Saturday 23rd of November 2024

exodus: the jewish women chorus after the defeat of the jews....

The vanquished and the victor: Although he is at the mercy of Nebuchadnezzar, Zedekiah shows himself full of dignity and even greatness. Thus the roles are, so to speak, reversed: loudly confessing his faith, recognising his wrongs, pleading not for himself but for his innocent people, the vanquished gives the victor, who remains deaf to his appeal, a lesson in greatness of soul. The following text is characteristic of Garnier's style: a strongly structured tirade followed by a tight and oratorical dialogue.

Extract.

THE JEWISH WOMEN (Extract)

by French writer Robert Garnier (1544-1590)

Translation by Jules Letambour

 

Synopsis:

Zedekiah, king of Jerusalem, revolted against Nebuchadnezzar, king of Assyria, whom he had recognized as his suzerain. Nebuchadnezzar took Jerusalem and sacked the city (6th century BC). What fate will he reserve for the vanquished, his family and the captive people? this is the subject of this tragedy.

In Act I, the PROPHET (Jeremiah in the Bible) implores divine clemency. Then the chorus of the Jewish women, deploring the inclination to evil of human nature, recalls the original sin and the Flood.

Act II: Nebuchadnezzar announces his intention to destroy Zedekiah; one of his officers, Nebuzaradan, advises him against excessive rigour. The chorus recounts the past faults and misfortunes of the people of Israel. AMITAL, mother of Zedekiah, laments with the Jews, then goes to beg the Queen of Assyria to intervene with her husband. The choir bids farewell to Jerusalem, its homeland.

Act III: the Queen tries to persuade Nebuchadnezzar; he will spare Zedekiah's life, but only to inflict cruel torment on her. He responds to Amital, who implores him in turn, with ambiguous words capable of rekindling hope in the heart of the unfortunate woman. But the Jews are too desolate to join in his joy.

Act IV Zedekiah does not fear death: he willingly offers his life, provided that the victor spares his people. But, Nebuchadnezzar remaining intractable, he lets his hatred and contempt burst forth. The chorus sadly evokes the sweet joys of freedom, then, while Zedekiah's children are taken from the women, it sings of the power of God opposed to the vicissitudes of human destiny.

Act V: the Prophet comes to recount the atrocious outcome: Zedekiah had to witness the execution of her children and the high priest, after which her neck was slit. He appears in the midst of lamentations, confesses his wrongs and expresses his confidence in God. The Prophet comforts him by announcing better days for Jerusalem. and above all the coming of the Messiah.

“Dignity in defeat”

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Zedekiah

The God we serve is the only God in the world,

Who from nothing built the sky, the earth and the wave.

It is he alone who commands the war, the assaults.

There is only God, all others are false.

He hates vice and punishes it severely

When he knows above all that we persevere.

He does not advise anyone to do wrong,

On the contrary, it is he who actually takes revenge.

His Prophets he has, whom sometimes he sends

By them we must warn of our misfortunes

So that by evoking it we can entertain them

But alas! very often our soul is hardened,

Not taking into account them or their prophecy:

And that's when he leaves us and gives us as spoils

To the Assyrian, Arab or Philistine people,

Otherwise be sure that all human force,

When it is favourable to us, against us is vain,

And still your soldiers, although they are untamed

We would never have overcome them, as they have,

Without him having withdrawn his benevolence from us

To make us fall under your power

Now have I offended you, I confess this point.

I have offended you: but who does not offend?

My life is in your hands, take revenge on her;

Thrust me right up to the cheekbone,

And save this people, who have done no other harm

Otherwise to defend yourself and be loyal to me.

 

Nebuchadnezzar

You have therefore, unhappy, through your ingratitude,

Put the sword to the throat of this multitude.

What punishment can be brought to your wickedness?

A torture too grievous resents its cruelty.

Can one be cruel to such a perjurer?

As in another thing, you have to keep measure.

You kept some by breaking my faith!

Doing as I did, you would do as I did

Your crime is excessive.

