Your article is impressive. I would be interested in what you would say about Putin as isn't he a puppet of the "elites" you describe and rip apart in your fine writing? Surely, the metaverse is a global project and Russia and China are on board with it (their "leaders", not the people).
I have had a crack at that in the reply I gave you elsewhere in this thread.
In brief, Russia is not our saviour, is neither perfect nor alike to us. The notion of Putin as national saviour is not universal in Russia but nor is it entirely fanciful. I think the Russians (and many from the former Warsaw Pact nations) are less propaganda naive than we in the West, who only seem to notice it when we say the Russians are behind it. I think this may explain the reason why East Germany votes the way it does, that Poland, Hungary and Slovakia - and to a degree, Romania and Bulgaria - are all members of the "third Europe", being disinclined to go for the full Imperial deal with all its borderless social liberalism.
The second Europe would be the poorer Western nations, formerly known as the PIIGS, and the first the formerly richer ones - Germany, Netherlands, France, the Nordics, Britain.
These three Europes have their own broad agendas, which in the absence of an industrial paymaster cannot be reconciled for much longer.
I do not think the Chinese have imperial ambitions, and think them likely to remain interested in trade over war as means of securing power. It seems to be working well for them. I think them diplomatically adept, as the Russians and the Indians are. I think diplomacy all but extinct in the West, and that this will change in a new realist era which I hope we will all survive to see as the politics of illusion recedes along with its fading empire.
Of course, all powers use propaganda. How is it used?
The Russians are not within the Western system, and attempts to isolate them completely have powered new alliances to the detriment of US-led power globally. This cannot be reversed. I think NATO is finished, and we may see an inglorious if terrifying end to it should Israel invade Lebanon, and the Turks see through their threat to commit the largest land army in NATO to the war - as their population demands with increasing ferocity.
Great post, Frank. "The problem of evil is the problem of our time. I believe that evil is real, it is an active principle in human affairs, and not just a matter of opinion or perspective."
As the darkness grows, the Bible's light and truth shines brighter. I keep reminding myself: "the light shines in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not" / "...and the darkness can never extinguish it" (John 1:5, KJV / NLT).
Thank you for that from the Gospel of St John, Carel. Also, "Satan and his Gospel" is a far better title for this effort than I could come up with. How apt.
I have a story about a Sikh I met in the army but that is for another day. He was gracious about my presence, which was more than I deserved, given I had leapt into the shower wearing an African wig.
Unfortunately, we have arrived at a place where everything must be redefined, good, bad, moral, immoral, evil. This project began with the corruption of language. Evil is being presented as the morally superior path, and that which has always been considered sacred is painted as ignorance. And the world is drowning in this paradigm which could only be created by deleting God from the equation. Without an objective basis for morality which can only be attained by belief in a higher power who created us with love and purpose humanity will devolve to follow the path of base animal instincts and the laws of jungle warfare: might is always right. Evil can only be understood through the lens of morality and ethics; objective morality stems from belief in a benovolent God, subjective morality places self-appointed narcissistic individuals as god-heads and demand the rest of humanity submit to their ideology. Ultimately true freedom and liberation can only be achieved by worshipping God Almighty our Creator. Many people today still hold on to the last vestiges of their faith which is witnessed by ritual prayer a lot of humanity still engages in. Unfortunately prayer and worship are not synonymous. Currently the majority of the world regardless of their religious affiliation worships at the altar of the almighty dollar. This highlighted by the fact that three major faiths prohibit or frown upon interest/usury but every country is drowning in debt and so is every household and individuals. Get rid of this interest based debt driven economy and war might disappear too.
I can’t understand this, a bit like the last article. It is difficult to read through the language used and it appears to contain various contradictions.
For example:
“The liberal framework does the same, Homo Liberalis - providing through policy, purchase power and the empowerment of desire a promise of liberation from the self and its constraints.”
How does it do this, if as you say usury is destroying the financial means of average people?
Can you do an article where you use plain language and maybe bullet points to go over the basics of your argument please?
I’m just not getting it really.
I understand that you think there is a conspiracy against normal life, most likely run by banking interests?
Can you set out what the point of it is, and if it is so awful, why people support it please?
Absolutely. I feel you are right in what you see and say, so thank you for putting it into words.
