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IRAN: Everything You Need To Know But Were Too Afraid Of The Israel Lobby To Ask

Foreign Policy, GAZA, Iran, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Middle East, Palestinians, Propaganda, Terrorism

Israel is an ‘annihilatory state.’ It does not seek to live alongside its Arab and Persian neighbors as an equal. Rather, it aims to maintain hegemony across the Middle East. At bottom, Israeli atavists 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. ~ilana

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. ~ilana

Latest essay is “IRAN: Everything You Need To Know But Were Too Afraid Of The Israel Lobby To Ask“. The fallacies examined are “Iran’s ‘Rogue’ Status,” “Iran & Terrorism” and “IRAN & WMD.” Then it’s “Back To Beginnings: Palestine.” This is really about Palestine.

It was a main feature on The Unz Review, home to dissidents from day one. And on LewRockwell.com, antiwar, anti-state, pro-market.

Now on IlanaMercer.com

Excerpts from here and there:

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. …

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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.

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. …

… 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 that are being exterminated daily en masse, with western grants of government privilege, not Israelis.

…READ THE ENTIRE ESSAY. Featured on The Unz Review and LewRockwell.com. Now on IlanaMercer.com
https://www.ilanamercer.com/2025/07/iran-everything-you-need-to-know-but-were-too-afraid-of-the-israel-lobby-to-ask/

IDF, Israel Defense Forces, FIRE CENTER MASS. Deliberately. Don’t Let Them Lie.

America, Donald Trump, Foreign Policy, GAZA, Iran, Israel, Journalism, Media, Middle East, Neoconservatism, War

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Israel is a criminal entity, and a threat to the comity of nations… … the IDF is not a fighting force; it’s an Airforce. Judged from its actions over time, this Airforce’s objectives are not to defeat a regular army. But to pound population centers into submission—in Gaza, across the Levant, and beyond, in Iran. …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. ~ilana

GAZA UPDATE (6/28): “Harvard Publishes Report: 377,000 Missing or Dead in Gaza“: The following is nothing you will hear from mainstream, genocide-complicit American media. Or from its scummy politicians and loud podcasters (who’ve gotten away with an occasional nod to the murdered of Gaza but have failed to use their influence to STOP the genocide).
As I foresaw, from the evidence I had collected and the deductions therefrom, made by November of 2023—“twelve months on [we’ll] be speaking of the distinct possibility that—by the time the Israeli serial killers are cajoled into stopping the carnage, there could be between 250 to 500,000, maybe more, Palestinian deaths brought about by Israel.” So I surmised in November of 2023.

“Harvard Publishes Report: 377,000 Missing or Dead in Gaza“:

A newly published dataset on Harvard University’s Dataverse platform reveals a catastrophic estimate of the scale of human loss in Gaza. The report, authored by Professor Yaakov Garb of Ben-Gurion University, estimates that 377,000 Palestinians are missing or presumed dead since the start of the Israeli military assault in October 2023. This represents roughly 17% of Gaza’s pre-war population, an unprecedented demographic collapse.
The analysis appears in the Harvard-hosted dataset titled “The Israeli/American/GHF ‘aid distribution’ compounds in Gaza: Dataset and initial analysis of location, context, and internal structure”

Will anyone pay, starting with Biden, Bibi, Trump, and down to the still-enthusiastic and orgiastically murderous Israel Defense Force cowards? Still shooting center-mass at starved human beings en route to the Israel-US scam feeding foundation, really a shooting gallery for hundreds of Isra-American cowards in fatigues?

Ha’aretz, amping-up its come-clean coverage, bemoans reports from IDF detritus that, “‘It’s a Killing Field’: IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid.”
These lax mama’s boys, IDF, could have refused orders to murder ANY TIME. They could miss. They fire center mass. I explained recently, again, in the lecture, “The Real Israel Vs. Hasbara History.” Don’t allow them The Nuremberg Defense, “I was only following orders”.