S. And keep that excessive

  Vengeance be upon a weak soul,

  Do you think people treat you other than harshly?

  It depends on you who is the winner.

  Indeed, it depends on me who your opponent is.

  Duty forbids you from being too severe on me.

N. Severe? and what torment have you not deserved?

S. You weigh my merit and not my quality…

Will you therefore have no regard for my condition?

N. I don’t want anyone to have acceptance

S. Do not look at my crime, but to your glory;

  Be proud in battle and gentle in victory:

  Your honour is to know how to forgive and remain.

N. My honour is to conquer and win again.

 

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Historical notes:

PICTURE AT TOP: The Flight of the Prisoners (1896) by James Tissot; the exile of the Jews from Canaan to Babylon

 

Despite warnings by Jeremiah and others of the pro-Babylonian party, Zedekiah revolted against Babylon and entered into an alliance with Pharaoh Hophra. Nebuchadnezzar returned, defeated the Egyptians, and again besieged Jerusalem, resulting in the city's destruction in 587 BCE. Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the city wall and the Temple, together with the houses of the most important citizens. Zedekiah and his sons were captured and the sons were executed in front of Zedekiah, who was then blinded and taken to Babylon with many others (Jer 52:10–11). Judah became a Babylonian province, called Yehud, putting an end to the independent Kingdom of Judah (Because of the missing years in the Jewish calendar, rabbinic sources place the date of the destruction of the First Temple at 3338 AM (423 BCE)[14] or 3358 AM (403 BCE)).[15]

The first governor appointed by Babylon was Gedaliah, a native Judahite; he encouraged the many Jews who had fled to surrounding countries such as Moab, Ammon and Edom to return, and he took steps to return the country to prosperity. Some time later, a surviving member of the royal family assassinated Gedaliah and his Babylonian advisors, prompting many refugees to seek safety in Egypt. By the end of the second decade of the 6th century BCE, in addition to those who remained in Judah, there were significant Jewish communities in Babylon and in Egypt; this was the beginning of the later numerous Jewish communities living permanently outside Judah in the Jewish Diaspora.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_captivity

 

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Nebuzaradan served under King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. Most Bible translations call him the captain of the guard. He carried out the destruction of Jerusalem after its capture in c. 587 BC, and Scripture states he took away many of its citizens into exile.

To establish the context of Nebuzaradan’s actions, we must delve into how Judah and Jerusalem devolved.

In the tenth century BC, after the death of King Solomon, a schism occurred, leading to a split between the northern kingdom of Israel and the southern kingdom of Judah, each with its own king. Despite repeated warnings from prophets sent by God, the kingdoms fell into corruption and sin, Israel most of all. Because of their sin, God warned they would be overtaken by conquerors.

 

The northern kingdom of Israel fell to the Assyrians in 721 BC. Judah rallied under King Hezekiah and narrowly avoided destruction from the forces of Assyria under Sennacherib only through miraculous intervention (2 Chronicles 32). 

However, Hezekiah was followed by a slew of wicked kings, with only a couple of exceptions. The monarchy of Judah eventually became a series of puppet kings placed by Egypt and Babylon, some reigning for only three months.

Meanwhile, Babylon conquered Assyria and began its conquest to the west over former Assyrian territories as well as previously independent lands. When King Jehoiakim of Judah withheld tribute from the Babylonians, Babylon laid siege to Jerusalem and carried off captives in 597 BC, placing puppet king Zedekiah on the throne.

 

https://www.gotquestions.org/Nebuzaradan.html

 

INTERESTING BIRTH NAME: 

Zedekiah[a] (/zɛdɪˈkaɪə/) was the twentieth and final King of Judah before the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon. His birth name was Mattaniah/Mattanyahu (Hebrew: מַתַּנְיָהוּ, Mattanyāhū, "Gift of God"; Greek: Μαθθανίας; Latin: Matthanias).

 

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The State of Israel as "Cartoonishly Evil"?

