The Wall in the Gaza Strip, Palestine

Israel and Zionism

The false media narrative:

The mainstream media contend that Israel is an inclusive democracy, a stabilizing U.S. influence in the middle east, and a force for good in the world.

The reality:

• Israel is an apartheid state that oppresses, terrorizes and kills Palestinians.
• Israel has for 50 years illegally occupied Palestinian lands in the west bank and Gaza.
• Israel endorses collective punishment against the Palestinian people.
• Israel is a rogue nuclear power that threatens world peace and stability.
• Israel's supporters in the United States fund both Democrat and Republican political campaigns.

In 2020 the ten largest donors to the Democrats and the eight largest donors to the Republicans were Jewish billionaires.¹

• a significant number of American and European politicians hold Israeli citizenship and display greater loyalty to Israel than to their own countries.
• the American-Israeli political action committee (AIPAC) is the most powerful lobby in Washington.
• the anti-defamation league (ADL) is a Jewish-Zionist lobby that harasses and defames politicians, academics, authors and activists who don't toe the Israeli line.
• Israeli supporters dominate the mainstream U.S. and European media, including Hollywood, and control the media narrative.
• Israel's Zionist supporters essentially control United States and European politicians through funding political campaigns and media hegemony.
• Israel's intelligence service - the Mossad - has conducted targeted assassinations of dissidents around the world for decades.
• Israel has attacked and destabilized states in the middle east which it deems potential threats.
• Israel has for decades allied itself with brutal authoritarian governments in Africa and Latin America.
• Israel has sold surveillance equipment and weapons to brutal authoritarian governments in Asia, Africa and Latin America, and has trained military and paramilitary forces in dictatorships around the world.
• anyone in the United States and Europe who criticizes the illegal and immoral actions of Israel in Palestine and around the world, is considered by the mainstream media to be anti-Jewish, anti-semitic and a Jew-hater, and supporters of the Israel bds (boycott, divestment, sanction) movement to be terrorists.