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Iran war

“Little Satan Launches War Of Aggression On Iran; The Great Satan Claims Ignorance, Nudge-Nudge, Wink-Wink”:

The mad-dog medinah (country in Hebrew) strikes Iran, launching a war of aggression on its people. The Great Satan claims no involvement. (Actually, America might need to forfeit this title.) Much like the US has denied involvement in the genocide in Gaza. The US, of course, arms Israel. It could have brought the genocide to an end at any stage of this 21st Century Palestinian Holocaust.

Little Satan’s spokespersons on i24, an Israeli TV station (and a real piece of work), seem pleased. These audacious ghouls—most Israeli news stations are similarly staffed—say they are liberating the Iranian people. That reminded me of the American endeavor to disarm Iraq of WND. “Twelve-year-old Ali Ismail Abbas ” was indeed disarmed. Hundreds like him.

Most of my information about Iraqi civilian casualties had come from the CBC. Abbas lost both his arms when an American missile smashed into his home, killing both his parents. Sixty percent of his body was covered with burns that turned septic. The hospital director at the Saddam General said there were hundreds like Ali, killed, orphaned or maimed. Their faces are not seen on American networks.” (“ON PIMPS AND PRESSTITUTES,” Ilana Mercer, April 23, 2003)

“… a CNN anchorwoman who has probably never had an independent thought in her carefully coiffed head conducted an interview with the befuddled physician of another Iraqi child amputee. The vapid woman repetitively inquired as to whether Ali had been told why he had been ‘disarmed.’ The boy should be ‘helped’ to understand that it was for a Greater Good that he has two bleeding stumps for arms, the woman doggedly insisted.” (MURDER BY MAJORITY, Ilana Mercer, April 23, 2003.)

Nothing changes.

Iranian scientists and military personnel were targeted in their homes—and continue to be eliminated. For, as I said in my address, “The Real Israel Vs Hasbara History,” May 16,

The Axis of Genocide … the Woke Masters of the Western Universe, consider non-woke societies as without the natural right of resistance [or even governance, I might add]. Their resistance we call terrorism.

Israel, as I have documented and anatomized over 22 months, loves nothing more than wiping out Arab and Persian human capital, civilians—intellectuals, reporters, doctors, men and women in the applied and theoretical sciences, in the arts, dogooders, humanitarians. And historical beautiful structures.

Yes, with its bombing of civilian neighborhoods and the unlawful, immoral “decapitation” murders of leaders in Iran, a sovereign state; Little Satan claims to be liberating the Iranians. (And, of course, because of the Holocaust, in case you forgot.)

There is no casus belli.

Trump, as Chas Freeman and Scott Ritter divulged early on, engaged in “diplomacy-as-deception.” He knew. He connived. With the help of CIA, Mossad and the UK poodles of MI5—the Israelis (genocidal terrorists) smuggled the materiel needed into Iran. Meanwhile, Israel has imposed an Internet blackout in Gaza, all the better to continue its murderous bacchanalia, backed by a majority of Israeli-Jews.

Stuff to turn the stomach, raise the BP.

What you get from me, as readers know, is intellectual honesty. If you want the best, most assiduous analysis and investigation of the mad-dog medinah’s war of aggression on Iran—again, there is no casus belli—it is the latest podcast from Dimitri Lascaris, “award-winning lawyer and journalist based in Montreal, Canada and Kalamata, Greece,” who, in “Reason2Resist,” has, over the last 22 months, built a formidable broadcast in terms analytical, empirical and ethical.

The episode “After Playing With Fire, Israel Is Getting Burnt: A Missile War That Israel Can’t Win,” is far and away his best. (Israel, in its unadulterated evil, has shown it can win, but Dimitri’s a positive outlook is probably wiser than my gloom.)

After launching a criminal war of aggression on Iran, the Netanyahu regime waited less than 48 hours to plead with Trump to deploy U.S. military forces against Iran.

While refusing to rule out direct U.S. military intervention at a later date, Trump denied Netanyahu’s request.

Dimitri Lascaris argues that this is mere Kabuki Theatre. Trump’s refusal cannot conceal the obvious reality that the U.S. is already waging war on Iran.