Talking of words, some that made me wonder what you meant, particularly "Liberal democracy". As a Briton, I have an understanding of democracy in terms of majority rule and Liberal as being a political party with that name but I think in the US being called a " liberal" means something else. Please explain what you meant.
Also, is the Parliamentary system we have in Britain beyond redemption or is the problem the evil being done in it's name? So, a nicer/braver lot of MPs who represented their constituents might make a difference!?
I have gone on at length about what I mean by liberal, and did not want to bore readers with more of the same. In brief, the liberal idea as formulated by Mill and so on is distinct from that in Isaiah Berlin, and the system of government we have is a model of despotism Berlin condemned.
The liberal system is the rule by media, directed by a self appointed elite, which promotes a utopian progressivism in the service of that elite agenda, which is the restructuring of civilisation according to its ideas of what is best.
Being a method of working back from a posited paradise through practical policy applied in reality, it is a system which sees any obstruction to itself as backward. This accounts for the sincere belief of some liberal utopians, who though doing much harm are convinced it serves this greater good, as all utopians do.
The liberal democratic system has changed, it is not a plan as such, and does not follow a script - being more of a refinement of technique. Having inherited a brief moment of global supremacy by accident, it became somewhat imbalanced, being at once seduced by its own stories, and also largely unopposed in its ambition and power between the fall of the Soviet Union and the covid era. Perhaps the first major shock was the Afghan withdrawal.
The last thirty years or so saw the liberal democratic ideology warped by regime change ambitions, which grew in influence as a means of projecting the system to global hegemony as Fukuyama's thesis proved incomplete, the natural progression towards elections plus VCRs failing to materialise through soft power alone.
I think the liberal system a politics of continuity, with foreign, financial and domestic major factors unchanged by elections. This is called a politics of consensus but exists by virtue of the exclusion of public opinion from power, and the manufacture of consent through propaganda.
I think this system is dissolving now.
I do not think the Russians a saviour, nor the Chinese, but since they have existed outside the Western liberal sphere they remain civilisationally distinct. I do not believe the Russians have ambitions to conquer Europe, nor the Chinese to launch a world war of conquest. I think our perception of these powers has been distorted by the virtue of necessity arising from the fact that much of the financial and political economy of the West is powered by permanent war.
What is required in diplomacy is rebalancing, a recognition of mutual interest and of difference, in an attempt to provide stabillity and avoid war. This is called neorealism.
At home, "stop the madness" would suffice as a general slogan. The state is not ours, it must be reclaimed, it is derelict in its duties to furnish security, prosperity and meaning - it is no longer legitimate.
Stop the wars, restore the nations, cease the industrial production of the promotion of counterfactual messaging, support families with policy, suggest human scale economics, politics, architecture.
Real food, something like Belloc's idea of education against that of the servile state, also criticised by Bertrand Russell as the bureaucratic model, which fosters a sense of unreality in the self and the imperative to fit into a machine whose algorithms do not and can never include the natural patterns of human flourishing. Make honest work pay money worth earning, home rule - not the rule of some hegemon. A homeland for everyone, instead of a world where there is no place like home. We had a world like this. We could have it again. We do not have to live like this.
The debt system provided near liimitless funding for destruction, in war and in patronage for policy loyalists and its parallel culture.
Many of these ills vanish if the money supply is repatriated, and policy returns to its dutiful national function. These people are supposed to work for us. This money is supposed to be ours. We are supposed to be policed by consent. No one supposes these things to be true any more.
Against jargon, war talk and for a world in which claims can be freely interrogated without fear of financial ruin or imprisonment. An end to fractional reserve banking and the debt system.
I appreciate that much of this sounds quixotic, and perhaps impossible. Yet we live by ridiculous claims daily, sold as betterment, delivering ruin universally. What is forbidden by this system is not unfeasible - it is prohibited because it would make for a better world. Demands for sanity are seen as irrational and extreme by a system which is sick. I think the best view of our current predicament a sort of undeclared war on all that is sane. Try to see casualties where you saw enemies, and help them if you can. We can do better than this.
I find it odd that in your pursuit of combatting Marxist propaganda, you cite Marxist propaganda to back up certain arguments, such as with Israel's war against the inhuman Hezbollah and Hamas death cults. Let me present to you a non-Marxist perspective from FrontPageMag:
Israel is Settling America’s Scores With Islamic Terrorists
Hezbollah hit with devastating attack on 40th anniversary of US embassy bombing.
