Oct 12, 2023·edited Oct 12, 2023Liked by Frank Wright
It is a curious artefact of the liberal way. I have wondered what causes this as on the surface it should be anathema to their thinking.
I suspect emotionality now defines much of liberalism. And a bitter war provides ample opportunity to indulge emotions. I've seen many westerners wave Palestinian flags, and the rationale seems to be the emotional flare of supporting the underdog.
John Locke was a proponent of the idea that true "liberty" was about material happiness and success. He boiled everything down the "liberty" to accumulate wealth and pleasures. He also supported the notion of revolt andviolencee when ones "liberty" was threatened. This is contrary to milenia of political thought.
The result is the emphasis of material wealth and pleasure as the ultimate "end of man". Thus, the elites will see war as a means of obtaining power and wealth, and wars can be incited by small offenses to one's now sensitive emotions. The liberal becomes prey to the Classical Liberal.
The thing that should be emphasized, imo, is the changing demographics of Israel. It doesn't matter who wins this particular Supreme Court crisis because the writing is already on the wall. Among Jewish women, the highest fertility rate was for ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) women at 6.64 children per woman, followed by religious women at 3.92 and 1.96 for secular women. The average birth rate of Israeli Muslim women is 3.0 and of Palestinians in Gaza, 3.8 in 2019. Therefore the future of Israel belongs to the Orthodox and the Muslims, regardless of any of the twists and turns of daily political life.
Want a leftist Israel longterm? Better find a way for them to dramatically alter their ideology away from materialist nihilism which is inherently ant-natalist, although it's too late imo.
Yes, demographics have changed Israel. I do not want a "leftist Israel". It is important to note Israelis themselves in great number think their state no longer a liberal democracy. I think that is a fact, and is another result of a process towards a complete eradication of the hope for a separate peace. I cannot stress enough that the two state solution may be necessary for this problem that has been exported, through the process of regime change, to almost every nation in the formerly liberal West. These liberal interventions and the universalist utopianism of the liberal idea has made everywhere a nowhere of sorts. The Jews and the Palestinians deserve a homeland. So, whoever you may be, do you. This is one major legacy of the rapid decline of the liberal idea to which it currently has no answer but the promise of escalating violence.
I agree. We are all incubating a similarly fractious state for our own homelands, and may find ourselves with two state solutions. All avoidable.
What is going through their minds? Do you think the scenes from our cities where pro-Palestine flag wavers have been out in numbers will give them pause for thought?
What an excellent article! Thank you for telling the truth about this criminal Israeli regime, which I suspect, with its powerful criminal allies, is spoiling for a war with Iran. May cooler heads prevail on all sides!
I have to say that I most emphatically disagree with you, Mr Wright. The two state solution has been offered over and over again. The Arabs have. Even offered a state over and over again. They refuse each time because they want the extermination of the Jewish people like the Nazis. Having read the books written by the founders of the modern state, they wanted to be able to live together. I have never seen the two state solution as a viable option. I disagree with your views on Bibi and Hamas.
The Jewish people have a right to a homeland and should defend it in the way they want to. The Israelis have always been held to higher standard by the world and by and large they try to avoid needless civilian casualties.
The riots over the Supreme Court were just plain stupid and unnecessary.
Sorry- I could not abide those writers at the consortium because of their anti semitism and as a Christian I support Israel.
The Arabs that were left in Israel have always had other places that they can live.
Netanyahu is not very popular with many israelis, and his own culture minister said last week Likud would lose an election. His government is being blamed for starting another war, with ministers heckled that they have "ruined this country" today. His partner in government, Ben Gvir, without whose support his coalition would collapse, was shown on television laughing about the recent incidents of settler extremists spitting on Christians. He described this as a "Jewish tradition". He represents a faction, and an extreme one, and does not speak for all Jews nor all Israelis.
I am reminded that Ben Gurion said that the proportional representation system in Israel work be a real nuisance and that there would be messy elections.
