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UPDATED (4/6): Red Crescent Society Martyrs. Israel: Intentionally Genocidal From The Start

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From janitor to general, from foot-soldiers to supreme court justices; in deeds and in words—Israeli society is genocidal. This, by now, is well-established. At all echelons of society, the intent to commit genocide had been established widely and early in the Jewish State’s industrial-scale mass murder of the Palestinians of Gaza and, now, the West Bank.

In Israel, genocide is a national project, not just a state project, says Norman Finkelstein.

Also known by now is that criminality is codified in Israeli law; that genocide, snuff films, extra-judicial assassinations and rape are de facto legal in Israel.  Late in March of 2025, came a ruling from the highest court in this rotting country, the Israeli Supreme Court, “explicitly and directly legitimizing Israel’s illegal blockade of the Gaza Strip.”

Both imbecilic and depraved, the Israeli court used, in support its ruling,

 … the ‘argument’ that the State of Israel is exempt from the obligations of belligerent occupation under international law in all cases pertaining to the Gaza Strip.

Stupid, because, even if you wish to assert a right not to feed the starving occupied besieged people under your rule; you have no right to stop others from doing what international law obliges. The obligation to stop Israel, says Craig Mokhiber, expert in international law, is “an affirmative one, not a passive obligation. ”

Before the ugly gob of a former IDF colonel, Gabi Siboni, came at a pliant West with the latest in Israeli public expressions of genocidal intent. Said this unthinking member of Israel’s think-tank ranks:

“Hamas is not the problem in Gaza. Hamas is a symptom of a bigger problem. The population in Gaza is a barbaric mob. If we don’t wish to bleed our soldiers for decades—because in Gaza there will be Hamas B and C—the only solution is Trump’s ‘vision.'”

https://youtube.com/shorts/7yHv7zA3gGA

https://youtube.com/shorts/7yHv7zA3gGA?feature=shared

As I’ve documented throughout the genocide, “The Jewish State and Israeli Society are equally sick” (May 21, 2024). No doubt, the Israeli State is genocidal, but, by the numbers and by their own statements enacted on the ground—Israeli society is sociopathic.

As uncomfortable as this is for the libertarian methodological individualist; the facts are clear. On the matter of the mass murder of the Palestinians of Gaza; Jewish-Israeli society does not stand apart from the Jewish State.

The remarkable Norm Finkelstein has said so recently, too—also with empirical backing and proof galore. For example, the archival material of Lee Mordechai, an Israeli historian’s examination and documentation of the genocide. As has Professor Finkelstein mentioned one Omer Shatz, an Israeli law professor, who has focused his research on the “distinct crime of incitement to genocide.” Many others have shown that, by their actions and words—Israeli society is genocidal to its rotting core.

As if verification is still needed. For heaven’s sake, listen and look—believe your lying eyes. Given the number of American Idolaters still claiming that conditions in Gaza belie what our “lying eyes” tell us—I continue to recommend a variation on Richard Pryor’s wry logic about he who has been caught in flagrante delicto. The reader must believe his eyes, not the lying Israelis and the mainstream media which will teach you obfuscation, and, more crucially, rob you of the ability to express and correlate reality with language. Believe the evidence in front of your eyes. The Israelis and their Israel First American enablers are, plainly put, lying.

Personally, in my sourcing, I’ve privileged Palestinians, whose lived experience this genocide is. I’ve found that Palestinians have done the best job of transmitting what Western journalism has buried. Palestinian journalists are paragons of virtue and courage. Owen Jones, while not an intellectual (for example, like many others, he fails to understand that “Genocide Is A Crime, Not A War Crime: Israel Is Waging Genocide, Not War”), is, nevertheless, a deeply devoted and feeling British podcaster. Please take the time to watch his tribute to twenty-three year old Journalist Hossam Shabat, murdered, the other day, by Satan. How does a parent live after losing a son such as Hossam Shabat, noble, kind, and brave? With difficulty.

Similarly, when I watch Bisan Owda’s videos from Gaza, I think, “If only I could protect this mere child, spoil her, spirit her away to safety.” What a beautiful and rare gem is Bisan. Kind, courageous, sweet, despite being forced to chronicle the genocide of her people at so young an age.  I’ve never heard a cruel, crude word from this young woman. Her parents must be so proud. G-d Damn IsraHel for threatening this soul, this treasure, and protect Bisan.

For that matter, never believe any Hebrew-English translation come to you via Israel (ask me, first). If Israelis are moving that grimacing cavity on their faces; they are lying. Here Genocider Israel Katz, a defense minister, broadcasts in real time his intent to commit the crime of all crimes. His is the sound of impunity, says Craig Mokhiber, another stellar thinker in law, international and natural.