September 18, 2024 by Daniel Greenfield
The exploding pagers that reportedly wounded thousands of Hezbollah terrorists came within 3 days of the 40th anniversary of the Islamic terrorist group’s attack on an American embassy.
On September 20, 1984, a Hezbollah terrorist drove a Chevy station wagon fitted with diplomatic plates and Soviet rockets at the US embassy in Beirut and detonated it, wounding the US ambassador and killing two Americans, Chief Warrant Officer Kenneth V. Welch and Petty Officer First Class Michael Ray Wagner, while wounding five other Americans.
The Biden-Harris administration marked the 40th anniversary of the Hezbollah attack by dispatching Amos Hochstein, its envoy, to pressure Israel into turning over land to Hezbollah in exchange for some temporary quiet. A previous Hochstein deal saw Israel turn over gas fields to Hezbollah only to see the terror group launch thousands of rockets at northern communities in Israel. 60,000 Israelis have been displaced by these attacks and cannot return home.
But the Biden-Harris administration decided that the best way to honor the hundreds of Americans killed by Hezbollah, including the 220 Marines in the Beirut barracks bombing in 1983, the brutal torture of Colonel William R. Higgins, who had his tongue pulled out and was castrated before being dumped in front of a mosque, and Navy diver Robert Stethem who was beaten to death on TWA Flight 847, was by demanding that Israel surrender to the terrorists.
But the Israelis have been settling not only their scores, but our scores for us.
In 2008, an Israeli car bomb took out Imad Mughniyah, Hezbollah’s chief of staff, who had been among the monsters jumping up and landing on Stethem’s body.
“They were jumping in the air and landing full force on his body. He must have had all his ribs broken,” a stewardess on the hijacked plane described. “I was sitting only 15 feet away. I couldn’t listen to it. I put my fingers in my ears. I will never forget. I could still hear. They put the mike up to his face so his screams could be heard by the outside world.”
Mughniyah had been attending an Iranian reception celebrating the Islamic takeover of the formerly free nation, only to find that his car’s tire had been loaded with explosives. The reported joint Mossad-CIA operation was also the last hurrah before the Obama takeover and the beginning of a new D.C. policy of appeasing Iran while undermining the Jewish State.
Fuad Shukr, Mughniyah’s close ally and a top Hezbollah figure, had been responsible for the Marine Barracks bombing that killed 241 U.S. military personnel and wounded 128 others, as well as the hijacking of TWA Flight 847 where Stethem was brutally murdered by the terrorists.
Iran marked the 40th anniversary of the Marine Barracks bombing in October with over 170 attacks on American military personnel across the region. The Biden-Harris administration tried to talk tough, launched a few airstrikes and then backed down. Israel however did not.
After a Hezbollah attack on an Israeli soccer field killed 12 kids, Shukr, who still had a $5 million reward on his head from the State Department for the Marine Barracks bombing, was taken out by an Israeli airstrike.
The Israelis had infiltrated Hezbollah’s communications system and placed a call asking him to go up to the 7th floor of the building where he had been hiding out to escape detection.
He did and never left again.
After Shukr’s death, Hezbollah accelerated its shift away from high-tech communications and toward pagers. Cellphones were banned in favor of pagers. The terror group began performing spot checks to see if its terrorists were carrying phones. “Today, if anyone is found with their phone on the front, he is kicked out of Hezbollah,” a Reuters story claimed.
“Abandon your phone, disable it, bury it, lock it in a metal box, for a week, two weeks, a month,” Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah had warned his terrorists. “Allah knows how long this situation will last.”
Replacing large numbers of phones with pagers however created its own security risk.
The wave of pager explosions that swept through Beirut near the 40th anniversary of Hezbollah’s attack on our embassy should have come from us, but it likely came from Israel.
The Israelis had targeted Hezbollah’s communications system to cripple the terror group’s operations, first infiltrating the hardwired fiber optic landlines set up for it by Iran, then its cellphones and now its pagers. Each attack has forced Hezbollah to retreat from high speed communications methods and to move further toward a dependency on human couriers.