Alastair Crooke's summary here also mentions the ethnic component to the faction in power in Israel - the Mizrahi Jews. It is unusual for them to be in power at all, and now they are. Hence the third temple business, and the focus on Al-Aqsa, which they apparently mean to demolish. This threat mobilized Hamas in "operation aqsa flood" and underpins the call to jihad for tomorrow. https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/analysis/al-aqsa-flood:-the-surprise-is-that-some-are-surprised
There is no Christian doctrine that says support for Israel is "a Christian thing". Rather, it is our creed to " baptize all nations in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost".
That you support Israel is fine, but its not linked toChristiannity in any way.
The Jewish people are still God’s people and as such we should be praying and desiring that they come to know Jesus.
Recently there has been a huge effort by Christians in Israel to reach out to Jews. Christian and Arab Jews have been reaching out to neighbours and helping during this time. The worst since the Shoah.
There will be no "Two-State Solution". Israel is a European Settler Colony whose 'establishment' was through Blood, Iron & Will. There is a saying in English which goes... "Live by the Sword... Die by the Sword!". That is precisely the Deterministic outcome we have come to at last.
A Settler Colony does not have "Civilians". This is because every Woman and Child goes through Mandatory Military Service and is trained to Hunt, Kill, Maim, etc the "Human Animals" (i.e. Palestinians) without remorse whoever they may be. This is to be expected:
Settler Colonies historically have always been violently expansionistic ("Manifest Destiny" anyone?) and the only thing that every 'stops them' has been Brute Force. That has always been the *least bloody outcome*. All other outcomes involve the Colonists & Settlers continuing the Carnage.
The War is inevitable. There will be no "Diplomacy" because one side has already made it clear that it wishes to Massacre all 2.5 million Gazans and flatten the area into a "parking lot". If so... then they should be prepared to face the consequences; one line/sequence of which involves the complete erasure of the Zionist Settler Colony from the Maps & the History Books.
The ball is in the Zionist court. They can choose to Begin the Slaughter; roll the Tanks in and begin the Ground Offensive. The Syrians, Hezbollah, etc would then attack from the North. This will mean the End of the Zionist Project, period. They can choose at that point to Surrender and have their Triple Passport holding primarily European citizenry "flee" back to *insert Western country here*.
OR they can choose to forego all of that and attempt (as they always do) to feign diplomacy a la "talks". However, now that the myth of "Israeli invincibility and military expertise" has been shattered; they have no leg whatsoever to stand on; especially into the near future.
So I expect the former to be pursued; after which the most likely outcome is the Samson Option and Nuclear Winter as a result. "Peace" died long ago; it merely festers now in its tomb.
The policy of the war faction in the Israeli state is to ignite global jihad. It looks likely to work unless Netanyahu's government collapses - and there is a very good chance that it will.
Global jihad is also the policy of the war faction on the Palestinian side. Netanyahu's political career and now his personal liberty is at the mercy of the extreme settler Zionists of Ben Gvir's minority party - formerly excluded from power.
Ben Gvir's party seeks the destruction of Al-Aqsa, knowing this would spark global jihad. It is an aim taught in the schools run by the zionist settler faction and videos are available showing it.
This aim endorsed by Netanyahu is to galvanise Western opinion through the resulting terror attacks this would provoke. This means war between nations and terrorism everywhere within them. It will unleash a scale of horror never before seen anywhere on earth and once begun will be nigh impossible to halt.
The aims of Hamas and those of Netanyahu's faction are alike: they seek to embroil their allies in a global war which will internationalise the atrocities taking place now in Israel. When this madness takes hold we will kill each other in a blood feud for which there is no political answer at present.
The choice with which we are all faced is to either pick a side in an argument for genocide and the normalisation of brutal murder in our everyday lives. Lifetimes will be consumed in hatred and the burying of our children and families.
Or we could argue for sanity.
The answer to atrocity must not be more atrocity. How many deaths will settle this question? How many must die? How long will this go on?
What is more, there is no diplomacy in the West. The policy of the current Israeli government is a supremacist ideology of total domination. As with "liberal intervention", it is a doctrine which states the enemy is unworthy of consideration and must submit, be starved or bombed. It ends with regime change, a polite word for state murder. This is the murder of one state by another.
