, remember to cite the source, myself, and link back to “The Real Israel Vs Hasbara History: WATCH, READ” by ©2025 By ilana mercer, May 16, 2025.

I shared this deeply moving experience with my beloved girlfriend—a soulmate. And a Muslim.  “In Islam we call what you did a summons to The Truth; an invitation to walk in truth,” she explained.

My invitation was graciously accepted.

Other than one individual—a medic, a healer, if you can believe it—who rushed me screaming “terrorist”; the lecture given at the invitation of our beloved Lew Rockwell and my longtime good friend Dr. Tom DiLorenzo, president of the Mises Institute, was met with solidarity.

Excerpt from “The Real Israel Vs Hasbara History” WATCH, READ:

You can watch “The Real Israel Vs Hasbara History” by following anyone of these hyperlinks:

1. “The Real Israel Vs Hasbara History” on my own Rumble video channel. Please Subscribe, Follow and Comment.

2. “The Real Israel Vs Hasbara History” on the Mises Institute’s Rumble Channel.

3. “The Real Israel vs. Hasbara History“ on the Mises Institute’s website.

The main thing is to please share the lecture, “The Real Israel Vs Hasbara History,” widely.

Plainly put: Our Deep Tech overlords, YouTube in this case, prohibit high-minded, first-principles based, precisely worded, anti-genocide Truths, unless finessed.

Citations are to be credited to the author/orator by name and via hyperlink on the cited words. https://www.ilanamercer.com/2025/05/real-israel-vs-hasbara-history-watch-read/

Excerpt:

When America’s regime historians reflect on history’s tragedies and travesties, they always praise Pax Americana. That is the idea that American hegemony brought peace to the world.

Conveniently, they leave out the horrors of it.

Naturally, regime historians, the ones we are here (at the Mises Institute’s Revisionist History of War Conference, in Auburn, Alabama) to counter, speak a lot about Hitler, but hardly ever mention Hiroshima.

Likewise has Israel shaped its past, mixing some history with myth, to render a myth-history.  The propaganda sustaining Israel’s counterfeit history is called Hasbara, explanation in Hebrew.

Hasbara constructs serve to coat Israel’s real crimes against humanity with ideological respectability, to give these some imagined purity of purpose. Think of Hasbara as the steady supply of bogus, artificial constructs to rape reality.

Undeniably, American foreign policy has a certain narrative talent. The injustices of imperial power, notwithstanding, people are persuaded by the strut of it. Less obvious is the appeal of Israeli Hasbara and the Jewish supremacy that goes with it—and has seduced many Christians into ignoring Christ’s core teachings.

Christ commands care, not for the oppressor and the predator, but for the poor and the oppressed.

Hasbara and official myth-history aside, because of Gaza you don’t have to know much history at all to arrive at the truth about Israel. Reality is truth. The reality of genocide gives rise to irrefutable truths. Because of Gazans, the living and the martyred, the truth about Israel is now ahistoric.

Shortly after October 7, with the commencement, in Gaza, of Israel’s “Operation Swords of Iron,” certain self-evident truths became crystal clear.

By late October, Israel’s actions within and without Gaza had shown the world the absolute depravity of Israel, state and civil society. One such emerged reality is that, Palestinians, not Israeli Jews, as Hasbara teaches, are the most imperiled people in the world; Israelis the most perilous.

Another is that Israel, with overwhelming support from the Jewish-Israeli public, has gleefully engaged in methodical, indiscriminate, industrial-scale murder and ethnic cleansing ongoing.

The Israel Defense Forces, IDF, were allowed to obliterate all the fundamentals of physical, national and economic life in Gaza, turning it into an uninhabitable “post-apocalyptic wasteland.” The Strip has been reduced to its sub-soil particulate elements, only badly soiled.

Gaza is now a mass grave along a small stretch of the Mediterranean Sea, where living ghosts wander.

Gaza’s soil is soaked through with a mix of millions of tons of building debris, the decaying bodies of tens-of-thousands of human beings, their pets, livestock; fauna, flora all gone—an inferno of garbage, open sewage, and the byproducts and contaminants of munitions, like unexploded ordnance.

Said a scholar of the architecture of Occupation: Israel has “stolen” from Gaza’s Palestinians “the very ability to produce food.” Or, receive it. Or use means of exchange to get it. Banking was dismantled.