The couriers carrying code words for the day are hard to crack but slow down any response. Forcing Hezbollah to use medieval means of communications will make it difficult for the terror group to operate across long ranges, to coordinate with its masters in Iran and with other members of the Islamic terror network including the Houthis in Yemen and the militias in Iraq.
The pager attack represents the single most devastating targeting of an Islamic terror group in history, taking out hundreds of its personnel and crippling its communications. It’s also a long overdue payback for Hezbollah’s attack on the U.S. embassy some forty years ago.
On September 20, 1984, Hezbollah struck in a Christian area of West Beirut where the American embassy had relocated after the Iranian-backed terror group had bombed the previous embassy location, killing 17 Americans, and kidnapped, tortured and killed other Americans.
The embassy was under the protection of the Christian Phalangist militia members who would later be sold out by D.C. diplomats in pursuit of a deal with Islamic terrorists. Together with the American military personnel and the British ambassador’s security, they tried to stop the car bomb before it hit the embassy. Bullets hit the Islamic terrorist driving it, he fell over, the car bomb turned and blew up before it could hit the embassy and kill hundreds of people.
The blast still blew a massive crater and left rubble everywhere. The British ambassador, who was visiting, was buried under debris and had to be dug out. Two Americans were killed.
A torn part of the American flag from the embassy was brought home to Chief Warrant Officer Kenneth Welch‘s mother who was one of the dead. Welch had volunteered for duty in Vietnam where he earned a Bronze Star. He had been friends with some of the American hostages taken in Iran and had tried to recover MIAs while on duty in China. His last medal was a Purple Heart.
Israel is not just fighting its war against Islamic terrorism, it’s fighting our war too.
On the 40th anniversary of the Islamic terrorist attack against the American embassy in Beirut, the pager attacks that devastated Hezbollah settled not only Israel’s score, but ours as well.
"Either these people go, or we do ." Amen.
Polling indicates that 98% of normal humans vote that they go. Hell should be expecting a wave of migrants when this all shakes out.
lol JHH. Normophobes hardest hit
Thanks for this Frank. I am starting to feel a new theory coming on!
For your readers, here's my latest:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/world-war-iii-is-on-but-the-empire-has-already-lost-an-american-civil-war-looms-spiritual-transformation-is-the-only-way-to-prevent-extinction/5868285
Your article is impressive. I would be interested in what you would say about Putin as isn't he a puppet of the "elites" you describe and rip apart in your fine writing? Surely, the metaverse is a global project and Russia and China are on board with it (their "leaders", not the people).
I have had a crack at that in the reply I gave you elsewhere in this thread.
In brief, Russia is not our saviour, is neither perfect nor alike to us. The notion of Putin as national saviour is not universal in Russia but nor is it entirely fanciful. I think the Russians (and many from the former Warsaw Pact nations) are less propaganda naive than we in the West, who only seem to notice it when we say the Russians are behind it. I think this may explain the reason why East Germany votes the way it does, that Poland, Hungary and Slovakia - and to a degree, Romania and Bulgaria - are all members of the "third Europe", being disinclined to go for the full Imperial deal with all its borderless social liberalism.
The second Europe would be the poorer Western nations, formerly known as the PIIGS, and the first the formerly richer ones - Germany, Netherlands, France, the Nordics, Britain.
These three Europes have their own broad agendas, which in the absence of an industrial paymaster cannot be reconciled for much longer.
I do not think the Chinese have imperial ambitions, and think them likely to remain interested in trade over war as means of securing power. It seems to be working well for them. I think them diplomatically adept, as the Russians and the Indians are. I think diplomacy all but extinct in the West, and that this will change in a new realist era which I hope we will all survive to see as the politics of illusion recedes along with its fading empire.
Of course, all powers use propaganda. How is it used?
The Russians are not within the Western system, and attempts to isolate them completely have powered new alliances to the detriment of US-led power globally. This cannot be reversed. I think NATO is finished, and we may see an inglorious if terrifying end to it should Israel invade Lebanon, and the Turks see through their threat to commit the largest land army in NATO to the war - as their population demands with increasing ferocity.
Great post, Frank. "The problem of evil is the problem of our time. I believe that evil is real, it is an active principle in human affairs, and not just a matter of opinion or perspective."
This reminded me of a sermon by Arthur Pink (1886 – 1952), Satan and his Gospel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns_12nciaz4.