Regardless of the complete corruption of the liberal democracies this has caused, and aside from the fact this is horrific and completely barbaric, the simple fact as you point out is that neither Israel nor the West can any longer claim to be invincibly supreme. From a purely military point of view this is not the case any more. Hizb'allah won the last war. Yoav Gallant, Israeli defence minister, said himself Israel is weak on the northern border.
It would lose a war with Iran. So would the US, and as you say, this would likely trigger the Samson Option of the immediate release of all Israeli nuclear weapons - probably onto Russian, Western and Middle Eastern cities.
It is obvious that what goes by the name of liberal democracy is a monster wearing the ripped off face of the victim it has murdered.
The absolute corruption of the west and the absence of any realistic diplomacy is a result of a three decades long policy of regime change which has introduced censorship, economic sanctions and a form of repression at home using the same techniques employed abroad. This ideology, justified in the name of spreading and defending liberal democracy, has destroyed liberal and democratic norms at home.
The solution we will hear following the criminal destruction of Gaza will be to export the Palestinians to Europe.
This crisis comes at a time of significant diplomatic, military and domestic weakness for the West. It is therefore necessary to call for a new approach which recognises that peoples are civilisationally distinct from one another and will profoundly disagree on the basic questions of how to live as a result.
This replaces the liberal supremacy of "you are unlike me therefore you are wrong and deserve no rights" with "we are different and must seek agreement". It is about the seeking of compromise to avoid conflict - instead of creating excuses for it.
The question of violence is older than civilisation, as the book "War Before Civilisation" will show. No ideology has a monopoly on violence. It is the duty of the sane to speak against it, and to reserve its use as a method of last resort.
That the Palestinians have been driven to this last resort is obvious and is a result of deliberate policy. Their lives are without hope. For 30 000 members of Hamas their 2 million will suffer and die, to the applause of the Western political elite.
It has to be remembered that many Israelis, Jews secular and religious, also recognise this fact and oppose the state policy to legitimise war crimes and calls for genocide.
I agree that the ground war - the military assault on over two million people - will likely spark an enormous response which may escalate the conflict to a regional and even worldwide military conflict. It will also spark a cycle of violence in the cities and towns of the West.
With the example of Israel's response, candlelit vigils will be replaced by cries for blood and the war will come home to everyone. If this continues, the killing will motivate people who preferred to stay out of it. Vengeance will be all that is left of society. This is not a future I wish for my or for your or for anyone's children.
There is no realistic and honest appraisal of the process which has led to this moment, and none regarding the universal barbarism it promises in the near future.
To call for peace is treason. Rabin was killed for this, by a Zionist settler extremist.
I do not support any state which endorses this madness. This is the battle we face - a captive media broadcasts the argument for genocide of an insane faction using atrocity propaganda. On the other, death is the only weapon of a people made hopeless by brutal repression. This is the future of the West if we do not step back and say enough.
This is also a crisis of legitimacy. The liberal democracies cannot guarantee basic security and in fact conspire in its destruction. Their policy is state murder - the smashing of entire nations whose populations then arrive in vast number.
The legacy of this obscene business - and regime change is a vast and lucrative business - is to make of the west a racket for the elites and a nightmare for the ordinary people of whichever faction over whom they rule.
Christian, atheist, muslim, jew, left, right, traditional, progressive, all our lives are being ruined in real time by people who have no solution to the chaos they have created. Do not conspire in it.
The elision of language also presents a danger. Who are "the Jews", "the muslims" - what is "the rules based order"? What are the rules? We can see what the rules are.
The polarisation of identity on the basis of words excludes reason, legitimate grievance and the human dimension entirely. Even where people have come to hate each other implacably there is a means to avoid violence. Sectarian labelling leads towards it.
The basis of realism is the need to secure the right to life - to live differently - for all.
We are all nothing to our elites, and we are all paying the price for the subversion of our world by the technocratic war machine.
Hatred is poison. In war there is no place for emotion. If war must be fought, and it must only be fought when it must, then there is no need for hatred at all. Beware of the weapon of hate.
