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THE BIBLE has great significance to religiously-minded conservative Americans.
Ben Shapiro, a stupid and sickening influencer, once referred to the Hebrew Bible as the Torah. It’s Tanach, dummy.
The Tanach has three sections: Torah, Nevi’im, Ketuvim, for a total of about 37 books.
To me, the Hebrew Tanach is a great literary work. I know it in the Hebrew, through secular study as a school girl. It’s a literary accomplishment that sports a lot of shit-hot writing.
A story worth considering is Sodom and Gomorrah, and, in particular, how The Almighty approached Sodom and Gomorrah, the Sin City of antiquity.
The all-knowing Almighty possessed full-knowledge of the evidence for Sodom and Gomorrah’s utter debauchery and murderous decadence.
In front of Him, The Almighty had the totality of the crimes. The cumulative evidence was spread before him.
What did He do?
Did He dispatch a group of wise men to further “investigate” the Sodom and Gomorrah Sin City, a place where crime was law?
Did He solicit the perspective and opinion of the City’s top criminals about their crimes?
No. He had in evidence His infinite knowledge, much like an AI archive.
In other words, did the Almighty do what the complicit, narrative-shaping, collaborator, Western corporate media do, at this stage of Israel’s crime spree?
Of course not.
Take UK’s Channel 4 collaborators, and all western media, for that matter.
“Oh, Almighty Israel, give us your side of The Story,” these media persist in pleading with the Serial-Killer State.
“Give us your take on your latest mass butchery, thievery, looting, and raping. We’re listening, Oh Almighty Israel.”
What is wrong with the Sodom and Gomorrah media!
Even “Democracy Now!”, decent dissident journalists, even they insult reality, this way. Still! They reported, on April the 23rd, that Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil “was killed by an Israeli strike.”
WTF. And what dross!
Like hundreds of Gaza’s journalists before her, Amal Khalil was first targeted by the serial-killer thugs. Next, she was threatened by the serial-killers, who warned her that her head would be separated from her body, if she didn’t quit reporting on their crimes.
Finally, Ms. Khalil was martyred in a triple-tap hit:
Double-tap or triple tap attacks are all terms from the genocidal entity’s lexicon of crime and cowardice:
First, they hit the target, almost always civilian, a journalist in this instance. They follow up with a strike on survivors and rescuers. For good measure, they repeat the “feat.”
The biblical Sodom and Gomorrah was a city whose crimes, the least of which were carnal, did not come close to those of the modern Serial-Killer State.
By bringing up the Sin City of antiquity analogy, you have not heard me advocate that The Almighty’s solution to Sodom and Gomorrah be applied to the modern-day Serial-Killer State.
What you hear me point out, rather, are three things: ….
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May 5, 2026: UpScrolled is way worthier than the cesspool of censorship created by house-trained billionaire Israelite Elon Musk, or the overlord of Facefuck (who once banned my high-brow site’s hyperlinks for close on a decade).
Small, but meaningful, UpScrolledis a welcoming environment—no shadow-banning, no throttling, no cutting back on the few Followers pro-#Resistance intellectuals and activists manage to muster on X.
And, no hashtags that go nowhere but are funneled into the equivalent of a digital leper colony.
For older folks like me, who do not like using their mobile phones for anything more than personal contacts—you can use UpScrolled on your desktop with the aid of an Android emulator.
Join good people and me:
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From X:
The US merely ‘boards’ them. This is how consent is manufactured in real time”:
https://x.com/AlanRMacLeod/status/2048733536954593418
The perpetrators-did this many thousand times over:
https://x.com/Abu_Salah9/status/2048931324652646426
UPDATE (5/14): As I pointed out in “Trump Goes Amalek on Iran: Israelization of The US Military; Gazafication of Iran & Lebanon” in March, the Gazafication of Lebanon is underway.
The South is being ethnically cleansed of the brave resisting population, predominantly Shia. And the media stands by. By now you will easily believe it, but there is but one foreign correspondent documenting genocide in Southern Lebanon.
More than 56,264 hectares of agricultural land have already been affected across approximately 285 towns in the south, Bekaa and Baalbek-Hermel regions, representing nearly 22.5% of Lebanon’s total agricultural areas … According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), during the November 2025 to the March 2026 period, around 874,000 people in Lebanon – or 17% of the analysed population – were already facing “Crisis” or “Emergency” levels of acute food insecurity. The report now estimates that 1.24 million people are expected to face acute food insecurity between April and August this year.
Lebanon is now classified under IPC Phase 3, or “Crisis” – meaning many families can no longer consistently afford basic food and are being forced to skip meals, cut portions or take on debt.
… For decades, Lebanon focused more on banking, trade and tourism than building domestic food production. But the country still relies heavily on the Bekaa Valley and southern Lebanon for local food production, including wheat, potatoes, leafy vegetables, olives and fruits. The Bekaa Valley alone supports around 42% of Lebanon’s agricultural production.
…with 95% of [banana growth] affected, citrus orchards at 97%, olive groves at 91%, in addition to major damages to fruit trees, protected agriculture and smallholder farming systems.
The livestock and fisheries sectors have also suffered major losses. The ministry estimates that around 1.8 million cows, goats, sheep, poultry and other animals have died, alongside the destruction of 29,121 beehives and losses exceeding 2,030 tons of fish production.
…According to the ministry’s Rapid Needs Assessment, 23,611 farmers have already registered damages. In southern Lebanon, 77.9% of farmers have been displaced, while only 22.1% remain in their towns.
…’Production across the entire zone, from livestock to beekeeping, has come to a halt in the zone south of the Litani, even north of it,’ he says. ‘Farmers cannot reach their lands due to the constant threat.”
(https://www.wired.me/story/israeli-attacks-are-breaking-lebanons-ability-to-feed-itself)
Re: Bifurcation.