As the darkness grows, the Bible's light and truth shines brighter. I keep reminding myself: "the light shines in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not" / "...and the darkness can never extinguish it" (John 1:5, KJV / NLT).
Thank you for that from the Gospel of St John, Carel. Also, "Satan and his Gospel" is a far better title for this effort than I could come up with. How apt.
good article Frank. I am a Sikh but I also see the asuras behind this new society.
I have a story about a Sikh I met in the army but that is for another day. He was gracious about my presence, which was more than I deserved, given I had leapt into the shower wearing an African wig.
Unfortunately, we have arrived at a place where everything must be redefined, good, bad, moral, immoral, evil. This project began with the corruption of language. Evil is being presented as the morally superior path, and that which has always been considered sacred is painted as ignorance. And the world is drowning in this paradigm which could only be created by deleting God from the equation. Without an objective basis for morality which can only be attained by belief in a higher power who created us with love and purpose humanity will devolve to follow the path of base animal instincts and the laws of jungle warfare: might is always right. Evil can only be understood through the lens of morality and ethics; objective morality stems from belief in a benovolent God, subjective morality places self-appointed narcissistic individuals as god-heads and demand the rest of humanity submit to their ideology. Ultimately true freedom and liberation can only be achieved by worshipping God Almighty our Creator. Many people today still hold on to the last vestiges of their faith which is witnessed by ritual prayer a lot of humanity still engages in. Unfortunately prayer and worship are not synonymous. Currently the majority of the world regardless of their religious affiliation worships at the altar of the almighty dollar. This highlighted by the fact that three major faiths prohibit or frown upon interest/usury but every country is drowning in debt and so is every household and individuals. Get rid of this interest based debt driven economy and war might disappear too.
I can’t understand this, a bit like the last article. It is difficult to read through the language used and it appears to contain various contradictions.
For example:
“The liberal framework does the same, Homo Liberalis - providing through policy, purchase power and the empowerment of desire a promise of liberation from the self and its constraints.”
How does it do this, if as you say usury is destroying the financial means of average people?
Can you do an article where you use plain language and maybe bullet points to go over the basics of your argument please?
I’m just not getting it really.
I understand that you think there is a conspiracy against normal life, most likely run by banking interests?
Can you set out what the point of it is, and if it is so awful, why people support it please?
Will try to do better. I have been poorly and somewhat foggy in the head. Apologies
Absolutely. I feel you are right in what you see and say, so thank you for putting it into words.
Talking of words, some that made me wonder what you meant, particularly "Liberal democracy". As a Briton, I have an understanding of democracy in terms of majority rule and Liberal as being a political party with that name but I think in the US being called a " liberal" means something else. Please explain what you meant.
Also, is the Parliamentary system we have in Britain beyond redemption or is the problem the evil being done in it's name? So, a nicer/braver lot of MPs who represented their constituents might make a difference!?
I have gone on at length about what I mean by liberal, and did not want to bore readers with more of the same. In brief, the liberal idea as formulated by Mill and so on is distinct from that in Isaiah Berlin, and the system of government we have is a model of despotism Berlin condemned.
The liberal system is the rule by media, directed by a self appointed elite, which promotes a utopian progressivism in the service of that elite agenda, which is the restructuring of civilisation according to its ideas of what is best.
Being a method of working back from a posited paradise through practical policy applied in reality, it is a system which sees any obstruction to itself as backward. This accounts for the sincere belief of some liberal utopians, who though doing much harm are convinced it serves this greater good, as all utopians do.
The liberal democratic system has changed, it is not a plan as such, and does not follow a script - being more of a refinement of technique. Having inherited a brief moment of global supremacy by accident, it became somewhat imbalanced, being at once seduced by its own stories, and also largely unopposed in its ambition and power between the fall of the Soviet Union and the covid era. Perhaps the first major shock was the Afghan withdrawal.
The last thirty years or so saw the liberal democratic ideology warped by regime change ambitions, which grew in influence as a means of projecting the system to global hegemony as Fukuyama's thesis proved incomplete, the natural progression towards elections plus VCRs failing to materialise through soft power alone.
I think the liberal system a politics of continuity, with foreign, financial and domestic major factors unchanged by elections. This is called a politics of consensus but exists by virtue of the exclusion of public opinion from power, and the manufacture of consent through propaganda.