Should you choose to follow the malfunctioning mainstream media—left & right—you will be years out-of-date with respect to facts and Truth, analytical and empirical.

Katz’ precise words:

“Residents of Gaza, this is the last warning. The 1st Sinwar destroyed Gaza. The second Sinwar will ruin her completely. The assault of the air force against the Hamas terrorists is just the first step. The rest will be many times harder, and you will pay the full price. Evacuations will soon start from areas of battle. If all the Israeli hostages are not released, and Hamas is not expelled from Gaza—Israel will act with the kind of force unfamiliar to you. Take the offer of the president of the US: return the hostages and expel ‘The Hamas’, and other options will then open before you, including migration to other places across the world, for whomever wishes it. The alternative is destruction and complete ruin.

“A child collects up the blood and flesh of his mother.”

https://twitter.com/drr_palestine/status/1903002446000959782

https://x.com/IlanaMercer/status/1903647647606718773

GAZA ESSAYS:

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

GAZA BLOG:

https://barelyablog.com/

UPDATE (3/27): QUIT CORPORATE MEDIA. You must quit the media system, which is heir to Julius Streicher. (He was founder of Der Stürmer, and a Hitler propagandist.) If you don’t, you will fall into error, lose touch with reality; speak with a forked tongue — and think as the abettors of genocide at CNN (or FoxNews, for that matter) do.

Your thinking will be infested with bogus concepts and constructs that do not reflect, but rape reality. Such as: both-sideism (there is no “other side” to genocide), conflict (this is no conflict; Israel wants to exterminate all Palestinians; Palestinians want to LIVE), war (genocide is not war, not legally, not morally), battles (there are no armies arrayed one against the other; Israelis have an Air Force, not a fighting force). And, as media report, “Palestinians were not killed [using the passive voice],” on any give day. Rather, than innocent Palestinians are being executed en masse by Israel. No reference is made to the power differential between genocider and genocided.

An example of mainstream-media propaganda via CNN:

The image of mass-casualty murder over which Gaza’s civilians pray stoically and spiritually is described by CNN as occurring “amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.”

This is the worst of agitprop. As was said above, and as I explained in “Genocide Is A Crime, Not A War Crime: Israel Is Waging Genocide, Not War” (September, 2024), “In Gaza, there are no armies arrayed one against the other. This is no war between equal, opposing warrior forces. There is no parity on the battle field, only, for the most, the bully-boy’s aerial blitzkrieg carried out against a trapped civilian population.”

Craig Mokhiber has underscored that the use of “conflict” nomenclature allows the culprits to leave out the concepts of criminal culpability and genocide.

A day in the life of this poor, poor people forced to live alongside Satan:

https://twitter.com/s_m_marandi/status/1904864530309541891

https://x.com/s_m_marandi/status/1904864530309541891

UPDATED (4/2): Victimizers as victims.

Israel has slapped a classification “over 20,000 Israeli Children … as victims of terror since Oct 7.” In the style of the Psychiatric Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) for manufacturing illness. The criteria for manufacturing illness under DSM or similar mental-illness manuals are hardly stringent.

In actual life, not according to a manual, tens of thousands of Palestinian children are actually dead, mutilated, permanently and mentally scarred, orphaned without a soul in the world. No psychiatric manual required.

UPDATED (4/6):

Satan can’t silence the deeply felt devotionals of the righteous. Righteous Palestine Red Crescent Society medic recites his last prayers, as SS IDF riddle the medical men with thousands of bullets.

“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 his last breath, which this young man took on March 23. “As he lay dying,” reports Soumaya Ghannoushi of Middle east Eye, “Rifaat Radwan recorded the slaughter of his colleagues, debunking the Israeli army’s version of events.” Habitual liars.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=lczq10K1iew

I do, incidentally, believe South Africa, where “anger grows over failure to prosecute nationals fighting for Israel,” will be the first country to successfully prosecute and jail the twisted creeps who travel to Israel to aid in its genocide. Activists, who “allege that authorities have deliberately dragged their feet over prosecutions of individuals believed to have taken part in the war,” are acting.

UPDATE VIII (3/13/025): Israel Breaks Ceasefire. BACK TO Fellating Bibi. Trump’s Gaza Ceasefire Proves That Biden Could’ve Easily Stopped Genocide

Argument, Donald Trump, Foreign Policy, GAZA, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Journalism, Judaism & Jews, Media, Middle East, Palestinians, Psychiatry, Sex, The Therapuetic State, War

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As Trump tells it, nobody quite knows  how or why Gaza became a ‘demolition site.’ …The other thing nobody can quite determine is which of the two countries, America or Israel, is the Great Satan and which is the Little Satan ~ilana

UPDATE VI (3/2/025): Israel is resuming its open killing sprees in Gaza (low-grade killing had continued throughout the “ceasefire”), and is halting the meager aid temporarily let into a starving Gaza.