It is an excuse for avoidable slaughter. It is the means by which crimes are made necessary and whole peoples demonised. There are mad dogs on both sides. Their bite is infectious. This is a rabid time and we must strive to look beyond the moment of horror to a future which has not yet disappeared.
I do not want war. The two state solution is one which may have to be adopted everywhere to avoid a blood feud which will end civilisation wherever it ignites. Already the polarisation in Western nations is severe, and people are abandoning any understanding for the immediate and frenzied defence of mutual annihilation.
I want a separate peace, which is possible only if people realise the alternative is the death of peace everywhere. The situation is dire but people of conscience cannot surrender to madness and a future of unlimited murder without a fight.
Oct 13, 2023·edited Oct 13, 2023Liked by Frank Wright
My Friend:
The time for "Hopes" and talking about "What you or I want" has passed. This is all Moot.
As for your point regarding "Global Jihad". Understand this:
Al-Aqsa is Sacrosanct. Any Thought, however minor, any *HINT* that it be defiled and so that the so-called "Third Temple" be then built over its Rubble... there will be not merely "reprisals"; but Mass Carnage.
No Muslim (including myself) would sit still. All resources (personal wealth, network, physical strength, etc) would be deployed en masse.
The Western "nations" are Vassals to America. And their Master has goaded its Colonial Outpost to "finish them off" (a la murdering 2+ million people).
No sane (or insane) individual will simply "sit there & take it". The War is Inevitable and the Fight approaches; and so the Palestinians & Arabs will have to fight.
Could Israel back off? Sure!
But this is now a death spiral; and it is unlikely that it will do so. This is because its Mythos (i.e. "We are invincible & can take everyone on!") is gone and so is what little 'good will' their so called 'diplomats' accrued has evaporated.
At this moment in time, I see the Ground invasion, butchery of 2+ million, invasion (by Syria, Hezbollah, maybe even Jordan) from the North as inevitable. As such, the Samson Option & Nuclear Winter is the most likely outcome.
^This is the Deterministic Doom Loop that we are now in. As I said earlier "the time for Hoping in over". The time now is one of Consequences sequencing out.
I hope to God you are wrong. There is virtually zero understanding of the significance of Al-Aqsa in the West and no interest in taking seriously any grievance of any media-designated enemy.
I hope for a world based on realism. A world in which we understand that its peoples are civilisationally distinct and that serious grievances do not arise for no reason.
I see the moment fast approaching that you describe and again I hope it never arrives. You may be right. The madness may already be unstoppable and the fire may consume us all.
The American Empire has been completely corrupted by thirty years of permanent war as its democratic duty. Our political class has no answer for the chaos and ruin it has made of nations abroad and at home. They are criminals, and their rule a crime against humanity so vast it has no name.
The hour is late. The actions of the political elite have made the world a madhouse and shaped a future where nowhere will be safe.
The nuclear aspect is real and should be terrifying. It is unlikely, but the people of the West must learn to look beyond the moment on their phones and think of tomorrow. A slender hope, and it is fading. God help us all.
Unfortunately this is a blood and religious feud. Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs would not be able to live in peace unless one of them is the dominant majority. Thus there are only two lasting solutions. One of them was tried in the 20th century.
Yes. I just watched an episode of Firing Line from 1986 with Netanyahu as a guest (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEzi0SMCu5A). The point he kept making was that when a political actor commits acts of terror, they are then a legitimate target of terror themselves. Which is basically the notion of an eye for an eye and everyone is blind. He seemed glib about the whole matter, where one might expect remorse. There was no mention of how peace might emerge out of this endless cycle of terrorism and counter-terrorism.
His policy is terror. It provokes terror and provides justification for the escalation to “give em hell”, which is a talking point of the vacuous morons who control our debates.
Make no mistake the aim was always global jihad. This will consume all our lives in a cycle of violence without end. That is the strategy. Universal blood feud.
Frank, thanks for this background information. It is clear that "Forever War" is a feature of the liberal system.
It is a curious artefact of the liberal way. I have wondered what causes this as on the surface it should be anathema to their thinking.
I suspect emotionality now defines much of liberalism. And a bitter war provides ample opportunity to indulge emotions. I've seen many westerners wave Palestinian flags, and the rationale seems to be the emotional flare of supporting the underdog.
