Israel Has a Submarine That Could Destroy Entire Nations (Armed with Nuclear Weapons)
Onder de kop 'Neither Israel's nor Germany's Slide Into Fascism Was Accidental' kon de lezer van de Israelische kwaliteitskrant Haaretz het volgende vernemen:
The Zionist attempt to create a secular-national movement based on Jewish identity could not help but have a religious messianic component. From there it was inevitable that it would turn racist
By Yoav Rinon Jun 06, 2019
Naar aanleiding van het bevel van twee bestuursleden van Een Ander Joods Geluid om mijn mond te houden over zionisten, schreef mijn vriend Ton Lankreijer:
De reacties lijken je toelichting over tribalisme dik te onderstrepen.
Ik kan me althans niet heugen dat bij je vele, vele voorgaande beschouwingen van andermans ‘journalistiek’ werk meerdere geïrriteerde ‘lezers' zich geroepen voelden te reageren — jou te manen bijna — en dan ook nog zo fijn gearticuleerd.
Mijn reactie is deze:
Beste Ton,
Net als in het Westen de democratie is verdwenen, zo is er ook geen sprake meer van een serieuze dialoog. Wat hier nog rest is slechts kitsch. In verband daarmee schreef de oud-correspondent van The New York Times, Chris Hedges:
The old rules of politics no longer apply. The only language understood by Donald Trump and his coterie of con artists, billionaires, generals, misfits and Christian fascists — and a Democratic Party that has sold us out — is fear. Calling out Trump’s lies and racism does not matter. Calling out his nepotism and corruption does not matter. Calling out the criminality of his administration does not matter. Calling out its incompetence and idiocy does not matter. Calling out the abject subservience of the ruling elites to corporate power does not matter. Trump and his Democratic Party opponents are immune to moral suasion. The more we engage in this empty kabuki theater with its predictable outlandish outbursts, usually from Trump, and predictable outraged responses, usually from Democrats, the more certain are government paralysis and corporate tyranny. The drivel and invective that passes for political discourse is a giant hamster wheel that goes nowhere. It masks the root causes of our political and economic decline and fractures the population into warring camps that increasingly communicate through violence, which is why the United States has suffered mass shootings with three or more fatalities more than 30 times this year.
We will save ourselves only by pitting power against power. And since our two major political parties slavishly serve corporate power, and have few substantial differences on nearly all major issues from imperialism to unfettered capitalism, we must start from scratch. The political personalities, including those on the left such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, Ilhan Omar and Elizabeth Warren, are distractions. They have no power within the Democratic Party, as Nancy Pelosi often reminds us. They serve to reduce politics to personal feuds, the currency of the vast reality show perpetrated for profit by corporate media. The daily back and forth by these personalities diverts our attention from the rapid consolidation of wealth and power by the ruling elites, the degradation of the ecosystem into a toxic wasteland and the eradication of basic freedoms and rights. The American political system is not salvageable. It will be overthrown in a mass uprising — a version of which we saw recently in Puerto Rico — or vast swaths of the globe will become uninhabitable and the rich will feed like ghouls off the mounting human misery. These are the two stark options. And we have very little time left.
Juist omdat er nog maar ‘héél weinig tijd’ rest, moeten de ware bedreigingen van de mensheid zonder omwegen benoemd worden, evenals het cynisme en conformisme, de begeerte en oorlogszuchtigheid. ‘De oude regels van de politiek zijn’ inderdaad ‘niet langer meer toepasbaar.’ Al in de negentiende eeuw wees Gustave Flaubert er met klem op dat ondanks de vooruitgang de dwaasheid niet zou wijken, een feit dat volgens Milan Kundera ‘de grootste ontdekking was van een eeuw die zo trots was op haar wetenschappelijke rede.’ Immers,
de dwaasheid vervaagt niet ten overstaan van de wetenschap, de techniek, de vooruitgang of het moderne, integendeel, met de vooruitgang gaat ook zij vooruit!