Believe it or not, but under years of a medieval blockade, Gaza’s farmers had, before October 7, fed a third of their people.

Indeed, Israel has systemized the mass murder and displacement of innocent Palestinian civilians, targeting them and their habitat for Total Warfare.

Since war against civilians is a war on civilization; Israel, by extension, is an enemy of civilization.

Our ally Israel is a country in which genocide, snuff films, extra-judicial assassinations, rape, robbery, torture and starvation of Palestinians are de facto legal. Israel is thus a criminal entity, and a threat to the comity of nations.

The indictment against Israel ought to be hermetically sealed. Israel’s ethnocide and domicide in Gaza is in violation of most systems of ethics known to man over intellectual history—it is in violation of God’s law, the Ten Commandments. These command not to covet, steal or murder. It is in violation of libertarian law (the axiom of non-aggression). It is in violation of natural justice, the laws of war (although genocide is not war), as well as humanitarian law.

And it is in violation of the systems of law within which the above is subsumed: The natural law and the positive law. …©2025 By ilana mercer

… THE REST.

Thank you,
In solidarity,
ilana

https://www.ilanamercer.com/category/gaza/

UPDATE (5/24/2025):

https://x.com/jeremyrhammond/status/1926094827516547420

What a decent man-–a  scientist and reporter, is Jeremy Hammond:

https://x.com/jeremyrhammond/status/1926094827516547420

“Israel has played its genocide of the Palestinians of Gaza to a packed house to the world. Israeli Jews don’t lack for facts, but most appear without the analytical and ethical faculties to examine their actions. They lead the unexamined lives of self-anointed, superior beings. … “The US regime has been a worshipful partner in Israel’s vice.” “The evidence is conclusive. IDF shoot, loot, and bomb for fun. No doubt, the Israeli state is genocidal. But by the numbers and by their statements, Israeli society is as sociopathic.” “While American foreign policy is a museum of horrors, Gaza is now the main exhibit.” This is an absolutely essential talk by @IlanaMercer at the @mises Institute #MisesInstitute. I cannot recommend it highly enough. TRUTH, WISDOM, and COURAGE!

And, Stephen Carson:

https://x.com/RadicalLib/status/1925927063812227455

“Sects of Christianity can no longer distinguish Satan from God… They favor AIPAC’s edicts over the commandment of the Prince of Peace.” –@IlanaMercer

I highly recommend this speech she just gave  @mises, which was kicked off YouTube.

And Do Not Analyze:

Watch how cowards melt on Facebook, Comments. Watch how it’s done. Take the time:

Are you not yet ashamed to parade as a man who promotes genocide—an onslaught by cowards?? To be the worst of men, without the proverbial male bits?! Castrati! To be have the mentation of a filthy organism squirming in a petri dish? Stay away from this space, human effluent.

(With apologies to petri-dish organisms.)

UPDATE 5/25:  Israelis, speaking in near unanimity, murdered Gaza. The initial cheers of the world have subsided and grown softer. A disgustingly immoral West has come up sharp against the consequences of its crimes ongoing. Western commentators, politicians, public figures—now that Israel’s mission has been completed—wish to salvage their standing in the world. “I was wrong,” say crooked opportunists like Piers Morgan and other genocidal British public figures, including politicians such as Tory MP Mark Pritchard, and Piers Morgan, who, on May 21, 2025, long after Gaza’s destruction, decided to divest from genocide. Ditto echo the editorials in leading newspapers. Worldwide, the boos  increase daily. Genocidal criminals—vicariously involved or on active duty—want to salvage their reputations. Don’t let them.

Here they are in action:

“As Gaza Deaths Mount and Soldiers Burn Out, an Israeli Anti-war Movement Is a Matter of Time.”

At the eleventh hour, Germany, Israel’s second largest supplier of baby-busting munitions, is worried about optics. And, it’s safe to protest. The genocide has been accomplished. So, 19 months into the genocide of the Palestinians of Gaza, here’s a whimper from the Teutons:

“Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merzagain criticized Israel’s policy in Gaza, saying that Israel’s operations “no longer appears to me as strictly necessary for defending Israel’s right to exist and for combating Hamas terrorism.”