 

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Last week I published an article on the dramatic events in domestic American politics, including President Joseph Biden’s sudden disappearance from the presidential race and the elevation of Vice President Kamala Harris as the candidate in his place. Nothing like this had ever previously happened in American political history and it came only a couple of weeks after a highly-suspicious assassination attempt had nearly killed former President Donald Trump, the opposing Republican candidate.

But although the bulk of my article focused upon those matters, I also included a few paragraphs near the end presenting some shocking new disclosures in the ongoing Israel/Gaza conflict. As I wrote at the time:

Politico is one of America’s leading mainstream media outlets on politics and public affairs and ten days ago it published a very lengthy account by two experienced American surgeons who had visited Gaza to provide medical assistance and were utterly horrified by what they encountered there. According to Dr. Mark Perlmutter, in just a couple of weeks he saw more carnage inflicted upon civilians than he had in the combined total of his previous thirty years of humanitarian visits to war-zones around the world. In particular, it was obvious that Israeli snipers were deliberately shooting young Palestinian children and toddlers, aiming precision shots at their hearts and at their heads.

Given that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other top Israeli leaders have publicly identified the Palestinians with the tribe of Amalek, whom the Hebrew God has commanded must be exterminated down to the youngest newborn baby, such atrocities may be shocking but are hardly surprising.

Running nearly 5,000 words and profusely illustrated with photographs, the Politico story seems to have broken the cordon of silence maintained in network television and Perlmutter was interviewed for a substantial segment entitled “The Children of Gaza” broadcast on CBS News Sunday Morning, during which he repeated his story:

war on children, many gunshot wounds in toddlers and many shot twice.

It’s obviously quite disturbing for American doctors to report that Israeli snipers are deliberately executing Palestinian toddlers with shots to the head and the heart, and the slight coverage of these facts in our mainstream media outlets is certainly welcome. But for anyone who had closely followed the Middle East conflict over the decades, these facts were not particularly new.  Even many years ago, Israelis had proudly produced numerous varieties of tee-shirts, which often carried the notorious slogan “One Shot, Two Kills,” glorifying the killing of pregnant women and young children by military snipers. I assume that the sheer volume of these current killings finally led some American media outlets to begin taking notice of this situation.

These stories hardly exhaust the roster of ongoing Israeli war-crimes. Despite the long history of oppression and poverty they have endured, the Palestinians are a highly educated population and over they years they had created an enviable medical infrastructure in their besieged Gaza enclave, with numerous excellent hospitals staffed by well-trained medical professionals.

The Israelis bitterly resented these achievements by a population whom they deeply despised and have now destroyed nearly all those hospitals while blocking any import of new medical supplies. Moreover, just a couple of days ago, the New York Timescarried a story describing the widespread Israeli detention and brutal torture of leading Palestinian surgeons and other medical workers, with many of these civilians soon dying from their ill treatment. Traditional Judaism includes a notorious Talmudic injunction that Jews should seek to kill “the best of the Gentiles” and since medical doctors constitute an elite of Gazan society, it makes perfect sense that they should be targeted for torture and death. Indeed, international organizations have reported that some 500 doctors and nurses in Gaza have already been killed, while another 300 are still being held in Israeli prisons.

Although I was pleasantly surprised to see the Times run such a candid piece, the same editors have entirely ignored many others of an even more explosive nature. For example, despite horrific bombardment, famine, and disease, the official Gaza death-toll presented by our mainstream media outlets has remained relatively unchanged in recent months, now set at around 40,000. But as I pointed out in early May, this is almost certainly an illusion:

 

During the first month or two of the massive Israeli attack, the Gazan Public Health Ministry had maintained very detailed rosters of the dead, including the names, ages, and ID codes of the victims, and regularly released updates of the total, so those numbers seemed absolutely solid. But the Israeli assault soon targeted all of Gaza’s government offices and hospitals, and by early December, the Gazan officials responsible for tabulating the dead had themselves been killed or gone missing, so the count naturally tended to stagnate, even as conditions horrifically worsened for the surviving Gazans.