In de woorden van Kundera betekent de ‘moderne dwaasheid niet de onwetendheid, maar de gedachteloosheid van pasklare ideeën,’ waardoor de flaubertiaanse ontdekking voor de toekomst van de wereld belangrijker [is] dan de meest schokkende gedachten van Marx of Freud…
Zo'n tachtig jaar nadat Flaubert zijn Emma Bovary bedacht had, in de jaren dertig van de vorige eeuw (negentiende eeuw. svh), zal een ander groot romancier, Hermann Broch, spreken over de heroïsche inspanningen van de moderne roman die zich verzet tegen de golf van kitsch, maar er tenslotte door gevloerd zal worden. Het woord kitsch verwijst naar de houding van degene die tot elke prijs zoveel mogelijk mensen wil behagen. Om te behagen dien je je te conformeren aan wat iedereen wenst te horen, in dienst te staan van de pasklare ideeën, in de taal van de schoonheid en de emotie. Hij beweegt ons tot tranen van zelfvertedering over de banaliteiten die wij denken en voelen. Na meer dan vijftig jaar wordt de kernspreuk van Broch nu alleen nog maar meer waar. Op grond van de dwingende noodzaak te behagen en zo de aandacht van het grootst mogelijke publiek te trekken, is de esthetiek van de massamedia onvermijdelijk die van de kitsch en naarmate de massamedia ons gehele leven meer omsluiten en infiltreren, wordt de kitsch onze dagelijkse esthetiek en moraal.
Kitsch kent ontelbare gezichten en duikt op de meest onverwachte momenten en plaatsen op. Omdat nagenoeg niets meer in zijn eigen taal met ons spreekt, maar elke dag weer vervormd tot ons komt via de massamedia, wordt de postmoderne mens voortdurend meegetroond langs een oneindige Potemkin-façade. De meesten van ons zijn niet meer dan T.S. Eliot’s:
hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralyzed force, gesture without motion;
Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other kingdom
Remember us - if at all - not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.
Niet de halve waarheid in de hoop dat anderen zullen bijdraaien, zal ons redden. De tijd is voorbij dat we als een kat om de hete brij heen kunnen blijven draaien, het is de hoogste tijd om het beestje bij de naam te noemen. Zoals de joods-Amerikaanse intellectueel Normen Finkelstein — zoon van ouders die de holocaust overleefden — al in 2000 omstandig aantoonde, bestaat er een ‘Holocaust Industry,’ waarbij het joodse lijden door politieke gangsters voor eigen gewin wordt uitgebuit. Voorbij is de tijd dat het vertellen van deze waarheid leidt tot het succesvol monddood maken van burgers die de misdadige zionistische politiek in Israel bekritiseren. Al in 2003 bleek uit opinie-onderzoek dat, ondanks alle zionistische propaganda, voor de meerderheid van EU-burgers ‘Israël’ het ‘grootste gevaar’ vormde voor de ‘wereldvrede.’ Voorbij is ook het respect voor joden in het Westen die kritiekloos hun steun kunnen verlenen aan de Israelische terreur tegen Palestijnse burgers.
GAZA
Er bestaat geen acceptabel excuus voor het zionistisch fascisme, en een ieder die om wat voor reden dan ook het Israelisch terrorisme aanvaardt, is medeschuldig aan het in stand houden van het Joods fascisme. De zelfbenoemde ‘Joodse staat’ is te lang als huurling gebruikt om de almaar expanderende belangen van de westerse elite te beschermen. Overal waar Joodse huurlingen uit Israel betrokken zijn bij geweld tegen de burgerbevolking heerst fascisme. Overal waar zij verschijnen breekt de chaos uit. Joodse huurlingen zijn, zoals Hanna Arendt al meer dan zeven decennia geleden, benadrukte, net als de ‘shtadlones,’ de rijke hofjoden die de belasting inden voor gehate Europese vorsten en hen geld leenden om steeds nieuwe oorlogen te financieren. De zionistische ‘hofjoden’ zijn in dienst van wat de krant van de voormalige communistische hoofdredacteur van De Waarheid, de joodse antiekhandelaar Constant Vecht, ooit ‘het grootkapitaal’ noemde. In 2003 berichtte Al Jazeera onder de kop ‘Israel's Latin American trail of terror’ het volgende:
Castao, who leads the Colombian paramilitaries, known by their Spanish acronym AUC, the largest right-wing paramilitary force to ever exist in the western hemisphere reveals that he was trained in the arts of war in Israel as a young man of 18 in the 1980s.
He glowingly adds: ‘I copied the concept of paramilitary forces from the Israelis,’ in his chapter-long account of his Israel experiences.
Castao’s right-wing Phalange-like AUC force is now by far the worst human rights violator in all of the Americas, and ties between that organisation and Israel are continually surfacing in the press.
Latijns-Amerikaanse 'Death Squads,' getraind door Israel.
Outside the law
The AUC paramilitaries are a fighting force that originally grew out of killers hired to protect drug-running operations and large landowners. They were organized into a cohesive force by Castao in 1997. It exists outside the law but often coordinates its actions with the Colombian military, in a way similar to the relationship of the Lebanese Phalange to the Israeli army throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
According to a 1989 Colombian Secret Police intelligence report, apart from training Carlos Castao in 1983, Israeli trainers arrived in Colombia in 1987 to train him and other paramilitaries who would later make up the AUC.
