Talk about a hot mess. As of this writing, there’s a serious and terrible situation brewing in the Middle East.
The most recent flair up in hostilities is ostensibly between Israel and Palestine, and is a result of an October 7th surprise attack on Israel, wherein Hamas – officially the Islamic Resistance Movement – reportedly sent a barrage of thousands of explosive missiles along with more than 2,000 armed assailants from Gaza into and all over Israeli territory, including Jerusalem.
October 7th was a special day for Israeli Jews – Simchat Torah, which concludes the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.
Some holiday.
Over 1,400 Israeli people were reportedly killed. And there are numerous reports of torture, kidnapping, and so on.
And now we have full-on military engagement on both sides that is reportedly turning into thousands more deaths, and emerging resolutions that say, basically, that Israel is justified in doing “whatever it takes to completely destroy Hamas.”
Could it get any uglier?
Unfortunately, yes, it most certainly could. Especially if other countries and militaries feel the need to get involved.
All this has people talking, as I’m sure you’ve heard, about the potential for WWIII.
That’s a hellish thought for most rational people.
But sadly, there are those who are excitedly waiting in the wings for the money and blood to start flowing. Whenever the old War Machine starts spooling up like this, you can rest assured that there are some rats to sniff out.
I certainly smell a few.
I’ll point them out as best I can, based on the situation as I understand it.
Rat #1: The Element of Surprise
I find it hard to believe that Israel was caught off guard by a “surprise attack” from Hamas or anyone else. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Israeli intelligence community (Aman – military intelligence, Shin Bet – internal security, and Mossad – the Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations) are among the best equipped and best prepared military/covert ops/counter-terrorism apparatuses in the world. This is largely the result of U.S. tax dollars, by the way.
Mossad, for example, very likely has numerous agents placed within Hamas and any other groups that have been identified as threats to Israeli security. As such, any planned strike of the scale that occurred on October 7th would have been known to Israeli intelligence well in advance.
So, the questions we should be asking might be these: Why was the attack allowed to occur? -and- Who benefits from an escalation in hostilities between Israelis and Palestinians?
Rat #2: Manifest Destiny
A quick summary of the history of Israel might read something like this:
A strong cultural belief among some Jewish people solidified and became formalized as the ‘Zionist movement’ in the 19th century. Zionists are strict literalists when it comes to the Torah (the first five books of the Hebrew Bible), wherein YHWH (the Hebrew God) and YHWH’s agent, Moses, freed YHWH’s ‘chosen people’ (Jewish people) from slavery in Egypt and delivered them to their ‘promised land.’
Once they arrived in the land promised by YHWH, the Jewish people hunkered down, and according to legend, established a society that reached the “greatest heights, economically and politically” and eventually (after around 500 years) got around to building an elaborate temple in Jerusalem (the Temple of Solomon) to house the Arc of the Covenant, the golden chest that contained the laws bestowed upon Moses by YHWH, and which supposedly served as some sort of direct communication link between Hebrew high priests and YHWH. The building of this temple was seen as the completion of the exodus from Egypt and served as a turf marker in the promised land of the Jewish people.
Anyway . . . All that was ancient history by the time the 19th century rolled around. The good old days were long gone. Things had changed. A lot. The great Jewish society of long ago had crumbled and Jews had been scattered to the wind. The Arc of the Covenant had disappeared; no one knew where it had been squirreled away. The Temple of Solomon was long gone, having been replaced 1,100 years prior by the Haram al-Sharif, a compound of Islamic religious buildings built atop the ruins of the former Jewish temple.
Zionists got it in their heads that there ought to be a promised land in modern times, a proper homeland for all Jewish people. This struck them as more sensible than having Jewish people scattered around the world, willy nilly. They figured that if they could gather all the Jewish people together in one place, and perhaps get the Arc of the Covenant back too – and build a new temple for it – that things would be better. Naturally, they figured that the new, modern Jewish homeland ought to be a region surrounding Jerusalem. So, they set about advocating for it. Zionist advocacy meant influencing political leadership to agree that forming a Jewish state was a dandy idea.