 

The Lancet is one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious medical journals and just last month it published a short piece concluding that Israel’s ongoing attacks on Gaza and its total destruction of the local infrastructure may be responsible for nearly 200,000 civilian deaths, a figure many times larger than any previous media estimate. Despite the Lancet‘s considerable international standing, this story received very little attention in the mainstream media.

 

Highly-visible atrocities over many months led the esteemed jurists of the International Court of Justice to issue a series of near-unanimous rulingsthat Israel appears to be undertaking a campaign of genocide against Gaza’s Palestinians, while the International Criminal Court more recently applied for arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others on similar grounds. These international judicial rulings may have set into motion a series of events that further demonstrated the unusual ideological beliefs governing much of the political class of the Jewish State.

With Hamas militants mostly secure in their underground tunnels, almost none of them have been captured, so instead the Israeli military and its frustrated troops have seized and incarcerated many thousands of Gazan civilians, holding them without trial or charges, and often under very brutal conditions. Indeed, the number of such Palestinians captives has become so enormous that it has severely overburdened the Israeli prison system, prompting National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir to publicly propose last month that the prisoners should simply be shot in the head, thereby freeing up their space for additional waves of new ones.

But with the possibility of international arrest warrants hanging over their heads, top Israeli military leaders apparently sought to deflect those accusations by demonstrating that the Israeli army was willing to police itself and prosecute some of its members engaged in such illegal war-crimes. There have been widespread reports of the regular rape of Palestinian prisoners, both male and female, and the IDF decided to finally investigate one such case, in which nine of its soldiers allegedly gang-raped a male Palestinian, sodomizing him so brutally that he suffered severe physical injury. The military suspects were ordered held at a couple of army bases pending their interrogation.

However, the notion of Israeli Jews facing punishment for torturing or raping Palestinian prisoners stoked enormous outrage in major portions of the Israeli population. As a result, large, violent mobs stormed the military bases in hopes of freeing those accused soldiers, with the story widely covered in the Israeli media and many of the scenes available on social media.

According to Friday’s Grayzone podcast by Max Blumenthal, this embarrassing political conflict apparently led Ben-Gvir and other important members of the Israeli government to propose new legislation in parliament intended to head off any similar situations in the future by officially decriminalizing the torture or murder of non-Jews by Jews. Although such notions may be quite alien to Western societies, they are fully in accord with the fundamental tenets of traditional Judaism, and the proposal seems likely to be enacted into law at some point in the future. One of my articles from 2018 had described these controversial religious doctrines:

If these ritualistic issues constituted the central features of traditional religious Judaism, we might regard it as a rather colorful and eccentric survival of ancient times. But unfortunately, there is also a far darker side, primarily involving the relationship between Jews and non-Jews, with the highly derogatory term goyim frequently used to describe the latter. To put it bluntly, Jews have divine souls and goyim do not, being merely beasts in the shape of men. Indeed, the primary reason for the existence of non-Jews is to serve as the slaves of Jews, with some very high-ranking rabbis occasionally stating this well-known fact. In 2010, Israel’s top Sephardic rabbi used his weekly sermon to declare that the only reason for the existence of non-Jews is to serve Jews and do work for them. The enslavement or extermination of all non-Jews seems an ultimate implied goal of the religion.

Jewish lives have infinite value, and non-Jewish ones none at all, which has obvious policy implications. For example, in a published article a prominent Israeli rabbi explained that if a Jew needed a liver, it would be perfectly fine and indeed obligatory to kill an innocent Gentile and take his. Perhaps we should not be too surprised that today Israel is widely regarded as one of the world centers of organ-trafficking.

As a further illustration of the seething hatred traditional Judaism radiates towards all those of a different background, saving the life of a non-Jew is generally considered improper or even prohibited, and taking any such action on the Sabbath would be an absolute violation of religious edict. Such dogmas are certainly ironic given the widespread presence of Jews in the medical profession during recent centuries, but they came to the fore in Israel when a religiously-minded military doctor took them to heart and his position was supported by the country’s highest religious authorities.

These developments were heavily reported by the Israeli media, but they were carefully excluded from any of our own mainstream outlets, so that few Americans who rely upon our newspapers or electronic broadcast media are probably aware of them.

