“Where Are The Men? Military Action Against Israel. NOW!” is a new essay now on The Unz Review, home to dissidents from day one.

You can also find the essay now on IlanaMercer.com

https://www.ilanamercer.com/2025/08/men-military-action-israel-now/

The core ideas of the piece you are about to read were fleshed-out previously (with more details about geopolitical context), in the lengthy, January 2025 essay, “BRICS And Pan-Arabism Revived To Tackle Israel, Militarily.“

Excerpt:

…  Libertarians worth their salt will apply to the collective the same moral code applied to the individual. If a lone serial killer and home invader must not be left to continue on his merry spree of murder and theft; neither may a band of killers armed with WMD do the same. If a lone serial killer ought to be hunted down by good men and women, cuffed, incarcerated and tried; so too must a gang engaged in high-tech, AI-assisted mass murder. That is the simple meaning and application of the libertarian axiom of non-aggression in a world in which defense is not privately produced.

Curiously—and considering the centrality of a values-based pretense in U.S. foreign policy, of good-vs-evil—if ever a clear, moral case for American military intervention presented itself; it is on the side of the civilians of Gaza as against the Israelis, who are armed with Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD).

This must lead to an inescapable conclusion:

Since the United States of America is not a “global force for good,” it remains for the locals to do the job. A large-scale regional military intervention must be mounted post haste, for there is an affirmative, not a passive, obligation to stop Israel. The world, with some heroic exceptions, has so far breached that legal and moral obligation.  …

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…As that most American of crime writers, Raimond Chandler, counselled, “It never pays to let the enemy make all the rules.” And Israel is the enemy, the enemy of humanity.

Similar counsel comes from a recently released, elderly, pro-Palestinian resistance fighter, who spent four decades in a French prison. Described in the French press as a “Lebanese leftist militant imprisoned in France since 1984,” Georges Ibrahim Abdallah remains a masculine force at full tilt.

Abdallah arrived in Lebanon on July the 25th. A large gaggle of press and supporters eddied around him. He told them, “If one million Egyptians try to break the siege on Gaza, the genocide would end.”

Abdallah deferred to lionheart Greta Thunberg as an example of courage: The Swedish young woman had sailed forth in international waters intending to reach the riparian territory of the people of Gaza. For wishing to administer kindness—to slake the thirst and assuage the hunger of some Palestinians—and to galvanize on behalf of Gaza; Israeli terrorists kidnapped Freedom Flotilla activists and forced them into their own benighted country.

Piracy on the high seas. What should have been a safe, peaceful voyage was terminated by pirates, perpetrators of genocide. Does Israel now rule the high seas as well?

I might have misunderstood Mr. Abdallah, but by praising a wee girl for her bravery he seemed to be asking, where are the men?

… READ THE COMPLETE ESSAY. “Where Are The Men? Military Action Against Israel. NOW!” is now on The Unz Review and on IlanaMercer.com

https://www.ilanamercer.com/2025/08/men-military-action-israel-now/

Screen-capture image via Ha’aretz.

September 11:

There is a reason I wrote that, “The Israel-Occupied Levant Must Be Liberated, S.O.S.,” on 10/19/2024.

Awash with evil, when Israel is not imposed famine-starvation in Gaza, assassinating negotiators (Qatar) as well as entire governments, heads of civilian portfolios, across the Middle East (Yemen)—Jewish Israel is willy-nilly murdering over 100 Palestinians each day and wounding many hundreds more, consigning the injured to slow death by sepsis and starvation, without hope for recovery. The Gaza Strip Israel has demolished. Just in case, The Demon State has set about demolishing “around 300 residential units a day in Gaza City, aided by the Israeli army’s explosive-laden robots.” Soldiers the IDF are not. Here’s a news story from an archaic, old-fashioned keeper records: By November 15, 2023, Gaza City, “the largest Palestinian city,” was near complete destruction.

September 9: 

Today, 09.09.2025, the SS IDF bombed its partners to negotiations, in an attempt to assassinate Palestinian representatives, namely Hamas leadership, in Doha. This was done with US knowledge—and, presumably, acquiescence.

You ask why?