Thank you chaps. I am going to bed as I am poorly. I will reply when I can.
John Locke was a proponent of the idea that true "liberty" was about material happiness and success. He boiled everything down the "liberty" to accumulate wealth and pleasures. He also supported the notion of revolt andviolencee when ones "liberty" was threatened. This is contrary to milenia of political thought.
The result is the emphasis of material wealth and pleasure as the ultimate "end of man". Thus, the elites will see war as a means of obtaining power and wealth, and wars can be incited by small offenses to one's now sensitive emotions. The liberal becomes prey to the Classical Liberal.
The thing that should be emphasized, imo, is the changing demographics of Israel. It doesn't matter who wins this particular Supreme Court crisis because the writing is already on the wall. Among Jewish women, the highest fertility rate was for ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) women at 6.64 children per woman, followed by religious women at 3.92 and 1.96 for secular women. The average birth rate of Israeli Muslim women is 3.0 and of Palestinians in Gaza, 3.8 in 2019. Therefore the future of Israel belongs to the Orthodox and the Muslims, regardless of any of the twists and turns of daily political life.
Want a leftist Israel longterm? Better find a way for them to dramatically alter their ideology away from materialist nihilism which is inherently ant-natalist, although it's too late imo.
Yes, demographics have changed Israel. I do not want a "leftist Israel". It is important to note Israelis themselves in great number think their state no longer a liberal democracy. I think that is a fact, and is another result of a process towards a complete eradication of the hope for a separate peace. I cannot stress enough that the two state solution may be necessary for this problem that has been exported, through the process of regime change, to almost every nation in the formerly liberal West. These liberal interventions and the universalist utopianism of the liberal idea has made everywhere a nowhere of sorts. The Jews and the Palestinians deserve a homeland. So, whoever you may be, do you. This is one major legacy of the rapid decline of the liberal idea to which it currently has no answer but the promise of escalating violence.
I agree. We are all incubating a similarly fractious state for our own homelands, and may find ourselves with two state solutions. All avoidable.
What is going through their minds? Do you think the scenes from our cities where pro-Palestine flag wavers have been out in numbers will give them pause for thought?
What an excellent article! Thank you for telling the truth about this criminal Israeli regime, which I suspect, with its powerful criminal allies, is spoiling for a war with Iran. May cooler heads prevail on all sides!
This is such bullcrap. Blaming Israel for Hamas unprovoked attacks is evil.
The Jewish people are always to blame fir everything.
Sadly very true.
I have to say that I most emphatically disagree with you, Mr Wright. The two state solution has been offered over and over again. The Arabs have. Even offered a state over and over again. They refuse each time because they want the extermination of the Jewish people like the Nazis. Having read the books written by the founders of the modern state, they wanted to be able to live together. I have never seen the two state solution as a viable option. I disagree with your views on Bibi and Hamas.
The Jewish people have a right to a homeland and should defend it in the way they want to. The Israelis have always been held to higher standard by the world and by and large they try to avoid needless civilian casualties.
The riots over the Supreme Court were just plain stupid and unnecessary.
Sorry- I could not abide those writers at the consortium because of their anti semitism and as a Christian I support Israel.
The Arabs that were left in Israel have always had other places that they can live.
Netanyahu is not very popular with many israelis, and his own culture minister said last week Likud would lose an election. His government is being blamed for starting another war, with ministers heckled that they have "ruined this country" today. His partner in government, Ben Gvir, without whose support his coalition would collapse, was shown on television laughing about the recent incidents of settler extremists spitting on Christians. He described this as a "Jewish tradition". He represents a faction, and an extreme one, and does not speak for all Jews nor all Israelis.
I am reminded that Ben Gurion said that the proportional representation system in Israel work be a real nuisance and that there would be messy elections.
Alastair Crooke's summary here also mentions the ethnic component to the faction in power in Israel - the Mizrahi Jews. It is unusual for them to be in power at all, and now they are. Hence the third temple business, and the focus on Al-Aqsa, which they apparently mean to demolish. This threat mobilized Hamas in "operation aqsa flood" and underpins the call to jihad for tomorrow. https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/analysis/al-aqsa-flood:-the-surprise-is-that-some-are-surprised
The video is linked in the piece.