In the aftermath of WWII, when sympathies for Jewish suffering at the hands of the Nazis was at its zenith, the Zionists got their wish. Presto! In 1948 the nation of Israel was magically created by some guys using a big map spread out on a tabletop and some nicely colored, felt-tipped markers. The Zionists would finally have their homeland again. Promised Land 2.0!
The only problem was that there were a few million non-Jewish people already living there. But, no bother, thought the Zionists. Those people were mainly just a bunch of wandering Bedouins rather than proper homesteaders, so they could be easily relocated and/or brushed away. God’s Will would surely help them along. Or so it was assumed.
Does any of this sound vaguely familiar?
I can’t help but find it analogous to Manifest Destiny – the deeply ingrained, cultural belief among 19th century American settlers that held that they were destined to expand across North America and push out any native inhabitants that happened to be in the way. After all, Indians weren’t really settling all that land or growing crops or doing anything civilized or productive. Indians didn’t even believe in land ownership, for Chrissakes. So screw ‘em.
The rat in this historical tale, in case you missed it, is the Zionist movement and those who facilitated the fictional and disruptive founding of the modern nation of Israel in 1948. Nations that are married to religious ideologies are like heavily salted French fries: They seem like a tasty treat at first, but the end result is high blood pressure and coronary disease.
Sorry to burst any bubbles here. But I really don’t think God has a favorite, ‘chosen’ people to whom he hands out laws and land deeds and such. Believing such things strikes me as rather egotistical and/or nutty.
But, alas, it’s upon nutty ideas that nations are apparently founded.
Rat #3: Church and State
It’s not just the Zionists that are loopy. There are some whack-o Muslims as well. In fact, as far as I can tell, all organized religions seem to hold space for fringe fundamentalists.
But I don’t think it’s the fundamentalists themselves, as individuals, that cause problems. I think that people can believe whatever they want to believe, and that individual beliefs rarely have impact – or cause harm – to others.
It’s been my observation that problems only seem to occur when fundamentalists are whipped into a frenzy from above, and pitted against each other. By “above” I don’t mean by God or Allah or whoever. I mean by religious institutions and “educational” institutions and governments and what-have-you.
Let’s say you’re a Jew reading your Torah, or a Muslim reading your Koran. In each book you’ll find all sorts of interesting stories that, no doubt, provide you with the guidance, inspiration, comfort and insights that you’re seeking to find in life. Good for you. However, sprinkled liberally throughout both texts, and consumed right along with the goodies, you’ll also be exposed to loads of God/Allah-given authorizations and justifications for slaughtering other people who do not share your beliefs.
Most individual Jews and Muslims take the good stuff to heart and take the bad stuff with a grain of salt. Nonetheless, the seeds for radicalization are subconsciously sown for both Jews and Muslims – and all it takes is some sort of external nudge and nurturing to grow poison ivy instead of petunias.
The powers-that-be know all this, of course, and have used religion to mobilize and militarize masses of people against one another all throughout history. “You’re not dishonorably killing another human being,” they’ll say. “You’re honorably killing an infidel.”
There are all sorts of other twisted messages that get broadcast as well. A popular lie told to Jews is this: “Jews are universally hated and are always victims.” A popular lie told to Muslims is this: “Allah will love you so much if you die while trying to take down infidels.”
So, the rat in this case is the State-directed weaponization of religion.
It seems to me that inverting religion and using it against people is pretty close to the ultimate evil. Religion, which is meant to serve as a guide to righteous living and the unexplained mysteries of human life is instead used as an instrument of destruction, serving nefarious agendas. Shame on the War Pigs for doing this.
But also: Shame on supposedly religious people for buying into it and allowing themselves to be used and abused. If your “religion” is instructing you to do things that you know in your heart to be wrong, you need to wake up and buck up.
Using religious ideology as the basis for war has been played out, again and again, for so long, that I imagine people will eventually get wise to it and stop playing along. I hope so anyway.