The serial-killer state is hoping, with Trump’s backing, to wriggle out of the ceasefire agreement.

If past is prologue; this stage of Israel’s Genocide of the Palestinians will also be permitted by the co-belligerent in crime, America.

“Make no mistake; serial killer Israel ought to have been militarily resisted; its victims protected. You don’t placate a John Wayne Gacy and a Jeffrey Dahmer…You stop them.

In fact, in international humanitarian and customary human rights law there is what is called a ‘responsibility to protect’ a community that is being evicted and eradicated. Arguably, #resistance fighters are heeding this highest calling: The “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P).”

MORE: https://www.ilanamercer.com/2024/10/why-israel-occupied-levant-must-be-liberated-sos/

READ: “Why The Israel-Occupied Levant Must Be Liberated, S.O.S.“

“UPDATE IV (2/4/025): BACK TO Fellating Bibi.”

A continuum of evil. First, America, under Genocide Joe, participated in and facilitated the genocide of the Palestinians; now, under Donald Trump, the country is committing to cover up the Crime of all Crimes; remove the pitiful exhibits, and bail out the Demon State, Israel.

Who said crime doesn’t pay? When the Superpower inverts the moral order of the universe; the Crime of all Crimes pays—and then some.

The American president continues in the tradition of fellating Benjamin Netanyahu.

Trump, duly, promises to assume control over Gaza, rebuild it and evict the survivors of a genocide committed by his ostensible client state, Israel.

Not that you’d know it; and as Trump tells it, nobody quite grasps how or why Gaza became a “demolition site.” Somehow the soil is soaked through with the blood of Palestinians, and a toxic mix of 50-million tons of building debris. Somehow, piles of bodies decay beneath the surface. And garbage is piled as high as the bodies, were they to be stacked. Open sewage runs through what remains of the streets, and the byproducts and contaminants of munitions, such as unexploded ordnance, are everywhere.

Again: It’s all a big mystery.

But none of that matters: What counts is that America will be there to cover the crime scene for the love of Israel and remove the pitiful exhibits.

The other thing nobody can quite determine is which of the two countries is the Great Satan and which is the Little Satan.

UPDATE VI (2/16/025):

UPDATE V (2/13/025):

What a force of nature. What a little poet. May The Force be with this fiery, brave Palestinian child. She puts us all to shame.

Population transfer plotted in …1937. The document in Hebrew. I vouch for its contents.

I bet your American kids don’t endure a checkpoint and hours of bartering before being allowed back into their neighborhood.

January 15, 2025: The ceasefire.

It appears that Donald Trump, an Alpha Male, does not like a kept man, Bibi Netanyahu, to order him around. Fellating genocider Bibi Netanyahu as foreign policy is now over.

We hope.

In a nutshell, Steven Witkoff, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy, told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s aides, and I paraphrase: I don’t care that today’s your Sabbath [they seem to continue killing during the Sabbath]. Get your ass down here and sign this old ceasefire on the dotted line. “Old” because  Hamas has not changed its reasonable stipulations.

Via Ha’aretz:

[Bibi’s] aides politely explained that was in the middle of the Sabbath but that the prime minister would gladly meet him Saturday night.

Witkoff’s blunt reaction took them by surprise. He explained to them in salty English that Shabbat was of no interest to him. His message was loud and clear. Thus in an unusual departure from official practice, the prime minister showed up at his office for an official meeting with Witkoff, who then returned to Qatar to seal the deal.

Note that it was the bitch Bibi who had been allowed by Team Genocide, Biden and Blinken, to do as he pleased and reject the terms just agreed upon.

In fact, Witkoff has forced Israel to accept a plan that Netanyahu had repeatedly rejected over the past half year. Hamas has not budged from its position that the hostages’ freedom must be conditioned on the release of Palestinian prisoners (the easy part) and a complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza (the hard one). Netanyahu rejected this condition and thus was born the partial deal proposed by Egypt.

Initially, the talk was of a limited humanitarian deal. More and more conditions were slowly appended until it grew into a much bigger proposal with clear outlines – a hostage release, new regional arrangements and full withdrawal. The Philadelphi Corridor, which Netanyahu last summer termed the bedrock of Israel’s existence, is part of the deal. At Egypt’s request, Israel will fully withdraw from it in the first phase.