I think this system is dissolving now.
I do not think the Russians a saviour, nor the Chinese, but since they have existed outside the Western liberal sphere they remain civilisationally distinct. I do not believe the Russians have ambitions to conquer Europe, nor the Chinese to launch a world war of conquest. I think our perception of these powers has been distorted by the virtue of necessity arising from the fact that much of the financial and political economy of the West is powered by permanent war.
What is required in diplomacy is rebalancing, a recognition of mutual interest and of difference, in an attempt to provide stabillity and avoid war. This is called neorealism.
At home, "stop the madness" would suffice as a general slogan. The state is not ours, it must be reclaimed, it is derelict in its duties to furnish security, prosperity and meaning - it is no longer legitimate.
Stop the wars, restore the nations, cease the industrial production of the promotion of counterfactual messaging, support families with policy, suggest human scale economics, politics, architecture.
Real food, something like Belloc's idea of education against that of the servile state, also criticised by Bertrand Russell as the bureaucratic model, which fosters a sense of unreality in the self and the imperative to fit into a machine whose algorithms do not and can never include the natural patterns of human flourishing. Make honest work pay money worth earning, home rule - not the rule of some hegemon. A homeland for everyone, instead of a world where there is no place like home. We had a world like this. We could have it again. We do not have to live like this.
The debt system provided near liimitless funding for destruction, in war and in patronage for policy loyalists and its parallel culture.
Many of these ills vanish if the money supply is repatriated, and policy returns to its dutiful national function. These people are supposed to work for us. This money is supposed to be ours. We are supposed to be policed by consent. No one supposes these things to be true any more.
Against jargon, war talk and for a world in which claims can be freely interrogated without fear of financial ruin or imprisonment. An end to fractional reserve banking and the debt system.
I appreciate that much of this sounds quixotic, and perhaps impossible. Yet we live by ridiculous claims daily, sold as betterment, delivering ruin universally. What is forbidden by this system is not unfeasible - it is prohibited because it would make for a better world. Demands for sanity are seen as irrational and extreme by a system which is sick. I think the best view of our current predicament a sort of undeclared war on all that is sane. Try to see casualties where you saw enemies, and help them if you can. We can do better than this.
So, what you're saying is, #EndTheFed, #EndTheRothchilds, save Humanity.
I find it odd that in your pursuit of combatting Marxist propaganda, you cite Marxist propaganda to back up certain arguments, such as with Israel's war against the inhuman Hezbollah and Hamas death cults. Let me present to you a non-Marxist perspective from FrontPageMag:
Israel is Settling America’s Scores With Islamic Terrorists
Hezbollah hit with devastating attack on 40th anniversary of US embassy bombing.
September 18, 2024 by Daniel Greenfield
The exploding pagers that reportedly wounded thousands of Hezbollah terrorists came within 3 days of the 40th anniversary of the Islamic terrorist group’s attack on an American embassy.
On September 20, 1984, a Hezbollah terrorist drove a Chevy station wagon fitted with diplomatic plates and Soviet rockets at the US embassy in Beirut and detonated it, wounding the US ambassador and killing two Americans, Chief Warrant Officer Kenneth V. Welch and Petty Officer First Class Michael Ray Wagner, while wounding five other Americans.
The Biden-Harris administration marked the 40th anniversary of the Hezbollah attack by dispatching Amos Hochstein, its envoy, to pressure Israel into turning over land to Hezbollah in exchange for some temporary quiet. A previous Hochstein deal saw Israel turn over gas fields to Hezbollah only to see the terror group launch thousands of rockets at northern communities in Israel. 60,000 Israelis have been displaced by these attacks and cannot return home.
But the Biden-Harris administration decided that the best way to honor the hundreds of Americans killed by Hezbollah, including the 220 Marines in the Beirut barracks bombing in 1983, the brutal torture of Colonel William R. Higgins, who had his tongue pulled out and was castrated before being dumped in front of a mosque, and Navy diver Robert Stethem who was beaten to death on TWA Flight 847, was by demanding that Israel surrender to the terrorists.
But the Israelis have been settling not only their scores, but our scores for us.
In 2008, an Israeli car bomb took out Imad Mughniyah, Hezbollah’s chief of staff, who had been among the monsters jumping up and landing on Stethem’s body.