Air defence is one of the many vital ways in which the Trump administration is already assisting Israel. From an air defence perspective, Israel is probably the most highly protected military asset in the Western world, yet Iran has now proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that its missiles and drones can penetrate Israel’s layered air defences with relative ease.

As a result, in the past 24 hours, Israel has suffered severe damage. Moreover, there’s good reason to believe that Iran’s military has not yet hammered Israel with its most powerful weapons.

Will the Trump administration finally rein in its rabid Israeli attack dog, or will Washington become even more desperate to preserve Anglo-American hegemony?

My extensive list of recommended real-news media resources:

https://barelyablog.com/blogroll/

Stand With Iran.

UPDATE (6/20): Two broadcasts are all you need vis-a-vis Israel’s criminal aggression against Iran. The one is above, “After Playing With Fire, Israel Is Getting Burnt: A Missile War That Israel Can’t Win.”

The next is “Iran Has A Right To Defend Itself From Israel’s Relentless Aggression w/ Craig Mokhiber.” Craig Mokhiber is someone I often defer to in my own Gaza essays. A fine mind and a good human being.

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WATCH & READ (UPDATES 6/22): ‘The Real Israel Vs Hasbara History’

Argument, Crime, Democracy, Donald Trump, Ethics, Foreign Policy, GAZA, History, Individual Rights, Islam, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Justice, Media, Middle East, Military, Natural Law, Political Philosophy, Propaganda, Pseudo-history, The State, The West

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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, Share 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!

“Ilana Mercer gave this incredible talk speaking the plain truth about the sheer perversity of Israel’s genocidal society”~ JEREMY R. HAMMOND

https://x.com/jeremyrhammond/status/1926981512773112039

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: “The biggest news story at Mises was ilana mercer’s speech.”

https://x.com/Trillion0x/status/1930827313182118154

“Damn! I just watched the entire thing. I haven’t seen such a thorough dismantlement of Israeli society as this is. Every word was perfection. And it is refreshingly free of the baggage terms of colonial & white supremacy that just make people dismiss the arguments.” Mystical Owl

“Ilana Mercer’s lecture at the Mises Institute 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, “The Real Israel Vs Hasbara History,” here.” ~ DR. MICHAEL RECTENWALD, X (https://x.com/RecTheRegime/status/1930334185245552676)

https://x.com/MaryamEbadi12/status/1925305467640688831

https://x.com/Trillion0x/status/1930827313182118154

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

~ NINA on X https://x.com/NinaHoubigant/status/1931037820308856894

NEW ESSAY+NEWS UPDATES (5/9): Genocide’s Back: Trump-Backed Israel Defense Feces (IDF) Gets Extra-Brutal

Anti-Semitism, Donald Trump, Foreign Policy, GAZA, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Journalism, Law, Logic, Media, Middle East, Military, Morality, Palestinians

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NEW ESSAY is “Genocide’s Back: Trump-Backed Israel Defense Feces (IDF) Gets Extra-Brutal.” It was a main feature essay on the Unz Review, home of dissidents from day one, and was featured on LewRockwell.com, anti-state, anti-war, pro-market. The title there is “Genocide’s Back: Trump-Backed Israeli Brutality,” as well as the Mises Institute’s Power & Market, standing for individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, on May 2.

Now on IlanaMercer.com

Some excerpts:

* Warning: indelicate language.

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

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 here 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 Ha’aretz, Israel has killed 1,652 people and wounded 4,391 in strikes on Gaza. (Ha’aretz “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. …

…
… 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, …

…READ THE REST. “Genocide’s Back: Trump-Backed Israel Defense Feces (IDF) Gets Extra-Brutal” can be read on the Unz Review, on LewRockwell.com, anti-state, anti-war, pro-market, where the title is “Genocide’s Back: Trump-Backed Israeli Brutality.” As well as the Mises Institute’s Power & Market.