The answer:

“At bottom, these Israeli atavists want subjects they can sanction and slaughter into submission, not educated, erudite neighbors; equals with whom to make magic in the region.”—ILANA Mercer, “IRAN: Everything You Need To Know But Were Too Afraid Of The Israel Lobby To Ask,” July 1, 2025

Via Democracy Now!:

“Dr. Mimi Syed is an emergency medicine physician who’s been on two medical missions in Gaza working in hospitals that were under Israeli siege and was just denied reentry into Gaza, mere hours before she was scheduled to travel there for a third medical mission.”

The following phone message was left for her by a starving Ghazzawi medical student, a friend, heartbroken because she would not be seeing her friend, Dr. Syed:

PALESTINIAN MEDICAL STUDENT:

It’s been over a week since the famine began, and honestly, I haven’t felt full even once. I’m constantly hungry all the day, every day. I sleep every day with hunger. I can’t take anymore, Mimi. You know, I just — I feel weak. I feel too weak to move. And I have to still continue my hospital training every single day without eating. …
Hello, my dear Mimi. Ever since I found out that you couldn’t enter Gaza because of the occupation’s refusal, I’ve been very sad. I had hoped that I will see you soon, and I started to feel better from my previous state of depression and sadness, but now I no longer have any hope. Everything feels over. We don’t even want you to come and help us. They are devils, in every sense of the word.
Mimi, I don’t want anything from life except death, because I truly believe I will find peace in it. I just want everyone to pray for me. I was really hoping to see you soon, but in Gaza, things never go the way we want. I wish there another chance to see you, my dear, hug you, but I know I won’t make it. I know. I love you so much, and I’m really sorry.
And another thing, Israel have already started occupying Gaza. I’m so — I’m so sad, and I’m so tired. We’re getting displaced again. Oh my god. I no longer have any hope. I just want to die. I just want to die right now. Oh my god. You know that love you so much, my dear, and it’s such an honor to know you. Love you. Don’t forget to pray for us. Thank you so much for everything.

August 27:  A crime? Intentional? Israel? You don’t say!

The double-tap murder:

https://x.com/gazanotice/status/1959881104569069708

The aftermath—which has happened countless times for the best part of two years.

https://x.com/gazanotice/status/1959918069104435401

With every new, daily, brazen butchery by Israel, the moron media contemplate, as the Guardian imbecile does, that “Israel’s attack on hospital in Gaza may constitute a war crime.” Double-tap strikes—first target Gazans, then target the beautiful souls who invariably come to the aid of your initial victims—such as the latest by the genocidal entity, are what dissident media have documented for the best part of two years. And the Moron Media still persist in calling genocide a war (Glenn Greenwald, in particular, should know better than to use this misnomer). One more thing:  The legacy media’s language: quit the “were killed” usage. “Were murdered” is the correct appellation.

One of the beautiful people murdered yesterday: Maryam.

Via Euromed Monitor, some Church-of-Satan generated headlines since August 18, on left. On Right, Ha’aretz’s “Starvation Is Everywhere: Virtual Tours of Gaza Clinics Expose the Scale of the Horror.”

August 23 UPDATES:

No clue why Seymour Hersh, august journalist, thinks the Israeli obscene and grotesque future “plan” for Gaza, drawn up by members of the Israeli genocidal entity, is a “fantasy.” Is the Genocide a fantasy? Is the acquiescence in genocide of the Biden-Trump administrations a fantasy? Is the West’s complicity a fantasy? Is utter inaction—nay, assistance—a fantasy? Is the world’s creation of “a place of massive impunity” for Israel a fantasy?

Floated by Israel’s religious right was a “formal plan for the future of Gaza titled ‘The Riviera in Gaza—From Vision to Reality'”. It “is a blueprint for a future in Gaza without the Palestinians who now are living and dying there…”

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15:22 into a “visit” with perfidious Piers Morgan, the equally reprehensible Megyn Kelly disgorges this: “I am reluctant to put too much stock in the images coming out of Gaza, because they are manipulated and they are masters of propaganda. They are fine having their own children starve, just so long as they can put them on camera and show them off to the world https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCoiWisIbuo That’s Hamas, and frankly, that’s a lot of Palestinians. So, I’m very skeptical at [sic] taking those images at face value, and saying that it’s Israel’s fault.”

Some, not me, would add “c-nt and a cretin” to “complicit.” Not me.

A couple of weeks later, this actress begins to slightly rehabilitate her image. Poor Megyn is so independent and is being pushed by AIPAC. She and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene chat about their general admiration for Israel, but need to put America First. They conclude: “If we had the money; we’d give it to Israel. But we don’t.”