THAT is BS. Bibi defends Christians & condemned those who attacked them.
There is no Christian doctrine that says support for Israel is "a Christian thing". Rather, it is our creed to " baptize all nations in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost".
That you support Israel is fine, but its not linked toChristiannity in any way.
The Jewish people are still God’s people and as such we should be praying and desiring that they come to know Jesus.
Recently there has been a huge effort by Christians in Israel to reach out to Jews. Christian and Arab Jews have been reaching out to neighbours and helping during this time. The worst since the Shoah.
Read Genesis 12:3. & Romans chapter 11.
EXACTLY. Frank Wright is nothing but an antiSemite. A Hamas mouthpiece
Thanks for explaining this, Frank. You’ve made it really clear what’s going on.
There will be no "Two-State Solution". Israel is a European Settler Colony whose 'establishment' was through Blood, Iron & Will. There is a saying in English which goes... "Live by the Sword... Die by the Sword!". That is precisely the Deterministic outcome we have come to at last.
A Settler Colony does not have "Civilians". This is because every Woman and Child goes through Mandatory Military Service and is trained to Hunt, Kill, Maim, etc the "Human Animals" (i.e. Palestinians) without remorse whoever they may be. This is to be expected:
Settler Colonies historically have always been violently expansionistic ("Manifest Destiny" anyone?) and the only thing that every 'stops them' has been Brute Force. That has always been the *least bloody outcome*. All other outcomes involve the Colonists & Settlers continuing the Carnage.
The War is inevitable. There will be no "Diplomacy" because one side has already made it clear that it wishes to Massacre all 2.5 million Gazans and flatten the area into a "parking lot". If so... then they should be prepared to face the consequences; one line/sequence of which involves the complete erasure of the Zionist Settler Colony from the Maps & the History Books.
The ball is in the Zionist court. They can choose to Begin the Slaughter; roll the Tanks in and begin the Ground Offensive. The Syrians, Hezbollah, etc would then attack from the North. This will mean the End of the Zionist Project, period. They can choose at that point to Surrender and have their Triple Passport holding primarily European citizenry "flee" back to *insert Western country here*.
OR they can choose to forego all of that and attempt (as they always do) to feign diplomacy a la "talks". However, now that the myth of "Israeli invincibility and military expertise" has been shattered; they have no leg whatsoever to stand on; especially into the near future.
So I expect the former to be pursued; after which the most likely outcome is the Samson Option and Nuclear Winter as a result. "Peace" died long ago; it merely festers now in its tomb.
The policy of the war faction in the Israeli state is to ignite global jihad. It looks likely to work unless Netanyahu's government collapses - and there is a very good chance that it will.
Global jihad is also the policy of the war faction on the Palestinian side. Netanyahu's political career and now his personal liberty is at the mercy of the extreme settler Zionists of Ben Gvir's minority party - formerly excluded from power.
Ben Gvir's party seeks the destruction of Al-Aqsa, knowing this would spark global jihad. It is an aim taught in the schools run by the zionist settler faction and videos are available showing it.
This aim endorsed by Netanyahu is to galvanise Western opinion through the resulting terror attacks this would provoke. This means war between nations and terrorism everywhere within them. It will unleash a scale of horror never before seen anywhere on earth and once begun will be nigh impossible to halt.
The aims of Hamas and those of Netanyahu's faction are alike: they seek to embroil their allies in a global war which will internationalise the atrocities taking place now in Israel. When this madness takes hold we will kill each other in a blood feud for which there is no political answer at present.
The choice with which we are all faced is to either pick a side in an argument for genocide and the normalisation of brutal murder in our everyday lives. Lifetimes will be consumed in hatred and the burying of our children and families.
Or we could argue for sanity.
The answer to atrocity must not be more atrocity. How many deaths will settle this question? How many must die? How long will this go on?