“They were jumping in the air and landing full force on his body. He must have had all his ribs broken,” a stewardess on the hijacked plane described. “I was sitting only 15 feet away. I couldn’t listen to it. I put my fingers in my ears. I will never forget. I could still hear. They put the mike up to his face so his screams could be heard by the outside world.”
Mughniyah had been attending an Iranian reception celebrating the Islamic takeover of the formerly free nation, only to find that his car’s tire had been loaded with explosives. The reported joint Mossad-CIA operation was also the last hurrah before the Obama takeover and the beginning of a new D.C. policy of appeasing Iran while undermining the Jewish State.
Fuad Shukr, Mughniyah’s close ally and a top Hezbollah figure, had been responsible for the Marine Barracks bombing that killed 241 U.S. military personnel and wounded 128 others, as well as the hijacking of TWA Flight 847 where Stethem was brutally murdered by the terrorists.
Iran marked the 40th anniversary of the Marine Barracks bombing in October with over 170 attacks on American military personnel across the region. The Biden-Harris administration tried to talk tough, launched a few airstrikes and then backed down. Israel however did not.
After a Hezbollah attack on an Israeli soccer field killed 12 kids, Shukr, who still had a $5 million reward on his head from the State Department for the Marine Barracks bombing, was taken out by an Israeli airstrike.
The Israelis had infiltrated Hezbollah’s communications system and placed a call asking him to go up to the 7th floor of the building where he had been hiding out to escape detection.
He did and never left again.
After Shukr’s death, Hezbollah accelerated its shift away from high-tech communications and toward pagers. Cellphones were banned in favor of pagers. The terror group began performing spot checks to see if its terrorists were carrying phones. “Today, if anyone is found with their phone on the front, he is kicked out of Hezbollah,” a Reuters story claimed.
“Abandon your phone, disable it, bury it, lock it in a metal box, for a week, two weeks, a month,” Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah had warned his terrorists. “Allah knows how long this situation will last.”
Replacing large numbers of phones with pagers however created its own security risk.
The wave of pager explosions that swept through Beirut near the 40th anniversary of Hezbollah’s attack on our embassy should have come from us, but it likely came from Israel.
The Israelis had targeted Hezbollah’s communications system to cripple the terror group’s operations, first infiltrating the hardwired fiber optic landlines set up for it by Iran, then its cellphones and now its pagers. Each attack has forced Hezbollah to retreat from high speed communications methods and to move further toward a dependency on human couriers.
The couriers carrying code words for the day are hard to crack but slow down any response. Forcing Hezbollah to use medieval means of communications will make it difficult for the terror group to operate across long ranges, to coordinate with its masters in Iran and with other members of the Islamic terror network including the Houthis in Yemen and the militias in Iraq.
The pager attack represents the single most devastating targeting of an Islamic terror group in history, taking out hundreds of its personnel and crippling its communications. It’s also a long overdue payback for Hezbollah’s attack on the U.S. embassy some forty years ago.
On September 20, 1984, Hezbollah struck in a Christian area of West Beirut where the American embassy had relocated after the Iranian-backed terror group had bombed the previous embassy location, killing 17 Americans, and kidnapped, tortured and killed other Americans.
The embassy was under the protection of the Christian Phalangist militia members who would later be sold out by D.C. diplomats in pursuit of a deal with Islamic terrorists. Together with the American military personnel and the British ambassador’s security, they tried to stop the car bomb before it hit the embassy. Bullets hit the Islamic terrorist driving it, he fell over, the car bomb turned and blew up before it could hit the embassy and kill hundreds of people.
The blast still blew a massive crater and left rubble everywhere. The British ambassador, who was visiting, was buried under debris and had to be dug out. Two Americans were killed.
A torn part of the American flag from the embassy was brought home to Chief Warrant Officer Kenneth Welch‘s mother who was one of the dead. Welch had volunteered for duty in Vietnam where he earned a Bronze Star. He had been friends with some of the American hostages taken in Iran and had tried to recover MIAs while on duty in China. His last medal was a Purple Heart.
Israel is not just fighting its war against Islamic terrorism, it’s fighting our war too.
On the 40th anniversary of the Islamic terrorist attack against the American embassy in Beirut, the pager attacks that devastated Hezbollah settled not only Israel’s score, but ours as well.