Rat #4: Best Laid Plans
Creepily, the storyboard for an ultimate, final, End Times war between Islam and Zionism has been kicking around since the late 19th century. In an infamous 1871 letter from Albert Pike to Giuseppe Mazzini, (both major creeps) the Illuminati plan for three upcoming world wars was laid out in remarkable detail. (The letter was on display in the British Museum Library in London until 1977, but was subsequently “lost,” and its existence is now, of course, debated as much as that of the Arc of the Covenant.)
Pike foretold that the purpose of the First World War would be to overthrow the power of the Czars in Russia in order to build a country that would be “a fortress of atheistic Communism.” Pike’s idea was that at the end of the war, Communism could be built up and used as a trial substitute for traditional religions (worship of State rather than a specific deity).
Was Pike correct? Was that the end result of WWI? You be the judge.
Pike then foretold that the purpose of the Second World War would be to “take advantage of the differences between Fascists and Zionists.” He advocated that the end results should be (1) a destruction of European fascism and a bolstering of Zionism to the extent that Zionism would “be strong enough to institute a sovereign state of Israel in Palestine;” and (2) a bolstering of Communism to the extent that it would “become strong enough to balance Christendom and hold it in check,” until the time when “we need it for the final social cataclysm.”
How about this prediction? Does this jive with your perception of WWII outcomes?
Pike didn’t stop there. He went on to describe a Third World War that would be primarily waged between Zionists and the leaders of the Islamic World. The favored result, in Pike’s view, would be the mutual destruction of both Zionism and Islam – but in order to accomplish this, other nations would need to join the fight “to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion.” At that point, Pike’s (Illuminati) fever dream was to “provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil.” Pike then imagined a worldwide “multitude, disillusioned . . . whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration.” And then for the final act, twisted old Pike described with orgasmic delight how the multitude “will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view.”
Pretty creepy, right? Let’s hope that Pike at least got this one wrong.
So, here we have our fourth (and biggest) rat.
Call them the Illuminati, the Elites, whatever. There are, like it or not, serious sickos in our midst who get off on plotting mankind’s total destruction. These clowns kick their ideas and agendas around at the top of the pyramid and imagine themselves to be divinely enlightened – “illuminated,” if you will.
Lucky for us, we, the people, can easily topple this millennia-old Illuminati pyramid by simply refusing to continue to support its base. It’ll have to be a group effort, for sure, but I think we’re up for it. All we have to do is piss on the Illuminati parade by refusing to fight amongst ourselves.
Phil’s Two Cents
I sure hope this latest entanglement in the Middle East does not escalate any further. I don’t want to see Albert Pike’s or any of his modern-day confrères’ twisted dreams come true.
What if the entire world just stood back and refused to take sides with either “Israel” or “Palestine?” Even better: What if all the people involved in the day-to-day fighting right now, today, just stopped? Perhaps they could start by taking just one day off. Then maybe a week. Then more.
I know, most people believe that it’s way too far along for that. “Jews and Muslims are like bugs in a jar – they’re bound to fight it out,” some people might say.
But I don’t buy it. Not fully, anyway.
I would agree that being confined to a jar might cause some problems. In this case, the jar is the fictional border nonsense that has been drawn up to show where Israel is and isn’t, and to show where Palestine is and isn’t. The jar is also the mysterious willingness of people to observe and enforce such nonsense. Everyday people didn’t draw those borders (or create the jar). Elites did that. So why should everyday people go along for the ride?
And there’s another issue at play: Someone is shaking the jar. It’s not the people on the inside. It’s someone external.
I’m reminded of a certain Kurt Vonnegut passage, from his novel, Cat’s Cradle:
“What he was doing was spooning different kinds of bugs into the jar and making them fight. The bug fight was so interesting that I stopped crying right away – forgot all about the old man. I can’t remember what all Frank had fighting in the jar that day, but I can remember other bug fights we staged later on: one stag beetle against a hundred red ants, one centipede against three spiders, red ants against black ants. They won’t fight unless you keep shaking the jar. And that’s what Frank was doing, shaking, shaking, the jar.”
So . . . How about instead of fighting each other – or taking sides – we just break the jar and then go pay a little visit to Frank?
– “Phil”
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