What is more, there is no diplomacy in the West. The policy of the current Israeli government is a supremacist ideology of total domination. As with "liberal intervention", it is a doctrine which states the enemy is unworthy of consideration and must submit, be starved or bombed. It ends with regime change, a polite word for state murder. This is the murder of one state by another.
Regardless of the complete corruption of the liberal democracies this has caused, and aside from the fact this is horrific and completely barbaric, the simple fact as you point out is that neither Israel nor the West can any longer claim to be invincibly supreme. From a purely military point of view this is not the case any more. Hizb'allah won the last war. Yoav Gallant, Israeli defence minister, said himself Israel is weak on the northern border.
It would lose a war with Iran. So would the US, and as you say, this would likely trigger the Samson Option of the immediate release of all Israeli nuclear weapons - probably onto Russian, Western and Middle Eastern cities.
It is obvious that what goes by the name of liberal democracy is a monster wearing the ripped off face of the victim it has murdered.
The absolute corruption of the west and the absence of any realistic diplomacy is a result of a three decades long policy of regime change which has introduced censorship, economic sanctions and a form of repression at home using the same techniques employed abroad. This ideology, justified in the name of spreading and defending liberal democracy, has destroyed liberal and democratic norms at home.
The solution we will hear following the criminal destruction of Gaza will be to export the Palestinians to Europe.
This crisis comes at a time of significant diplomatic, military and domestic weakness for the West. It is therefore necessary to call for a new approach which recognises that peoples are civilisationally distinct from one another and will profoundly disagree on the basic questions of how to live as a result.
This replaces the liberal supremacy of "you are unlike me therefore you are wrong and deserve no rights" with "we are different and must seek agreement". It is about the seeking of compromise to avoid conflict - instead of creating excuses for it.
The question of violence is older than civilisation, as the book "War Before Civilisation" will show. No ideology has a monopoly on violence. It is the duty of the sane to speak against it, and to reserve its use as a method of last resort.
That the Palestinians have been driven to this last resort is obvious and is a result of deliberate policy. Their lives are without hope. For 30 000 members of Hamas their 2 million will suffer and die, to the applause of the Western political elite.
It has to be remembered that many Israelis, Jews secular and religious, also recognise this fact and oppose the state policy to legitimise war crimes and calls for genocide.
I agree that the ground war - the military assault on over two million people - will likely spark an enormous response which may escalate the conflict to a regional and even worldwide military conflict. It will also spark a cycle of violence in the cities and towns of the West.
With the example of Israel's response, candlelit vigils will be replaced by cries for blood and the war will come home to everyone. If this continues, the killing will motivate people who preferred to stay out of it. Vengeance will be all that is left of society. This is not a future I wish for my or for your or for anyone's children.
There is no realistic and honest appraisal of the process which has led to this moment, and none regarding the universal barbarism it promises in the near future.
To call for peace is treason. Rabin was killed for this, by a Zionist settler extremist.
I do not support any state which endorses this madness. This is the battle we face - a captive media broadcasts the argument for genocide of an insane faction using atrocity propaganda. On the other, death is the only weapon of a people made hopeless by brutal repression. This is the future of the West if we do not step back and say enough.
This is also a crisis of legitimacy. The liberal democracies cannot guarantee basic security and in fact conspire in its destruction. Their policy is state murder - the smashing of entire nations whose populations then arrive in vast number.
The legacy of this obscene business - and regime change is a vast and lucrative business - is to make of the west a racket for the elites and a nightmare for the ordinary people of whichever faction over whom they rule.
Christian, atheist, muslim, jew, left, right, traditional, progressive, all our lives are being ruined in real time by people who have no solution to the chaos they have created. Do not conspire in it.
The elision of language also presents a danger. Who are "the Jews", "the muslims" - what is "the rules based order"? What are the rules? We can see what the rules are.
The polarisation of identity on the basis of words excludes reason, legitimate grievance and the human dimension entirely. Even where people have come to hate each other implacably there is a means to avoid violence. Sectarian labelling leads towards it.
The basis of realism is the need to secure the right to life - to live differently - for all.
We are all nothing to our elites, and we are all paying the price for the subversion of our world by the technocratic war machine.