Now on IlanaMercer.com

NEWS:

May 9, 025: Where are the animal activists for these innocents; these devoted, long-suffering companions being butchered alongside “their” humans. This is censored on many social media sites. Not even Palestinian animals are considered deserving of mention.

https://twitter.com/swilkinsonbc/status/1920563004782899613

https://x.com/swilkinsonbc/status/1920563004782899613

From Gaza, exquisite, poignant writing by Dr. Ezzideen, on the DNA deformities that live on, courtesy of American weapons of mass death:

“… Teratogenic damage. Developmental failure. Genetic disfigurement, not by chance, but by war. Bombs struck not only buildings, but chromosomes. The weapons, steel, shiny, American, fell not just to destroy the present, but to corrupt the womb. To poison the idea of tomorrow….”

Stopping Israel is imperative, never too late, and doable. I etched a plan, hardly ambitious, here in this January 8, 2025 essay, “BRICS And Pan-Arabism Revived To Tackle Israel, Militarily.”

MAY 8, 025: When on January 15, 2025 Trump instructed a ceasefire; I wrote then that “Trump ordering a ceasefire into being within days indicates that, at any point, Team Genocide, Biden and Blinken, could have done the same: stopped genocide at its inception. Team Genocide took a decision not to stop genocide.” And Trump, Team Genocide II, could do the same, if he were not, well, I don’t think this odious ignoramus deserves the effort of my sobriquets.

But no. Trump persists in fellating Israeli representatives: they want Gaza to starve, then starve Gaza Trump will. The “US is pressing the UN, and aid bodies to accept Israel’s aid distribution plan for Gaza.”

Rightfully, the “UN has refused to participate in Israel’s aid distribution ‘plan’ for Gaza saying it ‘contravenes fundamental humanitarian principles.‘” Israel and the US are trying to seize aid-distribution, and give over food supplies for Gaza to their war-profiteering mercenaries (traced back to a phony Geneva-based shell company, surprise, surprise).

As Bill Clinton once said, when Israel infuriated him, “Who’s the fucking Super Power.” Trump could do what I dreamed up at the end of my March 31 2024 piece, “ISRAEL: In Violation Of God’s Law, Natural Justice, The Laws Of War, And All Customary International Humanitarian Law.”

MAY 7, 025: The headlines generated by the actions of the State of Satan. You know their contents. You’ve seen the images of four-month-year old starving babies, extremities, digits like those of a dainty hatchling.

First via Euromed Monitor.

“Reported Israeli aid distribution plan in Gaza is inhumane, aims to engineer starvation”

“Gaza: Famine reaches catastrophic levels as sharp rise in death rates documented”

When you have no medium of exchange:

“Liquidity crisis: Israel’s financial blockade intensifies civilian suffering in Gaza”

THE FINAL SOLUTION. Al Mezan Center for Human Rights: “Israel’s Annexation and Displacement Plan Signals Final Stage of Gaza Genocide”

Electronic Intifada:

“Gaza food stocks depleted”

“Ben-Gvir touts bombing food depots while at Mar-a-Lago”

+972 Magazine:

“Palestinians awoke to bulldozers. Their village was destroyed by noon“: the West Bank hamlet of Khilet al-Dabe’ is gone. Erasure

MAY 3, 2025: Genocide is becoming a bad look for organized British Jewry. The Board of Deputies of British Jews is getting antsy.

The Board, of course, is reliably reprehensible—it has spearheaded Hasbara for Israel’s Gaza genocide.

It helped Britain’s mainstream media, the Army and the rest of the Israel lobby to ensure Jeremy Corbyn did not become prime minister, and was tarred as an anti-Semite

https://twitter.com/BoardofDeputies/status/1670848802452799504/photo/1

Now, some of the same loathsome characters are posturing as lifelong supporters of a peace process, who had no part in a diaspora that did energetic Hasbara for Israel.

BEWARE. There will be many such cobra-heads galvanizing the Iraq Defense: Nobody Knew. Or, it was Netanyahu, nobody else. Israel was mislead by Netanyahu. When in fact, Netanyahu had simply fulfilled the average Israeli voter’s wish list: They want their hostages back, but not Gaza.

The Board of Deputies is vehemently against one Kneecap, who must be a stellar fellow, or a good outfit, for raising their ire.

*Screen picture courtesy of Mondoweiss.