However, social media is another story entirely, and younger Americans who rely upon those sources of information have been exposed to a great deal of such material, helping to explain the waves of student protests that swept across elite colleges a few months ago until they were harshly suppressed. Ironically enough, much or most of this controversial content has been produced by the Israelis themselves, proudly documenting the severe punishment they are successfully inflicting upon their hated Palestinian foes, but perhaps failing to recognize that the rest of the world may consider these same scenes in a very different light. As I wrote a few months ago:

Indeed, the Israelis continued to generate an avalanche of gripping content for those videos. Mobs of Israeli activists regularly blocked the passage of food-trucks, and within a few weeks, senior UN officials declared that more than a million Gazans were on the verge of a deadly famine. When the desperate, starving Gazans swarmed one of those few food delivery convoys allowed through, the Israeli military shot and killed more than 100 of them in the “Flour Massacre” and this was later repeated. All these horrific scenes of death and deliberate starvation were broadcast worldwide on social media, with some of the worst examples coming from the accounts of gleeful Israeli soldiers, such as their video of the corpse of a Palestinian child being eaten by a starving dog. Another image showed the remains of a bound Palestinian prisoner who had been crushed flat while still alive by an Israeli tank. According to a European human rights organization, the Israelis had regularly used bulldozers to bury alive large numbers of Palestinians. UN officials reported finding mass graves near several hospitals, with the victims found bound and stripped, shot execution-style. As Internet provocateur Andrew Anglin has pointed out, the behavior of the Israeli Jews does not seem merely evil but “cartoonishly evil,” with all their blatant crimes seeming to be based upon the script of some over-the-top propaganda-film but instead actually taking place in real life.

 

I think that Anglin’s characterization has considerable value, with the crimes committed by the Israelis often being so monstrous and so barbaric that Americans and other Westerners find it difficult to accept their reality, much like big lies are less likely to be challenged than small ones.

For example, I suspect that most American Christians are probably convinced that the ongoing conflict in the Holy Land is essentially a struggle between Jews and Muslims, but this is entirely mistaken. Back in April, Tucker Carlson released a 43 minute interview with a Christian Palestinian pastor in Bethlehem who described the severe oppression that he and his Christian flock suffered at the hands of Israel’s extremist Jewish government and the militant settlers it supported. Carlson emphasized how strange it seemed that America’s conservative Christian leadership did absolutely nothing for their Christian brethren in the Middle East but instead wholeheartedly supported Israel’s anti-Christian activities with money and political support. The entire segment is quite powerful and definitely worth watching on Twitter or YouTube, but some of the most telling statements have been extracted and distributed on other Tweets, such as this one:

 

Tucker Carlson On Christians Supporting Israel "If you wake up in the morning and decide your Christian faith requires you to support a foreign government blowing up churches and killing Christians, I think you've lost the thread."

 

None of this was all that surprising to me since back in 2018 I’d drawn upon the seminal research of Prof. Israel Shahak of Hebrew University to describe the exceptionally strong hostility that traditional Judaism always directed towards its rival Christian faith:

And while religious Judaism has a decidedly negative view towards all non-Jews, Christianity in particular is regarded as a total abomination, which must be wiped from the face of the earth.

Whereas pious Muslims consider Jesus as the holy prophet of God and Muhammed’s immediate predecessor, according to the Jewish Talmud, Jesus is perhaps the vilest being who ever lived, condemned to spend eternity in the bottommost pit of Hell, immersed in a boiling vat of excrement. Religious Jews regard the Muslim Quran as just another book, though a totally mistaken one, but the Christian Bible represents purest evil, and if circumstances permit, burning Bibles is a very praiseworthy act. Pious Jews are also enjoined to always spit three times at any cross or church they encounter, and direct a curse at all Christian cemeteries. Indeed, many deeply religious Jews utter a prayer each and every day for the immediate extermination of all Christians.