“Is Zionism not, to some extent, an excrescence of Judaism?”
The answer to these kinds of questions can only be in the Bible. Why? Because it claims to be His words, and He created Israel and Judaism. If we put the Bible aside, then the conversation is useless.
Zionism is not a Biblical teaching. Land was promised to Abraham and his seed, Isaac and on. Israel was to move in on what God gave them and take it. That’s not “Zionism.” There’s no “Zionism” in Genesis through Joshua. He gave them the land. That’s it. And it was to that nation only. And really, there should be no more questions.
And the big, big question is: WHY? Because everybody else chose to go their own way. That’s why. Simple as that. “Keep it simple.” Men did not want God, so He let them go, and they chose to follow the Adversary:
Romans 1:28 “…they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind…”
No one had any excuse. EVERYONE had known God:
Romans 1:21 “…when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful…”
That pertained to the world before Genesis 12.
So, the purpose of God in making Israel was to show the world and the Adversary what a nation under the Creator looks like. That’s it.
“Biblical Chosenness is certainly a facet of Judaism.”
No, it’s not. Not in the Bible. God chose Israel, first, but it’s not because of Judaism.
Perhaps we can say Judaism came from being chosen.
Deuteronomy 7:7-8 “The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers…”
Again, their being chosen is the reason stated above, “to show the world.” Judaism came about for at least these two reasons:
For God to make them stand out to the world, different and peculiar:
Deuteronomy 14:2 “For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.”
And, because Israel opted for the Law (EX. 19).
“…Chosenness…Does it relate not at all to the Jewish supremacy that animates Jewish-Israeli expression and express action?”
Perhaps so.
It’s not about their supremacy; they’re not superior. They’re not special, but God made them special, and that’s the key difference. He is going to make them the head and not the tail, and the Gentiles are going to be subject to the Jew. It was His call.
WHY? Because men chose to go their own way (Rom. 1). So God will show the world what a nation is like whose God is God, and also, this is very important, God will use Israel to repossess the earth from the Adversary. No one wanted to be a part of that, so God made Himself a nation who will carry out that needful function.
“For what—pray tell?—are foundational, early teachings like Deuteronomy 14:2, if not a declaration of Jewish superiority for posterity?”
“For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.”
Posterity may have made it that way, but that is not what is going on there in Deuteronomy 14. Israel then was not holy in and of themselves. God was/is going to make them holy. He is going to accomplish that for them. That was one of the mandates of their Redeemer.
I mean, take Balaam for example. Consider again what Balaam told Balak. It’s astounding:
Numbers 23:21 “He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.”
Yet there was iniquity in Jacob! There was perverseness in Israel! But “I Am” Himself was going to make Israel right. The Redeemer. Perhaps no one, including Moses, did not understand how God could say such a thing, but He knew.
“Alongside all the commentators and broadcasters who insist on upholding the division between Judaism and Zionism…”
Bible wise, there is no such thing as Zionism. Judaism, yes, but again, that came a whole lot later, for the purposes of making them a peculiar people to stand out to the Adversary following world, and because Israel opted for the Law contract (EX 19).
“In speaking truth to power, Jesus followed in the footsteps of the classical prophets.”
No. This is why He came:
Romans 15:8 “Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:”
“…a faith is more than a doctrine;”
A faith? Bible faith is not more than a doctrine. Faith is based on doctrine:
“Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God.”
“I want to believe in the strict bifurcation of Judaism and Zionism…”
Such a statement may have application in the secular among the political, but it’s nonsense as far as what’s going on in the Bible (God’s word).
God made a nation. He gave them land. They’re going to get it. Those are the facts. It’s not Zionism. Judaism doesn’t have anything to do with the land God gave to Israel. God instituted Judaism primarily because Israel opted for the Law contract.
“All the same, from Jews, liberals for the most, I’ve always heard the Chosen People storyline.”
I almost can’t believe the words I’ve been reading. Israel was chosen, but no, not because they were superior.
Joyce Carol Oats quip was good, but it’s the same with philosophers and the majority of Christendom. The president and whoever else was there crying out 2 Chronicles 7:14, don’t know what’s going on. The majority of Christendom doesn’t have a clue.
But, let me tell you, Ilana, who did know what’s going on in the Bible, and it was a New Testament Jesus rejecting Jewish rabbi of all people:
“We regard Jesus as one of the greatest of our Rabbis,…And he added, ‘It was not he that founded Christianity, but your PAUL.'” From, “Forgotten Truths,” by Sir Robert Anderson.
That man was pretty much spot on. I might tweak what the Rabbi said, this way: the Lord Jesus Christ, Israel’s Messiah, began something new with Paul (Christianity).
Before that, Christ’s earthly ministry AND early Acts, was God’s program with Israel. The “middle wall of partition” was still up separating the Jews from the “dogs” (Gentiles).
The problem, Ilana, as far as why Israel did not see all her promises get fulfilled, such as getting their land, is because the God of Israel unexpectedly interrupted His program with them. It’s a temporary interruption. But He is going to resume His program with them, and they are going to get that land and then some. And they will be the head and not the tail, and the Gentiles are going to be compelled to get in line with that.
I am not a “Zionist.” But, if Israel legally became a nation in 1948, I don’t see what the problem with that was. Was it of God? No, I don’t think so. He’s going to, after this dispensation of grace concludes, gather all the Jews Himself and put them Himself into the land He gave them. Whether He “uses” the current configuration, time will tell.
Sincerely.
Sorry for not yet posting on the blog the essay you refer to. It is:
https://www.unz.com/imercer/the-judaism-zionism-bifurcation-chosenness-part-1/
You can cross-post your comment at Unz Review for more interaction with readers.
I shall get a corresponding blog post up shortly.