UPDATE JUNE 6:  

“One of the best articulated speeches I have heard about the state of Israel & their subversive impact on world media, politics, war & society. Hats off to @IlanaMercer
& @mises for this brilliant gem” ~ jeannita, X

https://x.com/jeannita/status/1931096336088068110

“Most articulate and most eloquent. Unwaveringly ethical thank you @IlanaMercer.” ~ debatinglama, X

https://x.com/debatinglama/status/1930848575119839405

“Ilana Mercer’s lecture at the Mises Institute @mises is required viewing for anyone who does not understand that the entire Israeli project is a criminal one, and everyone an accessory to the crime. … Very proud of the Mises Institute for remaining steadfast. Watch the full speech here” ~ Dr. Michael Rectenwald

https://x.com/RecTheRegime/status/1930336341423993305

Israel’s ANTIFA (Still Saner Than America’s) Marches Against Parliamentary Representation And For Judicial Supremacy

Democracy, Israel, Justice, Law, Left-Liberalism And Progressivisim, The Courts

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That power may tilt toward the people’s elected officials, rather than remain in the hands of unelected judges, terrifies the illiberal Israeli Left ~ilana

When there is a hint of “danger” that the balance of power will tilt toward “the people’s elected officials, rather than remain in the hands of unelected judges“—the Wokerati has a collective grand mal. That is “a form of epilepsy characterized by loss of consciousness for up to five minutes and violent convulsions.” (Free Dictionary)

This is what’s underway on Israel’s streets.

All with the same hysteria America’s Wokerati reserves for anti-MAGA America.

To its credit, Israel’s ANTIFA is civilized and intelligent, but similar in its aims. They lost. So the dummies are aflutter.

Yet, unlike America’s ANTIFA, Israel’s Wokerati is not howling, stripping, discussing its reproductive orifices, inventing pronouns, and burning the country down. Credit for this we shall accord them. Instead, the Israeli Wokerati is showing its consternation with weak, one-sided, baleful argument and cries of despair (joy!)

The Knesset has reclaimed some power of representation. Parliament has democratically reduced the powers of a woke, hyperactive Judiciary. Over this, the usual Israeli and US culprits are foaming at the mouth.  The Left, stateside, wants Israel to continue to be a US clone—a mere American satellite state. Israel’s Supreme Court better serves these ultra-progressive forces than its parliament.

That power may tilt toward the people’s elected officials, rather than remain in the hands of unelected judges, terrifies the illiberal Israeli Left.

The Vox reporting linked in my brief blog post is hyperbolic, apoplectic and as close to Fake News as it gets.

* Woke is always flabby. Screen pic via Mother Jones

NEW COLUMN: The Hell With Hunter; Call Joe In For Hearings On Treason, Cancel The Neocons While You’re At It

Conservatism, Constitution, Critique, Democracy, Elections, Ethics, Foreign Policy, Government, IMMIGRATION, Neoconservatism, Republicans, War

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NEW COLUMN is “The Hell With Hunter; Call Joe In For Hearings On Treason, Cancel The Neocons While You’re At It.” It is featured on The Unz Review, WND and The New American on Friday.

The Republicans are investigating the Hunter “Baaaden” affair, to imitate the repetitive intonations emitted by Fox News’ Australian journalist, about the ‘Baaaden’ laptop.

Deplorables, don’t be misled into this dummies-and-ditto-heads dead-end. This is vintage lightweight, GOP tit-for-tat distraction, on par with the Democrats’ ongoing January 6 production.

The Hunter Biden preoccupation amounts to, “They (Democrats) do January 6; we (Republicans) hack away at—or hit back with—Hunter Biden’s laptop from hell.”

The outcome: The Democrats get what they want: détente. They neuter Deplorables, sending us down a political rabbit hole.

We gain nothing from such a foray. It’s zero-sum for Deplorables.

Legal scholar Jonathan Turley, whom I respect, disagrees. Turley, understand, operates within the philosophical parameters of the state. By and large, he believes in the extant integrity of American institutions, even confident that one party is more righteous than the other. When out-of-sync, the good party led by the right people, or so the good professor imagines, is sure to right wrongs through a congressional committee.

Wrong. Not for nothing do we call it the Permanent State, fronted as it is by evil and stupid-party operatives.

Correctly so, the matter of the FBI’s endemic corruption and bias has been settled both in the minds of deplorables and by the objective facts. (FBI Director James Comey anyone? Director Christopher Wray?)

If the GOP were seriously working for Deplorables, and not engaged in tit-for-tat political gotcha—they’d pursue First Principles driven congressional oversight.