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• "The major news outlets are controlled. Reporters understand the rules perfectly. You do not ever, criticize Israel." -Fred Reed, 2014
• "Any truth about Israel/Palestine or, more generally, the middle east is not going to come from the mainstream media. those of us who know this should rather stop beating our heads against a brick wall, asking why they don't tell the truth. that's not what they're there for." -John Pilger
• "We have this powerful Israeli lobby, and the people who finance them are a very wealthy, highly influential group of people who happen to be Jewish. We effectively have an elite few who can dictate our foreign policy. it's a foreign policy that's trying to advance the interests of another country - Israel. These people do not care how many American kids get butchered in iraq. this is of absolutely no concern to them. they are fully ready to get us into a war against Iran, against Syria. they know that American kids will be cannon fodder, and their kids won't be." -Michael Collins Piper
• "We the Jewish people control America and the Americans know it." -Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to Shimon Peres, October 2001
• "A controversial bill that officially defines Israel as the "nation-state of the Jewish people" was approved by the Israeli cabinet. Finally Israel has acknowledged its true Jewish nature. instead of pretending to be a 'Jewish democracy" - a contradiction in terms, the Jewish state admits that it is a theocracy guided by Jewish racial supremacist ideology. The bill, which is intended to become part of Israel's basic laws, recognizes Israel's Jewish character, institutionalizes Jewish law as an inspiration for legislation and delists Arabic as an official second language. as if until now Arabic had been equal to Hebrew. According to some Israeli critics, the new Israeli bill would weaken the wording of Israel's declaration of independence, which states that the new state would "be based on the principles of liberty, justice and freedom expressed by the prophets of Israel [and] affirm complete social and political equality for all its citizens, regardless of religion, race or gender." Israel has always been the Jewish state, it has never been a liberal place nor has it been committed to justice or equality. the deepest truth is that universal humanism and ethical culture is foreign to Judaic thinking that is tribal and legalistic." -Gilad Atzmon, 2014
• "The dissolution of Syria and Iraq into ethnically or religiously unique areas is Israel's primary target on the eastern front. its dissolution is even more important for us than that of Syria. Iraq is stronger than Syria. in the short run, it is Iraqi power which constitutes the greatest threat to Israel." -Oded Yinon, an Israeli journalist, in an 1982 article for a publication of the world Zionist organization in which he outlined Israel's strategy in the middle east
• "In the world of neocon propaganda, Iran - a treaty signatory that has no nuclear weapons and insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes - must be endlessly badgered, but Israel - an undeclared rogue nuclear state with a vast arsenal - must be shielded from similar criticism and pressure." Robert Parry, 2010
• "Israel's goal in the middle east has been to gin up as much conflict and chaos as possible, keeping its Islamic enemies divided, making it impossible for any credible challenge to arise among its Arab neighbors, and aiming the main blow at Tehran, while paying lip service to the awfulness of ISIS and al-Qaeda. their quarrel isn't really with the Arabs, anyway, it's with the Persians, whom they fear and loathe, and whose destruction has been their number one objective since the days of Ariel Sharon." -Justin Raimondo, 2014
• "Israel is the fifth largest exporter of arms in the world, up from its seventh place ranking in 1980. Israel remains the largest supplier of arms to sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America." -Clarence Lusane
• "We must blow Gaza back to the middle ages destroying all the infrastructure including roads and water." -Israeli deputy prime minister Eli Yishai, 2012
• "We need to flatten entire neighborhoods in Gaza. flatten all of Gaza. the Americans didn't stop with Hiroshima -the Japanese weren't surrendering fast enough, so they hit Nagasaki, too. there should be no electricity in Gaza, no gasoline or moving vehicles, nothing. then they'd really call for a ceasefire." -Gilad Sharon, son of the former Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, Jerusalem post
• "Israel controls the U.S. Senate. the great majority of the Senate of the U.S. - somewhere around 80% - is completely in support of Israel; anything Israel wants; Israel gets. this has been demonstrated time and again, and this has made foreign policy difficult for our government." -Senator J. William Fulbright told CBS face the nation on April 15, 1973
• "The real reason why American politicians are so deferential to Israel is the political power of the Israel lobby. The lobby is a loose coalition of individuals and organizations that actively works to move U.S. foreign policy in a pro-Israel direction... in its basic operations, the Israel lobby is no different from interest groups like the farm lobby, steel and textile workers, and a host of ethnic lobbies, although the groups and individuals who comprise the Israel lobby are in an unusually favorable position to influence U.S. foreign policy. What sets it apart, in short, is its extraordinary effectiveness." -John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, 2007
• "The anti-defamation league (ADL) is a thought police. It is designed to prevent anyone from saying anything critical about the state of Israel, unless it's approved by the ADL in advance. anyone who even dares to mention the fact that the Israelis have immense power in this country is considered anti-semitic. So that's what the ADL is. It is a thought police." -Michael Collins Piper
• "By what means has America (and the entire west) been brought to the state that no public man aspires to office, or editor feels secure at his desk, until he has brought out his prayer-mat and prostrated himself to Zion?... the power of money and the prospect of votes have demonstrably been potent lures, but in my judgment by far the strongest weapon is this power to control published information;... and so to be able to give any selected person a "good" or a "bad" press." -Douglas Reed in his book "the controversy of Zion" - published in the 1950s