Fifty of the paramilitaries’ ‘best’ students were then sent on scholarships to Israel for further training according to a Colombian police intelligence report, and the AUC became the most prominent paramilitary force in the hemisphere, with some 10,000-12,000 men in arms.
The Colombian AUC paramilitaries are always in need of arms, and it should come as no surprise that some of their major suppliers are Israeli. Israeli arms dealers have long had a presence in next-door Panama and especially in Guatemala.
In May of last year, GIRSA, an Israeli company associated with the Israeli Defence Forces and based in Guatemala was able to buy 3000 Kalashnikov assault rifles and 2.5 million rounds of ammunition that were then handed over to AUC paramilitaries in Colombia.
Links with the continent
Israel’s military relations with right-wing groups and regimes spans Latin America from Mexico to the southernmost tip of Chile, starting just a few years after the Israeli state came into existence.
Since then, the list of countries Israel has supplied, trained and advised includes Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela.
But it isn’t only the sales of planes, guns and weapons system deals that characterizes the Israeli presence in Latin America.
Where Israel has excelled is in advising, training and running intelligence and counter-insurgency operations in the Latin American ‘dirty war’ civil conflicts of Argentina, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and now Colombia.
In the case of the Salvadoran conflict - a civil war between the right-wing landowning class supported by a particularly violent military pitted against left-wing popular organisations — the Israelis were present from the beginning. Besides arms sales, they helped train ANSESAL, the secret police who were later to form the framework of the infamous death squads that would kill tens of thousands of mostly civilian activists.
Eén van de talloze massagraven van door Israel getrainde 'doodseskaders.'
From 1975 to 1979, 83% of El Salvador's military imports came from Israel, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. By 1981, many of those in the civilian popular political movements who had survived the death squads headed for the hills to become guerrillas.
By 1981 there was an open civil war in El Salvador which took over a decade to resolve through negotiations.
Even though the US was openly backing the Salvadoran Army by 1981, as late as November 1983 it was asking for more Israeli “practical assistance” there, according to a declassified secret document obtained recently by Aljazeera.
Among the assistance asked for were helicopters, trucks, rifles, ammunition, and combat infantry advisors to work at both the ‘company and battalion level of the Salvadoran Army.’
One notable Salvadoran officer trained by the Israelis was Major Roberto D’Aubuisson, who always held a high opinion of the Israelis. It was Major D’Aubuisson who ordered the assassination of El Salvador’s archbishop amongst thousands of other murders.
Later he would organise the right-wing National Republican Alliance Party (ARENA) and send his son to study abroad in the relative safety of Israel.
Dirty war
Amazingly, while the Israelis were training the El Salvadoran death squads they were also supporting the anti-semitic Argentine military government of the late 1970s and early 1980s — at a time when that government was involved in another ‘dirty war’ of death squads and disappearances.
In 1978, Nicaragua’s dictator Somoza was making his last stand against a general uprising of the Sandinista-led population who were sick of his family’s dynasty which had ruled and monopolized the county for half a century. The Israelis and the US had been supplying Somoza with weapons for years. But when President Jimmy Carter came into office in 1976 he ordered a cessation of all US military assistance to Nicaragua.
Filling the void, the Israelis immediately increased their weapons supplies to Somoza until he fled the country when the Sandinistas took power.
Israeli operatives then helped train right-wing Nicaraguan Contras in Honduran and Costa Rican camps to fight the Sandinista government, according to Colombian police intelligence reports Aljazeera has obtained.
At least some of the same Israeli operatives had also previously trained the nucleus of the paramilitary organizations that would become the AUC in Colombia.
But by far the bloodiest case of Israeli involvement in Latin America was its involvement in Guatemala from the 1970s to the 1990s. As in El Salvador, a civil war pitted a populist but, in this case, mainly Indian left against a mainly European oligarchy protected by a brutal Mestizo Army.
As Guatemalan President Carlos Arana said in 1971, ‘If it is necessary to turn the country into a cemetery in order to pacify it, I will not hesitate to do so.’
Dat kritiek op het Israelisch fascisme ‘antisemitisme’ zou zijn, zegt meer over het gebrek aan moraal van joodse zionisten dan over de critici die fascisme afwijzen.
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Stan. In mijn herinnering is het onderzoek waarbij veel mensen "Israel het grootste gevaar voor de wereldvrede" noemen een Nederlands onderzoek. Jij meldt: Europees, 2003. Ik ben niet handig in internet-zoeken. Weet jij een plek met meer info over dit onderzoek?
https://www.dw.com/en/eu-poll-names-israel-greatest-threat-to-world-peace/a-1022127
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