Over the years prominent Israeli rabbis have sometimes publicly debated whether Jewish power has now become sufficiently great that all the Christian churches of Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and other nearby areas can finally be destroyed, and the entire Holy Land completely cleansed of all traces of its Christian contamination. Some have taken this position, but most have urged prudence, arguing that Jews needed to gain some additional strength before they should take such a risky step. These days, many tens of millions of zealous Christians and especially Christian Zionists are enthusiastic advocates for Jews, Judaism, and Israel, and I strongly suspect that at least some of that enthusiasm is based upon ignorance.

Although back in the 1970s and 1980s, most Jewish religious leaders doubted that they had yet acquired the power to finally eradicate Christianity, the balance of political forces seems to have increasingly shifted in their direction. In early May I noted that under the guise of combatting antisemitism, clever pro-Israel lobbyists had persuaded Congress to enact legislation that seemed to ban the Christian bible in American society:

Some years ago a former senior AIPAC official once boasted to a friendly journalist that if he wrote anything on a simple napkin, within 24 hours he could get signatures of 70 Senators to endorse it, and the political power of the ADL is equally formidable. Therefore it was hardly surprising that last week an overwhelming bipartisan 320-91 majority in the House passed a bill broadening the meaning of anti-Zionism and antisemitism in the anti-discrimination policies of the Department of Education by codifying the definitions used in our Civil Rights laws to classify those ideas as discriminatory.

Although I haven’t tried to read the text, the obvious intent is to force colleges to expunge such noxious activities as anti-Israel protests from their campus community or face loss of federal funds. This represents a striking attack against academic freedom as well as America’s traditional freedom of speech and thought, and may also pressure other private organizations to adopt similar policies. In a particularly ironic twist, the definition of antisemitism used in the bill clearly covers portions of the Christian Bible, so the ignorant and compromised Republican legislators have now wholeheartedly endorsed banning the Bible in a country in which 95% of the population has Christian roots.

This same increasing conflation of antisemitism with anti-Zionism and the growing efforts to suppress both those attitudes in American society has ironic implications, as I had noted back in February:

This is certainly an odd situation, warranting careful analysis and explanation. The word “antisemitism” merely means criticizing or disliking Jews, and in recent years, Israel’s partisans have demanded with some success that the term should be extended to encompass anti-Zionism as well, namely hostility to the Jewish state.

But let us suppose that we concede the latter point and agree with pro-Israel activists that “anti-Zionism” is indeed a form of “antisemitism.” Over the last few months, the Israeli government has brutally slaughtered tens of thousands of helpless civilians in Gaza, committing the greatest televised massacre in the history of the world, with its top leaders using explicitly genocidal language to describe their plans for the Palestinians. Indeed, the South African government submitted a 91 page legal brief to the International Court of Justice cataloging those Israeli statements, prompting a near-unanimous ruling by the jurists that millions of Palestinians faced the prospect of genocide at Israeli hands.

These days most Westerners claim to regard genocide in a decidedly negative light. So does this not syllogistically require them to embrace and endorse “antisemitism”? Surely a visitor from Mars would be very puzzled by this strange dilemma and the philosophical and psychological contortions it seems to require.

It is rather surprising that the extremely “politically correct” ruling elites of America and the rest of the Western world are loudly cheering on the racially-exclusivist State of Israel even as it kills enormous numbers of women and children and works very hard to starve to death some two million civilians in its unprecedented genocidal rampage. After all, the far milder and more circumspect regime of Apartheid South Africa was universally condemned, boycotted, and sanctioned for merely the tiniest sliver of such misdeeds.

 

The Israel/Gaza conflict has now lasted nearly ten months, producing an absolutely unprecedented amount of global media coverage of the underlying struggle between Zionists and Palestinians, whose roots stretch back for more than a century. As a result, I think that many millions or even tens of millions of Americans have discovered shocking facts that they had never previously suspected.