Duly, Biden would be summonsed for a hearing charging that by intentionally, and as a matter of policy, leaving the Southern border wide-open and unguarded—in effect inviting the world to invade our country—the president is willfully flouting his constitutional obligation to protect Americans from foreign invaders, and is thus committing treason.

The obligation of a Republican congressional majority is to pursue oversight by investigating and prosecuting a flagrant violation by the president of his constitutional obligation to defend the United States and its people from foreign invasions.

That the incoming Republican congressional majority is already falling flat, opting for showy politicking, instead of a solemn focus on Biden’s treason against his people, is all the more jarring given the GOP’s abject failure to deliver as promised in the 2022 midterms.

Other predictably ominous signs were on display at a recent Republican Jewish Coalition conference, where some Republicans who ought to disappear reappeared …

… THE REST. “The Hell With Hunter; Call Joe In For Hearings On Treason, Cancel The Neocons While You’re At It” is featured on The Unz Review, WND and The New American on Friday.

UPDATED (2/3/023) Ukraine Chronology & Commentary: Ignorant Mike Pence Pitches War Forevermore For Ukraine, Under The Defunct, Cold War Reagan Doctrine

America, Argument, Communism, Democracy, Donald Trump, Elections, Foreign Policy, Iran, Republicans, Russia

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Another good reason to disqualify one more jingoist from office: Mike Pence is still working from the defunct, cold-war based Reagan doctrine

Mike Ponce tells Bret Baier, lightweight Fox News neoconservative host, that it is imperative the “United States and the new Republican majority continue to provide the Ukrainian people with the support they need to defend themselves.”

In other words, enable war forevermore for Ukraine, so its slimy leader, Zelensky, can continue to play his biggest role yet and is exempt from his duty to do diplomacy. (READ “It’s biblical, Zelensky: a leader who fails to haggle for the lives of his people is a failed leader.”)

Ponce spoke about the latest allegation against Russia, namely that of dropping ordnance on Poland, a NATO member. He spouted forth about an Article 5 obligation to go to war for Poland, and then further waffled in his best faux ponderous, presidential manner, that Russia ought to be “transparent” during the investigation into the origin of the bomb that fell on “Ukraine” (sic: it fell on Poland, Ponce). This, when the US is stoking the conflict as vociferously as Zelensky is.

“I’ve gone toe-to-toe with Putin,” bragged Ponce. He followed up with the cretin’s commonplace cliche: “Putin understands only strength.” Other than that Trump deployed the worst people during his term—Ponce stands as a reminder to Deplorables that he and Trump provided lethal arms to Ukraine.

Likely a liar, Pence blames Biden for restricting billions in military aid to Ukraine to “blankets and boxed meals.” Only he could truly support Ukraine in the style to which this little tinpot destination has become accustomed, argued Ponce, striking his best “I’m-presidential” pose possible.

We are informed that Pence and wife Karen visited Ukraine … blah blah blah, and he is thus in the position to advise that it is imperative that the USA continue to pump this great Democracy with funds to defend its great democracy.

Of course, the defending-democracy premise is one Tucker Carlson uses in his case against helping Ukraine. Carlson claims Ukraine is not a democracy, hence deserves no defense. Both Pence and Tucker use democracy to justify opposing policies: Democracy as a premise for or against war is wrong.

These discrepancies only expose the impoverished neoconservative nature of a foreign policy based on the US’s obligations to act in furtherance of democracy across the world.

“If you are willing to fight communists in your country; we’ll provide you the means”: Mike Pence says this is the Reagan doctrine to which he subscribes.

Right there is another good reason to disqualify one more American jingoist from office. Putin’s Russia is not communist; it is a traditionalist, reactionary, Russian Orthodox favoring authoritarian state. Pence is still working from the defunct, cold-war based Reagan doctrine.

This man, Pence, holds a neoconservative foreign policy and believes his duty is to Ukraine, not the people of the US, deplorables in particular, whose freedoms are curtailed stateside.

UPDATE (11/21/022): The impoverished neoconservative foreign policy habit-of-mind ingrained in Mike Pence is on display in other characters with whom Trump surrounded himself. Some of these made an appearance at the recent Republican Jewish Coalition conference.

Beware of Mike Pompeo and Nikki Haley.

What has been said here about Mr. Ponce easily applies to “Mike Pompeo, Trump’s hand-picked secretary of State and CIA director” and Nikki Haley, Trump’s U.N. ambassador, who is threatening to win the next presidency. She also bragged that “she’s ‘never lost an election and [is] not going to start now.’”