• "In Israel, there are the working people and the Jews the administrators, inspectors, officials, and police - mainly secret police. A state ruling a hostile population of 1.5 to 2 million foreigners would necessarily become a secret-police state, with all that this implies for education, free speech and democratic institutions. the corruption characteristic of every colonial regime would also prevail in the state of Israel. The administration would suppress Arab insurgency on the one hand and acquire Arab quislings on the other. There is also good reason to fear that the Israel defense forces, which has been until now a people's army, would, as a result of being transformed into an army of occupation, degenerate, and its commanders, who have become military governors, resemble their colleagues in other nations." -Israeli author Yeshayahu Leibowitz
• "Israel sits atop a coalition from hell which is carrying out a Machiavellian divide and rule stratagem to weaken the remaining impediments to unbridled Israeli hegemony in the middle east. The ultimate goal is to overthrow the Syrian and Iranian governments and to neutralize their militaries." -Brandon Martinez
• "Benjamin Netanyahu is an obnoxious, racist, Jewish supremacist. And on all of those descriptives: obnoxious, racist, Jewish supremacist, he's wholly representative of the Israeli population. and the reason they keep reelecting him despite the scandals is because when they look at Benjamin Netanyahu, most of the Israeli population see themselves. And they vote for him because in his mental outlook, contempt for Arabs, contempt for Muslims. These are Jewish supremacists. The Israeli people can't conceive Arabs or Muslims as being on the same moral order as themselves. They're terrorists or they're savages." -Norman Finkelstein, 2019
• "Tell me, do the evil men of this world have a bad time? They hunt and catch whatever they feel like eating. they don't suffer from indigestion and are not punished by heaven. I want Israel to join that club. Maybe the world will then at last begin to fear us instead of feeling sorry. Maybe they will start to tremble, to fear our madness instead of admiring our nobility. Let them tremble; let them call us a mad state. Let them understand that we are a savage country, dangerous to our surroundings, not normal, that we might go wild, that we might start world war three just like that, or that we might one day go crazy and burn all the oil fields in the middle east. Even if you'll prove to me that the present war is a dirty immoral war, I don't care. WW shall start another war, kill and destroy more and more. And do you know why it is all worth it? Because it seems that this war has made us more unpopular among the civilized world. We'll hear no more of that nonsense about the unique Jewish morality. No more talk about a unique people being a light upon the nations. No more uniqueness and no more sweetness and light. Good riddance." -Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
• "Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories." -Benyamin Netanyahu, 1989
• "The New York Times and the Washington post are decidedly sliding into the neocon camp, where the likes of the Wall Street Journal have long resided. For The Post, this may already be an old story, given its enthusiastic cheerleading for the Iraq war. ... The New York Times tosses aside all pretense of objectivity in the cause of seeking "regime change" in Iran, today's top priority for the neoconservatives. ... Iran’s alleged interest in acquiring a nuclear weapon is trumpeted incessantly, while rogue nuclear states in the region such as Israel, Pakistan and India are given a pass." -Robert Parry, 2010
• "Between ourselves it must be clear that there is no room for both peoples together in this country. We shall not achieve our goal if the Arabs are in this small country. There is no other way than to transfer the Arabs from here to neighboring countries - all of them. Not one village, not one tribe should be left." -Joseph Weitz, head of the Jewish agency's colonization department in 1940
• "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our time is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the freedom party (Herut), a political party closely akin in its organization, method, political philosophy and social appeal to the nazi and fascist parties." -Albert Einstein, Hanna Arendt and other prominent Jewish Americans, writing in The New York times, protesting the visit to America of Menachem Begin, December 1948
• "It is the duty of Israel leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonization or Jewish state without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands." -Ariel Sharon, 1998
• "We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the twin towers and pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq... these events swung American public opinion in our favor." -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, 2008

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¹Alan Ned Sabrosky, Unsettled History: The Useful Abuse of the “Holocaust” Hoax, 2020

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From the Inside:

Palestinian schoolchildren looked out the window of their United Nations-run classroom in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, 2013 (Ibraheem Abu Mustafa / Reuters)

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"I would describe Palestinians as a persecuted ethnic group with restricted mobility rights. Gazans are surrounded by walls lined with razor wire and mines. Guard towers watch kill zones and no one can leave except through a few controlled access points and only with Israeli permission... Sure sounds like a concentration camp. How would you define a concentration camp in a way the excludes Gaza and many villages in the West Bank towns?"
~ U.K. Jewish MP Gerald Kaufman, 2012

The October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel is readily perceived as a false flag event, but even if not, can it reasonably be referred to as "unprovoked"? :