But as for myself, none of these disturbing developments have been all that surprising or unexpected and to some extent they were almost implicitly suggested in a series of articles that I had published just over six years ago:

In those pieces, I did my best to cautiously draw upon highly reliable sources for my material, but much of it seemed so totally discordant from the narrative presented in my standard history books and media outlets that I sometimes inwardly wondered whether it could possibly be correct. I’m sure that a very substantial fraction of the hundreds of thousands of other readers had a similar reaction, but in far more extreme form. However, everything I had suggested now seems to be fully confirmed by the daily reports coming out of Israel and Gaza. As I emphasized in a May article, this may be one of the most important lasting consequences of these current Israeli actions, and perhaps extremely damaging to the future of the Jewish State

The fourth article in that 2018 series ran six years ago Tuesday and it might be especially surprising to many Americans, describing and documenting the strong ties between the Zionist movement led by David Ben-Gurion and Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany. Not only was the Nazi-Zionist economic partnership of the 1930s absolutely crucial for the establishment of the State of Israel, but even after war broke out in 1939, a smaller right-wing Zionist faction sought to enlist in Axis Powers as a Nazi military ally.  Yitzhak Shamir who served as Israel’s prime minister for eight years during the 1980s and 1990s had been the leader of that strongly pro-Nazi faction, and indeed according to later claims by Israeli insiders, he retained a seething hatred of the United States during all decades that followed, never forgiving America for having failed to support Hitler during World War II.

Once these surprising facts are fully absorbed and assimilated, other revelations may become much less difficult to accept. For example, although the horrific Nazi atrocities of eighty years ago are still regularly described on almost a daily basis in the Times and our other mainstream media outlets, as far as I can tell, few if any of them ever actually happened and they were just as fictional as the lurid recent propaganda-hoaxes of Hamas militants beheading or roasting Israeli babies or gang-raping Israeli women.

https://www.unz.com/runz/the-state-of-israel-as-cartoonishly-evil/

 

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Borrell ‘horrified’ by Israeli airstrike on Gaza school


There is “no justification for these massacres,” the EU high representative for foreign affairs has said

Israel’s airstrike on a school in Gaza cannot be justified, top EU diplomat Josep Borrell said on Saturday. The attack by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) earlier in the day reportedly killed around 100 people.

Borrell said he was “horrified by the images” from the scene. The Tabeen school in central Gaza City was reportedly used to shelter displaced people. Women and children were among the victims, the local authorities said, adding that the death toll could rise since some people have yet to be pulled from the rubble.

According to media estimates, up to 6,000 people may have been sheltering at the school when it was hit by three Israeli missiles. West Jerusalem claimed that it was targeting a “Hamas control center” in the facility. The Gaza-based Palestinian militant group denied having a base at the school.

“At least 10 schools were targeted in the last weeks. There’s no justification for these massacres,” Borrell wrote on X (formerly Twitter). He went on to say that the EU is “dismayed by the terrible overall death toll”in the conflict between Israel and Hamas.

The fighting broke out after Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel on October 7 last year. The militants killed around 1,100 people in a raid on Israeli settlements near Gaza and took more than 200 people hostage.

West Jerusalem responded with bombing campaign followed by a ground operation in Gaza. The hostilities have claimed the lives of around 39,8000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. Borrell put the number at 40,000 in his post.

Earlier on Saturday, Moscow condemned the Israeli attack, saying it is “deeply shaken” by the developments. Russia is calling on Israel to “refrain from attacks on civilian targets,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said, adding that “there is no and can be no justification for such actions.”

Several nations, including Qatar, Egypt, and the US, have sought to mediate a truce between the warring parties. On Thursday, the White House published a joint statement from Washington, Doha, and Cairo calling on both sides to conclude a ceasefire and trade the hostages held by Hamas for Palestinian detainees in Israeli custody.

The proposal was slammed by Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who called it a “surrender” and a “dangerous trap.” His words sparked outrage in Washington. White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby said the administration of President Joe Biden “won’t allow extremists to blow things off course.”

Borrell also criticized Smotrich on Saturday, condemning the finance minister’s opposition to the deal. “A ceasefire is the only way to stop the killing of civilians and secure the hostages’ release,” he said.

 

https://www.rt.com/news/602429-borrell-horrified-israel-school-strike/

 

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