Both Pompeo and Haley are known for their robotic sloganeering against Bashar al-Assad’s more enlightened Alawite regime—Syria’s Christians simply love him—Putin’s Russian Orthodox traditionalist rule, and the impoverished Iran.

If I hear Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — “Trump’s most formidable potential rival right now” — agitating against the long-suffering people of Iran; I’m done voting GOP.

This axis of evil, Israel and America, are aligned against the Christian-Shia-Alawite alliance. This axis has formed a protective perimeter around Sunni rebel holdouts, who are not the good guys. As I wrote in “Lies About Putin, Syria & The Alawite (Iranian) Alliance,”

Under Putin’s protection, the more civilized Alawite minority (read higher IQ), which has governed Syria since 1966, is in charge again. Duly, reports the anti-Assad Economist, “Government departments are functioning. … electricity and water supplies are more reliable than in much of the Middle East. Officials predict that next year’s natural-gas production will surpass pre-war levels. The railway from Damascus to Aleppo might resume operations this summer. The National Museum in Damascus, which locked up its prized antiquities for protection, is preparing to reopen to the public.” …
… Infested as it is by globalist ideologues, the permanent establishment of American foreign policy refuses to consider regional, religious, local, even tribal, dynamics in the Middle East. In particular, that the “good” guys in Syria—a relative term—are not the Islamist “rebels,” with whom the [neoconservatives are] forever frolicking; but the secular Alawites, who are allied with Shia Iran against the onslaught of the Sunni fundamentalist majority.

… the endangered Alawite minority formed an alliance with the Iranian Shia, also a minority among the Ummah. Now, civilized and secular Syrians want their country back. In fact, many Syrian “Sunnis prefer Mr. Assad’s secular rule to that of Islamist rebels.”

Mercer on Ukraine:

1. Neocons, Neolibs And NATO Inch Us Closer To Nuclear War With Russia, 01/29/2022: https://www.ilanamercer.com/2022/01/neocons-neolibs-nato-inch-us-closer-nuclear-war-russia/
2. Uncle Sam Still King Of All Invaders: Ukraine, Realpolitik And The West’s Failure: March 3, 2022 https://www.ilanamercer.com/2022/03/uncle-sam-still-king-invaders-ukraine-realpolitik-wests-failure/
3. True Story: Russia Finds WMD In Ukraine! March 10, 2022 https://www.ilanamercer.com/2022/03/true-story-russia-finds-wmd-ukraine/
4. It’s Biblical, Zelensky: A Leader Who Fails To Haggle For The Lives Of His People Has Failed https://www.ilanamercer.com/2022/03/biblical-zelensky-leader-fails-haggle-lives-people-failed/
5. U.S. Cancels Countries, Kills Ancient, Civilizing Concept Of Neutrality April 7, 2022 https://www.ilanamercer.com/2022/04/u-s-cancels-countries-kills-ancient-civilizing-concept-neutrality/
6. Ukraine’s Azov Battalion: Nazis Or Just Nationalists? May 12, 2022 https://www.ilanamercer.com/2022/05/ukraines-azov-battalion-nazis-or-just-nationalists/
7. “The D-Bomb, Realpolitik, Zelensky’s Self-Serving ‘Heroics’ & What ‘Mixed-Race’ Really Means” December 22, 2022 https://www.ilanamercer.com/2022/12/the-d-bomb-realpolitik-zelenskys-self-serving-heroics-what-mixed-race-really-means/
8. “Oh, What Wonderful Wars: The West’s Lying Warlords,” March 10, 2023

Mercer “Hard Truth” Video Podcasts on Ukraine. Please Subscribe:

https://rumble.com/c/HardTruthPodcast
https://rumble.com/vx058f-true-story-russia-finds-wmd-in-ukrainehtml
https://rumble.com/vw897h-russia-to-us-on-ukraine-pot.-kettle.-black..html
https://rumble.com/vtea18-neocons-neolibs-and-nato-inch-us-closer-to-nuclear-war-with-russia.html
“Ukraine’s Azov Brigade: Nazis Or Just Nationalists?”
“The US Plan To Bleed Russia Dry”
“Steamrolled By The Abrams: Republican Cretins Swallow Classified-Doc Bait”
“Oh What Wonderful Wars: The West’s Lying Warlords”