Trump ordering a ceasefire into being within in 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.

MORE.

UPDATE I (1/31/025): There is great evil in fudging language, in using euphemisms or just being too stupid to accurately distill the truth so as to accurately label events and situations:

The image below depicts IDF serial killers and psychopaths rummaging through the effects of those they killed or dispossession. This time in the West Bank.

This is invasion, looting and vandalism of private property, following on the murder or eviction of the rightful owners.

“Machismo” is how a writer at Ha’aretz labels the act of invading homes, looting, vandalism.

ANOTHER SUCH EXAMPLE:

UPDATE (3/4/2025):

Mentioned above is the evil of fudging language, or using soft, imprecise words, thereby mislabeling that which is brutal and criminal.

Example of such Fake News bafflegab comes via Ha’aretz (the only reasonable newspaper in Israel).

Ha’aretz turns the realities of IDF invasion, occupation and the violence of conquest into nothing but an “overbearing embrace”:

“Israel’s Overbearing Embrace Threatens Syria’s Druze at Critical Juncture”

On, bout those condoms to Ingaza, in Mozambique.

UPDATE II (1/23/025):

Trump starts to channel Jared Kushner.

If you recall, Kushner, the nepotistic scion of a dodgy New York realtor, and an empty husk of a man, had his eye on the waterfront property of a conquered and dying people.

READ. Scroll down to read what the vulgar Kushner said. It is in the essay, “ISRAEL: In Violation Of God’s Law, Natural Justice, The Laws Of War, And All Customary International Humanitarian Law,” Ilana Mercer, March 31, 2024

In essence, some of the world’s wealthiest men are coveting the property of the world’s poorest and most persecuted people.

Via Ha’aretz:

“I looked at a picture of Gaza, it’s like a massive demolition site. It’s really … it’s gotta be rebuilt in a different way. Gaza’s interesting, it’s a phenomenal location. On the sea, the best weather. Everything’s good. Some beautiful things can be done with it. It’s very interesting. Some fantastic things can be done with it.”

AND:

“It’s not our war, it’s their war. But I’m not confident. But I think they’re very weakened on the other side,” he said, adding he “can’t imagine” Hamas playing a role in post-war Gaza.

“You certainly can’t have the people that are there – most of them are dead. They didn’t exactly run it well,” Trump added. “They ran it viciously and badly. So you can’t have that.”

UPDATE III (1/24/025):  On the other hand, this is purity of soul:

UPDATE VIII (3/13/025):

Decadence and death = Israel.
A very Woke country, mind you.

Check out the Electronic Intifada report of filled condoms left by the IDF, in evicted and vandalized West Bank homes.

During “military” raids, the IDF is a male-only “fighting” force.

Leaving behind human waste is another IDF signature.

The screen-picture image of Purim, a children’s festival, comes via Ha’artez: Wholesome.

Women don’t partake in IDF so-called ‘combat’ raids, so the condoms in vandalized Palestinian homes, during the bacchanalia in the West Bank, are for what… ?

Oh yeah, Republicans. Oh yeah, conservatives. I give you your protégés.

The IDF equals moral filth and actual filth.

“Feces, urine and used condoms – these are just some of the things that Israeli soldiers left behind in #Palestinian homes during their 11-day assault on the al-Faraa refugee camp in the foothills of the Jordan Valley, south of Tubas in the northern occupied West Bank, last month.

As I wrote in ‘Why The Israel-Occupied Levant Must Be Liberated, S.O.S‘:

‘Israel’s soldier sons and daughters are the stars in the country’s #genocide constellation.’

Mental Maladies: Tucker And Mainstream Discover What Thomas Szasz Explained In 1960

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About the lack of empirical evidence for so-called organic nature of “mental disease,” Tucker Carlson said TODAY, , (well, almost) what this column wrote first in 2002 and countless times since, in titles archived under Psychiatry and The Therapeutic State category:

“Cruise And The Psychiatric Shamans,” (2005) “EVIL, NOT ILL” (4/2007), “Conservatives For Abolishing The Fact Of Evil (2015),” “School Shootings: A Moral-Health, Not Mental-Health, Problem” (2018).

Tucker discovers what we wrote in “Broken Brains?” (January 16, 2002):

“… Consider also that there is no credible, scientific, peer-reviewed evidence for the organic basis of aberrant behavior, and you grasp the chicanery that surrounds the claim that strange or bad conduct is caused by ‘chemical imbalances’ in the brain. …”

The more rigorous and honest clinicians will concede that drawing causal relationships between “mental illness” and “chemical imbalances” is impossible. That prescription medication often helps misbehaved or unhappy individuals is no proof that strange behavior is an organic disease. One can chemically castrate a pedophile. But does this demonstrate that molesting kids is an organic disease? Never. It proves only that chemical castration can at times reduce recidivism in people who have chosen to victimize children.