Hatred is poison. In war there is no place for emotion. If war must be fought, and it must only be fought when it must, then there is no need for hatred at all. Beware of the weapon of hate.
It is an excuse for avoidable slaughter. It is the means by which crimes are made necessary and whole peoples demonised. There are mad dogs on both sides. Their bite is infectious. This is a rabid time and we must strive to look beyond the moment of horror to a future which has not yet disappeared.
I do not want war. The two state solution is one which may have to be adopted everywhere to avoid a blood feud which will end civilisation wherever it ignites. Already the polarisation in Western nations is severe, and people are abandoning any understanding for the immediate and frenzied defence of mutual annihilation.
I want a separate peace, which is possible only if people realise the alternative is the death of peace everywhere. The situation is dire but people of conscience cannot surrender to madness and a future of unlimited murder without a fight.
My Friend:
The time for "Hopes" and talking about "What you or I want" has passed. This is all Moot.
As for your point regarding "Global Jihad". Understand this:
Al-Aqsa is Sacrosanct. Any Thought, however minor, any *HINT* that it be defiled and so that the so-called "Third Temple" be then built over its Rubble... there will be not merely "reprisals"; but Mass Carnage.
No Muslim (including myself) would sit still. All resources (personal wealth, network, physical strength, etc) would be deployed en masse.
The Western "nations" are Vassals to America. And their Master has goaded its Colonial Outpost to "finish them off" (a la murdering 2+ million people).
No sane (or insane) individual will simply "sit there & take it". The War is Inevitable and the Fight approaches; and so the Palestinians & Arabs will have to fight.
Could Israel back off? Sure!
But this is now a death spiral; and it is unlikely that it will do so. This is because its Mythos (i.e. "We are invincible & can take everyone on!") is gone and so is what little 'good will' their so called 'diplomats' accrued has evaporated.
At this moment in time, I see the Ground invasion, butchery of 2+ million, invasion (by Syria, Hezbollah, maybe even Jordan) from the North as inevitable. As such, the Samson Option & Nuclear Winter is the most likely outcome.
^This is the Deterministic Doom Loop that we are now in. As I said earlier "the time for Hoping in over". The time now is one of Consequences sequencing out.
Dear Ahnaf
I hope to God you are wrong. There is virtually zero understanding of the significance of Al-Aqsa in the West and no interest in taking seriously any grievance of any media-designated enemy.
I hope for a world based on realism. A world in which we understand that its peoples are civilisationally distinct and that serious grievances do not arise for no reason.
I see the moment fast approaching that you describe and again I hope it never arrives. You may be right. The madness may already be unstoppable and the fire may consume us all.
The American Empire has been completely corrupted by thirty years of permanent war as its democratic duty. Our political class has no answer for the chaos and ruin it has made of nations abroad and at home. They are criminals, and their rule a crime against humanity so vast it has no name.
The hour is late. The actions of the political elite have made the world a madhouse and shaped a future where nowhere will be safe.
The nuclear aspect is real and should be terrifying. It is unlikely, but the people of the West must learn to look beyond the moment on their phones and think of tomorrow. A slender hope, and it is fading. God help us all.
Great article, Frank. I've learned a few things. Hope you feel better soon.
Unfortunately this is a blood and religious feud. Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs would not be able to live in peace unless one of them is the dominant majority. Thus there are only two lasting solutions. One of them was tried in the 20th century.
Yes. I just watched an episode of Firing Line from 1986 with Netanyahu as a guest (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEzi0SMCu5A). The point he kept making was that when a political actor commits acts of terror, they are then a legitimate target of terror themselves. Which is basically the notion of an eye for an eye and everyone is blind. He seemed glib about the whole matter, where one might expect remorse. There was no mention of how peace might emerge out of this endless cycle of terrorism and counter-terrorism.
His policy is terror. It provokes terror and provides justification for the escalation to “give em hell”, which is a talking point of the vacuous morons who control our debates.
Make no mistake the aim was always global jihad. This will consume all our lives in a cycle of violence without end. That is the strategy. Universal blood feud.
Hamas is a terrorist group. Israel is not. & the fact you smear Israel & Bibi proves you are no Christian.