Clear analytical thinking is at the root of solid science, it precedes empiricism.

Roughly 75 percent of the value of “antidepressant” drugs is due to the placebo effect. And talk therapies—cognitive-behavioral therapy in particular—can have equal or better results. Veracity permits only that we limit our causal conclusions to saying that assorted treatment modalities sometimes help people with behavioral problems, nothing more.

MORE.

My mentor, the great Dr. Thomas Szasz, wrote and proved all this analytically in the Myth of Mental illness, 1961. His books I studied at university, back when thought was taught. Both Tom Szasz and I lauded Tom Cruise when the actor attacked psychiatry so very cogently.

See “Cruise And The Psychiatric Shamans” (2005):

The psychiatric peanut gallery has blasted actor Tom Cruise for insisting correctly that there’s more voodoo to the profession than veracity. Cruise’s instincts are good: “Psychiatrists don’t have a test that can prove that a so-called mental illness is actually organic in origin, I wrote. Rigorous clinician —members of the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology come to mind —concede that drawing causal connections between “mental illness” and “chemical imbalances” is impossible. That prescription medication often helps misbehaved or unhappy individuals is no proof that strange behavior is an organic disease —placebos or cognitive-behavioral therapy, for example, are as effective.

Tucker Carlson had summoned some limey, a quick-fix popularizer, to speak to these issues.

UPDATED (7/10): LinkedIn: Stanton Peele On ILANA And Addiction

Argument, Classical Liberalism, Drug War, Healthcare, Ilana Mercer, Intellectualism, The Therapuetic State

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Thank you, Stanton Peele, PhD., for an inspired LinkedIn review. We represent an era of intellectuals in which left and right had so much in common, Stanton being a 1960s liberal; myself a 19th Century classical liberal.

“Ilana Mercer is the most independent thinker of the 21st century — she was that in the 20th. She saw a path that we didn’t follow away from myths of mental illness and incorrigible international conflict. But we have instead followed the roads she eschewed while she, the Cheshire Cat watched grimacing and catcalling our missteps. Need I say we require her insights more than ever?”~ STANTON PEELE, PhD., J.D., best-selling author, addiction expert (review on LinkedIn)

Dr. Peele is the only theorist and clinician I’ve ever respected on the vexing matter of addiction–now a thriving industry with poor outcomes, increasingly, if reflexively, vested in maintaining dysfunction.

I recognized Stanton for the outstanding thinker he is when I read and wrote about his seminal and best work, “Diseasing of America: How We Allowed Recovery Zealots and the Treatment Industry to Convince Us We Are Out of Control .”

Calgary Herald readers were irate, at the time. The same readers (whom I loved) were as annoyed when I wrote about ADHD, in 1999. Boy, are people vested in a  medical diagnosis for legitimizing and authenticating all aspects of The Self. I continue to hold Dr. Peele as the best thinker on the subject. Like myself, he has mentored (knowingly and unknowingly) followers who have adopted his thinking.

Some mentions are here:

“Addictions Are About Behavior, Not Disease” (June 22, 2000)

“Medical Mumbo Jumbo Does Not Explain Addiction” (June 29, 2000)

“Charlie Sheen’s Out of the AA ‘Troll Hole’” (March 4, 2011)

“Addicted To The Drug War” is a wide-ranging libertarian think piece written originally for the Mises Institute in 2001. A section, “ADDICTION: VICE OR DISEASE?” is inspired by Stanton Peele’s work.

MORE on the drug war.

MORE on the Therapeutic State and Industry (almost indistinguishable).

UPDATE (7/10): In reply to the Comment:  I do not know any thinker, other than those who followed the pioneers I’m citing here, who questioned philosophical fundamentals of mental disease and addiction, as Dr. Peele does and as my sweet, kind friend, the genius Thomas Szasz (RIP) did in his monumental works. (R.D Laing was a loon):

https://www.ilanamercer.com/2012/09/im-sad-not-libya-israel-9-11/

I’ve not looking for exposes; I’m looking for analytical truth to bolster the empirical. That’s my method; it’s theirs. Dr. Szasz was the pioneering genius. His books were prescribed at my South African alma mater. Now it has reverted to the anti-intellectual American drek, namely that of diseasing all aspects of behavior.

“Broken Brains” (2002)